Rear wheel skirts do make changing the tires a little more of a pain and do limit tire / wheel / suspension choices by the more creative owners. That and we last saw them on cars in the 70s and 80s (so people think of them just like wood paneling).
With modern auto-transmissions getting similar or better efficiency to manual, why do you think that the torque converter is such an easy problem? Are they just offsetting it by giving you 8 gears instead of 6? Should they go to a dual-clutch instead (better efficiency but possibly heavier with less gears)?
Some of it is because they can be as efficient as before while offering twice the power and not feeling small to large (both tall and wide) Americans. Some is due to the heavy and oversized American SUVs that these cars needed to crash test for. Weight does not equal crash survivability (as shown by 90s-era SUVs with poor records), but it takes structural strength either from more steal or more expensive materials.
To some degree, the Accord and Civic have grown up and gotten bigger and more expensive (as did the Corolla and Sentra). That's why we have the Fit, Yaris and Versa.
Expert juries are an interesting concept that pops up in law reviews from time to time. However, to the best of my knowledge, they're not allowed under the common understanding of the right to a jury of your peers.
You can't say that 12 people working average jobs and earning 30k-70k are peers to Samsung and Apple.
Maybe their peers should be Sony, RIM, and Lenovo?
I think if he got the attention the media gives to celebrities today, people would see more of the crazier part of his personality (which could distract from his accomplishments). The Oatmeal describes it in detail.
At least in SCCA stock mean stock.. NASCAR shouldn't be allowed to call it's self stock car racing, as they have forgotten what the word stock means.
Umm.. except the shocks, exhaust, air filter, wheels (stock size but lighter), tires (2 lines of tread), alignment, racing seat and harness. And 100 Octane if you can find it. But yeah, stock.
For people like me who tend to eat two meals a day (I'm in the habit of skipping breakfast as I tend to feel sick if I eat shortly after waking up), a 1000 Calorie meal is just about right. What makes me mad about all this stuff about fat people and messing with portions and taxing or removing certain types of food is that it also effects skinny people such as myself (I'm 5'11 and 120 pounds).
If you only eat two meals a day
Or are very active. Or breakfast is something light and not high calorie.
[looks at the 280 calorie coke bottle at my desk and two crumpled baggies of Cheddar Jalapeno Cheetos]
Yep, That's it. Exposure to antibiotics at an early age. QED.
If you hadn't had the childhood antibiotics, you could have enjoyed an extra baggie of Cheetos.
DRM is usually in place to stop day 1 pirating. So here's my suggestion: go ahead and ship it with DRM. Then, once it's been cracked by the community, release a patch that removes it.
Civ4 BTS no longer has DRM, though they did it sometime around the time Civ5 came out.
I recall Blizzard did something similar with Starcraft (sometime between WC3's and SC2's release).
Are you kidding me? If you even have a DVD burner present in your system the game won't run? Most PCs and a lot of laptops these days come with a DVD burner, if not a Bluray burner possibly even...
Maybe that's where the statistic comes from: most customers can't play the non-pirated version.
Right, because government never spent money on a museum before.
Government does spend money on efforts to increase tourism, which brings money to the local economy. A Tesla museum in theory would bring more visitors to spend money (if nothing else, on food, gas, hotel, shopping, etc). There's nothing new here. Requiring the $850k to be raised is a test to confirm this is something people would want to come see.
So some developers use DLC as a crutch rather than as extra content (as the game developer ggp mentioned). Sometimes developers don't get the 6 months they need because their publisher has a specific deadline to hit (that's just part of the game business).
You can always find a negative case where the developers made an unpopular decision. Doesn't change the fact that others are doing great things with DLC.
Perhaps it's a POS, but it's a POS that can maintain air superiority even when significantly outnumbered (by an order of magnitude) by ANY other aircraft, full stop.
Isn't there a pretty strict limit on the number of missiles it can carry? If an F-22 goes up with 8 missiles, it can only take out 8 targets (assuming all hit). After that, it can only bug out.
We've been at war for 10 years and they haven't seen combat. If they were usable they would have been involved (instead, they were restricted because of the oxygen system issue). Hell, we sent B-2s over Afghanistan. You think they were flown because of their sophisticated anti-aircraft system?
This is why those of us who have a Fry's in our area like it so much – they have the kind of inventory that these other stores used to have, and in most cases their prices aren't even that much higher than the online retailers. For instance, my local Fry's has a whole aisle full of soldering-related supplies: pretty much every different type of solder (standard tin-lead, lead-free, silver-bearing, etc.), lots of different types of soldering and desoldering stations (including some nice offerings from Hakko), heat-shrink tubing, spare tips, and so forth.
Fry's also has some basic cables for regular prices (6' HDMI with all the bells and whistles for $5, cheaper than a non-5-cent cable is on Amazon).
If you don't care about expandability or the quality of components; then he is correct.
I technically haven't bought a new computer since the 90's. I just keep upgrading components when the price/timing is right for me. Although, nowadays you often have to buy the MB/CPU/RAM together so it almost seems like you're buying a new computer.
I've been noticing I need to upgrade the PSU at the same time too. The power capacity requirements have gone up and there are extra connectors for the motherboard, GPU and SATA drives that didn't exist during my previous build.
Fry's Returns Process sucks? Is this the same Fry's that sells open box returns as new? Or am I thinking of some other Fry's Electronics?
I've never had a problem with the return policy even if it was simply a "I don't want it anymore" or "it didn't work for what I was trying to use it for" (I was doing something unorthodox). On my most recent return, they put a sticker on the box that knocked off a few dollars for the next customer to buy it (all the cables and papers were present). Seemed honest, simple and straight forward to me.
I don't remember how much it was supposed to have been that Sony spent developing the PS3 but it was something absolutely horrendous, and I suspect that whatever the benefits of its much hyped custom chips were, it probably didn't offset what they cost to develop or the benefit they provided. Even the cost of subsidising the early PS3s to get market share apparently cost Sony several billion (and they were still expensive).
The Cell chips were a bad idea. Shiny, fancy, but most of the horsepower sits idle since the SPUs are nearly impossible to fully utilize (small cache per SPU, large number of them). Throw in one or two quad-cores with hyper-threading, a high-end GPU and some memory and call it a day.
There are certain advantages to doing the re-write that speed it up. Libraries and frameworks can make a project that used to be 200k of lines to 20-50k of lines. You also have the existing code as a reference, use it. Create tests that pass against the old code to verify the new code (note when they find bugs in the old code, but be careful that others might be depending on said bugs).
Sometimes the code in question is too broken to keep and refactor; you just need to burn it.
In all seriousness, feel the mood of the office. What are your job peers wearing? What does the person you report to wear and those who report to you? You don't have to emulate them and can still be an outlier, but you're in trouble if they are wearing ties and you're wearing shorts and sandals. You're probably safe with pants/jeans, a collar (on a shirt, not by itself) and shoes (comfy vs dress shoes, your choice).
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Rear wheel skirts do make changing the tires a little more of a pain and do limit tire / wheel / suspension choices by the more creative owners. That and we last saw them on cars in the 70s and 80s (so people think of them just like wood paneling).
With modern auto-transmissions getting similar or better efficiency to manual, why do you think that the torque converter is such an easy problem? Are they just offsetting it by giving you 8 gears instead of 6? Should they go to a dual-clutch instead (better efficiency but possibly heavier with less gears)?
Some of it is because they can be as efficient as before while offering twice the power and not feeling small to large (both tall and wide) Americans. Some is due to the heavy and oversized American SUVs that these cars needed to crash test for. Weight does not equal crash survivability (as shown by 90s-era SUVs with poor records), but it takes structural strength either from more steal or more expensive materials.
To some degree, the Accord and Civic have grown up and gotten bigger and more expensive (as did the Corolla and Sentra). That's why we have the Fit, Yaris and Versa.
Expert juries are an interesting concept that pops up in law reviews from time to time. However, to the best of my knowledge, they're not allowed under the common understanding of the right to a jury of your peers.
You can't say that 12 people working average jobs and earning 30k-70k are peers to Samsung and Apple.
Maybe their peers should be Sony, RIM, and Lenovo?
That's melatonin not melanin. Melatonin regulated sleep.
I clearly need more sleep. I first thought you wrote "Melatonin regulated sheep."
I suppose sheep regulation could help you sleep - it would make them easier to count.
Baaaa. Baaaa.
I think if he got the attention the media gives to celebrities today, people would see more of the crazier part of his personality (which could distract from his accomplishments). The Oatmeal describes it in detail.
At least in SCCA stock mean stock.. NASCAR shouldn't be allowed to call it's self stock car racing, as they have forgotten what the word stock means.
Umm.. except the shocks, exhaust, air filter, wheels (stock size but lighter), tires (2 lines of tread), alignment, racing seat and harness. And 100 Octane if you can find it. But yeah, stock.
For noncontroversial issues the Democrat majority didn't have any problem ramming-through TARP in two weeks.
Signed by Bush, voted for by Sen. McCain. At the time it was voted on, TARP was bipartisan.
For people like me who tend to eat two meals a day (I'm in the habit of skipping breakfast as I tend to feel sick if I eat shortly after waking up), a 1000 Calorie meal is just about right. What makes me mad about all this stuff about fat people and messing with portions and taxing or removing certain types of food is that it also effects skinny people such as myself (I'm 5'11 and 120 pounds).
If you only eat two meals a day
Or are very active. Or breakfast is something light and not high calorie.
You weighed 120-140 when you were 18
No I didn't, but I'm also 6'3".
[looks at the 280 calorie coke bottle at my desk and two crumpled baggies of Cheddar Jalapeno Cheetos] Yep, That's it. Exposure to antibiotics at an early age. QED.
If you hadn't had the childhood antibiotics, you could have enjoyed an extra baggie of Cheetos.
DRM is usually in place to stop day 1 pirating. So here's my suggestion: go ahead and ship it with DRM. Then, once it's been cracked by the community, release a patch that removes it. Civ4 BTS no longer has DRM, though they did it sometime around the time Civ5 came out.
I recall Blizzard did something similar with Starcraft (sometime between WC3's and SC2's release).
Are you kidding me? If you even have a DVD burner present in your system the game won't run? Most PCs and a lot of laptops these days come with a DVD burner, if not a Bluray burner possibly even...
Maybe that's where the statistic comes from: most customers can't play the non-pirated version.
Right, because government never spent money on a museum before.
Government does spend money on efforts to increase tourism, which brings money to the local economy. A Tesla museum in theory would bring more visitors to spend money (if nothing else, on food, gas, hotel, shopping, etc). There's nothing new here. Requiring the $850k to be raised is a test to confirm this is something people would want to come see.
Perhaps it was in the 15 Commandments, but Moses dropped the 3rd slab.
So some developers use DLC as a crutch rather than as extra content (as the game developer ggp mentioned). Sometimes developers don't get the 6 months they need because their publisher has a specific deadline to hit (that's just part of the game business).
You can always find a negative case where the developers made an unpopular decision. Doesn't change the fact that others are doing great things with DLC.
Perhaps it's a POS, but it's a POS that can maintain air superiority even when significantly outnumbered (by an order of magnitude) by ANY other aircraft, full stop.
Isn't there a pretty strict limit on the number of missiles it can carry? If an F-22 goes up with 8 missiles, it can only take out 8 targets (assuming all hit). After that, it can only bug out.
no they aren't.
We've been at war for 10 years and they haven't seen combat. If they were usable they would have been involved (instead, they were restricted because of the oxygen system issue). Hell, we sent B-2s over Afghanistan. You think they were flown because of their sophisticated anti-aircraft system?
Mod parent up. +1 informative.
This is why those of us who have a Fry's in our area like it so much – they have the kind of inventory that these other stores used to have, and in most cases their prices aren't even that much higher than the online retailers. For instance, my local Fry's has a whole aisle full of soldering-related supplies: pretty much every different type of solder (standard tin-lead, lead-free, silver-bearing, etc.), lots of different types of soldering and desoldering stations (including some nice offerings from Hakko), heat-shrink tubing, spare tips, and so forth.
Fry's also has some basic cables for regular prices (6' HDMI with all the bells and whistles for $5, cheaper than a non-5-cent cable is on Amazon).
If you don't care about expandability or the quality of components; then he is correct. I technically haven't bought a new computer since the 90's. I just keep upgrading components when the price/timing is right for me. Although, nowadays you often have to buy the MB/CPU/RAM together so it almost seems like you're buying a new computer.
I've been noticing I need to upgrade the PSU at the same time too. The power capacity requirements have gone up and there are extra connectors for the motherboard, GPU and SATA drives that didn't exist during my previous build.
Fry's Returns Process sucks? Is this the same Fry's that sells open box returns as new? Or am I thinking of some other Fry's Electronics?
I've never had a problem with the return policy even if it was simply a "I don't want it anymore" or "it didn't work for what I was trying to use it for" (I was doing something unorthodox). On my most recent return, they put a sticker on the box that knocked off a few dollars for the next customer to buy it (all the cables and papers were present). Seemed honest, simple and straight forward to me.
I don't remember how much it was supposed to have been that Sony spent developing the PS3 but it was something absolutely horrendous, and I suspect that whatever the benefits of its much hyped custom chips were, it probably didn't offset what they cost to develop or the benefit they provided. Even the cost of subsidising the early PS3s to get market share apparently cost Sony several billion (and they were still expensive).
The Cell chips were a bad idea. Shiny, fancy, but most of the horsepower sits idle since the SPUs are nearly impossible to fully utilize (small cache per SPU, large number of them). Throw in one or two quad-cores with hyper-threading, a high-end GPU and some memory and call it a day.
There are certain advantages to doing the re-write that speed it up. Libraries and frameworks can make a project that used to be 200k of lines to 20-50k of lines. You also have the existing code as a reference, use it. Create tests that pass against the old code to verify the new code (note when they find bugs in the old code, but be careful that others might be depending on said bugs).
Sometimes the code in question is too broken to keep and refactor; you just need to burn it.
An extra 80 million dollars?
Not after the pork gets handed out.
Definitely wear pants.
In all seriousness, feel the mood of the office. What are your job peers wearing? What does the person you report to wear and those who report to you? You don't have to emulate them and can still be an outlier, but you're in trouble if they are wearing ties and you're wearing shorts and sandals. You're probably safe with pants/jeans, a collar (on a shirt, not by itself) and shoes (comfy vs dress shoes, your choice).