So how does Iron Sky compare to Blackula on the cheese scale and is Iron Sky on streaming from Netflix? It sounds like it might be worth the brain melt some day after work if it isn't MST3K level of cheese.
For a general user or most office users RS232 could go die in a gutter but it seems there are functions that it provides that USB doesn't. The one I am most familiar with is NTP PPS for accurate timing. USB does not support this so for applications that need accurate timing from a clock device they need to have an old fashion serial port. I am sure there are others but I am unaware of those. Also how much legacy stuff needs to come along with it, its not like we are talking about HP-IB here.
I think I might have to park at the top of the hill by my house, disconnect my Jeep's battery and see if I can pop start it. It does have an ECU but that thing is so simple it might actually work.
I don't think it provides as much of a cardio work out. I don't wear a HRM but after a session I have the elevated heart rate and am panting as well. Granted that is for short spans while a good cardio work out would give you a lower heart rate but over a much longer span which is what is needed.
No, it doesn't mean that at all. In Michigan, if the top of the ticket gets 5% or more, then they get major party status, which means they don't need to waste money trying to get on the ballot the next time around. It helps to build momentum in that you're not wasting money, time & energy on something you had to do previously.
Minnesota has a similar law but it is for any state wide election (Governor, US President, US Senators) but I think it is something like 10% instead of 5%. As such we have a fairly viable third party here that actually held the governorship which at the time was considered only a minor party.
That is entirely possiable. The most recent example of this was Al Gore who garnered more votes that George W. Bush, granted neither one got above 50% of the vote but it is the electoral college totals that matter. If you can get 50% + 1 votes in enough states (exception for some states split electoral college votes) and 0 votes in all the others it is entirely possible to be elected with the other candidate getting substantially more popular votes than you. The electoral college can massivly distort the popular vote, for example in the 1984 US presidential election Regan got 58.8% and Mondale got 40.6% and while this was a blow out the electoral college totals were 525 for Regan and 13 for Mondale.
Power lifting is also similar but there it is because so many power lifters don't do any cardio. Besides I would bet that someone who is taking care of themselves like working out daily also is getting their annual check ups.
I thought there were some specific scans S.M.A.R.T could do on SSDs (maybe I am not remembering things exactly) to get relevant data. It wouldn't surprise me if manufactures do fib but then they really are just hurting themselves as how many people actively make use of S.M.A.R.T for disk monitoring. Everything else being equal I would much rather have a drive show signs of failure before it is to late than have it die without warning.
Mostly the methadology as well as it disproving some of the standard thought (heat or activity kills drives). While they were looking for some leading indicator for all drive failures (were some error reported before a given drive crapped out) which is what they didn't find as a large portion of the drives just crapped out without warning any drives that did start to report warnings were very likely to crap out shortly (I think their threshold was 60 days) which does help to prevent down time. Interestingly I had to look into disk monitoring at my job and ran across that paper, implemented some automated S.M.A.R.T. monitoring and one of the disks in a box had tossed some errors. People complained because my code was alarming this issue so they thought my code was bad. A couple days later the drive gave up the ghost and I was vindicated.
For those who are interested the white paper is titled "Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population" and can be found here. It is a fairly short read (13 total pages) and quite interesting if you are into monitoring stuff.
Mine bit it at 252k, was really rusty and the body (blue and white), hood (magenta), doors (one black one brown), and rear hatch (red) didn't match . What did mine in was one of the fuel pumps failed and when I went to disconnect the lines the fittings disintegrated so I would of had to replace all the lines, fittings, and both pumps if I wanted something reliable. Instead I got the tax deduction ($150) and got it hauled off for free. I think mine got 19mpg but then I mostly did highway driving in it as I was mostly taking it fishing, camping, or hunting, and that was like 90% highway 10% logging roads for driving.
I never said I haven't jammed on the brakes but I haven't locked up the wheels (except on the frozen lakes) thus engaging the ABS. I actually try to avoid rush hour so most of the time there are few people on the road and when the weather is really bad I either work from home or get into work at 5am before the idiots are out. I have had to stand on the brake pedal fairly hard but even those times it didn't engage the ABS. Most of the time you can just lift off the gas pedal for a bit as it seems like lots of people will just goose the brakes and then continue on when merging. If you regularly are locking up your wheels and have ABS then it would seem that there is something wrong with your car as that should be a fairly rare occurrence, possibly look into getting a better set of tires that have some actual grip. Snow tires work wonders in winter and sport tires are great in the non snowy months so why compromise.
I thought they were designed to get pushed out of the way by a large BMW or Mercedes that want to park in Paris. I saw that happen a lot when I lived there for 3 months.
My beef with the smart car is the automatically controlled manual that was just incompetent when I test drove it. When trying to accelerate onto the highway I stomped on it after completing the turn on the ramp. The computer thought that it would be a good idea to up shift after the turn so it just really lugged the engine instead of down shifting so it could get up to speed.
I think the ABS on my car has engaged maybe twice, and even then it was because I was out driving on a frozen lake to go ice fishing where if you basically touch the brakes they lock up (very light dusting of snow over a nice sheet of ice). They have never engaged while on an actual official road (even in shitty conditions) because I leave enough distance between myself and the vehicles in front of me.
Wow if you have a 10 year old car that is a money pit then you have a real piece of crap that wasn't taken care of to begin with. I haven't owned a vehicle that was made in the same decade I owned it (the newest was 8 years old when I bought it) and almost every vehicle I have owned had over 100,000 miles on it (the lowest was 80,XXX and the highest was 368,XXX). My daily driver is 15 years old has 247,XXX miles on it and has had 2 expensive repairs in the 5.5 years I have owned it. The first was about $1500 for most of the front suspension but that was my own fault because I was doing stuff that you shouldn't do in a sedan and the other was about $700 to replace all 8 coil packs, spark plug boots, and spark plugs when one of the packs failed. In that same time span I have driven 146,XXX miles in it, replaced break pads and rotors, changed fluid and filters on an aggressive schedule, changed the belts twice, and changed out the radiator and heater hoses. Even the crappy vehicles I have owned ($350 1988 Ford Bronco II, and grandpa's old 1985 Oldsmobile that was going to the scrap yard) haven't been money pits and those were really crappy by most accounts. Insurance on crappy old vehicles is cheap, my Jeep costs me $86 every 6 months and the Bronco I had previously was $88 every 6 months. Also if you take care of your stuff fuel is cheap as it runs well and won't waste it. My Jeep gets a little over 22 mpg which isn't bad considering what it is and what I do with it and it runs like a top even though it has 374,XXX miles on it.
I got a chuckle out of the cash for clunkers program as people were bringing in vehicles nicer than my junk truck at the time (88 Ford Bronco II) to have them destroyed and getting something new that I am sure they had to get a loan on. I could have dumped off my Bronco II but then I would of had to get a loan for a new truck or suv that I only use a limited amount but beat on when I am using it.
I still think a good used car is a better, but it seems that people don't do enough initial investigation into their vehicle purchase. People never bother to check it out mechanically and put a vehicle through its paces before they buy it. I have decided to not buy a lot of nice looking used vehicles because they had mechanical issues that only showed up on closer inspection and a bit of pushing to the limit. Do some hard accelerations (floor it) and some hard stops (stand on the brake pedal), take it on a clover leaf at higher speeds, smell the exhaust, smell the crank case vapors after driving, check the coolant quality, squeeze hoses, etc. My Jeep is a high mileage vehicle (374,XXX miles on it) and is dead simple, 5 speed manual, armstrong windows, manual 4WD selection. Granted it does have a fair amount of rust and the paint is shit but mechanically it is sound and this past weekend it went out for a 500 mile hunting trip where it got taken down something that Lyon county called a road but was in worse shape than some atv trails I have taken it down.
Well given the estimates in the article it would be closer to 1/2 but still wouldn't compare. I didn't know that Hyundai Accents had gone up that much, but if they have the quality that the older ones do they seem to age fairly well even up here in Minnesota where we salt the hell out of the roads every winter.
This still wouldn't fill their needs. People making $17k a year in the US won't be able to buy a new vehicle. You can find good used vehicles, even ones that are well under $5k but you will end up sacrificing looks. I paid $2k for my jeep and all I have done to that in the past year of ownership was change all the fluids, filters, spark plugs, plug wires, cap, and rotor (cost about $120 and an afternoon of work) and I did all that the day after I bought it.
In a light vehicle with narrow tires power steering isn't needed. The first car I drove was a Geo Metro lsi convertible with the 3 cylinder 1L engine that didn't have power steering. I had no problem turning the steering wheel and it only requires only slightly more effort than vehicles with power steering, but then you couldn't turn the steering wheel with your pinky.
Don't tell those same people who destroyed the Piss Christ print in France this but I have seen in the Louvre a small statue that was once part of a fountain that depicts a naked toddler Jesus. As it was originally part of a fountain, toddler Jesus would have been cutting a wiz into the pool of water. IIRC it was down in the early christian section in one of the side isles on the bottom of the display case in the back corner. I thought it was pretty damn funny, especially the effort to hide that piece while still having it on display.
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So how does Iron Sky compare to Blackula on the cheese scale and is Iron Sky on streaming from Netflix? It sounds like it might be worth the brain melt some day after work if it isn't MST3K level of cheese.
For a general user or most office users RS232 could go die in a gutter but it seems there are functions that it provides that USB doesn't. The one I am most familiar with is NTP PPS for accurate timing. USB does not support this so for applications that need accurate timing from a clock device they need to have an old fashion serial port. I am sure there are others but I am unaware of those. Also how much legacy stuff needs to come along with it, its not like we are talking about HP-IB here.
I think I might have to park at the top of the hill by my house, disconnect my Jeep's battery and see if I can pop start it. It does have an ECU but that thing is so simple it might actually work.
I don't think it provides as much of a cardio work out. I don't wear a HRM but after a session I have the elevated heart rate and am panting as well. Granted that is for short spans while a good cardio work out would give you a lower heart rate but over a much longer span which is what is needed.
No, it doesn't mean that at all. In Michigan, if the top of the ticket gets 5% or more, then they get major party status, which means they don't need to waste money trying to get on the ballot the next time around. It helps to build momentum in that you're not wasting money, time & energy on something you had to do previously.
Minnesota has a similar law but it is for any state wide election (Governor, US President, US Senators) but I think it is something like 10% instead of 5%. As such we have a fairly viable third party here that actually held the governorship which at the time was considered only a minor party.
That is entirely possiable. The most recent example of this was Al Gore who garnered more votes that George W. Bush, granted neither one got above 50% of the vote but it is the electoral college totals that matter. If you can get 50% + 1 votes in enough states (exception for some states split electoral college votes) and 0 votes in all the others it is entirely possible to be elected with the other candidate getting substantially more popular votes than you. The electoral college can massivly distort the popular vote, for example in the 1984 US presidential election Regan got 58.8% and Mondale got 40.6% and while this was a blow out the electoral college totals were 525 for Regan and 13 for Mondale.
Power lifting is also similar but there it is because so many power lifters don't do any cardio. Besides I would bet that someone who is taking care of themselves like working out daily also is getting their annual check ups.
I thought there were some specific scans S.M.A.R.T could do on SSDs (maybe I am not remembering things exactly) to get relevant data. It wouldn't surprise me if manufactures do fib but then they really are just hurting themselves as how many people actively make use of S.M.A.R.T for disk monitoring. Everything else being equal I would much rather have a drive show signs of failure before it is to late than have it die without warning.
Mostly the methadology as well as it disproving some of the standard thought (heat or activity kills drives). While they were looking for some leading indicator for all drive failures (were some error reported before a given drive crapped out) which is what they didn't find as a large portion of the drives just crapped out without warning any drives that did start to report warnings were very likely to crap out shortly (I think their threshold was 60 days) which does help to prevent down time. Interestingly I had to look into disk monitoring at my job and ran across that paper, implemented some automated S.M.A.R.T. monitoring and one of the disks in a box had tossed some errors. People complained because my code was alarming this issue so they thought my code was bad. A couple days later the drive gave up the ghost and I was vindicated.
From my understanding this is exactly the type of thing that S.M.A.R.T is going to detect along with a number of other issues. If you are interested I suggest checking out the paper from Google entitled "Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population" as they made extensive use of S.M.A.R.T and tracked an extremely large number of drives for a number of years for the analysis.
For those who are interested the white paper is titled "Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population" and can be found here. It is a fairly short read (13 total pages) and quite interesting if you are into monitoring stuff.
Mine bit it at 252k, was really rusty and the body (blue and white), hood (magenta), doors (one black one brown), and rear hatch (red) didn't match . What did mine in was one of the fuel pumps failed and when I went to disconnect the lines the fittings disintegrated so I would of had to replace all the lines, fittings, and both pumps if I wanted something reliable. Instead I got the tax deduction ($150) and got it hauled off for free. I think mine got 19mpg but then I mostly did highway driving in it as I was mostly taking it fishing, camping, or hunting, and that was like 90% highway 10% logging roads for driving.
I never said I haven't jammed on the brakes but I haven't locked up the wheels (except on the frozen lakes) thus engaging the ABS. I actually try to avoid rush hour so most of the time there are few people on the road and when the weather is really bad I either work from home or get into work at 5am before the idiots are out. I have had to stand on the brake pedal fairly hard but even those times it didn't engage the ABS. Most of the time you can just lift off the gas pedal for a bit as it seems like lots of people will just goose the brakes and then continue on when merging. If you regularly are locking up your wheels and have ABS then it would seem that there is something wrong with your car as that should be a fairly rare occurrence, possibly look into getting a better set of tires that have some actual grip. Snow tires work wonders in winter and sport tires are great in the non snowy months so why compromise.
I thought they were designed to get pushed out of the way by a large BMW or Mercedes that want to park in Paris. I saw that happen a lot when I lived there for 3 months.
My beef with the smart car is the automatically controlled manual that was just incompetent when I test drove it. When trying to accelerate onto the highway I stomped on it after completing the turn on the ramp. The computer thought that it would be a good idea to up shift after the turn so it just really lugged the engine instead of down shifting so it could get up to speed.
I think the ABS on my car has engaged maybe twice, and even then it was because I was out driving on a frozen lake to go ice fishing where if you basically touch the brakes they lock up (very light dusting of snow over a nice sheet of ice). They have never engaged while on an actual official road (even in shitty conditions) because I leave enough distance between myself and the vehicles in front of me.
Wow if you have a 10 year old car that is a money pit then you have a real piece of crap that wasn't taken care of to begin with. I haven't owned a vehicle that was made in the same decade I owned it (the newest was 8 years old when I bought it) and almost every vehicle I have owned had over 100,000 miles on it (the lowest was 80,XXX and the highest was 368,XXX). My daily driver is 15 years old has 247,XXX miles on it and has had 2 expensive repairs in the 5.5 years I have owned it. The first was about $1500 for most of the front suspension but that was my own fault because I was doing stuff that you shouldn't do in a sedan and the other was about $700 to replace all 8 coil packs, spark plug boots, and spark plugs when one of the packs failed. In that same time span I have driven 146,XXX miles in it, replaced break pads and rotors, changed fluid and filters on an aggressive schedule, changed the belts twice, and changed out the radiator and heater hoses. Even the crappy vehicles I have owned ($350 1988 Ford Bronco II, and grandpa's old 1985 Oldsmobile that was going to the scrap yard) haven't been money pits and those were really crappy by most accounts. Insurance on crappy old vehicles is cheap, my Jeep costs me $86 every 6 months and the Bronco I had previously was $88 every 6 months. Also if you take care of your stuff fuel is cheap as it runs well and won't waste it. My Jeep gets a little over 22 mpg which isn't bad considering what it is and what I do with it and it runs like a top even though it has 374,XXX miles on it.
I got a chuckle out of the cash for clunkers program as people were bringing in vehicles nicer than my junk truck at the time (88 Ford Bronco II) to have them destroyed and getting something new that I am sure they had to get a loan on. I could have dumped off my Bronco II but then I would of had to get a loan for a new truck or suv that I only use a limited amount but beat on when I am using it.
I still think a good used car is a better, but it seems that people don't do enough initial investigation into their vehicle purchase. People never bother to check it out mechanically and put a vehicle through its paces before they buy it. I have decided to not buy a lot of nice looking used vehicles because they had mechanical issues that only showed up on closer inspection and a bit of pushing to the limit. Do some hard accelerations (floor it) and some hard stops (stand on the brake pedal), take it on a clover leaf at higher speeds, smell the exhaust, smell the crank case vapors after driving, check the coolant quality, squeeze hoses, etc. My Jeep is a high mileage vehicle (374,XXX miles on it) and is dead simple, 5 speed manual, armstrong windows, manual 4WD selection. Granted it does have a fair amount of rust and the paint is shit but mechanically it is sound and this past weekend it went out for a 500 mile hunting trip where it got taken down something that Lyon county called a road but was in worse shape than some atv trails I have taken it down.
Well given the estimates in the article it would be closer to 1/2 but still wouldn't compare. I didn't know that Hyundai Accents had gone up that much, but if they have the quality that the older ones do they seem to age fairly well even up here in Minnesota where we salt the hell out of the roads every winter.
This still wouldn't fill their needs. People making $17k a year in the US won't be able to buy a new vehicle. You can find good used vehicles, even ones that are well under $5k but you will end up sacrificing looks. I paid $2k for my jeep and all I have done to that in the past year of ownership was change all the fluids, filters, spark plugs, plug wires, cap, and rotor (cost about $120 and an afternoon of work) and I did all that the day after I bought it.
In a light vehicle with narrow tires power steering isn't needed. The first car I drove was a Geo Metro lsi convertible with the 3 cylinder 1L engine that didn't have power steering. I had no problem turning the steering wheel and it only requires only slightly more effort than vehicles with power steering, but then you couldn't turn the steering wheel with your pinky.
Sounds like it will be the equivalent of a Hyundai Accent but with less power and probably a worse warranty.
Don't tell those same people who destroyed the Piss Christ print in France this but I have seen in the Louvre a small statue that was once part of a fountain that depicts a naked toddler Jesus. As it was originally part of a fountain, toddler Jesus would have been cutting a wiz into the pool of water. IIRC it was down in the early christian section in one of the side isles on the bottom of the display case in the back corner. I thought it was pretty damn funny, especially the effort to hide that piece while still having it on display.