I've got a '96 caprice (AKA the 4-door corvette), and damn, is that thing heavy (almost 3 tons). With an electronic overdrive, I can beat all the rich kids in their new BMW sport coupes, too. I can also give them a ride home, 'cause you can fit about 80 adults in that barge, and a pinto in the trunk. It's stable on the highway, though, so you've got me there - but cars slow down around me 'cause it's still painted black 'n white.:) It seems that people don't notice the loud exhaust or the fact that the cops around here haven't used Caprices for years, what with being discontinued in '96 and all...
Kills performance? You mean something like, say, chroot? That doesn't seem to kill performance on any of the high-load server software that I've ever run chrooted. Anyway, the only thing that suffers in VMWare is video performance - a little - because the software and whatnot runs at darn near native speed. A Win32 equiv. of chroot would probably be better for this kind of thing, anyway.
Aside from that whole "bluetooth devices require an active power source" v/s "RFID tags are powered by the radio waves that scan for them" thing. I don't have a well-regulated 5v supply in my head with which to power a bluetooth device, but perhaps I'm in the minority here...
Well, it's easier to get feedback from hydraulic brakes than from an electronic system, and that feedback greatly increases driver control. I know that my ability to stop my non-ABS vehicles in an emergency depends on the feedback I get from the pedal in a hydraulic system. Using an all electronic system would require some pretty powerful setups, both at the braking end and in the force-feedback mechanism under my feet, which would be a whole lot of complexity for, as far as I can tell, 0 gain.
The point over failing electrical systems is also a very good one. I've had alternators die, leaving me to drive on the battery until I got to a location where I could fix it. If the battery runs dead too - like in the case of someone who didn't know their alternator was dead (you can go a surprisingly long time on just a battery) - it'd be pretty darned bad to find that you had no brakes but the e-brake.
Your point about engine braking is good, too. I've driven a few automatic cars that simply didn't slow down at all (or just barely) when you let off the gas. I can't believe that design got out of the manufacturer's plant. That is *so* irritating to drive...
Actually, that'd blow away your homedir and anything else with your group / world write permissions. No root required, and it'd be a major nuiscance. Not that I know offhand an easy way to trick a user into running a shell script...:)
Actually, while you have the brake down the whole time, you alternate between clutch-neutral-gas-clutch-lower_gear. If you do it right, you can just tap the gas, pull the shifter into neutral, tap the gas harder, and slide the shifter into the next gear. If you don't do it perfectly, it's a bit hard on the synchros, but it does work. I did it in my Ford Focus all the time. That little car was all sorts of fun. Unfortunately - and totally unrelated to my driving it like every day was an autocross event;) - it didn't hold it's value very well.
Unsolicited advice: if Ford releases a special edition of a car that isn't a Cobra or Lightning, don't buy it. It'll be worth the same as the base model at trade-in time. S2 Focus, Contour SVT, Eddie Bauer Exploer, etc. You get screwed when you buy one, and screwed again when you sell it. Then again, buying a used SVT Focus is one heck of a deal...
2 minor points. Dual-diagonal brakes are not at all common. That makes front-to-rear proportioning a bit ol PITA, and makes stopping way more difficult should half of the system fail. They're usually dual systems, but they're split front-back.
Also, the e-brake / parking brake setups on most cars should self-adjust when backing up, pretty much all the time, assuming they're drum-type systems, as many are. Now, the self-adjusters do regularly get gummed up and stop working properly, but that's something that's supposed to be addressed when the pads/shoes are changed. At least, I always check that out on my cars (including those with rear disks that use the drum-inside-disk e-brake system).
Most cars have an "emergency" brake that's operated by a cable attached to a lever, which is to be used in an emergency such as a master cylinder or brake line failure. Or when parking. Anyway, I've had lines fail and master cylinders fail, but due to my use of equipment manufactured post-1950, the dual cylinders managed to allow half of the car to still stop me.
Then again, the first thing I do when I get a new car (note, I don't buy cars from dealerships, and by "new" I mean "one that wasn't owned by me before") is to upgrade the brakes. Baer or Stainless Steel [brand] disks on all 4 corners, every time. Computers in a car? Maybe if they come from diyefi.org...
Some of use use languages that prefix variables with a key, such as $i.:)
Anyway, if you're looking for iterators, they're probably within a loop, and you can pretty easily find the beginning/end points of a loop through other means. That gives you a point to start and stop searching, which makes things quite a bit easier if you're using a real text editor. I can't think of a time at which I've ever wanted to search a whole program for the names of localized iterator variables...
Seriously, I've driven on the road before. People can't handle "rolling" cars. However, maybe flying cars would be OK if either 1) the licensing was changed so that it required actual proof of aptitude to obtain one or 2) the cars become cheap enough that most of hte bad drivers will get them, allowing me to use my wheeled car on roads no longer polluted by hordes of unqualified idiots.:)
How to make an AND gate out of some things that turn on and off? Ok, you put, say, +5 volts on the collector of one transistor, hook that transistor's emitter to the collector of a second transistor, and second transistor's emitter is the gate's output. The bases of each transistor are then the inputs. You've just made a 2-input AND gate.
Plz type content in message body, not in.sig that's ignored by "don't show.sigs" setting.
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I generally don't count relations by marriage into the "aunt or uncle" group. Under that scheme, Bob's wife is just your uncle's wife, not your aunt. I feel justified in doing that, as some people have decided that "dinner" is the meal at the end fo the day, wheras "dinner" is actually defined as the "cheif" meal of the day, eaten at midday or evening. If common usage can redefine dinner, I think I should be able to redefine "aunt".:)
Tickets were $65 for the floor at his last show in the venue near me. LA sucks.:)
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Isn't your aunt's father *your* grandfather (given that your aunt would be your mother or father's sister)? Why didn't you say "my cousin's father's wife's mother's husband" or something really circuitous, if you were gonna be circuitous at all? Or maybe this just isn't true to begin with...
"I don't use firefox because it's unstable." "I prefer IE." Are these the same person? Web developers, expecially. I use firefox to develop web sites, and then add in whatever "fixes" are required to make IE behave like a standards-compliant browser. Most of the time, this saves me lots of time. Sometimes it saves only a little. If for no other reason, there's an actual useful javascript error console and debugger (much like most netscape browsers)! Have you ever tried debugging javascript errors in IE? It's a nightmare.
Microsoft has documented a way? What? I've been detecting whether the popups I create actually exist or not for quite a while - you just check to see if the window exists and if it's been closed. That's basic JavaScript.
BTW, no, I don't generate unrequested popups - this is for site navigation, etc, where it's actually useful to the users who click "show popup", for example.:)
Like it's real hard to just remember your address and tell them on the phone where you presentaly are located... If you can't speak, well, it's probably too late for you anyway - and if you're in a strange place, odds are you either 1) know where you are or 2) aren't in a location using VOIP.:)
From his grand plan, he was shooting for a *competent* bloated government. I'm somewhat realistic, and admit that we're much more likely to add competence than we are to get rid of bloat. Though both are unlikely goals, the competence thing seems a bit more likely.:)
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I've got a '96 caprice (AKA the 4-door corvette), and damn, is that thing heavy (almost 3 tons). With an electronic overdrive, I can beat all the rich kids in their new BMW sport coupes, too. I can also give them a ride home, 'cause you can fit about 80 adults in that barge, and a pinto in the trunk. It's stable on the highway, though, so you've got me there - but cars slow down around me 'cause it's still painted black 'n white. :) It seems that people don't notice the loud exhaust or the fact that the cops around here haven't used Caprices for years, what with being discontinued in '96 and all...
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I think you probably want the original, sun .au format file...
Kills performance? You mean something like, say, chroot? That doesn't seem to kill performance on any of the high-load server software that I've ever run chrooted. Anyway, the only thing that suffers in VMWare is video performance - a little - because the software and whatnot runs at darn near native speed. A Win32 equiv. of chroot would probably be better for this kind of thing, anyway.
I think we were talking about inventions that actually work... Sumbling on to ideas that don't quite work isn't really a great feat. :)
Aside from that whole "bluetooth devices require an active power source" v/s "RFID tags are powered by the radio waves that scan for them" thing. I don't have a well-regulated 5v supply in my head with which to power a bluetooth device, but perhaps I'm in the minority here...
Well, it's easier to get feedback from hydraulic brakes than from an electronic system, and that feedback greatly increases driver control. I know that my ability to stop my non-ABS vehicles in an emergency depends on the feedback I get from the pedal in a hydraulic system. Using an all electronic system would require some pretty powerful setups, both at the braking end and in the force-feedback mechanism under my feet, which would be a whole lot of complexity for, as far as I can tell, 0 gain.
The point over failing electrical systems is also a very good one. I've had alternators die, leaving me to drive on the battery until I got to a location where I could fix it. If the battery runs dead too - like in the case of someone who didn't know their alternator was dead (you can go a surprisingly long time on just a battery) - it'd be pretty darned bad to find that you had no brakes but the e-brake.
Your point about engine braking is good, too. I've driven a few automatic cars that simply didn't slow down at all (or just barely) when you let off the gas. I can't believe that design got out of the manufacturer's plant. That is *so* irritating to drive...
Actually, that'd blow away your homedir and anything else with your group / world write permissions. No root required, and it'd be a major nuiscance. Not that I know offhand an easy way to trick a user into running a shell script... :)
Actually, while you have the brake down the whole time, you alternate between clutch-neutral-gas-clutch-lower_gear. If you do it right, you can just tap the gas, pull the shifter into neutral, tap the gas harder, and slide the shifter into the next gear. If you don't do it perfectly, it's a bit hard on the synchros, but it does work. I did it in my Ford Focus all the time. That little car was all sorts of fun. Unfortunately - and totally unrelated to my driving it like every day was an autocross event ;) - it didn't hold it's value very well.
Unsolicited advice: if Ford releases a special edition of a car that isn't a Cobra or Lightning, don't buy it. It'll be worth the same as the base model at trade-in time. S2 Focus, Contour SVT, Eddie Bauer Exploer, etc. You get screwed when you buy one, and screwed again when you sell it. Then again, buying a used SVT Focus is one heck of a deal...
2 minor points. Dual-diagonal brakes are not at all common. That makes front-to-rear proportioning a bit ol PITA, and makes stopping way more difficult should half of the system fail. They're usually dual systems, but they're split front-back.
Also, the e-brake / parking brake setups on most cars should self-adjust when backing up, pretty much all the time, assuming they're drum-type systems, as many are. Now, the self-adjusters do regularly get gummed up and stop working properly, but that's something that's supposed to be addressed when the pads/shoes are changed. At least, I always check that out on my cars (including those with rear disks that use the drum-inside-disk e-brake system).
Most cars have an "emergency" brake that's operated by a cable attached to a lever, which is to be used in an emergency such as a master cylinder or brake line failure. Or when parking. Anyway, I've had lines fail and master cylinders fail, but due to my use of equipment manufactured post-1950, the dual cylinders managed to allow half of the car to still stop me.
Then again, the first thing I do when I get a new car (note, I don't buy cars from dealerships, and by "new" I mean "one that wasn't owned by me before") is to upgrade the brakes. Baer or Stainless Steel [brand] disks on all 4 corners, every time. Computers in a car? Maybe if they come from diyefi.org...
Some of use use languages that prefix variables with a key, such as $i. :)
Anyway, if you're looking for iterators, they're probably within a loop, and you can pretty easily find the beginning/end points of a loop through other means. That gives you a point to start and stop searching, which makes things quite a bit easier if you're using a real text editor. I can't think of a time at which I've ever wanted to search a whole program for the names of localized iterator variables...
I drive a '96 Caprice. It held up that cop light bar for years, surely it can hold up under some cheaply-made car parts falling from the sky. :)
Seriously, I've driven on the road before. People can't handle "rolling" cars. However, maybe flying cars would be OK if either 1) the licensing was changed so that it required actual proof of aptitude to obtain one or 2) the cars become cheap enough that most of hte bad drivers will get them, allowing me to use my wheeled car on roads no longer polluted by hordes of unqualified idiots. :)
How to make an AND gate out of some things that turn on and off? Ok, you put, say, +5 volts on the collector of one transistor, hook that transistor's emitter to the collector of a second transistor, and second transistor's emitter is the gate's output. The bases of each transistor are then the inputs. You've just made a 2-input AND gate.
Plz type content in message body, not in .sig that's ignored by "don't show .sigs" setting.
I generally don't count relations by marriage into the "aunt or uncle" group. Under that scheme, Bob's wife is just your uncle's wife, not your aunt. I feel justified in doing that, as some people have decided that "dinner" is the meal at the end fo the day, wheras "dinner" is actually defined as the "cheif" meal of the day, eaten at midday or evening. If common usage can redefine dinner, I think I should be able to redefine "aunt". :)
Tickets were $65 for the floor at his last show in the venue near me. LA sucks. :)
Isn't your aunt's father *your* grandfather (given that your aunt would be your mother or father's sister)? Why didn't you say "my cousin's father's wife's mother's husband" or something really circuitous, if you were gonna be circuitous at all? Or maybe this just isn't true to begin with...
"I don't use firefox because it's unstable." "I prefer IE." Are these the same person? Web developers, expecially. I use firefox to develop web sites, and then add in whatever "fixes" are required to make IE behave like a standards-compliant browser. Most of the time, this saves me lots of time. Sometimes it saves only a little. If for no other reason, there's an actual useful javascript error console and debugger (much like most netscape browsers)! Have you ever tried debugging javascript errors in IE? It's a nightmare.
Microsoft has documented a way? What? I've been detecting whether the popups I create actually exist or not for quite a while - you just check to see if the window exists and if it's been closed. That's basic JavaScript.
:)
BTW, no, I don't generate unrequested popups - this is for site navigation, etc, where it's actually useful to the users who click "show popup", for example.
If they've got no voice, there's not much point in having a *voice* over IP phone, is there? :)
Like it's real hard to just remember your address and tell them on the phone where you presentaly are located... If you can't speak, well, it's probably too late for you anyway - and if you're in a strange place, odds are you either 1) know where you are or 2) aren't in a location using VOIP. :)
From his grand plan, he was shooting for a *competent* bloated government. I'm somewhat realistic, and admit that we're much more likely to add competence than we are to get rid of bloat. Though both are unlikely goals, the competence thing seems a bit more likely. :)