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We just picked u...
We just picked up a 360 a month ago too--I guess it's the optimal price point for garmins these days. Overall, not bad, but it does have those quirks like you say.
As for highway behavior, my guess is that what you call the New York behavior (which I feel like I actually observe all throughout the northeast) is going to be a bit more efficient at the goal of maintaining high throughput particularly in a few cases:
1) when there are errant drivers in the left lane who drive too slow (which is probabalistically inevitable when there are a lot of cars on the road)
2) when the current throughput of that road is reaching close to capacity (or what traffic engineers call the "breakdown" throughput). I say that because the other model essentially encourages N-1 lanes worth of driving with the last lane used for special scenarios, whereas the other model encourages a full N lanes of usage.
And either way, once you approach the capacity of the link, none of it really matters, I think.
Maybe when that happens we should just destroy random cars and let their reincarnated selves attempt to rejoin the highway with a probability function that exponentially decays over time. We could call it a "collision".
-- (July 30, 2008) on saturday 2008-07-26 2202
the Treo can be ...
the Treo can be similarly annoying, though it isn't quite as bad... Have you tried mark/space's missingsync product? Isn't quite as good as I want it to be, but I use it for my palm.
Ideally, someone would just make these devices sync to caldav (and perhaps ldap for addresses?) servers over the internet and then we wouldn't need any of this syncing to pc nonsense.
if i were in your situation, i might ponder doing something like getting one of the kyocera wireless routers (takes a pcmcia card on the wan side, some of them can run on battery and/or 12V cigarette lighters).. buy an ipod touch, a dumb small phone for just talking, etc. unfortunately the pcmcia cards seem to run no cheaper than $60/mo or so.
i actually wish the ipod touch had a speaker, mic and bluetooth, so someone could just hack a nice voip client and we could forget phones. i'm pretty sure the mic/speaker omission was intentional.
-- (July 12, 2008) on wednesday 2008-07-09 0111
i dunno. if it t...
i dunno.
if it takes a really bad turn, well, there's always apple mail. not what i wanted though. we'll see how things go.
-- (July 31, 2007) on friday 2007-07-27 0235
what kind of stu...
what kind of stuff did you throw on there that weren't available on the vanilla live cds?
why such a small distro (50MB) when a cd holds much more anyway (unless you were aiming for a bootable thumbdrive)?
did you go for a ppc or i386 distro?
-- (September 30, 2006) on thursday 2006-09-28 1526
A couple months ...
A couple months ago I actually witnessed this on the red line in a train. In that context, it seemed more amusing than anything. Because one guy kept putting money down and losing and I couldn't help but wonder why he kept going back for more.
-- (May 19, 2006) on friday 2006-05-19 0200
you know, as muc...
you know, as much as it's poor form and i know you don't like it.. the javascript obfuscation method ... works. not with lynx of course but... yeah..
everybody raise a glass to "Web 2.0". and by glass i mean a double mochacappalattechino from starbucks.
perhaps the blink tag will come back into fashion.
-- (February 22, 2006) on tuesday 2006-02-21 0245
does that mean y...
does that mean you did the product shoots for the outdoor bible?
-- (December 8, 2005) on wednesday 2005-12-07 1628
you could ruin t...
you could ruin the photo by putting a tacky noun underneath like... "DETERMINATION" or "SUCCESS" (or go the despair.com route and pick something negative)
-- (October 13, 2005) on wednesday 2005-10-12 1853
Wow cool... tha...
Wow cool... that's a nice shot..
Last night I was noticing that the lightning had an eerie way of lighting up the entire apartment quite frequently. I had the urge to pull out the camera and take a few long, stopped down exposures as well, figuring that 1) it was lighting up my apartment much brighter than a flash would and 2) who knows, maybe there'd be a weird / nifty look to it.. I'm sure it would look unnaturally lit.
But it was a dark and stormy night, and I started thinking things like "wouldn't it be weird / funny if strange things showed up in those photos, like demons and ghosts and remember that fly that kept showing up in those video frames in The Ring?" So I just went to sleep instead.
-- (August 2, 2005) on tuesday 2005-08-02 0233
i remember hosti...
i remember hosting the older ccac machine (a mini-tower) in my dorm room one summer when all the others (jesse, david) were outta town...
-- (July 18, 2005) on saturday 2005-07-16 0950
do you own it? ...
do you own it?
-- (July 16, 2005) on saturday 2005-07-16 0950
possibly 2k... i...
possibly 2k... i've seen the desktop before when the thing was booted but hadn't loaded the program yet.. i've heard people have seen bluescreens too.
i just find it incomprehensible how slow the UI is... i use that thing at least a couple times a week for lunch.
-- (May 15, 2005) on sunday 2005-05-15 1533
Does the pull-up...
Does the pull-up bar have rubber ends? If so, keep in mind that the uneven surface of the brick isn't a bad thing, in fact, if there's a lot of pressure from the pull up bar horizontally, the rubber will dig into the cracks in the brick and your coefficient of friction probably goes up, I'd think.
-- (April 18, 2005) on sunday 2005-04-17 0248
you mean the fac...
you mean the fact that they're leaning over hard? but it seems like they're always doing that... it generally means they're getting good wind / going fast i think....
whatever it is they're doing, it looks like they're all practicing the same maneuver, and it seems to require two people (cause someone's actually pushing the sail into a desired position..)
-- (April 11, 2005) on sunday 2005-04-10 2102
Hey so one of th...
Hey so one of the guys pushing this through is rep Ed Markey (D-MA) of the MA 7th district.. so if you live in {Arlington, Belmont, Everett, Framingham, Lexington, Lincoln, Malden, Medford, Melrose, Natick, Revere, Stoneham, Waltham, Watertown, Wayland, Weston, Winchester, Winthrop, Woburn} he might listen to your complaints since you're one of his constituents. =)
rant point #1: If they insist on this path, why don't they just redefine "EST" to be GMT-4 all year round? As stupid as it sounds, I'd rather do that.
rant point #2: Isn't it strange that they call it "savings" in the summertime, when there's more daylight? is the reason they don't do this year-round because they just give up in the winter--there's not enough sunlight to bother saving anyway?
-- (April 7, 2005) on thursday 2005-04-07 1344