The last one was when the ABS released the brakes because I hit a pothole when I was braking. One wheel locked because it was over a hole and the system came to the conclusion that the car was on a slippery surface. Another near crash I had due to ABS was when I stepped on the brakes just as the pavement dropped down in a ramp. The system apparently interpreted the sudden downwards acceleration as a bigger than normal deceleration and unlocked the brakes.
In both cases the ABS probably reacted correctly and may have saved you from a less controllable situation. ABS works on each wheel separately so in the cases you experienced, breaks would still be applied on at least two wheels.
It makes sense to release the brake over a pothole as the wheel locks and will provide less traction once it hits the normal road surface again. It probably also makes sense to release the brakes on the wheel opposite the one that hit the pothole so asymmetric braking forces (which making the car less controllable) are reduced.
The pavement drop most likely unloaded the wheel, which then started locking. Again, it makes sense to release the brakes for a moment to prevent the wheel locking
Remember: a locked wheel provides much less breaking force than a wheel that is spinning (except on loose snow or loose gravel where the snow/gravel gets piled up in front of a locked wheel).
Don't really see the difference. All this can be done today already after someone clicks on the link. And if it is the first Google result, the likelihood is very high that many people will click on it.
Now, the fact that not even Google is investing in offline capabilities for its cloud apps might be a red flag.
I am almost certain that I have read a few weeks ago that Google is using off-line enabled Google Docs and Gmail already internally. And if I recall correctly, they mentioned it would be rolled out this summer.
I know that there are a few people which wouldn't be able to select either male or female. I commend Google that they think about this minority, and give them a choice as well. However, I have never seen this before on any other website, I think.
Tell your executives to use ALT-RIGHT SHIFT-DELETE - it does the same as a battery pull. Still annoying but less than taking out a battery.
In our SME, we are planning to move away from BlackBerries soon. They used to offer stability and security, but they are now less stable than Android or iPhone (and probably Windows Phone). Plus you need to maintain an additional server plus it costs more. There just doesn't seem to be a reason any more to stick to BlackBerry.
MAC filtering + "something better than WEP" (e.g. WPA2) + don't broadcast your network's SSID. Of course that makes it sort of annoying when you have guests over to your house who want to connect to your network.
So you think that MAC filtering and a non-broadcast SSID are going to stop someone that can break WPA2? Seriously, just use WPA2 and be done with it.
Agree. I want to add my whole "friends" circle to my "acquaintances" circle. After all, what I want to share with an acquaintance, I typically want to share with my friends as well.
I really wasn't impressed with having my circle suggestions pre-populated with people I've exchanged messages with through gmail. I was even less impressed when I tried to change some settings to 'only me' and they consistently reset to the 'circle' and 'global' level.
Then I remembered that I prefer to make people work for this sort of data, so I killed my Google+ account and public profile.
Why not send them feedback instead? After all, it is a limited field trial, and you were notified at the beginning that it would still have kinks. For me, the settings didn't revert from "only me" to anything else so it seems like a bug. And I am happy to see suggested contacts based on my Gmail contacts. What else should they be based on?
I give less a shit about google's 'products' since we know they are not trustable.
See, there's the difference between you and me - I think Google are trustable. They had a few cockups with Buzz and Streetview but were very frank about them and dealt with them swiftly. To me, these were genuine errors.
On the other hand, I don't trust Facebook. My major gripe is that they allow the owners of "applications" (quizzes and other time wasters) to access a lot of my data that I thought I had shared with my friends only. This was not obvious at all to me when I installed some applications and I was shocked when I found out - too late though. Since this continues, this seems to be part of their core strategy - share my information with people that I don't really want to have that information.
With Google, I understand how they make money: They have a lot of information on me, and can use this to target ads effectively. However, my information never leaves Google and the advertisers get none of this information. This is pretty transparent, and I am fine with it.
and your assertion is highly questionable due to the high usage of Netscape among non-techies before Firefox even came out
Mozilla+Firefox+Netscape had a market share of less than 3% in May 2004. IE had 95%. The rest was split between Safari, Opera and a number of less used browsers.
I think that if a browser is endorsed by the techies AND brings advantages to the masses, it will succeed.
This was the case with IE succeeding over Netscape Navigator, Firefox succeeding over IE and now Chrome becoming a strong contender to succeed over Firefox in the next couple of years.
There is a new type of roundabout - the turbo roundabout. Essentially, instead of circles, the lanes spiral out. This way you don't need to change lanes. It is very efficient and nice to drive.
Strange. The last 10 clean Chrome installations I have done don't have this. Did you install it using a link that was an ad on Google? This would explain it. If you install from google.com/chrome, it should give you the choice.
I don't know all the extensions you list, but for those that I used on Firefox, there are replacements on Chrome:
Adblock Plus: Use the Adblock extension. It is very good now; don't see any difference to the FF ABP anymore. (In the beginning, it would only hide elements, now it doesn't download them)
All-in-one Gestures: Use the SmoothGestures extension. It does everything I need.
Better Privacy: I think not needed anymore on Chrome - LSOs ("Flash Cookies") now get deleted when you delete other cookies from the menu now. This is quite new though and I think can't be automated. Not sure there is an extension for this.
Gmail Watcher: Google Mail-Checker works for me.
Firefox Sync: Chrome Sync is built into the browser. For cross-platform synching, use Xmarks
HTTPS everywhere: Called "Use HTTPS" on Chrome
I am sure there are weather extensions as well. Bugmenot also seems to exist for Chrome. So does Stylish. Etc.
But better filters have a big impact on the economics. If you cut down the number of spam e-mails that reach the inbox, you cut down the number of readers, which in turn cuts down the number of customers. This means lower or even negative profits.
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You can see in the street view that there are cars waiting for the light pretty much everywhere
The junction looks pretty much deserted to me. I guess it depends on what you are used to!
The last one was when the ABS released the brakes because I hit a pothole when I was braking. One wheel locked because it was over a hole and the system came to the conclusion that the car was on a slippery surface. Another near crash I had due to ABS was when I stepped on the brakes just as the pavement dropped down in a ramp. The system apparently interpreted the sudden downwards acceleration as a bigger than normal deceleration and unlocked the brakes.
In both cases the ABS probably reacted correctly and may have saved you from a less controllable situation. ABS works on each wheel separately so in the cases you experienced, breaks would still be applied on at least two wheels.
It makes sense to release the brake over a pothole as the wheel locks and will provide less traction once it hits the normal road surface again. It probably also makes sense to release the brakes on the wheel opposite the one that hit the pothole so asymmetric braking forces (which making the car less controllable) are reduced.
The pavement drop most likely unloaded the wheel, which then started locking. Again, it makes sense to release the brakes for a moment to prevent the wheel locking
Remember: a locked wheel provides much less breaking force than a wheel that is spinning (except on loose snow or loose gravel where the snow/gravel gets piled up in front of a locked wheel).
Looking at your Netalyzr results, you also seem to suffer from pretty severe buffer bloat.
Shouldn't Amazon and other affiliate providers be able to sue them? After all, they have paid out money for bogus referrals.
Don't really see the difference. All this can be done today already after someone clicks on the link. And if it is the first Google result, the likelihood is very high that many people will click on it.
Doing a search where my posts come up in the first page of results causes each page to register two pageviews in the blogger stats for each one.
Why two?
"Google+1 selling sites [...] have cropped up during the last few months"
Hard to believe given that Google+ did not exist one month ago...
Now, the fact that not even Google is investing in offline capabilities for its cloud apps might be a red flag.
I am almost certain that I have read a few weeks ago that Google is using off-line enabled Google Docs and Gmail already internally. And if I recall correctly, they mentioned it would be rolled out this summer.
I know that there are a few people which wouldn't be able to select either male or female. I commend Google that they think about this minority, and give them a choice as well. However, I have never seen this before on any other website, I think.
Tell your executives to use ALT-RIGHT SHIFT-DELETE - it does the same as a battery pull. Still annoying but less than taking out a battery.
In our SME, we are planning to move away from BlackBerries soon. They used to offer stability and security, but they are now less stable than Android or iPhone (and probably Windows Phone). Plus you need to maintain an additional server plus it costs more. There just doesn't seem to be a reason any more to stick to BlackBerry.
The only things on G+ that are made public without a choice is your name, gender, and a picture of your choosing.
And for the paranoid, Google offers "other" as an option when you select your gender. Really, they do!
MAC filtering + "something better than WEP" (e.g. WPA2) + don't broadcast your network's SSID. Of course that makes it sort of annoying when you have guests over to your house who want to connect to your network.
So you think that MAC filtering and a non-broadcast SSID are going to stop someone that can break WPA2? Seriously, just use WPA2 and be done with it.
I guess they should simply add the possibility to disable re-share for photo albums as it exists for other posts already.
Agree. I want to add my whole "friends" circle to my "acquaintances" circle. After all, what I want to share with an acquaintance, I typically want to share with my friends as well.
I really wasn't impressed with having my circle suggestions pre-populated with people I've exchanged messages with through gmail. I was even less impressed when I tried to change some settings to 'only me' and they consistently reset to the 'circle' and 'global' level.
Then I remembered that I prefer to make people work for this sort of data, so I killed my Google+ account and public profile.
Why not send them feedback instead? After all, it is a limited field trial, and you were notified at the beginning that it would still have kinks. For me, the settings didn't revert from "only me" to anything else so it seems like a bug. And I am happy to see suggested contacts based on my Gmail contacts. What else should they be based on?
I give less a shit about google's 'products' since we know they are not trustable.
See, there's the difference between you and me - I think Google are trustable. They had a few cockups with Buzz and Streetview but were very frank about them and dealt with them swiftly. To me, these were genuine errors.
On the other hand, I don't trust Facebook. My major gripe is that they allow the owners of "applications" (quizzes and other time wasters) to access a lot of my data that I thought I had shared with my friends only. This was not obvious at all to me when I installed some applications and I was shocked when I found out - too late though. Since this continues, this seems to be part of their core strategy - share my information with people that I don't really want to have that information.
With Google, I understand how they make money: They have a lot of information on me, and can use this to target ads effectively. However, my information never leaves Google and the advertisers get none of this information. This is pretty transparent, and I am fine with it.
Nice; unfortunately it only exports e-mail addresses and not phone numbers, IM address, etc.
and your assertion is highly questionable due to the high usage of Netscape among non-techies before Firefox even came out
Mozilla+Firefox+Netscape had a market share of less than 3% in May 2004. IE had 95%. The rest was split between Safari, Opera and a number of less used browsers.
I think that if a browser is endorsed by the techies AND brings advantages to the masses, it will succeed.
This was the case with IE succeeding over Netscape Navigator, Firefox succeeding over IE and now Chrome becoming a strong contender to succeed over Firefox in the next couple of years.
There is a new type of roundabout - the turbo roundabout. Essentially, instead of circles, the lanes spiral out. This way you don't need to change lanes. It is very efficient and nice to drive.
Strange. The last 10 clean Chrome installations I have done don't have this. Did you install it using a link that was an ad on Google? This would explain it. If you install from google.com/chrome, it should give you the choice.
I am still using Firefox 3.0 as my default browser
Please check your bank account. There have been no security updates for Firefox 3.0 since March 2010.
Yahoo uses Google for a backend
Not for the last ~7 years.
When you install Chrome, by default you are using Google's search services, reinforcing their market share.
No, after the install, you get a prompt asking you to select a search engine - the choices are Yahoo, Ask and Google.
I don't know all the extensions you list, but for those that I used on Firefox, there are replacements on Chrome:
Adblock Plus: Use the Adblock extension. It is very good now; don't see any difference to the FF ABP anymore. (In the beginning, it would only hide elements, now it doesn't download them)
All-in-one Gestures: Use the SmoothGestures extension. It does everything I need.
Better Privacy: I think not needed anymore on Chrome - LSOs ("Flash Cookies") now get deleted when you delete other cookies from the menu now. This is quite new though and I think can't be automated. Not sure there is an extension for this.
Gmail Watcher: Google Mail-Checker works for me.
Firefox Sync: Chrome Sync is built into the browser. For cross-platform synching, use Xmarks
HTTPS everywhere: Called "Use HTTPS" on Chrome
I am sure there are weather extensions as well. Bugmenot also seems to exist for Chrome. So does Stylish. Etc.
But better filters have a big impact on the economics. If you cut down the number of spam e-mails that reach the inbox, you cut down the number of readers, which in turn cuts down the number of customers. This means lower or even negative profits.