First, I know nothing of OIRB specifically. However, please don't assume that all email marketing companies are spammers. It just isn't true. I work for a company that does email marketing, and our server has had the same IP address for over a year, and all of our emails come from the same domain, with clear opt-out instructions (in addition, you had to have opted in directly to have received it to begin with).
Remember that the U in UCE stands for Unrequested. If all your mail really is requested, then you aren't sending Spam. I get mail from my bank, and although it's commercial, it certainly isn't Spam.
I bet I get Requested Commercial Email from at least 10 companies, and I'm sure than most slashdotters do to.
I don't understand why people are so critical of the Segway. Could it be partially due to the fact that it was hyped as better than the second coming of Christ before it hit the market?
Then it turned out to be a scooter. A really neat, high-tech scooter. But still a scooter, and not quite as revolutionary as it was marketed to be.
I call BS. 100 PSI is nearly 7 atmospheres, and there is no way you are getting a pressure ratio of 7 out of a single-stage radial compressor. I could see a pressure ratio of 3, maybe, (45 PSI), but 100 PSI is blowing that much pressure out your butt.
Wow - you disagree by insulting? How nice. I'm guessing that you haven't heard of running twin turbos, oh wait, you say "single stage", so obviously you have.
Bet you didn't think that somebody might be running a "two stage radial compressor" - one of them being the turbo being discussed.
I'm just having visions of this thing getting up to speed, a fin blade heating up and deforming, thus causing the whole turbo shaft to come apart in rapid succession. Then watching the person standing next to the thing getting turned into a 160lb of hamburger...
It's the same turbo that's on my truck - a Dodge pickup with a Cummins Turbo Diesel engine. My turbine sees well over 100,000 rpm, and over 1,300 degrees F (yes, I have a gauge on it).
On occasion, they fail; usually when guys are pushing 100+ psi of boost (one hundred psi, not a typo). When they go, it it's that big of a deal - all the parts stay inside the housing and come out the exhaust. The exhause is thin wall steel tubing, so it obviously doesn't take much to contain an exploding turbine.
I just read about this... on Forbe's list of the top ten worst cars ever. Apparently the system was failure prone and sucked ass.
Yup. Almost every Cad in the 80's was a complete turd, and this didn't help.
Remember the Cimarron? It was a Chevy Cavalier, which at the time was a steaming pile of shit, although newer ones are much better. They put on "gold" badges and leather seats and made Cad dealers sell them.
The article claims This computer-controlled system is identical to the sort of system found in a Formula 1 car or a Champ car. There is no clutch pedal or shift lever for the driver to operate -- the computer controls the clutch disks as well as the actual shifting. The computer is able to shift gears in 0.2 seconds.
Champ cars don't use a clutchless system; they use a sequential gearbox, like a motorcycle. They don't have to use a clutch except to start rolling, but there are three pedals on the floor, and a shift lever (although it moves back and forth, rather than in an H pattern).
There is no computer on that clutch, and it's cheating if you do.
Two nits to pick here: first of all what you are talking about is a variable number of active cylinders, a variable displacement engine actually changes the engine displacement without changing the number of active cylinders. Secondly, the idea of varying the number of active cylinders for efficiency is almost as old as the piston engine itself. No one has made one work reliably yet, so I'll consider it vaporware for now. For an idea as to how difficult this is to implement in practice, consider that we've got fully elctronically automated engines, hybrid powertrains and even Miller and Wankel designs all developed in the last 4 decades with no commercially produced variable active cylinder engines for automobiles yet.
Actually, GM sold many of them in the late 80's, although that's from memory and the date may be wrong.
They called it their 4-6-8 engine, and it was installed in Cads.
I often take public transit to construction sites. If the company wants me to haul around sheetrock, or drill steel, or a pallet of grout or whatever, they can set me up in a company truck.
I am the company; I'm a one man shop. I do small remodel jobs and will drive my truck to the jobsite every day.
I'm happy that you can avoid driving (really) to work as a construction worker. However, in LA, as an independant, it simply will not work. Period.
I don't have a problem packing my belt on the bus and I haven't had a problem getting to sites within a thirty Km radius of home by 7:00am on public transit. This ability is one of the reasons I choose to live in Vancouver, a city with no highways at all within its city limits.
I carry so much more than a belt... and again, I live in LA. Differet world.
But that's bulk goods transport, not passenger transport. You could easily get all the tools and building materials delivered in a single shipment, and then travrleach day by public transport.
So I should have new tools delivered to the jobsite every day? My cordless tool set cost me $500 - I guess I'll charge you an extra $500 a day to work on your place. Sure, I could carry that on the subway, but then I'd leave behind my level, saws, hand tools, and every other tool I use on a job.
You have no idea what I bring to a job, please don't tell me to carry it all with me - it takes 30 minutes just to load my truck from my garage.
And if I need to run to Home Desperate to buy that missing thing (bag of screws, one more 2x4, hinge or piece of plumbing) I should walk 4 miles each way?
Again, you have no idea of how I work, so don't tell me how to get there. Public transport is great for most people, but certainly not everybody.
Transporting a harp or string bass or 60 lbs of camping equipment is difficult no matter how you do it.
What???? Uh, do you ride a motorcycle? Carrying 60 pounds is not a problem for a car. Harp or bass? get a station wagon or SUV. 60 pound backpack and a boy scout? Honda Civic.
Of course, if everyone just used public transit, then public transit would be faster and we could put parks in place of parking lots. But I guess it is more convenient to sit twice as long in a grid lock... I work in construction and need to haul tools and building materials. Are you really suggesting that everyone use public transportation?
I have a feeling you would be pissed when I brought 10 sheets of 4' x 8' sheetrock on the subway with me. Besides, I live in LA, and public transportation here sucks.
Speaking of real-world, where are you living? All women will do that. Don't believe me? How many women do you know that are engaged that don't have a diamond ring?
There are plenty of women who think diamonds are a scam. I know a handful of people married in the last few years who have not gone with a diamond, as well as a handful that have had a very "traditional" wedding.
I know my social circle is not "normal", but we aren't that odd. We live mostly in L.A. and are geeks, gearheads, layers, teachers, coders, contractors (houses, not coding), artists, chefs... and are a representitive slice of "20's to 40's mostly white LA".
My girlfriend thinks diamonds are nothing more than a lame status symbol, although we have no plans to marry.
OK, I've never bothered to deal with Oog because I have an MP3 CD player in my truck (a first generation Aiwa, purchased when there were only two players available from mainstream manufacturers). Now I'm starting o find some music in Oog format that isn't available in MP3. European psychobilly that you can't buy here, by the way.
Is there a converter from Oog to MP3? WHat's a good Oog player for Windows?
Simply go to your boss, show them your needs, and tell them you will now need a $20/month pager. Show them how handy it is, and let them know how nice it is to be able to know your server status remotly. Say, while working elsewhere in the building?
This is perfect if you only need it while at work. Do you get the alerts (and need to reply) when you're away from the office? If so, you now have to carry two things (cell & pager).
In my home state of New South Wales, it is illegal to be carrying a knife without a reasonable excuse such as 'the lawful pursuit of the person's occupation'
That is one of the dumbest laws I've ever heard of. I'm assuming that you all aren't insane criminals, so why not be able to carry a knife? I always have one in my pocket (unless I'm going to an airport or concert). I found a nice little folding knife that uses utility knife blades - disposable!
Gas powered generators should be illegal. Do you know how much 2cycle (which most generators are these days) engines pollute?
I spend a huge number of weekends (and weeks) in the desert, where at least half the people have generators. I have never heard or seen a 2-stroke generator. I've been around engines my entire life, and know the difference.
I hate generators, and we have an unspoken rule with our group of friends - generators are only to be used for running tools. Generators have baffles (sheets of plywood) to block sound to us, and send it off in a less offending direction. They are never used to run musical equipment, lights and other things that have 12V replacements, and never "luxury" items like A/C, refridgerator, etc...
I have an extra battery in my truck (for a toal of three) used only for 12v lights, music, etc...
I d/l'd your MP3 and have them on right now... Cool stuff.
I'd love to go to the BD for Bugs show in April, but it's too close to VLV and there's hotrods to build. But I gotta ask - why rap? I almost didn't click the link.
Anyway it's good to hear real rock and roll being played.
I called my girlfriend last night to laugh about this. She got pissed and yelled - "It must be a joke" "It must be from the Onion" "There's NO WAY a woman would design shit like that" "It must have been designed by a man thinking that's the crap that women want".
I think SBC should first see to the basics: service quality, customer service, and so forth
Screw SBC. I signed a one year contract with them when I moved in - but couldn't find out that I could only get their slowest service till it started. I was told I had "192 to 384 bps DSL" (I may be wrong on the second number, but it's close).
It was dog slow. Slower than dialup. After months of dealing with them, I finally got a tech who knew what the problem was - they had set my D/L cap to 192. That's right, my *maximum* download speed was the *minimum* allowed by their contract.
Fuckers. And I haven't been able to get a damn thing from them. Legally, they are "right", but in spirit, they are compleyely wrong. I'll finish my year, badmouth them to everybody who will listen and drop their ass (both DSL and landline) for cable the first day I can.
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First, I know nothing of OIRB specifically. However, please don't assume that all email marketing companies are spammers. It just isn't true. I work for a company that does email marketing, and our server has had the same IP address for over a year, and all of our emails come from the same domain, with clear opt-out instructions (in addition, you had to have opted in directly to have received it to begin with).
Remember that the U in UCE stands for Unrequested. If all your mail really is requested, then you aren't sending Spam. I get mail from my bank, and although it's commercial, it certainly isn't Spam.
I bet I get Requested Commercial Email from at least 10 companies, and I'm sure than most slashdotters do to.
I don't understand why people are so critical of the Segway.
Could it be partially due to the fact that it was hyped as better than the second coming of Christ before it hit the market?
Then it turned out to be a scooter. A really neat, high-tech scooter. But still a scooter, and not quite as revolutionary as it was marketed to be.
I call BS. 100 PSI is nearly 7 atmospheres, and there is no way you are getting a pressure ratio of 7 out of a single-stage radial compressor. I could see a pressure ratio of 3, maybe, (45 PSI), but 100 PSI is blowing that much pressure out your butt.
Wow - you disagree by insulting? How nice.
I'm guessing that you haven't heard of running twin turbos, oh wait, you say "single stage", so obviously you have.
Bet you didn't think that somebody might be running a "two stage radial compressor" - one of them being the turbo being discussed.
I'm just having visions of this thing getting up to speed, a fin blade heating up and deforming, thus causing the whole turbo shaft to come apart in rapid succession. Then watching the person standing next to the thing getting turned into a 160lb of hamburger...
It's the same turbo that's on my truck - a Dodge pickup with a Cummins Turbo Diesel engine. My turbine sees well over 100,000 rpm, and over 1,300 degrees F (yes, I have a gauge on it).
On occasion, they fail; usually when guys are pushing 100+ psi of boost (one hundred psi, not a typo). When they go, it it's that big of a deal - all the parts stay inside the housing and come out the exhaust. The exhause is thin wall steel tubing, so it obviously doesn't take much to contain an exploding turbine.
Tackett
-trying to make sure mine stays together
I just read about this... on Forbe's list of the top ten worst cars ever. Apparently the system was failure prone and sucked ass.
Yup. Almost every Cad in the 80's was a complete turd, and this didn't help.
Remember the Cimarron? It was a Chevy Cavalier, which at the time was a steaming pile of shit, although newer ones are much better. They put on "gold" badges and leather seats and made Cad dealers sell them.
It was a very dark decade or two for GM.
The article claims This computer-controlled system is identical to the sort of system found in a Formula 1 car or a Champ car. There is no clutch pedal or shift lever for the driver to operate -- the computer controls the clutch disks as well as the actual shifting. The computer is able to shift gears in 0.2 seconds.
Champ cars don't use a clutchless system; they use a sequential gearbox, like a motorcycle. They don't have to use a clutch except to start rolling, but there are three pedals on the floor, and a shift lever (although it moves back and forth, rather than in an H pattern).
There is no computer on that clutch, and it's cheating if you do.
Two nits to pick here: first of all what you are talking about is a variable number of active cylinders, a variable displacement engine actually changes the engine displacement without changing the number of active cylinders. Secondly, the idea of varying the number of active cylinders for efficiency is almost as old as the piston engine itself. No one has made one work reliably yet, so I'll consider it vaporware for now. For an idea as to how difficult this is to implement in practice, consider that we've got fully elctronically automated engines, hybrid powertrains and even Miller and Wankel designs all developed in the last 4 decades with no commercially produced variable active cylinder engines for automobiles yet.
Actually, GM sold many of them in the late 80's, although that's from memory and the date may be wrong.
They called it their 4-6-8 engine, and it was installed in Cads.
Amazingly enough, if you had read the article before posting, you might have gotten your answer:
Amazingly enough, the site was slashdotted.
Im on for 50 that some senator will pass an emergency law making searching, viewing, downloading or even caching this file carry upto 20 years jail.
Senator's son? Sure, it would happen.
Black kid in the ghetto? No chance.
Advertising is all about telling people that your product is [hip|cool|bling|needed|willgetyoulaid]. Why should the iPod be any different?
I often take public transit to construction sites. If the company wants me to haul around sheetrock, or drill steel, or a pallet of grout or whatever, they can set me up in a company truck.
I am the company; I'm a one man shop. I do small remodel jobs and will drive my truck to the jobsite every day.
I'm happy that you can avoid driving (really) to work as a construction worker. However, in LA, as an independant, it simply will not work. Period.
I don't have a problem packing my belt on the bus and I haven't had a problem getting to sites within a thirty Km radius of home by 7:00am on public transit. This ability is one of the reasons I choose to live in Vancouver, a city with no highways at all within its city limits.
I carry so much more than a belt... and again, I live in LA. Differet world.
But that's bulk goods transport, not passenger transport. You could easily get all the tools and building materials delivered in a single shipment, and then travrleach day by public transport.
So I should have new tools delivered to the jobsite every day? My cordless tool set cost me $500 - I guess I'll charge you an extra $500 a day to work on your place. Sure, I could carry that on the subway, but then I'd leave behind my level, saws, hand tools, and every other tool I use on a job.
You have no idea what I bring to a job, please don't tell me to carry it all with me - it takes 30 minutes just to load my truck from my garage.
And if I need to run to Home Desperate to buy that missing thing (bag of screws, one more 2x4, hinge or piece of plumbing) I should walk 4 miles each way?
Again, you have no idea of how I work, so don't tell me how to get there. Public transport is great for most people, but certainly not everybody.
Transporting a harp or string bass or 60 lbs of camping equipment is difficult no matter how you do it.
What????
Uh, do you ride a motorcycle?
Carrying 60 pounds is not a problem for a car. Harp or bass? get a station wagon or SUV. 60 pound backpack and a boy scout? Honda Civic.
Of course, if everyone just used public transit, then public transit would be faster and we could put parks in place of parking lots. But I guess it is more convenient to sit twice as long in a grid lock...
I work in construction and need to haul tools and building materials. Are you really suggesting that everyone use public transportation?
I have a feeling you would be pissed when I brought 10 sheets of 4' x 8' sheetrock on the subway with me. Besides, I live in LA, and public transportation here sucks.
guns, on the other hand, have only one purpose and that is to incur violent destruction.
Then I must be using mine incorrectly.
Speaking of real-world, where are you living? All women will do that. Don't believe me? How many women do you know that are engaged that don't have a diamond ring?
There are plenty of women who think diamonds are a scam. I know a handful of people married in the last few years who have not gone with a diamond, as well as a handful that have had a very "traditional" wedding.
I know my social circle is not "normal", but we aren't that odd. We live mostly in L.A. and are geeks, gearheads, layers, teachers, coders, contractors (houses, not coding), artists, chefs... and are a representitive slice of "20's to 40's mostly white LA".
My girlfriend thinks diamonds are nothing more than a lame status symbol, although we have no plans to marry.
Tackett
Spring for a two line phone out of pocket and have the line added to your phone.
I asked Sprint wireless if they could do that, and they said no. Bastards.
OK, I've never bothered to deal with Oog because I have an MP3 CD player in my truck (a first generation Aiwa, purchased when there were only two players available from mainstream manufacturers). Now I'm starting o find some music in Oog format that isn't available in MP3. European psychobilly that you can't buy here, by the way.
Is there a converter from Oog to MP3? WHat's a good Oog player for Windows?
Thanks
Simply go to your boss, show them your needs, and tell them you will now need a $20/month pager. Show them how handy it is, and let them know how nice it is to be able to know your server status remotly. Say, while working elsewhere in the building?
This is perfect if you only need it while at work. Do you get the alerts (and need to reply) when you're away from the office? If so, you now have to carry two things (cell & pager).
Tackett
In my home state of New South Wales, it is illegal to be carrying a knife without a reasonable excuse such as 'the lawful pursuit of the person's occupation'
That is one of the dumbest laws I've ever heard of. I'm assuming that you all aren't insane criminals, so why not be able to carry a knife? I always have one in my pocket (unless I'm going to an airport or concert). I found a nice little folding knife that uses utility knife blades - disposable!
Tackett
Gas powered generators should be illegal. Do you know how much 2cycle (which most generators are these days) engines pollute?
I spend a huge number of weekends (and weeks) in the desert, where at least half the people have generators. I have never heard or seen a 2-stroke generator. I've been around engines my entire life, and know the difference.
I hate generators, and we have an unspoken rule with our group of friends - generators are only to be used for running tools. Generators have baffles (sheets of plywood) to block sound to us, and send it off in a less offending direction. They are never used to run musical equipment, lights and other things that have 12V replacements, and never "luxury" items like A/C, refridgerator, etc...
I have an extra battery in my truck (for a toal of three) used only for 12v lights, music, etc...
Tackett
I d/l'd your MP3 and have them on right now... Cool stuff.
I'd love to go to the BD for Bugs show in April, but it's too close to VLV and there's hotrods to build.
But I gotta ask - why rap? I almost didn't click the link.
Anyway it's good to hear real rock and roll being played.
Tackett
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I called my girlfriend last night to laugh about this. She got pissed and yelled - "It must be a joke" "It must be from the Onion" "There's NO WAY a woman would design shit like that" "It must have been designed by a man thinking that's the crap that women want".
Sometimes women are their own worst enemy.
It should sell well to the Lifetime Network fans.
That's becasue the tank was under the "hood", under the spare tire.
With the old VWs being rear engine, there wasn't any room for it in the back.
When the filler was moved to the outside, it was only a longer filler neck - not a moved tank.
Tackett
I think SBC should first see to the basics: service quality, customer service, and so forth
Screw SBC.
I signed a one year contract with them when I moved in - but couldn't find out that I could only get their slowest service till it started. I was told I had "192 to 384 bps DSL" (I may be wrong on the second number, but it's close).
It was dog slow. Slower than dialup. After months of dealing with them, I finally got a tech who knew what the problem was - they had set my D/L cap to 192. That's right, my *maximum* download speed was the *minimum* allowed by their contract.
Fuckers. And I haven't been able to get a damn thing from them. Legally, they are "right", but in spirit, they are compleyely wrong. I'll finish my year, badmouth them to everybody who will listen and drop their ass (both DSL and landline) for cable the first day I can.
Do not use SBC.