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Comment Re:Why do they think this is a good idea? (Score 1) 185

Sounds like a Heads Up Display would be better than cruise control.
I've never really liked cruise control anyway. I would much prefer a throttle control than a cruise control. I don't want my car to downshift three gears just to try to keep the car going the same speed up a large hill. Just to keep the same throttle setting and let the speed fluctuate. Much better for the gas mileage and saves wear and tear on the engine and transmission.

Comment Re:wow (Score 1) 185

That is why GM is advertising it as a more advanced form of Cruse Control... Vs. Autonomous driving. In short it is a feature to make your drive easier. but not as a way for you to just not pay attention to the road.

I would love that feature on my car, when taking a long drive. It would prevent driving exhaustion.

Well, common sense tells me that people will see it as some sort of autonomous driving and not pay attention to the road if given this feature, and so therefore if the feature is not fit for autonomous driving, then it should not be released as advanced cruise control either. It is irresponsible.

Comment Re:Today's business class is the 70s' economy clas (Score 3, Insightful) 819

The cruise lines also treat people like royalty, even more so than the Asian airlines. Also, the cruise lines are cheaper and include foo, lodging and entertainment. And the make money.
Somehow, airlines have managed to cut salaries by 2/3, raised prices by over 3 times, all but eliminated meals, charge for every extra, and with most other factors like fuel costs, being the same, have managed to lose money while doing it. It is an incredible phenomenon, and some enterprising PhD student could probably figure out how to prove 1=0 if they could apply the business model of airlines to mathematics.

Comment Re: cram lots of people in a confined space (Score 1) 819

Can't being the operative word in this case. In some cases, you don't get to choose which seat you are in. Some planes don't have assigned seating. The ones that do are overbooked and sometimes they will not let you sit in the seat that you had a written agreement backed by a large amount of money to sit in. Many times travel is arrange by a corporate travel department that cares nothing for your needs and only cares about the bottom line. I always wondered why they call it business class when no business I have ever been involved with has ever paid for a business class ticket.

Comment Re: Anthropometrics (Score 1) 819

Not sure where you live. But over here the air fare have steadily dropped. Ten years ago the prices were roughly double on the routes I travel. Considering inflation, the difference is even bigger.

Definitely not dropping where I live. The very cheapest fare is 3 times what it was 10 years ago, and the normal fare is 8 times what it was 10 years ago. And inflation shouldn't count unless wages go up with it, which they don't. I make less than half what I did 10 years ago. Of course, one data point is not a statistics, but in general, everybody seems to make about the same as 10 years ago. And one thing the government average wage statistics don't bother to take into consideration is the amount that unemployed people get paid, which is nothing.

Comment Re:Perl: TMTOWTDI (Score 2) 729

I used to think that Perl's feature of "There's More Than One Way To Do It" was great until I had to start modifying and maintaining the code of other developers,

Maintaining the code of others? Heck, I have found in perl, that it was easier to rewrite a program than try to debug it even if I wrote the original program.

Comment Re:Database Identity (Score 1) 729

I think it is the opposite of outdated. It used to be that jsmith was jsmith. Now, with all this fancy Windows Authentication, you can be guaranteed no end of hassle. For instance, at my company, our laptops are on a different domain than production, for some sort of security reason. However, one of the database servers is set up with windows authentication, which means, yup, you can't log into it from your laptop. You have to first remote desktop into something on the production domain, and then run SQL enterprise manager from there.

Comment Re:Sad (Score 1) 165

This is the same as the United States. You pay your withholding tax and you get some of it back from as little as two months to as many as 18 months later. On average, you could call it 9 months. So you pay your $100 now, and later you get back your $100, which is now only worth $97.50 if you use the governments inflation numbers, or about $80 if you use actual cost of living numbers. In the case of Argentina, they take your $100 now and give it back when it is worth about $80 according to the official numbers, so it is probably worth far less in actuality.

Comment Re:It's yelp's "recommended reviews" (Score 1) 63

So it's an offer of conspiracy to destroy evidence. Whoever pays the most money gets the most negative reviews hidden. Once starting down this road, there is no logical end. If your competitor pays more money, they may unhide some of your negative reviews. You can compensate somewhat by doing better business and not having as many negative reviews. But let's face it, no matter how good a job you do, there is always a few customers who are bound and determined to be unhappy.

Comment Re:make money instead (Score 2) 253

He can't do that, he would lose money. Which is why nobody does it.
The first thing I though of was that there is no way for one particular store to know that you are that person's store and therefore have to stock the phone that they have insured. So you will have to have at least one of every phone in existence that is currently under an insurance plan. Secondly, you have no way of knowing how many people are going to experience an insurance issue on a given day and come in to get a replacement phone. There are actuarials which could give averages, but the store would need to cover for the worst case, not the average.
Far cheaper for the consumer would be, instead of paying the monthly insurance and ridiculous deductible, just buy a second phone and leave it in the box.

Comment Re:So why dont cases breathe out the top? (Score 2) 149

I have a cooler master haf-x. It breathes out the top. Works great, and I can put it right up against a wall, because the intlet fan is on the other side, unless I am an idiot and put the fan side against the wall. Even then there are two other fans, one in front and one in back to try to limit the damage if I am an idiot.
I can't speak enough praise about this case. From the access points, to cable grommets, to incredible airflow, to built in sdata and usb frontside.
I priced an alienware to a homebuilt with this case, and went homebuilt. I'll never look back. Alienware was probably 50-75% more and with them you don't get to pick the top of the line brand new components, if that is your choosing.
This is not a slashvertisement, as I don't have any ad links for you to click, just my opinion and I hope you are able to use it to some benefit.

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