Research has shown that the largest affect of a Cell Phone conversation on a driver is in fact the level of concentration required to listen, think and converse with the other party.
Not having a phone held awkwardly while driving is a big help but you still loose a lot of your concentration on the road.
It sounds like an innovative control method but it still won't keep concentration purely on the road.
Of course code that is peer reviewed by a large group of coders will become better over time.
Most proprietary code is only reviewed until the developers have ironed all the bugs necessary to get it to run reliably. Then it's shelved until the support lifecycle requires a fix.
Conversly, Open Source projects have a huge interested user base who can continue to review, submit bugs and improve the code over time.
As usual the RIAA is resorting to the use of FUD to stop people swapping music. College Students, High School Kids and Lone P2P Users are very easy targets for a massive corporate body.
Apologies for the empty post, I clipped the Enter key while reaching for the mouse.
I'll be continuing to use gzip, bzip2 and tar under unix/linux. I doubt there'll even be too much of a problem as not many people would use Zip encryption anyway.
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I've been doing PHP web development on and off for a couple of years now and I've always found that it's greatest strength has been the availability of very god online resources.
PHP.net and many other excellent resources are only a browser click away and remain up to date for free. PHP is one of those areas where I'll save my money and buy a book I'll get genuine reference use from.
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One thing I would like to see more PHP books do is to cover the various Security problems that are prevalent in many PHP based web applications.
Don't get me wrong, I find PHP to be the best and friendliest solution for many things, but some of the Security problems could easily be avoided with some common sense security advice.
The RIAA's targets for all it's legal actions represent a change from normal litigation targets. All the major litigation has been against Students, Universities and other people who can ill afford the defence.
Normally anti-piracy suits would target those from whom the most money could be extracted such as corporate networks, etc, but now they appear to be trying to scare people into submission. It might even be probable to say that they are making significant losses in their legal preceedings given the high costs.
Ultimately, the fear will peobably work on many people tho.
I suppose you have to expect some poor practices considering that the top 3DMark card will be considered by many gamers to be the best to buy. It's a massive temptation for such a big industry.
I find ATI's decision to remove code which it claims boosts over all performance quite funny.
The question is how do the interested learn anything from an education designed to carry the weak through? Looks like it's still a case of learning more in one week of spare time than a month of college.
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15 electrodes implanted in someone's boday and not a sign of Kevin Warwick. Perhaps we'll get some actual research with scientific basis for a change.
Perhaps you should try the the 'removal tool':
sfdrvrem.zip
Research has shown that the largest affect of a Cell Phone conversation on a driver is in fact the level of concentration required to listen, think and converse with the other party.
Not having a phone held awkwardly while driving is a big help but you still loose a lot of your concentration on the road.
It sounds like an innovative control method but it still won't keep concentration purely on the road.
Of course code that is peer reviewed by a large group of coders will become better over time.
Most proprietary code is only reviewed until the developers have ironed all the bugs necessary to get it to run reliably. Then it's shelved until the support lifecycle requires a fix.
Conversly, Open Source projects have a huge interested user base who can continue to review, submit bugs and improve the code over time.
As usual the RIAA is resorting to the use of FUD to stop people swapping music. College Students, High School Kids and Lone P2P Users are very easy targets for a massive corporate body.
It may even be working to a certain degree.
It's nice to see that it runs a proper Real Time OS.
I have actually seen one case of someone trying to build a mini sub-aqua robot running Windows XP (yes XP not CE) on a powerful micro PC card.
Seriously, ... it sounds fscked up, but it's true.
Apologies for the empty post, I clipped the Enter key while reaching for the mouse.
I'll be continuing to use gzip, bzip2 and tar under unix/linux. I doubt there'll even be too much of a problem as not many people would use Zip encryption anyway.
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I've been doing PHP web development on and off for a couple of years now and I've always found that it's greatest strength has been the availability of very god online resources.
PHP.net and many other excellent resources are only a browser click away and remain up to date for free. PHP is one of those areas where I'll save my money and buy a book I'll get genuine reference use from.
One thing I would like to see more PHP books do is to cover the various Security problems that are prevalent in many PHP based web applications.
Don't get me wrong, I find PHP to be the best and friendliest solution for many things, but some of the Security problems could easily be avoided with some common sense security advice.
It's been one of those 1 + 1 = 3 afteronnos alright ;-)
I knew something was wrong when I ran mutt and my inbox had 15 replies to a simple joke.
The RIAA's targets for all it's legal actions represent a change from normal litigation targets. All the major litigation has been against Students, Universities and other people who can ill afford the defence.
Normally anti-piracy suits would target those from whom the most money could be extracted such as corporate networks, etc, but now they appear to be trying to scare people into submission. It might even be probable to say that they are making significant losses in their legal preceedings given the high costs.
Ultimately, the fear will peobably work on many people tho.
I'm fully aware that 0 Kelvin is absolute zero (- 273 Celcius) calibrated off the triple point of water (0.01 Celcius), blah, blah.
I just found it funny that one article failed to clarify it.
>the plasma reaches a temperature of 15,000 degrees
>Kelvin (about 50 times greater than room temperature)
I'd hate to see the "Room Temperature" the guy who wrote that lives in.
It's moments like this that prove that the phrase "Microsoft KnowledgeBase" may in fact be the ultimate oxymoron.
I suppose you have to expect some poor practices considering that the top 3DMark card will be considered by many gamers to be the best to buy. It's a massive temptation for such a big industry. I find ATI's decision to remove code which it claims boosts over all performance quite funny.
It could also give a whole new meaning to a "long distance relationship".
The question is how do the interested learn anything from an education designed to carry the weak through? Looks like it's still a case of learning more in one week of spare time than a month of college.