On second look, I noticed that the story I was referring to IS the posted/. story. Silly me.
Secondly, I was doing a rough conversion. And yet I was way off. 131kph, which is probably around 80mph. He said he was doing ~50kph in the first place. That info came out of this month's Car & Driver magazine, and isn't referred to in the linked article.
Let me correct your ignorance: aren't you aware of how your AIR-BAGS WORK?
This is a point that I believe sorely needs to be addressed: the "black-box" you're all going on about is the sensor that helps the airbag decide whether to go off or not. If you tap a wall or another car in a parking lot, the airbag doesn't go off because the sensor knows that you're only travelling at 5mph. Conversely, if you slam into a car at 40mph, your airbags will fire.
Secondly, the sensor doesn't record more than 5 seconds worth of time. This allows the sensor to adjust to acceleration and braking modulation (since a car still has momentum despite the fact that your speedometer shows you've decelerated from 100mph to 60mph in a matter of seconds).
This is not an invasion of rights - this is gatherable evidence of what you've been doing in a car. It's not designed with the idea of spying on you, but the results of its operation are available.
And in the end, it protects the rights of the people that you're trying to pull a fast one on. It wasn't just a few weeks ago that a man was charged up here in Canada based on airbag information. He slammed into a car at 110mph, and tried to tell the cops that he was doing 50mph. Without airbag evidence, he would have got away with it.
I don't see any plausible reason why this should be outlawed, since it doesn't come into play until you get into an accident. At that point, you SHOULD have to pay the consequences of your actions. Especially when you're goofing off on the road.
Believe me, though - I'll be ticked when they put sensors in cars that report to the police every time you're caught speeding (which is dubious in and of itself) - there are plenty of good reasons for speeding sometimes (overtaking, getting out of/away from a dangerous situation beyond your control, police escorts, emergency vehicles, etc.).
Check out some of the posts, and find this sentiment:
"Not Linux! It must be the drive!"
Open-source software makes things better, eh?
This, coupled with the 350MB of updates Mandrake has already released doesn't fill me with confidence concerning the "superiority" of the Open Source software business model, guys. Try again.
Too bad there's no karma modifier for "Sad" - this is exactly what will happen. No actual innovation - just wait for MS to do it, with the usual excuse "we have to follow them, they're big".
Not that there's anything wrong with that, but I wholly expect no actual feature innovation in the open-source community. Technical innovation yes, I fully expect that (e.g. BitTorrent) since technical nitty-gritty is what this community thrives on - but feature innovation?
Last I recall, Mozilla & Opera had tabbed browsing and mouse gestures. Yep. That's about the height of it, guys. Two arguably bad features that aren't implemented in Windows WHY?
Because they get in the way and cause confusion for users.
What's the sound of one hand clapping? I think I hear it now.
I rather like autorun - it does exactly what it should do, which is save me a step when I put a CD in the tray. If I suspect there's something on the CD that I don't want to run, I hold shift. That saves me far more time than mousing around to run a program that'll access my CD - EVERY TIME I insert a CD.
It's certainly not a useless innovation. I reserve that honor for the Object Packager application from Windows 3.1.
It's not that savvy Linux users are better or more secure than savvy Windows users.
It's that there are magnitudes more pitifully UN-savvy Windows users than there are pitifully un-savvy Linux users. This is a generalization that I'm sure will hold true despite the fact that your grandmother uses Linux at home no problem.
This is also probably a factor in the fact that Windows attacks tend to be so much more damaging than Linux attacks - larger, more corporate user base than the Linux crowd, therefore a giant target.
I don't think Carmack's point is that a complicated game is BAD - it's that it won't sell well.
I think the love of complexity scales with the effort one puts into their intelligence. And as ever, such intelligence is in short supply. Hence, less intellegent people = less copies of complicated games. Doom and Quake sold so damn well because they're easy to play, and give instant gratification ("OOOOhh! I blew it up REALLL GOOOOD").
With MS systems it's not just a matter of loading a patch, quite often they break something especially third party apps, fail to fix the problem they claim to fix, or open a new vulnerability.
I keep hearing this excuse more and more. I'm starting to get the feeling that this is the new FUD mantra of Windows haters, as I have NEVER seen a patch bork a computer - either at home, at work, or my friends' computers. I have less technically competent friends or family who complain night and day about some program or patch borking their programs - I, being the nice computer guy, pay a visit to their computers and find that it's some jackass program that hasn't be programmed right, or a virus, or a driver they were co-erced into installing by someone "who knows better".
From experience, I know that people aren't always honest about what's wrong with their computers, ESPEICALLY when they have that sinking feeling that maybe they DID put something on it that wasn't good to put on (i.e. "oh, but I LIKE that driver! It made my (X) faster/better", it couldn't be that, MS SUCKS!), and I'm betting that there's a lot of people here on slashdot that are pulling the same thread.
We have a fairly good healthcare system, yes. "Socialized" is correct though, as it's supposed to bring all people, rich or poor, to the same level so they can receive equal treatment.
As for wait times: yes, the wait times to see a doctor are still high. The problem that you'll hear about is that the government(s) want to more or less outlaw private health care because giving your business to a private doctor takes the raison d'etre away from the public system (as well as resources, i.e. much-needed doctors and nurses). Really - would you want to work on the government dole rather than make heaps more cash on your own? Depends on your gumption, but that's a problem facing the public system today. That, and the fact that we can't properly afford it in the long-term, and Young Canada will end up footing the bill (much like we'll end up footing the Canada Pension Plan without one for ourselves).
Canada is a nice place, but we expect more than we can afford.
Time for me to reverse roles with the rest of the Linux crowd. I'll say how easy this is to patch, and how no-one in their right minds will get caught with their pants down, and you can all go sit on your thumbs:
It was so easy for me to patch this the day it came out. I just leave the AutoUpdate feature on "Download and ask before install", then review the critical updates and install them as they come in. Simple enough.
When will you linux users ever learn?
(In actuality, this has the potential to hurt a lot of people, undoubtedly because they will buy into the FUD and have auto-update disabled. Thanks a lot, linux community, for spreading FUD to people who would otherwise be protected already.)
2. There are too many addresses. There are 16.7 million addresses per square metre of the earth's surface, including the oceans. This is overkill. The world does not need more than the 4 billion addresses available with IPv4, and I challenge you to come up with an application that requires that many. Assuming that you can actually come up with one, it could easily be solved with Network Address
Translation, or NAT as it is commonly known.
Thank god you posted this as Anonymous Coward. Otherwise you'd run the risk of having your name next to Bill Gates on the "Eating Their Words" plaque.
people DO very well understand that music labels do some very important things (disc pressing, initial payment of studio time, advertising/promoting) to get artists out there.
however, i'm morally opposed to supporting the labels because they do some very important things (lobbying to: destroy my computer, destroy my players, put me in jail for sharing/copying, lawyering people out of money) to get customers persecuted.
... so that in the future when IBM does something that puts you/.'ers in an uproar, I can repost this thread and rub your nose in it.
Why is everyone making this out to be some kind of wrestling match? You all sound like kids in the playground saying "OOHHhh, I'm the Hulkster! Die Bitch!"
It seems I've left something out, or perhaps misconstrued my ideas. I have no problem with artists making money. None at all.
I have a problem with them taking my money and handing it to people that make me a criminal. Great, make a million bucks, see what I care. But I don't want to become a criminal because I supported your boss or sponsor.
Another thing: I happen to like some of the music that comes out of artists that ally themselves with the RIAA. I just hate the way to choose to make money. Not all artists know/believe they're guilty of anything, nor will they be inspired to care if I keep buying their product.
Local != Better. You just like it. Good for you, but that doesn't help the rest of us.
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I heard some speculation about that, but never found out for sure what it was. Does anyone know 100% what it is?
Secondly, I was doing a rough conversion. And yet I was way off. 131kph, which is probably around 80mph. He said he was doing ~50kph in the first place. That info came out of this month's Car & Driver magazine, and isn't referred to in the linked article.
This is a point that I believe sorely needs to be addressed: the "black-box" you're all going on about is the sensor that helps the airbag decide whether to go off or not. If you tap a wall or another car in a parking lot, the airbag doesn't go off because the sensor knows that you're only travelling at 5mph. Conversely, if you slam into a car at 40mph, your airbags will fire.
Secondly, the sensor doesn't record more than 5 seconds worth of time. This allows the sensor to adjust to acceleration and braking modulation (since a car still has momentum despite the fact that your speedometer shows you've decelerated from 100mph to 60mph in a matter of seconds).
This is not an invasion of rights - this is gatherable evidence of what you've been doing in a car. It's not designed with the idea of spying on you, but the results of its operation are available.
And in the end, it protects the rights of the people that you're trying to pull a fast one on. It wasn't just a few weeks ago that a man was charged up here in Canada based on airbag information. He slammed into a car at 110mph, and tried to tell the cops that he was doing 50mph. Without airbag evidence, he would have got away with it.
I don't see any plausible reason why this should be outlawed, since it doesn't come into play until you get into an accident. At that point, you SHOULD have to pay the consequences of your actions. Especially when you're goofing off on the road.
Believe me, though - I'll be ticked when they put sensors in cars that report to the police every time you're caught speeding (which is dubious in and of itself) - there are plenty of good reasons for speeding sometimes (overtaking, getting out of/away from a dangerous situation beyond your control, police escorts, emergency vehicles, etc.).
"Not Linux! It must be the drive!"
Open-source software makes things better, eh?
This, coupled with the 350MB of updates Mandrake has already released doesn't fill me with confidence concerning the "superiority" of the Open Source software business model, guys. Try again.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, but I wholly expect no actual feature innovation in the open-source community. Technical innovation yes, I fully expect that (e.g. BitTorrent) since technical nitty-gritty is what this community thrives on - but feature innovation?
Last I recall, Mozilla & Opera had tabbed browsing and mouse gestures. Yep. That's about the height of it, guys. Two arguably bad features that aren't implemented in Windows WHY?
Because they get in the way and cause confusion for users.
What's the sound of one hand clapping? I think I hear it now.
This is neither news for nerds, nor stuff that matters. This is just a fan for the flames.
I don't think this site serves it's credo, and if it were in my power, I'd rename this site "News about Linux". That's essentially what it is.
I rather like autorun - it does exactly what it should do, which is save me a step when I put a CD in the tray. If I suspect there's something on the CD that I don't want to run, I hold shift. That saves me far more time than mousing around to run a program that'll access my CD - EVERY TIME I insert a CD.
It's certainly not a useless innovation. I reserve that honor for the Object Packager application from Windows 3.1 .
YOU'LL SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT!
It's not that savvy Linux users are better or more secure than savvy Windows users.
It's that there are magnitudes more pitifully UN-savvy Windows users than there are pitifully un-savvy Linux users. This is a generalization that I'm sure will hold true despite the fact that your grandmother uses Linux at home no problem.
This is also probably a factor in the fact that Windows attacks tend to be so much more damaging than Linux attacks - larger, more corporate user base than the Linux crowd, therefore a giant target.
I don't think Carmack's point is that a complicated game is BAD - it's that it won't sell well.
I think the love of complexity scales with the effort one puts into their intelligence. And as ever, such intelligence is in short supply. Hence, less intellegent people = less copies of complicated games. Doom and Quake sold so damn well because they're easy to play, and give instant gratification ("OOOOhh! I blew it up REALLL GOOOOD").
I keep hearing this excuse more and more. I'm starting to get the feeling that this is the new FUD mantra of Windows haters, as I have NEVER seen a patch bork a computer - either at home, at work, or my friends' computers. I have less technically competent friends or family who complain night and day about some program or patch borking their programs - I, being the nice computer guy, pay a visit to their computers and find that it's some jackass program that hasn't be programmed right, or a virus, or a driver they were co-erced into installing by someone "who knows better".
From experience, I know that people aren't always honest about what's wrong with their computers, ESPEICALLY when they have that sinking feeling that maybe they DID put something on it that wasn't good to put on (i.e. "oh, but I LIKE that driver! It made my (X) faster/better", it couldn't be that, MS SUCKS!), and I'm betting that there's a lot of people here on slashdot that are pulling the same thread.
As for wait times: yes, the wait times to see a doctor are still high. The problem that you'll hear about is that the government(s) want to more or less outlaw private health care because giving your business to a private doctor takes the raison d'etre away from the public system (as well as resources, i.e. much-needed doctors and nurses). Really - would you want to work on the government dole rather than make heaps more cash on your own? Depends on your gumption, but that's a problem facing the public system today. That, and the fact that we can't properly afford it in the long-term, and Young Canada will end up footing the bill (much like we'll end up footing the Canada Pension Plan without one for ourselves).
Canada is a nice place, but we expect more than we can afford.
It was so easy for me to patch this the day it came out. I just leave the AutoUpdate feature on "Download and ask before install", then review the critical updates and install them as they come in. Simple enough.
When will you linux users ever learn?
(In actuality, this has the potential to hurt a lot of people, undoubtedly because they will buy into the FUD and have auto-update disabled. Thanks a lot, linux community, for spreading FUD to people who would otherwise be protected already.)
1) Write the book
2) Publish it
3) Profit!
The joke is in the name.
"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
You forgot:
User6: Cowboy Neal
1) Did they get married too? Or did they just get the head wet a lot?
2) Did the children stay with them? Or did they just sow their wild oats ?
This might have something to do with the "distraction" theory going on in other threads.
In T2, Arnold gets his arm stuck in a couple of gears at the foundry near the end. Which he pries off with a crowbar and LEAVES BEHIND.
Those brands are MS codenames. I'm waiting for the AOL Mustang, myself =P
"even better CSS support"
i.e. from suck to blow.
however, i'm morally opposed to supporting the labels because they do some very important things (lobbying to: destroy my computer, destroy my players, put me in jail for sharing/copying, lawyering people out of money) to get customers persecuted.
Why is everyone making this out to be some kind of wrestling match? You all sound like kids in the playground saying "OOHHhh, I'm the Hulkster! Die Bitch!"
Maybe you're all just losers.
I can't agree with you more. I think you hit the nail square on the head. Thanks for a great, illuminating comment.
Or you bought the Lindows box, found out that Lindows sucks, and want to nix it.
I have a problem with them taking my money and handing it to people that make me a criminal. Great, make a million bucks, see what I care. But I don't want to become a criminal because I supported your boss or sponsor.
Another thing: I happen to like some of the music that comes out of artists that ally themselves with the RIAA. I just hate the way to choose to make money. Not all artists know/believe they're guilty of anything, nor will they be inspired to care if I keep buying their product.
Local != Better. You just like it. Good for you, but that doesn't help the rest of us.