Twice in a decade. The first was a clumsy pickpocket (probably the only reason it didn't work out), which very likely made me a lot more aware for the next attempt. I tend not to think about the reasons behind paying that kind of attention.
I did intend my comment [mostly] for amusement though that didn't come across very well. It was in response to this statement in particular...
. not even a close call as it really wasn't that hard to keep track of things immediately in front of me
I thinkt he problem that a lot of people don't realize is that it's not the physical phone that's distracting. The problems I see aren't when answering the phone (surprisingly) -- it's when talking on it. Seems to me that problem is where you're focusing your attention (the conversation), not how that conversation is being delivered to you.
Also, oddly, people seem reluctant to say "Hey, shut up for a second, I'm in a tight spot here" when talking & driving. Or even "Hold on." or "Wait". As if the person on the other end won't understand that they're... you know, driving.
I dunno, I've had people try to take things from me in passing (namely an mp3 player attached to my hip while I had headphones on) -- if you're paying attention, you can read the intent from some distance away. I agree it's possible that he encountered the rare thief who is so adept that his body language betrays nothing... but I'm voting for "he didn't see the bloke until right under his nose" as it's the more likely explanation.
It's also possible that he was walking somewhere that was wall-to-wall people, and no clear line of sight. But in that case, I'd suggest that walking along and reading/. is as rude as talking loudly on the phone in an elevator...
Cut to the chase. I'm not so lazy that I need you to help me waste time
So true. If we're talking - especially at wokr - it's not because we want to make idle conversation, it's for a purpose. You don't care how my vacation was, I don't care how your children are. Ask me how I am and I'll give you a rote answer, the same as you give me. (This assumes you're a business acquaintance and not an actual friend, of course.) Why don't we just skip the nonsense and say what we need to say?
Of course -- there was this guy at work who used to do exactly that. Then I guess he got some negative feedback -- after our next performance reviews, he suddenly started prefixing every encounter with "hi -name-, how are you." Not a question, just a dull statement delivered in a wooden monotone. He then waits impatiently for the appropriate ritual reply, then asks what he came to ask. He's been doing this for years now... it's almost funny.
So maybe the answer to this question is because a lot of people believe that this is sincere, legitimate conversation?
Speaking loudly to someone next to you is also rude. This doesn't mean that speaking loudly into a cell phone is not rude -- and despite what you think, you're *probably* talking loudly. More so than you would on a land line. I don't know whether or not it's necessary, but I think this a natural function of modern cell phones: your mouth is several inches in front of where you assume the mic to be - where it would be for a land line. Maybe kids growing up on cell phones now won't have this problem...
That aside, let's say it's not so. Let's say you are the one in 100 exception. It's also rude in a completely different way. Instead of having a conversation with somebody next to you, you're talking on a device that everyone around you *knows* is sensitive to sound. By the simple act of speaking on a cell phone, you oblige them to become quiet if they don't want to be "rude" and interfere with your conversation. Placing that kind of social obligation on someone is rude, no matter whether you're talking loudly or not.
It gets even worse if you're engaged with someone. Your phone rings while you're int he middle of a conversation - and like a well-trained dog you salivate... erm, answer at the sound of the bell. Now you're sending a clear message to the people you had previously been speaking with: "This conversation you are having with me is far less important to me than what this faceless stranger has to say. Now sod off and be quiet while I talk to said stranger."
. not even a close call as it really wasn't that hard to keep track of things immediately in front of me).
I would argue that it *was* that hard - if not, he would not have been able to get within yoinking in range without you being aware in the first place.
I don' tthink that's where it will fail -- yes, some will get through in that windows before the system learns the new template, but it could drastically reduce the problem for a short time. But it introduces a new kind of issues: what happens when this runs for a month, and the spammers come up with a way to auto-generate new templates and change it once every few minutes. The net results is that the filter apps will need to compare each email against millions of potential templates... and it becomes faster to deliver via postal mail. (Maybe THAT's the true solution!)
I don't think it's really all that hard to automate the process of changing the indent spacing. In my experience, a bigger problem is changing other formatting conventions, such as where to put the line breaks.
But that doesn't justify needing to do it... especially when you can use a tab character in the first place, rendering this an unnecessary step. The biggest reason I prefer tabs is that it lets everyone use their own indentation size, without needing to reformat (and generate a lot of diff noise) every time they check in.
And no, it doesn't contribute to global warming/wasteful, because the car is going to idle the same amount of time regardless of you being there or not.
It's pretty wasteful regardless actually, at least for any fuel-injected vehicle*. The time required for the vehicle to be "warm" to drive is about 10 seconds. This is quite a bit less time than is required for "warm" to human comfort...
I regularly go out to start my car in the mornings, but there's no question that it's wasteful - I get about 1mpg worse on average when I'm doing this consistently. I'm just OK with that;)
* Carburetor-based vehicles are a different story, as are vehicles in cold climates which require actual pre-heating. (Though for the latter, the necessary warm-up occurs before starting the car, not after.)
While both PS3 and 360 have reasonable video playback features, we all know they come nowhere near the power of XBMC and similar solutions. If you only want one device under your television and would prefer not converting/transcoding everything, this hack might well end up being very useful.
Mediatomb + Netflix instant watch disc + PlayOn (for Hulu). Is there conversion occurring behind the scenes? Probably. Is it something that affects you? Not in my experience. With the combination above -- and playon and mediatomb running on VMs -- I'm dropping my cable subscription to basic this month and saving about $1000/yr.
However, that said I do agree with you - there's definitely more uses for hacking the PS3 than cheating/pirating. But the unfortunate truth is that cheat/pirate will comprise a lot of what it gets used for.
No, that was pretty clear. But it was also clear that this wasn't the question he was addressing, so it seems a bit odd to point it out as a flaw in his argument.
Could go that way, though if their goal is only to serve major markets in the first place... and there is no competitor... then the whining from the unserved masses won't matter to them.
erizon's ads blasting AT&T for its spotty 3G coverage have done a good job of creating an impression that "there's a map for that".
Actually, what's done a good job of that for me is the really crappy 3G coverage I get from AT&T.... I've given up and switched to 2G full time in order to keep my battery alive. Not to mention that when I *do* have coverage it's barely faster than 2G... but I digress, I did get the point you were making.
I can see this, but only to a point. I guess it depends on the reason for the subscription -- if you subscribed it to play a specific game, then yes it would be a definite issue. (Though you'd have the option of canceling your subscription... I assume....)
But when you look at those screenshots, you see that the more "real" it is the less usable it is. The steampunk is a good exmaple - it gives an impression of dimension and reality, but that impression has *no* effect on function. This means in terms of making the system easier to comprehend, it's a step backward -- now you have something aesthetically appealing, but functionally confusing. The meaning conveyed by the eye candy is actively misleading unless you already know the system to begin with.
In far more interfaces than not (media players, custom app buttons, etc) I have to resort to hovering over a given control to wait for the tooltip and learn what it does. The problem here is as we more into customized/unique-appearing apps, the learning we have done that says "this is what thing-X should look like" becomes less relevant. And since no two applications are standardizing on the same interfaces, there's essentially a learning curve for each one whereas in the past learning the first would also help you learn the second.
How many of the people that were to join the class action suit would have had legitimate copies of XP flagged as illegitimate? I know very few people that had this happen. A few corporations had their volume keys flagged as such, but if the admin was doing things properly, they would have denied the update through group policy (or some other patch management).
Somewhat OT, but every time my Win7 computer wakes up from suspend, it tells me that it may be pirated (it's not) and blocks me from t downloading any optional updates. Mine was a simple upgrade from Win Vista (which came with the laptop) to Win 7 (upgrade disk provided by the manufacturer), and yet I'm still told that it's not legit. I have no trouble believing that legit XP installs have their fair share of this with WGA.
To me that's more a good thing than not. Even when a new patch has a serious issue (we all know it happens) it's a LOT harder to support a game when you have 16 levels of patch out there, and you never know whether your bug reports are coming from a completely unpatched instance or one with all the latest updates.
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I did intend my comment [mostly] for amusement though that didn't come across very well. It was in response to this statement in particular...
. not even a close call as it really wasn't that hard to keep track of things immediately in front of me
Yep, possible. But see my reply to prior commenter who said basically the same thing.
Also, oddly, people seem reluctant to say "Hey, shut up for a second, I'm in a tight spot here" when talking & driving. Or even "Hold on." or "Wait". As if the person on the other end won't understand that they're... you know, driving.
It's also possible that he was walking somewhere that was wall-to-wall people, and no clear line of sight. But in that case, I'd suggest that walking along and reading /. is as rude as talking loudly on the phone in an elevator...
Cut to the chase. I'm not so lazy that I need you to help me waste time
So true. If we're talking - especially at wokr - it's not because we want to make idle conversation, it's for a purpose. You don't care how my vacation was, I don't care how your children are. Ask me how I am and I'll give you a rote answer, the same as you give me. (This assumes you're a business acquaintance and not an actual friend, of course.) Why don't we just skip the nonsense and say what we need to say?
Of course -- there was this guy at work who used to do exactly that. Then I guess he got some negative feedback -- after our next performance reviews, he suddenly started prefixing every encounter with "hi -name-, how are you." Not a question, just a dull statement delivered in a wooden monotone. He then waits impatiently for the appropriate ritual reply, then asks what he came to ask. He's been doing this for years now... it's almost funny.
So maybe the answer to this question is because a lot of people believe that this is sincere, legitimate conversation?
Speaking loudly to someone next to you is also rude. This doesn't mean that speaking loudly into a cell phone is not rude -- and despite what you think, you're *probably* talking loudly. More so than you would on a land line. I don't know whether or not it's necessary, but I think this a natural function of modern cell phones: your mouth is several inches in front of where you assume the mic to be - where it would be for a land line. Maybe kids growing up on cell phones now won't have this problem ...
That aside, let's say it's not so. Let's say you are the one in 100 exception. It's also rude in a completely different way. Instead of having a conversation with somebody next to you, you're talking on a device that everyone around you *knows* is sensitive to sound. By the simple act of speaking on a cell phone, you oblige them to become quiet if they don't want to be "rude" and interfere with your conversation. Placing that kind of social obligation on someone is rude, no matter whether you're talking loudly or not.
It gets even worse if you're engaged with someone. Your phone rings while you're int he middle of a conversation - and like a well-trained dog you salivate ... erm, answer at the sound of the bell. Now you're sending a clear message to the people you had previously been speaking with: "This conversation you are having with me is far less important to me than what this faceless stranger has to say. Now sod off and be quiet while I talk to said stranger."
According to studies, talking on a cellphone is far more distracting than talking on a car
Maybe to the person talking, but if I saw someone talking on a car, I'd be pretty distracted.
. not even a close call as it really wasn't that hard to keep track of things immediately in front of me).
I would argue that it *was* that hard - if not, he would not have been able to get within yoinking in range without you being aware in the first place.
I don' tthink that's where it will fail -- yes, some will get through in that windows before the system learns the new template, but it could drastically reduce the problem for a short time. But it introduces a new kind of issues: what happens when this runs for a month, and the spammers come up with a way to auto-generate new templates and change it once every few minutes. The net results is that the filter apps will need to compare each email against millions of potential templates... and it becomes faster to deliver via postal mail. (Maybe THAT's the true solution!)
I don't think it's really all that hard to automate the process of changing the indent spacing. In my experience, a bigger problem is changing other formatting conventions, such as where to put the line breaks.
But that doesn't justify needing to do it... especially when you can use a tab character in the first place, rendering this an unnecessary step. The biggest reason I prefer tabs is that it lets everyone use their own indentation size, without needing to reformat (and generate a lot of diff noise) every time they check in.
My assumption is that anyone using Visual Studio is a developer
Good one. You owe me a new monitor.
If your fuel-injected engine isn't running smoothly after a few seconds at temperatures above zero, then you should have it checked out.
And no, it doesn't contribute to global warming/wasteful, because the car is going to idle the same amount of time regardless of you being there or not.
It's pretty wasteful regardless actually, at least for any fuel-injected vehicle*. The time required for the vehicle to be "warm" to drive is about 10 seconds. This is quite a bit less time than is required for "warm" to human comfort...
I regularly go out to start my car in the mornings, but there's no question that it's wasteful - I get about 1mpg worse on average when I'm doing this consistently. I'm just OK with that ;)
* Carburetor-based vehicles are a different story, as are vehicles in cold climates which require actual pre-heating. (Though for the latter, the necessary warm-up occurs before starting the car, not after.)
While both PS3 and 360 have reasonable video playback features, we all know they come nowhere near the power of XBMC and similar solutions. If you only want one device under your television and would prefer not converting/transcoding everything, this hack might well end up being very useful.
Mediatomb + Netflix instant watch disc + PlayOn (for Hulu). Is there conversion occurring behind the scenes? Probably. Is it something that affects you? Not in my experience. With the combination above -- and playon and mediatomb running on VMs -- I'm dropping my cable subscription to basic this month and saving about $1000/yr.
However, that said I do agree with you - there's definitely more uses for hacking the PS3 than cheating/pirating. But the unfortunate truth is that cheat/pirate will comprise a lot of what it gets used for.
No, that was pretty clear. But it was also clear that this wasn't the question he was addressing, so it seems a bit odd to point it out as a flaw in his argument.
erizon's ads blasting AT&T for its spotty 3G coverage have done a good job of creating an impression that "there's a map for that".
Actually, what's done a good job of that for me is the really crappy 3G coverage I get from AT&T.... I've given up and switched to 2G full time in order to keep my battery alive. Not to mention that when I *do* have coverage it's barely faster than 2G... but I digress, I did get the point you were making.
I can see this, but only to a point. I guess it depends on the reason for the subscription -- if you subscribed it to play a specific game, then yes it would be a definite issue. (Though you'd have the option of canceling your subscription... I assume....)
I think you missed the part where distributing was never proved.
Was it denied in the first place?
How the hell is a song worth $2250?
It seems like you missed the entire (quite good) explanation GP gave and latched onto that...
But when you look at those screenshots, you see that the more "real" it is the less usable it is. The steampunk is a good exmaple - it gives an impression of dimension and reality, but that impression has *no* effect on function. This means in terms of making the system easier to comprehend, it's a step backward -- now you have something aesthetically appealing, but functionally confusing. The meaning conveyed by the eye candy is actively misleading unless you already know the system to begin with.
In far more interfaces than not (media players, custom app buttons, etc) I have to resort to hovering over a given control to wait for the tooltip and learn what it does. The problem here is as we more into customized/unique-appearing apps, the learning we have done that says "this is what thing-X should look like" becomes less relevant. And since no two applications are standardizing on the same interfaces, there's essentially a learning curve for each one whereas in the past learning the first would also help you learn the second.
How many of the people that were to join the class action suit would have had legitimate copies of XP flagged as illegitimate? I know very few people that had this happen. A few corporations had their volume keys flagged as such, but if the admin was doing things properly, they would have denied the update through group policy (or some other patch management).
Somewhat OT, but every time my Win7 computer wakes up from suspend, it tells me that it may be pirated (it's not) and blocks me from t downloading any optional updates. Mine was a simple upgrade from Win Vista (which came with the laptop) to Win 7 (upgrade disk provided by the manufacturer), and yet I'm still told that it's not legit. I have no trouble believing that legit XP installs have their fair share of this with WGA.
To me that's more a good thing than not. Even when a new patch has a serious issue (we all know it happens) it's a LOT harder to support a game when you have 16 levels of patch out there, and you never know whether your bug reports are coming from a completely unpatched instance or one with all the latest updates.
Actually we're looking at 800KB/s (7-8Mb). The author is apparently confused in his writeup.
It would require a lot of trust from my side, OnLive has still to earn
Trust? In what way, beyond what you would give *any* online merchant to whom you provide your credit card info?