> can be felt by going for a bicycle ride through the countryside
you do realize in most of the country, that Deer, and many other forms of hunted wildlife are overpopulated, and cause millions of dollars of damage, and if you did not have hunters paying for the privilige of culling these heards those damages would be much greater, and you would instead be paying parkrangers and the like to kill the animals, without doing a good job of keeping the animals weary of human contact, and thus human disease, etc.
granted if you didn't hunt anything, you would go through a cycle of excesive numbers of Wild cats, bears, etc. that introduce their own problems, and are in short supply because they were killed to protect this or that over hundreds of years.
>but the telcom admin of a large corporation isn't going to want to look at a text file to figure out his dialplan or use some arcane interface As with most things Linux, the install problems usually get simplier through heavy use.
I tried installing asterisk 18 months ago, and wasn't getting their, not much like http://voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk that I could find then, not much hardware in the market place...
3 weeks ago, I tried again, succesfully. 10* better. now dozens of voip phones, and config scripts...
it's still at the state of hundreds of config files floating around, but you already got: http://dontpokebadgers.com/rss2cisco giving scripts that auto configure your cisco config files, and extensions, passwords,... with a querry from a mysql database, and http://sourceforge.net/projects/jasterisk/ that lets you do all real time call routing/handeling from a PC app.
granted both of these take a bunch of config options, but so do those pripriotory systems yo mention. just you send them to a company to configure off site before the bring the $100,000 box's to the site, a couple months later.
Get a linux guru a couple months, and you will have all those fancy java/cgi/whatever scripts doing all this from a single website, thats more intuitive than the costly box. I feal confident saying this, because I got the PBX all loading, and sending XML content on scripts I customized, in 3 weeks, and I had no idea what the rc.d directory was good for, and never wrote a cgi script before.
> It's possible, but the available wireless VOIP handsets are 11b only and don't support WPA (both are showstoppers for me). http://www.zyxel.com/product/P2000W.html
It allows users to make or receive phone calls as long as they are in the coverage of IEEE 802.11b or 11g wireless Access Points.... - 64/128 bit WEP encryption
ya, it doesn't interface with the Roady. They will sell you a XMDIRECT box, that you will have to subscribe as a second reciever, and keep connected to your pc. http://www.timetraxtech.com/tt_wizard_timetraxcomp lete.asp or if you have broadband, you can just pay $3 a month instead of $9, and get a streamripper on your PC. not sure if how you will get the filenameing/etc though.
I have a sony Clie, and zaurus 5600. and I have the exact opposite effect, the clie is unused cause the battery life is not as good as the zaurus. Also that sucky memory stick only thing...
I do hate that the 802.11b card sucks the battery right out of the zaurus in nothing flat, and bought a spare battery for this reason. considering that isn't even a option for the clie, their not even comparable in my book.
I do miss my old handspring with months of battery life, and felt much more comfortable carrying around a sub $100 pda, than a $399 one.
It is possible to pull start a car with an automatic transmission. Get it up to about 30 mph with the key off
I too have to call Bull S**t on this one. absolutly torque convertors work backwards, I can down shift let off the throttle engine accelrates as the car does...
but to pull start a car at 30MPH, interesting. I am fairly sure stock electric shift autos lock out gear choice with engine off, and the rest (majority) valve body need fluid power from the torque convertor to choose a gear, so best case you would be in top gear, until you got enough pressure built up from the engine turning to select a lower gear.... maybe with a truck in low range. Of course if the engine were to never have stopped spinning, the tranny could keep it spinning, until you re-fired it. or maybe if you had enough of a starter to get it spinning the tranny would help at some point...
The only danger in killing ignition is in carburated autos,
ummm, I know you mean with it in gear, but a modern auto tranny car is electrically shifted, with electric solenoids, so I believe will go into top gear quickly. below a certain speed not enough torque to keep the engine moving...
also if you get into neutral no engine still moving, you will lose lubrication on most auto's and some manuals to moving parts, like rear seals... and can do serious damage if towed, or coasted too long.
Let see, the average car accelerates to 100 MPH, in several minutes. Your average car de-accelerates from 100mph in several seconds.
Sounds like you need new brakes on the rear, possibly from doing burnouts;)
true, your brakes are after the tranmission, and fade as they get hot, and your only overcomming the rear brakes, hence the reason you can burn out, cause you don't over come the front brakes.
that said, with the mechanical gain (espicaly of a auto at stall) will allow you to overcome a single brake, until it starts to fade badly.
so over time, the engine produces more power than the brakes can absorb. as far as discussion of Park brakes vs regular brakes, their the same on all cars (not all trucks) they just are not power assist, and are always (in the us??) just the rear brakes. theirfore once someone has defeated them, the front brakes do the majority of the stopping anyway, so most don't notice their out of adjustment... but in overdrive gear, the brakes will easilly defeat the engine on every street legal car, enough to slow and downshift...
> that wouldn't work because the card serial numbers have the golden stuff you have to scratch off with your finger nail.
The gift cards I got in the past, they were activated without ever exposing the serial number, I think that number must be in the barcode, so I am guessing one could scan the cards on the rack with a barcode reader, wait until those cards are purchased, then use the acquired information later.
Equipment reuired, PDA with a barcode reader, barcode printer, a dead card to replace the barcode on.
well, you made sense right up to this point: > they (real) are illegally obtaining information
no,Real seams to be encrypting information that they have (presumidly) been given the copy right holders permission to encrypt, and passing it along to their customers, just so happens their customers in this case must first be Apples customers. So apple doesn't like that.
> If Apple had included a DRM Encoding package with iTunes, it would be a nonissue. I think apple has included a DRM Encoding package with their software
from appple.com/ipod website: You can import music in a variety of formats (such as MP3 or AAC) and at whatever quality level you'd prefer. You can even choose the new Apple Lossless encoder
I don't have a ipod to know if those new files are encoded, but I would almost gurantee they are (why would you need a encoder to go from AAC to AAC?)
> Apple sells a piece of hardware, someone finds a new use for said hardware Real provides for the mutual customers of Apple and Real to use their current hardware as it was always intended. > I can see how Apple would want to keep the iPod playing just their own DRM poisoned iTunes format files thats not the issue, they already allow users to import mp3 files..., they care that someone else wants to also sell "DRM poisoned iTunes format files."
I understand them being pissed about adding/removing options, but pissed about using whats already their? I think this was a uninformed (by apple) reaction, that will be toned down.
If they go after real, they should do it through the RIAA, after all thats the people with a vested intrest in where and how music is played. Not the court system. IE if the RIAA pulls reals license for distributing a unaproved (by them) DRM format
Dad's PC had a surge down the modem line, that actually melted the solder joints to the PCI slot of the motherboard. The modem was lost,(well, we never tried it, but obvious smoked components) but removing the drool of solder shorting the motherboard to the chassie, and all else worked. even all the PCI slots worked, after replacing the modem.
> you might as well just hire the experts to write the code in the first place and eliminate the vector all together.
and where do they find the expert to hire in the first place? the beauty of Version controll in a OSS is that you can find exactly who programmed the code, and if you do the background check, and he is hireable, you use him, and his code. if not you have the choice of finding another expert to re-write just that section, or thourghly review his sections...
try to find out exactly which indian contractor did that work for the closed source contractor, and trust them to tell you, oh ya we hired an extremist, but he didn't do that part of the code;);)
Just because the accident wasn't your fault doesn't mean you couldn't have avoided it (I do not claim to be a great driver, or that I would have succesfully avoided any of your situations)
better (motorcycle) driver = planning ahead, avoiding entering locations you cant escape, avoid dense traffic whenever possible. of course no one does this all the time (especially not me.)
1, and 2, and 5 especially a motorcycle, if you leave room to pull off the road, see it coming, you get out of their! let them hit the car in front of you... I have run stop signs in the snow to avoid this risk (not moto), or turned right when I wanted to go strait to get out of their ( My moto goes 0-70 in 3 seconds, so if cross traffic has 3 second following distance, I could make it if I had to and it's good pavement...) 3, 4) this is driver error, and poor visibilty trust me no reverse gear on a moto, no side bolsters, avoids backing into things that damage them. 6) Speed, they get close, you got the vehicle, gun it. This one is tricky. I have pulled off the road with this one, cause with cops around you cant always do that cheaply (especially when it was the cop, tailgating my moto and seams their always using radio/cell, sick.)
I had a good friend who complained zero of 5 accidents in 3 years were his fault, yet they raised his rates. once I road with him, and saw why this statistic makes sense. He doesn't pay as close of attention as other drivers, and covers this by driving slower. Well it may not be your fault when you drive below traffic speed, but that doesn't make you a better driver. and he has a much greater chance of a accident with no insurance and regardles costs his ins. company a lott of man hours.
I agree, manuals are safer. if you lose engine power (out of gas, electric failure) the second your auto tranny shifts to a higher gear or neutral, their is no way to get it back in gear (current design.) So if you shift to neutral to try and start the car going down hill. you will lose power brakes, power steering, and engine braking. not to mention lubrication to the rear tranny seals, etc, etc. With the manual, the second you throw it back into gear, your vacume comes back, and all your pumps start turning, alternator kicks in (if key is on)...
> if you're driving a stick-shift you also get added stopping power but to be fare actually if people who drove automatics, actually downshifted them, they have greater breaking power. (the losses in the transmission mean that at the same engine rpm, you add on top of that the transmission losses, now do you want that heat in the tranny? The transmission is probably not as good at disipating that heat as the engine, due to a smaller radiator...)
but it seams only people who reguarly drive manuals actualy think to downshift.
>the better a driver you are, the better off you would be in a smaller, more maneuverable car (or motorcycle I agree, isn't it stupid that the us safety rating doesn't include handling or braking?
I mean a 5 star rated Ford Taurus that takes 30% longer to stop as a Camaro that crashes just as well. Which would you rather have when your facing that bridge failed in the middle during a earthquake? (although one manufacture did put this in their commercials for awhile)
(and define better driver as including more alert)
> Vehicles sold in the US have to meet certain standards of crashworthiness... This has kept a lot of cars from being imported here
Their are many cars that are safer than anything in the US, not legal because the US requires the cars to be crashed, wont take any computer simulations. So many of the safest (and most expensive) vehicles are precluded since it's to expensive to sacrafice a dozen cars to sell a few dozen.
man, shot down without a single E=MC^2 argument to the amount of energy being roughly equivilent, I am disapointed. ya, ya diesel is slightly heavier per gallon, but again not 2*
>you don't know were to go with nuclear waste that will be radioactive many of the fuels we burn are dirty, especially coal. I have seen stats with coal, that you release just as much nuclear waste into the air per energy created, as if you burned the nuclear waste and sent it into the atmosphere. It's just that nuclear plants are so good at containg the nuclear waste. >But the sun (windpower is effectivly solar power) can provide us with more power than we need. so is oil, and gas, and possibly even some of the nuclear (I have no idea), just a bit older sun power. > you can't trust it's owners. the windfarms, solar farms I know of are by the same owners as the nuclear.
That said, I agree the greater the power is dispersed the better, all these expensive, and vulnerable power lines/plants... thats what I want gone first. so the centeralized power generation ideas, I want to avoid. But it is still a good start if I can carry home a sub 1000lb 10 year energy load, just don't sell that to the bad guys.
> 4 wheel drives have better brakes than normal of course you are correct the less weight transfer (lower center of gravity, less suspension travel) will make you typical 4x4 stop much worse than your typical 2x4
I maintained slashdot status of not reading the article, but I assume they mean, you do get a touch of ABS effect, in a locking 4wd, with 4WD engaged. in that you can't lock up just one wheel. So you will likely stop quicker in 4x4 mode vs 2x4 on a varying tractive surface, thats assuming you want to stop in a strait line, and the best traction is in that direction (it better, cause thats whats going to happen if your at the braking limit in the engaged 4x4.)
> I'm all for the 'give a bit more' camp, but when the employer responds by sucking you dry on the backside, I'd say you should at least keep your ear to the ground for better opportunities. Either that, or have a quick talk with the CIO and make sure that (s)he understands the implications of such stupidity.
Or you can always self compensate, you know for every hour of Co. use at home of Internet, spend 2 hours at work surfing slashdot.
not that anyone posting has ever done that.
best idea is not to start taking from the company, cause it's a slippery slope, that usually ends bad.
I have worked out with my previous boss' to do compensation (such as pref for vendor supplied nascar tickets, etc.)
However a co-worker using a personal palm for work, that got the screen damaged, was told to pack sand, when it came to a replacement. But he gets other benifits that likely cover the loss, out of the use at work (relaxing music...)
noticed the same thing, I am assuming you currently have to use bluetooth to a 3G handset, etc. maybe they have perfected this handshaking to justify the patent (such as to manage connectivity/handoffs to/from multiple 3G handsets...)
well, you if you got all the history in the email, you got a sucker list of friends to scam. you could always send them a link to your web page to enter in the bank account/visa for bill gates to deposit the check into...
I was tempted to do that, with the husbands consent first, just to see how gulible my friend was.
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> can be felt by going for a bicycle ride through the countryside
you do realize in most of the country, that Deer, and many other forms of hunted wildlife are overpopulated, and cause millions of dollars of damage, and if you did not have hunters paying for the privilige of culling these heards those damages would be much greater, and you would instead be paying parkrangers and the like to kill the animals, without doing a good job of keeping the animals weary of human contact, and thus human disease, etc.
granted if you didn't hunt anything, you would go through a cycle of excesive numbers of Wild cats, bears, etc. that introduce their own problems, and are in short supply because they were killed to protect this or that over hundreds of years.
>but the telcom admin of a large corporation isn't going to want to look at a text file to figure out his dialplan or use some arcane interface
As with most things Linux, the install problems usually get simplier through heavy use.
I tried installing asterisk 18 months ago, and wasn't getting their, not much like http://voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk that I could find then, not much hardware in the market place...
3 weeks ago, I tried again, succesfully. 10* better. now dozens of voip phones, and config scripts...
it's still at the state of hundreds of config files floating around, but you already got:
http://dontpokebadgers.com/rss2cisco
giving scripts that auto configure your cisco config files, and extensions, passwords,... with a querry from a mysql database, and http://sourceforge.net/projects/jasterisk/ that lets you do all real time call routing/handeling from a PC app.
granted both of these take a bunch of config options, but so do those pripriotory systems yo mention. just you send them to a company to configure off site before the bring the $100,000 box's to the site, a couple months later.
Get a linux guru a couple months, and you will have all those fancy java/cgi/whatever scripts doing all this from a single website, thats more intuitive than the costly box. I feal confident saying this, because I got the PBX all loading, and sending XML content on scripts I customized, in 3 weeks, and I had no idea what the rc.d directory was good for, and never wrote a cgi script before.
> It's possible, but the available wireless VOIP handsets are 11b only and don't support WPA (both are showstoppers for me).
...
http://www.zyxel.com/product/P2000W.html
It allows users to make or receive phone calls as long as they are in the coverage of IEEE 802.11b or 11g wireless Access Points.
- 64/128 bit WEP encryption
ya, it doesn't interface with the Roady.p lete.asp
They will sell you a XMDIRECT box, that you will have to subscribe as a second reciever, and keep connected to your pc.
http://www.timetraxtech.com/tt_wizard_timetraxcom
or if you have broadband, you can just pay $3 a month instead of $9, and get a streamripper on your PC. not sure if how you will get the filenameing/etc though.
I have a sony Clie, and zaurus 5600.
and I have the exact opposite effect, the clie is unused cause the battery life is not as good as the zaurus. Also that sucky memory stick only thing...
I do hate that the 802.11b card sucks the battery right out of the zaurus in nothing flat, and bought a spare battery for this reason. considering that isn't even a option for the clie, their not even comparable in my book.
I do miss my old handspring with months of battery life, and felt much more comfortable carrying around a sub $100 pda, than a $399 one.
It is possible to pull start a car with an automatic transmission. Get it up to about 30 mph with the key off
I too have to call Bull S**t on this one. absolutly torque convertors work backwards, I can down shift let off the throttle engine accelrates as the car does...
but to pull start a car at 30MPH, interesting. I am fairly sure stock electric shift autos lock out gear choice with engine off, and the rest (majority) valve body need fluid power from the torque convertor to choose a gear, so best case you would be in top gear, until you got enough pressure built up from the engine turning to select a lower gear.... maybe with a truck in low range. Of course if the engine were to never have stopped spinning, the tranny could keep it spinning, until you re-fired it. or maybe if you had enough of a starter to get it spinning the tranny would help at some point...
but to pull start a auto car...
The only danger in killing ignition is in carburated autos,
ummm, I know you mean with it in gear, but a modern auto tranny car is electrically shifted, with electric solenoids, so I believe will go into top gear quickly. below a certain speed not enough torque to keep the engine moving...
also if you get into neutral no engine still moving, you will lose lubrication on most auto's and some manuals to moving parts, like rear seals... and can do serious damage if towed, or coasted too long.
Let see, the average car accelerates to 100 MPH, in several minutes. Your average car de-accelerates from 100mph in several seconds.
;)
Sounds like you need new brakes on the rear, possibly from doing burnouts
true, your brakes are after the tranmission, and fade as they get hot, and your only overcomming the rear brakes, hence the reason you can burn out, cause you don't over come the front brakes.
that said, with the mechanical gain (espicaly of a auto at stall) will allow you to overcome a single brake, until it starts to fade badly.
so over time, the engine produces more power than the brakes can absorb. as far as discussion of Park brakes vs regular brakes, their the same on all cars (not all trucks) they just are not power assist, and are always (in the us??) just the rear brakes. theirfore once someone has defeated them, the front brakes do the majority of the stopping anyway, so most don't notice their out of adjustment... but in overdrive gear, the brakes will easilly defeat the engine on every street legal car, enough to slow and downshift...
I have seen a couple, bought none:u cts_id=48 9 34028032.htm?search=asterisk
http://voipstore.pulver.com/product_info.php?prod
and
http://voipstore.atacomm.com/shops/Search.aspx/27
also some much worse deals on ebay.
> that wouldn't work because the card serial numbers have the golden stuff you have to scratch off with your finger nail.
The gift cards I got in the past, they were activated without ever exposing the serial number,
I think that number must be in the barcode, so I am guessing one could scan the cards on the rack with a barcode reader, wait until those cards are purchased, then use the acquired information later.
Equipment reuired, PDA with a barcode reader, barcode printer, a dead card to replace the barcode on.
Just a guess...
well, you made sense right up to this point:
> they (real) are illegally obtaining information
no,Real seams to be encrypting information that they have (presumidly) been given the copy right holders permission to encrypt, and passing it along to their customers, just so happens their customers in this case must first be Apples customers. So apple doesn't like that.
> If Apple had included a DRM Encoding package with iTunes, it would be a nonissue.
I think apple has included a DRM Encoding package with their software
from appple.com/ipod website:
You can import music in a variety of formats (such as MP3 or AAC) and at whatever quality level you'd prefer. You can even choose the new Apple Lossless encoder
I don't have a ipod to know if those new files are encoded, but I would almost gurantee they are (why would you need a encoder to go from AAC to AAC?)
> Apple sells a piece of hardware, someone finds a new use for said hardware
Real provides for the mutual customers of Apple and Real to use their current hardware as it was always intended.
> I can see how Apple would want to keep the iPod playing just their own DRM poisoned iTunes format files
thats not the issue, they already allow users to import mp3 files..., they care that someone else wants to also sell "DRM poisoned iTunes format files."
I understand them being pissed about adding/removing options, but pissed about using whats already their? I think this was a uninformed (by apple) reaction, that will be toned down.
If they go after real, they should do it through the RIAA, after all thats the people with a vested intrest in where and how music is played. Not the court system. IE if the RIAA pulls reals license for distributing a unaproved (by them) DRM format
Dad's PC had a surge down the modem line, that actually melted the solder joints to the PCI slot of the motherboard. The modem was lost,(well, we never tried it, but obvious smoked components) but removing the drool of solder shorting the motherboard to the chassie, and all else worked. even all the PCI slots worked, after replacing the modem.
> you might as well just hire the experts to write the code in the first place and eliminate the vector all together.
;) ;)
and where do they find the expert to hire in the first place? the beauty of Version controll in a OSS is that you can find exactly who programmed the code, and if you do the background check, and he is hireable, you use him, and his code. if not you have the choice of finding another expert to re-write just that section, or thourghly review his sections...
try to find out exactly which indian contractor did that work for the closed source contractor, and trust them to tell you, oh ya we hired an extremist, but he didn't do that part of the code
> On the other hand, we're responsible for Celine Dion. On behalf of all Canadians, I apologize profusely.
man am I the only one who still thanks strange Brew for all Canada has given us.
Just because the accident wasn't your fault doesn't mean you couldn't have avoided it (I do not claim to be a great driver, or that I would have succesfully avoided any of your situations)
better (motorcycle) driver = planning ahead, avoiding entering locations you cant escape, avoid dense traffic whenever possible. of course no one does this all the time (especially not me.)
1, and 2, and 5
especially a motorcycle, if you leave room to pull off the road, see it coming, you get out of their! let them hit the car in front of you... I have run stop signs in the snow to avoid this risk (not moto), or turned right when I wanted to go strait to get out of their ( My moto goes 0-70 in 3 seconds, so if cross traffic has 3 second following distance, I could make it if I had to and it's good pavement...)
3, 4)
this is driver error, and poor visibilty trust me no reverse gear on a moto, no side bolsters, avoids backing into things that damage them.
6)
Speed, they get close, you got the vehicle, gun it. This one is tricky. I have pulled off the road with this one, cause with cops around you cant always do that cheaply (especially when it was the cop, tailgating my moto and seams their always using radio/cell, sick.)
I had a good friend who complained zero of 5 accidents in 3 years were his fault, yet they raised his rates. once I road with him, and saw why this statistic makes sense. He doesn't pay as close of attention as other drivers, and covers this by driving slower. Well it may not be your fault when you drive below traffic speed, but that doesn't make you a better driver. and he has a much greater chance of a accident with no insurance and regardles costs his ins. company a lott of man hours.
I agree, manuals are safer. if you lose engine power (out of gas, electric failure) the second your auto tranny shifts to a higher gear or neutral, their is no way to get it back in gear (current design.) So if you shift to neutral to try and start the car going down hill. you will lose power brakes, power steering, and engine braking. not to mention lubrication to the rear tranny seals, etc, etc. With the manual, the second you throw it back into gear, your vacume comes back, and all your pumps start turning, alternator kicks in (if key is on)...
> if you're driving a stick-shift you also get added stopping power
but to be fare
actually if people who drove automatics, actually downshifted them, they have greater breaking power. (the losses in the transmission mean that at the same engine rpm, you add on top of that the transmission losses, now do you want that heat in the tranny? The transmission is probably not as good at disipating that heat as the engine, due to a smaller radiator...)
but it seams only people who reguarly drive manuals actualy think to downshift.
>the better a driver you are, the better off you would be in a smaller, more maneuverable car (or motorcycle
I agree, isn't it stupid that the us safety rating doesn't include handling or braking?
I mean a 5 star rated Ford Taurus that takes 30% longer to stop as a Camaro that crashes just as well. Which would you rather have when your facing that bridge failed in the middle during a earthquake?
(although one manufacture did put this in their commercials for awhile)
(and define better driver as including more alert)
> Vehicles sold in the US have to meet certain standards of crashworthiness ... This has kept a lot of cars from being imported here
Their are many cars that are safer than anything in the US, not legal because the US requires the cars to be crashed, wont take any computer simulations. So many of the safest (and most expensive) vehicles are precluded since it's to expensive to sacrafice a dozen cars to sell a few dozen.
man, shot down without a single E=MC^2 argument to the amount of energy being roughly equivilent, I am disapointed.
ya, ya diesel is slightly heavier per gallon, but again not 2*
well, I'll continue the rant.
>you don't know were to go with nuclear waste that will be radioactive
many of the fuels we burn are dirty, especially coal. I have seen stats with coal, that you release just as much nuclear waste into the air per energy created, as if you burned the nuclear waste and sent it into the atmosphere. It's just that nuclear plants are so good at containg the nuclear waste.
>But the sun (windpower is effectivly solar power) can provide us with more power than we need.
so is oil, and gas, and possibly even some of the nuclear (I have no idea), just a bit older sun power.
> you can't trust it's owners.
the windfarms, solar farms I know of are by the same owners as the nuclear.
That said, I agree the greater the power is dispersed the better, all these expensive, and vulnerable power lines/plants... thats what I want gone first. so the centeralized power generation ideas, I want to avoid. But it is still a good start if I can carry home a sub 1000lb 10 year energy load, just don't sell that to the bad guys.
> 4 wheel drives have better brakes than normal
of course you are correct the less weight transfer (lower center of gravity, less suspension travel) will make you typical 4x4 stop much worse than your typical 2x4
I maintained slashdot status of not reading the article, but I assume they mean, you do get a touch of ABS effect, in a locking 4wd, with 4WD engaged. in that you can't lock up just one wheel. So you will likely stop quicker in 4x4 mode vs 2x4 on a varying tractive surface, thats assuming you want to stop in a strait line, and the best traction is in that direction (it better, cause thats whats going to happen if your at the braking limit in the engaged 4x4.)
> I'm all for the 'give a bit more' camp, but when the employer responds by sucking you dry on the backside, I'd say you should at least keep your ear to the ground for better opportunities. Either that, or have a quick talk with the CIO and make sure that (s)he understands the implications of such stupidity.
Or you can always self compensate, you know for every hour of Co. use at home of Internet, spend 2 hours at work surfing slashdot.
not that anyone posting has ever done that.
best idea is not to start taking from the company, cause it's a slippery slope, that usually ends bad.
I have worked out with my previous boss' to do compensation (such as pref for vendor supplied nascar tickets, etc.)
However a co-worker using a personal palm for work, that got the screen damaged, was told to pack sand, when it came to a replacement. But he gets other benifits that likely cover the loss, out of the use at work (relaxing music...)
noticed the same thing, I am assuming you currently have to use bluetooth to a 3G handset, etc. maybe they have perfected this handshaking to justify the patent (such as to manage connectivity/handoffs to/from multiple 3G handsets...)
well, you if you got all the history in the email, you got a sucker list of friends to scam. you could always send them a link to your web page to enter in the bank account/visa for bill gates to deposit the check into...
I was tempted to do that, with the husbands consent first, just to see how gulible my friend was.