I'm sorry but as a retired truck driver, I can state with certanty that the transmissions in a Semi are not very complex. In fact, they're even simpler then the 4 speed tranny in a Mustang. Straight cut gears, no synchros and you have to double clutch to change em unless your real familiar with that particular model, then you can float em. The main difference is the amount of torque the damn things are designed to handle. Unlike your 5.0 Litre Mustang, a 250HP diesel engine easily outputs over 800 Foot pounds of torque and if you get into one of the high output engines such as the 600HP Cat 3406, 500 HP N14 Cummins or the 500HP Detroit 60, you're easily looking at a torque output between 1400 - 2200 foot pounds. That's the difference.
The last place I worked before retiring asked for driver input on new equipment and my take on that was pretty straight forward. If they stuck with 8 speed trannies, I wanted some serious horsepower (450-600) to handle the hills. Otherwise I'd prefer a 10 speed with out Overdrive as we could then keep a higher speed in the mountains then what the 8 speed allowed due to the tighter ratio. As part of my explanation, I stated that the 8 speed was a proven design and our shop had lots of experience with it, thus it would be cheaper to maintane while the 10 speed offered the possibility of better fuel economy, which would have a bigger impact on the bottom line then maintenance cost as fuel prices were already starting to climb.
One thing to keep in mind is that Win7-64 will not install on anything less then 2GB of memory. That's the absolute minimum according to MS so I can understand why it gets cranky. That's like when XP came out. Sure it would run on 256M but it sure didn't work to well.
I've got 4 systems at home running Win7 with a pair of them running the 32bit versions while the two systems running Win7-64 are a laptop with 4GB and my desktop with 8GB.
how often do you really load up *all* cores at once running multiple desktop applications.
Lets see:
I've got three Java background apps running and unlike the Folding Client, they do not back off when I want to do something else. This means Firefox, Word, Outlook, One Note, XMPlay all have to fight them for any ticks on the CPU though I rarely see more then 50-75 avg. cpu loading. That's on an E6300 (1.8GHz) Core 2 running Win7-64 on 8GB and this is a typical situation for my system.
My system is 3 years old and I've just started looking at upgrading but I have a problem. There are no CPU's now available from Intel that are compatible with my board and no a Bios update wont solve the problem. They changed the damn socket 6 months after I built it. Intel has a habit of changing things ever 6 months so you can't upgrade you CPU to gain the performance boost needed when the time comes. In my case, the only option if I could find one is a Q6600, which has already been discontinued (18 months ago) so I'm now forced to look at building a new system.
Due to Intel's policy, I'm looking at AMD for my next system because they don't obsolete Sockets and Chips 6 months after you build the system, forcing you to buy the most chip you can afford and then replacing the entire system in two or three years when it can't keep up with demands. That's right. It's Intel that drives the business upgrade cycle because they can get more money from companies selling all new chips such as north/southbridge, nics and everything in between unlike AMD who prefers to see you buy more CPU's and gives us a gradual upgrade path by simply ensuring their new chips can run in at least the "+" series of sockets even though you may not have access to all features.
I wonder how many charge backs they got from their stunt and from what I saw, it looks like they came damn close to getting hit with a Federal Charge of Credit Fraud. Hell Someone may still push charges, which is certainly going to cost them lots of money to fight. Then you have the potential that their marketing stunt costs them their merchant account, meaning they can't accept credit cards, which would put them out of business. I'm sorry but that marketing droid needs to be disassembled and recycled immediately as it's prone to high risk actions without sufficient reward. Bad Droid.
One advantage that the iPad has over most other E-Readers is the ability to handle Color. If you're ereader/ebook use E-Ink, then you're screwed because they don't do color as yet. The only issue I have with the iPad in this setting is the lack of robustness and I wonder how many of them are going to end up with busted screens. Having a lack of moving parts is going to help but the screens are way to fragile and kids will throw/drop/sit and hit each other, meaning lots of busted screens.
It appears to be in the Gladius Style (Roman Legion) and is a Short Sword. Keep in mind, this isn't the size of Excalibur or what Conan would use. Instead it's based on a practical design developed by the roman legions for use by Centurions in their shield wall formation. Practical and short enough not to interfere with your neigbors sword.
Is a Cell phone something new for criminals and they've placed phones in the cells now? Damn I got to get a better defender or commit a more important crime to get me one of them.
most people don't carry tons of BMPs, WAVs and uncompressed AVIs..
Say's You. I routinely carry over 40GB of Porn on my system in AVI/WMV/MPG formats, so there's lots of room to hide stegographic data and since it's porn, if a few of the damn zits don't look quite right, who's gonna bitch? Maybe the damn encoding used was amatuer instead of Professional (cheap bastards).
Not only is it Porn but it's a damn good distraction from them looking into the system to hard.
Strange the First Post was at 10:58 and his is at 10:49, meaning his was 9 minutes before being anyone else commented - so Yes I can see that/. has some problems.
Hell it's got two doors, a windshield wiper, headlights, tail lights, turn signals, A/C (yes there's air conditioning) and seats four. All in a body weighing less then 850KG and running on a 250cc motorcycle engine. Top speed is 100MPH with enough performance to merge into California Freeway traffic when everyone is doing 75MPH. Not bad for the weight/looks. If available today, I'd certainly look at one as a possible.
Hell if you're only wanting YouTube, then forget using the Adobe Flash player and use Gnash. Works fine for most of them in Standard Def (have no idea about the HD content) and it doesn't work with most adverts due to being compatible with flash 7.
I'd love them to break into my home. It's on Starbase 963, Deck 35, Corridor J in the Beta Quadrant because if anyone is able to successfully break in, then I want access to their ship so I can get home.
They gave that up when they switched to an Intel based design as too expensive to compete. Sure they have great design and their software works well but they haven't really come up with anything inovative in actual hardware in the last decade and No the iPhone does not qualify as it's based on existing Phone/PDA technology.
Where Apple has placed their Inovated Efforts though are in the UI and I have to agree they've done things there that "Just Work" and in regards to the iPad and Tablet elements, I think they've finally shown the others "How To Do It" and everyone will soon be following their lead in getting tablets and "PADDS" out to us as quickly as possible.
The key issue that this entire case revolves around is whether he purchased Retail Boxed Sets. If all he had were License Keys from Autodesk, then I have to agree that the Doctrine of First Sale does not apply as he had not purchased a product, just the license key, under the terms of the license offered by Autodesk.
As an example, if you purchase a Boxed Retail Windows Upgrade, that at least a License Key, then the Doctrine of First Sale must apply as the item was purchased at Retail. Otherwise it falls under an OEM or other Contractual License agreement, which is the reason I refuse to purchase OEM software. I specifically purchase Retail Versions for just this reason. Absolutely No Argument about the Doctrine of First Sale.
It's reached the point that if I was granted one wish from any Genie, the only thing I'd wish for is this "Move my entire family into the Star Trek Universe, after the Cardassian War and the Commisioning of the Enterprise "E" and give us all perfect health and provide us with a small Star Ship under contract with Star Fleet of my design"
This solves almost all of the damn problems I have such as health, taxes and many of the day to day annoyances that we now suffer such as traffic and spam. Please "Q" Grant me this wish. Hell I'd even be willing to drive Piccard and Riker nuts for you if you'd get me off this stinking world.
I haven't used Paypal/Ebay in over 3 years for some reason and it's not impacted me at all. Simply put, I've found that Google has turned out to be the best friend in finding merchants that I can buy directly from using a CC instead of the Paypal/Ebay system that I've had absolutely no need for it. This has turned out to be a blessing in disguise and everyone reminded me why I need to delete my Paypal account. The account it was linked against is no longer in existence as the bank failed 2 years ago.
Instances of Porcine Flyers and the current temp in Hell is -50 and dropping fast after an accidental release of Nitrous Oxide affected the Thermostats.
If you need that level of commenting in the code, then I suggest you write a man page. That will provide a more concise explanation of what the program is supposed to do instead of what it actually does. It also serves the purpose of starting work on a manual that tells the end user what in hell your app does.
Whatever made you think in the first place, that the hackers ever cared to leave the legit user in possession of the account? When Push comes to shove, a lot of users are going to permanently loose accounts, and Captcha's not going to help, hasn't been an effective Captcha developed yet.
And at that point, facebook looses all value to it's user base and becomes "Oh you still use Facebook? That's so yesterday!"
thanks for reminding me about a TNG Borg/MS story that I read a while back. Seems that the Borg hadn't paid their MS Tax and were using Pirated Copies. The MS Lawyers disassembled them in a hurry.
This is a Mainframe CPU not a Server/Desktop/Mobile Chip. This means it's purpose is to be as expensive as possible while costing an Arm/Leg in maintenance fees.
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I'm sorry but as a retired truck driver, I can state with certanty that the transmissions in a Semi are not very complex. In fact, they're even simpler then the 4 speed tranny in a Mustang. Straight cut gears, no synchros and you have to double clutch to change em unless your real familiar with that particular model, then you can float em. The main difference is the amount of torque the damn things are designed to handle. Unlike your 5.0 Litre Mustang, a 250HP diesel engine easily outputs over 800 Foot pounds of torque and if you get into one of the high output engines such as the 600HP Cat 3406, 500 HP N14 Cummins or the 500HP Detroit 60, you're easily looking at a torque output between 1400 - 2200 foot pounds. That's the difference.
The last place I worked before retiring asked for driver input on new equipment and my take on that was pretty straight forward. If they stuck with 8 speed trannies, I wanted some serious horsepower (450-600) to handle the hills. Otherwise I'd prefer a 10 speed with out Overdrive as we could then keep a higher speed in the mountains then what the 8 speed allowed due to the tighter ratio. As part of my explanation, I stated that the 8 speed was a proven design and our shop had lots of experience with it, thus it would be cheaper to maintane while the 10 speed offered the possibility of better fuel economy, which would have a bigger impact on the bottom line then maintenance cost as fuel prices were already starting to climb.
One thing to keep in mind is that Win7-64 will not install on anything less then 2GB of memory. That's the absolute minimum according to MS so I can understand why it gets cranky. That's like when XP came out. Sure it would run on 256M but it sure didn't work to well.
I've got 4 systems at home running Win7 with a pair of them running the 32bit versions while the two systems running Win7-64 are a laptop with 4GB and my desktop with 8GB.
how often do you really load up *all* cores at once running multiple desktop applications.
Lets see:
I've got three Java background apps running and unlike the Folding Client, they do not back off when I want to do something else. This means Firefox, Word, Outlook, One Note, XMPlay all have to fight them for any ticks on the CPU though I rarely see more then 50-75 avg. cpu loading. That's on an E6300 (1.8GHz) Core 2 running Win7-64 on 8GB and this is a typical situation for my system.
My system is 3 years old and I've just started looking at upgrading but I have a problem. There are no CPU's now available from Intel that are compatible with my board and no a Bios update wont solve the problem. They changed the damn socket 6 months after I built it. Intel has a habit of changing things ever 6 months so you can't upgrade you CPU to gain the performance boost needed when the time comes. In my case, the only option if I could find one is a Q6600, which has already been discontinued (18 months ago) so I'm now forced to look at building a new system.
Due to Intel's policy, I'm looking at AMD for my next system because they don't obsolete Sockets and Chips 6 months after you build the system, forcing you to buy the most chip you can afford and then replacing the entire system in two or three years when it can't keep up with demands. That's right. It's Intel that drives the business upgrade cycle because they can get more money from companies selling all new chips such as north/southbridge, nics and everything in between unlike AMD who prefers to see you buy more CPU's and gives us a gradual upgrade path by simply ensuring their new chips can run in at least the "+" series of sockets even though you may not have access to all features.
I wonder how many charge backs they got from their stunt and from what I saw, it looks like they came damn close to getting hit with a Federal Charge of Credit Fraud. Hell Someone may still push charges, which is certainly going to cost them lots of money to fight. Then you have the potential that their marketing stunt costs them their merchant account, meaning they can't accept credit cards, which would put them out of business. I'm sorry but that marketing droid needs to be disassembled and recycled immediately as it's prone to high risk actions without sufficient reward. Bad Droid.
One advantage that the iPad has over most other E-Readers is the ability to handle Color. If you're ereader/ebook use E-Ink, then you're screwed because they don't do color as yet. The only issue I have with the iPad in this setting is the lack of robustness and I wonder how many of them are going to end up with busted screens. Having a lack of moving parts is going to help but the screens are way to fragile and kids will throw/drop/sit and hit each other, meaning lots of busted screens.
It appears to be in the Gladius Style (Roman Legion) and is a Short Sword. Keep in mind, this isn't the size of Excalibur or what Conan would use. Instead it's based on a practical design developed by the roman legions for use by Centurions in their shield wall formation. Practical and short enough not to interfere with your neigbors sword.
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Is a Cell phone something new for criminals and they've placed phones in the cells now? Damn I got to get a better defender or commit a more important crime to get me one of them.
most people don't carry tons of BMPs, WAVs and uncompressed AVIs..
Say's You. I routinely carry over 40GB of Porn on my system in AVI/WMV/MPG formats, so there's lots of room to hide stegographic data and since it's porn, if a few of the damn zits don't look quite right, who's gonna bitch? Maybe the damn encoding used was amatuer instead of Professional (cheap bastards).
Not only is it Porn but it's a damn good distraction from them looking into the system to hard.
Strange the First Post was at 10:58 and his is at 10:49, meaning his was 9 minutes before being anyone else commented - so Yes I can see that /. has some problems.
Hell it's got two doors, a windshield wiper, headlights, tail lights, turn signals, A/C (yes there's air conditioning) and seats four. All in a body weighing less then 850KG and running on a 250cc motorcycle engine. Top speed is 100MPH with enough performance to merge into California Freeway traffic when everyone is doing 75MPH. Not bad for the weight/looks. If available today, I'd certainly look at one as a possible.
Hell if you're only wanting YouTube, then forget using the Adobe Flash player and use Gnash. Works fine for most of them in Standard Def (have no idea about the HD content) and it doesn't work with most adverts due to being compatible with flash 7.
Do you torture those camera totting tresspassers with music from "Barney" the Lovable Dinosaur? or do you prefer the "Tiny Toons" music while working?
I'd love them to break into my home. It's on Starbase 963, Deck 35, Corridor J in the Beta Quadrant because if anyone is able to successfully break in, then I want access to their ship so I can get home.
You are not very well informed. Smallpox is not "almost" unheard over - it has been complete wiped off the face of the planet since 1979.
Then why are we seeing new outbreaks of Smallpox, if, as you said, it's been wiped out?
They gave that up when they switched to an Intel based design as too expensive to compete. Sure they have great design and their software works well but they haven't really come up with anything inovative in actual hardware in the last decade and No the iPhone does not qualify as it's based on existing Phone/PDA technology.
Where Apple has placed their Inovated Efforts though are in the UI and I have to agree they've done things there that "Just Work" and in regards to the iPad and Tablet elements, I think they've finally shown the others "How To Do It" and everyone will soon be following their lead in getting tablets and "PADDS" out to us as quickly as possible.
The key issue that this entire case revolves around is whether he purchased Retail Boxed Sets. If all he had were License Keys from Autodesk, then I have to agree that the Doctrine of First Sale does not apply as he had not purchased a product, just the license key, under the terms of the license offered by Autodesk.
As an example, if you purchase a Boxed Retail Windows Upgrade, that at least a License Key, then the Doctrine of First Sale must apply as the item was purchased at Retail. Otherwise it falls under an OEM or other Contractual License agreement, which is the reason I refuse to purchase OEM software. I specifically purchase Retail Versions for just this reason. Absolutely No Argument about the Doctrine of First Sale.
It's reached the point that if I was granted one wish from any Genie, the only thing I'd wish for is this "Move my entire family into the Star Trek Universe, after the Cardassian War and the Commisioning of the Enterprise "E" and give us all perfect health and provide us with a small Star Ship under contract with Star Fleet of my design"
This solves almost all of the damn problems I have such as health, taxes and many of the day to day annoyances that we now suffer such as traffic and spam. Please "Q" Grant me this wish. Hell I'd even be willing to drive Piccard and Riker nuts for you if you'd get me off this stinking world.
I haven't used Paypal/Ebay in over 3 years for some reason and it's not impacted me at all. Simply put, I've found that Google has turned out to be the best friend in finding merchants that I can buy directly from using a CC instead of the Paypal/Ebay system that I've had absolutely no need for it. This has turned out to be a blessing in disguise and everyone reminded me why I need to delete my Paypal account. The account it was linked against is no longer in existence as the bank failed 2 years ago.
Instances of Porcine Flyers and the current temp in Hell is -50 and dropping fast after an accidental release of Nitrous Oxide affected the Thermostats.
If you need that level of commenting in the code, then I suggest you write a man page. That will provide a more concise explanation of what the program is supposed to do instead of what it actually does. It also serves the purpose of starting work on a manual that tells the end user what in hell your app does.
Hell I don't care that everyone knows my Favorite Band is "3 French Horns, 2 Turtle Doves and a Partridge in a Pear Tree".
Now I know who's drive to raid since I've got a meager 400GB
Whatever made you think in the first place, that the hackers ever cared to leave the legit user in possession of the account?
When Push comes to shove, a lot of users are going to permanently loose accounts, and Captcha's not going to help, hasn't been an effective Captcha developed yet.
And at that point, facebook looses all value to it's user base and becomes "Oh you still use Facebook? That's so yesterday!"
thanks for reminding me about a TNG Borg/MS story that I read a while back. Seems that the Borg hadn't paid their MS Tax and were using Pirated Copies. The MS Lawyers disassembled them in a hurry.
This is a Mainframe CPU not a Server/Desktop/Mobile Chip. This means it's purpose is to be as expensive as possible while costing an Arm/Leg in maintenance fees.