The one doing the tailgating is the one endangering lives. Tailgating is not just obnoxious, it kills people. What do you propose when someone is, effectively, purposely endangering your life?
My life is worth enough to me that I try to avoid people like that. Pulling over to let them pass is pretty darned effective, and the loss of a few minutes of my time is a small price to pay. In the case that I'm on a multilane road, in the rightmost lane, and they refuse to pass, I just put the cruise on. The amount of effort they have to go through to stay close usually encourages them to pass. And I don't have to go through any stress because I've put the car in control of the speed.
My next step is to find the unsubscribe link. This has gotten stunningly ridiculous.
The final insult from the wannabe geeks. They couldn't even figure out how to add a deleted_account flag to the user table in their MySQL database. Good riddance.
As another poster noted, there is no limit mentioned there. There is an example of 5 GB, but nothing about using more being prohibited.
Of course there's not. That's because the parent omitted this section from TFA:
For individual use only and not for resale. We reserve the right to protect our network from harm, which may impact legitimate data flows. We reserve the right to limit throughput or amount of data transferred, and to deny or terminate service, without notice, to anyone we believe is using an Unlimited Data Plan or Feature in any manner prohibited above or whose usage adversely impacts our network or service levels. Anyone using more than 5 GB per line in a given month is presumed to be using the service in a manner prohibited above, and we reserve the right to immediately terminate the service of any such person without notice. We also reserve the right to terminate service upon expiration of Customer Agreement term.
I'm guessing you're one of the people that got screwed by Microsoft's DST update to Outlook and thus didn't realize that it's actually April 2nd, not April 1st.
At this point [and definitely at this late date in the thread], I figure anyone interested will parent up to read, so I'm not going to bother quoting.
You really didn't get my point. Guess I shouldn't have been so facetious - so my mistake there. And your followup struck me as so hostile that I didn't bother to figure out that the problem was apparently that you didn't get my point.
So, to be as transparent as I can: my issue was that you took some sentences and put "most" and "typical" in front of them as if that made them into a fact. I responded by making several absolutely ridiculous assertions [which you quite readily identified as such] and put "most" and "typical" in front of them. Obviously the ridiculousness jumped out at you far more obviously than the point I was trying to make. Which was that: putting "most" and "typical" in front of an opinion doesn't make it into a fact.
The origin of all of this was my statement [opinion] that I don't see a difference between sitting in a car and sitting on the bus. I understood the points you were making; however, they don't change my basic thought on this, which - having had time to think about it - I can possibly clarify.
I don't think that urban sprawl makes you walk any more or less than condensed cities make you walk more or less. I think that it's an issue of transportation convenience. The more convenient your transportation is [and convenience is an incredibly subjective term - time, cost, and stress are just three of the obvious factors involved], the more likely you are to use that form. If walking happens to be that form, then I think you'll tend toward that. If being transported is more convenient, then I think you'll tend toward that.
From an anecdotal evidence standpoint: when I'm in Manhattan I tend to walk a lot. Why? Not because of some master planning of the grand city, but because the subway system is a hassle to use, driving is out of the question, and grabbing a taxi in midtown traffic doesn't seem to be any quicker. Conversely, when I'm in London, I tend to use the tube quite a bit because it's relatively simple. Rome is even more convenient: not that their metro system is extensive, but the subway system, train system, and bus system all converge in a central location and they have a convenient honor system that makes entry trivial.
So if I had the opportunity to rewrite my original post, the summary would be: "I don't think that urban sprawl is a factor in daily exercise levels so much as the availability or convenient transportation"
FTA: "The most unique new feature is called Readyboost. When you're having performance issues due to insufficient memory, you can use a USB flash drive as an additional cache of memory to boost performance."
Ummm - this would be an improvement over using the hard drive for swap in that...? Yes - I know - there are newer, low latency flash sticks coming on the market, but really - a USB 2.0 interface vs the data bus path. What amazing kind of performance boost am I really going to see from this?
I'm sure a lot of cluebies will be parading that around for a bit. Much like when W98 finally got native dual monitor support.
How easy what was? For you to claim that most people live closer to a train station than to their own garage?
Some things are so obvious they don't need evidence. But you can do the math: Count the number of train stations in a typical city and the number of garages attached to houses in that same city. Assume that 99% of people park their cars in their own garage and not in someone else's. Take the area of the city and its population, and work out the average distance someone has to walk to get to a train. Then divide that number by the final distance in Zeno's Paradox, which is the length people have to travel outside to get to the garage in their own damn house, and the resulting quotient will be the factor by which your idiocy outshines your debating skill.
Apparently you are unable to defend your position because a) you still do nothing but make assumptions and bandy about terms like "typical" and (more importantly) b) you resort to ad hominem attacks, which quite objectively demonstrates the level of your debating skills.
Most people live farther from the transit stop (especially if they take a train) than from where they park their car.
And most people's offices are farther from the transit stop (especially if they take a train) than from the car park in the basement.
So while you personally may have parked your car across town once, that doesn't illustrate the typical situation.
Also, of course, riding trains often involves climbing stairs.
P.S. I live on the 24th floor of a highrise. My girlfriend has just instituted a "no riding up in the lift unless carrying groceries" policy. If I don't plan my day well I can be climbing 120 flights of stairs (which happened yesterday). Try THAT kind of exercise built into your routine in a suburb.
Of course, I could just as easily make up claims with no evidence too.
Let's see: Of course, most people have to park far from their office whereas the bus stop drops them near the front door.
And most people can catch a subway or bus stop directly from the train, whereas if they drive to the train, they have to walk through a large parking lot.
So while you personally may have walked to a bus stop once, that doesn't illustrate the typical situation.
As for arbitrary anecdotal evidence, the fact that you're choosing to follow some arbitrary rule laid down by your gf concerning taking the stairs, that doesn't illustrate the typical situation.
I tried to quote you, but I didn't even know where to begin or end. To summarize, somehow riding mass transit is far healthier than driving. So, you sit your butt down in mass transit, or you sit your butt down in a car. I don't see the difference. You could try to nitpick about "walking to/from the bus stop" vs. "parking up front". But, unless you live in BFE, you're probably walking through a parking lot if you drive (or walking from some non-congested area to a congested area) vs. walking from the bus stop/Metro/Train Station if you use mass transit (which tend to be fairly conveniently placed). Maybe it's the standing on a crowded bus/subway? I'm thinking the calorie burn for that is offset by the constant movement of your right foot, left foot, and arm(s). Last time I drove in Boston, I parked on the north side of downtown (in one of those paid parking areas by BC) and walked to Fenway. Not a minor hike, as I recall.
So - what was the relevance to this article? It was quite obviously lost on me.
Drag your applications folder (or any folder for that matter) into the dock, Then when you right click on it, the contents of that folder are displayed in a menu, instant Start Menu. No third party software... it's built into the mac.
That's exactly the method I've used in the past and have advocated to others switching from Windows. I've recently abandoned it in favor of using Spotlight (10.4+). I just click spotlight, type the app name, and then click the app (which usually appears as the top hit). Much quicker than wading through layers of nested menus (folders). Although it was somewhat sluggish on the PPC in the past, it seems to have sped up on my PPC mini recently. My current main system is a MBP Core 2 - so YMMV regarding performance.
"There was no suggestion that the system had been infected by the GOOD TIMES virus, which is known to cause computers to get caught in an Nth complexity, infinite loop and overheat. Independent sources were also unable to verify whether the GOOD TIMES virus was involved."
Well, yes. He is right. I have bought almost all the above parts except for monitors - and none of them was from Dell or by Dell. Get your facts right.
Obviously, my terse and sarcastic reply was misunderstood. My mistake. What I was trying to say was that all of those items can be bought at any computer store and put into a Mac. He was maintaining that ALL parts for a Mac need to be bought from Apple, which is blatantly untrue (and quite ignorant of the facts).
I completely understand your misreading of my post (in retrospect).
Nope. Proprietary PCs are as dead as Dillinger. You can go to any store in the USA and buy replacement parts or peripherals which will work on Dell PCs. But if you want Apple stuff, you have to go to the Apple store.
You mean aside from printers, scanners, RAM, hard drives, keyboards, mice, USB cards, monitors - I'm probably missing some stuff, but you get the picture.
Don't rm with an absolute path because you could easily
#rm -r -f / tmp/dir
We had someone high up in IT do exactly that from a root cronjob. His solution to prevent this from happening again was obvious and quite clever. He disabled cron for non-privileged users.
How can any of you Apple fanboys claim that Windows is inconsistent? For example, Ctrl-F does EXACTLY the same thing, no matter what app you're in: in Word it's Find, in Outlook it's Forward, and in TextPad it's...
not only did the people who put it together get paid slave wages...
Man. Think how much cheaper our stuff from China would be if those silly Chinese stopped paying wages to their slaves. Sounds like they need an efficiency expert - or at least a dictionary.
Imaginary Numbers, changing the rules so that things work the way you want them to. Why is this (AFAIK) the only field to do this? How often do you hear a Physicist say "...
In as much as I love physics, I've always referred to it as a perversion of math. Any discipline in which you can divide away infinities in order to solve an intractable problem is definitely "changing the rules so that things work the way you want them to".
And before the physicists jump all over my case, I understand why this happens. And I also realize that you understand the change and work to account for it and justify it. But still - it is pretty funny when you look at it from a mathematical standpoint...
Seriously, it's hard to take someone like this seriously when he uses ignorant scare tactics such as his autopilot example. Either he's performing self aggrandizing hand waving, or he really is completely ignorant about the real world. Trust me - we do account for division by zero in autopilot systems. And - believe it or not - not only does the computer not "stop working" but we actually get a result back. It's called NaN. Furthermore, not only are our systems built with robust libraries that allow us to carry on (no pun intended) we also write downstream code to mitigate propagation of these types of errors. [see Celarier, Sando for a good example of this].
What do the mod guidelines state again? Oh yeah - mod down for crap like "Me Too!". Okay - I guess I'm destined to be modded down for this, but definitely "Me Too!".
If you're every near Detroit, make a point of visiting Ford's Greenfield Village. Henry Ford built a replica of Edison's Orange Park laboratory (as well as other things like the Wright Brother's Dayton, OH bicycle shop) and it's really awesome to wander the lab and imagine what it was like during its brief heyday. The movie "Edison: The Man" starring Spencer Tracy was filmed at that location.
I bought a replica of Edison's original light bulb at the gift shop which is most likely as close as I"ll get to having an original (although I do have some wax cylinders for the Edison phonograph). As an aside, the bulb runs on - God forbid - A/C! Ewwwwww!!!!
In regard to Einstein paraphernalia, it's still possible to find first editions of Einstein's "Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie" at ABE and elsewhere for a somewhat modest price. I paid $25 for mine (it's got some waterstains but is intact and readable) several years ago.
Dude. You're never gonna get modded +1 anything with talk like that around here. Just get in line and join in with the majority controlled jeering. You'll do far better.
Note to mods: I'm thinking Offtopic would be your best bet in silencing me, but Flamebait might work equally as well [just trying to make your jobs easiers].
Why is that? Maybe I'm not enough of a karma whore. I view moderation as a way of separating the wheat from the chaff. I really don't give a rip who the author happens to be - AC or not.
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The one doing the tailgating is the one endangering lives. Tailgating is not just obnoxious, it kills people. What do you propose when someone is, effectively, purposely endangering your life?
My life is worth enough to me that I try to avoid people like that. Pulling over to let them pass is pretty darned effective, and the loss of a few minutes of my time is a small price to pay. In the case that I'm on a multilane road, in the rightmost lane, and they refuse to pass, I just put the cruise on. The amount of effort they have to go through to stay close usually encourages them to pass. And I don't have to go through any stress because I've put the car in control of the speed.
The final insult from the wannabe geeks. They couldn't even figure out how to add a deleted_account flag to the user table in their MySQL database. Good riddance.
Has /. really come to this? A single link to a potentially biased article preceded by flamebait is really 5, Informative?
My next step is to find the unsubscribe link. This has gotten stunningly ridiculous.
Of course there's not. That's because the parent omitted this section from TFA:
For individual use only and not for resale. We reserve the right to protect our network from harm, which may impact legitimate data flows. We reserve the right to limit throughput or amount of data transferred, and to deny or terminate service, without notice, to anyone we believe is using an Unlimited Data Plan or Feature in any manner prohibited above or whose usage adversely impacts our network or service levels. Anyone using more than 5 GB per line in a given month is presumed to be using the service in a manner prohibited above, and we reserve the right to immediately terminate the service of any such person without notice. We also reserve the right to terminate service upon expiration of Customer Agreement term.
I'm guessing you're one of the people that got screwed by Microsoft's DST update to Outlook and thus didn't realize that it's actually April 2nd, not April 1st.
Ummmm... actually, no. I have no idea what you're talking about. Please elaborate.
At this point [and definitely at this late date in the thread], I figure anyone interested will parent up to read, so I'm not going to bother quoting.
You really didn't get my point. Guess I shouldn't have been so facetious - so my mistake there. And your followup struck me as so hostile that I didn't bother to figure out that the problem was apparently that you didn't get my point.
So, to be as transparent as I can: my issue was that you took some sentences and put "most" and "typical" in front of them as if that made them into a fact. I responded by making several absolutely ridiculous assertions [which you quite readily identified as such] and put "most" and "typical" in front of them. Obviously the ridiculousness jumped out at you far more obviously than the point I was trying to make. Which was that: putting "most" and "typical" in front of an opinion doesn't make it into a fact.
The origin of all of this was my statement [opinion] that I don't see a difference between sitting in a car and sitting on the bus. I understood the points you were making; however, they don't change my basic thought on this, which - having had time to think about it - I can possibly clarify.
I don't think that urban sprawl makes you walk any more or less than condensed cities make you walk more or less. I think that it's an issue of transportation convenience. The more convenient your transportation is [and convenience is an incredibly subjective term - time, cost, and stress are just three of the obvious factors involved], the more likely you are to use that form. If walking happens to be that form, then I think you'll tend toward that. If being transported is more convenient, then I think you'll tend toward that.
From an anecdotal evidence standpoint: when I'm in Manhattan I tend to walk a lot. Why? Not because of some master planning of the grand city, but because the subway system is a hassle to use, driving is out of the question, and grabbing a taxi in midtown traffic doesn't seem to be any quicker. Conversely, when I'm in London, I tend to use the tube quite a bit because it's relatively simple. Rome is even more convenient: not that their metro system is extensive, but the subway system, train system, and bus system all converge in a central location and they have a convenient honor system that makes entry trivial.
So if I had the opportunity to rewrite my original post, the summary would be: "I don't think that urban sprawl is a factor in daily exercise levels so much as the availability or convenient transportation"
Ummm - this would be an improvement over using the hard drive for swap in that...? Yes - I know - there are newer, low latency flash sticks coming on the market, but really - a USB 2.0 interface vs the data bus path. What amazing kind of performance boost am I really going to see from this?
I'm sure a lot of cluebies will be parading that around for a bit. Much like when W98 finally got native dual monitor support.
How easy what was? For you to claim that most people live closer to a train station than to their own garage? Some things are so obvious they don't need evidence. But you can do the math: Count the number of train stations in a typical city and the number of garages attached to houses in that same city. Assume that 99% of people park their cars in their own garage and not in someone else's. Take the area of the city and its population, and work out the average distance someone has to walk to get to a train. Then divide that number by the final distance in Zeno's Paradox, which is the length people have to travel outside to get to the garage in their own damn house, and the resulting quotient will be the factor by which your idiocy outshines your debating skill.
Apparently you are unable to defend your position because a) you still do nothing but make assumptions and bandy about terms like "typical" and (more importantly) b) you resort to ad hominem attacks, which quite objectively demonstrates the level of your debating skills.
Most people live farther from the transit stop (especially if they take a train) than from where they park their car. And most people's offices are farther from the transit stop (especially if they take a train) than from the car park in the basement. So while you personally may have parked your car across town once, that doesn't illustrate the typical situation. Also, of course, riding trains often involves climbing stairs. P.S. I live on the 24th floor of a highrise. My girlfriend has just instituted a "no riding up in the lift unless carrying groceries" policy. If I don't plan my day well I can be climbing 120 flights of stairs (which happened yesterday). Try THAT kind of exercise built into your routine in a suburb.
Of course, I could just as easily make up claims with no evidence too.
Let's see: Of course, most people have to park far from their office whereas the bus stop drops them near the front door.
And most people can catch a subway or bus stop directly from the train, whereas if they drive to the train, they have to walk through a large parking lot.
So while you personally may have walked to a bus stop once, that doesn't illustrate the typical situation.
As for arbitrary anecdotal evidence, the fact that you're choosing to follow some arbitrary rule laid down by your gf concerning taking the stairs, that doesn't illustrate the typical situation.
See how easy that was?
I tried to quote you, but I didn't even know where to begin or end. To summarize, somehow riding mass transit is far healthier than driving. So, you sit your butt down in mass transit, or you sit your butt down in a car. I don't see the difference. You could try to nitpick about "walking to/from the bus stop" vs. "parking up front". But, unless you live in BFE, you're probably walking through a parking lot if you drive (or walking from some non-congested area to a congested area) vs. walking from the bus stop/Metro/Train Station if you use mass transit (which tend to be fairly conveniently placed). Maybe it's the standing on a crowded bus/subway? I'm thinking the calorie burn for that is offset by the constant movement of your right foot, left foot, and arm(s). Last time I drove in Boston, I parked on the north side of downtown (in one of those paid parking areas by BC) and walked to Fenway. Not a minor hike, as I recall. So - what was the relevance to this article? It was quite obviously lost on me.
That's exactly the method I've used in the past and have advocated to others switching from Windows. I've recently abandoned it in favor of using Spotlight (10.4+). I just click spotlight, type the app name, and then click the app (which usually appears as the top hit). Much quicker than wading through layers of nested menus (folders). Although it was somewhat sluggish on the PPC in the past, it seems to have sped up on my PPC mini recently. My current main system is a MBP Core 2 - so YMMV regarding performance.
"There was no suggestion that the system had been infected by the GOOD TIMES virus, which is known to cause computers to get caught in an Nth complexity, infinite loop and overheat. Independent sources were also unable to verify whether the GOOD TIMES virus was involved."
Well, yes. He is right. I have bought almost all the above parts except for monitors - and none of them was from Dell or by Dell. Get your facts right.
Obviously, my terse and sarcastic reply was misunderstood. My mistake. What I was trying to say was that all of those items can be bought at any computer store and put into a Mac. He was maintaining that ALL parts for a Mac need to be bought from Apple, which is blatantly untrue (and quite ignorant of the facts).
I completely understand your misreading of my post (in retrospect).
Nope. Proprietary PCs are as dead as Dillinger. You can go to any store in the USA and buy replacement parts or peripherals which will work on Dell PCs. But if you want Apple stuff, you have to go to the Apple store.
You mean aside from printers, scanners, RAM, hard drives, keyboards, mice, USB cards, monitors - I'm probably missing some stuff, but you get the picture.
Did anyone else find it ironic that the lawyer representing MGM is named Nathan Jayhole? (okay - it's Nathan J. Hole - but you get the point...).
I have to wonder if he did a Michael J. Fox middle-initial change thinking he'd be safe...
Don't rm with an absolute path because you could easily
#rm -r -f / tmp/dir
We had someone high up in IT do exactly that from a root cronjob. His solution to prevent this from happening again was obvious and quite clever. He disabled cron for non-privileged users.
Seriously.
How can any of you Apple fanboys claim that Windows is inconsistent? For example, Ctrl-F does EXACTLY the same thing, no matter what app you're in: in Word it's Find, in Outlook it's Forward, and in TextPad it's...
Okay - never mind.
not only did the people who put it together get paid slave wages...
Man. Think how much cheaper our stuff from China would be if those silly Chinese stopped paying wages to their slaves. Sounds like they need an efficiency expert - or at least a dictionary.
You think the two Bob's would be available?
Imaginary Numbers, changing the rules so that things work the way you want them to. Why is this (AFAIK) the only field to do this? How often do you hear a Physicist say "...
In as much as I love physics, I've always referred to it as a perversion of math. Any discipline in which you can divide away infinities in order to solve an intractable problem is definitely "changing the rules so that things work the way you want them to".
And before the physicists jump all over my case, I understand why this happens. And I also realize that you understand the change and work to account for it and justify it. But still - it is pretty funny when you look at it from a mathematical standpoint...
This fantastic new math is also helpful in solving this intractable problem: http://mcraefamily.com/MathHelp/JokeProofFactoring .htm
How cool is that?
Seriously, it's hard to take someone like this seriously when he uses ignorant scare tactics such as his autopilot example. Either he's performing self aggrandizing hand waving, or he really is completely ignorant about the real world. Trust me - we do account for division by zero in autopilot systems. And - believe it or not - not only does the computer not "stop working" but we actually get a result back. It's called NaN. Furthermore, not only are our systems built with robust libraries that allow us to carry on (no pun intended) we also write downstream code to mitigate propagation of these types of errors. [see Celarier, Sando for a good example of this].
What do the mod guidelines state again? Oh yeah - mod down for crap like "Me Too!". Okay - I guess I'm destined to be modded down for this, but definitely "Me Too!".
If you're every near Detroit, make a point of visiting Ford's Greenfield Village. Henry Ford built a replica of Edison's Orange Park laboratory (as well as other things like the Wright Brother's Dayton, OH bicycle shop) and it's really awesome to wander the lab and imagine what it was like during its brief heyday. The movie "Edison: The Man" starring Spencer Tracy was filmed at that location.
I bought a replica of Edison's original light bulb at the gift shop which is most likely as close as I"ll get to having an original (although I do have some wax cylinders for the Edison phonograph). As an aside, the bulb runs on - God forbid - A/C! Ewwwwww!!!!
In regard to Einstein paraphernalia, it's still possible to find first editions of Einstein's "Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie" at ABE and elsewhere for a somewhat modest price. I paid $25 for mine (it's got some waterstains but is intact and readable) several years ago.
Dude. You're never gonna get modded +1 anything with talk like that around here. Just get in line and join in with the majority controlled jeering. You'll do far better.
Note to mods: I'm thinking Offtopic would be your best bet in silencing me, but Flamebait might work equally as well [just trying to make your jobs easiers].
This was quite obviously the work of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
First of all, it would be a waste to mod AC up...
Why is that? Maybe I'm not enough of a karma whore. I view moderation as a way of separating the wheat from the chaff. I really don't give a rip who the author happens to be - AC or not.