Really? You're kidding right? Most workplaces want you working not pursuing personal agendas at work. That's not sci-fi but present day. They sure don't want you using company time and equipment to break any laws for your own personal gain (maybe for their gain depending on the company).
No such requirement to publish checkpoints here. It's a public road subject to regulation. If your state says they have to publish then that's their decision. I don't see the outcry here. Nobody has sympathy for drunk drivers, only disgust and anger.
hehe....that field sobriety test is a joke. I was on the jury for a DUI case a while back. I challenged all my fellow jurors to try the test and not one of them, including me, could pass it. Cops can do it because they practice it all the time but it's not easy unless you're athletic. The average couch potato can't do it.
I can't agree. It's a matter of public safety on a public road. The courts have ruled that driving is a privilege and not a right. While you have a right to disagree that doesn't make you right. The majority of people feel that their right to be safe is more important than your right to drive drunk. Do you know how many decades of broken bodies and shattered lives were endured before these kinds of laws were written? These laws came about because people demanded them from their state legislatures. The states can decide what limits to impose on your driving privileges. This has nothing to do with your constitutional freedom. If you don't like it you can always not drive. Take a cab.
I don't know about your reasonable studies but here recently the sheriff's department set up a roadblock on a heavily traveled road that had almost 4 miles with no turnoff. They had quite a haul and the overflow had to go to neighboring county jails. More and more the expense and legal trouble is causing people I know to always make sure they have a designated driver when they party now. Most of them learn after the first time they get hauled in. Of course there is always a percentage that never learn.
And really this is why the checkpoints exist. Entirely too many people had loved ones killed by drunken drivers. Legal society is always a compromise. You give up some freedoms in order to have an orderly society. Where to draw the line is decided ultimately by the people. Lawmakers didn't act until after the outcry grew very loud and strident.
I know how you feel, I hate getting stopped at these DUI checkpoints also but they do perform a useful purpose. As annoying as it is I think the fact that they are getting drunks off the road is important. It's incredible how many people get arrested for drinking and driving at these stops. Most people who get caught admit to drinking but think "they're fine." They don't believe the fact they've been guzzling alcohol at a bar for 3 or 4 hours has any effect on them.
Why is it that if they hold the patents for what the android phones are doing, then why didn't they make a decent phone themselves to start with? How is it that google took their intellectual property they dreamed up and made something so much better than their own crap?
Too bad you posted as anon or I'd have modded you insightful. I've got a tracphone and I love it. I pay for what I use when I use it. No bill. No aggravation. Coverage is through at&t towers which gives me a great coverage area but no data and if someone texts me I just ignore it, I only pay if I read it. For 40 bucks I get 400 minutes which lasts between one and three months depending on what is going on at the time. It's not for those pitiful people that live with a bluetooth headset grafted on the side of their head who absolutely must talk on the phone 12 hours a day but it's great for someone that just occasionally needs to communicate for maybe 5 to 10 minutes a day. My wife is more social so I bought her a Boost Mobile phone. Coverage is a little spotty in some areas and occasionally it drops a call but for 50 bucks a month with no limits at all it's frigging wonderful. I like no hassle, no bullshit service and these two companies fit my needs. People who want to get shafted can play the if, when, where game of all these fine print plans if they like, it's not for me.
Cheap Dell's are a roll of the dice. I've got a 1545 that works flawlessly now that I wiped the malware off that it came with and installed Ubuntu. Not bad for 400 bucks.
Apple has made lemons before, actually called Road Apples. From time to time they do make mistakes and of course when you charge a premium for hardware it's inevitable that you'll catch a lot of grief when you mess up. They tend to be slow to admit mistakes too. When they finally realize it's inevitable they'll bite the bullet and fix the problem but in the meantime it can be ugly. If I bought a laptop for 2 grand and it choked on video transcoding and other processor intensive stuff like these seem to be doing I'd pitch a bitch too.
Because it's backed by MS and everyone likes to kiss some Microsoft butt in hopes of making big money. It's probably just a negotiation ploy to get Redmond to sweeten the deal for them. They know that MS is going to have to open the wallet and spend big to get back in the mobile game against the droids, berries, and iphones.
I know they've sold some but I've never seen anyone use one. Lot's of droids, a few blackberries and iphones, but never seen a win7 phone in the wild. But then I use a motorola tracphone and love it. It's a great phone, lousy computer, shitty camera, bad mp3 player, but makes and receives calls so well that I can't bring myself to part with it.
I've watched the marketing attempts. Overall I'd have to say their marketing is much better than WP7. It could be that people aren't buying windows phones not because they are bad phones but because the droid and iphones are better. One thing you've got to remeber is, while you as a developer may love wp7 that means nothing at all to the people that buy phones.
Gas wont go that high. When oil gets to a high enough point all the wells in the US will open and start pumping. There is a lot of oil in the US but it's expensive to pump it....but not for long at the prices we're starting to see.
Actually I love the new iPad. I want one but can't bring myself to purchase a device that is so locked down. I want it to run what I want and operate the way I want. It's too bad that Apple makes such nice hardware and then cripples it with their policies.
I looked at the charts on that page and I'm wondering if you did. Nuclear costs were actually quite attractive, among the most cost effective sources of power.
The potential upside is a cheap and clean source of power that using modern techniques is quite safe. One of the reactors that is having so much trouble in Japan now was built in 1971. I'd think that a site not so accessible to tsunami's might be a better choice.
I don't know why people try to convince others to stay with linux after they've made the decision to leave. For one thing it's their choice. For the second why would you care? Third is that they almost always wind up coming back.
Really I'd like an archos tablet with just plain debian on it with a good touchscreen UI. What's so damn hard about that? Why do they have to fix it 'till it's broken?
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Really? You're kidding right? Most workplaces want you working not pursuing personal agendas at work. That's not sci-fi but present day. They sure don't want you using company time and equipment to break any laws for your own personal gain (maybe for their gain depending on the company).
No such requirement to publish checkpoints here. It's a public road subject to regulation. If your state says they have to publish then that's their decision. I don't see the outcry here. Nobody has sympathy for drunk drivers, only disgust and anger.
hehe....that field sobriety test is a joke. I was on the jury for a DUI case a while back. I challenged all my fellow jurors to try the test and not one of them, including me, could pass it. Cops can do it because they practice it all the time but it's not easy unless you're athletic. The average couch potato can't do it.
I can't agree. It's a matter of public safety on a public road. The courts have ruled that driving is a privilege and not a right. While you have a right to disagree that doesn't make you right. The majority of people feel that their right to be safe is more important than your right to drive drunk. Do you know how many decades of broken bodies and shattered lives were endured before these kinds of laws were written? These laws came about because people demanded them from their state legislatures. The states can decide what limits to impose on your driving privileges. This has nothing to do with your constitutional freedom. If you don't like it you can always not drive. Take a cab.
I don't know about your reasonable studies but here recently the sheriff's department set up a roadblock on a heavily traveled road that had almost 4 miles with no turnoff. They had quite a haul and the overflow had to go to neighboring county jails. More and more the expense and legal trouble is causing people I know to always make sure they have a designated driver when they party now. Most of them learn after the first time they get hauled in. Of course there is always a percentage that never learn.
And really this is why the checkpoints exist. Entirely too many people had loved ones killed by drunken drivers. Legal society is always a compromise. You give up some freedoms in order to have an orderly society. Where to draw the line is decided ultimately by the people. Lawmakers didn't act until after the outcry grew very loud and strident.
I know how you feel, I hate getting stopped at these DUI checkpoints also but they do perform a useful purpose. As annoying as it is I think the fact that they are getting drunks off the road is important. It's incredible how many people get arrested for drinking and driving at these stops. Most people who get caught admit to drinking but think "they're fine." They don't believe the fact they've been guzzling alcohol at a bar for 3 or 4 hours has any effect on them.
There is no such thing as the mob, and we'll rub out anyone who says there is.
you're as witty as microsoft is innovative.
Why is it that if they hold the patents for what the android phones are doing, then why didn't they make a decent phone themselves to start with? How is it that google took their intellectual property they dreamed up and made something so much better than their own crap?
Too bad you posted as anon or I'd have modded you insightful. I've got a tracphone and I love it. I pay for what I use when I use it. No bill. No aggravation. Coverage is through at&t towers which gives me a great coverage area but no data and if someone texts me I just ignore it, I only pay if I read it. For 40 bucks I get 400 minutes which lasts between one and three months depending on what is going on at the time. It's not for those pitiful people that live with a bluetooth headset grafted on the side of their head who absolutely must talk on the phone 12 hours a day but it's great for someone that just occasionally needs to communicate for maybe 5 to 10 minutes a day. My wife is more social so I bought her a Boost Mobile phone. Coverage is a little spotty in some areas and occasionally it drops a call but for 50 bucks a month with no limits at all it's frigging wonderful. I like no hassle, no bullshit service and these two companies fit my needs. People who want to get shafted can play the if, when, where game of all these fine print plans if they like, it's not for me.
According to the thread this is software related. Removing smcfancontrol seems to be fixing the problem. I have to wonder how that got out the door.
Cheap Dell's are a roll of the dice. I've got a 1545 that works flawlessly now that I wiped the malware off that it came with and installed Ubuntu. Not bad for 400 bucks.
Apple has made lemons before, actually called Road Apples. From time to time they do make mistakes and of course when you charge a premium for hardware it's inevitable that you'll catch a lot of grief when you mess up. They tend to be slow to admit mistakes too. When they finally realize it's inevitable they'll bite the bullet and fix the problem but in the meantime it can be ugly. If I bought a laptop for 2 grand and it choked on video transcoding and other processor intensive stuff like these seem to be doing I'd pitch a bitch too.
Because it's backed by MS and everyone likes to kiss some Microsoft butt in hopes of making big money. It's probably just a negotiation ploy to get Redmond to sweeten the deal for them. They know that MS is going to have to open the wallet and spend big to get back in the mobile game against the droids, berries, and iphones.
I know they've sold some but I've never seen anyone use one. Lot's of droids, a few blackberries and iphones, but never seen a win7 phone in the wild. But then I use a motorola tracphone and love it. It's a great phone, lousy computer, shitty camera, bad mp3 player, but makes and receives calls so well that I can't bring myself to part with it.
I've watched the marketing attempts. Overall I'd have to say their marketing is much better than WP7. It could be that people aren't buying windows phones not because they are bad phones but because the droid and iphones are better. One thing you've got to remeber is, while you as a developer may love wp7 that means nothing at all to the people that buy phones.
Gas wont go that high. When oil gets to a high enough point all the wells in the US will open and start pumping. There is a lot of oil in the US but it's expensive to pump it....but not for long at the prices we're starting to see.
I love it. White is Black and Up is Down.
Actually I love the new iPad. I want one but can't bring myself to purchase a device that is so locked down. I want it to run what I want and operate the way I want. It's too bad that Apple makes such nice hardware and then cripples it with their policies.
The sad thing is how many retailers don't understand the supply/demand curve.
I looked at the charts on that page and I'm wondering if you did. Nuclear costs were actually quite attractive, among the most cost effective sources of power.
The potential upside is a cheap and clean source of power that using modern techniques is quite safe. One of the reactors that is having so much trouble in Japan now was built in 1971. I'd think that a site not so accessible to tsunami's might be a better choice.
I don't know why people try to convince others to stay with linux after they've made the decision to leave. For one thing it's their choice. For the second why would you care? Third is that they almost always wind up coming back.
Really I'd like an archos tablet with just plain debian on it with a good touchscreen UI. What's so damn hard about that? Why do they have to fix it 'till it's broken?