I don't blame him. The robots sound like an awesome project, IMHO. When I was a kid (say 11 or 12, so mid-1980s) I used to dream of something similar. I drew up all kinds of plans and pictures and routes of autonomous robotic water craft that would run on sea water and traverse the Pacific ocean from my home state to Japan and back.
Were I him, I would be all up in this stuff. Just saying.
The BSA should be driven from the land, their offices razed, the ruins burned, the very earth salted; their children cursed, their souls damned, their ill-gotten gold melted and poured down their throats.
I'm pretty sure I used that spell once or twice back in the DnD days.
Around the turn of the century, I ordered cd sets of all the major distros from Cheapbytes. (This was dialup days, so I couldn't just download them).
I loved Slackware (7), but the package management (or at least dependency management) got to be a bit tedious. I remember one time getting into over 16 levels of dependencies several times just trying to build The GIMP. So I tried Mudrake and it was great, except it 1) the graphics were really corny and 2) it was slow as balls compared to Slackware.
Then I tried Debian, and that seemed to be "just right". Light on resources, and installing packages was a breeze. Debian Unstable was my main squeeze for a number of years, until I discovered FreeBSD. But that's another stowey.
I recently checked out the Mandrivel Free edition. It works and all, but there's really nothing that sets it apart. It feels like another Kubuntu.
You know when you've been playing too much Minecraft when you try to calculate how many pickaxes it would take to mine it, and how big of a diamond block castle you could construct with it.
I'm way late to this (girlfriend was over all weekend so I didn't touch a single computer. How's that for an excuse?)
Buuuut... I currently have a 300mhz K6-II from 1998 that runs a current Debian Stable. I thought I would make it a minecraft server but it turns out that it doesn't have enough ram (minecraft will refuse to even start without at least 800MB or so). Prior to this it was a FreeBSD 8.x webserver, fileserver and firewall. It replaces the 486DX2 that was running (then current) FBSD 6.x at the time the smoke came out of its power supply.
I applaud when people find uses for older hardware, but IMHO putting a similarly aged OS on an old computer isn't really much of a hack. I could get all retro and put Win95 on this machine and Slackware 5.0 in a dual-boot setup like the old days. (Still have the disks in the closet).
That said, running older hardware just isn't as fun as it sounds. Pulling up the list of fbsd software packages in sysinstall takes a full 13 minutes (from download to uncompressing the tarball to displaying the menu). I know because I've timed it. You really have to consider if you want to build a package from ports, because it can easily eat up an afternoon, and/or an evening depending upon dependencies. Rebuilding the kernel was about 4.5 hours, and a build world on just a base install is about a day and a half.
As a Debian machine, the install scripts will only install a '486' kernel. Building a new kernel from new source was a serious ordeal, much more serious than the days when this was my #1 box up to about 2002. The reason I chose Debian is because Archlinux, (the distribution that champions itself as the saviour of older systems) doesn't support anything i586 and lower. Irony.
All I initially wanted was a text-only system for software development (C and Perl). Maybe some occasional BitchX and Mutt use now and again. It does that pretty well (I want to say FreeBSD is a better choice than the Debian, in this case), but that's about *all* it does well. As a fileserver, it's pretty slow, even on the LAN. 12 year old hard drive technology and 33mhz busses, etc.
I could go on a rant about software bloat in the OSS community and how 2008 seemed like an abrupt cutoff for when I could run X or anything graphical on this machine, but I'll save it for another day.
I use the hyperbole as one of the "5 users left" on IRC, because since I started using IRC on DALnet in early 1995; I have watched the average peak online number of users counts grow well into 130,000+ users, and then in later years drop way back to 15,000. I can't help but mourn that IRC in many respects may be past its prime; i'm afraid networks will slowly erode , as soon as the current generation of IRC server admins retire, and ISPs can no longer be found that want to run IRC servers for free.:-/
It's been a few days, but I hope you've come back to read this...
I've used the same "last 5 people on IRC" joke myself. IRC still exists, but I think you're right in that it's slowly dying. I first connected BitchX to efnet in 1998 (on my Caldera OpenLinux system!), and it was an insane, vibrant, dangerous and beautiful experience. I later moved over to freenode but there was still a very active community. I took a break, and have come back to it recently, and all the old channels are 'dead'. Even the channels that have 150+ users in them, they're all lurkers, and all of them are lurking in 49 other channels as well. I used to log 200K of real dialogue in logs on a daily basis, but nowadays you'll get about 20K of system messages and nobody saying anything.
It's sad. I really miss being able to connect with intelligent, like-minded people on such a deep and nerdy level. The infrastructure is still there, but there's no content or people left.
This is pure marketing and "come over to our side" tactic. I doubt Apple is getting much from the value of the machine. Not even in commodity value.
They're partnering through WeRecycle, who is an e-Stewards Certified recycler. Nothing is getting dumped into a 3rd world country. No data is getting mined or leaked.
There is a huge e-waste recycling industry, and this is all pretty standard stuff. I work for one of the major recyclers (also e-Stewards Certified). I thought maybe/. denizens would know more about all this, but I guess not.
The conspiracy theories are pure gold, however. I'm not a fan of Apple (products or corporate), but this is rich. Pure comedic gold.
Fugganaye right. I shouldn't admit any of this, but I was into scrolling chat rooms* back in the mid-late 90s and it was the fucking Wild West. Winnukes and Portfloods for days and days. Javascript exploits and whatnot. People getting pWn3d for no good reason. You had to be patched and armed just to stay in the joint.
There was a guy that flexed his hax0r muscle at everyone, but especially gave me shit. Seriously unprovoked bullshit, following me from room to room, then later site to site. I could write a book on this, but basically through some elaborate social engineering of several people (including his school) I was able to determine his home address. I bribed a high school friend of mine who was going to a school in the next city over to go take a picture "of the white house at this address" and send it to me. Some low-tech scanning practices and some floppy disk work at a local Staples ensued.
The next time he fucked with me I posted the pic of his house in the chat room. I wish I had logged his responses, and the crying he did to my alt (the social engineering 'chick') over the next few days. He never messed with me or anyone else in the place again. It was a pretty good hack, and I dreamed guys like Kevin Poulsen would approve. But I actually felt pretty dirty afterwards.
There are actually a lot of "Windows Kiddies" on IRC. Not a majority by far, but still some. I was surprised that a libSDL channel I recently got into was almost all Windows folks.
By my estimation, in my experience (freenode and efnet), most people on IRC are running some form of older-school Linux distribution, such as Debian or Slackware. There are some Ubuntu peeps but I think a lot of them use something more 'modern', i.e. skype or pidgin. I see BSD folks in my BSD channels, but they only barely edge out the Windows guys overall.
Now that USENET has gone down the shitter, I still enjoy IRC, and will continue to do so until it goes away.
"gamification", rhyming with "ramification". That's how I'll hear it in my head when i read it, and that's how i'll be doomed to say it until I can teach myself to pronounce it the right way.
FTR, I had to do the same for "linux". Even to this day (after 15 years), I still read it as "lye-nucks", and it took me nearly 3 years* to pronounce it correctly, even when I knew better and even while it's "lye-nucks" in my head.
*plus or minus several months of only encountering the word in reading, never hearing another person speaking it.
I really like WMaker as well. Quick, simple, clean, stable. I ran it for years and years on Debian Sid, and whenever I have a minimal OS install on a low-end machine it's what I choose.
The *only* thing I would ever change on it would be to update some of the default fonts. I no longer have the vision of my early 20s, and when you increase the size of the fonts that it has they get seriously late-80s nasty looking. The whole environment is a bit dated looking. I'm not looking for shine, transparency nor fancy animations. But a little 'smoothing' of some of the visual elements would go a LONG way with Windowmaker.
Fwiw, I moved over to XFCE a while back and I'm pretty happy with it.
Fwiw, I have a 99 Ranger XLT myself. 2.5L 4cyl, 5spd, etc... On a good day, driving like an old man, I can almost squeeze 30mpg out of it on the highway. I wouldn't consider it a 'large' vehicle. I.e., I couldn't tow a boat with it or anything like that. I am using it this weekend to help my girlfriend move, which it is well suited for, and it looks good doing it.
What's unfortunate, is that pickup trucks are actually pretty unsafe on principle. Watch some crash tests in slo-mo at Progressive.com's website. Generally, the cab collapses in almost every offset crash a pickup truck is in.
I also have an '02 Impreza wagon that gets worse fuel mileage than the truck. Safer? you bet. Similar cargo capacity? Yup, and better in a rainstorm. Good in snow? The 2WD Ranger is surprisingly agile, but the Subaru wins hands down. All around the Subaru is a better vehicle (and I love small wagons). The Ranger however, has been mine since new. I put all 180,000 miles on it, and I feel that we are bound to each other until one of us dies. I tell myself "200,000 or graduation from school, whichever comes first", but I think the Ranger will hit 200 Large first.
When I do graduate from school and start working, my first order of business WILL be a new car. Probably a smaller 5-door hatch like the Subaru.
Well... sorta. A friend of mine had an acoustic coupling for his Atari. He demonstrated it by dialing various computers, one of which was (probably) a Sun Micro at NASA's JPL. I wanna say this was about 1987. I thought *that* was cool, but I didn't really grasp the big concept, unfortunately.
When 1994 came, I saw it again. Unfortunately I didn't have a computer, as I couldn't afford one (I was lucky if I could eat more than once a day, at the time), but I knew I had to participate. It took me until November 1997 to "get online" for the first time.
My life, health, and sanity has gone downhill since...:-/
One thing I will say though... It was a HUGE relief and a great turnaround in my life when I discovered IRC. Thousands of nerdy, socially awkward guys (and a few girls) who I could kind of 'feel at home' with. We talked about computers, we talked about electronics, we talked about cars and cooking and science to every depth I wanted to take it. I never really had that before. Labels (soc, jock, nerd, rockstar) are dumb, I know... But to spend 23 or so years of your life feeling completely alienated and entirely unlike anyone else you've ever met, but then suddenly discover that there's a whole world of people just like you, with the same interests, feelings, desires, faults and intentions...
I fucking LOVED Carl Sagan. And I mean "love" in that non-homosexual, but not exactly 'metro' fashion in which male geeks can love another man. It's not quite pure idolatry, but it's pretty similar.
When I was growing up and shows like Cosmos came on once every couple of months, I was mortally transfixed until it was over. Sagan was a god to me.
I wish I could have high hopes for FOX to continue his legacy, but I really don't. Sadly.
In a minor crash the composite will deflect but not yield so you will most likely just need to buff it out and paint it.
The problem with that though, is that carbon fiber won't absorb as much energy from the impact as the steel will. To retain the same safety, a carbon-fiber car will still have to have some form of crumple zone or other energy absorption component that WILL yield and will likely result in the car being "undriveable until repaired" just the same as current ones.
Of course, in minor accidents this could become a quick easy bolt-off/bolt-on part (then buff and paint as you say), but now I'm just scheming.
My mistake I thought UK driving averages were like Continental ones. You bastards must love driving around your tiny island.
The US driving test generally covers some low speed driving and a couple street lights. Some states require a 3 point turn or parallel parking, many do not. No lessons are generally required and only a low number of practice hours with a licensed driver are required.
I wish -I- could drive around that tiny island. I understand that it is a wonderful, beautiful, historically rich place.:^)
Anybody notice that the article linked about the supposed increased death rate for small cars is labelled: "For immediate release: Wednesday, February 13, 2002"
I show this to people who cling to the "old cars are safer" bit. Believe me, I love, LOVE classic cars, but the plain truth is that newer cars are safer. My fave things to point out in that crash are 1) the A Pillar collapsing, 2) The dummy doesn't hit the dashboard, the dashboard and steering column fly up to hit the dummy and 3) if this car were a few years older, there wouldn't be any safety glass in it. Yes that '59 has a fully boxed frame in it, but the level of intrusion is grotesque compared to the opposing car.
Something to note is that small cars colliding with small cars is still safer than small cars colliding with SUVs. SUVs which (interestingly) aren't always safer either. There will always be other things for small cars to crash into, such as tractor trailers, trains, buildings and bridge posts, but the more properly engineered small cars there are on the road, the general safety will increase, IMUAEO*
....meanwhile, i have yet to see Notch get his panties in a bunch about Total Miner, the C- Minecraft knockoff coming to Xbocks Live in the near future. Yes I know the history of Minecraft, and I know that Notch borrowed a lot from Infiniminer. But this also goes to show that game 'concepts' aren't sacred.
I can see if Notch named his new game "Alder Scrolls" or "Newer Scrolls" or "Minerfall: The Buggiest Scrolls Evar" or "Iron Scroll: Mining The Oblivion" or anything else that would directly allude to another game. I don't know about Scrolls, but it sounds as if it isn't anything like any of the Elder Scrolls games. Games which btw aren't really about scrolls in particular.
Quite honestly, if you want a faster desktop, use Debian* with XFCE instead. I can't believe how sluggish the 'buntus are, and i didn't notice any difference between Xubuntu and Ubuntu-proper, which astounded me. Also, on Debian it is easier for you to use all the wonderful manual methods of editing system behavior. Adjusting network settings via Ubuntu's wizards or gui controls has been (in my experience) kludgy and tedious at best, and downright broken at worst, at least since about 7. Meanwhile, on a Debian system it's ifconfig, ifup/ifdown and it's all set.
Also, the root account is enabled by default. I know you can do this in ubuntu also, but it's one of a long list of annoyances I have with that distribution.
Just giving my 2 cents.
*or any other older-school no-nonsense distribution will work. Slackware is a great choice too, but if you're used to Ubuntu, Debian might be a better fit.
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I know a few chemical cocktails that can make people THINK they're invisible. And bulletproof.
I don't blame him. The robots sound like an awesome project, IMHO. When I was a kid (say 11 or 12, so mid-1980s) I used to dream of something similar. I drew up all kinds of plans and pictures and routes of autonomous robotic water craft that would run on sea water and traverse the Pacific ocean from my home state to Japan and back.
Were I him, I would be all up in this stuff. Just saying.
The BSA should be driven from the land, their offices razed, the ruins burned, the very earth salted; their children cursed, their souls damned, their ill-gotten gold melted and poured down their throats.
I'm pretty sure I used that spell once or twice back in the DnD days.
Around the turn of the century, I ordered cd sets of all the major distros from Cheapbytes. (This was dialup days, so I couldn't just download them).
I loved Slackware (7), but the package management (or at least dependency management) got to be a bit tedious. I remember one time getting into over 16 levels of dependencies several times just trying to build The GIMP. So I tried Mudrake and it was great, except it 1) the graphics were really corny and 2) it was slow as balls compared to Slackware.
Then I tried Debian, and that seemed to be "just right". Light on resources, and installing packages was a breeze. Debian Unstable was my main squeeze for a number of years, until I discovered FreeBSD. But that's another stowey.
I recently checked out the Mandrivel Free edition. It works and all, but there's really nothing that sets it apart. It feels like another Kubuntu.
You know when you've been playing too much Minecraft when you try to calculate how many pickaxes it would take to mine it, and how big of a diamond block castle you could construct with it.
I'm way late to this (girlfriend was over all weekend so I didn't touch a single computer. How's that for an excuse?)
Buuuut... I currently have a 300mhz K6-II from 1998 that runs a current Debian Stable. I thought I would make it a minecraft server but it turns out that it doesn't have enough ram (minecraft will refuse to even start without at least 800MB or so). Prior to this it was a FreeBSD 8.x webserver, fileserver and firewall. It replaces the 486DX2 that was running (then current) FBSD 6.x at the time the smoke came out of its power supply.
I applaud when people find uses for older hardware, but IMHO putting a similarly aged OS on an old computer isn't really much of a hack. I could get all retro and put Win95 on this machine and Slackware 5.0 in a dual-boot setup like the old days. (Still have the disks in the closet).
That said, running older hardware just isn't as fun as it sounds. Pulling up the list of fbsd software packages in sysinstall takes a full 13 minutes (from download to uncompressing the tarball to displaying the menu). I know because I've timed it. You really have to consider if you want to build a package from ports, because it can easily eat up an afternoon, and/or an evening depending upon dependencies. Rebuilding the kernel was about 4.5 hours, and a build world on just a base install is about a day and a half.
As a Debian machine, the install scripts will only install a '486' kernel. Building a new kernel from new source was a serious ordeal, much more serious than the days when this was my #1 box up to about 2002. The reason I chose Debian is because Archlinux, (the distribution that champions itself as the saviour of older systems) doesn't support anything i586 and lower. Irony.
All I initially wanted was a text-only system for software development (C and Perl). Maybe some occasional BitchX and Mutt use now and again. It does that pretty well (I want to say FreeBSD is a better choice than the Debian, in this case), but that's about *all* it does well. As a fileserver, it's pretty slow, even on the LAN. 12 year old hard drive technology and 33mhz busses, etc.
I could go on a rant about software bloat in the OSS community and how 2008 seemed like an abrupt cutoff for when I could run X or anything graphical on this machine, but I'll save it for another day.
I use the hyperbole as one of the "5 users left" on IRC, because since I started using IRC on DALnet in early 1995; I have watched the average peak online number of users counts grow well into 130,000+ users, and then in later years drop way back to 15,000. :-/
I can't help but mourn that IRC in many respects may be past its prime; i'm afraid networks will slowly erode , as soon as the current generation of IRC server admins retire, and ISPs can no longer be found that want to run IRC servers for free.
It's been a few days, but I hope you've come back to read this...
I've used the same "last 5 people on IRC" joke myself. IRC still exists, but I think you're right in that it's slowly dying. I first connected BitchX to efnet in 1998 (on my Caldera OpenLinux system!), and it was an insane, vibrant, dangerous and beautiful experience. I later moved over to freenode but there was still a very active community. I took a break, and have come back to it recently, and all the old channels are 'dead'. Even the channels that have 150+ users in them, they're all lurkers, and all of them are lurking in 49 other channels as well. I used to log 200K of real dialogue in logs on a daily basis, but nowadays you'll get about 20K of system messages and nobody saying anything.
It's sad. I really miss being able to connect with intelligent, like-minded people on such a deep and nerdy level. The infrastructure is still there, but there's no content or people left.
This is pure marketing and "come over to our side" tactic. I doubt Apple is getting much from the value of the machine. Not even in commodity value.
They're partnering through WeRecycle, who is an e-Stewards Certified recycler. Nothing is getting dumped into a 3rd world country. No data is getting mined or leaked.
There is a huge e-waste recycling industry, and this is all pretty standard stuff. I work for one of the major recyclers (also e-Stewards Certified). I thought maybe /. denizens would know more about all this, but I guess not.
The conspiracy theories are pure gold, however. I'm not a fan of Apple (products or corporate), but this is rich. Pure comedic gold.
God damn the dial-up days where wild sometimes.
Fugganaye right. I shouldn't admit any of this, but I was into scrolling chat rooms* back in the mid-late 90s and it was the fucking Wild West. Winnukes and Portfloods for days and days. Javascript exploits and whatnot. People getting pWn3d for no good reason. You had to be patched and armed just to stay in the joint.
There was a guy that flexed his hax0r muscle at everyone, but especially gave me shit. Seriously unprovoked bullshit, following me from room to room, then later site to site. I could write a book on this, but basically through some elaborate social engineering of several people (including his school) I was able to determine his home address. I bribed a high school friend of mine who was going to a school in the next city over to go take a picture "of the white house at this address" and send it to me. Some low-tech scanning practices and some floppy disk work at a local Staples ensued.
The next time he fucked with me I posted the pic of his house in the chat room. I wish I had logged his responses, and the crying he did to my alt (the social engineering 'chick') over the next few days. He never messed with me or anyone else in the place again. It was a pretty good hack, and I dreamed guys like Kevin Poulsen would approve. But I actually felt pretty dirty afterwards.
*hotelchat ftw!
There are actually a lot of "Windows Kiddies" on IRC. Not a majority by far, but still some. I was surprised that a libSDL channel I recently got into was almost all Windows folks.
By my estimation, in my experience (freenode and efnet), most people on IRC are running some form of older-school Linux distribution, such as Debian or Slackware. There are some Ubuntu peeps but I think a lot of them use something more 'modern', i.e. skype or pidgin. I see BSD folks in my BSD channels, but they only barely edge out the Windows guys overall.
Now that USENET has gone down the shitter, I still enjoy IRC, and will continue to do so until it goes away.
*than.
Otherwise, true that.
I am not a native, but I am a resident of Wisconsin.
Actually, wouldn't the 'a' in "ramification" be the short sound, while the 'a' in "sway" be the long?
"gamification", rhyming with "ramification". That's how I'll hear it in my head when i read it, and that's how i'll be doomed to say it until I can teach myself to pronounce it the right way.
FTR, I had to do the same for "linux". Even to this day (after 15 years), I still read it as "lye-nucks", and it took me nearly 3 years* to pronounce it correctly, even when I knew better and even while it's "lye-nucks" in my head.
*plus or minus several months of only encountering the word in reading, never hearing another person speaking it.
I really like WMaker as well. Quick, simple, clean, stable. I ran it for years and years on Debian Sid, and whenever I have a minimal OS install on a low-end machine it's what I choose.
The *only* thing I would ever change on it would be to update some of the default fonts. I no longer have the vision of my early 20s, and when you increase the size of the fonts that it has they get seriously late-80s nasty looking. The whole environment is a bit dated looking. I'm not looking for shine, transparency nor fancy animations. But a little 'smoothing' of some of the visual elements would go a LONG way with Windowmaker.
Fwiw, I moved over to XFCE a while back and I'm pretty happy with it.
Fwiw, I have a 99 Ranger XLT myself. 2.5L 4cyl, 5spd, etc... On a good day, driving like an old man, I can almost squeeze 30mpg out of it on the highway. I wouldn't consider it a 'large' vehicle. I.e., I couldn't tow a boat with it or anything like that. I am using it this weekend to help my girlfriend move, which it is well suited for, and it looks good doing it.
What's unfortunate, is that pickup trucks are actually pretty unsafe on principle. Watch some crash tests in slo-mo at Progressive.com's website. Generally, the cab collapses in almost every offset crash a pickup truck is in.
I also have an '02 Impreza wagon that gets worse fuel mileage than the truck. Safer? you bet. Similar cargo capacity? Yup, and better in a rainstorm. Good in snow? The 2WD Ranger is surprisingly agile, but the Subaru wins hands down. All around the Subaru is a better vehicle (and I love small wagons). The Ranger however, has been mine since new. I put all 180,000 miles on it, and I feel that we are bound to each other until one of us dies. I tell myself "200,000 or graduation from school, whichever comes first", but I think the Ranger will hit 200 Large first.
When I do graduate from school and start working, my first order of business WILL be a new car. Probably a smaller 5-door hatch like the Subaru.
(but I'm not trading in the Ranger)
Well... sorta. A friend of mine had an acoustic coupling for his Atari. He demonstrated it by dialing various computers, one of which was (probably) a Sun Micro at NASA's JPL. I wanna say this was about 1987. I thought *that* was cool, but I didn't really grasp the big concept, unfortunately.
When 1994 came, I saw it again. Unfortunately I didn't have a computer, as I couldn't afford one (I was lucky if I could eat more than once a day, at the time), but I knew I had to participate. It took me until November 1997 to "get online" for the first time.
My life, health, and sanity has gone downhill since... :-/
One thing I will say though... It was a HUGE relief and a great turnaround in my life when I discovered IRC. Thousands of nerdy, socially awkward guys (and a few girls) who I could kind of 'feel at home' with. We talked about computers, we talked about electronics, we talked about cars and cooking and science to every depth I wanted to take it. I never really had that before. Labels (soc, jock, nerd, rockstar) are dumb, I know... But to spend 23 or so years of your life feeling completely alienated and entirely unlike anyone else you've ever met, but then suddenly discover that there's a whole world of people just like you, with the same interests, feelings, desires, faults and intentions...
It sure meant a lot. :'-)
I fucking LOVED Carl Sagan. And I mean "love" in that non-homosexual, but not exactly 'metro' fashion in which male geeks can love another man. It's not quite pure idolatry, but it's pretty similar.
When I was growing up and shows like Cosmos came on once every couple of months, I was mortally transfixed until it was over. Sagan was a god to me.
I wish I could have high hopes for FOX to continue his legacy, but I really don't. Sadly.
In a minor crash the composite will deflect but not yield so you will most likely just need to buff it out and paint it.
The problem with that though, is that carbon fiber won't absorb as much energy from the impact as the steel will. To retain the same safety, a carbon-fiber car will still have to have some form of crumple zone or other energy absorption component that WILL yield and will likely result in the car being "undriveable until repaired" just the same as current ones.
Of course, in minor accidents this could become a quick easy bolt-off/bolt-on part (then buff and paint as you say), but now I'm just scheming.
My mistake I thought UK driving averages were like Continental ones. You bastards must love driving around your tiny island.
The US driving test generally covers some low speed driving and a couple street lights. Some states require a 3 point turn or parallel parking, many do not. No lessons are generally required and only a low number of practice hours with a licensed driver are required.
I wish -I- could drive around that tiny island. I understand that it is a wonderful, beautiful, historically rich place. :^)
Anybody notice that the article linked about the supposed increased death rate for small cars is labelled:
"For immediate release: Wednesday, February 13, 2002"
The Internet was much slower in 2002.
You kids get offa my lawn!
I was just going to post this video as well.
I show this to people who cling to the "old cars are safer" bit. Believe me, I love, LOVE classic cars, but the plain truth is that newer cars are safer. My fave things to point out in that crash are 1) the A Pillar collapsing, 2) The dummy doesn't hit the dashboard, the dashboard and steering column fly up to hit the dummy and 3) if this car were a few years older, there wouldn't be any safety glass in it. Yes that '59 has a fully boxed frame in it, but the level of intrusion is grotesque compared to the opposing car.
Something to note is that small cars colliding with small cars is still safer than small cars colliding with SUVs. SUVs which (interestingly) aren't always safer either. There will always be other things for small cars to crash into, such as tractor trailers, trains, buildings and bridge posts, but the more properly engineered small cars there are on the road, the general safety will increase, IMUAEO*
*In My Unscientific Armchair Engineer Opinion
....meanwhile, i have yet to see Notch get his panties in a bunch about Total Miner, the C- Minecraft knockoff coming to Xbocks Live in the near future. Yes I know the history of Minecraft, and I know that Notch borrowed a lot from Infiniminer. But this also goes to show that game 'concepts' aren't sacred.
I can see if Notch named his new game "Alder Scrolls" or "Newer Scrolls" or "Minerfall: The Buggiest Scrolls Evar" or "Iron Scroll: Mining The Oblivion" or anything else that would directly allude to another game. I don't know about Scrolls, but it sounds as if it isn't anything like any of the Elder Scrolls games. Games which btw aren't really about scrolls in particular.
Hmm...
Pull up some youporn on your iPhone and iPenis gratification becomes free-99 at the local Fapp Store.
Hi, you must be new here. Welcome to Slashdot! If you're looking for stagnation, look at ten years ago. :)
(p.s., this is not my original UID, the other got lost in a fire).
Quite honestly, if you want a faster desktop, use Debian* with XFCE instead. I can't believe how sluggish the 'buntus are, and i didn't notice any difference between Xubuntu and Ubuntu-proper, which astounded me. Also, on Debian it is easier for you to use all the wonderful manual methods of editing system behavior. Adjusting network settings via Ubuntu's wizards or gui controls has been (in my experience) kludgy and tedious at best, and downright broken at worst, at least since about 7. Meanwhile, on a Debian system it's ifconfig, ifup/ifdown and it's all set.
Also, the root account is enabled by default. I know you can do this in ubuntu also, but it's one of a long list of annoyances I have with that distribution.
Just giving my 2 cents.
*or any other older-school no-nonsense distribution will work. Slackware is a great choice too, but if you're used to Ubuntu, Debian might be a better fit.