I don't think that speedtest.net is a reliable source for that information. First, only the people paying for the fast speeds are the ones using it to verify, and second, how does the same person rerunning tests affect the statistics?
A car puts a barrier between the driver and the weather; a bike does not.
Never heard of a rain coat? When I was riding my bike to work I would have to look at the weather, and add 10 degrees to determine what to wear because I would be warmer riding. In the dead of winter my car heater didn't even kick in until I pulled in my driveway.
A car has enough metal surface to trigger induction loops connected to traffic signals; a bike does not.
FALSE. My bike triggers the loops all the time. I did find one that didn't trigger, but a quick email to the city and a day or two wait fixed that issue. He said that it needed tweaked and that my 30lb bike with aluminum wheels wasn't an issue.
A car can carry passengers larger than 50 lbs (22 kg); a typical bike trailer cannot.
FALSE. My trailer supports 100lb, and it is a toys-r-us special. My rear rack has a 50lb limit.
A car can travel on controlled access highways; a bike cannot.
Big deal, a bike can travel on a MUT, a car cannot
Almost. It is still recommended that you change the oil every 6 months. I don't do that myself, but you have to run the ICE every so often to keep it from drying out and seizing up. Most engines have to run to pump oil through them or all the oil finds its way into the pan. You also have to think about the gas too, it does have a shelf life.
Something that made Freespace great is that sometimes you didn't "succeed" in the missions. They had missions in the game where the story took a turn for the worst for the player. Unlike Tie Fighter and X Wing where each mission always had a positive outcome no matter how impossible it seemed in real world.
I have a old school big block musclecar (70 Chevelle SS454). I would rather have the Volt to commute so I can put more fix-em-up and gas money into the fun car.
I don't think SSDs are the cause of the current price hike. If that was the case then we would have expensive drives last year.
I noticed that the drives I buy are now almost double the price than 6 weeks ago, probably something to do with Thailand hard drive factories refactored into swimming pools.
I'm setting the BS flag about car color. The color of the car has no impact on the amount of gas & energy that it takes to run and cool it. Radiator fans are only needed at low speeds because air is not moving as fast through them. Then the air conditioner compressor that is running off the engine belt only has 2 settings, on and off. In the summer people just turn them 'on' and adjust the temperature with the blower fan.
The idea that the paint will last longer has some merit, but then again, that is what car wax is made for.
Boy I believe this. My signal gets knocked down to below 50% just by moving downstairs and over one room.
On top of that I can hardly watch broadcast TV from towers that are less than 10 miles from my home. I get the station, but the UPS truck driving by causes it to go out.
As somebody that has a car without ABS (1970 Chevelle SS), I'm calling bullshit on your reason. It is your responsibility to operate your vehicle within its specs. Trust me, if the weather changes my car lets me know. Anybody with a old car knows it. I have used it for a daily driver for years and didn't have any problems with people cutting in front of me. Even now I don't have that issue with my other cars.
It does not make you any safer to run a red light because somebody behind you has a old car. If they rear end you it is their fault anyways. You blow the red light and you cause a much more serious situation for which you are at fault.
Possibly, but with all that running it could have a heart attack or hit by a bus. I think it would be much safer being firmly attached to the motherboard.
The Nova special addressed the category issue somewhat. They say they feed the right answers to the machine after each question. However, it took it a few questions to understand the category. I didn't watch, but was this one of the earlier questions asked from this category or was it a later?
I put a X-Fi in my computer in 2007 because it came with the live drive. It was nice to have front side audio ports (my speakers didn't have them, nor does my case support them). My solution before hand was to hook a headphone splitter in the back of my box, plug in both speakers and headphone extension and then use the windows interface to adjust/setup. With the X-Fi, I was able to plug my speakers like normal, but when I plugged in my headphones, the drivers would detect that and switch everything from 5.1 to headphones. It would also cut sound to the speakers when the headphones where plugged in. Great for LAN parties too.
Kinda cool having a 1/4 inch input and output on it, I played my brothers guitar on it and played pretty good.
I find the opposite to be true on the controls. I thought the controls for the game where well polished and quick to use. I find anymore that I'm cursing games while mumbling "why didn't they make it more like homeworld".
I would love to see Relic put out some patches that would increase model detail, optional lifelike scaling, and (I wish other games would too) expanded/infinite draw distance. I understand the draw distance is for performance reasons, but wouldn't it be better if they let the hardware and player determine that?
Perhaps, but then again, Microsoft doesn't have to do it themselves. With their track record, it won't be long before the botnet is streaming you.....(might be the next 'In Soviet Russia' joke)
I agree with the starting conditions thing. I find that games these days not only removed features that changes the game in the middle (such as the removal of random disasters in the SimCity games). But they are also removing the random stuff for starting non-campaign games. Tiberium Sun and SimCity had a random level generator. Sins of a Solar Empire has a random level generator, but the biggest map it creates is pretty small. StarCraft had skirmish levels that where realistic, now RTS levels look like bicycle wheels. It seems to be all about the next 'tournament' or ladder game.
Check out some of the tents at the Army surplus store. They have stick figures showing you how to set them up. I have even seen instructions for a tech manual improvement form done up as a comic. Complete with Electronic Soldier
A history teacher of mine once told me that in some cities, they would stockpile tons of munitions in underground bunkers around the city. The Japanese figured the first bomb was a lucky strike.
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Sure, but tornadoes have this nasty habit of taking out your subscribers houses along with your poles.
No only if they would string up temp lines in the after math while they dig a new trench, but then the housing contractors will just dig it back up
I don't think that speedtest.net is a reliable source for that information. First, only the people paying for the fast speeds are the ones using it to verify, and second, how does the same person rerunning tests affect the statistics?
For a while I was developing on a Windows 7 box and having to support XP systems. Things I found I really liked and missed working on the XP box were:
I'm a little disappointed in hiding some of the configuration panels behind "user friendly" summary screens but in all I would recommend upgrading
Never heard of a rain coat? When I was riding my bike to work I would have to look at the weather, and add 10 degrees to determine what to wear because I would be warmer riding. In the dead of winter my car heater didn't even kick in until I pulled in my driveway.
FALSE. My bike triggers the loops all the time. I did find one that didn't trigger, but a quick email to the city and a day or two wait fixed that issue. He said that it needed tweaked and that my 30lb bike with aluminum wheels wasn't an issue.
FALSE. My trailer supports 100lb, and it is a toys-r-us special. My rear rack has a 50lb limit.
Big deal, a bike can travel on a MUT, a car cannot
Didn't HP have a series of office computers that looked upside down because they put the 5.25 bays on the bottoms of the case?
Almost. It is still recommended that you change the oil every 6 months. I don't do that myself, but you have to run the ICE every so often to keep it from drying out and seizing up. Most engines have to run to pump oil through them or all the oil finds its way into the pan. You also have to think about the gas too, it does have a shelf life.
Something that made Freespace great is that sometimes you didn't "succeed" in the missions. They had missions in the game where the story took a turn for the worst for the player. Unlike Tie Fighter and X Wing where each mission always had a positive outcome no matter how impossible it seemed in real world.
I have a old school big block musclecar (70 Chevelle SS454). I would rather have the Volt to commute so I can put more fix-em-up and gas money into the fun car.
I don't think SSDs are the cause of the current price hike. If that was the case then we would have expensive drives last year.
I noticed that the drives I buy are now almost double the price than 6 weeks ago, probably something to do with Thailand hard drive factories refactored into swimming pools.
This source code is a pain to read. I open VIM and for some reason, the back light on my monitor turns off. I close VIM and it comes back on....
(I couldn't resist)
I'm setting the BS flag about car color. The color of the car has no impact on the amount of gas & energy that it takes to run and cool it. Radiator fans are only needed at low speeds because air is not moving as fast through them. Then the air conditioner compressor that is running off the engine belt only has 2 settings, on and off. In the summer people just turn them 'on' and adjust the temperature with the blower fan.
The idea that the paint will last longer has some merit, but then again, that is what car wax is made for.
Boy I believe this. My signal gets knocked down to below 50% just by moving downstairs and over one room.
On top of that I can hardly watch broadcast TV from towers that are less than 10 miles from my home. I get the station, but the UPS truck driving by causes it to go out.
As somebody that has a car without ABS (1970 Chevelle SS), I'm calling bullshit on your reason. It is your responsibility to operate your vehicle within its specs. Trust me, if the weather changes my car lets me know. Anybody with a old car knows it. I have used it for a daily driver for years and didn't have any problems with people cutting in front of me. Even now I don't have that issue with my other cars.
It does not make you any safer to run a red light because somebody behind you has a old car. If they rear end you it is their fault anyways. You blow the red light and you cause a much more serious situation for which you are at fault.
Possibly, but with all that running it could have a heart attack or hit by a bus. I think it would be much safer being firmly attached to the motherboard.
Got a howto link handy? My game battery is still good but I would like to know how to fix it later.
The Nova special addressed the category issue somewhat. They say they feed the right answers to the machine after each question. However, it took it a few questions to understand the category. I didn't watch, but was this one of the earlier questions asked from this category or was it a later?
Have you seen anybody make these style keyboards with lower profile frames? I have a dell rt7d50 http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/06/keyboarding-dell-minimalist.html (full size layout, minimal bezel beyond keys, no multimedia) and I love the size of it.
I put a X-Fi in my computer in 2007 because it came with the live drive. It was nice to have front side audio ports (my speakers didn't have them, nor does my case support them). My solution before hand was to hook a headphone splitter in the back of my box, plug in both speakers and headphone extension and then use the windows interface to adjust/setup. With the X-Fi, I was able to plug my speakers like normal, but when I plugged in my headphones, the drivers would detect that and switch everything from 5.1 to headphones. It would also cut sound to the speakers when the headphones where plugged in. Great for LAN parties too.
Kinda cool having a 1/4 inch input and output on it, I played my brothers guitar on it and played pretty good.
I find the opposite to be true on the controls. I thought the controls for the game where well polished and quick to use. I find anymore that I'm cursing games while mumbling "why didn't they make it more like homeworld".
I would love to see Relic put out some patches that would increase model detail, optional lifelike scaling, and (I wish other games would too) expanded/infinite draw distance. I understand the draw distance is for performance reasons, but wouldn't it be better if they let the hardware and player determine that?
Perhaps, but then again, Microsoft doesn't have to do it themselves. With their track record, it won't be long before the botnet is streaming you.....(might be the next 'In Soviet Russia' joke)
Never saw this happen, they have always use the empty oncoming lanes to go into the intersection.
I agree with the starting conditions thing. I find that games these days not only removed features that changes the game in the middle (such as the removal of random disasters in the SimCity games). But they are also removing the random stuff for starting non-campaign games. Tiberium Sun and SimCity had a random level generator. Sins of a Solar Empire has a random level generator, but the biggest map it creates is pretty small. StarCraft had skirmish levels that where realistic, now RTS levels look like bicycle wheels. It seems to be all about the next 'tournament' or ladder game.
Check out some of the tents at the Army surplus store. They have stick figures showing you how to set them up. I have even seen instructions for a tech manual improvement form done up as a comic. Complete with Electronic Soldier
A history teacher of mine once told me that in some cities, they would stockpile tons of munitions in underground bunkers around the city. The Japanese figured the first bomb was a lucky strike.
Is it me or did that sound like a sales pitch?