Re:This kind of thinking is for the uninformed
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Amen. Nice to hear from someone who is informed, and who has not been diluted by the detroit marketing propaganda.
SUV's are *NOT* safe!
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You are quite obviously diluted and misinformed when it comes to automotive safety.
Your low-tech, oversized SUV has a ladder frame chassis. This does not compress when in an accident. A car with crumple zones (invented by VW, BTW) will absorb a huge amount of the collision impact leaving only a minimum amount for the human occupants to absorb. Whereas your BODY will absorb this force in an SUV collision.
Guess what is the leading cause of high speed collision deaths? Nope.. not intrusion into the passenger cabin - Its your internal organs coliding with your skeletal system - This force is magnified several times when in a ladder-frame SUV, so you guessed it - your dead, while your buddy who is driving a CAR in the same accident would survive. Food for thought.
Also consider the government warnings on the sun visor of your new SUV? Yes, they are true - your SUV *WILL* flip over (and probably kill you from being crushed) if you make sudden turns or collide with a curb. Again, in the SUV - your dead. In a car, your alive.
An SUV derives all it's structural integrity from that antique ladder from chassis, while a car gets it's strength from the design of the unibody shell. With newer supercomputers working to design more rigid monocoque car bodies, it's no wonder a car is so much safer in an accident than an SUV.
And lets not forget that 50% of safety is *AVOIDING* the accident to begin with. Who do you think can avoid an accident better? An SUV with very antique primitive suspension, and therefore awful handling (and prone to flipping over) and brakes that are not very effective because they have to stop such a large mass, and huge blind spots that prevent you from seeing smaller cars around you -or- a car with a modern suspension so it can handle well, brakes that can stop it in a shorter distance, and good visibility in all directions? Sorry buddy, you lose again. In an SUV, your dead, in a car you'll live.
Not safety related, but any self respecting slashdot geek should appreciate modern technology. An SUV does not deliver in that department either folks. That live rear axle was invented around the year 1900, while that leaf spring suspension came unchanged, from the covered wagons of the 1860's. It's like paying $25,000 for a 286, 8 Mhz, with 160 KB of RAM!
Guess all those shoddy american car makers must have much better marketing departments than engineering departments. Probably why the Germans have always been 30 years ahead of the Americans in automotive technoloy...
VW / Audi are truely the automotive leaders
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It's nice to see that such a huge car company (VW is the largest car manufacturer in Europe, and 3rd largest in the world) is bucking the trend of the gas-guzzeling overpriced, low-tech, piece of crap, SUV's.
I have a 1985 VW Jetta turbo diesel with over 260k miles on it. It gets roughly 42 miles per gallon. w00t!
FWIW, I would never trust any 1st generation/iteration of Microsoft software. Remember Windows 95? NT 3? Ugg. I have a sinking feeling that this MS Smartphone has the same destiny...
Besides... who wants some script kiddie hacking into their phone and delivering an Outlook virus?;-)
I can see it now...
"If you'd like to make a call, please hang up and try agai... Fatal Exception 0F in module mscphone.dll"
The morals of many large US based corporations are bound by the desire and appeal of the "Almighty Buck". i.e. as long as it generates revenue, it's morally correct for the company to do so.
People can do so much more with broadband (watch streaming video, download massive amounts of data, browse the web without waiting for pages to load) that their lives are "becoming one" with their web experiences. They rely more and more on the Web to accomplish everyday tasks. While the average geek would find this attractive, this has strong negative conotations for society as a whole.
While I think the _quality_ of the code, when released as open source will certainly improve; a corporation would not want the image of having sloppy code, I think this could be a bad idea in certain areas, particularly for propriatary military and defense department systems.
On the other hand, it could be a very Good Thing (tm) for those same systems because the Many Eyes concept would certainly "harden" the code. In the meantime however, more exploits and bugs would certainly be found, and DoD is not the type of establishment that wants to have known visible security flaws.
Why should computer manufcturers not be responsible for recycling their toxic products? If paperclips contained mercury, lead, and other toxins, people would be all over the paperclip manufacturers about how to recycle them. Why is the PC industry any different??
I'm not asking the manufacturers to set up their own recycling plants as that would be cost prohibitive for smaller outfits. At a minimum there should be a federal US tax imposed on new electronic devices including PC's that would go to fund government recycling stations.
I'd pay an extra 5% for my electronics and computer parts if I know that extra money was going to ensure an environmentally friendly recycling solution.
Not sir - YOU are the troll. Ranting and raving in an intoxicated stupor, you have no grasp on the situation. For all your family's former wealth, it sounds like you people made some bad decisions. I'm not saying pollution is good - absolutely not, but your blaming the wrong people. As much as you'd like to think so, Great Leaders such as GWB did not invent pollution or cause the dip in out stock market. GET A FREAKIN CLUE!!
Perhaps white trash in a georgia swamp has no business owning a PC in the first place. Ignorant rural people such as yourself are a bane to environmentalists. You dump used automotive oil and fluids into the soil, you burn your toxic garbage, you use toxic chemicals on your crops and soil. If you can't afford $30 to mail your PC to a recycler, how the hell did you buy a PC to begin with??
For the simple reason that the internet is a public forum. Either a web site should be pay-only in which the viewers must pay money to access the site, or it should be publicly viewable.
Deceptive pop-up ads are not a guaranteed form of revenue. If the web site is depending on money from pop-up's, they should realize this from the start and assume the risk.
I'm on metered internet access - Who is going to compensate *me* for the bandwidth that the ads occupy?
I am not morally or legally bound to view the advertisements of others.
If pop-up blocking in browsers is "theft", is it then also theft when your Tivo skips the commercials??
This is incredibly silly, and I wouldn't frequent a web site, or give business to a corporation that would ban be based on my browser or browser settings.
As a long time techie, I think PDA's have limited usefulness. They aren't for John Q. Public to keep track of his limited contacts and appointments.
I see Corporate Sales and Executives using PDA's frequently. This is probably due to the large number of business contacts and frequent appointments they have.
Your average techie has typically only a few meetings a week (if that), and probably less than two dozen business contacts. A paper planner serves the techie better as it is more convenient due to the reduced management overhead of paper - i.e. you don't need to recharge, sync, or perform software updates on paper.
I've owned an array of PDA's from the original Palm's through the latest Compaq iPaq. After the novelty of the new gizmo wears off (usually in under 2 weeks) it gets put in a desk drawer and forgotten.
Techies know that all PDA's are too underpowered to be a primary computing device, and are too cumbersome to manage the limited contacts and appointments of the techie.
This is an excellent step forward for Linux on the Desktop. As Corporations begin to adopt the Microsoft.NET servers (for better or for worse), Linux desktop clients will be able to participate, and not be left out in the cold.
Congratulations to the development team on their achievement.
While a modded XBOX seems like a cool inexpensive PC, I feel that it's more trouble than it's worth.
If Billy G. does not want you to mod his XBOX, he will continually roll out new schemes and plans to try and foil you. Sounds like just a big pain to me. For the same money, you could go buy one of those Walmart/Lindows PC's and load a copy of Mandrake or Redhat on it to achieve a low cost useful PC.
Putting CD-R media in a fireproof safe is probably not very good insurance. A fireproof safe is designed to prevent paper from burning. Paper burns at 451 degrees F. A CD-R can be rendered useless from sitting in your car in the summer - it would be completely melted even in a fireproof safe.
On this same train of thought however, you could store a monthly backup on CD-R or DVD-R at a bank in a safe deposit box.
Another small bit of backup I've been using is one of those small cigarette-lighter sized USB flash storage devices. It holds 256 MB - enough for all my most important documents, and I carry it everywhere. If you do this, you'll very much want to make sure your data is encrypted (I use GPG) incase you misplace the device and someone else should find it.
Just my 2 cents.
and were the responsibility of trained personnel.
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Since when were computers in corporate data centers or universitys _not_ the responsibility of trained personnel???
I didn't think they hired just anyone off the street to run these things.
Oh wait... I forgot about those MCSE's.
Perhaps they DO just hire any bum off the streets afterall...
How many other UNIX servers Microsoft depends on to run it's evil enterprise. I'm sure there are many more that are internal-only and not accessible or visible to the public.
Perhaps the world will someday wakeup and see the beast for what it really is...
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Amen. Nice to hear from someone who is informed, and who has not been diluted by the detroit marketing propaganda.
You are quite obviously diluted and misinformed when it comes to automotive safety.
Your low-tech, oversized SUV has a ladder frame chassis. This does not compress when in an accident. A car with crumple zones (invented by VW, BTW) will absorb a huge amount of the collision impact leaving only a minimum amount for the human occupants to absorb. Whereas your BODY will absorb this force in an SUV collision.
Guess what is the leading cause of high speed collision deaths? Nope.. not intrusion into the passenger cabin - Its your internal organs coliding with your skeletal system - This force is magnified several times when in a ladder-frame SUV, so you guessed it - your dead, while your buddy who is driving a CAR in the same accident would survive. Food for thought.
Also consider the government warnings on the sun visor of your new SUV? Yes, they are true - your SUV *WILL* flip over (and probably kill you from being crushed) if you make sudden turns or collide with a curb. Again, in the SUV - your dead. In a car, your alive.
An SUV derives all it's structural integrity from that antique ladder from chassis, while a car gets it's strength from the design of the unibody shell. With newer supercomputers working to design more rigid monocoque car bodies, it's no wonder a car is so much safer in an accident than an SUV.
And lets not forget that 50% of safety is *AVOIDING* the accident to begin with. Who do you think can avoid an accident better? An SUV with very antique primitive suspension, and therefore awful handling (and prone to flipping over) and brakes that are not very effective because they have to stop such a large mass, and huge blind spots that prevent you from seeing smaller cars around you -or- a car with a modern suspension so it can handle well, brakes that can stop it in a shorter distance, and good visibility in all directions? Sorry buddy, you lose again. In an SUV, your dead, in a car you'll live.
Not safety related, but any self respecting slashdot geek should appreciate modern technology. An SUV does not deliver in that department either folks. That live rear axle was invented around the year 1900, while that leaf spring suspension came unchanged, from the covered wagons of the 1860's. It's like paying $25,000 for a 286, 8 Mhz, with 160 KB of RAM! Guess all those shoddy american car makers must have much better marketing departments than engineering departments. Probably why the Germans have always been 30 years ahead of the Americans in automotive technoloy...
It's nice to see that such a huge car company (VW is the largest car manufacturer in Europe, and 3rd largest in the world) is bucking the trend of the gas-guzzeling overpriced, low-tech, piece of crap, SUV's.
I have a 1985 VW Jetta turbo diesel with over 260k miles on it. It gets roughly 42 miles per gallon. w00t!
FWIW, I would never trust any 1st generation/iteration of Microsoft software. Remember Windows 95? NT 3? Ugg. I have a sinking feeling that this MS Smartphone has the same destiny...
;-)
Besides... who wants some script kiddie hacking into their phone and delivering an Outlook virus?
I can see it now...
"If you'd like to make a call, please hang up and try agai... Fatal Exception 0F in module mscphone.dll"
I'll be sure to add a shit-for-brains consumer clause in the corporate policy of my company; just for people like you.
The morals of many large US based corporations are bound by the desire and appeal of the "Almighty Buck". i.e. as long as it generates revenue, it's morally correct for the company to do so.
People can do so much more with broadband (watch streaming video, download massive amounts of data, browse the web without waiting for pages to load) that their lives are "becoming one" with their web experiences. They rely more and more on the Web to accomplish everyday tasks. While the average geek would find this attractive, this has strong negative conotations for society as a whole.
While I think the _quality_ of the code, when released as open source will certainly improve; a corporation would not want the image of having sloppy code, I think this could be a bad idea in certain areas, particularly for propriatary military and defense department systems.
On the other hand, it could be a very Good Thing (tm) for those same systems because the Many Eyes concept would certainly "harden" the code. In the meantime however, more exploits and bugs would certainly be found, and DoD is not the type of establishment that wants to have known visible security flaws.
Can you get DSL in a Hobbit Hole???
Why should computer manufcturers not be responsible for recycling their toxic products? If paperclips contained mercury, lead, and other toxins, people would be all over the paperclip manufacturers about how to recycle them. Why is the PC industry any different??
I'm not asking the manufacturers to set up their own recycling plants as that would be cost prohibitive for smaller outfits. At a minimum there should be a federal US tax imposed on new electronic devices including PC's that would go to fund government recycling stations.
I'd pay an extra 5% for my electronics and computer parts if I know that extra money was going to ensure an environmentally friendly recycling solution.
Not sir - YOU are the troll. Ranting and raving in an intoxicated stupor, you have no grasp on the situation. For all your family's former wealth, it sounds like you people made some bad decisions. I'm not saying pollution is good - absolutely not, but your blaming the wrong people. As much as you'd like to think so, Great Leaders such as GWB did not invent pollution or cause the dip in out stock market. GET A FREAKIN CLUE!!
Perhaps white trash in a georgia swamp has no business owning a PC in the first place. Ignorant rural people such as yourself are a bane to environmentalists. You dump used automotive oil and fluids into the soil, you burn your toxic garbage, you use toxic chemicals on your crops and soil. If you can't afford $30 to mail your PC to a recycler, how the hell did you buy a PC to begin with??
Yes, Yes... it could grip it by the husk.
For the simple reason that the internet is a public forum. Either a web site should be pay-only in which the viewers must pay money to access the site, or it should be publicly viewable.
Deceptive pop-up ads are not a guaranteed form of revenue. If the web site is depending on money from pop-up's, they should realize this from the start and assume the risk.
I'm on metered internet access - Who is going to compensate *me* for the bandwidth that the ads occupy?
I am not morally or legally bound to view the advertisements of others.
If pop-up blocking in browsers is "theft", is it then also theft when your Tivo skips the commercials??
This is incredibly silly, and I wouldn't frequent a web site, or give business to a corporation that would ban be based on my browser or browser settings.
As a long time techie, I think PDA's have limited usefulness. They aren't for John Q. Public to keep track of his limited contacts and appointments.
I see Corporate Sales and Executives using PDA's frequently. This is probably due to the large number of business contacts and frequent appointments they have.
Your average techie has typically only a few meetings a week (if that), and probably less than two dozen business contacts. A paper planner serves the techie better as it is more convenient due to the reduced management overhead of paper - i.e. you don't need to recharge, sync, or perform software updates on paper.
I've owned an array of PDA's from the original Palm's through the latest Compaq iPaq. After the novelty of the new gizmo wears off (usually in under 2 weeks) it gets put in a desk drawer and forgotten.
Techies know that all PDA's are too underpowered to be a primary computing device, and are too cumbersome to manage the limited contacts and appointments of the techie.
I'm sticking to paper.
This is an excellent step forward for Linux on the Desktop. As Corporations begin to adopt the Microsoft .NET servers (for better or for worse), Linux desktop clients will be able to participate, and not be left out in the cold.
Congratulations to the development team on their achievement.
Yet Another Reason To Ban Censorware From Public Libraries.
Can't you already do this with those X10 (you know, the ones with the popup ads) devices???
While a modded XBOX seems like a cool inexpensive PC, I feel that it's more trouble than it's worth.
If Billy G. does not want you to mod his XBOX, he will continually roll out new schemes and plans to try and foil you. Sounds like just a big pain to me. For the same money, you could go buy one of those Walmart/Lindows PC's and load a copy of Mandrake or Redhat on it to achieve a low cost useful PC.
Just my 2 cents.
Putting CD-R media in a fireproof safe is probably not very good insurance. A fireproof safe is designed to prevent paper from burning. Paper burns at 451 degrees F. A CD-R can be rendered useless from sitting in your car in the summer - it would be completely melted even in a fireproof safe.
On this same train of thought however, you could store a monthly backup on CD-R or DVD-R at a bank in a safe deposit box.
Another small bit of backup I've been using is one of those small cigarette-lighter sized USB flash storage devices. It holds 256 MB - enough for all my most important documents, and I carry it everywhere. If you do this, you'll very much want to make sure your data is encrypted (I use GPG) incase you misplace the device and someone else should find it.
Just my 2 cents.
Since when were computers in corporate data centers or universitys _not_ the responsibility of trained personnel???
I didn't think they hired just anyone off the street to run these things.
Oh wait... I forgot about those MCSE's.
Perhaps they DO just hire any bum off the streets afterall...
How many other UNIX servers Microsoft depends on to run it's evil enterprise. I'm sure there are many more that are internal-only and not accessible or visible to the public.
Perhaps the world will someday wakeup and see the beast for what it really is...
This while sounding scary at first, is probably a step in the right direction for surgical medicine.
I however, would not like to be one of the beta testers for this thing!
Salon.Com is just a cowardly hideout for all those ineffectual, whiny, limp-dick liberals who have absolutely no clue about world politics.
I say good riddance to salon.com and their ilk.