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The road side sign is placed in a more natural field of view when driving than your cell phone placed on your lap.
Texting while driving (or holding your phone while driving) is really dangerous as you remove your concentration from driving to do something else.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Plus reading doesn't need your hands, where as using a phone often does.
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The sign is visible from a distance when it is just above your line of sight enabling you to read it while still keeping peripheral vision on the road and requiring very little focal shift.
Looking at your phone requires you to take your eyes off the road completely.
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Kevin Marois wrote: looking DOWN at my cell phone
Does this 5$ thing[^], which makes you look straight at
(phone && road)
... cause more accidents ??
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Does it work with an iPad, Galaxy Tab, or Surface tablet? 
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote: iPad, Galaxy Tab, or Surface tablet
Idea for a new product!
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Yes, signs are dangerous and should be removed; no street signs, no speed limit sign, no yield signs, no stop signs, no off/on ramp signs.
None - no signs whatsoever...
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I won't sign off on that.
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Tim Carmichael wrote: None - no signs whatsoever...
I dunno, "When's your birthday" doesn't sound nearly as cool of a pickup line as "What's your sign".
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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While I do *see* yer point, yer looking UP at a sign, of which your lower peripheral vision still has the road "in sight".
Whereas, looking DOWN, you can (usually) only see the top of the dashboard in your upper peripheral vision.
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I have a pic somewhere (always wanted to upload it onto my site and post a link here) of two adjacent billboards.
- The one on the left admonishes drivers to keep their hands on the wheel and their eyes on the road.
- The one on the right is an add for Geico car insurance.
Marc
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I always disable that option on explorer windows, as it drives me nuts, for example, I end up thinking that "foo.exe" is the application when it's actually "foo.exe.config" I prefer to see exactly what the file name is rather than have to move my eyeballs over to the "Type" column. What about you?
Marc
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Always the first thing I disable on setting up a new computer. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Of course not.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I always display all extensions. Because searching for a file-type by watching at the document type column is slower than seeing a filename directly with its extension.
I never finish anyth
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I also immediately disable that option, for the same reasons.
My long term goal is to live forever. So far, so good...
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It is one of the first things I do when setting up a Windows PC (even when it is not mine).
Not only to know like you what kind of file it is but also for security reasons.
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Same thing. It's normally one of the first things I change (even on other people's computer if they ask me to fix something  )
I really don't understand why hiding extensions is the default...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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To help extend puny NewMovieTorrented.torrent.exe virusses.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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Ah... that helps explains why, when opening files, they offer the option to "Always perform this action when handling files of this type"
It would be a shame if I cut the life short of a malicious executable. All lives matter! 
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It is life, but not as we know it
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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Johnny J. wrote: I really don't understand why hiding extensions is the default...
You know Microsoft likes to help you any way they can. 
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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..because it is deemed too difficult for the average user.
And it is. But then again, everything that is not a Games console is too difficult.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Right up until the point where it does matter; at which point it blows up in the users face. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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