so does having a tight fitting metal cover for the pot/pan, and always keeping it out when cooking - I've had grease catch in the bottom of a pan - reach over, pick up cover, put on pan, turn off burner. Amazing what happens when you cut off the source of air and heat - take 2 of the 3 legs of the triangle out, fire goes out fast
Tell THAT to the guy who was arrested out west last year for having sex with his underaged wife - he married he in a state where the lower age was legal, and was arrested by the police in his town when his wife got pregnant for statutory rape
can we just make ONE small change do your bullet points?
Add the word "Some" (or "Most") as the first word
OR
Make it read "The Republican Platform is to..."
Last night, I pointed out out a truck with the following stickers on it to my wife "W-2004" (aka Pro Bush) "Keep Abortion Legal" , and a USMC Globe and Anchor
My biggest problem back around 1997, when dealing with Oracle. "Hi, we want to license Your server with the following modules, on XX number of servers, in YY config, with NN max users connected at a time, from a population of ZZ users. What is the price?"
TRY and get a straight answer out of Oracle. "well, what do you want to use it for" - Answer - none of your business. Tell me what my price options are, and let ME decide what license I want - I might change my config - just give me a price list, and I'll figure out what I think I need, then I'll discuss it with you.
You mean sort of like Le Mans, and the Mulsanne Straight, at least before they the 2 chicanes in - 3.5 mile straightaways - in 1970, a Porsche 917 hit 240mph IN THE RAIN on that straight
Next Primary season is probably going to be the most interesting in a LONG time. It will probably (assume Cheney does not run) be the first time since 1952 when the incumbent party does not run either the sitting President or Vice President
So, with BOTH sets of Primaries wide open - there is going to be some "fun" - both parties platforms will be in play a lot more than folks think, and the opposition party (In this case, the Dems) will NOT be able to triangulate off an assumed candidate on the incumbent party. They WILL be able to triangulate off of the current policies, but then again, so can the dark horse candidates in the incumbent party
Look for confusion next spring, at least until Super Tuesday
And the guys who work the elections for the media (disclaimer - I'm a computer programmer for them, but don't call elections) - We're expecting almost twice as many late nights (remember many states don't run their Rep and Dem primaries on the same night - Oh joy - more unpaid OT)
Define "Wide Body" in relation to LGA please. They have to limit what flys in and out of there (You'll never see a 747 or 777 there - can't land) - plus LGA is known for it's really SHORT runways, with practically NO runout. Come in over Flushing Bay, and plant the wheels - or the other way, just clear the Grand Central Parkway
Here is the perspective of a guy who has been in IS for, oh (mumble mumble) 24 years
It swings back and forth - Remember way back when, in the age of mainframes? A highy reliable, extremely centralized IT system, with very little response. Then the Micro Computer revolution started - a trickle that started with the Altair, increased with the Apple II, and became a deluge with the IBM PC (sigh, can remember getting an original IBM 5051 PC - it was COOL)
Anarchy reigned - lots got done, but there was also a problem of lost data, Dept A could not share data in real time with Dept B etc
Networks came about, and centralized servers, and LAN rooms, and "Thin Client" (read Smart Terminals) etc - what we have really done is swung back to the mainframe, but with less reliable hardware, many lessons lost, but with a lower budget
The end users are now getting upset, and taking some of their computing back - they buy a laptop, and only log into the Corp net to get email/internet address, and get their "real work" done there - they run databases in Excel, because the heirachy is not responsive enough
It swings back and forth - takes about 10-20 years - in general, management wants things centralized, so they can control it/have access to it, and the end users want it decentralized, in order to be easier to do their job. And IT? They are all over the place - some want it centralized, some want the users to have as much control as possible, but in general, IT rank and file are stuck in the middle - trying to make the end users happy, but having to follow the limits set by their management
You don't have to wait till 50 for the colonoscopy - my first was at age 35, due to the fact my Grandfather died YOUNG of colon cancer - I'm not even 45, and I feel it's time again
50 is the MINIMUM recomended standard - sort of like buying a PC that is the minimum recomened standard to run the software you want. You do better, right?
I go to work just as my kids are getting up - 50-50 I'll see them in the Morning.
BUT, in exchange, I get HOME by 5:00pm most days - not leave work - HOME, with those same children. Then it's HUG time, help with homework time, take them to the park time, cook dinner time, etc
I'll give up the 10 minutes of seeing them in the AM, to get an hour with them that evening - I think it's a fair trade
Where? I have not been able to find them - all the ones I knew of in Queens are long gone - Even Electronics City (Just over the city line in Nassau) has gone out of business.
Please - feel free to list'm here, and/or email me them direct - there are more than a few NYC based guys I know who would LOVE to know of them - I'll put a list up on my web site, and forward them to the hams around here
That was the old rule of thumb definition of a "full sized" station wagon - fold down the rear seat, and a 4x8 fit flat on the floor - ditto a full sized pickup - a sheet of plywood fits flat on the floor between the wheel wells
Yeah, I guess. I happen to need a TRUCK - I looked at SUVs when I was shopping, and came to realize that it would not carry the gear I regularly carry - so it was "time to buy another truck"
My biggest disapointment is that the model of truck I got gets no where NEAR the claimed gas mileage - and the joke is that it's "big brother" (the full sized) actually gets the same gas mileage in "real life" (and cost the same) - The next year of my truck, they replaced the engine (but shortened the bed) and gas mileage went up 40% - sigh Joke? The new engine is larger, more powerful, but is a lot more efficent
This time around, I ended up with 4 wheel drive (a gas sucker), because I could not find a 2wd model in stock, and an automatic transmission (so my wife can drive it) - I'd prefer the stick, and 2wd of my old truck - the extra 6 mpg was nice
The XL can have barn doors - the regular does not (as far as I know) - I know the lift up door on the regular Yukon doesn't fit - really good friend bought one, and has been bitching ever since. This is last year's model, so.....
Ad the joke is, that was the BETTER engine - the 2.2 was a PIG. People in the 20s don't realize exactly how bad cars from the mid 70s to mid 80s were - shudder
Yeah - that loophole is just dumb - and no, the escalade doesn't fit a 4x8 sheet (if I remember right) - the rear door is a tad too narrow - in fact, the GMC Yukon doesn't, but the Yukon XL does (the Yukon's door is something like 46 or 47" - dumb move GM)
As for a compact diesel pickup - Oh, I want one - Nominally, my truck is a compact (the Frontier), and I would have loved a diesel
From what I understand, the reason they went away was meeting pollution control levels - it was that darned sulfur - supposidly, now that the low sulfur diesel is out there, all the major mfgs have diesels on the drawing board - It's been a while since I hung out on the truck boards, but if I remember right, Nissan was planning to offer a diesel either next year, or the year after. I never hung out on the boards for the Taco:) so I have no idea of their plans
The Mitsubishi engine OPTION was not too bad - but the stock engine was a 2.2l straight 4, and that engine, frankly, sucked. It suffered from the same problem the K car did - poor engine and drivetrain - they could not hold up to the weight of the load
After a couple of years, they came out with the 2.5l - which was somewhat better.
The introduction in 1987 of the V-6 (again a Mitsubishi engine) did a lot of good - but by that time, the Minivan had a BAD rap - as did the K car
They just didn't hold up to serious use - I remember shopping for cars at that time (not my parents - ME)
I agree When gas hit $4 here in NYC, I shrugged, and said "That's the cost of doing what I need to do" - of course, the extra $40/month was not going to hurt too much - what did hurt was heating, and I did a bunch of small things that cut about 5% off my usage, but I was running a fairly tight house already
It's NOT necessarily SUV ownership - it depends on how they are used.
I own a long bed, crew cab pickup. Get's UGLY MPG (which I will admit) - but I use a total of about 15-20 gallons a MONTH. Why? Because 90% of my commute is on Mass Transit, and of that 10%. half of that is with a passenger. I use the truck for certain uses, and we use my Wife's car (a Saturn) for most of the driving. I DID make 1/2 dozen trips this weekend - all with a snowblower, shovels, and other snow gear loading the back - with the exception of the Costco trip - which filled the bed
Do I wish It got better mileage? Yep. But as it is, I need the truck for certain uses, and even from an energy point of view, it does NOT pay to get another vehicle, for the small percentage of the mileage I drive where I'm NOT using the truck as - gasp- a truck
The birth of what I'll call the "Yuppie SUV" (there have been SUVs for a long time, but they were meant as trucks) can be blamed on 2 factors 1)CAFE laws! The CAFE laws in effect banned the full sized station wagon, which used to play the exact role the average SUV plays today - a valid exemption meant for those WORK trucks (which is what SUVs were then - most had very crude interiors, and were used to haul construction crews around) was used as a way around the problem
2)The second, was that the original Minivans were HORRID. Believe it or not, Americans did NOT go straight from the full sized wagon to the SUV (remember what I said about SUVs being trucks - they rode rough, etc) - they went to the Minivan - the original, and for a while, the most popular thing out there was the Chrysler Mini van - the problem was that the original Mini van was basically a "K car" with a mini van body - they died very quickly, and were NOT reliable. People looked around and said "I need a vehicle that can carry Buddy, Sis, my wife, the dog, and some friends to the soccer game, and I will NOT buy one of those piece of crap Minivans again" - the ONLY thing they could find was a TRUCK (they were NOT called SUVs then) - and people started buying them. The mfgs responded to the market - leather, better sound, lighter ride, etc.
The funny part? With the exception of the Suburban/Yukon and the Expedition (and their corp "brothers"), you can't GET a real TRUCK SUV anymore (part of the definition - if you can't lay a 4x8 sheet flat in the back, it's NOT a work truck) - so the original users have gotten screwed too. This, of course, has lead to the rise of the full sized crew can pickup with a cap, which is basically what the first SUVs were - a pickup, with a station wagon body
RE Version control - I remember back around, oh, 1995, I was working in a shop with no version control, and the boss refused to shell out the cash small amount of cash - 3 of us in the department (2 consultants and myself) just bought it on OUR dime, and installed it - and did not tell him about our productivity increase - what was good about this is he would give use a deadline - which always required OT - and we would be working a lot LESS unpaid OT - was well worth the cost
No - he was including open ear phones - and specifically said that!! If I can tell what you are listening to from 2-3 feet away - it IS too loud - then again, we are exposed to "Too loud" a LOT. The human ear is really designed for nothing much louder than us talking to each other - remember, we evolved out on the the open plains without much noise sources except other people, and the wind
My ENT says (jokingly) "earbuds are great - they are going to pay for me to retire". This, just before I was tested (left ear normal, right ear SLIGHT rolloff, but normal for my age- yeah, I'm in my mid 40s) - there was a young kid in front of me - he had just gotten the bad news - he was going to need hearing aids - in his late teens - attributed to way too much LOUD noise.
The ENT was saying - if someone standing next to you in a quiet room can hear the music - it TOO loud
I have good in ear phones - and wear phones because of some other hobbies - but at reasonible volumes - I know the exact day I got that roll of in the right ear - I was dumb - Now, I always have a pair of foam earplugs with me - always - and I'm NOT afraid to put them in (carry an old altoids tin with "handy stuff" in it - bandaides, some meds, a spare $20, some coins, the earplugs, a lighter, etc)
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so does having a tight fitting metal cover for the pot/pan, and always keeping it out when cooking - I've had grease catch in the bottom of a pan - reach over, pick up cover, put on pan, turn off burner. Amazing what happens when you cut off the source of air and heat - take 2 of the 3 legs of the triangle out, fire goes out fast
Tell THAT to the guy who was arrested out west last year for having sex with his underaged wife - he married he in a state where the lower age was legal, and was arrested by the police in his town when his wife got pregnant for statutory rape
can we just make ONE small change do your bullet points?
Add the word "Some" (or "Most") as the first word
OR
Make it read "The Republican Platform is to..."
Last night, I pointed out out a truck with the following stickers on it to my wife "W-2004" (aka Pro Bush) "Keep Abortion Legal" , and a USMC Globe and Anchor
(I don't put stickers on my truck, so....)
My biggest problem back around 1997, when dealing with Oracle. "Hi, we want to license Your server with the following modules, on XX number of servers, in YY config, with NN max users connected at a time, from a population of ZZ users. What is the price?"
TRY and get a straight answer out of Oracle. "well, what do you want to use it for" - Answer - none of your business. Tell me what my price options are, and let ME decide what license I want - I might change my config - just give me a price list, and I'll figure out what I think I need, then I'll discuss it with you.
As a Mets fan - all I can add is "Ouch"
You mean sort of like Le Mans, and the Mulsanne Straight, at least before they the 2 chicanes in - 3.5 mile straightaways - in 1970, a Porsche 917 hit 240mph IN THE RAIN on that straight
Next Primary season is probably going to be the most interesting in a LONG time. It will probably (assume Cheney does not run) be the first time since 1952 when the incumbent party does not run either the sitting President or Vice President
So, with BOTH sets of Primaries wide open - there is going to be some "fun" - both parties platforms will be in play a lot more than folks think, and the opposition party (In this case, the Dems) will NOT be able to triangulate off an assumed candidate on the incumbent party. They WILL be able to triangulate off of the current policies, but then again, so can the dark horse candidates in the incumbent party
Look for confusion next spring, at least until Super Tuesday
And the guys who work the elections for the media (disclaimer - I'm a computer programmer for them, but don't call elections) - We're expecting almost twice as many late nights (remember many states don't run their Rep and Dem primaries on the same night - Oh joy - more unpaid OT)
Define "Wide Body" in relation to LGA please. They have to limit what flys in and out of there (You'll never see a 747 or 777 there - can't land) - plus LGA is known for it's really SHORT runways, with practically NO runout. Come in over Flushing Bay, and plant the wheels - or the other way, just clear the Grand Central Parkway
Here is the perspective of a guy who has been in IS for, oh (mumble mumble) 24 years
It swings back and forth - Remember way back when, in the age of mainframes? A highy reliable, extremely centralized IT system, with very little response. Then the Micro Computer revolution started - a trickle that started with the Altair, increased with the Apple II, and became a deluge with the IBM PC (sigh, can remember getting an original IBM 5051 PC - it was COOL)
Anarchy reigned - lots got done, but there was also a problem of lost data, Dept A could not share data in real time with Dept B etc
Networks came about, and centralized servers, and LAN rooms, and "Thin Client" (read Smart Terminals) etc - what we have really done is swung back to the mainframe, but with less reliable hardware, many lessons lost, but with a lower budget
The end users are now getting upset, and taking some of their computing back - they buy a laptop, and only log into the Corp net to get email/internet address, and get their "real work" done there - they run databases in Excel, because the heirachy is not responsive enough
It swings back and forth - takes about 10-20 years - in general, management wants things centralized, so they can control it/have access to it, and the end users want it decentralized, in order to be easier to do their job. And IT? They are all over the place - some want it centralized, some want the users to have as much control as possible, but in general, IT rank and file are stuck in the middle - trying to make the end users happy, but having to follow the limits set by their management
You don't have to wait till 50 for the colonoscopy - my first was at age 35, due to the fact my Grandfather died YOUNG of colon cancer - I'm not even 45, and I feel it's time again
50 is the MINIMUM recomended standard - sort of like buying a PC that is the minimum recomened standard to run the software you want. You do better, right?
I go to work just as my kids are getting up - 50-50 I'll see them in the Morning.
BUT, in exchange, I get HOME by 5:00pm most days - not leave work - HOME, with those same children. Then it's HUG time, help with homework time, take them to the park time, cook dinner time, etc
I'll give up the 10 minutes of seeing them in the AM, to get an hour with them that evening - I think it's a fair trade
It's really quite simple for me
Blacklist all of AOL - you cut US off, we cut YOU off
No problem - I've looked through my address book, and there is very little traffic I want from AOL anyway
Where? I have not been able to find them - all the ones I knew of in Queens are long gone - Even Electronics City (Just over the city line in Nassau) has gone out of business.
Please - feel free to list'm here, and/or email me them direct - there are more than a few NYC based guys I know who would LOVE to know of them - I'll put a list up on my web site, and forward them to the hams around here
Small Towns? You mean like NYC? TRY to find electronic parts in NYC - I've had no luck. Sigh
73 de KG2V
That was the old rule of thumb definition of a "full sized" station wagon - fold down the rear seat, and a 4x8 fit flat on the floor - ditto a full sized pickup - a sheet of plywood fits flat on the floor between the wheel wells
The full sized wagon was the SUV of it's day
Yeah, I guess.
I happen to need a TRUCK - I looked at SUVs when I was shopping, and came to realize that it would not carry the gear I regularly carry - so it was "time to buy another truck"
My biggest disapointment is that the model of truck I got gets no where NEAR the claimed gas mileage - and the joke is that it's "big brother" (the full sized) actually gets the same gas mileage in "real life" (and cost the same) - The next year of my truck, they replaced the engine (but shortened the bed) and gas mileage went up 40% - sigh Joke? The new engine is larger, more powerful, but is a lot more efficent
This time around, I ended up with 4 wheel drive (a gas sucker), because I could not find a 2wd model in stock, and an automatic transmission (so my wife can drive it) - I'd prefer the stick, and 2wd of my old truck - the extra 6 mpg was nice
The XL can have barn doors - the regular does not (as far as I know) - I know the lift up door on the regular Yukon doesn't fit - really good friend bought one, and has been bitching ever since. This is last year's model, so.....
Ad the joke is, that was the BETTER engine - the 2.2 was a PIG. People in the 20s don't realize exactly how bad cars from the mid 70s to mid 80s were - shudder
Yeah - that loophole is just dumb - and no, the escalade doesn't fit a 4x8 sheet (if I remember right) - the rear door is a tad too narrow - in fact, the GMC Yukon doesn't, but the Yukon XL does (the Yukon's door is something like 46 or 47" - dumb move GM)
:) so I have no idea of their plans
As for a compact diesel pickup - Oh, I want one - Nominally, my truck is a compact (the Frontier), and I would have loved a diesel
From what I understand, the reason they went away was meeting pollution control levels - it was that darned sulfur - supposidly, now that the low sulfur diesel is out there, all the major mfgs have diesels on the drawing board - It's been a while since I hung out on the truck boards, but if I remember right, Nissan was planning to offer a diesel either next year, or the year after. I never hung out on the boards for the Taco
The Mitsubishi engine OPTION was not too bad - but the stock engine was a 2.2l straight 4, and that engine, frankly, sucked. It suffered from the same problem the K car did - poor engine and drivetrain - they could not hold up to the weight of the load
After a couple of years, they came out with the 2.5l - which was somewhat better.
The introduction in 1987 of the V-6 (again a Mitsubishi engine) did a lot of good - but by that time, the Minivan had a BAD rap - as did the K car
They just didn't hold up to serious use - I remember shopping for cars at that time (not my parents - ME)
I agree
When gas hit $4 here in NYC, I shrugged, and said "That's the cost of doing what I need to do" - of course, the extra $40/month was not going to hurt too much - what did hurt was heating, and I did a bunch of small things that cut about 5% off my usage, but I was running a fairly tight house already
It's NOT necessarily SUV ownership - it depends on how they are used.
I own a long bed, crew cab pickup. Get's UGLY MPG (which I will admit) - but I use a total of about 15-20 gallons a MONTH. Why? Because 90% of my commute is on Mass Transit, and of that 10%. half of that is with a passenger. I use the truck for certain uses, and we use my Wife's car (a Saturn) for most of the driving. I DID make 1/2 dozen trips this weekend - all with a snowblower, shovels, and other snow gear loading the back - with the exception of the Costco trip - which filled the bed
Do I wish It got better mileage? Yep. But as it is, I need the truck for certain uses, and even from an energy point of view, it does NOT pay to get another vehicle, for the small percentage of the mileage I drive where I'm NOT using the truck as - gasp- a truck
The birth of what I'll call the "Yuppie SUV" (there have been SUVs for a long time, but they were meant as trucks) can be blamed on 2 factors
1)CAFE laws! The CAFE laws in effect banned the full sized station wagon, which used to play the exact role the average SUV plays today - a valid exemption meant for those WORK trucks (which is what SUVs were then - most had very crude interiors, and were used to haul construction crews around) was used as a way around the problem
2)The second, was that the original Minivans were HORRID. Believe it or not, Americans did NOT go straight from the full sized wagon to the SUV (remember what I said about SUVs being trucks - they rode rough, etc) - they went to the Minivan - the original, and for a while, the most popular thing out there was the Chrysler Mini van - the problem was that the original Mini van was basically a "K car" with a mini van body - they died very quickly, and were NOT reliable. People looked around and said "I need a vehicle that can carry Buddy, Sis, my wife, the dog, and some friends to the soccer game, and I will NOT buy one of those piece of crap Minivans again" - the ONLY thing they could find was a TRUCK (they were NOT called SUVs then) - and people started buying them. The mfgs responded to the market - leather, better sound, lighter ride, etc.
The funny part? With the exception of the Suburban/Yukon and the Expedition (and their corp "brothers"), you can't GET a real TRUCK SUV anymore (part of the definition - if you can't lay a 4x8 sheet flat in the back, it's NOT a work truck) - so the original users have gotten screwed too. This, of course, has lead to the rise of the full sized crew can pickup with a cap, which is basically what the first SUVs were - a pickup, with a station wagon body
RE Version control - I remember back around, oh, 1995, I was working in a shop with no version control, and the boss refused to shell out the cash small amount of cash - 3 of us in the department (2 consultants and myself) just bought it on OUR dime, and installed it - and did not tell him about our productivity increase - what was good about this is he would give use a deadline - which always required OT - and we would be working a lot LESS unpaid OT - was well worth the cost
No - he was including open ear phones - and specifically said that!! If I can tell what you are listening to from 2-3 feet away - it IS too loud - then again, we are exposed to "Too loud" a LOT. The human ear is really designed for nothing much louder than us talking to each other - remember, we evolved out on the the open plains without much noise sources except other people, and the wind
My ENT says (jokingly) "earbuds are great - they are going to pay for me to retire". This, just before I was tested (left ear normal, right ear SLIGHT rolloff, but normal for my age- yeah, I'm in my mid 40s) - there was a young kid in front of me - he had just gotten the bad news - he was going to need hearing aids - in his late teens - attributed to way too much LOUD noise.
The ENT was saying - if someone standing next to you in a quiet room can hear the music - it TOO loud
I have good in ear phones - and wear phones because of some other hobbies - but at reasonible volumes - I know the exact day I got that roll of in the right ear - I was dumb - Now, I always have a pair of foam earplugs with me - always - and I'm NOT afraid to put them in (carry an old altoids tin with "handy stuff" in it - bandaides, some meds, a spare $20, some coins, the earplugs, a lighter, etc)