Volkswagen's 4Motion (which is just VW's name for Quattro).
Not exactly. The Quattro from the Audi's is an actual *permanent* 4x4 mechanism (from the A4 and up), the 4Motion used in VW models is based upon a Haldex system. Technically it means that you are in frontwheel drive all the time, except when the front tires start to slip: then the rear tires come in. The Haldex system hydrolically manages this.
It gets nasty on the Audi A3 and Audi TT, because those are built on the same platform as the Volkswagen Golf. So if you have an A3 or a TT labelled "quattro", you actually get the 4Motion Haldex-based system.
Unfortunately enough I found that only out *after* buying my TT. I'd have gone for the 3.0 A4 Quattro otherwhise. (Yes, those are gass guzzelers... in Europe;-) )
And you are right about the braking with all wheel drive. Snow and ice means you have to lower your speed anyway, but it sure makes me laugh when I see all those rearwheel drive Mercedes and BMW sitting at the side of a hill because of some little snow.
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I know the difference, I was just making a little joke. Anyone frequenting slashdot long enough knows what either word means.
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Nobody ever told you that you shouldn't install unapproved software on your work PC? So, yes, I could try to install unapproved software (that demo). Obviously, I don't do that, otherwhise I would be running Mozilla right now.
Reading slashdot at work is probably already enough to get me in trouble!
Finally that demo wasn't about T9. I know T9 and I have it on my cell. I just pointed out some flaws of T9, and that poster provided me with an alternative. So the Demo is *not* about T9, but another (better?) technology.
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Okay... that page is linked a dozen of times, so I suspect that the page actually had valid data before. Someone must have 0nw3d it, and replaced the useful data with the goatse.cx guy.
Perhaps, but I stopped reading after the link to
http://www.alain.knaff.lu/howto/MozillaCustomizati on/ That's the goatse.cx pic, and this post deserves to be modded down to hell.
Moderators: follow the damned links!
Oh, I had many... Ranging form "This is not my problem", or "Forwarding such a tiny mail doesn't harm anyone". I always try to explain that sending email harms network performance and server load. Nobody wants to listen. It could of course be my writing style that incites such reactions. Or that some friends of my friends are just morons. My direct friends usually don't complain.
What I need is a link to a website which explains comprehensively what impact these small chainletter like emails have on networks.
Means whenever I receive such mail I can explain this to all their friends as well as just them.
Yes, I have done this many times. Virus warnings, chain letters, urban legends, Viruses itself. However, people absolutely hate it when you do that: You get flames back stating "don't spam me", or "who the fuck are you?". Normal people don't understand email. Of course, it also might have to do with the fact that I often have a sarcastic undertone in my emails.
I do... So does my dad. The radio is the one thing that is *always* "on" in the house. Not the TV, like in American families. (Yup, Eurotrash talking here)
I wake up with the radio (I hate Beep-beep alarms), I listen to the news over breakfast, and in the car I listen to a morning show on ARA-City-Radio (great job guys!).
Unfortunately at work radio's are forbidden, but at other clients it wasn't, so when I can and the coworkers agree I listen to the radio during work.
In the evening a good classic-radio station and my day is over... With tons of radio a day.
Exactly my thought after seeing that page. If this came from some serious institution, it would be better. Without any pictures, how are we supposed to tell if thisis bogus or not.
Not really a worthy article. If the ESA or NASA published something like this, I would be less sceptical.
Oh, boy... You bring up memories! We had to use Oberon as a programming language at University in the first year! They did this because they didn't want anyone familiar with C/C++, Pascal or Basic to have an advantage over the people who did not have experience with any programming language. Of course this was stupid, because it really was Pascal in more fancy. (Pascal -> Modula2 -> Oberon... All Wirth Languages I think)
Actually Oberon -the OS- wasn't that bad. The version I had ran on top of DOS. Don't know if that applies as an OS then though. Oberon also has a strange filesystem for diskettes. I still have some disks formatted for it somewhere in a box. Probably unreadable with anything I have today.
Ah, the late night hacking sessions on my 486DX/2 laptop in my student room, together with my best buddy and a few bottle of wine! Those were the days!
Interesting. Too bad the demo is a.exe Which means I have no way of running it. I really wonder how it works....
Strangely enough they only list 2 cellphones that support it. The rest are DECT phones (DECT is a wireless protocol for normal phones), probably using ISDN (which allows SMS, dunno about good 'ole POTS)
First time I see a website counting Luxembourgish as a language! Even Google doesn't have it in its list. And, yes, it's officially a language.
Hmmm, I don't know. I often leave my phone's memory full for a long time (forget phone at home for example). If it was important, they can call me;-)
I think I've got very good service. Never have a real problem and on this "problem", I blame my cellphone. What a strange idea just to have 20 memory slots. *sigh"
I have a phone with T9. While I know it is much faster, I have turned it off. The reason for this, is that I have friends that talk dutch, french, german, english and luxembourgish. So for each SMS I want to type I need to change the T9-dictionary, which is more lost time than typing "old-style". (On top of that, there is no Luxmebourgish T9-dictionary, as you might have expected)
T9 is fine, if you live in a mono-linguistic environment. For me T9 just plainly is annoying. I just work around the problem, by using my Psion to type SMSes;-)
Yes, that is what he is talking about. I turned that stupid question off, and set it to "Never Expire". I personnaly have the S35i, but it's the same chipset.
Menu -> Messages -> Message Setup -> Validity Period.
Now click "Change" and select "Maximum", yours is on "Variable" which is the cause of the question.
Veel geluk Maarten;-) Misschien tijdelijk je foon z'n taal op Engels zetten.
I live in Europe, and there are two ways I've lost SMS. The first one is by not cleaning up the SMSes stored in the phone. If the memory is full, it's full and you lose new incoming messages. That -of course- is a user error.
The other way I know I miss SMS, is when I try to SMS a American cellphone. The SMS gets billed, but it never arrives. I guess that there are no gateways.
The only irate "why didn't you respond to my text" complaints, I get is when I did not reply to an SMS I got, and postponed replying with net result: not replying at all. Again: user error;-)
that the _WORST_ things I've seen out there are pr0n dialers
Ehm, and why do you download them and execute them in the first place? I mean, if I see an "exe" (or "com", "bat", "vbs") it just doesn't get downloaded. That's even more stupid than opening exe's in your emailclient.
Okay, okay...but a NeoGeo then, or a Lynx. I do not consider Sega evil. They just got bad luck marketing their excellent machines. I still have my GameGear and you can pry it from my cold dead hands.
Ehm... Do neither... Your logic is flawed: it's the total sum that you pays them that counts. Net total you still pay them. It's better to leave the Xboxes and the games on the shelves. Get your gaming kicks at Sony or Nintendo. And if you think those companies are evil, buy yourself a used Sega Master system.
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Not exactly. The Quattro from the Audi's is an actual *permanent* 4x4 mechanism (from the A4 and up), the 4Motion used in VW models is based upon a Haldex system. Technically it means that you are in frontwheel drive all the time, except when the front tires start to slip: then the rear tires come in. The Haldex system hydrolically manages this. ;-) )
It gets nasty on the Audi A3 and Audi TT, because those are built on the same platform as the Volkswagen Golf. So if you have an A3 or a TT labelled "quattro", you actually get the 4Motion Haldex-based system.
Unfortunately enough I found that only out *after* buying my TT. I'd have gone for the 3.0 A4 Quattro otherwhise. (Yes, those are gass guzzelers... in Europe
And you are right about the braking with all wheel drive. Snow and ice means you have to lower your speed anyway, but it sure makes me laugh when I see all those rearwheel drive Mercedes and BMW sitting at the side of a hill because of some little snow.
I know the difference, I was just making a little joke. Anyone frequenting slashdot long enough knows what either word means.
Nee, nee... du mengs SPAM ;-)
Nobody ever told you that you shouldn't install unapproved software on your work PC? So, yes, I could try to install unapproved software (that demo). Obviously, I don't do that, otherwhise I would be running Mozilla right now.
Reading slashdot at work is probably already enough to get me in trouble!
Finally that demo wasn't about T9. I know T9 and I have it on my cell. I just pointed out some flaws of T9, and that poster provided me with an alternative. So the Demo is *not* about T9, but another (better?) technology.
Is it "cracker" or "hacker"?
Yup, very possible. I'll try the link at home on OS X. Not my fault this company uses IE as default.
Okay... that page is linked a dozen of times, so I suspect that the page actually had valid data before. Someone must have 0nw3d it, and replaced the useful data with the goatse.cx guy.
Perhaps, but I stopped reading after the link to http://www.alain.knaff.lu/howto/MozillaCustomizati on/ That's the goatse.cx pic, and this post deserves to be modded down to hell.
Moderators: follow the damned links!
My poor eyes!
What I need is a link to a website which explains comprehensively what impact these small chainletter like emails have on networks.
Yes, I have done this many times. Virus warnings, chain letters, urban legends, Viruses itself. However, people absolutely hate it when you do that: You get flames back stating "don't spam me", or "who the fuck are you?". Normal people don't understand email. Of course, it also might have to do with the fact that I often have a sarcastic undertone in my emails.
WHAT? Bush knows how to *read*?
I do... So does my dad. The radio is the one thing that is *always* "on" in the house. Not the TV, like in American families. (Yup, Eurotrash talking here)
I wake up with the radio (I hate Beep-beep alarms), I listen to the news over breakfast, and in the car I listen to a morning show on ARA-City-Radio (great job guys!).
Unfortunately at work radio's are forbidden, but at other clients it wasn't, so when I can and the coworkers agree I listen to the radio during work.
In the evening a good classic-radio station and my day is over... With tons of radio a day.
Exactly my thought after seeing that page. If this came from some serious institution, it would be better. Without any pictures, how are we supposed to tell if thisis bogus or not.
Not really a worthy article. If the ESA or NASA published something like this, I would be less sceptical.
VBA... *sigh*
Actually Oberon -the OS- wasn't that bad. The version I had ran on top of DOS. Don't know if that applies as an OS then though. Oberon also has a strange filesystem for diskettes. I still have some disks formatted for it somewhere in a box. Probably unreadable with anything I have today.
Ah, the late night hacking sessions on my 486DX/2 laptop in my student room, together with my best buddy and a few bottle of wine! Those were the days!
Won't help me: OS X.
Strangely enough they only list 2 cellphones that support it. The rest are DECT phones (DECT is a wireless protocol for normal phones), probably using ISDN (which allows SMS, dunno about good 'ole POTS)
First time I see a website counting Luxembourgish as a language! Even Google doesn't have it in its list. And, yes, it's officially a language.
Hmmm, I don't know. I often leave my phone's memory full for a long time (forget phone at home for example). If it was important, they can call me ;-)
I think I've got very good service. Never have a real problem and on this "problem", I blame my cellphone. What a strange idea just to have 20 memory slots. *sigh"
T9 is fine, if you live in a mono-linguistic environment. For me T9 just plainly is annoying. I just work around the problem, by using my Psion to type SMSes ;-)
Menu -> Messages -> Message Setup -> Validity Period.
Now click "Change" and select "Maximum", yours is on "Variable" which is the cause of the question.
Veel geluk Maarten ;-) Misschien tijdelijk je foon z'n taal op Engels zetten.
I live in Europe, and there are two ways I've lost SMS. The first one is by not cleaning up the SMSes stored in the phone. If the memory is full, it's full and you lose new incoming messages. That -of course- is a user error. ;-)
The other way I know I miss SMS, is when I try to SMS a American cellphone. The SMS gets billed, but it never arrives. I guess that there are no gateways.
The only irate "why didn't you respond to my text" complaints, I get is when I did not reply to an SMS I got, and postponed replying with net result: not replying at all. Again: user error
Ehm, and why do you download them and execute them in the first place? I mean, if I see an "exe" (or "com", "bat", "vbs") it just doesn't get downloaded. That's even more stupid than opening exe's in your emailclient.
Okay, okay...but a NeoGeo then, or a Lynx.
I do not consider Sega evil. They just got bad luck marketing their excellent machines. I still have my GameGear and you can pry it from my cold dead hands.
Ehm... Do neither... Your logic is flawed: it's the total sum that you pays them that counts. Net total you still pay them. It's better to leave the Xboxes and the games on the shelves. Get your gaming kicks at Sony or Nintendo. And if you think those companies are evil, buy yourself a used Sega Master system.