The legislature simply states the obvious: that if you are driving while on a cell phone, then you are not paying enough attention to the road.
Except that under many situations, that's bullshit. Sitting in a traffic jam, even cruising along a long stretch of empty road, it can be perfectly safe IMHO to talk on a mobile phone whilst driving. Lawyers *SHOULD* have to prove that the driver in question was not paying due care and attention. How much do they get paid?? What do they get paid for?
As someone qualified to actually talk on this subject (I have a runbox.com account I pay for), Runbox is a pretty good service and I have trouble understanding the big fuss over Gmail. Perhaps it's because I do have a good quality, reliable e-mail service with a clean web interface already that I don't quite get it. The only thing about Runbox that annoys me (and that I've been requesting over and over) is the lack of 'user subdomains'. Allow me to have anything@myusername.runbox.com so I can more effectively identfy & block spammers, and the service would have just about everything I needed.
Yeah... they wouldn't be able to appreciate the leetness of blinking text!!... or did you forget it was only Netscape-based browsers that supported this tag?
The ability to clacklist certain numbers would get me buying a phone. It's #1 on my desired features list for my next phone, which is probably why I haven't yet bought an other phone - NO phones seem to offer the ability to blacklist (or auto decline) the most important number of all - Number Withheld. If Nokia actually implemented useful functionality such as this in just ONE of their phones instead of concentrating in making them look weird/stupid and play ever larger numbers of Java games, they'd have earned a sale from me, that's for sure.
OTOH, if someone is using Mozilla/Firefox as their regular browser and aren't technical, will they even know to switch to using IE for that particular site, or just think the site is broken?
That's why, if you're really not wanting to lose data on your machine, you should keep a physically seperate backup enlisting the help of one of these mobile rack babies.
Now whilst I can't help but agree with and share your democractic ideals, too often Americans assume that everyone wants the same type of government they have. 'The Chinese need liberating'? You seem to say that about everyone these days. There's probably a significant block of people in the PRC that actually like feeling safe, that their government is protecting them, and that any undermining of the government is an undermining of the country itself. Sure, the leadership may not live up to the ideal of serving only the rest of the country as its peers, but many people are very blind to that. They don't *want* to be liberated, and I think the fact that China's still so undemocratic rather shows this.
That was just an example of one application of where that could happen. There are a ton more, for example web browsers displaying pages on sites with nondescriptive titles, that this applies to. And before you start going on about tabbed browsing, not everyone uses/likes tabbed browsing.
With a ton of open, VISIBLE, taskbar buttons, you at least have a subbliminal idea of which window contains what as you opened them in a certain order.
What really pisses me off about any system that has stupid taskbar grouping on is that when I clicked the 'grouped' button, I only have a list of the window titles to guide me as to which one I want. o I want 'Command Prompt', 'Commant Prompt', 'Command Prompt', 'Command prompt - cygwin' or 'Command Prompt - cygwin'? hrm...
You're weird. Why have an 3 entirely seperate desktops, each only having one app? That's what the MDI was invented for! You may as well maximize the 3 apps, and keep them on one desktop, it'd be a lot easier.
Honestly, I can't personally understand why parents want to filter the internet for their children. I'm not a parent (as you may have guessed) but if I was one, I reckon I'd not mind giving my child unfiltered web access. They'll get it in real life, as well as the unfiltered web when they're older, so why keep it from them now? Because they'll be scarred for life if they see some extreme sites? I think that's plain wrong, and only believed by rather ignorant people who don't understand how the human mind develops.
By 2050, a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players shall win a soccer game, complying with the official FIFA rules, against the winner of the most recent World Cup of Human Soccer.
I could achieve that next time Euro comes around; just do what Portugal and Greece did this time.
Bribing the referee is no longer against FIFA rules.:-)
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The legislature simply states the obvious: that if you are driving while on a cell phone, then you are not paying enough attention to the road.
Except that under many situations, that's bullshit. Sitting in a traffic jam, even cruising along a long stretch of empty road, it can be perfectly safe IMHO to talk on a mobile phone whilst driving. Lawyers *SHOULD* have to prove that the driver in question was not paying due care and attention. How much do they get paid?? What do they get paid for?
As someone qualified to actually talk on this subject (I have a runbox.com account I pay for), Runbox is a pretty good service and I have trouble understanding the big fuss over Gmail. Perhaps it's because I do have a good quality, reliable e-mail service with a clean web interface already that I don't quite get it. The only thing about Runbox that annoys me (and that I've been requesting over and over) is the lack of 'user subdomains'. Allow me to have anything@myusername.runbox.com so I can more effectively identfy & block spammers, and the service would have just about everything I needed.
Someone using a Microsoft browser might go nuts.
... or did you forget it was only Netscape-based browsers that supported this tag?
Yeah... they wouldn't be able to appreciate the leetness of blinking text!!
Sure, a lot of people claim censorship, but I haven't seen a REAL example of censorship.
You haven't SEEN an example of CENSORSHIP.
Well, duh.
Heard it.
Eric Blumbrich has done a wonderful Flash animation to go with it here.
The ability to clacklist certain numbers would get me buying a phone. It's #1 on my desired features list for my next phone, which is probably why I haven't yet bought an other phone - NO phones seem to offer the ability to blacklist (or auto decline) the most important number of all - Number Withheld. If Nokia actually implemented useful functionality such as this in just ONE of their phones instead of concentrating in making them look weird/stupid and play ever larger numbers of Java games, they'd have earned a sale from me, that's for sure.
I know now that my email preferred address will never change
Cool. Could I have your e-mail addy, I'd like to discuss this issue further with you...?
sounding like A as in neighbor and wiegh
:-)
Don't you mean 'weigh'?
Ehm, that's funny. I make it 10,314,424,798,490,535,546,171,949,056.
:-)
Go fix your broken Pentium chip
a@b.com - 8,600
OTOH, if someone is using Mozilla/Firefox as their regular browser and aren't technical, will they even know to switch to using IE for that particular site, or just think the site is broken?
What's next, them demanding more rights in the OSS movement?
Maybe them learning that they're browsing the web instead of the net?
You spy on your son in his room with a webcam, X10-style? I think that's rather sad.
I'm glad I'm not your son.
I watch DVDs on my 500MHz PIII so a 700MHz Celery should manage it.
:-)
You don't know much about hardware, do you?
Seems simple. Implement a similar policy, based on total wealth, for Capital Gains Tax.
That's why, if you're really not wanting to lose data on your machine, you should keep a physically seperate backup enlisting the help of one of these mobile rack babies.
Well according to MS 'longhorn' will be more stable, of course only if you have 2 gigs of RAM.
Whilst 'Tiger' doesn't require a humungous amount of RAM, does it?
Now whilst I can't help but agree with and share your democractic ideals, too often Americans assume that everyone wants the same type of government they have. 'The Chinese need liberating'? You seem to say that about everyone these days. There's probably a significant block of people in the PRC that actually like feeling safe, that their government is protecting them, and that any undermining of the government is an undermining of the country itself. Sure, the leadership may not live up to the ideal of serving only the rest of the country as its peers, but many people are very blind to that. They don't *want* to be liberated, and I think the fact that China's still so undemocratic rather shows this.
That was just an example of one application of where that could happen. There are a ton more, for example web browsers displaying pages on sites with nondescriptive titles, that this applies to. And before you start going on about tabbed browsing, not everyone uses/likes tabbed browsing.
Nail on head.
With a ton of open, VISIBLE, taskbar buttons, you at least have a subbliminal idea of which window contains what as you opened them in a certain order.
What really pisses me off about any system that has stupid taskbar grouping on is that when I clicked the 'grouped' button, I only have a list of the window titles to guide me as to which one I want. o I want 'Command Prompt', 'Commant Prompt', 'Command Prompt', 'Command prompt - cygwin' or 'Command Prompt - cygwin'? hrm...
You're weird. Why have an 3 entirely seperate desktops, each only having one app? That's what the MDI was invented for! You may as well maximize the 3 apps, and keep them on one desktop, it'd be a lot easier.
Honestly, I can't personally understand why parents want to filter the internet for their children. I'm not a parent (as you may have guessed) but if I was one, I reckon I'd not mind giving my child unfiltered web access. They'll get it in real life, as well as the unfiltered web when they're older, so why keep it from them now? Because they'll be scarred for life if they see some extreme sites? I think that's plain wrong, and only believed by rather ignorant people who don't understand how the human mind develops.
RIP IE. With all of your popups, tabless browsing and thousand of security holes, good riddence. Rot in hell.
Yes. Yes. Coz IE's really dying. really dying, it is.
Dear Sir,
I have moved the playpen to the corner and the coffeepot to the table in the middle of the room.
If you change your layout in the same fashion, you will be hearing from my lawyers.
Good day.
By 2050, a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players shall win a soccer game, complying with the official FIFA rules, against the winner of the most recent World Cup of Human Soccer.
:-)
I could achieve that next time Euro comes around; just do what Portugal and Greece did this time.
Bribing the referee is no longer against FIFA rules.