Better include don't roll down your windows either. The car loses a lot of it's aerodynamics when you do that, it's better to run the AC than roll down the windows, especially for highway driving.
It's also illegal. If you're close enough to truely draft them you're tailgating. If you're following at anything close to a safe/legal distance you won't be getting any benifit from their draft.
Personally, I'm interested in hybrids but not for fuel efficiency reasons. I'd like to see auto makers combine the output from different energy sources into all-wheel acceleration of a normal car.
Have you seen the all electric drag racing mail truck? http://www.suckamps.com/ it seems like what you're interested in. I'd like to see what it would do in an Explorer or Surburban too.
Hypothetical situation: what would happen to the rest of the world if the US banned imports? The US is a huge consumer buying trillions of dollars worth of goods, if those could no longer be sold to the US what would happen to those contries dependant on them?
In the US people would still want them (big consumers afterall) so there would likely be a huge boom in manufacturing jobs within the US. Prices would almost surely go up, but so would the employment rate.
The US doesn't really need the rest of the world, we can produce everything that's needed here. How many more people around the world would starve without US aid either direct foreign aid or indirectly by US spending?
The boy is already back at home (no risk of escape) until he'll be tried.
Why is there no risk of escape? Does the German government control the locks on everyones doors, or have the posted guards around the guys house?
And don't say it's because your society is so well ordered that no one would try to escape, he's already shown that he's a criminal with no regard for laws or other people.
It's deeply depressing to me that people exist who are as cruel and malicious as the crackers and virus writers of today.
That's awefully naive of you, they aren't any more curel and malicious than people have been for thousands of years. Just take a brief look at history, or even the evening news, the so called "cruel and malicious" acts of virus writers pales in comparison to what some people do to each other every day.
Having your computer be compromised by a worm is a violation but it's a far cry from rape. Try talking to a rape victem and see if they think they're even remotely in the same league.
The difficulties created for MS as it alienates its userbase are real. The only question is will they survive it. With >$40b in reserve it's a hard question to answer.
I don't think that's a hard question to answer at all. With $40 billion in cash MS can continue running for a very long time with little or no sales much less with the strangle hold they currently have on the office and desktop market. No matter how badly they alienate the userbase it would take years for their sales to drop to a point where they'd be losing money.
There's no doubt at all that MS is going to survive and continue to thrive for years if not decades even on what some perceive as a self destructive path.
Huh, the last $300 I spent on Windows XP came with a computer. $299 for the PC from Frys with Win XP installed. So did I get a PC for free and pay for Windows, or did I pay for a PC and get Windows for free?
but also some responsibility on the retards who didn't get a secure system
And the dumbass who didn't secure the system he had. He could have installed the patch which had been out for 3 weeks - plenty of time to test it in their environment, put the machine behind a firewall, not had a vital system connected to the Internent at all (duh). There are a lot of things the Coast Guard could have done to prevent it too.
That's not to say the person who wrote the virus shouldn't be punished, but the people responsible for maintaining the servers have some responsibility too. This was preventable if they'd done their part.
You cannot look at information as property, and not end up at a situation where you advocate anything less than perpetual copyright.
The way the copyright law in the US reads would tend to support that position. You can't copyright information/facts/data. You can copyright the presentation of such information, but not the facts themselves. So if I have a receipe for BBQ sause I can't copyright the list of ingredients or how it's prepared. I can copyright the book it's in with whatever other commentary there is, but the receipe itself isn't protected under copyright law. http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-protect.html
How does that apply to sharing music? I don't think it does, just pointing out a detail in copyright law.
Today's cars, however, typically get better mileage while having more horsepower (except SUV's).
Wrong, that should be especially SUV's. Look at the horsepower todays SUV's have, high 200's to low 300's. 10-15 years ago those SUV's would have had 100-150 horsepower, maybe. Mileage has only increased a small amount but horsepower is way up.
I mean, I had an 85 Civic that ran 250,000 no problem, why shouldn't a new one, better engineered, run longer?
Maybe they aren't engineered to run longer just better over their intended lifespan and maybe that lifespan is designed to be shorter. Think about it, Honda makes money selling new cars. While a reputation for having cars that run for a 250,000 miles sounds good the longer their cars run the fewer of them you need to buy.
Well, my opinion anyway. I'm gonna stick with my oldies for as long as possible. I LIKE 30 buck starters and 5 buck headlights, they work perfectly fine for a long time, then easily replaced.
And $200 transmissions vs $3,000, or a complete engine rebuild for $1,000 plus warrenty vs $4,000...
Amen! I've often thought that you could build/restore a late 60's early 70's muscle car for what a average new car costs and still have the cheap repair bills 5 or 6 years later when things start to wear out and have an overall nicer car too. Gas mileage could be tough, but there have been plenty of articles about 500 horsepower muscle cars that get 25 MPG so it's not impossible.
Actually the IT guys did reformat the drive and put on a fresh image.
Which sounds like they did not do an install on your machine but put a generic install on and let it try to correctly detect all the unique hardware on your machine. If they had actually installed it on your box it might work better.
Just like gun makers are responsable for what their guns are used for ?
Gun manufacturers aren't and shouldn't be held responsible for what guns are used for any more than Honda should be held responsible for what their cars are used for.
That said, I think this entire thing is stupid. No farm-team sheriff office needs a web site that has 3.5 million 'hits' a month from 60 countries.
That number does seem questionable. Why on earth would so many people be going to that website in the first place? Did every one of the some 800,000 people in the county check in instead of watching Geraldo?
I tried to go online with a new ms install, and was infected with a virus, before I could download a single patch.
Personally with a new ms install (which I'll be doing later tonight) I won't put the machine directly online, it will be behind a router/firewall. Unless Windows Update is sending out virus I shouldn't have any problem being infected or exploited (other than by MS) while patching.
If all you have is dialup and don't have some kind of software firewall to install first I guess you might be FUBAR.
Without attracting a troll modifier, I'm glad. The genre is now sufficiently well-established that there are other franchises (Farscape spin-off anyone?) who could do more interesting things with the Network's money.
Maybe UPN can resurrect Firefly, that show seemed to have more potential than Enterprise. I was far more saddened when Firefly was canceled than Enterprise.
And don't forget how everyone seems to be able to time travel whenever they need to. It only took, what, one season before they started introducing time line issues in Enterprise.
What's the fine for speeding in the US? A cousin in Michigan got $400 IIRC, though I don't know what speed he was doing. *That's* a deterrent.
It varies from state to state, and by how much over the speed limit you're going. The last ticket I got was for $64 for 10 over the limit, but the fines been raised since then I belive it's around $90 now. If your cousin got a ticket for $400 he was going WAY over the limit, and likely got a ticket for reckless driving too.
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Better include don't roll down your windows either. The car loses a lot of it's aerodynamics when you do that, it's better to run the AC than roll down the windows, especially for highway driving.
It's also illegal. If you're close enough to truely draft them you're tailgating. If you're following at anything close to a safe/legal distance you won't be getting any benifit from their draft.
Have you seen the all electric drag racing mail truck? http://www.suckamps.com/ it seems like what you're interested in. I'd like to see what it would do in an Explorer or Surburban too.
In the US people would still want them (big consumers afterall) so there would likely be a huge boom in manufacturing jobs within the US. Prices would almost surely go up, but so would the employment rate.
The US doesn't really need the rest of the world, we can produce everything that's needed here. How many more people around the world would starve without US aid either direct foreign aid or indirectly by US spending?
Why is there no risk of escape? Does the German government control the locks on everyones doors, or have the posted guards around the guys house?
And don't say it's because your society is so well ordered that no one would try to escape, he's already shown that he's a criminal with no regard for laws or other people.
That's awefully naive of you, they aren't any more curel and malicious than people have been for thousands of years. Just take a brief look at history, or even the evening news, the so called "cruel and malicious" acts of virus writers pales in comparison to what some people do to each other every day.
Having your computer be compromised by a worm is a violation but it's a far cry from rape. Try talking to a rape victem and see if they think they're even remotely in the same league.
I don't think that's a hard question to answer at all. With $40 billion in cash MS can continue running for a very long time with little or no sales much less with the strangle hold they currently have on the office and desktop market. No matter how badly they alienate the userbase it would take years for their sales to drop to a point where they'd be losing money.
There's no doubt at all that MS is going to survive and continue to thrive for years if not decades even on what some perceive as a self destructive path.
Huh, the last $300 I spent on Windows XP came with a computer. $299 for the PC from Frys with Win XP installed. So did I get a PC for free and pay for Windows, or did I pay for a PC and get Windows for free?
And the dumbass who didn't secure the system he had. He could have installed the patch which had been out for 3 weeks - plenty of time to test it in their environment, put the machine behind a firewall, not had a vital system connected to the Internent at all (duh). There are a lot of things the Coast Guard could have done to prevent it too.
That's not to say the person who wrote the virus shouldn't be punished, but the people responsible for maintaining the servers have some responsibility too. This was preventable if they'd done their part.
The way the copyright law in the US reads would tend to support that position. You can't copyright information/facts/data. You can copyright the presentation of such information, but not the facts themselves. So if I have a receipe for BBQ sause I can't copyright the list of ingredients or how it's prepared. I can copyright the book it's in with whatever other commentary there is, but the receipe itself isn't protected under copyright law.l
http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-protect.htm
How does that apply to sharing music? I don't think it does, just pointing out a detail in copyright law.
The anti MS BS never ends does it? It was called "windrow" not "Window". If you're going to make a jab at MS you could at least get the facts right.
Wrong, that should be especially SUV's. Look at the horsepower todays SUV's have, high 200's to low 300's. 10-15 years ago those SUV's would have had 100-150 horsepower, maybe. Mileage has only increased a small amount but horsepower is way up.
Maybe they aren't engineered to run longer just better over their intended lifespan and maybe that lifespan is designed to be shorter. Think about it, Honda makes money selling new cars. While a reputation for having cars that run for a 250,000 miles sounds good the longer their cars run the fewer of them you need to buy.
And $200 transmissions vs $3,000, or a complete engine rebuild for $1,000 plus warrenty vs $4,000...
Amen! I've often thought that you could build/restore a late 60's early 70's muscle car for what a average new car costs and still have the cheap repair bills 5 or 6 years later when things start to wear out and have an overall nicer car too. Gas mileage could be tough, but there have been plenty of articles about 500 horsepower muscle cars that get 25 MPG so it's not impossible.
Which sounds like they did not do an install on your machine but put a generic install on and let it try to correctly detect all the unique hardware on your machine. If they had actually installed it on your box it might work better.
Gun manufacturers aren't and shouldn't be held responsible for what guns are used for any more than Honda should be held responsible for what their cars are used for.
That number does seem questionable. Why on earth would so many people be going to that website in the first place? Did every one of the some 800,000 people in the county check in instead of watching Geraldo?
It's certainly not good but easily recovered from without rebooting.
Launch task manager
Kill explorer.exe
File - New task - explorer.exe
Ah, the things we learn with an OS that can't/doesn't protect itself.
I think the Google cache has already beaten you to it. :)
Personally with a new ms install (which I'll be doing later tonight) I won't put the machine directly online, it will be behind a router/firewall. Unless Windows Update is sending out virus I shouldn't have any problem being infected or exploited (other than by MS) while patching.
If all you have is dialup and don't have some kind of software firewall to install first I guess you might be FUBAR.
Maybe UPN can resurrect Firefly, that show seemed to have more potential than Enterprise. I was far more saddened when Firefly was canceled than Enterprise.
And don't forget how everyone seems to be able to time travel whenever they need to. It only took, what, one season before they started introducing time line issues in Enterprise.
It varies from state to state, and by how much over the speed limit you're going. The last ticket I got was for $64 for 10 over the limit, but the fines been raised since then I belive it's around $90 now. If your cousin got a ticket for $400 he was going WAY over the limit, and likely got a ticket for reckless driving too.
Has it done anything for lowering accident rates, or just sent more money to the government pockets?
Care to make a case for why it's referenceing war dialing instead? They don't state that on their website.