I always thought that WP5.1 was the first truly usable word processor, and every thing else has been a clone. In the case of M$: a clone with a bloat problem.
At least F! finally changed the fuel regs to allow pump gas only a couple years ago. That ended the fuel wizards mixing at the track in full chem suits. They tried to call that gasoline but the content was less than 60%. Pure benzine is a very dangerous cheical.
If you add all the televised racing series, it's been the biggest for over ten years. Indy, CART, NASCAR, F1, and the various sportscar series in the US and Europe.
Before Tony George's ego shot him in the wallet(he owns Indianapolis Speedway), the Indy 500 was the largest single day sporting event in the world with attendance over 400,000. After he caused the split between CART and his IRL it has fallen every year until this one. You used to have to wait for someone to die to get moved up the ticket list, now you can walk up and get some on race day.
F1 has always been the height of technology. The tire only have four straight grooves cut in them. That is not tread. They do have rain tires, so does CART. Goodyear actually has produces a rain tire for NASCAR to use on road courses. It would be impossible to use them on an oval track for any car.
This Sundays NASCAR race at Michigan will look just like the USGP at Indy, a boring follow the leader snoozathon because both series have forgotten that passing should be done on the track, not in the pits.
Benifits of auto racing transfered to your car: disk brakes, fuel injection(efficiency), seat belts & any other safety feature, the core design of every tire produced in the radial era(ie tires that can exceed 100mph without exploding, and can corner with grip), suspension parts & design, materials in car construction(strength vs. weight (less weight better fuel economy)).
Most improvments to street cars in the last 50 years were found at the race track first. Thats why manufacturers have a presence in most racing series, it's where they learn and try things, sometimes called practical R&D.
Chek out last weeks Autoweek magazine http://www.autoweek.com McLaren just opened a new shop. $900 million worth. I wouldn't be suprised at a supercomputer. Just wish theyd had some inside shots.
Until the last three years everyone ran a grenade for qualifying, in most series. Nascar teams had Q engines runing a special 0 weight oil. Then drop in the race engine with regular racing oil. Indy cars used to do the same things with heavier oil, but in the 60's they added nitromethane to the methanol, put a little "pop" in the fuel. Great power but hell on bearings and rings, switch or rebuild the engine. Sometime in the early 80's I might have done the same thing with an Outlaw sprint car. Of course we were going to rebuild the engine the next week anyway. Nothing like a 2 foot long blue flame out the header in a night race, and the 8 foot yellow one when the driver backed off was spetacular.
Would anyone in their right mind by AV software from the source of the problem? It will probably be as poorly written as the OS that is the problem. Can you imagine the complex lockups this will cause? Those new cases without a reset button will be realy useless.
The truly nauseating thing is, some fools will actually buy it. Of course they are the ones that click on everything anyway.
Do you really think that was an accident? Remember what relations were between China and the U.S. at that time. A message was sent and received. Things have gotten better since.
As for Ralsky? A 12 gauge at 20 feet leaves no collateral damage.
The problem with prosecuting the spammers is, how do you get to the ones out of the U.S.? There are plenty of targets here but at least half are outside the borders. Is anyone naieve enough to think China will help? Or Russia? Don't hold your breath. A law in the current situation might get some, but would be unenforcable overall and therefore meaningless.
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' Well, I don't think blogging is going to replace Time magazine, CBS nightly news or the New York Times'
I gave up on those three about the time I turned 30, I couldn't stomach the Liberal drivel any longer. I want a truly objective news service that will slam anyone that deserves it, and give kudos to the ones that earn them, regardless of political ideology.
I am a moderate, you know, part of the ignored 80%! I don't have time for either sides radicals, because all radicals are wrong and dangerous.
Fifteen years ago: when you saw someone with a cell phone, you thought they might be important. Now you lnow there on a leash to a higher power, like a wife!
I agree. Isn't the my way or the highway approach one of the reasons we hate M$? Besides the fact all there stuff is 3 U software; Unstable, Unreliable, Unsecure.
Can be replaced by a decent laptop or a pad and paper. They all caught M$ disease, too much fluff pretending to be features. They are too small for all that crap, using a pick to enter anything at 1/10 the speed of a real keyboard. It just doesn't work in any way for me.
Then again I refuse to be on a leash, no cell phone.
A couple of yeras ago Juno did that to my daughter. I would send an email and be luck if she got it withing 60 hours. She spent the money and got a "real" ISP. End of problem.
Less expensive is nice, but you get what you pay for, most of the time,
Slight modification. Only registered voters can contribute to a candidate running "in their district". You can only donate to people you can vote for. That would clean up lcal and state elections from money polution, it would even help Congressional races at the Fed level. This would even block all of the money from outside the country.
It is far from perfect, but would be a great start.
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I hope it goes perfectly and they go for the prize soon.
I always thought that WP5.1 was the first truly usable word processor, and every thing else has been a clone. In the case of M$: a clone with a bloat problem.
At least F! finally changed the fuel regs to allow pump gas only a couple years ago. That ended the fuel wizards mixing at the track in full chem suits. They tried to call that gasoline but the content was less than 60%. Pure benzine is a very dangerous cheical.
To make a small fortune in racing, you have to start with a large one!
If you add all the televised racing series, it's been the biggest for over ten years. Indy, CART, NASCAR, F1, and the various sportscar series in the US and Europe.
Before Tony George's ego shot him in the wallet(he owns Indianapolis Speedway), the Indy 500 was the largest single day sporting event in the world with attendance over 400,000. After he caused the split between CART and his IRL it has fallen every year until this one. You used to have to wait for someone to die to get moved up the ticket list, now you can walk up and get some on race day.
F1 has always been the height of technology. The tire only have four straight grooves cut in them. That is not tread. They do have rain tires, so does CART. Goodyear actually has produces a rain tire for NASCAR to use on road courses. It would be impossible to use them on an oval track for any car.
This Sundays NASCAR race at Michigan will look just like the USGP at Indy, a boring follow the leader snoozathon because both series have forgotten that passing should be done on the track, not in the pits.
Benifits of auto racing transfered to your car:
disk brakes, fuel injection(efficiency), seat belts & any other safety feature, the core design of every tire produced in the radial era(ie tires that can exceed 100mph without exploding, and can corner with grip), suspension parts & design, materials in car construction(strength vs. weight (less weight better fuel economy)).
Most improvments to street cars in the last 50 years were found at the race track first. Thats why manufacturers have a presence in most racing series, it's where they learn and try things, sometimes called practical R&D.
Chek out last weeks Autoweek magazine http://www.autoweek.com McLaren just opened a new shop. $900 million worth. I wouldn't be suprised at a supercomputer. Just wish theyd had some inside shots.
Until the last three years everyone ran a grenade for qualifying, in most series. Nascar teams had Q engines runing a special 0 weight oil. Then drop in the race engine with regular racing oil. Indy cars used to do the same things with heavier oil, but in the 60's they added nitromethane to the methanol, put a little "pop" in the fuel. Great power but hell on bearings and rings, switch or rebuild the engine. Sometime in the early 80's I might have done the same thing with an Outlaw sprint car. Of course we were going to rebuild the engine the next week anyway. Nothing like a 2 foot long blue flame out the header in a night race, and the 8 foot yellow one when the driver backed off was spetacular.
ever get the feeling that some people have entirely too much time on their hands?
No, I think you see the problem more clearly than any lawyer ever will.
They are mostly wrong, and very few real people pay any attention to them. "Artistic merits" is another way of saying "it's pure crap".
Would anyone in their right mind by AV software from the source of the problem? It will probably be as poorly written as the OS that is the problem. Can you imagine the complex lockups this will cause? Those new cases without a reset button will be realy useless.
The truly nauseating thing is, some fools will actually buy it. Of course they are the ones that click on everything anyway.
Do you really think that was an accident? Remember what relations were between China and the U.S. at that time. A message was sent and received. Things have gotten better since.
As for Ralsky? A 12 gauge at 20 feet leaves no collateral damage.
I think thats an infinite recursive recursion.
The problem with prosecuting the spammers is, how do you get to the ones out of the U.S.? There are plenty of targets here but at least half are outside the borders. Is anyone naieve enough to think China will help? Or Russia? Don't hold your breath. A law in the current situation might get some, but would be unenforcable overall and therefore meaningless.
Michael dupes a Taco post.
' Well, I don't think blogging is going to replace Time magazine, CBS nightly news or the New York Times'
I gave up on those three about the time I turned 30, I couldn't stomach the Liberal drivel any longer. I want a truly objective news service that will slam anyone that deserves it, and give kudos to the ones that earn them, regardless of political ideology.
I am a moderate, you know, part of the ignored 80%! I don't have time for either sides radicals, because all radicals are wrong and dangerous.
"head off the sort of piracy that has hurt the music industry"
The only thing that has hurt the music industry is the crap they try to pawn of as music!
Fifteen years ago: when you saw someone with a cell phone, you thought they might be important. Now you lnow there on a leash to a higher power, like a wife!
I agree. Isn't the my way or the highway approach one of the reasons we hate M$? Besides the fact all there stuff is 3 U software; Unstable, Unreliable, Unsecure.
The board cam do anything they want as individuals, but the company can't vote. Therefor the company can't donate.
Can be replaced by a decent laptop or a pad and paper. They all caught M$ disease, too much fluff pretending to be features. They are too small for all that crap, using a pick to enter anything at 1/10 the speed of a real keyboard. It just doesn't work in any way for me.
Then again I refuse to be on a leash, no cell phone.
A couple of yeras ago Juno did that to my daughter. I would send an email and be luck if she got it withing 60 hours. She spent the money and got a "real" ISP. End of problem.
Less expensive is nice, but you get what you pay for, most of the time,
Slight modification. Only registered voters can contribute to a candidate running "in their district". You can only donate to people you can vote for. That would clean up lcal and state elections from money polution, it would even help Congressional races at the Fed level. This would even block all of the money from outside the country.
It is far from perfect, but would be a great start.