I'm not even a mac fanboy, and I've noticed this. My old G3 wallstreet 14.1 inch only did 1024x768, but holy -crap- was it crisp, had a wide viewing angle, and with a nice even brightness. I miss that machine.
I'm with you. I live in Alberta, and not only do I -haaaaate- ABS and TCS due to how they make winter driving that much more of a pain in the ass, I've gone through lengths to disable ABS in every vehicle I've owned. The brakes perform better, they last longer and having control over my braking pressure has helped me avoid situations where both myself or others lives were at risk.
Funny, my EEE 1000H has a nice access panel on the back where everything upgradeable on the machine is presented right there for me to tinker with, no warranty voiding at all.
Actually..... I -do- play it on console (360), and the game locks up the whole system (no center button to access the dashboard) requiring a hard reboot) at completely random intervals. I could play it for 20 minutes, or 2 hours, or 5 hours, or 5 minutes. It is no set action in the game that does it, i could be walking, beating a hooker with a bat, flying a helicopter, driving a bus through a crowd of homeless people. It doesn't matter, at one point or another, that game is locking up for no real understandable reason. This is on a newer 360 pro bundle before they went 60gb. The game is fully updated too. It pisses me off enough to not even bother wanting to play the game.
Approximately 12 years, 1 exploding cap, in a soundcard.
It was through my own experimentation with radio broadcast and was in no way related to the 'bad capacitor' issues.
The soundcard, to this day (an old ISA SB16) still works absolutely perfectly.
The 50 hottest nerds.... I like your angle with that one. Perhaps someone should organize this. No pictures less than 2848x2136 reso though... I like my nerd pr0n to have detail!
Yeah, something about the Peugeot 206/207 and Citroen Xara being quite popular for ice racing as well as other forms of rally racing further re-enforces Shinobi's hint. Small, quick, agile cars, that perform so well on ice, they race them (pay no mind to the fact they are heavily modified, but how often do you need to traverse a frozen lake? The most you're gonna hit is a few slick patches that my 96 neon with bald all seasons still performs awesome on)
There's already better, faster systems out there. I work for a remote monitoring station that monitors hundreds of -sites- remotely. We use a combination of software/hardware, but the best system we have going right now uses this http://www.aimetis.com/symphony/default.aspx
It does everything the article claims the new stuff does, without the 'learning' aspect, which is essentially useless anyways, as there is no 100% predictability of 'normal' activity.
You're the one who's suckered into paying for inspections, insurance (I DO have it, issued by the Province, at no cost to me), and registration. You're the one who still can't tell the difference between lawful and legal, you're the one who has no clue what his rights are, you're the one bringing up a long dead post just to try to throw sand in my face. And yet, I'm the one who needs a shovel? Sorry, but my shackles aren't on any more, I disconnected myself from the powers that be. If anyone is stuck in a hole, it's you, and it appears it's too dark for you to see the light.
I listed FOUR places, not MOST places. I know 100% for certain if you do things correctly, you can drive anything you want, at all, without registration, so long as you notify the correct departments/people that you will be doing so in a private manner, in Canada. I have heard that it does also work in the US, the UK, and Australia, but since I have never been to these countries I cannot say with 100% certainty that it works, merely that I have heard it works. Look up videos on youtube/google video about Robert Mernard.
Illegal, yes. Unlawful, no. Cops, yes. Cuffs, court, jail? No. Not so far anyways. It's not opinion either, it's knowing how to go about doing it properly and lawfully. Think of what you said, public road. Owned by the people. Why the hell should you have to register (technically give up ownership of your vehicle to the state/province) a method of transportation (your means of conveyance) for use on something you already own as a member of the public.
Who said anything about registering? How are you so certain anything I've said is incorrect if you seem to be ignoring the biggest part? I never said REGISTER the vehicle, merely that it's lawful to use it for private conveyance. Subsequently you missed my point entirely. Know the difference between lawful, legal, LAW, law, and statutes. After you learn that, start to learn what your rights as a human being actually entail.
I'm only 100% certain for Canada, but have been told the methods used to get away with it all work in the three other places I mentioned too. It's not something widely known, nor is it something law officials will admit to. It has everything to do with knowing your rights, and how to express that you know your rights. I currently drive a car that isn't registered, and contains a notice to all government officials that it is not registered, that it is private property, that it will only ever be used for private conveyance on public roads. A friend of mine doing the same thing with his motorcycle has been pulled over by the police, and been let go on the spot upon answering a few questions and asking a few of his own. You may want to look into what your rights actually are. However, this has gone far off topic from the original discussion.
You can operate anything on a public road so long as it's in private conveyance. Start turning profit from it, and then it becomes driving, and -then- you become bound to statutes and inspection requirements. Although, you could buy any car with a valid vin and a blown engine, put a different engine in it so long as the mounts line up/you fabricate mounts, do the work properly and it will pass an inspection.
You are a far greater being than I am if you can ignore those talking smiley ads. I can deal with regular ads and ignore them quite easily, but those fucking talking smileys going HEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOO bring out some sort of primal rage that makes me want to run through a village, punching anyone in my way with such decimating force their gooey remains are left in a small crater.
That's one thing I've started noticing with the re-releases of the Star Wars kits. When Episode One came out, my brother and I of course had to have everything Lego and Star Wars, the combination of the two was deadly on my parents wallets I'm sure, because no Christmas or Birthday was left without a few sets of Lego. I remember getting my Naboo Starfighter very well. I also remember how blocky it looked once completed, and was pleased with this, as it still had it's trademark Lego look and feel. And I could retrofit it with whatever armaments my creative mind saw fit. Now I stroll through toy aisles occasionally, looking for a bit of Lego to satisfy the urge I get from time to time to indulge in my childhood. All the old kits have been re-vamped with large, rounded, one piece 'skins'. Sure they look a lot more 'like the movie models' but lack the Lego look. Not only that, but it reduces the number of pieces needed to complete the kit, and takes away from the fun of putting it together yourself. I'm finding this a lot more with other toys as well in my browsing, nothing is as cool as it was when I was a little kid, nor is it as well built. That's why I've got all my old toys hoarded away for when I eventually spawn, my kids will know what quality was.
How embarrassing, half my comment was cut off by my over zealous track pad and it's desire to select at random due to my fat hands. Anyways, for them to not let you know that your debt is going to be purchased is illegal.
You know when your debt is sold, it is assumed by whoever purchased it. Subsequently, those banks did you a nice favour. Actually, for them NOT to let you know it wa
Reminds me of something I did in my mid teens, I had two (ok, so one was my little brothers, but he had no real interest in it) of those style of kits. A 150 in one and 200 in one. I used the 200 in one to build an AM transmitter that when you pressed down this key it would transmit a tone on whatever frequency you had the transmitter tuned to. It covered the whole AM spectrum quite well but the range was quite limited, probably no more than 200 feet. I then used a chunk of 3.5mm audio cable I had laying around and plugged the functional end into my sound card's output, and stripped the wires. Took the two + wires, wrapped them together and probed around on the board with my + and - wires for a means of pushing audio through instead of that less exciting DOOP noise. Success, I left it hooked up and played a few mp3's finding the quality of audio to be fairly decent considering it was on AM. Then came my first problem. There was a popping noise from inside my computer, and music stopped being heard. Turns out I blew a capacitor on the old ISA SB 16. I rebooted the computer and to my surprise, the card still worked fine after that. No explanation as to -why-, but even today it still works. I used my limited knowledge to decide to put resistors between the audio input and the line coming from my sound card, worked most excellent after that. I then decided I wanted more range and tried to build an amplifier out of the 150 kit, but nothing fruitful ever came out of that. I think I'm going to retry sometime soon:)
Nor did my first few, however D-Link and Linksys now make a large point of encouraging the users to run the cd first, wireless networking really has taken off in the last two to three years, which is about when I noticed my last Linksys "B" router I purchased came with a cd, stating to run it before continuing. The masses have adopted wireless because laptops are just insanely cheap compared to 4 years ago. Back two or three years ago, the early adopters never encrypted any of their AP's, probably because it just worked out of the box and they didn't care to learn. Now far, far more networks are encrypted, usually with some level of WPA, and there are far more AP's in any given metro area now too.
I wasn't arguing the legality of it, I was merely stating that parent I originally replied to was relaying information that was not necessarily true to the fullest extent. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, nor am I saying I've never selected said box while wandering around downtown Edmonton to check my email and whatnot while on the go. XP, when set with the preference for all networks, will connect to the strongest AP in the area without encryption. Do I think using and unencrypted AP is illegal? No, immoral? Borderline, however I stifle that easily by leaving my AP unencrypted, and I welcome anyone in the area to use it in the event they need to. So long as you're not breaking encryption, spoofing MAC's, etc, I see nothing wrong (morally or legally) with connecting to an unencrypted AP, so long as you're willing to share access to yours as well.
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I'm not even a mac fanboy, and I've noticed this. My old G3 wallstreet 14.1 inch only did 1024x768, but holy -crap- was it crisp, had a wide viewing angle, and with a nice even brightness. I miss that machine.
I'm with you. I live in Alberta, and not only do I -haaaaate- ABS and TCS due to how they make winter driving that much more of a pain in the ass, I've gone through lengths to disable ABS in every vehicle I've owned. The brakes perform better, they last longer and having control over my braking pressure has helped me avoid situations where both myself or others lives were at risk.
Funny, my EEE 1000H has a nice access panel on the back where everything upgradeable on the machine is presented right there for me to tinker with, no warranty voiding at all.
Actually..... I -do- play it on console (360), and the game locks up the whole system (no center button to access the dashboard) requiring a hard reboot) at completely random intervals. I could play it for 20 minutes, or 2 hours, or 5 hours, or 5 minutes. It is no set action in the game that does it, i could be walking, beating a hooker with a bat, flying a helicopter, driving a bus through a crowd of homeless people. It doesn't matter, at one point or another, that game is locking up for no real understandable reason. This is on a newer 360 pro bundle before they went 60gb. The game is fully updated too. It pisses me off enough to not even bother wanting to play the game.
Nice try though
Approximately 12 years, 1 exploding cap, in a soundcard. It was through my own experimentation with radio broadcast and was in no way related to the 'bad capacitor' issues. The soundcard, to this day (an old ISA SB16) still works absolutely perfectly.
The 50 hottest nerds.... I like your angle with that one. Perhaps someone should organize this. No pictures less than 2848x2136 reso though... I like my nerd pr0n to have detail!
:P Define today's cars. OBDII compliant cars can tell you a surprising amount about what's going on over and above the emissions control crap.
You must own an HP ;)
Yeah, something about the Peugeot 206/207 and Citroen Xara being quite popular for ice racing as well as other forms of rally racing further re-enforces Shinobi's hint. Small, quick, agile cars, that perform so well on ice, they race them (pay no mind to the fact they are heavily modified, but how often do you need to traverse a frozen lake? The most you're gonna hit is a few slick patches that my 96 neon with bald all seasons still performs awesome on)
There's already better, faster systems out there. I work for a remote monitoring station that monitors hundreds of -sites- remotely. We use a combination of software/hardware, but the best system we have going right now uses this http://www.aimetis.com/symphony/default.aspx It does everything the article claims the new stuff does, without the 'learning' aspect, which is essentially useless anyways, as there is no 100% predictability of 'normal' activity.
You're the one who's suckered into paying for inspections, insurance (I DO have it, issued by the Province, at no cost to me), and registration. You're the one who still can't tell the difference between lawful and legal, you're the one who has no clue what his rights are, you're the one bringing up a long dead post just to try to throw sand in my face. And yet, I'm the one who needs a shovel? Sorry, but my shackles aren't on any more, I disconnected myself from the powers that be. If anyone is stuck in a hole, it's you, and it appears it's too dark for you to see the light.
I listed FOUR places, not MOST places. I know 100% for certain if you do things correctly, you can drive anything you want, at all, without registration, so long as you notify the correct departments/people that you will be doing so in a private manner, in Canada. I have heard that it does also work in the US, the UK, and Australia, but since I have never been to these countries I cannot say with 100% certainty that it works, merely that I have heard it works. Look up videos on youtube/google video about Robert Mernard.
Illegal, yes. Unlawful, no. Cops, yes. Cuffs, court, jail? No. Not so far anyways. It's not opinion either, it's knowing how to go about doing it properly and lawfully. Think of what you said, public road. Owned by the people. Why the hell should you have to register (technically give up ownership of your vehicle to the state/province) a method of transportation (your means of conveyance) for use on something you already own as a member of the public.
Who said anything about registering? How are you so certain anything I've said is incorrect if you seem to be ignoring the biggest part? I never said REGISTER the vehicle, merely that it's lawful to use it for private conveyance. Subsequently you missed my point entirely. Know the difference between lawful, legal, LAW, law, and statutes. After you learn that, start to learn what your rights as a human being actually entail.
I'm only 100% certain for Canada, but have been told the methods used to get away with it all work in the three other places I mentioned too. It's not something widely known, nor is it something law officials will admit to. It has everything to do with knowing your rights, and how to express that you know your rights. I currently drive a car that isn't registered, and contains a notice to all government officials that it is not registered, that it is private property, that it will only ever be used for private conveyance on public roads. A friend of mine doing the same thing with his motorcycle has been pulled over by the police, and been let go on the spot upon answering a few questions and asking a few of his own. You may want to look into what your rights actually are. However, this has gone far off topic from the original discussion.
It's true in Canada, the US, Australia and the UK from what I know.
You can operate anything on a public road so long as it's in private conveyance. Start turning profit from it, and then it becomes driving, and -then- you become bound to statutes and inspection requirements. Although, you could buy any car with a valid vin and a blown engine, put a different engine in it so long as the mounts line up/you fabricate mounts, do the work properly and it will pass an inspection.
You are a far greater being than I am if you can ignore those talking smiley ads. I can deal with regular ads and ignore them quite easily, but those fucking talking smileys going HEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOO bring out some sort of primal rage that makes me want to run through a village, punching anyone in my way with such decimating force their gooey remains are left in a small crater.
That's one thing I've started noticing with the re-releases of the Star Wars kits. When Episode One came out, my brother and I of course had to have everything Lego and Star Wars, the combination of the two was deadly on my parents wallets I'm sure, because no Christmas or Birthday was left without a few sets of Lego. I remember getting my Naboo Starfighter very well. I also remember how blocky it looked once completed, and was pleased with this, as it still had it's trademark Lego look and feel. And I could retrofit it with whatever armaments my creative mind saw fit. Now I stroll through toy aisles occasionally, looking for a bit of Lego to satisfy the urge I get from time to time to indulge in my childhood. All the old kits have been re-vamped with large, rounded, one piece 'skins'. Sure they look a lot more 'like the movie models' but lack the Lego look. Not only that, but it reduces the number of pieces needed to complete the kit, and takes away from the fun of putting it together yourself. I'm finding this a lot more with other toys as well in my browsing, nothing is as cool as it was when I was a little kid, nor is it as well built. That's why I've got all my old toys hoarded away for when I eventually spawn, my kids will know what quality was.
How embarrassing, half my comment was cut off by my over zealous track pad and it's desire to select at random due to my fat hands. Anyways, for them to not let you know that your debt is going to be purchased is illegal.
You know when your debt is sold, it is assumed by whoever purchased it. Subsequently, those banks did you a nice favour. Actually, for them NOT to let you know it wa
Reminds me of something I did in my mid teens, I had two (ok, so one was my little brothers, but he had no real interest in it) of those style of kits. A 150 in one and 200 in one. I used the 200 in one to build an AM transmitter that when you pressed down this key it would transmit a tone on whatever frequency you had the transmitter tuned to. It covered the whole AM spectrum quite well but the range was quite limited, probably no more than 200 feet. I then used a chunk of 3.5mm audio cable I had laying around and plugged the functional end into my sound card's output, and stripped the wires. Took the two + wires, wrapped them together and probed around on the board with my + and - wires for a means of pushing audio through instead of that less exciting DOOP noise. Success, I left it hooked up and played a few mp3's finding the quality of audio to be fairly decent considering it was on AM. Then came my first problem. There was a popping noise from inside my computer, and music stopped being heard. Turns out I blew a capacitor on the old ISA SB 16. I rebooted the computer and to my surprise, the card still worked fine after that. No explanation as to -why-, but even today it still works. I used my limited knowledge to decide to put resistors between the audio input and the line coming from my sound card, worked most excellent after that. I then decided I wanted more range and tried to build an amplifier out of the 150 kit, but nothing fruitful ever came out of that. I think I'm going to retry sometime soon :)
Nor did my first few, however D-Link and Linksys now make a large point of encouraging the users to run the cd first, wireless networking really has taken off in the last two to three years, which is about when I noticed my last Linksys "B" router I purchased came with a cd, stating to run it before continuing. The masses have adopted wireless because laptops are just insanely cheap compared to 4 years ago. Back two or three years ago, the early adopters never encrypted any of their AP's, probably because it just worked out of the box and they didn't care to learn. Now far, far more networks are encrypted, usually with some level of WPA, and there are far more AP's in any given metro area now too.
I wasn't arguing the legality of it, I was merely stating that parent I originally replied to was relaying information that was not necessarily true to the fullest extent. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, nor am I saying I've never selected said box while wandering around downtown Edmonton to check my email and whatnot while on the go. XP, when set with the preference for all networks, will connect to the strongest AP in the area without encryption. Do I think using and unencrypted AP is illegal? No, immoral? Borderline, however I stifle that easily by leaving my AP unencrypted, and I welcome anyone in the area to use it in the event they need to. So long as you're not breaking encryption, spoofing MAC's, etc, I see nothing wrong (morally or legally) with connecting to an unencrypted AP, so long as you're willing to share access to yours as well.