You sound like you are safer than some people but not quite as safe as others. I would say you are a safe enough driver bordering on the verge of being too safe.
When people leave your car do they ever say "geeze, what's with him?" That is a helpful gauge of where you fall on the safe driving continuum.
In my line of work I occasionally run into people that are fixated on "too much" of something. Sometimes it is washing their hands other times it is checking to see if the door is locked. If it becomes too big of a problem sometimes an SSRI can help.
By that logic then having a conversation with a passenger, eating, or drinking a soda is just dangerous also. What about listening to books on tape? When will this state of fear lunacy end?
Life is not a risk free proposition. Neither is living in close proximity to many other humans. Danger is not black or white. How dangerous is the real question. Is it so dangerous to drive and eat at the same time that we need to outlaw drive through lines at fast food resteraunts. I don't think so.
How much freedom do you want to give up in order to be safe? And I use the term safe in the most pejorative manner.
It took me a minute to figure out what was obviously wrong with this. Here goes:
Did you know that the bottom 2% of taxpayers don't even pay 2% of the governments bill? they don't even pay their fair share today... that's why we run a huge deficits and have to print (devalue) cash to stay afloat.
So backup and take a look at how much resources the top 2% use comapred to the bottom 2%? I will give you a nudge in the right direction. What is the total number of people in the top 2% and the number of people in the bottom 2%. Of course they shouldn't pay 2% of the total bill. They don't use 2% of the resources provided by taxation.
I don't think inattention is as pervasive as the article tries to show. In the ED I work with many 20 to 30 year olds that have no problems at all staying on task. admitedly it is more of a do what is in front of you at the moment type of job.
How much are you willing to spend? That seems like a lot of hours of video for a one year old. I mean we are talking 50 hrs at DVD quality and a couple hundred hours in a reasonably compressed format. 4 hours a week of kid video is a lot. By the time he is 22 and graduating college you would have 4400 hours of video. You would get lost in all of that and never be able to find anything meaningful.
So here is my suggestion:
1) Start making it into something usable now by doing some editing.
2) Upload your edited material to Amazon S3, it should take up a fraction of the space of your raw footage and cost you maybe $1 to $2 dollars a month per year of video (put all of your photos on S3 as well.
3) Get something like a Netgear ReadyNAS and keep your raw footage on that (or build something) You should be able to come up with a RAID 5 solution with a terrabyte or so for anywhere from $300 to $1200. I don't normally advocate Linux but here is an example where a micro ITX box and 3 decent sized SATA drives would be perfect. There are a couple of good "appliance" type Linux RAID distros.
The same can be said of anything. Whether it is true or not is the issue. Don't leet that stop you. It is obvious Windows is succesful. Try coming at it from anothe angle.
I tried this last one and the one before. It installed fairly easily but I had to do a lot of research and trial and error to get all of the buttons on my Asus laptop to work right. Never could get my fingerprint reader (which I absolutely love) or my USB camera to work right.
I then moved my XP installation into a VMWare VM and vowed to run XP only when absolutely needed. I began hunting around for Linux apps with the same level of functionality and polish that I am accustomed to in the Windows world.
It became more and more apparent that there just wasn't the same selection. Sure everything was free and that's neat, but I never have had too much of a problem paying for software that I like. I did/do a lot of Windows sysadmin batchfile work with scripted languages so I know just how much work goes into coding a good app. I am a huge fan of the shareware model of software distribution.
Long story short, I started using Ubuntu less and started using XP in the VM more, and then finally loaded up Vista so I could play games, moved the XP VM over to Vista and then finally deleted the Linux partitions.
I gave it the best try I could because I like the concept but just couldnâ(TM)t make it work for me. I think the reason is that it is fundamentally flawed because it is free. I know it's heresy on/. and I get modded a troll or flamebaiter regularly for it.
Of course the military considers the question. How else would they be able to wage war in an ethical and legal manner? Furthermore the members of the US military receive ongoing training on the subject.
Don't confuse military and governmental policy. Two entirely separate things.
US Constitutional law does not require a deceleration of war prior to initiation of military action. Imagine what peril that would place our nation in if it was required. To say that the rules of warfare are ignored unless there has been a declaration of war is disingenuous.
Yes the US is the best at extracting information without leaving any long term psychological or physical effects. To find the countries that are the best at extracting information while leaving the subject permanently disfigured or mentally impaired you will need to look elsewhere. Try North Korea, China, Cuba, Iran, Argentina, the list goes on and on...
Of course he got it in writing from a corporate officer. You are not the only one who knows that in these situations it is absolutely necessary to do so.
Show me how a fully patched Vista system is any less secure then an equally maintained Linux machine when configured for use as a desktop, on a NAT IP, by the average user.
I think I should get an XJ8 Super V8 for $45,000. How in the world does it matter what you think it is worth? If it's not worth it don't buy it. That doesn't mean I acn steal the XJ because they aren't asking a "fair price." In our current environment the software is property just like the XJ8 is property.
Like making it theft when you don't pay for it? Is that the structure you crave?
I mean why not steal an old lady's credit card numbers. She is only on the hook for $50 so it's not REALLY hurting her and if she is stupid enough to go to a phishing website then she deserves it.
Then you could charge up all sorts of software on the card, maybe some CD's thrown in, and a few books and magazines as well. It's all just IP, doesn't really matter how you steal it because there shouldn't be any copyright law anyway.
Probably because you can't do as much on Linux no matter how much hardware you throw at it. Fro the average computer user Linux is not a the most basic viable option. There is not enough POPULAR, supported software available on Linux. You can't really play anything but the most basic or old 3D games on Linux.
Support for the OS and for the apps is non-existent or very expensive, unless you want to go to some online forum where a bunch of amateurs spend more time showing you how smart they are and how stupid you are. The typical answer to a question being that "man is your best friend" or some such nonsense. I am VERY computer savvy and man pages are of little to no use.
So yes, you can have a 3D accelerated GUI on Linux with less hardware. But no matter what you run you won't have a diverse set of popular and well supported applications. Sorry, good idea that is amateurishly implemented.
Unsubstantiated bullshit. Do you know that distributing boxed software was a major determinant in their marketshare or does that fit more with how Linux is distributed? Show me.
In other words do think free software is free because it's distrubution costs are low? Or is it free because a bunch of amateur computer programmers cobbled something together resulting in very low development costs?
Now is your chance. Name the OS. Name the big company. Prove that Microsoft didn't own it (or at least show how someone asserting it doesn't just come off as a uninformed Linux fanboy.)
Or did you just read fragments of the truth on a lot of diffferent websites and assemble this notion in your mind?
Where the hell is the EU? and what language do they speak there? Oh, that's right "the EU" is an attempt to temporarily bloster the failing economies of Western Europe by creating a unified currency and giving up autonomy. Maybe that's why all the people that live "in the EU" sound like socialists. You better be proud of the EU because that is all you have left. Talk about sell-outs. But then again giving up your country whenever the going gets tough is not a new concept in "the EU."
I have a feeling this might get modded down. But I figure the only way anyone sees anything written pro-america around here is with threshold -1 anyway.
If they get cut off we will take them and kill anyone that tries to stop us. What's so hard to understand about that? History hasn't changed that much.
It is nice to become temporarily enlightend by the droves of Europeans that frequent this forum. I can't wait until Europe solves all of the worlds ills. Maybe they can do it with a unified currency and an idealogically soliciazed bent.
I love Europe, I wish I could afford to travel there more. It is noce to see what our ancestors were like before socialogical and economical decline. In the meantime I am going to fire up the propane gas heater, sit at my teak patio furniture, and smoke a cigar. If anybody tries to stop me they are in for trouble.
Someday we will all need to speak Chinese but until them I am going to live it up.
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You sound like you are safer than some people but not quite as safe as others. I would say you are a safe enough driver bordering on the verge of being too safe.
When people leave your car do they ever say "geeze, what's with him?" That is a helpful gauge of where you fall on the safe driving continuum.
In my line of work I occasionally run into people that are fixated on "too much" of something. Sometimes it is washing their hands other times it is checking to see if the door is locked. If it becomes too big of a problem sometimes an SSRI can help.
By that logic then having a conversation with a passenger, eating, or drinking a soda is just dangerous also. What about listening to books on tape? When will this state of fear lunacy end?
Life is not a risk free proposition. Neither is living in close proximity to many other humans. Danger is not black or white. How dangerous is the real question. Is it so dangerous to drive and eat at the same time that we need to outlaw drive through lines at fast food resteraunts. I don't think so.
How much freedom do you want to give up in order to be safe? And I use the term safe in the most pejorative manner.
It took me a minute to figure out what was obviously wrong with this. Here goes:
Did you know that the bottom 2% of taxpayers don't even pay 2% of the governments bill? they don't even pay their fair share today... that's why we run a huge deficits and have to print (devalue) cash to stay afloat.
So backup and take a look at how much resources the top 2% use comapred to the bottom 2%? I will give you a nudge in the right direction. What is the total number of people in the top 2% and the number of people in the bottom 2%. Of course they shouldn't pay 2% of the total bill. They don't use 2% of the resources provided by taxation.
Then after you get that working you could take away peoples choice about healthcare. Oh yeah that's right...
He may have ADD. Has he been tested?
I don't think inattention is as pervasive as the article tries to show. In the ED I work with many 20 to 30 year olds that have no problems at all staying on task. admitedly it is more of a do what is in front of you at the moment type of job.
How much are you willing to spend? That seems like a lot of hours of video for a one year old. I mean we are talking 50 hrs at DVD quality and a couple hundred hours in a reasonably compressed format. 4 hours a week of kid video is a lot. By the time he is 22 and graduating college you would have 4400 hours of video. You would get lost in all of that and never be able to find anything meaningful.
So here is my suggestion:
1) Start making it into something usable now by doing some editing.
2) Upload your edited material to Amazon S3, it should take up a fraction of the space of your raw footage and cost you maybe $1 to $2 dollars a month per year of video (put all of your photos on S3 as well.
3) Get something like a Netgear ReadyNAS and keep your raw footage on that (or build something) You should be able to come up with a RAID 5 solution with a terrabyte or so for anywhere from $300 to $1200. I don't normally advocate Linux but here is an example where a micro ITX box and 3 decent sized SATA drives would be perfect. There are a couple of good "appliance" type Linux RAID distros.
The same can be said of anything. Whether it is true or not is the issue. Don't leet that stop you. It is obvious Windows is succesful. Try coming at it from anothe angle.
Yep. Unfortunately the facts don't seem to support your notion:
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa033099.htm
I tried this last one and the one before. It installed fairly easily but I had to do a lot of research and trial and error to get all of the buttons on my Asus laptop to work right. Never could get my fingerprint reader (which I absolutely love) or my USB camera to work right.
/. and I get modded a troll or flamebaiter regularly for it.
I then moved my XP installation into a VMWare VM and vowed to run XP only when absolutely needed. I began hunting around for Linux apps with the same level of functionality and polish that I am accustomed to in the Windows world.
It became more and more apparent that there just wasn't the same selection. Sure everything was free and that's neat, but I never have had too much of a problem paying for software that I like. I did/do a lot of Windows sysadmin batchfile work with scripted languages so I know just how much work goes into coding a good app. I am a huge fan of the shareware model of software distribution.
Long story short, I started using Ubuntu less and started using XP in the VM more, and then finally loaded up Vista so I could play games, moved the XP VM over to Vista and then finally deleted the Linux partitions.
I gave it the best try I could because I like the concept but just couldnâ(TM)t make it work for me. I think the reason is that it is fundamentally flawed because it is free. I know it's heresy on
Of course the military considers the question. How else would they be able to wage war in an ethical and legal manner? Furthermore the members of the US military receive ongoing training on the subject.
Don't confuse military and governmental policy. Two entirely separate things.
US Constitutional law does not require a deceleration of war prior to initiation of military action. Imagine what peril that would place our nation in if it was required. To say that the rules of warfare are ignored unless there has been a declaration of war is disingenuous.
Yes the US is the best at extracting information without leaving any long term psychological or physical effects. To find the countries that are the best at extracting information while leaving the subject permanently disfigured or mentally impaired you will need to look elsewhere. Try North Korea, China, Cuba, Iran, Argentina, the list goes on and on...
I think it's unfair that I can't purchase and legally install a copy of OS X onto my Intel based PC. Who cares about what I think is fair?
Of course he got it in writing from a corporate officer. You are not the only one who knows that in these situations it is absolutely necessary to do so.
Show me how a fully patched Vista system is any less secure then an equally maintained Linux machine when configured for use as a desktop, on a NAT IP, by the average user.
I think I should get an XJ8 Super V8 for $45,000. How in the world does it matter what you think it is worth? If it's not worth it don't buy it. That doesn't mean I acn steal the XJ because they aren't asking a "fair price." In our current environment the software is property just like the XJ8 is property.
Like making it theft when you don't pay for it? Is that the structure you crave?
I mean why not steal an old lady's credit card numbers. She is only on the hook for $50 so it's not REALLY hurting her and if she is stupid enough to go to a phishing website then she deserves it.
Then you could charge up all sorts of software on the card, maybe some CD's thrown in, and a few books and magazines as well. It's all just IP, doesn't really matter how you steal it because there shouldn't be any copyright law anyway.
Probably because you can't do as much on Linux no matter how much hardware you throw at it. Fro the average computer user Linux is not a the most basic viable option. There is not enough POPULAR, supported software available on Linux. You can't really play anything but the most basic or old 3D games on Linux.
Support for the OS and for the apps is non-existent or very expensive, unless you want to go to some online forum where a bunch of amateurs spend more time showing you how smart they are and how stupid you are. The typical answer to a question being that "man is your best friend" or some such nonsense. I am VERY computer savvy and man pages are of little to no use.
So yes, you can have a 3D accelerated GUI on Linux with less hardware. But no matter what you run you won't have a diverse set of popular and well supported applications. Sorry, good idea that is amateurishly implemented.
Unsubstantiated bullshit. Do you know that distributing boxed software was a major determinant in their marketshare or does that fit more with how Linux is distributed? Show me.
In other words do think free software is free because it's distrubution costs are low? Or is it free because a bunch of amateur computer programmers cobbled something together resulting in very low development costs?
You mean after that 5% runs out in 700 years? Why solve a problem that doesn't exist?
Ridiculous unsubstantiated bullshit.
Now is your chance. Name the OS. Name the big company. Prove that Microsoft didn't own it (or at least show how someone asserting it doesn't just come off as a uninformed Linux fanboy.)
Or did you just read fragments of the truth on a lot of diffferent websites and assemble this notion in your mind?
Unsubstantiated anti-american bullshit, or do you have a source? I think not, that is why I phrased it the way I did.
Where the hell is the EU? and what language do they speak there? Oh, that's right "the EU" is an attempt to temporarily bloster the failing economies of Western Europe by creating a unified currency and giving up autonomy. Maybe that's why all the people that live "in the EU" sound like socialists. You better be proud of the EU because that is all you have left. Talk about sell-outs. But then again giving up your country whenever the going gets tough is not a new concept in "the EU."
I have a feeling this might get modded down. But I figure the only way anyone sees anything written pro-america around here is with threshold -1 anyway.
If they get cut off we will take them and kill anyone that tries to stop us. What's so hard to understand about that? History hasn't changed that much.
It is nice to become temporarily enlightend by the droves of Europeans that frequent this forum. I can't wait until Europe solves all of the worlds ills. Maybe they can do it with a unified currency and an idealogically soliciazed bent.
I love Europe, I wish I could afford to travel there more. It is noce to see what our ancestors were like before socialogical and economical decline. In the meantime I am going to fire up the propane gas heater, sit at my teak patio furniture, and smoke a cigar. If anybody tries to stop me they are in for trouble.
Someday we will all need to speak Chinese but until them I am going to live it up.
Please show me how this is 1) flamebait 2) untrue. Flamebait my ass, 5+ insightful if anything.
Adjust the numbers for us and show us what you mean. Otherwise it just sounds like more Anti-US unsubstantiated bullshit.