My touchscreen device isn't affected by wind chill, nor is it likely to come into contact with the pavement, even if I have an off while riding my motorcycle. I'd like to be able to use the Google Navigator on my Android while riding*, but can't really until I find a way to add a stylus...or until these gloves become available in a motorcycle version.
*For all the safety Nazis out there, no, I don't try to type in my destination while cruising down the street, but it would be nice to be able to change destinations or routes while stopped at traffic lights.
I started on Slackware (7.1), graduated to Gentoo, and now use a mix of Slackware, Gentoo, Ubuntu and Debian machines. They all have their advantages. I like Gentoo on servers because you can make it as streamlined as you want. I like Ubuntu on laptops because wireless just works and my laptops are just tools. I'll always have a soft spot for Slack because it was a great way to learn Linux, but I like the fact that with Ubuntu/Debian/Gentoo, I don't have to keep reinstalling the entire OS to upgrade to a new release* nor do I need to figure out dependencies by hand**. I've used CentOS and RHEL, but I'm not real crazy about them just because they are kind of like Apple: they are very flexible and customizable, as long as you want to do it the Apple way. I tend to be more of a minimalist; RHEL tends to throw in the kitchen sink.
*I've heard Slackware now includes an update tool, but I stopped using Slack at 9.1, so I've never used it. If so, that's a good thing.
**Ditto for the dependency checking. The "package manager" as of 9.1 was rudimentary at best; I think there's a better package manager now, but again, I've never used it.
It's not that hard; it's just tedious because you rarely get the kernel exactly right the first time...or even the tenth. And once you get the right.config for your hardware, make sure you save it, because you don't want to have to figure it out again next time.
Apparently someone doesn't know what the term "beta" means.
Very few people do anymore, what with Google releasing all of their products with the "Beta" label and never, ever releasing a production version of anything;)
Ummm...how many people reading this article actually bought VPN service from someone else? I run OpenVPN or Tunnelblick on my laptops and VPN home. Even the least tech-savvy geek on/. should be able to at least port-forward through SSH. (If you can't please turn in your geek card now.)
It would never be my first choice, no, but I have had to use the SSH client on my Android to work on a router when I was out and about somewhere. It's nice to have the ability, and better not to have to use it;)
I'm certain they have. However, considering that life forms based upon "weird alternatives" might be sufficiently exotic that we wouldn't even recognize them as life at first, it seems to make sense to *start* by looking for combinations that we already know work and for which we have established minimum requirements.
Requisite/. car (keys) analogy: Think of it this way...when you lose your car keys, do start by looking in likely places you may have left them, or do you start by looking in weird, alternative locations? Likewise, if we have established that life is most likely to occur in conjunction with liquid water, it makes the most sense to took for extra-terrestrial life in areas where liquid water exists.
Are you talking about the GUI through the web browser, or does it include a GUI interface if you built it on a host that has that capability (we built it on a Linux host without X). I was under the impression that it didn't have a GUI console like Workstation or VirtualBox has, but in hindsight that could just have been a function of the host we built VMWare Server upon
There's a lot more to this than meets the eye, too. First, 50 pieces of silver wasn't exactly chump change. Remember, Judas only got 30 pieces of silver for selling out the Messiah:) Second, I don't know how thrilled I'd be sleeping in the same house as a woman that I had raped. Can you say "Lorena Bobbit"? 8* *AND* he can't divorce her if she does...ahem...separate the naughty bits from the rest of his body. That's certainly some incentive not use this technique to marry the woman of your dreams if you aren't the man of hers. Finally, the fact that he was never allowed to divorce her basically says she can do whatever she wants and he has no recourse. In Hebrew culture at that time, a divorce was all but a death sentence to a woman. She couldn't own land or property, so her income came from the husband. Since she had been violated, no other man would want her (that seems offensive to most of us now -- myself included -- but was the norm for most cultures at that time), so if the rapist were to divorce her, she would most likely spend the rest of her life either begging for food or as a prostitute...not a good life, either way. So while being forced to marry the man who raped her may seem backwards and barbaric to us in our culture, it was at least guaranteeing her support for the rest of her life. It may have sucked, but it was (arguably) better than the alternative.
Well, yes. You have drastically increased the drag without increasing the thrust, so you will decelerate. But will you stop? Nevertheless, I do agree with your main point, if for no other reason than that the driver of the truck obviously wasn't flooring the accelerator (since he was doing 40 mph, according to TFA). Most car or truck engines are making only a fraction of max HP at 40 mph.
How hard was the accelerator pressed? How big was the truck? I used to date someone who had the 4-banger Ford Ranger. That truck was so gutless, she probably could have the accelerator floored, and your average minivan still could have easily stopped it. OTOH, my boss has a Suburban with a 6.1L V-8. I imagine it would take a semi to stop it, if he passed out with the cruise control on.
Then you aren't considering the risk factor. I'd kill a hundred who were actively trying to harm my own kid without giving it a second thought. However, I wouldn't kill even one who posed a 0.001% chance of harm to my kid, nor, I suspect would you (unless you have already killed every person who has ever cut you off in traffic, tailgated, etc.). I might have fantasized about offing a jerk in traffic for the danger (s)he posed to others in traffic, but in all honesty, if really given the chance, I wouldn't actually have hurt any of them...well, maybe one guy I would've, lol. Anyway, back to the point...no, you probably *wouldn't* kill one hundred to save your kid if the risk of harm to your kid was minimal, as it was in this incident. At least, not unless you are a complete sociopath (in which case, I doubt you would even care about your own kid).
Look, I know this is/. but did you READ TFA? The other dude was either suicidal or unconscious. If a) then he will avoid you once he realizes what you are doing. If b) then he will be grateful for what you did once he regains consciousness. You are grasping at straws.
What about him? He was slumped over the wheel of his car, colliding with cement barricades on the side of the road, swerving across lanes, and generally displaying that he was not in any condition to make an informed decision at the time.
I'm glad I'm not your kid, then. My mom was as over-protective as they come (at least it seemed that way when I was in high school) but even she would be intelligent enough -- and would assume that I possessed good judgment enough -- to weigh the risks involved in a case like this and make the right decision. Then, whichever way I decided, she wouldn't chew me a new one; she'd back the decision I made because *I was there and she wasn't*. She would express concern for my safety, but be proud that I most likely saved the lives of the driver of the other vehicle and people in the intersection ahead. Speaking as a parent myself, that's how I would treat my daughter if she had done something like this. Well, technically, I would chew her a new one, but only because she's nine and would have had no reason to be behind the wheel at all right now <grin>
Honestly, I would have been thinking about the "little ones" who could be injured or killed in the intersection ahead than the minimal risk to the ADULT children in the engineer's car. Are they any less important to their parents? The risks in a side-impact collision at 40 mph is far, far greater than the risks of a rear-end collision between two vehicles that are traveling at nearly the same speed. If you are really worried about the danger from a car at 40 mph colliding with a car doing 38 mph (going the same direction), then may I humbly suggest you return your geek card? You really don't understand physics, and are more easily swayed by emotion than rational thought.
Seriously, how much danger were they really in? I can think of two possibilities: 1) impact from the truck he was trying to stop; and 2) not being able to stop the truck and therefore being pushed into the intersection. In case of 1) you are talking about positioning yourself in front of the second vehicle and *slowly* applying the brakes. The risk involved in such a maneuver is so negligible as to be laughable. The only real danger was from case 2). However TFA says that was "a couple hundred yards ahead" so I would think that even this posed little risk. If you try to slow down the vehicle but find that your brakes aren't up to the task, you can always accelerate out of the way and let him proceed through the intersection alone.
Given what he knew at the time, I feel the path to least net risk and least net harm would be to get out of the way, honking and flashing lights to warn the intersection.
What about the intersection after that? And the intersection after *that*, ad infinitum.
If the driver of the other vehicle was slumped over the wheel, sooner or later, he was going to hit *something*. What the engineer did was logical, rational, and yes, heroic.
Becuase VMWare Server doesn't really provide a desktop? It was geared towards headless servers, so the console isn't exactly geared for (GUI) desktop use. It might *work*, but it's not nearly as slick or reliable as the desktop on Virtualbox or VMWare Workstation, at least in my experience.
OP will probably be doing it quite a bit. From TFS: "Performance does matter — not for gaming but I am heavily into photography, so apps like Lightroom and Photoshop need to run well."
Yes, but IIRC, licensing on the proprietary version restricts its use to non-commercial or evaluation purposes only. That may not be an issue for OP, but I use VirtualBox OSE on my work laptop so I can have an XP machine for those one or two times a month I actually *need* a Windows box for something. Therefore it is an issue for me.
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My touchscreen device isn't affected by wind chill, nor is it likely to come into contact with the pavement, even if I have an off while riding my motorcycle. I'd like to be able to use the Google Navigator on my Android while riding*, but can't really until I find a way to add a stylus...or until these gloves become available in a motorcycle version.
*For all the safety Nazis out there, no, I don't try to type in my destination while cruising down the street, but it would be nice to be able to change destinations or routes while stopped at traffic lights.
Funny, but, well...meh.
I started on Slackware (7.1), graduated to Gentoo, and now use a mix of Slackware, Gentoo, Ubuntu and Debian machines. They all have their advantages. I like Gentoo on servers because you can make it as streamlined as you want. I like Ubuntu on laptops because wireless just works and my laptops are just tools. I'll always have a soft spot for Slack because it was a great way to learn Linux, but I like the fact that with Ubuntu/Debian/Gentoo, I don't have to keep reinstalling the entire OS to upgrade to a new release* nor do I need to figure out dependencies by hand**. I've used CentOS and RHEL, but I'm not real crazy about them just because they are kind of like Apple: they are very flexible and customizable, as long as you want to do it the Apple way. I tend to be more of a minimalist; RHEL tends to throw in the kitchen sink.
*I've heard Slackware now includes an update tool, but I stopped using Slack at 9.1, so I've never used it. If so, that's a good thing.
**Ditto for the dependency checking. The "package manager" as of 9.1 was rudimentary at best; I think there's a better package manager now, but again, I've never used it.
It's not that hard; it's just tedious because you rarely get the kernel exactly right the first time...or even the tenth. And once you get the right .config for your hardware, make sure you save it, because you don't want to have to figure it out again next time.
Apparently someone doesn't know what the term "beta" means.
Very few people do anymore, what with Google releasing all of their products with the "Beta" label and never, ever releasing a production version of anything ;)
...vs buying service from a VPN provider.
Ummm...how many people reading this article actually bought VPN service from someone else? I run OpenVPN or Tunnelblick on my laptops and VPN home. Even the least tech-savvy geek on /. should be able to at least port-forward through SSH. (If you can't please turn in your geek card now.)
It would never be my first choice, no, but I have had to use the SSH client on my Android to work on a router when I was out and about somewhere. It's nice to have the ability, and better not to have to use it ;)
Ah...yep, we're running 2.0.
I'm certain they have. However, considering that life forms based upon "weird alternatives" might be sufficiently exotic that we wouldn't even recognize them as life at first, it seems to make sense to *start* by looking for combinations that we already know work and for which we have established minimum requirements.
/. car (keys) analogy: Think of it this way...when you lose your car keys, do start by looking in likely places you may have left them, or do you start by looking in weird, alternative locations? Likewise, if we have established that life is most likely to occur in conjunction with liquid water, it makes the most sense to took for extra-terrestrial life in areas where liquid water exists.
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Are you talking about the GUI through the web browser, or does it include a GUI interface if you built it on a host that has that capability (we built it on a Linux host without X). I was under the impression that it didn't have a GUI console like Workstation or VirtualBox has, but in hindsight that could just have been a function of the host we built VMWare Server upon
There's a lot more to this than meets the eye, too. First, 50 pieces of silver wasn't exactly chump change. Remember, Judas only got 30 pieces of silver for selling out the Messiah :) Second, I don't know how thrilled I'd be sleeping in the same house as a woman that I had raped. Can you say "Lorena Bobbit"? 8* *AND* he can't divorce her if she does...ahem...separate the naughty bits from the rest of his body. That's certainly some incentive not use this technique to marry the woman of your dreams if you aren't the man of hers. Finally, the fact that he was never allowed to divorce her basically says she can do whatever she wants and he has no recourse. In Hebrew culture at that time, a divorce was all but a death sentence to a woman. She couldn't own land or property, so her income came from the husband. Since she had been violated, no other man would want her (that seems offensive to most of us now -- myself included -- but was the norm for most cultures at that time), so if the rapist were to divorce her, she would most likely spend the rest of her life either begging for food or as a prostitute...not a good life, either way. So while being forced to marry the man who raped her may seem backwards and barbaric to us in our culture, it was at least guaranteeing her support for the rest of her life. It may have sucked, but it was (arguably) better than the alternative.
Well, yes. You have drastically increased the drag without increasing the thrust, so you will decelerate. But will you stop ? Nevertheless, I do agree with your main point, if for no other reason than that the driver of the truck obviously wasn't flooring the accelerator (since he was doing 40 mph, according to TFA). Most car or truck engines are making only a fraction of max HP at 40 mph.
the minivan's brakes would've had a hard time fighting inertia plus the truck's (150 cu-in) engine
Where did you get that? I actually did RTFA, but didn't see any mention of the truck's type or displacement. 'Course, I could have missed it...
RTFA. It was pretty obvious the guy was down for the count.
How hard was the accelerator pressed? How big was the truck? I used to date someone who had the 4-banger Ford Ranger. That truck was so gutless, she probably could have the accelerator floored, and your average minivan still could have easily stopped it. OTOH, my boss has a Suburban with a 6.1L V-8. I imagine it would take a semi to stop it, if he passed out with the cruise control on.
Then you aren't considering the risk factor. I'd kill a hundred who were actively trying to harm my own kid without giving it a second thought. However, I wouldn't kill even one who posed a 0.001% chance of harm to my kid, nor, I suspect would you (unless you have already killed every person who has ever cut you off in traffic, tailgated, etc.). I might have fantasized about offing a jerk in traffic for the danger (s)he posed to others in traffic, but in all honesty, if really given the chance, I wouldn't actually have hurt any of them...well, maybe one guy I would've, lol. Anyway, back to the point...no, you probably *wouldn't* kill one hundred to save your kid if the risk of harm to your kid was minimal, as it was in this incident. At least, not unless you are a complete sociopath (in which case, I doubt you would even care about your own kid).
He had already impacted a cement barricade. Your fear is therefore unfounded.
Look, I know this is /. but did you READ TFA? The other dude was either suicidal or unconscious. If a) then he will avoid you once he realizes what you are doing. If b) then he will be grateful for what you did once he regains consciousness. You are grasping at straws.
What about him? He was slumped over the wheel of his car, colliding with cement barricades on the side of the road, swerving across lanes, and generally displaying that he was not in any condition to make an informed decision at the time.
I'm glad I'm not your kid, then. My mom was as over-protective as they come (at least it seemed that way when I was in high school) but even she would be intelligent enough -- and would assume that I possessed good judgment enough -- to weigh the risks involved in a case like this and make the right decision. Then, whichever way I decided, she wouldn't chew me a new one; she'd back the decision I made because *I was there and she wasn't*. She would express concern for my safety, but be proud that I most likely saved the lives of the driver of the other vehicle and people in the intersection ahead. Speaking as a parent myself, that's how I would treat my daughter if she had done something like this. Well, technically, I would chew her a new one, but only because she's nine and would have had no reason to be behind the wheel at all right now <grin>
Honestly, I would have been thinking about the "little ones" who could be injured or killed in the intersection ahead than the minimal risk to the ADULT children in the engineer's car. Are they any less important to their parents? The risks in a side-impact collision at 40 mph is far, far greater than the risks of a rear-end collision between two vehicles that are traveling at nearly the same speed. If you are really worried about the danger from a car at 40 mph colliding with a car doing 38 mph (going the same direction), then may I humbly suggest you return your geek card? You really don't understand physics, and are more easily swayed by emotion than rational thought.
Seriously, how much danger were they really in? I can think of two possibilities: 1) impact from the truck he was trying to stop; and 2) not being able to stop the truck and therefore being pushed into the intersection. In case of 1) you are talking about positioning yourself in front of the second vehicle and *slowly* applying the brakes. The risk involved in such a maneuver is so negligible as to be laughable. The only real danger was from case 2). However TFA says that was "a couple hundred yards ahead" so I would think that even this posed little risk. If you try to slow down the vehicle but find that your brakes aren't up to the task, you can always accelerate out of the way and let him proceed through the intersection alone.
"The coward dies a thousand deaths. The hero dies but one."
I'd rather be the hero.
Given what he knew at the time, I feel the path to least net risk and least net harm would be to get out of the way, honking and flashing lights to warn the intersection.
What about the intersection after that? And the intersection after *that*, ad infinitum.
If the driver of the other vehicle was slumped over the wheel, sooner or later, he was going to hit *something*. What the engineer did was logical, rational, and yes, heroic.
Becuase VMWare Server doesn't really provide a desktop? It was geared towards headless servers, so the console isn't exactly geared for (GUI) desktop use. It might *work*, but it's not nearly as slick or reliable as the desktop on Virtualbox or VMWare Workstation, at least in my experience.
OP will probably be doing it quite a bit. From TFS: "Performance does matter — not for gaming but I am heavily into photography, so apps like Lightroom and Photoshop need to run well."
Yes, but IIRC, licensing on the proprietary version restricts its use to non-commercial or evaluation purposes only. That may not be an issue for OP, but I use VirtualBox OSE on my work laptop so I can have an XP machine for those one or two times a month I actually *need* a Windows box for something. Therefore it is an issue for me.