I was looking to warm up on that theme too. Swerving off topic here, but I am troubled by the assumptions this whole thread on oil warning lights is bearing.
Oil Warning Light = Check Oil level? Really?
Maybe it's just my limited slice of experience, but almost every car I have come across has an oil pressure gauge, very very few ever had an oil level gauge. I can't remember any (but why the hell would i remember a thing like that anyway).
It's hard to measure the oil level within a running engine, although it probably can be done in some fashion as there will always be a certain amount of oil flowing through the sump at any one time. It is usually measured with the engine warm, off and after a few minutes standing to let the oil flow back to the sump.
If your oil pressure light comes on, yeah, you probably better go check the oil level but don't just add more oil. It's usually a sign of BAD THINGS ABOUT TO HAPPEN(tm) and you probably have to fix something else if you want to keep your new oil in.
But then again I don't know, maybe ya'll got genuine oil level gauges on the cars where you come from. I ride a bicycle these days anyway...
Yeah, you can imagine (man). Trying to get stoners to vote! They are a self-excluding population, in voting terms. What with having to get the date right, the polling station right, have an address, be registered, choose a candidate...and then deal with all the weird people (man) at the polling station acting weird? Nah, better jus' spark another one and mebbe vote (or something man) next time around.
and booted out sextants and other radio-based systems like RDF, Loran altogether
Not true in the case of Loran C. It is now widely understood that not only is GPS at the mercy of its US military owners who can switch the signal off at any time, but that the GPS signal can be interfered with locally (a radius of 50 - 100 km perhaps).
Loran C is being proposed as a full back-up system to GPS in the light of these issues - particularily the interference problem. Currently, such an attack in, say, the English Channel would cause big time chaos.
The European Galileo system, when operative, will not provide an alternative back-up as it will be vulnerable to the same kind of interference attack.
I even think the new gps systems will interface with radar to navigate around other boats. Talk about lazyiness.
Not so. Modern boat electronics will allow cool stuff like overlay of radar with GPS chartplotters but you are taking it a step too far when you suggest the boat's systems could then make a decision to alter course without human intervention.
Another system that has recently been introduced - manadatory on all commercial shipping over a certain tonnage - is AIS. Automatic ID system, whereby a vessel transmits a sentance of data containing it's ID, heading, speed and so forth. This might, theoretically lead to the possibility of automated helm instructions as the system would get much more reliable information about the another ships movements, but even then you would have to
1) ensure (mandate) that ALL vessels at sea were using active AIS
2) include some kind of inter-vessel negotiation so that simultaneous automatic helm instructions did not result in a secondary (and closer) collision situation
I often click on ads. I have done for years. When the mood takes me I will click on all the ads on a page. I open them in new tabs. In the background. Dozens of tabs. All recording a little juicy unique IP hit.
Of course, I don't read them. I just click on them...
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From the amazon full description...
"You'll even learn how to install, use, and alter extensions and plug-ins"
So plenty of reasons why you'll be needing this book, then...hmmm.
Not entirely true...you have to just help it along a little. +"+" then +"-" fixes the display. It's not ideal, but it works and just becomes a reflex after a while. I learnt that from slashdotters...thanx!
But just try to make a tactical nuclear weapon! For that, you need an entire army of primates
Not 'make'...'develop'. But this has already been done. Once humanity has blazed the trail to a new technology, there is a route, if you like, left behind making it much easier for others to follow. Tactical nuclear weapons _could_ be constructed by a lone person using the knowledge already accumulated and available to our species - and lots of ingenuity. Modern car engines are _not_ beyond the technical comprehension of a single human, however the trend is that it is becoming harder to understand its function by simple observation. So, you may need to construct an interface to onboard electronics and learn the data structure to home repair your vehicle, but then again, there's already paths available here too http://www.focushacks.com/index.php?modid=14 | http://www.easesim.com/J2534/ | http://www.aa1car.com/library/2004/us10430.htm etc etc etc. If you fail to appreciate that the technology has changed and you approach the job expecting it to be auto mechanics circa 1973 for ever, you are going to be confuseded by the dense, wireclad, evolved plastic thing in the front of your car these days. (I don't mean you as in parent poster, I should rewrite that in some bland third person style.)
Not everyone can do this...but that's why you're here, right?
You are making the obvious move of wording your text to make yourself seem bigger than a back room operation...but you have made a mistake. quoting from the site:
We are always glad to hear feedback from my customers.
something like 10^17 watts of power from the sun every second of the day(and night!:o).
What's a Watt per second?? Joules, shurely? I know what you mean...but you know the pedant must be heard. And Watts of power? Watt else could it possibly be? ok sorry sorry...
How so? I'd like to hear you expand on that. To me that was a winner. I had a new spec PC at the time, nothing ultra just up to date and I had no problem running the game, no problem playing the game, it had enough levels/gameplay/diversion and was quite charming and peaceful to play. I felt no burn...why do you feel like that? Seriously, I am genuinely interested as I am surprised to hear that.
Hey, do I misses somethings? Were a new version of english grammar just gotten released? At first I thought you were being pedantically precise, as in "these data" but now I are just feels left behind(s).
Ahem, I think the reason that Bush and the neo-goons don't steam into Pakistan is BECAUSE they are known to hold WMD. Invading Iraq started to look a lot more attractive when it became obvious they had no credible weaponry to deflect an invasion (by the largest holder of WMD, of course). Naturally, the disappearance of any good reason to invade Iraq was awkward but nothing serious strong arm neo-goon spin couldn't handle. FUD reigns, saddam doesn't.
Well, next time I am working on a one word document, I will use Word. Up to now, all my documents have contained at least two words, including my last letter to Microsoft, so I have been forced to use software with the necessary support for documents with multiple words.
1. Find b00bz
2. Project pron on b00bz
3. Make video of pron projected on b00bz
4. Find more b00bz
5. Project pron of pron projected on b00bz
6. etc etc etc
7. oh yeah, and Profit! somewhere along the line
Thanks for that. 'Firewall' has just taken on a new meaning in my mind. I don't think I will be able to shake that for a long time. I was going to chide you on your reverse imagery, I was going to day it's a WALL TO STOP FIRE. But not no more it aint. Now it's a WALL OF FIRE. And I like it like that.
But of course, now that I am thinking about it, it's not a wall at all. Metaphorically it's a secure door, a checkpoint, an underpaid security guard asleep at a desk in a grimey Brighton office after midnight (oh wait that's my place). It's an pinchpoint, whether it stops fire or is on fire.
In anti-slash fashion I went to the odeon website and it's all true, all true. So I wrote them:
Hello,
I tried to access the Odeon website this morning.
The page http://www.odeon.co.uk/Odeon/home.html just appeared as a blank page with a background image
I am using Phoenix 0.5 on Win XP.
Can I offer a suggestion? Your site has been coded to support Internet Explorer only and it is the use of IE specific javascript that is preventing me from seeing the page content - in fact I can see the javascript error that prevents the page functioning in my browser debugger. Your javascript code should test for any 'DOM' functionality before using it, and generally not assume functionality - all statements etc should be tested and correct handling added to handle error conditions - ie produce a message to the user informing them that their browser is not compatible with your site.
As a big, national company you should be concerned about this. There are many reasons why producing an accessible website is a good thing but of these 1) loss of business and 2) the chance of being sued should be foremost in your thinking, I would suggest.
Oh, and I am not going to the cinema tonight as I can't use your site.
Slashdot Mirror
Oil Warning Light = Check Oil level? Really?
Maybe it's just my limited slice of experience, but almost every car I have come across has an oil pressure gauge, very very few ever had an oil level gauge. I can't remember any (but why the hell would i remember a thing like that anyway).
It's hard to measure the oil level within a running engine, although it probably can be done in some fashion as there will always be a certain amount of oil flowing through the sump at any one time. It is usually measured with the engine warm, off and after a few minutes standing to let the oil flow back to the sump.
If your oil pressure light comes on, yeah, you probably better go check the oil level but don't just add more oil. It's usually a sign of BAD THINGS ABOUT TO HAPPEN(tm) and you probably have to fix something else if you want to keep your new oil in.
But then again I don't know, maybe ya'll got genuine oil level gauges on the cars where you come from. I ride a bicycle these days anyway...
Faraday
google might help you
Thankyou.
Yeah, you can imagine (man). Trying to get stoners to vote! They are a self-excluding population, in voting terms. What with having to get the date right, the polling station right, have an address, be registered, choose a candidate...and then deal with all the weird people (man) at the polling station acting weird? Nah, better jus' spark another one and mebbe vote (or something man) next time around.
If you're an idiot, and boating at night, you are a navigationalist.
Not true in the case of Loran C. It is now widely understood that not only is GPS at the mercy of its US military owners who can switch the signal off at any time, but that the GPS signal can be interfered with locally (a radius of 50 - 100 km perhaps).
Loran C is being proposed as a full back-up system to GPS in the light of these issues - particularily the interference problem. Currently, such an attack in, say, the English Channel would cause big time chaos.
The European Galileo system, when operative, will not provide an alternative back-up as it will be vulnerable to the same kind of interference attack.
Not so. Modern boat electronics will allow cool stuff like overlay of radar with GPS chartplotters but you are taking it a step too far when you suggest the boat's systems could then make a decision to alter course without human intervention.
Another system that has recently been introduced - manadatory on all commercial shipping over a certain tonnage - is AIS. Automatic ID system, whereby a vessel transmits a sentance of data containing it's ID, heading, speed and so forth. This might, theoretically lead to the possibility of automated helm instructions as the system would get much more reliable information about the another ships movements, but even then you would have to
1) ensure (mandate) that ALL vessels at sea were using active AIS
2) include some kind of inter-vessel negotiation so that simultaneous automatic helm instructions did not result in a secondary (and closer) collision situation
Of course, I don't read them. I just click on them...
From the amazon full description...
"You'll even learn how to install, use, and alter extensions and plug-ins"
So plenty of reasons why you'll be needing this book, then...hmmm.
Er, his blog looks fairly flattened now...he'll be thanking you soon no doubt.
Not entirely true...you have to just help it along a little. +"+" then +"-" fixes the display. It's not ideal, but it works and just becomes a reflex after a while. I learnt that from slashdotters...thanx!
It's a pronunciation problem that got out of hand...it's called the war on tourism.
Yeah. The police should have called the number first to check if there was a modem waiting for him on the other end...
TIP: PACK it with games!
Not 'make'...'develop'. But this has already been done. Once humanity has blazed the trail to a new technology, there is a route, if you like, left behind making it much easier for others to follow. Tactical nuclear weapons _could_ be constructed by a lone person using the knowledge already accumulated and available to our species - and lots of ingenuity. Modern car engines are _not_ beyond the technical comprehension of a single human, however the trend is that it is becoming harder to understand its function by simple observation. So, you may need to construct an interface to onboard electronics and learn the data structure to home repair your vehicle, but then again, there's already paths available here too http://www.focushacks.com/index.php?modid=14 | http://www.easesim.com/J2534/ | http://www.aa1car.com/library/2004/us10430.htm etc etc etc. If you fail to appreciate that the technology has changed and you approach the job expecting it to be auto mechanics circa 1973 for ever, you are going to be confuseded by the dense, wireclad, evolved plastic thing in the front of your car these days. (I don't mean you as in parent poster, I should rewrite that in some bland third person style.)
Not everyone can do this...but that's why you're here, right?
TFF ctl + / ctl - i couldn't slash without you
And when they make electrical tape illegal, break light.
You are making the obvious move of wording your text to make yourself seem bigger than a back room operation...but you have made a mistake. quoting from the site:
We are always glad to hear feedback from my customers.
at http://www.dbapsoftware.com/about.html
good luck with your business.
What's a Watt per second?? Joules, shurely? I know what you mean...but you know the pedant must be heard. And Watts of power? Watt else could it possibly be? ok sorry sorry...
How so? I'd like to hear you expand on that. To me that was a winner. I had a new spec PC at the time, nothing ultra just up to date and I had no problem running the game, no problem playing the game, it had enough levels/gameplay/diversion and was quite charming and peaceful to play. I felt no burn...why do you feel like that? Seriously, I am genuinely interested as I am surprised to hear that.
Hey, do I misses somethings? Were a new version of english grammar just gotten released? At first I thought you were being pedantically precise, as in "these data" but now I are just feels left behind(s).
Ahem, I think the reason that Bush and the neo-goons don't steam into Pakistan is BECAUSE they are known to hold WMD. Invading Iraq started to look a lot more attractive when it became obvious they had no credible weaponry to deflect an invasion (by the largest holder of WMD, of course). Naturally, the disappearance of any good reason to invade Iraq was awkward but nothing serious strong arm neo-goon spin couldn't handle. FUD reigns, saddam doesn't.
Well, next time I am working on a one word document, I will use Word. Up to now, all my documents have contained at least two words, including my last letter to Microsoft, so I have been forced to use software with the necessary support for documents with multiple words.
2. Project pron on b00bz
3. Make video of pron projected on b00bz
4. Find more b00bz
5. Project pron of pron projected on b00bz
6. etc etc etc
7. oh yeah, and Profit! somewhere along the line
Thanks for that. 'Firewall' has just taken on a new meaning in my mind. I don't think I will be able to shake that for a long time. I was going to chide you on your reverse imagery, I was going to day it's a WALL TO STOP FIRE. But not no more it aint. Now it's a WALL OF FIRE. And I like it like that.
But of course, now that I am thinking about it, it's not a wall at all. Metaphorically it's a secure door, a checkpoint, an underpaid security guard asleep at a desk in a grimey Brighton office after midnight (oh wait that's my place). It's an pinchpoint, whether it stops fire or is on fire.
In anti-slash fashion I went to the odeon website and it's all true, all true. So I wrote them:
Hello,
I tried to access the Odeon website this morning.
The page http://www.odeon.co.uk/Odeon/home.html just appeared as a blank page with a background image
I am using Phoenix 0.5 on Win XP.
Can I offer a suggestion? Your site has been coded to support Internet Explorer only and it is the use of IE specific javascript that is preventing me from seeing the page content - in fact I can see the javascript error that prevents the page functioning in my browser debugger. Your javascript code should test for any 'DOM' functionality before using it, and generally not assume functionality - all statements etc should be tested and correct handling added to handle error conditions - ie produce a message to the user informing them that their browser is not compatible with your site.
As a big, national company you should be concerned about this. There are many reasons why producing an accessible website is a good thing but of these 1) loss of business and 2) the chance of being sued should be foremost in your thinking, I would suggest.
Oh, and I am not going to the cinema tonight as I can't use your site.
Best regards,
That's one superb riposte of a post, oh yes. A sweet reply, my hat goes off in your general direction. Please write more, you improve this place.