Had my daughter moaning on the last update. Firefox told her to update, or it did it automatically, and when it restarted Vista asked for my admin password. She was without Firefox until I came home from work. I got a bollocking. She could have used IE if she knew where to look. grrrr.
When cars started getting engine management computers everyone said the same thing about stupid mechanics hitting the CPU with a rubber mallet. Fast forward to today - my small garage has diagnostic equipment and they seem to be able to fix most problems.
Under the hood will have less parts than a combustion engine. No gearbox, no rads, no fuel pipes, air fiters etc. It will have a computer chip and an electric motor. I was winding my own motors and cutting my own brushes at ten years old. Please don't suggest electric motors, even the new brushless ones, are complex.
Wishbones, UV joints, shocks, brake pads; these will all be the same on an electric car. And I not sure why everyone says you must buy parts from a dealership. All parts come from large warehouses in the UK and next day delivery is not a problem. My small garage can order parts from any car before 12 and they'll arrive before 4pm.
And finally, minimum speed of 55mph? I've built electic radio controlled cars that go faster than that. There no reason an electric car can't go 80mph. It'll even get there quicker than an IC driven car.
They all carry warrant cards in the UK. You cannot stop them coming in and doing a search. Well you can, but you'll get done for something else, like obstruction.
Try school fates, coffee mornings, church jumble sales and the like. I got 8 books for two quid a few weeks back... They got 4 hardbacks in return too.
Charidee shops are a con. Reminds me of the Paul and Harry sketch where Harry runs the shops called "I'll sell you shit, you'll pay through the nose and you'll thank me".
The thing I don't understand is why they're not targeting people offering real child porn?
Last year I gave up moderating a hub on Direct Connect. One of the reasons was I couldn't be bothered banning users who were sharing child porn all the time. I'd come home from work, type in a list a 20 words relating to child porn and ban 10 out of 300 users for sharing this sort of crap. Before bed, I'd do the same. During the day, other mods would be keeping an eye out.
We were a small hub of friends sharing 20 year old music that was only available on vinyl. We didn't have the resources to keep on top of everything.
Everyone's IP addresses were out in the open. These people could be easily tracked. Where were the authorities? If they have time and effort to censor wikipedia, they have the time and effort to police real areas of concern.
During the design phase of the BMW X5 one of the designers added some rigidity grooves to an inner panel. These grooves spelt out his initials. The lead engineer and project manager thought this was amusing. It wouldn't surprise me if they made it into production.
All the parking meters in my UK town have solar panels on the top. Even the tourist information computer stations have them (not that anyone uses them). A perfect solution for powering LCDs.
Yes, I total agree with the article. I pay for 20mbit and yet, when connected to one of Astraweb's servers, using 30 SSL connections, I can only manage to 18.5mbit. I am disgusted. Where's my other 1.5mbit?
Some webpages, even the BBC in the early hours, are slow to _display_. The requesting of 50+ images, loading of a flash plugin and rendering by Javascript all add up. It has nothing to do with a slow connection on the client side. From 5pm til 10pm there is a noticable slowdown on all websites - I still get 16mbit from a decent server.
I had a point at the start and now I've forgotten it. Maybe I'm saying if you want fast broadband, you have to pay for it and you can't expect free services not to slow down at busy times.
I was searching for reviews on a TV. "[MODEL NUMBER] review" (no quotes) was my search term and, as you can probably guess, all the results on the first page were trying to sell me the TV.
On the second page was the perfect review complete with geeky stats and figures. I bumped it to the top.
Later on I repeated the search and the proper results were at the top.
If Google don't use my preference, they're a little silly.
I did something like this in the scouts. We dug a big hole, pissed in it, placed a cup in the middle and covered the hole with clear polythene. A few stones round the edge and one in the middle kept everything together.
The condensate collected on the polythene and dripped into the cup. We gained about half a cup of recycled piss at the end of the day.
Most people miss the point of "beating them up". Squaring up to someone and punching them on the nose and ending up on the floor grappling is not the answer. Premeditated violence is.
It has to be back-of-the-head violence, in their sleep violence, weaponised violence, scarring violence.
I once pushed in at a rave in Warminster, England. Original Tribal Gathering, is was. After pushing in I turned to the group behind - you don't mind me pushing in, do ya? - nah mate, the geezer behind said. His crew were from the Midlands and they were all sound as fuck. Let me borrow their drink too. We spent the hour chattin' and I met them again during the night. Safe as, all of them.
I could have pushed in front of anyone and no one would have minded as long as I pasted the time of day.
Aggression has a time and a place. In a queue is not one of them. It's pathetic to start shit over trivial matters.
Did you think the stabber was hard as nails? Did you look up to him? Was he dressed in scary black leather? Did he have a motorbike badge on his back? Did he have long hair? Was he stuck in a time warp? Was he someone worth knowing?
You know, I did this years back. I bought 20 pairs of black socks, threw out my old ones.
How do you manage usage? I mean, some socks get worn, and hence washed, more than others leading to greyness. I have now have 40 socks in various shades of grey.
Actually, I don't really care but thanks for reading.
Broke both my jaws 20 years ago, two metal gumshields were glued to my teeth, both of these had little hooks pointing up/down away from my mouth, on these hooks were elastic bands, these bands kept my nouth in the correct possition (and had to be cut if ever I puked).
When I'd healed, the elastic bands were removed and I looked just like Jaws. No white teeth, just metal.
If it wasn't for all the other metalwork screwed into my skull, I'd have been chewing through cables.:)
Liquid food for ten weeks... No pictures but I promise you it did happen.
1. There were/are plenty of ed2k sites. Remember ShareReactor? It was as big as the PirateBay.
The only difference now is that there are a lot of members-only torrent sites with, wait for it, old school FTP ratios.
2. The tit-for-tat is meaningless. The way BT grew so fast was because of the download-and-delete methodology. No one shares 50gb of hard drive space on BT, or at least they didn't to begin with... Which leads to BT's main problem of short file longevity. If ed2k users only shared half a dozen files each, the network would match BT in terms of speed.
If only there was a way of uploading a file once to an extremely fast server, that server mirroring the file with other extremely fast servers and the client downloading from there. I'm surprise no one has done this yet. Maybe it would be a good job for a university to take on...
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I can't wait until I'm old, I mean ancient, and have a low UID.
On Vista it fails.
Had my daughter moaning on the last update. Firefox told her to update, or it did it automatically, and when it restarted Vista asked for my admin password. She was without Firefox until I came home from work. I got a bollocking. She could have used IE if she knew where to look. grrrr.
Sorry but that's a load of rubbish.
When cars started getting engine management computers everyone said the same thing about stupid mechanics hitting the CPU with a rubber mallet. Fast forward to today - my small garage has diagnostic equipment and they seem to be able to fix most problems.
Under the hood will have less parts than a combustion engine. No gearbox, no rads, no fuel pipes, air fiters etc. It will have a computer chip and an electric motor. I was winding my own motors and cutting my own brushes at ten years old. Please don't suggest electric motors, even the new brushless ones, are complex.
Wishbones, UV joints, shocks, brake pads; these will all be the same on an electric car. And I not sure why everyone says you must buy parts from a dealership. All parts come from large warehouses in the UK and next day delivery is not a problem. My small garage can order parts from any car before 12 and they'll arrive before 4pm.
And finally, minimum speed of 55mph? I've built electic radio controlled cars that go faster than that. There no reason an electric car can't go 80mph. It'll even get there quicker than an IC driven car.
I still stand by what I said. You cannot stop them.
They all carry warrant cards in the UK. You cannot stop them coming in and doing a search. Well you can, but you'll get done for something else, like obstruction.
Make that three of us.
Try school fates, coffee mornings, church jumble sales and the like. I got 8 books for two quid a few weeks back... They got 4 hardbacks in return too.
Charidee shops are a con. Reminds me of the Paul and Harry sketch where Harry runs the shops called "I'll sell you shit, you'll pay through the nose and you'll thank me".
The thing I don't understand is why they're not targeting people offering real child porn?
Last year I gave up moderating a hub on Direct Connect. One of the reasons was I couldn't be bothered banning users who were sharing child porn all the time. I'd come home from work, type in a list a 20 words relating to child porn and ban 10 out of 300 users for sharing this sort of crap. Before bed, I'd do the same. During the day, other mods would be keeping an eye out.
We were a small hub of friends sharing 20 year old music that was only available on vinyl.
We didn't have the resources to keep on top of everything.
Everyone's IP addresses were out in the open. These people could be easily tracked. Where were the authorities? If they have time and effort to censor wikipedia, they have the time and effort to police real areas of concern.
The mind boggles.
And my wife had her picture refused because she was wearing her glasses. ...I told her but would she believe me?
Anyway, no big deal, just don't smile.
I use exactly 30 connections on usenet. 20 would do. A few sites are saying I need 250 connections on BT. It's a massive difference.
I was offered 110gb for $25 today. Me, Joe Average. I was a little disappointed it was down 15gb from the last time I looked. Recession, huh?
Bandwidth is so much cheaper than everyone thinks.
During the design phase of the BMW X5 one of the designers added some rigidity grooves to an inner panel. These grooves spelt out his initials. The lead engineer and project manager thought this was amusing. It wouldn't surprise me if they made it into production.
All good fun.
All the parking meters in my UK town have solar panels on the top. Even the tourist information computer stations have them (not that anyone uses them). A perfect solution for powering LCDs.
Yes, I total agree with the article. I pay for 20mbit and yet, when connected to one of Astraweb's servers, using 30 SSL connections, I can only manage to 18.5mbit. I am disgusted. Where's my other 1.5mbit?
Some webpages, even the BBC in the early hours, are slow to _display_. The requesting of 50+ images, loading of a flash plugin and rendering by Javascript all add up. It has nothing to do with a slow connection on the client side. From 5pm til 10pm there is a noticable slowdown on all websites - I still get 16mbit from a decent server.
I had a point at the start and now I've forgotten it. Maybe I'm saying if you want fast broadband, you have to pay for it and you can't expect free services not to slow down at busy times.
I used it twice yesterday and I liked it.
I was searching for reviews on a TV. "[MODEL NUMBER] review" (no quotes) was my search term and, as you can probably guess, all the results on the first page were trying to sell me the TV.
On the second page was the perfect review complete with geeky stats and figures. I bumped it to the top.
Later on I repeated the search and the proper results were at the top.
If Google don't use my preference, they're a little silly.
I wouldn't worry about them. We manage just fine with two. Not sure what wash back is but I have never heard of anyone getting diseases from taps.
I did something like this in the scouts. We dug a big hole, pissed in it, placed a cup in the middle and covered the hole with clear polythene. A few stones round the edge and one in the middle kept everything together.
The condensate collected on the polythene and dripped into the cup. We gained about half a cup of recycled piss at the end of the day.
Might buy you another few hours...
I think Joe gives up when he can't upload his 8mb pictures, from his brand spanking new 12mp camera, instantly. I know my Joe did.
Most people miss the point of "beating them up". Squaring up to someone and punching them on the nose and ending up on the floor grappling is not the answer. Premeditated violence is.
It has to be back-of-the-head violence, in their sleep violence, weaponised violence, scarring violence.
Sad, I know.
I once pushed in at a rave in Warminster, England. Original Tribal Gathering, is was. After pushing in I turned to the group behind - you don't mind me pushing in, do ya? - nah mate, the geezer behind said. His crew were from the Midlands and they were all sound as fuck. Let me borrow their drink too. We spent the hour chattin' and I met them again during the night. Safe as, all of them.
I could have pushed in front of anyone and no one would have minded as long as I pasted the time of day.
Aggression has a time and a place. In a queue is not one of them. It's pathetic to start shit over trivial matters.
Did you think the stabber was hard as nails? Did you look up to him? Was he dressed in scary black leather? Did he have a motorbike badge on his back? Did he have long hair? Was he stuck in a time warp? Was he someone worth knowing?
You know, I did this years back. I bought 20 pairs of black socks, threw out my old ones.
How do you manage usage? I mean, some socks get worn, and hence washed, more than others leading to greyness. I have now have 40 socks in various shades of grey.
Actually, I don't really care but thanks for reading.
Short story as I want to go home in a minute...
:)
Broke both my jaws 20 years ago, two metal gumshields were glued to my teeth, both of these had little hooks pointing up/down away from my mouth, on these hooks were elastic bands, these bands kept my nouth in the correct possition (and had to be cut if ever I puked).
When I'd healed, the elastic bands were removed and I looked just like Jaws. No white teeth, just metal.
If it wasn't for all the other metalwork screwed into my skull, I'd have been chewing through cables.
Liquid food for ten weeks... No pictures but I promise you it did happen.
All right stop, collaborate and listen
Ice is back with my brand new invention
You are going sing this in your head all day long.
Do people not remember sites like ShareReactor?
I mean, jesus, we were posting links to game rips on forums 10 years ago.
Searching in the client? That sounds like something the noobs do.
1. There were/are plenty of ed2k sites. Remember ShareReactor? It was as big as the PirateBay.
The only difference now is that there are a lot of members-only torrent sites with, wait for it, old school FTP ratios.
2. The tit-for-tat is meaningless. The way BT grew so fast was because of the download-and-delete methodology. No one shares 50gb of hard drive space on BT, or at least they didn't to begin with... Which leads to BT's main problem of short file longevity. If ed2k users only shared half a dozen files each, the network would match BT in terms of speed.
If only there was a way of uploading a file once to an extremely fast server, that server mirroring the file with other extremely fast servers and the client downloading from there. I'm surprise no one has done this yet. Maybe it would be a good job for a university to take on...
Ah, I thought it was the little hole in the middle of a DVD. Thanks for clearing that up.