I know in Virginia laws were passed recently making this illegal as well, though I'm not sure the same stiff penalties are put into place.
In VA, it's a $20 fine for the first offense, rising to $50 for subsequent offenses. Plus, it is only a secondary offense. You must be caught doing something else.
Yesterday, on a long drive across the state, I passed and repassed a driver who was texting constantly. Saw her over a period of about 45 minutes, texting the whole time. She was holding the phone up, and every time I saw her, she was looking at the phone, not the road. And yes, her lane discipline was horrendous.
Nope. Finland, Sweden, and Norway have similar population densities and much harsher climates, and have better cell coverage and broadband access.
Bullshit comparison. Lets take Norway (selected at random from your list). Similar in size and population to Arizona.
300,000 sq km vs 325,000 sq km 4.6M vs 6.5M population.
If a company or two had only Arizona to handle, and the full resources of the country's government WRT internet connections, and subsidised by tax resources, they could do wonders in terms of speed and connectivity.
If it uses mirrors of some type to aim the laser "beam", won't missile designers just make the missile housing out of the same reflective material?
Weight and strength. Plus, it's a game of measure/countermeasure. You invent the gun, I invent armor. You invent a stronger gun, I counter with reactive armor. Eventually, someone will counter with a missile skin able to defeat this. And then a different type of laser/phaser/deathray will be invented.
There should be grade separated lanes for pedestrians, human powered vehicles, and motorized vehicles.
Unfortunately, to get anywhere, those 3 lanes have to cross. Repeatedly. And interserctions are where most incidents occur. How does the grade separation handle a cyclist going straight through, and a right turning motor vehicle?
In our case, I think we should be more concerned with the slow pace in space exploration, not because that North Korea might launch a nuke, but a asteroid might be heading our way.
Slow pace? A mere 100 years ago, we were just beginning to experiment with heavier than air vehicles. Today, we are driving RC cars around on other planets. It may seem 'slow' to the gottahaveitrightnow mindset of today's younguns, but 100 years is a drop in the bucket.
How long was it between Columbus and the landing at Jamestown or Plymouth Rock? 500 or 1000 years from now, historians will look back and say "Dayum! They did a lot of stuff in that century!"
What did we as a species do between 900 and 1000 AD? Besides fight a few wars, not a whole lot.
well, gee, Sparky. Not everyone lives in a fully walkable city environment. Quite often, it is built in to the same place as the drive through teller lane. OMG! Yes, we have drive through banks. Often, just down the street from drive through food.
Some places even have drive through beer. mmmmmmmm
If I say: well if 6 people send me each a 10MB file then I'll be over quota
Trust me...I hate this crap too. Managing not only my space, but also managing what other people send me. But no matter how much space on the mail server is granted, someone will bitch about it.
And you know what... The Exchange Administrators still only give 50mb for your mailbox 10 years later.;)
Seriously, what is up with that... My home computer has more hard drive space than many business servers combined.
Your home PC has to store 1 persons stuff, and you personally can sport the money for you. Should the company provide a terabyte per person? Why? You're not storing dozens and dozens of movies on the office server. 1 movie = several thousand emails/spreadsheets/text documents.
Yes, I understand about the whole monopoly thing. And making them give the users a choice.
But to force them to provide tools from direct competitors (and all that goes with it)...that's above and beyond. Why not force them to provide options to Notepad. Or bundle (and support) other programming 'languages' and tools beyond VBA in Office. Or even a variety of Linux distros?
Jesus christ on a crutch. If I see this stupidly retarded statement one more time... If you've been here on/.more than about 3 seconds, you would have come across a little tidbit of information alluding to the different networks within the US DoD, and their various levels of security. Not everything that lives on a hard drive in the DoD is sooper sekrit and needs to be cut off from the outside world.
Some of these networks are truly open. Some are only acecssible from a.mil domain. Some are not connected to the internet at all, and split with an air gap. And some even more restrictive than that.
Your oh so insightful remark is also a cheap way to hamper operations. We need a -1 Dumbass.
this is typical insane engineering- if this succeeds then a mechanic would need to be an expert in light theory and frickin laser beams to work on your car.
No, you do exactly what they do now: When it is determined that there is no spark = replace the coil pack (laser sequencer), or replace the plug wires (fiber pipes), or replace the spark plugs (thingies that screw into the cylinders).
Now...this laser stuff may or may not be needed. But repairs nowadays = remove and replace the bogus part. The coil pack on my almost 10 year old truck is a sealed unit. No fix, just replace. Plug wires? Trivially replaced Plugs? The only thing I might need to do is wirebrush. Or replace at $1.50 ea.
A laser ignition might be useful in adjusting the ignition rate and level, according to engine load, and balanced with fuel flow/mixture. Similar to a camera flash. Depending on need, you might want it to fire slower or later than under full load. With a current spark plug, you get to time it, but not adjust the level of spark. You get spark or no spark.
fine. add $150 for a blu ray burner. gee...wasnt that expensive ?
Now you're up to $550. For that, you could get a whole nother PC w/ 2 ea 1TB drives. Doesn't have to be even vaguely fast, just enough to host the drives. Access time to the entire backup is as fast as booting it, instead of digging through a stack of 40/50/60 disks.
Microsoft's solution is to keep all editing inside the Office suite, which requires checkout and checkin of each individual document. It's a terrible solution, rooted in an outdated "document centric" methodology.
Check out the Wiki or blog functionality in SP. Literally, click Edit, and off you go.
However, for some reason, no sharepoint server has ever made it easy to find or access those documents, they always end up in a sprawl of links.
That's called "a crappy SharePoint admin" or "bad taxonomy" or "no forethought as to organization". If that same person was in charge of a simple file share, it would be just as bad.
SP works with Firefox at a basic level. Any of the higher level functionality (editing in place, slide libraries, checkout/in, etc.) needs IE, ActiveX, and Office.
The real name for SharePoint is Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. It's an online extension of the Office suite.
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I was told that a flat spin was a bad thing.
Go to the next local airshow where the F-22 demo guy is doing his stuff. You will see him do one. As well as a vertical, tailstanding, hover.
I know in Virginia laws were passed recently making this illegal as well, though I'm not sure the same stiff penalties are put into place.
In VA, it's a $20 fine for the first offense, rising to $50 for subsequent offenses. Plus, it is only a secondary offense. You must be caught doing something else.
Yesterday, on a long drive across the state, I passed and repassed a driver who was texting constantly. Saw her over a period of about 45 minutes, texting the whole time. She was holding the phone up, and every time I saw her, she was looking at the phone, not the road.
And yes, her lane discipline was horrendous.
Nope. Finland, Sweden, and Norway have similar population densities and much harsher climates, and have better cell coverage and broadband access.
Bullshit comparison.
Lets take Norway (selected at random from your list). Similar in size and population to Arizona.
300,000 sq km vs 325,000 sq km
4.6M vs 6.5M population.
If a company or two had only Arizona to handle, and the full resources of the country's government WRT internet connections, and subsidised by tax resources, they could do wonders in terms of speed and connectivity.
I agree that it is a bad law in the sense that it is difficult for a site to know if a customer is a minor.
Not merely difficult, but impossible to positively identify who is sitting at the keyboard.
So the question, in my mind, isn't so much, "is the law good?" The question is, "how can we implement this law effectively?"
You have one too many words in your question. "Can we implement this law effectively?"
And the ansewr is "No".
If it uses mirrors of some type to aim the laser "beam", won't missile designers just make the missile housing out of the same reflective material?
Weight and strength. Plus, it's a game of measure/countermeasure. You invent the gun, I invent armor. You invent a stronger gun, I counter with reactive armor.
Eventually, someone will counter with a missile skin able to defeat this. And then a different type of laser/phaser/deathray will be invented.
No, after the event, it will be 'willyleaks'.
Burning Man, indeed.
Wow, you mean like the data protection laws that Europe has had for decades?
Which doesn't work any better than anywhere else in the western world.
Stolen this, Phorm that, misplaced everything else.
tell us...who is in jail after violating these 'data protection laws'? What companies and CEOs have been shut down?
Obligatory:
Why do gorillas have such big nostrils?
Because they have big fingers.
"This new Google thing assumes that people will use anything other than AltaVista/Webcrawler/Yahoo."
Not saying that Bing/Yahoo will take over, but Google hasn't always been #1.
There should be grade separated lanes for pedestrians, human powered vehicles, and motorized vehicles.
Unfortunately, to get anywhere, those 3 lanes have to cross. Repeatedly. And interserctions are where most incidents occur.
How does the grade separation handle a cyclist going straight through, and a right turning motor vehicle?
In our case, I think we should be more concerned with the slow pace in space exploration, not because that North Korea might launch a nuke, but a asteroid might be heading our way.
Slow pace? A mere 100 years ago, we were just beginning to experiment with heavier than air vehicles. Today, we are driving RC cars around on other planets. It may seem 'slow' to the gottahaveitrightnow mindset of today's younguns, but 100 years is a drop in the bucket.
How long was it between Columbus and the landing at Jamestown or Plymouth Rock?
500 or 1000 years from now, historians will look back and say "Dayum! They did a lot of stuff in that century!"
What did we as a species do between 900 and 1000 AD? Besides fight a few wars, not a whole lot.
Drive up ATMs??? My god you Americans are lazy.
well, gee, Sparky. Not everyone lives in a fully walkable city environment. Quite often, it is built in to the same place as the drive through teller lane.
OMG! Yes, we have drive through banks. Often, just down the street from drive through food.
Some places even have drive through beer.
mmmmmmmm
Always a good idea. You're in a taxi, and need some cash. Do you give the driver your card and the PIN and hope he doesn't rip you off? I think not.
Blind drivers? Not such a good idea. Better to let the car (or some other human) drive it.
I won't be able to win if I argue with you :)
If I say: well if 6 people send me each a 10MB file then I'll be over quota
Trust me...I hate this crap too. Managing not only my space, but also managing what other people send me. But no matter how much space on the mail server is granted, someone will bitch about it.
And you know what... The Exchange Administrators still only give 50mb for your mailbox 10 years later. ;)
Seriously, what is up with that... My home computer has more hard drive space than many business servers combined.
Your home PC has to store 1 persons stuff, and you personally can sport the money for you. Should the company provide a terabyte per person? Why? You're not storing dozens and dozens of movies on the office server. 1 movie = several thousand emails/spreadsheets/text documents.
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Little kids getting their diapers changed?
Yes, I understand about the whole monopoly thing. And making them give the users a choice.
But to force them to provide tools from direct competitors (and all that goes with it)...that's above and beyond.
Why not force them to provide options to Notepad. Or bundle (and support) other programming 'languages' and tools beyond VBA in Office.
Or even a variety of Linux distros?
"OK, Joe...which engine do you want in your new Chevy? A Chevy, Ford, Toyota, Chrysler, Nissan, or Honda engine?"
I (sort of) understand making them not tie IE to windows. But actually using MS resources to provide other browsers?
Is MS now on the hook to provide the source code for the open source browsers in this bundle? Since they are providing the binaries, I'd say yes.
Jesus christ on a crutch. If I see this stupidly retarded statement one more time... /.more than about 3 seconds, you would have come across a little tidbit of information alluding to the different networks within the US DoD, and their various levels of security. Not everything that lives on a hard drive in the DoD is sooper sekrit and needs to be cut off from the outside world.
.mil domain. Some are not connected to the internet at all, and split with an air gap. And some even more restrictive than that.
If you've been here on
Some of these networks are truly open. Some are only acecssible from a
Your oh so insightful remark is also a cheap way to hamper operations.
We need a -1 Dumbass.
this is typical insane engineering- if this succeeds then a mechanic would need to be an expert in light theory and frickin laser beams to work on your car.
No, you do exactly what they do now:
When it is determined that there is no spark = replace the coil pack (laser sequencer), or replace the plug wires (fiber pipes), or replace the spark plugs (thingies that screw into the cylinders).
Now...this laser stuff may or may not be needed. But repairs nowadays = remove and replace the bogus part.
The coil pack on my almost 10 year old truck is a sealed unit. No fix, just replace.
Plug wires? Trivially replaced
Plugs? The only thing I might need to do is wirebrush. Or replace at $1.50 ea.
A laser ignition might be useful in adjusting the ignition rate and level, according to engine load, and balanced with fuel flow/mixture. Similar to a camera flash. Depending on need, you might want it to fire slower or later than under full load.
With a current spark plug, you get to time it, but not adjust the level of spark. You get spark or no spark.
fine. add $150 for a blu ray burner. gee...wasnt that expensive ?
Now you're up to $550. For that, you could get a whole nother PC w/ 2 ea 1TB drives. Doesn't have to be even vaguely fast, just enough to host the drives. Access time to the entire backup is as fast as booting it, instead of digging through a stack of 40/50/60 disks.
Microsoft's solution is to keep all editing inside the Office suite, which requires checkout and checkin of each individual document. It's a terrible solution, rooted in an outdated "document centric" methodology.
Check out the Wiki or blog functionality in SP. Literally, click Edit, and off you go.
What's a good free sharepoint alternative, in a single package?
That works as 'seamlessly' with MSOffice (the default business suite) as SharePoint? There isn't one.
However, for some reason, no sharepoint server has ever made it easy to find or access those documents, they always end up in a sprawl of links.
That's called "a crappy SharePoint admin" or "bad taxonomy" or "no forethought as to organization".
If that same person was in charge of a simple file share, it would be just as bad.
SP works with Firefox at a basic level. Any of the higher level functionality (editing in place, slide libraries, checkout/in, etc.) needs IE, ActiveX, and Office.
The real name for SharePoint is Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. It's an online extension of the Office suite.