Most ppl I know that drive a stick keep the shifting hand on the stick most of the time. Driving one-handed is not an issue, keeping the other hand up to your head is. Especially since you can't turn your head properly when you have a hand attached to it.
Actually, I've found that an intelligent person has no problem with the [game|drive|etc], but has a hard time concentrating on the conversation. My girlfriend hates it when I'm talking to her when I'm driving, because I'll randomly dissapear, then give her a "huh?" and have missed about five minutes of the conversation. A friend of mine is the same way. If I hear road noise, I'll call him back a lot of times because I know he's not paying attention to me. That's fine by me, but a lot of people don't like it.
An idiot, on the other hand, will have a perfect conversation and [get fragged|crash|etc].
I'll never forget this. I'm driving up I-5 one evening, and I see a guy with a bumper sticker that says "Would you drive any better if your cellphone was stuck up your [picture of a phone with a slash through it]?"
I pull up next to him and glance over, and he's got his FARKING FLIPPHONE UP TO HIS EAR! Dude is swerving around and his speed is varying by about 10mph in freeway traffic.
I've been driving with cellphones since the Nokia 918 was new. When talking on a handset, it's almost impossible to keep my attention on the sides of the vehicle because you can't turn your head properly. I don't do that anymore, if I don't have my headset, I don't answer the phone.
I never dial numbers that aren't in my phonebook. My girlfriend's number is down-down-down-talk_button, for example. The only near-misses I've had when driving were dialing 10-digit numbers while operating a vehicle. Therefore, I stopped doing it.
Talking on my headset is something I've never had a problem with. Plugging the damn thing in, on the other hand, can be an issue. So, if I forget to do so, I'll stop to answer/make a call, and plug my headset in before I resume.
I think you'll notice that the common theme here is that I did things that I found to be distracting. Then, I STOPPED DOING THOSE THINGS. I would guess that a good 70% or more of the people out there are incapable of making that distinction. I also don't eat in the car unless it's a food bar or some other self-contained item, and I never read anything but a Google Map printout, and even those get memorized usually.
I think it should be a license-pulling offense to put on makeup while driving. I see other things too, but that is the biggest. I don't know how many times I've seen near-misses and found some girl putting on FREAKING EYELINER! Besides the distraction, what happens when they hit a pothole?
You may not lose in the court of law, but you do lose in the court of public opinion. That is the more important venue when dealing with Linux and OSS.
The sad thing is I've actually overheard conversations recently in public places where people who aren't familiar with Linux are discussing this. The sad thing is, these deals are having a very large impact on Linux. People who have never heard of Linux before are reading this stuff in papers. First impressions are almost impossible to overcome.
And then released two distributions with different window managers?
Personally I prefer Gnome, but there is some elegance to picking a (sub?)distribution based on it's window manager. If Random New Linux User sees Ubuntu and Kubuntu and decides they like the latter, there is no need for them to have to choose which desktop to install when they put the CD in.
If this was about cooperation, you would be right on. The problem is, Microsoft is never about cooperation. Remember Spyglass:
Licensing our browser was a huge win for Spyglass. And it was a huge loss. We got a loud wake-up call when we tried to schedule our second conference for our OEM browser customers. Our customers told us they weren't coming because Microsoft was beating them up. The message became clear: We sold our browser technology to 120 companies, but one of them slaughtered the other 119.
I think that was the beginning of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, but not the beginning of the desire for it.
What concerns me is that in spite of all the rallying on Slashdot, there seems to be no negative impact on the vendors that sign these deals. openSuSE is still third on distrowatch's rankings. This may not be an concrete indicator for installed base, but it does show that people are still reading about it and linking to their website.
We need to completely drop any Linux vendor that signs a deal with Microsoft. Change distributions to a "clean" one, remove any currently installed software, and contact the vendor for refunds on any boxed software purchased through them. I don't expect anyone to get refunds, but the calls will serve as a reminder.
Yes, measurements in space are rarely on the SAE system. Especially after that incident in space because both measurements were used and mixed (don't remember which now), but even historically, measurements outside Earth's atmosphere have been Metric.
As much as I hate DRM, current copyright law, and the MP/RIAA, this is not a valid argument. If had asked any current artist what they wanted out of life when they were still trying to make it, their response would be "I wanna make it big", and if you kept asking questions, they would tell you about lifestyle. Lifestyle is the sum of money plus time.
The issue is that album sales don't contribute much to the artist's success. What an artist makes money on is concerts, appearances and endorsements. Yet it's the album that the RIAA defends.
MPAA on the other hand DOES make money from video sales. I'm more likely to purchase a video than an album, though I'm far less likely to do so than before. I'm a renter now:)
I don't get my music or video from P2P. I did for a while, then I realized that I was still getting ripped off. The majority of music and movies these days aren't worth downloading. What little content I do like, I will purchase after renting it. In the case of music, I'm usually sick of it after a month of being overplayed on the radio anyway.
I was a big Napster user back in the day. I downloaded gigabytes of music then, and I bought dozens of albums afterward and re-ripped them to get higher quality tracks. Well, except Metallica. . . after the big lawsuit, there were LOTS of 196k+ files available to download. Funny how that worked.
Movies, I will buy occasionally. Generally, they are good once or twice, so I just rent them. I have the MVP service from Hollywood video, so I pay a flat rate for my rentals. Most of the crap that the MPAA is churning out isn't worth going to anyway. There are a few movies playing now that I will probably go to, and one or two that I might actually buy. That's the first time that's happened in years though.
I don't know if I just didn't read enough fine articles or what, but I'm still not sure what this hush-money is actually FOR. I know what kind of net affect it's having on opinion (though openSUSE is still doing pretty well on distrowatch's HPD ranking), but I don't know why the money is changing hands. One/. post indicated that the newest release of SUSE didn't have some of the features that we all figured were now covered by protection money.
This new activity makes me very nervous. Like a known enemy suddenly having lots of trucks moving around from factory to factory. . . I wanna know what's really going on.
That's like Microsoft making billions from destroying countless innovative corporations and personal developers' projects, then having Mrs. Gates give away money and getting people to call Bill a philanthropist.
Yaknow, one thing that bugs me about GAIM/Pidgin though. . . when they moved to GTK2, they took out the checkboxes for key-combinations. I always set my messengers to send on ctrl+enter. I used to have a checkbox, now I have to edit a configuration file. This is not progress people.
Okay, I'm throwing my Geek Card on the table. The energy created is plasma, caused by the matter/antimatter (deuterium and antideuterium, precisely) reacting in the Dilithium crystal. The matter/antimatter colliding by themselves doesn't make plasma, it makes a fiery shockwave. This is how Photon torpedoes work.
Dilithium is kind of a catalyst in the process. I'm sure there's a much better scientific term, but I'm tired:) Without Dilithium in the reactor, you have a whole different reaction. It's called a Core Breach (breech?), and it's generally considered a Bad Thing (tm)
Microsoft said the Linux operating system and other freely distributed programs violate 235 of its patents and it wants makers of such software to pay royalties.
The Redmond software company would rather license its technology than litigate, Microsoft said Monday in an e-mailed statement.
Microsoft had earlier said, without detailing claims, that Linux and so-called open-source software violate its patents.
Last year it struck a deal with Novell, the second-largest seller of Linux, in which both agreed not to sue each other's customers. Two weeks later, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said Linux "uses our patented intellectual property."
Some of the patents relate to the Linux graphical design, e-mail, operating-system core and Open Office word-processing and spreadsheet programs that compete with Microsoft Office.
The agreement with Novell eased a longstanding rivalry. At the same time, it came under fire from open-source advocates such as the Free Software Foundation, which develops the General Public License, a popular open-source license used for the core of the Linux operating system.
The group's proposed version 3 of the license terms would prevent future deals of the kind struck between Microsoft and Novell, which also involved the companies agreeing to make their software interoperable.
Microsoft criticized the new version in its statement Monday, saying it "attempts to tear down the bridge between proprietary and open-source software that Microsoft has worked to build with the industry and customers."
Microsoft and Novell's partnership has won customers such as Wal-Mart Stores and Credit Suisse Group.
Emphasis mine.
I find that slant to be very telling and worrysome. . .
Twitter is becoming a very amusing study of social engineering to me. He is 100% correct on most of his posts, it's only the attitude in his speech that makes him annoying to most people. Your response is just encouraging the behavior, which is the typical response to his posts. Rarely do people actually refute the content of his posts.
I think with a different delivery method, Twitter might be better received. . .
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Most ppl I know that drive a stick keep the shifting hand on the stick most of the time. Driving one-handed is not an issue, keeping the other hand up to your head is. Especially since you can't turn your head properly when you have a hand attached to it.
Actually, I've found that an intelligent person has no problem with the [game|drive|etc], but has a hard time concentrating on the conversation. My girlfriend hates it when I'm talking to her when I'm driving, because I'll randomly dissapear, then give her a "huh?" and have missed about five minutes of the conversation. A friend of mine is the same way. If I hear road noise, I'll call him back a lot of times because I know he's not paying attention to me. That's fine by me, but a lot of people don't like it.
An idiot, on the other hand, will have a perfect conversation and [get fragged|crash|etc].
I'll never forget this. I'm driving up I-5 one evening, and I see a guy with a bumper sticker that says "Would you drive any better if your cellphone was stuck up your [picture of a phone with a slash through it]?"
I pull up next to him and glance over, and he's got his FARKING FLIPPHONE UP TO HIS EAR! Dude is swerving around and his speed is varying by about 10mph in freeway traffic.
I wanted to shoot him. . .
I've been driving with cellphones since the Nokia 918 was new. When talking on a handset, it's almost impossible to keep my attention on the sides of the vehicle because you can't turn your head properly. I don't do that anymore, if I don't have my headset, I don't answer the phone.
I never dial numbers that aren't in my phonebook. My girlfriend's number is down-down-down-talk_button, for example. The only near-misses I've had when driving were dialing 10-digit numbers while operating a vehicle. Therefore, I stopped doing it.
Talking on my headset is something I've never had a problem with. Plugging the damn thing in, on the other hand, can be an issue. So, if I forget to do so, I'll stop to answer/make a call, and plug my headset in before I resume.
I think you'll notice that the common theme here is that I did things that I found to be distracting. Then, I STOPPED DOING THOSE THINGS. I would guess that a good 70% or more of the people out there are incapable of making that distinction. I also don't eat in the car unless it's a food bar or some other self-contained item, and I never read anything but a Google Map printout, and even those get memorized usually.
I think it should be a license-pulling offense to put on makeup while driving. I see other things too, but that is the biggest. I don't know how many times I've seen near-misses and found some girl putting on FREAKING EYELINER! Besides the distraction, what happens when they hit a pothole?
And what makes you think that you can equate Microsoft's business practices with property ownership?
You may not lose in the court of law, but you do lose in the court of public opinion. That is the more important venue when dealing with Linux and OSS.
The sad thing is I've actually overheard conversations recently in public places where people who aren't familiar with Linux are discussing this. The sad thing is, these deals are having a very large impact on Linux. People who have never heard of Linux before are reading this stuff in papers. First impressions are almost impossible to overcome.
And then released two distributions with different window managers?
Personally I prefer Gnome, but there is some elegance to picking a (sub?)distribution based on it's window manager. If Random New Linux User sees Ubuntu and Kubuntu and decides they like the latter, there is no need for them to have to choose which desktop to install when they put the CD in.
So in theory MS gleefully agreed to their groveling.
:)
Fixed that for you
I think that was the beginning of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, but not the beginning of the desire for it.
Also, the Halloween Documents.
What concerns me is that in spite of all the rallying on Slashdot, there seems to be no negative impact on the vendors that sign these deals. openSuSE is still third on distrowatch's rankings. This may not be an concrete indicator for installed base, but it does show that people are still reading about it and linking to their website.
We need to completely drop any Linux vendor that signs a deal with Microsoft. Change distributions to a "clean" one, remove any currently installed software, and contact the vendor for refunds on any boxed software purchased through them. I don't expect anyone to get refunds, but the calls will serve as a reminder.
This is serious people.
Yes, measurements in space are rarely on the SAE system. Especially after that incident in space because both measurements were used and mixed (don't remember which now), but even historically, measurements outside Earth's atmosphere have been Metric.
As much as I hate DRM, current copyright law, and the MP/RIAA, this is not a valid argument. If had asked any current artist what they wanted out of life when they were still trying to make it, their response would be "I wanna make it big", and if you kept asking questions, they would tell you about lifestyle. Lifestyle is the sum of money plus time.
:)
The issue is that album sales don't contribute much to the artist's success. What an artist makes money on is concerts, appearances and endorsements. Yet it's the album that the RIAA defends.
MPAA on the other hand DOES make money from video sales. I'm more likely to purchase a video than an album, though I'm far less likely to do so than before. I'm a renter now
I don't get my music or video from P2P. I did for a while, then I realized that I was still getting ripped off. The majority of music and movies these days aren't worth downloading. What little content I do like, I will purchase after renting it. In the case of music, I'm usually sick of it after a month of being overplayed on the radio anyway.
I was a big Napster user back in the day. I downloaded gigabytes of music then, and I bought dozens of albums afterward and re-ripped them to get higher quality tracks. Well, except Metallica. . . after the big lawsuit, there were LOTS of 196k+ files available to download. Funny how that worked.
Movies, I will buy occasionally. Generally, they are good once or twice, so I just rent them. I have the MVP service from Hollywood video, so I pay a flat rate for my rentals. Most of the crap that the MPAA is churning out isn't worth going to anyway. There are a few movies playing now that I will probably go to, and one or two that I might actually buy. That's the first time that's happened in years though.
I don't know if I just didn't read enough fine articles or what, but I'm still not sure what this hush-money is actually FOR. I know what kind of net affect it's having on opinion (though openSUSE is still doing pretty well on distrowatch's HPD ranking), but I don't know why the money is changing hands. One /. post indicated that the newest release of SUSE didn't have some of the features that we all figured were now covered by protection money.
This new activity makes me very nervous. Like a known enemy suddenly having lots of trucks moving around from factory to factory. . . I wanna know what's really going on.
That's like Microsoft making billions from destroying countless innovative corporations and personal developers' projects, then having Mrs. Gates give away money and getting people to call Bill a philanthropist.
Wait a minute. . .
Yaknow, one thing that bugs me about GAIM/Pidgin though. . . when they moved to GTK2, they took out the checkboxes for key-combinations. I always set my messengers to send on ctrl+enter. I used to have a checkbox, now I have to edit a configuration file. This is not progress people.
Gaim 2.00-0.31.beta6.fc6 does. . .
At least in your example they're fair. . . both Intel and AMD sections.
Okay, I'm throwing my Geek Card on the table. The energy created is plasma, caused by the matter/antimatter (deuterium and antideuterium, precisely) reacting in the Dilithium crystal. The matter/antimatter colliding by themselves doesn't make plasma, it makes a fiery shockwave. This is how Photon torpedoes work.
:) Without Dilithium in the reactor, you have a whole different reaction. It's called a Core Breach (breech?), and it's generally considered a Bad Thing (tm)
Dilithium is kind of a catalyst in the process. I'm sure there's a much better scientific term, but I'm tired
Kay, I'm not reading TFA, that post just made my head explode. . .
Perhaps Pirates just appeals to a wider audience than Matrix.
I will be moved when ONE title is released to BOTH formats on the same day. A big title, perhaps we'll see that soon.
Emphasis mine.
I find that slant to be very telling and worrysome. . .
Twitter is becoming a very amusing study of social engineering to me. He is 100% correct on most of his posts, it's only the attitude in his speech that makes him annoying to most people. Your response is just encouraging the behavior, which is the typical response to his posts. Rarely do people actually refute the content of his posts.
I think with a different delivery method, Twitter might be better received. . .
The question is, how much is it worth to Google to eliminate Doubleclick?
Dangit, my mod points expired before I had time to use them. Would someone throw this guy an "insightful" for me?