Well, yeah. There are traffic conditions where it's even unsafe to look at the speedometer. But a blanket "messing with the radio should be limited to when you are stopped" (quoting you) is silly. It's ok to divert a little bit of your attention when the conditions allow for it.
Put a governor in the car? How about just teaching your kid to not be stupid, and to be responsible for their actions? A governor will just mean that they'll take other stupid risks, because you're raising them wrong in the first place.
I felt like doing stupid shit a lot of times when I was a teenager. But I also knew from my upbringing that my parents wouldn't have any problem with making me pay, in full, for any damage I caused. Sure, that wouldn't help if I killed someone, but that knowledge prevented me from even getting close to that state. I had to pay for my own car, and worked my ass off for it. If I lost my license or wrecked it, I would be hoofing it or biking it because my parents weren't about to play taxi. A little bit of actual, you know, repercussion for bad behavior works wonders with ALL children.
If you're spending more than half a second looking at your radio, you're doing it wrong. Do you also never look at your speedometer? Is looking at the display of your radio really that much more distracting? I mean, really... nobody is saying that you should spend time reading your radio display instead of driving. But if you're a competent driver, you're looking ahead and able to anticipate things that are going to happen. Looking at the radio as you approach an intersection? Fucking stupid. Glancing at the radio when you can see all the cars in front of you aren't going to stop and people on the sidewalks are staying there? Not really a big deal. It's not as if you have peripheral vision that is highly reactive to motion, and if you pay attention to it, you'll never really be caught unaware.
It doesn't run on Linux. The games themselves run on Windows, and the video feed and control is redirected to a little box on your end. That little box happens to run Linux. It's basically like VNC or rdesktop. Does it count as "running on Linux" if you run Office over an rdesktop connection to a Windows server from a Linux client? This is the same concept.
The first page loaded. Look at the top, and see there's a "skip this ad" link. That'll take you to the story. It's just that your script blocking makes it look like a failed load.
Remember, very, very few people in the overall scheme of things run NoScript. By doing so, you're making a statement that you're ok with missing out on some things that other people get. Sometimes that's good, sometimes that's bad, but you lose your right to bitch when you actively install something that blocks content that may or may not be required to view the information.
And then their opponent would come out with ads saying that the candidate trying to protect our rights really just hates children, and wants to prevent the police from being able to track pedophiles.
Politicians by and large don't stand up for what's right because if they did, they'd get voted out of office by the mouth-breathing, uninformed "think of the children!" twits that are unfortunately a majority of voters.
I don't know about the iPhone, but I know my wife's G1 has an app that lets her define ring profiles depending on her GPS location. One thing at work, another at home, and so on. I'd think that connections would be able to be similarly switched via an app.
I'm not sure WiFi would save any energy. I actually think it uses more, since the wifi transmitters have to use so much less power. From people I know that have WiFi enabled phones, wifi doesn't save them a ton of energy. It just makes browsing faster and gives them connections where they wouldn't otherwise have one.
They are already quite efficient. An extra 5-10% in efficiency isn't going to make any appreciable gains in battery life. The problem is that they have features. Right now, you can either have lots of features and little battery life, or few features and long battery life. The only solution to having lots of features and long battery life is to make a better battery.
Look into ultracapacitors. They're getting insanely more powerful, and they charge nearly instantly. Even if they only run for 3-4 hours, the fast charge would make it much more acceptable to most people. If I use my phone for 6 hours, I have to charge it for 1-2. If that charge time dropped to under 15 minutes, I would be insanely happy and much more likely to have a power-hungry mobile.
Porn in the workplace mostly causes personnel issues, not psych issues. Two completely separate balls of wax. Offending someone and getting your office slapped with a sexual harassment suit is most of the danger. The psych issues are the employee's problem.
If the character was supposed to be Schwarzenegger though, there would be little he could do about it. Using his image as an actor is different than using his image as a public figure.
I note all the OS's that you ran on... was it anything that was hand-held, with a reflective display like the kindle? I hate being tied to a desk to read, too. But I will read a fair bit on my laptop, and if it were easier to hold and did all the things you mentioned, I'd definitely use it. Kindle pisses me off because of the DRM and it's slow, which makes it only really usable for "deep" reading, rather than skimming technical docs until you get to the part you want.
The speed of light in a vacuum will never change. However, many different materials have different speeds of light. Just the earth's atmosphere has a slower speed of light than c. Normal lenses take advantage of the different speeds of light in glass versus air, and use that to their advantage to redirect the path of light. Time to take a physics class.
The cloud theoretically doesn't have fixed resources, unlike previous excursions into hosted serving. You either had enough capacity for everything, or you needed a faster server that ran idle most of the time. The cloud concept really is a complete rethinking of server balancing by distributing both the software and the data as needed.
But that's just what I get from a bit of reading. I'm not a cloud user, though it'd be something I'd look at if I had a load I thought it could benefit.
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Well, yeah. There are traffic conditions where it's even unsafe to look at the speedometer. But a blanket "messing with the radio should be limited to when you are stopped" (quoting you) is silly. It's ok to divert a little bit of your attention when the conditions allow for it.
Put a governor in the car? How about just teaching your kid to not be stupid, and to be responsible for their actions? A governor will just mean that they'll take other stupid risks, because you're raising them wrong in the first place.
I felt like doing stupid shit a lot of times when I was a teenager. But I also knew from my upbringing that my parents wouldn't have any problem with making me pay, in full, for any damage I caused. Sure, that wouldn't help if I killed someone, but that knowledge prevented me from even getting close to that state. I had to pay for my own car, and worked my ass off for it. If I lost my license or wrecked it, I would be hoofing it or biking it because my parents weren't about to play taxi. A little bit of actual, you know, repercussion for bad behavior works wonders with ALL children.
If you're spending more than half a second looking at your radio, you're doing it wrong. Do you also never look at your speedometer? Is looking at the display of your radio really that much more distracting? I mean, really... nobody is saying that you should spend time reading your radio display instead of driving. But if you're a competent driver, you're looking ahead and able to anticipate things that are going to happen. Looking at the radio as you approach an intersection? Fucking stupid. Glancing at the radio when you can see all the cars in front of you aren't going to stop and people on the sidewalks are staying there? Not really a big deal. It's not as if you have peripheral vision that is highly reactive to motion, and if you pay attention to it, you'll never really be caught unaware.
Wait... people where you drive actually use turn signals? I call shenanigans.
Isn't that cute. You think we're still in a democratic republic.
It doesn't run on Linux. The games themselves run on Windows, and the video feed and control is redirected to a little box on your end. That little box happens to run Linux. It's basically like VNC or rdesktop. Does it count as "running on Linux" if you run Office over an rdesktop connection to a Windows server from a Linux client? This is the same concept.
The first page loaded. Look at the top, and see there's a "skip this ad" link. That'll take you to the story. It's just that your script blocking makes it look like a failed load.
Remember, very, very few people in the overall scheme of things run NoScript. By doing so, you're making a statement that you're ok with missing out on some things that other people get. Sometimes that's good, sometimes that's bad, but you lose your right to bitch when you actively install something that blocks content that may or may not be required to view the information.
Just keep the teabagging to a minimum to keep everyone cordial ;)
And then their opponent would come out with ads saying that the candidate trying to protect our rights really just hates children, and wants to prevent the police from being able to track pedophiles.
Politicians by and large don't stand up for what's right because if they did, they'd get voted out of office by the mouth-breathing, uninformed "think of the children!" twits that are unfortunately a majority of voters.
Computers are magic, though. And if you've ever done tech support, you'd realize the average consumer honestly thinks this.
I don't know about the iPhone, but I know my wife's G1 has an app that lets her define ring profiles depending on her GPS location. One thing at work, another at home, and so on. I'd think that connections would be able to be similarly switched via an app.
I'm not sure WiFi would save any energy. I actually think it uses more, since the wifi transmitters have to use so much less power. From people I know that have WiFi enabled phones, wifi doesn't save them a ton of energy. It just makes browsing faster and gives them connections where they wouldn't otherwise have one.
They are already quite efficient. An extra 5-10% in efficiency isn't going to make any appreciable gains in battery life. The problem is that they have features. Right now, you can either have lots of features and little battery life, or few features and long battery life. The only solution to having lots of features and long battery life is to make a better battery.
Look into ultracapacitors. They're getting insanely more powerful, and they charge nearly instantly. Even if they only run for 3-4 hours, the fast charge would make it much more acceptable to most people. If I use my phone for 6 hours, I have to charge it for 1-2. If that charge time dropped to under 15 minutes, I would be insanely happy and much more likely to have a power-hungry mobile.
Porn in the workplace mostly causes personnel issues, not psych issues. Two completely separate balls of wax. Offending someone and getting your office slapped with a sexual harassment suit is most of the danger. The psych issues are the employee's problem.
Isn't that like using the ATM machine?
If the character was supposed to be Schwarzenegger though, there would be little he could do about it. Using his image as an actor is different than using his image as a public figure.
Yeah. Movies could NEVER be art. Nor could symphony music.
I note all the OS's that you ran on... was it anything that was hand-held, with a reflective display like the kindle? I hate being tied to a desk to read, too. But I will read a fair bit on my laptop, and if it were easier to hold and did all the things you mentioned, I'd definitely use it. Kindle pisses me off because of the DRM and it's slow, which makes it only really usable for "deep" reading, rather than skimming technical docs until you get to the part you want.
It'd go faster?
We need to petition for a "+1 Sarcastic" modding option
The speed of light in a vacuum will never change. However, many different materials have different speeds of light. Just the earth's atmosphere has a slower speed of light than c. Normal lenses take advantage of the different speeds of light in glass versus air, and use that to their advantage to redirect the path of light. Time to take a physics class.
The cloud theoretically doesn't have fixed resources, unlike previous excursions into hosted serving. You either had enough capacity for everything, or you needed a faster server that ran idle most of the time. The cloud concept really is a complete rethinking of server balancing by distributing both the software and the data as needed.
But that's just what I get from a bit of reading. I'm not a cloud user, though it'd be something I'd look at if I had a load I thought it could benefit.
Just saying "any normal geek" already excludes Mac users. It has nothing to do with when Apple stopped using CRTs.
/me dons asbestos undies
Doesn't it suck knowing you're doing their job for them?