Small engines (including V6) are going into Front Wheel Drive cars now.
The issue with that is the engine, the transmission, and the axles all have to fit between the front tires.
Have you ever looked under the hood of a 4-banger honda? Where would you put the extra 2 cylinders if you had to put them all in a row?
Also, I hate to pull this one.... but CITATION NEEDED. Honda and Toyota tend to use V6s in their sedans, and their reliability rating is the highest in the industry (by far)
Workers who now get 70% of their salary for not working... it is a small consolation, but it is something. Plus 3% of this plant's output is now closed off, NOT the whole plant.
It is like the #2 or #3 MMO depending on how you count...
Skill and equipment based "combat triangle" anyone can max any stat, but the gear you are wearing keeps you specialized in a given fight... Metal/heavy armor makes Melee vulnerable to Magic, resistant to Range, Dragonhide armor makes Rangers vulnerable to Melee resistant to Magic, Magic armor gives magic boost and spells are really powerful (including AOE, and life leaching) but they are vulnerable to Range and Melee
There is no practical way to heal others, but when a group goes after a bigbad, there are often roles, but get this: Every player in a successful group will ROTATE ROLES. The guy with the most food/potions for healing will tank, soak up damage, and heal himself till he is low, then the next guy, and so on.
I value MMOs where grouping is optional, and basically strong character classes really hinder that type of mechanic; so if I want to go to fight in God Wars against huge bosses for top drops, I have to group, but I can play on my own at any time too... I can also be a mage one day a ranger the next, and a melee fighter the next... so I tend to only need one character another huge plus (to me).
1) Buy headphones that have a conspicuous microphone attached
2) Set up a free conference call with some of the other developers
3) invite the pointy haired boss to an "Engineering session"
4) Talk in techno babble about advanced queuing theory or type migration or database locking.
5) Invite anyone not involved in the "Data comparator junction controller model" to drop off the call.
6) Everyone hangs up and listens to music never removing their headphones.
7) Randomly shout Star Trek Quotes, lines of code, and euphemistic expletives
so is this the new diet drug? Americans already take in too many calories, it would be very trans-human and very cool if we just altered our muscle mass instead of shrinking our calorie intake.
3) We live in an era where memory is not a precious commodity.
No, we live in an era where the configurations and limitations for each machine are incredibly diverse.
Anyone still have FireFox as your primary browser on a 1.6 atom netbook after the June 30th release? How is that working out for you?
Default configuration for XP for HP 1010s worked fine, install firefox and you're good to go. Now FF is so much worse, even maxed on RAM, you cannot watch Hulu or Netflix streaming on them. Oh Noes you should use Linux... oh wait no netflix streaming on linux, cause Netflix and Microsoft are dicks(silverlight, and no moonlight doesn't work)... and we all know how awesome full-screen flash video is on linux.
I think it should be standard practice to have sets of compiler directives for "Useless crap only geeks would use" so that my wife can use Firefox again.
Nah, my response was isolated to the direct parent, evoking Chaucer and Shakespeare to chastise spelling is just plain ignorant. The original word substitution that sparked the spelling discussion was already a moo point, a cow's opinion, at that point.
Um, yeah it was stabilized, it just wasn't accessible to common people, because of overly scholastic jackass elitist jerks... so it DIED, like most inflexible languages.
I cannot tell if this is supposed to be a joke or not.
So, you are using a 14th century Chaucer work to demonstrate how language needs to be PRESERVED, so we can view a 16th century Shakespeare work... When both men were the progenitors of modern English?
I guess Chaucer should have used spell check? I guess nobody in the whole world has read Chaucer? Or what about all those pesky words Shakespeare made up, misspelled (sometimes intentionally to rhyme or to properly stick to pentameter), or Anglicized words (HelsingÃr = Elsinore anyone? -- by the way Elsinore passes firefox's spellchecker, but the actual name HelsingÃr (or Helsingor) does not...)
Shakespeare was great because he told old stories in a new language... He invented the language as he went along. English belongs to Shakespeare because he did not let scholastic jackassitude dictate how he could use the language.
Language belongs to those who write, and write interesting things... Language does not belong to nit-pickey grammar slaves, or the stuck up high-society high-horse education snobs... The languages that did, promptly died after said snobs fell from power.
Everyone with a Crackberry or iPhone at my work just listens to Pandora streaming over 3g... Although I would love an hour or so cached, because on my commute I pop in and out of 3g zones (since I live in a rural suburb)... Really I just listen to old fashioned FM in the car when I run out of audiobooks.
So it was 1999 and I was working for a mom and pop software shop, we had been acquired by a dot com. All our money and toilet paper stock options were held until we delivered the re-branded product with source. Part of the "rules" said we had to have only C/C++ and VB6 source, NO OTHER LANGUAGE.
.
We finished converting a few rogue scripting modules and things like that, which creep in over time. But we COULD NOT find the source code to one of our VB6 DLLs (an old one that had not been changed since it was first compiled in VB6). We searched and searched and eventually the fastest coder(not me) started rewriting it. We were 1 day from delivery date and there was no way he could finish it, so I ran it through a disassembler.
the C++ code we delivered looked like this:
int functionName(int parm) {
_asm {
push esi
mov esi, dword ptr ds:[esp+8]
mov dword ptr ds:[edi], esi
retn
} ....(you get the idea)
It was unreadable, but it compiled and worked and we got our money. I still wonder what they ever did with that... since the software is still in use...
search "free fish screensaver download" on google. Install the first exe you can find. Congratulations, you now have the "Antivirus 2010" virus.
now, search "free flash fish game" now click on the first link and play some dumb ass fish game in flash, no virus no problems.
Browser hosted software IS safer even if just by a little. My entire family has pwnd computers doing this same stupid shit, and you know what I tell them after I re-front their machines? "Stop downloading programs, if you can use it in firefox it is much safer than if you download it."
for every gallon of Mountain Dew I consume I can drive 1000 miles. What? That is not what is actually fueling the car? Nonsense!
230 Miles per gallon + KWattHour or something would be more accurate... Despite dubious/inaccurate marketing, I still want one really bad. Series Hybrid is my favorite, because I can eat my cake and road-trip it too.
Except that ALMOST ALL people who use personal computers (Windows Users) face danger any time they install a binary app. Because free software that runs in a browser is *safe* but free software you download and install is a porn virus. It is an operating system problem disguising itself as unneeded layers of complexity. The problem: Most windows users run with too many permissions, the solution Browsers are a lot better at keeping users from FUBARGPFing their machine than Windows.
if you are interested, Yale (who currently owns the manuscript I believe) has high res images, and more information: Here Hey, it is a very poorly laid out website, but it is Yale not Wiki, so there is that:P
First of all, The Voynich is only 500 years old(give or take), from a time when books were not uncommon, and was very very likely written in Europe, hardly pre-historic. This would be a person in Europe, with contemporary writing, art, and binding supplies, writing in a dead language not otherwise documented anywhere else. Linear A is like FOUR THOUSAND years dead... not really comperable.
That is what makes it so compelling, the fact that it happened, not in a vaccum like the Aboriginal Amazon, not in ancient history like Linear A, not in Stone, or papyrus, or etched on tree bark, but that it happened inside of western society, using "modern methods" (for the day), and it is a language/code that can be verified as not being junk, but that nobody had seen before or since.
a syndrome is a reoccuring set of symptoms that commonly happen together. As much as the medical community has fucked that definition, if you actually follow that definition, then yes, every single personality type is a Syndrome.
I don't understand why you are so offended by people choosing to categorize themselves in neat little bundles. I have a 1## IQ, but I won't look you in the eye or touch mayonase, so why the hell do you care if I would like to speak to/about other people who happen to have my particular brand of functioning?
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Small engines (including V6) are going into Front Wheel Drive cars now.
The issue with that is the engine, the transmission, and the axles all have to fit between the front tires.
Have you ever looked under the hood of a 4-banger honda? Where would you put the extra 2 cylinders if you had to put them all in a row?
Also, I hate to pull this one.... but CITATION NEEDED. Honda and Toyota tend to use V6s in their sedans, and their reliability rating is the highest in the industry (by far)
Workers who now get 70% of their salary for not working... it is a small consolation, but it is something. Plus 3% of this plant's output is now closed off, NOT the whole plant.
It is like the #2 or #3 MMO depending on how you count...
Skill and equipment based "combat triangle" anyone can max any stat, but the gear you are wearing keeps you specialized in a given fight... Metal/heavy armor makes Melee vulnerable to Magic, resistant to Range, Dragonhide armor makes Rangers vulnerable to Melee resistant to Magic, Magic armor gives magic boost and spells are really powerful (including AOE, and life leaching) but they are vulnerable to Range and Melee
There is no practical way to heal others, but when a group goes after a bigbad, there are often roles, but get this: Every player in a successful group will ROTATE ROLES.
The guy with the most food/potions for healing will tank, soak up damage, and heal himself till he is low, then the next guy, and so on.
I value MMOs where grouping is optional, and basically strong character classes really hinder that type of mechanic; so if I want to go to fight in God Wars against huge bosses for top drops, I have to group, but I can play on my own at any time too... I can also be a mage one day a ranger the next, and a melee fighter the next... so I tend to only need one character another huge plus (to me).
1) Buy headphones that have a conspicuous microphone attached
2) Set up a free conference call with some of the other developers
3) invite the pointy haired boss to an "Engineering session"
4) Talk in techno babble about advanced queuing theory or type migration or database locking.
5) Invite anyone not involved in the "Data comparator junction controller model" to drop off the call.
6) Everyone hangs up and listens to music never removing their headphones.
7) Randomly shout Star Trek Quotes, lines of code, and euphemistic expletives
so is this the new diet drug? Americans already take in too many calories, it would be very trans-human and very cool if we just altered our muscle mass instead of shrinking our calorie intake.
or the much more feared
N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-Nuclear launch detected
especially if you are playing red.
IE 8 works fine, Chrome works fine. The wife hates Chrome, but hates IE8 less.
Firefox works for forums and whatnot but gets slow and twitchy on complicated webapps like gmail and firefox since the June update.
3) We live in an era where memory is not a precious commodity.
No, we live in an era where the configurations and limitations for each machine are incredibly diverse.
Anyone still have FireFox as your primary browser on a 1.6 atom netbook after the June 30th release? How is that working out for you?
Default configuration for XP for HP 1010s worked fine, install firefox and you're good to go. Now FF is so much worse, even maxed on RAM, you cannot watch Hulu or Netflix streaming on them.
Oh Noes you should use Linux... oh wait no netflix streaming on linux, cause Netflix and Microsoft are dicks(silverlight, and no moonlight doesn't work)... and we all know how awesome full-screen flash video is on linux.
I think it should be standard practice to have sets of compiler directives for "Useless crap only geeks would use" so that my wife can use Firefox again.
Nah, my response was isolated to the direct parent, evoking Chaucer and Shakespeare to chastise spelling is just plain ignorant. The original word substitution that sparked the spelling discussion was already a moo point, a cow's opinion, at that point.
Um, yeah it was stabilized, it just wasn't accessible to common people, because of overly scholastic jackass elitist jerks... so it DIED, like most inflexible languages.
I cannot tell if this is supposed to be a joke or not.
So, you are using a 14th century Chaucer work to demonstrate how language needs to be PRESERVED, so we can view a 16th century Shakespeare work... When both men were the progenitors of modern English?
I guess Chaucer should have used spell check? I guess nobody in the whole world has read Chaucer? Or what about all those pesky words Shakespeare made up, misspelled (sometimes intentionally to rhyme or to properly stick to pentameter), or Anglicized words (HelsingÃr = Elsinore anyone? -- by the way Elsinore passes firefox's spellchecker, but the actual name HelsingÃr (or Helsingor) does not...)
Shakespeare was great because he told old stories in a new language... He invented the language as he went along. English belongs to Shakespeare because he did not let scholastic jackassitude dictate how he could use the language.
Language belongs to those who write, and write interesting things... Language does not belong to nit-pickey grammar slaves, or the stuck up high-society high-horse education snobs... The languages that did, promptly died after said snobs fell from power.
I can buy a calculator for 50 cents... hiring someone with actual critical thinking skills will cost me at least 50 grand a year.
Everyone with a Crackberry or iPhone at my work just listens to Pandora streaming over 3g... Although I would love an hour or so cached, because on my commute I pop in and out of 3g zones (since I live in a rural suburb)... Really I just listen to old fashioned FM in the car when I run out of audiobooks.
yeah, but they are not really a call-center either, but debt collection scumbags - which is much closer to a telemarketer.
So it was 1999 and I was working for a mom and pop software shop, we had been acquired by a dot com. All our money and toilet paper stock options were held until we delivered the re-branded product with source. Part of the "rules" said we had to have only C/C++ and VB6 source, NO OTHER LANGUAGE.
....(you get the idea)
. We finished converting a few rogue scripting modules and things like that, which creep in over time. But we COULD NOT find the source code to one of our VB6 DLLs (an old one that had not been changed since it was first compiled in VB6). We searched and searched and eventually the fastest coder(not me) started rewriting it. We were 1 day from delivery date and there was no way he could finish it, so I ran it through a disassembler.
the C++ code we delivered looked like this:
int functionName(int parm) {
_asm {
push esi
mov esi, dword ptr ds:[esp+8]
mov dword ptr ds:[edi], esi
retn
}
It was unreadable, but it compiled and worked and we got our money. I still wonder what they ever did with that... since the software is still in use...
search "free fish screensaver download" on google. Install the first exe you can find. Congratulations, you now have the "Antivirus 2010" virus.
now, search "free flash fish game" now click on the first link and play some dumb ass fish game in flash, no virus no problems.
Browser hosted software IS safer even if just by a little. My entire family has pwnd computers doing this same stupid shit, and you know what I tell them after I re-front their machines? "Stop downloading programs, if you can use it in firefox it is much safer than if you download it."
for every gallon of Mountain Dew I consume I can drive 1000 miles. What? That is not what is actually fueling the car? Nonsense!
230 Miles per gallon + KWattHour or something would be more accurate... Despite dubious/inaccurate marketing, I still want one really bad. Series Hybrid is my favorite, because I can eat my cake and road-trip it too.
Except that ALMOST ALL people who use personal computers (Windows Users) face danger any time they install a binary app. Because free software that runs in a browser is *safe* but free software you download and install is a porn virus. It is an operating system problem disguising itself as unneeded layers of complexity. The problem: Most windows users run with too many permissions, the solution Browsers are a lot better at keeping users from FUBARGPFing their machine than Windows.
If you are worried about this, there are very simple measures you can take.
All five(Neo, N3o, Ne0, N30, and xNEOx) are going to start an online petition.
if you are interested, Yale (who currently owns the manuscript I believe) has high res images, and more information: Here Hey, it is a very poorly laid out website, but it is Yale not Wiki, so there is that :P
First of all, The Voynich is only 500 years old(give or take), from a time when books were not uncommon, and was very very likely written in Europe, hardly pre-historic. This would be a person in Europe, with contemporary writing, art, and binding supplies, writing in a dead language not otherwise documented anywhere else. Linear A is like FOUR THOUSAND years dead... not really comperable.
That is what makes it so compelling, the fact that it happened, not in a vaccum like the Aboriginal Amazon, not in ancient history like Linear A, not in Stone, or papyrus, or etched on tree bark, but that it happened inside of western society, using "modern methods" (for the day), and it is a language/code that can be verified as not being junk, but that nobody had seen before or since.
the Voynich manuscript is a much more compelling and difficult mystery.
a syndrome is a reoccuring set of symptoms that commonly happen together. As much as the medical community has fucked that definition, if you actually follow that definition, then yes, every single personality type is a Syndrome.
I don't understand why you are so offended by people choosing to categorize themselves in neat little bundles. I have a 1## IQ, but I won't look you in the eye or touch mayonase, so why the hell do you care if I would like to speak to/about other people who happen to have my particular brand of functioning?