Thanks for giving hope and purpose to my life. If you need me I'll be in the basement figuring out how to make a noose. (Now is it eight or twelve times around.....)
I do agree with the lost value point. It's a nice pipe dream though.
If you are looking for good car manuals to work on your own i suggest the Haynes series http://www.haynes.com/. They are step by step and pretty easy to follow even for the not so mechanically inclined. That and they've got lots of pretty pictures and exploded diagrams too!
Really handy for things like brake jobs, belt changes ect. The things the local mechanic spends five minutes on and charges you $300 for it.
On a side note I popped by a friend's shop today for coffee and he showed his newest purchase. Since he runs a high-end-fix-all-models place he got computerized non-OEM manuals system. Any car, any manual, any diagram. Kicker is he shelled out over 10K for it (wouldn't be specific on the price but I'm guessing it was more) AND he has a yearly subscription that costs another couple grand per year. I can see how it would get very expensive, very quickly for Wikipedia to make something closee to that public domain with licensing issues and all.
Leave it to engineers to screw up something so damn simple. I can fix your length query in about ten minutes with some really sophisticated technology. It's tricky to use but after about thirty years daily use you can get pretty good at using it.
Wait for it.....
IT'S A TAPE MEASURE!! TADA!!!!
Am I the only one who thought of this revolution in measuring technology?
Couldn't have said it better. If they need more convincing put the stumbleupon bar on firefox for them.
My father swears my mother hasn't left the computer since I've done that and since it's his business machine there's alot of swearing directed at me.:D
Where as the Honda Fit is all over the world (Although to your credit it's probably know as the Jazz down under so you are forgiven for not knowing it:) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Fit
So there are some vehicles that are common world round that could (should?) have their manuals posted online which would benefit us back yard mechanics. Also as pointed out by the Honda Fit/Jazz example many manufacturers re-brand their vehicles for different markets mainly due to differing regulations in those markets that require it while retaining the common core fo the vehicle that is sold world round.
Dude a VW golf, Ford Focus, Mazda Miata, Toyota Tundra, and Honda Fit are the pretty much the same around the world. (To name a few) A few details may be change due to regulations per country but if you are trying to fix your own vehicle they don't matter that much. The guts will be the same. Yes I don't know what the hell a Falcon looks like but the vast majority of the popular cars would be certianly appreciated online.
That said I doubt the car makers would allow it. The manuals contianing the exploded drawings are freaking expensive. They make too much dinero off them to let us regular schmucks have them for free.
There's also a coke that burns calories. It energizes, maximizes, and all around kicks ass. You don't drink it and it's not a suppository. (Any one know some fat cokeheads??)
I'm suprised mentioned poor, starving, banging-Beyonce, Jigga what? Jay-Z. He's got to be getting a cut from the ads to. He's got 99 Problems and my lack of respect for him is one.
Lucite is better. With carbonite some moron with a lightsaber will come by and de-frost them. Then what do you do? Hopefully you can re-capture the rug rats again, otherwise there goes the galactic empire you created.
I would like to clarify about your weeds comment. At least in Alberta Canada (part of the great plains the bread basket of the world)
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This list of weeds is pretty much standard for Canada and (my guess) the states. It's also a safe bet to say that 99% of them are NOT native to north america. Case in point the tumble weed is from Russia. I know it ruins all those spaghetti westerns.
Hmmm.... I gave you less credit than due. Seems you searched my name amongst the threads. Slashdotters (sp?) are on top of thingst compare to most forums I've visited. I should clarify I'm a n00b compared to youse guys. You want to know how n00b I am read my slash dot profile I'm updating it after posting this. Since you were honestly being nice I apologise but the comment was a purposeful dumbass comment with humourous intent. Really who the hell reads the readme files I couldn't care what billion fixes they've done as long as it works. (Did I spell humour wrong? NO! Wikipedia spells it wrong. it's the canadian way or the highway!)
Went out yesterday and bought and a new CD. The first in years. Racontuers (sp?) I'm wishing i hadn't. Why?
The same old shit as usual. Two good songs out of ten. On a fucking 40 minute cd.
Here's the deal if you record producers make a CD that I can listen to all the way through (Weezer's Make Believe case in point). Maybe i would buy the damn disc. But as it sits right now this isn't the case. That or filling the whole CD would be nice. You bastards have been doing that for years. WTF 20 minutes of silence on one side of a tape???? Leaves you feeling gyped. I paid good fucking money for it and I expect to be repaid in kind.
I appreciate the Stadium Arcadium having a substantial amount of tunes on it to increase my listening pleasure. I might even buy it to suppost them even though i've dl'd it already.
I'd like for you to sue bittorent good luck with that.
You want Linux to become a Windows clone for your convenience? To the point that it, "has an identical start menu / quick launch / control panel to vanilla WinXP." Someone who won't make even the trivial effort to understand the concept of the root user (think 'Administrator')? Yet carps about, 'The ludicrous over the top server security built in?"
I'm a total n00b whatever. But it's the attitude of linux people like you that has held linux back over the years. I've tried linux but i'm a mechanic in life not a CS major I don't have the time to learn how to use it i just want it to work. If there was a windows clone I'd use it. I can't even fathom those who are techinically illiterate trying to use linux.
Although I do believe my next machine will be a mac.
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Pretty anit-climatic if you ask me. But then you probably didn't.
Thanks for giving hope and purpose to my life. If you need me I'll be in the basement figuring out how to make a noose. (Now is it eight or twelve times around.....)
I do agree with the lost value point. It's a nice pipe dream though. If you are looking for good car manuals to work on your own i suggest the Haynes series http://www.haynes.com/. They are step by step and pretty easy to follow even for the not so mechanically inclined. That and they've got lots of pretty pictures and exploded diagrams too! Really handy for things like brake jobs, belt changes ect. The things the local mechanic spends five minutes on and charges you $300 for it. On a side note I popped by a friend's shop today for coffee and he showed his newest purchase. Since he runs a high-end-fix-all-models place he got computerized non-OEM manuals system. Any car, any manual, any diagram. Kicker is he shelled out over 10K for it (wouldn't be specific on the price but I'm guessing it was more) AND he has a yearly subscription that costs another couple grand per year. I can see how it would get very expensive, very quickly for Wikipedia to make something closee to that public domain with licensing issues and all.
I just stumbled into this thought I'd share it. I'm signing up for the email account.
http://www.culturehole.com/article.asp?blog_id=11
The 17th was The 80th Anniversary of Formation of the Down-with-Imperialism Union big news people, big news.
http://www.kcckp.net/en/
Leave it to engineers to screw up something so damn simple. I can fix your length query in about ten minutes with some really sophisticated technology. It's tricky to use but after about thirty years daily use you can get pretty good at using it. Wait for it..... IT'S A TAPE MEASURE!! TADA!!!! Am I the only one who thought of this revolution in measuring technology?
Couldn't have said it better. If they need more convincing put the stumbleupon bar on firefox for them. My father swears my mother hasn't left the computer since I've done that and since it's his business machine there's alot of swearing directed at me. :D
To make a wikipedia point the Falcon is pretty much Austrailia only.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Falcon
Where as the Honda Fit is all over the world (Although to your credit it's probably know as the Jazz down under so you are forgiven for not knowing it:) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Fit
The Toyota Tundra is known as the Toyota Truck, T100, SR5, or HiLux. The Tundra is just the full size version. (also more commonly know as "those trucks the Taliban drive") http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Hi-Lux and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Truck
So there are some vehicles that are common world round that could (should?) have their manuals posted online which would benefit us back yard mechanics. Also as pointed out by the Honda Fit/Jazz example many manufacturers re-brand their vehicles for different markets mainly due to differing regulations in those markets that require it while retaining the common core fo the vehicle that is sold world round.
Dude a VW golf, Ford Focus, Mazda Miata, Toyota Tundra, and Honda Fit are the pretty much the same around the world. (To name a few) A few details may be change due to regulations per country but if you are trying to fix your own vehicle they don't matter that much. The guts will be the same. Yes I don't know what the hell a Falcon looks like but the vast majority of the popular cars would be certianly appreciated online. That said I doubt the car makers would allow it. The manuals contianing the exploded drawings are freaking expensive. They make too much dinero off them to let us regular schmucks have them for free.
See my knickname? There's always one. Always.
Between Slashdot and Stumbleupon I don't have the time for my girlfriend.
It takes so long to blow her up y'know.
There's also a coke that burns calories. It energizes, maximizes, and all around kicks ass. You don't drink it and it's not a suppository. (Any one know some fat cokeheads??)
beaver pelts will they take Canadian Tire money?
I'm suprised mentioned poor, starving, banging-Beyonce, Jigga what? Jay-Z. He's got to be getting a cut from the ads to. He's got 99 Problems and my lack of respect for him is one.
Lucite is better. With carbonite some moron with a lightsaber will come by and de-frost them. Then what do you do? Hopefully you can re-capture the rug rats again, otherwise there goes the galactic empire you created.
Thats why we used/use eye googgles. Only now we call it paintball.
Goddamn I need to learn HTML if I'm going to post more often.n sf/all/acts4705?opendocument
The link is
http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.
Cut and paste until I learn.
A nice simple online guide reference would be nice if any one knows one.
I would like to clarify about your weeds comment. At least in Alberta Canada (part of the great plains the bread basket of the world) ahref=http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/dept docs.nsf/all/acts4705?opendocument/rel=url2html-95 8http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs. nsf/all/acts4705?opendocument/>
This list of weeds is pretty much standard for Canada and (my guess) the states. It's also a safe bet to say that 99% of them are NOT native to north america. Case in point the tumble weed is from Russia. I know it ruins all those spaghetti westerns.
Hmmm.... I gave you less credit than due. Seems you searched my name amongst the threads. Slashdotters (sp?) are on top of thingst compare to most forums I've visited. I should clarify I'm a n00b compared to youse guys.
You want to know how n00b I am read my slash dot profile I'm updating it after posting this.
Since you were honestly being nice I apologise but the comment was a purposeful dumbass comment with humourous intent. Really who the hell reads the readme files I couldn't care what billion fixes they've done as long as it works.
(Did I spell humour wrong? NO! Wikipedia spells it wrong. it's the canadian way or the highway!)
God I'm hoping that was a sarcastic reply laden with geek speak. If not.... *shakes head*
The hell is a readme file? (note: purposeful dumbass comment)
Went out yesterday and bought and a new CD. The first in years. Racontuers (sp?) I'm wishing i hadn't. Why? The same old shit as usual. Two good songs out of ten. On a fucking 40 minute cd. Here's the deal if you record producers make a CD that I can listen to all the way through (Weezer's Make Believe case in point). Maybe i would buy the damn disc. But as it sits right now this isn't the case. That or filling the whole CD would be nice. You bastards have been doing that for years. WTF 20 minutes of silence on one side of a tape???? Leaves you feeling gyped. I paid good fucking money for it and I expect to be repaid in kind. I appreciate the Stadium Arcadium having a substantial amount of tunes on it to increase my listening pleasure. I might even buy it to suppost them even though i've dl'd it already. I'd like for you to sue bittorent good luck with that.
I got no idea what you've got but I know that the folks over at sunbelt, vitalsecurity.org would love to hear about it. PG always loves a challenge.
You want Linux to become a Windows clone for your convenience? To the point that it, "has an identical start menu / quick launch / control panel to vanilla WinXP." Someone who won't make even the trivial effort to understand the concept of the root user (think 'Administrator')? Yet carps about, 'The ludicrous over the top server security built in?" I'm a total n00b whatever. But it's the attitude of linux people like you that has held linux back over the years. I've tried linux but i'm a mechanic in life not a CS major I don't have the time to learn how to use it i just want it to work. If there was a windows clone I'd use it. I can't even fathom those who are techinically illiterate trying to use linux. Although I do believe my next machine will be a mac.