I put my phone inside a closed compartment in my seat's armrest when I'm using it to play music in the car. That way I can't see it, I can't touch it, and I can't get distracted by it.
If a track comes on that I really can't cope with, I use the steering wheel buttons to switch the sound off or to switch the radio on for a couple of minutes.
It's inconvenient at times, but I'd be more pissed off at wrecking my car than when a dodgy track plays.
Oddly, no. The physical reaction of my passengers prior to any verbal response that I can spot in my peripheral vision tends to be a clear indication that there's a potential issue.
Many of my passengers are experienced drivers. They spot potential issues before they become issues. Their reaction triggers my need to identify that risk, and thus enables me to react before it becomes an issue.
(Often they're reacting to something I'm already aware of - but because I'm driving I have better information available to me which may have led me to making no apparent adjustment in response to the risk, so they don't realise I'm aware and already in control of the situation)
I can use my turn signals with no hands on the steering wheel.
What if you need to honk at someone who's moving into your lane?
This one however always escapes me. If the issue is urgent enough for me to need to honk then frankly I'm too busy evading to spare time hitting a horn, no matter how many hands I'm using.
If I have time to hit the horn then it means I've already evaded the person, so there's no longer an immediate danger and so no need to honk.
Clearly I need to practice my 'honking while dodging' skills:(
In which case there is no difference compared to someone being in the car talking to you.
A - yes there is, because the other person in the car will pause when you're busy, wait patiently when you can't answer immediately, will highlight the potential dangers you missed because you were too busy talking
B - even disregarding all that, I'm a far worse driver when I have a passenger because I am distracted, I do pay less attention to the road and I do make more mistakes
I'm far fucking safer driving with no hands on the wheel than I am with passengers in the car. I'd be an excessive risk to myself and others if I tried using my mobile phone while driving.
notably I also have a verbal IQ in the genius range
Sadly your verbal IQ clearly outperforms the rest of you. How effectively you verbally communicate has fuck all to do with the level of attention to give to that task, and doesn't make you safe to be driving.
..and yet, because I spend a full weekend configuring, changing, setting up and slimming down any new PC I get, it keeps running for years after with minimal maintenance.
My total time spent tinkering/customising nets out at far less than the time most people I know spend trying to fix their computer because they didn't do that initial work and do trust the various software vendors to do everything for them, and I have a far superior computing experience on top.
It doesn't bother you that you're a co-dependent little bitch?
I'd rather be bloody good at a few things than fairly crap at many.
Reality is that no individual can know everything, do everything, survive without input from others while maintaining the quality of life that I enjoy. So social interaction and reliance is inherent in that quality of life - or are you going to tell me you mined the silicon and built the computer you're using from scratch? Because frankly, I don't fucking believe you did, you co-dependent little bitch.
wtf? sports at school wont keep you fit. The ratio of people doing enough exercise outside of school that the small addition within school keeps them fit is tiny compared to the people that would be fit even without sports at school (even disregarding the people that aren't fit at all)
I can't do that in my head in a single step. I have to break it down into multiple separate smaller calculations, which I bring together to create the right answer.
In the event I ignored the 8 and worked off the 280; it was quicker, easier and I factored the 8 in later.
(and yeah, all the questions correct, and no, no bloody calculator)
I'm interpreting it as "the wifi connection is on a separate LAN that has no access inside the main corporate LAN due to a firewall keeping them separate". That both LANs route view the same cable modem to reach the Internet merely means the cable modem is also outside the firewall - as indeed it should..
I'm sorry, you appear to have replied to the wrong post. You are refuting points that I didn't make. At no point did I suggest that making money is unethical; this renders your entire post futile.
Honestly, the whole story is nonsense created an a very ignorant person. Free software was never intended to keep programmers from making a living
Sorry but no. The whole story is a very real warning to a user community that a large company is acting in an unethical and immoral manner by trading on the name and reputation of someone else.
Making money through advertising on the download site isn't causing any problem. Pretending to offer Fyodor's downloader while in fact seeking to install other software is a trojan attack and bad behaviour no matter how you look at it.
Calling this nonsense fails to understand the key issue and misrepresents both the complaint, and the complainant.
Oooh, interesting. Do you do much film photography these days?
Emotionally and aesthetically I love the quality and texture and tangible nature of film, but at the same time I know that I'm a far better photographer digitally because it's so much cheaper and easier to take dozens of photographs of something and only keep the good one.
So I miss the days of film, but not enough to keep shooting with it:)
Thanks, nice to get confirmation that you're full of shit.
If you want to do studio photography then sure, don't take your camera anywhere. If you want to do photography, then you don't know when the right image, the right situation, the right weather, the right light's going to appear.
Driving to collect my pizza last year I found the light magical, the sudden frost beautiful and ended up with a load of fantastic photographs. Had I left my camera at home, none.
But sure, whatever works for you. Just don't impose your restrictions on others.
At the high end point and shoot range, I'd probably go for the Leica rather than the Panasonic.
Sure, it's the same camera, the same body, the same lens and a higher price tag. But one you'd use then sell second hand, and one you'd use then put on your shelf for the rest of your life.
I'm sorely tempted by the new d-lux 5 titanium. I just know I wouldn't use it often enough to justify it:(
A decent photo is one that can you work with in Photoshop (or the Gimp, which is better for everything except a few types of professional work). The kinds of things you want to be able to do are cropping and rescaling, selective blurring of background distractions, selective sharpening with the "unsharp" capability, often some tweaking of colors. In this day and age, a photo is not finished until it has been photoshopped at least a little bit.
A great photo is one that doesn't need any of that (except maybe cropping - which can be done on any photo from any source).
Learn how to use your camera, how to frame a shot, how to focus, how to use depth of field, how to choose and achieve the right exposure and take better photographs from the outset.
Feel free to post-process your photographs, and there are a lot of really nice pictures that have resulted from people doing just that, but please, don't pretend it's essential. It's not.
So you take your DSLR to work, to the local shop shopping, on the train to London when you already have a laptop and other crap with you, out dancing in the evenings, to the swimming pool when you go swimming, when you're participating in an active sport and to every party and event you go to?
Because that's where I've had my camera so far this year, and trust me, I wouldn't have had the carrying capacity/room to take a DSLR to all of those, even if I had wanted to risk losing/breaking/having it stolen at all of them.
If indeed you can't be bothered to bring a DSLR with you, then this entire thread should just be deleted.
The next time you leave the house - even to empty your bin - without your DSLR then please act with integrity and put it up for sale on ebay on your return home.
Which part of "assaulting people with a weapon" are you struggling to comprehend being excessive force in response to "people sitting down".
For fucks sake, just leave them there. They'll get hungry, they'll need the toilet, they'll get cramp and want to get up and walk around. Attacking them with chemical weapons? I hope they sue that fuckwit policeman in a civil court, irrespective of criminal charges against him.
Use of pepper spray as a compliance tool is wrong, out of order, excessive, unnecessary and authoritarian.
The issue isn't the muscle ache. That kind of feels good in a way.
The issue is the utter sheer fucking tedium of lifting your arm, dropping it again, lifting it, dropping it, lifting it, droppi.. oh for fucks sake, can I go and do something interesting instead please?
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I put my phone inside a closed compartment in my seat's armrest when I'm using it to play music in the car. That way I can't see it, I can't touch it, and I can't get distracted by it.
If a track comes on that I really can't cope with, I use the steering wheel buttons to switch the sound off or to switch the radio on for a couple of minutes.
It's inconvenient at times, but I'd be more pissed off at wrecking my car than when a dodgy track plays.
Oddly, no. The physical reaction of my passengers prior to any verbal response that I can spot in my peripheral vision tends to be a clear indication that there's a potential issue.
Many of my passengers are experienced drivers. They spot potential issues before they become issues. Their reaction triggers my need to identify that risk, and thus enables me to react before it becomes an issue.
(Often they're reacting to something I'm already aware of - but because I'm driving I have better information available to me which may have led me to making no apparent adjustment in response to the risk, so they don't realise I'm aware and already in control of the situation)
erm. Why?
X is dangerous and stupid.
Y is dangerous and stupid.
You're saying only ban X if you also ban Y? What's wrong with the incremental improvement achieved through banning X?
I don't understand your logic.
I can use my turn signals with no hands on the steering wheel.
What if you need to honk at someone who's moving into your lane?
This one however always escapes me. If the issue is urgent enough for me to need to honk then frankly I'm too busy evading to spare time hitting a horn, no matter how many hands I'm using.
If I have time to hit the horn then it means I've already evaded the person, so there's no longer an immediate danger and so no need to honk.
Clearly I need to practice my 'honking while dodging' skills :(
In which case there is no difference compared to someone being in the car talking to you.
A - yes there is, because the other person in the car will pause when you're busy, wait patiently when you can't answer immediately, will highlight the potential dangers you missed because you were too busy talking
B - even disregarding all that, I'm a far worse driver when I have a passenger because I am distracted, I do pay less attention to the road and I do make more mistakes
I'm far fucking safer driving with no hands on the wheel than I am with passengers in the car. I'd be an excessive risk to myself and others if I tried using my mobile phone while driving.
notably I also have a verbal IQ in the genius range
Sadly your verbal IQ clearly outperforms the rest of you. How effectively you verbally communicate has fuck all to do with the level of attention to give to that task, and doesn't make you safe to be driving.
it Crashes Way Too Often
At a guess, that's a plug-in you're using. Firefox doesn't crash for me. Well, not more than once every 2-3 months.
Maybe that's Way Too Often for you?
Nikita's a good film - definitely worth hunting down if you haven't seen it.
Of course, its spiritual sequel, "Leon" is one of the greatest films ever made, but you needed Nikita first.
My total time spent tinkering/customising nets out at far less than the time most people I know spend trying to fix their computer because they didn't do that initial work and do trust the various software vendors to do everything for them, and I have a far superior computing experience on top.
It doesn't bother you that you're a co-dependent little bitch?
I'd rather be bloody good at a few things than fairly crap at many.
Reality is that no individual can know everything, do everything, survive without input from others while maintaining the quality of life that I enjoy. So social interaction and reliance is inherent in that quality of life - or are you going to tell me you mined the silicon and built the computer you're using from scratch? Because frankly, I don't fucking believe you did, you co-dependent little bitch.
Don't be scared. Don't even be intimidated that the rest of us didn't bother with scratch paper either.
Just find a job working with people, not numbers ;)
wtf? sports at school wont keep you fit. The ratio of people doing enough exercise outside of school that the small addition within school keeps them fit is tiny compared to the people that would be fit even without sports at school (even disregarding the people that aren't fit at all)
I can't do that in my head in a single step. I have to break it down into multiple separate smaller calculations, which I bring together to create the right answer.
In the event I ignored the 8 and worked off the 280; it was quicker, easier and I factored the 8 in later.
(and yeah, all the questions correct, and no, no bloody calculator)
I'm interpreting it as "the wifi connection is on a separate LAN that has no access inside the main corporate LAN due to a firewall keeping them separate". That both LANs route view the same cable modem to reach the Internet merely means the cable modem is also outside the firewall - as indeed it should..
I'm sorry, you appear to have replied to the wrong post. You are refuting points that I didn't make. At no point did I suggest that making money is unethical; this renders your entire post futile.
Honestly, the whole story is nonsense created an a very ignorant person. Free software was never intended to keep programmers from making a living
Sorry but no. The whole story is a very real warning to a user community that a large company is acting in an unethical and immoral manner by trading on the name and reputation of someone else.
Making money through advertising on the download site isn't causing any problem. Pretending to offer Fyodor's downloader while in fact seeking to install other software is a trojan attack and bad behaviour no matter how you look at it.
Calling this nonsense fails to understand the key issue and misrepresents both the complaint, and the complainant.
Sorry, but that's not a spitfire. This is a spitfire:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EcCYA68m_w&feature=related
(this is 16 at once: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6c3v9iihgw)
Oooh, interesting. Do you do much film photography these days?
Emotionally and aesthetically I love the quality and texture and tangible nature of film, but at the same time I know that I'm a far better photographer digitally because it's so much cheaper and easier to take dozens of photographs of something and only keep the good one.
So I miss the days of film, but not enough to keep shooting with it :)
Thanks, nice to get confirmation that you're full of shit.
If you want to do studio photography then sure, don't take your camera anywhere. If you want to do photography, then you don't know when the right image, the right situation, the right weather, the right light's going to appear.
Driving to collect my pizza last year I found the light magical, the sudden frost beautiful and ended up with a load of fantastic photographs. Had I left my camera at home, none.
But sure, whatever works for you. Just don't impose your restrictions on others.
At the high end point and shoot range, I'd probably go for the Leica rather than the Panasonic.
Sure, it's the same camera, the same body, the same lens and a higher price tag. But one you'd use then sell second hand, and one you'd use then put on your shelf for the rest of your life.
I'm sorely tempted by the new d-lux 5 titanium. I just know I wouldn't use it often enough to justify it :(
You forgot the makers of the camera I wish I could justify buying:
http://en.leica-camera.com/photography/special_editions/m9_titan/
It's beautiful. I _know_ it's not value for money, but I want one anyway.
A decent photo is one that can you work with in Photoshop (or the Gimp, which is better for everything except a few types of professional work). The kinds of things you want to be able to do are cropping and rescaling, selective blurring of background distractions, selective sharpening with the "unsharp" capability, often some tweaking of colors. In this day and age, a photo is not finished until it has been photoshopped at least a little bit.
A great photo is one that doesn't need any of that (except maybe cropping - which can be done on any photo from any source).
Learn how to use your camera, how to frame a shot, how to focus, how to use depth of field, how to choose and achieve the right exposure and take better photographs from the outset.
Feel free to post-process your photographs, and there are a lot of really nice pictures that have resulted from people doing just that, but please, don't pretend it's essential. It's not.
So you take your DSLR to work, to the local shop shopping, on the train to London when you already have a laptop and other crap with you, out dancing in the evenings, to the swimming pool when you go swimming, when you're participating in an active sport and to every party and event you go to?
Because that's where I've had my camera so far this year, and trust me, I wouldn't have had the carrying capacity/room to take a DSLR to all of those, even if I had wanted to risk losing/breaking/having it stolen at all of them.
If indeed you can't be bothered to bring a DSLR with you, then this entire thread should just be deleted.
The next time you leave the house - even to empty your bin - without your DSLR then please act with integrity and put it up for sale on ebay on your return home.
Oh hell no. Vimes breaks more laws than he arrests other people for.
He's _right_ but he's not _legal_ and I'm afraid in real life I want the police to be both.
Which part of "assaulting people with a weapon" are you struggling to comprehend being excessive force in response to "people sitting down".
For fucks sake, just leave them there. They'll get hungry, they'll need the toilet, they'll get cramp and want to get up and walk around. Attacking them with chemical weapons? I hope they sue that fuckwit policeman in a civil court, irrespective of criminal charges against him.
Use of pepper spray as a compliance tool is wrong, out of order, excessive, unnecessary and authoritarian.
The issue isn't the muscle ache. That kind of feels good in a way.
The issue is the utter sheer fucking tedium of lifting your arm, dropping it again, lifting it, dropping it, lifting it, droppi.. oh for fucks sake, can I go and do something interesting instead please?