Police drivers are trained to a much higher quality of driving than most road users. Not that that's much of an excuse to break the law unless they have specifically been excluded from it.
FWIW, Michael Schumacher used to chat with his pit crew while making really fast F1 laps.
But that's in a very controlled situation - he didn't have to worry about pedestrians, or cars coming in the opposite direction for example and only had to focus on braking points and racing lines. Driving fast round a track involves very different skills from driving safely on public roads!
Besides - if you stop concentrating on a track, you're generally more likely to hurt yourself than others (and if you do crash into someone they'll have a nice racing spec roll cage or crumple zones to protect them), but if you stop concentrating on a public road and have an accident, there's a real chance of crippling someone or worse.
I've personally noticed that for non-trivial calls that last more than maybe a minute, I'll have gone miles without knowing exactly how (basically, driven on autopilot).
That used to happen to me even if when just thinking about stuff while driving. It's only happened once to me in the last year that I recall though - thankfully these days I mostly think about driving while I'm driving!
I highly recommend advanced driving courses to get the higher functions of the brain more involved even in day to day driving. They teach you keep an internal (or external while you're learning or if you especially are aware of a need to focus) monologue of everything you're doing and to pay more attention to road signs and look out for potential hazards etc.
Hmm fair enough, the article is slashdotted but I found another, and it seems they have passed this law on purpose, so I was wrong to assume based on the wording of the summary.
[the old law required] that blasphemy be a criminal offence. However, no one ever bothered to formulate what the exact offence might be, and we muddled on for quite a long time without anyone worrying about this (perhaps, as a friend pointed out to me, because all blasphemous material was grabbed by the all-powerful censors long before it could ever get to court). In 1999, there was an attempt to prosecute a newspaper for a cartoon mocking the church, but the judge in that case noted that he could not prosecute, because there was no definition of what legally constituted blasphemy. Well now there is. And it concerns itself with what might or might not cause "outrage among a substantial number of the adherents of [a] religion" (note, not just Christianity, as was the case with English blasphemy law: this is, at least, equal opportunities idiocy).
Still, I don't think people are going to stand for this law, and I still believe that it will be sorted out soon enough. Sounds like they are having another meeting in October in which they can sort the situation.
Good job on comprehending the summary there. The people who see "fear" here (rather than simply having a giggle) are the true idiots.
Ireland are trying to make their laws less restrictive of free speech, but it has had an unintended side effect, and therefore they will probably sort that matter out too soon enough. Sensationalist morons like yourself should stay on YouTube.
Hmm, let's see, major motion picture that has elements relevant to the topic or tv show that's only on the bbc, which one do I use to make an analogy...
I dunno - if you're boring and don't care how inappropriate your references are, I suppose you'd go with the slightly disappointing major motion picture. If you like to throw a curveball every now and then to keep things interesting, you could mention Father Ted. This change to the law could be used to great comedic effect.
In repealing the 1961 Defamation Act, the Irish government sought to expunge the worst excesses of Ireland's draconian laws restricting free speech, but in the process it has ended up making offending religious belief a criminal offence.
If anything it sounds like the Irish Government are trying to pull their nation further away from a V for Vendetta like situation. But in the process they have made one element of the law more restrictive (and they will no doubt sort it out shortly). This bungle is the sort of oddity that people will look back on and laugh - and should be laughing at already, rather than bemoaning how draconian it all is.
I just get frustrated that people mention V for Vendetta every time a story remotely involving the UK comes along. People could at least provide a bit of variety by mentioning 1984 every now and then if they're always going to compare real life to over the top fiction.
Well surely if plugging in the extra drives after installation can affect your primary drive letter assignment, specifically changing the drive letters on those extra drives will leave C free for your primary drive to reclaim after a reboot?
It's already easy to snag gigabytes of stuff on a torrent site, I doubt making games smaller is going to make people any more inclined to pirate them unless they were truly gargantuan to begin with.. besides, having all your games generate the levels, characters, animations, sounds, AI etc procedurally would create some rather annoying loading times - not worth it unless you then save the uncompressed game so you don't have to go through the same procedure every time you run the game.
I started making a Lunar Lander style vehicle in LittleBigPlanet. Had forgotten all about it until I saw this article! I was still experimenting with designs of vehicles and hadn't actually gotten round to creating different levels for it..
I maybe fall into the 'power user' band as I sometimes use dual displays, but I certainly have had sound problems with both my MBP and my Dell mini 9 when running Ubuntu. Recently some update screwed up pulseaudio on my Mini 9 (sound kept stuttering every 30 seconds or so) so I've just removed it for now. General sound playback is working fine again, but for some reason the login sound now stutters instead. I'm willing to live with that since it's only once a day, but the sound situation on Linux is still a bit of a mess. Dell Mini 9s are definitely not intended for 'power users'..
The Mac also had regular and annoying sound crackling/whining issues in the left speaker - apparently very common in MBPs - but since it's a fairly specialised case I know it's a bit much to expect devs to concentrate on solving Mac issues, especially when I could have just stuck with OSX.
The only other annoyance I have in Linux these days is that evolution occasionally crashes for no reason (usually when I go to use the search option, but sometimes it just seems to be random).
Nah, Australians emphasise their vowels so you'd notice the difference. I think with Irish accents it would be harder to distinguish.
I don't know who Kath and Kim are, but we had an Australian guy working here for a couple of years, and there's plenty of Australian stuff been on TV in the UK over the last couple of decades.
The grandparent of my post could be, but the parent mentioned PATA/SATA which is a fairly unlikely setup for a single disk!
I personally prefer separate disks too, especially because you can keep your swap on a separate drive to the main OS for improved performance. Though having swap isn't so necessary these days of course, so that's less relevant. At the moment I just have everything on one SSD and make periodic backups of my data to external drives/computers.
In my experience, a change to the motherboard results in a Windows that just won't boot
In my experience, I switched a HDD with Windows 98 from one machine to another (they were admittedly both Dells, but separate models and manufactured several years apart) and it booted fine with the built in Windows generic mothermoard drivers, which I then updated to the manufacturer specific ones. You maybe had set up the HDD jumpers or BIOS incorrectly?
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Police drivers are trained to a much higher quality of driving than most road users. Not that that's much of an excuse to break the law unless they have specifically been excluded from it.
FWIW, Michael Schumacher used to chat with his pit crew while making really fast F1 laps.
But that's in a very controlled situation - he didn't have to worry about pedestrians, or cars coming in the opposite direction for example and only had to focus on braking points and racing lines. Driving fast round a track involves very different skills from driving safely on public roads!
Besides - if you stop concentrating on a track, you're generally more likely to hurt yourself than others (and if you do crash into someone they'll have a nice racing spec roll cage or crumple zones to protect them), but if you stop concentrating on a public road and have an accident, there's a real chance of crippling someone or worse.
I've personally noticed that for non-trivial calls that last more than maybe a minute, I'll have gone miles without knowing exactly how (basically, driven on autopilot).
That used to happen to me even if when just thinking about stuff while driving. It's only happened once to me in the last year that I recall though - thankfully these days I mostly think about driving while I'm driving!
I highly recommend advanced driving courses to get the higher functions of the brain more involved even in day to day driving. They teach you keep an internal (or external while you're learning or if you especially are aware of a need to focus) monologue of everything you're doing and to pay more attention to road signs and look out for potential hazards etc.
Are we really calling MP3 players MP3s now? And any USB device is a USB? Hang on a moment, I have to take this phone call on my text.
I'd say it would be easy to snag up to 7 gigabytes of stuff in that situation.
Technically that's "Northern Ireland" rather than Ireland though, most norn Irish people I know seem to like to make the distinction..
Hmm fair enough, the article is slashdotted but I found another, and it seems they have passed this law on purpose, so I was wrong to assume based on the wording of the summary.
[the old law required] that blasphemy be a criminal offence. However, no one ever bothered to formulate what the exact offence might be, and we muddled on for quite a long time without anyone worrying about this (perhaps, as a friend pointed out to me, because all blasphemous material was grabbed by the all-powerful censors long before it could ever get to court). In 1999, there was an attempt to prosecute a newspaper for a cartoon mocking the church, but the judge in that case noted that he could not prosecute, because there was no definition of what legally constituted blasphemy. Well now there is. And it concerns itself with what might or might not cause "outrage among a substantial number of the adherents of [a] religion" (note, not just Christianity, as was the case with English blasphemy law: this is, at least, equal opportunities idiocy).
Still, I don't think people are going to stand for this law, and I still believe that it will be sorted out soon enough. Sounds like they are having another meeting in October in which they can sort the situation.
Good job on comprehending the summary there. The people who see "fear" here (rather than simply having a giggle) are the true idiots.
Ireland are trying to make their laws less restrictive of free speech, but it has had an unintended side effect, and therefore they will probably sort that matter out too soon enough. Sensationalist morons like yourself should stay on YouTube.
Hmm, let's see, major motion picture that has elements relevant to the topic or tv show that's only on the bbc, which one do I use to make an analogy...
I dunno - if you're boring and don't care how inappropriate your references are, I suppose you'd go with the slightly disappointing major motion picture. If you like to throw a curveball every now and then to keep things interesting, you could mention Father Ted. This change to the law could be used to great comedic effect.
In repealing the 1961 Defamation Act, the Irish government sought to expunge the worst excesses of Ireland's draconian laws restricting free speech, but in the process it has ended up making offending religious belief a criminal offence.
If anything it sounds like the Irish Government are trying to pull their nation further away from a V for Vendetta like situation. But in the process they have made one element of the law more restrictive (and they will no doubt sort it out shortly). This bungle is the sort of oddity that people will look back on and laugh - and should be laughing at already, rather than bemoaning how draconian it all is.
I just get frustrated that people mention V for Vendetta every time a story remotely involving the UK comes along. People could at least provide a bit of variety by mentioning 1984 every now and then if they're always going to compare real life to over the top fiction.
Well surely if plugging in the extra drives after installation can affect your primary drive letter assignment, specifically changing the drive letters on those extra drives will leave C free for your primary drive to reclaim after a reboot?
More like Father Ted. You know that Ireland isn't part of the UK, right?
It's already easy to snag gigabytes of stuff on a torrent site, I doubt making games smaller is going to make people any more inclined to pirate them unless they were truly gargantuan to begin with.. besides, having all your games generate the levels, characters, animations, sounds, AI etc procedurally would create some rather annoying loading times - not worth it unless you then save the uncompressed game so you don't have to go through the same procedure every time you run the game.
I started making a Lunar Lander style vehicle in LittleBigPlanet. Had forgotten all about it until I saw this article! I was still experimenting with designs of vehicles and hadn't actually gotten round to creating different levels for it..
As far as I know this is the 1st time a Mammal has been cloned simply to reproduce a disierable set of genetic traits
It has been done before. Admittedly it was a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away.
In other words, if you want to understand what's going on you need to start understanding the model and throw away the dumb analogy.
So what you're saying is, it would be easier to get to the other side of the river if you just threw the life preserver away? ;)
There's no substitute for sitting at someone's bedside, taking their hand, feeling their pulse, and looking at their face for signs of distress.
It's true, but I've now learned that it's wrong to break into strangers houses.
You can reassign drive letters in the Windows Disk Manager by the way.
I maybe fall into the 'power user' band as I sometimes use dual displays, but I certainly have had sound problems with both my MBP and my Dell mini 9 when running Ubuntu. Recently some update screwed up pulseaudio on my Mini 9 (sound kept stuttering every 30 seconds or so) so I've just removed it for now. General sound playback is working fine again, but for some reason the login sound now stutters instead. I'm willing to live with that since it's only once a day, but the sound situation on Linux is still a bit of a mess. Dell Mini 9s are definitely not intended for 'power users'..
The Mac also had regular and annoying sound crackling/whining issues in the left speaker - apparently very common in MBPs - but since it's a fairly specialised case I know it's a bit much to expect devs to concentrate on solving Mac issues, especially when I could have just stuck with OSX.
The only other annoyance I have in Linux these days is that evolution occasionally crashes for no reason (usually when I go to use the search option, but sometimes it just seems to be random).
Nah, Australians emphasise their vowels so you'd notice the difference. I think with Irish accents it would be harder to distinguish.
I don't know who Kath and Kim are, but we had an Australian guy working here for a couple of years, and there's plenty of Australian stuff been on TV in the UK over the last couple of decades.
I was thinking that after her failed attempt to get into serious power she committed carbicyde and rolled into the ocean.
useful info if you do need to do that on NT for some reason
Personally I am probably going to install all new versions of Windows into VMs where practical.
The grandparent of my post could be, but the parent mentioned PATA/SATA which is a fairly unlikely setup for a single disk!
I personally prefer separate disks too, especially because you can keep your swap on a separate drive to the main OS for improved performance. Though having swap isn't so necessary these days of course, so that's less relevant. At the moment I just have everything on one SSD and make periodic backups of my data to external drives/computers.
In my experience, a change to the motherboard results in a Windows that just won't boot
In my experience, I switched a HDD with Windows 98 from one machine to another (they were admittedly both Dells, but separate models and manufactured several years apart) and it booted fine with the built in Windows generic mothermoard drivers, which I then updated to the manufacturer specific ones. You maybe had set up the HDD jumpers or BIOS incorrectly?
obvious* (obviously..)