Probably at first the copy was just being buffered into memory. Linux buffers copies and then flushes the buffered data to disk later, when the drive is otherwise idle, to improve overall system performance. Once you filled the cache, you had to wait to write more data into it until some of it was flushed to make room. And thus, once the cache is filled, any more writes happen at the actual speed of the device, instead of the speed to copy to memory.
That's one theory. There may be other reasons.
In terms of how these results compare to other products, I think they are "pretty good". Not the best, but significantly better than average.
Do you realize how ridiculous you sound, trying to lump people into such large categories and then talk meaningfully about differences in how these groups uniformly think and behave?
I'm guessing you don't, so let me inform you: you sound ridiculous. You sound like a person who has a particular point of view and likes to identify with a group that you perceive has the same point of view as you do (even though within that group there are a wide variety of differing beliefs), and then enumerate all of your perceived shortcoming of the 'other' group.
I'm honestly curious about this incredible breadth of experience that you claim to have acquired living half your life in 'both worlds'. I'd really like to know how it's given you such a keen insight into human nature that you can conveniently split people up into 'ruralites' and 'urbanites' groups.
That is good news. Because I have been using emacs since 1990 and have never even bothered to try anything else. It's good to know that I haven't missed out on anything. Not that I really ever questioned that. I mean once you know emacs, you implicitly understand how nothing really could ever be better.
One thing I am not very good at is customizing my emacs. I know that lots and lots of elisp code has been written to provide advanced functionality for programmers, but I still rely on bog-standard language modes (C++ mode, Java mode, etc), compilation mode, and very little else. I see people in my team with Eclipse and think that it would be nice to be able to find all occurrences of a given method call with the click of a button, or rename a method and every place where that method is referenced with a simple command. I know about etags and stuff but I am just too lazy to set them up.
My point being, there are some things that I am dissatisfied with in emacs but I know that I could make emacs do what I want, I'm just too lazy to figure out how to make it happen. I need to stop being so lazy about it, because I am really starting to miss out on some things that "modern" IDEs do well. Well, only missing a little. I've gotten used to "find | grep | cut | sort -u | emacs" for locating all files containing some class or method reference.
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But is ACPI support *really* that hard that Xen can't implement it? I don't know the ACPI system at all, but I have to say I doubt it. I would think that managing multiple virtual OS installations is a difficult challenge, and if the Xen team could implement that, would ACPI really present that much of a challenge?
When I bicycle to work I go through alot of red lights. It takes me almost an hour to bike 12 miles to work (on my mountain bike) and I just can't bring myself to lose momentum unless I absolutely have to. On a bicycle you tend to be going slow enough that you have quite a bit of time to gauge an intersection before getting to it. If I see that there are no cars coming either way (across my path), then I just go. If the light is just turning red for me, I go through if all traffic is stopped and I know that the only people who will get a green are making turns that won't cross my path. If the light is red and I can turn onto a side street just enough to cross behind stopped cars (who are waiting to make a turn), then I do it, and then turn right back onto the street that I was travelling on.
In short, I don't really observe traffic signals as something that I have to blindly obey; I make judgements based on the situation. I would never go in front of traffic; I only go when there is essentially no traffic or I can make it through without disrupting traffic. Certainly it's riskier than just stopping and waiting; on the other hand, cyclists have been killed while doing that too. I'm sorry if the way I ride pisses anyone off, and I'd always be willing to discuss the issue rationally. But I don't see myself changing my behavior because it works and I honestly believe that it is not unsafe.
Anyway, it would be difficult for a bicyclist to endanger anyone else even if they took an "everyone else be damned" attitude and just forced their way through in every situation. Because eventually the cyclist would get hit by a car and take themselves out of the equation. The only way I can see a bicyclist endangering anyone else is if they cause a car to have to take emergency action to avoid them which causes an accident. And that really is something serious for a bicyclist to consider, but overall, bicyclists are just about the most innocuous vehicles on the road.
I hate the people who drive those jacked-up pickup trucks. I absolutely loathe them. I hate them worse than terrorists, or evil dictators, or anyone else on this planet. I cannot imagine a person less interested in the wellbeing of those around him than someone who jacks up his pickup truck so that it's 10x more dangerous to other drivers while doing nothing for themselves other than to stroke their sad little egos. When I see those drivers on the road, I glare at them with all I have got. If I ever see a cop nearby, now that I know that those things are illegal (I always thought they were legal), I will definitely give him an earful about it.
Are you saying there is some easy way to filter bad articles from Slashdot? That is great news. Can you give me a pointer to some documentation on how to accomplish this?
Hm, I just had an idea. Someone should implement some kind of browser plugin or something that presents a 'score this article' box alongside all Slashdot stories. Then it could use the combined score that everyone has given the article to decide which ones to filter out as crap. If only I had the web development skills to make that happen, instead I'm stuck with a C++ application programming background and would have no idea where to even start...
Yeah I know. The sequence of these comments is pretty predictable.
Whenever there is a stupid Slashdot story, someone always posts about how stupid it is.
And whenever someone posts about how frustrated they are that Slashdot is posting more and more stupid stories, there is always someone that responds that 'you don't have to read them'.
But is it really that non-obvious that Slashdot would be more enjoyable and worthwhile if the signal to noise ratio was higher? And is it really that hard to believe that some people like myself read Slashdot at least once per day and would really appreciate not having to wade through crap to get to the good stuff?
Oh and yeah, I know. Nobody forces me to read Slashdot. Nobody forces me to read any particular story. Nobody forces me to walk out my front door either, but that doesn't mean that I can't complain if someone fills my street with shit.
Yeah after I posted that I knew someone would respond that digitally recorded home/professional video takes tons of space too. But I think that isn't very mainstream either.
I'm afraid you're not going to get your wish. I had an email discussion with CmdrTaco on this subject last summer. He basically admitted that during the 'lull time' of U.S. summer, they have to scrape around for articles to post because summer time means far fewer cool university publications, and businesses release fewer products and stuff during summer as well.
I specifically complained about kdawson and the drivel that he posts but CmdrTaco defended him by saying that he (CmdrTaco) though that he (kdawson) did 'a pretty good job' as an editor.
Really, at that point, I realized that there is nothing that anyone can do. I mean, if you can defend kdawson's editing and story submission quality, then I guess you can defend anything.
I don't know how long the average user lasts on Slashdot before getting fed up and moving on; the first 5 years I read Slashdot it steadily improved in quality but the last 5 years have been all downhill. I'm really starting to reach my limit of tolerance for it. Many days I say to myself, "that's it, I'm not reading Slashdot at all anymore", but old habits die hard and I keep coming back.
I haven't read the whole thing. But so far it doesn't really seem to have many qualities of a real 'book'. It feels more like a really long usenet post that was broken up into chapters and then converted into PDF. Reading the foreword and introduction makes me realize what professional editors get paid for. Obviously no editing was performed on this 'book' because it's far too verbose and also has simple grammatical errors that any editor or proofreader would have found.
Not to say that it's not worth reading, or that the author shouldn't be commended for his efforts. I'm just saying that it doesn't quite live up to the hype of being called a 'book', which makes it sound like quite a bit more than it really is.
It's not a book, it's a usenet post (or 'blog post' for the youngsters around here) in book form.
Sorry, my example was just made up. It's not that ImageMagick needs gnome libs, it's just that tons of programs (none of which I could think of off of the top of my head when I wrote my comment) do. It was lazy on my part to just pick an example randomly whether or not it was correct. Sorry you had to take the time to correct me.
But there definitely have been *many* times that installing a program has pulled in ridiculous (to me) dependencies. That was my basic point although I don't have any concrete examples memorized.
I am an atypical user for sure. Check my Slashdot ID, I've been around a while. I'm 35 and have used the SAME X11 configuration since I was a 19 year old sophomore at CMU in 1991. That's 17 years of twm goodness. I have no window decorations of any kind - no titlebars, resize grab areas, etc, etc. Moving, resizing, iconifying, etc, are all accomplished by either keystrokes or keystroke/mouse button combos.
I would not recommend my environment for anyone but myself. I've been with my wife since 1996 and she has NEVER been able to figure out how to do anything when sitting down at my Linux desktop. If I open a mozilla window for her she can just stay in there and be fine. But anything else, forget it.
The first thing I do when I install a modern Linux distribution is turn off all of the services that support Gnome and KDE programs. D-Bus, avahi, etc, etc, there are tons of them and they all just choke up the system when you are not running Gnome or KDE (and even if you do, but at that point they are a necessary evil). It's getting harder and harder to install new Linux distributions and manage to clean out all of the desktop related stuff that they install and run. All I want is X11, twm, mozilla/firefox, emacs, xterm, and a few other odds and ends. It annoys me when I install programs like ImageMagick and they require libgnome. Why? I don't run Gnome, why should the program require it? But I am being pretty curmudgeonly here. Aside from the minor annoyance of having to have libraries on my system that I "shouldn't need" (to continue to live in the early 1990's), there's really no harm in it.
I keep telling myself that someday I will have to suck it up and start using Gnome or KDE. But that day never seems to come because I don't *need* those things, and they never work seamlessly enough anyway to make them worth my while. I know that eventually I will *have to* because no Linux distribution will support my ancient way of working someday. But until that time comes I am unlikely to change.
Your HP is not more rugged than these laptops. They would survive a fall down the stairs just fine. The author of the article was definitely lacking in imagination of ways to test the laptops, and it would be nice to see other tests, but don't delude yourself into thinking that a normal laptop can withstand more abuse of any type than these ruggedized systems.
I guess I should be a movie critic then. I dislike 9 out of 10 movies, and most of them are movies that other people I know really like. Honestly I can't understand how people are willing to waste their time with the most banal crap and come out with a smile on your face. I guess all I have to say is, if you have no standards, then don't bother reading critical reviews of movies, just go watch any old crap and be happy.
As others have pointed out, there was a bigger reason why that scene was not included in the Spiderman movie.
However, to this day I still feel deeply cheated by the movie 'Twister'. It came out when movie CG was just getting exciting and the trailers included some brief clips of (at the time) amazing scenes that could not have been done without CG. One in particular had a tractor or some other large vehicle getting ripped up by the tornado in the distance and in first person view we see a giant wheel (I think it was) get thrown towards us and smash through the window, ostensibly destroying the vehicle that we are shown to be in and us as well. It looked really cool to me at the time and I went to the movie expecting to see lots of cool stuff like that. Not only was the movie lame, but that scene from the trailer WAS NOT IN THE MOVIE! At the time I almost wanted to write to the studio and ask for my money back because I felt like I had been cheated.
I still wonder about the legal implications of showing scenes in trailers that aren't actually in the movie. At the time I didn't even realize that anyone would do such a thing, but now I expect it's pretty common.
Oh, and to stay on topic, I have had a very bad feeling about the new Indiana Jones movie for a while, and the trailer I saw before Iron Man reinforced that feeling. I suspect it's a typical modern Hollywood movie - just a thin veneer of CG and action on top of the empty shell of a formulaic and uninteresting plot. I don't have any intention of going to watch it in the theatres. I still can't believe that I let my wife talk me into going to see Die Hard 4. We should just let these old actors and their franchises retire in peace.
There is a big difference between subjecting everyone around you to greater risks of bodily harm or death, and making a vitriolic post on the internet.
Trying to pretend like the two are the same indicates a mentality that is part of the problem.
However, I would agree with you if you said I was a whiner. But don't call me an anti-hero, that's inaccurate.
It disgusts me that people still buy vehicles which get 13.8 miles per gallon. It is environmentally irresponsible, not to mention that your overweight, overtall vehicle puts other drivers at greater risk both at the time of an accident and also during normal driving when your vehicle obstructs others' view.
People who buy cars like yours are to me, anti-heroes. Heroes are people who take greater risk to themselves so that others can be helped. You subject others to greater risk so that you can haul your fat ass and all of your cargo around (although most people who buy trucks are just hauling their fat ass around 99% of the time, no cargo which would necessitate such a large vehicle is typically involved). I am really disgusted with how many anti-heroes the USA has. I think the selfish attitude of so many Americans is what is leading to this country's continued decline and eventual collapse.
Anyway, I do enjoy the smug pleasure of laughing at all of the whiners who drive big vehicles and complain about the price of gas. I can't wait for gas to hit $5 or more per gallon and all of you losers to suffer even more.
Do you also get a free fill-up on smugness at your local filling station? Because it must be coming from somewhere, and I don't think a single human could generate as much as you seem to have all on their own.
You utterly failed to address the parent poster's point by the way.
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Probably at first the copy was just being buffered into memory. Linux buffers copies and then flushes the buffered data to disk later, when the drive is otherwise idle, to improve overall system performance. Once you filled the cache, you had to wait to write more data into it until some of it was flushed to make room. And thus, once the cache is filled, any more writes happen at the actual speed of the device, instead of the speed to copy to memory.
That's one theory. There may be other reasons.
In terms of how these results compare to other products, I think they are "pretty good". Not the best, but significantly better than average.
Do you realize how ridiculous you sound, trying to lump people into such large categories and then talk meaningfully about differences in how these groups uniformly think and behave?
I'm guessing you don't, so let me inform you: you sound ridiculous. You sound like a person who has a particular point of view and likes to identify with a group that you perceive has the same point of view as you do (even though within that group there are a wide variety of differing beliefs), and then enumerate all of your perceived shortcoming of the 'other' group.
I'm honestly curious about this incredible breadth of experience that you claim to have acquired living half your life in 'both worlds'. I'd really like to know how it's given you such a keen insight into human nature that you can conveniently split people up into 'ruralites' and 'urbanites' groups.
That is good news. Because I have been using emacs since 1990 and have never even bothered to try anything else. It's good to know that I haven't missed out on anything. Not that I really ever questioned that. I mean once you know emacs, you implicitly understand how nothing really could ever be better.
One thing I am not very good at is customizing my emacs. I know that lots and lots of elisp code has been written to provide advanced functionality for programmers, but I still rely on bog-standard language modes (C++ mode, Java mode, etc), compilation mode, and very little else. I see people in my team with Eclipse and think that it would be nice to be able to find all occurrences of a given method call with the click of a button, or rename a method and every place where that method is referenced with a simple command. I know about etags and stuff but I am just too lazy to set them up.
My point being, there are some things that I am dissatisfied with in emacs but I know that I could make emacs do what I want, I'm just too lazy to figure out how to make it happen. I need to stop being so lazy about it, because I am really starting to miss out on some things that "modern" IDEs do well. Well, only missing a little. I've gotten used to "find | grep | cut | sort -u | emacs" for locating all files containing some class or method reference.
But is ACPI support *really* that hard that Xen can't implement it? I don't know the ACPI system at all, but I have to say I doubt it. I would think that managing multiple virtual OS installations is a difficult challenge, and if the Xen team could implement that, would ACPI really present that much of a challenge?
When I bicycle to work I go through alot of red lights. It takes me almost an hour to bike 12 miles to work (on my mountain bike) and I just can't bring myself to lose momentum unless I absolutely have to. On a bicycle you tend to be going slow enough that you have quite a bit of time to gauge an intersection before getting to it. If I see that there are no cars coming either way (across my path), then I just go. If the light is just turning red for me, I go through if all traffic is stopped and I know that the only people who will get a green are making turns that won't cross my path. If the light is red and I can turn onto a side street just enough to cross behind stopped cars (who are waiting to make a turn), then I do it, and then turn right back onto the street that I was travelling on.
In short, I don't really observe traffic signals as something that I have to blindly obey; I make judgements based on the situation. I would never go in front of traffic; I only go when there is essentially no traffic or I can make it through without disrupting traffic. Certainly it's riskier than just stopping and waiting; on the other hand, cyclists have been killed while doing that too. I'm sorry if the way I ride pisses anyone off, and I'd always be willing to discuss the issue rationally. But I don't see myself changing my behavior because it works and I honestly believe that it is not unsafe.
Anyway, it would be difficult for a bicyclist to endanger anyone else even if they took an "everyone else be damned" attitude and just forced their way through in every situation. Because eventually the cyclist would get hit by a car and take themselves out of the equation. The only way I can see a bicyclist endangering anyone else is if they cause a car to have to take emergency action to avoid them which causes an accident. And that really is something serious for a bicyclist to consider, but overall, bicyclists are just about the most innocuous vehicles on the road.
I hate the people who drive those jacked-up pickup trucks. I absolutely loathe them. I hate them worse than terrorists, or evil dictators, or anyone else on this planet. I cannot imagine a person less interested in the wellbeing of those around him than someone who jacks up his pickup truck so that it's 10x more dangerous to other drivers while doing nothing for themselves other than to stroke their sad little egos. When I see those drivers on the road, I glare at them with all I have got. If I ever see a cop nearby, now that I know that those things are illegal (I always thought they were legal), I will definitely give him an earful about it.
Nanny state programs robbing citizens of responsibility and liberty? Are you sure you're not talking about the U.S. here?
Are you saying there is some easy way to filter bad articles from Slashdot? That is great news. Can you give me a pointer to some documentation on how to accomplish this?
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Hm, I just had an idea. Someone should implement some kind of browser plugin or something that presents a 'score this article' box alongside all Slashdot stories. Then it could use the combined score that everyone has given the article to decide which ones to filter out as crap. If only I had the web development skills to make that happen, instead I'm stuck with a C++ application programming background and would have no idea where to even start
Yeah I know. The sequence of these comments is pretty predictable.
Whenever there is a stupid Slashdot story, someone always posts about how stupid it is.
And whenever someone posts about how frustrated they are that Slashdot is posting more and more stupid stories, there is always someone that responds that 'you don't have to read them'.
But is it really that non-obvious that Slashdot would be more enjoyable and worthwhile if the signal to noise ratio was higher? And is it really that hard to believe that some people like myself read Slashdot at least once per day and would really appreciate not having to wade through crap to get to the good stuff?
Oh and yeah, I know. Nobody forces me to read Slashdot. Nobody forces me to read any particular story. Nobody forces me to walk out my front door either, but that doesn't mean that I can't complain if someone fills my street with shit.
Yeah after I posted that I knew someone would respond that digitally recorded home/professional video takes tons of space too. But I think that isn't very mainstream either.
I'm afraid you're not going to get your wish. I had an email discussion with CmdrTaco on this subject last summer. He basically admitted that during the 'lull time' of U.S. summer, they have to scrape around for articles to post because summer time means far fewer cool university publications, and businesses release fewer products and stuff during summer as well.
I specifically complained about kdawson and the drivel that he posts but CmdrTaco defended him by saying that he (CmdrTaco) though that he (kdawson) did 'a pretty good job' as an editor.
Really, at that point, I realized that there is nothing that anyone can do. I mean, if you can defend kdawson's editing and story submission quality, then I guess you can defend anything.
I don't know how long the average user lasts on Slashdot before getting fed up and moving on; the first 5 years I read Slashdot it steadily improved in quality but the last 5 years have been all downhill. I'm really starting to reach my limit of tolerance for it. Many days I say to myself, "that's it, I'm not reading Slashdot at all anymore", but old habits die hard and I keep coming back.
I am so totally with you. I have never used more than about 20 GB of any workstation hard drive I have ever owned.
But, I don't steal videos, music, and software off the internet, so I guess I don't represent the majority of the market.
I haven't read the whole thing. But so far it doesn't really seem to have many qualities of a real 'book'. It feels more like a really long usenet post that was broken up into chapters and then converted into PDF. Reading the foreword and introduction makes me realize what professional editors get paid for. Obviously no editing was performed on this 'book' because it's far too verbose and also has simple grammatical errors that any editor or proofreader would have found.
Not to say that it's not worth reading, or that the author shouldn't be commended for his efforts. I'm just saying that it doesn't quite live up to the hype of being called a 'book', which makes it sound like quite a bit more than it really is.
It's not a book, it's a usenet post (or 'blog post' for the youngsters around here) in book form.
Sorry, my example was just made up. It's not that ImageMagick needs gnome libs, it's just that tons of programs (none of which I could think of off of the top of my head when I wrote my comment) do. It was lazy on my part to just pick an example randomly whether or not it was correct. Sorry you had to take the time to correct me.
But there definitely have been *many* times that installing a program has pulled in ridiculous (to me) dependencies. That was my basic point although I don't have any concrete examples memorized.
Thank you for the suggestion - I am reading about Arch and I like what I am reading ...
I'm special because I know the difference between a user ID and a comment ID.
I am an atypical user for sure. Check my Slashdot ID, I've been around a while. I'm 35 and have used the SAME X11 configuration since I was a 19 year old sophomore at CMU in 1991. That's 17 years of twm goodness. I have no window decorations of any kind - no titlebars, resize grab areas, etc, etc. Moving, resizing, iconifying, etc, are all accomplished by either keystrokes or keystroke/mouse button combos.
I would not recommend my environment for anyone but myself. I've been with my wife since 1996 and she has NEVER been able to figure out how to do anything when sitting down at my Linux desktop. If I open a mozilla window for her she can just stay in there and be fine. But anything else, forget it.
The first thing I do when I install a modern Linux distribution is turn off all of the services that support Gnome and KDE programs. D-Bus, avahi, etc, etc, there are tons of them and they all just choke up the system when you are not running Gnome or KDE (and even if you do, but at that point they are a necessary evil). It's getting harder and harder to install new Linux distributions and manage to clean out all of the desktop related stuff that they install and run. All I want is X11, twm, mozilla/firefox, emacs, xterm, and a few other odds and ends. It annoys me when I install programs like ImageMagick and they require libgnome. Why? I don't run Gnome, why should the program require it? But I am being pretty curmudgeonly here. Aside from the minor annoyance of having to have libraries on my system that I "shouldn't need" (to continue to live in the early 1990's), there's really no harm in it.
I keep telling myself that someday I will have to suck it up and start using Gnome or KDE. But that day never seems to come because I don't *need* those things, and they never work seamlessly enough anyway to make them worth my while. I know that eventually I will *have to* because no Linux distribution will support my ancient way of working someday. But until that time comes I am unlikely to change.
Your HP is not more rugged than these laptops. They would survive a fall down the stairs just fine. The author of the article was definitely lacking in imagination of ways to test the laptops, and it would be nice to see other tests, but don't delude yourself into thinking that a normal laptop can withstand more abuse of any type than these ruggedized systems.
They would do fine. These systems are much more ruggedized than your notebook so if yours could take it, they could too, and much more.
Can your Thinkpad withstand having a cup of coffee dumped directly on the keyboard? These systems can.
I guess I should be a movie critic then. I dislike 9 out of 10 movies, and most of them are movies that other people I know really like. Honestly I can't understand how people are willing to waste their time with the most banal crap and come out with a smile on your face. I guess all I have to say is, if you have no standards, then don't bother reading critical reviews of movies, just go watch any old crap and be happy.
I found the Twister trailer on YouTube, at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKSIdx11DnE
The scene in question ends the trailer, it's at 1:98. That clip is not in the movie.
As others have pointed out, there was a bigger reason why that scene was not included in the Spiderman movie.
However, to this day I still feel deeply cheated by the movie 'Twister'. It came out when movie CG was just getting exciting and the trailers included some brief clips of (at the time) amazing scenes that could not have been done without CG. One in particular had a tractor or some other large vehicle getting ripped up by the tornado in the distance and in first person view we see a giant wheel (I think it was) get thrown towards us and smash through the window, ostensibly destroying the vehicle that we are shown to be in and us as well. It looked really cool to me at the time and I went to the movie expecting to see lots of cool stuff like that. Not only was the movie lame, but that scene from the trailer WAS NOT IN THE MOVIE! At the time I almost wanted to write to the studio and ask for my money back because I felt like I had been cheated.
I still wonder about the legal implications of showing scenes in trailers that aren't actually in the movie. At the time I didn't even realize that anyone would do such a thing, but now I expect it's pretty common.
Oh, and to stay on topic, I have had a very bad feeling about the new Indiana Jones movie for a while, and the trailer I saw before Iron Man reinforced that feeling. I suspect it's a typical modern Hollywood movie - just a thin veneer of CG and action on top of the empty shell of a formulaic and uninteresting plot. I don't have any intention of going to watch it in the theatres. I still can't believe that I let my wife talk me into going to see Die Hard 4. We should just let these old actors and their franchises retire in peace.
I see what you TRIED to do, but you failed.
There is a big difference between subjecting everyone around you to greater risks of bodily harm or death, and making a vitriolic post on the internet.
Trying to pretend like the two are the same indicates a mentality that is part of the problem.
However, I would agree with you if you said I was a whiner. But don't call me an anti-hero, that's inaccurate.
It disgusts me that people still buy vehicles which get 13.8 miles per gallon. It is environmentally irresponsible, not to mention that your overweight, overtall vehicle puts other drivers at greater risk both at the time of an accident and also during normal driving when your vehicle obstructs others' view.
People who buy cars like yours are to me, anti-heroes. Heroes are people who take greater risk to themselves so that others can be helped. You subject others to greater risk so that you can haul your fat ass and all of your cargo around (although most people who buy trucks are just hauling their fat ass around 99% of the time, no cargo which would necessitate such a large vehicle is typically involved). I am really disgusted with how many anti-heroes the USA has. I think the selfish attitude of so many Americans is what is leading to this country's continued decline and eventual collapse.
Anyway, I do enjoy the smug pleasure of laughing at all of the whiners who drive big vehicles and complain about the price of gas. I can't wait for gas to hit $5 or more per gallon and all of you losers to suffer even more.
Do you also get a free fill-up on smugness at your local filling station? Because it must be coming from somewhere, and I don't think a single human could generate as much as you seem to have all on their own.
You utterly failed to address the parent poster's point by the way.