Exactly right. I have an offroad vehicle with air suspension... I can raise/lower the truck about 8 inches... At factory height; the truck drives normal... If I raise it just a few inches, the front axle rotates enough that driving it is like trying to hold on to a slippery eel.. It doesn't take much in terms of suspension changes to dramatically affect the handling of a vehicle. This is why there are properly engineered suspension _kits_ vs shoving blocks between spring/axle to make your truck look cool.
I drive around at factory height but raise the truck when I'm off road going 5mph.
yeah; I remember Mythbusters tried this out... It didn't start to actually make any difference until they were something like 18" behind the truck... I really think only a "Hypermiler" would be stupid enough to actually do that.
Now, a better question is why are we still killing people when at least 4% of ppl killed are verifiable innocent? I guess it's cheaper than dealing with the lawsuits for false imprisonment.
1000x this... If someone thinks it's ok for an innocent person to be put to death or that somehow there is some acceptable false-positive rate associated, then they should be next in line to volunteer to be euthanized.
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There are several issues here. I am offended that some operating systems have hijacked ascii characters to use for meta functionality... ie: ^C, ^V, ^S... ie: I want the same copy/paste key sequences in all of my apps, but I can't have that. I can't remap firefox to use Alt-C/Alt-V for copy/paste or Alt-T for 'new tab'... For those of us who live/work/survive in terminal windows, we want a consistant user interface... This consistancy is (for the most part ) on OS X.
But in terms of the article in question, yeah.. What I really want is more disconnect between my editing window and my compiler/debugger.
We don't encourage drinking/driving... We have a beer or two over the span of a couple or three hours... It's not about the drinking, it's about the socializing... I've been pulled over and blown well well below even the warning limit...
I have a self-righteous friend who walks/cycles everywhere he needs to go. Doesn't own a car/truck.. Happily puts down those who do, etc... You know the type. It's all fine and dandy until he needs to move a couch, or pickup some lumber, or get to the airport, then his vehicle-owning friends must come to his aid... When we all decide to get together for a beer or a meal, it needs to be near his part of town so he can walk; or if it's somewhere else, he'll arrange for someone to come pick him up.. If no one is able (or willing) to pick him up, he doesn't join in... He misses out (by choice)...
Another point, just because someone drives a big SUV to work, doesn't mean it's a status symbol or what have you. Maybe they have 4 kids and don't want to (or can afford to) have a small car just for commuting. Or maybe they need the vehicle for work because they regularly carry large bulky items for sale or install... I've more and more tried to turn off my generalization engine...
There are people (I like to call them retards) who buy a new car every 2-3 years... They're not concerned with how much the car costs; only what their monthly payments are... They're not concerned with what gadgets are in the car and how functional or useful those gadgets are going to be in 5 years... As soon as the 'new car smell' fades away, it's time to buy another one... These are the people who will gladly get the internet option...
(sorry for any retards I've inadvertantly insulted).
Around here cyclists have a sense of entitlement. You can be sitting in your car, at a red light and watch cars and cyclists cross in front of you. When their light turns red and your light turns green, the cars will stop but the cyclists will keep crossing in spite of the red... So you and 100 other cars are sitting at a green light waiting for the stream of cyclists to stop... I've been at the front and started to creep through the green in hopes of signalling that maybe their turn is over... The result is a nice finger gesture... On rural roads, the weekend tour-de-france wannabes ride on the 1 lane highways with no shoulders (the white line on the side of the road is in about 12" and then it's 'ditch')... So legally, you can't pass them if you have a solid line, which especially sucks if they're ascending a long hill at 3mph in the middle of the lane... Because it's a hill, there's a solid center line the whole way and you're stuck there... If you toot the horn in hopes they might consider pulling over and letting the dozen or so cars pass, you again just get the finger... "Fuck you gas-guzzling asshole. I'm out here exercising righteously!"
Yeah; I have a bad attitude... I cycle too but I don't get in everyone else's way...
Months since someone made us your problem: 3 Months until our budget must go up 8.67%: 7 Months until somene makes us your problem if we don't get our budget increase: 8
Something I always wondered since I was a kid (40 years ago) is what if 'space' is infinite but our universe is still expanding to fill it? What if another big-bang happened elsewhere creating another universe, that is slowly expanding to fill it's portion of space? What if, eventually, billions and billions of years from now, the edges of the various universes meet and gravity causes new stars and black holes eventually causing another huge implosion and another Big Bang with all new laws, constants, etc... This has been happening forever and will continue happening forever...
Either the manufacturer produces a phone so locked down that you can only use it the way they want you to and everyone complains and RMS froths at the mouth... Or the manufacturer produces a phone full of holes and everyone complains... Only RMS is happy. RMS being unhappy is far more entertaining.
When I bought my house, my agent sold me on a 'seepage' rider... He said it was a good idea on a new house because you never know what leaks are going to happen. Sure enough, 10 years later we discovered the siding was installed incorrectly on one side of the house and water had been slowly seeping in to one section of wall... Called the insurance company, they sent an adjuster and immediately brought in a team to demolish that entire room in the basement and set up dehumidifiers... Awesome service I thought. After a couple weeks of dehmidification, I asked when they were expecting to start rebuilding... My insurance company said I wasn't covered for seepage. I pointed out that I had purchased seepage coverage. They said they'd get back to me. A week later, they got back to me. Still not covered. There's a proviso on the seepage coverage that says they don't cover "repeated seepage" and since the seepage had been ocurring every time it rained for the last 10 years, it counted as 'repeated'. So we were on the hook for the whole $15,000.
In summary, you may buy coverage, but they will find some way to avoid coverage.
Insurance: If they can afford to sell it to you, it's not a good deal.
This is one of the things I hate most about Android (having recently switched from an iphone to a Nexus5). I tried to install flashlight app but the top 5 or 10 all wanted egregious access to my phonecalls, instant messages, or full network access. I gave up.
Later I read a slashdot comment from an Android app developer who said shortly after making his app available in the Play Store, he started receiving messages from individuals offering to pay him a per-download commission on his app if he would consent to linking their "library" in with his app... It was a very attractive commission... So that explains the requests for access to unreasonable things... I don't know how this is different in IOS-land... Maybe the apps just get that access without anyone knowing? Or maybe someone at the App store decides whether a flashlight app needs access to instant message logs...
Same here. I'm one step ahead of you. My friend and I play for "who has to go deal with the stupid user"... Last time we played, he said "wow. When you said you always pick rock, you really meant you _always_ pick rock"...
He's not a stupid man... So he could be setting me up anticipating that I will play scissors next so I should pick paper...
This is based on a lot of assumptions. One is that being "locked into a contract" is a big deal. As an adult I need a phone to operate in the modern world, a cell phone and ideally a smart phone (particularly given my career). I know that I will need this service, I know that I will almost certainly need this service for the next two years. What is the harm in signing a contract. The chances that I will need to break it are extremely low. Ultimately the extra cost I pay pretty much works out to the discount I get on the phone (it might work against me a bit but its not like buying something on a payment plan is that odd or indefensible either)
I don't know about that Math but my provider gives me a 10% discount for bringing my own device. My monthly plan is $70. So I save $7/month, which over 24 months is about $150.... I don't think that's much of a subsidy... If I stay with my carrier for more than 2 years, I'm basically losing. However, for some reason, I still refuse to go on a contract. It seems wrong.
I've been in the telecom business but not the marketing end... I don't know about now but back then, the model was that phones were expected to last 18 months before the battery or something else gave out... So you wanted your customer to renew and tie in to a new 2 year contract when they were almost finished their current contract and prevent them from moving to another carrier.
Many schools now use Google apps for students. That includes Gmail, Drive, and productivity apps. My son is required to hand his assignments in via Google Drive and use Gmail to communicate with teachers and fellow students... So "use someone else" is a nice generalization but not always an option... That's why I'm happy to see this.
fwiw, personally, I have always run my own mailserver/webserver/dns.
I have a few tablets. But they serve specific purposes. They're not general purpose machines. One operates as a Plex remote in the livingroom. One lives in the kitchen to display recipes, or check out the days weather at breakfast; or maybe reference a wikipedia article while chatting at breakfast. These are specific tasks for which a $150 ASUS Memo Pad 7 suffices perfectly. These are not tasks that need a $1000 phondleslab.
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Exactly right. I have an offroad vehicle with air suspension... I can raise/lower the truck about 8 inches... At factory height; the truck drives normal... If I raise it just a few inches, the front axle rotates enough that driving it is like trying to hold on to a slippery eel.. It doesn't take much in terms of suspension changes to dramatically affect the handling of a vehicle. This is why there are properly engineered suspension _kits_ vs shoving blocks between spring/axle to make your truck look cool.
I drive around at factory height but raise the truck when I'm off road going 5mph.
yeah; I remember Mythbusters tried this out... It didn't start to actually make any difference until they were something like 18" behind the truck... I really think only a "Hypermiler" would be stupid enough to actually do that.
Now, a better question is why are we still killing people when at least 4% of ppl killed are verifiable innocent? I guess it's cheaper than dealing with the lawsuits for false imprisonment.
1000x this ... If someone thinks it's ok for an innocent person to be put to death or that somehow there is some acceptable false-positive rate associated, then they should be next in line to volunteer to be euthanized.
There are several issues here. I am offended that some operating systems have hijacked ascii characters to use for meta functionality... ie: ^C, ^V, ^S... ie: I want the same copy/paste key sequences in all of my apps, but I can't have that. I can't remap firefox to use Alt-C/Alt-V for copy/paste or Alt-T for 'new tab'... For those of us who live/work/survive in terminal windows, we want a consistant user interface... This consistancy is (for the most part ) on OS X.
But in terms of the article in question, yeah.. What I really want is more disconnect between my editing window and my compiler/debugger.
We don't encourage drinking/driving... We have a beer or two over the span of a couple or three hours... It's not about the drinking, it's about the socializing... I've been pulled over and blown well well below even the warning limit...
I have a self-righteous friend who walks/cycles everywhere he needs to go. Doesn't own a car/truck.. Happily puts down those who do, etc ... You know the type. It's all fine and dandy until he needs to move a couch, or pickup some lumber, or get to the airport, then his vehicle-owning friends must come to his aid... When we all decide to get together for a beer or a meal, it needs to be near his part of town so he can walk; or if it's somewhere else, he'll arrange for someone to come pick him up.. If no one is able (or willing) to pick him up, he doesn't join in... He misses out (by choice)...
Another point, just because someone drives a big SUV to work, doesn't mean it's a status symbol or what have you. Maybe they have 4 kids and don't want to (or can afford to) have a small car just for commuting. Or maybe they need the vehicle for work because they regularly carry large bulky items for sale or install... I've more and more tried to turn off my generalization engine...
There are people (I like to call them retards) who buy a new car every 2-3 years... They're not concerned with how much the car costs; only what their monthly payments are... They're not concerned with what gadgets are in the car and how functional or useful those gadgets are going to be in 5 years... As soon as the 'new car smell' fades away, it's time to buy another one... These are the people who will gladly get the internet option...
(sorry for any retards I've inadvertantly insulted).
You have to die of _something_...
yeah; whatever... I live in america but I'm Canadian; not American. It's well accepted that 'Americans' refers to those who live in the USA.
Around here cyclists have a sense of entitlement. You can be sitting in your car, at a red light and watch cars and cyclists cross in front of you. When their light turns red and your light turns green, the cars will stop but the cyclists will keep crossing in spite of the red... So you and 100 other cars are sitting at a green light waiting for the stream of cyclists to stop... I've been at the front and started to creep through the green in hopes of signalling that maybe their turn is over... The result is a nice finger gesture... On rural roads, the weekend tour-de-france wannabes ride on the 1 lane highways with no shoulders (the white line on the side of the road is in about 12" and then it's 'ditch')... So legally, you can't pass them if you have a solid line, which especially sucks if they're ascending a long hill at 3mph in the middle of the lane... Because it's a hill, there's a solid center line the whole way and you're stuck there... If you toot the horn in hopes they might consider pulling over and letting the dozen or so cars pass, you again just get the finger... "Fuck you gas-guzzling asshole. I'm out here exercising righteously!"
Yeah; I have a bad attitude... I cycle too but I don't get in everyone else's way...
Months since someone made us your problem: 3
Months until our budget must go up 8.67%: 7
Months until somene makes us your problem if we don't get our budget increase: 8
or it could happen elsewhere, but a million years before or after our existance...
The odds that there is intelligent life, anywhere near here, at the same time as us, is even smaller...
Something I always wondered since I was a kid (40 years ago) is what if 'space' is infinite but our universe is still expanding to fill it? What if another big-bang happened elsewhere creating another universe, that is slowly expanding to fill it's portion of space? What if, eventually, billions and billions of years from now, the edges of the various universes meet and gravity causes new stars and black holes eventually causing another huge implosion and another Big Bang with all new laws, constants, etc ... This has been happening forever and will continue happening forever...
It made more sense when I was 12 ...
Either the manufacturer produces a phone so locked down that you can only use it the way they want you to and everyone complains and RMS froths at the mouth... Or the manufacturer produces a phone full of holes and everyone complains... Only RMS is happy. RMS being unhappy is far more entertaining.
When I bought my house, my agent sold me on a 'seepage' rider... He said it was a good idea on a new house because you never know what leaks are going to happen. Sure enough, 10 years later we discovered the siding was installed incorrectly on one side of the house and water had been slowly seeping in to one section of wall... Called the insurance company, they sent an adjuster and immediately brought in a team to demolish that entire room in the basement and set up dehumidifiers... Awesome service I thought. After a couple weeks of dehmidification, I asked when they were expecting to start rebuilding... My insurance company said I wasn't covered for seepage. I pointed out that I had purchased seepage coverage. They said they'd get back to me. A week later, they got back to me. Still not covered. There's a proviso on the seepage coverage that says they don't cover "repeated seepage" and since the seepage had been ocurring every time it rained for the last 10 years, it counted as 'repeated'. So we were on the hook for the whole $15,000.
In summary, you may buy coverage, but they will find some way to avoid coverage.
Insurance: If they can afford to sell it to you, it's not a good deal.
Let the moon pump the water up... You get free RO twice a day for 6 hours.
This is one of the things I hate most about Android (having recently switched from an iphone to a Nexus5). I tried to install flashlight app but the top 5 or 10 all wanted egregious access to my phonecalls, instant messages, or full network access. I gave up.
Later I read a slashdot comment from an Android app developer who said shortly after making his app available in the Play Store, he started receiving messages from individuals offering to pay him a per-download commission on his app if he would consent to linking their "library" in with his app... It was a very attractive commission... So that explains the requests for access to unreasonable things... I don't know how this is different in IOS-land... Maybe the apps just get that access without anyone knowing? Or maybe someone at the App store decides whether a flashlight app needs access to instant message logs ...
Same here. I'm one step ahead of you. My friend and I play for "who has to go deal with the stupid user"... Last time we played, he said "wow. When you said you always pick rock, you really meant you _always_ pick rock"...
He's not a stupid man... So he could be setting me up anticipating that I will play scissors next so I should pick paper...
Good thing there's no iocane powder involved.
This is based on a lot of assumptions. One is that being "locked into a contract" is a big deal. As an adult I need a phone to operate in the modern world, a cell phone and ideally a smart phone (particularly given my career). I know that I will need this service, I know that I will almost certainly need this service for the next two years. What is the harm in signing a contract. The chances that I will need to break it are extremely low. Ultimately the extra cost I pay pretty much works out to the discount I get on the phone (it might work against me a bit but its not like buying something on a payment plan is that odd or indefensible either)
I don't know about that Math but my provider gives me a 10% discount for bringing my own device. My monthly plan is $70. So I save $7/month, which over 24 months is about $150.... I don't think that's much of a subsidy... If I stay with my carrier for more than 2 years, I'm basically losing. However, for some reason, I still refuse to go on a contract. It seems wrong.
I've been in the telecom business but not the marketing end... I don't know about now but back then, the model was that phones were expected to last 18 months before the battery or something else gave out... So you wanted your customer to renew and tie in to a new 2 year contract when they were almost finished their current contract and prevent them from moving to another carrier.
The dog ate it.
My son uses my mail server for personal mail.
Then use someone else.^1 It's not difficult.
Many schools now use Google apps for students. That includes Gmail, Drive, and productivity apps. My son is required to hand his assignments in via Google Drive and use Gmail to communicate with teachers and fellow students... So "use someone else" is a nice generalization but not always an option... That's why I'm happy to see this.
fwiw, personally, I have always run my own mailserver/webserver/dns.
My water well guy said "Plumbing's easy. Even a plumber can do it."
I have a few tablets. But they serve specific purposes. They're not general purpose machines. One operates as a Plex remote in the livingroom. One lives in the kitchen to display recipes, or check out the days weather at breakfast; or maybe reference a wikipedia article while chatting at breakfast. These are specific tasks for which a $150 ASUS Memo Pad 7 suffices perfectly. These are not tasks that need a $1000 phondleslab.