I figured I would be pretty pimp because I have a lot of people contact me via aim for stuff that I'm selling or renting (mostly car related stuff on the vwvortex). I ended up with about 20,727
Anyhow, I checked my sister's score... 47,236. What a slut!
of course then it occurred to me that most of her high school friends have 17 aim accounts each...
The sound effect in a flash animation of a honda civic vs a gti. The animation itself made it around quite a bit, but the sound effect of the honda has been used all over the place. Seriously, I've even heard that sound in a commercial!
"twa - reg" or "tour - eg" are both acceptable. It was named after a desert dwelling african tribe which is known for its versatility and ability to cope with harsh environments.
I personally liked the wind theme they had going on with Golf, Jetta & Corrado
Although you are 100% right, the sentence you quoted is a bit out of context. I was simply illustrating the fact that the same volume of diesel fuel contains more energy than gasoline does.
Both types of engines are very efficient at extracting the maximum amount of energy out of their fuels - but since diesel contains more energy, you need less of it to generate the same amount of power (torque).
This is opposed to the notion that maybe gas engines are inefficient at extracting energy from gasoline and that's why they get worse mileage.
"What I just can't understand though, is that if you can basically do this in a matter of minutes, why does it take the banks weeks to actually clear the damn thing?!?"
We have this neat thing called the Internet. Why does it take more than 30 seconds for a check to clear?
Like most things, the answer is money.
If the banks joined the 21st century and had an instant check clearing and funds transferring system, they would lose out on millions (maybe billions?) of dollars in NSF charges.
I also am a member of the TDIClub so I too am biased.
But here's some food for thought:
My TDI motor gets an average of 45 MPG while making around 130 hp and 250 ft/lbs of torque. A comparable gasoline engine will get 25 to 30 mpg. This means the TDI gets 50% better economy.
It's important to mention that this isn't because gasoline engines are inefficient - it's because diesel (and bio diesel) fuel contains more energy per volume than gasoline does.
So in a real world context, this article doesn't make any sense. Even IF ethanol requires 29% more energy than it yields, we're not burning STRAIGHT ethanol. It's just an ingredient in a recipe for a very good fossil fuel alternative.
The victims have NO rights and NO ONE to help them. The bank can do whatever it wants - it has an unlimited supply of money and resources and the little guy ends up getting screwed.
The worst part is that I offered to give them back the remaining money (almost $2000) in exchange for them accepting some of the responsibility for the fraud. I REFUSE to accept 100% responsibility for the lost money since they told me the check cleared.
I do feel somewhat responsible since I'm the one who deposited the check. I'm the one who brought this situation on them. So I was willing to accept some responsibility for the situation. I offered to pay back 2,000 or 3,000 on top of the $2,000 I had left over, in exchange for them not ruining my credit. I thought I was being very generous and doing the right thing.
They declined.
This to me tells me that they just don't give a fuck. The bank was Charter One - a huge conglomerate. They just charged it off, claimed it on some insurance policy and continued on their merry way.
Oh yeah, I should add - the bank explained to me that because the check was "certified" they can only hold the funds on it for 72 hours. That just made me even angrier - they basically admitted that they lied / misinformed me yet they still refuse to accept any responsibility for the lost money.
Had a 1986 BMW 318 for sale for 1600 bucks on a few online classifieds sites. I hadn't really heard of 419 scams before.
I get an email from a guy saying he wants to buy it and have it shipped to him overseas. He says he's going to send a cashiers check in the mail. I figured, yeah right - this guy is totally nuts, so I ignored him and forgot about the whole thing.
About a week later, a certified bank check shows up via fedex at my apartment for $10,000.
I took it to the state police barracks down the road from my house and asked what to do. They gave me the number of a secret service agent. I asked if there would be any harm (or if I would be doing anything illegal) if I deposited it into an empty account to see if it cleared - they said no.
So I called the secret service agent and explained the situation to him. He said that there have been a lot of fraudulent emails coming from nigeria, but most of them involved scamming people out of their bank account numbers. I asked him if there would be any harm in depositing the check to see if it clears. He said that there shouldn't be any harm in doing so as long as I wait to see if it clears first (duh).
So I did.
A few days later, I went back to the bank and asked them if the check I had deposited had cleared. The teller told me, yes, it cleared. I said "Are you sure it cleared" and she looked again and said "Yes, it cleared the system."
I couldn't believe it.
I told them I wanted to withdraw the money. The teller gets the manager to approve the large withdrawal. The manager checked the system, shook his head and then went into the vault. They gave me 10k in cash and I walked out.
I got home and called the secret service agent back. I said "You're not going to believe this, but I have 10,000 cash in my hand right now. - What should I do??" He said, "Well, the check cleared, nothing illegal has been done, proceed with the transaction." So I had the bank telling me that the check cleared, handing me 10k in cash and a secret service agent telling me to proceed with this transaction.
So I did. I had not witheld any information from anyone. I felt uneasy at first, so I went directly to the police. The confirmed that what I was doing was okay. So I sent about 8,000 via western union to the "shipper" who was supposed to pick up this piece of shit 1986 318.
Three days later the bank account went 10k in the red. There was no way I could pay them back. I explained EVERYTHING to them, emphasizing the fact that THEY had told me that the check had cleared and I acted on that premise. Their response basically was "too bad" and they sent it to a collections agent. I called the secret service agent back. He felt really bad about the situation, but basically said "there's nothing I can do".
I've felt angry, embarrassed, and stupid about the situation ever since. My credit is completely screwed and I don't think there is anything I can do about it.
It's too bad that it took a million dollar scam for them to start going after these bastards.
If you honestly think that one of the two reasons that apple switched to x86 was so "Dual booting between Mac OSX and Windows" is possible, you're smoking crack.
If that were true then it would mean that Jobs secretly thinks that windows is somehow better than OSX and that it needs to be supported by their hardware in order for Apple to survive.
"That being said, it is a toy database, and as such, should not be used on serious projects (i.e., anything that uses normalized data schemas and requires data integrity)."
Care to back that up?
I use MySQL/InnoDB in a commercial environment where data integrity is (obviously) very important. All of my tables are InnoDB, and I use it's foreign key feature wherever possible. It's been running for 5 years on 3 different servers and I've never had any problems...
If there's some great reason why I shouldn't be using MySQL, I'd like to know about it. Seriously, why does it seem like everyone hates MySQL so much?
Alt-Tab (its actually command tab) didn't come into its own on OSX until 10.3 (IIRC, could be 10.2) when they introduced the bezel style application switcher. In fact, in the early days of OSX, command tab was incredibly frustrating because it wasn't like windows. You couldn't alt-shift-tab to go backwards, and you couldn't cycle through all of the applications. Apple finally gave in and made it behave more like Windows.
Where OSX pulls ahead is that you can command-tab to a program and while still holding down command, press q (or h or whatever). This lets you quit applications without switching to them.
This is just one example of course, these little gems are hidden all over OSX - if you have full keyboard access turned on. Why its not turned on by default is beyond me, but anyway: System Preferences -> Keyboard & Mouse -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> All Controls radio button. You can navigate 90% of the OS without a mouse, but there are some inconsistencies that drive users crazy (like dialogue boxes that don't have full keyboard access).
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I'm with you. I work for a company with 27,000 employees and I have the __only__ mac. lucky me :)
I figured I would be pretty pimp because I have a lot of people contact me via aim for stuff that I'm selling or renting (mostly car related stuff on the vwvortex). I ended up with about 20,727
Anyhow, I checked my sister's score... 47,236. What a slut!
of course then it occurred to me that most of her high school friends have 17 aim accounts each...
The sound effect in a flash animation of a honda civic vs a gti. The animation itself made it around quite a bit, but the sound effect of the honda has been used all over the place. Seriously, I've even heard that sound in a commercial!
"twa - reg" or "tour - eg" are both acceptable. It was named after a desert dwelling african tribe which is known for its versatility and ability to cope with harsh environments.
I personally liked the wind theme they had going on with Golf, Jetta & Corrado
Trials? Sure :)
"the searchable archive I created has been refactored to accomodate porn."
Okay, stop holding out on us... Link please?
Both of your sources are from 2004. Lots and lots of things could have changed since then.
1) Can you produce it without fossil fuels at a competitive rate (within, say 50% of today's gasoline, as seen at the pump)
You can produce biodiesel for 60 cents a gallon material cost at low volume. Your labor is obviously worth something as well.
I've found this site to be a pretty good resource for learning about and how to make biodiesel.
Although you are 100% right, the sentence you quoted is a bit out of context. I was simply illustrating the fact that the same volume of diesel fuel contains more energy than gasoline does. Both types of engines are very efficient at extracting the maximum amount of energy out of their fuels - but since diesel contains more energy, you need less of it to generate the same amount of power (torque). This is opposed to the notion that maybe gas engines are inefficient at extracting energy from gasoline and that's why they get worse mileage.
"play ANY video I want"
Translation: pr0n"What I just can't understand though, is that if you can basically do this in a matter of minutes, why does it take the banks weeks to actually clear the damn thing?!?"
We have this neat thing called the Internet. Why does it take more than 30 seconds for a check to clear?
Like most things, the answer is money.
If the banks joined the 21st century and had an instant check clearing and funds transferring system, they would lose out on millions (maybe billions?) of dollars in NSF charges.
I also am a member of the TDIClub so I too am biased.
But here's some food for thought:
My TDI motor gets an average of 45 MPG while making around 130 hp and 250 ft/lbs of torque. A comparable gasoline engine will get 25 to 30 mpg. This means the TDI gets 50% better economy.
It's important to mention that this isn't because gasoline engines are inefficient - it's because diesel (and bio diesel) fuel contains more energy per volume than gasoline does.
So in a real world context, this article doesn't make any sense. Even IF ethanol requires 29% more energy than it yields, we're not burning STRAIGHT ethanol. It's just an ingredient in a recipe for a very good fossil fuel alternative.
It's like fighting city hall.
The victims have NO rights and NO ONE to help them. The bank can do whatever it wants - it has an unlimited supply of money and resources and the little guy ends up getting screwed.
The worst part is that I offered to give them back the remaining money (almost $2000) in exchange for them accepting some of the responsibility for the fraud. I REFUSE to accept 100% responsibility for the lost money since they told me the check cleared.
I do feel somewhat responsible since I'm the one who deposited the check. I'm the one who brought this situation on them. So I was willing to accept some responsibility for the situation. I offered to pay back 2,000 or 3,000 on top of the $2,000 I had left over, in exchange for them not ruining my credit. I thought I was being very generous and doing the right thing.
They declined.
This to me tells me that they just don't give a fuck. The bank was Charter One - a huge conglomerate. They just charged it off, claimed it on some insurance policy and continued on their merry way.
The system is great isn't it?
Grow a sense of humor :P
Just look
at what the prize winning losers were buying!Jessica Simpson? Kelly Clarkson? Brian McKnight?!
Oh the agony...
Oh yeah, I should add - the bank explained to me that because the check was "certified" they can only hold the funds on it for 72 hours. That just made me even angrier - they basically admitted that they lied / misinformed me yet they still refuse to accept any responsibility for the lost money.
Had a 1986 BMW 318 for sale for 1600 bucks on a few online classifieds sites. I hadn't really heard of 419 scams before.
I get an email from a guy saying he wants to buy it and have it shipped to him overseas. He says he's going to send a cashiers check in the mail. I figured, yeah right - this guy is totally nuts, so I ignored him and forgot about the whole thing.
About a week later, a certified bank check shows up via fedex at my apartment for $10,000.
I took it to the state police barracks down the road from my house and asked what to do. They gave me the number of a secret service agent. I asked if there would be any harm (or if I would be doing anything illegal) if I deposited it into an empty account to see if it cleared - they said no.
So I called the secret service agent and explained the situation to him. He said that there have been a lot of fraudulent emails coming from nigeria, but most of them involved scamming people out of their bank account numbers. I asked him if there would be any harm in depositing the check to see if it clears. He said that there shouldn't be any harm in doing so as long as I wait to see if it clears first (duh).
So I did.
A few days later, I went back to the bank and asked them if the check I had deposited had cleared. The teller told me, yes, it cleared. I said "Are you sure it cleared" and she looked again and said "Yes, it cleared the system."
I couldn't believe it.
I told them I wanted to withdraw the money. The teller gets the manager to approve the large withdrawal. The manager checked the system, shook his head and then went into the vault. They gave me 10k in cash and I walked out.
I got home and called the secret service agent back. I said "You're not going to believe this, but I have 10,000 cash in my hand right now. - What should I do??" He said, "Well, the check cleared, nothing illegal has been done, proceed with the transaction." So I had the bank telling me that the check cleared, handing me 10k in cash and a secret service agent telling me to proceed with this transaction.
So I did. I had not witheld any information from anyone. I felt uneasy at first, so I went directly to the police. The confirmed that what I was doing was okay. So I sent about 8,000 via western union to the "shipper" who was supposed to pick up this piece of shit 1986 318.
Three days later the bank account went 10k in the red. There was no way I could pay them back. I explained EVERYTHING to them, emphasizing the fact that THEY had told me that the check had cleared and I acted on that premise. Their response basically was "too bad" and they sent it to a collections agent. I called the secret service agent back. He felt really bad about the situation, but basically said "there's nothing I can do".
I've felt angry, embarrassed, and stupid about the situation ever since. My credit is completely screwed and I don't think there is anything I can do about it.
It's too bad that it took a million dollar scam for them to start going after these bastards.
"He seems to get it backwards, every time." And it has made him the richest man in the world. Sucks, doesn't it?
If you honestly think that one of the two reasons that apple switched to x86 was so "Dual booting between Mac OSX and Windows" is possible, you're smoking crack.
If that were true then it would mean that Jobs secretly thinks that windows is somehow better than OSX and that it needs to be supported by their hardware in order for Apple to survive.
There is nothing more pathetic than OS dependent web based software. Seriously.
Rhetorical question: Is security really the only reason to advocate that people switch to FireFox?
"That being said, it is a toy database, and as such, should not be used on serious projects (i.e., anything that uses normalized data schemas and requires data integrity)."
Care to back that up?
I use MySQL/InnoDB in a commercial environment where data integrity is (obviously) very important. All of my tables are InnoDB, and I use it's foreign key feature wherever possible. It's been running for 5 years on 3 different servers and I've never had any problems...
If there's some great reason why I shouldn't be using MySQL, I'd like to know about it. Seriously, why does it seem like everyone hates MySQL so much?
Alt-Tab (its actually command tab) didn't come into its own on OSX until 10.3 (IIRC, could be 10.2) when they introduced the bezel style application switcher. In fact, in the early days of OSX, command tab was incredibly frustrating because it wasn't like windows. You couldn't alt-shift-tab to go backwards, and you couldn't cycle through all of the applications. Apple finally gave in and made it behave more like Windows.
Where OSX pulls ahead is that you can command-tab to a program and while still holding down command, press q (or h or whatever). This lets you quit applications without switching to them.
This is just one example of course, these little gems are hidden all over OSX - if you have full keyboard access turned on. Why its not turned on by default is beyond me, but anyway: System Preferences -> Keyboard & Mouse -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> All Controls radio button. You can navigate 90% of the OS without a mouse, but there are some inconsistencies that drive users crazy (like dialogue boxes that don't have full keyboard access).
Exactly. I somehow doubt that Microsoft's ASP.NET 2.0 thingy is going to produce javascript that has the necessary fork in it:
.....
.....
if(window.XMLHttpRequest){
// branch for IE/Windows ActiveX version
}else if(window.ActiveXObject){
}
"Apple Macintosh computers are not supported at this time (but we are working on it)." OSX users rejoice :)