Honda Jazz. 45mpg in urban traffic. I shall start all my posts in this thead with the same two sentences.
We get two car seats in the back. The little'uns don't mind. Everyone else can make their own travel arrangements. It's a Jazz, not a Taxi.
I fitted a double-bed mattress in the back last week, folded in half. On top of that was the complete bed broken into a couple of pieces. The new bed, I had that delivered, for free - why buy without free delivery?
65mpg on a 250 mile journey through a couple of cities. The five hour trip averages 40 miles an hour, I would guess, as we stop several times. I do this trip four times a year.
I haven't checked out usenetserver for a while but giganews is an all you can eat service. Great if you watch 2 movies a day but it's way over the top for casual users.
Astraweb has a pay per download service that suits me better. $25 for 120gb lasts me ages. When the GBP/$ exchange rate was good, this worked out the cheapest option for me. Today I pay about 70p for a DVDR. Today it takes about 35 mins from start to finish to download. 3 years ago, on my very old PC, it would sometimes take longer to extract the RARs than to download the whole DVDR.
binsearch (fantasic free service guys!), vcquality + a couple of greasemonkey scripts I wrote, makes finding stuff a breeze. NZB's are two-a-penny anyway.
I use urine on my many compost heaps to get the process started. The bottles of yellow liquid I carry down the garden are not full of beer, as some may think.
I'll admit, I buy The Sun for 30p each morning. Mainly for the football news (news?). All the men in the office have a quick gander. It is British culture. It is a bit of fun. It's a giggle.
"Trudy, 22, Middlesfield says 'I can't beleive the news...'" - these are true comedy gold comments.
I Was A Car Manufacturing Engineer... for Rover then BMW Rover.
70% of the cost of our cars was labour. Across all ranges, the ratio was about the same.
Thicker metals are used on higher end models. (My thoughts are that each panel has to be hand-reworked and the more you rework a panel, the thinner it becomes. You need thicker metal for the rework process, not for higher crash resistance, rust proofing etc). Everything else is the same. Newer, high-end models had increased costs for R&D. Later, smaller cars used technology filtered down from the high-end models. We've seen it all before from washing machines to everything else.
It is important that cars do not break down. The secondhand market is worth as much as the firsthand market. A bad reputation costs millions.
Look at the Honda Jazz with its excellent reliability record. It's the reason I bought mine after the warantee had ended.
Also look at the rental/HP markets and the gauranteed future price market on new cars. People are more willing to buy a new car if they know the secondhand price will remain high. Car makers often try a keep the secondhand market inflated by giving employees cheap cars that they must return after 2 years.
I worked at BMW for 8 years, 1 year of that was on the X5 project. The X5 and the previous dozen BMW Rovers, were designed to last 10 years. 10 years coming from an average 10,000 miles per year, 100,000 miles total.
They were never designed to fail. That is a myth.
After 10 years, all the tools were sold. These included sub-assembly jigs, checking fixtures, press dies and the like.
TVU is another. In fact there are a dozen. And all these new P2P flash players do a decent job too.
Sopcast is the daddy as far as I'm concerned. When I use VLC with it, it is almost a perfect solution for sports. I just wish the quality would improve. For someone like me, with a high upload rate, I think I should be offered high quality.
If I could just get it to stream to my 360, I'd be laughing. The one or two discussions I've read about it on the net are not enough; I can never get the stream to play even though my laptop says it's spitting out bits and bytes.
Would love to see an OSS solution. And no, I'm not clever enough to roll it myself.
Just install Windows Media Centre. Forget all that other rubbish. A manual handshake is needed by way of typing in a key code - just follow the onscreen instructions. Share folders in windows as normal. Nothing could be easier.
Xvid plays fine from the Video Library. VOBs must be played in the 360's WMC. WMV... heh.
My eyesight went downhill about five years ago. I stumped up the extra hundred quid for my photochromic (is that what you meant?) lens. I was so annoyed that no one told me they don't work in the car.
My solution was to drive with my head hanging out the window. You have to keep your mouth shut because of the bugs-of-teeth issue, so conversation with passengers is near on impossible.
Seriously, I couldn't live without them these days. If the time from dark to light was reduced it would be fantastic.
I never liked Soulseek but knew a lot of people who did. Client of choice was Direct Connect because you could see people's music shares, talk to them in the chat room or privately. We also had streaming ShoutCast server that some proper DJs used in the evenings. It was a community.
I also posted heavily on Usenet. Complete discographies from record labels. Ripped records that are not produced anymore and regularly get three figure prices on ebay. The group was far from mainstream too but everything fitted into the genre. Usenet, although not the friendliest of places, was a far better tool for communicating than BT.
On a side note, producers of the music I like actively post music around. White lables are perfect for ripping and posting on the internet - it's what they are designed for. A few top DJs have complained in the past about live performances hitting the net, only because they wanted to play their exclusive white labels for a few weeks longer and I believe they did have a point.
Other DJs are expected to buy vinyl. MP3 and CD mixing units gain no street cred. Downloaders, like myself, are expect to turn up at parties and part with entrance fees. I'm a little too old for that sort of thing now though - it's a young 'uns game - but I was spending all my wages on the scene back in the old school days.
Appologies to Usenet for not flooding in 12 months. Other people need to take their turn. It was not my fault the group died.
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It tells me Glasgow is the third largest city in England.
Great! That would be really handy to know, apart from the little fact that Glasgow is in Scotland. Still, never mind, thanks for playing.
Honda Jazz. 45mpg in urban traffic.
"High gear isn't nearly high enough."
I can take 5th at 20mph on a flat road. 30mph is a better speed. I often miss out 4th.
Sorry to pick on just one point of your post, the rest was spot on.
Honda Jazz. 45mpg in urban traffic. I shall start all my posts in this thead with the same two sentences.
I am just over 6' tall. I have no problems fitting in. I do not need a seatbelt extender.
Honda Jazz. 45mpg in urban traffic. I shall start all my posts in this thead with the same two sentences.
We get two car seats in the back. The little'uns don't mind. Everyone else can make their own travel arrangements. It's a Jazz, not a Taxi.
I fitted a double-bed mattress in the back last week, folded in half. On top of that was the complete bed broken into a couple of pieces. The new bed, I had that delivered, for free - why buy without free delivery?
65mpg on a 250 mile journey through a couple of cities. The five hour trip averages 40 miles an hour, I would guess, as we stop several times. I do this trip four times a year.
You get 25mpg in the city? That makes me cry.
Clap. Clap. Clap. Well done sir. :-)
The future is two blades. Two blades on a spindle rotating at 30,000rpm. Have you ever seen a surface planer? This is the future of razors.
Then encrypt the IP numbers!
I can't believe no one has thought of that before!
(yeah, yeah, I'll hand my card into reception on the way out)
That's a nice phrase to keep everyone feeling warm inside.
In truth, we do not lock up the innocent. To do so in the civilised wolrd is unthinkable.
So, while awaiting trial in a cell (on remand, as we call it here), you are not innocent.
My POS phone could record video and share the results via MMS ten years ago. Big yawn.
SSL is a must these days. Astraweb, on my package, give me unlimited connections. 30 is about the right ammount for me. YMMV.
:)
18.5mbit down on my 20mbit cable modem. CPU + memory issues keep the speed down. Joining hundreds of parts is stressful on the electronics.
As an uncle post said, check the alternatives. Some are more suitable than others.
I haven't checked out usenetserver for a while but giganews is an all you can eat service. Great if you watch 2 movies a day but it's way over the top for casual users.
Astraweb has a pay per download service that suits me better. $25 for 120gb lasts me ages. When the GBP/$ exchange rate was good, this worked out the cheapest option for me. Today I pay about 70p for a DVDR. Today it takes about 35 mins from start to finish to download. 3 years ago, on my very old PC, it would sometimes take longer to extract the RARs than to download the whole DVDR.
binsearch (fantasic free service guys!), vcquality + a couple of greasemonkey scripts I wrote, makes finding stuff a breeze. NZB's are two-a-penny anyway.
Standard english? That's a new one to me.
Over here, one speaks the Queen's english. If you wish to speak correctly, copy the Queen.
If you want to talk like a Yank, raise your voice, raise it again, add some twang and use a lot of TLAs.
And it's Lego by the way. Anyone saying different is just being difficult. As for the single block argument: one'er, two'er, eight'er, flat-eight...
Very interesting.
I use urine on my many compost heaps to get the process started. The bottles of yellow liquid I carry down the garden are not full of beer, as some may think.
You see this as porn? It's hardly wank material.
I'll admit, I buy The Sun for 30p each morning. Mainly for the football news (news?). All the men in the office have a quick gander. It is British culture. It is a bit of fun. It's a giggle.
"Trudy, 22, Middlesfield says 'I can't beleive the news...'" - these are true comedy gold comments.
Injections (plural). You need to have two. One in each...
Oh my Lord. Brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it.
I Was A Car Manufacturing Engineer... for Rover then BMW Rover.
70% of the cost of our cars was labour. Across all ranges, the ratio was about the same.
Thicker metals are used on higher end models. (My thoughts are that each panel has to be hand-reworked and the more you rework a panel, the thinner it becomes. You need thicker metal for the rework process, not for higher crash resistance, rust proofing etc). Everything else is the same. Newer, high-end models had increased costs for R&D. Later, smaller cars used technology filtered down from the high-end models. We've seen it all before from washing machines to everything else.
You pay upfront though. 20 guilders in 1993. Um. So a friend told me.
Very true but you've missed a detail.
It is important that cars do not break down. The secondhand market is worth as much as the firsthand market. A bad reputation costs millions.
Look at the Honda Jazz with its excellent reliability record. It's the reason I bought mine after the warantee had ended.
Also look at the rental/HP markets and the gauranteed future price market on new cars. People are more willing to buy a new car if they know the secondhand price will remain high. Car makers often try a keep the secondhand market inflated by giving employees cheap cars that they must return after 2 years.
(Sorry for the bad english, I'm in a rush)
I worked at BMW for 8 years, 1 year of that was on the X5 project. The X5 and the previous dozen BMW Rovers, were designed to last 10 years. 10 years coming from an average 10,000 miles per year, 100,000 miles total.
They were never designed to fail. That is a myth.
After 10 years, all the tools were sold. These included sub-assembly jigs, checking fixtures, press dies and the like.
With an electric fire!
That's got to be worth a +1 something for effort. No?
TVU is another. In fact there are a dozen. And all these new P2P flash players do a decent job too.
Sopcast is the daddy as far as I'm concerned. When I use VLC with it, it is almost a perfect solution for sports. I just wish the quality would improve. For someone like me, with a high upload rate, I think I should be offered high quality.
If I could just get it to stream to my 360, I'd be laughing. The one or two discussions I've read about it on the net are not enough; I can never get the stream to play even though my laptop says it's spitting out bits and bytes.
Would love to see an OSS solution. And no, I'm not clever enough to roll it myself.
Just install Windows Media Centre. Forget all that other rubbish. A manual handshake is needed by way of typing in a key code - just follow the onscreen instructions. Share folders in windows as normal. Nothing could be easier.
... heh.
Xvid plays fine from the Video Library. VOBs must be played in the 360's WMC. WMV
My eyesight went downhill about five years ago. I stumped up the extra hundred quid for my photochromic (is that what you meant?) lens. I was so annoyed that no one told me they don't work in the car.
My solution was to drive with my head hanging out the window. You have to keep your mouth shut because of the bugs-of-teeth issue, so conversation with passengers is near on impossible.
Seriously, I couldn't live without them these days. If the time from dark to light was reduced it would be fantastic.
Acting is just reading aloud.
Nail on the head.
I never liked Soulseek but knew a lot of people who did. Client of choice was Direct Connect because you could see people's music shares, talk to them in the chat room or privately. We also had streaming ShoutCast server that some proper DJs used in the evenings. It was a community.
I also posted heavily on Usenet. Complete discographies from record labels. Ripped records that are not produced anymore and regularly get three figure prices on ebay. The group was far from mainstream too but everything fitted into the genre. Usenet, although not the friendliest of places, was a far better tool for communicating than BT.
On a side note, producers of the music I like actively post music around. White lables are perfect for ripping and posting on the internet - it's what they are designed for. A few top DJs have complained in the past about live performances hitting the net, only because they wanted to play their exclusive white labels for a few weeks longer and I believe they did have a point.
Other DJs are expected to buy vinyl. MP3 and CD mixing units gain no street cred. Downloaders, like myself, are expect to turn up at parties and part with entrance fees. I'm a little too old for that sort of thing now though - it's a young 'uns game - but I was spending all my wages on the scene back in the old school days.
Appologies to Usenet for not flooding in 12 months. Other people need to take their turn. It was not my fault the group died.