My last and new BMW are both RWD and detect road conditions and adjust their ESC accordingly. I, of course, turn that silly stuff off and put it in sport mode though the new one is a manual shift. That is, after all, why I bought a RWD vehicle in the first place. There is not much that is more fun than doing the Axl Rose Shuffle out on an deserted snow-covered road. Another treat is to go out and plow out your neighbors. I bought an old, in fine condition, tow truck earlier this year - I plan on having loads of fun with it and pulling people out of ditches for amusement. But... Umm... Wait... What was the topic again?
Do something combining the two... Something with driving and software - take your experience with one and parlay it into a job with Google or someone else in the field.
I never held my Class A in the civilian world but I drove many large, multi-axle, rigs with trailers (sometimes with a water bowl attached even). It is kind of scary when you have wrestled it into reverse and you are still going forward. There but by the grace of god go I...
Seriously, try to combine the two. Even if you have no degree you are a professional driver. Send your resume to Google - the worst they can do is tell you no. Take the State's test (if you have one) and apply for their IT department. They are often looking for dual skilled/multi skilled persons.
In the United States any road with a route number (and many are but do not have signs - states try to push the costs to the towns over time) is either a federal or state road and, as such, is not paid for out of the general fund but is paid for by taxes on gasoline and on-road diesel. The answer is not more bikes. The answer is fewer stupid people.
His car is bought, paid for, and mined. There is no way a new car's efficiency - no matter how good - can recoup the ecological costs of mining new material.
Citation needed. The majority of road wear and tear is from weather even in "stable" climates. I don't want to appeal to authority but, yeah, I am going to... I *am* an authority on the subject by extension. Unless you have something factual to say, then...
Perhaps you might know... What if I wanted to move the vino vnc server up in the boot order so that it was available at the log-on screen? Would systemd help with that? Using LinuxMint and, frankly, I am just motivated by laziness but I have spent more energy on this than I would have spent just going down the stairs and logging myself back in after rebooting. Now, however, it is a mission.
Things have improved greatly but not enough. The WHO decision to allow DDT use again was probably the most important factor while waiting for the vaccine. (There are some fairly unknown skeletons in the DDT closet, they are probably not what most think.) My most recent trip, Nigeria, was actually a lot tamer than it once was. Things are looking up there and this is a good thing. I am of African decent, partially at least, and I do donate what seems reasonable but a lot of that goes to waste as it ends up being wasted on graft or material goods end up on the black market.
When I had less money, and was a bit more of an idealist, I bought a whole bunch (as in spent nearly a month's salary equivalent) of the OLPC devices for them to donate. I even got a couple during the Give One Get One campaign. It turns out that, really, they have not made much of a difference at all. I understand they are going to be doing a tablet next and I will, again, donate though I will be in a position to donate more. I feel like I am throwing money down a black hole though but I am not one to give up.
An interesting thing that I have noticed... I am not sure how this applies, really. If you notice and draw attention to a problem people seem to automatically believe you have a solution in mind (and are ready to argue it, but that is another point entirely) but I honestly do not have a solution for the mess that is Africa. I certainly have no solutions for sub-Saharan Africa or West Africa. Hell, I do not even have any suggestions for East Africa and those are not exactly great places. Truly, I have no idea how to fix anything there or even if we should keep meddling.
In the spirit of digression, perhaps... Really?
Well, no... I have ideas but, frankly, I do not think they would ever be implemented. The only "solution" that I keep pondering is; How about if we keep our hands out of the entire area and maybe encourage them to not emulate the west but to return to an agrarian society and hunter gatherers? How about they lock down their borders and work on just being Africa - concentrating on their natural beauty, rich history, and a future that does not need to mesh with Western culture or economies? I am not even sure if that could work and I really have been unable to fine-tune the idea so that it could even be possible to consider it in the first place.
So, I see and acknowledge the problems, better than some I think, and I do what seems likely to be beneficial. I understand that the OLPC mission was a bit of a failure, that the devices were stolen and ended up on the black market or in the hands of the more wealthy (comparatively speaking), and that it is not a popular program any more. (I still have one kicking about. I am not sure where it is though and that is unfortunate.) I donate to Heifer International, Red Cross, etc... I go and buy items and spend tourist dollars. But, I am a single person and I am not sure that it would actually, truly, help if everyone did that. We can not force them into a new lifestyle and I am not so certain that we should be trying.
I am perfectly free to make my own choices but, as a bit of a lark, I am going to have my lawyer take a look. I buy a lot of land but it is usually unimproved land. I have just recently closed on a chunk of property that was sold by the holdings company that retains some of the International Paper property. I have a shameful amount of land but, in my defense, I buy it so that it remains open for access and so that it will always remain that way. Other than a "small piece" it all goes into a trust which will be maintained by that trust in perpetuity. The number is high enough that, quite frankly, it is embarrassing. However, my altruism is real.
Anyhow, I have a daughter in that area. Her graduation present was a piece of property with a small house on it. A nice starter house, really. I think her and her spouse would make excellent care-takers of such a property and it might give them an additional leg up. I do make it easy for my kids but I do not make it so that they do not have to work if they want to have nice things. I sold my business (our HQ was in Winston-Salem by the way) and made an absurd amount of money from the sale, both in cash and in stocks in the parent company. After thinking, long and hard too, I realized that I could easily make it so that my children would never have to work a day in their life. Then I thought about the repercussions of that and decided to try to give them motivation to be productive in a capacity that suited their desires. So they both have small trusts, as will their children. They can be wise with that and do great things with that or they can live at not much higher than a comfortable middle-class level. Hell, it would be lower middle-class really. So far, so good.
I have sent off a copy of the page and a link to this thread. You never know, it may just happen. Going by the property values in the neighborhood and viewing property as it should be - as a long-term investment even if the goal is to rent it out, then I have sent a suggestion that he consider a 10% increase of the listed value at Zillow to be a fair starting point. You could consider an agent but I think that premature at this point. Also, I have a liar on retainer just for such things because, as I mentioned, I have a bit of an addiction to property ownership. He serves to keep me sane, as well, I used to drink - a lot.
Anyhow, my email is valid. I can certainly see your point. It is much easier to own a rental property that is close to you. Otherwise you have all sorts of potential issues and may end up needing a property management company to deal with it and that, frankly, eats profits when one can simply do many things on their own with little real effort and contract the rest out for less than a property management company charges. I wish I could attribute my success to great skill and hard work (not that both are not applicable) but it was mostly luck and being in a position to take advantage of situations that arose. Being able to do interesting things, like this, is an added bonus. Every day is interesting. If I can pass that 'luck' along then all the better - it is not like I'd be losing money.
Genuinely curious, do you have a citation where this has been true on a large scale and is actually directly, factually, attributed to multiculturalism?
I envy today's youth. I was born in 1957. Porn was damned hard to come by (no pun intended). We had to work for our porn or jerk off to the Sears catalog. Playboy? That was special. If you had a Playboy you were king. Of course, you were also in trouble for stealing your dad's Playboy. I was a Marine brat at the time so I had more access to porn than most but, still, it was as rare as hen's teeth and selection was sorely limited.
Nah, you will find a market. There will be people who spend more and more time taking old cars and restoring them to factory condition (or better). You won't get your new cars but you will get used ones that have lots of life and the added bonus that you can fix them. You can already do this. This will just be more common if there is a market.
Funny, you can say that about Bush but you can not say that about Obama. I am black, at least partially. I think if it is fair game for the white guy it is fair game for the black guy. I think it is more racist to consider it a racial slur against black people actually. Now, if you were calling him a Porch Monkey or something...
Don't buy it and quite whinging. This is not complicated. You have choices. If you are so weak that you can not resist the shiny then, frankly, you get what you deserve. If there is a market for people who do not want such there will be cars available without such. In this case, avoid cars with OnStar. Other than that, try to keep up.
I imagine that they are thinking that this would be an option and "secure" by default. Keep in mind that no connected device is ever truly secure - ever. So, basically, you would have some sort of standardized information coming off the CANN-BUS and would read or manipulate it on your own. You would be able to configure a firewall and select access points and data restrictions based on policies. That sort of thing. It makes sense actually. I would actually love such a thing. I have an application that lets me play with stuff like timing and whatnot via a laptop connected to the OBD-II.
Having something formal and a full blown OS for it would be absolutely grand and, frankly, I can probably secure such better than they can. It would be neat being able to get specialist applications for your car as well. Those folks who are into hypermiling may even be able to benefit from such but, all-in-all it seems like a great idea and I would be happy to secure my own automobile. I would take responsibility for that.
What would be even more impressive is if the car manufacturers got together and decided on a standard. We could roll our own AutOS (see what I did there?) based on FOSS and have at it. Provided it had a big red "reset to factory" button I think it would be great and would encourage people to hack at their own cars. Patches, applications, tweaks, and hacks (not the pejorative) could be passed upstream for consideration for inclusion in future releases. I am all for it and would likely donate a bunch of my time and effort at improving such to the best of my ability.
I had not really considered the idea until they mentioned it even though I have spent a number of hours in my cars with laptop connected to the OBD-II port. It just never crossed my mind that embedding it would be a great idea - and it would be. A touch screen, a USB port for a keyboard and mouse (or just bluetooth) would make it awesome. Hell, with a contract and 4G you could even turn yourself into a rolling hot spot and do crazy stuff like that. It would bring a whole new meaning to war driving. It would be awesome pretty much all around. Those folks who are not inclined can either get it optionally and let the system take care of itself with "secure" defaults. They could also get a vehicle which did not have the options. It would be a great choice and a wonderful added value to some of us.
It would be great to be able to push a song to the car next to you as you tool down the highway. It would be even more fun to send them a message saying that they need to turn left at the next intersection because someone in your convoy has to stop for a piss. Even better would be the ability to tell the guy in the BMW (that would be me though I am not stereotypical) that they are driving like an idiot and that they need to stop before you just say to hell with it and ram them off the road in a PIT maneuver. You could have a wireless mesh network connected to the cell network. There are lots of great potentials (all of which are ripe for abuse) and security would be something you could/should do on your own if you are inclined to do so. It would be great...
You could pull up into your garage and sync your backups to a RAID10 cluster in your trunk and always have a remote backup for your files. Think of the potential goods (and the risks) and let your imagination run free. I, for one, welcome our new full blown operating system equipped automobiles. If you can not think of such or do not envision such and get your nickers into a knot over such an idea then I have absolutely no idea why you would be on Slashdot. Maybe Reddit is more your style?
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Japan is not so busy lately and they likely have some medical experiments to conduct. I can see this working out in the end.
My last and new BMW are both RWD and detect road conditions and adjust their ESC accordingly. I, of course, turn that silly stuff off and put it in sport mode though the new one is a manual shift. That is, after all, why I bought a RWD vehicle in the first place. There is not much that is more fun than doing the Axl Rose Shuffle out on an deserted snow-covered road. Another treat is to go out and plow out your neighbors. I bought an old, in fine condition, tow truck earlier this year - I plan on having loads of fun with it and pulling people out of ditches for amusement. But... Umm... Wait... What was the topic again?
Do something combining the two... Something with driving and software - take your experience with one and parlay it into a job with Google or someone else in the field.
I never held my Class A in the civilian world but I drove many large, multi-axle, rigs with trailers (sometimes with a water bowl attached even). It is kind of scary when you have wrestled it into reverse and you are still going forward. There but by the grace of god go I...
Seriously, try to combine the two. Even if you have no degree you are a professional driver. Send your resume to Google - the worst they can do is tell you no. Take the State's test (if you have one) and apply for their IT department. They are often looking for dual skilled/multi skilled persons.
In the United States any road with a route number (and many are but do not have signs - states try to push the costs to the towns over time) is either a federal or state road and, as such, is not paid for out of the general fund but is paid for by taxes on gasoline and on-road diesel. The answer is not more bikes. The answer is fewer stupid people.
His car is bought, paid for, and mined. There is no way a new car's efficiency - no matter how good - can recoup the ecological costs of mining new material.
Citation needed. The majority of road wear and tear is from weather even in "stable" climates. I don't want to appeal to authority but, yeah, I am going to... I *am* an authority on the subject by extension. Unless you have something factual to say, then...
I was breaking the law but then someone else broke the law and they are bad people. ;)
Perhaps you might know... What if I wanted to move the vino vnc server up in the boot order so that it was available at the log-on screen? Would systemd help with that? Using LinuxMint and, frankly, I am just motivated by laziness but I have spent more energy on this than I would have spent just going down the stairs and logging myself back in after rebooting. Now, however, it is a mission.
Things have improved greatly but not enough. The WHO decision to allow DDT use again was probably the most important factor while waiting for the vaccine. (There are some fairly unknown skeletons in the DDT closet, they are probably not what most think.) My most recent trip, Nigeria, was actually a lot tamer than it once was. Things are looking up there and this is a good thing. I am of African decent, partially at least, and I do donate what seems reasonable but a lot of that goes to waste as it ends up being wasted on graft or material goods end up on the black market.
When I had less money, and was a bit more of an idealist, I bought a whole bunch (as in spent nearly a month's salary equivalent) of the OLPC devices for them to donate. I even got a couple during the Give One Get One campaign. It turns out that, really, they have not made much of a difference at all. I understand they are going to be doing a tablet next and I will, again, donate though I will be in a position to donate more. I feel like I am throwing money down a black hole though but I am not one to give up.
An interesting thing that I have noticed... I am not sure how this applies, really. If you notice and draw attention to a problem people seem to automatically believe you have a solution in mind (and are ready to argue it, but that is another point entirely) but I honestly do not have a solution for the mess that is Africa. I certainly have no solutions for sub-Saharan Africa or West Africa. Hell, I do not even have any suggestions for East Africa and those are not exactly great places. Truly, I have no idea how to fix anything there or even if we should keep meddling.
In the spirit of digression, perhaps... Really?
Well, no... I have ideas but, frankly, I do not think they would ever be implemented. The only "solution" that I keep pondering is; How about if we keep our hands out of the entire area and maybe encourage them to not emulate the west but to return to an agrarian society and hunter gatherers? How about they lock down their borders and work on just being Africa - concentrating on their natural beauty, rich history, and a future that does not need to mesh with Western culture or economies? I am not even sure if that could work and I really have been unable to fine-tune the idea so that it could even be possible to consider it in the first place.
So, I see and acknowledge the problems, better than some I think, and I do what seems likely to be beneficial. I understand that the OLPC mission was a bit of a failure, that the devices were stolen and ended up on the black market or in the hands of the more wealthy (comparatively speaking), and that it is not a popular program any more. (I still have one kicking about. I am not sure where it is though and that is unfortunate.) I donate to Heifer International, Red Cross, etc... I go and buy items and spend tourist dollars. But, I am a single person and I am not sure that it would actually, truly, help if everyone did that. We can not force them into a new lifestyle and I am not so certain that we should be trying.
I am perfectly free to make my own choices but, as a bit of a lark, I am going to have my lawyer take a look. I buy a lot of land but it is usually unimproved land. I have just recently closed on a chunk of property that was sold by the holdings company that retains some of the International Paper property. I have a shameful amount of land but, in my defense, I buy it so that it remains open for access and so that it will always remain that way. Other than a "small piece" it all goes into a trust which will be maintained by that trust in perpetuity. The number is high enough that, quite frankly, it is embarrassing. However, my altruism is real.
Anyhow, I have a daughter in that area. Her graduation present was a piece of property with a small house on it. A nice starter house, really. I think her and her spouse would make excellent care-takers of such a property and it might give them an additional leg up. I do make it easy for my kids but I do not make it so that they do not have to work if they want to have nice things. I sold my business (our HQ was in Winston-Salem by the way) and made an absurd amount of money from the sale, both in cash and in stocks in the parent company. After thinking, long and hard too, I realized that I could easily make it so that my children would never have to work a day in their life. Then I thought about the repercussions of that and decided to try to give them motivation to be productive in a capacity that suited their desires. So they both have small trusts, as will their children. They can be wise with that and do great things with that or they can live at not much higher than a comfortable middle-class level. Hell, it would be lower middle-class really. So far, so good.
I have sent off a copy of the page and a link to this thread. You never know, it may just happen. Going by the property values in the neighborhood and viewing property as it should be - as a long-term investment even if the goal is to rent it out, then I have sent a suggestion that he consider a 10% increase of the listed value at Zillow to be a fair starting point. You could consider an agent but I think that premature at this point. Also, I have a liar on retainer just for such things because, as I mentioned, I have a bit of an addiction to property ownership. He serves to keep me sane, as well, I used to drink - a lot.
Anyhow, my email is valid. I can certainly see your point. It is much easier to own a rental property that is close to you. Otherwise you have all sorts of potential issues and may end up needing a property management company to deal with it and that, frankly, eats profits when one can simply do many things on their own with little real effort and contract the rest out for less than a property management company charges. I wish I could attribute my success to great skill and hard work (not that both are not applicable) but it was mostly luck and being in a position to take advantage of situations that arose. Being able to do interesting things, like this, is an added bonus. Every day is interesting. If I can pass that 'luck' along then all the better - it is not like I'd be losing money.
Genuinely curious, do you have a citation where this has been true on a large scale and is actually directly, factually, attributed to multiculturalism?
Good catch. I kind of sort of blame spell check - I am a horrific speller. It would appear I am not a good reader either.
I would have bought one of those.
Nobody's assuming that a phone / tablet / netbook have unlimited control (though it is nice when given) ...
Like hell I am not. I expect full control of a tablet and a netbook. What is up with you people relinquishing control???
I forget exactly where but .tk is in New Zealand or close to it. .TK is not Turkey. Not that that changes anything.
I envy today's youth. I was born in 1957. Porn was damned hard to come by (no pun intended). We had to work for our porn or jerk off to the Sears catalog. Playboy? That was special. If you had a Playboy you were king. Of course, you were also in trouble for stealing your dad's Playboy. I was a Marine brat at the time so I had more access to porn than most but, still, it was as rare as hen's teeth and selection was sorely limited.
This was true in 2012. I do not know if it still is.
http://www.slate.com/articles/...
Nah, you will find a market. There will be people who spend more and more time taking old cars and restoring them to factory condition (or better). You won't get your new cars but you will get used ones that have lots of life and the added bonus that you can fix them. You can already do this. This will just be more common if there is a market.
Great call - I almost guessed Volvo as they hold the record. I love Saabs and Volvos. I have one each. ;)
Not at all but it would be fun to play with.
Funny, you can say that about Bush but you can not say that about Obama. I am black, at least partially. I think if it is fair game for the white guy it is fair game for the black guy. I think it is more racist to consider it a racial slur against black people actually. Now, if you were calling him a Porch Monkey or something...
Don't buy it and quite whinging. This is not complicated. You have choices. If you are so weak that you can not resist the shiny then, frankly, you get what you deserve. If there is a market for people who do not want such there will be cars available without such. In this case, avoid cars with OnStar. Other than that, try to keep up.
I imagine that they are thinking that this would be an option and "secure" by default. Keep in mind that no connected device is ever truly secure - ever. So, basically, you would have some sort of standardized information coming off the CANN-BUS and would read or manipulate it on your own. You would be able to configure a firewall and select access points and data restrictions based on policies. That sort of thing. It makes sense actually. I would actually love such a thing. I have an application that lets me play with stuff like timing and whatnot via a laptop connected to the OBD-II.
Having something formal and a full blown OS for it would be absolutely grand and, frankly, I can probably secure such better than they can. It would be neat being able to get specialist applications for your car as well. Those folks who are into hypermiling may even be able to benefit from such but, all-in-all it seems like a great idea and I would be happy to secure my own automobile. I would take responsibility for that.
What would be even more impressive is if the car manufacturers got together and decided on a standard. We could roll our own AutOS (see what I did there?) based on FOSS and have at it. Provided it had a big red "reset to factory" button I think it would be great and would encourage people to hack at their own cars. Patches, applications, tweaks, and hacks (not the pejorative) could be passed upstream for consideration for inclusion in future releases. I am all for it and would likely donate a bunch of my time and effort at improving such to the best of my ability.
I had not really considered the idea until they mentioned it even though I have spent a number of hours in my cars with laptop connected to the OBD-II port. It just never crossed my mind that embedding it would be a great idea - and it would be. A touch screen, a USB port for a keyboard and mouse (or just bluetooth) would make it awesome. Hell, with a contract and 4G you could even turn yourself into a rolling hot spot and do crazy stuff like that. It would bring a whole new meaning to war driving. It would be awesome pretty much all around. Those folks who are not inclined can either get it optionally and let the system take care of itself with "secure" defaults. They could also get a vehicle which did not have the options. It would be a great choice and a wonderful added value to some of us.
It would be great to be able to push a song to the car next to you as you tool down the highway. It would be even more fun to send them a message saying that they need to turn left at the next intersection because someone in your convoy has to stop for a piss. Even better would be the ability to tell the guy in the BMW (that would be me though I am not stereotypical) that they are driving like an idiot and that they need to stop before you just say to hell with it and ram them off the road in a PIT maneuver. You could have a wireless mesh network connected to the cell network. There are lots of great potentials (all of which are ripe for abuse) and security would be something you could/should do on your own if you are inclined to do so. It would be great...
You could pull up into your garage and sync your backups to a RAID10 cluster in your trunk and always have a remote backup for your files. Think of the potential goods (and the risks) and let your imagination run free. I, for one, welcome our new full blown operating system equipped automobiles. If you can not think of such or do not envision such and get your nickers into a knot over such an idea then I have absolutely no idea why you would be on Slashdot. Maybe Reddit is more your style?
I am guessing Japanese. If I had to guess further I would say Supra.
I found Cowboy Neal!