Posts by jake 26684 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Jun 2007
Actually, I did engage the subject the OP brought up. It's in my subject line (which the OP left blank) and in the first sentence of the body of the post. The bit you quoted was my follow-up colophon/conversational question. As you know full well.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Real estate agents. So you can see the property they are flogging without having to physically visit the place.
Except even there it was a fad that lasted all of about a month a couple years ago. Seems people actually want to put boots on the ground before purchasing anything that expensive. Whodathunkit?
Since the very, very early days... before Fidonet and Usenet, even. I remember people bitching about harassment and "stalkers" on Community Memory in the early-mid '70s ... even before that, a Professor of mine at Berkeley recounted a co-ed getting harassed via email when he was at Stanford in the 1960s. His message was "don't harass people or you'll lose access". Naturally, some brat tested this. And promptly lost access.
"Oh, and harassing people conceptually or in praxis is stupid and dumb."
Of course it is. Why do you think the children do it? It's all part of a very human thing called "learning boundaries" ... and like it or not, the boundaries in the ones & zeros world are NOT the same as they are in RealLife.
In theory, you could "trap" a bubble with three other bubbles. Then have a couple hundred other bubbles rush at the center bubble simultaneously from all directions. It;s all just code, so in theory the bubbles could be automated, ensuring they all reach the center at the same time. What happens to the one bubble in the center? And to the three who have trapped it'?
"Although the Bible is anathema to members of these forums!"
As we are with any instruction manual that is internally inconsistant, illogical, and translated from language to language by people unsure of the nuances of the languages involved. Especially when the users involved cherry-pick the bits that they've been told to pick, and are told how to interpret those bits by middle managers only interested in keeping their own cushy jobs. Honestly, you'd think the users would eventually learn to read the instructions for themselves, discover the illogic and inconsistancy and translation errors, and tell the middle managers to fuck right the hell off.
Your "intermediary step" isn't going to happen until you remove the automobile from the hands of individual drivers. And THAT isnl't going to happen as long as there are family heirloom '60s and'70s cars in garages across the United States. Any politician who even suggests banning classic cars from the roads will probably be tarred & feathered and run out of town on the rail. And they know it, too. There are far too many folks, of all political, religious, ethnic and etc. stripes who are into classic cars to run that kind of risk with a political career. The installed base is really that large.
How large? By some estimates, there are some 50,000,000 vehicles on US roads that are over 40 years old. These aren't old junkers, these are carefully maintained family heirlooms, licensed and insured to be driven. And they ARE driven, daily, both for utility and for fun. Outlawing all these vehicles would alienate a LOT of voters.
Manually driven over-the-road vehicles will be with us for at least another century, and very probably much longer.
I agree ... but I see your Tennessee fog and raise you a California dust storm. Eyeball the 1991 Interstate 5 dust storm. To say nothing of common Winter driving conditions over most of the United States.
"and this is before modern traffic densities and habits."
I question this ... From my perspective, today's driving densities and habits have not changed appreciably since (roughly) the mid 1980s, when we finally came out of the so-called "energy crisis of the '70s".
"It's still an example of getting it wrong, no matter who orchestrated it!"
Of course it is! You've never see a spoof video on The Toobs of Ewe before?
Here's Walker Construction's video update, as the roundabout was opening:
https://www.facebook.com/walker/videos/456870328911831/
alphagoo maps' streetview (currently) has pictures of the intersection as it was before roundabout construction started. You can go ogle it for yourself here.
"Warning - disk almost full - free up space before continuing. Press any key to exit"
Possible user answers:
"What's a disk? Is it like the CPU?", while pointing at the box.
"Space is mostly empty! I saw it on a TV documentary about Mars!"
And of course the ever popular: "Where's the Any Key?"
"Toyota have decided that using the heated seats in their cars requires a yearly subscription."
From what I've read it'll be monthly. And you can add remote start to that, too. And whatever else they feel they can get away with.
For those of you who already own Toyotas, have no fear, they haven't forgotten you. Apparently, they are planning on turning off those features unless you pay the monthly fee. That's right, they are going to turn off features that you have already paid for, and have been using! This control is built into their software. Still think Internet connected cars are a good idea?
Have fun.
Now ask me why I restore and drive pre-1970 vehicles.
"Have they implemented Adjust-Scroll Arrow to scroll in the opposite direction yet?"
The various un*x GUIs had that capability long before RISC OS existed. It wasn't always implemented, mainly due to the fact that nobody wanted/needed it, but the capability was there.
I'm fairly certain that the capability existed early on in Windows (1.x, pre-RISC OS) ... but again, it wasn't much called for, so (almost) nobody implemented it anywhere.
... might want to look into Klipper.
Klipper doesn't manage your cut buffer history, rather it saves the history of your X Selections (items hilighted, before you copy or cut them), and then allows you to select from a list which you want to paste. It has worked for many users in my sphere for about twenty years now. It's an ugly hack, but it does what it does well enough ... it seems to be quite stable, and never gets in the way. It protects your saved bits & bobs between sessions. Yes, potentially it's a privacy problem ... but it's easy enough to clear, should you need/want to do so.
Here's a link to The Klipper Handbook ... but as usual for small utilities like this, it's easier to use than it is to read about it.
For those of you unfortunate enough to use Gnome, might want to try glipper.
"I think he quite likes the idea of Rusty modules."
Not really. He use words like "we might" and "maybe we will" and "perhaps rust" and "eventually", and "drivers, probably" etc. etc. Nowhere does he say "Let's do it" or "We are going to" or "It will be soon".
He also is on record as saying ""I don't think Rust will take over the core kernel, but doing individual drivers (and maybe whole driver subsystems) in it doesn't sound entirely unlikely." ... but again, he's not entirely enthusiastic. He has also said "It might not be rust", which to me is a death knell.
I;ve been reading the LKML for as long as it;s been around, and from my perspective it looks like Linus isn't really interested in any language that isn't C for kernel use ... not C++, just good old C ... and seeing as Rust is a replacement for C++, not C ,,, well, do the math.
I think he's throwing the yowling, baying fanbois a bone just to shut them up. We might get a few drivers & the like written in rust over the next few years, but the vast majority of the kernel will still be in C long after the next language du jour takes the place of rust in the fanboi's fancy.
I prefer ZZ ... However, here's a short list:
:w to write, :w! to force a write, :q to quit (with prompt to save changes), :q! to force quit with no save, :wq or ZZ to write and quit, :wq! to force a write and quit. Note that ZZ doesn't need the :, nor does it have an option to force a write if you're editing a so-called "read only" file, making it somewhat safer than :wq! in day-to-day life.
HTH
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