I can guarantee that the map vendor actually doesn't drive every road. In this view, the street just above center, E.42nd.St, does not exist. If you flick between satellite and hybrid views, there's not even a stream, ditch or footpath that could possibly be mistaken for E.42nd.St. There *is* no E.42nd.St in that neighborhood..
Also, in the center of the image, the 4-way intersection is actually a 3-way. E43rd.St does *not* run northwest from the T to join with S.193rd.E.Ave - that actually *is* a drainage ditch.
I just looked for my house, and found something a bit out of place. The road running past my house has another road joining it as T-junction, with the upright part of the T running directly away from the house. Google Maps shows that as a 4-way intersection, with a completly fictitious road following what is in fact a drainage ditch... And just up the road the map shows a cross-street that runs through someone's house...
I too wonder where they get their data. I was looking at a couple of mapping apps a few weeks ago, playing with a GPS puck I got for my birthday, and I think one of those shows the same stupid mistakes in the streets. It was either Microsoft Streets and Trips, or it was Rand McNally Streetfinder. I don't remember which, and right now I don't have either loaded because my disk drive died...
The satellite view shows my pool, though, so - Hey!! I can see my pool from space!!
But the people stopping by... There's now way to fix that
If you have the opportunity to work nights, try it. I hardly ever have visitors, the phone never rings, and if anyone wants to schedule me for a meeting, they'd better be prepared to: a) come in by 7am or I'm on overtime; and b) accept that I'll have put in a full day at work by the time they arrive, so I'll be tired and probably cranky if the meeting overruns much.
OK, so the attacks didn't take place on US soil, but that doesn't mean *more* liberties *won't* be taken away. Take a look at Random Bag Searches on the New York subway...
Well, you could blow the whistle... By that I mean, if you think you've been tapped, call a friend and have him place his handset under a pillow, then make a very LOUD noise down the phone. One of those compressed-air sirens should work nicely. Run it for a minute or two while looking up and down the street for an unmarked van with a guy outside it, staggering about holding his ears...
Heh. I've got a RedHat 7.2 server at work with maybe 2 hours of downtime in 4 years....
And who the hell is flyi.com?? They should pick a company that people might have heard of. For instance, I could name a much bigger travel company that's been using Linux servers for at least a couple of years with no problems, even during fare-sales. And I seem to recall seeing something on the MySQL home page about The Sabre Group switching from a mainframe app to a cluster of Non-Stop systems with MySQL. Looks like that's working fine for them.
Automagically: Automatically, but in a way that, for some reason (typically because it is too complicated, or too ugly, or perhaps even too trivial), the speaker doesn't feel like explaining to you.
It's probably apocryphal/urban legend, then. I'm fairly sure it mentioned radar, though the storyteller might not have known. I think the same story included clocking a tree doing about 45mph...
The legal thing to do may change from state to state, but the safe thing to do should be valid anywhere, which is just to sit still. I'd think the most you could be charged with (if a cop was bored enough to try it) would be "blocking traffic". If you're moving and there's a collision, you'll always get part of the blame. If you're stationary, no way it's your fault. I was taught that while learning to tow a trailer - if in doubt, stop. Let the other bugger make a move, 'cause if he hits you, it'll be all his fault...
I read the answer to that one on Ernie's House of Whoop Ass (ehowa.com - not work safe...). Ernie has a long page about how to avoid tickets by being smart about how you talk to the officer. A number of actual officers have responded in email to Ernie saying that they basically agree with his thesis, which is, be nice, be polite, and get your side of the story over *before* the officer takes your license back to his car to check it.
Anyways, somewhere in there, someone tried the "why me? everyone else is doing the same" defense, and the cop told him something like, "sir, we're fighting crime one perpetrator at a time. Today, it just happens to be you."
In a situation like that, unless you're in a real tearing hurry to get somewhere, the simplest response is to sit tight and indicate to the other drivers that they may go before you. If nobody moves, just roll forward a couple of feet and watch the others to make sure they see you taking the initiative. Then go.
I don't know if this was in the US or the UK, but I remember hearing of someone who went into traffic court to fight a ticket and challanged the equipment. Seems that, with a hand-held radar gun, moving the hand while pulling the trigger can add (and probably also could subtract) some mph from the reading. Right there in the court room, the defendant clocked the judge's bench as moving at about 20mph...
OK, so that's probably an apocryphal urban legend, but who knows...
Also, definitely in the UK, my father was once pulled over for speeding. Unfortunately for the cop, he'd been concealed behind a fence or tree or something, and that's not allowed in the UK - an officer at a "speed trap" must be fully visible. My father explained this to the cop in some detail. I don't know if he still got the ticket, but he *did* describe the incident to the county Chief Constable and suggested that his men needed some training. Stepping from concealment while holding something similar to a handgun, and pointing said weapon at passing cars in the regulation two-handed firing stance, was likely to cause a reduction in the police force by at least one man, because my father would certainly attempt to run him down.
To be fair to my father, this was in the days when IRA gunmen would knock on the door of a Brit "collaborator"'s house and shoot him dead in the doorway, often with his wife and kids right behind him. That was mostly in Northern Ireland, but there had also been incidents on the mainland, with numerous attempts at mail-bombing prominent people, and a number of other bombings. As Chairman of East Sussex county council, my father was regarded as a potential target...
And if their State Dept of Education catches up with her parents, they'll be in trouble. There's a certain curriculum you're supposed to conform to, if I recall correctly. We looked into the possibility of home-schooling for our daughter when the empire-building little dictator of the local elementary wouldn't accept several independant medical evaluations about her special needs. In a state where the average number of special needs kids is around 8%, somehow his school of 700 kids had none at all... But I'm ranting, and the guy has moved on, and the school caved when we talked to the State Board of Education and said the magic words "due process hearing"...
their customer is the average joe and the average joe doesn't want the hassle or limitations of DRM.
But the *really* average joe just goes out and buys a computer to run games on, and for his kids to do homework, and to email his mom, etc. He's not going out looking for a media-centre PC because, hey, he already has a DVD player and VCR hooked up to a TV. He upgrades because some game-maker has put "requires Windows LongDong" on the label. If he even tries any of his old DVDs on it, and they don't play too well, or at all, he'll believe it's because they're not "Windows LongDong" compatible, unlike the "new" media content. And anyway, they'll still play OK on the TV, like they're supposed to.
Of course, by the time they get a name to replace the "John Doe", the review is published... Big fricken deal - the can is open, the worms are everywhere, get over it...
When we came to the US about 10 years ago, front loaders were not common - I don't recall if we even saw any on display. Then, about 3 years ago (maybe?) there was this long gushy article in the local paper saying how front loaders were the hot new thing in washing machines, and how they X% less water and soap, and how they use a gentle tumbling action instead of violently swirling back and forth... And so one. My wife's reaction? "Finally, the US is catching up with Europe..."
The combo we had in England was a German machine, ran for at least 15 years, washing babies clothes every day. Just load it up during the day, then in the evening, set the wall socket time switch to kick the machine on during the night to take advantage of cheaper, off-peak electricty. That way, even "that last sock" can be put in, because the machine doesn't kick in until after midnight.
I just tried googling for "combo washer dryer", and this company came out top of the stack:
combo washer dryer. Several of their combos are supposed to be ventless, using a condenser to avoid venting moisture, which makes them functionally equivalent to the German machine we used to have.
Disclaimer: I have absolutely no connection to this company, I don't own any of their products, and at this point in time have no plans to do so.
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Near enough a dupe of this article, I think...
Also, in the center of the image, the 4-way intersection is actually a 3-way. E43rd.St does *not* run northwest from the T to join with S.193rd.E.Ave - that actually *is* a drainage ditch.
I too wonder where they get their data. I was looking at a couple of mapping apps a few weeks ago, playing with a GPS puck I got for my birthday, and I think one of those shows the same stupid mistakes in the streets. It was either Microsoft Streets and Trips, or it was Rand McNally Streetfinder. I don't remember which, and right now I don't have either loaded because my disk drive died...
The satellite view shows my pool, though, so - Hey!! I can see my pool from space!!
If you have the opportunity to work nights, try it. I hardly ever have visitors, the phone never rings, and if anyone wants to schedule me for a meeting, they'd better be prepared to: a) come in by 7am or I'm on overtime; and b) accept that I'll have put in a full day at work by the time they arrive, so I'll be tired and probably cranky if the meeting overruns much.
OK, so the attacks didn't take place on US soil, but that doesn't mean *more* liberties *won't* be taken away. Take a look at Random Bag Searches on the New York subway...
Well, you could blow the whistle... By that I mean, if you think you've been tapped, call a friend and have him place his handset under a pillow, then make a very LOUD noise down the phone. One of those compressed-air sirens should work nicely. Run it for a minute or two while looking up and down the street for an unmarked van with a guy outside it, staggering about holding his ears...
And who the hell is flyi.com?? They should pick a company that people might have heard of. For instance, I could name a much bigger travel company that's been using Linux servers for at least a couple of years with no problems, even during fare-sales. And I seem to recall seeing something on the MySQL home page about The Sabre Group switching from a mainframe app to a cluster of Non-Stop systems with MySQL. Looks like that's working fine for them.
I wonder if I'll still be working 10:30pm to 7am when this takes effect??
Doesn't have to be spring and fall. How about New Year and July 4th?? Near enough 6 months apart, and nobody will forget *those* dates easily...
It's probably apocryphal/urban legend, then. I'm fairly sure it mentioned radar, though the storyteller might not have known. I think the same story included clocking a tree doing about 45mph...
The legal thing to do may change from state to state, but the safe thing to do should be valid anywhere, which is just to sit still. I'd think the most you could be charged with (if a cop was bored enough to try it) would be "blocking traffic". If you're moving and there's a collision, you'll always get part of the blame. If you're stationary, no way it's your fault. I was taught that while learning to tow a trailer - if in doubt, stop. Let the other bugger make a move, 'cause if he hits you, it'll be all his fault...
Anyways, somewhere in there, someone tried the "why me? everyone else is doing the same" defense, and the cop told him something like, "sir, we're fighting crime one perpetrator at a time. Today, it just happens to be you."
So maybe he asked the Judge if it was OK to use the wireless connection?? He would have had to get the judge to allow the laptop evidence anyway...
In a situation like that, unless you're in a real tearing hurry to get somewhere, the simplest response is to sit tight and indicate to the other drivers that they may go before you. If nobody moves, just roll forward a couple of feet and watch the others to make sure they see you taking the initiative. Then go.
OK, so that's probably an apocryphal urban legend, but who knows...
Also, definitely in the UK, my father was once pulled over for speeding. Unfortunately for the cop, he'd been concealed behind a fence or tree or something, and that's not allowed in the UK - an officer at a "speed trap" must be fully visible. My father explained this to the cop in some detail. I don't know if he still got the ticket, but he *did* describe the incident to the county Chief Constable and suggested that his men needed some training. Stepping from concealment while holding something similar to a handgun, and pointing said weapon at passing cars in the regulation two-handed firing stance, was likely to cause a reduction in the police force by at least one man, because my father would certainly attempt to run him down.
To be fair to my father, this was in the days when IRA gunmen would knock on the door of a Brit "collaborator"'s house and shoot him dead in the doorway, often with his wife and kids right behind him. That was mostly in Northern Ireland, but there had also been incidents on the mainland, with numerous attempts at mail-bombing prominent people, and a number of other bombings. As Chairman of East Sussex county council, my father was regarded as a potential target...
And if their State Dept of Education catches up with her parents, they'll be in trouble. There's a certain curriculum you're supposed to conform to, if I recall correctly. We looked into the possibility of home-schooling for our daughter when the empire-building little dictator of the local elementary wouldn't accept several independant medical evaluations about her special needs. In a state where the average number of special needs kids is around 8%, somehow his school of 700 kids had none at all... But I'm ranting, and the guy has moved on, and the school caved when we talked to the State Board of Education and said the magic words "due process hearing"...
UN at odds over internet's future
Yeah, but the Amazon patent is for single-click-buying, not single-click-nuking-from-orbit...
And now the front page has been altered, so later readers have no clue what's being talked about...
Only if CafePress also allows you to custmomizer your online experience... I wonder if Zazzle has trademarked that word yet??
I don't think you really meant that, right?? "Proscribed" is more or less equal to "banned"...
But the *really* average joe just goes out and buys a computer to run games on, and for his kids to do homework, and to email his mom, etc. He's not going out looking for a media-centre PC because, hey, he already has a DVD player and VCR hooked up to a TV. He upgrades because some game-maker has put "requires Windows LongDong" on the label. If he even tries any of his old DVDs on it, and they don't play too well, or at all, he'll believe it's because they're not "Windows LongDong" compatible, unlike the "new" media content. And anyway, they'll still play OK on the TV, like they're supposed to.
Of course, by the time they get a name to replace the "John Doe", the review is published... Big fricken deal - the can is open, the worms are everywhere, get over it...
The combo we had in England was a German machine, ran for at least 15 years, washing babies clothes every day. Just load it up during the day, then in the evening, set the wall socket time switch to kick the machine on during the night to take advantage of cheaper, off-peak electricty. That way, even "that last sock" can be put in, because the machine doesn't kick in until after midnight.
I just tried googling for "combo washer dryer", and this company came out top of the stack: combo washer dryer. Several of their combos are supposed to be ventless, using a condenser to avoid venting moisture, which makes them functionally equivalent to the German machine we used to have.
Disclaimer: I have absolutely no connection to this company, I don't own any of their products, and at this point in time have no plans to do so.