I had a '68 Cougar XR-7 with 351 Cleveland (those who know can stop bowing, you are worthy;)
It had a broken motor mount, and the engine would rotate and rise up a bit when accelerating, and if it rose too far, it would pin the mechanical throttle linkage back to the firewall!
The throttle would stick wide open until the motor fell back down into place (about 4-5 seconds of uncontrolled acceleration. I could plan for this, usually, and made sure nothing was immediately in front of me whenever I took off.
The car finally caused it's own demise, once when the engine lifed up as described a power steering hose scooted under the mount block and when the engine came back down, it sliced the hose cleanly.
That's true; actually the Navy only had 2 RTC's, there and San Diego, CA. It figures, I wanted to at least get away from the Chicago climate when I joined (I live nearby Chicago), but I wound up in Great Mistakes, IL, a mere 15 miles from my home.
"Join The Navy and See Chicago" and "It's Not Just An Adventure; It's a Job" were among our favorite slogans.
I was stationed in the Navy in the Midwest, and let me tell you, submarines were an issue! I was at Camp Clusterfuck, the Naval base in Great Lakes, IL, and we had to go on "Submarine Watch" as punishment if we screwed up.
It consisted of getting to stand at attention in the parking lot or outside the Mess Hall with paper binoculars made out of toilet paper tubes and string, and having to reply to any passing officer asking "What the hell are you doing?" with "Sir, I am on Submarine Watch, In case any subs surface in the parking lot, Sir.".
This was used as a humiliation tactic when someone was a complete dolt and did something really stupid. Not meant to be painful but embarrassing. If it was really cold out during winter, you got to stand by a window with the paper binoculars on "Helicopter Watch".
There would never be any helicopters, or any other air traffic passing overhead because it's a controlled military airspace, but once there was some emergency at the base and a helicopter actually overflew the base, and the poor swabbie on "Helicopter Watch" went into a panic because he had sighted one, and wasn't told what to do if he actually saw one!
Ugh. Okay, I thought it was broadcast internationally in the AM MW-SW bands like the other BBC Radio, Voice of America, etc. channels.
Safe to say I won't be receiving it in the USA if that's the only frequency it's broadcast on. Oh, well, there's always the good old internet, I guess...
Does anyone know the actual BBC Radio 4 frequency?
I'm a Ham Radio operator and I probably have the equipment to receive the broadcast in the USA, depending on ionospheric propagation characteristics at the time of the broadcast. It's in the international shortwave broadcast bands somewhere...
Heh. I got some news for you. We got Kennedys in Chicago, too. You may have heard of Marina City and The Marina Towers (also called the "Corn Cob" Towers) built in the '60's; the Kennedys owned them (but I heard they were sold recently). They also own River City here, a newer condo/apartment development at the South end of the river by Harrison and Wacker.
But the reason that Daley is so popular as the parent said is due to his dad, who set up a well connected political machine. This, although somewhat corrupt, made money for everyone and most everyone had jobs, and that made him and his administration very popular. Chicago was known as "Da City Dat Works".
If there ever was a need for a "-1 Uninformed" mod this would be it.
You totally have your chickens and eggs backward.
Netscape comes from Mozilla, not the other way around. All of it's functionality is imported directly from the "development version", Mozilla. That's why now that we have a new stable Mozilla platform, lo and behold, Netscape 7.2 is announced!
As for the calendar app, it's a clone of Outlook's calendar page. With 100's of thousands of users already accustomed to using it's UI, there is a lot of sense into trying to make the user comfortable with a familiar look and feel. iCal is probably a similar clone of Outlook, hence the similarities.
I think is's fully appropriate for people to receive pain from their annoying ring tones. After all, they are a constant pain to us! I had already pictured Hell as a continuous version of this for certain people...
Actually, he does recall correctly. IBM is the WORLD'S LARGEST SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURER! However, They use almost all of their product internally in their own systems, so that's why their "sales" figures are far below all the other listed companies.
I used to use those keyboards for years. I loved the tactile feedback they provided, even if they were loud. I'd look for them at Hamfests for $5.00 since no one wanted them after the Keytronics Revolution (Compaq, HP, etc. all used KT OEM's).
I used to work in the PC Repair business years ago (I still do, I guess...) but I did back in the early 80's when they were new and expensive. We'd repair PC's including things that were considered disposable, like the security-screw sealed IBM Power Supplies (we fixed 'em with NO schematics, mind you!), Floppy Disk drives, etc. We tried pinching every dime out the business by attempting to fix EVERYTHING down to component level.
Well, we finally met our match with IBM keyboards. They are desinged to use a Hall-effect sensor which looks at the magnetic disturbance created by a little lever which smacks down on the sensor(s) when you hit a key. The toggle lever is held in place by a spring, loaded in such a way that it allows the lever to detent in two positions. The back of the keyboard is a piece of epoxy circuit board curved to fit the contour of the keyboard. That is sandwiched together with the frame of the keyboard (that holds all the keys in). Well, we tried taking one or two apart, and as you said springs popped out everywhere, not from 1 key but all of them!
We later found out they were assembled by robot with a special jig in Boca Raton, and there was no human way to hold down 102 springs while pressing together the frame parts, holding 102 keys in place and keeping everythings from flying across the room!
You hit the nail right on the head. Where you live is exactly the issue.
There are two major instances of mileage signs used; one is in the rural areas between towns that have signs posted right as you leave a town with the distance to the next - those rarely are exactly even.
The other type is used on the interstate highways, and are usually in even tens, if not hundreds. Now, they may be grouped with other distances that aren't exact tens, but the main one listed will usually be modulo 10 = 0.
It's true PPP stands for point to point protocol, but even if it didn't, for argument's sake, the "peers" involved are you and your ISP's DSLAM or termination bank, not the you and the "w4r3z" site you're trying to access at the other end of the world.
The PPP crapola usually never gets out into the network past your ISP. PPPoE is sending essentially the same bytes that a modem would send, but it's sent over an ethernet channel instead of modulated tones on a POTS line. Your data stream into the internet is encapsulated within the PPP (or PPPoE) packets, but the PPP headers get stripped off before your data stream is presented to the network-at-large.
Normally I try to avoid rebates like the plague, with one exception; At Tax time, I take the mail-in rebates on the Tax software I use. It's the only time I can stand it because I'm expecting that time of year to be an Anally-inserted Postal Experience, already.
No problem; but watch out for TV sets - unless they have a specific ground screw on the I/O panels, DON'T ground the chassis of them! Beware they frequently have a "hot" chassis (above ground level - frequently with 120 Volts on them!) You will at least blow the breaker they are hooked to if not maybe something else if you try to ground them. Stereo's, DVD players, VCR's and PC's are all OK to ground the chassis's of, however be wary of anything with vacuum tubes in it...
Just the opposite; it means shielding is your only recourse.
In other words, "If you don't like it, lump it" (I think that's how the old saying goes), or "this is the world's smallest violin...", but in legalese.
Actually there are a couple of exceptions, one is in emergencies, and the other is *gasp* the military.
The generally held concept for emergencies is "anything goes", but you better be prepared to answer for and justify your actions later on.
The other is the military. They don't have "band limits" on their signals. They have generally decided on a band plan that doesn't interfere with other services, but any frequency that is not desginated as broadcast, amateur or public service is subject to them usurping any time at their discretion. Even some of the amateur frequencies are primarily military designation and amateurs are secondary users (parts of 440 Mhz and others).
At the risk of being flamebait, remember, they're the U.S. Government and they can do whatever the hell they want.
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Well, naturally, but this was when I was in high school, so I was barely able to afford gas for it!
Nah, it just proves cars, like the people that drive them, just love to speed!
I had a '68 Cougar XR-7 with 351 Cleveland (those who know can stop bowing, you are worthy ;)
It had a broken motor mount, and the engine would rotate and rise up a bit when accelerating, and if it rose too far, it would pin the mechanical throttle linkage back to the firewall!
The throttle would stick wide open until the motor fell back down into place (about 4-5 seconds of uncontrolled acceleration. I could plan for this, usually, and made sure nothing was immediately in front of me whenever I took off.
The car finally caused it's own demise, once when the engine lifed up as described a power steering hose scooted under the mount block and when the engine came back down, it sliced the hose cleanly.
That's true; actually the Navy only had 2 RTC's, there and San Diego, CA. It figures, I wanted to at least get away from the Chicago climate when I joined (I live nearby Chicago), but I wound up in Great Mistakes, IL, a mere 15 miles from my home.
"Join The Navy and See Chicago" and "It's Not Just An Adventure; It's a Job" were among our favorite slogans.
I was stationed in the Navy in the Midwest, and let me tell you, submarines were an issue! I was at Camp Clusterfuck, the Naval base in Great Lakes, IL, and we had to go on "Submarine Watch" as punishment if we screwed up.
It consisted of getting to stand at attention in the parking lot or outside the Mess Hall with paper binoculars made out of toilet paper tubes and string, and having to reply to any passing officer asking "What the hell are you doing?" with "Sir, I am on Submarine Watch, In case any subs surface in the parking lot, Sir.".
This was used as a humiliation tactic when someone was a complete dolt and did something really stupid. Not meant to be painful but embarrassing. If it was really cold out during winter, you got to stand by a window with the paper binoculars on "Helicopter Watch".
There would never be any helicopters, or any other air traffic passing overhead because it's a controlled military airspace, but once there was some emergency at the base and a helicopter actually overflew the base, and the poor swabbie on "Helicopter Watch" went into a panic because he had sighted one, and wasn't told what to do if he actually saw one!
How about the B-29 and the TU-4?
Thanks, but I'm confused, did you mean 198Khz? Is that for all the BBC Radios or just 4? Or, is 4 only in the 92-95 Mhz FM band?
Ugh. Okay, I thought it was broadcast internationally in the AM MW-SW bands like the other BBC Radio, Voice of America, etc. channels.
Safe to say I won't be receiving it in the USA if that's the only frequency it's broadcast on. Oh, well, there's always the good old internet, I guess...
Does anyone know the actual BBC Radio 4 frequency?
I'm a Ham Radio operator and I probably have the equipment to receive the broadcast in the USA, depending on ionospheric propagation characteristics at the time of the broadcast. It's in the international shortwave broadcast bands somewhere...
Heh. I got some news for you. We got Kennedys in Chicago, too. You may have heard of Marina City and The Marina Towers (also called the "Corn Cob" Towers) built in the '60's; the Kennedys owned them (but I heard they were sold recently). They also own River City here, a newer condo/apartment development at the South end of the river by Harrison and Wacker.
But the reason that Daley is so popular as the parent said is due to his dad, who set up a well connected political machine. This, although somewhat corrupt, made money for everyone and most everyone had jobs, and that made him and his administration very popular. Chicago was known as "Da City Dat Works".
If there ever was a need for a "-1 Uninformed" mod this would be it.
You totally have your chickens and eggs backward.
Netscape comes from Mozilla, not the other way around. All of it's functionality is imported directly from the "development version", Mozilla. That's why now that we have a new stable Mozilla platform, lo and behold, Netscape 7.2 is announced!
As for the calendar app, it's a clone of Outlook's calendar page. With 100's of thousands of users already accustomed to using it's UI, there is a lot of sense into trying to make the user comfortable with a familiar look and feel. iCal is probably a similar clone of Outlook, hence the similarities.
I'm pretty sure the weight lifter reference was for rotten.com, pretty disgusting stuff, be warned.
I think is's fully appropriate for people to receive pain from their annoying ring tones. After all, they are a constant pain to us! I had already pictured Hell as a continuous version of this for certain people...
Actually, he does recall correctly. IBM is the WORLD'S LARGEST SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURER! However, They use almost all of their product internally in their own systems, so that's why their "sales" figures are far below all the other listed companies.
It would be a great use of the audio commentary; when he cracks a soda and takes a swig I can just hear:
"Hmmm... What _is_ this crap?"
I had just the opposite happen; I had one PC that would object to changing cards while it was off!
Somehow, it would blow the CMOS data every time you pulled a bus card, or RAM stick, with it OFF!. The battery voltage was fine. Weird.
I used to use those keyboards for years. I loved the tactile feedback they provided, even if they were loud. I'd look for them at Hamfests for $5.00 since no one wanted them after the Keytronics Revolution (Compaq, HP, etc. all used KT OEM's).
I used to work in the PC Repair business years ago (I still do, I guess...) but I did back in the early 80's when they were new and expensive. We'd repair PC's including things that were considered disposable, like the security-screw sealed IBM Power Supplies (we fixed 'em with NO schematics, mind you!), Floppy Disk drives, etc. We tried pinching every dime out the business by attempting to fix EVERYTHING down to component level.
Well, we finally met our match with IBM keyboards. They are desinged to use a Hall-effect sensor which looks at the magnetic disturbance created by a little lever which smacks down on the sensor(s) when you hit a key. The toggle lever is held in place by a spring, loaded in such a way that it allows the lever to detent in two positions. The back of the keyboard is a piece of epoxy circuit board curved to fit the contour of the keyboard. That is sandwiched together with the frame of the keyboard (that holds all the keys in). Well, we tried taking one or two apart, and as you said springs popped out everywhere, not from 1 key but all of them!
We later found out they were assembled by robot with a special jig in Boca Raton, and there was no human way to hold down 102 springs while pressing together the frame parts, holding 102 keys in place and keeping everythings from flying across the room!
In America, it stands for:
Fix It Again, Tony!
You hit the nail right on the head. Where you live is exactly the issue.
There are two major instances of mileage signs used; one is in the rural areas between towns that have signs posted right as you leave a town with the distance to the next - those rarely are exactly even.
The other type is used on the interstate highways, and are usually in even tens, if not hundreds. Now, they may be grouped with other distances that aren't exact tens, but the main one listed will usually be modulo 10 = 0.
It's true PPP stands for point to point protocol, but even if it didn't, for argument's sake, the "peers" involved are you and your ISP's DSLAM or termination bank, not the you and the "w4r3z" site you're trying to access at the other end of the world.
The PPP crapola usually never gets out into the network past your ISP. PPPoE is sending essentially the same bytes that a modem would send, but it's sent over an ethernet channel instead of modulated tones on a POTS line. Your data stream into the internet is encapsulated within the PPP (or PPPoE) packets, but the PPP headers get stripped off before your data stream is presented to the network-at-large.
Normally I try to avoid rebates like the plague, with one exception; At Tax time, I take the mail-in rebates on the Tax software I use. It's the only time I can stand it because I'm expecting that time of year to be an Anally-inserted Postal Experience, already.
No problem; but watch out for TV sets - unless they have a specific ground screw on the I/O panels, DON'T ground the chassis of them! Beware they frequently have a "hot" chassis (above ground level - frequently with 120 Volts on them!) You will at least blow the breaker they are hooked to if not maybe something else if you try to ground them. Stereo's, DVD players, VCR's and PC's are all OK to ground the chassis's of, however be wary of anything with vacuum tubes in it...
That someone at Area 51 will open the damn thing, and Coke's prize patrol will have to report there with the giant check!
Just the opposite; it means shielding is your only recourse.
In other words, "If you don't like it, lump it" (I think that's how the old saying goes), or "this is the world's smallest violin...", but in legalese.
Actually there are a couple of exceptions, one is in emergencies, and the other is *gasp* the military.
The generally held concept for emergencies is "anything goes", but you better be prepared to answer for and justify your actions later on.
The other is the military. They don't have "band limits" on their signals. They have generally decided on a band plan that doesn't interfere with other services, but any frequency that is not desginated as broadcast, amateur or public service is subject to them usurping any time at their discretion. Even some of the amateur frequencies are primarily military designation and amateurs are secondary users (parts of 440 Mhz and others).
At the risk of being flamebait, remember, they're the U.S. Government and they can do whatever the hell they want.