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Microsoft Money Leads To Street-Legal Porsche 959s
Ken Greenebaum writes "Soon there will be a 'new' Porsche 959 racing down highway 520 in Redmond. This
article in autoweek describes how Bill Gates, Paul Allen and Ralph Lauren teamed up with Bruce Canepa to make the 959 street legal. Best quote: Gates 'suggested to Canepa that perhaps they could federalize the car by buying a number of sacrificial 959s to "crash and test."' They modernized and increased the performance of the already super car to: 575HP making the 15 year old cars race to 60 in 3.3 seconds with a top speed of 215MPH."
People who put ++++ in front of the NO CARRIER joke have obviously never used a modem, other than to plug it in and let windows plug & pray auto find it for them.
When you get a *real* NO CARRIER signal, while connected to a BBS for example, you wouldn't see the +++. You would *maybe* get a few garbage characters before the NO CARRIER, but usually the modem simply stops recieving text, then drops.
The +++ is when you are in the terminal program and want to stop the modem sending text to the remote system and send a command to the modem itself. So, if you *do* see a +++ preceding the NO CARRIER, it means YOU have told the modem to hang up, not the remote system.
And, you didn't even get it right.. it would be +++ATH0. The modem would then reply NO CARRIER.
Not trying to single you out, but it's a pet peeve!
70mph on a dry road with little traffic is safer than 50mph in fog in the rush hour.
50mph during rush hour? On a foggy day? Where are you from and what are you smoking? Try 50 feet/hour. If you're lucky. And driving away from the city. On the sidewalk.
GL