driving too slowly and over-cautiously can cause accidents just as much as speeding and recklessness.
Well, it can cause accidents, but thats due to the fact that others are driving improperly.
If you run into a slow moving driver, its your fault. Period. You are supposed to be in control of your car. If you come around a corner and rearend the stoner doing 35 in a 65 its no different than if you came around the corner and hit the cop standing in the road trying to deal with an accident.
You're just a idiot, potheads aren't your problem, ignorance is.
What if you're tired? If you've taken no drugs, but worked twenty hours in a row? You WILL fail an impairment test. But you've done nothing wrong.
Driving when you are not capable is wrong AND illegal in EVERY state in the union.
But then, the state SHOULD be providing affordable and comprehensive public transit.
Transportation isn't a right. It isn't required to live. It isn't required for happiness. It simply isn't required by any means.
In short, go fuck yourself for expecting the world to provide for you. Its not my problem that you picked a shitty job that you have to drive to, especially in America where we have... laws to deal with shitty jobs.
So, you are going to throw someone in jail because they were driving and their reactions are not up to the minimum you have decided is necessary for the task?
Abso-fucking-lutely. Yes. Without even a picosecond of thought!
And let go on driving the person whose reactions are significantly impaired because even so they are above that which you have decided is necessary?
Those two things are contradictory. The standard for reaction times has a bit of a safety margin built in, on purpose. You won't be both.
They don't sit there for a long time because their sense of time is distorted. They sit there because they aren't paying attention to the light itself and are paying attention to other things in the environment around them.
In reality, the red light turning green is almost but not quiet the LEAST important thing about driving. If you argued running red lights you might have something, except that doesn't happen either.
Doctors stoned on pot don't scare me even a little bit, you'll know from his/her actions if they are incapable of doing their job. I'm far more afraid of someone being fucked up on an opiate like Vicodine than pot. If you knew anything about the two you would be too. The opiate may not show its symptoms and still cause serious mental effects. Pot on the other hand makes it obvious, and when it doesn't... it doesn't, and its not that big of a deal.
You don't need a drug test to tell if a pothead is incompetent. If you pull him over because of his bad driving, thats enough. Same applies to alcohol for that matter. The tests are just there to cover cops asses. The requirements for a test are there to prevent cops from abusing the illegal nature of it. In both cases, determining if someone shouldn't be doing something because they are impaired is done WITHOUT a test. The test is just to prevent bad people (overzealous cops and lawyers representing guilty) from abusing otherwise perfectly legitimate methods of accomplishing a task.
I agree that impairment is not acceptable in many situations, but you have absolutely no idea what causes that impairment, you're just parroting someone elses statements.
Android has a GNU/Linux base. Linux is not UNIX. UNIX is a specification that you can't just arbitrarly apply to your clone to make you feel better about yourself. Your clone doesn't meet the UNIX specification, intentionally according to Linus.
Whitman was on the HP board and voted for the purchase. She's not innocent in any shape or form, she didn't have the title but she made the same decision.
No, it means both HP and Autonomy are fully guilty of causing the same problem. You don't split the punishment half and half, you double it, full for each side.
What? Are you retarded? The math is valid. HP fucked up purchasing Autonomy otherwise they would have turned a profit. Assuming they aren't going to go bankrupt because of it, that means HP remains a perfectly viable company and makes the stock sale off an example of ignorance. Political party has nothing to do with facts.
I should add to this, my home, my boat;) and my office all have FreeBSD boxes running them. I'm not an anti-OSS zealot. Its just that Linux pushes too hard.
I run OSX, not because I can play games. I run OSX because shit works and when it doesn't, rarely does it require me to go edit a config file or run a command line. None of these things are 'hard' for me, I'm a developer, I generally live by the command line. I don't however want to spend my time dicking with the OS to get multiple monitors to work in the way I want. I don't want to deal with half finished apps that care more about having every option than accomplishing a task. I want my music and videos to play in the background without hunting shit down to make it work right... almost right anyway, always not actually correct.
Linux is trying too hard to be everything. My OS doesn't try to do that. It doesn't get in my way (well, most of the time). It doesn't' shove RMS's philosophy down my throat by actively going against anyone who doesn't go it 'their way' such dealing with binary only drivers. It doesn't have every one of its users screaming 'its going to be the year of the OSX desktop!' because people don't care about ruling the world, they care about getting shit done.
My OS is polished, does what I need and otherwise stays the hell out of my way. It serves a purpose that I need, to give me a common way to run all apps with common user interface conventions.
In short, I don't run Linux not because of Games, I play those in VMware or boot to Windows to get proper performance for that.
I don't run Linux because of philosophy. I have no problem with the Linux philosophy in general, but I just don't give a shit about promoting it. If you want to run Linux you almost have to convince yourself that all your pains you take dealing with an unpolished collection of 900 ways to skin a cat and 1200 new wheel designs is the right way to do it because its part of the philosophy.
I have shit to do, I don't have time for the philosophy.
10 years ago, I ran a FreeBSD desktop and was pretty much a promoter of the philosophy. 10 years ago I had more time than money. Now I have more important things to do than care about hardline GPL promotion zealots and their artificial restrictions.
GPL does not dominate my life. It does if you run a Linux desktop. I just don't care about running Linux and there is no compelling reason for me to care. I make money writing software. GPL pretty much is the opposite of what I care about.
OpenGL was one of the key pieces to code a game once, and play it everywhere, and Microsoft succefully made it secondary with Direct3D.
:/ I've been coding games (no major titles I'll admit) for about 10 years. My DirectX experience is something like 'started to look at some example code... thought, why bother? I'm going to support platforms other than Windows anyway' and then went back to OpenGL.
Yes, it is behind in some respects, but if you look at the major titles, they aren't really that much impressive between their OpenGL and latest and greatest directx variants.
Technically, FreeBSD is a better choice than Linux in this case. You get most of the advantages of OSX/iOS already having been ported to FreeBSD or from FreeBSD natively anyway. The only real 'disadvantage' is lower levels of support for random crappy hardware, but thats not really a concern for someone making a gaming console for 2 reasons. A) they won't be picking shitty hardware in the first place B) They have one set of drivers to deal with, they don't need to support every video card. Just one. Just one network card. Just one IDE/SATA/SAS chipset. Just one processor, ect.
When they make the OSX version run on case sensitive file systems, then I believe that Linux is going to get a usable version of Steam and games.
Not only does it not work because they put in a check to disallow running on case sensitive filesystems, they actively do STUPID SHIT that causes breakage, like lower casing some paths, but not all.
There are normally no code changes required to support case sensitive file systems, only when you fuck with the paths yourself (for no apparent reason I might add) do you have issues with them. Meet Value and Source, which do so.
And the end result would be something like Android... not a nice target to hit and pretty much gives you all the same problems as the existing PC game market. No point.
Consoles succeed because its fixed stable hardware. Multiple variations is not what going to work.
Because the console market is a lot smaller than the PC market;
So? Owning a PC doesn't mean you game on it.
Almost everyone owns a computer. Not nearly as many own consoles.
Outside of geekdom, more people play games on consoles than on PCs in my limited experience with non-geeks. Most people like that they can slap a disk in and it works. No checking specs, no updating video drivers or registering on some site because every game thinks it needs to have you login to something before you can play (console already does that dirty deed in a one stop kind of way)
If you can show me that more people play GTA V or Assassin's Creed on a PC than on consoles, I will be utterly shocked. I just don't buy it.
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absolutely no physical addiction potential.
... you need to look up the definition of know ... because you don't know shit.
The effects of withdrawal are pretty subdued, but to claim it doesn't happen is just utter ignorance.
What prison do you know of in the US that is 'for profit' ?
Please, do tell.
driving too slowly and over-cautiously can cause accidents just as much as speeding and recklessness.
Well, it can cause accidents, but thats due to the fact that others are driving improperly.
If you run into a slow moving driver, its your fault. Period. You are supposed to be in control of your car. If you come around a corner and rearend the stoner doing 35 in a 65 its no different than if you came around the corner and hit the cop standing in the road trying to deal with an accident.
You're just a idiot, potheads aren't your problem, ignorance is.
What if you're tired? If you've taken no drugs, but worked twenty hours in a row? You WILL fail an impairment test. But you've done nothing wrong.
Driving when you are not capable is wrong AND illegal in EVERY state in the union.
But then, the state SHOULD be providing affordable and comprehensive public transit.
Transportation isn't a right. It isn't required to live. It isn't required for happiness. It simply isn't required by any means.
In short, go fuck yourself for expecting the world to provide for you. Its not my problem that you picked a shitty job that you have to drive to, especially in America where we have ... laws to deal with shitty jobs.
I really find it hard to believe that after smoking half a spliff the LEO that administered the test didn't smell it on him.
I call bullshit on the story. Not because I doubt he could pass stoned, just that it didn't happen like that.
When you have a blowout and take out the car next to you ... whats that if not an accident?
So, you are going to throw someone in jail because they were driving and their reactions are not up to the minimum you have decided is necessary for the task?
Abso-fucking-lutely. Yes. Without even a picosecond of thought!
And let go on driving the person whose reactions are significantly impaired because even so they are above that which you have decided is necessary?
Those two things are contradictory. The standard for reaction times has a bit of a safety margin built in, on purpose. You won't be both.
You know nothing about stoners.
They don't sit there for a long time because their sense of time is distorted. They sit there because they aren't paying attention to the light itself and are paying attention to other things in the environment around them.
In reality, the red light turning green is almost but not quiet the LEAST important thing about driving. If you argued running red lights you might have something, except that doesn't happen either.
Doctors stoned on pot don't scare me even a little bit, you'll know from his/her actions if they are incapable of doing their job. I'm far more afraid of someone being fucked up on an opiate like Vicodine than pot. If you knew anything about the two you would be too. The opiate may not show its symptoms and still cause serious mental effects. Pot on the other hand makes it obvious, and when it doesn't ... it doesn't, and its not that big of a deal.
You don't need a drug test to tell if a pothead is incompetent. If you pull him over because of his bad driving, thats enough. Same applies to alcohol for that matter. The tests are just there to cover cops asses. The requirements for a test are there to prevent cops from abusing the illegal nature of it. In both cases, determining if someone shouldn't be doing something because they are impaired is done WITHOUT a test. The test is just to prevent bad people (overzealous cops and lawyers representing guilty) from abusing otherwise perfectly legitimate methods of accomplishing a task.
I agree that impairment is not acceptable in many situations, but you have absolutely no idea what causes that impairment, you're just parroting someone elses statements.
I have vinyl records. The have gaps between songs so you can jump to a song, even AC/DC albums.
AC/DC also did most of their work during the eight track period ... Again allowing you to skip songs easily
Android has a GNU/Linux base. Linux is not UNIX. UNIX is a specification that you can't just arbitrarly apply to your clone to make you feel better about yourself. Your clone doesn't meet the UNIX specification, intentionally according to Linus.
Not all cells are alive. They do die. Exfoliation is (in theory) supposed to remove the dead cells and leave the living.
... Annihilation is what.
Antimatter touching matter == annihilation.
If they wanted them listened to beginning to end they should have made it a single track.
They didn't.
Whitman was on the HP board and voted for the purchase. She's not innocent in any shape or form, she didn't have the title but she made the same decision.
No, it means both HP and Autonomy are fully guilty of causing the same problem. You don't split the punishment half and half, you double it, full for each side.
What? Are you retarded? The math is valid. HP fucked up purchasing Autonomy otherwise they would have turned a profit. Assuming they aren't going to go bankrupt because of it, that means HP remains a perfectly viable company and makes the stock sale off an example of ignorance. Political party has nothing to do with facts.
I should add to this, my home, my boat ;) and my office all have FreeBSD boxes running them. I'm not an anti-OSS zealot. Its just that Linux pushes too hard.
I run OSX, not because I can play games. I run OSX because shit works and when it doesn't, rarely does it require me to go edit a config file or run a command line. None of these things are 'hard' for me, I'm a developer, I generally live by the command line. I don't however want to spend my time dicking with the OS to get multiple monitors to work in the way I want. I don't want to deal with half finished apps that care more about having every option than accomplishing a task. I want my music and videos to play in the background without hunting shit down to make it work right ... almost right anyway, always not actually correct.
Linux is trying too hard to be everything. My OS doesn't try to do that. It doesn't get in my way (well, most of the time). It doesn't' shove RMS's philosophy down my throat by actively going against anyone who doesn't go it 'their way' such dealing with binary only drivers. It doesn't have every one of its users screaming 'its going to be the year of the OSX desktop!' because people don't care about ruling the world, they care about getting shit done.
My OS is polished, does what I need and otherwise stays the hell out of my way. It serves a purpose that I need, to give me a common way to run all apps with common user interface conventions.
In short, I don't run Linux not because of Games, I play those in VMware or boot to Windows to get proper performance for that.
I don't run Linux because of philosophy. I have no problem with the Linux philosophy in general, but I just don't give a shit about promoting it. If you want to run Linux you almost have to convince yourself that all your pains you take dealing with an unpolished collection of 900 ways to skin a cat and 1200 new wheel designs is the right way to do it because its part of the philosophy.
I have shit to do, I don't have time for the philosophy.
10 years ago, I ran a FreeBSD desktop and was pretty much a promoter of the philosophy. 10 years ago I had more time than money. Now I have more important things to do than care about hardline GPL promotion zealots and their artificial restrictions.
GPL does not dominate my life. It does if you run a Linux desktop. I just don't care about running Linux and there is no compelling reason for me to care. I make money writing software. GPL pretty much is the opposite of what I care about.
Every year the stores start this crap earlier and earlier.
What you don't realize is they are referring to the 2014 holiday season, not the 2012!
OpenGL was one of the key pieces to code a game once, and play it everywhere, and Microsoft succefully made it secondary with Direct3D.
:/ I've been coding games (no major titles I'll admit) for about 10 years. My DirectX experience is something like 'started to look at some example code ... thought, why bother? I'm going to support platforms other than Windows anyway' and then went back to OpenGL.
Yes, it is behind in some respects, but if you look at the major titles, they aren't really that much impressive between their OpenGL and latest and greatest directx variants.
Technically, FreeBSD is a better choice than Linux in this case. You get most of the advantages of OSX/iOS already having been ported to FreeBSD or from FreeBSD natively anyway. The only real 'disadvantage' is lower levels of support for random crappy hardware, but thats not really a concern for someone making a gaming console for 2 reasons. A) they won't be picking shitty hardware in the first place B) They have one set of drivers to deal with, they don't need to support every video card. Just one. Just one network card. Just one IDE/SATA/SAS chipset. Just one processor, ect.
(or god forbid OS X)
http://www.freebsd.org/
The portion of OSX they'd want to use is free.
When they make the OSX version run on case sensitive file systems, then I believe that Linux is going to get a usable version of Steam and games.
Not only does it not work because they put in a check to disallow running on case sensitive filesystems, they actively do STUPID SHIT that causes breakage, like lower casing some paths, but not all.
There are normally no code changes required to support case sensitive file systems, only when you fuck with the paths yourself (for no apparent reason I might add) do you have issues with them. Meet Value and Source, which do so.
And the end result would be something like Android ... not a nice target to hit and pretty much gives you all the same problems as the existing PC game market. No point.
Consoles succeed because its fixed stable hardware. Multiple variations is not what going to work.
Because the console market is a lot smaller than the PC market;
So? Owning a PC doesn't mean you game on it.
Almost everyone owns a computer. Not nearly as many own consoles.
Outside of geekdom, more people play games on consoles than on PCs in my limited experience with non-geeks. Most people like that they can slap a disk in and it works. No checking specs, no updating video drivers or registering on some site because every game thinks it needs to have you login to something before you can play (console already does that dirty deed in a one stop kind of way)
If you can show me that more people play GTA V or Assassin's Creed on a PC than on consoles, I will be utterly shocked. I just don't buy it.