Like the jackass cop who, during rush hour, pulls some other jackass over for breaking the HOV rule. The cop now creates an artificial traffic jam, because everyone slows down for the flashing lights. Sure the guy/gal may have deserved a ticket, but now thousands of other commuters have to pay for it by sitting in bumper to bumper traffic...really makes me want to yell at Barney Fife./rant
They'll keep a 3 second gap, they'll never exceed the speed limit,...
I'm curious how they'd do in rush hour traffic. Leaving more than a two car length gap, here in the DC area, just means some jackass is going to pull in between you and the vehicle ahead, forcing you to back off more. Oh, and God help them if they're hogging the left lane doing the speed limit...they better have cameras at all angles because people are gonna go apeshit and stuff will be flying their way.
True, but in some ways it will be harder. You'll have a nearly unlimited number of bums, drunks, vandals, thieves, and malicious teenage boys, thinking of every possible way they can steal from, piss in, spray paint, have sex in, etc. And, you think they're going to solve this with a few cameras? BWHAHAHAHAHA!
Since I have several machines to play with at home, I decided to go ahead with the *cough* upgrade *cough* on one of them. Here are the problems I've encountered in just a couple hours of usage.
1. Windows Explorer has been replaced with MS Edge. I often VPN into work, and attempted to do so with Edge, but had no luck. The good news is that Explorer still exists somewhere on the system. From Edge, there's an option to open one of your favorites in Explorer, and I was able to pin explorer to my bottom bar to avoid having to launch edge. MS seems to have hidden Explorer...it doesn't show up in the list of all apps.
2. iPad no longer charges from USB ports. Other devices, like my Garmin GPS watch does. The iPad still syncs up with iTunes, but refuses to charge.
3. My Nvidia graphics driver crashes occasionally, but relaunches. I am running the latest driver, and they claim they're working on it.
I don't disagree, but I'd always be willing to take cost effective steps in that direction. As for "crazy hippie ideas", I haven't done enough homework in this area to know if that's truly the case. I do know that my uncle (he's far from hippy) installed a single solar panel at a lakefront cottage in Ontario, and along with a few marine batteries, it was enough to give the place lighting and run a water heater. The cottage didn't have power or indoor plumbing (we seriously used an outhouse back in the 60s there) previously, so it was a great upgrade.
According to the DOE, it's 29% Transportation, 19% Commercial, 22% Residential, and 30% Industrial. So, while residential is relatively smaller, it's certainly not as insignificant as you are claiming.
You do realize that if the wind is blowing directly toward the wall, a person could hold their umbrella directed away from the wall, and not be hit by the direct rain, and it would be bouncing off the wall back at them. It's called geometry.
If you believe that you can " Just have a conversation with your kids...", and them actually doing as you told them, then you've never raised a child. Children, especially teenagers, are irrational, and typically rebellious.
I didn't know who Temple was until stumbling upon the movie made about her. It would have been nice to get her take on how factual it is. My wife an I really enjoyed it.
I'm not talking about myself moron...thanks for playing jackass. This is human nature. Get your head out of fucking Utopia, because it's not real. Few people work for altruistic reasons, they're in it for themselves. They need incentives to push themselves, or else they're going to do the minimum.
Bob, Charlie, and Dave make 50k a year and Alice makes 35k, despite all of them performing the same. Alice cannot get a raise because she's female and every other business out there is only going to offer 35k because that's the going rate for female employees.
Thanks for the summary. This sounds similar to an incident where I received email from a small bank that shares my own last name. Apparently, one of the bank officers thought he was sending it to one of the owners. So, I received confidential information, which I did not divulge, and informed them of their mistake. That said, could I have shared that information with whomever I pleased? It seems like a the same philosophy.
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Yup, I would never have thought to look for a browser under accessories, though I should have looked under the program files.
Agreeing with the parent here.
The DC Metro coverage isn't good enough here. My 20 min commute would turn into over an hour each way.
Like the jackass cop who, during rush hour, pulls some other jackass over for breaking the HOV rule. The cop now creates an artificial traffic jam, because everyone slows down for the flashing lights. Sure the guy/gal may have deserved a ticket, but now thousands of other commuters have to pay for it by sitting in bumper to bumper traffic...really makes me want to yell at Barney Fife. /rant
Not. Duh yourself.
They'll keep a 3 second gap, they'll never exceed the speed limit,...
I'm curious how they'd do in rush hour traffic. Leaving more than a two car length gap, here in the DC area, just means some jackass is going to pull in between you and the vehicle ahead, forcing you to back off more. Oh, and God help them if they're hogging the left lane doing the speed limit...they better have cameras at all angles because people are gonna go apeshit and stuff will be flying their way.
This. Whoever modded the GP up clearly doesn't have a clue what the costs of moving shit underground are.
This is not rocket science.
True, but in some ways it will be harder. You'll have a nearly unlimited number of bums, drunks, vandals, thieves, and malicious teenage boys, thinking of every possible way they can steal from, piss in, spray paint, have sex in, etc. And, you think they're going to solve this with a few cameras? BWHAHAHAHAHA!
Since I have several machines to play with at home, I decided to go ahead with the *cough* upgrade *cough* on one of them. Here are the problems I've encountered in just a couple hours of usage.
1. Windows Explorer has been replaced with MS Edge. I often VPN into work, and attempted to do so with Edge, but had no luck. The good news is that Explorer still exists somewhere on the system. From Edge, there's an option to open one of your favorites in Explorer, and I was able to pin explorer to my bottom bar to avoid having to launch edge. MS seems to have hidden Explorer...it doesn't show up in the list of all apps.
2. iPad no longer charges from USB ports. Other devices, like my Garmin GPS watch does. The iPad still syncs up with iTunes, but refuses to charge.
3. My Nvidia graphics driver crashes occasionally, but relaunches. I am running the latest driver, and they claim they're working on it.
I don't disagree, but I'd always be willing to take cost effective steps in that direction. As for "crazy hippie ideas", I haven't done enough homework in this area to know if that's truly the case. I do know that my uncle (he's far from hippy) installed a single solar panel at a lakefront cottage in Ontario, and along with a few marine batteries, it was enough to give the place lighting and run a water heater. The cottage didn't have power or indoor plumbing (we seriously used an outhouse back in the 60s there) previously, so it was a great upgrade.
According to the DOE, it's 29% Transportation, 19% Commercial, 22% Residential, and 30% Industrial. So, while residential is relatively smaller, it's certainly not as insignificant as you are claiming.
http://buildingsdatabook.eren....
I'm curious how well these work under blizzard, and sub-zero conditions? Is this really a solved problem?
AKA Hillbilly Hand Fishing
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Are they saying black holes don't matter?
You do realize that if the wind is blowing directly toward the wall, a person could hold their umbrella directed away from the wall, and not be hit by the direct rain, and it would be bouncing off the wall back at them. It's called geometry.
Directed energy weapons are not that interesting. I'm more scared of undirected energy weapon and very curious about ballistic energy weapons.
Would they be interesting if they were pointed at you?
If we had a post of the month award, I'd be voting for this one.
Dumb little shits will be dumb little shits all their life
Thanks for proving that.
If you believe that you can " Just have a conversation with your kids...", and them actually doing as you told them, then you've never raised a child. Children, especially teenagers, are irrational, and typically rebellious.
I didn't know who Temple was until stumbling upon the movie made about her. It would have been nice to get her take on how factual it is. My wife an I really enjoyed it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt12...
I'm not talking about myself moron...thanks for playing jackass. This is human nature. Get your head out of fucking Utopia, because it's not real. Few people work for altruistic reasons, they're in it for themselves. They need incentives to push themselves, or else they're going to do the minimum.
Bob, Charlie, and Dave make 50k a year and Alice makes 35k, despite all of them performing the same. Alice cannot get a raise because she's female and every other business out there is only going to offer 35k because that's the going rate for female employees.
Oh Bullshit. http://www.payscale.com/career...
Exactly, and there's little to no incentive to do better than anyone else, because you're all gonna make the same, so why the fuck work hard.
Thanks for the summary. This sounds similar to an incident where I received email from a small bank that shares my own last name. Apparently, one of the bank officers thought he was sending it to one of the owners. So, I received confidential information, which I did not divulge, and informed them of their mistake. That said, could I have shared that information with whomever I pleased? It seems like a the same philosophy.
Just send Slashdotters, we've already got thin skin.
Only us old foggies wear watches anymore.