Europeans are accustomed to paying a mandatory annual television fee
While I for one support the License Fee, many over here in the U of K hate it, and wish it was gone. Why they would want to go for a US-alike TV system, with commercials everywhere, I don't know.
Also, by Europeans I think he means "Brits". To my knowledge, only we pay a TV License.
Agreed. Cars just ain't suited to compuiter systems. Trains, on the other hand, would be ideal for this sort of technology.
Why a train? There's only a fixed way it can go and that is usually the right way, so generally a computer control system would be doubleplusgood. Also, a train is just simpler: motor on, motor off. Simple. No steering, no seat doohickeys, no stereo...simple.
But a car can travel in virtually any direction you like at any speed, with plenty more automated gizmos, and there is no readily available way for a computer to ascertain what is a car and what is air, meaning that the possibility of failiure is huge.
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While I for one support the License Fee, many over here in the U of K hate it, and wish it was gone. Why they would want to go for a US-alike TV system, with commercials everywhere, I don't know.
Also, by Europeans I think he means "Brits". To my knowledge, only we pay a TV License.
Agreed. Cars just ain't suited to compuiter systems. Trains, on the other hand, would be ideal for this sort of technology.
Why a train? There's only a fixed way it can go and that is usually the right way, so generally a computer control system would be doubleplusgood. Also, a train is just simpler: motor on, motor off. Simple. No steering, no seat doohickeys, no stereo...simple.
But a car can travel in virtually any direction you like at any speed, with plenty more automated gizmos, and there is no readily available way for a computer to ascertain what is a car and what is air, meaning that the possibility of failiure is huge.
See? Simple=good.
Fine, you're more normal than us-what do you want, a paper hat?
If it wasn't annoying enough already, now there's a possibility that 10 year olds will start yelling "Boo, shithead" into the thing. Joy.
On the flipside, a talking fish, boss' office, you saying "WORSHIP ME FOR I AM YOUR OVERLORD" into a Mic...hmm...
And then someone links to goatse as an example of a large keyring and the discussion is ruined. Hurrah. Welcome to Slashdot.
Yeah, I compiled *everything* that came with RH9 when I installed it last night.
Linux != compiling != obscenely hard.
I hope Microsoft is proud of that statistic...
"Serving goatse proudly for over three years!"