That.plan entry was almost 7 years ago and I still remember it. I knew exactly which one it was after the second sentence.
Yep, that's how I spent that year of college, reading id.plans.
ISTR another.plan from Carmack where he was asked to leave a casino (after being up something like $32K) because he was too good. Or maybe I'm misremembering.
Chrysler is not partially owned by Daimler. It's completely owned by Daimler. And it's not a "partnership" like Schrempp originally said it was going to be, they bought Chrysler and have been treating the company that way.
OK, lets learn what is the difference between the two. Two or three valves per cylinder are better (more efficient?) because they allow more air intake as compared to the total cylinder head available space. OHC vs. OHV, how does it work?
On the off chance that this isn't a troll...
More valves = more air. More air coming in means more efficient combustion, generally.
All modern automobile engines I'm aware of (with the exception of Mazda's rotary) are OHV.
"Pushrod" engines have the camshaft in the bottom of the V of a V-type engine, just above the crankshaft, and driven by a chain off the crankshaft. The camshaft pushes on rods, which then push levers (rocker arms) which operate the valves. This wastes a lot of energy, and generally is limited on the RPMs (unless you're building race engines). To get more than 2 valves per cylinder, you'd need a lot more pushrods and lobes on the cams (which there isn't room for), or some extra levers/paddles over the valves to split the force of the pushrod. But that can flex, and flex is bad. And you'll waste more energy regardless.
An Overhead Cam engine has the camshafts directly above the valves, no pushrods. To add a second pair of valves, move the first set to the side, along with their camshaft, and put a second set right next to them. These engines are much easier to run at high RPMs.
Could the latest HEMI design be 4-valved to produce a Ferrari-killing 650HP?
Well, the true HEMI design from the '50s and '60s can do it with 2 valves per cylinder. The new one requires more than '60s knowledge to do it, due to all the computer controls which haven't been cracked yet. The engine hasn't been picked over by the shadetree "hackers" yet. And can it do it and still meet emissions?
Thousands upon thousands of hours of pre-release testing is done on cars, but that doesn't mean there aren't problems upon release. BMW's iDrive system had several problems after the new 7-series was released (IIRC, a "simplified" version was offered for the 5-series), and I knoew a few Dodge techs who had cars in with under 1000 miles on them due to issues with Chrysler's MDS (Multi-Displacement System) on the HEMI (shuts off 2-4 cylinders while cruising to save gas).
He didn't really quit either. He just opted to not renew his contract.
I'm sure CBS/Viacom would have liked to keep him, but the FCC is driving him out of the public airwaves and making it very difficult to keep him around.
Stern has a lot of fans who don't want to lose access to him on a daily basis.
And millions more who want to listen but can't because no station in their market has brought him in (I heard Atlanta mentioned this morning).
I'm saving up tor a Sirius unit. Side benefit - if I'm still in the job I'm in now when this happens, and living in the same place, I'll get better reception than I do now.
If the student is so nearly blind that 99% of maps are useless to him, then wouldn't he get the most benefit from learning alternative methods for finding the same information?
Teahching someone who cannot physically use a map how to use a map seems like a waste of his time.
Only if Mel Brooks calls up and asks him to be in it.
He doesn't audition. Sure, he's not valued enough in Hollywood to not have to audition, he just hates it, then gripes about how he never gets any parts. So until someone calls him up and says "hey, we want you in this" he'll be on the sidelines.
(and yes, I'm entirely serious, he just explained this very thing on the Stern Show earlier this week).
Car manufacturers often "stagger" recalls such that some customers recieve notice a month or more before others. Not because they paid extra, but because they can't get enough parts in the field to service everyone at the same time. So rather than tell people they have a recall, then "well, we can't service you because we need parts", they'll only tell as many people as they can supply parts to.
I've had this happen to me (not Ford though) - I knew there was a recall for my vehicle, but I wasn't eligible for the service until I had the recall notice in hand.
Only in America can someone break into a house, attempt to steal things and/or harm the rightful occupants, and recieve a lesser punishment than the people he attempted to victimize.
Finkployd is right tho, the better solution is to just not live in NJ in the first place.
Most everyone using RoadRunner is already enjoying 3Mbps service, we all got upgraded quite a while ago from ~2Mbps so that Time Warner could proclaim "twice as fast as DSL!"
I'm not sure what the exact laws are, and they may vary from state to state, but at least where I live there are laws against traveling on public roads during a state of emergency unless it's required for public safety/service. If you're caught, you'll get ticketed or fined or whatever.
Somehow, for Y2K, my employer managed to convince the county that all of us in IT were "critical" should there be any emergency, and we got stickers to put on our company IDs stating that in the case of an emergency, the police were to allow us to travel. What a load of BS. Nothing happened, fortunately.
My route to work now takes me through one of the most snow-prone sections of the state twice a day. I've already told my manager that once winter comes, if things look ugly, I'll be working from home or taking a PTO day. No job is worth putting my life at risk trying to drive through white-out conditions. Lots of employers like to say "take care of yourself and your family first" - let's see if they actually mean it.
Docking people for not coming in during a hurricane? That's just underhanded & sleazy. Get out of that job, management clearly doesn't consider the employees people, but rather slaves.
Not only dig in & learn, you get to go on a trip on the company dime! Once class is over for the day, check out the city, meet up w/ friends for dinner, catch a baseball/basketball/hockey game, whatever. Turning a company-sponsored trip into a mini-vacation is what offsite training is all about!
No, seriously. If the class starts on a Monday, fly out Friday and stay with a friend for 2 nights. You'll actually save the company money on airfare by staying over a Saturday night.
Except they don't just know how to use them with zero instruction. And the schools lack a curriculum for educating them in the use of the computers, or lack any practical applications of them.
I saw this when I was volunteering at a local school about 18 months ago. We were getting donated PCs cleaned up and usable so that each classroom would have a computer. What did the teachers intend to do with them? "Oh we don't know yet, but we want the computers. We can use PowerPoint to put our lesson plans on the TV in the classroom, right?" The PCs that were already in the school that we were supplementing were all loaded with spyware, games, and other assorted crap that made the machines barely usable (or in some cases, unbootable entirely).
I'm not expecting the school to have a specific use in mind - but at the very least, have some practical reason for laying out the time and money. You don't buy a car and then say "hmmm....now, what will I do with this thing?" - you identify a need for personal transportation, then purchase the device that helps you achieve that goal.
With the storm about to pummel the Bahamas, I'd say if you're in Florida it's past time to be doing your backups. By now if you & your data are/were in any danger, the backup media should be in the car and you should be getting the F outta Dodge.
I did exactly this with my wife's account on my XP box here at home. I want to keep the system clean, so I gave her a big blue E pointed at FireFox, and installed an IE-lookalike theme. She hasn't said anything yet.
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95301 is Atwater, CA. There are at least 2 Cedar Avenues in NY (Staten Island and The Bronx), and one in Atwater.
That .plan entry was almost 7 years ago and I still remember it. I knew exactly which one it was after the second sentence.
.plans.
.plan from Carmack where he was asked to leave a casino (after being up something like $32K) because he was too good. Or maybe I'm misremembering.
Yep, that's how I spent that year of college, reading id
ISTR another
The AG in NY is an elected position. Spitzer is also gearing up for a run at Governor in '06.
Chrysler is not partially owned by Daimler. It's completely owned by Daimler. And it's not a "partnership" like Schrempp originally said it was going to be, they bought Chrysler and have been treating the company that way.
More valves = more air. More air coming in means more efficient combustion, generally.
All modern automobile engines I'm aware of (with the exception of Mazda's rotary) are OHV.
"Pushrod" engines have the camshaft in the bottom of the V of a V-type engine, just above the crankshaft, and driven by a chain off the crankshaft. The camshaft pushes on rods, which then push levers (rocker arms) which operate the valves. This wastes a lot of energy, and generally is limited on the RPMs (unless you're building race engines). To get more than 2 valves per cylinder, you'd need a lot more pushrods and lobes on the cams (which there isn't room for), or some extra levers/paddles over the valves to split the force of the pushrod. But that can flex, and flex is bad. And you'll waste more energy regardless.
An Overhead Cam engine has the camshafts directly above the valves, no pushrods. To add a second pair of valves, move the first set to the side, along with their camshaft, and put a second set right next to them. These engines are much easier to run at high RPMs.
Well, the true HEMI design from the '50s and '60s can do it with 2 valves per cylinder. The new one requires more than '60s knowledge to do it, due to all the computer controls which haven't been cracked yet. The engine hasn't been picked over by the shadetree "hackers" yet. And can it do it and still meet emissions?
Thousands upon thousands of hours of pre-release testing is done on cars, but that doesn't mean there aren't problems upon release. BMW's iDrive system had several problems after the new 7-series was released (IIRC, a "simplified" version was offered for the 5-series), and I knoew a few Dodge techs who had cars in with under 1000 miles on them due to issues with Chrysler's MDS (Multi-Displacement System) on the HEMI (shuts off 2-4 cylinders while cruising to save gas).
Another pair of valves per cylinder would be a good trick. The HEMI is a pushrod engine, not OHC.
He didn't really quit either. He just opted to not renew his contract.
I'm sure CBS/Viacom would have liked to keep him, but the FCC is driving him out of the public airwaves and making it very difficult to keep him around.
I'm saving up tor a Sirius unit. Side benefit - if I'm still in the job I'm in now when this happens, and living in the same place, I'll get better reception than I do now.
If the student is so nearly blind that 99% of maps are useless to him, then wouldn't he get the most benefit from learning alternative methods for finding the same information?
Teahching someone who cannot physically use a map how to use a map seems like a waste of his time.
Only if Mel Brooks calls up and asks him to be in it.
He doesn't audition. Sure, he's not valued enough in Hollywood to not have to audition, he just hates it, then gripes about how he never gets any parts. So until someone calls him up and says "hey, we want you in this" he'll be on the sidelines.
(and yes, I'm entirely serious, he just explained this very thing on the Stern Show earlier this week).
I haven't checked when GM bought a controlling interest in Subaru, but I think your '99 may qualify as a "GM" car.
Car manufacturers often "stagger" recalls such that some customers recieve notice a month or more before others. Not because they paid extra, but because they can't get enough parts in the field to service everyone at the same time. So rather than tell people they have a recall, then "well, we can't service you because we need parts", they'll only tell as many people as they can supply parts to.
I've had this happen to me (not Ford though) - I knew there was a recall for my vehicle, but I wasn't eligible for the service until I had the recall notice in hand.
Only in America can someone break into a house, attempt to steal things and/or harm the rightful occupants, and recieve a lesser punishment than the people he attempted to victimize.
Finkployd is right tho, the better solution is to just not live in NJ in the first place.
A real dog, minimum 50 pounds. Anything smaller isn't a deterrent, it's an annoyance.
Most everyone using RoadRunner is already enjoying 3Mbps service, we all got upgraded quite a while ago from ~2Mbps so that Time Warner could proclaim "twice as fast as DSL!"
This happens in NY a few times each winter. Public schools are closed (due to snow), but the faculty and staff are still required to show.
But not every time (or even most times) the school is closed. Most of the time it's closed and no one is supposed to show up.
I'm not sure what the exact laws are, and they may vary from state to state, but at least where I live there are laws against traveling on public roads during a state of emergency unless it's required for public safety/service. If you're caught, you'll get ticketed or fined or whatever.
Somehow, for Y2K, my employer managed to convince the county that all of us in IT were "critical" should there be any emergency, and we got stickers to put on our company IDs stating that in the case of an emergency, the police were to allow us to travel. What a load of BS. Nothing happened, fortunately.
My route to work now takes me through one of the most snow-prone sections of the state twice a day. I've already told my manager that once winter comes, if things look ugly, I'll be working from home or taking a PTO day. No job is worth putting my life at risk trying to drive through white-out conditions. Lots of employers like to say "take care of yourself and your family first" - let's see if they actually mean it.
Docking people for not coming in during a hurricane? That's just underhanded & sleazy. Get out of that job, management clearly doesn't consider the employees people, but rather slaves.
Not only dig in & learn, you get to go on a trip on the company dime! Once class is over for the day, check out the city, meet up w/ friends for dinner, catch a baseball/basketball/hockey game, whatever. Turning a company-sponsored trip into a mini-vacation is what offsite training is all about!
No, seriously. If the class starts on a Monday, fly out Friday and stay with a friend for 2 nights. You'll actually save the company money on airfare by staying over a Saturday night.
Except they don't just know how to use them with zero instruction. And the schools lack a curriculum for educating them in the use of the computers, or lack any practical applications of them.
I saw this when I was volunteering at a local school about 18 months ago. We were getting donated PCs cleaned up and usable so that each classroom would have a computer. What did the teachers intend to do with them? "Oh we don't know yet, but we want the computers. We can use PowerPoint to put our lesson plans on the TV in the classroom, right?" The PCs that were already in the school that we were supplementing were all loaded with spyware, games, and other assorted crap that made the machines barely usable (or in some cases, unbootable entirely).
I'm not expecting the school to have a specific use in mind - but at the very least, have some practical reason for laying out the time and money. You don't buy a car and then say "hmmm....now, what will I do with this thing?" - you identify a need for personal transportation, then purchase the device that helps you achieve that goal.
With the storm about to pummel the Bahamas, I'd say if you're in Florida it's past time to be doing your backups. By now if you & your data are/were in any danger, the backup media should be in the car and you should be getting the F outta Dodge.
Nothing terribly fishy if there's a motor-voter law in effect. Anyone with a driver's license would be registered to vote.
From the sounds I've heard through the walls in my various apartments, I don't want to know the people I've lived around.
I did exactly this with my wife's account on my XP box here at home. I want to keep the system clean, so I gave her a big blue E pointed at FireFox, and installed an IE-lookalike theme. She hasn't said anything yet.