Yes, short nearby objects are harder to see, but I was considering the visibility around other vehicles, not over distance. A prime example of this is making a right turn and having your vision blocked to the left by the vehicle next to you.
I agree that defensive driving is a must, but it only goes so far...sometimes you can be as careful as can be, but the inattentive driver that doesn't see the red light and rear ends your car is still going to hit you. That is where the larger vehicle size comes into play, in situations where you cannot avoid the collision.
then why is he driving a car whose chances of rolling over are orders of magnitude higher than a regular sedan?
To play Devil's Advocate, there is a rational reason for doing so.
There is an elevated risk of rollover with an SUV, which I can mitigate as a driver by changing my driving style, and driving more defensively. A SUV helps me drive defensively by increasing visibility around me. Those are factors that I, as a driver, can control. However, I can't control what other drivers will do or the type of vehicle that will hit mine in an accident. Therefore, to mitigate that risk, I'll drive a larger vehicle that will provide more protection in an accident. Two problems are solved here.
To go the opposite, way, driving a smaller car to manage the rollover risk decreases my ability to drive defensively (lower visibility) and decreases my chances of survival in a collision. One problem is solved, and another made potentially worse.
ISPs are taking a path that will promote end to end encryption and obfuscation to prevent guessing at the content of encrypted baby videos being distributed to relatives.
Just to run through a mind experiment...perhaps that is the goal of the ISPs? "Hey, we can't police the traffic, it's encrypted, so we're not going to bother even trying anymore unless you, $big_name_copyright_holder, provide the dough to do so."
It just popped into my head? Dumb? I don't know, but it's a thought.
When I think of a transmission issue, I'm thinking of the problem at a much larger scale (thousands of miles instead of hundreds). I envision a large group of solar arrays in the sunny southwest and transmitting that power to the east coast. That's a huge and expensive problem.
I could also be talking completely out my orifice, as I'm not a transmission engineer, so it's outside my realm of expertise.
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That's waaaay too late.
Twenty years may be too late to get from R&D to product, but it's 20 years sooner than if you never make the effort. if you want to make progress towards your goal, you have to start towards that goal.
No, it's not a joke. And in places like here in the Northeast, it's totally out of the question.
Solar only works when the sun is out.
But the sun is very strong in other areas (southwestern US for example). The problem then becomes one of storage (how do you power the country overnight in stored energy?) and transmission (line losses, physical construction and routing).
I think that part of the solution, as has been discussed here and elsewhere numerous times, is the idea of a distributed solar grid. If every building is covered with solar panels, part of the transmission problem is solved since the energy generated by the panels goes first to the local building, and any excess is returned to the local grid and used by larger loads that exceed their own panels' capacity. Next the excess (if any) goes to the regional grid for use in areas where there may be some lack of generation capability, and so on.
The same idea can be used for wind power.
It doesn't answer the question about nighttime energy needs (solar) or calm days (wind) but it's at least a start.
I think if all the debates were fought this election season by any party who could be on the ballot in more than 10 states, then the People of the united several states could see the plethora of better ideas than the Repubmocrats convey. Then you would see all seats replaced and the words republican and democrat relegated to "Whig" status.
That's a good point; the "outside" candidates don't get a chance to show what they are next to the Democrats or Republicans because they are almost never allowed into the debates. In 1980, Reagan refused to debate unless John Anderson participated; Carter refused to debate Anderson. Perhaps it's up to us to challenge the established parties on this; "Either push to let the next most popular party into the debate or be labeled "coward."
Couldn't you just replace TSA with Federal Government in that story?
Couldn't you all vote to replace the Federal Government if you all really disliked it so much?
Yes, and we have the opportunity to do so with great regularity: 1/3 of the Senate every two years, the entire House of Representatives every two years, the the President every four years. We, as in the US voters, fail to re-elect a new government with equal regularity. Even with in-the-sewer approval ratings, Congressional incumbents tend to enjoy a remarkable re-election rate (I've seen figure in excess of 90%).
I worked with a guy who had the right idea: whomever the incumbent is, vote for the challenger. Don't worry about party affiliation, they're both essentially the same anyway. The effect on the Senate would be less dramatic then the House, since only 1/3 of the Senators are up for re-election at the same time. Can you imagine a House of Representatives where all 435 members were replaced at the same time?
‘It’s not a good party unless you run out of beer,’ says TWC in regards to the loss of channels in the iPad app today. They deny outages are being caused by programmers who could have pulled their content even though some are reportedly upset.
It appears that it actually isn’t the streaming load that is buckling the servers, but the authentication servers according to ablog post by Time Warner Cable’s Jeff Simmermon:
Our engineering team is working as hard as they can to put a fix in place and get everything up and running as soon as they can. For the time being, the app is running with only 15 channels. We have found that by temporarily reducing the number of available channels, we can ease strain on the authentication process. This will enable us to offer at least some sort of an experience to our customers while we get a fix in place. We’ll add the other 17 channels back in as soon as we can fix the underlying issue, and we’ll be adding more channels in future iterations of the app as well.
I was thinking the same thing for my home machine. I consider silent background updates "bad." Only one person should be authorizing software updates--me, and I want to know about it beforehand.
This is old news. If you don't log into your Hotmail account for 30 days, they wipe out all your emails.
Not according to the article. It says 120 days + a 90 day grace period.
Yes, this was changed year ago, and I believe the timeout for deactivating account is more than another year of inactivity. Unfortunately for Hotmail it's reputation has to live with these old limitations. Lately it seems Hotmail has been on a turbo charged dev cycle, after years of lagging hopelessly it has reached or surpassed feature parity with Gmail in just half a year or something. Maybe it's taken over by the same team that is running IE9.
I just checked mine (can't believe I actually remembered the password) after over three years of non use and it's still active, with 1000+ messages in the inbox going back to 2007. I suppose after the time limits expire you are on borrowed time, but it seems like this enforcement is not universal.
"There has to be intent to harm, intimidate, threaten, or defraud another person"
I'm betting most posters in this thread are going to skip over this phrase completely, and raise the "free speech no matter what" flag.
But on the other hand, if the impersonation is done with intent to harm, intimidate, threaten, or defraud, why can't we just prosecute people for fraud, criminal intimidation, or whatnot?
You can't use the existing laws for the same reason existing patents don't apply to activities done with a computer. Computers are high-tech and innovative, so anything done with them is innovative and new and completely different.
My LG Optimus One cost $200 (without contract), runs Android 2.2 and makes phone calls. I think the PMP market is going to be tough to crack, because manufacturers will have to price their handhelds extremely aggressively to make them appealing in a world that is about to be flooded with some fairly impressive Android phones in the iPod Touch price range. Still, it's a sure sign that 2011 will be the Year of The Android.
Kind of like $YEAR is always the Year of the Linux desktop?
Been there, done that...thought I hung up the phone and left a short audio clip of me talking like a sailor (which, coincidentally, I was at the time). Later she asks, "Do you always talk like that?"
That works on OS X, yes...I've done it many, many times. When I used to use Windows as my primary OS, I recall having to get some extra software if I wanted to create PDFs--nothing native to the OS.
Flying for pleasure seems to be dead. Guess I'll have to keep the car running in tip-top condition, and drive to my various destinations. Virginia to LA, Virginia to Tucson, Virginia to St. Louis... its something to do after retirement. Maybe I can get a travel buddy to share expenses.
Or take the train...I had to do so on a recent trip when the final leg of my return flight was canceled and enjoyed it very much.
...that you people continue to put up with this crap.
In an attempt to get something more than a form-letter response, I asked my Senator (and his opponent in the upcoming election) what they intend to do about such asinine rules. Simply making noise and statements does nothing...if you want to know what somebody intends to do about something, you have to ask the direct question.
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Yes, short nearby objects are harder to see, but I was considering the visibility around other vehicles, not over distance. A prime example of this is making a right turn and having your vision blocked to the left by the vehicle next to you.
I agree that defensive driving is a must, but it only goes so far...sometimes you can be as careful as can be, but the inattentive driver that doesn't see the red light and rear ends your car is still going to hit you. That is where the larger vehicle size comes into play, in situations where you cannot avoid the collision.
Yes, but note that I addressed that point in my post. I can compensate for the SUV's handling by changing my driving habits.
And also as a point of information, I don't own a SUV.
it was his duty to protect his own family,
then why is he driving a car whose chances of rolling over are orders of magnitude higher than a regular sedan?
To play Devil's Advocate, there is a rational reason for doing so.
There is an elevated risk of rollover with an SUV, which I can mitigate as a driver by changing my driving style, and driving more defensively. A SUV helps me drive defensively by increasing visibility around me. Those are factors that I, as a driver, can control. However, I can't control what other drivers will do or the type of vehicle that will hit mine in an accident. Therefore, to mitigate that risk, I'll drive a larger vehicle that will provide more protection in an accident. Two problems are solved here.
To go the opposite, way, driving a smaller car to manage the rollover risk decreases my ability to drive defensively (lower visibility) and decreases my chances of survival in a collision. One problem is solved, and another made potentially worse.
Text files use .odt, spreadsheet files use .ods, presentations use .odp.
(Or am I feeding a troll?)
ISPs are taking a path that will promote end to end encryption and obfuscation to prevent guessing at the content of encrypted baby videos being distributed to relatives.
Just to run through a mind experiment...perhaps that is the goal of the ISPs? "Hey, we can't police the traffic, it's encrypted, so we're not going to bother even trying anymore unless you, $big_name_copyright_holder, provide the dough to do so."
It just popped into my head? Dumb? I don't know, but it's a thought.
I had the same comparison to "A Brave New World." I've been meaning to go back and read it again. Perhaps this should be required reading.
When I think of a transmission issue, I'm thinking of the problem at a much larger scale (thousands of miles instead of hundreds). I envision a large group of solar arrays in the sunny southwest and transmitting that power to the east coast. That's a huge and expensive problem.
I could also be talking completely out my orifice, as I'm not a transmission engineer, so it's outside my realm of expertise.
That's waaaay too late.
Twenty years may be too late to get from R&D to product, but it's 20 years sooner than if you never make the effort. if you want to make progress towards your goal, you have to start towards that goal.
No, it's not a joke. And in places like here in the Northeast, it's totally out of the question.
Solar only works when the sun is out.
But the sun is very strong in other areas (southwestern US for example). The problem then becomes one of storage (how do you power the country overnight in stored energy?) and transmission (line losses, physical construction and routing).
I think that part of the solution, as has been discussed here and elsewhere numerous times, is the idea of a distributed solar grid. If every building is covered with solar panels, part of the transmission problem is solved since the energy generated by the panels goes first to the local building, and any excess is returned to the local grid and used by larger loads that exceed their own panels' capacity. Next the excess (if any) goes to the regional grid for use in areas where there may be some lack of generation capability, and so on.
The same idea can be used for wind power.
It doesn't answer the question about nighttime energy needs (solar) or calm days (wind) but it's at least a start.
I think if all the debates were fought this election season by any party who could be on the ballot in more than 10 states, then the People of the united several states could see the plethora of better ideas than the Repubmocrats convey. Then you would see all seats replaced and the words republican and democrat relegated to "Whig" status.
That's a good point; the "outside" candidates don't get a chance to show what they are next to the Democrats or Republicans because they are almost never allowed into the debates. In 1980, Reagan refused to debate unless John Anderson participated; Carter refused to debate Anderson. Perhaps it's up to us to challenge the established parties on this; "Either push to let the next most popular party into the debate or be labeled "coward."
Couldn't you just replace TSA with Federal Government in that story?
Couldn't you all vote to replace the Federal Government if you all really disliked it so much?
Yes, and we have the opportunity to do so with great regularity: 1/3 of the Senate every two years, the entire House of Representatives every two years, the the President every four years. We, as in the US voters, fail to re-elect a new government with equal regularity. Even with in-the-sewer approval ratings, Congressional incumbents tend to enjoy a remarkable re-election rate (I've seen figure in excess of 90%).
I worked with a guy who had the right idea: whomever the incumbent is, vote for the challenger. Don't worry about party affiliation, they're both essentially the same anyway. The effect on the Senate would be less dramatic then the House, since only 1/3 of the Senators are up for re-election at the same time. Can you imagine a House of Representatives where all 435 members were replaced at the same time?
Don't sugar-coat it, tell us how you really feel.
No, a stick of RAM will *NOT* fuck up their ANCIENT piece of shit GARAGE SALE pc.
And *if* on the OUT OF THIS GALAXY chance it did, they have much bigger issues.
If the machine is damaged somehow during installation, then yes, it will tick off IT.
According to 9to5Mac, it's a server issue not pissed-off providers (although there may be some of those too)
http://www.9to5mac.com/56532/time-warner-ipad-app-crashed-servers-halve-offering/
What unlimited tethering? I read that the Verizon iPhone tethering option was $20 for 2 GB and $10 for each GB beyond that.
I was thinking the same thing for my home machine. I consider silent background updates "bad." Only one person should be authorizing software updates--me, and I want to know about it beforehand.
Not according to the article. It says 120 days + a 90 day grace period.
Yes, this was changed year ago, and I believe the timeout for deactivating account is more than another year of inactivity. Unfortunately for Hotmail it's reputation has to live with these old limitations. Lately it seems Hotmail has been on a turbo charged dev cycle, after years of lagging hopelessly it has reached or surpassed feature parity with Gmail in just half a year or something. Maybe it's taken over by the same team that is running IE9.
I just checked mine (can't believe I actually remembered the password) after over three years of non use and it's still active, with 1000+ messages in the inbox going back to 2007. I suppose after the time limits expire you are on borrowed time, but it seems like this enforcement is not universal.
OK I'm not a coder so my attempt at sarcasm fell flat...I shall take my lumps peacefully.
"There has to be intent to harm, intimidate, threaten, or defraud another person"
I'm betting most posters in this thread are going to skip over this phrase completely, and raise the "free speech no matter what" flag.
But on the other hand, if the impersonation is done with intent to harm, intimidate, threaten, or defraud, why can't we just prosecute people for fraud, criminal intimidation, or whatnot?
You can't use the existing laws for the same reason existing patents don't apply to activities done with a computer. Computers are high-tech and innovative, so anything done with them is innovative and new and completely different.
My LG Optimus One cost $200 (without contract), runs Android 2.2 and makes phone calls. I think the PMP market is going to be tough to crack, because manufacturers will have to price their handhelds extremely aggressively to make them appealing in a world that is about to be flooded with some fairly impressive Android phones in the iPod Touch price range. Still, it's a sure sign that 2011 will be the Year of The Android.
Kind of like $YEAR is always the Year of the Linux desktop?
Been there, done that...thought I hung up the phone and left a short audio clip of me talking like a sailor (which, coincidentally, I was at the time). Later she asks, "Do you always talk like that?"
It's extremely easy to make a PDF file.
Print -> Save as PDF...
That works on OS X, yes...I've done it many, many times. When I used to use Windows as my primary OS, I recall having to get some extra software if I wanted to create PDFs--nothing native to the OS.
Flying for pleasure seems to be dead. Guess I'll have to keep the car running in tip-top condition, and drive to my various destinations. Virginia to LA, Virginia to Tucson, Virginia to St. Louis... its something to do after retirement. Maybe I can get a travel buddy to share expenses.
Or take the train...I had to do so on a recent trip when the final leg of my return flight was canceled and enjoyed it very much.
...that you people continue to put up with this crap.
In an attempt to get something more than a form-letter response, I asked my Senator (and his opponent in the upcoming election) what they intend to do about such asinine rules. Simply making noise and statements does nothing...if you want to know what somebody intends to do about something, you have to ask the direct question.
Yes, but unless you plan on staying there permanently or working your way back on a ship, you have to make the flight out.