Comment Re:What idiot comes up with this stuff? (Score 1) 116
Then clearly I must be an Android person, because you sir, are not making sense to me at all...
Then clearly I must be an Android person, because you sir, are not making sense to me at all...
Well, I sometimes go shopping with my 4 kids (5, 3 and twins aged 2) all by myself, and actually it's fun. They know how to behave, and they actually enjoy it, as do I.
They know they don't need to start nagging if they don't get what they want, because that NEVER helps. They don't take things off the shelves, unless I tell them to, and they are generally well behaved. I just give them a lot of positive attention, and encourage them to behave well. When they don't I just raise my voice a little bit, and they get to watch the others have fun with me while they get ignored for a few minutes.
As a matter of fact, in the bedroom we have a slow start CCFL (not that the manufacturer put it on the box or anything, but still), and I like that most of the time. In the morning when we switch on the light, it starts after about 2 seconds, and then isn't very bright at all. I guess it takes about a minute or 2 to reach full brightness. In the winter it's a little slower, but since it's even darker then, I don't really mind. The hallway is lit with LED lights activated by a motion sensor, so the kids can see something when they get out of bed to go to the toilet.
When I'm just waking up, that slow start is a nice feature... since I don't like having the full brightness at once when my eyes aren't used to the light. In most of the house however, we got quick start CCFL's, which start in under 0.5s and are immediately at near full brightness (I guess around 80% or so), which is comparable (enough) to incandescents.
Yes he would, since he's using his incandescents close to his hands to keep his fingers warm. That way he can sit in a room with a lower temperature, thus saving on heating costs...
This is only valid in specific cases like this one though.
Well, I guess if they straighten out with body heat, and you sit on them, you might be in for an unpleasant surprise...
Let me make you a car analogy, since that's so popular around here:
"Flying cars. Until they are finalized, I luckily don't require any of the features these two old modes of transportation (flying and driving) have."
Yes I know, this is flawed... a flying car can fly AND drive, for which you currently need and airplane and a car (OK, terrafugia comes to mind), while flash and silverlight can do everything HTML5 can do, and can do it now.
Hmm, reckless endangerment seems more fitting...
While I generally support strict regulations prohibiting drinking and driving, I think no alcohol at all isn't practical. Alcohol is also used to prepare some meals. Most of it will be evaporated when cooking, but quite a few deserts also have alcohol in them.
Where I live the limit is 0.05% BAC. When you fail a breathalizer test (just shows safe or positive), you have to take a blood test to determine the amount of alcohol in your blood. The blood test can show up negative (in which case you're allowed to continue, no harm done), or confirm that you're actually above the limit. There's a different punishment for being in the 0.05% - 0.08% range, or higher.
* 0.05 - 0.08%: you're not allowed to drive for 3 hours, and you are fined
* > 0.08%: you're not allowed to drive for at least 6 hours, your license can be revoked (not the policeman's decision) for at least 15 days, and you can also serve some time in jail if it's serious enough.
If I'm not mistaken you can also ask to delay the breathalizer test for 15 minutes to get rid of any traces of alcohol in your mouth (mouth wash/you just drank something/...).
As far as I'm concerned, an ignition interlock would be perfectly acceptable for the 0.08%+ category, especially for repeat offenders or first offenders considerably over the 0.08% high limit.
If you're in an accident and you seriously hurt/killed someone, you'll very likely think 'what if...' no matter what you did. What if I had looked in that direction at that time, what if I hadn't filled up the tank first, what if I would have been driving a little slower,
2 hours to cover 7 miles?
Have you considered walking to your work... it may be faster.
Or there's this great invention... they call it a bicycle. 7 miles shouldn't take you more than 30 minutes, and if it does, get an electric assist. Saves you a lot of time (1 hour vs 2,5 hours) AND money (1200 - 1800 dollars buys you a nice electric assist bicycle I guess).
And I guess you said "I'll blow yours if you blow mine..."
Or am I wrong?
No, apple made the market boom...
Palm had a relative success with the Palm Centro, aimed at the younger non-business crowd.
Too bad they screwed up so badly. WebOS should have been there a few years earlier.
Well, mouseover works on my laptop with a touchpad, so technically it should be possible to do it with a touch screen.
I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work. It could work like this (don't know if it does)
- Select the flash object
- drag = move mouse = mouseover
- tap = click
- tap + drag = hold and move
That's just how my trackpad works on my laptop (except for step one, which would be necessary on a mobile browser to distinguish between dragging to scroll the webpage and dragging to do mouseover on a flash app).
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
