Use the defroster. Max fan setting, air conditioning on (for dehumidification), and heat at maximum.
Not sure if there's a joke there I didn't get. I think the parent was looking for slightly more insightful advice than "use the defroster".
I've found that cleaning the inside of the windshield helps -- oils/gases from the interior plastics can produce a coating that makes it easier for the windshield to fog up.
Even if you parked outside overnight, 12 minutes to defog seems a bit long for 20F (about -6C). Although unlikely, maybe you want to check if there is water leaking into the interior? That would definitely cause some bad fogging (and problems defogging).
I considered turning high beams on but didn't want to stop in the middle of the road (no shoulder on this road, of course) to figure out how to turn the damn things on.
---linuxrocks123
I'm sure lots of people have pointed this out already, but it is not a matter of opinion that you are being very irresponsible by continuing to operate a motor vehicle without knowing something that is required in order for you to get your driver's license. You are not qualified to drive (without knowing how to operate the high beams), simply because operation of high beams is something that is specifically tested for on the road test. Yes, you may have managed to get your driver's license without knowing how (maybe they gave your a warning and noted it on your test results?), but that doesn't mean you should have continued operating a motor vehicle without even knowing how to properly operate it. Actually, if the examiner was responsible, he/she should have guided you or taught you how to operate this very basic piece of vehicle functionality before allowing you to pass.
I might as well add another pet peeve of mine (not directed at you): how the heck do people "accidentally" leave their high beams on? Are they so blind that they cannot see the large blue high beam gauge cluster light right in front of them? If they can't even see it, then it scares me to think about what else they can't see when they're driving. If they somehow "forgot" the meaning of the symbol, then they are simply not qualified to drive - that symbol (along with many other universal indicator symbols) is specifically tested for on the written test, and again on the road test. "Forgetting" things that you were required to know to get your license is not an excuse.
I use OO.o every day, to interoperate with Word and Excel. So far I have had zero problems, except that copying and pasting from OO.o into Dreamweaver results in some spurious HTML crap for which I blame OO.o (a fucking DOCTYPE actually makes it in there!) but that's pretty minimal, frankly. And 99% of users will never do that, nor have the opportunity to because they don't own Dreamweaver.
What magical version of OpenOffice.org are you using? I'll name one thing it can't do that MS Office can - open and format *.doc documents properly. I'd really like to use OpenOffice.org, but people send me.doc files. I need to open and edit them. I can't do that with OpenOffice.org, unless I plan on spending 25 minutes guessing and fixing the formatting.
So, I continue using MS Office 2000. Why? Because it meets all my needs, I have a copy of it already anyways, it's stable (for what I use it for), it loads much faster and takes up less memory than OpenOffice.org, and I'm familiar with it. I know where menu items are, I know how to create auto-sorted and auto-updated bibliographies and references, I know how to format headers/footers for page numbers and dates etc. And that's all I need to do - if it isn't broke, why fix it?
If un peu de Francais counts, then shouldn't all Canadians be safer from dementia (compared to e.g. Americans), considering that French is mandatory through grade school and high school?:P And I guess Quebecers should be even safer, considering that they're actually fluent in both English and French.
Why does the government have to "admit" to human induced climate change? We live on this freakin' planet, just like any other plant or animal - of course we're changing the climate. The climate (and environment in general) is there for us to change, to utilize, for our survival. Maybe there are other ways of dealing with the unpleasant effects of global warming on humans than simply preventing it?
Anyone who's ever built their own machine can tell you that.
And how many people do you know have built their own machine? Have you? I certainly have not, and probably never will. All I've done is bought consumer parts and plugged them together through well-defined interfaces that I had nothing to do with designing, according to instructions that I had no part in writing, to form a "PC". I know the PC "just works" when I plug everything together, but I am largely ignorant about the details of how the CPU, motherboard, or any component works (beyond the basic easily understood concepts).
My wife's reaction when I suggested trying OOo was that she wasn't interested, because she'd tried importing complex Word documents, and sometimes it lost some of the formatting. Well, actually, this is an extremely rational reason not to switch to OOo.
Actually based on my experience with even the latest version of OOo, importing very simple MS Word documents almost always never works in terms of formatting. And that's enough of a reason for me to not switch. Not saying that OOo should aim to support MS Office formats entirely, but people I work with use MS Word and send me MS Word documents. I have better things to do than encourage them all to switch to OOo.
Also, I have used MS Word, Powerpoint, and Excel for years. I know how to do what I need to do in them, and I am too lazy to learn how to do the equivalent in OOo. I have a version of MS Office 2000 that works fine for everything I need to do, and I see no reason to use anything else. Heck, I'm reluctant to switch to newer versions of MS Office just because I don't want to learn a new interface.
Give me a break, this kind of thinking is why 3 year olds die from food posioning every year because its a political impossibility to get irradiated meat on shelves sans a gigantic radiation symbol.
Is that the real problem though? The gigantic radiation symbol isn't saying anything that's untrue - if people know that the meat is irradiated, then they're gonna react in a certain way, symbol or not.
And certainly hiding the fact that it's irradiated would not help matters at all.
Well getting lies from random people on the streets would be analogous to getting a false positive from this system (except that the system arguably isn't out to frame anyone on purpose), and since police have no trouble dealing with such false positives from "tips", they should have even less trouble dealing with false positives from this system.
It's just another tool - I don't see any harm in this whatsoever, even if the false positive rate is like 30% (although that might make the tool less useful). Ultimately it's up to the police to figure out who the suspects are, and using this tool is sort of analogous to receiving a bunch of "tips" from "witnesses" that point to a group of potential suspects.
No, but it's going to contribute to your sense of comfort with that OS;
Exactly - does a car with a tightly put-together interior with high-quality materials and a door that closes with a reassuring "thud" , steering that's nice and heavily weighted, and brake pedals that are tuned to the nice amount of stiffness and sensitivity make most people feel more comfortable with that car?
Think Mercedes-Benz cars. How nice do they feel? Now look at how often the break down and how low they are on the quality rankings.
1. This bug actually apparently fucks up the vista installation.
They had a lot of bugs in the past that were incredibly annoying but didn't force you to reinstall. My point is that this doesn't prove that they would have stopped the presses for something not forcing you to reinstall but still critical.
2. The fact that they actually discovered one huge bug in time to fix it before release doesn't mean that there won't be major bugs discovered after release.
With their track record, their arrogance, and the way they have to force the IT industry to leave the OS business to it, they should be held to the highest standards. We shouldn't cut them any slack just because they happened to discover a critical bug just before release for once.
That's for improperly implemented animations. Properly implemented, animations can not only improve usability of a system, but also increase the aesthetic attractiveness of the GUI. And it's well known - even in usability groups who are typically focussed on quantitatively measurable aspects of UIs - that "attractive things work better". A pleasing interface can make the user overlook minor usability flaws, and who's to say that attractiveness has no value?
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that's not the way the world works. (Understandable, as you're in academics, so I'll let it slide.)
I don't really understand why academics is somehow not "part of the real world". The people in academics are real people, making real money, so I don't see how being a professor is somehow a less-real career than being a sales manager. Professors have to fight for grants and funding, and work for pay just like any other employee. In fact, many times the funding for academic projects comes from industry. Politics is as ingrained in academics as in industry, if not more. Academics is just as integral to the "real world" as any other career field.
Why? We need drivers licences to drive because driving directly endangers other's peoples lives and health. Similarly surgeons, doctors, and nurses need licenses as well.
How do virii and worms directly endanger peoples' lives?
Not only is it just a fantasy/reality separation, it's just like people who know 2 or more languages growing up. Certainly someone who knows french isn't going to have a problem with that "tainting" their english right? "Netspeak" is just another language that happens to look like english.
Or take different programming languages for example. People are certainly capable of knowing both Java and C++ at the same time, even though they (arguably?) look pretty similar.
Of course? Says who. Slashdot, opinions from nerds.
Because most people doing PC-to-PC and PC-to-phone calling are probably part of the elite group in society who have the massive brainpower and "inside" knowledge required to use Firefox. Obviously the "uncool" masses using other browsers would become totally confused and start panicing if we priviledged ones tried to explaing PC-to-PC and PC-to-phone calling to them.
If you really fear chances like thisn you need to stop driving a car right now. The chances of a wreck might not be 1/1000 but it can lead to death which is worse than blindness in my opinion. You know what, dont even leave your living room, your far less likely to experiance crime or any bodily harm if you just never go outside.
Again, weighing benefits against risks. I continue driving a car because a) I have some control over whether or not/how serious an accident I get into (for some accidents), and b) the benefits of driving are (to me) greater than the risks. On the other hand, getting laser eye surgery does not hold enough benefits to me to outweight the risks.
You might say I have my priorities mixed up, but hey - different things have different value to different people.
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Use the defroster. Max fan setting, air conditioning on (for dehumidification), and heat at maximum.
Not sure if there's a joke there I didn't get. I think the parent was looking for slightly more insightful advice than "use the defroster".
I've found that cleaning the inside of the windshield helps -- oils/gases from the interior plastics can produce a coating that makes it easier for the windshield to fog up.
Even if you parked outside overnight, 12 minutes to defog seems a bit long for 20F (about -6C). Although unlikely, maybe you want to check if there is water leaking into the interior? That would definitely cause some bad fogging (and problems defogging).
I considered turning high beams on but didn't want to stop in the middle of the road (no shoulder on this road, of course) to figure out how to turn the damn things on.
---linuxrocks123
I'm sure lots of people have pointed this out already, but it is not a matter of opinion that you are being very irresponsible by continuing to operate a motor vehicle without knowing something that is required in order for you to get your driver's license. You are not qualified to drive (without knowing how to operate the high beams), simply because operation of high beams is something that is specifically tested for on the road test. Yes, you may have managed to get your driver's license without knowing how (maybe they gave your a warning and noted it on your test results?), but that doesn't mean you should have continued operating a motor vehicle without even knowing how to properly operate it. Actually, if the examiner was responsible, he/she should have guided you or taught you how to operate this very basic piece of vehicle functionality before allowing you to pass.
I might as well add another pet peeve of mine (not directed at you): how the heck do people "accidentally" leave their high beams on? Are they so blind that they cannot see the large blue high beam gauge cluster light right in front of them? If they can't even see it, then it scares me to think about what else they can't see when they're driving. If they somehow "forgot" the meaning of the symbol, then they are simply not qualified to drive - that symbol (along with many other universal indicator symbols) is specifically tested for on the written test, and again on the road test. "Forgetting" things that you were required to know to get your license is not an excuse.
Are you joking? The day is always 24 hours long. Do you really think that DST makes days 25 hours long?
I'm gonna say "yes" on all the above.
You think the grandparent was joking about DST days being 25 hours long, and at the same time, believes that DST days are 25 hours long?
Why is that? If we conserve enough, couldn't we use existing hydroelectric power sources (like we do already http://www.bchydro.com/)?
What magical version of OpenOffice.org are you using? I'll name one thing it can't do that MS Office can - open and format *.doc documents properly. I'd really like to use OpenOffice.org, but people send me .doc files. I need to open and edit them. I can't do that with OpenOffice.org, unless I plan on spending 25 minutes guessing and fixing the formatting.
So, I continue using MS Office 2000. Why? Because it meets all my needs, I have a copy of it already anyways, it's stable (for what I use it for), it loads much faster and takes up less memory than OpenOffice.org, and I'm familiar with it. I know where menu items are, I know how to create auto-sorted and auto-updated bibliographies and references, I know how to format headers/footers for page numbers and dates etc. And that's all I need to do - if it isn't broke, why fix it?
If un peu de Francais counts, then shouldn't all Canadians be safer from dementia (compared to e.g. Americans), considering that French is mandatory through grade school and high school? :P And I guess Quebecers should be even safer, considering that they're actually fluent in both English and French.
Not sure if being a nerd automatically implies higher than average brain usage though.
Why does the government have to "admit" to human induced climate change? We live on this freakin' planet, just like any other plant or animal - of course we're changing the climate. The climate (and environment in general) is there for us to change, to utilize, for our survival. Maybe there are other ways of dealing with the unpleasant effects of global warming on humans than simply preventing it?
And how many people do you know have built their own machine? Have you? I certainly have not, and probably never will. All I've done is bought consumer parts and plugged them together through well-defined interfaces that I had nothing to do with designing, according to instructions that I had no part in writing, to form a "PC". I know the PC "just works" when I plug everything together, but I am largely ignorant about the details of how the CPU, motherboard, or any component works (beyond the basic easily understood concepts).
Actually based on my experience with even the latest version of OOo, importing very simple MS Word documents almost always never works in terms of formatting. And that's enough of a reason for me to not switch. Not saying that OOo should aim to support MS Office formats entirely, but people I work with use MS Word and send me MS Word documents. I have better things to do than encourage them all to switch to OOo.
Also, I have used MS Word, Powerpoint, and Excel for years. I know how to do what I need to do in them, and I am too lazy to learn how to do the equivalent in OOo. I have a version of MS Office 2000 that works fine for everything I need to do, and I see no reason to use anything else. Heck, I'm reluctant to switch to newer versions of MS Office just because I don't want to learn a new interface.
Is that the real problem though? The gigantic radiation symbol isn't saying anything that's untrue - if people know that the meat is irradiated, then they're gonna react in a certain way, symbol or not.
And certainly hiding the fact that it's irradiated would not help matters at all.
Well getting lies from random people on the streets would be analogous to getting a false positive from this system (except that the system arguably isn't out to frame anyone on purpose), and since police have no trouble dealing with such false positives from "tips", they should have even less trouble dealing with false positives from this system.
It's just another tool - I don't see any harm in this whatsoever, even if the false positive rate is like 30% (although that might make the tool less useful). Ultimately it's up to the police to figure out who the suspects are, and using this tool is sort of analogous to receiving a bunch of "tips" from "witnesses" that point to a group of potential suspects.
Perhaps that's why we tend to find unseasoned pork "stinkier" than other meats. Because it tastes like ourselves?
Exactly - does a car with a tightly put-together interior with high-quality materials and a door that closes with a reassuring "thud" , steering that's nice and heavily weighted, and brake pedals that are tuned to the nice amount of stiffness and sensitivity make most people feel more comfortable with that car?
Think Mercedes-Benz cars. How nice do they feel? Now look at how often the break down and how low they are on the quality rankings.
*Their* arrogance? How about *your* arrogance?
That's the thing - if it's a good implementation, it won't annoy you.
That's for improperly implemented animations. Properly implemented, animations can not only improve usability of a system, but also increase the aesthetic attractiveness of the GUI. And it's well known - even in usability groups who are typically focussed on quantitatively measurable aspects of UIs - that "attractive things work better". A pleasing interface can make the user overlook minor usability flaws, and who's to say that attractiveness has no value?
Why? We need drivers licences to drive because driving directly endangers other's peoples lives and health. Similarly surgeons, doctors, and nurses need licenses as well. How do virii and worms directly endanger peoples' lives?
What? I'm pretty sure the parent was referring to the icon that looks like I B M, not the one that looks like a suitcase.
And the survival of our planet's biology is relatively unimportant to the survival of our planet.
Not only is it just a fantasy/reality separation, it's just like people who know 2 or more languages growing up. Certainly someone who knows french isn't going to have a problem with that "tainting" their english right? "Netspeak" is just another language that happens to look like english. Or take different programming languages for example. People are certainly capable of knowing both Java and C++ at the same time, even though they (arguably?) look pretty similar.
Because most people doing PC-to-PC and PC-to-phone calling are probably part of the elite group in society who have the massive brainpower and "inside" knowledge required to use Firefox. Obviously the "uncool" masses using other browsers would become totally confused and start panicing if we priviledged ones tried to explaing PC-to-PC and PC-to-phone calling to them.
Again, weighing benefits against risks. I continue driving a car because a) I have some control over whether or not/how serious an accident I get into (for some accidents), and b) the benefits of driving are (to me) greater than the risks. On the other hand, getting laser eye surgery does not hold enough benefits to me to outweight the risks.
You might say I have my priorities mixed up, but hey - different things have different value to different people.