Unless you absolutely have to get across the country in a specified timeframe (but if you do, why not take a plane?), there's no real reason not to take the scenic byways. More fun to drive and you get to actually see the country you're crossing!
Related note: one of these years I'm going to drive from Key West to Prudhoe Bay avoiding Interstates as much as possible. But that'll only happen once I pick enough winning football games;o)
Yes, I realize that. The Corvette may not be worth the extra money (though the weight savings are appealing). The CTS-V, though, is actually a reasonably practical vehicle (moreso than the GTO, if only thanks to a sedan configuration) and is probably more suited for use as a daily driver (comfortable seats, better ride quality, etc.).
Obviously, if you want a morphed Corvette and can't afford the $50k for a CTS-V or Z06, the GTO fits the bill. But I don't see a reason to get a second car (which is what the GTO is best as...) when you can get a car that's capable of being a daily driver while delivering the sport capability of the GTO for the same price as the GTO and a Cavalier. If your primary vehicle is an SUV or minivan then I guess I can see the argument in favor of the GTO. Such people are exempted from the idiot tax...;o)
Anybody who buys a new GTO should pay an idiot tax. I'm a GM fanboy and that's the biggest turd they've shat out in the Lutz era (yes, it even beats the Saturn ION).
You want maximum performance: buy a Corvette (especially a Z06). Much better for bagging chicks than a GTO.
You want performance and usability: buy a CTS-V, which is basically a Corvette Z06 morphed into a luxury sedan. It weighs the same as the Goat and has the LS6 instead of the LS1 engine (400-plus hp versus 350hp) and a much better interior.
The Goat is a car in search of a market. It's too expensive for the young racer types that Pontiac has been trying to court. It's too close to other GM vehicles that do the job better. Unless you really want the Pontiac badge instead of a Corvette badge or a wreath and crest, there's no reason to get a GTO.
The Solstice looks very promising, however.
PS the Goat, even as an automatic is rated 16/21 (per pontiac.com).
Well, diesels always have been more efficient than gasoline engines. The downside is that the sulfur and particulates in the fuel often make passing emissions tests questionable.
Mercedes-Benz, for instance, is not planning to offer the new diesel E-Class for sale in the five strictest emissions states (California, Massachusetts, Vermont, etc.).
Is CART still around? I thought they went under after all the engine change fiascoes & failed attempts to become F1's minor league.
They may as well be dead; I don't even think they have a TV deal, which does not bode well for sponsorship of the teams.
I remember reading an article (in Car and Driver or Road and Track?) a while back which quoted an auto-industry marketdroid: "CART couldn't sell pussy on a troop ship."
Actually that would cause a problem, for precisely the reason you outlined.
mail.sourceforge.net sends mail with an envelope sender of joeblow@comcast.net.
receiving server looks up comcast.net's SPF record.
mail.sourceforge.net is not approved (assuming that comcast has an SPF record).
mail fails SPF test.
The solution, as I understand it, is an SMTP extension, RFROM, though I've forgotten whether it's the relaying sender that goes in RFROM or the original sender that goes in RFROM.
An SPF record is a record stating what hosts are registered senders of mail from a given domain. There's nothing stopping you from adding, say, smtp.verizon.net or whatnot to the record.
Considering that, from everything I've seen of Gmail, it seems that Google gave its programmers copies of Opera M2 and said, "port this to the web and make some fairly obvious improvements," I'm very surprised that Opera isn't supported.;o)
The conversations part is at best only a slight evolution on how M2 handles threading, at least from what I gleaned from the description.
So Gmail is the best webmail out there, a sort of M2 moved to the web... I'd still take M2 (which would be my choice for GUI mail apps if it didn't have some bugs with IMAP) because web based email is crap.
Further, I don't see the point of a GUI mail app; it's a fundamentally text-based activity, so there's no need for graphical bloat. Hence mutt (at least it's not pine or gnus).
like the easy conversation tracking that I've read about.
Which are equivalent to M2's implementation of the same idea.
they're trying to push a more database-like look at our data so that it's quicker, faster, and easier to use.
M2 views the email store as a database also, using attributes in lieu of folders (the improvement that gmail seems to make is that they have user-defined attributes... this is a huge improvement on M2's implementation, but hardly earth-shattering).
There's huge numbers of sports handicapping sites out there, and the people who run them (besides me, of course...) tend to be scumbag scammers who like to manipulate google rankings.
However, for a few search terms I'm in the top 100 after only a couple of months of not doing much of anything.
the page in question (5th result on both google and a9) is http://www.religioustolerance.org/buddhism.htm which includes the text, on both google and a9, "MENU: BUDDHISM.... You can order these books on Buddhism safely from Amazon.com's online store -- at least, Amazon usually lists books in this spot:..."
Hundreds of thousands of sites are Amazon affiliates, which is what this is.
The clickthroughs are actually useful, though, as far as getting better search results for all goes.
The best use for this would be for separation of linkfarm pages from legitimate search results. It's very difficult (if not impossible) to algorithmically detect the linkfarms, but a human (who's reasonably knowledgeable about what linkfarms tend to look like on result pages) can easily detect them. Presuming that users avoid going to the linkfarms, the pages that more people are clicking on are more likely to be valid search results.
Baseball's also big in Taiwan (and has, IIRC, a not-small following in Australia).
It's interesting though how the English-speaking world (especially the Indo-European English-speaking world) generally disregards association football. It's not a significant sport, as near as I can tell on the Subcontinent. In the Antipodes, it's virtually nonexistent in the scheme of things. Ditto for North America. I've been informed that in South Africa there's a strong racial divide; the blacks tend to be soccer fans while the whites tend to be rugger and cricket fans.
Of course, the reason for this is simple: it generally wasn't the lower classes (who are the soccer crowd in the British Isles, notwithstanding the recent gentrification of the sport at the professional level) who colonized the world, especially from a cultural standpoint. It was the upper and middle classes which brought their sports with them.
Of course, the irony is that in the US, soccer is a middle-to-upper class sport, while baseball (the more cricket-styled game) has historically been the blue-collar sport.
SportsCenter jumped the shark at least a few years ago, turning into a pitiful parody of its glory days. Boo-yah!
ESPN has all but gotten rid of actual sporting events in favor of "PTI", "Rome is Burning", "Around the Horn", "original entertainment productions", and endless reruns of the World Series of Poker.
ESPN.com's writers all suck, especially since Eisner had TMQ canned. The site's design is way to fucking Flash-heavy. CBS Sportsline kicks its ass and has more accurate live scoreboards (though I still haven't found an accurate scoreboard for anything but the NFL... I'm getting tired of betting the Twins +250 on the moneyline, checking the scoreboard and getting a coronary from an incorrect score).
The only good things to do with Bristol are Suzy Kolber and Stacey Dales-Schumann.
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True, but the storage on an intermediate server places the IM outside (at least at that point) any protection afforded by the Wiretap Act.
Why control the urge?
Unless you absolutely have to get across the country in a specified timeframe (but if you do, why not take a plane?), there's no real reason not to take the scenic byways. More fun to drive and you get to actually see the country you're crossing!
Related note: one of these years I'm going to drive from Key West to Prudhoe Bay avoiding Interstates as much as possible. But that'll only happen once I pick enough winning football games ;o)
Yes, I realize that. The Corvette may not be worth the extra money (though the weight savings are appealing). The CTS-V, though, is actually a reasonably practical vehicle (moreso than the GTO, if only thanks to a sedan configuration) and is probably more suited for use as a daily driver (comfortable seats, better ride quality, etc.).
Obviously, if you want a morphed Corvette and can't afford the $50k for a CTS-V or Z06, the GTO fits the bill. But I don't see a reason to get a second car (which is what the GTO is best as...) when you can get a car that's capable of being a daily driver while delivering the sport capability of the GTO for the same price as the GTO and a Cavalier. If your primary vehicle is an SUV or minivan then I guess I can see the argument in favor of the GTO. Such people are exempted from the idiot tax... ;o)
Anybody who buys a new GTO should pay an idiot tax. I'm a GM fanboy and that's the biggest turd they've shat out in the Lutz era (yes, it even beats the Saturn ION).
You want maximum performance: buy a Corvette (especially a Z06). Much better for bagging chicks than a GTO.
You want performance and usability: buy a CTS-V, which is basically a Corvette Z06 morphed into a luxury sedan. It weighs the same as the Goat and has the LS6 instead of the LS1 engine (400-plus hp versus 350hp) and a much better interior.
The Goat is a car in search of a market. It's too expensive for the young racer types that Pontiac has been trying to court. It's too close to other GM vehicles that do the job better. Unless you really want the Pontiac badge instead of a Corvette badge or a wreath and crest, there's no reason to get a GTO.
The Solstice looks very promising, however.
PS the Goat, even as an automatic is rated 16/21 (per pontiac.com).
Well, diesels always have been more efficient than gasoline engines. The downside is that the sulfur and particulates in the fuel often make passing emissions tests questionable.
Mercedes-Benz, for instance, is not planning to offer the new diesel E-Class for sale in the five strictest emissions states (California, Massachusetts, Vermont, etc.).
Is CART still around? I thought they went under after all the engine change fiascoes & failed attempts to become F1's minor league.
They may as well be dead; I don't even think they have a TV deal, which does not bode well for sponsorship of the teams.
I remember reading an article (in Car and Driver or Road and Track?) a while back which quoted an auto-industry marketdroid: "CART couldn't sell pussy on a troop ship."
Actually that would cause a problem, for precisely the reason you outlined.
The solution, as I understand it, is an SMTP extension, RFROM, though I've forgotten whether it's the relaying sender that goes in RFROM or the original sender that goes in RFROM.
An SPF record is a record stating what hosts are registered senders of mail from a given domain. There's nothing stopping you from adding, say, smtp.verizon.net or whatnot to the record.
Of course, there's also SMTP AUTH...
Considering that, from everything I've seen of Gmail, it seems that Google gave its programmers copies of Opera M2 and said, "port this to the web and make some fairly obvious improvements," I'm very surprised that Opera isn't supported. ;o)
The conversations part is at best only a slight evolution on how M2 handles threading, at least from what I gleaned from the description.
So Gmail is the best webmail out there, a sort of M2 moved to the web... I'd still take M2 (which would be my choice for GUI mail apps if it didn't have some bugs with IMAP) because web based email is crap.
Further, I don't see the point of a GUI mail app; it's a fundamentally text-based activity, so there's no need for graphical bloat. Hence mutt (at least it's not pine or gnus).
Which are equivalent to M2's implementation of the same idea.
M2 views the email store as a database also, using attributes in lieu of folders (the improvement that gmail seems to make is that they have user-defined attributes... this is a huge improvement on M2's implementation, but hardly earth-shattering).
...it looks like there's not much doing in gmail, save for the gig of space and a few very minor evolutions on what Opera's had for a while in M2.
Am I missing anything?
P.S.: I don't really see a reason to switch from mutt.
nigritude: Blackness; the state of being black.
There's huge numbers of sports handicapping sites out there, and the people who run them (besides me, of course...) tend to be scumbag scammers who like to manipulate google rankings.
However, for a few search terms I'm in the top 100 after only a couple of months of not doing much of anything.
Mandrake's urpmi has some features designed to keep a body of machines with exactly the same software versions...
Works in Opera 7.23 on Linux.
There's no difference between a9's and google's results.
Google with SafeSearch on and you shall see what I mean.
Coincidence.
the page in question (5th result on both google and a9) is http://www.religioustolerance.org/buddhism.htm which includes the text, on both google and a9, "MENU: BUDDHISM. ... You can order these books on Buddhism safely from Amazon.com's online store -- at least, Amazon usually lists books in this spot: ..."
Hundreds of thousands of sites are Amazon affiliates, which is what this is.
The clickthroughs are actually useful, though, as far as getting better search results for all goes.
The best use for this would be for separation of linkfarm pages from legitimate search results. It's very difficult (if not impossible) to algorithmically detect the linkfarms, but a human (who's reasonably knowledgeable about what linkfarms tend to look like on result pages) can easily detect them. Presuming that users avoid going to the linkfarms, the pages that more people are clicking on are more likely to be valid search results.
Furthermore, you can delete specific searches from your history.
Baseball's also big in Taiwan (and has, IIRC, a not-small following in Australia).
It's interesting though how the English-speaking world (especially the Indo-European English-speaking world) generally disregards association football. It's not a significant sport, as near as I can tell on the Subcontinent. In the Antipodes, it's virtually nonexistent in the scheme of things. Ditto for North America. I've been informed that in South Africa there's a strong racial divide; the blacks tend to be soccer fans while the whites tend to be rugger and cricket fans.
Of course, the reason for this is simple: it generally wasn't the lower classes (who are the soccer crowd in the British Isles, notwithstanding the recent gentrification of the sport at the professional level) who colonized the world, especially from a cultural standpoint. It was the upper and middle classes which brought their sports with them.
Of course, the irony is that in the US, soccer is a middle-to-upper class sport, while baseball (the more cricket-styled game) has historically been the blue-collar sport.
I define sport as: "a [physically] athletic recreation where defense can be played."
auto racing, chess, etc. lose on the first count.
Golf, figure skating, weightlifting, most track and field events, etc. lose on the second.
Epstein's in the chic Boston clubs regularly. He's taking home top-shelf Europussy from every expedition.
The whole ESPN empire is junk.
SportsCenter jumped the shark at least a few years ago, turning into a pitiful parody of its glory days. Boo-yah!
ESPN has all but gotten rid of actual sporting events in favor of "PTI", "Rome is Burning", "Around the Horn", "original entertainment productions", and endless reruns of the World Series of Poker.
ESPN.com's writers all suck, especially since Eisner had TMQ canned. The site's design is way to fucking Flash-heavy. CBS Sportsline kicks its ass and has more accurate live scoreboards (though I still haven't found an accurate scoreboard for anything but the NFL... I'm getting tired of betting the Twins +250 on the moneyline, checking the scoreboard and getting a coronary from an incorrect score).
The only good things to do with Bristol are Suzy Kolber and Stacey Dales-Schumann.
I'm not denying that this is the exception. However, the great-grandparent of this particular post was making a universal quantification... ;o)