That's correct. The fuel injector settings were slightly different and the corvette needed a higher octance (slower burning) fuel to get peak performance, while the slightly detuned camero was designed to run on lower octane (faster burning) gas.
If you have a fuel injector, not a carborator, never waste money on high octane gas unless your engine requires it.
Totally off topic, but I'd just like to point out that at this point in the thread, not only do I have only the vaguest idea what the original article was about (some camera hack?), I can only barely remember what the top post in this thread was about.
And yet, I was looking for information and opinion on this very subject just yesterday.
No one is going to see this post, but Jesus Fucking Christ, that is such total fucking bullshit.
You can start working at 14 if you have a work permit (issued in Michigan by the school district for some reason), and at 16 without. Yeah, maybe it's a shitty minimum wage job, but it's still a job, at which you can save money (especially if you still live at home).
Re: buying a PC when you were growing up -- I grew up in the 1980s. A friend has a paper route and saved up enough for a ColecoVision and (no kidding) ADAM PC in just one summer. I worked dishwashing at $3.35/hour and saved enough to buy at least two Apple II games a month, plus cigarettes and whatever else I needed -- or rather wanted -- when I was a teenager.
Anyone who says "there are no jobs" is fucking pathetic. There may be no GOOD jobs, or no great hi-tech jobs for highly educated people, but for kids there is always work if you're willing to do shit work.
Free money -- a prize, income that doesn't come from capital gains or a job -- gets taxed at a really high rate. Because at your job, your employer pays half the SSI and medicare, and you pay half. If you're self-employed, you have to pay "double" the SSI and medicare. Being in the prize-winning business is basically self employment for the purposes of taxation, so you get dinged for all those taxes. For most people who make >$30K a year, the amount starts to approach 45%.
I enjoyed QuickSilver, but kept feeling that if my knowledge of the history of the period was better, I would have enjoyed it much more. (One of the reasons I like Cryptonomicon so much is because I was so familiar with the modern day portions.) I'm holding off on the next book until I do read some history.
I ended up at a Catholic high school (for disciple reasons, not religious ones, although I am Catholic). No one there had any problems with non-Catholics attending for the education. It's part of the whole "be nice to everyone / evangalism" of the Catholic church to be pretty open to non-Catholics attending their schools. As long as they respected the Catholic traditions of the school -- not fucking around during prayers, etc -- it was no big deal.
Like the kid from Mexico who went to my summer camp. No one expected him to say the pledge in the mornings, but he was expected to stand quietly while the other kids did.
That said, it is amazing how a Catholic school will tell you a diversity of opinions is ok on issues like Social Justice, Literature and Science, but abortion is flat-out murder no matter what.
Ironically, since it's known for being fairly fuddy-duddy, the Catholic religion is offically fairly cool with both evolution and the big bang theory. They take the "it's all God's plan" attitude of the grandparent poster -- God created heaven and earth, and all the natural laws of the universe, that enabled us to be here, more or less.
It's not clear to me if this link is actually the official catechism of the Catholic church or just one person's analysis (and there's a lot near the end that I suspect most slashdotters will take issue with), but it gives an idea of how liberal the Catholic church's views on the subject are compared to say, fundementalist Christians.
Can you name, and maybe link to, one public (and by public I am assuming you mean NPR or community-run) radio station that has been taken over by ClearChannel?
Our Canadian office orders (or at least ordered) those Fujitsu keyboards exclusively. Made us all jealous when we went up for a visit. Except me, because I have an old Silicon Graphic keyboard that's even heavier, noisier, and faster to type on...
Jobless figures plunged as the world celebrated the capture of Osama bin Laden. Unfortunetly this news is ashes in my mouth, thanks to this sour, flavorless cup of burned java. And did I mention there was only non-dairy creamer? I hate the world.
For the record, as I type this, I am drinking some warm, but free, Peets that I took from the Marriot near my office, where I had stopped by to use the free interweb access on the way to work (much easier to get work done where no one is bugging you with 'administrivia').
The problem is, you can hire 100 employees to work 4 hours a week, and everyone is STILL going to be missing at 5pm Friday and 9am Monday. Managing low-wage (and thus low-incentive-to-put-up-with-management-bullshit) employees is much harder than some kind of simple math problem, and even harder than managing people who make tons of dough -- and thus have some incentive to not get fired.
My kid goes to a child care center in a working class neighborhood, and the policy is $20 for every fifteen minutes over. There: I have anecdotally proven that this dollar doubling bullshit is, in fact, bullshit.
And as we all know, anecdotes are the most scientifically sound method of determining widespread fact.
You're missing something. If there was a tunnel across the Bering Strait -- or a bridge, which would be more practical -- you could drive, although it would take a few days, from the tip of South America, to the tip of South Africe (via South American, Central America, North America, Siberia, Asia, Europe, if you felt like it, Asia Minor/Middle East, Africa). The point was it would be the ultimate road trip, although I'm not sure if they have Stuckeys in Asia, so that part of the trip may get dull.
A friend of mine hid a proposal in a game we were working on. His girlfriend isn't a huge gamer, but when he left the game, the system, and the magazine (Tips & Tricks #100) open to the page with the proposal cheat revealed on it, she figured it out!
Man, these Dell horror stories are amazing. One word: IBM. They tell you exactly what the shipping will be when you order; the laptop arrives the day it's supposed to; the customer service is great; and the laptops have a track pad and a track point.
More expensive? Sometimes, but frequently they do have "sweet spot" deals.
God forbid NASA ever admit the Russians are just plain *better* at space exploration than we are.
Yeah, their stuff may be simpler, and more brute force, with less safety margin, but damnit it WORKS and its CHEAP, unlike NASA's recent efforts.
Space tourist seats cost $20 million. Assuming that that doesn't underwrite the entire flight, just that seat, the Russians are sending up Soyuz capsules for ~$60 million a shot (3 seats at $20 million per). This is a very conservative estimate -- it probably costs much less than that.
A shuttle launch, when you take into account the development cost of the shuttle, is $500 million. That's almost ten times as much. Ridiculous. The cold war is over; we should get off our high horse and spend more money funding Russian launches.
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I do, both, somehow the "duck!" comment at the end of the post got lost, totally changing the meaning...
If you have a fuel injector, not a carborator, never waste money on high octane gas unless your engine requires it.
And yet, I was looking for information and opinion on this very subject just yesterday.
Hence, slashdot rules.
Or have a kid. She takes care of the kid while you game. Perfect.
You can start working at 14 if you have a work permit (issued in Michigan by the school district for some reason), and at 16 without. Yeah, maybe it's a shitty minimum wage job, but it's still a job, at which you can save money (especially if you still live at home).
Re: buying a PC when you were growing up -- I grew up in the 1980s. A friend has a paper route and saved up enough for a ColecoVision and (no kidding) ADAM PC in just one summer. I worked dishwashing at $3.35/hour and saved enough to buy at least two Apple II games a month, plus cigarettes and whatever else I needed -- or rather wanted -- when I was a teenager.
Anyone who says "there are no jobs" is fucking pathetic. There may be no GOOD jobs, or no great hi-tech jobs for highly educated people, but for kids there is always work if you're willing to do shit work.
I just wish I could find the video of her A10 going crazy over downtown.
Don't you need some applied math and science to be an electrician?
Free money -- a prize, income that doesn't come from capital gains or a job -- gets taxed at a really high rate. Because at your job, your employer pays half the SSI and medicare, and you pay half. If you're self-employed, you have to pay "double" the SSI and medicare. Being in the prize-winning business is basically self employment for the purposes of taxation, so you get dinged for all those taxes. For most people who make >$30K a year, the amount starts to approach 45%.
I enjoyed QuickSilver, but kept feeling that if my knowledge of the history of the period was better, I would have enjoyed it much more. (One of the reasons I like Cryptonomicon so much is because I was so familiar with the modern day portions.) I'm holding off on the next book until I do read some history.
Like the kid from Mexico who went to my summer camp. No one expected him to say the pledge in the mornings, but he was expected to stand quietly while the other kids did.
That said, it is amazing how a Catholic school will tell you a diversity of opinions is ok on issues like Social Justice, Literature and Science, but abortion is flat-out murder no matter what.
Yeah, I definitely subscribe to the "God is some kid playing the best game of SimCity ever" theory of theology.
It's not clear to me if this link is actually the official catechism of the Catholic church or just one person's analysis (and there's a lot near the end that I suspect most slashdotters will take issue with), but it gives an idea of how liberal the Catholic church's views on the subject are compared to say, fundementalist Christians.
Can you name, and maybe link to, one public (and by public I am assuming you mean NPR or community-run) radio station that has been taken over by ClearChannel?
Still... this "communication" you reference... can you imagine a beow..
nevermind.
Our Canadian office orders (or at least ordered) those Fujitsu keyboards exclusively. Made us all jealous when we went up for a visit. Except me, because I have an old Silicon Graphic keyboard that's even heavier, noisier, and faster to type on...
Jobless figures plunged as the world celebrated the capture of Osama bin Laden. Unfortunetly this news is ashes in my mouth, thanks to this sour, flavorless cup of burned java. And did I mention there was only non-dairy creamer? I hate the world.
For the record, as I type this, I am drinking some warm, but free, Peets that I took from the Marriot near my office, where I had stopped by to use the free interweb access on the way to work (much easier to get work done where no one is bugging you with 'administrivia').
The problem is, you can hire 100 employees to work 4 hours a week, and everyone is STILL going to be missing at 5pm Friday and 9am Monday. Managing low-wage (and thus low-incentive-to-put-up-with-management-bullshit) employees is much harder than some kind of simple math problem, and even harder than managing people who make tons of dough -- and thus have some incentive to not get fired.
And as we all know, anecdotes are the most scientifically sound method of determining widespread fact.
-Chris
You're missing something. If there was a tunnel across the Bering Strait -- or a bridge, which would be more practical -- you could drive, although it would take a few days, from the tip of South America, to the tip of South Africe (via South American, Central America, North America, Siberia, Asia, Europe, if you felt like it, Asia Minor/Middle East, Africa). The point was it would be the ultimate road trip, although I'm not sure if they have Stuckeys in Asia, so that part of the trip may get dull.
A friend of mine hid a proposal in a game we were working on. His girlfriend isn't a huge gamer, but when he left the game, the system, and the magazine (Tips & Tricks #100) open to the page with the proposal cheat revealed on it, she figured it out!
Best Buy. Sells laptops for the same price as online; they're pretty good, though they don't sell IBM...
More expensive? Sometimes, but frequently they do have "sweet spot" deals.
Yeah, their stuff may be simpler, and more brute force, with less safety margin, but damnit it WORKS and its CHEAP, unlike NASA's recent efforts.
Space tourist seats cost $20 million. Assuming that that doesn't underwrite the entire flight, just that seat, the Russians are sending up Soyuz capsules for ~$60 million a shot (3 seats at $20 million per). This is a very conservative estimate -- it probably costs much less than that.
A shuttle launch, when you take into account the development cost of the shuttle, is $500 million. That's almost ten times as much. Ridiculous. The cold war is over; we should get off our high horse and spend more money funding Russian launches.
I live in Oakland, CA (population 400,006) and the cheapest home broadband is... $55/month! WTF! Where is my cheap, urban broadband!
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