If you spent $300 on a "stereo upgrade" in your car, then you're probably a little simple.
Or you drive a Chevy/GMC and want the steering wheel controls to work (Look up a 2005 Suburban on Crutchfield, any adapter kit with steering wheel controls is over $100).
The road I live on goes through towns A and B. There are three sections. Section 1: In Town A, in the zip code for Town A - Road named for City A 15 minutes down the road. Section 2: In Town B, in the zip code for Town A (there are 3-4 miles like that) - Road named for the State Route number. Section 3: In Town B, in the zip code for Town B - Road named for the State Route number. I live in Section 2 (Town A mailing address, but physically in Town B). People who use their GPS to find out house frequently end up at our house number in Section 1 or 3. We also occasionally get mail for people in Section 1. I have tried to get Google to fix it, but they seem to have no interest (or perhaps they think I am messing with them?).
Also, MusicBee lets me do bulk editing of ID3 tags (ie: I can grab a bunch of songs with the artist's name spelled 5 different ways and correct them to all be the same, or add the album tag to the while album at once).
I switched from Winamp to MusicBee. It handles my large music collection better than Winamp did (no sitting there for 15 mins while Winamp chews through the music library) and it also supports a single click to go from the library to the playlist. The only downside is that the search in the now playing list is iffy and the now playing list can only sort by artist, OR title, not by artist AND title (from what I have found so far). Sync is comparable (I am syncing to 1st gen iPod shuffle and a couple of flash drives) and I have setup auto playlists to sync to each device, so I can easily exclude songs (I have the auto-playlists setup so it pulls a random 1GB or 4 GB selection of music where none of the songs has a 1 star rating. If the song has a 1 star rating, it does not sync to the iPod or flash drive).
Not always. If you stomp on the brakes for no reason (ie: "brake checking" someone) and they can prove it (ie: they have a dash cam), you can be ticketed and found to be at fault for causing the accident.
Here is an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Aaron Z
Electric vehicles perhaps, although then you could just move to taxing tires. AFAIK their degradation is correlated to distance traveled and weight carried. Plus tire wear is probably highly correlated with road wear, which is kinda the point.
Such a tax would discourage people from buying snowtires in areas where such a thing is prudent and would encourage tires with harder compounds which wear less (and provide less grip on the road in adverse conditions)
Thus taxing tires would cause an increase in accidents (hows that for extrapolation)
That would be suboptimal
When the train and track got struck it probably knocked out all power on the train. It may also have knocked out telemetry on the track. No power for the radio, no telemetry and the train just disappears from the control display
And when that happens, the following train should assume that the train in front of them has hit a brick wall and is stopped at the last known position. They should immoderately slow down to the point where they can stop within their line of sight and continue with caution. Doing anything less is foolish.
Aaron Z
While you're at it -- upgrade your mouse too! I found all my wrist problems went away when I moved to a Logitech Cordless Trackman (wish it was corded, but whatever). This has a finger-operated trackball and a thumb-operated left-click, which I find MUCH more accurate and comfortable than a thumb-operated trackball (e.g. most trackball mice on the market now). Trackball mice are usually considered to be more accurate than regular mice anyways. One of the big benefits here is the fact that your wrist isn't as twisted as with a regular mouse... if that's your main goal, there are also some expensive ergonomic vertical mice that might be comfortable.
Shit like, Dammit! I used Skype for one fucking call, and now it starts up every time I start windows slowing things down needlessly, How do I remove it from the startup items? Oh, dammit, now there's no such thing, I have to adjust a setting IN THE PROGRAM ( which will be different in every program so I need to search it out for each program, and god forbid I install something a little bit shady and reluctant NOT to start up and splash me with spam every time I boot... Any bit of knowledge a user gets that gives them an advantage in getting stuff done themselves is promptly made useless so that a solution can be sold to them for money.
Try using msconfig. It lets you remove services and programs from starting when Windows does
I'd like to know what the point of the damn things are, since every post 9/11 attack on an airline has been negated by the efforts of the passengers. It seems to me that metal detectors are all you really need -- keep guns off the plane and there's no way that any would-be terrorist is going to overpower dozens of passengers. Heck, even with a gun it would be tough to overpower everybody on an airplane......
If you allowed those who have concealed carry permits to have their guns on the plane, there is slightly a higher probability that someone will bring one on and try to hijack the plane, but there is also a higher chance that if someone tries to hijack the plane the person in the seat behind them will reach over the seat and put a gun to their head.
They are also useless from a practical point of view, since they can't scan body cavities. If you are willing to die for your cause it doesn't seem like a huge leap of faith to assume that you are also willing to shove explosives or a weapon up your ass......
Come on, do you actually expect the government to think through all of these difficult permutations before going out and spending billions in taxpayer money on a new boondoggle?
The problems you run into with fatter tires are dispersing water (not hydroplaning when you hit a mud puddle) and not having the middle of the tire bulge out (or in) when driving on non-flat roads.
Aaron Z
Does AdBlock in Chrome block ads BEFORE they are downloaded? Or does still it hide them AFTER they are downloaded? Last time I tried it all that it did was hide ads, which doesn't help when ad servers are being slow.
If a fact has been altered, is it still a fact? Or does it become an opinion at the point that is it altered?
Using temperature data as an example, raw data as recorded by stations is a fact but after it has been altered to account for urban heat island effect, more temp sensors in the city than in the country or any other data, would it not become the theory of the person who altered the data?
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I'll take an Android phone with a slide out keyboard please, my Droid4 is getting a little long in the tooth.
Aaron Z
If you spent $300 on a "stereo upgrade" in your car, then you're probably a little simple.
Or you drive a Chevy/GMC and want the steering wheel controls to work (Look up a 2005 Suburban on Crutchfield, any adapter kit with steering wheel controls is over $100).
Aaron Z
The road I live on goes through towns A and B. There are three sections.
Section 1: In Town A, in the zip code for Town A - Road named for City A 15 minutes down the road.
Section 2: In Town B, in the zip code for Town A (there are 3-4 miles like that) - Road named for the State Route number.
Section 3: In Town B, in the zip code for Town B - Road named for the State Route number.
I live in Section 2 (Town A mailing address, but physically in Town B). People who use their GPS to find out house frequently end up at our house number in Section 1 or 3. We also occasionally get mail for people in Section 1.
I have tried to get Google to fix it, but they seem to have no interest (or perhaps they think I am messing with them?).
Aaron Z
Also, MusicBee lets me do bulk editing of ID3 tags (ie: I can grab a bunch of songs with the artist's name spelled 5 different ways and correct them to all be the same, or add the album tag to the while album at once).
Aaron Z
I switched from Winamp to MusicBee. It handles my large music collection better than Winamp did (no sitting there for 15 mins while Winamp chews through the music library) and it also supports a single click to go from the library to the playlist.
The only downside is that the search in the now playing list is iffy and the now playing list can only sort by artist, OR title, not by artist AND title (from what I have found so far).
Sync is comparable (I am syncing to 1st gen iPod shuffle and a couple of flash drives) and I have setup auto playlists to sync to each device, so I can easily exclude songs (I have the auto-playlists setup so it pulls a random 1GB or 4 GB selection of music where none of the songs has a 1 star rating. If the song has a 1 star rating, it does not sync to the iPod or flash drive).
Aaron Z
It runs OpenWRT which supports OpenVPN, USB and bittorrent.
Aaron Z
Not always. If you stomp on the brakes for no reason (ie: "brake checking" someone) and they can prove it (ie: they have a dash cam), you can be ticketed and found to be at fault for causing the accident. Here is an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Aaron Z
Ask Irv Gordon how his Volvo P1800 with almost 3 million miles runs...
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Correction-Volvo-Million-Miler-story-3692250.php
Aaron Z
What has been my thought since this came out, it must be too logical for the TSA to use. Aaron Z
you might want to try power line networking for those wired connections since you will reuse your existing AC wiring, keep the 5ghz as a backup.
If power to the wireless access points all ends up at the same breakerbox, powerline networking would be the way to go in my book. Aaron Z
And there are also those who would consider it an accomplishment to have their name in the paper for running a red light...
Aaron Z
Electric vehicles perhaps, although then you could just move to taxing tires. AFAIK their degradation is correlated to distance traveled and weight carried. Plus tire wear is probably highly correlated with road wear, which is kinda the point.
Such a tax would discourage people from buying snowtires in areas where such a thing is prudent and would encourage tires with harder compounds which wear less (and provide less grip on the road in adverse conditions)
Thus taxing tires would cause an increase in accidents (hows that for extrapolation)
That would be suboptimal
Aaron Z
When the train and track got struck it probably knocked out all power on the train. It may also have knocked out telemetry on the track. No power for the radio, no telemetry and the train just disappears from the control display
And when that happens, the following train should assume that the train in front of them has hit a brick wall and is stopped at the last known position. They should immoderately slow down to the point where they can stop within their line of sight and continue with caution. Doing anything less is foolish. Aaron Z
Are you sure about that? http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2005/11/who-bears-the-burden-demographic-characteristics-of-us-military-recruits-before-and-after-9-11
While you're at it -- upgrade your mouse too! I found all my wrist problems went away when I moved to a Logitech Cordless Trackman (wish it was corded, but whatever). This has a finger-operated trackball and a thumb-operated left-click, which I find MUCH more accurate and comfortable than a thumb-operated trackball (e.g. most trackball mice on the market now). Trackball mice are usually considered to be more accurate than regular mice anyways. One of the big benefits here is the fact that your wrist isn't as twisted as with a regular mouse... if that's your main goal, there are also some expensive ergonomic vertical mice that might be comfortable.
I agree. I have a Kensington Expert Mouse (Model K64325) at home and at work with the top right button remapped to be a middle click (via X-Mouse Button Control) and I wouldn't be without it.
Aaron Z
Group Policy is your friend. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee732406(WS.10).aspx
Aaron Z
Shit like, Dammit! I used Skype for one fucking call, and now it starts up every time I start windows slowing things down needlessly, How do I remove it from the startup items? Oh, dammit, now there's no such thing, I have to adjust a setting IN THE PROGRAM ( which will be different in every program so I need to search it out for each program, and god forbid I install something a little bit shady and reluctant NOT to start up and splash me with spam every time I boot... Any bit of knowledge a user gets that gives them an advantage in getting stuff done themselves is promptly made useless so that a solution can be sold to them for money.
Try using msconfig. It lets you remove services and programs from starting when Windows does
Aaron Z
Details? Inquiring minds want to know. Aaron Z
I wish I had mod points. Excellent post
Aaron Z
I'd like to know what the point of the damn things are, since every post 9/11 attack on an airline has been negated by the efforts of the passengers. It seems to me that metal detectors are all you really need -- keep guns off the plane and there's no way that any would-be terrorist is going to overpower dozens of passengers. Heck, even with a gun it would be tough to overpower everybody on an airplane......
If you allowed those who have concealed carry permits to have their guns on the plane, there is slightly a higher probability that someone will bring one on and try to hijack the plane, but there is also a higher chance that if someone tries to hijack the plane the person in the seat behind them will reach over the seat and put a gun to their head.
They are also useless from a practical point of view, since they can't scan body cavities. If you are willing to die for your cause it doesn't seem like a huge leap of faith to assume that you are also willing to shove explosives or a weapon up your ass......
Come on, do you actually expect the government to think through all of these difficult permutations before going out and spending billions in taxpayer money on a new boondoggle?
Aaron Z
The problems you run into with fatter tires are dispersing water (not hydroplaning when you hit a mud puddle) and not having the middle of the tire bulge out (or in) when driving on non-flat roads.
Aaron Z
Does AdBlock in Chrome block ads BEFORE they are downloaded? Or does still it hide them AFTER they are downloaded? Last time I tried it all that it did was hide ads, which doesn't help when ad servers are being slow.
Aaron Z
Go with OpenWRT, MUCH easier (IMO) to configure from the command line and should support the same platforms as dd-wrt.
Aaron Z
If a fact has been altered, is it still a fact? Or does it become an opinion at the point that is it altered?
Using temperature data as an example, raw data as recorded by stations is a fact but after it has been altered to account for urban heat island effect, more temp sensors in the city than in the country or any other data, would it not become the theory of the person who altered the data?
Aaron Z
Try http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-linux-help/60324-remote-shutdown-windows-linux-box.html for some ideas... Looks like they figured something out.
Aaron Z