You don't have to rely on it blindly, but I've found that most people do. When I'm taking a trip for a week, I print out directions from the hotel to the conference center. I consult them Monday and maybe Tuesday. Wednesday through Friday I have it down. I will admit to probably needing it on Monday the next time. Last time I rode with somebody with a GPS, I turned it off on Wednesday and he had absolutely no idea where to turn. Mind you, these directions were not hard. Turn off at the exit named for the town we're going to, make a right. That was all that was left. He bypassed the exit, even after I told him it was the correct one (and no, he wasn't waiting for the GPS. He knew it was off).
If you can use it the way you mention, more power to you.
"Some people may ask, why go to the moon? They may well ask, why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas? We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. Because that challenge is one we intend to win."
I assume everyone understands the first two examples. The third arose, I am sure, because the speech took place in Rice Stadium. For those of you not familiar with college sports (shocking to suggest, I know) Rice has a student body roughly 1/8th the size of UT's and regularly gets creamed by their football team. Yet nearly every year the two teams meet, and out of 91 games, Rice has won 21. (And yes, the video clip of the speech does get played before every Rice-Texas game at Rice Stadium)
That's exactly the problem. It looks like cheating if there's only N logical ways to write something and N+1 students in the class. A dumb/mean (take your pick) prof once accused a friend of that very thing on a final exam, causing him to stress out and lose weight for 4-5 months before the case came before the honor council, where he was acquitted in the shortest deliberation on record.
Technically the EZTag system here in Houston requires slowing down, but in practice, if the transponder doesn't work but it's registered to your plate they get your identity from the picture. Additionally, it only requires slowing to 45 and seems to work up to 65 or so anyway, which is the speed limit of the Beltway.
My parents' dog is half terrier. She's mastered the chase instinct, but has been known to dig so hard she once flipped the mole out of the hole with a paw, didn't notice, and kept digging. Once we got her away from the hole, she just picked up the live mole and was happily carrying it in her mouth. We took it away from her and had to drag her away. (It was in front of the woods down the street, so it wasn't messing up anybody's yard.)
I would consider lining everywhere there are cables with glue traps.
The problem with glue traps is you end up with a live rat stuck to the glue trap. What do you do with it now? Drown it, or leave it out for a cat somewhere. Humane trap, my foot. Plus, I've seen a rat work its way from stuck flat on its side on the trap to only one foot stuck, and I have no doubt given more time it would have gotten that off too.
In most cases when I've been ring-side to a Seagate failure all I could do was point and laugh and say 'How good is your warranty at getting data back, bitch?'
It doesn't matter who made the drive, if you didn't have your important data backed up, you deserve to lose it if your drive goes out. I used to buy Seagate because I knew 5 years from the purchase date I would have a functioning drive, whether it's the same one or different. It is my responsibility to ensure the safety of my data. All HDDs are going to wear out eventually. With Seagate moving to 3 year warranties, I'll probably switch to someone else.
There's one Dr Pepper bottler that refused to switch over to corn syrup and still uses sugar. If you've ever seen a bottle of Dublin Dr Pepper, that's the stuff. (Dublin, TX btw)
If my fingers were near industrial robots all day, I wouldn't want anything stronger than paper. I've seen far too many pictures of degloved fingers to want to wear anything on my hands stronger than my skin.
Hey, if you don't care about a site, your email is as good a place as any to store the password for it. Obviously I don't use that for anything secure, but for here, for example, why not?
Agreed. If I was in a swing state, I would probably vote Republican or Democrat, but as long as I live in Texas, the state's gonna go Republican no matter what I do, so I'm voting Libertarian. I don't align with them much better than I do either of the other parties, but I'd like to see them get the 5%.
100 miles is a little under a quarter of a tank for me. I start looking to fill up around then too. I'm more concerned about a wreck on the crowded Houston highways where I end up creeping or idling for a long time. A quarter of a tank is a little excessive, so a lot of the time I let it get down closer to an eighth but never down to the gas light. If there's a hurricane in the gulf I don't like to get it much below half in case I have to evacuate.
Ok, so you cover a quarter of Texas with wind farms. It doesn't prevent you from doing anything else you would typically do in west Texas there. Hell, you could have turbines, drilling, and cattle on the same ranch without issue.
It very much depends on what type of engineer you are. If you're insulated working in an office and never speaking to anyone not wearing a suit then probably Spanish is not a big help. I know this is a foreign idea for most slashdotters, but some engineers actually, gasp, interact professionally with other types of workers or even use our hands as well as our minds when we work. It would be a real pain when you're out doing tests on a drilling rig to make sure the one guy on the rig crew who speaks passable English is at your side every time you need to communicate. Other people design parts in plants, for example. Being able to actually speak to the people who will wind up using whatever you design will result in a much better product, since you'll learn the little things that are needed to make the product usable.
Or you could just right click on it after disabling it and tell it to ignore component state. It stops bitching after that in all screens except the one in which you can clearly see the state of all the other components anyway.
First, I think my husband and the state of Texas both would be very upset if I "grew a pair."
Second, a map is not much help when you know exactly where you are, but don't know where you're going, which is the situation I was in in the referenced story. I carry a map in my car too. It didn't have a single large arrow pointing me to "that alterations place over near where you used to work."
Third, I apologize for insulting your manhood by referencing a flat. I'm a lazy bum who knows how to change a tire but calls AAA anyway. I don't apologize for suggesting that you may not be able to fix a totaled car or other situation that may require a tow truck or cop. People don't stop to help much anymore.
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You don't have to rely on it blindly, but I've found that most people do. When I'm taking a trip for a week, I print out directions from the hotel to the conference center. I consult them Monday and maybe Tuesday. Wednesday through Friday I have it down. I will admit to probably needing it on Monday the next time. Last time I rode with somebody with a GPS, I turned it off on Wednesday and he had absolutely no idea where to turn. Mind you, these directions were not hard. Turn off at the exit named for the town we're going to, make a right. That was all that was left. He bypassed the exit, even after I told him it was the correct one (and no, he wasn't waiting for the GPS. He knew it was off).
If you can use it the way you mention, more power to you.
"Some people may ask, why go to the moon? They may well ask, why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas? We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. Because that challenge is one we intend to win."
I assume everyone understands the first two examples. The third arose, I am sure, because the speech took place in Rice Stadium. For those of you not familiar with college sports (shocking to suggest, I know) Rice has a student body roughly 1/8th the size of UT's and regularly gets creamed by their football team. Yet nearly every year the two teams meet, and out of 91 games, Rice has won 21. (And yes, the video clip of the speech does get played before every Rice-Texas game at Rice Stadium)
That's exactly the problem. It looks like cheating if there's only N logical ways to write something and N+1 students in the class. A dumb/mean (take your pick) prof once accused a friend of that very thing on a final exam, causing him to stress out and lose weight for 4-5 months before the case came before the honor council, where he was acquitted in the shortest deliberation on record.
Do you really plan to not have any relationships too far away to drive over? Or do you just figure "Eh, if Mom dies, somebody will email me."
Did you check the spare? Sometimes those have sensors too.
Technically the EZTag system here in Houston requires slowing down, but in practice, if the transponder doesn't work but it's registered to your plate they get your identity from the picture. Additionally, it only requires slowing to 45 and seems to work up to 65 or so anyway, which is the speed limit of the Beltway.
My parents' dog is half terrier. She's mastered the chase instinct, but has been known to dig so hard she once flipped the mole out of the hole with a paw, didn't notice, and kept digging. Once we got her away from the hole, she just picked up the live mole and was happily carrying it in her mouth. We took it away from her and had to drag her away. (It was in front of the woods down the street, so it wasn't messing up anybody's yard.)
I would consider lining everywhere there are cables with glue traps.
The problem with glue traps is you end up with a live rat stuck to the glue trap. What do you do with it now? Drown it, or leave it out for a cat somewhere. Humane trap, my foot. Plus, I've seen a rat work its way from stuck flat on its side on the trap to only one foot stuck, and I have no doubt given more time it would have gotten that off too.
In most cases when I've been ring-side to a Seagate failure all I could do was point and laugh and say 'How good is your warranty at getting data back, bitch?'
It doesn't matter who made the drive, if you didn't have your important data backed up, you deserve to lose it if your drive goes out. I used to buy Seagate because I knew 5 years from the purchase date I would have a functioning drive, whether it's the same one or different. It is my responsibility to ensure the safety of my data. All HDDs are going to wear out eventually. With Seagate moving to 3 year warranties, I'll probably switch to someone else.
The hardcoded address of his NIC, of course.
There's one Dr Pepper bottler that refused to switch over to corn syrup and still uses sugar. If you've ever seen a bottle of Dublin Dr Pepper, that's the stuff. (Dublin, TX btw)
Somehow I don't see voting in pencil as a good method of preventing votes from being changed. Can I vote in pen instead?
If my fingers were near industrial robots all day, I wouldn't want anything stronger than paper. I've seen far too many pictures of degloved fingers to want to wear anything on my hands stronger than my skin.
Not all of us secretly want a giant diamond. I wanted (and got) lots of small to medium sided ones. :)
Hey, if you don't care about a site, your email is as good a place as any to store the password for it. Obviously I don't use that for anything secure, but for here, for example, why not?
Two words. Peripheral vision.
Agreed. If I was in a swing state, I would probably vote Republican or Democrat, but as long as I live in Texas, the state's gonna go Republican no matter what I do, so I'm voting Libertarian. I don't align with them much better than I do either of the other parties, but I'd like to see them get the 5%.
I believe the profits are fair. There. I'm not the person you're replying to, but I actually do think the profits are fair.
100 miles is a little under a quarter of a tank for me. I start looking to fill up around then too. I'm more concerned about a wreck on the crowded Houston highways where I end up creeping or idling for a long time. A quarter of a tank is a little excessive, so a lot of the time I let it get down closer to an eighth but never down to the gas light. If there's a hurricane in the gulf I don't like to get it much below half in case I have to evacuate.
Ok, so you cover a quarter of Texas with wind farms. It doesn't prevent you from doing anything else you would typically do in west Texas there. Hell, you could have turbines, drilling, and cattle on the same ranch without issue.
It very much depends on what type of engineer you are. If you're insulated working in an office and never speaking to anyone not wearing a suit then probably Spanish is not a big help. I know this is a foreign idea for most slashdotters, but some engineers actually, gasp, interact professionally with other types of workers or even use our hands as well as our minds when we work. It would be a real pain when you're out doing tests on a drilling rig to make sure the one guy on the rig crew who speaks passable English is at your side every time you need to communicate. Other people design parts in plants, for example. Being able to actually speak to the people who will wind up using whatever you design will result in a much better product, since you'll learn the little things that are needed to make the product usable.
Weird. I did it on AVG8.
Webroot Spysweeper is one of the fastest ways I've ever seen to make a system feel sluggish.
Or you could just right click on it after disabling it and tell it to ignore component state. It stops bitching after that in all screens except the one in which you can clearly see the state of all the other components anyway.
First, I think my husband and the state of Texas both would be very upset if I "grew a pair."
Second, a map is not much help when you know exactly where you are, but don't know where you're going, which is the situation I was in in the referenced story. I carry a map in my car too. It didn't have a single large arrow pointing me to "that alterations place over near where you used to work."
Third, I apologize for insulting your manhood by referencing a flat. I'm a lazy bum who knows how to change a tire but calls AAA anyway. I don't apologize for suggesting that you may not be able to fix a totaled car or other situation that may require a tow truck or cop. People don't stop to help much anymore.