I vaguely remember something similar. Looking about on Google I think it was either the The Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, or the gumball rally.
My probably fractured memory is that one particularly decisive win was not by a supercar, but by a Japanese king cab mini pickup. The drivers filled the be with a fuel tank and were able to drive straight through without ever stopping or breaking the speed limit. IIRC the win margin was tremendous.
The man is trying to be cute and generate publicity by using a method which might be intended to be viewed as "cool", but if he was really going for time this very well might not the right way to do it.
As a side note, Family legend has it that as a teenager my grandmother once participated in the north south trans U.S. speed record. IRC the average speed was something like 15mph and change. My father was born in 1925, So I'm suspecting this was around 1920 or so. High quality 20's vehicles such as Cords and Auburns could still comfortably do 70 or 80mph so I suspect the pickup method has merit.
This discussion bring back to me an ancient memory of myself reading, I believe a "Popular Science" magazine blurb in the school library when I was a little kid. This memory is really old, like Madonna wearing 10 crucifixes at a time old.
The article was about a system that used little silicon spheres set onto dish shaped depressions pressed into a piece of tinfoil. The individual cells looked like an orange in a shallow cereal bowl. (but, you know, lots and lots smaller.) The dish acted as a solar reflector thereby making the effective efficiency higher for a given amount of pure silica. It produced less electricity per square inch than equivalent conventional cells, but it's total cost was supposed to be lower.
IIRC The material proved be a dud for many reasons. It was overly delicate, they had a serious problem with reliably attaching the spheres to the aluminum, an when they finally got it going the actual efficiency numbers were far lower than they were predicting.
I mark this as one of those ideas that crop up every now and again when it's been long enough for people to forget that it was stupid the last time.
You forgot the chinese sailing vessel. That's my personal double entendre candidate.
"My Junk is 50 feet long" "Normally it runs real smooth, but it's broad in the beam so if it gets rough theres a lot of wave action" "It's incredibly durable. The under work is solid teak"
You can go on and on like this.
Just avoid things like "My junk was made in Hong Kong" and you should be OK.
In deference to our own little Cotton Mather here, it is possible he or she is merely doing their job.
The organization in question here has previously been accused of assigning members to hound those it considers to be unfriendly to itself, both legally and, as in this case, socially. I'd also heard they more or less stopped doing it years ago, but oh well.
I personally suggest android cat make a copy of this thread to use in any legal matters they may need to take (such as a restraining order) at a later date.
from a 2mb SD card. You need generally to do the same with opera anyway. Also, iirc firefox comes out a little smaller when loaded on FAT32 because of the smaller block size.
As the saying goes "lies, damn lies, and statistics". I am particularly interested in two things. The "once a week" statement which seems somehow suspicious, and the fact that MacFee sells pay-for anti-virus products.
Once a week:
How many people use their computers online less than once a week? If you're not online you can't update (nor should you need to)
How many people don't use their computers online at all?
How many people set their computers to "update only when I tell you to" to keep the anti-virus auto updater from twiddling with their open applications when they are working?
MacFee:
How often have you seen a study that was spontaneously initiated and payed for by a company turn out to be against the company's best interests?
My favorite bit is having seen an out of date copy of norton on xp causes so much virus like behavior and slowdowns that it fooled a person into thinking it was a virus issue when the offender was in fact norton itself.
I have one friend who bought it merely because it was the only way he knew to make his computer work again. Norton is so much more complicated to uninstall than other software that he couldn't figure it out.
I don't know from T61 to T72. The thing I saw was black, it had lots of vents and what might be termed open work on the sides, and a round front edge. It said both "lenovo" "thinkpad" on it. On the top front of the case on the left when one faces the screen was a space where either a hard drive or battery was supposed to go. It was made of really thin plastic and was so flexible that I feard I might break the thing if i picked it up without the bay being full. That may or may not be one of the models you've dealt with, I don't know. It did convince me not to buy it though.
Depends on how hard you are pushing. Heck so will a car wheel rim for that matter. I found the lenovo to be alarmingly flexible. It felt like I could break it accidentally just by pushing on it. Much more so than either my dell 7410 or may macbook pro which barely does so at all even under (relatively) hard pressure. I'm sure not all models are like that, but the one I saw was fairly disturbing.
The last Lenovo I saw in a store actually had a case so fragile it flexed when I pressed my finger on it. Panasonic toughbooks might not be bad. They recently greatly increased their rated fall distance. If you're looking for a metal case there are also the power pros. They have the tidy little advantage of being able to run all the current major OSes
Furthermore they specialize in hand building purposed hardware. This is not at all what the FBI needs.
If they said sun took the contract I wouldn't be surprised, but Lockheed? I suspect their getting this contract had more to do with their experience with acquiring government contracts than it does with them actually being the right people for the job.
I'm not surprised your girlfriend thought this. I remember taking a look at the guys photo on the jacket of like book 3, which was obviously horribly out of date, and thinking "he's never going to finish the series". Someone will finish it as a fanfic of course. It might help out for closure. Perhaps they will release his outline notes which will make it easier.
If one is able to hide one's actual identity all sorts of things become possible. I can see for instance the police commissioner's mom becoming a major figure in literary pornography.
Personally I mistrust this bill on the grounds of the lobby oriented track record of the current administration.
If (and I say if) it's actually a net gain for the people it is possible that it is a compromise bill and there is something very unpleasant coming down down the pipe.
This bill would allow a given representative when confronted in reelection with having voted for a particularly odious cell phone bill can then reply that he also voted for this one.
What have the cell phone companies been lobbying for most lately that the American public has most disliked? We may see it real soon now.
Libertarian philosophy is not physics. Neither America nor almost any successful major government has ever had a totally free market. The American people can decide to "Deserve" anything they want to. Whether it's a good idea for them to do that in a given situation is another question entirely.
One of the standard arguments against Libertarian philosophy, and especially that section of it embraced by many neo-conservative groups is that a lot of the time it ends up merely being an excuse for those who want to prey on the weak.
and how long has that been true? It sure as heck wasn't when I was in school.
inovate is a term already in use. And usable within the the discipline in question for other things. An economic innovation would be something like money(arguably around since monkeys), double entry book keeping (~13th century) Or all those fine equations talked about in that "A Beautiful Mind" movie. It would not be
Interestingly enough it is also the only definition in wikipedia, (the one where money can buy keystrokes which can buy definitions) which is downright suspicious. It was also not listed as such in the webster's section.
Most of the Google listings where I saw it in the capitalistic sense were pretty much tech oriented, which is a place where the origional definition is most certainly the most appropriate.
the term for changing a words meaning is bastardization. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox- a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=x5X&defl=en&q= define:bastardization&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition& ct=title
The term for deliberately acting to obscure the truth is known as lying. http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=lying
It would be reasonable to assume therefore that the people who do this could accurately be called "Lying Bastards"
Retroactively redefining words is very handy for those who wish to manipulate public opinion. If one changes the words meaning there isw a period of time where the new word has the associations of the old before the public gets wise. One example of this is the term "ethnic cleansing". Ethnic cleansing used to be better known as Genocide. And they even got away with it for a while until the U.N. officially married the terms back together again. It took several years though. Another good example is when the Nazi party changed it's name to avoid certain obvious problems. There are even certain political extremist groups --ahem-Moral majority--Ahem-- That change their name about every 5 years or so to keep ahead of public opinion.
What they are calling "innovation" here is NOT the original definition of the word.
Real, which is to say unmanipulatable, dictionaries such as Webster define it more or less as something new. http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/Innovation Much more like the definition of invention as used here. If this were true terms like ideological innovation and scientific innovation would make no sense.
The term "to innovate" as used here used to be called "to capitalize on" Capitalize has become a technical business term but the general definition used to be more like "to create profit from" http://www.english-test.net/toeic/vocabulary/words /158/toeic-definitions.php Capitalize as used here is again a word with negative connotations.
The general source of this retroactive reinvention of the term is so far as I can tell, Microsoft. If in Microsoft's public statements one substitutes the term they begin to make a lot more sense. If this is done, by their own statemant, Microsoft does not make new things, they capitalize on other people's ideas.
Perhaps this article's purpose is to remarry the terms. Much like the U.N.'s action on genocide/ethnic cleansing, but I felt clarification was in order.
DOH! I was somehow connecting this with the earthquake based radiation release at a Japanese nuclear plant earlier. It sounded like this was being used as a cover to explain away the issue as an atmospheric effect rather than admit it actually happened.
Too many Japanese nuclear plants in the news in a short amount of time I guess.
You got to admit it's odd though. If they've been playing with this since the 20's and all, Why are they suddenly studying it in japan right after a hugely embarrassing accident? It still looks like a spin control stunt.
I guess it's like NASA sending a light sabre into space so folks will forget about NASAs romantic issues. Sort of making "Luke, I am your father" out of "Who's your daddy!"
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I vaguely remember something similar. Looking about on Google I think it was either the The Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, or the gumball rally.
My probably fractured memory is that one particularly decisive win was not by a supercar, but by a Japanese king cab mini pickup. The drivers filled the be with a fuel tank and were able to drive straight through without ever stopping or breaking the speed limit. IIRC the win margin was tremendous.
The man is trying to be cute and generate publicity by using a method which might be intended to be viewed as "cool", but if he was really going for time this very well might not the right way to do it.
As a side note, Family legend has it that as a teenager my grandmother once participated in the north south trans U.S. speed record. IRC the average speed was something like 15mph and change. My father was born in 1925, So I'm suspecting this was around 1920 or so. High quality 20's vehicles such as Cords and Auburns could still comfortably do 70 or 80mph so I suspect the pickup method has merit.
This discussion bring back to me an ancient memory of myself reading, I believe a "Popular Science" magazine blurb in the school library when I was a little kid. This memory is really old, like Madonna wearing 10 crucifixes at a time old.
The article was about a system that used little silicon spheres set onto dish shaped depressions pressed into a piece of tinfoil. The individual cells looked like an orange in a shallow cereal bowl. (but, you know, lots and lots smaller.) The dish acted as a solar reflector thereby making the effective efficiency higher for a given amount of pure silica. It produced less electricity per square inch than equivalent conventional cells, but it's total cost was supposed to be lower.
IIRC The material proved be a dud for many reasons. It was overly delicate, they had a serious problem with reliably attaching the spheres to the aluminum, an when they finally got it going the actual efficiency numbers were far lower than they were predicting.
I mark this as one of those ideas that crop up every now and again when it's been long enough for people to forget that it was stupid the last time.
You forgot the chinese sailing vessel. That's my personal double entendre candidate.
"My Junk is 50 feet long"
"Normally it runs real smooth, but it's broad in the beam so if it gets rough theres a lot of wave action"
"It's incredibly durable. The under work is solid teak"
You can go on and on like this.
Just avoid things like "My junk was made in Hong Kong" and you should be OK.
I fear the reference to "things at cool parties you should have been to" is going to solicit at least several photos of someone's junk.
In deference to our own little Cotton Mather here, it is possible he or she is merely doing their job.
The organization in question here has previously been accused of assigning members to hound those it considers to be unfriendly to itself, both legally and, as in this case, socially. I'd also heard they more or less stopped doing it years ago, but oh well.
I personally suggest android cat make a copy of this thread to use in any legal matters they may need to take (such as a restraining order) at a later date.
0 to godwin's law in .5 sec. I do so wish that was a record but sadly, no.
from a 2mb SD card. You need generally to do the same with opera anyway. Also, iirc firefox comes out a little smaller when loaded on FAT32 because of the smaller block size.
whats totally irritating is this is only the second 5 mod post I've made, and I forgot to log in when i did it :[
As the saying goes "lies, damn lies, and statistics". I am particularly interested in two things. The "once a week" statement which seems somehow suspicious, and the fact that MacFee sells pay-for anti-virus products.
Once a week:
How many people use their computers online less than once a week? If you're not online you can't update (nor should you need to)
How many people don't use their computers online at all?
How many people set their computers to "update only when I tell you to" to keep the anti-virus auto updater from twiddling with their open applications when they are working?
MacFee:
How often have you seen a study that was spontaneously initiated and payed for by a company turn out to be against the company's best interests?
My favorite bit is having seen an out of date copy of norton on xp causes so much virus like behavior and slowdowns that it fooled a person into thinking it was a virus issue when the offender was in fact norton itself.
:/
I have one friend who bought it merely because it was the only way he knew to make his computer work again. Norton is so much more complicated to uninstall than other software that he couldn't figure it out.
YAY Shovelware!
I don't know from T61 to T72. The thing I saw was black, it had lots of vents and what might be termed open work on the sides, and a round front edge. It said both "lenovo" "thinkpad" on it. On the top front of the case on the left when one faces the screen was a space where either a hard drive or battery was supposed to go. It was made of really thin plastic and was so flexible that I feard I might break the thing if i picked it up without the bay being full. That may or may not be one of the models you've dealt with, I don't know. It did convince me not to buy it though.
Make of that what you will.
Depends on how hard you are pushing. Heck so will a car wheel rim for that matter. I found the lenovo to be alarmingly flexible. It felt like I could break it accidentally just by pushing on it. Much more so than either my dell 7410 or may macbook pro which barely does so at all even under (relatively) hard pressure. I'm sure not all models are like that, but the one I saw was fairly disturbing.
The last Lenovo I saw in a store actually had a case so fragile it flexed when I pressed my finger on it. Panasonic toughbooks might not be bad. They recently greatly increased their rated fall distance. If you're looking for a metal case there are also the power pros. They have the tidy little advantage of being able to run all the current major OSes
Nope. Not really.
Furthermore they specialize in hand building purposed hardware. This is not at all what the FBI needs.
If they said sun took the contract I wouldn't be surprised, but Lockheed? I suspect their getting this contract had more to do with their experience with acquiring government contracts than it does with them actually being the right people for the job.
...and Tuxedo Mask moon having a torrid love affair with Mr. Spock. Don't forget that one.
I'm not surprised your girlfriend thought this. I remember taking a look at the guys photo on the jacket of like book 3, which was obviously horribly out of date, and thinking "he's never going to finish the series". Someone will finish it as a fanfic of course. It might help out for closure. Perhaps they will release his outline notes which will make it easier.
If one is able to hide one's actual identity all sorts of things become possible. I can see for instance the police commissioner's mom becoming a major figure in literary pornography.
Personally I mistrust this bill on the grounds of the lobby oriented track record of the current administration.
If (and I say if) it's actually a net gain for the people it is possible that it is a compromise bill and there is something very unpleasant coming down down the pipe.
This bill would allow a given representative when confronted in reelection with having voted for a particularly odious cell phone bill can then reply that he also voted for this one.
What have the cell phone companies been lobbying for most lately that the American public has most disliked? We may see it real soon now.
Libertarian philosophy is not physics. Neither America nor almost any successful major government has ever had a totally free market. The American people can decide to "Deserve" anything they want to. Whether it's a good idea for them to do that in a given situation is another question entirely.
One of the standard arguments against Libertarian philosophy, and especially that section of it embraced by many neo-conservative groups is that a lot of the time it ends up merely being an excuse for those who want to prey on the weak.
and how long has that been true? It sure as heck wasn't when I was in school.
inovate is a term already in use. And usable within the the discipline in question for other things. An economic innovation would be something like money(arguably around since monkeys), double entry book keeping (~13th century) Or all those fine equations talked about in that "A Beautiful Mind" movie.
It would not be
Interestingly enough it is also the only definition in wikipedia, (the one where money can buy keystrokes which can buy definitions) which is downright suspicious. It was also not listed as such in the webster's section.
Most of the Google listings where I saw it in the capitalistic sense were pretty much tech oriented, which is a place where the origional definition is most certainly the most appropriate.
the term for changing a words meaning is bastardization. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox- a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=x5X&defl=en&q= define:bastardization&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition& ct=title
The term for deliberately acting to obscure the truth is known as lying.
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=lying
It would be reasonable to assume therefore that the people who do this could accurately be called "Lying Bastards"
Change wikipedia, change the world!
s /158/toeic-definitions.php
Retroactively redefining words is very handy for those who wish to manipulate public opinion. If one changes the words meaning there isw a period of time where the new word has the associations of the old before the public gets wise.
One example of this is the term "ethnic cleansing". Ethnic cleansing used to be better known as Genocide. And they even got away with it for a while until the U.N. officially married the terms back together again. It took several years though.
Another good example is when the Nazi party changed it's name to avoid certain obvious problems. There are even certain political extremist groups --ahem-Moral majority--Ahem-- That change their name about every 5 years or so to keep ahead of public opinion.
What they are calling "innovation" here is NOT the original definition of the word.
Real, which is to say unmanipulatable, dictionaries such as Webster define it more or less as something new. http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/Innovation Much more like the definition of invention as used here.
If this were true terms like ideological innovation and scientific innovation would make no sense.
The term "to innovate" as used here used to be called "to capitalize on" Capitalize has become a technical business term but the general definition used to be more like "to create profit from" http://www.english-test.net/toeic/vocabulary/word
Capitalize as used here is again a word with negative connotations.
The general source of this retroactive reinvention of the term is so far as I can tell, Microsoft. If in Microsoft's public statements one substitutes the term they begin to make a lot more sense. If this is done, by their own statemant, Microsoft does not make new things, they capitalize on other people's ideas.
Perhaps this article's purpose is to remarry the terms. Much like the U.N.'s action on genocide/ethnic cleansing, but I felt clarification was in order.
DOH! I was somehow connecting this with the earthquake based radiation release at a Japanese nuclear plant earlier. It sounded like this was being used as a cover to explain away the issue as an atmospheric effect rather than admit it actually happened.
Too many Japanese nuclear plants in the news in a short amount of time I guess.
You got to admit it's odd though. If they've been playing with this since the 20's and all, Why are they suddenly studying it in japan right after a hugely embarrassing accident? It still looks like a spin control stunt.
I guess it's like NASA sending a light sabre into space so folks will forget about NASAs romantic issues. Sort of making "Luke, I am your father" out of "Who's your daddy!"
JAP is imho easier to use than TOR, and since it is based in germany you know that it will get by every time.