You can call whatever you want, doesn't mean you're right. In fact one of your examples is blatently wrong, a Focus is a car that is commonly upgraded to handling and performance specs that match exotics. You'll be less than sixty grand into it, too. Straight line, you could beat a Ferrari with a bit of work done to a Charger SRT8. I'd bet you could hit it, straight line, under $40k including the car. Hell, with some suspension work, you could probably match the handling. Certainly for under $50k.
A beat up old "insert brand here" car with a $10k crate motor can *crush* any of those exotic cars straight line on a drag strip. Easily. You could do it, including car for less than $15k. I know pleanty of people who do. Hell, I've chased a built up 25 year old VW Fox around a race track, and watch it kick my ass, and the asses of a 911 Turbo and a C6 Corvette.
Its *easy* to make a car perform that way. Just takes experience and in most cases money. Trivial, I'd even say. Considering the article was talking specifically about drivetrain, you're talking about nothing more than linear performance, not handling anyway. Only a few Ferrari models have broken the 12 second quarter mile, and only a few have broken 4 sec 0-60. Porsche seems to have better luck with 0-60 with quite a few recent models under 4 seconds, although owning a Porsche I can tell you you're beating the snot out of it to do it. They're not drag cars. In either case 12 seconds is *commonly* beat on drag strips in pleanty of cars. An Explorer might be tough, but I know several guys with Focuses that beat 12 seconds.
Ferraris and Porsche's no NOT have the reputation they do because of speed. Again, someone who thinks so doesn't understand the reason those brands exist, or know the history of those companies.
It baffles me why people use phrases like "fast as a Ferrari" as a way of comparison.
Its not hard to make most cars as fast as a Ferrari, Porsche or other neo-exotic. If you think speed is the reason behind them, you have a) never been in one, b) never driven one and c) just don't get it.
Considering there's a big electric drag race scene, speed isn't something thats an issue with electrics. Batteries is.
Planning terrorist operations, didn't you read the/. article about the government passing a law to make it easier to get your records from your ISP? They want to know who downloaded Google Earth, duh!
Razor thin margins are killing PC makers, and the loss of a big chunk of the "I'll pay more for quality" market is a big deal. Its the same reason companies like Alienware exist -- you'll make more profits targeting a smaller profitable feature-driven market than the larger price-driven market.
I'd argue is lack of knowledge on the part of those arguing anything other than Windows is viable in a corporate environment on an Intel platform.
Nothing you mentioned -- FreeBSD, Linux, BeOS, eCS, have corporate application support. None of them make use of existing skillsets of administrators and users. None of them, with the exception of some Linux versions sold by vendors like RedHat, have the same support options and accountability.
On the Mac, you can still run Word, Outlook/Entourage, and most of the other common business applications. You can still easily access your existing network infrastructure. The OS may take some getting use to by end users, but the applications mostly work the same. You don't have users wondering why their KDE applications don't look like their Gnome applications (or follow the same UI guidelines). The clipboard works correctly. The list goes on and on.
The newer Linux desktops are nice. Fedora 4 is pretty damn pimp, especially as compared to when I had to hand install Linux pre-Slackware 13 years ago... but it is still nowhere near a reasonable generic desktop replacement for the vast majority of corporations. It'll stay that way until the Linux community as a generic whole recognizes that that you can't jam a Ferrari engine in a Fiero body, and slap on a pretty fiberglass bodykit and think its any more a Ferrari than the same kit with the original 4-cyl Pontiac motor. You've got good stuff under the hood, it looks pretty, but the chassis is where the problem is.
For the last three or four weeks my gmail account has been POUNDED by 100-200 cyrillic spam messages every day. The filters catch them, but I have to clean out my spam folder pretty often.
Spoken like someone who doesn't own a house with a mortgage in which its actually useful if your property value stays above what you owe.
If some nutjobs drive down house prices in a neighborhood causing 3-4 other people to be upside down on their mortgage and the banks foreclose on them, how is that not harming others?
Community rules and building codes exist for a reason, and its not to take away your rights. Its to protect the rights and safety of everyone else.
Time slots don't make the ads valuable, the number of people watching makes them valuable.
If you have 15 million people watching ER at 10pm on Thursday, you may have a valuable timespots at 10:00, but if you move Entertainment Tonight to that time slot, the ads aren't going to be valuable just because its at 10:00.
If you let 25 million people watch ER any time they want, the ads you insert in there will be just as, if not more, valuable as the ads in that timeslot. Why? Because timeslot has nothing to do with ad value, the program carrying the ad does.
If they asked me to do that at the store, I can assure everyone its not my finger that would be brought out to be scanned...
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1) single set of bookmarks 2) tabs 3) better UI 4) plugins like adblock (presuming IE's renderer sees the final version of the DOM... that'd be an interesting test) 5) less clutter 6) one set of proxy information for IE, one for Firefox (again, presuming the IE renderer gets the data from Firefox, not its own HTTP stack)
I have the View in IE plugin installed in Firefox, but toggling the renderer would be a very useful feature for them to add to the base product. I know its sort of blasphemy to say it, but fact is there are still useful sites (bank sites, in particular) that just puke under the Gecko renderer. Oh bank sites, and of course the Slashdot homepage;)
While they should stand behind any changes they made, if you go elsewhere to get it fixed, its good to know what the problem may or may not be, and warped rotors isn't it. Its possible its pad deposits, but it would be very rare to see that problem on a normal unabused car.
Changing pads and checking things like suspension bushings, alignment and wheel bearings are a better bet. You could have bunged up pads, or something about the suspension under compression in the front may be putting strain on a bad bearing or a bad bushing may be throwing something out of alignment under compression.
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Clearly don't watch enough porn. Its not all sex!
Oops, did I just say that in a public place?
*slinks away*
Bah, my 911's engine is built out to the point where using a 2000rpm range is being generous, most of the power is above 5500rpm ;)
But you're exactly right. Thats what I was saying. "Fast as a Ferrari" doesn't mean much.
You can call whatever you want, doesn't mean you're right. In fact one of your examples is blatently wrong, a Focus is a car that is commonly upgraded to handling and performance specs that match exotics. You'll be less than sixty grand into it, too. Straight line, you could beat a Ferrari with a bit of work done to a Charger SRT8. I'd bet you could hit it, straight line, under $40k including the car. Hell, with some suspension work, you could probably match the handling. Certainly for under $50k.
A beat up old "insert brand here" car with a $10k crate motor can *crush* any of those exotic cars straight line on a drag strip. Easily. You could do it, including car for less than $15k. I know pleanty of people who do. Hell, I've chased a built up 25 year old VW Fox around a race track, and watch it kick my ass, and the asses of a 911 Turbo and a C6 Corvette.
Its *easy* to make a car perform that way. Just takes experience and in most cases money. Trivial, I'd even say. Considering the article was talking specifically about drivetrain, you're talking about nothing more than linear performance, not handling anyway. Only a few Ferrari models have broken the 12 second quarter mile, and only a few have broken 4 sec 0-60. Porsche seems to have better luck with 0-60 with quite a few recent models under 4 seconds, although owning a Porsche I can tell you you're beating the snot out of it to do it. They're not drag cars. In either case 12 seconds is *commonly* beat on drag strips in pleanty of cars. An Explorer might be tough, but I know several guys with Focuses that beat 12 seconds.
Ferraris and Porsche's no NOT have the reputation they do because of speed. Again, someone who thinks so doesn't understand the reason those brands exist, or know the history of those companies.
It baffles me why people use phrases like "fast as a Ferrari" as a way of comparison.
Its not hard to make most cars as fast as a Ferrari, Porsche or other neo-exotic. If you think speed is the reason behind them, you have a) never been in one, b) never driven one and c) just don't get it.
Considering there's a big electric drag race scene, speed isn't something thats an issue with electrics. Batteries is.
Yeah, thats true. Thats why people who drive getaway cars don't get arrested when the people they're driving just robbed a bank and killed a guard.
Maybe someone should mention to Bush that we actually have been there before!
Planning terrorist operations, didn't you read the /. article about the government passing a law to make it easier to get your records from your ISP? They want to know who downloaded Google Earth, duh!
I feel ill.
And I don't think it was the crappy cafeteria food here at work...
Its a profitable market?
Razor thin margins are killing PC makers, and the loss of a big chunk of the "I'll pay more for quality" market is a big deal. Its the same reason companies like Alienware exist -- you'll make more profits targeting a smaller profitable feature-driven market than the larger price-driven market.
I'd argue is lack of knowledge on the part of those arguing anything other than Windows is viable in a corporate environment on an Intel platform.
Nothing you mentioned -- FreeBSD, Linux, BeOS, eCS, have corporate application support. None of them make use of existing skillsets of administrators and users. None of them, with the exception of some Linux versions sold by vendors like RedHat, have the same support options and accountability.
On the Mac, you can still run Word, Outlook/Entourage, and most of the other common business applications. You can still easily access your existing network infrastructure. The OS may take some getting use to by end users, but the applications mostly work the same. You don't have users wondering why their KDE applications don't look like their Gnome applications (or follow the same UI guidelines). The clipboard works correctly. The list goes on and on.
The newer Linux desktops are nice. Fedora 4 is pretty damn pimp, especially as compared to when I had to hand install Linux pre-Slackware 13 years ago... but it is still nowhere near a reasonable generic desktop replacement for the vast majority of corporations. It'll stay that way until the Linux community as a generic whole recognizes that that you can't jam a Ferrari engine in a Fiero body, and slap on a pretty fiberglass bodykit and think its any more a Ferrari than the same kit with the original 4-cyl Pontiac motor. You've got good stuff under the hood, it looks pretty, but the chassis is where the problem is.
Speak for yourself, I find it much easier to keep them all lined up together.
(*whew*, glad I could talk my way out of THAT gaffe)
Queue the "why not use Linux on the hardware you already have" brigade! Fire up the klaxons! Bwooop, bwooop, bwooop!
For the last three or four weeks my gmail account has been POUNDED by 100-200 cyrillic spam messages every day. The filters catch them, but I have to clean out my spam folder pretty often.
I've gotten none in the last couple hours.
Spoken like someone who doesn't own a house with a mortgage in which its actually useful if your property value stays above what you owe.
If some nutjobs drive down house prices in a neighborhood causing 3-4 other people to be upside down on their mortgage and the banks foreclose on them, how is that not harming others?
Community rules and building codes exist for a reason, and its not to take away your rights. Its to protect the rights and safety of everyone else.
Wait, that doesn't make sense.
Time slots don't make the ads valuable, the number of people watching makes them valuable.
If you have 15 million people watching ER at 10pm on Thursday, you may have a valuable timespots at 10:00, but if you move Entertainment Tonight to that time slot, the ads aren't going to be valuable just because its at 10:00.
If you let 25 million people watch ER any time they want, the ads you insert in there will be just as, if not more, valuable as the ads in that timeslot. Why? Because timeslot has nothing to do with ad value, the program carrying the ad does.
Actually the packaging mentions it a number of times... as does the install process.
The florida case was the woman's fault. Nothing more.
Its an very real construct of me being stronger than you.
And a group of people being stronger than another group.
The law is nothing more than a written down form of a stance presumably held by the majority, which in most cases is stronger than the minority.
When any of that gets out of whack, property gets lost.
If they asked me to do that at the store, I can assure everyone its not my finger that would be brought out to be scanned...
1) single set of bookmarks
2) tabs
3) better UI
4) plugins like adblock (presuming IE's renderer sees the final version of the DOM... that'd be an interesting test)
5) less clutter
6) one set of proxy information for IE, one for Firefox (again, presuming the IE renderer gets the data from Firefox, not its own HTTP stack)
I have the View in IE plugin installed in Firefox, but toggling the renderer would be a very useful feature for them to add to the base product. I know its sort of blasphemy to say it, but fact is there are still useful sites (bank sites, in particular) that just puke under the Gecko renderer. Oh bank sites, and of course the Slashdot homepage ;)
I know, OT, but what use is a forum if you can't give out useful information.
Its not warped rotors.
While they should stand behind any changes they made, if you go elsewhere to get it fixed, its good to know what the problem may or may not be, and warped rotors isn't it. Its possible its pad deposits, but it would be very rare to see that problem on a normal unabused car.
Changing pads and checking things like suspension bushings, alignment and wheel bearings are a better bet. You could have bunged up pads, or something about the suspension under compression in the front may be putting strain on a bad bearing or a bad bushing may be throwing something out of alignment under compression.
Yes. The parent is wrong, so why did you suggest modding it up?
Its a GCC problem, not a Wine problem. Wine can't do it because GCC doesn't support it.
Unless Borland added it to GCC, the grandparent isn't the one who needs to RTFA and use their brain.
You do realize HD content isn't always in MPEG2, right?
Low UIDs make you cool here, not being the first to use the term spam.
At least I sure hope so!
- joe cool