I have always argued that engine braking wastes fuel. You brake by spinning your engine at a higher RPM using it for drag but the engine still fires each piston every time it comes around, It is not injecting extra fuel beyond the idle amount but it is still using 4-6x the fuel you would be using idling.
Perhaps modern cars don't do this, but my 89 Volvo 240 has a mechanical distributor. I suppose the archaic computer may turn off the injectors but I kinda doubt it is that smart.
Perhaps someone who knows more about this can answer this for me.
I picked out a Dell Vostro laptop for a friend sadly with vista, it worked fine for 30 days. Then the crapware wireless appliation it came installed with shut down the wireless connection untill you ponied up 30$ for the full version.
So it basically held the laptop hostage unless you knew to uninstall it and use the Windows networking instead. I'm sure there are plenty of people who come across this and have no idea what to do so they shell out the 30 bucks.
I had this old 4.3 gig SCSI HD that still worked but I no longer possessed a controller card to run it. Clearly a useless drive but instead of throwing it away, taking it apart, or smashing it so nobody could read what was on it; I decided to pull up the floorboard in my old bedroom of my parents 105 year old Victorian house. The same floorboard that I kept porn under before the world had an Internet.
I left it there under the floor waiting to be found someday. I had a good laugh imagining what someone will think when they finally find it. What would you think of a HD you found hidden in the floor? The drive isn't blank but I figure that if someone actually manages to get it working at some far off time then they deserve to see it.
If that were my kid I would have walked in there with a sledge hammer and blasted his Xbox into a billion pieces. I can't belive people let their kids get away with that kind of behavior.
"The PC has rallied slightly, since then. 2004 saw the PC creeping ahead of the consoles in terms of visuals for the first time..."
For the first time? Are you on crack? The PC is almost always ahead and ahead by a large margin including right now. The only time I remember when you could argue that console systems where ahead was when the Xbox first came out, and even then you stil had to play it on an anemic display (TV). Even if you are lucky enough to have an HDTV that isn't anywhere close to the kind of resolution that a PC can pump out.
Do you even have a computer that wasn't built 6+ years ago? Your bias is glaring.
Each system has it's advantages but now to really enjoy with the upcoming generation you will need a HDTV, and at those prices you can easily get a nice gaming computer. It really comes down to what kind of games you like to play as to what kind of system you will enjoy the most.
Yah Mafia basically did that, and the game was horrible. I love GTA so i gave Mafia a try, but those cars are just agony to drive. I did not get past the first driving mission before I decided the game was just not fun and uninstalled it.
If all they do is produce the same crap over and over stop buying thier games. Support independent game developers and their creativity. Cut out the evil middle men and marketing morons who ruin everything with their single minded devotion to money.
Yes it is sad that I had them but they just came in a couple boxes of comics I bought from somone. I don't regret it I got the Frank Miller Daredevils and a lot of classic Batmans out of it and a whole bunch of other nice stuff. But Power Pack??? I never read one of those, but it did make me wonder about that guy.
Those comics were so good that a couple months ago I threw away the first 30 of them. Thats right, they are so awsome that I did not even bother to put them up on ebay.
I get the feeling that Marvel got a little movie money happy and sold all the rights to their good characters already. Now they are stuck trying to produce...crap.
"There's plenty of people here (in the U.S.) who can't afford to pay for necessities like rent, utilities, food, and medicine. Let's fix that before we take on the plight of people who are forced to download pr0n at 56K."
Thats right, lets make a list of our priorities important things first and fixed them one at a time. Never work on the next one on the list because there is something more important to do That way the whole can take as absolutely long as possible. Ever hear of diminishing returns?
If all our effort into one of the items on that list how many things are going to suffer because of it. Ideas like yours are so narrow minded. If everyone shared your view the whole world would be stagnant arguing over what was most important so we could do that instead of just doing something. There are plenty of causes out there, pick one, get off your ass and don't waste everyone's time arguing about what cause they chose to fight for because you think there is a more important one. At least they are doing something. There are lots of people out there lets work on lots of different ideas and maybe we can help each other out.
Same here, Monk and BSG are the only shows I currently watch on TV. So what if they are difference are we now only allowed to chose one type of show to watch?
Watch BSG at 10, watch Monk at 12. Good thing they repeate ohterwise I might have to take my VCR out of Mothballs. Or wait, I could just download them. I wonder if they considered that they are just driving people to download when they put two good shows on at the same time.
"... someone outside the industry needs to step in and squash this, and quick."
What you want people to pass laws against it or soemthing? Thats really what we need more stupid laws they do not help anyone. Get a grip it is not that big of a deal people should be able to do what they want.
Looks nice, I have been waiting for something like that for a while. I have a PDA that all I use it for is as book reader, the screen is pretty crappy compared to real paper.
But Sony has a knack for screwing things up. 600$ and closed file formats I would say that is a screwup. Nobody will be buying it.
But it is nice to see such things are almost here.
" life on Mars would be THE greatest discovery of all frickin' time !"
Of all time? For those of us who already assume there is life all around the universe the future is looking to be a pretty boring place if this is as good as it gets.
"Oh, sheesh. There's nothing more annoying than an anti-religious bigot who thinks he knows all about what religion teaches, opens his mouth to tell us all about it, and proves that he doesn't have a clue at all as to what religion teaches..."
"Now, let's just cut to the chase. You don't like Christianity because it talks about sin. Specifically, it talks about some particular sin that you like. It threatens your lust for personal anarchy born of your radical individualism and so you must discredit it at all costs."
You sir have accused the previous person of doing exactly what you have done in your own post. Perhaps you should turn your eye upon yourself.
What kind of argument is this? You can't prove I am wrong so that makes me right? You are the one with the beliefs and claims of evidence you show the proof. This is a perfect example of idiotic religious logic.
I have a monkey in my pants, prove me wrong, prove me wrong!!!
Just because something has not been does yet does not make it impossible. Youa re using circular reasoning. If what you say is true then nothing new could ever be made, it would be impossible because it has never been done before.
Just because you do not know how something came about doesn't mean you get to make up the existence of some Deity to fill in the blanks. Especially when you have no evidence for the existence of said Deity while there are piles of evidence for the other argument. You just cling to a few gaps in the knowledge as evidence of your argument. Just because you do no have the intellectual capacity to see what evolution can do over such vast time spans doesn't make what happened any less true.
Well obviously the built in gigawatt tazer keeps your nervous system fried while the cellular feature sends in your last known location. Until the cops arrive to give you the beat down LA style.
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The Alt-Tab Replacement powertoy for XP will give you that same sort of preview of the applications when switching.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/Downloads/powertoys/Xppowertoys.mspx
I have always argued that engine braking wastes fuel. You brake by spinning your engine at a higher RPM using it for drag but the engine still fires each piston every time it comes around, It is not injecting extra fuel beyond the idle amount but it is still using 4-6x the fuel you would be using idling.
Perhaps modern cars don't do this, but my 89 Volvo 240 has a mechanical distributor. I suppose the archaic computer may turn off the injectors but I kinda doubt it is that smart.
Perhaps someone who knows more about this can answer this for me.
I picked out a Dell Vostro laptop for a friend sadly with vista, it worked fine for 30 days. Then the crapware wireless appliation it came installed with shut down the wireless connection untill you ponied up 30$ for the full version. So it basically held the laptop hostage unless you knew to uninstall it and use the Windows networking instead. I'm sure there are plenty of people who come across this and have no idea what to do so they shell out the 30 bucks.
I had this old 4.3 gig SCSI HD that still worked but I no longer possessed a controller card to run it. Clearly a useless drive but instead of throwing it away, taking it apart, or smashing it so nobody could read what was on it; I decided to pull up the floorboard in my old bedroom of my parents 105 year old Victorian house. The same floorboard that I kept porn under before the world had an Internet.
I left it there under the floor waiting to be found someday. I had a good laugh imagining what someone will think when they finally find it. What would you think of a HD you found hidden in the floor? The drive isn't blank but I figure that if someone actually manages to get it working at some far off time then they deserve to see it.
wouldn't jump a hijacker with any sort of impressive-looking or effective weapon.
I am an impressive-looking, effective weapon.
If that were my kid I would have walked in there with a sledge hammer and blasted his Xbox into a billion pieces. I can't belive people let their kids get away with that kind of behavior.
"Nobody really cares about the top 10 unless it's your own product on there."
Well since Firefox is Free, then we all own it and thus we all have something to care about.
Thanks for a great program. (Posted using Firefox 1.5)
"The PC has rallied slightly, since then. 2004 saw the PC creeping ahead of the consoles in terms of visuals for the first time..."
For the first time? Are you on crack? The PC is almost always ahead and ahead by a large margin including right now. The only time I remember when you could argue that console systems where ahead was when the Xbox first came out, and even then you stil had to play it on an anemic display (TV). Even if you are lucky enough to have an HDTV that isn't anywhere close to the kind of resolution that a PC can pump out.
Do you even have a computer that wasn't built 6+ years ago? Your bias is glaring.
Each system has it's advantages but now to really enjoy with the upcoming generation you will need a HDTV, and at those prices you can easily get a nice gaming computer. It really comes down to what kind of games you like to play as to what kind of system you will enjoy the most.
Yah Mafia basically did that, and the game was horrible. I love GTA so i gave Mafia a try, but those cars are just agony to drive. I did not get past the first driving mission before I decided the game was just not fun and uninstalled it.
If all they do is produce the same crap over and over stop buying thier games. Support independent game developers and their creativity. Cut out the evil middle men and marketing morons who ruin everything with their single minded devotion to money.
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Yes it is sad that I had them but they just came in a couple boxes of comics I bought from somone. I don't regret it I got the Frank Miller Daredevils and a lot of classic Batmans out of it and a whole bunch of other nice stuff. But Power Pack??? I never read one of those, but it did make me wonder about that guy.
I have never even heard of Ant-Man.
Those comics were so good that a couple months ago I threw away the first 30 of them. Thats right, they are so awsome that I did not even bother to put them up on ebay.
I get the feeling that Marvel got a little movie money happy and sold all the rights to their good characters already. Now they are stuck trying to produce...crap.
"There's plenty of people here (in the U.S.) who can't afford to pay for necessities like rent, utilities, food, and medicine. Let's fix that before we take on the plight of people who are forced to download pr0n at 56K."
Thats right, lets make a list of our priorities important things first and fixed them one at a time. Never work on the next one on the list because there is something more important to do That way the whole can take as absolutely long as possible. Ever hear of diminishing returns?
If all our effort into one of the items on that list how many things are going to suffer because of it. Ideas like yours are so narrow minded. If everyone shared your view the whole world would be stagnant arguing over what was most important so we could do that instead of just doing something. There are plenty of causes out there, pick one, get off your ass and don't waste everyone's time arguing about what cause they chose to fight for because you think there is a more important one. At least they are doing something. There are lots of people out there lets work on lots of different ideas and maybe we can help each other out.
Mods are on crack calling you insightful.
Same here, Monk and BSG are the only shows I currently watch on TV. So what if they are difference are we now only allowed to chose one type of show to watch?
Watch BSG at 10, watch Monk at 12. Good thing they repeate ohterwise I might have to take my VCR out of Mothballs. Or wait, I could just download them. I wonder if they considered that they are just driving people to download when they put two good shows on at the same time.
"... someone outside the industry needs to step in and squash this, and quick."
What you want people to pass laws against it or soemthing? Thats really what we need more stupid laws they do not help anyone. Get a grip it is not that big of a deal people should be able to do what they want.
Looks nice, I have been waiting for something like that for a while. I have a PDA that all I use it for is as book reader, the screen is pretty crappy compared to real paper.
But Sony has a knack for screwing things up. 600$ and closed file formats I would say that is a screwup. Nobody will be buying it.
But it is nice to see such things are almost here.
" life on Mars would be THE greatest discovery of all frickin' time !"
Of all time? For those of us who already assume there is life all around the universe the future is looking to be a pretty boring place if this is as good as it gets.
"Oh, sheesh. There's nothing more annoying than an anti-religious bigot who thinks he knows all about what religion teaches, opens his mouth to tell us all about it, and proves that he doesn't have a clue at all as to what religion teaches..."
"Now, let's just cut to the chase. You don't like Christianity because it talks about sin. Specifically, it talks about some particular sin that you like. It threatens your lust for personal anarchy born of your radical individualism and so you must discredit it at all costs."
You sir have accused the previous person of doing exactly what you have done in your own post. Perhaps you should turn your eye upon yourself.
Well I had a lot of beans for dinner, then I farted.
What kind of argument is this? You can't prove I am wrong so that makes me right? You are the one with the beliefs and claims of evidence you show the proof. This is a perfect example of idiotic religious logic.
I have a monkey in my pants, prove me wrong, prove me wrong!!!
At this point the discussion is over because you are just making stuff up.
Just because something has not been does yet does not make it impossible. Youa re using circular reasoning. If what you say is true then nothing new could ever be made, it would be impossible because it has never been done before.
Just because you do not know how something came about doesn't mean you get to make up the existence of some Deity to fill in the blanks. Especially when you have no evidence for the existence of said Deity while there are piles of evidence for the other argument. You just cling to a few gaps in the knowledge as evidence of your argument. Just because you do no have the intellectual capacity to see what evolution can do over such vast time spans doesn't make what happened any less true.
Not that you are wrong, but I can't belive people bother to moderate your comment up. Come on Mods have some sense.
" For some reason you go out of GPS reception?"
Well obviously the built in gigawatt tazer keeps your nervous system fried while the cellular feature sends in your last known location. Until the cops arrive to give you the beat down LA style.