Really, you're creating your own problem here. Get rid of the iPod. Nothing screams out easy target like seeing someone listening to earphones. You're instantly giving up on one of your five senses (Granted, your sense of smell and touch probably won't help you defend yourself from a mugger....)
iPod's are a muggers dream. "Hey, not only is that guy not paying attention to his surroundings, but he's also got some sort of portable media device that i can pawn. Bonus!"
Aside from that, paying attention is your best defense. Expect to get mugged. Walk around with the sort of paranoia that comes from smoking too much weed in your friends basement while his parents are home. "Is there someone in the bushes? I don't know man!"
And don't bother fighting back unless you've got a serious advantage. Yeah you want to fight back and bust that guys head open, but you really don't know.
Hindsight is a bitch in those situations. You may feel like a tard for giving in, or you may end up with brain damage or a serious limp for fighting back withsomeone who has waaaay less to lose.
Lava surfing, that sounds great! I can't wait to see it! I SURE HOPE THE SUN AND TEEN HOLLYWOOD HAVE ALL OF THIER FACTS STRAIGHT. 'Cause that sounds like a really awesome scene! Even though it contradicts everything that has ever been said about the first showdown between Obi-wan and Anakin....
Ahh slashdot. Where we spend days / weeks uncovering that an anti-linux source is microsoft backed, but we take the word of 'The Sun' and 'Teen Hollywood' (about star wars no less) as 100% fact.
Hybrid owners: How's the acceleration in a hybrid vs. a normal 4 banger? Is it really that slow? A recent motorweek profile of the hybrids touted the Prius' sub-ten second 0-60 time as being above average. I was disgusted. ten seconds to 60? That'd be impressive, if I was on foot. In a car, trying to merge onto a highway, that's scary / borderline unsafe.
For those in the Ann Arbor area: Imagine trying to merge onto I-94 east bound from Jackson ave in a vehicle that takes that long to get up to speed.
The intersection above is laid out as follows; The on-ramp to the interstate is perpendicular until just before the merge. You need to brake down to 25-30 (during drought conditions. any rain/snow and it's 15), make a harder than average turn, then get up to highway speed in a very short distance.
Oh, did I forget to mention that 94 is only two lanes at this point? There's a (well-abused)concrete median, on the left. Let's not forget that the whole interchange sits behind a hill, making it a blind curve. And there's a bridge that starts just past the end of the on-ramp.
Now try that merge in a Prius. Or one of those three cylinder metros. Merges don't make me feel guilty about having a V-6, and make me wish for a V-8
Sounds like press release-ese for "The images weren't just in the browser cache, but saved to his My Docmuents or Home Directory. Browers cache images, but these were also saved purposly by the user."
They can have my porn when they pry if from my sticky, clammy fingers!
The similarities escape some....
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Then there's the warranty issue. Reprogramming a car doesn't void the warranty -- unless it can be shown that a later breakdown was caused by the new software. Ford Motor Co. spokesman Glenn Ray says one buyer of a new 2003 Ford Cobra learned this the hard way. The Cobra is about as powerful a car as Ford makes, but not powerful enough for this customer. "He put a chip in it," said Ray, "and blew up the motor." The owner had over-revved the engine--something the original software would have prevented.
Somewhere right now, a Slashdot reader is saying to himself "What a dumbass."
And somewhere a Cobra owner is reading about an overclocker who cooked his Athlon and is saying to himself "What a dumbass."
And the coming of warmer weather is bringing in a new wave of customers to KTR, which was originally owned by Boston rocker J. Geils.
"First I look at the chip?" nah, doesn't fit.
"Because of this article, I can't do my homework....anymore...?" hmm, too obscure
"Freeze Framedump?"
"My blood runs cold, that Memory has just been sold..."
I don't have any of my albums handy, i'll have to see which songs Giles actually wrote.
GM offers a chip upgrade as part of a supercharger kit it sells for the Pontiac Vibe, a small car that's popular with street racers. Films like "2 Fast 2 Furious" have inspired young auto enthusiasts to buy cheap "tuner cars" like the Vibe, and muscle them up.
The vibe is many things (chief among them is ugly), but it is definatly not cheap. There are a lot of other cars that better fit that class of vehicle. The Vibe is just a Toyota Matrix with a Pontiac nameplate. It looks "young and hip" but few of those who fit the "young and hip" catagory can afford them outside of a lease.
The Giants could be making a huge mistake. MMORPG's are pretty popular among baseball players. Guys like Doug Glanville and Curt Shilling are big time Everquest players, and Star Wars Galaxies is pretty popular as well.
I can see it now. Instead of 7 guys in the bullpen bs'ing around and trying to look interested, you'll have the entire Giant's rotation staring at laptops trying to powerlevel.
"Johnson, get warmed up, you're going in next inning"
"But coach, if I go in, where are the guys gonna get another level 25 human paladin to tank?"
I'd wager that the local nuke plant isn't going to spend a whole lot of time extolling the virtues of solar power. I mean, the last time I went shopping for a new truck, the local GMC dealer wasn't bending over backwards to tell me how great the Ford F-150 was in comparison.
I'll grant you though, Solar power probably isn't the best way to try and run an air conditioner.
Basic cable is what, like $15 or less per month, and it sounds like you get about the same amount of channels as you do over this USDTV for $20, maybe a few channels here and there, but this is hardly a deal.
Not to be alarmist or crude but Where the fuck do you live? Here in comcast country (michigan) where your cable choices are comcast, comcast, comcast, comcast, or, if you're lucky enough to live in an outlying area, comcast, 40-45 bucks a month is the norm. That's pretty close to direct TV rates. 45 bucks a month, plus equipment fees puts them at least in the same ballpark with the Digital cable and DirectTV rates.
I'm not going to play the "I threw my TV into a fire 15 years ago then cleansed my soul in a pagan ritual" card (which I'm sure will be repeated ad naseum), though I will say that it's getting harder and harder to justify what I'm paying now vs. the 'entertainment' I'm getting. If it weren't for local sports (Detroit's baseball and Hockey teams are only shown on Fox sports net, a cable channel. Thanks Mike Illitch.), discovery, history, and speed, I'd pitch cable entirely.
I have the same back and forth argument with myself when i think about buying a larger TV. Sure a 27" sony flat screen would be nice, but lately it seems like the money would be better spent installing a bay window so I can get a nice view of the city dump.
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'can the old saddlebag gas tanks on Ford Rangers kill? Gasp!'
time to nitpick: Side saddle gas tanks (!saddle bag. Saddle bag would imply a tank on each side, side saddle tanks are located only on the drivers side.) were a design feature of all Chevrolet Pick-up trucks. The tanks were an improvement over the previous location, behind the driver, inside the cab.
I drive a 99 Chevy S-10, and the gas tank is in roughly the same spot. I'll make it a point not to get t-boned while stopped over a road flare any time soon.
So, why exactly was it that NASA wanted to scrap the Hubble?"
Same reason microsoft doesn't support windows 3.1. Technology ages, wears out, gets replaced by the newer-better-faster-cheaper tech., or simply becomes more hassle to maintain than it's worth.
You know, not everybody needs / wants / absolutly has to have the ultra uber extended super dolbey 5.1 thx remix 4 disc set of the lord of the rings.
There's a large enough segment of the population that is happy with the standard, no frills DVD's that New Line has decided to release it. They're probably aiming that version at the rental market in the first place. If I were only a passive fan of the films, I'd have been happy with the 19.95 wal mart edition. No one has a gun to my head forcing me to buy every DVD version that comes out.
As for the box set of all three, is there really enough material to make it worth while? the two box sets that have come out already have had more than enough extended footage, and you can only take so many 'behind the scenes' documentaries before it all just runs together.
You'd get frustrated and return the game after getting shotgun'd or.357'd by everybody you tried to jack.
Grand Theft Tractor: Des Moines
While the thought of beating the brains out of Ashton Kutcher is appealing, you'd have terrain problems. GTA with no hills anywhere on the map?
Grand Theft Segway: Cleveland
It just wouldn't be Cleveland without some way to replicate the smell of Lake Erie
Grand Theft Pinto: Detroit
Remember that annoying little road in GTA3 that was under construction? Multiply that by 10,000 and you'll have Detroit. Christ even the People Mover has construction going right now.
Grand Theft Moose: Chilliwac
You thought load times between cities was bad in Vice City? Try stealing a Cheetah then driving for an hour and a half to reach the next major city. Though becoming the Mafia kingpin of Medicine Hat does have possibilities....
Jack Rousch, of Rousch Racing and Nascar fame, keeps his P-51D ("Old Crow", formerly painted as the "Rascal") housed at Willow Run Airport.
I was late to work a couple times last year, as Jack decided to take the bird out as I was driving to work. I'd pull off to the side of the road and watch that plane take off. Few things sound sweeter than a Rolls Royce Merlin Engine at full power.
Which one's the robot equivalent of the souped-up red convertible driven by Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo?
Whatever Bender and Hal are driving. Though they could pull off the "Dean Martin / Sammy Davis jr." team with ease as well. Bender's an alcoholic, and Hal's only got one eye....
This doesn't seem like it would help in the case of a man in the middle attack. The knock sequence would show up along with the rest of the sniffed traffic, right?
No more Mighty Ducks, Haunted Mansion, or Miracle movies unless they actually release actual animated flicks.
Not to nitpick, but I'm kinda glad to see Miracle come out under the disney name plate. If it were a Fox flick, we'd get treated to a sleezed up version of the story. Dreamworks would triple the schmaltz and halve the content. At least from disney I'm expecting (why i don't know) a fairly straight telling of a story that should make a quality film, without "hollywood" producers stepping in and screwing up a good thing.
It's also nice to see disney getting out of the real hockey business by selling the Mighty Ducks.
Though it has become a common practice to send films to distributers under a different name (Titanic went out as "baby's day out", and the Matrix films and promo materials went out under different names), so the films may have been labeled as such.
All brit's posting to slashdot have officially lost the right to make references to the U.S. being an orwellian, facist state in comparison to their own.
You guys seem to have so many cameras and tracking systems going in that country of yours you probably enjoy the privacy offered by Las Vegas casinos.
Microsoft must be trying to bankrupt Gator / GAIN / THAT COMPANY THAT MAKES a product remarkably simliar to SPYWARE. They'll be filing for name changes once a week now.
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Really, you're creating your own problem here. Get rid of the iPod. Nothing screams out easy target like seeing someone listening to earphones. You're instantly giving up on one of your five senses (Granted, your sense of smell and touch probably won't help you defend yourself from a mugger....)
iPod's are a muggers dream. "Hey, not only is that guy not paying attention to his surroundings, but he's also got some sort of portable media device that i can pawn. Bonus!"
Aside from that, paying attention is your best defense. Expect to get mugged. Walk around with the sort of paranoia that comes from smoking too much weed in your friends basement while his parents are home. "Is there someone in the bushes? I don't know man!"
And don't bother fighting back unless you've got a serious advantage. Yeah you want to fight back and bust that guys head open, but you really don't know.
Hindsight is a bitch in those situations. You may feel like a tard for giving in, or you may end up with brain damage or a serious limp for fighting back withsomeone who has waaaay less to lose.
Lava surfing, that sounds great! I can't wait to see it! I SURE HOPE THE SUN AND TEEN HOLLYWOOD HAVE ALL OF THIER FACTS STRAIGHT. 'Cause that sounds like a really awesome scene! Even though it contradicts everything that has ever been said about the first showdown between Obi-wan and Anakin....
Ahh slashdot. Where we spend days / weeks uncovering that an anti-linux source is microsoft backed, but we take the word of 'The Sun' and 'Teen Hollywood' (about star wars no less) as 100% fact.
Hybrid owners: How's the acceleration in a hybrid vs. a normal 4 banger? Is it really that slow? A recent motorweek profile of the hybrids touted the Prius' sub-ten second 0-60 time as being above average. I was disgusted. ten seconds to 60? That'd be impressive, if I was on foot. In a car, trying to merge onto a highway, that's scary / borderline unsafe.
For those in the Ann Arbor area: Imagine trying to merge onto I-94 east bound from Jackson ave in a vehicle that takes that long to get up to speed.
The intersection above is laid out as follows; The on-ramp to the interstate is perpendicular until just before the merge. You need to brake down to 25-30 (during drought conditions. any rain/snow and it's 15), make a harder than average turn, then get up to highway speed in a very short distance.
Oh, did I forget to mention that 94 is only two lanes at this point? There's a (well-abused)concrete median, on the left. Let's not forget that the whole interchange sits behind a hill, making it a blind curve. And there's a bridge that starts just past the end of the on-ramp.
Now try that merge in a Prius. Or one of those three cylinder metros. Merges don't make me feel guilty about having a V-6, and make me wish for a V-8
Sounds like press release-ese for "The images weren't just in the browser cache, but saved to his My Docmuents or Home Directory. Browers cache images, but these were also saved purposly by the user."
Episode III: The Passion of the Binks.
They can have my porn when they pry if from my sticky, clammy fingers!
Then there's the warranty issue. Reprogramming a car doesn't void the warranty -- unless it can be shown that a later breakdown was caused by the new software. Ford Motor Co. spokesman Glenn Ray says one buyer of a new 2003 Ford Cobra learned this the hard way. The Cobra is about as powerful a car as Ford makes, but not powerful enough for this customer. "He put a chip in it," said Ray, "and blew up the motor." The owner had over-revved the engine--something the original software would have prevented.
Somewhere right now, a Slashdot reader is saying to himself "What a dumbass."
And somewhere a Cobra owner is reading about an overclocker who cooked his Athlon and is saying to himself "What a dumbass."
And the coming of warmer weather is bringing in a new wave of customers to KTR, which was originally owned by Boston rocker J. Geils.
"First I look at the chip?" nah, doesn't fit.
"Because of this article, I can't do my homework....anymore...?" hmm, too obscure
"Freeze Framedump?"
"My blood runs cold, that Memory has just been sold..."
I don't have any of my albums handy, i'll have to see which songs Giles actually wrote.
GM offers a chip upgrade as part of a supercharger kit it sells for the Pontiac Vibe, a small car that's popular with street racers. Films like "2 Fast 2 Furious" have inspired young auto enthusiasts to buy cheap "tuner cars" like the Vibe, and muscle them up.
The vibe is many things (chief among them is ugly), but it is definatly not cheap. There are a lot of other cars that better fit that class of vehicle. The Vibe is just a Toyota Matrix with a Pontiac nameplate. It looks "young and hip" but few of those who fit the "young and hip" catagory can afford them outside of a lease.
The Giants could be making a huge mistake. MMORPG's are pretty popular among baseball players. Guys like Doug Glanville and Curt Shilling are big time Everquest players, and Star Wars Galaxies is pretty popular as well.
I can see it now. Instead of 7 guys in the bullpen bs'ing around and trying to look interested, you'll have the entire Giant's rotation staring at laptops trying to powerlevel.
"Johnson, get warmed up, you're going in next inning"
"But coach, if I go in, where are the guys gonna get another level 25 human paladin to tank?"
I'd wager that the local nuke plant isn't going to spend a whole lot of time extolling the virtues of solar power. I mean, the last time I went shopping for a new truck, the local GMC dealer wasn't bending over backwards to tell me how great the Ford F-150 was in comparison.
I'll grant you though, Solar power probably isn't the best way to try and run an air conditioner.
What about a locate feature? that can't be hard to add and would be really useful.
Basic cable is what, like $15 or less per month, and it sounds like you get about the same amount of channels as you do over this USDTV for $20, maybe a few channels here and there, but this is hardly a deal.
Not to be alarmist or crude but Where the fuck do you live? Here in comcast country (michigan) where your cable choices are comcast, comcast, comcast, comcast, or, if you're lucky enough to live in an outlying area, comcast, 40-45 bucks a month is the norm. That's pretty close to direct TV rates. 45 bucks a month, plus equipment fees puts them at least in the same ballpark with the Digital cable and DirectTV rates.
I'm not going to play the "I threw my TV into a fire 15 years ago then cleansed my soul in a pagan ritual" card (which I'm sure will be repeated ad naseum), though I will say that it's getting harder and harder to justify what I'm paying now vs. the 'entertainment' I'm getting. If it weren't for local sports (Detroit's baseball and Hockey teams are only shown on Fox sports net, a cable channel. Thanks Mike Illitch.), discovery, history, and speed, I'd pitch cable entirely.
I have the same back and forth argument with myself when i think about buying a larger TV. Sure a 27" sony flat screen would be nice, but lately it seems like the money would be better spent installing a bay window so I can get a nice view of the city dump.
'can the old saddlebag gas tanks on Ford Rangers kill? Gasp!'
time to nitpick: Side saddle gas tanks (!saddle bag. Saddle bag would imply a tank on each side, side saddle tanks are located only on the drivers side.) were a design feature of all Chevrolet Pick-up trucks. The tanks were an improvement over the previous location, behind the driver, inside the cab.
I drive a 99 Chevy S-10, and the gas tank is in roughly the same spot. I'll make it a point not to get t-boned while stopped over a road flare any time soon.
So, why exactly was it that NASA wanted to scrap the Hubble?"
Same reason microsoft doesn't support windows 3.1. Technology ages, wears out, gets replaced by the newer-better-faster-cheaper tech., or simply becomes more hassle to maintain than it's worth.
You know, not everybody needs / wants / absolutly has to have the ultra uber extended super dolbey 5.1 thx remix 4 disc set of the lord of the rings.
There's a large enough segment of the population that is happy with the standard, no frills DVD's that New Line has decided to release it. They're probably aiming that version at the rental market in the first place. If I were only a passive fan of the films, I'd have been happy with the 19.95 wal mart edition. No one has a gun to my head forcing me to buy every DVD version that comes out.
As for the box set of all three, is there really enough material to make it worth while? the two box sets that have come out already have had more than enough extended footage, and you can only take so many 'behind the scenes' documentaries before it all just runs together.
Next week's monster garage project will feature host (and autozone spokesman) Jesse James building a "Monster Car Crusher."
-Use of a "family owned" New Jersey Junkyard: 500.00
-2003 BMW with strange smell coming from the trunk and "l337SCO" California Plates: Freebee
Monster garage factoid: We swear our new sponsor deal with autozone had nothing to do with the making of this episode. we swear.
None of those games would work.
.357'd by everybody you tried to jack.
Grand Theft Pickup Truck: Dallas
You'd get frustrated and return the game after getting shotgun'd or
Grand Theft Tractor: Des Moines
While the thought of beating the brains out of Ashton Kutcher is appealing, you'd have terrain problems. GTA with no hills anywhere on the map?
Grand Theft Segway: Cleveland
It just wouldn't be Cleveland without some way to replicate the smell of Lake Erie
Grand Theft Pinto: Detroit
Remember that annoying little road in GTA3 that was under construction? Multiply that by 10,000 and you'll have Detroit. Christ even the People Mover has construction going right now.
Grand Theft Moose: Chilliwac
You thought load times between cities was bad in Vice City? Try stealing a Cheetah then driving for an hour and a half to reach the next major city. Though becoming the Mafia kingpin of Medicine Hat does have possibilities....
Jack Rousch, of Rousch Racing and Nascar fame, keeps his P-51D ("Old Crow", formerly painted as the "Rascal") housed at Willow Run Airport.
I was late to work a couple times last year, as Jack decided to take the bird out as I was driving to work. I'd pull off to the side of the road and watch that plane take off. Few things sound sweeter than a Rolls Royce Merlin Engine at full power.
Which one's the robot equivalent of the souped-up red convertible driven by Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo?
Whatever Bender and Hal are driving. Though they could pull off the "Dean Martin / Sammy Davis jr." team with ease as well. Bender's an alcoholic, and Hal's only got one eye....
I didn't RTFA, so maybe this was already covered.
This doesn't seem like it would help in the case of a man in the middle attack. The knock sequence would show up along with the rest of the sniffed traffic, right?
No more Mighty Ducks, Haunted Mansion, or Miracle movies unless they actually release actual animated flicks.
Not to nitpick, but I'm kinda glad to see Miracle come out under the disney name plate. If it were a Fox flick, we'd get treated to a sleezed up version of the story. Dreamworks would triple the schmaltz and halve the content. At least from disney I'm expecting (why i don't know) a fairly straight telling of a story that should make a quality film, without "hollywood" producers stepping in and screwing up a good thing.
It's also nice to see disney getting out of the real hockey business by selling the Mighty Ducks.
No. Different subject, same sport.
Though it has become a common practice to send films to distributers under a different name (Titanic went out as "baby's day out", and the Matrix films and promo materials went out under different names), so the films may have been labeled as such.
All brit's posting to slashdot have officially lost the right to make references to the U.S. being an orwellian, facist state in comparison to their own.
You guys seem to have so many cameras and tracking systems going in that country of yours you probably enjoy the privacy offered by Las Vegas casinos.
having seen zebra mussel infestations in the great lakes, you're not too far from the truth.
the "never install software from..." button.
Microsoft must be trying to bankrupt Gator / GAIN / THAT COMPANY THAT MAKES a product remarkably simliar to SPYWARE. They'll be filing for name changes once a week now.