Comment NADA (Score 1) 387
"Man the automotive dealer associations don't like Tesla.
They have a name: NADA. Hate them, they are evil.
"Man the automotive dealer associations don't like Tesla.
They have a name: NADA. Hate them, they are evil.
Usenet and mailing list archives are forever
This isn't necessarily true. I worked at a place where the CEO came across some archived mailing-list posts that contained sensitive company information (apparently the previous sysadmin didn't have much regard for keeping sensitive company information secret when he had questions). An email or two asking them nicely to remove the content and it was gone. Granted, if it had been propagated to many other archive sites, this could have been a major pain in the ass.
If 91 voted against it, and assuming they're all Democrats (I don't know what the actual breakdown is)..
Ask and ye shall receive: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll629.xml
Why not just use the river to turn a turbine?
Typically in the coastal plains (where a river would meet with saltwater), a river will widen up and it's current slows to a crawl (due to the lack of a "downhill" presence).
Every dealer is gunning for Tesla
This association of dealers even has a name: the National Automotives Dealer Association (NADA); they are a cartel.
giving the user an easy way to see that error message would be really good!
Although not quite as accessible as having the error/exception thrown right into your face, you do realize that a lot of these types of errors do get logged to the system logger? (example: Event Viewer for Windows, syslog for Linux, etc). I'd imagine looking through this would be a tad easier than watching tcpdump output in real-time while you try to reproduce the problem in question (to use your example).
I care about solving a problem, as it is a challenge. That's it.
Writing code such that it does what you need it to and is easy to maintain can be a fun problem to solve...at least for me.
It's quite understandable. Since a badly built commercial or home device can destroy the USB port on a computer or even feed back enough energy to destroy other components...
Yup...this happened to me. I bought a shoddily made media card reader that completely fried and destroyed my internal USB chipset, rendering all of the on-board USB ports useless....live & learn.
...and because vaccination and resultant herd immunity effectively wiped many of the most dangerous diseases out of our everyday lives.
One of the most retarded "reasons" I've ever heard from a mother for not having her children immunized is was something along the lines of "I don't want to teach my children that they have to do things because the 'herd' does"
fortune: No such file or directory