I remember a couple who met on IRC several years ago (though it wasnt just IRC, it was the IRC network for the game Planetarion). She was from england, he was from canada but somewhere in there they got together, I remember sometime when he was in london (maybe he stayed with her on a trip because it was free and they fell for each other) and they were chatting together and then later she came to canada and they got married.
Which is quite unfortunate because those V10 TDI Touareg's are really fricking fast and powerful. The horsepower is similar to the V8 (gas) but it has DOUBLE to torque (and both of them at lower RPM). They are quite the the little monster, I work as a runner at the largets VW service center in the country and drove my first one a few days ago (the v10 is fairly rare) and boy...I dont like SUV's at all but...that thing was amazing. It also was VERY cleanburning and VERY fuel efficient
Unfortunately it looks like because of an unexpected EPA test requirment, VW has not been selling any more V10's in the 2005 model year. I know that the engines are still available here though because I know a mechanic who did a swap of the engine and both turbos not too long ago.
They also had a pretty damn strong showing in the last couple years of the Dakar rally.
Personally, I think the touareg has way too many "control modules" but in the case of the car being computer controlled, maybe its a good thing that everything is already computer accessable but its just...the first time I sat in one (I am currently a car runner at a VW dealership), the seat and steering wheel started moving as soon as I got in the car--damn luxury power seat package thing--and of course the person we had loaned hte car to before had very very short legs...ouch.
And what if the ethonal can be produced using large scale power souces such as clean ones (wind, solar, water, hydrogen) or even semi clean (nuclear) that are able to produce fast quantities of power on a large scale but dont fit so well into the back seat of your car.
The ethanol may take a lot of energy to produce, but so does hydrogen and everyone wants hydrogen cars. The point is that we can use cheap energy that is available in large amounts from large, fixed installations to make the ethanol that can then be used to replace oil usage in cars.
The clocks definately exist on desktop machines. My friend has a case with a nice little blue LCD panel on the front that has a few temp monitors and maybe even fan RPM in addition to the time. Of course its pretty lame (I could have had one on my case but I chose the model that just had buttons) because it doesnt interface with the motherboard at all and I would rather have the temps that come straight from the mobo and the time that comes straight from the internet.
Well, the mouse could pop out of the center of the rear of the laptop in which case it could go in either direction.
It is nice to use a real mouse with laptops when you are doing the things that require control. Photographers for instance tend to prefer a real mouse to a powerbook's touchpad for photoshop and gamers just cant deal with touchpads or clit-mice even if its just for an occasional game when the computer is sitting on the desk at home. The integrated pointing device must always be available for times when the computer is not in a mouse friendly location.
I guess I was one of those people who wasnt so impressed by garden state (it felt like it was trying too hard but maybe I should watch it again).
Closer on the other hand was a fantastic film and the IM scene was absolutely hilarious the first time around (ahh the joys of typing vulgarities in time to music)
A great idea for combined cable runs is to go to a homedepot type store and buy a piece of sump-pump hose (same thing as shop-vac hose but without the extra cost). Take it and slit it down the side and cut it to length. You can stick all of hte cables inside at any point and they can exit at any point. I have a 4ft piece with almost every cable for one of my systems in it and I am still able to selectively remove cables from the mix.
If the guy is trying to wire up 5-7 PC's, I dont think he really needs to look any further than a 16 port netgear (like the FS516 used on ebay). I dont think you need a lot of managing for 5 computers.
You could try rolling it into very well annealed copper. I think that some of those boards would be fairly resistant to the roller mill (I once took apart an old remote and went to town on the PCB but it held up damn well) and you might be able to get enough passes to see it on the copper.
You might want to figure out how to do it twice because otherwise the PCB pattern is going to get inverted (things stick out instead of being indented) and it would allow you to get a better initial pattern. Fully work hardened copper (throw it in a tumbler for an hour or two to make sure) should be able to make several pieces of annealed sterling before deforming.
What I have always wanted to see is a torrent running with a fatass pipe as the initial seed.
It shouldnt be so hard to set it up in a way that it seems like a normal download until it becomes so popular that the pipe cant push enough data, then it starts drawing from the peers.
hey, I'm 18 and I'm a good driver (I also recently got a job driving cars at a dealership) but I would be the first to concede that so many of the people my age (and especially the 16 and 17 year olds) drive like complete idiots. In fact, some of the worst drivers I know are probobly female (well one of them is technically a male but...).
It's true that I don't have the experiance mentioned by another poster (such as being rear-ended) but I love driving and I do things like say "hey its snowing" and go to a parking lot and have some fun while learning things like how long it takes me to stop, how hard it is to lock up the wheels and how tight I can turn before losing traction. Of course, playing around in the snow (and especially without the snow) doesnt interest everyone but if drivers ed consisted of things like that instead of the total bullshit it is now (most people in my class slept through it, you could redo the quizes as many times as you wanted) they would at least get the experiance.
Raising the driving age isnt going to do much, just make the idiots start later and still take as much time to gain experiance. The only way I would be for it is if it was something like the good grade incentive for insurance only more severe: Good Grades or you dont get your permit until the day you turn 17 (and minimum 6mo. after that for license).
actually in many places the limit is lower than it was back then (there may not have been a limit on the road back then either).
It all comes from the speed limit being set nationally to 55 (they wouldnt have to if the limits werent faster than that already) and not being bumped back up everywhere.
It depends how square of a turn they were making and the quality of the road/tires they were driving on.
I used to regularily take a 90degree turn at 40 or so in a VW Golf (with not-too-special bridgestone potenzas) on my way to work. It was an intersection that had a little curve exit thing (with a yield sign) so that turning vehicles don't have to hit the light but it was almost as tight as the turn a normal person would make at a normal intersection. If the base model suspension in that car (too soft and tall compared to a GTI or something) could handle that, I would hope that the lower and stiffer eclipse could do the same thing.
Not to mention that it was the 80's that felt the brunt of 1974's national speed limit to conserve fuel (with the current car's gear ratio's and such...something that could easily be changed to have the optimum speed be anywhere).
Those speed limits didnt go up until some rural highways got to go 65 in 87 and until the entire federal mandated speeds were lifted in 94 or so. Many of those speed limits are still set at 55 and have not been lifted by their state no matter that the people ignore them and the safety issue is not what it was originally thought to be. But hey, my state (mn) has better things to do than fix the speed limit...we still dont have a budget (not to mention that artificially low speed limits help out the police department budget).
I dont know the roads you are talking about but those are the speeds I like the most on roads outside of minneapolis (like MN55/100/169 and i394).
Those speeds are perfectly drivable on the highway by any decently built car. Driver attention becomes a much larger issue at high speeds but in my experiance, people on cell phones going 55 are not much differant than those going 70 (unlike those going 30 where its usually better). Half the time they lose hte ability to moderate their speed and it shifts around somewhere in the middle until they put down the handheld distraction device.
Ah, that would make it easier to track. At UChicago, the username/password is only needed for wireless connections (though if its a dorm room jack, its one of two people...)
Another smart thing to do is engrave your name and a drivers license number or something else identifiable and traceable into all electronics. Severely scratched out rectangles are usually a sure sign of stolen goods.
That would be a lot of data to sift through. I mean, I know that its not the most "connected" country out there but the underwater telecommunications cable has got to have quite a large amount of data going through it. Unless there was something very specific going through it at a certain time and they know a lot about it, it would be hard to find useful data.
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Your journal entry says you are from canada...
I remember a couple who met on IRC several years ago (though it wasnt just IRC, it was the IRC network for the game Planetarion). She was from england, he was from canada but somewhere in there they got together, I remember sometime when he was in london (maybe he stayed with her on a trip because it was free and they fell for each other) and they were chatting together and then later she came to canada and they got married.
funny thing is...I wasnt interested in the game before but now I feel like giving it a shot (provided it hasnt been pulled from shelves)
If that was a valid objective in the game, I'm sure games would be doing it in no time because they are so strongly influenced by games.
Unfortunately it looks like because of an unexpected EPA test requirment, VW has not been selling any more V10's in the 2005 model year. I know that the engines are still available here though because I know a mechanic who did a swap of the engine and both turbos not too long ago.
Personally, I think the touareg has way too many "control modules" but in the case of the car being computer controlled, maybe its a good thing that everything is already computer accessable but its just...the first time I sat in one (I am currently a car runner at a VW dealership), the seat and steering wheel started moving as soon as I got in the car--damn luxury power seat package thing--and of course the person we had loaned hte car to before had very very short legs...ouch.
The ethanol may take a lot of energy to produce, but so does hydrogen and everyone wants hydrogen cars. The point is that we can use cheap energy that is available in large amounts from large, fixed installations to make the ethanol that can then be used to replace oil usage in cars.
The clocks definately exist on desktop machines. My friend has a case with a nice little blue LCD panel on the front that has a few temp monitors and maybe even fan RPM in addition to the time. Of course its pretty lame (I could have had one on my case but I chose the model that just had buttons) because it doesnt interface with the motherboard at all and I would rather have the temps that come straight from the mobo and the time that comes straight from the internet.
It is nice to use a real mouse with laptops when you are doing the things that require control. Photographers for instance tend to prefer a real mouse to a powerbook's touchpad for photoshop and gamers just cant deal with touchpads or clit-mice even if its just for an occasional game when the computer is sitting on the desk at home. The integrated pointing device must always be available for times when the computer is not in a mouse friendly location.
Closer on the other hand was a fantastic film and the IM scene was absolutely hilarious the first time around (ahh the joys of typing vulgarities in time to music)
A great idea for combined cable runs is to go to a homedepot type store and buy a piece of sump-pump hose (same thing as shop-vac hose but without the extra cost). Take it and slit it down the side and cut it to length. You can stick all of hte cables inside at any point and they can exit at any point. I have a 4ft piece with almost every cable for one of my systems in it and I am still able to selectively remove cables from the mix.
If the guy is trying to wire up 5-7 PC's, I dont think he really needs to look any further than a 16 port netgear (like the FS516 used on ebay). I dont think you need a lot of managing for 5 computers.
I'm thinking...no
You might want to figure out how to do it twice because otherwise the PCB pattern is going to get inverted (things stick out instead of being indented) and it would allow you to get a better initial pattern. Fully work hardened copper (throw it in a tumbler for an hour or two to make sure) should be able to make several pieces of annealed sterling before deforming.
Its more like there was a window with blinds on it and a sign (the SSID broadcast) that said "Pull String to Watch TV"
It shouldnt be so hard to set it up in a way that it seems like a normal download until it becomes so popular that the pipe cant push enough data, then it starts drawing from the peers.
It's true that I don't have the experiance mentioned by another poster (such as being rear-ended) but I love driving and I do things like say "hey its snowing" and go to a parking lot and have some fun while learning things like how long it takes me to stop, how hard it is to lock up the wheels and how tight I can turn before losing traction. Of course, playing around in the snow (and especially without the snow) doesnt interest everyone but if drivers ed consisted of things like that instead of the total bullshit it is now (most people in my class slept through it, you could redo the quizes as many times as you wanted) they would at least get the experiance.
Raising the driving age isnt going to do much, just make the idiots start later and still take as much time to gain experiance. The only way I would be for it is if it was something like the good grade incentive for insurance only more severe: Good Grades or you dont get your permit until the day you turn 17 (and minimum 6mo. after that for license).
It all comes from the speed limit being set nationally to 55 (they wouldnt have to if the limits werent faster than that already) and not being bumped back up everywhere.
I used to regularily take a 90degree turn at 40 or so in a VW Golf (with not-too-special bridgestone potenzas) on my way to work. It was an intersection that had a little curve exit thing (with a yield sign) so that turning vehicles don't have to hit the light but it was almost as tight as the turn a normal person would make at a normal intersection. If the base model suspension in that car (too soft and tall compared to a GTI or something) could handle that, I would hope that the lower and stiffer eclipse could do the same thing.
Well, I agree except for the metro...you might fly off the road at any instant (if the car can still go that fast)...
Those speed limits didnt go up until some rural highways got to go 65 in 87 and until the entire federal mandated speeds were lifted in 94 or so. Many of those speed limits are still set at 55 and have not been lifted by their state no matter that the people ignore them and the safety issue is not what it was originally thought to be. But hey, my state (mn) has better things to do than fix the speed limit...we still dont have a budget (not to mention that artificially low speed limits help out the police department budget).
Those speeds are perfectly drivable on the highway by any decently built car. Driver attention becomes a much larger issue at high speeds but in my experiance, people on cell phones going 55 are not much differant than those going 70 (unlike those going 30 where its usually better). Half the time they lose hte ability to moderate their speed and it shifts around somewhere in the middle until they put down the handheld distraction device.
They are in many different formats including full-resolution DVD sized mpeg
Another smart thing to do is engrave your name and a drivers license number or something else identifiable and traceable into all electronics. Severely scratched out rectangles are usually a sure sign of stolen goods.
That would be a lot of data to sift through. I mean, I know that its not the most "connected" country out there but the underwater telecommunications cable has got to have quite a large amount of data going through it. Unless there was something very specific going through it at a certain time and they know a lot about it, it would be hard to find useful data.