IN the 70s, though, after that great feat was accomplished, Evil Knievel managed to jump from Pike's Peak and land on the moon. Nobody cares, of course, because he wasn't the first man on the moon.
If that was the case, why don't you just dump a quart of oil in there and see what happens?;)
No, ATF is not mostly oil. It has some oil in it, yes, to lubricate moving parts, but it's hydraulic fluid. In a pinch you can use brake fluid in place of ATF (although don't expect to get very far, and service the fucking thing asap). Some transmission problems can actually be cured with brake fluid! (rare, but happens)
You automatic transmission is a hydraulic box. The reason you lose power in it is because your engine is connected to the driveshaft (or axleshafts) by a box full of water, essentially. In your torque converter, on the outside of the inside, there are a series of fins. As your flywheel spins, these fins cause the fluid inside the converter to flow. In the center of the converter, there is another set of fins that connect to the frontshaft sticking out of the transmission (and usually leading right into a piston + chamber). As your flywheel spins faster, the fluid in the torque converter "locks up". Before it locks up, though, torque is transmitted through the hydraulic fluid to the fins in the center, spinning the frontshaft. That's why, in many cars, when you get over a certain speed and you're in your top gear you get better gas mileage. The fluid in the converter actually becomes a solid for a time.
Sweet, eh? But don't let that fool you into sacrificing your semi-metallic clutch disc.;)
Obvioulsy you've never sewed before. Sewing isn't stabbing, it's fitting a needle in between threads of the fabric.
First, assume that your knife has a point that is to sharp it does fit between a couple of threads of the fabric. Next, when you push it farther in, it must cut the fabric or spread it apart, otherwise it won't go any further. I don't know of a knife that sharp that can hold an edge, so the first thing you'd have to do with the first stab is break a few strands of thread so you can start sliding in and cutting. (Yes, I realize the cutting itself is affected by the amount of force behind the blow)
Sewing and stabbing are two completely different actions and are not comparable in any way.
Heh, now that you mention it, my truck was engineered in the 60s and is still operational.;) But it's probably in about Columbia's shape before it's last launch, and I wouldn't recommend launching it into orbit.
That's perfectly fine. But the generation has already been born that will not share your preference. It's a matter of what's available when you grow up. My teachers' teachers wrote everything by long hand, including final versions of thngs. My teachers used the typewriter for final versions but composed in longhand. I write everything in a word processor first time through but still prefer hardcopy for reading. My students will soon be comfortable composing and reading electronically.
Gee, I wonder where I fit in. I'm 30ish (well, I'll be thirty this year), and I prefer typing to writing on paper, but I actually prefer the Grafitti on my Clie to typing. Sure, it's not as fast, but it's much more portable than a keyboard. I can't even remember the last time I read something on a paper book. I fill up all available memory on my Clie with books, and as I finish each one I delete it. When it's empty of books, I fill it again. I've been reading more and at a steadier rate for the last 6 months than I *ever* have in my life, and I"ve got much less time to do so than I ever have in my life.
And I just know that when we can write into a computer, we can search what we've written, and when the computer shows us what we wrote, it can be read by anyone in any font they prefer. Beats the hell out of rating someone's penmanship everytime you try to read their longhand.
It seems that over history, the spacefaring versions of our technology are quite inferior to what we have planet-side. On typical space vehicles, this is because the vehicles were built so long ago. The ISS is a relatively new invention, and the number of bangs, bumps and hiccups seems to be more or less consistant with it's much older counterparts.
I think you misunderstand the problem. Engineering gadgets here on earth is simple compared to engineering gadgets to be deployed in space. We've lived in the relatively friendly environment of the earth for our entire racial life. Space is a hostile environment which we have only been exploring in a limited fashion in the last fifty years or so.
Compare the space shuttles to your car. Sure, they probably cost more in maintenance than your car, but they were engineered in the 70s, and with a couple of exceptions, they're still operational. I'll be the ISS has been in continuous operation for longer than any gadget in your house.
Anyway, the first problem is that they have to engineer devices that are capable of withstanding the amount of thrust they'll be under just to be launched out of the atmosphere. Second problem is that these same devices have to survive in vacuum, and in atmosphere (they're built down here). Third problem is they have to last for a long time, because solving the first two problems is so expensive that building replacements is very cost prohibitive. Fourth problem is that they're built by the lowest bidder, and frequently also engineered by the lowest bidder.:)
It's too easy to point at something in space and compare it's performance to any given gadget you own. Now try strapping that gadget to a rocket and launching it into orbit, and if it survives, then you can make your comparison.
This is neat and all, but IMHO what this country really needs is a new holiday, the first tuesday in November, so nobody has any excuse not to show up and vote.
And if election day is November 8th, by your system we're screwed.
Just to be pedantic, election day is the First Tuesday after the First Monday in November.;)
I just have to ask, what's the point? At what point are we deploying computers just for the sake of deploying more computers? How do these votes get counted? The same old-fashioned way?
Computers are good at counting, and even storing massive records of votes. This is something they are good at, and in trying to avoid the system getting corrupted, we've now removed from the proposal anything and everything for which the computer is needed/wanted, and we're left with nothing but a glorified voting card.
Save my tax-paying money, I'll just check a box with a #2 pencil. If our system is so fucked up that we can't deploy networked machines to tally our votes in a fashion that's at least as secure as our existing voting system, we've got bigger problems to worry about.
Dude, you can drop-in replace a 22-R in that car, why are you fumbling around with all this other crap? Port the head, spend a little money on a cam, and you're done. Turbo is optional. And the fuckin' thing will last forever.
Look, that third movie is so full of plotholes I pretty much try to ignore most of it.:( Clayton Ravine? Doc falls in love with Clara Clayton before Mad Dog Tannen shoots him? So, how is it that they saved Clara (who the Doc wouldn't have saved if Marty hadn't been there in the first place) and the ravine was still called Clayton ravine? Besides, after Marty knocked out Buford, they didn't even have to leave, anymore. Now they had plenty of time to build an electrical engine! WTF?
And if he had the hover conversion done, why is the damn combustion engine still there? How is there room, in a car that only previously barely had enough room for what came on it out of the factory, how does this car now have room for a portable fusion generator that works with any kind of material and the hover gear? (We already know where all the time travel stuff is)
The first movie was a great movie and a lot of fun. The second movie is a great movie and a lot of fun, too (even if it had a few plotholes in it, but not nearly as many as the third). The third movie (made at the same time as the second, iirc) was a sucky movie whose only redeeming trait is ZZ Top spinning their guitars in the old west.
I've been using Kmail for some time, and I find it incredibly useful. My favorites:
Keyboard shortcuts. Allows me to use a GUI mail client the same way I use, well, non-gui email clients, without ever touching the mouse.
Threading the view so that I can see "conversations". Really nice.
No ads at all.
NO ads at all.
The address autocomplete. Just type in the first couple of letters of an address and pick from the selection box that appears.
To reply to an email, all I have to do is click on the "Reply" button and a textbox will appear, great time saver, with the previous email quoted already for my convenience.
The interface is so clean and clutter free, it has KDE written all over it.
Since my mail is stored on my machine, I can keep archives of it for as long as I want, not limited by any mail provider's arbitrary quotas.
Since my mail is stored as plaintext in my protected home directory, I can search it with any tool that I want, not depend on some corporation's proprietary search technology to do so.
Heh, I didn't think you were, and I was both responding to him and to the article, but responding to your post made it easier to put mine in context in the thread.;) No blood no foul, right?;)
Alright then, what's your solution? Google (and by association, actually, Yahoo and MSN) can't even offer email services? Encrypting your email brings it under the domain of the DMCA, doesn't it? Besides that, your email already gets transmitted across the net in plaintext. At several points along the way your email could get stored in a log somewhere. In fact, if you don't check your email constantly, chances are pretty good even your pop provider has some of it stored somewhere on a backup tape or something, as well as the various people who sent email to you.
Google is not the problem, here, folks. SMTP and POP3 are the problem. Fix those and Google will fall right in line behind the fix, right where mail clients generally fall.
So, ah, which minority is right this time?
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Well, following in your analogy, then, you'll find in my mind no variable Religion, regardless of whether it's a Null, None, "", or whatever. I don't waste any processor cycles or compiler passes even trying to have such a variable, it just doesn't belong.;)
And, for the record, the only thing I find more irritating than someone trying to convert me to Christianity (or any other religion) is someone trying to convince me I'm an atheist. I'm not, get over it. Just like I don't need a fairy-tale explanation of how the world came to be (I'm satisfied to not know, and that I'll probably never know), I also don't need to be classified into any religious data type.
So, my counter-argument is that I'm an even farther step from religion than you, closer to the origin, based on your post. In this day and age, that would mean I'm more grown up.;P
gmail would be parsing private emails that are sent to your email address and targeting ads to you based on the keywords it selects.
Um, if you're so worried about it, why don't you just keep using a pop client? That's what I'm doing, and I've got *much* more than 1GB of storage for my email. I've also got plenty of tools to search my email with (grep comes immediately to mind) when I want to search it, and I don't think Google can search my email *that* much better than I can already. I've got context in my head that Google doesn't have, and all I need is tools to narrow down possibilities.
The real question is, what value does GMail add that I don't already have on my system? The answer, so far, is not much, if any. And any advertisements they add greatly detracts from the overall value of the service to me.
If they're already engaging in proper disclosure of what they're doing, I'd like them to add something that shows what a referer field in your http header will look like when you *do* click a context-based ad in your inbox, along with a regular referer that would be shown when you click on ad on their adsense pages and their adwords.
People don't understand how much information is already being transmitted by http, and I'd like to see more of that being shown as part of 'proper disclosure'. But other than that, I don't see how Google's service is so great.
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If you want to call me an atheist, knock yourself out. I don't claim any religion, and I don't really think it's anybody else's business. If I were to pick a label for myself, I'd choose Satanist, just because my personal philosophies are more in line with Anton LaVey's, but not completely. But I've survived enough fundamentalist tripe that I can pass myself off as as devout or fanatic a Christian as I wish. (on the other hand, I've devoured enough pagan and other 'alternative' tripe that I can do the same there)
When it comes down to it, I don't claim any religion for myself because I wish to solve the problem of religion, and claiming a religion of any kind, even by an innocent label such as 'atheist' only contributes to the problem.
Hell yeah it is. Nobody understands it, everybody screams about how great it is, promises to work forever but in reality only works for about three hours.
this is one of those cases where it really isn't about being "PC" or not, it's about not being mean. we're here. we're queer. we don't like being called names:-(
Quit acting so queer, I swear. Don't you have any balls?
Isn't slang great?;)
Now, to get to my point, as other posters have pointed out, 'gay' was adopted by homosexuals to refer to themselves. I can see it, too. "I'm a man, I love men, I'm happy about it." Right?
But I can't help but think about the gay people I've known in my life and how many times they told me "dude, that was gay" or "I can't believe you said such a gay thing" or "I went and saw *insert stupid romantic comedy* and it was like, so gay".
So, I gotta agree with these other people, really. I'm not walking on eggshells for you, unless you're willing to refer to me in only the fashion I dictate. But I won't tell you in advance what's acceptable, I'll wait for you to say something wrong and then whine like a, well, like a bitch.
It's a hard world. There's lots of us that want to see see fags and dykes all get the rights they're due, the same rights the rest of us already get, and we're willing to put both votes and bullets in the right people to make that happen. In light of that fact, what's more important to you? Our common goal, or your childish need for attention?
Jesus fucking Christ. YOu canadians do one thing in all your history that requires balls and you have to keep bringing it up. One, fucking, thing. It's like you got laid once and you'll never get any again, but you have to keep mentioning it. "I got laid once, no reason I can't do it again."
It sounds... bad. Like perhaps we all have scabies or crabs or something. I don't know who started the 'scratches a personal itch' analogy, but I think it's time to drop it.
Um, actually, the 'personal itch' analogy has a long history stretching long before geekdom adopted it for programming. Other related metaphors (I guess it's really a metaphor): Bit by the curiosity bug, itching to do *something* (the root of the metaphor as we use it now), a few others that don't immediately spring to mind. It's readily understood by geeks and non-geeks alike, and except for a few exceptionally sensitive individuals, it's inoffensive.
Personally, when I hack on some piece of software I prefer to think of it as "STD inoculation". Much more offensive, and just as metaphorically useful.;)
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Actually, it was Neil Armstrong.
IN the 70s, though, after that great feat was accomplished, Evil Knievel managed to jump from Pike's Peak and land on the moon. Nobody cares, of course, because he wasn't the first man on the moon.
different industry, say condoms, will it be able to help me when my sweet heart still wants to go and I'm out of gas, will it stay hard?
Only if you slap it hard enough.
Automatic Transmission Fluid is mostly oil right?
If that was the case, why don't you just dump a quart of oil in there and see what happens? ;)
No, ATF is not mostly oil. It has some oil in it, yes, to lubricate moving parts, but it's hydraulic fluid. In a pinch you can use brake fluid in place of ATF (although don't expect to get very far, and service the fucking thing asap). Some transmission problems can actually be cured with brake fluid! (rare, but happens)
You automatic transmission is a hydraulic box. The reason you lose power in it is because your engine is connected to the driveshaft (or axleshafts) by a box full of water, essentially. In your torque converter, on the outside of the inside, there are a series of fins. As your flywheel spins, these fins cause the fluid inside the converter to flow. In the center of the converter, there is another set of fins that connect to the frontshaft sticking out of the transmission (and usually leading right into a piston + chamber). As your flywheel spins faster, the fluid in the torque converter "locks up". Before it locks up, though, torque is transmitted through the hydraulic fluid to the fins in the center, spinning the frontshaft. That's why, in many cars, when you get over a certain speed and you're in your top gear you get better gas mileage. The fluid in the converter actually becomes a solid for a time.
Sweet, eh? But don't let that fool you into sacrificing your semi-metallic clutch disc. ;)
Obvioulsy you've never sewed before. Sewing isn't stabbing, it's fitting a needle in between threads of the fabric.
First, assume that your knife has a point that is to sharp it does fit between a couple of threads of the fabric. Next, when you push it farther in, it must cut the fabric or spread it apart, otherwise it won't go any further. I don't know of a knife that sharp that can hold an edge, so the first thing you'd have to do with the first stab is break a few strands of thread so you can start sliding in and cutting. (Yes, I realize the cutting itself is affected by the amount of force behind the blow)
Sewing and stabbing are two completely different actions and are not comparable in any way.
Fool me once, shame on you! Fool me twice, shame on me.
I didn't click your link. I'd rather click on a goatsex link that any of that fat spandex tron bullshit.
Heh, now that you mention it, my truck was engineered in the 60s and is still operational. ;) But it's probably in about Columbia's shape before it's last launch, and I wouldn't recommend launching it into orbit.
That's perfectly fine. But the generation has already been born that will not share your preference. It's a matter of what's available when you grow up. My teachers' teachers wrote everything by long hand, including final versions of thngs. My teachers used the typewriter for final versions but composed in longhand. I write everything in a word processor first time through but still prefer hardcopy for reading. My students will soon be comfortable composing and reading electronically.
Gee, I wonder where I fit in. I'm 30ish (well, I'll be thirty this year), and I prefer typing to writing on paper, but I actually prefer the Grafitti on my Clie to typing. Sure, it's not as fast, but it's much more portable than a keyboard. I can't even remember the last time I read something on a paper book. I fill up all available memory on my Clie with books, and as I finish each one I delete it. When it's empty of books, I fill it again. I've been reading more and at a steadier rate for the last 6 months than I *ever* have in my life, and I"ve got much less time to do so than I ever have in my life.
And I just know that when we can write into a computer, we can search what we've written, and when the computer shows us what we wrote, it can be read by anyone in any font they prefer. Beats the hell out of rating someone's penmanship everytime you try to read their longhand.
My question is, what's next?
Um, penis tattoos?
It seems that over history, the spacefaring versions of our technology are quite inferior to what we have planet-side. On typical space vehicles, this is because the vehicles were built so long ago. The ISS is a relatively new invention, and the number of bangs, bumps and hiccups seems to be more or less consistant with it's much older counterparts.
I think you misunderstand the problem. Engineering gadgets here on earth is simple compared to engineering gadgets to be deployed in space. We've lived in the relatively friendly environment of the earth for our entire racial life. Space is a hostile environment which we have only been exploring in a limited fashion in the last fifty years or so.
Compare the space shuttles to your car. Sure, they probably cost more in maintenance than your car, but they were engineered in the 70s, and with a couple of exceptions, they're still operational. I'll be the ISS has been in continuous operation for longer than any gadget in your house.
Anyway, the first problem is that they have to engineer devices that are capable of withstanding the amount of thrust they'll be under just to be launched out of the atmosphere. Second problem is that these same devices have to survive in vacuum, and in atmosphere (they're built down here). Third problem is they have to last for a long time, because solving the first two problems is so expensive that building replacements is very cost prohibitive. Fourth problem is that they're built by the lowest bidder, and frequently also engineered by the lowest bidder. :)
It's too easy to point at something in space and compare it's performance to any given gadget you own. Now try strapping that gadget to a rocket and launching it into orbit, and if it survives, then you can make your comparison.
This is neat and all, but IMHO what this country really needs is a new holiday, the first tuesday in November, so nobody has any excuse not to show up and vote.
And if election day is November 8th, by your system we're screwed.
Just to be pedantic, election day is the First Tuesday after the First Monday in November. ;)
I just have to ask, what's the point? At what point are we deploying computers just for the sake of deploying more computers? How do these votes get counted? The same old-fashioned way?
Computers are good at counting, and even storing massive records of votes. This is something they are good at, and in trying to avoid the system getting corrupted, we've now removed from the proposal anything and everything for which the computer is needed/wanted, and we're left with nothing but a glorified voting card.
Save my tax-paying money, I'll just check a box with a #2 pencil. If our system is so fucked up that we can't deploy networked machines to tally our votes in a fashion that's at least as secure as our existing voting system, we've got bigger problems to worry about.
What the hell is a gigawatt?
Dude, you can drop-in replace a 22-R in that car, why are you fumbling around with all this other crap? Port the head, spend a little money on a cam, and you're done. Turbo is optional. And the fuckin' thing will last forever.
Anti-radar paint, turbo-charged fuel! Nobody can stop us now, ha ha haaaaa. Nobody!
(famous last words)
Look, that third movie is so full of plotholes I pretty much try to ignore most of it. :( Clayton Ravine? Doc falls in love with Clara Clayton before Mad Dog Tannen shoots him? So, how is it that they saved Clara (who the Doc wouldn't have saved if Marty hadn't been there in the first place) and the ravine was still called Clayton ravine? Besides, after Marty knocked out Buford, they didn't even have to leave, anymore. Now they had plenty of time to build an electrical engine! WTF?
And if he had the hover conversion done, why is the damn combustion engine still there? How is there room, in a car that only previously barely had enough room for what came on it out of the factory, how does this car now have room for a portable fusion generator that works with any kind of material and the hover gear? (We already know where all the time travel stuff is)
The first movie was a great movie and a lot of fun. The second movie is a great movie and a lot of fun, too (even if it had a few plotholes in it, but not nearly as many as the third). The third movie (made at the same time as the second, iirc) was a sucky movie whose only redeeming trait is ZZ Top spinning their guitars in the old west.
I've been using Kmail for some time, and I find it incredibly useful. My favorites:
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Heh, I didn't think you were, and I was both responding to him and to the article, but responding to your post made it easier to put mine in context in the thread. ;) No blood no foul, right? ;)
Alright then, what's your solution? Google (and by association, actually, Yahoo and MSN) can't even offer email services? Encrypting your email brings it under the domain of the DMCA, doesn't it? Besides that, your email already gets transmitted across the net in plaintext. At several points along the way your email could get stored in a log somewhere. In fact, if you don't check your email constantly, chances are pretty good even your pop provider has some of it stored somewhere on a backup tape or something, as well as the various people who sent email to you.
Google is not the problem, here, folks. SMTP and POP3 are the problem. Fix those and Google will fall right in line behind the fix, right where mail clients generally fall.
So, ah, which minority is right this time?
Well, following in your analogy, then, you'll find in my mind no variable Religion, regardless of whether it's a Null, None, "", or whatever. I don't waste any processor cycles or compiler passes even trying to have such a variable, it just doesn't belong. ;)
And, for the record, the only thing I find more irritating than someone trying to convert me to Christianity (or any other religion) is someone trying to convince me I'm an atheist. I'm not, get over it. Just like I don't need a fairy-tale explanation of how the world came to be (I'm satisfied to not know, and that I'll probably never know), I also don't need to be classified into any religious data type.
So, my counter-argument is that I'm an even farther step from religion than you, closer to the origin, based on your post. In this day and age, that would mean I'm more grown up. ;P
gmail would be parsing private emails that are sent to your email address and targeting ads to you based on the keywords it selects.
Um, if you're so worried about it, why don't you just keep using a pop client? That's what I'm doing, and I've got *much* more than 1GB of storage for my email. I've also got plenty of tools to search my email with (grep comes immediately to mind) when I want to search it, and I don't think Google can search my email *that* much better than I can already. I've got context in my head that Google doesn't have, and all I need is tools to narrow down possibilities.
The real question is, what value does GMail add that I don't already have on my system? The answer, so far, is not much, if any. And any advertisements they add greatly detracts from the overall value of the service to me.
If they're already engaging in proper disclosure of what they're doing, I'd like them to add something that shows what a referer field in your http header will look like when you *do* click a context-based ad in your inbox, along with a regular referer that would be shown when you click on ad on their adsense pages and their adwords.
People don't understand how much information is already being transmitted by http, and I'd like to see more of that being shown as part of 'proper disclosure'. But other than that, I don't see how Google's service is so great.
If you want to call me an atheist, knock yourself out. I don't claim any religion, and I don't really think it's anybody else's business. If I were to pick a label for myself, I'd choose Satanist, just because my personal philosophies are more in line with Anton LaVey's, but not completely. But I've survived enough fundamentalist tripe that I can pass myself off as as devout or fanatic a Christian as I wish. (on the other hand, I've devoured enough pagan and other 'alternative' tripe that I can do the same there)
When it comes down to it, I don't claim any religion for myself because I wish to solve the problem of religion, and claiming a religion of any kind, even by an innocent label such as 'atheist' only contributes to the problem.
So you're telling me superglue is like perl?
Hell yeah it is. Nobody understands it, everybody screams about how great it is, promises to work forever but in reality only works for about three hours.
Hell yeah superglue is just like perl.
this is one of those cases where it really isn't about being "PC" or not, it's about not being mean. we're here. we're queer. we don't like being called names :-(
Quit acting so queer, I swear. Don't you have any balls?
Isn't slang great? ;)
Now, to get to my point, as other posters have pointed out, 'gay' was adopted by homosexuals to refer to themselves. I can see it, too. "I'm a man, I love men, I'm happy about it." Right?
But I can't help but think about the gay people I've known in my life and how many times they told me "dude, that was gay" or "I can't believe you said such a gay thing" or "I went and saw *insert stupid romantic comedy* and it was like, so gay".
So, I gotta agree with these other people, really. I'm not walking on eggshells for you, unless you're willing to refer to me in only the fashion I dictate. But I won't tell you in advance what's acceptable, I'll wait for you to say something wrong and then whine like a, well, like a bitch.
It's a hard world. There's lots of us that want to see see fags and dykes all get the rights they're due, the same rights the rest of us already get, and we're willing to put both votes and bullets in the right people to make that happen. In light of that fact, what's more important to you? Our common goal, or your childish need for attention?
Make up your mind.
Jesus fucking Christ. YOu canadians do one thing in all your history that requires balls and you have to keep bringing it up. One, fucking, thing. It's like you got laid once and you'll never get any again, but you have to keep mentioning it. "I got laid once, no reason I can't do it again."
Yeah, blow me.
Can you get a tin-foil car cover, by chance? I hear those block the signal from those RFID tags installed in all cars these days...
It sounds... bad. Like perhaps we all have scabies or crabs or something. I don't know who started the 'scratches a personal itch' analogy, but I think it's time to drop it.
Um, actually, the 'personal itch' analogy has a long history stretching long before geekdom adopted it for programming. Other related metaphors (I guess it's really a metaphor): Bit by the curiosity bug, itching to do *something* (the root of the metaphor as we use it now), a few others that don't immediately spring to mind. It's readily understood by geeks and non-geeks alike, and except for a few exceptionally sensitive individuals, it's inoffensive.
Personally, when I hack on some piece of software I prefer to think of it as "STD inoculation". Much more offensive, and just as metaphorically useful. ;)