Comment Betteridge's law (Score 1) 313
Since nobody else has posted it....
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Since nobody else has posted it....
Best 32-Bit Windows System In 2012? - No
it doesn't really do conceptual clarity much good to combine complex environmental manipulations that don't show evidence of being cognitively acquired from those that do...
It took some cognitively acquired, complex environmental manipulations to parse that sentence. But in fact, it's actually a well-worded statement and a generally good point. Which leads me to believe that you accidentally posted your response on the wrong site. You do realize this is Slashdot, right?
Wow. That whole "to the king" section was at least as interesting to me as the rest of the book...
And if you wouldn't have wasted your time on that public speaking course and instead used that opportunity cost to take a class in a Lisp language like Scheme you'd understand why your failure to close that left parenthesis is driving me bat shit insane right now.
Oh, good...I wasn't the only one reading that line multiple times over trying to figure out what I'd missed.
If the Ford Sync system is any indication, Microsoft seems to be able to pull off something like this quite well.
You're kidding right? I have the Ford Sync system from Microsoft in my new F150. And you do, literally, have to reboot the truck sometimes to get the USB interface to sync up. I mean come to a stop, turn off the ignition, wait for a few seconds and then turn it back on and pray to the sync-gods that it works this time so you can finally be on your way.
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Thanks! I needed the laugh this morning. That was classic.
Wow. That's bad. I mean real bad.
they could even make it so that if it's pulled out and facing the passenger seat instead of the driver, the screen unblanks and updates, so that a passenger can give directions.
Yeah, as long as they provide a simple work around like that that we can all use to hack/defeat the original implementation, then I'm all for the law. But anything that's going to blank the very screen I would find most useful on me when I most need it would be utterly retarded.
It is very confusing to have to rotate the map in your head even when you are walking, not to mention the effort for doing it real-time while you are driving a vehicle.
No it's not. It's completely disorienting to me when someone rotates a map around like that (i.e., my wife). She says it helps her keep left/right straight in her head. But for me, I'd rather have the map be a fixed reference and I'll just swap left/right in my head.
We argue about who's right and who's wrong and what each preference suggests about the person's spatial brain, but the point is...neither solution works well for everyone. I think forcing GPS displays down any single path is going to be fine for about half the population and make it totally disorienting for the other. I don't see this dramatically reducing accidents in any way.
I think he was saying that the act of holding the cellphone to one's ear was illegal in the jurisdiction in which he currently resides. Not that the person is violating federal immigration law by being in the country, dumbass.
FTFY
Someone mod the parent up... Despite the stupid initial question, there's some excellent info there.
I'll second that. Assuming she's a she.
This restaurant was advertising breakfast any time. So I ordered french toast in the renaissance. - Steven Wright, comedian
