When I was growing up, you got your learners permit at 14yrs, where you could drive with an adult in the car...at 16yrs you could get your license.
I never bothered with the learners permit, and I wasn't really interested in driving till I was 16yrs. But the test was only a written test, and a short driving test which consisted for me, with nothing more than driving across the st. from the police station to and abandoned shopping center, pulling into one of the parking spots in the empty parking lot, and then driving back.
There was no requirement for driving schools or hours behind the wheel or anything.
Hell, I never really tried parallel parking till about 15-20 years after I got my license...never had to really.
Parallel parking, the way the DMV tested it, was shitty. 2 poles, which is nothing like the visibility of 2 cars, because the back one tended to fall into your blind spot. And the distance between the poles is typically smaller than the distance between cars IRL. Then try it with a large station wagon like I learnt in. On the good side, it means I can parallel-park practically any car now.
This is exactly what the driver's ed teacher taught.
An accident is what happens in your pants when you had one too many burritos at one of the many "roach coaches" in town which are exempt from food sanitation laws.
That's 'at-fault' - you ate the burrito, and then consciously farted afterwards, knowing what was going to happen.
He wasn't suggesting covering the windows, but most humans only have 2 eyes. Autonomous cars can be looking in every direction, all at the same time. They can be watching the side mirror to make sure they are backing up straight AND the rear view mirror to make sure your unattended child didn't run behind the car AT THE SAME TIME. Personally, I view this as both a win for saving lives, and a loss for circumventing natural selection.
Ok, and for a hypothetical situation where saving person x would kill driver y?
> From a business point of view, Microsoft's hope is Asia. The OECD is fully saturated with Microsoft product, but there's huge growth potential in Asia. (Growth potential, mind. MS will have to work very hard to realise that potential.)
The problem is Asia doesn't fit Microsoft's business model. They're already used to relatively cheap devices running free (as in beer) software. Microsoft would be going head-to-head with free OS and free office suites and other applications. What price do you think Microsoft should charge for their OS and office suites in order to compete? Anyone?
Microsoft may continue to sell stuff in the US and perhaps Europe, but the business model has changed in a very basic way, and the business model of multi-hundred-dollar operating systems and office suites is chugging along mostly on inertia these days.
Didn't Gates make some comment about preferring that they pirate MS s/w to others? I can't find a cite for it now.
Probably Coke will not do this. They've been badly burned in the past changing formula, and I bet that changing the 2 sugars would be perceptible. But for other product? why not? Just don't expect it to cure obesity, is what I was saying. Diet alone won't anyway.
Not unless you're pedantic as all hell. The phrase "stand behind" means you can support your argument with facts. It can *also* mean that you're willing to defend your position with physical force, but that's a lower percentage usage.
And in some cases it can be regarded as an argument from authority. If Ballmer posted that MS were going to do something, it'd have a damn sight more credibility than me saying it. (and my apologies for using credibility and Ballmer in the same sentence)
Yeah, and I am mike smith. One of the 1e9 that currently exist, making that identifier effectively anonymous. It becomes less anonymous combined with other identifiers, the 'worst' case was when I was working at a TAFE where there was another mike smith with the same middle initial and birthdate. Fun ensued with the tax office.
It's cheap in the USA. In Australia, cane sugar is cheaper. In Australia, CocaCola uses cane sugar. So in Australia, cane sugar is the cause of obesity, diabetes, etc. (not that CocaCola is the only cause)
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When I was growing up, you got your learners permit at 14yrs, where you could drive with an adult in the car...at 16yrs you could get your license.
I never bothered with the learners permit, and I wasn't really interested in driving till I was 16yrs. But the test was only a written test, and a short driving test which consisted for me, with nothing more than driving across the st. from the police station to and abandoned shopping center, pulling into one of the parking spots in the empty parking lot, and then driving back.
There was no requirement for driving schools or hours behind the wheel or anything.
Hell, I never really tried parallel parking till about 15-20 years after I got my license...never had to really.
Parallel parking, the way the DMV tested it, was shitty. 2 poles, which is nothing like the visibility of 2 cars, because the back one tended to fall into your blind spot. And the distance between the poles is typically smaller than the distance between cars IRL. Then try it with a large station wagon like I learnt in. On the good side, it means I can parallel-park practically any car now.
This is exactly what the driver's ed teacher taught.
An accident is what happens in your pants when you had one too many burritos at one of the many "roach coaches" in town which are exempt from food sanitation laws.
That's 'at-fault' - you ate the burrito, and then consciously farted afterwards, knowing what was going to happen.
I agree with what you are saying with one exception: the word "literally" should never mean "not literally."
Even when you use quotes to mean not? It's become so prevalent to use these to obsure the meaning of English that I probably agree with you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes
He wasn't suggesting covering the windows, but most humans only have 2 eyes. Autonomous cars can be looking in every direction, all at the same time. They can be watching the side mirror to make sure they are backing up straight AND the rear view mirror to make sure your unattended child didn't run behind the car AT THE SAME TIME. Personally, I view this as both a win for saving lives, and a loss for circumventing natural selection.
Ok, and for a hypothetical situation where saving person x would kill driver y?
Is that the one that Lady Penelope drives?
How many roads are there where you can drive off entirely different cliffs?
You have to press and hold it now. Or it merely hibernates. Or it hibernates if it's not crashed.
Yes, but who in their right mind would use a riot of primary colour squares? :^)
Maybe they should hire some people who've moved past VBA or consider getting out of the business?
He did.
http://slashdot.org/story/13/08/23/1329252/ballmer-to-retire
Phone 'flash' isn't a real flash anyway. It's an LED. (most often)
Copyright on the 3d data used to produce it? I'm not saying this is copyrightable, but it might be what they'd use in court.
Yes, I wanted the table. But fuck, I want the Corning house. (& car) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cf7IL_eZ38
Xbox is to Microsoft as the IBMPC was to IBM.
> From a business point of view, Microsoft's hope is Asia. The OECD is fully saturated with Microsoft product, but there's huge growth potential in Asia. (Growth potential, mind. MS will have to work very hard to realise that potential.)
The problem is Asia doesn't fit Microsoft's business model. They're already used to relatively cheap devices running free (as in beer) software. Microsoft would be going head-to-head with free OS and free office suites and other applications. What price do you think Microsoft should charge for their OS and office suites in order to compete? Anyone?
Microsoft may continue to sell stuff in the US and perhaps Europe, but the business model has changed in a very basic way, and the business model of multi-hundred-dollar operating systems and office suites is chugging along mostly on inertia these days.
Didn't Gates make some comment about preferring that they pirate MS s/w to others? I can't find a cite for it now.
Oh come now. Ballmer is so bad even a monkey or a vacant chair would do a better job as CEO.
monkeys, vacant chairs. Will there be flying chairs? A flying chair screen saver? (kind of an Oz/Balmer/Toaster combo)
It'd be just like starting ova.
Probably Coke will not do this. They've been badly burned in the past changing formula, and I bet that changing the 2 sugars would be perceptible. But for other product? why not? Just don't expect it to cure obesity, is what I was saying. Diet alone won't anyway.
Not unless you're pedantic as all hell. The phrase "stand behind" means you can support your argument with facts. It can *also* mean that you're willing to defend your position with physical force, but that's a lower percentage usage.
And in some cases it can be regarded as an argument from authority. If Ballmer posted that MS were going to do something, it'd have a damn sight more credibility than me saying it. (and my apologies for using credibility and Ballmer in the same sentence)
it seems you can actually ban all your readers, if you try hard enough!
No, moderation can get rid of 90% of your readers. To remove the final 10% you really need a pay-wall
Moderated funny? Well, yes, but tragic as well. And Dear Rupert will never understand that it's insightful, too.
Yeah, and I am mike smith. One of the 1e9 that currently exist, making that identifier effectively anonymous. It becomes less anonymous combined with other identifiers, the 'worst' case was when I was working at a TAFE where there was another mike smith with the same middle initial and birthdate. Fun ensued with the tax office.
It's cheap in the USA. In Australia, cane sugar is cheaper. In Australia, CocaCola uses cane sugar. So in Australia, cane sugar is the cause of obesity, diabetes, etc. (not that CocaCola is the only cause)
An embassy in the UK a storehouse of WMDs? Really? Are we going back to the days when encryption was considered a munition?
It should be *your* choice which regulations you consider excessive for a prosthetic attached to *your* body. Noone elses.
THere's too many cop reality shows now.
Who actually went to a drive-in for the movie? We went there to fuck! They could show non-stop ads, charge admission, and we'd still go.