I can't remember the tire guy's logic for leaving the older tires on my front wheels when I had to get a new pair last instead of rotating them to the back (something about wanting to keep good grip on the back tires in an emergency lane change), but it turned out to be a bad decision on ice.
Look it up, it's standard practice to put the tires with the best tread on the back--I learned that a few years ago, renting a car visiting Alaska. It does go against intuition on a front wheel drive vehicle... I think the logic is that it's better to get stuck, rather than spin and (probably) crash.
The best solution would be to have a low power gas turbine (5-10hp) that can charge the car's battery slowly. This way you eliminate range anxiety by allowing the person to realize that they don't have enough juice to complete the journey so they kick in the turbine (or automatically when they set a destination that is beyond the battery's range) which will buy more range.
(snip)
And a 5hp turbine charger would be like living in the future.
It's not like Apple is artificially engineering obsolescence.
Care to explain why the first and second-generation Mac Pro aren't supported by Mountain Lion, then? After being supported throughout the beta period? They ripped out working code, just to get people to buy new machines. That's just one instance...
Not artificially manufacturing obsolescence? Care to explain why the first and second generation Mac Pro is unsupported by the final release of Mountain Lion, then? (after they were supported in beta versions!)
seems a large number of people have the dock set to autohide and getting it to show up remotely can be a pain, not to mention the window min/max animations are always horridly laggy... but i digress.
Command-Option-D (Windows-Alt-D remote from a PC) will activate or deactivate autohiding of the dock. And on Mac, don't ever use the yellow minimize button: just use Command-H to hide the window, bring it back again by clicking the appropriate dock icon.
Now your remote OS X sessions ought to be a bit more bearable.
You know, I honestly did spend some time searching Google without coming up with useful results. I certainly could have spent a lot more time searching, but sometimes, it's a lot easier to ask someone with expertise and experience. I debated asking the question here, but I also found it interesting (and perhaps news and discussion-worthy) that ISPs are rolling out IPv6-only deployments (on synchronous 100Mbit fiber, even!), and thought others here might find that interesting, as well.
Cats are carriers. Rodents are part of their life cycle. Rodents infected with these parasites tend to be "more brave", some even to the point of taunting a cat to attack them.
Humans are just unintended side show for the parasite, but since these affect behaviour in mice brains, it is not surprising these parasites affect human brains too.
Maybe there aren't many humans being preyed upon by felines nowadays, but has that always been the case?
Parasite Rex is an excellent book, by the way, if the subject holds any interest to you at all.
Nobody chooses Android over Apple because it's cooler. They do so because they like the apps, or because they believe in slightly less closed platforms, or because they prefer the way it works, or because they see the iPad as hipsterish (where being "cool" is actually harmful).
I think you forgot "because it's cheaper", which is probably the most important consideration to the majority of consumers.
...your system disables when you need it the most, when you're building up speed on a straightaway while you're asleep?
Uh, yeah. I didn't find that out until I'd already bought the car... I'd change it myself, but I'm just a bit leery of trying to hack this sort of system. I'm assuming that the problem the auto-shutoff was supposed to solve was people simply relinquishing control completely, and reading a book, texting, or otherwise intentionally diverting their attention from the road. While I'm disappointed, I have to say that the system is still nice. While driving on the highway, it gives a feeling of "tracks" on the highway, so it feels like the road is guiding you, yet it's very easy to overcome, if necessary. And again, crossing a lane marker OR the disabling of the system is accompanied by chimes and blinky-lights, so hopefully that would be enough to rouse a dozing driver. Then again, you don't really belong on the road if you're drowsy, lane-keeping system or not.
I have the Accord Tourer, the closest US model is the Acura TSX Sport Wagon. (bought it mainly for safety for the wife and kids) Mine is diesel, though, and there are quite a few differences in the feature packages. Coming from a pair of '98 Accords (Coupe and Sedan), I'd call this wagon "sportier" than the Coupe: tight steering, stiff suspension... it's lacking in HP, but it handles curves quite nicely.
If the system malfunctions I can't sue anybody, because it was provided "AS-IS" and "WITHOUT WARRANTY" or "FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE".
I have to assume that the sue-happy culture of the USA is probably part of the reason why this system isn't already being sold on a mainstream vehicle in North America. (I own a 1.5-year-old vehicle with a very similar system)
Slightly off-topic: After growing up in the USA, then spending some time living in Europe, I've often been shocked by some of the seemingly dangerous things that are allowed here, compared to the USA. I guess they expect people to exhibit some common sense here, rather than go crying to the courts when didn't make it all-but-impossible for them to injure themselves...
As I mentioned in a previous comment, the LKAS system installed in my vehicle is very picky about what sort of lane markings it accepts before the system is active.
Beyond that, in my vehicle, the system is disengaged by default. Every key cycle, you're forced to manually enable the lane-keeping assistance system. Disabling is always a steering-wheel button-press away, but since the power it exerts is so small, it's hard to imagine a scenario where it would be necessary...
I would imagine it to work much like cruise control too. Any force applied by the driver disengages the system.
Assuming it works like the "LKAS" system in my vehicle, it does NOT. However, the amount of force exerted by the system is very small, and *very* easily overpowered.
In my dreams... I'm sure we'll get there eventually.:)
I have a vehicle with a similar system: a European Honda Accord with LKAS (Lane-Keeping Assist System). It seems to have a watchdog timer in place that checks for input on the steering wheel, and if it doesn't detect anything with circa 14 seconds, the lane-keeping system automatically disables itself (with chimes and flashing yellow warning light on the dash). It's immediately re-enabled the moment you apply any force to the wheel. (It's actually a bit of a pain on a long straightaway, where you don't *need* to make any corrections for that long.)
I have a vehicle with a similar system: a European Honda Accord with LKAS (Lane-Keeping Assist System).
It's very particular about the lines being painted a specific way, and if the lane markings don't meet the spec, the system stays in standby. That said, it was able to cope with the yellow work-zone lane markings on the Autobahn, which seem to take priority over the normal ones.
You have to admit that the capability is still impressive.
Consider: something that just a few short years ago was only possible with a news van and a satellite dish is now in the hands of millions. (okay, maybe Skype installations on iPhones is 2,000,000, but it's gotta be pretty close, right?)
Botnets have been (and continue to be) used in mafia-style "protection" rackets, threatening with DDoS attacks. If you ran a server that was threatened with or subjected to one, you'd probably change your tune pretty quickly.
Oh, and even if you're using an email client with good spam filtering, it still has to download the spam before it can sort through it and throw it away, wasting bandwidth.
Botnets are a scourge, and harmful to many, not only ISPs! (although I do agree with your assertion that ISPs ought to disconnect users with pwned machine:)
The result is that everybody disables data whenever they cross the border. So they make practically nothing on it anyway...
Well, practically everybody. Some acquaintances of mine have had ridiculous phone bills after enabling data roaming for an "emergency"... ridiculous on the order of > €1,000 for less than an hour's usage.
It's enough to make me wonder: why don't they lower their prices, so more people would be willing to utilize data roaming? Couldn't they actually make more profit that way? I suppose studies on that subject have already been conducted, and the results doom all of us to suffer on account of a few suckers/idiots: perhaps the same ones that are responsible for spam, due to responding to unsolicited commercial email.
Off-topic, out of curiosity, are you in France, Netherlands, or Germany?
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Even more likely, the "autopilot" system would have recognized the truck as an obstacle, and there wouldn't have been an accident at all.
I can't remember the tire guy's logic for leaving the older tires on my front wheels when I had to get a new pair last instead of rotating them to the back (something about wanting to keep good grip on the back tires in an emergency lane change), but it turned out to be a bad decision on ice.
Look it up, it's standard practice to put the tires with the best tread on the back--I learned that a few years ago, renting a car visiting Alaska. It does go against intuition on a front wheel drive vehicle... I think the logic is that it's better to get stuck, rather than spin and (probably) crash.
The best solution would be to have a low power gas turbine (5-10hp) that can charge the car's battery slowly. This way you eliminate range anxiety by allowing the person to realize that they don't have enough juice to complete the journey so they kick in the turbine (or automatically when they set a destination that is beyond the battery's range) which will buy more range.
(snip)
And a 5hp turbine charger would be like living in the future.
It looks like you're not the first person to think of this, and you may not have to wait all that long...
It's not like Apple is artificially engineering obsolescence.
Care to explain why the first and second-generation Mac Pro aren't supported by Mountain Lion, then? After being supported throughout the beta period? They ripped out working code, just to get people to buy new machines. That's just one instance...
Not artificially manufacturing obsolescence? Care to explain why the first and second generation Mac Pro is unsupported by the final release of Mountain Lion, then? (after they were supported in beta versions!)
seems a large number of people have the dock set to autohide and getting it to show up remotely can be a pain, not to mention the window min/max animations are always horridly laggy... but i digress.
Command-Option-D (Windows-Alt-D remote from a PC) will activate or deactivate autohiding of the dock. And on Mac, don't ever use the yellow minimize button: just use Command-H to hide the window, bring it back again by clicking the appropriate dock icon.
Now your remote OS X sessions ought to be a bit more bearable.
My provider actually is T-Mobile Germany, and surprisingly, they don't plan to deploy IPv6 until next year!
You know, I honestly did spend some time searching Google without coming up with useful results. I certainly could have spent a lot more time searching, but sometimes, it's a lot easier to ask someone with expertise and experience. I debated asking the question here, but I also found it interesting (and perhaps news and discussion-worthy) that ISPs are rolling out IPv6-only deployments (on synchronous 100Mbit fiber, even!), and thought others here might find that interesting, as well.
Cats are carriers. Rodents are part of their life cycle. Rodents infected with these parasites tend to be "more brave", some even to the point of taunting a cat to attack them.
Humans are just unintended side show for the parasite, but since these affect behaviour in mice brains, it is not surprising these parasites affect human brains too.
Maybe there aren't many humans being preyed upon by felines nowadays, but has that always been the case?
Parasite Rex is an excellent book, by the way, if the subject holds any interest to you at all.
Nobody chooses Android over Apple because it's cooler. They do so because they like the apps, or because they believe in slightly less closed platforms, or because they prefer the way it works, or because they see the iPad as hipsterish (where being "cool" is actually harmful).
I think you forgot "because it's cheaper", which is probably the most important consideration to the majority of consumers.
Great advice here. Mods?
...your system disables when you need it the most, when you're building up speed on a straightaway while you're asleep?
Uh, yeah. I didn't find that out until I'd already bought the car... I'd change it myself, but I'm just a bit leery of trying to hack this sort of system. I'm assuming that the problem the auto-shutoff was supposed to solve was people simply relinquishing control completely, and reading a book, texting, or otherwise intentionally diverting their attention from the road. While I'm disappointed, I have to say that the system is still nice. While driving on the highway, it gives a feeling of "tracks" on the highway, so it feels like the road is guiding you, yet it's very easy to overcome, if necessary. And again, crossing a lane marker OR the disabling of the system is accompanied by chimes and blinky-lights, so hopefully that would be enough to rouse a dozing driver. Then again, you don't really belong on the road if you're drowsy, lane-keeping system or not.
I have the Accord Tourer, the closest US model is the Acura TSX Sport Wagon. (bought it mainly for safety for the wife and kids) Mine is diesel, though, and there are quite a few differences in the feature packages. Coming from a pair of '98 Accords (Coupe and Sedan), I'd call this wagon "sportier" than the Coupe: tight steering, stiff suspension... it's lacking in HP, but it handles curves quite nicely.
If the system malfunctions I can't sue anybody, because it was provided "AS-IS" and "WITHOUT WARRANTY" or "FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE".
I have to assume that the sue-happy culture of the USA is probably part of the reason why this system isn't already being sold on a mainstream vehicle in North America. (I own a 1.5-year-old vehicle with a very similar system)
Slightly off-topic: After growing up in the USA, then spending some time living in Europe, I've often been shocked by some of the seemingly dangerous things that are allowed here, compared to the USA. I guess they expect people to exhibit some common sense here, rather than go crying to the courts when didn't make it all-but-impossible for them to injure themselves...
As I mentioned in a previous comment, the LKAS system installed in my vehicle is very picky about what sort of lane markings it accepts before the system is active.
Beyond that, in my vehicle, the system is disengaged by default. Every key cycle, you're forced to manually enable the lane-keeping assistance system. Disabling is always a steering-wheel button-press away, but since the power it exerts is so small, it's hard to imagine a scenario where it would be necessary...
I would imagine it to work much like cruise control too. Any force applied by the driver disengages the system.
Assuming it works like the "LKAS" system in my vehicle, it does NOT. However, the amount of force exerted by the system is very small, and *very* easily overpowered.
In my dreams... I'm sure we'll get there eventually. :)
I have a vehicle with a similar system: a European Honda Accord with LKAS (Lane-Keeping Assist System). It seems to have a watchdog timer in place that checks for input on the steering wheel, and if it doesn't detect anything with circa 14 seconds, the lane-keeping system automatically disables itself (with chimes and flashing yellow warning light on the dash). It's immediately re-enabled the moment you apply any force to the wheel. (It's actually a bit of a pain on a long straightaway, where you don't *need* to make any corrections for that long.)
I have a vehicle with a similar system: a European Honda Accord with LKAS (Lane-Keeping Assist System).
It's very particular about the lines being painted a specific way, and if the lane markings don't meet the spec, the system stays in standby. That said, it was able to cope with the yellow work-zone lane markings on the Autobahn, which seem to take priority over the normal ones.
Would you be willing to share some details?
This is why I love Slashdot.
You have to admit that the capability is still impressive.
Consider: something that just a few short years ago was only possible with a news van and a satellite dish is now in the hands of millions. (okay, maybe Skype installations on iPhones is 2,000,000, but it's gotta be pretty close, right?)
Botnets have been (and continue to be) used in mafia-style "protection" rackets, threatening with DDoS attacks. If you ran a server that was threatened with or subjected to one, you'd probably change your tune pretty quickly.
Oh, and even if you're using an email client with good spam filtering, it still has to download the spam before it can sort through it and throw it away, wasting bandwidth.
Botnets are a scourge, and harmful to many, not only ISPs! (although I do agree with your assertion that ISPs ought to disconnect users with pwned machine :)
The result is that everybody disables data whenever they cross the border.
So they make practically nothing on it anyway...
Well, practically everybody. Some acquaintances of mine have had ridiculous phone bills after enabling data roaming for an "emergency"... ridiculous on the order of > €1,000 for less than an hour's usage.
It's enough to make me wonder: why don't they lower their prices, so more people would be willing to utilize data roaming? Couldn't they actually make more profit that way? I suppose studies on that subject have already been conducted, and the results doom all of us to suffer on account of a few suckers/idiots: perhaps the same ones that are responsible for spam, due to responding to unsolicited commercial email.
Off-topic, out of curiosity, are you in France, Netherlands, or Germany?
That was my first thought, too...
I hate advertisements.
Thanks a lot, pal.
The Facetime and MMS issues were due to a permissions problem, which has already been sorted out, per planetbeing's Twitter feed.