The term "rice burner" came about around the time underpowered foreign cars became (relatively) popular during the energy crunch of the 70's. The majority of the vehicles coming out of Detroit just prior to this were large v-8 "muscle cars" and "land yachts". The foreign cars were earned the moniker "rice burner" not strictly because many imports were from asian countries, but also because they were small and had tiny underpowered engines when compared to their US contemporaries.
The term "ricer" is just an extension of that original idea: a non-flattering description for an under-powered vehicle that are decked out with equipment that is non-functional, overly extravagant, and... well... just stupid. The term is not at all limited to asian owners of these vehicles, nor is it limited to imports.
Hell... i'd be interested in trying this if I was guaranteed a discount of at least 5%... they make no mention of rates going *up*. The way I drive at times (er... most of the time that is) would definitely warrant a rate hike... I see no mention of this... um... 'situation'.
Where are the numbers for the other end of the spectrum? Hell... where are the numbers in general??
Ideas like this strike me as disingenuous at best. It starts out as a way to monitor for good behavior but I believe it rapidly dumps that and focuses on bad bad behavior to raise rates.
Precisely. And the bad behavior will ultimately be by those who choose to maintain their right to privacy, irrelevant of the fact that they are good drivers or otherwise. Not at all an equitable choice.;-(
I've been using Mozilla Firefox for 3 weeks now, and lemme tell ya... i'm not going back to IE. Great, great product, and it's simply wonderful to see a product finally give IE a run for the money (been a long time coming since the Netscape browser wars).
Incidentally, you can download *optimized* builds specific to your particular processor here:
Not to mention that once you get proficient in controlling the machine from a command line, you may find that for just about any task w/r/t machine administration it is faster, easier, and more elegant than configuring from a gui. Especially when it comes to automation of mundane tasks. YMMV.
Of course, that that road might be a runway and you're cruising at 250 mph to come in contact with it, at a relatively awkward angle, with possible crosswinds or anything else a pilot might encounter.
How about a study that links drunk pilots with safe and on-time arrivals?
You're right, Linux is still weak on the GUI side of the house. The O/S community does not have the luxury or the resources to put millions of dollars into usability studies in order to improve upon them, as Microsoft does. Sadly, projects such as KDE, Gnome, etc end up mimicking the Windows UI... successfully or not. Then there's always the familiarity thing as well...
However, I have to take issue with your statement that the unix community cannot see past the command line and it's a weekness. I'm sorry, but for the majority of tasks that involve configuration, installation, and general system maintenance, you cannot beat a good shell. It's cumbersome and simply a PITRA to configure something as simple as an ethernet card in a series of windows. A good shell is what Windows is sorely lacking, and it's why it'll never be taken seriously as a server/workhorse platform (by people who actually know what they are doing, anyway).
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The term "rice burner" came about around the time underpowered foreign cars became (relatively) popular during the energy crunch of the 70's. The majority of the vehicles coming out of Detroit just prior to this were large v-8 "muscle cars" and "land yachts". The foreign cars were earned the moniker "rice burner" not strictly because many imports were from asian countries, but also because they were small and had tiny underpowered engines when compared to their US contemporaries.
The term "ricer" is just an extension of that original idea: a non-flattering description for an under-powered vehicle that are decked out with equipment that is non-functional, overly extravagant, and... well... just stupid. The term is not at all limited to asian owners of these vehicles, nor is it limited to imports.
Hell... i'd be interested in trying this if I was guaranteed a discount of at least 5%... they make no mention of rates going *up*. The way I drive at times (er... most of the time that is) would definitely warrant a rate hike... I see no mention of this ... um... 'situation'.
Where are the numbers for the other end of the spectrum? Hell... where are the numbers in general??
Precisely. And the bad behavior will ultimately be by those who choose to maintain their right to privacy, irrelevant of the fact that they are good drivers or otherwise. Not at all an equitable choice.
I've been using Mozilla Firefox for 3 weeks now, and lemme tell ya... i'm not going back to IE. Great, great product, and it's simply wonderful to see a product finally give IE a run for the money (been a long time coming since the Netscape browser wars).
Incidentally, you can download *optimized* builds specific to your particular processor here:
MOOX
The proper builds run noticeably faster on my AMD XP and Centrino procs.
I'll start worrying when I see entire OS's and their requisite device drivers written completely in a bytecode language.
*shrug*... bring it on.
Not to mention that once you get proficient in controlling the machine from a command line, you may find that for just about any task w/r/t machine administration it is faster, easier, and more elegant than configuring from a gui. Especially when it comes to automation of mundane tasks. YMMV.
http://www.bookpool.com/.x/rzzwsost6n/ss/1?qs=sql+ fundamentals
Bookpool is a great resource for technical manuals.
Of course, that that road might be a runway and you're cruising at 250 mph to come in contact with it, at a relatively awkward angle, with possible crosswinds or anything else a pilot might encounter.
How about a study that links drunk pilots with safe and on-time arrivals?
http://www.icp-vortex.com has decent linux support for their SCSI and Fibre-Channel RAID cards, including drivers and management utilities.
Nice cards too.
You're right, Linux is still weak on the GUI side of the house. The O/S community does not have the luxury or the resources to put millions of dollars into usability studies in order to improve upon them, as Microsoft does. Sadly, projects such as KDE, Gnome, etc end up mimicking the Windows UI... successfully or not. Then there's always the familiarity thing as well...
However, I have to take issue with your statement that the unix community cannot see past the command line and it's a weekness. I'm sorry, but for the majority of tasks that involve configuration, installation, and general system maintenance, you cannot beat a good shell. It's cumbersome and simply a PITRA to configure something as simple as an ethernet card in a series of windows. A good shell is what Windows is sorely lacking, and it's why it'll never be taken seriously as a server/workhorse platform (by people who actually know what they are doing, anyway).