If apple made cars
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There is an amusing science fiction short story from many years ago that describes a world where cars are limited by design to the roads built by the car company. So many problems like buying a car that will work on the roads between your house and job. And cross company agreements that allow more expensive cars to travel down other companies roads. I think there was a discussion of after market addons to allow cross road travel as well. I think the story was told from the perspective of a car dealer and how he was trying to show how his car was the best to a reluctant customer.
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Yes. Instead of a real knob, there would be a picture of a knob on a touch screen that behaves nothing like a real knob!
Which you would slide back and forth.
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Because every single one I've ever used has let me down, in a big way at one point or another.
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Early in my career, Serge, a middle management guy whom I also respected for his technical knowledge, told me that he sometimes had to deal with this kind of thing: Serge: I want 2+2=4 on the screen. Developers: We can do it, but it won't be elegant. We have to rewrite the operating system. Is that what you're talking about? :-D
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Someone could easily adapt that story to try to convince people that it's a good idea to have bicycles sharing the same streets that were initially designed for car use. Oh wait. There's already such a group of people.
The pedestrians were there first. In some areas here, signs say that bicycle can use the whole lane.
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I'd be interested in hearing why you hate all operating systems with the possible exception of QNX.
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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.Because QNX is awesome.
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Only a little OT. Around the millenium I helped administer some QNX based systems (VISA VAPs). Absolutely loved it. But they had their own Y2K bug! The standard c library definition of year in the time struct was "CE year minus 1900", not "CE year % 100", and the
lsfile dates reported year 100. Cosmetic issue only, but amusing. Probably occurred in a bunch of other *nixes too.Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
One of the very few software adjustments I had to make for Y2K was to have our UI show the year as 00 rather than 100 -- DEC (ANSI) C on OpenVMS. And the DBAs had to alter some Oracle reports, if I recall correctly, to use RR rather than YY for the date.
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Because every single one I've ever used has let me down, in a big way at one point or another.
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Surely not OpenVMS. :)
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The pedestrians were there first. In some areas here, signs say that bicycle can use the whole lane.
The pedestrians got their own sidewalks, on both sides of almost every street. Signs can say whatever they want, the laws of physics reign supreme. I used to work with a guy whose neighbor is now a quadriplegic, because some woman in a minivan "got blinded by the sun" and drifted into a dedicated bike lane and plowed into a group of them - that was at low speed. Cringe. Every summer I hear such stories, and it makes me downright angry. Awareness campaigns and increased fines are just a temporary feel-good measure. As I said in another thread elsewhere, I was about 7 years old when I understood that bicycles on roads already used by cars is just a (possibly fatal) accident waiting to happen, helmets be damned. I don't know why a grown-ass adult thinks he should take a chance. Nope. Nope, nope. Nope. Never. Not for me.
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The pedestrians got their own sidewalks, on both sides of almost every street. Signs can say whatever they want, the laws of physics reign supreme. I used to work with a guy whose neighbor is now a quadriplegic, because some woman in a minivan "got blinded by the sun" and drifted into a dedicated bike lane and plowed into a group of them - that was at low speed. Cringe. Every summer I hear such stories, and it makes me downright angry. Awareness campaigns and increased fines are just a temporary feel-good measure. As I said in another thread elsewhere, I was about 7 years old when I understood that bicycles on roads already used by cars is just a (possibly fatal) accident waiting to happen, helmets be damned. I don't know why a grown-ass adult thinks he should take a chance. Nope. Nope, nope. Nope. Never. Not for me.
The streets pre-existed the cars. The cars are interlopers on our streets. I also haven't ridden my bicycle on a street for a long while. I've known two grown-assed men who were killed while doing so.
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The streets pre-existed the cars. The cars are interlopers on our streets. I also haven't ridden my bicycle on a street for a long while. I've known two grown-assed men who were killed while doing so.
PIEBALDconsult wrote:
The streets pre-existed the cars.
...and I wrote: > The pedestrians got their own sidewalks Pretty much all streets got retrofitted to have sidewalks. Drivers are generally careful enough not to climb onto sidewalks with their cars. But when I see an existing street suddenly get bike lanes just by repainting lines on them...that just means the street just got narrower for everybody, which simply exacerbates the problem.
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The pedestrians got their own sidewalks, on both sides of almost every street. Signs can say whatever they want, the laws of physics reign supreme. I used to work with a guy whose neighbor is now a quadriplegic, because some woman in a minivan "got blinded by the sun" and drifted into a dedicated bike lane and plowed into a group of them - that was at low speed. Cringe. Every summer I hear such stories, and it makes me downright angry. Awareness campaigns and increased fines are just a temporary feel-good measure. As I said in another thread elsewhere, I was about 7 years old when I understood that bicycles on roads already used by cars is just a (possibly fatal) accident waiting to happen, helmets be damned. I don't know why a grown-ass adult thinks he should take a chance. Nope. Nope, nope. Nope. Never. Not for me.
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dandy72 wrote:
helmets be damned.
Helmets do make it a bit easier to find the detached head of motorcycle riders after they crash though.
