Coordinate the damn traffic lights. Yes, maybe I do have a knack for triggering a red light when I drive up to it. But what I don't understand is why on major expressways (essentially freeways through urban areas with traffic lights), red lights are triggered when a single car comes to a stop at a small cross road. The net effect is that in order to get a single car across the road in less than 20 seconds, 10 cars have to come to a stop for 20 seconds.
Bad example. One way or another, it's going to stop the expressway to get that one car across it, and it was probably thought to just let it go as soon as possible. Problem with a street that sounds as busy as you make it out to me, people WILL end up having to stop at some point. In your example, if you let those 10 cars go through, another 10 will just end up behind it. Do you let that second group of 10 go through? Or make them stop at a red light? What about the next 10?
The only way that car could cross without affecting the main line is to have no cars on the main line, but that just won't happen. Timing the lights helps somewhat, but you have to get through at the start of the timing otherwise you'll still be stuck behind the wave of green lights that the timing creates.
Course, the prisoner's dilemma part arises because people are only focused on the immediate gratification rather than the long term for their car. If they cared more about saving on gas and maintenance rather than passing one car just to get 8 feet closer to a red light, there wouldn't be a dilemma.
As far as tailgaters, if I get one, I simply let up on the gas and slow down more. Freeways, streets, I'm sure people hate me for it, but if you're only giving me a 5 foot gap between my trunk and your hood, I'll turn it into a 3 second gap as well. They either pass me or increase the space. Course, I live in the slow lane so I tend to be able to get away with this.
I'd say 3 miles is a bit extreme, but I have done quarter-mile coasts. Anyway, that's what the happy medium's for.
I go 65-70 on So. Cal freeways. Period. I also manage to keep a healthy 3 second window most of the time. I rarely brake. There are days I could make it from home to work without hitting the brake once (well, if it wasn't for red lights, right turns and parking).
They have room to pass me, and I give them all the room they want. I guess what it all boils down to is I'm comfortable with the size of my penis.
Common sense is hardly common though. People don't see the long term advantage of coasting, instead they see the immediate glorification of passing someone, even if it means racing to a red light and having to slam on the brakes, THEY BEAT THAT OTHER CAR!!
Makes me glad I drive a Geo... if they pass me while I'm coasting to the light it's like Carl Lewis passing a kid in the special olympics.
For instance, I will haul ass up to a light if it will let me get in front of the one dipshit who I know is going to slow me down.
And so you reach the red light, and by the time the dipshit reaches it, the light turns green. Who saves on gas and brake pads there? The dipshit. What did you get? Line position at a red light. Bra-vo./golfclap
Under RICO, a person or group who commits any two of 35 crimes--27 federal crimes and 8 state crimes--within a 10-year period and, in the opinion of the United States Attorney bringing the case, has committed those crimes with similar purpose or results can be charged with racketeering.
The RIAA has yet to actually get hit with their OWN investigation, let alone multiple ones. Since the RIAA hasn't been brought up on charges yet, let alone be convicted, they can't meet those prereqs for RICO.
This still leaves the door open in the future (given the RIAA's current track record), but right now, all that can be done is to keep winning the frivolous suits they bring up against other people and not settling early.
RICO looks like a three strikes law, and the RIAA doesn't have one strike against them yet.
Talks over the price of Merck's drug, Efavirenz, broke off on Thursday when the health ministry rejected the New Jersey-based company's offer to cut its $1.59 per pill price by 30 percent. Brazil wanted to pay what Merck charges Thailand, or $0.65 per pill.
They TRIED to negotiate, and Merck put up a wall. So, in effect, Merck DID refuse Brazil.
They must really have been stretching for something to put in the CON field. Heck, I'd consider everything they listed as a PRO aspect. Gameplay > graphics, and I'd rather a game delayed 3 months or more to make sure it works rather than release something halfassed that needs patches later on.
"Secretly"? Seriously? This is in the public record, it's not sealed. Or should anyone making any kind of legal motion be required to send out a mass mailing to anyone potentially affected?
If you want to change your name, you have to make a public notice in the paper. If a store that sells liquor is changing ownership, they have to put a notice in their window.
Just because something is public doesn't mean it's actually out in the open. Who here goes through each docket of the courts in Denver? I wonder what the reaction would be if no attention was brought to this and suddenly hundreds get affected by this because the ISPs don't give a rats about their users and give the RIAA whatever they want. Bet people would be calling FOUL!!!! then...
Third-party Programs? No. Windows programs not installed by default? Yes. (Ok, technically they're 'components' but whatever...)
Anyway, Microsoft got some sense and renamed this in Vista to "Programs and Features." Makes a smidge more sense if only in the respect it no longer has "Add" in the name.
And the Cell isn't really intended for general-purpose use
Really? I could be wrong about this but I thought they were pushing the Cell as the next great awakening in chips, sure, game consoles and mainframes but they were also talking about cell phones and other portable electronics.
Just what I remember though, I didn't devote much memory to it.
Concur wholeheartedly. We're not in a utopia; OSS has to pay the bandwidth bills somehow. If all there was was OSS, then we couldn't get by on the good graces of companies since people wouldn't be paying for code, thus coders wouldn't be able to pay to host the servers or the bandwidth for that code.
Plus, if they're making money through support, that means there are people, and more importantly companies, willing to put their faith in OSS. That's major, really.
They don't always get that option. Back when I was at Berkeley in 2000, bandwidth was getting hammered hard. Some people even thought of getting their own service, but phone and cable co.s don't have the necessary access to the dorm network that they would need to put that in place, and rescomp wouldn't give it to them anyway.
Course, it has been 6 years, things may have changed, but I doubt it...
Ahh, Carter. I remember something he used once. Starts with a 'd' but hard for me to remember, not used much today. Oh yes, diplomacy.
Camp David Accord anyone?
Sure, he did some things that didn't sit well. Pardoning draft dodgers was a mixed bag. Letting the Shah of Iran in for cancer treatment didn't really help his legacy much either, leading to the hostage crisis. But would you say John Adams was horrible simply because of the XYZ Affair with France?
No prob, we'll just tell all the companies we support not to hire anyone for a few years...
There are more reasons people buy PCs than just for home. Vista's caused us no end of grief on the small-med business front, and we still have enough problems with day to day use let alone deal with teething issues.
Plus we do not have the option of not buying a new system. Companies grow, companies hire new people, new people need PCs, those new PCs are coming from Dell and we're finding a way to put XP on them, damnit, because it (usually) just works.
Exactly. Time spent creating Unique_Wall_Texture_37 takes time from creating Unique_Mob_Texture.
I mean, I know every time I go through Half-Life 2, I spent hours looking at wall textures wondering how each would look as wallpaper for my room. I could care less about the striders, the bugs, Dog or Alyx.
Microsoft's long term goal in this is to have a microsoft box at the core of a home's media center. Their first attempt was, aptly, 'XP Media Center.' Basically, they want in the living room, and they want in badly.
Sony is just trying to keep MS from accomplishing this goal, to make their own 'media center' box using the Playstation brand.
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Coordinate the damn traffic lights. Yes, maybe I do have a knack for triggering a red light when I drive up to it. But what I don't understand is why on major expressways (essentially freeways through urban areas with traffic lights), red lights are triggered when a single car comes to a stop at a small cross road. The net effect is that in order to get a single car across the road in less than 20 seconds, 10 cars have to come to a stop for 20 seconds.
Bad example. One way or another, it's going to stop the expressway to get that one car across it, and it was probably thought to just let it go as soon as possible. Problem with a street that sounds as busy as you make it out to me, people WILL end up having to stop at some point. In your example, if you let those 10 cars go through, another 10 will just end up behind it. Do you let that second group of 10 go through? Or make them stop at a red light? What about the next 10?
The only way that car could cross without affecting the main line is to have no cars on the main line, but that just won't happen. Timing the lights helps somewhat, but you have to get through at the start of the timing otherwise you'll still be stuck behind the wave of green lights that the timing creates.
You forgot:
5. Compensating for small endowments. (See BMWs, Jags, Mercedes, Lexuses...)
Course, the prisoner's dilemma part arises because people are only focused on the immediate gratification rather than the long term for their car. If they cared more about saving on gas and maintenance rather than passing one car just to get 8 feet closer to a red light, there wouldn't be a dilemma.
As far as tailgaters, if I get one, I simply let up on the gas and slow down more. Freeways, streets, I'm sure people hate me for it, but if you're only giving me a 5 foot gap between my trunk and your hood, I'll turn it into a 3 second gap as well. They either pass me or increase the space. Course, I live in the slow lane so I tend to be able to get away with this.
I'd say 3 miles is a bit extreme, but I have done quarter-mile coasts. Anyway, that's what the happy medium's for.
I go 65-70 on So. Cal freeways. Period. I also manage to keep a healthy 3 second window most of the time. I rarely brake. There are days I could make it from home to work without hitting the brake once (well, if it wasn't for red lights, right turns and parking).
They have room to pass me, and I give them all the room they want. I guess what it all boils down to is I'm comfortable with the size of my penis.
Common sense is hardly common though. People don't see the long term advantage of coasting, instead they see the immediate glorification of passing someone, even if it means racing to a red light and having to slam on the brakes, THEY BEAT THAT OTHER CAR!!
Makes me glad I drive a Geo... if they pass me while I'm coasting to the light it's like Carl Lewis passing a kid in the special olympics.
For instance, I will haul ass up to a light if it will let me get in front of the one dipshit who I know is going to slow me down.
/golfclap
And so you reach the red light, and by the time the dipshit reaches it, the light turns green. Who saves on gas and brake pads there? The dipshit. What did you get? Line position at a red light. Bra-vo.
According to Wiki ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_ and_Corrupt_Organizations_Act ), which, while we all know is as reliable as Miss Cleo makes for a nice copy/paste...
Under RICO, a person or group who commits any two of 35 crimes--27 federal crimes and 8 state crimes--within a 10-year period and, in the opinion of the United States Attorney bringing the case, has committed those crimes with similar purpose or results can be charged with racketeering.
The RIAA has yet to actually get hit with their OWN investigation, let alone multiple ones. Since the RIAA hasn't been brought up on charges yet, let alone be convicted, they can't meet those prereqs for RICO.
This still leaves the door open in the future (given the RIAA's current track record), but right now, all that can be done is to keep winning the frivolous suits they bring up against other people and not settling early.
RICO looks like a three strikes law, and the RIAA doesn't have one strike against them yet.
Given the Sony rootkit fiasco, can you be certain that $15 CD is DRM free?
FTFA:
Talks over the price of Merck's drug, Efavirenz, broke off on Thursday when the health ministry rejected the New Jersey-based company's offer to cut its $1.59 per pill price by 30 percent. Brazil wanted to pay what Merck charges Thailand, or $0.65 per pill.
They TRIED to negotiate, and Merck put up a wall. So, in effect, Merck DID refuse Brazil.
Basically, Verizon does not have a leg to stand on.
Except in a court of law.
Even more worrying, the Wii worlds possibly are also going to be smaller.
Twilight Princess.
...great, no iPod for me then
They must really have been stretching for something to put in the CON field. Heck, I'd consider everything they listed as a PRO aspect. Gameplay > graphics, and I'd rather a game delayed 3 months or more to make sure it works rather than release something halfassed that needs patches later on.
"Secretly"? Seriously? This is in the public record, it's not sealed. Or should anyone making any kind of legal motion be required to send out a mass mailing to anyone potentially affected?
If you want to change your name, you have to make a public notice in the paper. If a store that sells liquor is changing ownership, they have to put a notice in their window.
Just because something is public doesn't mean it's actually out in the open. Who here goes through each docket of the courts in Denver? I wonder what the reaction would be if no attention was brought to this and suddenly hundreds get affected by this because the ISPs don't give a rats about their users and give the RIAA whatever they want. Bet people would be calling FOUL!!!! then...
Hindsight's 20/20, of course.
Third-party Programs? No. Windows programs not installed by default? Yes. (Ok, technically they're 'components' but whatever...)
Anyway, Microsoft got some sense and renamed this in Vista to "Programs and Features." Makes a smidge more sense if only in the respect it no longer has "Add" in the name.
And the Cell isn't really intended for general-purpose use
Really? I could be wrong about this but I thought they were pushing the Cell as the next great awakening in chips, sure, game consoles and mainframes but they were also talking about cell phones and other portable electronics.
Just what I remember though, I didn't devote much memory to it.
Concur wholeheartedly. We're not in a utopia; OSS has to pay the bandwidth bills somehow. If all there was was OSS, then we couldn't get by on the good graces of companies since people wouldn't be paying for code, thus coders wouldn't be able to pay to host the servers or the bandwidth for that code.
Plus, if they're making money through support, that means there are people, and more importantly companies, willing to put their faith in OSS. That's major, really.
They don't always get that option. Back when I was at Berkeley in 2000, bandwidth was getting hammered hard. Some people even thought of getting their own service, but phone and cable co.s don't have the necessary access to the dorm network that they would need to put that in place, and rescomp wouldn't give it to them anyway.
Course, it has been 6 years, things may have changed, but I doubt it...
Ahh, Carter. I remember something he used once. Starts with a 'd' but hard for me to remember, not used much today. Oh yes, diplomacy.
Camp David Accord anyone?
Sure, he did some things that didn't sit well. Pardoning draft dodgers was a mixed bag. Letting the Shah of Iran in for cancer treatment didn't really help his legacy much either, leading to the hostage crisis. But would you say John Adams was horrible simply because of the XYZ Affair with France?
Ghirardelli ...serves me right for not double checking the spelling before posting...
Without researching much, Ghiradelli is a higher end chocolate brand in the US. I'm sure there're others as well.
No prob, we'll just tell all the companies we support not to hire anyone for a few years...
There are more reasons people buy PCs than just for home. Vista's caused us no end of grief on the small-med business front, and we still have enough problems with day to day use let alone deal with teething issues.
Plus we do not have the option of not buying a new system. Companies grow, companies hire new people, new people need PCs, those new PCs are coming from Dell and we're finding a way to put XP on them, damnit, because it (usually) just works.
Since it's a business model, HP will patent it. Competition problem solved.
Exactly. Time spent creating Unique_Wall_Texture_37 takes time from creating Unique_Mob_Texture.
I mean, I know every time I go through Half-Life 2, I spent hours looking at wall textures wondering how each would look as wallpaper for my room. I could care less about the striders, the bugs, Dog or Alyx.
Microsoft's long term goal in this is to have a microsoft box at the core of a home's media center. Their first attempt was, aptly, 'XP Media Center.' Basically, they want in the living room, and they want in badly.
Sony is just trying to keep MS from accomplishing this goal, to make their own 'media center' box using the Playstation brand.