Comment Re:`why not stop the car? (Score 1) 469
After read tfa, I concede your and the AC's point. As bpjones sagely notes below, though, we need better design goals.
After read tfa, I concede your and the AC's point. As bpjones sagely notes below, though, we need better design goals.
The idea that we should promote drowsy driving by making it (hypothetically) less fatal to do so is laughably absurd. Sometimes a driver needs to swerve to miss an accident occurring--no time to signal, so into the pileup we go? Hmm...
I notice their stock price is still lower than it was in 2001.
I'm no expert, but Microsoft shares split 2 for 1 on Jan. 27, 2003. Does your comparison take that into account?
This info was Scroogled from http://www.microsoft.com/investor/Stock/StockSplit/default.aspx
A simple fix [...] is to order posts in reverse chronological order.
Actually, you can change your preference (if you are logged in) by clicking Options>Discussions and switch from "Oldest First" to "Newest First". Several other choices are available there, too.
Gotta warn my wife
How very condescending of you. I just bet she'll be thrilled to hear you have an excuse to harangue her. Leave your job at work...
If you use Firefox there is an add-on called Scroogle that sidesteps these cursor-movement worries, plus leaving no tracks for Google to assimilate. It will add itself to the list of available search engines. I use it almost exclusively nowadays. Of course one must trust Pathetic Cockroach, the author, but the 5-star reviews speak loudly to me. I've never heard any criticism of it and would be interested if there is...
Here's a bizarro product, and the 1000's of customer reviews (with pictures) that were submitted:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000IZGIA8/ref=s9_simh_co_p263_d4_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=left-1&pf_rd_r=0964R987N5R9BZSJ4NP6&pf_rd_t=3201&pf_rd_p=1263271162&pf_rd_i=typ01
short answer: If [Jupiter] were about sixty times more massive than it is, it would indeed be a star!
Makes me wonder the same thing about all the planet hunters and exo-planets that we are finding - how many more would we be able to find if it didn't rely on having just the right angle from our vantage point...
There are many ways to detect extrasolar planets besides the angle of our line of sight. And, as the above poster noted, they've probably got those weird angles figured out, too.
My experience has been positive with both Dapper Drake and Hardy Heron. I still have Karmic installed on my notebook because I don't like either the new color schemes or the buttons-on-the-left. I'm annoyed at the high-handed way that Canonical treats long-time users, so I've refrained from upgrading to Lucid Lynx on the desktop until, kicking and whining, I have to next March if I'm sticking with Ubuntu. Hardy has been stable, quick and thanks to Ubuntuzilla, I've got the newest Firefox. I'm also using ALSA, not PulseAudio, but have no issues with sound. This is a factory-installed version of Hardy Heron on a Dell desktop, btw.
I'm certainly not refuting your point; just giving the upside of less-than-perfect LTS versions. They at least shield a user from future capricious corporate folly to some extent.
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn