Does anyone know if traffic accident rates have gone up in recent years?
Irrelevant. Accident rates in general depend on too many other things, including safety features (new and old) in cars on the road, how many cars are on the road, and how the roads are designed.
It's not rocket science to deduce that taking your eyes and mind off the road make you a more dangerous driver. If it's not contributing significantly to the accident rate, that just means that a lot of people, believe it or not, aren't stupid enough to do it.
Ah, the old Aristotelian approach to understanding the world: empiricism be damned, I'm going with my intuition!
A correct version of your point would be to recommend controlling for those factors. Not entirely dismissing an empirical approach.
Does anyone know if traffic accident rates have gone up in recent years?
I haven't heard that they have. But if talking on a cell phone, or texting, while driving is really as dangerous as it seems, I would have expected accident rates to rise significantly.
"If you want [to be able to use more than 4GB in Vista] without contrivance, then pester Microsoft for an upgrade of the license data or at least for a credible, detailed reasoning of its policy for licensing your use of your computer's memory....
I dunno... maybe because they think that price maximizes their profitability?
Or do you feel that they're morally obligated to only make a certain profit margin off of their price?
Neither will most people find the meaning of life down at the local bar. WoW players are doing what everyone else is doing on this ride: trying to fill in the time before they die with something they enjoy doing. Unfortunately for them their choice simply isn't "socially acceptable" and hence they are subjected to ridicule based on how they want to spend their free time.
So was Hitler.
HAH! I bet no one thought we could bring Hitler into this discussion.
If you're somebody like eBay, you really really need scalabaility, as you're doing hundreds on
What does non-idempotency matter in the eBay's case?
Is it because if your transactions are idempotent, you can get away with simpler recovery mechanisms, and that lets you get away with less powerful servers?
In the case of Twitter, the only improvement that's happened here is that anyone with a decent browser can access it.
Maybe the cause of your surprise is that you're trivializing things that are actually quite important.
By making Twitter accessible via a web site, the effort required to follow a feed went from (minor, and slightly technical) to (nada). With something like Twitter, which is of only marginal value to most people, I'm guessing that using it needs to have just about zero degree of inconvenience, or else people just won't bother.
The biggest issue with a real emergency situation is panic. People being squished against fences, walls and other obstacles because there's too many people behind squeezing, making it more dangerous and less efficient.
So people act like a cornstarch solution?
I'm not even sure where to begin in crafting a joke...
The movie was terribly crafted. The only part of it that was at all well done was the fact that there was no sound in space, but other than that the movie had holes you could drive a tractor-trailer through- plot holes so large they actually detracted from the enjoyment of the movie, by making one seriously consider the writer's sanity.
Agreed. But I liked a lot about it, too. I think they developed Kirk and Pike quite well. Also, those two actors really did a good job in their roles. That's a lot more than I'd come to expect from other Trek movies.
Agreed. Douglas Adams was a very unique writer, in terms of his sense of humor. It's an insanely difficult act to follow.
And to be honest, I'm not sure I really want to read any attempts to do so. Why can't they just let a great series be a great series, instead of trying to extend it?
For the longest time, it seems like major business have collaborated in one of several ways:
Standards-setting bodies, often backed by industry cosortia
Contractually established relationships.
But with Linux, it seems like a new model of collaboration for companies. It's mostly a meritocracy where a company's stature cannot get a bad or only-self-serving idea pushed into the end result. But because of that discipline, the final product is so compelling that companies want/need to participate anyway.
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I hate PSA screenings. The "This is your brain on drugs." one was just lame.
Let me introduce you to my friend Reverend Bayes.
Worst. Gun. Introduction. Evar.
He is leaving NASA to become a scientologist? This is a sad loss for science.
Don't blame him. He had to switch private sector. He couldn't use public funds to build a battle cruiser to exact revenge upon Lord Xenu!!!
Does anyone know if traffic accident rates have gone up in recent years?
Irrelevant. Accident rates in general depend on too many other things, including safety features (new and old) in cars on the road, how many cars are on the road, and how the roads are designed.
It's not rocket science to deduce that taking your eyes and mind off the road make you a more dangerous driver. If it's not contributing significantly to the accident rate, that just means that a lot of people, believe it or not, aren't stupid enough to do it.
Ah, the old Aristotelian approach to understanding the world: empiricism be damned, I'm going with my intuition!
A correct version of your point would be to recommend controlling for those factors. Not entirely dismissing an empirical approach.
Does anyone know if traffic accident rates have gone up in recent years?
I haven't heard that they have. But if talking on a cell phone, or texting, while driving is really as dangerous as it seems, I would have expected accident rates to rise significantly.
Sounds like their registration system is borked.
What does this have to do with Sarah Palin?
That's not fair. Sarah Palin might be a deeply defective individual, but she's insanely attractive for her age:
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Or, does brain atrophy cause obesity?
Or does lack of exercise in middle/old age cause both brain atrophy and obesity?
Or does a high fat diet cause both brain atrophy and obesity?
Etc., etc.
All fair points.
At least they're not apping the game store. I'm still paying off my legal bills.
>Is it April 1st?
No, this is what happens when you vote in competent Democrats to run things instead of Republicans like Bush and Cheney.
I agree. Democrats have consistently stood up for the little guy:
I think it's time to wake up. Both the Republican and Democratic parties are deeply, deeply corrupt.
I dunno... maybe because they think that price maximizes their profitability?
Or do you feel that they're morally obligated to only make a certain profit margin off of their price?
Not sure I want to make a T-shirt out of THAT expression.
They can already do this using, my special negative-sized ruler.
The one you use to measure your penis?
No, that's the Complex ruler you're thinking of. How else can he measure "J"?
You won't find the meaning of life at level 80.
Neither will most people find the meaning of life down at the local bar. WoW players are doing what everyone else is doing on this ride: trying to fill in the time before they die with something they enjoy doing. Unfortunately for them their choice simply isn't "socially acceptable" and hence they are subjected to ridicule based on how they want to spend their free time.
So was Hitler.
HAH! I bet no one thought we could bring Hitler into this discussion.
I'm guessing you'll want to play the Barbarian.
Kevin Costner???
If you're somebody like eBay, you
really really need scalabaility, as
you're doing hundreds on
What does non-idempotency matter in the eBay's case?
Is it because if your transactions are idempotent, you can get away with simpler recovery mechanisms, and that lets you get away with less powerful servers?
Maybe the cause of your surprise is that you're trivializing things that are actually quite important.
By making Twitter accessible via a web site, the effort required to follow a feed went from (minor, and slightly technical) to (nada). With something like Twitter, which is of only marginal value to most people, I'm guessing that using it needs to have just about zero degree of inconvenience, or else people just won't bother.
The biggest issue with a real emergency situation is panic. People being squished against fences, walls and other obstacles because there's too many people behind squeezing, making it more dangerous and less efficient.
So people act like a cornstarch solution?
I'm not even sure where to begin in crafting a joke...
the only really intuitive interface, as some wit once remarked, is the nipple.
And yet I've never seen one person try to suckle a laptop pointer-nub.
They were too busy with the joystick. :P~
You're lucky. I've seen a person too busy with a mouse.
The movie was terribly crafted. The only part of it that was at all well done was the fact that there was no sound in space, but other than that the movie had holes you could drive a tractor-trailer through- plot holes so large they actually detracted from the enjoyment of the movie, by making one seriously consider the writer's sanity.
Agreed. But I liked a lot about it, too. I think they developed Kirk and Pike quite well. Also, those two actors really did a good job in their roles. That's a lot more than I'd come to expect from other Trek movies.
Agreed. Douglas Adams was a very unique writer, in terms of his sense of humor. It's an insanely difficult act to follow.
And to be honest, I'm not sure I really want to read any attempts to do so. Why can't they just let a great series be a great series, instead of trying to extend it?
The MTA lawyers ought to know that they're persecuting the blogger beyond what copyright law allows. They should be disbarred.
For the longest time, it seems like major business have collaborated in one of several ways:
But with Linux, it seems like a new model of collaboration for companies. It's mostly a meritocracy where a company's stature cannot get a bad or only-self-serving idea pushed into the end result. But because of that discipline, the final product is so compelling that companies want/need to participate anyway.
Am I right?