What folks seem to be missing here, is that, flawed as it is, the ios6 maps is just plain more useful than the crippled version of google maps that preceded it.

I can now ask for directions in the car, and get them. A week ago, I could not (and, yes, I tried mapquest and wares).

This is usable while driving; last week's offerings were not.

hawk

Pray I don't alter it any further . . .

hawk

It's not like MapQuest tried to send me across San Jose by way of Nebraska . . . .

Oh, wait . . .

And to be fair, it didn't really offer me directions across San Jose. I asked for them, but the last instruction, in Nebraska, was "enter United States."

NO, this wasn't ten years ago; it was last December. Early MapQuest merely expected me to jump the river through Nashville to get to my hotel . . .

Google had a bit more pizazz. Looking for directions between two cities an hour or two apart, it instead latched onto a city in France, providing directions east instead of west, instructing me to "swim the Atlantic" before resuming street directions in France.

hawk

>That was my second thought... right after "how are
>they going to keep the helium from leaking out?"

Sonics.

The helium will cause the drive to rattle in a high squeaky tone, the harmonics of which will reflect back from the case, knocking the helium back in.

hawk

Actually, at the moment, Apple is seeing significant adoption in law offices. I see more iPads in court than everything else put together, and iPhone seems to be a strong majority for lawyers at this point. Mac is following these into law offices at a rate never before seen. Enough that I dusted off a 20 year old product, rewrote it, and am now the only mac provider of bankruptcy petition software http://dochawkbk.com/. The irony, of course, is that the first sale was to a windows user :) hawk, esq

Using grain instead of extract, though, makes an *amazing* difference in flavor.

I can smell extract a foot away, most of the time . . .

All grain, liquid yeast, and whole hops all make huge differences.

(You can search old usenet and find my explanations of using certain dry extract in part to cheat, if you're really ambitious, and much better dry yeast exists now than did when I wrote that).

hawk

And pray that I do not alter it further . . .

hawk

FreeBSD seems to have solved this in their next release :)

hawk

I have a 72 Eldorado covertable.

Once it's fixed, it will be still be missing something: double digit fuel economy :) (OK, it should actually get 14-16 on the highway, and 10-12 around town).

It would benefit significantly from an overdrive gear, lockup torque converter, and a handful of the northstar technologies (particularly, the bit about not firing on all 8. There was an attempt on a smaller version of this engine a couple of years later, but the electronics were a disaster, and most cars eventually disabled it).

Yes, I do speculate about tossing a modern turbo-400 in it, to get the lockup and extra gear, but there is s much to do beforehand.

The "Automatic Stickshift" of the 70s (may have started in the late 60s).

It was actually an automatic clutch. First gear was removed, and it started from 2d with the help of a torque converter. They were the regular 2, 3, and 4 gears.

hawk

Newsflash: iPhone 4s sales down slightly a month before the release of the IPhone 5!

Clearly related to the release of a samsung tablet . . .

hawk

>appears to be, roughly, France.

Swell.

Bad enough when a verdict has to be appealed and overturned, but one that up and surrenders on its own? :)

hawk

I am an attorney, but this is not legal advice. If you need legal advice, pay my retainer, cheapskate!

>The only special case is a verdict of innocent in a criminal case.

There is no such verdict (except, I believe, in Scotland). The verdict is "not guilty," which includes "we're pretty sure he did it, but not beyond a reasonable doubt."

The legal decisions of a judge are reviewed "de novo" by the appellate court--no (zero, zilch, nada) weight is given to the judge's own decision, save for its ability to persuade the higher court by argument.

Findings of fact, though, whether by judge or jury, are appealable, but the standard is roughly whether any reasonable person could have reached that conclusion from the evidence given; the appellate court does not substitute its own judgment of the facts.

(There are also a range of areas, such as remedies and sanctions, which are a mix of law and fact, in which a judge will only be overruled for "abuse of discretion.")

hawk, esq

I would expect that the average slashdot reader is far more likely to pinch any given piece of electronics than a girl . . . :)

hawk, heading down the hall to pinch his wife [1]

[1] wife, n. A subspecies of "girl" residing with and in a permanent domestic relationship with a "guy."

>Plus part of the rent goes to buying insurance, further protecting the landlord.

With any insurance company I've ever met, part of zero doesn't buy much coverage . . .

hawk