>> 2/ unfairly ticketed ? if there's a picture as proof I'd say it's fair you get a ticket..
The mere fact a picture exists is not absolute proof you were going too fast, I'm assuming the system allows right on red but what about misfires. What rate do they happen at?
And with a vendor that gets a cut of the profits, they have an incentive NOT to improve the misfire rate.
In a bubble, red light cameras are a good idea, in reality, they're wrought with corruption and literally kill people in some cases, this is un-acceptable.
Do you work for Microsoft? I haven't seen such an obvious attempt at smearing reality like this in awhile.
What I'm referring to is the fact you are comparing IE8 beta to Firefox 3 release. You do realize Firefox 3.5 beta, while it doesn't have multithreading per tab, runs Javascript just as fast as Chrome and IE8.
So while Firefox 3.5 isn't a silver bullet, it's still a bullet in flight. I'm just asking you to compare apples to apples, comon, this is/., stop talking like a marketing zombie.
At least two times I dug up a forum discussion to reference something, read a read summery and was shocked at how clearly & concisely the guy commented.... then realized that past was me.
Hey, at least I amaze myself, I guess this is a prequel to a day where somebody could tell me the same great joke every week and I'll laugh every time because I forgot he told it to me.
Well 47% isn't bad at all in my book, especially since it's just science trivia. This is not an everyday bit of information, you don't use it daily, weekly, monthly nor yearly. It's something you learned decade(s) ago in Earth Science and never had to use again. Unless you watch the discovery channel, you'd probably never hear the actual figure again.
But the 40% that believed dinosaurs and humans lived together, now that figure scares me. No wonder so many people were able to vote for Palin, they're just as clueless as she was.
I'm a web dev that's been tracking stats (browser, res, bit depth, etc) for about 6yrs now and I have data since 1999 and I want to point out a common mistake most people make:
Most sites are results are heavily biased compared to the bigger userbase. A place like W3C has an abnormally high level of Firefox and Opera users because the majority of their fanbase are webdevs. Also Wikipedia does cater to younger and more tech savy groups. And if the stats at/. were published, I'd expect to see something like 50% of users are on Firefox.
The best overall stats I've ever found have been at http://thecounter.com/stats/ as their sample size is very large and comes from multiple sites.
As of March 1st, TheCounter says 18% of internet users are running Firefox, which is pretty close to the Wikipedia stats, so they're userbase is expanding to virtually all sufers.
Unfortunately it was mostly ignored and some people have pointed out it could be related to running FF in a non-admin mode although anybody with an ounce of security on the brain isn't running their browser as root/admin.
One of the most important rules in software development I've learned is:
Providing a good product means you take what the client asked for, and create what they actually needed. In my ~12yrs of professional experience, when I can do this, my customers (often another dept within the company) are ecstatic with the results.
Anything else is sub par, even if it meets the demands. When I had to take this route, I've never seen the customer get very excited, the solution merely "gets the job done" in which the next word to that sentence is "poorly".
I love this new in-browser browser, now I can open a new window without having to be annoyed with that silly CTRL+T key combo, who can remember that anyway?
Hey, does anybody want to hire me to invent the wheel?
Of course, they'd like to keep the clumsy counters around, because they make money for the casinos.
Even poor counting is better than no counting at all, at least your odds are still in the ballpark, vs just playing totally blind, which is what 99% of players are doing anyways.
I'd so vote you +insightful. My only guess is that the picture is older than his Olympic escapades, because any sane person should have dropped the bong and destroyed the camera.
"One linux to rule them all" reeks of Architecture Astronauts. Yes oneday we can achieve this, but until you can fit the same desktop on my mini cell phone, you just can't do it.
The limitation is the hardware, not the software. If this wasn't true why is Intel even creating the Atom cpu platform? Why can't the iPhone run true OSX (do you Linux geeks really want to take on the BSD people?)
Seriously EU, give it up, you've beaten this horse to death. Since all the browsers are free, how is anybody really gaining anything, competition wise?
Not to mention, the sheeple who don't know enough to go to the Firefox/Opera/etc website to get the browser themselves are just going to choose IE if the installer asks them a question anyways.
I switched to Dvorak in 2003 as a way to aid in RSI relief, as others pointed out it took weeks to get up to speed, but after I did, it made a huge improvement.
I don't need a study to prove to me that Dvorak is more efficient and/or reduces the chances of getting and suffering from RSI, I live it everyday for the past 6yrs.
As an added benefit, Dvorak makes it a lot harder for people to "shoulder surf" your password because they don't know the keys and it prevents people from trying to use your computer because they don't know how to type on it.
I propose an interactive website that posts a bunch of text, then people can create an account and add other bits of text to it. Some people will find those new bits so interesting or so ugly they will add more bits of text. Then people who posts lots of text will get credits that they can spend to hide other people's text that they don't like.
Then we'll pretend it's all factual and news and call it Slashdot!
Slashdot Mirror
>> 2/ unfairly ticketed ? if there's a picture as proof I'd say it's fair you get a ticket..
The mere fact a picture exists is not absolute proof you were going too fast, I'm assuming the system allows right on red but what about misfires. What rate do they happen at?
And with a vendor that gets a cut of the profits, they have an incentive NOT to improve the misfire rate.
In a bubble, red light cameras are a good idea, in reality, they're wrought with corruption and literally kill people in some cases, this is un-acceptable.
Hasn't anybody noticed that virtually every remote you get now, especially the ones with your cable box, already offer universal remote features.
For about 5yrs now Time Warner's cable remote can control your DVD player, audio setup, VHS, etc.
Do you work for Microsoft? I haven't seen such an obvious attempt at smearing reality like this in awhile.
What I'm referring to is the fact you are comparing IE8 beta to Firefox 3 release. You do realize Firefox 3.5 beta, while it doesn't have multithreading per tab, runs Javascript just as fast as Chrome and IE8.
So while Firefox 3.5 isn't a silver bullet, it's still a bullet in flight. I'm just asking you to compare apples to apples, comon, this is /., stop talking like a marketing zombie.
Except by the time that becomes possible, those 28 yr olds will be so deteriorated they'll forget their mental functions are shrinking.
So they won't want it the service. Basically when it comes to forgetfulness, it fixes itself.
You do know that stress & adrenaline cause damage to your cells, accelerate disease and speed up aging.
Be happy you're out of that mode, you'll live a better life.
At least two times I dug up a forum discussion to reference something, read a read summery and was shocked at how clearly & concisely the guy commented.... then realized that past was me.
Hey, at least I amaze myself, I guess this is a prequel to a day where somebody could tell me the same great joke every week and I'll laugh every time because I forgot he told it to me.
Ignorance and forgetfulness is bliss.
and turn a news article about a mosquito killing laser into a Democratic vs Republican argument.
Well 47% isn't bad at all in my book, especially since it's just science trivia. This is not an everyday bit of information, you don't use it daily, weekly, monthly nor yearly. It's something you learned decade(s) ago in Earth Science and never had to use again. Unless you watch the discovery channel, you'd probably never hear the actual figure again.
But the 40% that believed dinosaurs and humans lived together, now that figure scares me. No wonder so many people were able to vote for Palin, they're just as clueless as she was.
I'm a web dev that's been tracking stats (browser, res, bit depth, etc) for about 6yrs now and I have data since 1999 and I want to point out a common mistake most people make:
Most sites are results are heavily biased compared to the bigger userbase. A place like W3C has an abnormally high level of Firefox and Opera users because the majority of their fanbase are webdevs. Also Wikipedia does cater to younger and more tech savy groups. And if the stats at /. were published, I'd expect to see something like 50% of users are on Firefox.
The best overall stats I've ever found have been at http://thecounter.com/stats/ as their sample size is very large and comes from multiple sites.
As of March 1st, TheCounter says 18% of internet users are running Firefox, which is pretty close to the Wikipedia stats, so they're userbase is expanding to virtually all sufers.
I also see this, very often, and while I didn't file a formal bug, I brought it up in the developer's forum.
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=999035
Unfortunately it was mostly ignored and some people have pointed out it could be related to running FF in a non-admin mode although anybody with an ounce of security on the brain isn't running their browser as root/admin.
One of the most important rules in software development I've learned is:
Providing a good product means you take what the client asked for, and create what they actually needed. In my ~12yrs of professional experience, when I can do this, my customers (often another dept within the company) are ecstatic with the results.
Anything else is sub par, even if it meets the demands. When I had to take this route, I've never seen the customer get very excited, the solution merely "gets the job done" in which the next word to that sentence is "poorly".
I know some green screens from 30yrs ago that pretty much accomplish what you are proposing, and there's a reason we moved away from those.
I love this new in-browser browser, now I can open a new window without having to be annoyed with that silly CTRL+T key combo, who can remember that anyway?
Hey, does anybody want to hire me to invent the wheel?
Of course, they'd like to keep the clumsy counters around, because they make money for the casinos.
Even poor counting is better than no counting at all, at least your odds are still in the ballpark, vs just playing totally blind, which is what 99% of players are doing anyways.
Ugh yeah sure, they simply forgot to turn that cheap dial to 11 at their factory!
Win98 doesn't need any of these silly patches, so is it also more secure?
in my book.
Heck DRM'd WMA has more hardware player options than DRM AAC, mostly because iTunes only lets you copy your AACs to iPods, but you already knew that :P
I'd so vote you +insightful. My only guess is that the picture is older than his Olympic escapades, because any sane person should have dropped the bong and destroyed the camera.
PS: Kellogg's already dropped him as a sponsor
"One linux to rule them all" reeks of Architecture Astronauts. Yes oneday we can achieve this, but until you can fit the same desktop on my mini cell phone, you just can't do it.
The limitation is the hardware, not the software. If this wasn't true why is Intel even creating the Atom cpu platform? Why can't the iPhone run true OSX (do you Linux geeks really want to take on the BSD people?)
they want their lawsuit back.
Seriously EU, give it up, you've beaten this horse to death. Since all the browsers are free, how is anybody really gaining anything, competition wise?
Not to mention, the sheeple who don't know enough to go to the Firefox/Opera/etc website to get the browser themselves are just going to choose IE if the installer asks them a question anyways.
Only a paranoid totalitarian state would waste time penetrating Congress
So you're saying the US hacked itself?
I switched to Dvorak in 2003 as a way to aid in RSI relief, as others pointed out it took weeks to get up to speed, but after I did, it made a huge improvement.
I don't need a study to prove to me that Dvorak is more efficient and/or reduces the chances of getting and suffering from RSI, I live it everyday for the past 6yrs.
As an added benefit, Dvorak makes it a lot harder for people to "shoulder surf" your password because they don't know the keys and it prevents people from trying to use your computer because they don't know how to type on it.
I propose an interactive website that posts a bunch of text, then people can create an account and add other bits of text to it. Some people will find those new bits so interesting or so ugly they will add more bits of text. Then people who posts lots of text will get credits that they can spend to hide other people's text that they don't like.
Then we'll pretend it's all factual and news and call it Slashdot!
Good point, I second the banning of all hammers.
So extending your work day from 8hrs to 9hrs destroys your personal life? Care to elaborate on your simple minded assumption?