How long do you suppose it'll be before someone starts using this to send an ASCII-art goatse.cx guy in response to pings? It'd give script kiddies looking for backdoors something to think about, at least.
It looks like 'Enterprise' might be moved to Fridays next year, and Firefly fans can tell you what a great place that is..."
IIRC, The X-Files aired on Fridays (except for maybe the last year or two), and it did fairly well. With VCRs, TiVos, etc., I'm not so sure that it matters when a show airs.
I don't think Arizona or Nevada will be likely to use hydro as their main source of power in the near future.
Not the main source, but perhaps you heard of a little thing called Hoover Dam
FWIW, most of the power generated by Hoover Dam goes to California, just as the lion's share of the Colorado River water goes to California. (The agreements WRT distribution of river resources haven't been revised in decades and were drawn up when Arizona and Nevada (especially Phoenix and Las Vegas) weren't nearly as populated as they are now.)
"Hrm. This beer IS cold, but I could use it a few degrees colder..."
If it has to be ice-cold to be palatable, you probably shouldn't be drinking it.:-P Fat Tire is just one example (out of hundreds) of a beer that's much more interesting when it's served in the mid-40s to low 50s. Your average Budmilloors swill, at those temperatures, would be just plain nasty.
In the military, you don't go about advertising your party affiliation any more so than any normal civilian would.
Indeed, you would do so less than you would as a civilian. If Dad had tried to get on base with a "Clinton Sucks" bumper sticker, he would've been stopped at the gate. If you don't like the CinC (and der Schlickmeister wasn't exactly the most popular among GIs), you're expected to keep your mouth shut.
One of the leading hosts on the unofficial radio network of the Democratic Party recommended in an apparent "joke" earlier this week that President Bush should be assassinated, reports the New York Daily News.
Comparing Bush and his family to the Corleones of "Godfather" fame, Air America host Randi Rhodes reportedly unleashed this zinger during her Monday night broadcast: "Like Fredo, somebody ought to take him out fishing and phuw. "
Rhodes then imitated the sound of a gunshot.
Since you probably don't consider NewsMax a reliable source (it's your loss, not mine), here is the original article.
Do you *really* think your 2004 BMW 3 Series 325Ci Coupe gets 20 MPG city/29 MPG highway? Really? I call bullshit!
I call bullshit on your calling bullshit...those numbers sound reasonable enough. When I was driving my grandparents' car briefly last fall (an '85 Olds 98), it was getting mid-to-upper 20s on the highway...and that was for an 18-year-old (at the time) car with a 50% larger (3.8L) engine in a substantially larger/heavier body. I was driving at 70-75 mph (when I could) and not taking any special measures to try to squeeze more mileage out of it. (Dunno about city mileage, as I mainly drove it from southeastern Virginia to NYC and back.)
One of the coolest features I've ever seen was on an old BMW, it was a little gage that measured fuel economy. It dropped to below 2 MPG in a modestly quick (not even a launch) start from a stop sign and this was in the old 318ti (small, light car).
Basically, what that was was a vacuum gauge hooked to the intake manifold and calibrated in estimated MPG. At WOT, the vacuum developed in the intake manifold is lower than when your foot's off the gas. GM offered something similar in its cars a quarter-century ago, though the scale on theirs was only marked "good" and "not-so-good" (not exactly, but that's the idea) instead of with numbers. I don't think it was a particularly common option...they turn up in junkyard cars occasionally, but there are other gauges (temperature, oil pressure, etc.) that are more useful for monitoring your car's health.
I suppose that you have some theory as to why we took over Iraq (a secular non-terrorist country) in response to Osama and some other Saudis attacked us?
You proceed from false assumptions. Iraq may well have been a secular country, but it was hardly "non-terrorist." Would a "non-terrorist" country provide safe harbor to terrorists such as Abu Abbas (matermind of the Achille Lauro hijacking) and Abu Nidal (a Palestinian terrorist with a lengthy rap sheet)? Would a "non-terrorist" country have its intelligence agents communicating and coordinating with 9/11 planner Mohammed Atta? Would the leader of a "non-terrorist" country ante up $25k for each family of each Palestinian homicide bomber who carried out his mission of murder? Read this and this and get your facts straight.
Of course, that ignores the fact that all of the major news services are either extremist right wing
Again, you're assuming "facts" not in evidence. Since when is Fox News the only game in town? (Even that assumes that Fox News is "extremist right wing," which you would realize is false if you had ever watched it. Making the same claim for CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, etc. is even more absurd. You would have to be to the left of Lenin to conjure up a claim like that.)
If all you're going to do is waste my (and others') time with logical fallacy after logical fallacy, then I see no point in continuing this discussion. Arguing with someone who substitutes errors, omissions, distortions, and lies for truth is pointless.
One advantage to a vehicle that's "overbuilt" is that it'll last damn near forever.
You're almost convincing until I realized that the cars with the longest livespans tend to be small, Japanese sedans.
That's not been my experience. Around here, they're frequently belching smoke like freight trains after a few years of jackrabbit starts, no doubt brought on by their underpowered engines. If it's still on the road after 15 or more years, it's most likely not a rice-burner.
And, of course, you are incapable of providing an example of either ignorance or hatemongering by said station.
You really don't want me to start rattling off examples; I'd be here all week. How about a "joke" on Chuck D.'s program about a CIA informants' program giving frequent-flyer miles for "how many civilians you kill"? How about Al Franken's whacked-out war-for-oil conspiracy theories, on which even a Democrat senator (Joe Biden, if you're curious) called bullsh*t? This, BTW, is just some of what came back in the first page of Google results on one query.
It makes me wonder what kind of sick agenda you are pushing that you are taking childish potshots at the one media outlet that actually reports on some of the most important issues facing us today.
"According to the New York Times, a group of liberal venture capitalists are in the process of developing their own liberal radio network to counter conservative shows like Rush Limbaugh. They feel the liberal viewpoint is not being heard -- except on TV, in the movies, in music, by comedians, magazines and newspapers. Other than that, it's not getting out!"
Athlon-XPs don't have easily accessible idle modes. Intel processors do [via HLT opcode]. So when both boxes are idle the PM is taking 6W and the Athlon-XP is basically taking the full power.
Are you trolling, or are you just unbelievably ignorant? Athlons idle the same way as everything else.
Though the stability of Intel cpus alone is worth it. Have yet to have my P4 box shutdown because a 10 minute test run of a program [full load] over heats the core...
Now we know you're trolling...if Athlons ran at full throttle all the time, it wouldn't make any difference whether it was at full load or not. You're contradicting yourself. Go crawl back under your bridge and leave us alone. I keep most of my machines fully loaded with Prime95/mprime, and they run for weeks/months at a time without any problems.
Minivans typically have more interior room than all but the largest SUVs. If you're towing a large trailer, a Suburban or the like is often justified, but typically SUVs are built with overly heavy components designed for physical use and abuse they'll never encounter.
One advantage to a vehicle that's "overbuilt" is that it'll last damn near forever. What's cheaper--spending $30k on a vehicle that'll last 20 years (or more), or spending $20k on a vehicle you'll have to replace after only 10 years (if you're lucky)?
(Yes, there are idiots who'll buy something new every 3-5 years. I'm not one of them, though, and neither are most of the people in my family. Hell, Dad still has his first new car that he bought when I was 18 months old. 31 years later, it's still in pretty good shape.)
If you want to use a library properly you need to know a little bit about how books are categorised, or you will have to sift through tons on cards.
Modern libraries have their books cataloged in a computer system. If they're truly up to speed, their index will be searchable from the Internet, so you can see if they have the book (and at which branch) before you drive over. Finding a book in the library involves about as much effort as looking it up at Amazon. (Their selection is usually nowhere near as comprehensive, though, at least for the stuff I read.)
I don't see how the language should matter in these sorts of exams. Personally I rather have the AP test be questions about algorithms, ideas and concepts. Something like:
1) Write PseudoCode for an AVL Tree
2) Describe the benefits of a hashtable
etc...
I never took this test (don't even know if it would've been available back in the late '80s), but I'd assume that it's designed to be a substitute for courses such as CSC 135. Data structures get brought up in the next couple of classes (136 and 269), so unless a year of AP computer science is supposed to be worth a year of introductory CS (you'd ordinarily take 135 & 136 alongside a bunch of general-requirements courses), I'm not so sure data structures would be something the AP test would cover. (I'm not saying that yours is a bad idea, but it might be outside the scope of what the course is trying to cover.)
I'd like to suggest new electric cars be equipped with Jetsons-style "whuwuwuwuwuuwu" sounds as a safety feature. Actually, this might very well be an untapped commercial opportunity: custom car sound effects. Drive a wagon train! Drive a steam train! Drive the U.S.S. Enterprise! Be ironic and drive a Hummer!
Somebody could make a killing by recording the noise from a Civic with a fart-can exhaust and sell that to the people buying the current crop of hybrids. Hell, you could stick a speaker inside a fart-can and rig it with a bracket that'd screw underneath the rear bumper for the full effect.
(I'd consider patenting the idea, but I don't think my conscience could live with contributing to the growth of the riceboy population. OTOH, I could patent the idea with the purpose of keeping such a product off the market...)
Personally in Raleigh, NC I never saw a 'iTunes' bottle but then again I don't drink a lot of soft drinks anyway.
I don't drink Pepsi (yuck), but I picked up six Big Gulps (filled with Diet Coke, usually) that had winning codes rolled into the lip of the cup. I think I managed a bit better than 1-in-3 odds.
You can enable 30-second skip on TiVo... 4 to 10 "blips" and you're done.
I've done that before, but I've found scanning forward is easier. MythTV does both 30-second skip and commercial detection/skipping, but it doesn't do the high-speed scanning forward/backward that TiVo does. On the occasions that it goes too far forward, it's a bit of a pain to get back to where you want to be (default skip-back is 5 seconds).
(That's my take on it, anyway...sounds more like a matter of personal preference than anything else.)
What commercials? With my TiVo, I skip forward at 30-60x normal speed when they come up. MythTV is even better than that...hit a button and it (almost always) jumps straight to the other side of the interruption.
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How long do you suppose it'll be before someone starts using this to send an ASCII-art goatse.cx guy in response to pings? It'd give script kiddies looking for backdoors something to think about, at least.
IIRC, The X-Files aired on Fridays (except for maybe the last year or two), and it did fairly well. With VCRs, TiVos, etc., I'm not so sure that it matters when a show airs.
FWIW, most of the power generated by Hoover Dam goes to California, just as the lion's share of the Colorado River water goes to California. (The agreements WRT distribution of river resources haven't been revised in decades and were drawn up when Arizona and Nevada (especially Phoenix and Las Vegas) weren't nearly as populated as they are now.)
If it has to be ice-cold to be palatable, you probably shouldn't be drinking it. :-P Fat Tire is just one example (out of hundreds) of a beer that's much more interesting when it's served in the mid-40s to low 50s. Your average Budmilloors swill, at those temperatures, would be just plain nasty.
Indeed, you would do so less than you would as a civilian. If Dad had tried to get on base with a "Clinton Sucks" bumper sticker, he would've been stopped at the gate. If you don't like the CinC (and der Schlickmeister wasn't exactly the most popular among GIs), you're expected to keep your mouth shut.
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Air America Host 'Jokingly' Calls for Bush Hit
Since you probably don't consider NewsMax a reliable source (it's your loss, not mine), here is the original article.
I call bullshit on your calling bullshit...those numbers sound reasonable enough. When I was driving my grandparents' car briefly last fall (an '85 Olds 98), it was getting mid-to-upper 20s on the highway...and that was for an 18-year-old (at the time) car with a 50% larger (3.8L) engine in a substantially larger/heavier body. I was driving at 70-75 mph (when I could) and not taking any special measures to try to squeeze more mileage out of it. (Dunno about city mileage, as I mainly drove it from southeastern Virginia to NYC and back.)
Basically, what that was was a vacuum gauge hooked to the intake manifold and calibrated in estimated MPG. At WOT, the vacuum developed in the intake manifold is lower than when your foot's off the gas. GM offered something similar in its cars a quarter-century ago, though the scale on theirs was only marked "good" and "not-so-good" (not exactly, but that's the idea) instead of with numbers. I don't think it was a particularly common option...they turn up in junkyard cars occasionally, but there are other gauges (temperature, oil pressure, etc.) that are more useful for monitoring your car's health.
You proceed from false assumptions. Iraq may well have been a secular country, but it was hardly "non-terrorist." Would a "non-terrorist" country provide safe harbor to terrorists such as Abu Abbas (matermind of the Achille Lauro hijacking) and Abu Nidal (a Palestinian terrorist with a lengthy rap sheet)? Would a "non-terrorist" country have its intelligence agents communicating and coordinating with 9/11 planner Mohammed Atta? Would the leader of a "non-terrorist" country ante up $25k for each family of each Palestinian homicide bomber who carried out his mission of murder? Read this and this and get your facts straight.
Again, you're assuming "facts" not in evidence. Since when is Fox News the only game in town? (Even that assumes that Fox News is "extremist right wing," which you would realize is false if you had ever watched it. Making the same claim for CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, etc. is even more absurd. You would have to be to the left of Lenin to conjure up a claim like that.)
If all you're going to do is waste my (and others') time with logical fallacy after logical fallacy, then I see no point in continuing this discussion. Arguing with someone who substitutes errors, omissions, distortions, and lies for truth is pointless.
That's not been my experience. Around here, they're frequently belching smoke like freight trains after a few years of jackrabbit starts, no doubt brought on by their underpowered engines. If it's still on the road after 15 or more years, it's most likely not a rice-burner.
You really don't want me to start rattling off examples; I'd be here all week. How about a "joke" on Chuck D.'s program about a CIA informants' program giving frequent-flyer miles for "how many civilians you kill"? How about Al Franken's whacked-out war-for-oil conspiracy theories, on which even a Democrat senator (Joe Biden, if you're curious) called bullsh*t? This, BTW, is just some of what came back in the first page of Google results on one query.
"According to the New York Times, a group of liberal venture capitalists are in the process of developing their own liberal radio network to counter conservative shows like Rush Limbaugh. They feel the liberal viewpoint is not being heard -- except on TV, in the movies, in music, by comedians, magazines and newspapers. Other than that, it's not getting out!"
-- Jay Leno, The Tonight Show
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Are you trolling, or are you just unbelievably ignorant? Athlons idle the same way as everything else.
Now we know you're trolling...if Athlons ran at full throttle all the time, it wouldn't make any difference whether it was at full load or not. You're contradicting yourself. Go crawl back under your bridge and leave us alone. I keep most of my machines fully loaded with Prime95/mprime, and they run for weeks/months at a time without any problems.
One advantage to a vehicle that's "overbuilt" is that it'll last damn near forever. What's cheaper--spending $30k on a vehicle that'll last 20 years (or more), or spending $20k on a vehicle you'll have to replace after only 10 years (if you're lucky)?
(Yes, there are idiots who'll buy something new every 3-5 years. I'm not one of them, though, and neither are most of the people in my family. Hell, Dad still has his first new car that he bought when I was 18 months old. 31 years later, it's still in pretty good shape.)
Sounds like British grammar: "It's people like you what cause unrest."
Shut up, Corse.
What's there to fix? There's nothing wrong with your post that a few <br> tags wouldn't have fixed, if you had put them in there.
Modern libraries have their books cataloged in a computer system. If they're truly up to speed, their index will be searchable from the Internet, so you can see if they have the book (and at which branch) before you drive over. Finding a book in the library involves about as much effort as looking it up at Amazon. (Their selection is usually nowhere near as comprehensive, though, at least for the stuff I read.)
I never took this test (don't even know if it would've been available back in the late '80s), but I'd assume that it's designed to be a substitute for courses such as CSC 135. Data structures get brought up in the next couple of classes (136 and 269), so unless a year of AP computer science is supposed to be worth a year of introductory CS (you'd ordinarily take 135 & 136 alongside a bunch of general-requirements courses), I'm not so sure data structures would be something the AP test would cover. (I'm not saying that yours is a bad idea, but it might be outside the scope of what the course is trying to cover.)
Somebody could make a killing by recording the noise from a Civic with a fart-can exhaust and sell that to the people buying the current crop of hybrids. Hell, you could stick a speaker inside a fart-can and rig it with a bracket that'd screw underneath the rear bumper for the full effect.
(I'd consider patenting the idea, but I don't think my conscience could live with contributing to the growth of the riceboy population. OTOH, I could patent the idea with the purpose of keeping such a product off the market...)
Excuse me? I'm fairly sure line numbers were required on the 99/4A I had (and now have again).
I don't drink Pepsi (yuck), but I picked up six Big Gulps (filled with Diet Coke, usually) that had winning codes rolled into the lip of the cup. I think I managed a bit better than 1-in-3 odds.
I've done that before, but I've found scanning forward is easier. MythTV does both 30-second skip and commercial detection/skipping, but it doesn't do the high-speed scanning forward/backward that TiVo does. On the occasions that it goes too far forward, it's a bit of a pain to get back to where you want to be (default skip-back is 5 seconds).
(That's my take on it, anyway...sounds more like a matter of personal preference than anything else.)
What commercials? With my TiVo, I skip forward at 30-60x normal speed when they come up. MythTV is even better than that...hit a button and it (almost always) jumps straight to the other side of the interruption.