68 was an ok year, but I would go with a 69, unless you can find a late 68. In late 68 and 69 on the independent rear suspension transaxle was added. The swing axle was dangerous, as it causes camber changes when you go over a bump, and it was less fun to drive in my opinion. Of course if you get a much earlier model it will be swing, and I would keep it that way, but if you want a 68, be sure to get the *right* 68.
As a car modder, who has been doing this kind of stuff (not malicious) since the early 1990s, wow welcome to the future guys.
Just an example: When my throttle position is above 90% depressed, my A/C compressor disengages(or rather the A/C Clutch engages), giving me that little bit of horsepower and theoretically saving my compressor from 7500 RPM (engine speed, not compressor speed) redline. I did this in an afternoon using only software.
The ECU has a lot of control over the car, especially in drive by wire cars... My car happens to have a cable accelerator, and I vastly prefer that because of throttle response time (a physical link is better most of the time than a software one, assuming both are properly maintained).
If they were really trying to be malicious without being deadly, you could change the air/fuel ratio to be really lean and burn up the valve train the first time they hit the gas pedal, there is no physical override for that, not like brake pedals (which if you turn it off it merely removes the power assist and only prevents you from stopping the car if you aren't strong enough to push the pedal down.)
If they were trying to seal the well I don't have much doubt that they could do it... and quickly. They tried (and failed) to secure an "oil collection device" that they sold to the news agencies as a "cap" but it is a "cap" designed to let them recover 85% of the oil that is spewing out. THEY DO NOT WANT TO CAP THE WELL. To permanently seal it off would mean they have to drill another one before they could start to profit off of this deposit again. Horrible ecological disaster, and we are still letting them try to profit off of it instead of capping it.
I remember the Micro Machines game for Genesis actually added 2 extra controller ports... Starfox Cart actually included an FPU/co-processor right in the cartridge...
In today's world of renting hardware from manufacturers *cough* bricked PS3 *cough* iphone... I just don't see console makers allowing that kind of control. Imagine if manufacturers could have just added their own graphics chip to the PS2 (most popular console still) would anyone have migrated to the PS3? (not that many did anyway)
I am sick of buying games and movies several times, due to shitty media. The my shiny golf plastic legend of Zelda cart still plays and still saves... more than I can say for my gamecube Zelda anthology disc.
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Seriously, if Adobe, tomorrow said "Running Photoshop on Apple hardware is officially against the EULA". Adobe would suffer a little, but Apple as a desktop would cease to exist.
And even the fanboys must know this is true. The ONLY people who take Apple desktops/laptops seriously are the people who NEED to run photoshop (and would prefer not to have to deal with windows bugs/crashes/pornviruses).
It seems really ill-advised to go to war with your lifeline... Although now that apple is no longer a computer company and more of a handheld/mini-software clearinghouse, maybe they don't care about their "computer" lineup.
They should really change the name from "MacBook" to "iDevelopmentRig". Since their toys require that you buy one in order to develop for them.
A Mac is still a "personal computer" they just picked the wrong overloaded jargon. They meant personal computer, they said PC, which typically means any non-mac and even more specifically usually means "Wintel computer"
$48.50 and you are right, that thing looks sturdy as hell... Awesome, now I am going to stop watching the university surplus website for a centrifuge, we homeschool my kids and I have really been wanting one!
and yeah a salad spinner version would break instantly.
has verbiage on the back that says "This disc is copy protected" Didn't stop a direct show based solution from ripping it (never does), It played fine on the portable DVD player, played fine on the $20 dvd player on the kid's TV, played fine on the computer.
I still haven't bought in to blu-ray though so I can't speak to that.
Also from the op... 12 inch screen... a 23 inch 1080p monitor is like 150 bucks, come on.
For those of us who know scouting, we understand things differently. Any institution that sets itself up as "moral" will inevitably fall under attack. Just ask the Mormons (who are also scouters).
Any institution that sets hate up as "moral" is destined to be called out.
Just ask the Mormons, who are also gay haters, and racists to boot.
California may as well be a whole 'nother country.
I know, let's not bother with that thing known as personal responsibility, let's legislate EVERYTHING!
Hey parents, your kids wouldn't be so fat if you didn't feed them crap food and let them sit on their butts in front of the t.v. all day and night.
yeah those parents should get off their asses and vote someone into office who will protect their children from predatory marketing.... Oh wait, what are we bitching about again?
My friends and I all have a wifi router swap program. We each have 2 routers (WRT54G) and we keep one active until google wardrives them then we mail them off to the next person in the list. And he mails you one that google tagged as being elsewhere in the country.
if you are in front of my house, google will tell you that you are in Southern California (1500 miles away)
well, if you need a manual to play a video game at least, which should have intuitive controls... I always thought of the manual as being a hold over from board games like monopoly... people read the book because the BOOK was the rules. With video games, the game itself enforces the rules, so there is not much need to write them down.
The kind of stuff you DO need to read for certain games will never be published in a manual anyway like drop percentages or cookie cutter strategies, the internets are much better at getting that kind of information out anyway, especially since for most games, the optimal strategy was not even discovered by the game makers. The diablo 2 manual didn't say "pick the biggest slowest weapon plus mana leech for a barbarian and use whirlwind as your main attack" because the designers didn't realize how overpowered they had made that skill, but every message board ever contained that information... until it was nerfed.
Although I am not sure what my kids are going to do to curb their excitement on the way home from the store if they can't pour over the manual during the car ride home... and then immediately and permanently ditch the manual once they can play the actual game.
well, that is the thing though. People like to think that they are not racist, and that they can teach their children to not be racist. But when science discovers that some people with deleted genes are not racist, the implication that people who are not missing those genes ARE racist, and naturally so... "damn, so it isn't just nurture after all"
indeed, sometimes people call williams syndrom "the opposite of autism", but since Autism has a very clear "symptomatic" diagnosis criteria list, and is not diagnosed with a genetic test, it is possible for someone to be diagnosed with Autism and not "seem classically autistic". For instance with Asperger's Syndrome(which is a specific kind of autism), one of the symptoms is that the subject will talk on and on without caring if the other person is interested. Excessive one-sided chattering is a shared trait between the two syndromes, except often people with WS are a bit better at it. Lack of deep personal connections is also a trait that is common in both, are sensory integration issues and lack of imaginative play. Autism is a checklist of symptoms, WS has a genetic test, if you met someone who was diagnosed with both you might not guess they met the criteria for Autism, even if they do.
In this type of mission, males are a waste of resources, since genetic diversity could not be maintained without pre-selecting embryos, so males would not be needed for fertilization, or gestation. If you want the best shot at actually surviving it, then maybe one male per generation would be sound, as a contingency. Sorry I seem to be using Slashdot to write my own Sci-Fi here.
The ever aging and re-birthing crew serves as an organism to simply outlast and survive the crushing time requirements of interstellar colonization. A man cannot gestate a child, and it would be dangerous for genetic diversity for that man to conceive a child or children, so a man serves no purpose other than to eat precious food.
The first generation of E.T. humans would have it rough no matter what, but the truth is all but the first generations of crew members are slaves to the process, with no agency, so 1st generation male or 1000th generation female springing a new culture would be equally difficult.
Interstellar travel is only impractical if you think like a human, in terms of 100 years and in terms of social value of one individual. If we had a different culture, but the exact same technology, we could probably colonize other planets NOW.
A nuclear powered electrostatic ion thruster means that even slowly we could go anywhere, it would just take thousands of years. Ok well humans only live 100 years... so you freeze a few hundred thousand embryos, and you crew a large vessel with women, and only women. They each have one child (or two, if the crew loses a member unexpectedly) all the children will be girls. After many hundreds (or thousands) of generations, they land on an M Class planet, give birth to some boys, and start a colony. Food will be an issue but it is not an unsolvable problem, not even with our current tech.
so what would be the point? Well there wouldn't be one for a human, and it would break all kinds of moral codes... But a society just a little different from ours would not need to break the laws of physics to send out seed colonies, but they would likely never be heard from again by the source colony.
and what if their culture were slightly different in the way mentioned above, and their physiology was also just a little different in such a way that made cryosleep actually possible...
I think physics makes it unlikely that we will be "invaded and brought back to the homeworld" but it does not discount the possibility that other cultures have sent out one-way, no report back colonization missions.
The gene that is deleted is the one that is responsible for elastin production, hence the connective tissue issues. WS org introduction
most of my information is from our geneticist, from Williams Syndrome society presentations by leading experts, and from the university study my daughter participated in, as she has WS.
It is unfortunate that it is no longer treated like a syndrome (i.e. a collection of symptoms shared by a group) technically it no longer is as of the late 1990s, because it has ONE diagnostic criteria now, and that is deletion of some genes (as few as 14 and as many as 54, but usually around 26). I know many people with WS, and only a handful seem to have very low IQ and only a handful seem to have above average IQ. I know a practicing lawyer, and I know a man who speaks 6 languages but cannot tie his shoes, we are talking about a very broad spectrum. My wife and I have a theory that many high functioning people never get diagnosed, similar to Autism, and therefore the Condition is saddled, perhaps mistakenly, with the statistic of lower functioning levels, because hardly anybody gets diagnosed for a "disorder" that does not adversely affect their lives.
until the late 1990s it was diagnosed by facial features and behavior. There is a very simple genetic test for it now (it shows up on a FISH test). Due to being in multiple WS societies/clubs I am in contact with many different levels of functioning in people with WS. I know a professional, barred, practicing lawyer who (we are 99% sure) has WS. But there is a big problem with high functioning people getting a diagnosis. WS is still considered to be "mental retardation" even though not all cases result in a below average IQ, so a professional lawyer CANNOT get diagnosed or he risks his license. We have met several people whom a geneticist would Diagnose on sight for sure, just based on the facial structure and eyes (blue with white starburst) but it is not a great idea to get saddled with what amounts to a "retarded" diagnosis, when you are high functioning.
also co-existance of Autism and WS is common, like 10-20% of subjects who have ws
it is not a "terrible disorder" as people who are born with it usually (with first world modern medicine) live normal lifespan, and usually (with first world society) can have meaningful jobs and close to normal lives.
The gifts my daughter has because of her Williams Syndrome are many... but it is not all rainbows and unicorns either.
what is interesting from a science standpoint is that a simple deletion of some 26 genes of the 7th chromosome can result in extreme, but uniform social difference from neurotypical people. Who would have guessed that a simple gene in charge of elastin would also cause people to mistrust each other, as the deletion causes increased social activity in near 100% of patients.
Williams Syndrome usually comes with a below average IQ, ALWAYS comes with connective tissue issues, including moderate to severe heart disease. It almost always comes with a reduced size, and different than "normal" facial features.
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68 was an ok year, but I would go with a 69, unless you can find a late 68. In late 68 and 69 on the independent rear suspension transaxle was added. The swing axle was dangerous, as it causes camber changes when you go over a bump, and it was less fun to drive in my opinion. Of course if you get a much earlier model it will be swing, and I would keep it that way, but if you want a 68, be sure to get the *right* 68.
As a car modder, who has been doing this kind of stuff (not malicious) since the early 1990s, wow welcome to the future guys.
Just an example: When my throttle position is above 90% depressed, my A/C compressor disengages(or rather the A/C Clutch engages), giving me that little bit of horsepower and theoretically saving my compressor from 7500 RPM (engine speed, not compressor speed) redline. I did this in an afternoon using only software.
The ECU has a lot of control over the car, especially in drive by wire cars... My car happens to have a cable accelerator, and I vastly prefer that because of throttle response time (a physical link is better most of the time than a software one, assuming both are properly maintained).
If they were really trying to be malicious without being deadly, you could change the air/fuel ratio to be really lean and burn up the valve train the first time they hit the gas pedal, there is no physical override for that, not like brake pedals (which if you turn it off it merely removes the power assist and only prevents you from stopping the car if you aren't strong enough to push the pedal down.)
Asshat racism of the parent aside, with a CNC machine and an existing iPhone, you could make a fake pretty easily.
If they were trying to seal the well I don't have much doubt that they could do it... and quickly. They tried (and failed) to secure an "oil collection device" that they sold to the news agencies as a "cap" but it is a "cap" designed to let them recover 85% of the oil that is spewing out. THEY DO NOT WANT TO CAP THE WELL. To permanently seal it off would mean they have to drill another one before they could start to profit off of this deposit again. Horrible ecological disaster, and we are still letting them try to profit off of it instead of capping it.
err, shiny GOLD cartridge I mean, wow type much
I remember the Micro Machines game for Genesis actually added 2 extra controller ports... Starfox Cart actually included an FPU/co-processor right in the cartridge...
In today's world of renting hardware from manufacturers *cough* bricked PS3 *cough* iphone... I just don't see console makers allowing that kind of control. Imagine if manufacturers could have just added their own graphics chip to the PS2 (most popular console still) would anyone have migrated to the PS3? (not that many did anyway)
I am sick of buying games and movies several times, due to shitty media. The my shiny golf plastic legend of Zelda cart still plays and still saves... more than I can say for my gamecube Zelda anthology disc.
Seriously, if Adobe, tomorrow said "Running Photoshop on Apple hardware is officially against the EULA". Adobe would suffer a little, but Apple as a desktop would cease to exist.
And even the fanboys must know this is true. The ONLY people who take Apple desktops/laptops seriously are the people who NEED to run photoshop (and would prefer not to have to deal with windows bugs/crashes/pornviruses).
It seems really ill-advised to go to war with your lifeline... Although now that apple is no longer a computer company and more of a handheld/mini-software clearinghouse, maybe they don't care about their "computer" lineup.
They should really change the name from "MacBook" to "iDevelopmentRig". Since their toys require that you buy one in order to develop for them.
A Mac is still a "personal computer" they just picked the wrong overloaded jargon. They meant personal computer, they said PC, which typically means any non-mac and even more specifically usually means "Wintel computer"
Thanks!
$48.50 and you are right, that thing looks sturdy as hell... Awesome, now I am going to stop watching the university surplus website for a centrifuge, we homeschool my kids and I have really been wanting one!
and yeah a salad spinner version would break instantly.
And not ONE of them was even a Toyota!
The first car it took over was a Lexus (aka everybody but Americans calls it a Toyota)
no problem on my region 1 dvd... it played and ripped just fine.
has verbiage on the back that says "This disc is copy protected" Didn't stop a direct show based solution from ripping it (never does), It played fine on the portable DVD player, played fine on the $20 dvd player on the kid's TV, played fine on the computer.
I still haven't bought in to blu-ray though so I can't speak to that.
Also from the op... 12 inch screen... a 23 inch 1080p monitor is like 150 bucks, come on.
For those of us who know scouting, we understand things differently. Any institution that sets itself up as "moral" will inevitably fall under attack. Just ask the Mormons (who are also scouters).
Any institution that sets hate up as "moral" is destined to be called out.
Just ask the Mormons, who are also gay haters, and racists to boot.
California may as well be a whole 'nother country.
I know, let's not bother with that thing known as personal responsibility, let's legislate EVERYTHING!
Hey parents, your kids wouldn't be so fat if you didn't feed them crap food and let them sit on their butts in front of the t.v. all day and night.
yeah those parents should get off their asses and vote someone into office who will protect their children from predatory marketing.... Oh wait, what are we bitching about again?
My friends and I all have a wifi router swap program. We each have 2 routers (WRT54G) and we keep one active until google wardrives them then we mail them off to the next person in the list. And he mails you one that google tagged as being elsewhere in the country.
if you are in front of my house, google will tell you that you are in Southern California (1500 miles away)
(no this post is not actually true)
well, if you need a manual to play a video game at least, which should have intuitive controls... I always thought of the manual as being a hold over from board games like monopoly... people read the book because the BOOK was the rules. With video games, the game itself enforces the rules, so there is not much need to write them down.
The kind of stuff you DO need to read for certain games will never be published in a manual anyway like drop percentages or cookie cutter strategies, the internets are much better at getting that kind of information out anyway, especially since for most games, the optimal strategy was not even discovered by the game makers. The diablo 2 manual didn't say "pick the biggest slowest weapon plus mana leech for a barbarian and use whirlwind as your main attack" because the designers didn't realize how overpowered they had made that skill, but every message board ever contained that information... until it was nerfed.
Although I am not sure what my kids are going to do to curb their excitement on the way home from the store if they can't pour over the manual during the car ride home... and then immediately and permanently ditch the manual once they can play the actual game.
well, that is the thing though. People like to think that they are not racist, and that they can teach their children to not be racist. But when science discovers that some people with deleted genes are not racist, the implication that people who are not missing those genes ARE racist, and naturally so... "damn, so it isn't just nurture after all"
indeed, sometimes people call williams syndrom "the opposite of autism", but since Autism has a very clear "symptomatic" diagnosis criteria list, and is not diagnosed with a genetic test, it is possible for someone to be diagnosed with Autism and not "seem classically autistic". For instance with Asperger's Syndrome(which is a specific kind of autism), one of the symptoms is that the subject will talk on and on without caring if the other person is interested. Excessive one-sided chattering is a shared trait between the two syndromes, except often people with WS are a bit better at it. Lack of deep personal connections is also a trait that is common in both, are sensory integration issues and lack of imaginative play. Autism is a checklist of symptoms, WS has a genetic test, if you met someone who was diagnosed with both you might not guess they met the criteria for Autism, even if they do.
In this type of mission, males are a waste of resources, since genetic diversity could not be maintained without pre-selecting embryos, so males would not be needed for fertilization, or gestation. If you want the best shot at actually surviving it, then maybe one male per generation would be sound, as a contingency. Sorry I seem to be using Slashdot to write my own Sci-Fi here.
The ever aging and re-birthing crew serves as an organism to simply outlast and survive the crushing time requirements of interstellar colonization. A man cannot gestate a child, and it would be dangerous for genetic diversity for that man to conceive a child or children, so a man serves no purpose other than to eat precious food.
The first generation of E.T. humans would have it rough no matter what, but the truth is all but the first generations of crew members are slaves to the process, with no agency, so 1st generation male or 1000th generation female springing a new culture would be equally difficult.
Interstellar travel is only impractical if you think like a human, in terms of 100 years and in terms of social value of one individual. If we had a different culture, but the exact same technology, we could probably colonize other planets NOW.
A nuclear powered electrostatic ion thruster means that even slowly we could go anywhere, it would just take thousands of years. Ok well humans only live 100 years... so you freeze a few hundred thousand embryos, and you crew a large vessel with women, and only women. They each have one child (or two, if the crew loses a member unexpectedly) all the children will be girls. After many hundreds (or thousands) of generations, they land on an M Class planet, give birth to some boys, and start a colony. Food will be an issue but it is not an unsolvable problem, not even with our current tech.
so what would be the point? Well there wouldn't be one for a human, and it would break all kinds of moral codes... But a society just a little different from ours would not need to break the laws of physics to send out seed colonies, but they would likely never be heard from again by the source colony.
and what if their culture were slightly different in the way mentioned above, and their physiology was also just a little different in such a way that made cryosleep actually possible...
I think physics makes it unlikely that we will be "invaded and brought back to the homeworld" but it does not discount the possibility that other cultures have sent out one-way, no report back colonization missions.
The gene that is deleted is the one that is responsible for elastin production, hence the connective tissue issues. WS org introduction
most of my information is from our geneticist, from Williams Syndrome society presentations by leading experts, and from the university study my daughter participated in, as she has WS.
It is unfortunate that it is no longer treated like a syndrome (i.e. a collection of symptoms shared by a group) technically it no longer is as of the late 1990s, because it has ONE diagnostic criteria now, and that is deletion of some genes (as few as 14 and as many as 54, but usually around 26). I know many people with WS, and only a handful seem to have very low IQ and only a handful seem to have above average IQ. I know a practicing lawyer, and I know a man who speaks 6 languages but cannot tie his shoes, we are talking about a very broad spectrum. My wife and I have a theory that many high functioning people never get diagnosed, similar to Autism, and therefore the Condition is saddled, perhaps mistakenly, with the statistic of lower functioning levels, because hardly anybody gets diagnosed for a "disorder" that does not adversely affect their lives.
(sorry I get carried away.))))
until the late 1990s it was diagnosed by facial features and behavior. There is a very simple genetic test for it now (it shows up on a FISH test). Due to being in multiple WS societies/clubs I am in contact with many different levels of functioning in people with WS. I know a professional, barred, practicing lawyer who (we are 99% sure) has WS. But there is a big problem with high functioning people getting a diagnosis. WS is still considered to be "mental retardation" even though not all cases result in a below average IQ, so a professional lawyer CANNOT get diagnosed or he risks his license. We have met several people whom a geneticist would Diagnose on sight for sure, just based on the facial structure and eyes (blue with white starburst) but it is not a great idea to get saddled with what amounts to a "retarded" diagnosis, when you are high functioning.
also co-existance of Autism and WS is common, like 10-20% of subjects who have ws
it is not a "terrible disorder" as people who are born with it usually (with first world modern medicine) live normal lifespan, and usually (with first world society) can have meaningful jobs and close to normal lives.
The gifts my daughter has because of her Williams Syndrome are many... but it is not all rainbows and unicorns either.
what is interesting from a science standpoint is that a simple deletion of some 26 genes of the 7th chromosome can result in extreme, but uniform social difference from neurotypical people. Who would have guessed that a simple gene in charge of elastin would also cause people to mistrust each other, as the deletion causes increased social activity in near 100% of patients.
Williams Syndrome usually comes with a below average IQ, ALWAYS comes with connective tissue issues, including moderate to severe heart disease. It almost always comes with a reduced size, and different than "normal" facial features.
:P
oh yeah and there is some social stuff too