People tailgate and then apply their brakes. This is the proximate cause of the whole thing. Think of traffic like a rubber band. It has nothing to do with that at all. It's a problem, but not that bad.
The real issue is that the slower you drive, the less distance required to leave between you and the next vehicle. At a stop, the distance is 0, and at 100 km/h it's probably three car lengths - maybe 60ft or so.
Graph it out and it's probably quite a linear relationship - at 50 km/h 30ft is probably acceptable.
So you have a bunch of people driving 60ft apart on the highway, and a bunch of cars merge in. The cars at 60ft now need to slow down to increase their distance. Once said car slows down, the car behind has to slow down too, except someone is merging in front of him, and so on.
That goes for stop lights too. You have a bunch of people driving 30ft apart come to a stop. They all don't start instantly, they have to wait for bonus ft. When you're the 10th car, you need an extra 300ft to get going.
. Listen, gambling web sites are only a threat because most of them operate offshore and therefore the suckers who use them are funneling their money to small Caribbean islands Don't you think Americans would choose Hara's or Trump over some off shore gaming operation? If the US weren't so protectionist these B&M Casinos would jump into online gaming with both feet.
The only problem I've heard of in an offshore gaming company was a recent one with Absolute Poker where an insider was colluding with a player, telling them the hole cards. Absolute denied it for quite a while until an employee rolled over on the insider who was colluding. Here's a link: http://www.gambling911.com/Absolute-Poker-103107A.html
This could just as easily have happened with an online poker server based in the US if ever it were allowed. B&M dealers have been found colluding with players all the time.
. Nine nations have acquired nuclear weapons Including Pakistan, which IMO is pretty scary. The US has some strange bedfellows...
Truth is, owning nukes puts you in a club - a club where you don't run the risk of invasion from the US. I don't blame Ahmenijad one bid for wanting nukes. Hell I'd want them too if I was a country that the US was targetting - it would grant me autonomy. Look at the damage the US has done in the last 7 years in the name of "Freedom"
Actually, competition among FOSS tends to slow things down. Look at the Compiz/Beryl situation, Actually, Compiz people were being dumbasses not accepting code updates so they forked off Beryl. When Beryl became popular the Compiz folks smartened up and accepted the fork back into the tree.
I'll argue that Compiz was slowing things down, and the Beryl fork kept things going.
Look at XFree86 and X.org. XFree86 changed licensing and each and every single distro switched to Xorg. If an OSS project makes a bad decision or stagnates where it shouldn't, someone WILL come along and fork it to keep things moving along. If the distros like the fork, they'll move over to it.
Or GNOME and KDE (they should be sharing more code, it would solve a lot of compatibility issues). They can't really. That whole C vs. C++ thing, GTK vs. Qt, and licensing and other things get in the way.
Truth is they may both be good Desktops but are really quite polarized in philosophy and scope. It's not quite that simple.
But again, competition between the two keeps things going along quite nicely.
and Mac has their own competitor, anyway. I'm not very fond of iWork. It looks too simple compared to OOo and Office.
I swithced Neooffice is pretty damn good... For a native Cocoa fork of OOo I'm very impressed. Those guys need more support from the Mac community as they're only a small revision behind OOo.
Too bad they didn't want to work with OOo because of licensing issues. That sucks.
Most stores I've been to take your address when you return something Ever seen them try to verify your address? I've never been asked for my driver's license. It's pretty easy to fake that info.
Yes, but in a helicopter, the left-right asymmetry would flip it out of control if not corrected. I thought the helicopter would spin out of control without a stabilizer. The stabilizer servers to pull the tail in the opposite direction the blades want to pull the helicopter.
Airplanes and helicopters generate lift by creating a vacuum on a wing or blade that's perpendicular to the ground of course.
What I don't understand about this gyrocopter thing is how the spinning wings don't generate force in all directions - that is when the wing is on the bottom why doesn't it get pulled down? Or when it's on the back why the vaccum doesn't pull it back.
Wikipedia does it by using a feature of Apache.... the same that other sites do...Prior art and then some.... If you read the flowchart carefully, they require a special character like "-/"
Who does that? Really what I think they're saying is http://a9.com/-/index is how a9 would know to bring up an index page instead of http://a9.com/search_term for searching... I know I'm being pedantic, but careful inspection of that flowchart shows this.
The way most of us would handle that is using a ErrorDocument 404 directive in apache's httpd.conf where if a page is missing we transfer the url to a search page. It's slightly different from what their flowchart seems to suggest.
The first step in the flowchart: "Does char_string start with a predefined prefix, eg "-/"
So if the url is http://a9.com/-/index then it brings up the file otherwise it's a search... I suppose you could write a mod_rewrite rule that parses the two different scenarios... Still stupid, but so focused that none of use would implement this silly way to process this stuff anyway...
Still don't understand why PTO has morons working for them and doesn't invest in some people with IT knowledge to reject these dumb-assed patents before they cost someone a boatload of money...
perfectly understandable from a guy comming from windows First of all, I use a Mac now.
Secondly, if Linux wants to seriously compete on the desktop it needs to have a competitive offering. Instead we get hung up on Gnome vs. KDE, Beryl vs. Compiz, GPL2 vs GPL3 vs LGPL, etc etc... There's some good desktop stuff out there, but it's not quite there yet to give people a viable alternative. That said, my wife quite likes Linux on her laptop right now as all she does is word processing, email, and internet surfing.
What I do find interesting though is the bloat that's going into the Kernel nowadays.
My issues are more with the desktops now than with the kernel.
Let's be honest about where Linux truly sucks. On the server it's awesome and vastly popular.
But the desktop is another story. Wireless networking support is spotty, and so is photo printing. It took Adobe FOREVER to release an updated flash for Linux. Video editing sucks ass ( Cinelerra? C'mon get real folks ), and so is photo editing sucks too ( Gimp != Photoshop and is way inferiour ) On my Mac, I get all the awesomeness of Unix, with the beauty of OSX. I can install Photoshop if I like, and I have iPhoto and iMovie that do pretty good.
I tried with Linux for over a year. I now own a Mac because I'm tired of it.
.You mean like Lotus Notes? I do not know a single happy Lotus Notes user. Not one. They're in the same boat as Groupwise users - waiting to get into Exchange/Outlook.
Sorry, but Exchange/Outlook is THE killer app... No one has been able to successfully compete with it yet...
That's why you have Linux/Unix shops running with Windows 2003 AD and Exchange 2003. it's a great combination when your desktops are running Windows.
I used to try and push OO on people, but I've completely lost faith in it. I keep thinking, maybe they'll get their crap together, but then they do stuff like this. Me too, until I actually sat down to write a technical document and realized how much better Word really is from Writer.
Ever tried outlining your document in Writer? Word kicks the living crap out of Writer in that single feature alone. I get by without proper outlining, but it makes me so very angry. Then I remember about how much I paid for OOo and I stop being angry =D
FWIW though I have NeoOffice on my Mac now, and I'm quite impressed with it as a native Aqua app... Only one small frustration in it so far - I have a Might Mouse, and side scrolling in Calc doesn't work. Other than that, nice to see a native Mac port of OOo. Kudos.
That's a shame. Here in Canada we have uninsured motorist protection - if you're driving and someone without insurance smokes you you have a certain amount of coverage already.
That is true. I was hit by a drunk driver and I had no medical insurance. My hospital bill was $82,000. This was 7 years ago, but my credit is still be affected because I was hit by a drunk driver I am surprised you never got modded up for this...
Just curious, why didn't the drunk driver get nailed for the costs?
That is the beautiful world we live in without medical insurance in the US. In BC we have public insurance and public health care. The insurance company would pay the hospital bill and send the drunk driver the invoice. Of course the drunk driver's most likely a moron anyway and hasn't got the money to pay, but that's how the system works here. And if the drunk driver doesn't have the capacity to pay the insurance company still has to pay it.
I really hate to see patents like this being granted, because they are so obviously stupid, and bring the whole system into disrepute. Better granted to IBM than a patent troll IMO. For all we know IBM might never implement this except in some obscure piece of software somewhere where some patent troll might try to milk it for a fifilion dollars.
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This is another example of a really obvious patent that adds NOTHING to advance the state of the art. With the way Patent lawsuits are going, don't blame IBM for this. They literally patent the hell out of everything they can to avoid being sued themselves. They're a patent suit target.
If you don't like IBM's actions, phone your representative for patent law reform as it's the government's own fault for the sad state in which patent law exists today.
but umm....... . Who cares? I care - my laptop is using Madwifi and it runs like ass with Gnome NetworkManager. It's been an open case with Ubuntu for over a year now. Atheros cards can't handle the scan requests and disconnect after the scan request.
It'd be nice to get better collaboration with the Atheros drivers.
Wireless is the big hole with Linux. Its support is dodgy at best.
Even if the lawsuit is won, you poor Canucks will still have those dreadful 3-year lock-in contracts too. We don't have them now. You only have them if you want a discount on your phone. Breaking your contract basically costs you the price of the phone, about $200...
and since grades are set based on relative achievement No, grades are set based on achievement against a standard. Most schools don't grade on a curve. I used to have university profs say "everyone starts with an A, it's yours to lose".
Props to the Gamestop guy for trying to bring some morality to this industry.
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The real issue is that the slower you drive, the less distance required to leave between you and the next vehicle. At a stop, the distance is 0, and at 100 km/h it's probably three car lengths - maybe 60ft or so.
Graph it out and it's probably quite a linear relationship - at 50 km/h 30ft is probably acceptable.
So you have a bunch of people driving 60ft apart on the highway, and a bunch of cars merge in. The cars at 60ft now need to slow down to increase their distance. Once said car slows down, the car behind has to slow down too, except someone is merging in front of him, and so on.
That goes for stop lights too. You have a bunch of people driving 30ft apart come to a stop. They all don't start instantly, they have to wait for bonus ft. When you're the 10th car, you need an extra 300ft to get going.
Seriously, grab a brain buddy - Spaces alone was worth upgrading to Leopard for...
Check out SiMP-Lite
It's a fantastic product, I just wish it was multi-platform... Really nice for Windows though...
The only problem I've heard of in an offshore gaming company was a recent one with Absolute Poker where an insider was colluding with a player, telling them the hole cards. Absolute denied it for quite a while until an employee rolled over on the insider who was colluding. Here's a link: http://www.gambling911.com/Absolute-Poker-103107A.html
This could just as easily have happened with an online poker server based in the US if ever it were allowed. B&M dealers have been found colluding with players all the time.
Truth is, owning nukes puts you in a club - a club where you don't run the risk of invasion from the US. I don't blame Ahmenijad one bid for wanting nukes. Hell I'd want them too if I was a country that the US was targetting - it would grant me autonomy. Look at the damage the US has done in the last 7 years in the name of "Freedom"
I'll argue that Compiz was slowing things down, and the Beryl fork kept things going.
Look at XFree86 and X.org. XFree86 changed licensing and each and every single distro switched to Xorg. If an OSS project makes a bad decision or stagnates where it shouldn't, someone WILL come along and fork it to keep things moving along. If the distros like the fork, they'll move over to it. Or GNOME and KDE (they should be sharing more code, it would solve a lot of compatibility issues). They can't really. That whole C vs. C++ thing, GTK vs. Qt, and licensing and other things get in the way.
Truth is they may both be good Desktops but are really quite polarized in philosophy and scope. It's not quite that simple.
But again, competition between the two keeps things going along quite nicely.
I swithced Neooffice is pretty damn good... For a native Cocoa fork of OOo I'm very impressed. Those guys need more support from the Mac community as they're only a small revision behind OOo.
Too bad they didn't want to work with OOo because of licensing issues. That sucks.
Airplanes and helicopters generate lift by creating a vacuum on a wing or blade that's perpendicular to the ground of course.
What I don't understand about this gyrocopter thing is how the spinning wings don't generate force in all directions - that is when the wing is on the bottom why doesn't it get pulled down? Or when it's on the back why the vaccum doesn't pull it back.
Who does that? Really what I think they're saying is http://a9.com/-/index is how a9 would know to bring up an index page instead of http://a9.com/search_term for searching... I know I'm being pedantic, but careful inspection of that flowchart shows this.
The way most of us would handle that is using a ErrorDocument 404 directive in apache's httpd.conf where if a page is missing we transfer the url to a search page. It's slightly different from what their flowchart seems to suggest.
The first step in the flowchart: "Does char_string start with a predefined prefix, eg "-/"
So if the url is http://a9.com/-/index then it brings up the file otherwise it's a search... I suppose you could write a mod_rewrite rule that parses the two different scenarios... Still stupid, but so focused that none of use would implement this silly way to process this stuff anyway...
Still don't understand why PTO has morons working for them and doesn't invest in some people with IT knowledge to reject these dumb-assed patents before they cost someone a boatload of money...
Secondly, if Linux wants to seriously compete on the desktop it needs to have a competitive offering. Instead we get hung up on Gnome vs. KDE, Beryl vs. Compiz, GPL2 vs GPL3 vs LGPL, etc etc... There's some good desktop stuff out there, but it's not quite there yet to give people a viable alternative. That said, my wife quite likes Linux on her laptop right now as all she does is word processing, email, and internet surfing.
What I do find interesting though is the bloat that's going into the Kernel nowadays.
My issues are more with the desktops now than with the kernel.
Let's be honest about where Linux truly sucks. On the server it's awesome and vastly popular.
But the desktop is another story. Wireless networking support is spotty, and so is photo printing. It took Adobe FOREVER to release an updated flash for Linux. Video editing sucks ass ( Cinelerra? C'mon get real folks ), and so is photo editing sucks too ( Gimp != Photoshop and is way inferiour ) On my Mac, I get all the awesomeness of Unix, with the beauty of OSX. I can install Photoshop if I like, and I have iPhoto and iMovie that do pretty good.
I tried with Linux for over a year. I now own a Mac because I'm tired of it.
.You mean like Lotus Notes? I do not know a single happy Lotus Notes user. Not one. They're in the same boat as Groupwise users - waiting to get into Exchange/Outlook.Sorry, but Exchange/Outlook is THE killer app... No one has been able to successfully compete with it yet...
That's why you have Linux/Unix shops running with Windows 2003 AD and Exchange 2003. it's a great combination when your desktops are running Windows.
Ever tried outlining your document in Writer? Word kicks the living crap out of Writer in that single feature alone. I get by without proper outlining, but it makes me so very angry. Then I remember about how much I paid for OOo and I stop being angry =D
FWIW though I have NeoOffice on my Mac now, and I'm quite impressed with it as a native Aqua app... Only one small frustration in it so far - I have a Might Mouse, and side scrolling in Calc doesn't work. Other than that, nice to see a native Mac port of OOo. Kudos.
There's money in the star trek world... Just isn't prevalent because you're seeing things from a military perspective.
That's a shame. Here in Canada we have uninsured motorist protection - if you're driving and someone without insurance smokes you you have a certain amount of coverage already.
http://www.icbc.com/insurance/insura_getsta_whacov_underi.asp
Now get this - it's a state run program as opposed to a private one...
Just curious, why didn't the drunk driver get nailed for the costs? That is the beautiful world we live in without medical insurance in the US. In BC we have public insurance and public health care. The insurance company would pay the hospital bill and send the drunk driver the invoice. Of course the drunk driver's most likely a moron anyway and hasn't got the money to pay, but that's how the system works here. And if the drunk driver doesn't have the capacity to pay the insurance company still has to pay it.
If you don't like IBM's actions, phone your representative for patent law reform as it's the government's own fault for the sad state in which patent law exists today.
It'd be nice to get better collaboration with the Atheros drivers.
Wireless is the big hole with Linux. Its support is dodgy at best.
I have a house alarm that requires a phone in order to get the insurance deduction, so I have a home phone. Awesome.
Props to the Gamestop guy for trying to bring some morality to this industry.
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Before I get flamed, I'm a HUGE FreeBSD fan, but until recently the lack of Java support really made FreeBSD on the desktop not be a viable option.
I'm thinking about giving DesktopBSD or PC-BSD a try soon though, now that the Java thing is all figured out.