From the story:
The signal is a sign of the times. The Bay Area is increasingly consumed with its traffic woes, as seen in a recent fight over neighborhood traffic barriers that divided Palo Alto residents.
So an area "consumed with its traffic woes" will fix them by introducing more red lights? By extension, if all the lights were permanently red would all the traffic woes then be magically banished? What does the Governator have to say about this? Will speeding HumVee's be exempt?
"CA stands in stark disagreement with SCO's tactics, which are intended to intimidate and threaten customers."
That's OUR job, said the CA spokesperson!
CA didn't _intentionally_ sign on as a SCO licensee for Linux IP, but they did become one - however marginally - as part of their Unixware deal.
As someone who is forced to deal with CA on much too frequent a basis, I can tell you that CA is just as sneaky at burying T's & C's into their contracts and I'm literally laughing out loud that _they_ got burned by the same tactics they use to shaft _their_ customers. They have incredible depth in their contracts review support, and somebody seriously dropped the ball here. Somebody is, or soon will be, joining the ranks of the many job-seekers.
I shed no tears for either company, they are both scum, and I'm enjoying watching the fur fly between the two.
Uh, hello - they use unix terminals to look up part numbers, etc in every store. How it works is you walk into auto zone and say "hey i need an oil filter for my car" and they ask what kind, year, number of doors, etc, and pull up the part number for you to go find it on the shelf.
And then give you the wrong part number. That's why I always look them up, myself, using my shop manuals at home before I go to the store and give them what I know to be the accurate part #.
But I do like the fact they are open 24 hours and also accept used fluids (oil, antifreeze, etc), gratis, for environmentally safe disposal so I continue to use them when possible. They just seem to have altered their business focus to sell neon-colored windshield wipers and crap instead of the nuts-and-bolts parts I need.
"The bank ate the loss and gave us back our cash, but what kind of justice is it when scammers get to go free with the cash they stole?"
Scammers going free? Hmmm, what would Martha say . . . . "It's a beautiful thing"(tm).
Several interesting bits of text jump out in that article:
"improperly adjusted rearview mirrors" - these can be adjusted properly at no cost. At $500/car estimated cost to outfit these sytems compared to the alleged $360 Billion these accidents have cost in the last 10 years - how much would we be spending vs. how much would we be saving (I'm way too lazy to go look up annual US auto sales and do the math)? One given is that there is no way to quantify the cost of human life (unless you are an actuary and I don't want to hear those numbers anyway) so I'm not trying to include that in the mix.
"cars and trucks" - every single mention of exactly what the system detects only ever references cars & trucks/SUV's. In my experience as both a driver of cars/trucks and as a motorcyclist by far it seems the larger risk is the biker that gets zapped by Oscar Grope in a Buick with an improper lane change. It's very telling that motorcyclists aren't on 'the radar' for this, so to speak.
As long as the US hands out licenses to anyone with pocket change and enough patience to wait in line at a DMV facility any discussion of driver safety is laughable.
Echoing the above comments - snow falling (Chicago), no problem. Snow accumulating in the dish - problem. This only happens under very specific circumstances as the snow usually doesn't stick in the dish. When it does, as I don't have a ladder, it is difficult to remedy. It's happened twice and each time I did the following: stand in the front lawn throwing snowballs up at the dish till the snow was dislodged and slipped out. Crude, not especially efficient, but wildly entertaining for the neighbors I suppose.
Note: this is for a DirecTV dish as I'm lucky enough to have a choice of both cable and DSL and don't use DirectWay. I have a friend that was using DirectWay up until fairly recently with good results (and understanding all the usual caveats about interactivity and upload limitations).
Right on! Where the heck is ABATE on this? Whatever happened to "Kill a biker, go to jail"? Not for 100 damn days! Guy didn't even stick around, he drove away and left Scott there. Well now that the criminal case is over I hope Scott's family goes to civil court and rips Janklow a new one.
Seriously, I was prepared to not like this show when it premiered. Right out of the box it looked like I was going that way with that theme song (lyrics!?!?) but I got over that. The first season kind of meandered about but now seems to have gotten more of a focus and a real storyline to tie the episodes together.
I'll miss this show if it is gone. It's no DS9 but it's gotten good enough to deserve renewal.
Quibble - AIX does not run on zSeries servers, just pSeries and iSeries.
As somebody that actually does run Linux on both a z900 and a z990, I could go through and point out the numerous flaws in both configuration and pricing but, really, why bother? Refuting a study paid for my MS is pointless, as anybody that believes it isn't going to believe reason.
Nah, I don't want him dead or in prison. I just want the law amended so that for each spam message received, the spammer must bear the expense of transporting the spammee to their location so that the spammee can get one free kick into the spammers nuts. Call me crazy but even if it doesn't have an immediate impact on spam the longer term effects might be felt by seriously limiting the ability of spammers to procreate. (Still working on an amendment to the law for female spammers).
Actually not "False", just perhaps not as relevant. In truth the underlying hardware for enterprise financial apps does change much more frequently than you would suspect. The difference is that, unlike video cards, the OS handles the interaction with the hardware and was written with a long term view of - as much as possible - eliminating the need to adjust the application code to be compatible with hardware changes. As a generalization, when talking enterprise financial apps written in 'legacy code', we are mostly talking mainframes. Those COBOL apps that are still running may have begun on 24-bit 370 machines that transitioned to 31-bit XA machines then 31-bit ESA machines (with access registers) and finally 64-bit z-series machines. Assuming they were written to the spec of the language & compiler AND didn't have Y2K code issues, that same code can be executing now despite numerous upgrades of the underlying hardware.
As to not knowing whether the app does what it is supposed to do . . . that's another story. Though it is one that offers me potential consulting revenue in my retirment years.:)
I also just picked up a second DirecTiVo. I bought one 2 years ago at Circuit City for $99 US. While down here in Atlanta visiting family for the holidays I saw DirecTiVo version 1, Hughes variety (my first is a Phillips, very similar) on sale for $99 with no strings attached. Jumped at the chance - my wife is already happy at the prospect of having her own DirecTiVo in a 2nd room. TiVo is like a cult - nobody understands it till they have one and then they try to convert everyone else. Never seen that effect with the Replay units.
Where the hell do you live? Most of the folks I work with commute by train. They live in the Chicago 'burbs and take Metra downtown and then back home. I already live in the city and have a number of options - CTA, driving, cab - but there's a ton of workers that live in the 'burbs and take trains to Chicago jobs and back home to 'burban homes. This is the 'commute by train' that you reference. An entirely different matter is how in other countries they travel intercity/intercountry via rail and don't drive, but there's way more commuting via train here in the US than you appear to be aware of.
"Rapito ergo sum"
Hey, why not toss that in to further confuse the kid and his teacher? Yes, apparently this philosopher Eminem gave birth to that essential truth "I rap, therefore I am"
I'll grant that it has neato geek factor, but I only paid $99 for my DirecTivo. For $1,400 I could have DirecTivos in every room of my house and my garage and still have plenty of money left to install mega hard drives in each one to up the capacity. And for the record, Tivos ARE Linux boxen which is why they are so geek-friendly when you want to mod them. So other than having a large hard drive stuffed into it I don't really see what makes this device all that special, and certainly not at that price.
Where do you see the March 26 date? Just because the number assigned to this by MS ends with 03-26 doesn't equate to that being March 26. Please elaborate.
So, go soak your knee (it probably hurts from the big jerking motion you just made) and let our process do its work.
Back on my planet commenting on proposed legislation IS part of the process.
>Unless you're suspected of being a terrorist supporting drug user, in which case the police can use an IR camera to watch you through your walls.
That is sooooo 90's; these days there's no need to bother with such lengthy and expensive surveillance - they just lock up STSDU's (suspected terrorist supporting drug users) without ever filing charges, and they don't have to release the names of such detainee's either. But don't worry, Mr. Idonthaveanythingtohide, it couldn't happen to you.
"Insightful"??? WTF??? What kind of idiot moderators mod'd this up to "Insightful"? The poster doesn't even know that SENATOR Orrin Hatch is in the . . . SENATE, making any comment about the House of Representatives pretty frelling irrelevant.
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From the story: The signal is a sign of the times. The Bay Area is increasingly consumed with its traffic woes, as seen in a recent fight over neighborhood traffic barriers that divided Palo Alto residents. So an area "consumed with its traffic woes" will fix them by introducing more red lights? By extension, if all the lights were permanently red would all the traffic woes then be magically banished? What does the Governator have to say about this? Will speeding HumVee's be exempt?
I mean, what are the odds?
He was way off - totally underestimated both the volume and frequency. People like this are proof.
"CA stands in stark disagreement with SCO's tactics, which are intended to intimidate and threaten customers." That's OUR job, said the CA spokesperson!
CA didn't _intentionally_ sign on as a SCO licensee for Linux IP, but they did become one - however marginally - as part of their Unixware deal. As someone who is forced to deal with CA on much too frequent a basis, I can tell you that CA is just as sneaky at burying T's & C's into their contracts and I'm literally laughing out loud that _they_ got burned by the same tactics they use to shaft _their_ customers. They have incredible depth in their contracts review support, and somebody seriously dropped the ball here. Somebody is, or soon will be, joining the ranks of the many job-seekers. I shed no tears for either company, they are both scum, and I'm enjoying watching the fur fly between the two.
Uh, hello - they use unix terminals to look up part numbers, etc in every store. How it works is you walk into auto zone and say "hey i need an oil filter for my car" and they ask what kind, year, number of doors, etc, and pull up the part number for you to go find it on the shelf. And then give you the wrong part number. That's why I always look them up, myself, using my shop manuals at home before I go to the store and give them what I know to be the accurate part #. But I do like the fact they are open 24 hours and also accept used fluids (oil, antifreeze, etc), gratis, for environmentally safe disposal so I continue to use them when possible. They just seem to have altered their business focus to sell neon-colored windshield wipers and crap instead of the nuts-and-bolts parts I need.
"The bank ate the loss and gave us back our cash, but what kind of justice is it when scammers get to go free with the cash they stole?" Scammers going free? Hmmm, what would Martha say . . . . "It's a beautiful thing"(tm).
Well some might say that the Comcast remote sucks so that it better matches the Comcast service.
Several interesting bits of text jump out in that article: "improperly adjusted rearview mirrors" - these can be adjusted properly at no cost. At $500/car estimated cost to outfit these sytems compared to the alleged $360 Billion these accidents have cost in the last 10 years - how much would we be spending vs. how much would we be saving (I'm way too lazy to go look up annual US auto sales and do the math)? One given is that there is no way to quantify the cost of human life (unless you are an actuary and I don't want to hear those numbers anyway) so I'm not trying to include that in the mix. "cars and trucks" - every single mention of exactly what the system detects only ever references cars & trucks/SUV's. In my experience as both a driver of cars/trucks and as a motorcyclist by far it seems the larger risk is the biker that gets zapped by Oscar Grope in a Buick with an improper lane change. It's very telling that motorcyclists aren't on 'the radar' for this, so to speak. As long as the US hands out licenses to anyone with pocket change and enough patience to wait in line at a DMV facility any discussion of driver safety is laughable.
Echoing the above comments - snow falling (Chicago), no problem. Snow accumulating in the dish - problem. This only happens under very specific circumstances as the snow usually doesn't stick in the dish. When it does, as I don't have a ladder, it is difficult to remedy. It's happened twice and each time I did the following: stand in the front lawn throwing snowballs up at the dish till the snow was dislodged and slipped out. Crude, not especially efficient, but wildly entertaining for the neighbors I suppose. Note: this is for a DirecTV dish as I'm lucky enough to have a choice of both cable and DSL and don't use DirectWay. I have a friend that was using DirectWay up until fairly recently with good results (and understanding all the usual caveats about interactivity and upload limitations).
Right on! Where the heck is ABATE on this? Whatever happened to "Kill a biker, go to jail"? Not for 100 damn days! Guy didn't even stick around, he drove away and left Scott there. Well now that the criminal case is over I hope Scott's family goes to civil court and rips Janklow a new one.
Hey, somebody had to say it!
Seriously, I was prepared to not like this show when it premiered. Right out of the box it looked like I was going that way with that theme song (lyrics!?!?) but I got over that. The first season kind of meandered about but now seems to have gotten more of a focus and a real storyline to tie the episodes together.
I'll miss this show if it is gone. It's no DS9 but it's gotten good enough to deserve renewal.
Quibble - AIX does not run on zSeries servers, just pSeries and iSeries. As somebody that actually does run Linux on both a z900 and a z990, I could go through and point out the numerous flaws in both configuration and pricing but, really, why bother? Refuting a study paid for my MS is pointless, as anybody that believes it isn't going to believe reason.
Nah, I don't want him dead or in prison. I just want the law amended so that for each spam message received, the spammer must bear the expense of transporting the spammee to their location so that the spammee can get one free kick into the spammers nuts. Call me crazy but even if it doesn't have an immediate impact on spam the longer term effects might be felt by seriously limiting the ability of spammers to procreate. (Still working on an amendment to the law for female spammers).
Actually not "False", just perhaps not as relevant. In truth the underlying hardware for enterprise financial apps does change much more frequently than you would suspect. The difference is that, unlike video cards, the OS handles the interaction with the hardware and was written with a long term view of - as much as possible - eliminating the need to adjust the application code to be compatible with hardware changes. As a generalization, when talking enterprise financial apps written in 'legacy code', we are mostly talking mainframes. Those COBOL apps that are still running may have begun on 24-bit 370 machines that transitioned to 31-bit XA machines then 31-bit ESA machines (with access registers) and finally 64-bit z-series machines. Assuming they were written to the spec of the language & compiler AND didn't have Y2K code issues, that same code can be executing now despite numerous upgrades of the underlying hardware. As to not knowing whether the app does what it is supposed to do . . . that's another story. Though it is one that offers me potential consulting revenue in my retirment years. :)
I also just picked up a second DirecTiVo. I bought one 2 years ago at Circuit City for $99 US. While down here in Atlanta visiting family for the holidays I saw DirecTiVo version 1, Hughes variety (my first is a Phillips, very similar) on sale for $99 with no strings attached. Jumped at the chance - my wife is already happy at the prospect of having her own DirecTiVo in a 2nd room. TiVo is like a cult - nobody understands it till they have one and then they try to convert everyone else. Never seen that effect with the Replay units.
Where the hell do you live? Most of the folks I work with commute by train. They live in the Chicago 'burbs and take Metra downtown and then back home. I already live in the city and have a number of options - CTA, driving, cab - but there's a ton of workers that live in the 'burbs and take trains to Chicago jobs and back home to 'burban homes. This is the 'commute by train' that you reference. An entirely different matter is how in other countries they travel intercity/intercountry via rail and don't drive, but there's way more commuting via train here in the US than you appear to be aware of.
"Rapito ergo sum" Hey, why not toss that in to further confuse the kid and his teacher? Yes, apparently this philosopher Eminem gave birth to that essential truth "I rap, therefore I am"
Tear the root off, we're gonna tear the root of, tear the root of this sucka!
I'll grant that it has neato geek factor, but I only paid $99 for my DirecTivo. For $1,400 I could have DirecTivos in every room of my house and my garage and still have plenty of money left to install mega hard drives in each one to up the capacity. And for the record, Tivos ARE Linux boxen which is why they are so geek-friendly when you want to mod them. So other than having a large hard drive stuffed into it I don't really see what makes this device all that special, and certainly not at that price.
Where do you see the March 26 date? Just because the number assigned to this by MS ends with 03-26 doesn't equate to that being March 26. Please elaborate.
Make sure you have your pop-up killer active, too, as there's one annoying as heck blatant pop every single time you interact with the B7 page.
So, go soak your knee (it probably hurts from the big jerking motion you just made) and let our process do its work. Back on my planet commenting on proposed legislation IS part of the process.
>Unless you're suspected of being a terrorist supporting drug user, in which case the police can use an IR camera to watch you through your walls. That is sooooo 90's; these days there's no need to bother with such lengthy and expensive surveillance - they just lock up STSDU's (suspected terrorist supporting drug users) without ever filing charges, and they don't have to release the names of such detainee's either. But don't worry, Mr. Idonthaveanythingtohide, it couldn't happen to you.
"Insightful"??? WTF??? What kind of idiot moderators mod'd this up to "Insightful"? The poster doesn't even know that SENATOR Orrin Hatch is in the . . . SENATE, making any comment about the House of Representatives pretty frelling irrelevant.