Obviously, you're a complete idiot (or a troll) and there's no arguing with "stupid". Sorry, but there's no other, kinder, gentler way to put it. I wish you well; (either way) please - please - don't breed.
If you do breed and when your child gets killed following your advise - like many of the others that already do, then what will your line of thinking be? Someone followed the rules and got killed, someone didn't follow the rules and got killed. The truth is that more people die riding against traffic than riding with. Have a good safe ride staring into those on-coming headlights, then, please - please - go into the light.
Bicyclists should ride with traffic. One of the keys to safe bicycling is to be as predictable and as conspicuous as possible so that motorists always know you are there and can predict what you are going to do. By riding against traffic -- especially on the sidewalk -- you make yourself almost invisible to motorists turning at intersections and driveways who may not be expecting or looking for road users coming from your direction. Indeed, as many as one in four bicycle/motor vehicle collisions involve a rider who is either riding against traffic and/or riding on the sidewalk.
In a lengthy article explaining why riding the wrong way against traffic is dangerous, author Ken Kifer explores the three principle dangers:
Turning motorists are not looking where wrong-way riders are riding.
The motorist and bicyclist have limited time and little space in which to react to each others' presence.
The closing speed of a bicyclist and motorist riding head on into each other is higher than if the bicyclist and motorist were traveling in the same direction.
He also points out that riding with traffic decreases the number of vehicles passing you, and doesn't bring you into conflict with bicyclists who are riding the right way with traffic!
if you are walking or riding along the side of a road, choose to walk/ ride on the side that makes you face traffic
in some places this is actually against the law. i still advise the practice
As far as I know it illegal to ride your bicycle in the street against traffic most everywhere and - agreeing with the rabid A/C near-by - is incredibly, fucking stupid. In Virginia the rules are rather specific and one must ride within a certain distance of the right shoulder - except where there's a turn lane - etc...
Having once been clipped by a car while riding my bike, I'm very happy that I wasn't riding in opposition and was able to, subsequently, get mostly out of the way...
So. In the street, walk against traffic and ride with traffic.
[ Please don't bother arguing about this because you're simply wrong. ]
We're all curious about exactly what data they have, but it shouldn't take more than a sternly worded letter to get the French government to surrender all the data...
Ok. 1) with a name like *bot-bot, and posts that are links to wikipedia, are you a bot as opposed to a person?
1) Nope, I'm a person. The name is just a mash-up from two TV shows I like. "Fahrbot" is slang from Farscape (major crush on Claudia Black btw) - and I sometimes just go by that - and sticking "-bot" on the end was inspired by Futurama - like Hedonismbot, killbot, etc...
2) I have never been a moderator on/. as I prefer to simply comment, though I'd like to bitch slap a few moderators who apparently don't understand what over/under-rated mean and those that inappropriately mod things offtopic or troll simply because they don't understand and/or agree with a post - or are, apparently, morons.
Maybe a life without secrets is better than a world full of information asymmetry.
Perhaps. Personally, I have very few secrets, especially from close friends, and most things people don't know about me is because they haven't asked the questions and/or I haven't felt it necessary / desirable to offer that information. If they ask, however, I tell them - unless I don't think they specifically need to know something, then I tell them that (and we can discuss that, if they want to).
Being open and honest can be troublesome at times, but it cuts through the BS, and I'd rather be respected for that than liked - or whatever...
The Bath County Pumped Storage Station in Virginia is a pumped storage hydroelectric power plant with a generation capacity of 3,003 MW:
Water is released from the upper reservoir during periods of high demand and is used to generate electricity. What makes this different from other hydroelectric dams is that during times of low demand, power is taken from coal, nuclear, and other power plants and is used to pump water from the lower to the upper reservoir. Although this plant uses more power than it generates, it allows these other plants to operate at close to peak efficiency for an overall cost savings.
Do i really need to explain how the 4th should be preventing the USPS from turning over logging records EN MASSE to law enforcement?
They're only photographing the *outside* of the mail, which, in TelCo speak, is the metadata and is also clearly in "plain sight". I'm not taking a position on whether this is "right" or "wrong", but I don't see how it's currently illegal. Personally, I've always assumed the US mail was (somehow) tracked and recorded, just like with UPS and FedEx.
Automated tests do two things. They make sure you don't make the same mistake again, and they give you higher confidence levels when you refactor. They definitely improve quality when done right- which means testing what needs to be tested...
On the other hand... They're also yet another code base to maintain, ensuring they are correct themselves and actually testing the main code correctly, etc...Of course, one can always write some automated tests for the test suite... (and it's turtles all the way down)
I'm not saying an automated test suite is w/o merit, but simply another tool, with its own set of headaches.
Having maintained an automated (Unix) OS test suite back in the day - and ported it from a BSD-based system to UNICOS - I can relate that one of the biggest hassles is management's worshiping of these kinds of things. Convincing them an error was with the test suite and not the OS was a hassle. Although, it wasn't as big a hassle as it was convincing them that a system crash when a regular user ran "gzip" was *not* because of the utility, but an OS bug (on a Convex system and I was proven correct by the vendor) - true story.
The bottom line is "to each their own". My cell phone is a Qualcomm QCP-1900 I bought for $200 in 1998 - still works great. Only makes voice calls, only used it about 5 times in the past 5 years. (Plan is $10/month from nTelos - originally Primeco). [ Also, I use paper maps:-) ]
I'm not a Luddite - am Unix system programmer/admin with +25 years experience on *everything* from PCs to Crays - I just don't need anything more at this time. Others' mileage may vary...
Just don't look. It will be up and down at the same time.
Didn't think of that, but it's going to be a bitch for my availability stats.
[ Now I'll have to get a degree in quantum mechanics to re-write "uptime"... sigh. ]
That's funny, I didn't realize you were following me around observing my device usage and could decide better than me what kind of device I'd find useful or not.
Careful smug grasshopper. Quoting your original post:
And an Android phone without at least some Google apps is useless for most people...
Microsoft said its advertisers will be able to target users not just on Web search results pages but directly inside Windows Smart Search.
I hadn't actually heard/read the phrase "Windows Smart Search" before. From the sound of things, I guess it's "smart" for someone, not sure it's the end-user. Perhaps someone at MS liked the Unity shopping lens...
Believe me, I agree with you and I'm not happy with the direction MS is taking, I'm just offering one possible perspective.
Pissing off the subset of users who do not fall into the above category for no technically necessary reason is ultimatly counterproductive to Microsoft and Microsoft's shareholders.
Of course, you're assuming that the MS management and shareholders can (or want to) see past the next fiscal quarter and their bonuses / dividends and/or share price. If history shows use anything, it's that management and shareholders are short-sighted about, and in many case down right disinterested in, the long term... Ballmer can't even see that throwing chairs is a counter-productive and cost-ineffective method of redecorating:-)
I don't know if they could get it much faster, after I installed the update to my bios fully supporting UEFI, I was right around 7seconds on the OS after post on a 1st gen SSD. Where they're going to trim and get a faster boot time even from that I have no freaking clue.
My home and office PCs run 24/7, so boot time is basically irrelevant to me.
Wear and tear from that usage? Minimal. The last enterprise F/W SCSI disk on my home PC lasted 10 years running 24/7 (seriously). It was still working when I retired it - due to some bearing noise and start-up sticking on those rare occasions I had to power things down for a time. (extended vacation, severe thunder storm, etc...)
Common courtesy and consideration of the financial needs of real developers would go a long way.
You're talking about Microsoft. Fucking people in the ass is part of their business model. Hoping for a reach-around is folly.
I'm seriously not trolling, just using plain language to make a point. A publicly-traded company's loyalty is to their shareholders (and, in practice, to management - i.e., themselves). The profit potential for a MS content *consumption* platform may be greater than the traditional desktop and MS is trying - desperately, having come *way* late to the game - to capitalize on that. If they have to throw the (perhaps declining) legacy user base under the bus to achieve market share they will - in a heartbeat. Loyalty is to the bottom line
As Veronica said in Better Off Ted (possibly one of the funniest shows - ever):
"Money before people," that's the company motto. Engraved on the lobby floor. It just looks more heroic in Latin.
You press start and type "cmd". Typing on the start screen initiates a search. Alternatively press win+s to open the search panel, and type "cmd". Alternatively right click on the start menu and click run, then type cmd.
Thanks. Just what I've always wanted in a modern GUI - more typing.
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Obviously, you're a complete idiot (or a troll) and there's no arguing with "stupid". Sorry, but there's no other, kinder, gentler way to put it. I wish you well; (either way) please - please - don't breed.
If you do breed and when your child gets killed following your advise - like many of the others that already do, then what will your line of thinking be? Someone followed the rules and got killed, someone didn't follow the rules and got killed. The truth is that more people die riding against traffic than riding with. Have a good safe ride staring into those on-coming headlights, then, please - please - go into the light.
We don't have autonomous drones today ...
You obviously don't watch CSPAN... :-)
i will be riding and walking against traffic out of self-preservation, and will continue to advise others to do the same
Sure, do whatever you want, but please don't advise others. What you're doing is dangerous and illegal. Here's what others say:
Is it safer for bicyclists to ride with traffic or to ride against traffic?
Bicyclists should ride with traffic. One of the keys to safe bicycling is to be as predictable and as conspicuous as possible so that motorists always know you are there and can predict what you are going to do. By riding against traffic -- especially on the sidewalk -- you make yourself almost invisible to motorists turning at intersections and driveways who may not be expecting or looking for road users coming from your direction. Indeed, as many as one in four bicycle/motor vehicle collisions involve a rider who is either riding against traffic and/or riding on the sidewalk.
In a lengthy article explaining why riding the wrong way against traffic is dangerous, author Ken Kifer explores the three principle dangers:
He also points out that riding with traffic decreases the number of vehicles passing you, and doesn't bring you into conflict with bicyclists who are riding the right way with traffic!
There are many, many others sites with similar information: http://www.capitalbikeshare.com/news/2012/02/24/never-ride-against-traffic or simply Google: bicycle ride "(with|against)" traffic
if you are walking or riding along the side of a road, choose to walk/ ride on the side that makes you face traffic
in some places this is actually against the law. i still advise the practice
As far as I know it illegal to ride your bicycle in the street against traffic most everywhere and - agreeing with the rabid A/C near-by - is incredibly, fucking stupid. In Virginia the rules are rather specific and one must ride within a certain distance of the right shoulder - except where there's a turn lane - etc...
Having once been clipped by a car while riding my bike, I'm very happy that I wasn't riding in opposition and was able to, subsequently, get mostly out of the way...
So. In the street, walk against traffic and ride with traffic.
[ Please don't bother arguing about this because you're simply wrong. ]
We're all curious about exactly what data they have, but it shouldn't take more than a sternly worded letter to get the French government to surrender all the data...
Ok. 1) with a name like *bot-bot, and posts that are links to wikipedia, are you a bot as opposed to a person?
1) Nope, I'm a person. The name is just a mash-up from two TV shows I like. "Fahrbot" is slang from Farscape (major crush on Claudia Black btw) - and I sometimes just go by that - and sticking "-bot" on the end was inspired by Futurama - like Hedonismbot, killbot, etc...
2) I have never been a moderator on /. as I prefer to simply comment, though I'd like to bitch slap a few moderators who apparently don't understand what over/under-rated mean and those that inappropriately mod things offtopic or troll simply because they don't understand and/or agree with a post - or are, apparently, morons.
3) see #1.
Maybe a life without secrets is better than a world full of information asymmetry.
Perhaps. Personally, I have very few secrets, especially from close friends, and most things people don't know about me is because they haven't asked the questions and/or I haven't felt it necessary / desirable to offer that information. If they ask, however, I tell them - unless I don't think they specifically need to know something, then I tell them that (and we can discuss that, if they want to).
Being open and honest can be troublesome at times, but it cuts through the BS, and I'd rather be respected for that than liked - or whatever...
Seriously? "Permanent" is kind of a binary thing.
“The only thing that never changes is that everything changes.”
-- Louis L'Amour
The Bath County Pumped Storage Station in Virginia is a pumped storage hydroelectric power plant with a generation capacity of 3,003 MW:
Water is released from the upper reservoir during periods of high demand and is used to generate electricity. What makes this different from other hydroelectric dams is that during times of low demand, power is taken from coal, nuclear, and other power plants and is used to pump water from the lower to the upper reservoir. Although this plant uses more power than it generates, it allows these other plants to operate at close to peak efficiency for an overall cost savings.
Do i really need to explain how the 4th should be preventing the USPS from turning over logging records EN MASSE to law enforcement?
They're only photographing the *outside* of the mail, which, in TelCo speak, is the metadata and is also clearly in "plain sight". I'm not taking a position on whether this is "right" or "wrong", but I don't see how it's currently illegal. Personally, I've always assumed the US mail was (somehow) tracked and recorded, just like with UPS and FedEx.
Automated tests do two things. They make sure you don't make the same mistake again, and they give you higher confidence levels when you refactor. They definitely improve quality when done right- which means testing what needs to be tested ...
On the other hand... They're also yet another code base to maintain, ensuring they are correct themselves and actually testing the main code correctly, etc...Of course, one can always write some automated tests for the test suite... (and it's turtles all the way down)
I'm not saying an automated test suite is w/o merit, but simply another tool, with its own set of headaches.
Having maintained an automated (Unix) OS test suite back in the day - and ported it from a BSD-based system to UNICOS - I can relate that one of the biggest hassles is management's worshiping of these kinds of things. Convincing them an error was with the test suite and not the OS was a hassle. Although, it wasn't as big a hassle as it was convincing them that a system crash when a regular user ran "gzip" was *not* because of the utility, but an OS bug (on a Convex system and I was proven correct by the vendor) - true story.
Velociraptors - That's why I never use a "GOTO" ...
The bottom line is "to each their own". My cell phone is a Qualcomm QCP-1900 I bought for $200 in 1998 - still works great. Only makes voice calls, only used it about 5 times in the past 5 years. (Plan is $10/month from nTelos - originally Primeco). [ Also, I use paper maps :-) ]
I'm not a Luddite - am Unix system programmer/admin with +25 years experience on *everything* from PCs to Crays - I just don't need anything more at this time. Others' mileage may vary...
Just don't look. It will be up and down at the same time.
Didn't think of that, but it's going to be a bitch for my availability stats. ... sigh. ]
[ Now I'll have to get a degree in quantum mechanics to re-write "uptime"
The Uranian system doesn't have Greek names - Oberon, Titania, Ariel, Umbriel, Puck, Miranda...
I heard Miranda had some sort of terraforming accident, but is pretty quiet now.
And incidentally, does the OS release kill the cat just as well as a particle?
You're safe as long as you don't run: rpm install "hydrocyanic-acid"
Damn. Now I'll never know if my system is up or down w/o opening the case.
That's funny, I didn't realize you were following me around observing my device usage and could decide better than me what kind of device I'd find useful or not.
Careful smug grasshopper. Quoting your original post:
And an Android phone without at least some Google apps is useless for most people ...
Who is deciding what for who?
And an Android phone without at least some Google apps is useless for most people (mine would basically be a brick without Maps).
Technically, it would be a "phone" w/o Maps - you know, one of those things people use to make phone calls. Still pretty useful.
Microsoft said its advertisers will be able to target users not just on Web search results pages but directly inside Windows Smart Search.
I hadn't actually heard/read the phrase "Windows Smart Search" before. From the sound of things, I guess it's "smart" for someone, not sure it's the end-user. Perhaps someone at MS liked the Unity shopping lens...
Believe me, I agree with you and I'm not happy with the direction MS is taking, I'm just offering one possible perspective.
Pissing off the subset of users who do not fall into the above category for no technically necessary reason is ultimatly counterproductive to Microsoft and Microsoft's shareholders.
Of course, you're assuming that the MS management and shareholders can (or want to) see past the next fiscal quarter and their bonuses / dividends and/or share price. If history shows use anything, it's that management and shareholders are short-sighted about, and in many case down right disinterested in, the long term... Ballmer can't even see that throwing chairs is a counter-productive and cost-ineffective method of redecorating :-)
I don't know if they could get it much faster, after I installed the update to my bios fully supporting UEFI, I was right around 7seconds on the OS after post on a 1st gen SSD. Where they're going to trim and get a faster boot time even from that I have no freaking clue.
My home and office PCs run 24/7, so boot time is basically irrelevant to me.
Wear and tear from that usage? Minimal. The last enterprise F/W SCSI disk on my home PC lasted 10 years running 24/7 (seriously). It was still working when I retired it - due to some bearing noise and start-up sticking on those rare occasions I had to power things down for a time. (extended vacation, severe thunder storm, etc...)
Common courtesy and consideration of the financial needs of real developers would go a long way.
You're talking about Microsoft. Fucking people in the ass is part of their business model. Hoping for a reach-around is folly.
I'm seriously not trolling, just using plain language to make a point. A publicly-traded company's loyalty is to their shareholders (and, in practice, to management - i.e., themselves). The profit potential for a MS content *consumption* platform may be greater than the traditional desktop and MS is trying - desperately, having come *way* late to the game - to capitalize on that. If they have to throw the (perhaps declining) legacy user base under the bus to achieve market share they will - in a heartbeat. Loyalty is to the bottom line
As Veronica said in Better Off Ted (possibly one of the funniest shows - ever):
"Money before people," that's the company motto. Engraved on the lobby floor. It just looks more heroic in Latin.
You press start and type "cmd". Typing on the start screen initiates a search. Alternatively press win+s to open the search panel, and type "cmd". Alternatively right click on the start menu and click run, then type cmd.
Thanks. Just what I've always wanted in a modern GUI - more typing.
Why must we dumb down everything?
More like simplifying. Everything should be made as simple as possible but no simpler....
Praise be the sanctified one that decides what is simple enough for the rest of us.