Sure. How about I give up my principals and support Microsoft. I'm not paying for that, and I'm not pirating it either. I don't want someone else paying for it in my stead either, because that gives MS money.
Not by your own description. I'll leave the Fischer-Price interfaces to Fischer-Price people, and use something that doesn't treat me like I've sustained a head injury (or two).
'Doh! Also, your counter-scenario is on a 3-lane. Mine was a 2-lane. There's a big difference, in that people in the center of the three have two places to go. In my scenario, everyone only had one place.
Your entire argument is fatally flawed - it relies on people other than yourself having a brain. You cannot assume this, and doing so breaks the whole argument.
Where are we supposed to learn this? My car doesn't let me pull the key out, which is required to effect the same. Simply shutting the engine off isn't enough, it will still do some work off the battery. Even if it could, practicing such in traffic is not only dangerous, but might actually be bad for the car.
I also don't recall ever being/practiced/ in this in Driver's Education. Sure, we talked about it, but they didn't have a killswitch like you might see on a trainer aircraft.
There's a certain "precision" depending on how many sats you are tracking. The bit where it puts you on the wrong road? That's crap handling of this uncertainty.
The device KNOWS about it. That it decides to stick you there and then insist that you cannot possibly be on the other road instead is a software fault.
Also, GPS works anywhere you have line-of-sight to the sky (and in some cases even without) so long as some other strong signal (intentional or not) isn't "jamming" it.
Yeah, I don't understand speed limits on highways, at all. These are roads designed for maximal straightness, and generally your safety is determined solely on how many people are trying to swerve around slow drivers in the wrong lane. If there were no speed limits at all, but strictly enforced passing rules, people would feel more responsible for their safety and drive at the speeds they're most comfortable with, and in lanes where they are not a danger to others.
One issue with that. This is assuming 2 lanes per direction of travel:
A is in the right side lane. He is going, for our purposes, 0mph (i'm going relative, here) B is behind him. He wants to go +15mph. C is in the left line far behind. He's going +30mph. D, being the troll that he is, is going -10mph not too far ahead of A.
So, what happens to C when B ducks out to get around A? There's a lane conflict here. B either needs to see C and wait (unlikely, given he's already miffed at A) or C needs to see B and slow (also unlikely). So, someone's going to get mad, and there's a larger chance now that someone's going to get hurt (or at least get a nice adrenaline boost). Toss in D, and it gets even worse.
On residential and busy commercial areas, where it's much more likely there are pedestrians about to hit, speed limits make a lot of sense. In these areas, I tend to drive a bit slower than the speed limits because there's usually plenty of reasons to brake. Either the roads are more curvy, there are cars ahead of me that want to turn off or turn on, or there are pedestrians I don't want to kill.
Agreed.
You can tell it's about revenue, not safety, because they enforce speed limits most stringently on highways, and I never see any speed traps in suburban or urban streets where pedestrians get hit and killed all the time (or drivers go too fast and hit a tree). They just put up those honor system "you're going this fast" radar signs that do nothing.
I think this is a local phenomena, or you're just lucky/unlucky. I rarely see them on the highways parked and waiting - they are usually in-traffic and tend to nab the assholes rather than speeders... whereas in my neighborhood the physical topography tends to make the roadway dangerous when you speed, the cops seem to DAILY have speed traps in wait.
Keeping in mind though, around here we have several 'branches' run by different masters, and they are responsible for different places (mostly) City/Local Police County Sheriff State Police Highway Patrol Department of Public Safety (yea, they do traffic enforcement around here too)
Of course this all differs depending on where you are.
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It's 2011, almost 2012, and we're expected to use floppies? You seriously don't see anything wrong with this idea?
Now, the last time I had to dig in the mirrors looking for media, I didn't know how to do PXE. Was there / is there PXE-bootable "media" available?
Then they are welcome to continue not having my business*
(yea, I know it's no-cost. still.)
Use a what BIOS? And floppy, really? It's 2011, almost 2012.
Not being able to burn an .ISO and boot from it is and was, well, stupid. I'm glad you can actually download ISOs now.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but how are you supposed to boot from compressed tarballs?
Sure. How about I give up my principals and support Microsoft. I'm not paying for that, and I'm not pirating it either. I don't want someone else paying for it in my stead either, because that gives MS money.
Hell even fluxbox will do that for you. Doesn't get much leaner than that.
No kidding. I get the feeling that if all these Ubuntu-spawn based off of Debian instead, much more love would flow back to Debian.
As it is, much of it hits the Canonical Wall *cough*launchpad*cough* and goes nowhere useful.
Not by your own description. I'll leave the Fischer-Price interfaces to Fischer-Price people, and use something that doesn't treat me like I've sustained a head injury (or two).
I'd much rather turn the firehose on someone else. Much more fun that way.
Never say never.
Also never say always.
Wine != runs on Linux. I don't want a workaround. Code your shit cross-platform.
Windows only.
Instant disregard.
'Doh! Also, your counter-scenario is on a 3-lane. Mine was a 2-lane. There's a big difference, in that people in the center of the three have two places to go. In my scenario, everyone only had one place.
Your entire argument is fatally flawed - it relies on people other than yourself having a brain. You cannot assume this, and doing so breaks the whole argument.
OK, well here's a question for you then.
Where are we supposed to learn this? My car doesn't let me pull the key out, which is required to effect the same. Simply shutting the engine off isn't enough, it will still do some work off the battery. Even if it could, practicing such in traffic is not only dangerous, but might actually be bad for the car.
I also don't recall ever being /practiced/ in this in Driver's Education. Sure, we talked about it, but they didn't have a killswitch like you might see on a trainer aircraft.
Er, the summary itself said "running Android 2.2" - where did 1.6 come from?
You forgot about the "It is certified for use in the Defense Department's secure but unclassified communications." part of the summary, didn't you?
Here, I'll highlight the important part, since you seem deficient in sentence parsing.
My friend, meet Mr. OTP.
That has nothing to do with the food industry or MREs in general.
Er, no. The cities traffic engineers are the ones doing that, not the vendors providing the equipment.
There's a certain "precision" depending on how many sats you are tracking. The bit where it puts you on the wrong road? That's crap handling of this uncertainty.
The device KNOWS about it. That it decides to stick you there and then insist that you cannot possibly be on the other road instead is a software fault.
Also, GPS works anywhere you have line-of-sight to the sky (and in some cases even without) so long as some other strong signal (intentional or not) isn't "jamming" it.
Yea, because losing brake assist and power steering while in a maneuver is totally something can all handle unexpectedly with no practice.
I never found it to be that annoying.
Now, silverware scratching on a plate? Gives me the shudders.
Yeah, I don't understand speed limits on highways, at all. These are roads designed for maximal straightness, and generally your safety is determined solely on how many people are trying to swerve around slow drivers in the wrong lane. If there were no speed limits at all, but strictly enforced passing rules, people would feel more responsible for their safety and drive at the speeds they're most comfortable with, and in lanes where they are not a danger to others.
One issue with that. This is assuming 2 lanes per direction of travel:
A is in the right side lane. He is going, for our purposes, 0mph (i'm going relative, here)
B is behind him. He wants to go +15mph.
C is in the left line far behind. He's going +30mph.
D, being the troll that he is, is going -10mph not too far ahead of A.
So, what happens to C when B ducks out to get around A? There's a lane conflict here. B either needs to see C and wait (unlikely, given he's already miffed at A) or C needs to see B and slow (also unlikely). So, someone's going to get mad, and there's a larger chance now that someone's going to get hurt (or at least get a nice adrenaline boost). Toss in D, and it gets even worse.
On residential and busy commercial areas, where it's much more likely there are pedestrians about to hit, speed limits make a lot of sense. In these areas, I tend to drive a bit slower than the speed limits because there's usually plenty of reasons to brake. Either the roads are more curvy, there are cars ahead of me that want to turn off or turn on, or there are pedestrians I don't want to kill.
Agreed.
You can tell it's about revenue, not safety, because they enforce speed limits most stringently on highways, and I never see any speed traps in suburban or urban streets where pedestrians get hit and killed all the time (or drivers go too fast and hit a tree). They just put up those honor system "you're going this fast" radar signs that do nothing.
I think this is a local phenomena, or you're just lucky/unlucky. I rarely see them on the highways parked and waiting - they are usually in-traffic and tend to nab the assholes rather than speeders... whereas in my neighborhood the physical topography tends to make the roadway dangerous when you speed, the cops seem to DAILY have speed traps in wait.
Keeping in mind though, around here we have several 'branches' run by different masters, and they are responsible for different places (mostly)
City/Local Police
County Sheriff
State Police
Highway Patrol
Department of Public Safety (yea, they do traffic enforcement around here too)
Of course this all differs depending on where you are.
All of them.