The cooper s determines how often it needs it's oil changed (somehow.... engine load/speeds/hours? I don't know.)
You need to return it to the dealer for them to plug in their service tool and reset the little "service" indicator on the dash.
Note that as with any BMW, they'll do oil changes for free during the warranty period of the vehicle. You *can* get specs for your own BMW-frowned-upon-service-light-resetting tool if you want.
and it'll outperform anything slower than a F1 racer but :....all four door handles operate differently and confusingly, but they all perform amazingly well for their intended task of opening doors, once you get past a small 6 month learning period.....you upgraded to an unstable CVS revision that has the ignition key in behind the left headlight. The upside is that you never need to switch it off anyway, as the engine runs on zero-point energy (see below).....your engine runs on zero-point energy, but has been known to suffer the occasional control failure and vaporise itself. All the other car functions still perform normally when this happens though - interestingly , you can still drive the car as normal *after* this happens. This is now considered a to be a feature by the developers, not a bug.....There are 4 different competing subaxle assemblies , which means that when you want tyres you have to specify four different compounds and diameters. But the handling's bloody good once you get that sorted.....It comes with a comprehensive array of gauges and lights in the dash that list important parameters for all of the components that comprise your car, allowing you to monitor each individual item seperately. At present there are no plans to include a speedometer, but there's talk of installing some hooks in the system to allow you to build and install one yourself.
ah, that's enough linux interface bashing for now:-)
Await the day when n00bs have 7 digit slashdot ID's and herald it loudly when it comes, with many postings of "back in MY day we only had $x and WE LIKED IT!"
Your time is soon, grasshopper, for surely as the sun sets, the lower digit ID's will wither and perish, like the springtime flower on a mountain slope come autumn.
Until then, work hard, post many n00b comments and await your awakening to true Karma:Excellent.
This statement is soley based upon media coverage, and may be entirely inaccurate - post corrections, not flames, below;-)
Ok.
Notice the Poms in Iraq. They go around in a (fairly) non-threatening manner. They smile at the kids, they try to get along. Having the experience of wandering around Belfast trying to keep the peace, they've learned to be nice and stay cool with the population, because a lot less bad shit happens that way.
The yanks, god bless 'em, seem to have a military with the Sole Purpose Of Wiping The Other Guy Out. That's great, except in Iraq, they're past that phase. Things need to cool down, everyone needs to try and refocus. I know, media is biased, but all I see of americans in Iraq are people all gung-ho. This is the mindset that needs to change if they're going to get anywhere, because nobody wants some asshole all "yeah! respect mah authoritah,biatch!" in their face, especially one that you think is beginning to overstay their welcome in your country.
This program then, is a good idea, to promote some sort of cultural sensitivity. Not just arabic as some rather exitable people seem to comment on above, with their rants about why we should have to- any cultural sensitivity would be a good idea at this stage.
You may joke but, back in the day, if a computer could only serve 256 users, it was considered tame. And the monitors weren't black and white , they were green, or amber. No mice, but the keyboard did have the full complement of keys.
And we LIKED it, because you could pull the keycaps off and rearrange them for the next hunt-and-peck sucker:-)
Hmm , I've got a little bootCD put out by someone that does that as well - insert CD, boot a small rescue linux distro, it runs a little program that does,er, some funky stuff with the hives that clears the admin password (you are also given the option just to change it...never really worked for me), reboot and away you go.
Of course, it's all marked "super-experimental-may-trash-your-system"... but it's worked for me the half-a-dozen times I've needed it.
You'll find that "most" tv's are multi-format compatible, being able to automatically detect and display PAL,NTSC and all of their variants without any hassles.
(Blessed is the One-Chip-Multi-Format TV decoder, for it makes it's manufacturer a crapload of money, even in 10,000-unit quantities.)
And as an added bonus, at 100MW your aerial will be brighter than the sun! Well, briefly anyway.
I still think a magnetron from a microwave oven + a nice directional waveguide mounted in the grill of your car would be nice. Surely a 1/4 second pulse from that could induce enough voltage in Mr Bass's electronics to fry them without (noticeably) frying him.
if you have to download a program for every single little thing you do on your computer, the operating system is broken. don't bother trying to fix it, just switch.
Er, unlike the unix(er, GNU?) mentality of "lots of little programs that do a single thing well"?
In extreme cases we have even reverted to using a telephone handset to ensure that clients have received everything that was sent.
Ok, email basics here.
Emails are a queued store-and-forward system. Even with the advent of Pretty-Much-High-Speed-To-Everywhere Internet, it can still sometimes take *days* to get an email to it's recipient and there's still no "problem" as such - it's just overloaded queues, a slow link, or a connectivity issue. Email was designed to try, try, again, so in most cases it will get *enevtually* through. In the cases it cannot, you'll either get a fairly instant reply (eg "no such user") or you'll get "soft" warnings after a few hours and a hard error a few days later.
If your emails are important , or contain stuff that must be acted on in a certain timeframe, do not rely on it magically appearing in their inbox 3 seconds after you send that 2 meg attachment. Always contact them via some other channel and confirm delivery.
but calm logic was a more efficient way of getting rid of that power-mad bitch than explaning my motives and the validity of my art to her (though I did try, but she wasn't smart enough to understand any of it), then a string of equally dense bureaucrats. I was pretty disapointed to be forced to censor my art though.
*rolls eyes* art students, god bless 'em:-)
It goes like this:
One person's "Art" is another person's "Crap".
You may have been making an artistic statement about garbage and the way people treat their environment.
The guard was also making a statement about garbage and the way people treat their environment.
Seeing as the guard was employed by the school to keep *their* walls the way *they* like them (to whatever asthetic standard they desire), your art and its associated statement (which, by the way, I have difficulty extrapolating from a bit of cigarette paper stuck on a wall above a bin), had no place there.
Had you truly been a sensitive artist, you would have understood this. It's not about The Man trying to Crush your Expression and Artistic Freedom, it's about their stuff and the way they want their stuff. Leave them be.
A stuck switch? The "vent-suit-atmosphere" switch perhaps? What kind of half-assed situation is this? They don't have enough telemetry to determine if a switch (or circuit) is on or off at a given point in time?
Seriously though, if a "stuck switch" can give an (apparently false) indication of imminent loss of air, there's something seriously whacked in their suit design.
"Now, let me get this straight, Mike. Exactly how many uncommanded 90-degree rolls would it take for you to start thinking it might be time to shut down the motor?"
Oh, probably four - at least then I'm back in the same position I was before;-)
Er, that's essentially what a winmodem is - a soundcard connected to your phone line.
Computers with onboard audio still come occasionally with a "AMR" slot - this is where a Audio Modem Riser card goes - it pretty much just has the necessary bits to connect your sound card to the phone. Avoid them and winmodems in general at all costs.
To the original submitter - get an external modem and save a lot of grief. Bonus is:
- You can see the all-important "On Hook" light and see when your modem is still on the phone.
- Following on from above , you can also physically unplug it / switch it off if it goes haywire (WTF? It won't hang up?), without powering off the PC.
- it has plenty of status lights to watch (Why has my data flow stopped... are we still online? hmmm my modem has lost carrier and is retraining.)
External hardware modems rock. If you can source one , get a woomera modem - I don't know if they have the approvals for you country though - they're made in.au . LCD display for monitoring signal quality/baud rate/line loss/etc, line impedance matching with 6 different impedance settings for best signal quality, can step down AND up speeds depending on line quality, etc. Google for 'woomera modem' if you want to see a *real* external modem;-)
I saw that and thought WTF?!? They're marketing a wireless TV? This is THE BEGINNING OF THE END of marketing!
"Yeah, this TV it's, er, wireless - it's the new hotness. Only cost me 3 grand!" "Wait, you mean wireless, like all TV's have been since their orginal release in the 1930's?" "Er... Go away now."
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Hmm. The competition you describe sounds familiar. That would be something like a Nobel Prize, wouldn't it?
The cooper s determines how often it needs it's oil changed (somehow.... engine load/speeds/hours? I don't know.)
You need to return it to the dealer for them to plug in their service tool and reset the little "service" indicator on the dash.
Note that as with any BMW, they'll do oil changes for free during the warranty period of the vehicle. You *can* get specs for your own BMW-frowned-upon-service-light-resetting tool if you want.
and they can build you a Go-Kart (read: Linux)
....all four door handles operate differently and confusingly, but they all perform amazingly well for their intended task of opening doors, once you get past a small 6 month learning period. ....you upgraded to an unstable CVS revision that has the ignition key in behind the left headlight. The upside is that you never need to switch it off ....your engine runs on zero-point energy, but has been known to suffer the occasional control failure and vaporise itself. All the other car functions still perform normally when this happens though - interestingly , you can still drive the car as normal *after* this happens. This is now considered a to be a feature by the developers, not a bug. ....There are 4 different competing subaxle assemblies , which means that when you want tyres you have to specify four different compounds and diameters. But the handling's bloody good once you get that sorted. ....It comes with a comprehensive array of gauges and lights in the dash that list important parameters for all of the components that comprise your car, allowing you to monitor each individual item seperately. At present there are no plans to include a speedometer, but there's talk of installing some hooks in the system to allow you to build and install one yourself.
:-)
and it'll outperform anything slower than a F1 racer but :
anyway, as the engine runs on zero-point energy (see below).
ah, that's enough linux interface bashing for now
wither and die, damn you! why wont you wither and die!? ;-)
Its what's in your mouf.
Patience, grasshopper.
Await the day when n00bs have 7 digit slashdot ID's and herald it loudly when it comes, with many postings of "back in MY day we only had $x and WE LIKED IT!"
Your time is soon, grasshopper, for surely as the sun sets, the lower digit ID's will wither and perish, like the springtime flower on a mountain slope come autumn.
Until then, work hard, post many n00b comments and await your awakening to true Karma:Excellent.
It can do infinite precision, you just have to enter all the digits of Pi first.
I wonder what happens if one user presses
ctrl-alt-del.
I imagine nothing much, as ctrl-alt-del can be easily disabled from inittab in linux.
This statement is soley based upon media coverage, and may be entirely inaccurate - post corrections, not flames, below ;-)
Ok.
Notice the Poms in Iraq.
They go around in a (fairly) non-threatening manner. They smile at the kids, they try to get along. Having the experience of wandering around Belfast trying to keep the peace, they've learned to be nice and stay cool with the population, because a lot less bad shit happens that way.
The yanks, god bless 'em, seem to have a military with the Sole Purpose Of Wiping The Other Guy Out. That's great, except in Iraq, they're past that phase. Things need to cool down, everyone needs to try and refocus. I know, media is biased, but all I see of americans in Iraq are people all gung-ho.
This is the mindset that needs to change if they're going to get anywhere, because nobody wants some asshole all "yeah! respect mah authoritah,biatch!" in their face, especially one that you think is beginning to overstay their welcome in your country.
This program then, is a good idea, to promote some sort of cultural sensitivity. Not just arabic as some rather exitable people seem to comment on above, with their rants about why we should have to- any cultural sensitivity would be a good idea at this stage.
You may joke but, back in the day, if a computer could only serve 256 users, it was considered tame. And the monitors weren't black and white , they were green, or amber. No mice, but the keyboard did have the full complement of keys.
:-)
And we LIKED it, because you could pull the keycaps off and rearrange them for the next hunt-and-peck sucker
Ironic that you use a yahoo! address to offer a gmail invite.
Hmm , I've got a little bootCD put out by someone that does that as well - insert CD, boot a small rescue linux distro, it runs a little program that does ,er, some funky stuff with the hives that clears the admin password (you are also given the option just to change it...never really worked for me), reboot and away you go.
... but it's worked for me the half-a-dozen times I've needed it.
Of course, it's all marked "super-experimental-may-trash-your-system"
nm as in nautical miles... probably.
You'll find that "most" tv's are multi-format compatible, being able to automatically detect and display PAL,NTSC and all of their variants without any hassles.
(Blessed is the One-Chip-Multi-Format TV decoder, for it makes it's manufacturer a crapload of money, even in 10,000-unit quantities.)
And as an added bonus, at 100MW your aerial will be brighter than the sun! Well, briefly anyway.
I still think a magnetron from a microwave oven + a nice directional waveguide mounted in the grill of your car would be nice. Surely a 1/4 second pulse from that could induce enough voltage in Mr Bass's electronics to fry them without (noticeably) frying him.
if you have to download a program for every single little thing you do on your computer, the operating system is broken. don't bother trying to fix it, just switch.
Er, unlike the unix(er, GNU?) mentality of "lots of little programs that do a single thing well"?
In extreme cases we have even reverted to using a telephone handset to ensure that clients have received everything that was sent.
Ok, email basics here.
Emails are a queued store-and-forward system. Even with the advent of Pretty-Much-High-Speed-To-Everywhere Internet, it can still sometimes take *days* to get an email to it's recipient and there's still no "problem" as such - it's just overloaded queues, a slow link, or a connectivity issue. Email was designed to try, try, again, so in most cases it will get *enevtually* through. In the cases it cannot, you'll either get a fairly instant reply (eg "no such user") or you'll get "soft" warnings after a few hours and a hard error a few days later.
If your emails are important , or contain stuff that must be acted on in a certain timeframe, do not rely on it magically appearing in their inbox 3 seconds after you send that 2 meg attachment. Always contact them via some other channel and confirm delivery.
Pity about us poor saps in the here-and-now though.
but calm logic was a more efficient way of getting rid of that power-mad bitch than explaning my motives and the validity of my art to her (though I did try, but she wasn't smart enough to understand any of it), then a string of equally dense bureaucrats. I was pretty disapointed to be forced to censor my art though.
:-)
:
*rolls eyes* art students, god bless 'em
It goes like this
One person's "Art" is another person's "Crap".
You may have been making an artistic statement about garbage and the way people treat their environment.
The guard was also making a statement about garbage and the way people treat their environment.
Seeing as the guard was employed by the school to keep *their* walls the way *they* like them (to whatever asthetic standard they desire), your art and its associated statement (which, by the way, I have difficulty extrapolating from a bit of cigarette paper stuck on a wall above a bin), had no place there.
Had you truly been a sensitive artist, you would have understood this. It's not about The Man trying to Crush your Expression and Artistic Freedom, it's about their stuff and the way they want their stuff. Leave them be.
A stuck switch?
The "vent-suit-atmosphere" switch perhaps?
What kind of half-assed situation is this?
They don't have enough telemetry to determine if a switch (or circuit) is on or off at a given point in time?
Seriously though, if a "stuck switch" can give an (apparently false) indication of imminent loss of air, there's something seriously whacked in their suit design.
"Now, let me get this straight, Mike. Exactly how many uncommanded 90-degree rolls would it take for you to start thinking it might be time to shut down the motor?"
;-)
Oh, probably four - at least then I'm back in the same position I was before
Er, that's essentially what a winmodem is - a soundcard connected to your phone line.
:
.au . LCD display for monitoring signal quality/baud rate/line loss/etc, line impedance matching with 6 different impedance settings for best signal quality, can step down AND up speeds depending on line quality, etc. Google for 'woomera modem' if you want to see a *real* external modem ;-)
Computers with onboard audio still come occasionally with a "AMR" slot - this is where a Audio Modem Riser card goes - it pretty much just has the necessary bits to connect your sound card to the phone. Avoid them and winmodems in general at all costs.
To the original submitter - get an external modem and save a lot of grief. Bonus is
- You can see the all-important "On Hook" light and see when your modem is still on the phone.
- Following on from above , you can also physically unplug it / switch it off if it goes haywire (WTF? It won't hang up?), without powering off the PC.
- it has plenty of status lights to watch (Why has my data flow stopped... are we still online? hmmm my modem has lost carrier and is retraining.)
External hardware modems rock. If you can source one , get a woomera modem - I don't know if they have the approvals for you country though - they're made in
Don't laugh - see the Sony Wireless TV.
I saw that and thought WTF?!? They're marketing a wireless TV? This is THE BEGINNING OF THE END of marketing!
"Yeah, this TV it's, er, wireless - it's the new hotness. Only cost me 3 grand!"
"Wait, you mean wireless, like all TV's have been since their orginal release in the 1930's?"
"Er... Go away now."
Why settle for 25MHz when you can blaze along at 33MHz?
That's still a 33% increase though, which is a fair bit.
If you can reliably overclock a (say) 2.5GHz PIV to
3.3GHz - the same 33%, then I'd be impressed with that as well.
Hey , maybe you should drop the researchers a note about that. I'm sure they haven't thought of that yet.
;-)
Thank You Captain Obvious