Well said. I was driving one day along a route I know fairly well but used the GPS to see if there were alternate roads that would get me around one I don't particularly enjoy driving. As I approached the road it told me to turn onto, I saw that it was an unplowed fire route and this story being in the winter in Canada, I ignored my GPS' advice and kept going on the main road.
People who turn left just because the machine told them to deserve what they get.
If you don't value the higher speed roads, choose the speed limited option in your GPS (Tomtom has it at least).
That is to say, if you don't intend to really drive over 50mph, set your speed limit in the GPS to 50 and it won't consider faster routes preferentially any more. As a result you get a lot of alternate routes that are shofter but with lower speed limits.
This feature is actually implemented in Waze for Android/IPhone/BB. If you enable it, it remembers your common routes and uploads them to the server. Not only does it consider them in the future for your own navigation but it uses them when offering others routes as well.
That is to say, if you happen to have discovered a good route to avoid traffic when commuting, it may share that route with other users if it agrees that its faster.
Use a Tomtom with IQ Routes. The IQ Routes feature has average speed data for each road stored by time of day and day of week so it navigates you along the probably fastest route based on average travel speed.
PS Never never never choose 'shortest route' when navigating with a GPS unless you actually don't care about how long it will take you. Fastest is the correct choice.
PPS on GPS systems that support it, if you don't plan to drive much faster on highways than on side roads, simply set a speed limited option to something like "80km/h" (or your equivalent) and it will assume you won't exceed that speed and navigate you appropriately.
I often set my GPS to my destination then simply ignore it as I drive there. I look down periodically to see what it believes my ETA to be (and my newest Tomtom device is notoriously accurate in this regard), but I only use it for the actual directions when going somewhere I haven't been before.
On the other hand, I've been playing a lot with Waze on my Android phone lately, and I love its collaborative approach to mapping and notifications. If I leave Waze runningw hile driving, it records my average speeds and uses them for calculating best routes for other drivers, it lets me submit events in realtime like traffic jams, police speed traps, accidents, construction zones, etc. which are reported to other Waze users (Wazers) in real-time allowing them to avoid these if they're using it for nagivation.
Interestingly, it also allows recording or fixing of roads online, which is a great feature for people who live in areas with poorly maintained maps. It even supports fixing of house number locations.
... and which fall within the acceptable collateral damage specifications for the engagement.
Given forty buildings to destroy in a tight region, individual smart bombs are still preferable so as to avoid killing off the civilian population in between each.
Nuking the entire site makes no such distinction unfortunately.
ip help ip route help ip route add help ip route add default via w.x.y.z
ip addr help ip addr show
The ip tool is not hard, and its command-line help functionality is terse but very complete. I've been using it for many many years now, its hardly new.
What Java doesn't have is a good external installer for native libraries. That's the only reason for multi-platform installers. Even 3D games like http://wurmonline.com/ don't have multiple platform installation options; they run through Webstart and install automatically.
Oracle is trading at around $30 a share with a market cap of ~ $153 billion. Google is trading at around $600 a share with a market cap of ~$194 billion.
That is to say, Oracle isn't small, and while Google's bigger, it would have to use nearly half its own net worth to gain a controlling share of Oracle.
Lots of things can be taken wrong. That's why you have the right to remain silent -- you might say something that incriminates yourself when you don't intend to.
If you have something that can look to be bad, even if you know it wasn't intended that way, you'd still want it off the record.
You're either paranoid or not much of a social network user.
I have no idea why you'd fire a teacher for friending people online.
Several teachers I know use social networks as ways of keeping in touch with students about on-going projects and assignments after hours. Some even operate Facebook Groups for classes because its easier to engage modern teens that way.
Why don't we stick to punishing people for actually doing something wrong instead? Next thing we'll fire people who go out for lunch because they could end up coming back drunk.
As Facebook offers no term other than "friends" (at least we have Google+ now), being "friends" on Facebook is meaningless. Many of the people I have on Facebook are not in fact Friends but associates or friends of friends or just people I know online from gaming and tech communities.
Totally off topic, but I really wish K-9 and others would take advantage of the newish Google online backup option for settings. I enable it in all the software that offers the option; much nicer than having to restore settings.
PS with Titanium backup I've had about 90% success on restoring data.
You may wish to check that with an actual lawyer before you take that set of assumptions too seriously.
I've read good evidence of situations where judges said Miranda was waived implicitly because the suspect answered the police's questions early in the investigations. Their willingness to assist the investigation could not therefore be taken back after they realized they were now a suspect.
Unfortunately your legal system (see a lawyer, I'm not one) means that helping the police waives your Miranda rights. If you aided the police at one point, and then they decide to switch off and start questioning you about something you don't want to answer, its too late.
You're always best off to not answer anything.
Is this in the best interest of public security? no. Should the law allow someone to be helpful then shut up? yes, imho. Does it? no.
If you're going to use exploding dye packs, you may as well make them lethal, because the guy who detects the "bomb-like" device in your luggage is going to report you.
You have no freedom to do what you want with music in the USA. Your Copyright system makes you a criminal when you even just transcode a music file or exercise your rights by cracking CSS on a DVD. Our system doesn't assume everyone's a criminal, it assumes what we want to do is perfectly legal and to compensate the artists for possible lost sales, blank media levies are divided up and paid out to the most popular artists.
Facts are facts though; for some reason the Canadian banks didn't crash and burn with the rest of the G8's major banking systems.
Proving what that reason is, and whether those regulations created those circumstances would be very hard, but it seems reasonable that they're involved.
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Well said. I was driving one day along a route I know fairly well but used the GPS to see if there were alternate roads that would get me around one I don't particularly enjoy driving. As I approached the road it told me to turn onto, I saw that it was an unplowed fire route and this story being in the winter in Canada, I ignored my GPS' advice and kept going on the main road.
People who turn left just because the machine told them to deserve what they get.
If you don't value the higher speed roads, choose the speed limited option in your GPS (Tomtom has it at least).
That is to say, if you don't intend to really drive over 50mph, set your speed limit in the GPS to 50 and it won't consider faster routes preferentially any more. As a result you get a lot of alternate routes that are shofter but with lower speed limits.
This feature is actually implemented in Waze for Android/IPhone/BB. If you enable it, it remembers your common routes and uploads them to the server. Not only does it consider them in the future for your own navigation but it uses them when offering others routes as well.
That is to say, if you happen to have discovered a good route to avoid traffic when commuting, it may share that route with other users if it agrees that its faster.
Use a Tomtom with IQ Routes. The IQ Routes feature has average speed data for each road stored by time of day and day of week so it navigates you along the probably fastest route based on average travel speed.
PS Never never never choose 'shortest route' when navigating with a GPS unless you actually don't care about how long it will take you. Fastest is the correct choice.
PPS on GPS systems that support it, if you don't plan to drive much faster on highways than on side roads, simply set a speed limited option to something like "80km/h" (or your equivalent) and it will assume you won't exceed that speed and navigate you appropriately.
I often set my GPS to my destination then simply ignore it as I drive there. I look down periodically to see what it believes my ETA to be (and my newest Tomtom device is notoriously accurate in this regard), but I only use it for the actual directions when going somewhere I haven't been before.
On the other hand, I've been playing a lot with Waze on my Android phone lately, and I love its collaborative approach to mapping and notifications. If I leave Waze runningw hile driving, it records my average speeds and uses them for calculating best routes for other drivers, it lets me submit events in realtime like traffic jams, police speed traps, accidents, construction zones, etc. which are reported to other Waze users (Wazers) in real-time allowing them to avoid these if they're using it for nagivation.
Interestingly, it also allows recording or fixing of roads online, which is a great feature for people who live in areas with poorly maintained maps. It even supports fixing of house number locations.
... and which fall within the acceptable collateral damage specifications for the engagement.
Given forty buildings to destroy in a tight region, individual smart bombs are still preferable so as to avoid killing off the civilian population in between each.
Nuking the entire site makes no such distinction unfortunately.
And yet I've never seen a GUI for network interfaces that covers all the options and displays them as concisely as a command line.
I'm including Windows, OSx, MacOS, Linux, etc. in that statement.
If one ever exists, I may use it. Until then, I prefer my GUI to only tell me about my network status, and not try to configure it.
ip help
ip route help
ip route add help
ip route add default via w.x.y.z
ip addr help
ip addr show
The ip tool is not hard, and its command-line help functionality is terse but very complete. I've been using it for many many years now, its hardly new.
What Java doesn't have is a good external installer for native libraries. That's the only reason for multi-platform installers. Even 3D games like http://wurmonline.com/ don't have multiple platform installation options; they run through Webstart and install automatically.
Oracle is trading at around $30 a share with a market cap of ~ $153 billion.
Google is trading at around $600 a share with a market cap of ~$194 billion.
That is to say, Oracle isn't small, and while Google's bigger, it would have to use nearly half its own net worth to gain a controlling share of Oracle.
Lots of things can be taken wrong. That's why you have the right to remain silent -- you might say something that incriminates yourself when you don't intend to.
If you have something that can look to be bad, even if you know it wasn't intended that way, you'd still want it off the record.
"Limited Profile" is a beautiful thing. :)
You're either paranoid or not much of a social network user.
I have no idea why you'd fire a teacher for friending people online.
Several teachers I know use social networks as ways of keeping in touch with students about on-going projects and assignments after hours. Some even operate Facebook Groups for classes because its easier to engage modern teens that way.
Why don't we stick to punishing people for actually doing something wrong instead? Next thing we'll fire people who go out for lunch because they could end up coming back drunk.
As Facebook offers no term other than "friends" (at least we have Google+ now), being "friends" on Facebook is meaningless. Many of the people I have on Facebook are not in fact Friends but associates or friends of friends or just people I know online from gaming and tech communities.
More importantly you have no legal reason to allow the audit or to let any of their people into your building.
The same economists that didn't predict any of our recent downfalls?
Sure, yes, lets hear what they have to say. Their track record isn't even on par with randomness after all.
Totally off topic, but I really wish K-9 and others would take advantage of the newish Google online backup option for settings. I enable it in all the software that offers the option; much nicer than having to restore settings.
PS with Titanium backup I've had about 90% success on restoring data.
You really prefer the iPad E-mail client over k-9 for example? Or do you just mean the built-in client on most devices?
You may wish to check that with an actual lawyer before you take that set of assumptions too seriously.
I've read good evidence of situations where judges said Miranda was waived implicitly because the suspect answered the police's questions early in the investigations. Their willingness to assist the investigation could not therefore be taken back after they realized they were now a suspect.
Unfortunately your legal system (see a lawyer, I'm not one) means that helping the police waives your Miranda rights. If you aided the police at one point, and then they decide to switch off and start questioning you about something you don't want to answer, its too late.
You're always best off to not answer anything.
Is this in the best interest of public security? no. Should the law allow someone to be helpful then shut up? yes, imho. Does it? no.
You might want to check your English books again.
For the last six months and over the last six months have very different meanings.
The one you criticized was in fact the correct usage.
If you're going to use exploding dye packs, you may as well make them lethal, because the guy who detects the "bomb-like" device in your luggage is going to report you.
Selling those bombs on ebay saved lives of passengers on-board the plane :)
You have no freedom to do what you want with music in the USA. Your Copyright system makes you a criminal when you even just transcode a music file or exercise your rights by cracking CSS on a DVD. Our system doesn't assume everyone's a criminal, it assumes what we want to do is perfectly legal and to compensate the artists for possible lost sales, blank media levies are divided up and paid out to the most popular artists.
Silly groupthink.
Facts are facts though; for some reason the Canadian banks didn't crash and burn with the rest of the G8's major banking systems.
Proving what that reason is, and whether those regulations created those circumstances would be very hard, but it seems reasonable that they're involved.