The problem with side mirrors is about 80% of drivers are idiots and aim both side mirrors to show you the view behind the car, which is already covered by the rearview mirror.
Given that/. has lots of engineers and scientists among the userbase, I'll be generous and guess that about 50% of slashdotters get it right, and the other 50% are imbeciles who have all three mirrors looking directly behind the car.
When mirrors are properly adjusted, there are no blind spots.
Best reason for ditching mirrors: it seems like 80% of drivers aim both side windows to look behind the car instead of aiming them at the blind spots. Mirrors are super-easy to aim correctly, and the same method works for about 90% of automobiles and light trucks, and yet it seems that the vast majority of people aim the side mirrors to look behind the car. Why do they do this? There is this newfangled device INSIDE the car called a "rearview" mirror which shows you what is straight behind you. Why the FUCK do you imbeciles aim the two side mirrors to look at the same stuff your rearview mirror shows you?
> Trump might. Just to spite Obama. Or not, because I doubt he gives a crap about Snowden (he's old news).
Honestly, what are the chances that Trump even understands what Snowden and Manning are about?
Does he have an ounce of integrity to his being? Does he have any comprehension of right and wrong? His racist brain-spasming and the fact that he got rich from inheriting his dad's fortune and multiplied it through ponzi schemes leads me to believe that the man is a nihilistic narcissist.
Do you think "Park" on a slushbox is any better? It's not; open up an automatic transmission sometime, and you'll see that the "park" gear is a dinky soft cast iron pawl. On latest-generation transmissions it looks like they've finally switched to forged steel for the parking pawl, but you're still better off putting the parking brake on first and putting it in park and that is still what manufacturers recommend.
You still want the parking brake on. Why? Because sometimes when stopped a transmission will feel like it's in gear, but only partially engaged. I almost lost a ZR-1 down a hill when I parked it on a below-zero day. It felt like it was in gear so I left it... and heard it rolling behind me. I shoved my foot under the 12" wide tire to stop it from rolling (I just happened to have steel-toed hiking boots on that day) and managed to stop it, then I worked my boot out from under the tire and quickly got behind the wheel and stomped down on the brake. Started up the car, made SURE it was firmly in first the fun way;) and parked it again. The tranny slipped out of gear because the gear oil was still cold, preventing it from fully engaging when stopped, and the parking brake didn't hold most likely because the lever for the pad was probably iced up.
About 12.5 years later had the same thing happen in a SAAB, except that time I didn't catch it before it rolled, down into a swamp. I normally set the parking brake but that one time I forgot, it wasn't fully engaged in first. No frame/unibody damage but the car does need a new left fender, inner fenders, front spoiler, etc... but I haven't bothered with it.
Do you think "Park" on a slushbox is any better? It's not; open up an automatic transmission sometime, and you'll see that the "park" gear is a dinky soft cast iron pawl. On latest-generation transmissions it looks like they've finally switched to forged steel for the parking pawl, but you're still better off putting the parking brake on first and putting it in park and that is still what manufacturers recommend.
I can still hear 17.5KHz, but not very well (I'm 44). One years ago I could still hear it very clearly - it wasn't until a tire I was inflating burst (I could not hear anything for about a half hour) last summer that my high frequency hearing started to degrade.:(
> why would I care about one lasting 90 years? Unless these life-extension therapies come through, it's not like I'm going to be around long enough for that to matter
The solution for that will be growing new teeth using stem cells.
> Doesn't matter. That's not the kind of "technical ability" nor the kind of instrument we need. It won't help us to address a single pressing or practical problem here on Earth in the foreseeable future.
It most certainly does matter. If the alcubierre drive (aka "warp drive") is to ever become reality, we need to more fully understand how gravity works, and then we need to develop a way to create and manipulate gravity waves and development of the sort of power sources required will likely take centuries. Otherwise, we're doomed to exinction if we keep thinking "well, we can't do anything practical with it now, so let's not bother." Had past generations held this mentality, we would not have computers, the automobile, central heating and HVAC, or even the electric light today.
Given your lack of appreciation for the whole point of pure science, I'd have to guess you're a Trump-supporting Republican.;)
> "It conveys so much more information in a much quicker period. So actually the trend helps us to digest much more information."
Incorrect.
I can't tell you how many howtos I've found only in the form of a video where they go on and on and take ten minutes to get to the meat of the matter, which could easily be condensed into easier-to-follow text paragraphs that I could read in half a minute and implement almost as quickly. Text is also vastly superior for studying at my own pace. For those of us whose education is ongoing/neverending, text (be it electronic or printed on paper) is king.
Video is great for entertainment, conversation, etc. but will it replace text? Never.
No. I hate most video howtos, and much prefer articles. The reason is they take forever to get to the meat of the topic. I read very quickly and just want to accomplish what I set out to do. If I want to watch someone drone on and say absolutely nothing I'll watch Seinfeld or any number of Monty Python sketches.:D
This is for out of band management so devices can be monitored and restarted remotely (think: enterprise environments). Nothing to get wrinkles in your tin hat over.:)
Please think of those poor rock stars. He'll have to settle for a secondhand Gulfstream and a slightly smaller yacht and one less mansion this year. I feel so sorry for Trent.:-(
Seriously though folks said the same about 720p phones and we've since moved on to 1080p, 1440p, and even higher resolutions in small form factors and at age 44 I appreciate the improvement in resolution. I don't need glasses yet (nor do I intend to - when the next-gen artificial lenses become available if I need glasses by then I'll go for 3x better than 20/20 vision and extended bandwidth vision; near IR through near UV).:)
> Have you seen how attached they get to cartoon characters? They can't even make a clear emotional disconnection between Spongebob Squarepants and real people.
Yes, but many of us move on to develop an emotional age of greater than two years old.
> Citation needed? You're comparing two different kinds of power.
Hmm, how about most of history? You funnel all the money and power into the hands of a select few, the corporate entities continue to merge for growth and to stifle competition, offshore more and more jobs, then eventually you end up with an unemployed society who cannot afford to do anything they choose to do, banks confiscate land and other properties, and the things those serfes will be able to afford, they are offered limited choice. How is that unlike soviet communism in practice? It's largely identical.
> To achieve socialism's alleged ends, politicians say they need "power" (i.e. violence), but socialism is impossible in the first place because it lacks a price mechanism to inform people what is productive and what is wasteful.
Tell it to the rest of the first world, who figured out how to pay for health care safety nets and more and more are implementing a basic income (that allows one to actually live not just engage in a miserable existence) without breaking the bank.
> But in capitalism, no actor threatens violence. The kind of "power" you talk about here is merely owning money, a completely voluntary action.
They use bribes. The threats of violence will come once the balance of power is tipped enough in their favor.
The ironic thing is that an unregulated "free market" capitalism's end game is EXACTLY the same as the Soviet-style communism idiots fear when they hear the word "socialism;" all the money and power gets distilled into the hands of a small group of self-appointed elitists and everyone else is a serf.
During the leonid storm (2000? 2001?) I heard sounds which sounded like the sizzling sound described in that article but I thought i was imagining it because the metors were 100km or more over my head - way too far for any sound to be heard, let alone simultaneously with the event. It turns out that the sound is real and explainable.:)
Eliminating VOR and LORAN was dumb... because the first major solar storm we see on the scale of the Solar Storm of 1859 will wipe out most if not all of the GPS constellation. GPS should have been designed to integrate LORAN and VOR from the beginning.
Nylons are out of fashion, and have been since the late '90s. Thank god for that... although in winter they were nice. However even if you work in an antiquated workplace asinine enough to have such dress codes, that problem is easily solved by putting on a pair of sneakers.
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The problem with side mirrors is about 80% of drivers are idiots and aim both side mirrors to show you the view behind the car, which is already covered by the rearview mirror.
Given that /. has lots of engineers and scientists among the userbase, I'll be generous and guess that about 50% of slashdotters get it right, and the other 50% are imbeciles who have all three mirrors looking directly behind the car.
When mirrors are properly adjusted, there are no blind spots.
http://www.caranddriver.com/fe...
http://seniordriving.aaa.com/i...
http://www.cheatsheet.com/auto...
http://www.wikihow.com/Set-Rea...
Best reason for ditching mirrors: it seems like 80% of drivers aim both side windows to look behind the car instead of aiming them at the blind spots.
Mirrors are super-easy to aim correctly, and the same method works for about 90% of automobiles and light trucks, and yet it seems that the vast majority of people aim the side mirrors to look behind the car. Why do they do this? There is this newfangled device INSIDE the car called a "rearview" mirror which shows you what is straight behind you. Why the FUCK do you imbeciles aim the two side mirrors to look at the same stuff your rearview mirror shows you?
I don't much care for Hillary either. She is a corporate-sponsored pawn.
And, nuclei vibrate.. so the universe is a vibrating buttplug. ;)
I'm not sure that revelation would get you a Nobel Prize.
> Trump might. Just to spite Obama. Or not, because I doubt he gives a crap about Snowden (he's old news).
Honestly, what are the chances that Trump even understands what Snowden and Manning are about?
Does he have an ounce of integrity to his being? Does he have any comprehension of right and wrong? His racist brain-spasming and the fact that he got rich from inheriting his dad's fortune and multiplied it through ponzi schemes leads me to believe that the man is a nihilistic narcissist.
Newsflash! There isn't always a curb to turn the wheels toward. What then, genius? :-p
Do you think "Park" on a slushbox is any better? It's not; open up an automatic transmission sometime, and you'll see that the "park" gear is a dinky soft cast iron pawl. On latest-generation transmissions it looks like they've finally switched to forged steel for the parking pawl, but you're still better off putting the parking brake on first and putting it in park and that is still what manufacturers recommend.
You still want the parking brake on. ;) and parked it again. The tranny slipped out of gear because the gear oil was still cold, preventing it from fully engaging when stopped, and the parking brake didn't hold most likely because the lever for the pad was probably iced up.
Why?
Because sometimes when stopped a transmission will feel like it's in gear, but only partially engaged. I almost lost a ZR-1 down a hill when I parked it on a below-zero day. It felt like it was in gear so I left it... and heard it rolling behind me. I shoved my foot under the 12" wide tire to stop it from rolling (I just happened to have steel-toed hiking boots on that day) and managed to stop it, then I worked my boot out from under the tire and quickly got behind the wheel and stomped down on the brake. Started up the car, made SURE it was firmly in first the fun way
About 12.5 years later had the same thing happen in a SAAB, except that time I didn't catch it before it rolled, down into a swamp. I normally set the parking brake but that one time I forgot, it wasn't fully engaged in first. No frame/unibody damage but the car does need a new left fender, inner fenders, front spoiler, etc... but I haven't bothered with it.
Do you think "Park" on a slushbox is any better? It's not; open up an automatic transmission sometime, and you'll see that the "park" gear is a dinky soft cast iron pawl. On latest-generation transmissions it looks like they've finally switched to forged steel for the parking pawl, but you're still better off putting the parking brake on first and putting it in park and that is still what manufacturers recommend.
You forgot "No one wants a larger screen on a phone/larger screens have no use on a phone"
I can still hear 17.5KHz, but not very well (I'm 44). One years ago I could still hear it very clearly - it wasn't until a tire I was inflating burst (I could not hear anything for about a half hour) last summer that my high frequency hearing started to degrade. :(
> why would I care about one lasting 90 years? Unless these life-extension therapies come through, it's not like I'm going to be around long enough for that to matter
The solution for that will be growing new teeth using stem cells.
http://now.tufts.edu/articles/...
> Doesn't matter. That's not the kind of "technical ability" nor the kind of instrument we need. It won't help us to address a single pressing or practical problem here on Earth in the foreseeable future.
It most certainly does matter. If the alcubierre drive (aka "warp drive") is to ever become reality, we need to more fully understand how gravity works, and then we need to develop a way to create and manipulate gravity waves and development of the sort of power sources required will likely take centuries. Otherwise, we're doomed to exinction if we keep thinking "well, we can't do anything practical with it now, so let's not bother." Had past generations held this mentality, we would not have computers, the automobile, central heating and HVAC, or even the electric light today.
Given your lack of appreciation for the whole point of pure science, I'd have to guess you're a Trump-supporting Republican. ;)
> "It conveys so much more information in a much quicker period. So actually the trend helps us to digest much more information."
Incorrect.
I can't tell you how many howtos I've found only in the form of a video where they go on and on and take ten minutes to get to the meat of the matter, which could easily be condensed into easier-to-follow text paragraphs that I could read in half a minute and implement almost as quickly. Text is also vastly superior for studying at my own pace. For those of us whose education is ongoing/neverending, text (be it electronic or printed on paper) is king.
Video is great for entertainment, conversation, etc. but will it replace text? Never.
No. :D
I hate most video howtos, and much prefer articles. The reason is they take forever to get to the meat of the topic. I read very quickly and just want to accomplish what I set out to do. If I want to watch someone drone on and say absolutely nothing I'll watch Seinfeld or any number of Monty Python sketches.
This is for out of band management so devices can be monitored and restarted remotely (think: enterprise environments). Nothing to get wrinkles in your tin hat over. :)
Please think of those poor rock stars. He'll have to settle for a secondhand Gulfstream and a slightly smaller yacht and one less mansion this year. I feel so sorry for Trent. :-(
OK gramps. Get some thicker glasses. J/K
Seriously though folks said the same about 720p phones and we've since moved on to 1080p, 1440p, and even higher resolutions in small form factors and at age 44 I appreciate the improvement in resolution. I don't need glasses yet (nor do I intend to - when the next-gen artificial lenses become available if I need glasses by then I'll go for 3x better than 20/20 vision and extended bandwidth vision; near IR through near UV). :)
2 years of heavy use on my S4 shows no sign of burn-in. Have since been using an S7 Edge.
> Have you seen how attached they get to cartoon characters? They can't even make a clear emotional disconnection between Spongebob Squarepants and real people.
Yes, but many of us move on to develop an emotional age of greater than two years old.
At least he gets his Earl Grey tea, and not a substance that is almost but not entirely unlike tea. :D
> Citation needed? You're comparing two different kinds of power.
Hmm, how about most of history? You funnel all the money and power into the hands of a select few, the corporate entities continue to merge for growth and to stifle competition, offshore more and more jobs, then eventually you end up with an unemployed society who cannot afford to do anything they choose to do, banks confiscate land and other properties, and the things those serfes will be able to afford, they are offered limited choice. How is that unlike soviet communism in practice? It's largely identical.
> To achieve socialism's alleged ends, politicians say they need "power" (i.e. violence), but socialism is impossible in the first place because it lacks a price mechanism to inform people what is productive and what is wasteful.
Tell it to the rest of the first world, who figured out how to pay for health care safety nets and more and more are implementing a basic income (that allows one to actually live not just engage in a miserable existence) without breaking the bank.
> But in capitalism, no actor threatens violence. The kind of "power" you talk about here is merely owning money, a completely voluntary action.
They use bribes. The threats of violence will come once the balance of power is tipped enough in their favor.
The ironic thing is that an unregulated "free market" capitalism's end game is EXACTLY the same as the Soviet-style communism idiots fear when they hear the word "socialism;" all the money and power gets distilled into the hands of a small group of self-appointed elitists and everyone else is a serf.
http://earthsky.org/space/whoo...
During the leonid storm (2000? 2001?) I heard sounds which sounded like the sizzling sound described in that article but I thought i was imagining it because the metors were 100km or more over my head - way too far for any sound to be heard, let alone simultaneously with the event. It turns out that the sound is real and explainable. :)
Eliminating VOR and LORAN was dumb... because the first major solar storm we see on the scale of the Solar Storm of 1859 will wipe out most if not all of the GPS constellation. GPS should have been designed to integrate LORAN and VOR from the beginning.
Nylons are out of fashion, and have been since the late '90s. Thank god for that... although in winter they were nice. However even if you work in an antiquated workplace asinine enough to have such dress codes, that problem is easily solved by putting on a pair of sneakers.