Comment Re: What The?!? (Score 1) 216
...and most libertarians don't have them because the gub'mint can use them to track you and feed the info to the UN's black helicopters.
...and most libertarians don't have them because the gub'mint can use them to track you and feed the info to the UN's black helicopters.
The trick to fast acceleration is to push the pedal down about halfway with a full battery. Stomping it to the floor will over-rev the gas engine and you won't get peak torque.
This reminds me of a 1990 Chrysler Lebaron I drove for a bit. If you mashed the accelerator to the floor, the car would think, "He wants to go fast--let's downshift. Oops! We're over-revving, let's shift back up. But he wants to go fast--let's downshift. Oops! We're over-revving. Shift back up."
It would do this three or four times before finally deciding to downshift.
But if you put it about 3/4 of the way down, you got pretty good acceleration.
It's another reason why I dislike automatics.
Why?
Consider "the rock we are on." What makes this rock so interesting? In theory, there are lots of rocks out there like ours. If they're able to get to us, they've certainly been to other rocks and ours isn't all that special.
Consider "Us." I won't go off on humanities foibles, so the only interest in us would be biologically or sociologically. Biologically, they can just show up and take samples. Sociologically, we might be interesting, but introducing themselves would change us--which would sort of negate the observation.
But it seems that most businesspeople these days are sociopathic morons with absolutely no respect for their paying customers [...]
Uh...isn't TuneIn free?
Remember that if the service is free, you are the product.
Didn't you hear? There's a revolution going on.
Personally, I've always thought it would be amusing to hack one of those signs and I've never heard of the game "Watch Dogs."
"Help! I'm trapped in a highway sign factory!" is the most obvious message, but I'm sure I could come up with a bunch of random messages to put in...
[...] And email?! That's just soooo 2012!
More like 2004. if you're in Korea.
One reason for the million dollars worth of insurance is that you may be carrying more than one person. Pick up three or four people, have a heinous accident, and you could end up with a million dollars worth of medical expenses.
Part of the reason for the special license is that cab drivers also have their own rules for where they can pick people up or drop them off and we want to be certain that drivers know those rules. For example, where I live, drivers can't just stop on the street and block traffic to pick up a fare. They have to, at least, pull off the road.
...and then adding a third--triangulation.
As I understand it, though, it's a little easier said than done to get the required accuracy for E-911. But it isn't impossible. I believe it was AT&T that went the triangulation route and it was Verizon that just put GPS in all the phones. But I could be wrong...
Yes.
As I understand it, E-911 required that the carriers tell the 911 where the person is to within 300 feet. To handle this, some carriers just mandated that the phones have GPS. Other carriers used triangulation from the cell tower. So you can use a cellphone without GPS, but that doesn't mean that the carriers won't know where you are.
In fact, the carriers used to (and perhaps still do) have a service where they would text you directions to where you wanted to go based upon where you were. No GPS required.
It's a worthwhile point, but the difference is that a business opportunity exists for dealing with this because there are so many cars on the road that need just this kind of maintenance.
Conversely, batteries like this will be pretty rare, so the bi-monthly stop at Jiffy Lube for car maintenance probably isn't happening. Initially, you'll have to keep track of it yourself.
Still, if these can be installed, an appropriate idiot light, "Hey, battery needs refilling!" would be useful.
The issue isn't so much "can you put something in the menu bar" but "should you put something in the menu bar."
On the Mac, this might make sense because the menu bar is easier to access than it is on Windows.
This was always the joke in 7th grade French class, saying "Je suis chaud" instead of "J'ai chaud." That's what I meant when I said "literally", as "Je" is "I", "suis" is "am", and "chaud" is "hot." So if you just translate the words, you get the wrong answer. "J'ai Faim" (I am hungry) has a similar issue,
As for the Quebecois, well...
Yeah, I'll wait for 10.10 for that. OS X 10.9 is way too flaky.
Also, Maps doesn't have nearly the features of Google Earth.
What this country needs is a good five dollar plasma weapon.
