Every road motorcycle I've owned in the past 5 years (3 Yamaha R1's, Ducati 998, Kawasaki ZX-10R) has had a seriously inaccurate speedo, all of them 7% or more on the plus side. On my 03 R1 an indicated speed of 187 consistently showed 172 on GPS w/ a 180/55/17. I think the mfgrs collude on this and do it on purpose to make squidly didly think he's cooler than he really is.
Anyway, for your Wing speedo, go here and get a Yellow Box. With it you'll be able to precisely calibrate your speedo, which means concentrating on the ride and not the speedo calculation.
After all, how did they learn to make rude human sexual gestures in the first place?
Perhaps the monkeys have to share one TV and a single tape of the 2006 B.E.T. Hip-Hop awards? How else can you explain the dissing of the bitches and hos, the pointing at the genitals, etc...
That's not cynical at all; it's just a fact. When I write a letter to my Congressman (Burgess, an administration stooge), that's not called lobbying; it's maybe "petitioning" or "wasting ink" if you prefer. If there's a campaign contribution attached, or some kind of expensive perk, that's lobbying. Since lobbying makes use of material rewards to help get the message across, it's merely a legal form of bribery.
Having used lobbyists on the state and federal level, I can tell you that money or perks do not necessarily (or even normally) have to change hands in order for the effort to succeed. Lobbying is about getting ACCESS to the decision maker in order to present your point of view. The most effective lobbying efforts are not the ones that spread the most cash around, they're the ones headed up by the people (lobbyists) who happen to have the tightest relationships with the decision makers.
Except that the new versions of the coupons, inc. mechanism apparently somehow checks to see if your browser is running within a VM, and if it finds that it is, it'll disallow the print. I've seen this happen running windows within VMware Fusion on the mac.
A creative work is subjective. I cannot tell the difference between the work of 50 Cent and Snoop Dogg, probably due to the fact that I don't care about their work. Does the fact that I find their material indistinguishable from one another mean they're work is not covered by copyright? No.
Yay! You've found your Winter Soldiers! Wonder which one of them will throw someone else's medals over the WH fence and parlay it into a Senate career and a marriage to a billionaire?
You're assuming that America is (a) politically willing and (b) physically able to "stay the course" for 10 years.
If you and your ilk march on with your demand for failure, political will may very well fall short - especially if your buddies in the media succeed in squelching a rebound in public support as progress is being made. With an annual GDP of over 13 trillion dollars, physical ability to keep tempo is not in question, it all comes back to political will.
Do you really think Iraq is going to be a success? If so, did you think that 12 months ago, when Iraq was "just turning the corner"? How about 24 months ago, when there were just "a few dead-enders" left? Or 36 months ago, when it was all just a matter of weeks until everything was hunky-dory?
Yes, I do think it will eventually be a success. And yes, I did think the same thing 12, 24 and 36 months ago, because I know what nearly everyone else in DC knows but takes care not to say: anti-insurgency campaigns like the one we're engaged in now typically require about 10 years to achieve success. The reasons it takes that long are numerous, but should be apparent to any semi-lucid person familiar with human history. We are not quite to the half-way mark on the scale, but considering the circumstances it could well be that we'll be able to turn over security to Iraqis before the 10 year mark.
What, you want Pvt. Beauchamp to write it up for you, asshole?
I know, I know, I'm sorry. I'm sure you're just annoyed and dismayed that things appear to be turning to shit over there, what with the surge beginning to work, locals turning against the terrorists, and whatnot. But don't worry, little liberal fella! While Iraq may end up being a success for the US (Dang it all to Hell!), the future undoubtedly holds some other thing you can use to justify some more self loathing!
Oh, and if your next laptop is a Mac, enjoy the extra price for the hardware and more expensive software. And if you plan on running games on the Mac, enjoy the selection:)
Haha, we expect no less from basement-dwelling, cheeto-eating, bus-riding, game-playing, meat-beating, 40 year old McDonald's employee like you. Haha!:)
And, hey, your mom can hear you when you masturbate down there. Haha!:)
This could be put to immediate use in the USA, where much bad legislation needs to be repealed and they need to attract fewer blockheads to a career in politics.
You're so right on, DR! I'm packing my shit up and moving someplace where the laws are all just and the politicos are uniformly uncorrupt and capable. (looks at map, scratches head)
But, I have a better solution. Just let all foreign nationals get the message that is made here and stop communicating to and via the US. The US want to be isolated?
So, you promote halting all communication with and travel to the United States in order to send a political message...
But you then go on to say you can still work for US companies...
It is not like one needs to go to the US to get a job there, as most jobs for foreign nationals are by now already outsourced to those countries themselves.
Let me get this straight. You'll take a job with a US company, but you say you won't communicate via the US, which I assume means never making a call through or to the US, never sending an email to anyone in the US, nor surfing a web site hosted in the US? Allow me to clue you in, shortbus: unless you're trimming the hedges or sweeping a floor in Bangalore for IBM, you will be in frequent contact via various communications vehicles with people in the US. So, unless you're willing to bite the bullet and swear off working for any US company or its foreign subsidiaries, or working for non-US companies with US clients, you're going to have to communicate with and through the US.
It is highly likely that eliminating communications with the US will hurt YOU more than it will hurt the US.
Yeah, well I wasn't talking about the 15", was I? AFAICS The only 17" Dell portable you can get with the Santa Rosa chipset is the Vostro 1700, and have fun with no DVI port and that plastic piece of crap case. You guys can go on digging through the Dell discount bin looking for a polished turds all day long for all I care, but at the end of the day, the fact of the matter is that Apple hardware isn't so much more expensive than "high quality" comparable alternatives. You should just accept that and move along, this whole "Apple is stratospherically expensive" line of bunk is old and tired.
No, you did not. Do it again after you fully understand the specs of the Macbook. You went through and priced the Dell out in it's default config, which is NOWHERE NEAR what the MBP is (default dell = sub 2ghz proc, 80gb drive and 512mb ram? come on you fucking retard).
Well, if that's all you want to do, web browsing, email, and a little word processing, I suppose you can get by just fine with the cheapest piece of dung you can haul out of a Wal-Mart.
Using your logic, since in most cases all anyone has to do is transport themselves from point A to point B, we should all be content with a Chevy Aveo5. Or maybe, according to your worldview, we should all be quite content covering our genitalia with used burlap sacks, because, really, in the end you're just covering your junk, right? What should quality, comfort, style or utility possibly have to do with anything?
Look, bs, you're just a person who doesn't mind living life surrounded by inferiority. And that's fine, you're entitled to your way of living, but don't try to compare a $179.98 redlight special with a capably designed machine, it just makes you look foolish. But, then, I'll bet you look foolish a lot, don't you?
Overpriced hardware? Go price out the Macbook Pro 17" w/ WUXGA screen (1920x1200) in standard config (2.4G SantaRosa, 160GB HD, 2GB Ram, etc), then go to Dell and price out a similarly configured M90. The Mac is $333.00 cheaper, and the Dell doesn't even have the latest Santa Rosa chip set!
Sure, you can get cheaper hardware elsewhere, but you normally get exactly what you pay for.
That response would last about one week into the new school year. Dude, there were over 150 of the darn things ALREADY on campus, and it's a ghost town compared to September when the kids return!
Three things:
1.) if you think that Duke students will put up with an IT staff too closed minded to resolve a problem with their own network, which would result in making their $500 iPhones useless on wifi, you're crazy. The kids pay the big $$$ to go there, IT toads can be easily replaced.
2.) Duke U. has been out front in embracing iPhone's parent, iPod, as a learning tool, going so far as to issue them to incoming freshmen a few years back, if you think that some pasty cheeto eater in IT would be able to gloss over his own network problem by banning iPhone when Duke has embraced iPod in the classroom, you're friggin stoned.
3.) Lastly, and maybe most importantly so far as the iPhone itself is concerned, there are ALREADY over 150 known iPhones on the Duke campus accessing the network. The iPhone has been out for only 3 weeks. How many do you think there will be when the population on campus grows exponentially with the start of the school year? What that says is that the iPhone is ALREADY a massively disruptive technology, and that anyone who does not understand that we are seeing a massive shift away from traditional computing is either deluded or stupid.
He continued working on getting to the root of the problem and solved it yesterday.
Well, he HAD to continue to work the problem, that's his job, he didn't really have the option of simply ignoring the situation, did he? Not sure that constitutes a pat on the back.
The quote in Network World is unfortunate, but he is no "hair trigger IT moron."
It does, in fact, show that he's willing to drop statements to the press such as "I don't believe it's a Cisco problem in any way, shape, or form," quite prematurely and without factual foundation. In the end a.) he should have kept his mouth shut until he definitively knew what was happening, and b.) if she was at all concerned that the guy was prone to getting ahead of himself, Tracy should have muzzled him from the moment the issue first came to light. Any story involving a potential iPhone problem at this juncture is going to get mega exposure, and Miller and Futhey should have realized that.
You start by converting all of the existing municipal waste treatment and coal fired power plants in the US to algae farming operations, then calculate how much more would be needed.
Go to an Apple store and use an iMac. Adjust the screen angle. Insert a DVD. Listen to a tune. Use the video Camera. Notice that it takes up the same amount of desk space as your monitor, or less, yet there is nothing cooking your nuts below the desk. Come back here after you're done.
Hey, pandrijeczko, we're developing a new line of ultra-low priced computers that, due to the use of low cost case material, have the shape and color of a pile of Great Dane dog shit. It appears that you fit our primary buyer profile perfectly. Can we contact you to do some in-depth consumer research? In exchange for your time we will generously compensate you with a bag of cheetos, a two liter bottle of mountain dew, and a slightly used AARP tip calculator.
But seriously, if there was a "massively moronic" mod identifier, I'd certainly use it on you.
Is slashdot going to emulate Digg, where every other story coming over the rss feed is related to impeaching the president/vice president, or some other looney moonbat guano? Am I the only one who wants a place to discuss technology and science without having to wade through the political sewer?
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Agreed. Just got a new house. CAT6/RJ45 is going into all rooms.
Once it's secure, I'll use wireless.
So, I'll be using wired for the rest of my life.
Dude, dispense with the paranoia, will ya? We already know you're surfing gay porn.
Mostly because we want pot to be legalized. Keep your laws the fuck away from my private life.
You and your buddies keep your pot smoking asses the fuck away from my kids and perhaps the laws wouldn't be required. Just a thought.
Every road motorcycle I've owned in the past 5 years (3 Yamaha R1's, Ducati 998, Kawasaki ZX-10R) has had a seriously inaccurate speedo, all of them 7% or more on the plus side. On my 03 R1 an indicated speed of 187 consistently showed 172 on GPS w/ a 180/55/17. I think the mfgrs collude on this and do it on purpose to make squidly didly think he's cooler than he really is.
Anyway, for your Wing speedo, go here and get a Yellow Box. With it you'll be able to precisely calibrate your speedo, which means concentrating on the ride and not the speedo calculation.
After all, how did they learn to make rude human sexual gestures in the first place?
Perhaps the monkeys have to share one TV and a single tape of the 2006 B.E.T. Hip-Hop awards? How else can you explain the dissing of the bitches and hos, the pointing at the genitals, etc...
That's not cynical at all; it's just a fact. When I write a letter to my Congressman (Burgess, an administration stooge), that's not called lobbying; it's maybe "petitioning" or "wasting ink" if you prefer. If there's a campaign contribution attached, or some kind of expensive perk, that's lobbying. Since lobbying makes use of material rewards to help get the message across, it's merely a legal form of bribery.
Having used lobbyists on the state and federal level, I can tell you that money or perks do not necessarily (or even normally) have to change hands in order for the effort to succeed. Lobbying is about getting ACCESS to the decision maker in order to present your point of view. The most effective lobbying efforts are not the ones that spread the most cash around, they're the ones headed up by the people (lobbyists) who happen to have the tightest relationships with the decision makers.
Except that the new versions of the coupons, inc. mechanism apparently somehow checks to see if your browser is running within a VM, and if it finds that it is, it'll disallow the print. I've seen this happen running windows within VMware Fusion on the mac.
A creative work is subjective. I cannot tell the difference between the work of 50 Cent and Snoop Dogg, probably due to the fact that I don't care about their work. Does the fact that I find their material indistinguishable from one another mean they're work is not covered by copyright? No.
Yay! You've found your Winter Soldiers! Wonder which one of them will throw someone else's medals over the WH fence and parlay it into a Senate career and a marriage to a billionaire?
You're assuming that America is (a) politically willing and (b) physically able to "stay the course" for 10 years.
If you and your ilk march on with your demand for failure, political will may very well fall short - especially if your buddies in the media succeed in squelching a rebound in public support as progress is being made. With an annual GDP of over 13 trillion dollars, physical ability to keep tempo is not in question, it all comes back to political will.
Do you really think Iraq is going to be a success? If so, did you think that 12 months ago, when Iraq was "just turning the corner"? How about 24 months ago, when there were just "a few dead-enders" left? Or 36 months ago, when it was all just a matter of weeks until everything was hunky-dory?
Yes, I do think it will eventually be a success. And yes, I did think the same thing 12, 24 and 36 months ago, because I know what nearly everyone else in DC knows but takes care not to say: anti-insurgency campaigns like the one we're engaged in now typically require about 10 years to achieve success. The reasons it takes that long are numerous, but should be apparent to any semi-lucid person familiar with human history. We are not quite to the half-way mark on the scale, but considering the circumstances it could well be that we'll be able to turn over security to Iraqis before the 10 year mark.
What, you want Pvt. Beauchamp to write it up for you, asshole?
I know, I know, I'm sorry. I'm sure you're just annoyed and dismayed that things appear to be turning to shit over there, what with the surge beginning to work, locals turning against the terrorists, and whatnot. But don't worry, little liberal fella! While Iraq may end up being a success for the US (Dang it all to Hell!), the future undoubtedly holds some other thing you can use to justify some more self loathing!
Haha - hope you don't plan on running games :)
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Oh, and if your next laptop is a Mac, enjoy the extra price for the hardware and more expensive software. And if you plan on running games on the Mac, enjoy the selection
Haha, we expect no less from basement-dwelling, cheeto-eating, bus-riding, game-playing, meat-beating, 40 year old McDonald's employee like you. Haha!
And, hey, your mom can hear you when you masturbate down there. Haha!
You are not wrong. That's exactly what you should do.
This could be put to immediate use in the USA, where much bad legislation needs to be repealed and they need to attract fewer blockheads to a career in politics.
You're so right on, DR! I'm packing my shit up and moving someplace where the laws are all just and the politicos are uniformly uncorrupt and capable. (looks at map, scratches head)
But, I have a better solution. Just let all foreign nationals get the message that is made here and stop communicating to and via the US. The US want to be isolated?
So, you promote halting all communication with and travel to the United States in order to send a political message...
But you then go on to say you can still work for US companies...
It is not like one needs to go to the US to get a job there, as most jobs for foreign nationals are by now already outsourced to those countries themselves.
Let me get this straight. You'll take a job with a US company, but you say you won't communicate via the US, which I assume means never making a call through or to the US, never sending an email to anyone in the US, nor surfing a web site hosted in the US? Allow me to clue you in, shortbus: unless you're trimming the hedges or sweeping a floor in Bangalore for IBM, you will be in frequent contact via various communications vehicles with people in the US. So, unless you're willing to bite the bullet and swear off working for any US company or its foreign subsidiaries, or working for non-US companies with US clients, you're going to have to communicate with and through the US.
It is highly likely that eliminating communications with the US will hurt YOU more than it will hurt the US.
Yeah, well I wasn't talking about the 15", was I? AFAICS The only 17" Dell portable you can get with the Santa Rosa chipset is the Vostro 1700, and have fun with no DVI port and that plastic piece of crap case. You guys can go on digging through the Dell discount bin looking for a polished turds all day long for all I care, but at the end of the day, the fact of the matter is that Apple hardware isn't so much more expensive than "high quality" comparable alternatives. You should just accept that and move along, this whole "Apple is stratospherically expensive" line of bunk is old and tired.
No, you did not. Do it again after you fully understand the specs of the Macbook. You went through and priced the Dell out in it's default config, which is NOWHERE NEAR what the MBP is (default dell = sub 2ghz proc, 80gb drive and 512mb ram? come on you fucking retard).
I fart in your general direction.
Well, if that's all you want to do, web browsing, email, and a little word processing, I suppose you can get by just fine with the cheapest piece of dung you can haul out of a Wal-Mart.
Using your logic, since in most cases all anyone has to do is transport themselves from point A to point B, we should all be content with a Chevy Aveo5. Or maybe, according to your worldview, we should all be quite content covering our genitalia with used burlap sacks, because, really, in the end you're just covering your junk, right? What should quality, comfort, style or utility possibly have to do with anything?
Look, bs, you're just a person who doesn't mind living life surrounded by inferiority. And that's fine, you're entitled to your way of living, but don't try to compare a $179.98 redlight special with a capably designed machine, it just makes you look foolish. But, then, I'll bet you look foolish a lot, don't you?
Overpriced hardware? Go price out the Macbook Pro 17" w/ WUXGA screen (1920x1200) in standard config (2.4G SantaRosa, 160GB HD, 2GB Ram, etc), then go to Dell and price out a similarly configured M90. The Mac is $333.00 cheaper, and the Dell doesn't even have the latest Santa Rosa chip set!
Sure, you can get cheaper hardware elsewhere, but you normally get exactly what you pay for.
That response would last about one week into the new school year. Dude, there were over 150 of the darn things ALREADY on campus, and it's a ghost town compared to September when the kids return!
Three things:
1.) if you think that Duke students will put up with an IT staff too closed minded to resolve a problem with their own network, which would result in making their $500 iPhones useless on wifi, you're crazy. The kids pay the big $$$ to go there, IT toads can be easily replaced.
2.) Duke U. has been out front in embracing iPhone's parent, iPod, as a learning tool, going so far as to issue them to incoming freshmen a few years back, if you think that some pasty cheeto eater in IT would be able to gloss over his own network problem by banning iPhone when Duke has embraced iPod in the classroom, you're friggin stoned.
3.) Lastly, and maybe most importantly so far as the iPhone itself is concerned, there are ALREADY over 150 known iPhones on the Duke campus accessing the network. The iPhone has been out for only 3 weeks. How many do you think there will be when the population on campus grows exponentially with the start of the school year? What that says is that the iPhone is ALREADY a massively disruptive technology, and that anyone who does not understand that we are seeing a massive shift away from traditional computing is either deluded or stupid.
I fart in your general direction!
Well, he HAD to continue to work the problem, that's his job, he didn't really have the option of simply ignoring the situation, did he? Not sure that constitutes a pat on the back.
The quote in Network World is unfortunate, but he is no "hair trigger IT moron."
It does, in fact, show that he's willing to drop statements to the press such as "I don't believe it's a Cisco problem in any way, shape, or form," quite prematurely and without factual foundation. In the end a.) he should have kept his mouth shut until he definitively knew what was happening, and b.) if she was at all concerned that the guy was prone to getting ahead of himself, Tracy should have muzzled him from the moment the issue first came to light. Any story involving a potential iPhone problem at this juncture is going to get mega exposure, and Miller and Futhey should have realized that.
You start by converting all of the existing municipal waste treatment and coal fired power plants in the US to algae farming operations, then calculate how much more would be needed.
Go to an Apple store and use an iMac. Adjust the screen angle. Insert a DVD. Listen to a tune. Use the video Camera. Notice that it takes up the same amount of desk space as your monitor, or less, yet there is nothing cooking your nuts below the desk. Come back here after you're done.
But seriously, if there was a "massively moronic" mod identifier, I'd certainly use it on you.
Is slashdot going to emulate Digg, where every other story coming over the rss feed is related to impeaching the president/vice president, or some other looney moonbat guano? Am I the only one who wants a place to discuss technology and science without having to wade through the political sewer?