Quite a bit. One of my best friends is a nuclear engineer, and spends a lot of time at home doing calculations (don't know the details of them). It's not a very hands on job, at least not for him.:-)
By the way, how can a chip in your car make the engine blow up?
Depends on your definition of 'blow up.' While it's highly unlikely that the engine will literally *explode*, a bug in the ECM software (which controls fuel mixture, spark timing et al) could easily cause a lean condition leading to detonation and possibly a nice hole in a piston. If you want to worry, though, the ABS computer would be a better candidate.;-)
Also, with more and more computer control over modern car, software bugs sending your car careening out of control aren't far away!
Weight lifting (it's cheap, too -- you can setup a decent home gym for $300), rope skipping, yoga, kettlebells (my favorite -- see sig)... what you do is not as important as *enjoying* it though.:-) (If you don't enjoy it, you'll quit before long.)
(Of course, if you read Car Craft or Hot Rod, the planet is covered with wonderful junkyards that you can enter, and find a perfect 455 Olds engine for a mere $25. As a matter of fact, according to them, there are so many 350 Chevy engines that you have to carry one away when you leave the junkyard. Maybe in So. Cal., but on the East Coast? Bullshit.)
Bullshit? Fine, then I won't share where you can pick up disk brake Ford 9" rears for $55...:-)
I think we should bombard Adobe with Emails, Amnesty International Style. Does anyone have the Email address for the CXOs?
Yeah, that'll teach them. A buncha people, who wouldn't buy anything from them since nothing's available for Linux, sending emails. I'm sure it'll greatly influence their decisions.
I certainly hope they aren't planning on releasing a few "Douglas Adams' [insert title] by [insert some other author]"... Alistair MacLean's stuff comes to mind. (Several books with his name 'by Alastair MacNeill' appeared after his death.)
Unless it's something like a 98% finished work, I'd rather not see them take his name and slap it on something that has very little DNA in it...
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Personally, I'm fucking amazed you found anything other than Bud and malt liquor in Clarkston.
Quite a bit. One of my best friends is a nuclear engineer, and spends a lot of time at home doing calculations (don't know the details of them). It's not a very hands on job, at least not for him. :-)
Depends on your definition of 'blow up.' While it's highly unlikely that the engine will literally *explode*, a bug in the ECM software (which controls fuel mixture, spark timing et al) could easily cause a lean condition leading to detonation and possibly a nice hole in a piston. If you want to worry, though, the ABS computer would be a better candidate.
Also, with more and more computer control over modern car, software bugs sending your car careening out of control aren't far away!
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Weight lifting (it's cheap, too -- you can setup a decent home gym for $300), rope skipping, yoga, kettlebells (my favorite -- see sig)... what you do is not as important as *enjoying* it though. :-) (If you don't enjoy it, you'll quit before long.)
Sounds like me and my r/c plane. :-)
JeffK, is that you???
lalalal bypassing lameness filter lalala
Please put down the fuckin' crackpipe and read up on this before making a comment.
BTW, I live about .8 miles from the park, so I see it quite often. :-)
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Bullshit? Fine, then I won't share where you can pick up disk brake Ford 9" rears for $55... :-)
-pf, on the east coast
I thought Sega gave up on the hardware market at least...
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How about "free with blah blah blah cost $399" ads? That's my pet peeve...
Hm.
Yeah, that'll teach them. A buncha people, who wouldn't buy anything from them since nothing's available for Linux, sending emails. I'm sure it'll greatly influence their decisions.
Look right here.
Okay, so it's an abnormally large, penguin-hat-wearing defect, but it's GOTTA be close enough.
Sorry dude, you're destined to remain on fugly.net
They'd throw Taco in jail quicker than you could type 'thier.'
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is that out of the two, Alex comes across as the more balanced and intelligent one.
Unless it's something like a 98% finished work, I'd rather not see them take his name and slap it on something that has very little DNA in it...
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Jesus...