I used to put a pint of oil in very tank in my RX2. After a while, the plugs would foul, so one tank dry would clean it. Brilliant car. Would still have it if my girlfriend didn't drive it sideways up a kerb. Bitch.
I for one welcome our Yankee Overlords! But seriously folks you can't blame the yanks. The USA culture (ermmm plus politics, military, Economy etc), has permiated most of the world. Very little of any other country's culture has had the same effect on the average US American. Snippets here and there only. But what do Australians know of other, non-invasive cultures? Lebanese? Muslims? Greeks? Italians? Vietnamese?
Even though 50% of our urban population is made up from immigrants, we know very little about all of them, some know a bit more as they may be 2nd or even 3rd generation of an immigrant family who came here after WWII, fewer know more of their history, music, art etc.
Everybody re-writes history. No-one can be truely unbiased and the US view is an acceptable one for most people as they are not critical in their understandings.
"The only rotary engines I knew about were ones in planes beginning many decades ago. I think the Sopwith Camel used one, but correct me if I'm wrong."
They were (and still in production) PISTON rotary engines as opposed to Wankel Rotary engines (no pistons).
Yes I too had a Mazda RX2 which was a rocket and blew flames out the exhaust at around 120 mph. Great night show!
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. BUT How can a Darwinian evolutionist ever hope to convince anyone that they grew longer legs so they can travel faster, cover more ground? Surely there must be an element of "Group Toad Consciousness" where they know it's ok to grow longer legs cause there is more room? Same thing with the Mammoths, who 'evolved' smaller to suit the environment it found itself before extinction. Also small human skeletons found in Indonesia! There must be some kind of unseen force at play here.
Pholgiston. I'm pretty sure that's how you spell it. It's the dark matter of the 18th century according to cosmologists of the time. It seems that it's plogiston by another name!
This really explains everything about the whole world!
But what worries me is which 50% are the good guys and which are the bad? Are the bad guys normal? Are the good guys infected? Is my wife infected? How about my mistress? What kind of litmus test is there to find out? Is paranoia a symptom of the infection? How can I kill them? Will they infect me again? Is there an antidote? How about immunization???
There really is a big choice out there now, but many don't realise the significance between these types. Very generally speaking, Hyperthread (or similar) allows switching between active apps. eg it is easy to switch from an app that is rendering a video file, to the desktop or another app. Normally a computer would wait or at best lag behind while it's looking for processing cycles. With a 2 core, it is possible to do the same as hyperthreading or it is possible to render 2 files at the same time. You can imagine what you can do if you had hyperthreaded multicore processors. That's not to say that software can't be written to take advantage of all types mentioned. Single core have some advantages, especially in overclocking, where dual core finds that difficult as it shares comman internal architacture, so a single core (at this stage) is great for games, the best being the old AMD FX53 now sold as the 4000+ Multi CPU's of course work best with OS and software to support them.
Catholic Australian Primary children were always taught to place full stops after each letter of an ancronym. If you didn't, you were hit with a ruler or sometimes even clipped around the ear by a Nun, as she would repeat, "If you are going to write, then DO IT PROPERLY!." Catholic Australian High School students were taught more colloquial writing and acronyms were allowed to be spelt without full stops in text or dialogue IF it was pronounced eg Say NASA or N.A.S.A. Acronyms in titles, sub-headings etc had to include full stops.
While that may be true, that does mean that the length of a day on the moon is ~14 days, with night being equally long.
There is always one hemisphere of the moon facing Earth- Earthlight reflected off the moon's surface.
Then there is the dark side, which does have a day/night cycle as it is illuminated by the Sun during full moons and dark when Earth casts a shadow.
Hope that helps.
I don't know why scientists and physicists think that time is so important. In fact, there are no universal particals or waves of time at all. This is no quanta of time. There is no reason to presuppose that time is anything but linear as it is just duration and nothing more.
"At the time he had a small company with an honest mission,"
He didn't have an honest mission. He couldn't or didn't have the skill or opportunity to write software for main/mini systems, so he wrote a basic interpreter and a few programs and tried to sell that to the hobbie market.
He got pissed off because the only people that would use it, didn't want it or if they did, wouldn't pay for it. Why? In those early days, anyone with the skill of operating a computer (as in computer operator), had enough programming skill to write apps, assembly, learn more than one language etc and didn't have to rely on 'professional programmers' and store bought software cause no professional programmer would ever bother learning and writing BASIC or learn assembly for a particular cpu just to sell it to a handful of hobbyists. There was much more money in Fortran and Cobol. Gates couldn't cut that and so the only way he was going to make money was to infiltrate the hobby market. Even VISICALC was a simple program. Doesn't take too many brains to write that. My last program (written in BASIC) was a hell of a lot more complicated than anything Gates coded. He's just a loser that made good. He had business savy and got very very lucky with IBM when he bought and sold MSDOS to them. He stole the idea of Windows and mice from Apple and had the PC platform already given to him with a huge potential marketshare thanks to Big Blue. The whole EULA saga is just protecting his income stream, nothing more.
Ha! Buy and install Genesis? You can imagine what that would do to your head and your system! 1. After installation you need to set it up 2. Firewall blocks all the stuff you want 3. Won't recognise any 3rd party scanners 4. Demands a heap of bandwidth to update its modules almost daily 5. Chews memory and slows all apps from opening and saving 6. Decides that the email you've been waiting for with that very important attachment can't be shown 7. Breaks as its front end is html based and screws up if a module isn't downloaded or out of sequence 8. And when you try to uninstall it, won't recognise your password, can't recognise its own install CD 9. Search their site to find removal tools to try and uninstall it, editing the registry just for fun 10. Give up, format the drive and install AVS which is free, better, has a small footprint and talks to you as well. FUCK OFF SYMANTEC
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And I thought it was about Mono Hi-Fi. No joke! Many years ago I had the pleasure of listening to a high end valve amp (Radford) hooked up to a Fons turntable, listening to (of all things), Cowboy music, all in glorious mono and the sound stage from the modified AMW speakers (and the submarine battery cables used for speaker wire) was so realistic, so 3D that 'stereo' sounded artificial. Must of been the direct to disc cut on the vinyl. So much for 5.1 sound.!
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I used to put a pint of oil in very tank in my RX2.
After a while, the plugs would foul, so one tank dry would clean it.
Brilliant car. Would still have it if my girlfriend didn't drive it sideways up a kerb.
Bitch.
I for one welcome our Yankee Overlords!
But seriously folks you can't blame the yanks. The USA culture (ermmm plus politics, military, Economy etc), has permiated most of the world. Very little of any other country's culture has had the same effect on the average US American. Snippets here and there only.
But what do Australians know of other, non-invasive cultures?
Lebanese?
Muslims?
Greeks?
Italians?
Vietnamese?
Even though 50% of our urban population is made up from immigrants, we know very little about all of them, some know a bit more as they may be 2nd or even 3rd generation of an immigrant family who came here after WWII, fewer know more of their history, music, art etc.
Everybody re-writes history. No-one can be truely unbiased and the US view is an acceptable one for most people as they are not critical in their understandings.
Crown of Thorns Starfish
"The only rotary engines I knew about were ones in planes beginning many decades ago. I think the Sopwith Camel used one, but correct me if I'm wrong."
They were (and still in production) PISTON rotary engines as opposed to Wankel Rotary engines (no pistons).
Yes I too had a Mazda RX2 which was a rocket and blew flames out the exhaust at around 120 mph. Great night show!
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
BUT How can a Darwinian evolutionist ever hope to convince anyone that they grew longer legs so they can travel faster, cover more ground?
Surely there must be an element of "Group Toad Consciousness" where they know it's ok to grow longer legs cause there is more room?
Same thing with the Mammoths, who 'evolved' smaller to suit the environment it found itself before extinction. Also small human skeletons found in Indonesia!
There must be some kind of unseen force at play here.
Oh that's right!
It wasn't phlogiston! It was Ether!
My Goof Again!
Sorry... My Goof!
Pholgiston. I'm pretty sure that's how you spell it.
It's the dark matter of the 18th century according to cosmologists of the time.
It seems that it's plogiston by another name!
This really explains everything about the whole world!
But what worries me is which 50% are the good guys and which are the bad?
Are the bad guys normal?
Are the good guys infected?
Is my wife infected?
How about my mistress?
What kind of litmus test is there to find out?
Is paranoia a symptom of the infection?
How can I kill them?
Will they infect me again?
Is there an antidote?
How about immunization???
I for one, welcome our Toxoplasmic Underlords!
A light speed projectile will turn into energy.
There really is a big choice out there now, but many don't realise the significance between these types.
Very generally speaking, Hyperthread (or similar) allows switching between active apps. eg it is easy to switch from an app that is rendering a video file, to the desktop or another app. Normally a computer would wait or at best lag behind while it's looking for processing cycles.
With a 2 core, it is possible to do the same as hyperthreading or it is possible to render 2 files at the same time. You can imagine what you can do if you had hyperthreaded multicore processors.
That's not to say that software can't be written to take advantage of all types mentioned.
Single core have some advantages, especially in overclocking, where dual core finds that difficult as it shares comman internal architacture, so a single core (at this stage) is great for games, the best being the old AMD FX53 now sold as the 4000+
Multi CPU's of course work best with OS and software to support them.
I, for one, welcome the Higgs-Boson overlords or any Boson overlord for that matter.
Catholic Australian Primary children were always taught to place full stops after each letter of an ancronym. If you didn't, you were hit with a ruler or sometimes even clipped around the ear by a Nun, as she would repeat, "If you are going to write, then DO IT PROPERLY! ."
Catholic Australian High School students were taught more colloquial writing and acronyms were allowed to be spelt without full stops in text or dialogue IF it was pronounced eg Say NASA or N.A.S.A.
Acronyms in titles, sub-headings etc had to include full stops.
Hey man, he's wrong!
I'm not sure of my own existence except when I look in the mirror.
Some people have to see it for themselves.... sort of Gestalt.
There is always one hemisphere of the moon facing Earth- Earthlight reflected off the moon's surface. Then there is the dark side, which does have a day/night cycle as it is illuminated by the Sun during full moons and dark when Earth casts a shadow. Hope that helps.
We've had enough intelligent discussion about another no-brainer.
How about posting something more interesting?
So there's some big birds in the pics....
Now what?
There's no point in this article that hasn't been discussed in a miriad of other forums.
Please mod it down.
I don't know why scientists and physicists think that time is so important.
In fact, there are no universal particals or waves of time at all. This is no quanta of time.
There is no reason to presuppose that time is anything but linear as it is just duration and nothing more.
I for one, welcome our Wasp/Zombie overlords.
"At the time he had a small company with an honest mission,"
He didn't have an honest mission.
He couldn't or didn't have the skill or opportunity to write software for main/mini systems, so he wrote a basic interpreter and a few programs and tried to sell that to the hobbie market.
He got pissed off because the only people that would use it, didn't want it or if they did, wouldn't pay for it. Why?
In those early days, anyone with the skill of operating a computer (as in computer operator), had enough programming skill to write apps, assembly, learn more than one language etc and didn't have to rely on 'professional programmers' and store bought software cause no professional programmer would ever bother learning and writing BASIC or learn assembly for a particular cpu just to sell it to a handful of hobbyists. There was much more money in Fortran and Cobol.
Gates couldn't cut that and so the only way he was going to make money was to infiltrate the hobby market.
Even VISICALC was a simple program. Doesn't take too many brains to write that.
My last program (written in BASIC) was a hell of a lot more complicated than anything Gates coded.
He's just a loser that made good. He had business savy and got very very lucky with IBM when he bought and sold MSDOS to them.
He stole the idea of Windows and mice from Apple and had the PC platform already given to him with a huge potential marketshare thanks to Big Blue.
The whole EULA saga is just protecting his income stream, nothing more.
Ha! Buy and install Genesis? You can imagine what that would do to your head and your system!
1. After installation you need to set it up
2. Firewall blocks all the stuff you want
3. Won't recognise any 3rd party scanners
4. Demands a heap of bandwidth to update its modules almost daily
5. Chews memory and slows all apps from opening and saving
6. Decides that the email you've been waiting for with that very important attachment can't be shown
7. Breaks as its front end is html based and screws up if a module isn't downloaded or out of sequence
8. And when you try to uninstall it, won't recognise your password, can't recognise its own install CD
9. Search their site to find removal tools to try and uninstall it, editing the registry just for fun
10. Give up, format the drive and install AVS which is free, better, has a small footprint and talks to you as well.
FUCK OFF SYMANTEC
And I thought it was about Mono Hi-Fi.
No joke! Many years ago I had the pleasure of listening to a high end valve amp (Radford) hooked up to a Fons turntable, listening to (of all things), Cowboy music, all in glorious mono and the sound stage from the modified AMW speakers (and the submarine battery cables used for speaker wire) was so realistic, so 3D that 'stereo' sounded artificial.
Must of been the direct to disc cut on the vinyl.
So much for 5.1 sound.!
YEAH I AGREE! Let's wipe those suckers from the face of the Earth once and for all!!!!!