In todays age, in order to pull you over for swerving, you'd probably need to be seen on their dash cam swerving, and if you weren't seen swerving on they're dash cam, you'd probably get off in court.
I knew someone would bring up dash cams. The issue is if the cop is sitting beside the road (perpendicular to it) to observe people out his window, the cam is only going to capture the small plot of road right in front of the car. I wont be in its field of view at the time he observed this alleged swerving.
You know, just the fear of it going to court at all can be enough to coerce many people. People lead busy lives and the prospect of trying to wedge a scary court case into it is enough to just say fuck it and agree to the search so you can go home..
Exactly. Justice is only for those who can afford it nowadays.
They do have very similar overall plots. I think Angels and Demons was slightly better. Today DaVinci Code is likely the more successful of the two because of Oprah's Book Club making it one of their reads, and then the media/religious right getting all up in arms with how it portrayed the Catholic Church. I don't think Oprah had people read the first novel.
I just found out last night there is now a fourth book in the series -- published just this year. I don't recall liking the third novel as much as the first two because of the main antagonist character.
Funny enough we had a place that operated like that for a short bit. It was called the Men's Room. It had no liquor license so you had to BYOB and operated as a "private club", which in this case had no meaningful membership rules.
The police tend to like to ask what you're up to as part of their questioning. Part of it is to seem friendly so you let your guard down, part of it is probably hoping you'll display some characteristic you're lying (procrastinating to think, stuttering, inconsistent story). They also like to ask where you work, even if it has nothing to do with what they stopped you for. I sometimes wonder how the interaction would change if I told him I was unemployed.
In this case the response was I that I was headed home and indicated to him he had pulled me over less than two blocks from my apartment complex.
I can't tell from how you italicized that whether you think I'm that unaware of my own driving, or if you think maybe it was the police that were having trouble seeing things.
This was a four-lane road with a median (actually part of a highway running through town). It's a straight line for miles. You don't need to be a good driver in any sense of the word to stay going the right way without any steering (in fact, I would go so far as to say a drunk person could drive it fine). The policeman was just wanting an excuse to pull me over. I bet he was slightly disappointed when he saw I had plastic bags containing groceries sitting next to me in the passenger seat.
The summary said this was volunteer, the cops are free to ask for permission to search you and you're free to say no.
And the police would NEVER interpret your refusal to cooperate as an attempt to hide wrongdoing, giving them "probable cause" to force you to comply, No siree, Bob.
Except that in the US there must be probable cause in order to detain people and search them.
"Probable cause" is whatever the cops want to invent. I got pulled over once while driving home from grocery shopping one night, with the cop wanting to know if I'd had anything to drink, where was I going, etc. The reason they pulled me over is because they "saw me swerving". I was doing nothing of the sort.
Tom Hanks needs the cash, Da Vinci Code Part 2, coming up!
I guess you missed Angels and Demons when it came out three years later?
Although, it should be noted that they changed the order of the plots for the film adaptations. The Da Vinci Code is originally the second book in the series after Angels and Demons.
ISP's have "official" speed testing sites generally, either ones they themselves operate, or ones they bless as being the official test site. You can call them up and say "I'm only getting blahblah megabits per second when I test my speed at whatever.net" and they wont care unless you're getting similar results at the official test.
Feedback isn't just the noise Jimmy Hendricks made with his guitar. It's a vital part of maintaining a quality workforce. If you fail at employee morale you will fail at keeping your staff.
Keep in mind the "editorial team of the biggest-selling English Linux magazine" appears to be three people from the Indiegogo page (oooooo! big walkout!), and they themselves say they were the "majority" of the editorial team (so there's still people back at Linux Voice). So what do we really have here?
Three guys decided to quit their job at once.
Remaining employees at Linux Voice pick up the slack while new people are hired to replace to them (or not). The industry as a whole in in a downward slope, and management loves attrition.
...the 63-page bill provides a comprehensive look at the potential ways in which ISPs can limit consumer choice, and it boots the Federal Communications Commission's power to prevent bad outcomes.
Is that a typo? "Boots" (gets rid of) or "boosts" (bolsters) the FCC's authority on this issue? I would think having non-discrimination laws for online video services would give official recognition to the FCC's power... unless these powers would only be usable by someone else, in which case who do I complain to when the providers do get caught.
Google Glass is marketed in the wrong way. Just like Segway they're trying to hype it for use by everybody all the time and justifiably it's backfiring on them. They should market it quietly to niche applications...
Google doesn't want a "niche product" only people in specialized fields will ever know about, they want to release the next iPad. Unfortunately, they haven't really developed that product that will capture the hearts of the public yet.
I never knew he was in Roots. I know him from Reading Rainbow and Star Trek TNG. And since I said "known amongst geeks" it's pretty obvious I'm not going to cite a historical drama role.
He actually is a celebrity, known amongst geeks for his character on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Asking his opinion on Google Glass is completely intentional, as his character on the series was a blind man who viewed the word through a device that sat at eye-level on his head [link to pics] and interfaced directly with the visual cortex. The device allowed him to see the world in an unnatural but heightened way far outside the normal visible light-spectrum, closer to electromagnetic spectrum (someone will reply to this and give exact spectrum/wavelengths I'm sure).
So some marketoid is trying to draw a parallel between the character's visor and Google Glass.
A book is a static image. If you don't have a fetish over paper and binding the experience can be reproduced much more easily.
While you're correct that it would now be pretty easy to replicate the experience of a high-quality printed book, nobody is really doing it. If only I could buy a "static image" of a decently designed book, I'd be happy. But most "ebooks" are just text that's thrown into some stupid engine that formats text like the worst version of MS Word, only with a smaller selection of fonts and less control over other things that affect readability.
I actually own a Kindle, but I've purchased exactly two ebooks. I've tried downloading other free ones too, and they just look horrible, if you care at all about typography. I'd much prefer a static image (e.g., PDF), if it were sized so that I could read it on my screen properly. Almost all the books I actually have loaded on my Kindle are PDFs derived from paper books (even very old ones), because the typesetting is just so much better.
That's probably half the issue here. When ebooks came along everyone was all "look what we can do! It's dynamically displayed so you can change the font or text size to match what you desire!" but they didn't consider how this effects things like layout and formatting. Had ebooks been designed to emulate paper books (or PDFs) more, this wouldn't be an issue. You'd have a normal ebook, and a separate "large type" ebook just as real books in a library are grouped, each laid out with a specific format in mind. But that requires the size of your display to be standardized too, and early ebook makers loved touting how their reader could display a "full page" document, only whispering it had to be scaled to 75% normal size to fit on the 1024x768 display, and that rendered small text unreadable when the document was formatted to be viewed at 100% its correct size.
It has nothing to do with a "paper fetish" or binding. Good typography just "looks better," just like high-quality video or whatever. Page layout, text-block size, spacing between lines, between words, between sentences, etc. does make a difference.
I was actually referring to people who get all silly about how an ebook doesn't have the "satisfying weight in their hands" or "smell of the paper" etc. That's not what a book is about. Books are about the content -- the words within them. The video and audio quality on a movie can have a very real impact on the retelling of the story because they are more closely tied to the transmission of the content itself. A book is a much more "binary" communication method if you get my drift. As long as you can understand the words on the page it really doesn't matter if they are printed on vellum or newsprint, just as it doesn't matter if I'm watching a Blu-Ray or an HD-DVD if the video and audio encoding are the same (as they are on some early WB movies). Formatting and typography is another matter, I agree, as these effect you ability to comfortably parse the content of the book and infer the meaning of the words -- and the work itself. A poorly formatted piece of text is very comparable to the poor quality DVD verses the Blu-Ray restoration. The ebook is "the same novel as the paper book" to the layman, but the quality of the transmission is much poorer and it isn't the same experience.
I've recently been enjoying discovering neat projects on Kickstarter. I have friends who use Kickstarter and possibly family, too. But, despite Kickstarter having it's own authentication system and profile pages for users, there no way to associate yourself with other Kickstarter members without being friends with them on Facebook, which leaves me out completely since I refuse to use Facebook.
At peak, Blockbuster alone had 9,000 video rental stores. The last day to rent a video from Blockbuster is tomorrow. All the stores are closing. When will the last DVD/Blu-Ray disk be made?
Digital download/streaming videos still doesn't match the video/audio quality of a blu-ray, and wont for a long, long time (in the United States at least) because Internet service wont be fast enough/offer high enough caps to make that kind of product practical for long, long time.
A book is a static image. If you don't have a fetish over paper and binding the experience can be reproduced much more easily.
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In todays age, in order to pull you over for swerving, you'd probably need to be seen on their dash cam swerving, and if you weren't seen swerving on they're dash cam, you'd probably get off in court.
I knew someone would bring up dash cams.
The issue is if the cop is sitting beside the road (perpendicular to it) to observe people out his window, the cam is only going to capture the small plot of road right in front of the car. I wont be in its field of view at the time he observed this alleged swerving.
Does anyone else find the title "Information Commissioner" Orwellian in itself?
You know, just the fear of it going to court at all can be enough to coerce many people. People lead busy lives and the prospect of trying to wedge a scary court case into it is enough to just say fuck it and agree to the search so you can go home..
Exactly. Justice is only for those who can afford it nowadays.
They do have very similar overall plots. I think Angels and Demons was slightly better. Today DaVinci Code is likely the more successful of the two because of Oprah's Book Club making it one of their reads, and then the media/religious right getting all up in arms with how it portrayed the Catholic Church. I don't think Oprah had people read the first novel.
I just found out last night there is now a fourth book in the series -- published just this year. I don't recall liking the third novel as much as the first two because of the main antagonist character.
Funny enough we had a place that operated like that for a short bit. It was called the Men's Room. It had no liquor license so you had to BYOB and operated as a "private club", which in this case had no meaningful membership rules.
where was I going
... so he was also looking for a new hangout?
The police tend to like to ask what you're up to as part of their questioning. Part of it is to seem friendly so you let your guard down, part of it is probably hoping you'll display some characteristic you're lying (procrastinating to think, stuttering, inconsistent story). They also like to ask where you work, even if it has nothing to do with what they stopped you for. I sometimes wonder how the interaction would change if I told him I was unemployed.
In this case the response was I that I was headed home and indicated to him he had pulled me over less than two blocks from my apartment complex.
I can't tell from how you italicized that whether you think I'm that unaware of my own driving, or if you think maybe it was the police that were having trouble seeing things.
This was a four-lane road with a median (actually part of a highway running through town). It's a straight line for miles. You don't need to be a good driver in any sense of the word to stay going the right way without any steering (in fact, I would go so far as to say a drunk person could drive it fine). The policeman was just wanting an excuse to pull me over. I bet he was slightly disappointed when he saw I had plastic bags containing groceries sitting next to me in the passenger seat.
The summary said this was volunteer, the cops are free to ask for permission to search you and you're free to say no.
And the police would NEVER interpret your refusal to cooperate as an attempt to hide wrongdoing, giving them "probable cause" to force you to comply, No siree, Bob.
Except that in the US there must be probable cause in order to detain people and search them.
"Probable cause" is whatever the cops want to invent. I got pulled over once while driving home from grocery shopping one night, with the cop wanting to know if I'd had anything to drink, where was I going, etc. The reason they pulled me over is because they "saw me swerving". I was doing nothing of the sort.
Tom Hanks needs the cash, Da Vinci Code Part 2, coming up!
I guess you missed Angels and Demons when it came out three years later?
Although, it should be noted that they changed the order of the plots for the film adaptations. The Da Vinci Code is originally the second book in the series after Angels and Demons.
I wonder how long it takes to forward the mail all the way to them. I feel like sending them an opened can of tuna as a holiday gift.
They don't need to.
ISP's have "official" speed testing sites generally, either ones they themselves operate, or ones they bless as being the official test site. You can call them up and say "I'm only getting blahblah megabits per second when I test my speed at whatever.net" and they wont care unless you're getting similar results at the official test.
Edit: meant "Linux Format" for the former magazine. Linux Voice is the new publication.
Feedback isn't just the noise Jimmy Hendricks made with his guitar. It's a vital part of maintaining a quality workforce. If you fail at employee morale you will fail at keeping your staff.
Keep in mind the "editorial team of the biggest-selling English Linux magazine" appears to be three people from the Indiegogo page (oooooo! big walkout!), and they themselves say they were the "majority" of the editorial team (so there's still people back at Linux Voice). So what do we really have here?
I removed my facebook app, because my phone would buzz once or twice a day on random posts from 'friends' I barely know.
Have you considered part of the issue here is becoming "friends" with people you don't really care about?
...the 63-page bill provides a comprehensive look at the potential ways in which ISPs can limit consumer choice, and it boots the Federal Communications Commission's power to prevent bad outcomes.
Is that a typo? "Boots" (gets rid of) or "boosts" (bolsters) the FCC's authority on this issue? I would think having non-discrimination laws for online video services would give official recognition to the FCC's power... unless these powers would only be usable by someone else, in which case who do I complain to when the providers do get caught.
Google Glass is marketed in the wrong way. Just like Segway they're trying to hype it for use by everybody all the time and justifiably it's backfiring on them. They should market it quietly to niche applications...
Google doesn't want a "niche product" only people in specialized fields will ever know about, they want to release the next iPad. Unfortunately, they haven't really developed that product that will capture the hearts of the public yet.
I never knew he was in Roots. I know him from Reading Rainbow and Star Trek TNG. And since I said "known amongst geeks" it's pretty obvious I'm not going to cite a historical drama role.
Or is he going to buy a third Tesla after his first two caught fire?
Never heard of this guy.
He actually is a celebrity, known amongst geeks for his character on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Asking his opinion on Google Glass is completely intentional, as his character on the series was a blind man who viewed the word through a device that sat at eye-level on his head [link to pics] and interfaced directly with the visual cortex. The device allowed him to see the world in an unnatural but heightened way far outside the normal visible light-spectrum, closer to electromagnetic spectrum (someone will reply to this and give exact spectrum/wavelengths I'm sure).
So some marketoid is trying to draw a parallel between the character's visor and Google Glass.
The love for the physical object (the book) is not comparable to being home theater enthusiast. See my reply to AthanasiusKircher.
A book is a static image. If you don't have a fetish over paper and binding the experience can be reproduced much more easily.
While you're correct that it would now be pretty easy to replicate the experience of a high-quality printed book, nobody is really doing it. If only I could buy a "static image" of a decently designed book, I'd be happy. But most "ebooks" are just text that's thrown into some stupid engine that formats text like the worst version of MS Word, only with a smaller selection of fonts and less control over other things that affect readability.
I actually own a Kindle, but I've purchased exactly two ebooks. I've tried downloading other free ones too, and they just look horrible, if you care at all about typography. I'd much prefer a static image (e.g., PDF), if it were sized so that I could read it on my screen properly. Almost all the books I actually have loaded on my Kindle are PDFs derived from paper books (even very old ones), because the typesetting is just so much better.
That's probably half the issue here. When ebooks came along everyone was all "look what we can do! It's dynamically displayed so you can change the font or text size to match what you desire!" but they didn't consider how this effects things like layout and formatting. Had ebooks been designed to emulate paper books (or PDFs) more, this wouldn't be an issue. You'd have a normal ebook, and a separate "large type" ebook just as real books in a library are grouped, each laid out with a specific format in mind. But that requires the size of your display to be standardized too, and early ebook makers loved touting how their reader could display a "full page" document, only whispering it had to be scaled to 75% normal size to fit on the 1024x768 display, and that rendered small text unreadable when the document was formatted to be viewed at 100% its correct size.
It has nothing to do with a "paper fetish" or binding. Good typography just "looks better," just like high-quality video or whatever. Page layout, text-block size, spacing between lines, between words, between sentences, etc. does make a difference.
I was actually referring to people who get all silly about how an ebook doesn't have the "satisfying weight in their hands" or "smell of the paper" etc. That's not what a book is about. Books are about the content -- the words within them. The video and audio quality on a movie can have a very real impact on the retelling of the story because they are more closely tied to the transmission of the content itself. A book is a much more "binary" communication method if you get my drift. As long as you can understand the words on the page it really doesn't matter if they are printed on vellum or newsprint, just as it doesn't matter if I'm watching a Blu-Ray or an HD-DVD if the video and audio encoding are the same (as they are on some early WB movies). Formatting and typography is another matter, I agree, as these effect you ability to comfortably parse the content of the book and infer the meaning of the words -- and the work itself. A poorly formatted piece of text is very comparable to the poor quality DVD verses the Blu-Ray restoration. The ebook is "the same novel as the paper book" to the layman, but the quality of the transmission is much poorer and it isn't the same experience.
I figure it might be this little guy:
http://www.theamazingpics.com/transparent-fish/
Ahh, thanks, it's very clear now!
Well Sun recognized how much people appreciated transparency from a company. The Oracle is shrouded in mystery, though.
I've recently been enjoying discovering neat projects on Kickstarter. I have friends who use Kickstarter and possibly family, too. But, despite Kickstarter having it's own authentication system and profile pages for users, there no way to associate yourself with other Kickstarter members without being friends with them on Facebook, which leaves me out completely since I refuse to use Facebook.
At peak, Blockbuster alone had 9,000 video rental stores.
The last day to rent a video from Blockbuster is tomorrow. All the stores are closing. When will the last DVD/Blu-Ray disk be made?
Digital download/streaming videos still doesn't match the video/audio quality of a blu-ray, and wont for a long, long time (in the United States at least) because Internet service wont be fast enough/offer high enough caps to make that kind of product practical for long, long time.
A book is a static image. If you don't have a fetish over paper and binding the experience can be reproduced much more easily.