My dad had me sitting in the car with the engine off and the keys inside the house practicing the coordination between the clutch, gas, brake, and the gearstick. After about a month of that I got to turn the car on in an empty parking lot that was short enough that I would barely put it into second gear.
Little after that, I'd drive home from church under his supervision, in the slow lane, no faster than the speed limit. If I made a single mistake, he'd take over. Those were the accepted rules and mother in the back seat would be arbitrator.
Two years of this got me to be a decent driver since it was always drive right or not drive at all. And little by little, I got to know the route quite well along with being able to read the traffic and make guesses as to how it was going to move.
Learning the limits of my car was a bit different. Empty parking lot on a hill by myself in the middle of the night once I got my license. Parking lot was huge and since the drifting bit hadn't hit yet, cops weren't patrolling the area.
Wasted a set of tires and suspension and learnt what spinning out in a front-wheel-drive felt like. I did this purely for the experience just to know what the limits of my car were so I would never get near them.
Saddly, this wouldn't save me from hydroplaning on an blind uphill curve -_-'
I was driving a '92 corolla DX. It literally couldn't go over 80, and was incapable of accelerating up hill.
I had an '89 with a carburetor. 80mph was my cruising speed way back when I was younger. And in the summer we'd take trips down to Mexico by ways of the straight and well maintained toll roads and got that little thing up to 107 with three people inside. That was my father though many moons ago.
But then again, this was a stick shift that was well maintained by my car-savvy father who was also the third owner. Not like the one I now drive one that was left to rot in an old parking lot. This one has difficulty going over 80mph and tops out at 95mph. Then again the suspension is craptacular and I'm not insane so I stick to more moderate speeds.:P
And honestly, I have more problems with female drivers. It really grates on my nerves since I've never liked that stereotype but the more I drive, the more I see it. Like all the people I've seen with cell phones after the ban. All but one have been female. And even worse, only a third were mid-twenties.
I've been: almost hit several dozen times while moving at under 5 MPH, almost hit several dozen times on my green arrow, tail gated from here to hell, almost run off the road 3 or 4 times while minding my own business.
And this, many times this. Especially with the running off the road. If it wasn't for my father who ingrained in me the whole 'act like if everyone was out to get you' my car would look even worse now.
you really cared about being safe you'd drop back sufficiently far to be safe.
Honestly, when anyone who drive like that appears and is driving at that speed with those kinds of maneuvers, you really only have two sane options. Either speed up past him, or exit the freeway completely.
If someone is tailgating just gradually slow down until they pass.
That's pretty much common sense unless you're looking for a run. But the dude in OP's case was tailgating a Big Rig.
Dunno what they taught you but one must never tailgate a big rig. One must also not be besides a big rig or a semi if one can help it. It's just not a wise choice due to tire blow outs on the trucks or the small pebbles they kick up from time to time which can crack your windshield. I'm actually quite paranoid that one might hit me in the eye if I drive with the window down.
And this all happened in traffic that was moving no faster than 50 m.p.h.
Hehe, welcome to LA:D
No, but seriously. Rush hour is bad. It's know for having all sorts of accidents and most of them, if not all, being under 50mph. Hell, that's why the Sigalert was invented!
But OP's point wasn't about how fast the guy was going, it was about the reckless driving of the guy in the SUV.
Look on the bright side...
If the population slowly turns into a geeky/nerdy sexless society, less teenagers will get pregnant and thus invariably preventing the making of any new teen pregnancy specials!
Well, I didn't have any problems until I switched over to WPA instead of WEP, and since I'm running mostly on mac, I don't want to have to restart just to grab content using the DISCONTINUED dongle for Windows...
So yeah, I'm looking forward to this especially since I skipped the GBA generation.
And also, I never really saw the appeal to trading in systems unless the new system had everything the old one did, like the DS and the Wii and the Gameboy Color and the SP...
Especially the SP. The Gameboy really needed a backlight.
That makes me think of many annecdotes. One of them being just to who does 'nigger' apply to.
At least with the advent of the internet, it's generaly agreed upon that if you're lacking knowledge and not willing to better yourself, you're a nigger.
Well, that and the whole wearing grills, baggy pants, and repeating Soulja BOI!! ad nauseum...
As far as I know, sysadmins are bound by privacy laws.
And if those are the same laws that apply everywhere I've worked at, then it doesn't matter if they access my files or read my email.
As long as the info is not made public, used maliciously, discussed between colleges, then it doesn't matter.
Actually, I was watching a lot more anime around those days along with discovering the wonders of Netflix, and since the laptop had a DVD player, having a TV didn't make much sense. So I chucked it.
Later on, I borrowed my friend's rather modern game system (won't say which due to stupid jokes), and bought an El Gato TV Tuner and haven't looked back.
Plus, the torrents satisfy any curiosity for a broadcasted series and the extra padding known as commercials is stripped.
Oddly enough, I wouldn't mind product placement as long as it's tastefully done.
I was the same. For about 4 months, and then I realized it was that one friend that would screw it up. After that I decided it'd be best just to get a plan since then I'd have peace of mind and not be another one of those cellphone users bitching about my minutes -_-'
But there are times when I wish I wasn't borderline between the two since I don't use my plan to its full extent. Hell, I'm planning to get a second line as a family plan sharing the minutes and give it to my mom to use since she'll probably use more than I will, though probably not by much -_-;
Because the SMS widget needs an internet connection (it's essentially sending an email to the phone, but it gets received as an sms), and Bluephone Elite does it through the phone.
Like with using Bluephone Elite to quickly type up a text message using a real keyboard and leaving my phone in my pocket...
Seriously, this is the only technological hinderance keeping me from getting an iPhone now that it covers everything that Sony Ericsson has to offer -_-'
Either way, it's damn tempting to get one now...
So long as people want a physical copy of a book in their hands, dead tree publishing will survive.
Remember back in the day when programs for scheduling the printing emails were in demand from people who didn't like to read text on a screen? Plus, there's just something about having the physical representation of a book in hand that is somewhat comforting. Can't get that with a screen.
And about your comment on ratings... reviews of books are some of the most skewed that I've seen since everyone likes different things. Like some people can stomach crappy situations due to the way it's written, and others can stomach badly written situations due to the situation itself. Take fan fiction and online stories that release like webcomics. Some people like them, some don't, but to say that a ratings system will weed out the crap is a bit foolish...
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My dad had me sitting in the car with the engine off and the keys inside the house practicing the coordination between the clutch, gas, brake, and the gearstick. After about a month of that I got to turn the car on in an empty parking lot that was short enough that I would barely put it into second gear.
Little after that, I'd drive home from church under his supervision, in the slow lane, no faster than the speed limit. If I made a single mistake, he'd take over. Those were the accepted rules and mother in the back seat would be arbitrator.
Two years of this got me to be a decent driver since it was always drive right or not drive at all. And little by little, I got to know the route quite well along with being able to read the traffic and make guesses as to how it was going to move.
Learning the limits of my car was a bit different.
Empty parking lot on a hill by myself in the middle of the night once I got my license.
Parking lot was huge and since the drifting bit hadn't hit yet, cops weren't patrolling the area.
Wasted a set of tires and suspension and learnt what spinning out in a front-wheel-drive felt like. I did this purely for the experience just to know what the limits of my car were so I would never get near them.
Saddly, this wouldn't save me from hydroplaning on an blind uphill curve -_-'
Might be delaying the inevitable, but as long as I'm not around I'll be safe :D
I was driving a '92 corolla DX. It literally couldn't go over 80, and was incapable of accelerating up hill.
I had an '89 with a carburetor. 80mph was my cruising speed way back when I was younger. And in the summer we'd take trips down to Mexico by ways of the straight and well maintained toll roads and got that little thing up to 107 with three people inside. That was my father though many moons ago.
:P
But then again, this was a stick shift that was well maintained by my car-savvy father who was also the third owner. Not like the one I now drive one that was left to rot in an old parking lot. This one has difficulty going over 80mph and tops out at 95mph. Then again the suspension is craptacular and I'm not insane so I stick to more moderate speeds.
And honestly, I have more problems with female drivers. It really grates on my nerves since I've never liked that stereotype but the more I drive, the more I see it. Like all the people I've seen with cell phones after the ban. All but one have been female. And even worse, only a third were mid-twenties.
I've been: almost hit several dozen times while moving at under 5 MPH, almost hit several dozen times on my green arrow, tail gated from here to hell, almost run off the road 3 or 4 times while minding my own business.
And this, many times this. Especially with the running off the road. If it wasn't for my father who ingrained in me the whole 'act like if everyone was out to get you' my car would look even worse now.
you really cared about being safe you'd drop back sufficiently far to be safe.
Honestly, when anyone who drive like that appears and is driving at that speed with those kinds of maneuvers, you really only have two sane options. Either speed up past him, or exit the freeway completely.
If someone is tailgating just gradually slow down until they pass.
That's pretty much common sense unless you're looking for a run. But the dude in OP's case was tailgating a Big Rig. Dunno what they taught you but one must never tailgate a big rig. One must also not be besides a big rig or a semi if one can help it. It's just not a wise choice due to tire blow outs on the trucks or the small pebbles they kick up from time to time which can crack your windshield. I'm actually quite paranoid that one might hit me in the eye if I drive with the window down.
And this all happened in traffic that was moving no faster than 50 m.p.h.
Hehe, welcome to LA :D
No, but seriously. Rush hour is bad. It's know for having all sorts of accidents and most of them, if not all, being under 50mph. Hell, that's why the Sigalert was invented!
But OP's point wasn't about how fast the guy was going, it was about the reckless driving of the guy in the SUV.
Look on the bright side... If the population slowly turns into a geeky/nerdy sexless society, less teenagers will get pregnant and thus invariably preventing the making of any new teen pregnancy specials!
Luckly, those tend to not exist in Universities...
I think I speak for a good majority of DS lite owners when I say that I will not be picking one of these up until Nintendo releases the Pink version.
(Seriously, best theft deterrent I've ever had)
Well, I didn't have any problems until I switched over to WPA instead of WEP, and since I'm running mostly on mac, I don't want to have to restart just to grab content using the DISCONTINUED dongle for Windows...
So yeah, I'm looking forward to this especially since I skipped the GBA generation.
And also, I never really saw the appeal to trading in systems unless the new system had everything the old one did, like the DS and the Wii and the Gameboy Color and the SP...
Especially the SP. The Gameboy really needed a backlight.
That makes me think of many annecdotes. One of them being just to who does 'nigger' apply to.
At least with the advent of the internet, it's generaly agreed upon that if you're lacking knowledge and not willing to better yourself, you're a nigger.
Well, that and the whole wearing grills, baggy pants, and repeating Soulja BOI!! ad nauseum...
Then how do you explain OoT's Zelda cross dressing as a guy and stalking Link?
He's too busy collecting the three fragments of the key to Zelda's chastity belt...
Colleges, Colleagues, Entities... whatever your pedantic imagination wishes.
As far as I know, sysadmins are bound by privacy laws.
And if those are the same laws that apply everywhere I've worked at, then it doesn't matter if they access my files or read my email.
As long as the info is not made public, used maliciously, discussed between colleges, then it doesn't matter.
It's not what you know, it's how you use it.
I did the same.
Actually, I was watching a lot more anime around those days along with discovering the wonders of Netflix, and since the laptop had a DVD player, having a TV didn't make much sense. So I chucked it.
Later on, I borrowed my friend's rather modern game system (won't say which due to stupid jokes), and bought an El Gato TV Tuner and haven't looked back.
Plus, the torrents satisfy any curiosity for a broadcasted series and the extra padding known as commercials is stripped.
Oddly enough, I wouldn't mind product placement as long as it's tastefully done.
Bah, the more procedure I hear along with how they do things, the more I think that their whole racket can be done in a perl script.
Nobody said that an iPhone bought _must_ be activated.
I do not doubt they'll be jailbroken just as easily so it's just really just a matter of time.
And, wtf, you say you're interested in moding iPhones then something as small as that shouldn't stop you.
Anyway, any real modder would probably buy both
You do that. That suits you.
Although no iphone for you >.
I was the same. For about 4 months, and then I realized it was that one friend that would screw it up. After that I decided it'd be best just to get a plan since then I'd have peace of mind and not be another one of those cellphone users bitching about my minutes -_-'
But there are times when I wish I wasn't borderline between the two since I don't use my plan to its full extent. Hell, I'm planning to get a second line as a family plan sharing the minutes and give it to my mom to use since she'll probably use more than I will, though probably not by much -_-;
Because the SMS widget needs an internet connection (it's essentially sending an email to the phone, but it gets received as an sms), and Bluephone Elite does it through the phone.
But does it really matter if you're signing up for a 2-year contract with ATT anyway?
I ask this only because most of the people I've met with iPhones didn't switch, they were already on AT&T's network.
Like with using Bluephone Elite to quickly type up a text message using a real keyboard and leaving my phone in my pocket...
Seriously, this is the only technological hinderance keeping me from getting an iPhone now that it covers everything that Sony Ericsson has to offer -_-'
Either way, it's damn tempting to get one now...
And to make it easier, I use bookmarks :D
Yes, they're separated by what day they're updated -_-'
Oh, that problem is specific to the 12" Powerbooks due to some bug with the Quartz drivers and the graphics card...
If you don't like it, ignore it.
If I had to do that, how would that make Slashdot any different from digg?
So long as people want a physical copy of a book in their hands, dead tree publishing will survive.
:P
Remember back in the day when programs for scheduling the printing emails were in demand from people who didn't like to read text on a screen?
Plus, there's just something about having the physical representation of a book in hand that is somewhat comforting. Can't get that with a screen.
And about your comment on ratings... reviews of books are some of the most skewed that I've seen since everyone likes different things. Like some people can stomach crappy situations due to the way it's written, and others can stomach badly written situations due to the situation itself. Take fan fiction and online stories that release like webcomics. Some people like them, some don't, but to say that a ratings system will weed out the crap is a bit foolish...
But then again that's just my opinion