So without drugs some people cannot program since they are not able to 'see' a way to solve the problem. One could ague that the people that needs drugs do that are in the wrong field. Also that they may have something wrong like a chemical imbalance.
I thought it was common that if you are hitting a wall to stop. Take a break. Get some fresh air. Even go *gasp* ask someone's help on the issue. A fresh set of eyes can do wonders.
With the new healthcare law, weed will be prescribed and given out freely to those with the prescription.
Many people voted for 'free stuff'. That stuff is free o them since they do not pay for it. Nothing is free. Someone pays for it. Those people paying for all the free stuff is getting smaller and smaller.
I usually group all the cables from one computer together. I use velcro so i can take it apart when needed. I have used wire ties. I even have some wire ties that I can open as well. Problem is with the wire ties is they get brittle over time. Even the ones with the release break. I also use KVMs. I have had 7 computers on the same KVM switch at home. This was a PS2 KVM not a USB one. I had to have a separate keyboard and mouse cables. Grouping the cables (mouse, keyboard, and monitor) together helped a lot. I did find KVM cables that were already one piece but I needed to use a gender changer on the monitor cable. The KVM switch had a male monitor connection instead of female. The monitor cable was an monitor extension cable rather then a just a monitor cable. As for the mouse and keyboard cables which were the same cable with PS2. I just labeled the ends. Put a 'K' on the keyboard one and a 'M' on the mouse one. If something happened to the cables I would take out that one set. Fix or replace the one cable. Put the group back together and snake it back to where it goes.
Apple will never sell the OS separately. First Apple is a hardware company. Second by controlling the hardware, Apple has a know set of devices and device drivers that will work. Imagine the support nightmares for Apple if the average Joe bought OSX and installed it on a home built computer? Can Apple test every possible hardware combination? I don't think so. Will there be combinations that will fail, yes. Will those people bitch, also yes. That is what Apple can not afford. Apple will not sell the OS to be installed on any hardware. Only Apple hardware. That way they can control the user experience.
Think about it. What is the number one thing that happens when you send in your Apple device (laptop, imac, ipod, iphone, iwhatever)? They wipe it. You could also get a refurbished model back. Again that is a fresh OS install. Why they wipe the machine for replacing bad memory is beyond me. That is their "standard procedure".
There is the dead voting thing. I know of two examples. We received a voter ID card for two of my grandparents. Both registered Democrat. One died 19 years ago and the other died 20 years ago. Only this year we received their new voter ID cards. Odd since I know both were not registered Democrats. When we called it in saying that these people have been dead for a while now, we were initially told to let it be. Why were we trying to take away their right to vote. Even after stating that these people were dead for 20 years and offering to mail or fax in their death certificates we were told to leave it alone. A few other calls and getting managers we got it straightened out. Also both people died in different states. They never lived in the state where we received the voter ID cards for them. How many other people would just leave it alone?
I believe voter fraud is more common then is being reported. Not many people look into it. If no one is looking no one is reporting it. Also look at the black panthers in Philadelphia. Even this year they are outside polling places. isn't voter intimidation against the law as well?
Some people will buy things just because they say "iphone" on them. I am not so sure someone wants to make a call this: http://walyou.com/iphone-gas-stove/
I have a print out on the wall at work. It still make people laugh.
How do you explain Obama adding the the national debt in 4 years as much as W Bush did in 8 years?
Obama's spending is crazy high. He is spending over $1 Trillion in debt a year. W Bush was bad with his $200+ Billion debt spending a year. Obama is spending far more. This is from the CBO office unless they are making up the numbers this is really bad.
The US needs to get more people working in order to get more tax dollars in to pay off the debt. You cannot spend like this and expect jobs to happen. Obama's policies have the private sector running scared. Those policies are going to hurt small businesses really bad. Those businesses are not hiring. The government cannot employ all these people. The government uses tax dollars to pay it's employees. The cash runs out if all you have are government workers. Look at it like a container of ice cream. You are using a scoop that drops some of the ice cream back into the container. The container of ice cream is the amount of funds the government has. The scoop is payroll. The amount that goes back into the container is taxes. As you scoop the ice cream. The amount in the container is less and less. Then at some point the container is empty. You cannot scoop anymore.
How was cutting the 16:10 laptop screens out o f the picture a win for 16:9 screens? Try using a 16:10 laptop screen for a while. I have people look at my laptop and they like the bigger screen. They also have a 17 laptop but my screen feel bigger. People like the that screen. The screen companies dropped 16:10 screens for cost. That was not consumers making a decision. 16:9 screen meshed with the 16:9 TV screens. The screen manufacturers forced 16:9. Then what 19:9 ratios fit on a 13 and 15 screens? 1366x768 and 1440x900 fit both the aspect ratio and screen sizes.
Most regular people do not even look at the aspect ratio, they are looking for a 13 laptop or a 15 inch laptop. I know a number of people who bought a new laptop with a lower resolution then their old laptop and were wondering why things looked off. Companies cont on people not knowing. Could you imagine if very few people bought the new laptop since they wanted better screens? It would be great for standards. Forcing the companies to put out a product that the people want. Instead of putting out a product and saying here take it or leave it. More people have to want the bigger aspect ratio screens. Until that happens. we are stuck with the crappy screens.
Look at the number of Iranian people who are students here. I can count 14 in the small satellite grad school where I am. I find it odd that we have no relations with Iran yet their people can come here freely. If send people there they are often arrested on some charge. Could it be that some of these students are passing info to the government of Iran? Maybe, maybe not. All 14 are in the engineering department.
What netbook? I had* an 3 year old 9 inch dell mini that can stream just fine. I don't have it in front of me but if I remember right it has a 1.6 atom, 2GB of RAM, 32GB ssd (PCIE RAM type not hard drive type) and it is running win 7. I did upgrade the RAM to 2GB. I bought the RAM before it arrived and upgraded it as soon as I got it. It has run linux, OSX 10.5, that tablet looking linux, XP, and win 7. I did notice dell stopped selling this model quickly. The replacements had soldered on RAM so no upgrading that. Getting more then 1GB was a pain. It takes about 30 seconds to boot from totally off to the desktop. I never used sleep mode so can't answer that. We streamed quicktime moves a lot for testing at work with it. Ticked off many a apple fan since this toy laptop could do everything their little apple could. Remember we are talking 2009 here the I series CPUs just came out. Maybe I just got lucky. The other atom based pcs sucked running windows XP or 7. They also had 1 GB of RAM. I still say that 2 GB of RAM makes win 32bit very happy.
*I gave the mini to my mom. She wanted a small light laptop. She uses it all the time. I upgrade the hard drive to a 64 GB one. The original SSD started to fail. That machine is still going strong for her. She watches a friends child. That kid plays flash games and streams movies all the time.
Maybe microsoft does not sell computers per say but it has sold some hardware over the years. How many people have used a microsoft mouse or keyboard? I know a number of people who have their old ms keyboard that they refuse to give up. It is getting harder to get a new computer with PS2 ports. I still have a microsoft mouse on a KVM switch. I think I got that mouse in 1997 or 1998. The mouse still works. I hate that is is right handed only I do switch from right to left depending on what I am doing. I broke the bones in my hand years ago. It did not heal correctly. One hand is not good with detailed work.
As for today's tablets and computers. Microsoft has stayed away until now. Maybe microsoft finally realized that it needs to be involved more with the hardware venders. It is bad for the bottom line, but if microsoft actually had some kind of hardware test that all configurations had to pass in order to be sold it would be a good thing. It is not just powering on the machine. Do some things that 90%+ of people could do with the machine. Run the hardware through some tests and see how the hardware plays well together. I know the manufactures do some tests. I think they need to go further.
If I remember right she did change in the final episodes. A future version of Janeway anyway. The future version came back in time switched places with current Janeway and went to the borg. Future Janeway had something in her that when scanned messed up the borg. I do not remember all the details. BUt that was the most rule breaking I remember Janeway doing.
Every time she gets on my nerves I remember the episode where she evolved/devolved into that other creature an had a child with one of her crew member. I think I do this in other shows where I see her.
With everything on, it makes you feel like you're the best driver in the world.
That explains one of the many reasons why the worst drivers I see are in luxury cars. They drive like nothing can stop them. The car will protect them in case of anything bad, so drive away and not care. I know not everyone does that. The greater number of luxury car drivers I see do drive like morons. That does not take into account I seeing more luxury cars also blowing more red lights, skipping stop signs, making a left turn from a right turn only lane, making a right turn from a left turn only lane, basically ignoring the big arrows painted on the road and going in any direction they want, riding the shoulder in traffic, riding the shoulder at a light and cutting back into traffic when the light changes that is if they even stopped or the red light at all. I see this happens every single day. Often by the same people. My favorite is they blowing a 4 way stop sign and yelling at everyone else that they are in the intersection and we have to stop for them. Maybe it is a north east cost thing. It has been the same in New York City, in Rhode Island, on Long Island, in New Jersey, in Philadelphia, in West Chester PA (south eastern PA areas really), In Delaware, In the DC metro area, northern Virginia, and Maryland from DC to Ocean City.
You have 4 point seat belts and a roll cage like those in race cars on regular cars in the EU as standard? No, you don't. The roll over protectio that you speak of is not a roll cage.
Crazy Pete might not be the one to go to to install a real roll cage into the car. I have seen a few cars (yes cars not trucks or SUVs) with a real roll cage added in. They did a lot more then weld in a few poles inside the car. The whole passenger compartment was reenforced inside, on the sides of it, and underneath the car. They took apart the doors and added in parts for reinforcement. That is far above standard for those cars. Most of them were older cars being used for racing. They still passed inspection and could be driven on the road legally. The point is the added in roll cage is far better then what come standard on cars.
Many around the world know that education is key to ridding the world of terrorists of all shapes, colors, and religious beliefs. A major problem is in many cultures education is reserved for the few. The rest are not allowed to be educated. They want it that way so that the uneducated do not know any better. Those in power will go to any length to stop educating the rest of the people.
It we removed all of the people who would stop education for all, we would run into culture desire for revenge. There is no short term solution. Slowly educating small groups is an easy target for those in power to kill off and they say anyone else who goes to school will also be killed. They enforce their will over the people through fear. Having armed guards for schools does not work either. If those guards are foreign they are seen as crusaders taking over. If they are local people they are seen as traitors. Both are punishable by death according to the terrorists. If we kill all the terrorists the families of the terrorists feel the desire for revenge. That only creates more terrorists.
If you remove all the humanity from this, they really made quite a system over there. For any action or non action they can make a call to violence. And the uneducated go for it since they do not know any better.
Personally I want to take the Pope, high ranking Jewish Rabi, and high ranking Muslim Clerics and let them talk, debate over their respective religions. After that dust storm clears hopefully even the uneducated will realize that religion is not why they told to go kill. A few people's need for power is what is really behind most terrorists.
*crosses fingers, toes,eye, and any other cross-able body part* I hope that PC makers get with the program add offer laptops (and monitors) with high resolution displays. It is sad that my 3 year old laptop has a higher resolution then the newest one from the same company. The old laptop is 1920 X 1200. The same resolution as the IPS 24 inch monitor I have. Most "high res" laptop are 1920 X 1080. I called dell and hp to ask if they offered a new model laptop with 1920 X 1200 or higher resolution display. They did not when I called.
wish list for laptops: let us be able to upgrade the video card. There a few models that had a video card that you could change back in the day. Now all the video cards are soldered on. Put out laptop models with the retina display resolution or higher resolution.
I think the other poster meant that a generation to get adjusted to wearing helmets not adjusting the kids on bikes doing whatever. Look at cars and seat belts. It did take a generation to wear them all the time. People who grew up with cars that had no seat belts did not wear them. My grandparents did not wear them at all until they died (not in a car crash either). It took years for my parents to start wearing seat belts. Seat belts were not the law when they started driving. It became the law when I was a little kid. My generation has had seat belt laws. Previous ones did not. Those generations had adjustment problems.
You do not want to wear a helmet that is fine. Your choice. Personally I feel that helmets should be worn by all kids. Where a kid is 16 and under. After that helmets should be determined by speed and activity. Regular everyday bikes are not going 30+ MPH down the road. The speed bikes and people who are doing 20-50+ miles a day are the ones that should wear a helmet. Also the off road bikers should wear a helmet since they are more likely to wipe out and hit a tree, rock, or something. The people that are taking a slow ride down a bike path, they can skip the helmet. Those people are going slow 10 MPH or less usually.
The roads were made for cars and truck to ride on not bikes. How many cyclists do you see on an major interstate? How many roads have a 5-6 inch shoulder? Many by me where is the room that a cyclist can ride? It is not there. Share the road with a cyclist? Sharing goes both ways. I have seen too many cyclists make turns that cross traffic without using any kind of signal. They ride in the lane forcing cars to pile up behind them. I do mean the middle of the lane, not the side. They ignore traffic sign and lights. They ride up between cars stopped at a light then cross against the red light. This is the DC area. There are bike paths here. Where the bike paths cross roads there are stop signs on the bike path. The bike path has a stop sign while the road does not have a stop sign. Do the cyclists stop for the stop sign? Nope. They cruse right on through forcing the cars/truck to swerve to avoid them or slam on their breaks to avoid them. I see this about 15-20 times every week. It is not gotten better at all in the last five years. It has gotten worse.
You want cyclists to be respected, start by respecting the traffic laws that are there. Cyclists see them selves as above the traffic laws. Sharing the road is one thing. But when we share the road and cyclists do not follow the rules and still bitch about not getting what they want, sorry cyclists are not above the law.
You mean people will actually have to plan a trip? People will not be shown instantly out how to get from one place to another when ever they want? The horror!
People did figure hot to get from point A to point B before this turn by turn app. People can still do this. You may have to use some brain power but I am sure people can do this.
If this means people will be looking at the road instead of their phone or ipads while driving I call it a good thing.
Waiting 30 minutes to charge/partially charge your vehicle is a sacrifice that should be made easily.
Tell that to people's bosses if they happen to 'fill' their car on their lunch break.
I am all for the electric car thing. But sacrifices and reasonable distances ad recharge times are to be expected. If you can recharge the car at your home and go all day and recharge it when you get back home. Great. It works well. If the recharge take 4-5 hours overnight charging is fine. If you happen to be going on a trip, that 4-5 hour recharge is a deal breaker. 30 minutes to recharge might be an issue unless the recharge places have more recharging station then they do gas pumps now. If they put the same number of recharge stations as gas pumps their will be some serious lines to recharge. Refueling the car now is not big deal. Refueling the car when it can take 30 minutes is now a big deal.
For me the way I travel and commute this is not a total deal breaker just adds time to things. Take your 30 minute recharge. I usually gas up on the way home from work. If I do not travel I gas up once for 7-8 weeks. If the electric car goes the same distance per charge as the gas car does, spending 30 minutes recharging it once every other month is not a big deal. On trips it does add time to the trip. I gas up before I head out. Then I gas up again at 1/2 a tank. There can be traffic which can add hours to the travel time. I don't like running out of gas. Again say the electric car get the same range as the gas car. My recharge stop is 30 minutes. That needs to be taken into account for the trip. Plan accordingly. Not everyone does that. Adding an hour to the trip time (30 minutes before I go and 30 minutes on the way for recharging) before traffic can hurt.
Usually it is cold in the winter. Power will be used to keep you warm in the car. Do you usually dress with many layers when you are going to work? Most people do not dress like they are going to an outdoor football game in the winter to go to work. The car has heat. They use that heat to keep warm. The heater can eat up the power in an all electric car very fast. Same goes for AC in the summer. So an accident or snowstorm can eat up the power.
The whole battery recharge method should be rethought. How often do people with gas cars recharge the battery that is in their car now? I usually replace that battery once every 5-6 years. Something similar should be done with all electric cars. Put the power generation in the car. Then there is no need need to recharge the car. It uses the same 12 volt battery (or 2-4 of them) to get going. Then the power generator can move the car as well as recharges the battery/batteries like current cars do. That will really annoy gas stations and truck/car stops. People will be making a pit stop when the human needs a pit stop not the car they are driving.
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I thought Intel already made CPUs other then X86? I am not so sure Intel would care if one Intel processor was upstaged by another Intel processor.
So without drugs some people cannot program since they are not able to 'see' a way to solve the problem. One could ague that the people that needs drugs do that are in the wrong field. Also that they may have something wrong like a chemical imbalance.
I thought it was common that if you are hitting a wall to stop. Take a break. Get some fresh air. Even go *gasp* ask someone's help on the issue. A fresh set of eyes can do wonders.
With the new healthcare law, weed will be prescribed and given out freely to those with the prescription.
Many people voted for 'free stuff'. That stuff is free o them since they do not pay for it. Nothing is free. Someone pays for it. Those people paying for all the free stuff is getting smaller and smaller.
I usually group all the cables from one computer together. I use velcro so i can take it apart when needed. I have used wire ties. I even have some wire ties that I can open as well. Problem is with the wire ties is they get brittle over time. Even the ones with the release break. I also use KVMs. I have had 7 computers on the same KVM switch at home. This was a PS2 KVM not a USB one. I had to have a separate keyboard and mouse cables. Grouping the cables (mouse, keyboard, and monitor) together helped a lot. I did find KVM cables that were already one piece but I needed to use a gender changer on the monitor cable. The KVM switch had a male monitor connection instead of female. The monitor cable was an monitor extension cable rather then a just a monitor cable. As for the mouse and keyboard cables which were the same cable with PS2. I just labeled the ends. Put a 'K' on the keyboard one and a 'M' on the mouse one. If something happened to the cables I would take out that one set. Fix or replace the one cable. Put the group back together and snake it back to where it goes.
Apple will never sell the OS separately. First Apple is a hardware company. Second by controlling the hardware, Apple has a know set of devices and device drivers that will work. Imagine the support nightmares for Apple if the average Joe bought OSX and installed it on a home built computer? Can Apple test every possible hardware combination? I don't think so. Will there be combinations that will fail, yes. Will those people bitch, also yes. That is what Apple can not afford. Apple will not sell the OS to be installed on any hardware. Only Apple hardware. That way they can control the user experience.
Think about it. What is the number one thing that happens when you send in your Apple device (laptop, imac, ipod, iphone, iwhatever)? They wipe it. You could also get a refurbished model back. Again that is a fresh OS install. Why they wipe the machine for replacing bad memory is beyond me. That is their "standard procedure".
There is the dead voting thing. I know of two examples. We received a voter ID card for two of my grandparents. Both registered Democrat. One died 19 years ago and the other died 20 years ago. Only this year we received their new voter ID cards. Odd since I know both were not registered Democrats. When we called it in saying that these people have been dead for a while now, we were initially told to let it be. Why were we trying to take away their right to vote. Even after stating that these people were dead for 20 years and offering to mail or fax in their death certificates we were told to leave it alone. A few other calls and getting managers we got it straightened out. Also both people died in different states. They never lived in the state where we received the voter ID cards for them. How many other people would just leave it alone?
I believe voter fraud is more common then is being reported. Not many people look into it. If no one is looking no one is reporting it. Also look at the black panthers in Philadelphia. Even this year they are outside polling places. isn't voter intimidation against the law as well?
Some people will buy things just because they say "iphone" on them. I am not so sure someone wants to make a call this: http://walyou.com/iphone-gas-stove/
I have a print out on the wall at work. It still make people laugh.
How do you explain Obama adding the the national debt in 4 years as much as W Bush did in 8 years?
Obama's spending is crazy high. He is spending over $1 Trillion in debt a year. W Bush was bad with his $200+ Billion debt spending a year. Obama is spending far more. This is from the CBO office unless they are making up the numbers this is really bad.
The US needs to get more people working in order to get more tax dollars in to pay off the debt. You cannot spend like this and expect jobs to happen. Obama's policies have the private sector running scared. Those policies are going to hurt small businesses really bad. Those businesses are not hiring. The government cannot employ all these people. The government uses tax dollars to pay it's employees. The cash runs out if all you have are government workers. Look at it like a container of ice cream. You are using a scoop that drops some of the ice cream back into the container. The container of ice cream is the amount of funds the government has. The scoop is payroll. The amount that goes back into the container is taxes. As you scoop the ice cream. The amount in the container is less and less. Then at some point the container is empty. You cannot scoop anymore.
How was cutting the 16:10 laptop screens out o f the picture a win for 16:9 screens? Try using a 16:10 laptop screen for a while. I have people look at my laptop and they like the bigger screen. They also have a 17 laptop but my screen feel bigger. People like the that screen. The screen companies dropped 16:10 screens for cost. That was not consumers making a decision. 16:9 screen meshed with the 16:9 TV screens. The screen manufacturers forced 16:9. Then what 19:9 ratios fit on a 13 and 15 screens? 1366x768 and 1440x900 fit both the aspect ratio and screen sizes.
Most regular people do not even look at the aspect ratio, they are looking for a 13 laptop or a 15 inch laptop. I know a number of people who bought a new laptop with a lower resolution then their old laptop and were wondering why things looked off. Companies cont on people not knowing. Could you imagine if very few people bought the new laptop since they wanted better screens? It would be great for standards. Forcing the companies to put out a product that the people want. Instead of putting out a product and saying here take it or leave it. More people have to want the bigger aspect ratio screens. Until that happens. we are stuck with the crappy screens.
Look at the number of Iranian people who are students here. I can count 14 in the small satellite grad school where I am. I find it odd that we have no relations with Iran yet their people can come here freely. If send people there they are often arrested on some charge. Could it be that some of these students are passing info to the government of Iran? Maybe, maybe not. All 14 are in the engineering department.
Well if they continue to make better and bigger drones, we will need more drone operators. Gamers of today could be 'soldiers' of tomorrow.
I still want to see the reaction of the new operator when they realize that there is no head hot bonus and they do not re-spawn when killed.
What netbook? I had* an 3 year old 9 inch dell mini that can stream just fine. I don't have it in front of me but if I remember right it has a 1.6 atom, 2GB of RAM, 32GB ssd (PCIE RAM type not hard drive type) and it is running win 7. I did upgrade the RAM to 2GB. I bought the RAM before it arrived and upgraded it as soon as I got it. It has run linux, OSX 10.5, that tablet looking linux, XP, and win 7. I did notice dell stopped selling this model quickly. The replacements had soldered on RAM so no upgrading that. Getting more then 1GB was a pain. It takes about 30 seconds to boot from totally off to the desktop. I never used sleep mode so can't answer that. We streamed quicktime moves a lot for testing at work with it. Ticked off many a apple fan since this toy laptop could do everything their little apple could. Remember we are talking 2009 here the I series CPUs just came out. Maybe I just got lucky. The other atom based pcs sucked running windows XP or 7. They also had 1 GB of RAM. I still say that 2 GB of RAM makes win 32bit very happy.
*I gave the mini to my mom. She wanted a small light laptop. She uses it all the time. I upgrade the hard drive to a 64 GB one. The original SSD started to fail. That machine is still going strong for her. She watches a friends child. That kid plays flash games and streams movies all the time.
Maybe microsoft does not sell computers per say but it has sold some hardware over the years. How many people have used a microsoft mouse or keyboard? I know a number of people who have their old ms keyboard that they refuse to give up. It is getting harder to get a new computer with PS2 ports. I still have a microsoft mouse on a KVM switch. I think I got that mouse in 1997 or 1998. The mouse still works. I hate that is is right handed only I do switch from right to left depending on what I am doing. I broke the bones in my hand years ago. It did not heal correctly. One hand is not good with detailed work.
As for today's tablets and computers. Microsoft has stayed away until now. Maybe microsoft finally realized that it needs to be involved more with the hardware venders. It is bad for the bottom line, but if microsoft actually had some kind of hardware test that all configurations had to pass in order to be sold it would be a good thing. It is not just powering on the machine. Do some things that 90%+ of people could do with the machine. Run the hardware through some tests and see how the hardware plays well together. I know the manufactures do some tests. I think they need to go further.
If I remember right she did change in the final episodes. A future version of Janeway anyway. The future version came back in time switched places with current Janeway and went to the borg. Future Janeway had something in her that when scanned messed up the borg. I do not remember all the details. BUt that was the most rule breaking I remember Janeway doing.
Every time she gets on my nerves I remember the episode where she evolved/devolved into that other creature an had a child with one of her crew member. I think I do this in other shows where I see her.
With everything on, it makes you feel like you're the best driver in the world.
That explains one of the many reasons why the worst drivers I see are in luxury cars. They drive like nothing can stop them. The car will protect them in case of anything bad, so drive away and not care. I know not everyone does that. The greater number of luxury car drivers I see do drive like morons. That does not take into account I seeing more luxury cars also blowing more red lights, skipping stop signs, making a left turn from a right turn only lane, making a right turn from a left turn only lane, basically ignoring the big arrows painted on the road and going in any direction they want, riding the shoulder in traffic, riding the shoulder at a light and cutting back into traffic when the light changes that is if they even stopped or the red light at all. I see this happens every single day. Often by the same people. My favorite is they blowing a 4 way stop sign and yelling at everyone else that they are in the intersection and we have to stop for them. Maybe it is a north east cost thing. It has been the same in New York City, in Rhode Island, on Long Island, in New Jersey, in Philadelphia, in West Chester PA (south eastern PA areas really), In Delaware, In the DC metro area, northern Virginia, and Maryland from DC to Ocean City.
You have 4 point seat belts and a roll cage like those in race cars on regular cars in the EU as standard? No, you don't. The roll over protectio that you speak of is not a roll cage.
Crazy Pete might not be the one to go to to install a real roll cage into the car. I have seen a few cars (yes cars not trucks or SUVs) with a real roll cage added in. They did a lot more then weld in a few poles inside the car. The whole passenger compartment was reenforced inside, on the sides of it, and underneath the car. They took apart the doors and added in parts for reinforcement. That is far above standard for those cars. Most of them were older cars being used for racing. They still passed inspection and could be driven on the road legally. The point is the added in roll cage is far better then what come standard on cars.
Many around the world know that education is key to ridding the world of terrorists of all shapes, colors, and religious beliefs. A major problem is in many cultures education is reserved for the few. The rest are not allowed to be educated. They want it that way so that the uneducated do not know any better. Those in power will go to any length to stop educating the rest of the people.
It we removed all of the people who would stop education for all, we would run into culture desire for revenge. There is no short term solution. Slowly educating small groups is an easy target for those in power to kill off and they say anyone else who goes to school will also be killed. They enforce their will over the people through fear. Having armed guards for schools does not work either. If those guards are foreign they are seen as crusaders taking over. If they are local people they are seen as traitors. Both are punishable by death according to the terrorists. If we kill all the terrorists the families of the terrorists feel the desire for revenge. That only creates more terrorists.
If you remove all the humanity from this, they really made quite a system over there. For any action or non action they can make a call to violence. And the uneducated go for it since they do not know any better.
Personally I want to take the Pope, high ranking Jewish Rabi, and high ranking Muslim Clerics and let them talk, debate over their respective religions. After that dust storm clears hopefully even the uneducated will realize that religion is not why they told to go kill. A few people's need for power is what is really behind most terrorists.
*crosses fingers, toes ,eye, and any other cross-able body part* I hope that PC makers get with the program add offer laptops (and monitors) with high resolution displays. It is sad that my 3 year old laptop has a higher resolution then the newest one from the same company. The old laptop is 1920 X 1200. The same resolution as the IPS 24 inch monitor I have. Most "high res" laptop are 1920 X 1080. I called dell and hp to ask if they offered a new model laptop with 1920 X 1200 or higher resolution display. They did not when I called.
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let us be able to upgrade the video card. There a few models that had a video card that you could change back in the day. Now all the video cards are soldered on.
Put out laptop models with the retina display resolution or higher resolution.
Ignorance is rampant.
Your just getting that message now? Where have you been hiding? It appears to be a very good place to be.
I think the other poster meant that a generation to get adjusted to wearing helmets not adjusting the kids on bikes doing whatever. Look at cars and seat belts. It did take a generation to wear them all the time. People who grew up with cars that had no seat belts did not wear them. My grandparents did not wear them at all until they died (not in a car crash either). It took years for my parents to start wearing seat belts. Seat belts were not the law when they started driving. It became the law when I was a little kid. My generation has had seat belt laws. Previous ones did not. Those generations had adjustment problems.
You do not want to wear a helmet that is fine. Your choice. Personally I feel that helmets should be worn by all kids. Where a kid is 16 and under. After that helmets should be determined by speed and activity. Regular everyday bikes are not going 30+ MPH down the road. The speed bikes and people who are doing 20-50+ miles a day are the ones that should wear a helmet. Also the off road bikers should wear a helmet since they are more likely to wipe out and hit a tree, rock, or something. The people that are taking a slow ride down a bike path, they can skip the helmet. Those people are going slow 10 MPH or less usually.
The roads were made for cars and truck to ride on not bikes. How many cyclists do you see on an major interstate? How many roads have a 5-6 inch shoulder? Many by me where is the room that a cyclist can ride? It is not there. Share the road with a cyclist? Sharing goes both ways. I have seen too many cyclists make turns that cross traffic without using any kind of signal. They ride in the lane forcing cars to pile up behind them. I do mean the middle of the lane, not the side. They ignore traffic sign and lights. They ride up between cars stopped at a light then cross against the red light. This is the DC area. There are bike paths here. Where the bike paths cross roads there are stop signs on the bike path. The bike path has a stop sign while the road does not have a stop sign. Do the cyclists stop for the stop sign? Nope. They cruse right on through forcing the cars/truck to swerve to avoid them or slam on their breaks to avoid them. I see this about 15-20 times every week. It is not gotten better at all in the last five years. It has gotten worse.
You want cyclists to be respected, start by respecting the traffic laws that are there. Cyclists see them selves as above the traffic laws. Sharing the road is one thing. But when we share the road and cyclists do not follow the rules and still bitch about not getting what they want, sorry cyclists are not above the law.
You mean people will actually have to plan a trip? People will not be shown instantly out how to get from one place to another when ever they want? The horror!
People did figure hot to get from point A to point B before this turn by turn app. People can still do this. You may have to use some brain power but I am sure people can do this.
If this means people will be looking at the road instead of their phone or ipads while driving I call it a good thing.
Waiting 30 minutes to charge/partially charge your vehicle is a sacrifice that should be made easily.
Tell that to people's bosses if they happen to 'fill' their car on their lunch break.
I am all for the electric car thing. But sacrifices and reasonable distances ad recharge times are to be expected. If you can recharge the car at your home and go all day and recharge it when you get back home. Great. It works well. If the recharge take 4-5 hours overnight charging is fine. If you happen to be going on a trip, that 4-5 hour recharge is a deal breaker. 30 minutes to recharge might be an issue unless the recharge places have more recharging station then they do gas pumps now. If they put the same number of recharge stations as gas pumps their will be some serious lines to recharge. Refueling the car now is not big deal. Refueling the car when it can take 30 minutes is now a big deal.
For me the way I travel and commute this is not a total deal breaker just adds time to things. Take your 30 minute recharge. I usually gas up on the way home from work. If I do not travel I gas up once for 7-8 weeks. If the electric car goes the same distance per charge as the gas car does, spending 30 minutes recharging it once every other month is not a big deal. On trips it does add time to the trip. I gas up before I head out. Then I gas up again at 1/2 a tank. There can be traffic which can add hours to the travel time. I don't like running out of gas. Again say the electric car get the same range as the gas car. My recharge stop is 30 minutes. That needs to be taken into account for the trip. Plan accordingly. Not everyone does that. Adding an hour to the trip time (30 minutes before I go and 30 minutes on the way for recharging) before traffic can hurt.
Usually it is cold in the winter. Power will be used to keep you warm in the car. Do you usually dress with many layers when you are going to work? Most people do not dress like they are going to an outdoor football game in the winter to go to work. The car has heat. They use that heat to keep warm. The heater can eat up the power in an all electric car very fast. Same goes for AC in the summer. So an accident or snowstorm can eat up the power.
The whole battery recharge method should be rethought. How often do people with gas cars recharge the battery that is in their car now? I usually replace that battery once every 5-6 years. Something similar should be done with all electric cars. Put the power generation in the car. Then there is no need need to recharge the car. It uses the same 12 volt battery (or 2-4 of them) to get going. Then the power generator can move the car as well as recharges the battery/batteries like current cars do. That will really annoy gas stations and truck/car stops. People will be making a pit stop when the human needs a pit stop not the car they are driving.