But you're funny and devout in your beliefs, no matter how wrong they are, or how poorly you explain them. You are ruthlessly stubborn. And, you appear to have a working brain, though it doesn't appear to work to my liking.
Accordingly, I'm un-foeing you despite your bigottedness.
(I'd rewrite that to correct for a missing "and" in the first sentence, and a missing "losers" in the second, but my vodka martini with a couple of lovely marinated olives says I don't want to. Arguably, this makes me a loser, but then: "Adolf" passes spellcheck just fine. Please moderate accordingly, whatever that means.)
I don't recall anyone asking for your opinion, either.
I don't care if I'm in a minority. I don't know if you're aware, but being a constituent does not obligate one to choose an opinion on the basis of popularity. So why do you insist on repeating, over and over, that I have an unpopular opinion? Who gives a shit?
I'm not irrational. If you'd like me to explain my rationality on this matter, I'd be pleased to oblige. Meanwhile, your perverse, pertinacious insistence on telling me what I think, and why I think it, instead of simply asking is really very annoying, and quite frankly without merit.
And I harbor no animosity toward you for your views. I just think that you're an asshole for the way that you present them. And, you're a bigot.
You misunderstand my argument. That's OK -- it happens to me all the time.
Allow me to rephrase: What are the chances of the RAM being marginally-bad in such a way as to allow unintended acceleration, while not producing any other symptoms?
The chances of it being bad to begin with are slim (after all, all RAM is tested, often by more than one party). But this won't be just any RAM -- this will be, in today's terms, glacially slow RAM which has been tweaked to perfection over the past decade (or more), because the stuff that a Prius does just doesn't require anything lightning fast. (See, also: US space program.)
I'll go ahead and answer the question: The chances of bad RAM causing unintended and irrevocable acceleration and no other badness are about the same as bad RAM causing your PC to boot up and say "Hello, world!" instead of loading an OS. Could it happen? Why, sure! (In other news: A thousand monkeys and a thousand typewriters will, eventually, produce the complete works of Mark Twain as long as you replace the parts when they wear out.)
I'll eat my hat and burn whatever cash I have in my pocket, if the problem turns out to be sometimes-bad RAM wherein the only symptom of its badness is unintended acceleration.
As a member of the local Corvette Owners Club, I imagine the subject in question had a fair understanding of cars in general.
Because, see: One might own a Corvette because they look nice. One might own a Corvette because they're fast. But only car-lovers do one of those and join the local Corvette Owners Club, let alone wear the jacket.
A bigot is a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices.
The correct use of the term requires the elements of obstinacy, irrationality, and animosity toward those of differing devotion.
The origin of the word bigot and bigoterie in English dates back to at least 1598, via Middle French, and started with the sense of "religious hypocrite". Forms of bigotry may have a related ideology or world views.
You mean, the same marginally-bad RAM which seems to remember that the car is on and running? The same RAM that keeps the engine running properly? The same RAM allows the computer to throw an SES light if it detects that the engine is not running properly? The RAM that keeps track of the odometer, and controls the speedometer?
That RAM? The one responsible for all these other problems that might be caused by by bad RAM, but which aren't happening?
Shifting into neutral, applying brakes, even turning off the engine are all basically like pushing keys on a computer keyboard.
No. There are no drive-by-wire braking systems. The Prius does have regenerative braking, which helps a bit, but that's alongside the hydraulic (and redundant, cable-operated) brakes, not in place of them. The Prius's regenerative braking system could fall out on the ground, the engine can catch fire, and the electronics can be smoked by cosmic rays -- all at the same time -- and you'd still be able to stop the car.
Obviously, you care enough in my beliefs to tell me all about them.
But if I'm deluded, it is only because I was lied to by the conservative talk radio folks that I listen to almost every day in the car -- I don't follow any liberalish media outlets when it comes to politics, the local paper here used to be called "The Republican," and I don't watch TV news.
So, if the right-leaning media that I experience is not lying, then I guess I've just made my own mind up despite being awash in a sea of contrary opinion. And, in this case: Calling me a sadist would be far more true from your stated perspective than saying that I'm delusional.
And you go ahead and laugh in November. I don't care. The Unites States is a republic, not a democracy. I assume you know the difference between the two.
That method was patented by Hayes. Some modem manufacturers licensed the patent, while others did not. My Rockwell-chipset Supra modems handled +++ properly back in the day, but most of the no-name modems made after the September that never ended lacked this detail.
If I recall, there was also a way to do this using IRC directly, by issuing a command which would cause the remote client to respond (in part) with +++ATH0.
My personal favorite was just pinging folks to death. Their connection would simply degrade, as if (from their perspective) it were line noise. Once their buffers got sufficiently full, the ISP would generally (not always) drop them as latency went through the roof.
It was kind of hit and miss, since it relied on certain (broken-ish) behavior from both the ISP and the user's IP stack. And, you had to have better (less-broken) connectivity on your own end than they did, or you'd just trash your own connection instead. I had no problems knocking Windows and Linux boxes offline using my (then) superior OS/2 machine.:)
Oh. And then, after they log back in, you'd just finger their terminal server to find out their new IP address, before they'd even have a chance to do anything. Rinse, repeat. Lots of laughs, though probably not for them...
I thought the discussion was about liquor, not beer.
I usually buy my liquor in handles. These traditionally contained half a gallon, but have been abbreviated to 1.75 liters.
Meanwhile, actually in actuality, the fifths sold here in Ohio are 750ml, not 757.082357ml. Canada is no different -- your 26'er, at 25.360517 fluid ounces, is a lot closer to being a 25'er than its name would imply.
There are also 1-liter bottles available (often referred to as a quart, even though that's also wrong).
A 375 ml bottle of liquor in the US and the Canadian maritime provinces is sometimes referred to as a "pint" and a 200 ml bottle is called a "half-pint," harking back to the days when liquor came in actual US pints, quarts, and half-gallons.
Besides, everyone knows that a pint of beer is either 16 or 20 ounces in this hemisphere, though nobody can agree on which ounces to use. Except in Canada, where a pint of beer might be 500ml, or might be 20 imperial ounces.
(Just because it's true, doesn't mean it has to make sense. I, for one, was simply satisfied to finally understand that the reason there are 18 shots in a fifth is only because there's 18 holes on a golf course -- the logic seemed so infallible. And then you had to show up and make a scene of things...sigh.)
Is there anything else you can share about me that I didn't know? I mean, you seem pretty certain about a lot of things about me that you really have no way of knowing at all...
I have no more than basic math skills. I don't do much programming, aside from the occasional butchered-together script. I can grok SQL, parse C, and write some shell script and Perl, but only infrequently do I find a need to.
But then, I only know what my job needs me to know, and that changes daily. I don't consider myself a programmer, but those around me in life seem to disagree.
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Oh, right.
Hmm.
Nevermind, then.
Are we discussing words, or politics?
I've lost track.
But you're funny and devout in your beliefs, no matter how wrong they are, or how poorly you explain them. You are ruthlessly stubborn. And, you appear to have a working brain, though it doesn't appear to work to my liking.
Accordingly, I'm un-foeing you despite your bigottedness.
Welcome, friend.
(I'd rewrite that to correct for a missing "and" in the first sentence, and a missing "losers" in the second, but my vodka martini with a couple of lovely marinated olives says I don't want to. Arguably, this makes me a loser, but then: "Adolf" passes spellcheck just fine. Please moderate accordingly, whatever that means.)
If the spell checker decides the losers, then Alienware, Acer, Lenovo, Sun Microsystems, are losers (which, in these examples, is at least arguable).
Surprisingly: Cray, Compaq, and DEC are all apparently winners. Even though they all, inarguably[1], they pass spell-check in my Firefox just fine.
[1]: "Inarguably," ironically, does not pass spell check.
What if I tell it that a 747 is a bird?
If you're telling it that a 747 is a bird, then you're really missing the entire fucking point: You don't even tell it that a bird is a bird.
Tried it in Windows 7 x64, with some recent version of Adobe Reader. The PDF opened fine, but there no popup, nor any calculator.
The example posted a few threads up worked fine, though, and was successful at launching cmd.exe, after prompting me that it would do so.
That I may be a hypocrite does not detract from your bigotry.
You're wrong about that, too.
You're wrong, too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mri#Peripheral_nerve_stimulation_.28PNS.29
There really isn't any hope for some people.
I don't recall anyone asking for your opinion, either.
I don't care if I'm in a minority. I don't know if you're aware, but being a constituent does not obligate one to choose an opinion on the basis of popularity. So why do you insist on repeating, over and over, that I have an unpopular opinion? Who gives a shit?
I'm not irrational. If you'd like me to explain my rationality on this matter, I'd be pleased to oblige. Meanwhile, your perverse, pertinacious insistence on telling me what I think, and why I think it, instead of simply asking is really very annoying, and quite frankly without merit.
And I harbor no animosity toward you for your views. I just think that you're an asshole for the way that you present them. And, you're a bigot.
You misunderstand my argument. That's OK -- it happens to me all the time.
Allow me to rephrase: What are the chances of the RAM being marginally-bad in such a way as to allow unintended acceleration, while not producing any other symptoms?
The chances of it being bad to begin with are slim (after all, all RAM is tested, often by more than one party). But this won't be just any RAM -- this will be, in today's terms, glacially slow RAM which has been tweaked to perfection over the past decade (or more), because the stuff that a Prius does just doesn't require anything lightning fast. (See, also: US space program.)
I'll go ahead and answer the question: The chances of bad RAM causing unintended and irrevocable acceleration and no other badness are about the same as bad RAM causing your PC to boot up and say "Hello, world!" instead of loading an OS. Could it happen? Why, sure! (In other news: A thousand monkeys and a thousand typewriters will, eventually, produce the complete works of Mark Twain as long as you replace the parts when they wear out.)
Will it happen? Ummm.......
Will it happen more than once? Uh. Erm. *ahem*
Fine, whatever.
I'll eat my hat and burn whatever cash I have in my pocket, if the problem turns out to be sometimes-bad RAM wherein the only symptom of its badness is unintended acceleration.
Whatever.
As a member of the local Corvette Owners Club, I imagine the subject in question had a fair understanding of cars in general.
Because, see: One might own a Corvette because they look nice. One might own a Corvette because they're fast. But only car-lovers do one of those and join the local Corvette Owners Club, let alone wear the jacket.
*sigh*
From Wikipedia:
A bigot is a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices.
The correct use of the term requires the elements of obstinacy, irrationality, and animosity toward those of differing devotion.
The origin of the word bigot and bigoterie in English dates back to at least 1598, via Middle French, and started with the sense of "religious hypocrite". Forms of bigotry may have a related ideology or world views.
Do you understand now, bigot?
You mean, the same marginally-bad RAM which seems to remember that the car is on and running? The same RAM that keeps the engine running properly? The same RAM allows the computer to throw an SES light if it detects that the engine is not running properly? The RAM that keeps track of the odometer, and controls the speedometer?
That RAM? The one responsible for all these other problems that might be caused by by bad RAM, but which aren't happening?
Hmm.
Naah, don't think so.
Shifting into neutral, applying brakes, even turning off the engine are all basically like pushing keys on a computer keyboard.
No. There are no drive-by-wire braking systems. The Prius does have regenerative braking, which helps a bit, but that's alongside the hydraulic (and redundant, cable-operated) brakes, not in place of them. The Prius's regenerative braking system could fall out on the ground, the engine can catch fire, and the electronics can be smoked by cosmic rays -- all at the same time -- and you'd still be able to stop the car.
Interesting, but wrong.
Obviously, you care enough in my beliefs to tell me all about them.
But if I'm deluded, it is only because I was lied to by the conservative talk radio folks that I listen to almost every day in the car -- I don't follow any liberalish media outlets when it comes to politics, the local paper here used to be called "The Republican," and I don't watch TV news.
So, if the right-leaning media that I experience is not lying, then I guess I've just made my own mind up despite being awash in a sea of contrary opinion. And, in this case: Calling me a sadist would be far more true from your stated perspective than saying that I'm delusional.
And you go ahead and laugh in November. I don't care. The Unites States is a republic, not a democracy. I assume you know the difference between the two.
Bigot.
That method was patented by Hayes. Some modem manufacturers licensed the patent, while others did not. My Rockwell-chipset Supra modems handled +++ properly back in the day, but most of the no-name modems made after the September that never ended lacked this detail.
If I recall, there was also a way to do this using IRC directly, by issuing a command which would cause the remote client to respond (in part) with +++ATH0.
My personal favorite was just pinging folks to death. Their connection would simply degrade, as if (from their perspective) it were line noise. Once their buffers got sufficiently full, the ISP would generally (not always) drop them as latency went through the roof.
It was kind of hit and miss, since it relied on certain (broken-ish) behavior from both the ISP and the user's IP stack. And, you had to have better (less-broken) connectivity on your own end than they did, or you'd just trash your own connection instead. I had no problems knocking Windows and Linux boxes offline using my (then) superior OS/2 machine. :)
Oh. And then, after they log back in, you'd just finger their terminal server to find out their new IP address, before they'd even have a chance to do anything. Rinse, repeat. Lots of laughs, though probably not for them...
How do you presume to know what I believe, bigot?
I thought the discussion was about liquor, not beer.
I usually buy my liquor in handles. These traditionally contained half a gallon, but have been abbreviated to 1.75 liters.
Meanwhile, actually in actuality, the fifths sold here in Ohio are 750ml, not 757.082357ml. Canada is no different -- your 26'er, at 25.360517 fluid ounces, is a lot closer to being a 25'er than its name would imply.
There are also 1-liter bottles available (often referred to as a quart, even though that's also wrong).
Further, from Wikipedia:
A 375 ml bottle of liquor in the US and the Canadian maritime provinces is sometimes referred to as a "pint" and a 200 ml bottle is called a "half-pint," harking back to the days when liquor came in actual US pints, quarts, and half-gallons.
Besides, everyone knows that a pint of beer is either 16 or 20 ounces in this hemisphere, though nobody can agree on which ounces to use. Except in Canada, where a pint of beer might be 500ml, or might be 20 imperial ounces.
(Just because it's true, doesn't mean it has to make sense. I, for one, was simply satisfied to finally understand that the reason there are 18 shots in a fifth is only because there's 18 holes on a golf course -- the logic seemed so infallible. And then you had to show up and make a scene of things...sigh.)
Cool.
Is there anything else you can share about me that I didn't know? I mean, you seem pretty certain about a lot of things about me that you really have no way of knowing at all...
So I guess you're either psychic, or bigoted.
If you'd ever been to Best Buy, you'd already know the answer: Both.
I have no more than basic math skills. I don't do much programming, aside from the occasional butchered-together script. I can grok SQL, parse C, and write some shell script and Perl, but only infrequently do I find a need to.
But then, I only know what my job needs me to know, and that changes daily. I don't consider myself a programmer, but those around me in life seem to disagree.
That being whatever it is: Discuss.