the taxi company buys old police cars, gigantic, gas-guzzling V8's, because they're easy to get parts for and easy to fix. the drivers are the ones paying the $500/week to keep them moving, so they don't care.
i think this car is a great idea. increase the range, up the max speed to 75, and make it large enough to seat four people, and it'll be the next big thing.
as far as speed is concerned, i drive all night long. there's no reason for the max speed of a commuter car to be higher than 75. driving faster is your own impatience. if you stop and realize that you're not the most important person on the road, you'll stop wanting to burn gas going so quick.
the shared power grid features of the car are the amazing part. not only is it a mode of transport, it's a mobile capacitor to help the city's power demands. that is truly thinking different. i can't wait to see this concept go worldwide.
I was in a motorcycle accident in 2001 which caused serious short-term memory issues in my brain. I started driving a cab in february of 2006, and I have noticed an increase in my short term memory.
When I first started, I would have to ask my passengers to give me directions one turn at a time (and in my mind, I was repeating that single direction) in order to get to the destination. Now, I can generally get anywhere on address alone, or, at a minimum, remember the address all the way through the trip, despite having various conversations, remembering turn by turn directions, avoiding accidents, etc.
I'd say I agree with the studies, from personal experience.
I'm a cab driver in Denver (who was a graphic designer/web developer for ten years prior.)
I've got TomTom Navigator installed on my ppc phone, and used it all the time when I first started driving so I could memorize the order of the streets, and see dead ends and turns before I got to them.
Nowadays, I only ever even turn it on if a: I'm driving/way/ out of my area of knowledge (25+ miles), or b: if i'm driving someone out of my area of knowledge, and they're so drunk all I get from them is an address before they pass out in the back of the cab.
In those two instances, having a GPS is a wonderful thing.
Usually, if I don't know how to get somewhere, I just ask my passenger for the best route. People know where they're going.
I didn't rely on the gps initially, I was using it as extended vision, I guess. Now that I've learned all that stuff, it only ever gets used if I honestly know nothing around me.
Plus, there are certain cities and jurisdictions in the denver metro area that decided they don't want to use the hundred block system, and start all over from zero, which/really/ throws me off. I can get anywhere with hundred blocks, or at the very least, I'm never/lost/ with hundred blocks. When you reset them in the middle of nowhere...
not only does it look out of place, 2.0 broke a lot of things.
left-click-hold opens a context menu/everywhere/ on a mac. ff1.5 did too. 2.0 is no go. those of us on mac laptops prefer not having to contort to hit control and click for context menus. i can click and wait half a second for it. 2.0 took that away.
javascript popup windows, like screenshots on ign: i click the link, nothing happens. what gives?
they took the close tab button away from the top right. granted, it's on each tab, now, but should i have to move the mouse/all the way from one corner to another/ to do something that was a quick upward movement away?
pressing the down arrow to scroll through a page: previously, it just went straight to the bottom, so it was useless. now, it follows links, which is even more useless. give me an option of how many lines i want to scroll when i hit the up or down arrow.
oh, and the.dmg has the standard 'app icon, drag icon, applications folder' thing, except they forgot the applications folder. it's just a picture of it. real funny, guys. i had to open up finder and drag it over that way, because you forgot to make a real shortcut and did a picture of it instead.
i'm seriously dissapointed with this release. if not for adblock, i'd have gone with opera long, long ago. i'm sick and goddamn tired of firefox's memory leaks, and now they went and fucked up the most basic ui conventions.
see, everyone that/already/ does these drugs would be like 'hey, cool' and still do it. except it would be more pure, and safer because of quality control.
then you'd get the people who wouldn't normally do it, go 'well hey, it's legal, so why not!' except that these people don't really exist. if someone wants to do a certain thing, they're going to find a way to do it regardless of legality. this should be obvious with piracy. making it illegal does nothing to stop it. people are going to do it anyway, and we're wasting taxpayer dollars, time, and energy of the legal system prosecuting people for what/they/ put in/their/ bodies.
our government wasn't formed to be our collective mother. what people do with their property is their business, be it ricing out a car, painting a house, or smoking pot. if it's bad for them, they'll do something stupid and clean the gene pool of themselves.
I'm a cab driver, and people leave things in cabs all the time.
In the case of cellphones, assuming a following fare doesn't take it, and actually tells me that there's a phone back there, I just turn it off so it doesn't ring, and take it to the lost and found at our main office. Usually if anything gets left in the back, the next fare will take it.
I've had a few people notify me of wallets in the back, which is always refreshing. I've only ever actually recovered two cellphones. I know more have been lost.
one thing a lot of gamers don't realize is that nintendo owns pretty much any patent related to input in games. they own immersion. they own rumble, they own motion sensing, they own the d-pad, they own the analog stick, they own everything.
of course nintendo isn't going to get sued over this.
go into system preferences, keyboard and mouse, keyboard, and click on 'modifier keys.'
control -> command option -> option command -> control
congrats, all your keyboard shorcuts are now exactly like windows.
they've been providing you with the option since 10.3.something, and there have been system extensions to do the same thing since osx came out. try digging around in the prefs some time, it'll reveal a lot of remedy to your complaints.
I can tell you right now that their denver map is at least five years out of date.
I'm a taxi driver in denver. Their maps don't even show the colorado mills mall. Searching for addresses on streets that span though multiple zipcodes is like pulling teeth. Example:
14500 W Colfax (the colorado mills mall), comes up with the following choices of streets with which to search for 14500 and be denied due to its old database: W. Colfax (Edgewater) W. Colfax (Denver) W. Colfax (Lakewood) W. Colfax (Golden)
Also, the address searching function goes based of city/zip, THEN street, THEN address. and i can tell you that exactly zero people will tell you they want to go to golden, west colfax, 14500.
outside of those minor gripes, it's a good piece of software. it keeps me from getting lost when i have to take a trip outside my area of knowledge, and it's handy for seeing street names at night when you can't see the signs. bluetooth to cellphone internet also provides traffic info, which thus far is an hour late but otherwise very handy.
I'm a web developer specialising in e-commerce (php/mysql/asp/etc, not wysiwyg) in a small (15 person) firm, and/I/ make $10/hour, and I'm white and was born in Los Angeles. Do you really think that what you're doing is worth much more than that?
If you want to make more money, do something that/isn't/ a widely-known skill, that most high school kids have already taken courses on. Go clean bathrooms for a few years.
Basic economics, people. Too much supply, very little demand. Go for what's cheapest.
You're using Google's search engine, and Google's email, and you complain because Google sets persitant cookies to track what you search for on Google's search engine so that Google can display relevant ads to make a profit to keep Google running so you can continue to search on Google and rely on Google for email?
also take into account that risc and cisc are two completely different architectures. a G5 at 1.6GHz is going to perform a hell of a lot better than a P4 at 1.6GHz.
people seem to forget that 'reduced instruction set' means blazingly fast computation compared to 'complex instruction set.'
My TiBook G4 800MHz runs easily on par with my Athlon XP 2000+, with the same amount of ram.
Fair Use allows you _one_ copy, made from the original media you purchased (_not_ downloaded from another source because distribution is infringement and you cannot turn an infringing work into a non-infringing legal copy) to use for backup _or_ format shifting. Granted, you can destroy your backup and make a format shifted copy, or destroy your format shifted copy and make a backup. One at a time, though.
You can buy a rom dumper and dump all your games to roms (format shifting) to play in the emulator (use the game you purchased in the way most convenient for you.) No amount of strong-arming is going to change that; it has been defended in the courts on a multitude of occasions.
Nintendo is trying to act like the RIAA here, scaring people by using incorrect terminology and lies.
(I am not a laywer, but I have done a great deal of research on the topic of Fair Use.)
Actually, ram is falsly advertised. Ram is measured in mebibytes, while hard drives are measured in megabytes. Ram manufacturors just haven't caught on to the proper terminology.
Young whippersnappers! In my day we didn't even have existence! We had to sit around in a void and WAIT for existence so we could ponder walking uphill in the snow! BOTH WAYS!
(beat that?)
Yes, but the difference here is that Palm devices, at their roots, are organizers. People seem to forget that.
I don't need to have a linux machine in my pocket. I don't need to worry about permissions and security and config files when I'm checking my schedule. I don't need to worry about the proper graphics library to open my address book.
PalmOS just works. That's what it's supposed to do. It's amazingly easy to use, simplistic, and intuitive. You don't have to learn how to use it. When you do something on it, it does what you expect it to do, and that's what most people are looking for.
I've played with the zaurus, and the first thing I noticed was that it didn't work as I expect a pda to work. It wasn't intuitive, I had to ask the owner of the device how to do the most simple of things. With my Palm, when I want to check out the address book, I tap on the address book. It's that simple.
Games on PalmOS are also really well made, for the most part. I have a Clie NX70V, and I love it. I started out with a Palm Personal (back when palm first came out!) to which I moved to a Palm IIIe, a Palm V, and now my NX70V. I know PalmOS. Each version acts and looks exactly like the last.
Also, if you run ms backup and backup any encrypted directory, and then restore the backup to a different location, you have the option of doing so without the protection.
I've used this feature many times to save myself between installs because I couldn't access my documents and settings folder.
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i'm a cab driver. i drive 300-500 miles a day.
the taxi company buys old police cars, gigantic, gas-guzzling V8's, because they're easy to get parts for and easy to fix. the drivers are the ones paying the $500/week to keep them moving, so they don't care.
i think this car is a great idea. increase the range, up the max speed to 75, and make it large enough to seat four people, and it'll be the next big thing.
as far as speed is concerned, i drive all night long. there's no reason for the max speed of a commuter car to be higher than 75. driving faster is your own impatience. if you stop and realize that you're not the most important person on the road, you'll stop wanting to burn gas going so quick.
the shared power grid features of the car are the amazing part. not only is it a mode of transport, it's a mobile capacitor to help the city's power demands. that is truly thinking different. i can't wait to see this concept go worldwide.
i'm all for it.
I'm a cabbie.
I was in a motorcycle accident in 2001 which caused serious short-term memory issues in my brain. I started driving a cab in february of 2006, and I have noticed an increase in my short term memory.
When I first started, I would have to ask my passengers to give me directions one turn at a time (and in my mind, I was repeating that single direction) in order to get to the destination. Now, I can generally get anywhere on address alone, or, at a minimum, remember the address all the way through the trip, despite having various conversations, remembering turn by turn directions, avoiding accidents, etc.
I'd say I agree with the studies, from personal experience.
I'm a cab driver in Denver (who was a graphic designer/web developer for ten years prior.)
/way/ out of my area of knowledge (25+ miles), or b: if i'm driving someone out of my area of knowledge, and they're so drunk all I get from them is an address before they pass out in the back of the cab.
/really/ throws me off. I can get anywhere with hundred blocks, or at the very least, I'm never /lost/ with hundred blocks. When you reset them in the middle of nowhere...
I've got TomTom Navigator installed on my ppc phone, and used it all the time when I first started driving so I could memorize the order of the streets, and see dead ends and turns before I got to them.
Nowadays, I only ever even turn it on if a: I'm driving
In those two instances, having a GPS is a wonderful thing.
Usually, if I don't know how to get somewhere, I just ask my passenger for the best route. People know where they're going.
I didn't rely on the gps initially, I was using it as extended vision, I guess. Now that I've learned all that stuff, it only ever gets used if I honestly know nothing around me.
Plus, there are certain cities and jurisdictions in the denver metro area that decided they don't want to use the hundred block system, and start all over from zero, which
not only does it look out of place, 2.0 broke a lot of things.
/everywhere/ on a mac. ff1.5 did too. 2.0 is no go. those of us on mac laptops prefer not having to contort to hit control and click for context menus. i can click and wait half a second for it. 2.0 took that away.
/all the way from one corner to another/ to do something that was a quick upward movement away?
.dmg has the standard 'app icon, drag icon, applications folder' thing, except they forgot the applications folder. it's just a picture of it. real funny, guys. i had to open up finder and drag it over that way, because you forgot to make a real shortcut and did a picture of it instead.
left-click-hold opens a context menu
javascript popup windows, like screenshots on ign: i click the link, nothing happens. what gives?
they took the close tab button away from the top right. granted, it's on each tab, now, but should i have to move the mouse
pressing the down arrow to scroll through a page: previously, it just went straight to the bottom, so it was useless. now, it follows links, which is even more useless. give me an option of how many lines i want to scroll when i hit the up or down arrow.
oh, and the
i'm seriously dissapointed with this release. if not for adblock, i'd have gone with opera long, long ago. i'm sick and goddamn tired of firefox's memory leaks, and now they went and fucked up the most basic ui conventions.
i'll fill in the blanks for you.
/already/ does these drugs would be like 'hey, cool' and still do it. except it would be more pure, and safer because of quality control.
/they/ put in /their/ bodies.
see, everyone that
then you'd get the people who wouldn't normally do it, go 'well hey, it's legal, so why not!' except that these people don't really exist. if someone wants to do a certain thing, they're going to find a way to do it regardless of legality. this should be obvious with piracy. making it illegal does nothing to stop it. people are going to do it anyway, and we're wasting taxpayer dollars, time, and energy of the legal system prosecuting people for what
our government wasn't formed to be our collective mother. what people do with their property is their business, be it ricing out a car, painting a house, or smoking pot. if it's bad for them, they'll do something stupid and clean the gene pool of themselves.
what's the problem?
whoa, derekarnold.net linked to my forum.
... special. now if only my forum was up and running at the moment.
i feel
I'm a cab driver, and people leave things in cabs all the time.
In the case of cellphones, assuming a following fare doesn't take it, and actually tells me that there's a phone back there, I just turn it off so it doesn't ring, and take it to the lost and found at our main office. Usually if anything gets left in the back, the next fare will take it.
I've had a few people notify me of wallets in the back, which is always refreshing. I've only ever actually recovered two cellphones. I know more have been lost.
one thing a lot of gamers don't realize is that nintendo owns pretty much any patent related to input in games. they own immersion. they own rumble, they own motion sensing, they own the d-pad, they own the analog stick, they own everything.
of course nintendo isn't going to get sued over this.
i'll let you in on a little secret.
go into system preferences, keyboard and mouse, keyboard, and click on 'modifier keys.'
control -> command
option -> option
command -> control
congrats, all your keyboard shorcuts are now exactly like windows.
they've been providing you with the option since 10.3.something, and there have been system extensions to do the same thing since osx came out. try digging around in the prefs some time, it'll reveal a lot of remedy to your complaints.
I can tell you right now that their denver map is at least five years out of date.
I'm a taxi driver in denver. Their maps don't even show the colorado mills mall. Searching for addresses on streets that span though multiple zipcodes is like pulling teeth. Example:
14500 W Colfax (the colorado mills mall), comes up with the following choices of streets with which to search for 14500 and be denied due to its old database:
W. Colfax (Edgewater)
W. Colfax (Denver)
W. Colfax (Lakewood)
W. Colfax (Golden)
Also, the address searching function goes based of city/zip, THEN street, THEN address. and i can tell you that exactly zero people will tell you they want to go to golden, west colfax, 14500.
outside of those minor gripes, it's a good piece of software. it keeps me from getting lost when i have to take a trip outside my area of knowledge, and it's handy for seeing street names at night when you can't see the signs. bluetooth to cellphone internet also provides traffic info, which thus far is an hour late but otherwise very handy.
same here. girlfriend doesn't want computers in the bedroom, so we have a decently-sized box fan to compensate. can't sleep without it.
Funny how preemptive war is automatically bad, but preemtive limitations of our rights are a-ok.
Talking on the cellphone is not a right. It's a priviledge.
Define what you mean by a 'typical' salary?
/I/ make $10/hour, and I'm white and was born in Los Angeles. Do you really think that what you're doing is worth much more than that?
/isn't/ a widely-known skill, that most high school kids have already taken courses on. Go clean bathrooms for a few years.
I'm a web developer specialising in e-commerce (php/mysql/asp/etc, not wysiwyg) in a small (15 person) firm, and
If you want to make more money, do something that
Basic economics, people. Too much supply, very little demand. Go for what's cheapest.
Privacy?
You're using Google's search engine, and Google's email, and you complain because Google sets persitant cookies to track what you search for on Google's search engine so that Google can display relevant ads to make a profit to keep Google running so you can continue to search on Google and rely on Google for email?
GASP!
also take into account that risc and cisc are two completely different architectures. a G5 at 1.6GHz is going to perform a hell of a lot better than a P4 at 1.6GHz.
people seem to forget that 'reduced instruction set' means blazingly fast computation compared to 'complex instruction set.'
My TiBook G4 800MHz runs easily on par with my Athlon XP 2000+, with the same amount of ram.
he shot the fucking vagina, obviously. WAWOGF.
Wrong.
Fair Use allows you _one_ copy, made from the original media you purchased (_not_ downloaded from another source because distribution is infringement and you cannot turn an infringing work into a non-infringing legal copy) to use for backup _or_ format shifting. Granted, you can destroy your backup and make a format shifted copy, or destroy your format shifted copy and make a backup. One at a time, though.
You can buy a rom dumper and dump all your games to roms (format shifting) to play in the emulator (use the game you purchased in the way most convenient for you.) No amount of strong-arming is going to change that; it has been defended in the courts on a multitude of occasions.
Nintendo is trying to act like the RIAA here, scaring people by using incorrect terminology and lies.
(I am not a laywer, but I have done a great deal of research on the topic of Fair Use.)
Actually, ram is falsly advertised. Ram is measured in mebibytes, while hard drives are measured in megabytes. Ram manufacturors just haven't caught on to the proper terminology.
/many/ years ago. See http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ and search for megabyte.
1 Mebibyte = 2^20 = 1048576 bytes.
1 Megabyte = 10^6 = 1000000 bytes.
The "megabyte" as 2^20 was depreciated
Mega = 1000^2
Mebi = 1024^2
Young whippersnappers! In my day we didn't even have existence! We had to sit around in a void and WAIT for existence so we could ponder walking uphill in the snow! BOTH WAYS! (beat that?)
Have you even looked at XP's minimum requirements? It's right on the friggin' box!
266MHz processor minimum, 64MB ram minimum, 1.5GB of disk space.
I run XP on a variety of hardware, including a PII-266/160MB/6GB, and it runs fine. Hardly incapable of multitasking.
Yes, but the difference here is that Palm devices, at their roots, are organizers. People seem to forget that.
I don't need to have a linux machine in my pocket. I don't need to worry about permissions and security and config files when I'm checking my schedule. I don't need to worry about the proper graphics library to open my address book.
PalmOS just works. That's what it's supposed to do. It's amazingly easy to use, simplistic, and intuitive. You don't have to learn how to use it. When you do something on it, it does what you expect it to do, and that's what most people are looking for.
I've played with the zaurus, and the first thing I noticed was that it didn't work as I expect a pda to work. It wasn't intuitive, I had to ask the owner of the device how to do the most simple of things. With my Palm, when I want to check out the address book, I tap on the address book. It's that simple.
Games on PalmOS are also really well made, for the most part. I have a Clie NX70V, and I love it. I started out with a Palm Personal (back when palm first came out!) to which I moved to a Palm IIIe, a Palm V, and now my NX70V. I know PalmOS. Each version acts and looks exactly like the last.
It just works.
I got it.
I think everyone else here is taking things a bit too seriously.
Also, if you run ms backup and backup any encrypted directory, and then restore the backup to a different location, you have the option of doing so without the protection.
I've used this feature many times to save myself between installs because I couldn't access my documents and settings folder.
Excellent encryption indeed...
well, check your email for the invitation, obviously. that makes you ... a winner! (insert seizure inducing banner here)
one wonders exactly how many invitations you're going to recieve as a result of this post.
anyway, here's one from me. you're welcome!