Did you even read read the wiki to which you linked?
1) It redirects to Parking Brake. 2) "Additionally, the stopping force provided by using the handbrake instead of or in addition to the footbrake is usually small and would not significantly aid in stopping the vehicle, again because it usually operates on the rear wheels; they suffer reduced traction compared to the front wheels while braking." 3) "Automotive safety experts recommend the use of both systems to immobilize a parked car, and the use of two systems is required by law in some jurisdictions, yet many individuals use only the "Park" position on the automatic transmission and not the parking brake."
It's not that it's legally required to be an emergency brake. It's legally required to be used to park a vehicle.
The 'emergency' brake isn't. It's a parking brake. All car literature today refers to it as such. Pull up on your parking brake with your foot held steady at 70 MPH, you won't be slowing down (You will burn up your brakes).
In addition, the NATO round was designed off of the.223. It's like saying that Ubuntu isn't Debian because some of the packages won't work in it..223 is a whole lot faster to write out and that's how it was originally designed.
With the U.S. military adoption of the ArmaLite AR-15 as the M16 rifle in 1963, the.223 Remington was standardized as the 5.56x45mm. However, the.223 Remington was not introduced as a commercial sporting cartridge until 1964.
Or for the Car Analogy. It's like arguing that the Hummer H1 isn't the same as the Humvee. Even though they were designed and built by the exact same company. I'm sure a few parts aren't interchangeable, but for the most part they're the same damn vehicle.
And read my examples. It IS useless to people in that situation. If a suicide bomber or guy high on meth is coming straight for you with a knife. You don't want something that will 'hurt him' and let him bleed out over the next few hours. You want something that will STOP them. The same goes for animal hunting. I don't want to walk 3 miles tracking a deer. I want something that is going to make a large enough hole bleed out soon and to knock it down.
People, kids, etc die from.22 all the time. I'm not saying they don't. It's just useless for immediate situations. - Relating to the sibling post, we were told in our gun courses that a.22 would sometimes only have enough energy to make it into the brain, but not to break through the skull again, so it'd just rattle around.
I understand slashdot is full of people with different backgrounds, but it becomes easily apparent when people get outside of what they're comfortable with.
A.22 is a very very useless hand to hand weapon and I don't know of any law enforcement in the world that would use the gun powder equivalent of a pea shooter. Unless you get a Boom Headshot.
There was an article a while back on how US soldiers were picking up and using the AK-47 and using them. One reason was most US guns use the Nato.223, which tops out at 4.1g the AK-47 uses a round that tops out at 10g (.22 tops out at g, 9mm at 9.5). People would keep coming after the first shot. Now if I have a suicide bomber running straight for me I want something that I know will make him stop.
For hunting they're mainly used for squirrels and the such. People hunting larger game go for larger guns.
The other being that our guns were in such tight tolerance that in the field they had great range and accuracy... if you kept them clean. The AK-47 could be buried in a pile of sand. picked up, brushed off and fired.
*And the awesome 30-06 topped out at 14g. And you knew it. I spent an entire day shooting nothing but that at a friends once. The next day I had a palm sized bruise in on my shoulder. Oh but it was fun.
If you have a Mac, get GlimmerBlocker It works as a proxy server so it's not an addon. It works with every browser. I can even us GreaseMonkey scripts with all browsers (It will let you inject Javascript right before/body).
I use it with Chromium & WebKit. Firefox doesn't get launched anymore other than for a few things, mainly because it likes to eat up all my RAM. I've had Firefox, with no windows open, using more RAM than the active Photoshop session I was using.
I've been comparing both to replace 2 of my websites. While it may require some knowledge to use, for the most part it 'just works'. The hooks are simple.
And in what stunned me the most, I would download a random theme. Run it through the W3 validator... and it came back valid. With what ever document I threw at it.
Joomla was much more difficult to try and get what I wanted. And there seemed to be more "Pay us and we'll fix it" installations.
IE8 isn't the dominant IE browser yet. Drop IE8 support and offer the IE6/IE7 users a chance to go to another browser. If they have to get used to a new 'look' anyway, what's the difference between IE6->Chrome vs IE6->IE8?
We also owe a very very large portion of our current medical knowledge to the Nazis. If it wasn't for their 'human experiments' we wouldn't know some of the stuff we know today.
Where do you think we got the 'how long you can survive without food/water' stats?
1) Condoms reduce the chance of STDs more. Maybe be a responsible parent and teach your kids about condoms instead of sticking your fingers in your years. 2) It's the 21st century. I have a shower. I shower first as does my girlfriend before I. I've never heard one complaint about 'preference' or liking it 'the other way' 3) I've heard stories that they don't. It's circumstantial (no pun) evidence. I last plenty long for my girlfriend.
The reason for the app store has nothing to do with security and everything about Apple wringing every last penny out of developers by taking an arbitrary cut of their sales and providing only limited QC and indexing that could easily be provided by any other site or service.
And the reason that it's working is because it's fucking easy. While you GNU, FSF, & Linux Luddites are arguing over the technicalities between GPL v2 and v3 and why BSD license sucks. Or KDE vs GNOME or how you can configure every damn single thing on either, Apple has released an OS that has 0 configuration, you literally get 0 options other than what page your apps appear on, and it has become more popular than both.
"Year of the Linux Desktop" will happen when Grandma can get a computer that 'just works'. My grandmother figured out my aunts iPhone no problem. She did never figure out OS X or Linux or Windows. Hell I can't even stand the amount of configuration options in the X window managers. Do I want this font or this font, this size or that. O, I can drag the 'start' menu over here, or over there. I'll spend 5 days figuring it out and never be convinced that it's "right".
Nothing prevented Linux developers from releasing a phone, other than internal bickering and unresolved issues (How's that openmoko coming?).
As soon as you introduce choice, all hell breaks loose. So say I can add any repository for apps I want. When I get my mom the 22" iPad so she can just run programs and not have to deal with an "OS" how do I tell her which repository to use? Or maybe she should install the FSF one too, that way she can use GNU/FSF/HURD/Gnome on her new device.... at which point she tries it and it completely fucks up the install. Then what? I get called.
Jailbreaking is easy enough for a 'technical' user. If I want the iPad and I want to install what ever I want, I'll just jail break it (6 months max) and do that. I don't even want the option available to my mom or 90% of users. Because then they'll find it and use it. Then we'll have Bonzai Buddy for the iPad because some friend sent them a great link to this great repository of smiley faces.
And there's no chance whatsoever that this will ever happen to Mac OS X, so don't lose sleep over it.
I hope it does happen, but that it's a choice. I got to thinking yesterday, and a 22" version of the iPad would be perfect for my mother. I don't want to deal with her accidentally screwing things up. I don't want to deal with a 'file system' with 'folders'. Put it in a dock and forget it. She can even take it to the couch to watch movies. Some thing even simpler than 'Simple Finder'.
With the AppStore I don't have to worry about a package breaking, having to uninstall. All I do is say "OK mom, there's this great program. Just do this." She can't for the life of her figure out how to do anything on my laptop (She freaked out and set it down when she hit Expose) but her sister's iPhone had 0 learning curve.
I really don't see how this is any different than AtEase from back in the Macintosh OS 7 days. I had my entire family on that. My brother and sister eventually got full Finder access, but my parents stayed on AtEase.
While she does know how to use a mouse, I remember that was the most difficult concept for my grandma to grasp. She just wanted to touch the screen. She just wanted to point at what she was going to use... sound familiar?
Yes a 'touch interface' is much slower than us that can use a mouse and may get tiring after a long time, but for some it may be a ton easier. Want to go to the next photo? Just 'grab' the current one and move it over.
I use OS X because of the built in bash shell and all the other *nix toys. AND because I don't want to fight my system. But there is huge dichotomy in OS X users. The technical users that want the technical, but don't want to fight their computer and non-technical users who wants something that just works. The iPad panders to the lowest of the low non-technical users and I really hope I can get the OS on a 22" iMac some day.
If it wasn't for OS X, I wouldn't have a SheevaPlug running Sid or a ZFS FreeBSD server. That little black window opened my entire world to command line stuff. First a 'mv' or a 'cp'. Then I was sshing into my desktop from other places. Before you know it I'm doing a cross-compiled kernel for an ARM on an AMD64 and trying to figure out why uBoot refuses to read my SD card. (Damn latest version of uBoot not being able to boot off of SD cards.)
I'd say a good 50% of what I do on my computer is in Terminal.app. This includes all my photo processing (ImageMagick, ExifTool), movie watching (mplayer -ontop -fs), mp3s (mplayer), screen, etc. All because Apple packaged it up with a nice bow and made it accessible. And this was back in a time when I couldn't make it through the Linux installer without something breaking and me having a broken computer and going back to Windows.
She wants a 'computer.' All she does is browse the internet and update her facebook. I'm looking at a MacMini Refurb. But I honestly think that that may be a bit too much.
I could get this, toss in the Dock and I know she's set. No tech support needed. If she wants to watch stuff on the couch, she can take it to the couch. I imagine there will be an App soon for everything here. I've seen her pick up her sister's iPhone and use it with 0 learning curve. This is the woman that freaked out when she hit Expose on my brother's laptop and then set it down and wouldn't listen to us explaining how things worked. (She keeps telling Me that she wants 'Computer Lessons' but then refuses to be instructed because its "too difficult").
The deal with AT&T is the biggest news. Holy hell that's fucking awesome.
$15 for 250MB $30 for UNLIMITED DATA. No contract.
I bet you just have to activate it on a iPad, then put it in any phone that will handle GSM and use VOIP for unlimited data and minutes for $30 a month.
AT&T will try and lock it but I imagine that we can get around that rather quickly. I'd consider going back to AT&T for that price.
Hopefully it'll get those sites to drop Flash. HTML5 is here and can easily replace all the need for flash on all the sites listed.
Looks like it'd be a great time to start a website that only did HTML5 video of sports events. You'd have the entire iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch market cornered rather quickly.
ESPN isn't going to want to miss out on a very large demographic. I bet they (and others) will be adding HTML5 support rather soon.
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You'll have to crack 2 lines. Cars today have dual hydraulic circuits. Front left/Right Rear & Front right/Left rear are tied together.
Lets be honest, Heel/Toe style driving is reserved for rally drivers. I know of almost no one that can actually heel toe.
I use either the parking brake or just accept a slight bit of rollback while I mash the accelerator and letup on the clutch.
I own a VW TDI. It's all TDW because the diesel is electronically governed. It's is IMPOSSIBLE to power brake.
If you just lightly touch the brake pedal with the accelerator to the floor, fuel cuts back to idle.
Only way to power brake now is to use the parking brake.
Did you even read read the wiki to which you linked?
1) It redirects to Parking Brake.
2) "Additionally, the stopping force provided by using the handbrake instead of or in addition to the footbrake is usually small and would not significantly aid in stopping the vehicle, again because it usually operates on the rear wheels; they suffer reduced traction compared to the front wheels while braking."
3) "Automotive safety experts recommend the use of both systems to immobilize a parked car, and the use of two systems is required by law in some jurisdictions, yet many individuals use only the "Park" position on the automatic transmission and not the parking brake."
It's not that it's legally required to be an emergency brake. It's legally required to be used to park a vehicle.
The 'emergency' brake isn't. It's a parking brake. All car literature today refers to it as such. Pull up on your parking brake with your foot held steady at 70 MPH, you won't be slowing down (You will burn up your brakes).
It's there for parking.
Apple has a ton of awesome tools out for developers. (http://developer.apple.com/tools/). Hell they ported DTrace. There is an OpenGL profiler.
The iPad is an appliance. It is a coffee maker, microwave, or stove. It isn't designed or meant to be tinkered. Stop trying to make it a computer.
I wanted to get one for my mom because I know I could set it up once and be done with it.
The coolest thing about emulators... editing the ROMS in a hex editor.
Oregon trail is so much more fun when the Max you can carry of everything is 9999 :)
Sigh: http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=118133
In addition, the NATO round was designed off of the .223. It's like saying that Ubuntu isn't Debian because some of the packages won't work in it. .223 is a whole lot faster to write out and that's how it was originally designed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.223_Remington
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5.56x45mm_NATO
With the U.S. military adoption of the ArmaLite AR-15 as the M16 rifle in 1963, the .223 Remington was standardized as the 5.56x45mm. However, the .223 Remington was not introduced as a commercial sporting cartridge until 1964.
Or for the Car Analogy. It's like arguing that the Hummer H1 isn't the same as the Humvee. Even though they were designed and built by the exact same company. I'm sure a few parts aren't interchangeable, but for the most part they're the same damn vehicle.
And read my examples. It IS useless to people in that situation. If a suicide bomber or guy high on meth is coming straight for you with a knife. You don't want something that will 'hurt him' and let him bleed out over the next few hours. You want something that will STOP them. The same goes for animal hunting. I don't want to walk 3 miles tracking a deer. I want something that is going to make a large enough hole bleed out soon and to knock it down.
People, kids, etc die from .22 all the time. I'm not saying they don't. It's just useless for immediate situations. .22 would sometimes only have enough energy to make it into the brain, but not to break through the skull again, so it'd just rattle around.
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Relating to the sibling post, we were told in our gun courses that a
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I understand slashdot is full of people with different backgrounds, but it becomes easily apparent when people get outside of what they're comfortable with.
A .22 is a very very useless hand to hand weapon and I don't know of any law enforcement in the world that would use the gun powder equivalent of a pea shooter. Unless you get a Boom Headshot.
There was an article a while back on how US soldiers were picking up and using the AK-47 and using them. One reason was most US guns use the Nato .223, which tops out at 4.1g the AK-47 uses a round that tops out at 10g (.22 tops out at g, 9mm at 9.5). People would keep coming after the first shot. Now if I have a suicide bomber running straight for me I want something that I know will make him stop.
For hunting they're mainly used for squirrels and the such. People hunting larger game go for larger guns.
The other being that our guns were in such tight tolerance that in the field they had great range and accuracy ... if you kept them clean. The AK-47 could be buried in a pile of sand. picked up, brushed off and fired.
*And the awesome 30-06 topped out at 14g. And you knew it. I spent an entire day shooting nothing but that at a friends once. The next day I had a palm sized bruise in on my shoulder. Oh but it was fun.
Driving is not a 'right' because the whole concept of 'driving' came about long after the constitution.
200 years ago it would be Inconceivable to ban someone from owning a horse or a carriage. It's a basic transportation.
(And even if it WAS a right... second amendment seems to be fighting for its life right now.)
If you have a Mac, get GlimmerBlocker It works as a proxy server so it's not an addon. It works with every browser. I can even us GreaseMonkey scripts with all browsers (It will let you inject Javascript right before /body).
I use it with Chromium & WebKit. Firefox doesn't get launched anymore other than for a few things, mainly because it likes to eat up all my RAM. I've had Firefox, with no windows open, using more RAM than the active Photoshop session I was using.
I've been comparing both to replace 2 of my websites. While it may require some knowledge to use, for the most part it 'just works'. The hooks are simple.
And in what stunned me the most, I would download a random theme. Run it through the W3 validator... and it came back valid. With what ever document I threw at it.
Joomla was much more difficult to try and get what I wanted. And there seemed to be more "Pay us and we'll fix it" installations.
I would love a generic FPGA with some basic support. I would kill for a DNG -> JPG/TIFF batch processor after 'developing' all my Digital negatives.
Same with encoding x264 video.
A that could just do those two things would easily be worth some money.
IE8 isn't the dominant IE browser yet. Drop IE8 support and offer the IE6/IE7 users a chance to go to another browser. If they have to get used to a new 'look' anyway, what's the difference between IE6->Chrome vs IE6->IE8?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_human_experimentation
Experiments on twins
Freezing experiments
Malaria experiments
Mustard gas experiments
Sulfonamide experiments
Sea water experiments
Sterilization experiments
Experiments with poison
Incendiary bomb experiments
High altitude experiments
We also owe a very very large portion of our current medical knowledge to the Nazis. If it wasn't for their 'human experiments' we wouldn't know some of the stuff we know today.
Where do you think we got the 'how long you can survive without food/water' stats?
Doesn't mean it was right.
1) Condoms reduce the chance of STDs more. Maybe be a responsible parent and teach your kids about condoms instead of sticking your fingers in your years.
2) It's the 21st century. I have a shower. I shower first as does my girlfriend before I. I've never heard one complaint about 'preference' or liking it 'the other way'
3) I've heard stories that they don't. It's circumstantial (no pun) evidence. I last plenty long for my girlfriend.
But this 'worthwhile organisation (sic)' comes across as a bunch of wingnuts.
FSF is the Sea Shepherds, PETA, and MADD of the Software World.
The reason for the app store has nothing to do with security and everything about Apple wringing every last penny out of developers by taking an arbitrary cut of their sales and providing only limited QC and indexing that could easily be provided by any other site or service.
And the reason that it's working is because it's fucking easy. While you GNU, FSF, & Linux Luddites are arguing over the technicalities between GPL v2 and v3 and why BSD license sucks. Or KDE vs GNOME or how you can configure every damn single thing on either, Apple has released an OS that has 0 configuration, you literally get 0 options other than what page your apps appear on, and it has become more popular than both.
"Year of the Linux Desktop" will happen when Grandma can get a computer that 'just works'. My grandmother figured out my aunts iPhone no problem. She did never figure out OS X or Linux or Windows. Hell I can't even stand the amount of configuration options in the X window managers. Do I want this font or this font, this size or that. O, I can drag the 'start' menu over here, or over there. I'll spend 5 days figuring it out and never be convinced that it's "right".
Nothing prevented Linux developers from releasing a phone, other than internal bickering and unresolved issues (How's that openmoko coming?).
As soon as you introduce choice, all hell breaks loose. So say I can add any repository for apps I want. When I get my mom the 22" iPad so she can just run programs and not have to deal with an "OS" how do I tell her which repository to use? Or maybe she should install the FSF one too, that way she can use GNU/FSF/HURD/Gnome on her new device.... at which point she tries it and it completely fucks up the install. Then what? I get called.
Jailbreaking is easy enough for a 'technical' user. If I want the iPad and I want to install what ever I want, I'll just jail break it (6 months max) and do that. I don't even want the option available to my mom or 90% of users. Because then they'll find it and use it. Then we'll have Bonzai Buddy for the iPad because some friend sent them a great link to this great repository of smiley faces.
And there's no chance whatsoever that this will ever happen to Mac OS X, so don't lose sleep over it.
I hope it does happen, but that it's a choice. I got to thinking yesterday, and a 22" version of the iPad would be perfect for my mother. I don't want to deal with her accidentally screwing things up. I don't want to deal with a 'file system' with 'folders'. Put it in a dock and forget it. She can even take it to the couch to watch movies. Some thing even simpler than 'Simple Finder'.
With the AppStore I don't have to worry about a package breaking, having to uninstall. All I do is say "OK mom, there's this great program. Just do this." She can't for the life of her figure out how to do anything on my laptop (She freaked out and set it down when she hit Expose) but her sister's iPhone had 0 learning curve.
I really don't see how this is any different than AtEase from back in the Macintosh OS 7 days. I had my entire family on that. My brother and sister eventually got full Finder access, but my parents stayed on AtEase.
While she does know how to use a mouse, I remember that was the most difficult concept for my grandma to grasp. She just wanted to touch the screen. She just wanted to point at what she was going to use... sound familiar?
Yes a 'touch interface' is much slower than us that can use a mouse and may get tiring after a long time, but for some it may be a ton easier. Want to go to the next photo? Just 'grab' the current one and move it over.
I use OS X because of the built in bash shell and all the other *nix toys. AND because I don't want to fight my system. But there is huge dichotomy in OS X users. The technical users that want the technical, but don't want to fight their computer and non-technical users who wants something that just works. The iPad panders to the lowest of the low non-technical users and I really hope I can get the OS on a 22" iMac some day.
If it wasn't for OS X, I wouldn't have a SheevaPlug running Sid or a ZFS FreeBSD server. That little black window opened my entire world to command line stuff. First a 'mv' or a 'cp'. Then I was sshing into my desktop from other places. Before you know it I'm doing a cross-compiled kernel for an ARM on an AMD64 and trying to figure out why uBoot refuses to read my SD card. (Damn latest version of uBoot not being able to boot off of SD cards.)
I'd say a good 50% of what I do on my computer is in Terminal.app. This includes all my photo processing (ImageMagick, ExifTool), movie watching (mplayer -ontop -fs), mp3s (mplayer), screen, etc. All because Apple packaged it up with a nice bow and made it accessible. And this was back in a time when I couldn't make it through the Linux installer without something breaking and me having a broken computer and going back to Windows.
Last time I got "friendlier" with one of my users I got into a law suit.
I would buy this for my mother.
She wants a 'computer.' All she does is browse the internet and update her facebook. I'm looking at a MacMini Refurb. But I honestly think that that may be a bit too much.
I could get this, toss in the Dock and I know she's set. No tech support needed. If she wants to watch stuff on the couch, she can take it to the couch. I imagine there will be an App soon for everything here. I've seen her pick up her sister's iPhone and use it with 0 learning curve. This is the woman that freaked out when she hit Expose on my brother's laptop and then set it down and wouldn't listen to us explaining how things worked. (She keeps telling Me that she wants 'Computer Lessons' but then refuses to be instructed because its "too difficult").
This would be perfect for her.
The deal with AT&T is the biggest news. Holy hell that's fucking awesome.
$15 for 250MB
$30 for UNLIMITED DATA.
No contract.
I bet you just have to activate it on a iPad, then put it in any phone that will handle GSM and use VOIP for unlimited data and minutes for $30 a month.
AT&T will try and lock it but I imagine that we can get around that rather quickly. I'd consider going back to AT&T for that price.
Hopefully it'll get those sites to drop Flash. HTML5 is here and can easily replace all the need for flash on all the sites listed.
Looks like it'd be a great time to start a website that only did HTML5 video of sports events. You'd have the entire iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch market cornered rather quickly.
ESPN isn't going to want to miss out on a very large demographic. I bet they (and others) will be adding HTML5 support rather soon.