This particular stretch of road is quite nice. It runs for almost a full kilometer without any streetlights, and only a few intersections just on one side of the road. Being in the middle of one of the more exclusive areas of the city, and because it's well-used as a quick way to get into the downtown core, it's hilly, tree-lined, well-paved and well-lit in a nice driving corridor that would actually be a nice inclusion in any racing video game. I don't drive, but just being a passenger and going southbound at a quick rate of speed even at the speed limits is quite exhilirating.
Knowing better, I don't blame the video game. It's just one of those easy things people (media) hold up to blame. You certainly can't blame the road designers, I'm sure they had more important things to think about when going about their business 50-60 years ago. So who does that leave?
I hope these guys get some sort of really stiff penalty. However, knowing how things actually work, and knowing that these guys went to one of the more prestigious (read: expensive) private schools in the province, they'll lawyer it down to something slaptastic. At the very least they spent a couple nights in jail.
The cab driver who DIED is an immigrant. In the country for six years, working to bring his family over and live a good life.
I will wait and see how Justice works itself through for this one.
If they were smart, wouldn't one of them - if they were in fact in cahoots - offer a slightler lower price than the other to induce the customer to perhaps purchase the VCR from one of the retailers?
I don't really see a problem with MS embrace and extend.... usually it is an accepted development decision to use MS- specific technologies. What I consider to be more interesting though is the fact that embrace and extend is moreso a commercial action, to differentiate themselves from competitors with similar products. And sometimes it works so incredibly well:
- the AJAX hype is all due to the MS XMLHTTP ActiveX object which IE5 (!) had, and now has only gotten to the point where there is so much hype because finally other browsers can support the same app design.
- IFRAME was originally an MS extension to HTML, I believe.
- HTML textareas MS originated.
And of course there are lot's of failures (rather dead ends). SO this is just another way for MS to compete, and you'll know if they've won this when you're using their technology, either through the MS way, or a way copied (adopted?) from MS.
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It would have taken one hour but someone forgot that they had to insert Disk 2.
I would not ride in a car you were driving while high, either drunk or anything else. Don't kid yourself that it is "less dangerous".
This particular stretch of road is quite nice. It runs for almost a full kilometer without any streetlights, and only a few intersections just on one side of the road. Being in the middle of one of the more exclusive areas of the city, and because it's well-used as a quick way to get into the downtown core, it's hilly, tree-lined, well-paved and well-lit in a nice driving corridor that would actually be a nice inclusion in any racing video game. I don't drive, but just being a passenger and going southbound at a quick rate of speed even at the speed limits is quite exhilirating. Knowing better, I don't blame the video game. It's just one of those easy things people (media) hold up to blame. You certainly can't blame the road designers, I'm sure they had more important things to think about when going about their business 50-60 years ago. So who does that leave? I hope these guys get some sort of really stiff penalty. However, knowing how things actually work, and knowing that these guys went to one of the more prestigious (read: expensive) private schools in the province, they'll lawyer it down to something slaptastic. At the very least they spent a couple nights in jail. The cab driver who DIED is an immigrant. In the country for six years, working to bring his family over and live a good life. I will wait and see how Justice works itself through for this one.
If they were smart, wouldn't one of them - if they were in fact in cahoots - offer a slightler lower price than the other to induce the customer to perhaps purchase the VCR from one of the retailers?
I don't really see a problem with MS embrace and extend.... usually it is an accepted development decision to use MS- specific technologies. What I consider to be more interesting though is the fact that embrace and extend is moreso a commercial action, to differentiate themselves from competitors with similar products. And sometimes it works so incredibly well:
- the AJAX hype is all due to the MS XMLHTTP ActiveX object which IE5 (!) had, and now has only gotten to the point where there is so much hype because finally other browsers can support the same app design.
- IFRAME was originally an MS extension to HTML, I believe.
- HTML textareas MS originated.
And of course there are lot's of failures (rather dead ends). SO this is just another way for MS to compete, and you'll know if they've won this when you're using their technology, either through the MS way, or a way copied (adopted?) from MS.