Additionally, you have to pay no small amount of money to update maps in both the TomTom and Garmin devices. A Galaxy S3 updates its maps for free and does so automatically. I have yet to drive anywhere that my phone cannot map.
I fail to see why a dedicated GPS is better than my phone, especially considering that I would have bought my phone anyways.
Alternatively (or perhaps additionally), provide services for a additional fees (subscription or one-time) alongside the application. This can be support, training, or just about any kind of service you can think of which would increase the value of the application to users.
They don't intentionally do so, sure. However, most software designers are not trained to develop secure software, are not paid to develop secure software, and in fact, would probably get a heated talking-to by management if they spent the extra time to make their software secure without explicit instructions to do so.
He provided evidence. You refuted his post, but provided no such evidence yourself. If it is as true as you say, surely you are capable of providing said evidence. As you are making the counter-assertion, it is completely on you to provide it, not on the rest of us to dig around for it.
And, I hope you realize that you are equally guilty of 1. But Obama and 2. Attacking the poster.
As do I. I live close enough (~2.5 miles) that I will frequently even ride home for lunch. As it gets warmer, I will start to ride extra on the side, like I did today.
You're basically at the mercy of the enforcement agency and you have to rely on the accuracy of a company which profits massively from fining you.
I wonder if the judge stopped to think that this is no different than without the cameras. Tickets are a major revenue source for police departments, to the extent that it is not uncommon to hear of stations which have ticket quotas.
I'm not totally against speed cameras, but I believe in one important thing about parking and traffic enforcement; nobody should ever profit from issuing fines, because the incentives to be arseholes are just too big.
Parking and traffic enforcement on public property and public roads should always be performed by public employees and the fines should go to a random, approved charity. The costs of running the operation should come out of tax income and no bonuses or "performance related pay" should ever be given. At least this way you take away the very real profit incentive for fining as many as possible. The sole purpose of parking and traffic enforcement should be to improve safety and flow of traffic.
I can agree on taking the incentive out of ticketing for the sake of ticketing, but unfortunately, it would never happen. There's way too much money to be made.
The real tragedy here isn't that the cameras were installed. On general principle, if we could trust authorities, red light cameras are a really good idea. It's rare that I see a light change without at least one person running the red, and speeding is so common that you actually have to drive 5-10 mph over just to keep with the flow of traffic. The problem is the money.
Unless destructoid reverted any changes they made, I call bullshit.
Curious to see what the big deal was, I visited the article without adblock on.
When I clicked the article link, I was presented with one of the more annoying types of ads - the kind that takes over the screen and force you to click a link to go to the actual page I wanted. When I finally got to the article, there were no fewer than three animated flash ads that appeared, and there was a sprinkling of additional ads as I kept reading.
Worse yet: the manner in which cross-links to other destructoid articles is presented on the right is not significantly different than the ads, so to the uninitiated, it looks like the entire right 1/3 of the page is filled with ads.
The problem with limited access and the record keepers determining what is/isn't available is that it creates a strong pressure to hide things that should normally be available for less-than-honest reasons. Just look at all the information our government classifies and the types of things we've seen declassified years later. It's as likely as not that information is being hidden not to protect the patient, but rather to protect the doctor.
There's the rub. If you start with programmers who have little domain knowledge, you get awful software. If you start with domain experts who have little programming knowledge, you get HL7.
Things are not quite so simple. Our continual war also serves to justify the indefinite imprisonment of non-citizens without trial, giant military contracts handed-out to friends of those in power, and widespread and warrant-less surveillance of the public at large, among other things. In short, it's a nice means to expand power and corruption in US government.
I agree. If there is a genuine shortage, there is an easy solution to the problem: jack up wages enough and the supply will increase on its own. I am hardly a libertarian, but this issue is a pretty simple thing for the market to handle.
Perhaps he was just referencing the fact that the banking sector nearly collapsed of its own greed and stupidity, that people in several areas around the country can light their tap wateron fire, and that there was a little oil incident off the coast in recent history.
Regulation didn't really play into the gp's answer, though if you want to go there, the banking and energy industries are two of the worst industries in terms of regulatory capture. The above three incidents resulted in a big fat paycheck, no action at all, and a slap on the wrist, respectively.
Occasionally, if you are calling about an issue, the manufacturer will suggest it. Some will refuse to help you until you ensure that everything (BIOS, drivers, etc.) is up to date.
It's cute that you want to make this a liberal-only issue. Clearly, god-fearing conservatives never have a faulty moral compass. I just get confused when I read stories about clergy exposed for molesting children and their churches spending all their effort on covering it up rather than fixing the problem. I get more confused when I read about gerrymandering, affairs, and kickbacks related to Republicans.
Let me help you: cheating and lying are endemic to our culture as a whole. It is not limited to particular groups as you would like to believe.
This shouldn't come as any surprise. It's simple evolution: the bad guy who doesn't get caught, wins. The bad guy who does get caught but only gets a slap on the wrist wins. If the risk versus reward equation comes out so that the unethical course of action is always a winning proposition, we shouldn't act surprised when people act unethically. The truly unfortunate thing is that those in a position to change the balance of that equation are the same cheats and liars who benefit most from sitting on their hands.
The time and effort it takes to record a single album of 10-15 songs each year is nothing close to the 2000+ hours you spend on a full-time job. Touring is where the hard work happens for a musician. The argument made down this comment thread is that recorded music by itself should not constitute a career in itself - it should only act as supplemental income. I've yet to see anyone here say that a touring musician should be unable to support themselves.
It's a deterrent against a government ever disregarding the will of enough people to spark a civil war.
Now here lies the fundamental problem with democracy. Say 49% of people think purple pants should be compulsory. 49% think they should be totally banned.
Whichever way der gubment goes it's "disregarding the will" of a substantial majority.
I could agree with you if it wasn't so one-sided. Why does a corporation get to shift its profits around so that they can dodge taxes and I cannot? Why does the corporation get to charge artificially inflated prices in this country and then prosecute anyone purchasing outside the US at the cheaper price and bringing it back?
Not sour grapes - I merely stated that it flew against what I have come to expect, and so I asked for something more than just your word to show that reality was different. If I am so wrong, there should be evidence to that effect, and you are the one making the original assertion, after all.
For the record, I would be more than happy to be disproven. I live comfortably enough that it doesn't matter *that* much to me, but your claim piqued my interest
Most of those who are filthy rich were originally from lower to middle class, just like you guys.
(citation needed)
There are plenty of mechanisms in place which make it easy to assume most of the filthy rich made it because they were born into wealth, either directly through inheritances or indirectly through financial help, family connections, and better schooling. Just as an example, 4 of the top 20 richest people on earth are part of the Walton family, which inherited their wealth from Sam Walton.
That isn't to say I dismiss your point outright, but I think I need to see some actual data before I accept your point.
I should hope the testing and code reviews you do prior to merging means the change was reviewed. By commenting it out, you are deleting the code as far as the compiler is concerned, but as far as your coworkers are concerned, it's still there to reduce readability.
That's something I can get behind, but I would apply it to more than drunk driving. You would need to include most forms of irresponsible driving, including (but not limited to) texting while driving, talking on a phone while driving, and doing your make-up while driving.
You may think that last one is a joke, but I actually saw an SUV one day on the highway swerving around and caught a glimpse of the driver focusing on her visor mirror and doing her make-up as I passed it.
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For instance GPS is much better when it is done stand alone. You get a bigger screen, potential integration, etc.
A galaxy S3 has a 4.8" screen. A tomtom XL 340-S has a 4.3" screen. A garmin nuvi 40 has a 4.3" screen
Additionally, you have to pay no small amount of money to update maps in both the TomTom and Garmin devices. A Galaxy S3 updates its maps for free and does so automatically. I have yet to drive anywhere that my phone cannot map.
I fail to see why a dedicated GPS is better than my phone, especially considering that I would have bought my phone anyways.
Alternatively (or perhaps additionally), provide services for a additional fees (subscription or one-time) alongside the application. This can be support, training, or just about any kind of service you can think of which would increase the value of the application to users.
They don't intentionally do so, sure. However, most software designers are not trained to develop secure software, are not paid to develop secure software, and in fact, would probably get a heated talking-to by management if they spent the extra time to make their software secure without explicit instructions to do so.
He provided evidence. You refuted his post, but provided no such evidence yourself. If it is as true as you say, surely you are capable of providing said evidence. As you are making the counter-assertion, it is completely on you to provide it, not on the rest of us to dig around for it.
And, I hope you realize that you are equally guilty of 1. But Obama and 2. Attacking the poster.
As do I. I live close enough (~2.5 miles) that I will frequently even ride home for lunch. As it gets warmer, I will start to ride extra on the side, like I did today.
You're basically at the mercy of the enforcement agency and you have to rely on the accuracy of a company which profits massively from fining you.
I wonder if the judge stopped to think that this is no different than without the cameras. Tickets are a major revenue source for police departments, to the extent that it is not uncommon to hear of stations which have ticket quotas.
I'm not totally against speed cameras, but I believe in one important thing about parking and traffic enforcement; nobody should ever profit from issuing fines, because the incentives to be arseholes are just too big.
Parking and traffic enforcement on public property and public roads should always be performed by public employees and the fines should go to a random, approved charity. The costs of running the operation should come out of tax income and no bonuses or "performance related pay" should ever be given. At least this way you take away the very real profit incentive for fining as many as possible. The sole purpose of parking and traffic enforcement should be to improve safety and flow of traffic.
I can agree on taking the incentive out of ticketing for the sake of ticketing, but unfortunately, it would never happen. There's way too much money to be made.
The real tragedy here isn't that the cameras were installed. On general principle, if we could trust authorities, red light cameras are a really good idea. It's rare that I see a light change without at least one person running the red, and speeding is so common that you actually have to drive 5-10 mph over just to keep with the flow of traffic. The problem is the money.
Unless destructoid reverted any changes they made, I call bullshit.
Curious to see what the big deal was, I visited the article without adblock on.
When I clicked the article link, I was presented with one of the more annoying types of ads - the kind that takes over the screen and force you to click a link to go to the actual page I wanted. When I finally got to the article, there were no fewer than three animated flash ads that appeared, and there was a sprinkling of additional ads as I kept reading.
Worse yet: the manner in which cross-links to other destructoid articles is presented on the right is not significantly different than the ads, so to the uninitiated, it looks like the entire right 1/3 of the page is filled with ads.
The problem with limited access and the record keepers determining what is/isn't available is that it creates a strong pressure to hide things that should normally be available for less-than-honest reasons. Just look at all the information our government classifies and the types of things we've seen declassified years later. It's as likely as not that information is being hidden not to protect the patient, but rather to protect the doctor.
There's the rub. If you start with programmers who have little domain knowledge, you get awful software. If you start with domain experts who have little programming knowledge, you get HL7.
Things are not quite so simple. Our continual war also serves to justify the indefinite imprisonment of non-citizens without trial, giant military contracts handed-out to friends of those in power, and widespread and warrant-less surveillance of the public at large, among other things. In short, it's a nice means to expand power and corruption in US government.
I agree. If there is a genuine shortage, there is an easy solution to the problem: jack up wages enough and the supply will increase on its own. I am hardly a libertarian, but this issue is a pretty simple thing for the market to handle.
It wouldn't work, anyways. Bullshit has a lower energy density than coal.
Perhaps he was just referencing the fact that the banking sector nearly collapsed of its own greed and stupidity, that people in several areas around the country can light their tap water on fire, and that there was a little oil incident off the coast in recent history.
Regulation didn't really play into the gp's answer, though if you want to go there, the banking and energy industries are two of the worst industries in terms of regulatory capture. The above three incidents resulted in a big fat paycheck, no action at all, and a slap on the wrist, respectively.
Occasionally, if you are calling about an issue, the manufacturer will suggest it. Some will refuse to help you until you ensure that everything (BIOS, drivers, etc.) is up to date.
It's cute that you want to make this a liberal-only issue. Clearly, god-fearing conservatives never have a faulty moral compass. I just get confused when I read stories about clergy exposed for molesting children and their churches spending all their effort on covering it up rather than fixing the problem. I get more confused when I read about gerrymandering, affairs, and kickbacks related to Republicans.
Let me help you: cheating and lying are endemic to our culture as a whole. It is not limited to particular groups as you would like to believe.
This shouldn't come as any surprise. It's simple evolution: the bad guy who doesn't get caught, wins. The bad guy who does get caught but only gets a slap on the wrist wins. If the risk versus reward equation comes out so that the unethical course of action is always a winning proposition, we shouldn't act surprised when people act unethically. The truly unfortunate thing is that those in a position to change the balance of that equation are the same cheats and liars who benefit most from sitting on their hands.
The time and effort it takes to record a single album of 10-15 songs each year is nothing close to the 2000+ hours you spend on a full-time job. Touring is where the hard work happens for a musician. The argument made down this comment thread is that recorded music by itself should not constitute a career in itself - it should only act as supplemental income. I've yet to see anyone here say that a touring musician should be unable to support themselves.
Now here lies the fundamental problem with democracy. Say 49% of people think purple pants should be compulsory. 49% think they should be totally banned.
Whichever way der gubment goes it's "disregarding the will" of a substantial majority.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I could agree with you if it wasn't so one-sided. Why does a corporation get to shift its profits around so that they can dodge taxes and I cannot? Why does the corporation get to charge artificially inflated prices in this country and then prosecute anyone purchasing outside the US at the cheaper price and bringing it back?
Not sour grapes - I merely stated that it flew against what I have come to expect, and so I asked for something more than just your word to show that reality was different. If I am so wrong, there should be evidence to that effect, and you are the one making the original assertion, after all.
For the record, I would be more than happy to be disproven. I live comfortably enough that it doesn't matter *that* much to me, but your claim piqued my interest
Most of those who are filthy rich were originally from lower to middle class, just like you guys.
(citation needed)
There are plenty of mechanisms in place which make it easy to assume most of the filthy rich made it because they were born into wealth, either directly through inheritances or indirectly through financial help, family connections, and better schooling. Just as an example, 4 of the top 20 richest people on earth are part of the Walton family, which inherited their wealth from Sam Walton.
That isn't to say I dismiss your point outright, but I think I need to see some actual data before I accept your point.
But the shooter might have gotten a few more bruises through his body armor.
Not all accidents are caused by something the driver did.
None of them are, in fact. Accidents are always caused by something the other driver did.
I should hope the testing and code reviews you do prior to merging means the change was reviewed. By commenting it out, you are deleting the code as far as the compiler is concerned, but as far as your coworkers are concerned, it's still there to reduce readability.
Changing the daylight savings time rules again would probably have a larger economic impact.
Perhaps, but it would give us the opportunity to make another really sane choice and drop DST altogether.
That's something I can get behind, but I would apply it to more than drunk driving. You would need to include most forms of irresponsible driving, including (but not limited to) texting while driving, talking on a phone while driving, and doing your make-up while driving.
You may think that last one is a joke, but I actually saw an SUV one day on the highway swerving around and caught a glimpse of the driver focusing on her visor mirror and doing her make-up as I passed it.