While I agree that people shouldn't sit in the left lane moving slowly, etc., I think your method of dealing with it is flat out stupid.
Tailgating is never justifiable. NEVER. Not because the person in front of you is moving slowly, not because you don't like which lane they're in, not because you want to get somewhere faster. It's dangerous and it puts innocent people at risk (including third parties on the road, not just you and the vehicle you're tailgating).
I love to move quickly. Hell, I race my car (SCCA Solo II). Since I started racing I discovered exactly how much distance it takes my vehicle to stop, and it's a hell of a long distance, even for a 2300 pound car on sticky tires (most family sedans are closer to 3000 pounds, with some over 4000). I've lost any desire to tailgate thanks to the realization that I could very easily kill myself or someone else just because I want to get somewhere a little faster.
It's better to just leave a lot of space between you and the idiot than to try to "wake him up" with dangerous stunts. Yeah, you'll get where you're going a bit later. If getting there ASAP was really a life-or-death situation, call an ambulance. Otherwise, protect your and others' lives by creating space rather than removing it.
How about an optional firewall, with no extra charge? Someone like my Aunt, who's only technical resource is 200 miles away, could opt for the firewall, whereas those of us who don't want it and have some ability to secure our systems ourselves could opt-out. Say it's part of the default package, so people get it unless they specifically request not to have it.
I've not worked at an ISP, and I don't know how practical something like that would be, but in my early morning idealist world, it sounds like a decent compromise.
Give me an even Star Trek movie over a Babylon 5 movie any day. Give me the Babylon 5 TV series DVDs over any Star Trek series DVDs, any day. For me, the TV series has significantly more re-watchability than Star Trek series do. There's just so much more complexity there. The Star Trek universe and story line types seem to fit better in a movie format.
If the basic model (perhaps with the RAM upgraded to 512MB) is good enough for your needs, then yes.
This is why the Mac Mini is of interest to me. It would be the perfect computer for my mother. It's fast enough for everything she needs to do, usable, and (compared with the Windows 98 SE they're running now) secure. And it's $653 with 512M RAM and a wireless card on the 1.25GHz. Perfect!
IIRC, they started the sets with the BMW at 70 mph... They did the first (and only) SUV test at 45mph. They also stated that it was an older SUV (a Land Rover of some variety), and that newer SUVs are frequently slightly better. However, they'll still roll easily at freeway speeds.
My gentoo system is not out of date as of this morning, according to portage. There may be a newer GCC than I am using, but that doesn't make my system out of date. IIRC, ~x86 is using GCC 3.4, but the generic form (no accept keywords set) is using the version I am.
Honda Civics are made/designed for ricers? My god, you have a twisted view of the world. Honda Civics are made for people who want a fairly cheap, reliable car to get them from point A to point B, carrying what they need, with a minimum of fuss. Ricers want something cheap they can buy and mod, and therefore tend to choose cars designed for the previously mentioned purpose.
People seem to think I generalised by seeing all Gentoo users are ricers.
From your comment above: "Gentoo Is Rice." That does seem to be generalising all Gentoo users as ricers. And that's where we've gotten that impression.
There's a list of current possible definitions of the slang term "ricer." You'll notice most mention modifications that don't actually make the car faster, and many mention that a car doesn't have to be Japanese to be considered rice in popular culture, now.
The Track Dog is certainly not a ricer. It's a highly modified Mazda Miata that's used for racing and the promotion of Flyin' Miata performance parts. Because the car is actually fast (significantly faster than the stock version), it's not rice.
I use Gentoo on my desktop. I've tried other distributions, and I always end up missing Portage. I've tried FreeBSD, and Gentoo handles running on a desktop better (better flash support, and the like). I don't claim that my system is uberleet or uberfast just because it's all compiled on the local machine. I use USE flags to help things work together the way I want. I enjoy the distribution and the tools that come with it.
And nearly everyone I know who runs OS X runs as a privalidged user. It's not the equivalent of UID 0, but it's more than just a normal user. It can do damage to the entire system. This exploit can do major damage to many OS X systems.
And the current user on nearly ever Mac system I know is a power user. A power user is capable of doing damage to more than just their own account. It's not the equivalent of UID 0, but it can do some pretty nasty stuff.
why only Windows/IE users can get r00ted by simply browsing a website,
An unpatched OS X system can "get r00ted" by simply browsing to a websight. Safari has an extension association that would allow a page to call the command terminal and run any command desired. Oops, you're rooted. It has been patched, but so have most of the bugs viruses use in Windows.
They need a better route than they had last time. Being at ground level running up Guadalupe by campus is stupid. It splits "West Campus" (where many students live) from the main Campus, splits the stores on the drag from campus, and just, in general, makes life harder. That was my biggest problem with it the first time around - poor planned routes. I actually went to many of the small meetings and told them what I thought, as well.:)
If the princetonreview.com figure and the conversion by http://www.onlineconversion.com/area.htm are correct, UT Austin does only have ~.56 square miles (357 acres). Have you been there? Most (nearly all?) of the buildings have basements, some as many as 4 floors down, and there's many, many levels above ground in nearly all of the buildings. UT Austin is not designed like Texas Tech; it's designed to take up a small amount of space. It started as a mere 40 acres, just north of Austin, and has been enveloped by the city. Only a portion of the students live on campus.
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Ah, cool. Even better. However, since everything has already been written around Oracle (before I joined the company) a change is highly unlikely.
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Oh, the false assumptions make my head hurt.
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And in case it seems like I'm contradicting myself, no, the company doesn't care about support from Red Hat / Whitebox. Yes, it does care about support for Oracle. I suspect the difference is the cost difference between a Red Hat admin and an Oracle admin.
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Postgres comes with support?
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When did I say I chose it?
Oracle does some things nothing else does. That, combined with the support, is why it was chosen, I believe. However, like I said, I didn't chose it. But I do have to live with what's already there.
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While I agree that people shouldn't sit in the left lane moving slowly, etc., I think your method of dealing with it is flat out stupid.
Tailgating is never justifiable. NEVER. Not because the person in front of you is moving slowly, not because you don't like which lane they're in, not because you want to get somewhere faster. It's dangerous and it puts innocent people at risk (including third parties on the road, not just you and the vehicle you're tailgating).
I love to move quickly. Hell, I race my car (SCCA Solo II). Since I started racing I discovered exactly how much distance it takes my vehicle to stop, and it's a hell of a long distance, even for a 2300 pound car on sticky tires (most family sedans are closer to 3000 pounds, with some over 4000). I've lost any desire to tailgate thanks to the realization that I could very easily kill myself or someone else just because I want to get somewhere a little faster.
It's better to just leave a lot of space between you and the idiot than to try to "wake him up" with dangerous stunts. Yeah, you'll get where you're going a bit later. If getting there ASAP was really a life-or-death situation, call an ambulance. Otherwise, protect your and others' lives by creating space rather than removing it.
I believe Texas was the first state to change to lethal injection, as well, though I don't have a source to cite on that...
How about an optional firewall, with no extra charge? Someone like my Aunt, who's only technical resource is 200 miles away, could opt for the firewall, whereas those of us who don't want it and have some ability to secure our systems ourselves could opt-out. Say it's part of the default package, so people get it unless they specifically request not to have it.
I've not worked at an ISP, and I don't know how practical something like that would be, but in my early morning idealist world, it sounds like a decent compromise.
Give me an even Star Trek movie over a Babylon 5 movie any day. Give me the Babylon 5 TV series DVDs over any Star Trek series DVDs, any day. For me, the TV series has significantly more re-watchability than Star Trek series do. There's just so much more complexity there. The Star Trek universe and story line types seem to fit better in a movie format.
Ivanova is always right.
If the basic model (perhaps with the RAM upgraded to 512MB) is good enough for your needs, then yes.
This is why the Mac Mini is of interest to me. It would be the perfect computer for my mother. It's fast enough for everything she needs to do, usable, and (compared with the Windows 98 SE they're running now) secure. And it's $653 with 512M RAM and a wireless card on the 1.25GHz. Perfect!
IIRC, they started the sets with the BMW at 70 mph... They did the first (and only) SUV test at 45mph. They also stated that it was an older SUV (a Land Rover of some variety), and that newer SUVs are frequently slightly better. However, they'll still roll easily at freeway speeds.
My gentoo system is not out of date as of this morning, according to portage. There may be a newer GCC than I am using, but that doesn't make my system out of date. IIRC, ~x86 is using GCC 3.4, but the generic form (no accept keywords set) is using the version I am.
Yes, but 1 can be quite small... Care for a $1 raise?
From my GCC 3.3.4 man page on my Gentoo system:
-O3 Optimize yet more. -O3 turns on all optimizations specified by -O2 and also turns on the -finline-functions and -frename-registers options.
I see two listed there, and that's an up-to-date Gentoo system. I don't know where you're pulling that man page from.
Oh, and the difference between two flags and three absolutely must be huge, right?
My GCC man page on FreeBSD (2.95.4) only lists -finline-functions.
Honda Civics are made/designed for ricers? My god, you have a twisted view of the world. Honda Civics are made for people who want a fairly cheap, reliable car to get them from point A to point B, carrying what they need, with a minimum of fuss. Ricers want something cheap they can buy and mod, and therefore tend to choose cars designed for the previously mentioned purpose.
People seem to think I generalised by seeing all Gentoo users are ricers.
From your comment above: "Gentoo Is Rice." That does seem to be generalising all Gentoo users as ricers. And that's where we've gotten that impression.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Ric er&r=d
There's a list of current possible definitions of the slang term "ricer." You'll notice most mention modifications that don't actually make the car faster, and many mention that a car doesn't have to be Japanese to be considered rice in popular culture, now.
The Track Dog is certainly not a ricer. It's a highly modified Mazda Miata that's used for racing and the promotion of Flyin' Miata performance parts. Because the car is actually fast (significantly faster than the stock version), it's not rice.
So, I must be a ricer.
I use Gentoo on my desktop. I've tried other distributions, and I always end up missing Portage. I've tried FreeBSD, and Gentoo handles running on a desktop better (better flash support, and the like). I don't claim that my system is uberleet or uberfast just because it's all compiled on the local machine. I use USE flags to help things work together the way I want. I enjoy the distribution and the tools that come with it.
I don't understand how this makes me a ricer.
And nearly everyone I know who runs OS X runs as a privalidged user. It's not the equivalent of UID 0, but it's more than just a normal user. It can do damage to the entire system. This exploit can do major damage to many OS X systems.
And the current user on nearly ever Mac system I know is a power user. A power user is capable of doing damage to more than just their own account. It's not the equivalent of UID 0, but it can do some pretty nasty stuff.
I was quoting his "get r00ted." And, yeah, I basically meant you're screwed.
why only Windows/IE users can get r00ted by simply browsing a website,
An unpatched OS X system can "get r00ted" by simply browsing to a websight. Safari has an extension association that would allow a page to call the command terminal and run any command desired. Oops, you're rooted. It has been patched, but so have most of the bugs viruses use in Windows.
They need a better route than they had last time. Being at ground level running up Guadalupe by campus is stupid. It splits "West Campus" (where many students live) from the main Campus, splits the stores on the drag from campus, and just, in general, makes life harder. That was my biggest problem with it the first time around - poor planned routes. I actually went to many of the small meetings and told them what I thought, as well. :)
If the princetonreview.com figure and the conversion by http://www.onlineconversion.com/area.htm are correct, UT Austin does only have ~.56 square miles (357 acres). Have you been there? Most (nearly all?) of the buildings have basements, some as many as 4 floors down, and there's many, many levels above ground in nearly all of the buildings. UT Austin is not designed like Texas Tech; it's designed to take up a small amount of space. It started as a mere 40 acres, just north of Austin, and has been enveloped by the city. Only a portion of the students live on campus.
Ah, cool. Even better. However, since everything has already been written around Oracle (before I joined the company) a change is highly unlikely.
Oh, the false assumptions make my head hurt.
And in case it seems like I'm contradicting myself, no, the company doesn't care about support from Red Hat / Whitebox. Yes, it does care about support for Oracle. I suspect the difference is the cost difference between a Red Hat admin and an Oracle admin.
Postgres comes with support?
When did I say I chose it?
Oracle does some things nothing else does. That, combined with the support, is why it was chosen, I believe. However, like I said, I didn't chose it. But I do have to live with what's already there.