Then it just becomes a circular pissing contest: "The federal government withdraws all funding for interstate highways". Look at why the drinking age is 21 in every state. It's not because there is a federal law, it's because the feds strong armed them with "Well if it's not 21 the roads aren't safe, and if the roads aren't safe we're not going to fund them."
> clogged intake manifold (twice and it's clogged again)
EGR Delete.
> MAF Sensor (twice)
Are you running K&N or any oiled air filters?
>clogged EGR valve
EGR Delete.
> oil in the cooler
EGR Delete
>The damage done by the 'mechanic' that put in the new alternator (never going to a non-VW diesel specialist again)...
Well that's your own problem. Do you take your PC to the Apple Store? Find a good local TDI Guru http://forums.tdiclub.com/. Working on these cars is not that difficult. If you can follow instructions a Bentley will be a good investment. Alternator should take under an hour. When mine went bad I even fixed it with $3 in new Drill brushes from the hardware store.
You get get something very good for $20K that will come with a 3-5yr warranty. You can often finance it over 60 months with near 0.0% financing.
You and I have very different definitions of cheap. A new timing belt on my car is probably one of the most expensive 'regular' jobs. That's around $120 every 60k. I did put on a new head and turbo to the tune of $1500. Still nowhere close to what financing a new car would cost.
going forward it's going to be once every 3.5 years for a new car
Such a waste. Look at the cars Cuba is running. They haven't gotten much of anything since the embargo but their cars keep on ticking.
I have a 14 year old VW Jetta TDI. It is nearing 300,000 mi and still gets 40 driven hard and 50+ if driven gently. Still has 550 psi compression across all 4 cylinders. (Read, that's a good thing). Mechanics wear out it's not always design it's just physics. I've had to replace numerous body parts on the suspension and I'm nearing my 30th oil change but it's still going and I don't see replacing it anytime in the near future.
Let me guess, you buy new clothes every year if they need replacing or not. "Just in case".
Or I suppose a computer analogy: "Nothing ever goes wrong with my computers. I just replace them every month". (And given the design lifespans of Car:Computer::3.5 years:1 month is about right.
Octave to Matlab is as a transvestite is to a real woman. Octave is a joke compared to Matlab. It'd be like me coming into a discussion about C and suggesting everyone just uses PHP, because it's practically the same syntax.
There is absolutely no Simulink equivalent, there aren't anywhere near the number of toolboxes. Matlab is expensive because Mathworks pays some top level PhDs to develop them. As far as I can tell you can' compile Octave to anything. Simulink will compile to one of a dozen embedded processors, including the one my company uses for our ECMs and XPCs we use for prototyping work.
Some of our potential paying customers are using it without paying
Exactly, how can you prove that potential paying customers are using it? I work at a rather large company and stuff is locked down. You're not going to be installing pirated versions of anything.
One example is Matlab. I pirate Matlab, I don't feel bad about it. I use it for random home projects (Especially since Simulink works with Arduino). I'm not a potential paying customer. I'd never be able to afford a seat. But I can put that on my resume and sell myself to a company. My COMPANY then buys it. That is your customer. I've even talked the powers that be to buy some additional licenses to toolkits that I taught myself to use on the pirated version. I know they have a 30 day trial but you never know when you're going to need that toolbox to experiment with.
I suppose you've never worked with a ZeroConf/Bonjour printer? That's pretty much what happens now. Except the plugin part. I plug it into the network and it just shows up under available printers.
Where isn't this in use? My GP can order a prescription from is computer in the room. Same goes for any hospital, etc I've been in. The only thing that requires the actual script is scheduled drugs because it's (theoretically) harder to forge.
Basically just a bunch of kids that try to profit off of people that actually did the leg work. I don't know of any release groups that ask for money. They do it for the challenge and to be first. I've not noticed a single hiccup in anything. From SickBeard to CouchPotato.
That of which we do not speak is still going strong. The people complaining about MU and everything else being shut down are the same type of people that have difficulty with torrents.
Who said anything about beating off to pictures of 14 year olds? I said that 14+ is not a pedophilia. It's not. A person who abuses cocaine is not an alcoholic. Someone that builds houses isn't a cobbler. Slashdot erupts at people calling crackers/hackers. This is the same thing. It's not the definition of the word. It doesn't fit the definition of the word. It's not the word to use.
As a medical diagnosis, pedophilia (or paedophilia) is defined as a psychiatric disorder in adults or late adolescents (persons age 16 or older) typically characterized by a primary or exclusive sexual interest in prepubescent children (generally age 13 years or younger, though onset of puberty may vary). The child must be at least five years younger than the adolescent (16 or older) to be termed pedophilia.
Kids? Sorry. 17 is not a "Kid". In almost every century of human's existence this was considered an adult. You think the "Virgin Mary" was 23? She was most likely 14/15.
Not to mention the double standards of arbitrary age that is defined at 18. I wish I could find the exact quote but it essentially goes like this: "The age of consent in most states is under the age of majority as defined by the feds. If you were were to have sex with a 16 year old it would be legal in numerous states. If her friend was there she couldn't watch, but could join in. Nothing could be video taped as it would be 'making child pornography'. However if any of the 16 year olds involved were to murder or rape any other person in the threesome they would be tried as an adult."
Lets just make anything under 30 child pornography. Move the drinking age and smoking age to 45, since that will fix everything. Americans parents can keep sticking their heads in the ground about everything and that'll solve everything. Vs say the Dutch who accept the fact that teens are going to act like teens and consequently have a lower pregnancy rate.
Different strokes for different folks. I met my GF (and more than likely future wife) on Plenty of Fish. Never had any spammers but did have to weed out the crazy.
We also went out on a date last night with another couple we met on another "dating" website and had a great time.
Problem with online websites is it's like walking up to every girl in the bar and then getting mad when they all don't fit. You don't give up.
They need to make sure that they can't be turned off. Like this woman that managed to 'fall' over and over when the camera was off.
Or there was this recent beating of a homeless man when he thought he turned off his camera. I want helmet cams and microphones too. You do something you get recorded.
UPenn does a LOT with these quad rotors. They seem to have some pretty smart grad students working on this in research.
One thing to point out is that this stuff doesn't always go as planned. Their Outtake Reel is pretty entertaining from "Oops" to "Oh shit there goes another few propellers."
What's your degree in? My Fiancé is an MD in Pediatrics and I have my MSME in Mechatronics/Controls. Right now we're most concerned about her MD transfering.
There will be no civil war. A modern military can put down it's populace in no time. You don't have the weapons, tactics or manpower to take on a police force, let alone the US army. Plus our ruling class own the media. Look how far Occupy Wall Street got.
It just takes a critical mass. A mass that goes from "a bunch of bored kids" to "friends and family". Are you telling me that the US Army is going to follow through with orders to shoot their fellow countrymen? Sure. A few will. (Stanford Prison Experiment). But if you get enough people that are upset with the way things are no army is going to stand in their way.
And the way everyone has been acting (Police shooting a Marine in the head with a flashbag) I wouldn't be surprised if the Military turned on the Police before the Citizens.
Slashdot Mirror
Gee, if only we had something that could use uranium and thorium. We could kill two birds with one stone.
Then it just becomes a circular pissing contest: "The federal government withdraws all funding for interstate highways". Look at why the drinking age is 21 in every state. It's not because there is a federal law, it's because the feds strong armed them with "Well if it's not 21 the roads aren't safe, and if the roads aren't safe we're not going to fund them."
> clogged intake manifold (twice and it's clogged again)
EGR Delete.
> MAF Sensor (twice)
Are you running K&N or any oiled air filters?
>clogged EGR valve
EGR Delete.
> oil in the cooler
EGR Delete
>The damage done by the 'mechanic' that put in the new alternator (never going to a non-VW diesel specialist again)...
Well that's your own problem. Do you take your PC to the Apple Store? Find a good local TDI Guru http://forums.tdiclub.com/. Working on these cars is not that difficult. If you can follow instructions a Bentley will be a good investment. Alternator should take under an hour. When mine went bad I even fixed it with $3 in new Drill brushes from the hardware store.
And how many people on Slashdot take their PC down to BestBuy to get it fixed?
$139.50 + shipping and a lazy Saturday afternoon. Possibly another $20 for beer.
You get get something very good for $20K that will come with a 3-5yr warranty. You can often finance it over 60 months with near 0.0% financing.
You and I have very different definitions of cheap. A new timing belt on my car is probably one of the most expensive 'regular' jobs. That's around $120 every 60k. I did put on a new head and turbo to the tune of $1500. Still nowhere close to what financing a new car would cost.
going forward it's going to be once every 3.5 years for a new car
Such a waste. Look at the cars Cuba is running. They haven't gotten much of anything since the embargo but their cars keep on ticking.
I have a 14 year old VW Jetta TDI. It is nearing 300,000 mi and still gets 40 driven hard and 50+ if driven gently. Still has 550 psi compression across all 4 cylinders. (Read, that's a good thing). Mechanics wear out it's not always design it's just physics. I've had to replace numerous body parts on the suspension and I'm nearing my 30th oil change but it's still going and I don't see replacing it anytime in the near future.
Let me guess, you buy new clothes every year if they need replacing or not. "Just in case".
Or I suppose a computer analogy: "Nothing ever goes wrong with my computers. I just replace them every month". (And given the design lifespans of Car:Computer::3.5 years:1 month is about right.
can't compile Octave to anything.
Octave to Matlab is as a transvestite is to a real woman. Octave is a joke compared to Matlab. It'd be like me coming into a discussion about C and suggesting everyone just uses PHP, because it's practically the same syntax.
There is absolutely no Simulink equivalent, there aren't anywhere near the number of toolboxes. Matlab is expensive because Mathworks pays some top level PhDs to develop them. As far as I can tell you can' compile Octave to anything. Simulink will compile to one of a dozen embedded processors, including the one my company uses for our ECMs and XPCs we use for prototyping work.
Quick translation into English: "I like my sendmail-esque configuration just fine. It's job security."
Some of our potential paying customers are using it without paying
Exactly, how can you prove that potential paying customers are using it? I work at a rather large company and stuff is locked down. You're not going to be installing pirated versions of anything.
One example is Matlab. I pirate Matlab, I don't feel bad about it. I use it for random home projects (Especially since Simulink works with Arduino). I'm not a potential paying customer. I'd never be able to afford a seat. But I can put that on my resume and sell myself to a company. My COMPANY then buys it. That is your customer. I've even talked the powers that be to buy some additional licenses to toolkits that I taught myself to use on the pirated version. I know they have a 30 day trial but you never know when you're going to need that toolbox to experiment with.
I suppose you've never worked with a ZeroConf/Bonjour printer? That's pretty much what happens now. Except the plugin part. I plug it into the network and it just shows up under available printers.
Where isn't this in use? My GP can order a prescription from is computer in the room. Same goes for any hospital, etc I've been in. The only thing that requires the actual script is scheduled drugs because it's (theoretically) harder to forge.
Basically just a bunch of kids that try to profit off of people that actually did the leg work. I don't know of any release groups that ask for money. They do it for the challenge and to be first. I've not noticed a single hiccup in anything. From SickBeard to CouchPotato.
That of which we do not speak is still going strong. The people complaining about MU and everything else being shut down are the same type of people that have difficulty with torrents.
Moving to?
Canada has Medicare?
Don't forget: Any invasion of internet privacy is for child porn/piracy.
Who said anything about beating off to pictures of 14 year olds? I said that 14+ is not a pedophilia. It's not. A person who abuses cocaine is not an alcoholic. Someone that builds houses isn't a cobbler. Slashdot erupts at people calling crackers/hackers. This is the same thing. It's not the definition of the word. It doesn't fit the definition of the word. It's not the word to use.
As a medical diagnosis, pedophilia (or paedophilia) is defined as a psychiatric disorder in adults or late adolescents (persons age 16 or older) typically characterized by a primary or exclusive sexual interest in prepubescent children (generally age 13 years or younger, though onset of puberty may vary). The child must be at least five years younger than the adolescent (16 or older) to be termed pedophilia.
14+ is not pedophilia. Words have definitions.
Kids? Sorry. 17 is not a "Kid". In almost every century of human's existence this was considered an adult. You think the "Virgin Mary" was 23? She was most likely 14/15.
Not to mention the double standards of arbitrary age that is defined at 18. I wish I could find the exact quote but it essentially goes like this: "The age of consent in most states is under the age of majority as defined by the feds. If you were were to have sex with a 16 year old it would be legal in numerous states. If her friend was there she couldn't watch, but could join in. Nothing could be video taped as it would be 'making child pornography'. However if any of the 16 year olds involved were to murder or rape any other person in the threesome they would be tried as an adult."
Lets just make anything under 30 child pornography. Move the drinking age and smoking age to 45, since that will fix everything. Americans parents can keep sticking their heads in the ground about everything and that'll solve everything. Vs say the Dutch who accept the fact that teens are going to act like teens and consequently have a lower pregnancy rate.
Different strokes for different folks. I met my GF (and more than likely future wife) on Plenty of Fish. Never had any spammers but did have to weed out the crazy.
We also went out on a date last night with another couple we met on another "dating" website and had a great time.
Problem with online websites is it's like walking up to every girl in the bar and then getting mad when they all don't fit. You don't give up.
They need to make sure that they can't be turned off. Like this woman that managed to 'fall' over and over when the camera was off.
Or there was this recent beating of a homeless man when he thought he turned off his camera. I want helmet cams and microphones too. You do something you get recorded.
UPenn does a LOT with these quad rotors. They seem to have some pretty smart grad students working on this in research.
One thing to point out is that this stuff doesn't always go as planned. Their Outtake Reel is pretty entertaining from "Oops" to "Oh shit there goes another few propellers."
What's your degree in? My Fiancé is an MD in Pediatrics and I have my MSME in Mechatronics/Controls. Right now we're most concerned about her MD transfering.
There will be no civil war. A modern military can put down it's populace in no time. You don't have the weapons, tactics or manpower to take on a police force, let alone the US army. Plus our ruling class own the media. Look how far Occupy Wall Street got.
It just takes a critical mass. A mass that goes from "a bunch of bored kids" to "friends and family". Are you telling me that the US Army is going to follow through with orders to shoot their fellow countrymen? Sure. A few will. (Stanford Prison Experiment). But if you get enough people that are upset with the way things are no army is going to stand in their way.
And the way everyone has been acting (Police shooting a Marine in the head with a flashbag) I wouldn't be surprised if the Military turned on the Police before the Citizens.