Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 485
2 seconds?! Utter rubbish. My Linux machine boots 10 seconds BEFORE I press the power button.
I never need to reboot my Free BSD box.
2 seconds?! Utter rubbish. My Linux machine boots 10 seconds BEFORE I press the power button.
I never need to reboot my Free BSD box.
I can't even remember which BeeGee's song to use for the rhythm
It's "Staying Alive." How fucking hard can that be to remember?
Hint: you're helping someone stay alive.
Four out of five elderly people given CPR end up dying [theguardian.com] within days
So one in five survives.
This guy did not "invent" CPR.
There really should be a "-1 douchebag" mod option.
It need not even reduce your flexibility, if you could summon anybody's car on five minutes' notice. It's easy to see how that could happen, if large fleets were deployed strategically, even in the suburbs.
Farily big "ifs" there.
In reality, companies like Uber aren't going to provide anything like a universally good service. They'll probably be ok in cities (if you don't mind paying their surge prices just when you and everybody else most want to use them), but elsewhere the service will be much patchier.
Even here in suburbia we've bicycled for our groceries, three baskets per bicycle, allowing for at least six bags, possibly more depending on how we pack the bikes, to be transported the less-than-a-mile home.
If it's really less than a mile, why would you cycle? I'd rather just take a decent rucksack and walk. You can't carry all that much safely on a bike.
I suppose you'd save ten minutes each way travel time, but by the time you get the bike out, lock it up at the shops then put it away when you get home, it probably isn't any quicker over all.
No. I don't want a self-driving car. First, because I'm one of those weirdos that actually enjoys driving. Second, because I suffer from motion sickness if I'm in a vehicle that I'm not controlling. And third, I'm a software developer and therefore have no faith in software.
No, I really want a self driving car, I just don't want one on the Uber plan.
The future will be driverless cars, mass transit and bicycles in urban/suburban areas.
You forgot personal jetpacks.
Car ownership is a form of freedom from those who control other forms of transportation, and I'd hate to see that go away.
So putting yourself into debt and/or signing an onerous lease agreement is a form of freedom?
I'm sure glad that your monthly car payments give you freedom from those who espouse walking and bicycling.
It depends where you live. If you have to commute thirty miles a day, and there is no nearby train service, then you're going to waste a lot of time doing it by bike.
Anyplace where axes were the minimum requirement, I think I'd be carrying a chainsaw.
Anyplace where axes were the minimum requirement, I think I'd be avoiding.
At least that is my hope. The concept of car ownership is archaic. I look forward to the offloading all the associated penalty costs of car ownership in favour of a service model.
This service announcement brought to you by Uber.
It is also worth noting that in England, towns typically shut down completely at around 5pm.
Well, the high street shops do, I suppose. But the pizza and kebab places and petrol stations and big supermarkets and pubs don't.
Motorcycles must have lights at all times.
It is much easier to judge how far away a motorcycle is if it is illuminated by street lights, rather than just being a single headlight bearing down on you as a car driver or pedestrian.
difficult for pedestrians
Carry a flashlight (torch). You will be a lot more visible to vehicles as a moving light source and it eliminates the shadows behind shrubs where streetlights can't reach.
Torches generally have a limited field of illumination, so it's harder to see approaching dangers (and I'm talking about things like holes in the road, not masked rapists).
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