Who on earth thinks drinking coffee while driving could ever be a good idea?
How do you change gear?
I applaud this law.
When you're in the car driving, that's what you should do, drive. *Not* eat sandwiches, drink coffee, play computer games, telephone, etc. etc. Doing so not only puts your stupid life at risk but mine as well.
When I passed my test, the first thing I did was drive on a motorway and light up a cigarette. Only to hear a loud horn and realise I was drifting into the other lane. I understand this could have been fatal and this has helped me realise the seriousness of doing ANYTHING whilst driving. Since then I avoid smoking and driving. Although I don't agree, maybe smoking and changing radio stations should be tested too (if so many people do this anyway)?
I'd argue that your near accident probably had more to do with the fact that you were a new driver than the act of lighting a cigarette. As many people have already mentioned, experience is an important part of being a safe driver, regardless of "distractions."
1:steam policy: no refunds.
I bought batman:AA and it *sucked* to me. Nice idea, achievables make it crap for me, my own personal opinion. I decided this within an hour of playtime (download took me 2 hours, fast connection). No refund.
Almost no retailers will give you a refund for a PC game that you've already opened. Nice attempt at a strawman, though.
GameGuard disabled my computer's USB connection to my UPS (battery backup). I'll at least consider trying Aion, now that they've dumped that piece of shit.
You can't return hardware to the store after you've opened it? I returned a video card to Newegg and a power supply to Best Buy that had no problems whatsoever; I had bought them to try to diagnose the problems I've been having with my machine, and didn't intend on keeping them. Both companies were perfectly happy to take opened and used hardware back for a full refund.
I think that you're answering a different question than what the submitter asked. Subversion is great for people working on files, but has no collaborative/teamwork aspect to it (with respect to encouraging pair programming, anyway). A program that would allow multiple people to use voice or text chat while editing a document, etc, would be more along the lines of what David is looking for.
We need a clear, unambiguous policy that nukes are absolutely forbidden for every state with no double standards.
It's a lose-lose situation. Sure, the double-standard argument is true, but that's only half of it. If the US or another world power were to actually disarm completely, how long do you think it would take for some dictator or terrorist group to take advantage of that opportunity? When mutually assured destruction is no longer an issue, we'll have the most to worry about. The only exception, of course, would be if we had some way to determine, with 100% certainty, that no nuclear weapons were possessed by anyone, and I don't think that's going to happen.
I wouldn't exactly call it rigorous. His sample size was so low that it really wasn't statistically significant. While he did make a point with it, mostly by planting the idea of small-world networks in the minds of other scientists, the experiment was not as big a deal as it was made out to be.
You can also use Spam Gourmet at http://www.spamgourmet.com/. It has several features that go above and beyond what GMail has (to my knowledge).
First, it will forward the e-mails to any address, so you don't have to use GMail. Second, it lets you include an identifying string, like GMail. Finally, however, is the best feature: in the address you give you can specify the number of e-mails that you want forwarded to you before they start getting sent to/dev/null. You can also whitelist addresses if you choose. I've been using it for years, and it works very well.
I'm pretty sure that the VMWare Player is free to use (for education?), and can run (but not create) any VM. Only one license for ACE or some other, more expensive edition of VMWare would be required to create the VM, and then students could just be instructed to grab the Player for the assignment.
Point 4: You probably have a free license for Windows via your CS department. Do a dual boot install.
If it helps, I know that the CS department at UVA has a subscription to MSDN that gives them a large number of activation keys. You may want to ask around. I don't know how easy it is to get one if you don't know someone that has access to the MSDN account, however...
You're partially right. Religion = incest, rape, murder, and genocide (and don't forget about rampant sexism in general). Fuck getting rid of literature. Get rid of religion! Illiterate tribes in several countries still manage to have crazy beliefs that cause physical harm to those in and around their community.
It's who doesn't have access: everyone else. It makes perfect sense to allow "trusted" individuals with relevant knowledge easy access these documents in order to encourage review. What's weird to me is how this is something so "confidential" that no one else should be able to see it.
This list of people...not so interesting. That is, aside from demonstrating yet again that all those people who thought Obama would bring CHANGE are naive.
That's the rule that makes it "wrong" for me to use Ubuntu because some of the drivers have "binary blobs" in them.
There is no such rule, nor is it wrong (with or without quotation marks) to use Ubuntu. You are railing against a problem that doesn't exist. No one is preventing you from using Ubunutu
No hard feelings. Really. If you want, I'll send you a CD of Ubuntu. For free.
While there may not be such a "rule" per se, RMS does promote running only free software, and I believe that this is what the grandparent was referring to. I've seen him speak before, and he does make a point of encouraging people to use only free software and those distros that contain only free software.
Check the right-hand side of the MS link in the OP, under "Zune Service Status":
Customers with 30gb Zune devices may experience issues when booting their Zune hardware. We're aware of the problem and are working to correct it. Sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks for your patience!
Rendezvous with Rama and 2001 were a couple of my favorite classics. Unfortunately, I think this means that all of my favorite SF authors are dead now.
It took you this long to boycott them?
Consider using RIAA Radar to help you determine which albums or artists are associated with the RIAA. Boycott made easy!
Yes, there are laptop companies that will sell you clean laptops. Powernotebooks.com is one. I got my laptop there. I've had a couple of problems with it, but then again the tech support is pretty simple to deal with and if you elect to buy your laptop with Windows they will send the original install CD and not install any crap, just the drivers and software to support the hardware.
I'm sure there are many other companies out there like them. You don't HAVE to go to Dell, HP, etc.
Maybe you should have clarified that this is not an American company. You can't really compare them to Netflix as it is much more complicated to get DVDs to people quickly when they are spread out over a much larger area.
Sure Netflix and Blockbuster Online have problems (though I like what Blockbuster has been doing lately), but suggesting a European-only alternative isn't much of a solution.
Are there any smaller American Netflix-esque companies?
I'm not old enough to really remember those days with much clarity, but it makes sense to me that they'd use an automatic reset because the games you were playing were full versions. They wouldn't want you to play through the full version of the game, because then you wouldn't buy it. They reset it so that it really was a demo.
Nowadays, the demo units actually have demo versions of games on them, so no outside intervention is needed.
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Who on earth thinks drinking coffee while driving could ever be a good idea?
How do you change gear?
I applaud this law.
When you're in the car driving, that's what you should do, drive. *Not* eat sandwiches, drink coffee, play computer games, telephone, etc. etc. Doing so not only puts your stupid life at risk but mine as well.
Ever heard of automatic transmissions?
When I passed my test, the first thing I did was drive on a motorway and light up a cigarette. Only to hear a loud horn and realise I was drifting into the other lane. I understand this could have been fatal and this has helped me realise the seriousness of doing ANYTHING whilst driving. Since then I avoid smoking and driving. Although I don't agree, maybe smoking and changing radio stations should be tested too (if so many people do this anyway)?
I'd argue that your near accident probably had more to do with the fact that you were a new driver than the act of lighting a cigarette. As many people have already mentioned, experience is an important part of being a safe driver, regardless of "distractions."
I'm pretty sure that Facebook is still running on venture capital, too.
example steam problems:
1:steam policy: no refunds. I bought batman:AA and it *sucked* to me. Nice idea, achievables make it crap for me, my own personal opinion. I decided this within an hour of playtime (download took me 2 hours, fast connection). No refund.
Almost no retailers will give you a refund for a PC game that you've already opened. Nice attempt at a strawman, though.
You're not only putting your concentration it, but changing your view from the street to the phone screen.
Not if you can touch-type and have a QWERTY keyboard on your phone!
GameGuard disabled my computer's USB connection to my UPS (battery backup). I'll at least consider trying Aion, now that they've dumped that piece of shit.
You can't return hardware to the store after you've opened it? I returned a video card to Newegg and a power supply to Best Buy that had no problems whatsoever; I had bought them to try to diagnose the problems I've been having with my machine, and didn't intend on keeping them. Both companies were perfectly happy to take opened and used hardware back for a full refund.
I think that you're answering a different question than what the submitter asked. Subversion is great for people working on files, but has no collaborative/teamwork aspect to it (with respect to encouraging pair programming, anyway). A program that would allow multiple people to use voice or text chat while editing a document, etc, would be more along the lines of what David is looking for.
No-Script has never been spyware. Adware, on the other hand...
We need a clear, unambiguous policy that nukes are absolutely forbidden for every state with no double standards.
It's a lose-lose situation. Sure, the double-standard argument is true, but that's only half of it. If the US or another world power were to actually disarm completely, how long do you think it would take for some dictator or terrorist group to take advantage of that opportunity? When mutually assured destruction is no longer an issue, we'll have the most to worry about. The only exception, of course, would be if we had some way to determine, with 100% certainty, that no nuclear weapons were possessed by anyone, and I don't think that's going to happen.
I wouldn't exactly call it rigorous. His sample size was so low that it really wasn't statistically significant. While he did make a point with it, mostly by planting the idea of small-world networks in the minds of other scientists, the experiment was not as big a deal as it was made out to be.
You can also use Spam Gourmet at http://www.spamgourmet.com/. It has several features that go above and beyond what GMail has (to my knowledge).
First, it will forward the e-mails to any address, so you don't have to use GMail. Second, it lets you include an identifying string, like GMail. Finally, however, is the best feature: in the address you give you can specify the number of e-mails that you want forwarded to you before they start getting sent to /dev/null. You can also whitelist addresses if you choose. I've been using it for years, and it works very well.
identifyingstring.numtoforward.username@spamgourmet.com
I'm pretty sure that the VMWare Player is free to use (for education?), and can run (but not create) any VM. Only one license for ACE or some other, more expensive edition of VMWare would be required to create the VM, and then students could just be instructed to grab the Player for the assignment.
Point 4: You probably have a free license for Windows via your CS department. Do a dual boot install.
If it helps, I know that the CS department at UVA has a subscription to MSDN that gives them a large number of activation keys. You may want to ask around. I don't know how easy it is to get one if you don't know someone that has access to the MSDN account, however...
You're partially right. Religion = incest, rape, murder, and genocide (and don't forget about rampant sexism in general). Fuck getting rid of literature. Get rid of religion! Illiterate tribes in several countries still manage to have crazy beliefs that cause physical harm to those in and around their community.
It's who doesn't have access: everyone else. It makes perfect sense to allow "trusted" individuals with relevant knowledge easy access these documents in order to encourage review. What's weird to me is how this is something so "confidential" that no one else should be able to see it. This list of people...not so interesting. That is, aside from demonstrating yet again that all those people who thought Obama would bring CHANGE are naive.
Too bad the default Kamikaze 7.09 OpenWRT firmwares kills any and all (six!) WRT54GL routers that I put it on
Did you expect something named Kamikaze NOT to kill itself?
That's the rule that makes it "wrong" for me to use Ubuntu because some of the drivers have "binary blobs" in them.
There is no such rule, nor is it wrong (with or without quotation marks) to use Ubuntu. You are railing against a problem that doesn't exist. No one is preventing you from using Ubunutu
No hard feelings. Really. If you want, I'll send you a CD of Ubuntu. For free.
While there may not be such a "rule" per se, RMS does promote running only free software, and I believe that this is what the grandparent was referring to. I've seen him speak before, and he does make a point of encouraging people to use only free software and those distros that contain only free software.
Check the right-hand side of the MS link in the OP, under "Zune Service Status":
Customers with 30gb Zune devices may experience issues when booting their Zune hardware. We're aware of the problem and are working to correct it. Sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks for your patience!
Rendezvous with Rama and 2001 were a couple of my favorite classics. Unfortunately, I think this means that all of my favorite SF authors are dead now.
It took you this long to boycott them? Consider using RIAA Radar to help you determine which albums or artists are associated with the RIAA. Boycott made easy!
Yes, there are laptop companies that will sell you clean laptops. Powernotebooks.com is one. I got my laptop there. I've had a couple of problems with it, but then again the tech support is pretty simple to deal with and if you elect to buy your laptop with Windows they will send the original install CD and not install any crap, just the drivers and software to support the hardware. I'm sure there are many other companies out there like them. You don't HAVE to go to Dell, HP, etc.
Maybe you should have clarified that this is not an American company. You can't really compare them to Netflix as it is much more complicated to get DVDs to people quickly when they are spread out over a much larger area. Sure Netflix and Blockbuster Online have problems (though I like what Blockbuster has been doing lately), but suggesting a European-only alternative isn't much of a solution. Are there any smaller American Netflix-esque companies?
I'm not old enough to really remember those days with much clarity, but it makes sense to me that they'd use an automatic reset because the games you were playing were full versions. They wouldn't want you to play through the full version of the game, because then you wouldn't buy it. They reset it so that it really was a demo. Nowadays, the demo units actually have demo versions of games on them, so no outside intervention is needed.
Or you could just buy used consoles and games. You don't have to give up anything except the newest titles.