Not open to the general public? It is if you have any sort of home business. My dad (who repairs construction leveling lasers for a living) picked a business name that's vague enough that it *could* be consumer-electronics related.
Also when you register for badges, assign everyone the title of "buyer". You get WAY more free stuff if they think you're the buyer in your large corporation than if you're just some peon.
Ooh, IS there a way to check the ram on your video card?
I recently went through a several-day ordeal after installing a Sims2 expansion pack and a new monitor - suddenly it would hang and give me a graphics card error whenever I tried to buy or move an object.
We tried everything - fresh windows install on an empty disk, watching for heat problems, swapping out all ram with other ram, swapping out processor, 3 different video card drivers (stupid ATI, why are there 3 different ones available?) etc.
Finally just buy a new video card, a GeForce 6600, and everything is beautiful again.
The weird part was that the old card (ATI Radeon all-in-wonder 7500) did not have problems on any other program, and even ran sims2 for months just fine.
What are you talking about? They were right when they predicted that MiniDisc would be the next big thing, weren't they?!? I went to CES that year, and 1/3 of the booths had Minidisc - a format that has absolutely pervaded our culture.
Moving on - Most poeople think they're a better driver than most. That's part of the problem.
As they say...
The one thing that unites everybody, regardless of race, age, religion, gender, country, and socioeconomic status, is that we ALL think we're above-average drivers.
Actually, the H2 is not on the list because its weight exempts it from nearly all government safety tests.
It did not have to pass minimum braking, roof crush, steering-column-intrusion, and other standards. It was never tested by the NHTSA, it's exempt from that too.
It may be safe, but the point is that without these tests, how do we know?
You may be interested to know that it does *not* have many basic safety features as stated.
It does not have ANY available side airbags, nor does the 2nd-row center seat have a shoulder belt - something that was standard on most cars back in 1999.
It does not have stability control, either.
I think you'll find This study (PDF) interesting as well.
It's the risk of dying in any given vehicle, and they're broken up by class.
For example, the Infiniti G20's rate is 46 driver deaths per million registered vehicle years. The Chevy Cavalier? 162 deaths.
The vehicle with the absolute highest death rate of all? The 2door Chevy Blazer..with an amazing rate of 308 deaths per million registered vehicle years. (274 of 308 deaths are attributed to rollovers..)
We also drive with the headlights on all of the time. No matter what.
It's all anecdotal, but I've found I almost never get cut off anymore. And I never *forget* to turn them on at dusk because they're already on.
The other poster's comment about speed is good as well.
I stopped speeding on my 60 mile commute when I realized that even *if* I managed to maintain 15 mph over the speedlimit, managed not to get stuck behind any semis-passing-upgrade, managed not to get ticketed ($300 at that speed), managed not to wreck (with massively increased risk of bodily harm), I'd only save a whopping 8 minutes. Not worth it. At all.
Given Kia's abysmal safety record, that guy's probably going to die no matter what or whom he's in a wreck with.
The biggest danger in an SUV is the high center of gravity. Standard trucks are better in this regard as they tend to have a lower one. Cars win hands down in this area and are typically much harder to flip.
What's funny is that trucks still have a much higher death rate than both cars and SUVs, including rollover crashes.
Whether this is because of center-of-gravity, or because fewer truck owners wear seatbelts, I'm not sure.
The difference is that if you and I wreck, your bumper hits at the level of my bumper, or frame, where my vehicle is best able to absorb and distribute the force of the impact safely.
In an SUV, your bumper hits above mine, meaning that my frame is left totally unable to protect me. If it's a side impact, you come right through my door, and the front of your car hits me straight in the head.
The point is that if all that extra weight is put into engineering stronger cars that absorb the impact and slow you down more gradually..
That's not necessarily what's being done.
Many of the largest SUVs (Suburban for example) are on a longer redesign schedule than your standard passenger vehicle. Going 8 years between a full redesign means you're still getting crash technology that's nearly a decade old.
Making matters even better, is that the largest of SUVs, by virtue of their GVWR (a number that's made up by the manufacturer) are not required to meet several bare-minimum government safety standards.
The current Suburban, with a GVWR of 7000-8600 lbs, is exempt from government roof crush tests. (PDF)(As is any vehicle with a GVWR over 6000 lbs.) Unfortunately, passing them wouldn't mean much either - as the minimum only requires a vehicle with windshield intact to withstand 1.5 times its weight pressed down on the roof.
In a rollover, the windshield is usually gone by the end of the crash, and forces can easily exceed 1.5 times vehicle weight.
The current standard has been in place - and unchanged - since 1971, and many SUVs aren't required to pass even that lax standard. Many are also exempt from other minimum standards, like Steering Wheel Rear Displacement (only applies to cars with GVWR 4,000 lbs and less), and basic braking standards (applies to vehicles with a GVWR of 7,716 lbs and less).
Obviously, we all have to be more proactive in researching the safety of the vehicles we purchase - and not just go out and buy something "big" that "feels safe". Often, we may be safer in that type of vehicle, but only in multi-vehicle-non-rollover crashes - and to what expense? Raising the weight of your vehicle may reduce the risk to your family by 1/3 in some wrecks, but you've increased it threefold to the other car.
But you don't live in Utah. People who do live in Utah don't care about this stuff. All they know is that if they elect a democrat the homosexuals will be marrying all over the place and their family values will be eroded and the UN will control the US and their kids will not be able to pray in school.
Hey WAIT a minute...Just because we're the only state who still overwhelmingly supports President Bush..
OK, darn. Well, at least I work at a newspaper that according to our readers is WAY too liberal (*read=moderate) and everyone in my particular department is atheist/agnostic. There's sanity at work, if not in the general populace.
As for the UN bit - a small town not 30 miles from where I live in UT seceded from the UN a year or two ago. No, really.
That's easy.
AdSense has a strict policy against the use of their ads on porn sites.
They have a review period of up to 3 days before they will allow their advertising on your site. You have to pass a review by an actual person before they start handing over the cash.
By the same token, I am pretty sure they do not accept AdSense ads for those types of products / services.
I love the ones from people who can't figure out their automailer scripts either.
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[[fulllname]] we have $10,000 ready too send you.
Click the link below, and it will be on you're doorstep in [[city]] within 24 hours. Dont let this opprotunity pass you buy!!
f you ask me. The big software titles and big games, all in all they really do cost a fortune (LICENSE FEES!) for the average person (or small business) yet there are these (arrogant) people out there who pay (most of which don't know about copying). We've got the big software titles (industry standard apparently and certainly not open source) like Autodesk software, Adobe software, Microsoft software etc. $300 for Photoshop, $265 for Windows XP, and an even higher price for software like Cubase SX, etc. Meanwhile new games of all types cost $50.
Um.. boo hoo.
I don't know about you, but I've easily made more than my (legally purchased) copies of Photoshop cost. If you have a need for industry standard photo manipulation software, or even if you just need to learn how to use it, it's WELL worth the $300.
If you don't like it, I suppose you could always program your own, right? Or just, I don't know, go without? What is with the entitlement? Since when does anyone OWE you a piece of software with thousands of hours of programming invested in it, for $20?
One could argue that a hit man is merely "serving his customers" as well.
They weren't harming others? Not directly, maybe, but distributing content that you don't have the intellectual property rights to distribute is definitely unethical.
It's pretty pathetic (and cliche) to throw in the Rosa Parks comparison. What next, are you going to compare this to the Nazis?
It is like Consumer Reports for charities. It tells you what % of your contribution actually goes to helping people, compares the charity to others of similar mission and size, tells you how much the CEO makes, etc.
Especially in light of all the fradulent charities that sprung up after Hurricane Katrina, I think it's a valuable site to make sure your money goes where you wanted it to.
Well, if anecdotal evidence is any help (it's not, I know), I was in Mensa at 14, come from a family of above average IQs, and we all tend to be very obsessive. We are thing-people, not people-people, who are happy to work on a project for 14 hours straight, but are scared shitless of parties.
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There was a fascinating article (PDF warning) in the March/April 1996 issue of Adobe Magazine on type legibility which you'd probably find interesting.
They use studies and examples to show that not only is x-height important to legibility, but ascenders and descenders are also vital. Compromising the ascenders of a font with increased x-height (such as in University Roman) can decrease the legibility. What's most important is a balance between x-height, and ascender/descender size.
The ascender/descender relationship to legibility/readability is also WHY IT IS MORE DIFFICULT TO READ TEXT IN ALL-CAPS, EVEN THOUGH IT HAS THE LARGEST X-HEIGHT OF ALL.
Overall, they found that sans and serif fonts are roughly equal in readability, with serifs having a slight advantage depending on the size of the font.
Though the article is written more towards print typography, the summary advice applies to web as well.
Set..text in one of the hundreds of standard text faces, at a reasonable size--usually between 9- and 12-point.... Use a measure that allows for 60 to 70 characters per line.... Indent paragraphs by one em or a pica.
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Not open to the general public? It is if you have any sort of home business. My dad (who repairs construction leveling lasers for a living) picked a business name that's vague enough that it *could* be consumer-electronics related.
Also when you register for badges, assign everyone the title of "buyer". You get WAY more free stuff if they think you're the buyer in your large corporation than if you're just some peon.
Ooh, IS there a way to check the ram on your video card? I recently went through a several-day ordeal after installing a Sims2 expansion pack and a new monitor - suddenly it would hang and give me a graphics card error whenever I tried to buy or move an object. We tried everything - fresh windows install on an empty disk, watching for heat problems, swapping out all ram with other ram, swapping out processor, 3 different video card drivers (stupid ATI, why are there 3 different ones available?) etc. Finally just buy a new video card, a GeForce 6600, and everything is beautiful again. The weird part was that the old card (ATI Radeon all-in-wonder 7500) did not have problems on any other program, and even ran sims2 for months just fine.
And e-books! Everyone who's anyone has an e-book.
As they say...
The one thing that unites everybody, regardless of race, age, religion, gender, country, and socioeconomic status, is that we ALL think we're above-average drivers.
Actually, the H2 is not on the list because its weight exempts it from nearly all government safety tests.
It did not have to pass minimum braking, roof crush, steering-column-intrusion, and other standards. It was never tested by the NHTSA, it's exempt from that too.
It may be safe, but the point is that without these tests, how do we know?
You may be interested to know that it does *not* have many basic safety features as stated.
It does not have ANY available side airbags, nor does the 2nd-row center seat have a shoulder belt - something that was standard on most cars back in 1999.
It does not have stability control, either.
I think you'll find This study (PDF) interesting as well.
It's the risk of dying in any given vehicle, and they're broken up by class.
For example, the Infiniti G20's rate is 46 driver deaths per million registered vehicle years. The Chevy Cavalier? 162 deaths.
The vehicle with the absolute highest death rate of all? The 2door Chevy Blazer..with an amazing rate of 308 deaths per million registered vehicle years. (274 of 308 deaths are attributed to rollovers..)
We also drive with the headlights on all of the time. No matter what.
It's all anecdotal, but I've found I almost never get cut off anymore. And I never *forget* to turn them on at dusk because they're already on.
The other poster's comment about speed is good as well.
I stopped speeding on my 60 mile commute when I realized that even *if* I managed to maintain 15 mph over the speedlimit, managed not to get stuck behind any semis-passing-upgrade, managed not to get ticketed ($300 at that speed), managed not to wreck (with massively increased risk of bodily harm), I'd only save a whopping 8 minutes. Not worth it. At all.
Given Kia's abysmal safety record, that guy's probably going to die no matter what or whom he's in a wreck with.
The biggest danger in an SUV is the high center of gravity. Standard trucks are better in this regard as they tend to have a lower one. Cars win hands down in this area and are typically much harder to flip.
What's funny is that trucks still have a much higher death rate than both cars and SUVs, including rollover crashes. Whether this is because of center-of-gravity, or because fewer truck owners wear seatbelts, I'm not sure.
The difference is that if you and I wreck, your bumper hits at the level of my bumper, or frame, where my vehicle is best able to absorb and distribute the force of the impact safely. In an SUV, your bumper hits above mine, meaning that my frame is left totally unable to protect me. If it's a side impact, you come right through my door, and the front of your car hits me straight in the head.
Sadly, that doesn't look significantly worse than the results from the 1997-2003 Ford F-150 or the 1997-2004 Pontiac Transport/Olds Silhouette/Chevy Venture triplets.
That's not necessarily what's being done.
Many of the largest SUVs (Suburban for example) are on a longer redesign schedule than your standard passenger vehicle. Going 8 years between a full redesign means you're still getting crash technology that's nearly a decade old.
Making matters even better, is that the largest of SUVs, by virtue of their GVWR (a number that's made up by the manufacturer) are not required to meet several bare-minimum government safety standards.
The current Suburban, with a GVWR of 7000-8600 lbs, is exempt from government roof crush tests. (PDF)(As is any vehicle with a GVWR over 6000 lbs.) Unfortunately, passing them wouldn't mean much either - as the minimum only requires a vehicle with windshield intact to withstand 1.5 times its weight pressed down on the roof.
In a rollover, the windshield is usually gone by the end of the crash, and forces can easily exceed 1.5 times vehicle weight.
The current standard has been in place - and unchanged - since 1971, and many SUVs aren't required to pass even that lax standard. Many are also exempt from other minimum standards, like Steering Wheel Rear Displacement (only applies to cars with GVWR 4,000 lbs and less), and basic braking standards (applies to vehicles with a GVWR of 7,716 lbs and less).
Detroit, of course, insists the existing rules are adequate - the rules that often don't apply to their vehicles.
Even better, it's been shown that they misrepresented data from their own tests to the NHTSA.
Obviously, we all have to be more proactive in researching the safety of the vehicles we purchase - and not just go out and buy something "big" that "feels safe". Often, we may be safer in that type of vehicle, but only in multi-vehicle-non-rollover crashes - and to what expense? Raising the weight of your vehicle may reduce the risk to your family by 1/3 in some wrecks, but you've increased it threefold to the other car.
Hey WAIT a minute...Just because we're the only state who still overwhelmingly supports President Bush..
OK, darn. Well, at least I work at a newspaper that according to our readers is WAY too liberal (*read=moderate) and everyone in my particular department is atheist/agnostic. There's sanity at work, if not in the general populace.
As for the UN bit - a small town not 30 miles from where I live in UT seceded from the UN a year or two ago. No, really.
That's easy. AdSense has a strict policy against the use of their ads on porn sites. They have a review period of up to 3 days before they will allow their advertising on your site. You have to pass a review by an actual person before they start handing over the cash. By the same token, I am pretty sure they do not accept AdSense ads for those types of products / services.
That number is derived from a study in which they wrote down figures until one of them looked about right.
[[fulllname]] Could you use $10,000?
[[fulllname]] we have $10,000 ready too send you.
Click the link below, and it will be on you're doorstep in [[city]] within 24 hours. Dont let this opprotunity pass you buy!!
It's my piece of whatever, to do with as I see fit. Why do you think you automatically have rights to whatever content I produce?
Because it's not OK to profit off someone else'e work without their consent.
f you ask me. The big software titles and big games, all in all they really do cost a fortune (LICENSE FEES!) for the average person (or small business) yet there are these (arrogant) people out there who pay (most of which don't know about copying). We've got the big software titles (industry standard apparently and certainly not open source) like Autodesk software, Adobe software, Microsoft software etc. $300 for Photoshop, $265 for Windows XP, and an even higher price for software like Cubase SX, etc. Meanwhile new games of all types cost $50. Um.. boo hoo. I don't know about you, but I've easily made more than my (legally purchased) copies of Photoshop cost. If you have a need for industry standard photo manipulation software, or even if you just need to learn how to use it, it's WELL worth the $300. If you don't like it, I suppose you could always program your own, right? Or just, I don't know, go without? What is with the entitlement? Since when does anyone OWE you a piece of software with thousands of hours of programming invested in it, for $20?
Not too much wrong with copying it for personal use, IMO - until you're copying and distributing it FOR PROFIT which these guys were doing.
One could argue that a hit man is merely "serving his customers" as well. They weren't harming others? Not directly, maybe, but distributing content that you don't have the intellectual property rights to distribute is definitely unethical. It's pretty pathetic (and cliche) to throw in the Rosa Parks comparison. What next, are you going to compare this to the Nazis?
It is like Consumer Reports for charities. It tells you what % of your contribution actually goes to helping people, compares the charity to others of similar mission and size, tells you how much the CEO makes, etc.
Especially in light of all the fradulent charities that sprung up after Hurricane Katrina, I think it's a valuable site to make sure your money goes where you wanted it to.
Well, if anecdotal evidence is any help (it's not, I know), I was in Mensa at 14, come from a family of above average IQs, and we all tend to be very obsessive. We are thing-people, not people-people, who are happy to work on a project for 14 hours straight, but are scared shitless of parties.
They use studies and examples to show that not only is x-height important to legibility, but ascenders and descenders are also vital. Compromising the ascenders of a font with increased x-height (such as in University Roman) can decrease the legibility. What's most important is a balance between x-height, and ascender/descender size.
The ascender/descender relationship to legibility/readability is also WHY IT IS MORE DIFFICULT TO READ TEXT IN ALL-CAPS, EVEN THOUGH IT HAS THE LARGEST X-HEIGHT OF ALL.
Overall, they found that sans and serif fonts are roughly equal in readability, with serifs having a slight advantage depending on the size of the font.
Though the article is written more towards print typography, the summary advice applies to web as well.
And technically, the shuttle occupants ARE orbiting in space..
I find it's handy to keep that link in my profile around xmas time. :)