otherwise I'd take my classic Japanese bike to work all the time (it doesn't have pedals, it has pegs). But, after going down one cold March at the end of my street, I decided to wait for warmer weather.
When I was younger and more foolish, we bought a 1992 Volvo 960, the flagship of the Volvo car line. This had an all new aluminum engine design, and they were pretty piss poor at casting the block. Nearly all the early 92's ended up with cracked blocks between 60-80k miles.
We bought it with nearly 80k miles on it, and it had a cracked block. That was about $4k usd to replace.
Then there was the $600 in parts and labor to replace the dashboard lights, the $1200 muffler replaced just before the entire engine seized (one month after paying it off), and a few more thousands in other repairs.
So, an expensive, poorly designed and manufactured lemon that sunk my finances, the Vasa. I hate Volvo's now.
Maybe in the Aluetians or Greenland, but I've never experienced that. I've been through a lot of blizzards, and three days is a very long one.
Most of the time a blizzard is a minivacation, the kids are off of school, work is closed, and you just sit at home in your pajamas taking it easy, snug, warm with cable TV and broadband.
I live where we go weeks below freezing, and days below 0 F. I park on the street with alternate side parking, so block heaters are out. How well do diesels start when they're cooled to 0 F?
While the author mentioned the lack of Brunner's Shockwave Rider (which has all sorts of cool stuff like an internet, worm, anonymous sites and a distributed attack), no one mentioned Pynchon. Gravity's Rainbow is awesome, what could be better than a paranoid chasing the remnants of the V-2 across 1945 Europe and suspecting World War II was started by a conspiracy. It's the forefather of cyberpunk.
Also, Gravity's Rainbow was nominagted for a few minor awards, heard of the Hugo and Nebula?
It's more the ice and snow that bothers me, well, the lack of light, too. It can be snowy and icy here October through April.
I dropped my bike in March because it was too cold and icy for my tires to grip. Plus, my ancient bike (1975 Kz400) just does not have enough lights to be seen at night).
as 90% of the time I use one it's for work, and it means a headache (no one ever calls to tell me I'm doing a great job, they only call with problems), but for emergencies, last minute groceries and running late the wife and I both have a Tracfone. It's running about $20 USD/month for both of us.
I support a Solaris based printer, and with SFU 3.5 I can make the customer's Windows server host the jobs, and make them responsible for the NFS server, while all I have to do is add one line to vfstab. This is one good thing Microsoft has done (and Slashdot, I first read of them freeing it here).
at least, cyan, magenta, yellow and black, otherwise known as CMYK. If you want your output off that press to match what the customer wants (ie. their corporate logo is exactly right, and people look like people), it helps immensely to be working in terms of CMYK.
work with their hands. For whatever reason, book learning and sitting in a cube 8 hours a day doesn't appeal as much to them as blacksmithing, wrenching or plumbing.
Plus, there are quite a few hardware devices that work in Linux and not all versions of Windows, for instance my Kensington SVGA webcam, fine in Linux, not available in Win2k.
PostScript is device independent, within the limitations of the printer, output from a $100 inkjet will be close to output from a $400,000 laser press. PCL has different codes depending upon what printer you're printing to, mostly for paper selection, but it can be for other things.
PCL has laughable color. PostScript supports Pantone colors, so the flyer you proof in Baltimore will look exactly like the production run in Chicago. PostScript supports CMYK colors, and RGB colors.
If you ever get a chance to walk into a print shop, you'll have to search high and low for a PCL printer, whereas everything else (the proof printer, the plate setters and the laser presses) use PostScript.
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You know, he raps about downloading music, and the dangers of cybering, and how Hot Topic is not Punk Rock.
I like his songs, he has a talent for crafting great pop tunes.
otherwise I'd take my classic Japanese bike to work all the time (it doesn't have pedals, it has pegs). But, after going down one cold March at the end of my street, I decided to wait for warmer weather.
Molson's and Labatts taste like corn and rice water.
Sleeman's is a little better.
I still haven't had a Canadian beer that can compare to Sam Adams, Saranac, Fat Tire or most microbrews.
When I was younger and more foolish, we bought a 1992 Volvo 960, the flagship of the Volvo car line. This had an all new aluminum engine design, and they were pretty piss poor at casting the block. Nearly all the early 92's ended up with cracked blocks between 60-80k miles.
We bought it with nearly 80k miles on it, and it had a cracked block. That was about $4k usd to replace.
Then there was the $600 in parts and labor to replace the dashboard lights, the $1200 muffler replaced just before the entire engine seized (one month after paying it off), and a few more thousands in other repairs.
So, an expensive, poorly designed and manufactured lemon that sunk my finances, the Vasa. I hate Volvo's now.
So, after dropping 40+k in your coffers, I have to ante up an additional $60 a year for email? Yeah, I'll get right on that.
mild's were an English beer made for steel workers, low in alcohol and made for drinking lots and lots.
Maybe in the Aluetians or Greenland, but I've never experienced that. I've been through a lot of blizzards, and three days is a very long one.
Most of the time a blizzard is a minivacation, the kids are off of school, work is closed, and you just sit at home in your pajamas taking it easy, snug, warm with cable TV and broadband.
but if a motorcycle slowly going between crawling lanes of traffic bothers you, I suggest therapy, or move someplace where it isn't allowed.
I live where we go weeks below freezing, and days below 0 F. I park on the street with alternate side parking, so block heaters are out. How well do diesels start when they're cooled to 0 F?
and I like hearing the crowd roar and such, it puts you more in the place than a board.
busted.
Am I the only slashdotter to fool around in a pool?
While the author mentioned the lack of Brunner's Shockwave Rider (which has all sorts of cool stuff like an internet, worm, anonymous sites and a distributed attack), no one mentioned Pynchon. Gravity's Rainbow is awesome, what could be better than a paranoid chasing the remnants of the V-2 across 1945 Europe and suspecting World War II was started by a conspiracy. It's the forefather of cyberpunk.
Also, Gravity's Rainbow was nominagted for a few minor awards, heard of the Hugo and Nebula?
It's more the ice and snow that bothers me, well, the lack of light, too. It can be snowy and icy here October through April.
I dropped my bike in March because it was too cold and icy for my tires to grip. Plus, my ancient bike (1975 Kz400) just does not have enough lights to be seen at night).
but it'll be cold and ice in a month up here, and there isn't a lot of daylight, either.
Newenough rocks, I got my gloves, jacket and helmet from them.
as 90% of the time I use one it's for work, and it means a headache (no one ever calls to tell me I'm doing a great job, they only call with problems), but for emergencies, last minute groceries and running late the wife and I both have a Tracfone. It's running about $20 USD/month for both of us.
it plays most of the divx's I throw at it, DVD's too! Far better than the Celeron 600 and scan converter I was using.
I support a Solaris based printer, and with SFU 3.5 I can make the customer's Windows server host the jobs, and make them responsible for the NFS server, while all I have to do is add one line to vfstab. This is one good thing Microsoft has done (and Slashdot, I first read of them freeing it here).
to access their WiFi you have to click on a EULA, which probably has the usual legal crap about copyrighted material.
Sounds like a start.
at least, cyan, magenta, yellow and black, otherwise known as CMYK. If you want your output off that press to match what the customer wants (ie. their corporate logo is exactly right, and people look like people), it helps immensely to be working in terms of CMYK.
I found Ender's Game to be obvious, manipulative and pandering. I don't find him fit to edit DFW's footnotes.
If you want to read a highly literate writer, try Pynchon.
work with their hands. For whatever reason, book learning and sitting in a cube 8 hours a day doesn't appeal as much to them as blacksmithing, wrenching or plumbing.
Cygwin or MS Services for Unix?
Plus, there are quite a few hardware devices that work in Linux and not all versions of Windows, for instance my Kensington SVGA webcam, fine in Linux, not available in Win2k.
find / -name "*.mp3" -print >> stolenmp3.txt
find / -name "*.avi" -print >> stolenvid.txt
on PCL sucks.
PostScript is device independent, within the limitations of the printer, output from a $100 inkjet will be close to output from a $400,000 laser press. PCL has different codes depending upon what printer you're printing to, mostly for paper selection, but it can be for other things.
PCL has laughable color. PostScript supports Pantone colors, so the flyer you proof in Baltimore will look exactly like the production run in Chicago. PostScript supports CMYK colors, and RGB colors.
If you ever get a chance to walk into a print shop, you'll have to search high and low for a PCL printer, whereas everything else (the proof printer, the plate setters and the laser presses) use PostScript.
a quick slice, pull out a vas, snip, fold, cauterize, repeat for the other vas, stitch up.
Fifteen minutes work, and we talked about wireless Palm VII during it.