Or, they can make the conscious decision to actually plan their roads, and not allow housing on designated thoroughfares. It's pretty simple as enough places can and have implemented such planning over the past many decades. Note that such planning goes back at least to the 30s, so it's not "new", "novel", nor can anyone claim that they weren't aware of it. Many localities for whatever short sighted reasons chose not to engage in actual planning. Laissez faire results in the mess many have today.
You'll be happy to know that your wonderful local governments were hard at work with NIMBY. Here is one case where full blown planned freeways were reduced to small signaled intersections. I had heard that the DC area until the late 60s or early 70s had 12 major highway rights of ways on the books, but all were eventually sold off because no one wanted a highway near them.
If the houses and residential areas predate the highways and increased traffic, you'll have to tear down a LOT of houses to create the arterial roads you believe are needed.
I'd say in this case, Cleese has a point. Today's brain-washed college students are merely proles awaiting their assignment in the machine to perpetuate the machine. The only thing they're against is people they perceive as having "unfairly" succeeded. (I can agree with that opinion partially, which is ironic, as according to one measure I recently saw it is likely a large majority of accounts here of folks over 30 are likely in the 1%)
I also recently saw a comic who was "funny" I'd guess about 50 years ago. His delivery and topics just weren't funny to me. Were they offensive? Quite likely to more than one person, but that's not the point. Do I complain about him? Of course not, I just mark him down in the list of "not funny" and move on. Railing against a comedian because you find them offensive is idiotic, just don't go. Apparently college kids need to be handled with white gloves, and apparently more than a few also require those stylish long sleeved white jackets.
If you want someone offensive, bring on someone like Carlos Mencia. Just be prepared to laugh in spite of being offended. What's hilarious is I walked into a fast food place the other day and was asked "grilled or creepy"? I chuckled for at least the next hour. That reminds me of boogers (1 cheese-boo-ger) Damn, now I am not going to get any work done.
A car traveling 10mph is less likely to kill someone it hits. A car traveling at 5mph is even less likely. Let's make all cars travel at 5mph because... "think of the kids!!!!"
Bike thieves are of no interest to law enforcement. They're stealing bikes, there is no money to be made off of someone that poor, nor to be gained by pleasing those that have bikes they'll leave outside.
First, long posts, always type it in an editor outside of/. You'll be happier when, inevitably, your browser, the internet, or the servers eat your response.
Blue signs - all other things aside, they've been in Europe for at least 4 decades. They have been in use in the US for airports and such in several areas I'm familiar with for at least 20 years. Just noting some points. I don't think the final cost of the sign will vary much between green or blue paint, and I don't think it would make a lick of difference as signs were changed over the 5 to 10 year life-span for sign replacement. I have no hard references for any of those statements, but your cost numbers do not surprise me in the least.
Enforcing signs is a good one. In at least 1 state, the law specifically states speed limits are guidance only. Another one states "no tolerance" and they used to mean it. But, when police became revenue sources, they stopped looking for dangerous drivers and only looked for revenue opportunities, like if you failed to come to a full stop when leaving a parking lot (law in yet another state)
Fuel efficiency. Stopping a car is a huge cost, mostly needless in many areas. But the direct cost is born by drivers, therefore the municipalities that control signaling have exactly 0 motivation to reduce stoppages. In some municipalities, they actually time lights to cause you to stop at every intersection, probably in some misguided plan that the longer you look at these stores, the more likely you are to stop and spend money at one. Or, more likely, to force you to drive over the speed limit so you don't have to waste 10 minutes going 2 miles every day, so they can collect a speeding ticket from you every 6 or so months, if you're lucky. However all of these issues will likely be answered by autonomous cars. There's no reason to stop if 1 entity controls all vehicle movement and can maximize transmission efficiency. Actually, that implies that the autonomous cars are centrally controlled, or at least follow movement guidance from a central controller.
If you are writing software or websites then these numbers means something very important.
I write software and websites, and for both these numbers are meaningless. I write to standards, and the sites do what they are supposed to do. I do not write for that special snowflake software 1 vendor wants you to lock into.
I actually wrote a series of scripts back in the day that allowed multiple characters to work together to gain XP and gold as fast as the system would allow it. It was an interesting exercise since the participants in the kill room had to communicate via the game to get healed or acknowledge they were ready for the next target. Each character type had a custom set of activities, and statuses. It was an interesting thing to get working well.
I've often thought about this as I country hopped. My conclusion is that the US has some of the absolute worst road signage in the world. White on med green? White on blue is much better with higher contrast, and we even use them here, but not for our main signage. Speed limit signs? A circle with a red boundary and a number. Crystal clear, don't need to read anything nor comprehend some smaller text about whom this applies to, what time, or anything.
My last peeve is with yield signs. I would be 100% ok with police staking out yield signs and pulling over everyone that fails to yield. It seems that the majority of drivers in the US think "yield" means someone else will.
bah - I run a RAID 0 system disk (ie, OS). I also have multiple offline backups, so if it fails, I'm back up within 10-15 minutes may at most have lost 60 minutes of work since I have a workspace on separate drives plus regular snapshots and an off-system backup.
Just remember, RAID 10 is not a backup, but a HA setup. Whether you "sudo rm -rf/" on a single disk, RAID-0 or RAID-10, you've likely hosed your system. So go ahead and run in RAID-0, it's no more dangerous than running any other configuration as long as you have real backups.
Because they haven't progressed to contextual translation yet, which includes phrases and grammar structure translation. Any multi-lingual person will be able to tell you that they do not translate word for word, they need the full phrase or more to go from language a to b, especially if those languages have varying grammatical structures and rules governing things like adverb and adjective placement. Also note that phrases like "top of the morning to you" should be translated to an appropriate (morning) greeting and not some nonsensical word for word replacement scheme.
He took a company with a monopoly and the world at its feet and ensured that they succeeded at nothing for a decade. Satya is working hard to change the revenue model to a sustainable flow for MS, but in doing so, he's creating enough backlash that companies are abandoning MS products. Had Ballmer had an iota of intelligence, he would have migrated MS to the subscription model when he started. At that time it likely would have succeeded and MS would have much more than doubled its revenue in his tenure.
A better response is to limit the total length of all bills to less than 4400 words (It was enough to establish the base foundation of the country, it should be enough for any laws enacted within the country) It would mean that laws would likely be able to be understood by the ordinary citizen vs needing a law degree and a PhD in governmental politics to understand one of the current morasses that have more than 4400 pages.
I'm perfectly fine with a government that spends it time attempting to work together because no one party has a majority and that leading to less effective government. The answer to the parasitic politician is some form of term limits. I've thought about this a while, and it seems like the best answer for politicians is no consecutive terms, meaning your time in office is dedicated to working, not re-election. Effectively this will limit many politicians to 1 term, because winning a second term after being out of office for a term becomes significantly more difficult, at least what I've seen from the few places that have such a system.
A platform may be riddled with bugs, but if nobody is exploiting it then the end result is that you are running on a system that doesn't get exploited.
This was the Mac argument for years. Mac is more secure because nobody writes malware that exploits it.
Macs have bugs, there's no denying that. However, the Mac is more secure because, not shockingly, it is more secure. When it comes to security, windows can't help itself since its security is essentially on the outside of the vault, instead of the inside like every reasonable system.
MS has stated multiple times that the OS subscription model is their target. Win10 is the last "purchased" windows anyone will ever buy according to the blurb I read somewhere (too lazy to look it up) The windows update process will be honored for something like 18-24 months. After that, you subscribe, or you will get no support, or so I recall reading. It's especially cool since no new Intel hardware will be supported on legacy OSes even those still under support. I don't recall if windows will keep operating forever or some limited time after your subscription ends. Did they rewrite this clause in the past couple of months similar to the "you will be upgraded within 3 months no exceptions" clause due to backlash? For me they are just points to help decide people to migrate away from MS if they can't live with those "features".
MS sounds more like money grubbing Oracle than anyone else at this point, so I'll just expect the logical steps associated with that aspect which IMNSHO will only hurt MS in any term.
I'd say anecdotally that windows and windows phone are dead. MS has finally gone one step too far in getting everyone on the subscription bandwagon. There's a reason IBM is switching to macs, and I'd say it has everything to do with Windows 10 licensing and policy changes. The stated W7/W8 hardware support changes were just icing on the tossed out cake. With all of that out of the way, why would anyone migrate to windows phone to be tied even more firmly into the MS subscription juggernaut?
BTW, on an iphone you can place your icon anywhere within the occupied home screen slots. You cannot put them in a vertical row however. It's a minor thing to me, as I tend to keep my screens trimmed down. I haven't tried that with Android because I just don't care.
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Or, they can make the conscious decision to actually plan their roads, and not allow housing on designated thoroughfares. It's pretty simple as enough places can and have implemented such planning over the past many decades. Note that such planning goes back at least to the 30s, so it's not "new", "novel", nor can anyone claim that they weren't aware of it. Many localities for whatever short sighted reasons chose not to engage in actual planning. Laissez faire results in the mess many have today.
You'll be happy to know that your wonderful local governments were hard at work with NIMBY. Here is one case where full blown planned freeways were reduced to small signaled intersections. I had heard that the DC area until the late 60s or early 70s had 12 major highway rights of ways on the books, but all were eventually sold off because no one wanted a highway near them.
The nuclear waste problem was solved decades ago?
If the houses and residential areas predate the highways and increased traffic, you'll have to tear down a LOT of houses to create the arterial roads you believe are needed.
Build the road elsewhere. Done.
I'd say in this case, Cleese has a point. Today's brain-washed college students are merely proles awaiting their assignment in the machine to perpetuate the machine. The only thing they're against is people they perceive as having "unfairly" succeeded. (I can agree with that opinion partially, which is ironic, as according to one measure I recently saw it is likely a large majority of accounts here of folks over 30 are likely in the 1%)
I also recently saw a comic who was "funny" I'd guess about 50 years ago. His delivery and topics just weren't funny to me. Were they offensive? Quite likely to more than one person, but that's not the point. Do I complain about him? Of course not, I just mark him down in the list of "not funny" and move on. Railing against a comedian because you find them offensive is idiotic, just don't go. Apparently college kids need to be handled with white gloves, and apparently more than a few also require those stylish long sleeved white jackets.
If you want someone offensive, bring on someone like Carlos Mencia. Just be prepared to laugh in spite of being offended. What's hilarious is I walked into a fast food place the other day and was asked "grilled or creepy"? I chuckled for at least the next hour. That reminds me of boogers (1 cheese-boo-ger) Damn, now I am not going to get any work done.
A car traveling 10mph is less likely to kill someone it hits. A car traveling at 5mph is even less likely. Let's make all cars travel at 5mph because... "think of the kids!!!!"
Bike thieves are of no interest to law enforcement. They're stealing bikes, there is no money to be made off of someone that poor, nor to be gained by pleasing those that have bikes they'll leave outside.
There's a whole lot of stuff there.
First, long posts, always type it in an editor outside of /. You'll be happier when, inevitably, your browser, the internet, or the servers eat your response.
Blue signs - all other things aside, they've been in Europe for at least 4 decades. They have been in use in the US for airports and such in several areas I'm familiar with for at least 20 years. Just noting some points. I don't think the final cost of the sign will vary much between green or blue paint, and I don't think it would make a lick of difference as signs were changed over the 5 to 10 year life-span for sign replacement. I have no hard references for any of those statements, but your cost numbers do not surprise me in the least.
Enforcing signs is a good one. In at least 1 state, the law specifically states speed limits are guidance only. Another one states "no tolerance" and they used to mean it. But, when police became revenue sources, they stopped looking for dangerous drivers and only looked for revenue opportunities, like if you failed to come to a full stop when leaving a parking lot (law in yet another state)
Fuel efficiency. Stopping a car is a huge cost, mostly needless in many areas. But the direct cost is born by drivers, therefore the municipalities that control signaling have exactly 0 motivation to reduce stoppages. In some municipalities, they actually time lights to cause you to stop at every intersection, probably in some misguided plan that the longer you look at these stores, the more likely you are to stop and spend money at one. Or, more likely, to force you to drive over the speed limit so you don't have to waste 10 minutes going 2 miles every day, so they can collect a speeding ticket from you every 6 or so months, if you're lucky. However all of these issues will likely be answered by autonomous cars. There's no reason to stop if 1 entity controls all vehicle movement and can maximize transmission efficiency. Actually, that implies that the autonomous cars are centrally controlled, or at least follow movement guidance from a central controller.
If you are writing software or websites then these numbers means something very important.
I write software and websites, and for both these numbers are meaningless. I write to standards, and the sites do what they are supposed to do. I do not write for that special snowflake software 1 vendor wants you to lock into.
Actually, anyone that is in a competitive manufacturing job can be hurt by cheap oil, as prices to ship product from overseas drops.
I actually wrote a series of scripts back in the day that allowed multiple characters to work together to gain XP and gold as fast as the system would allow it. It was an interesting exercise since the participants in the kill room had to communicate via the game to get healed or acknowledge they were ready for the next target. Each character type had a custom set of activities, and statuses. It was an interesting thing to get working well.
I eat food. I play games. I write a bot. Using someone else's bot... I don't see the connection.
Been doing that since 2004, on a mac. When did that come to Windows? 2010?
I've often thought about this as I country hopped. My conclusion is that the US has some of the absolute worst road signage in the world. White on med green? White on blue is much better with higher contrast, and we even use them here, but not for our main signage. Speed limit signs? A circle with a red boundary and a number. Crystal clear, don't need to read anything nor comprehend some smaller text about whom this applies to, what time, or anything.
My last peeve is with yield signs. I would be 100% ok with police staking out yield signs and pulling over everyone that fails to yield. It seems that the majority of drivers in the US think "yield" means someone else will.
bah - I run a RAID 0 system disk (ie, OS). I also have multiple offline backups, so if it fails, I'm back up within 10-15 minutes may at most have lost 60 minutes of work since I have a workspace on separate drives plus regular snapshots and an off-system backup.
Just remember, RAID 10 is not a backup, but a HA setup. Whether you "sudo rm -rf /" on a single disk, RAID-0 or RAID-10, you've likely hosed your system. So go ahead and run in RAID-0, it's no more dangerous than running any other configuration as long as you have real backups.
Because they haven't progressed to contextual translation yet, which includes phrases and grammar structure translation. Any multi-lingual person will be able to tell you that they do not translate word for word, they need the full phrase or more to go from language a to b, especially if those languages have varying grammatical structures and rules governing things like adverb and adjective placement. Also note that phrases like "top of the morning to you" should be translated to an appropriate (morning) greeting and not some nonsensical word for word replacement scheme.
Windows update is malware. Run anything but windows.
He took a company with a monopoly and the world at its feet and ensured that they succeeded at nothing for a decade. Satya is working hard to change the revenue model to a sustainable flow for MS, but in doing so, he's creating enough backlash that companies are abandoning MS products. Had Ballmer had an iota of intelligence, he would have migrated MS to the subscription model when he started. At that time it likely would have succeeded and MS would have much more than doubled its revenue in his tenure.
A better response is to limit the total length of all bills to less than 4400 words (It was enough to establish the base foundation of the country, it should be enough for any laws enacted within the country) It would mean that laws would likely be able to be understood by the ordinary citizen vs needing a law degree and a PhD in governmental politics to understand one of the current morasses that have more than 4400 pages.
I'm perfectly fine with a government that spends it time attempting to work together because no one party has a majority and that leading to less effective government. The answer to the parasitic politician is some form of term limits. I've thought about this a while, and it seems like the best answer for politicians is no consecutive terms, meaning your time in office is dedicated to working, not re-election. Effectively this will limit many politicians to 1 term, because winning a second term after being out of office for a term becomes significantly more difficult, at least what I've seen from the few places that have such a system.
A platform may be riddled with bugs, but if nobody is exploiting it then the end result is that you are running on a system that doesn't get exploited.
This was the Mac argument for years. Mac is more secure because nobody writes malware that exploits it.
Macs have bugs, there's no denying that. However, the Mac is more secure because, not shockingly, it is more secure. When it comes to security, windows can't help itself since its security is essentially on the outside of the vault, instead of the inside like every reasonable system.
MS has stated multiple times that the OS subscription model is their target. Win10 is the last "purchased" windows anyone will ever buy according to the blurb I read somewhere (too lazy to look it up) The windows update process will be honored for something like 18-24 months. After that, you subscribe, or you will get no support, or so I recall reading. It's especially cool since no new Intel hardware will be supported on legacy OSes even those still under support. I don't recall if windows will keep operating forever or some limited time after your subscription ends. Did they rewrite this clause in the past couple of months similar to the "you will be upgraded within 3 months no exceptions" clause due to backlash? For me they are just points to help decide people to migrate away from MS if they can't live with those "features".
MS sounds more like money grubbing Oracle than anyone else at this point, so I'll just expect the logical steps associated with that aspect which IMNSHO will only hurt MS in any term.
Understood. I am not suggesting that it is secure *because* it has low market share.
All I am saying is that it doesn't hurt security.
Doesn't help it either
I'd say anecdotally that windows and windows phone are dead. MS has finally gone one step too far in getting everyone on the subscription bandwagon. There's a reason IBM is switching to macs, and I'd say it has everything to do with Windows 10 licensing and policy changes. The stated W7/W8 hardware support changes were just icing on the tossed out cake. With all of that out of the way, why would anyone migrate to windows phone to be tied even more firmly into the MS subscription juggernaut?
BTW, on an iphone you can place your icon anywhere within the occupied home screen slots. You cannot put them in a vertical row however. It's a minor thing to me, as I tend to keep my screens trimmed down. I haven't tried that with Android because I just don't care.