Not bad. Though for me I need more support than just MS Windows. Also, I don't want to trust my ultimate privacy to closed source software. For me there is always that little fly buzzing around saying, "you just don't know what the code is doing". I am not an OSS zealot, though for somethings like my private data, voting, etc, I think it is the only way to go.
From a corporate perspective, SafeBoot sounds cool. One problem though, just writing zero's across a drive will not stop the data from being read if someone really wants to read the data. Several passes are needed with random garbage to be certain.
I guess you have listened in to the calls from MS sales people I have been on the phone with? No.
I am constantly trying to be sold on other products. For my business, I picked some MS products I feel are good products. I just keep running in to this wall of, well, product X from MS works better/best if you also buy product Y from MS.
As an SMB I just want to be able to use a piece of software labeled X and not be forced or coerced into needing another piece of software labeled Y because I chose X. As my small business is growing, I find I am getting more and more lock-in to MS.
I don't want that. I just want to run my small business, support my family and my employees. I don't want to see this spiraling lock-in. I was looking at share point for a solution, however, I would have to buy a SQL server license and an MS Windows server license. Gee, I want ONE product, now I am stuck buying 2 more? No thanks. I went with an X Server and a PHP solution that is open source for my small companies portal.
I am really considering moving all my computers to Mac Mini and iMac systems. My upfront cost will be a little more, however I can depreciate that cost and in the long run, be ahead of the game cost-wise and most importantly, lock-in wise.
Seriously, this is not 3rd grade math or something. MS "marketing" makes claims about "open". Uh, there is nothing "open" about this. Just another MS marketing play-on-words.
Oh, well, we shouldn't care. Right?
Please, tell me how this is "open"? After all, that is a marketing term MS used to describe this. You know, "open". So as an "SMB", I get "value" from this being an new "open" option?
I am really waiting to hear how as an "SMB", I will benefit from this "open" option. To me it just sounds like more ways for MS to confuse their smaller business customers and get them to pay more.
Dang, I just had to comment on this. I will lose the mods I did, but oh well.
Why, just because you write music do you feel you should own it for life or many years?
I am a software developer with more than a 11 years of experience. Writing software is a creative work. However, I do not get to keep my work for 150+ years. I do it as a work for hire. If I do write software on my own, and sell it; should I be able to "own" it for longer than any human can live, even myself? How exactly would I _or_ you benefit after death on a copyright? Don't give me the "family" crap. If you want to help your later generations, save money, invest money, take out life insurance. Copyright wasn't made so that you and all your kids can milk one work.
If I create a work of software and sell it, I feel that single copy I sold belongs to the person who bought it. Should they be able to duplicate it and sell it? No, not for at least 10 years.
If your music you write is worth anything to others, they will buy it. You make money. After 15 years (IMO), that should be it. The people who paid for your work should be able to use it as public domain. I feel the same about any works I make.
I have heard the argument about authors that don't sell much, but become worth more _after_ they die. Oh, well, that is life. You can go out tonight and be killed in a car accident.
Life is full of uncertainties. Why the hell should people who make/write/produce music or other entertainment get some special privilege just because them make entertainment? Seriously. It is not like entertainment has saved the world, cured cancer, killed AIDS, or any other major problem humans are facing. We all love entertainment, but it needs to be put in to perspective. Right now, entertainment content is treated as if it has saved the world. People can go to freaking jail or be bankrupt because of a stupid entertainment song or video.
Sorry, I just don't think entertainment is worth the free life or financial security of any one human.
As far as the public domain goes, have you kept your fingers in your ears your whole life? You have never listened to a public domain work? I doubt it. So it is OK for you to grow as an artist and human from the public domain, but $DEITY be damned if someone can do the same from one of your works?
It is not the lead, but the mercury that is more dangerous. A typical CF bulb may have 2-5 mg of mercury and if it breaks you don't want to touch it or vacuum it up. The EPA has a guide on how to clean it up and dispose of it.
A little too dangerous for my house with 3 little ones right now. Maybe in 5 years there will be safer alternatives?
I own two Intel Macs, an iMac and a Macbook. I own two desktops that run XP and two desktops that run Linux.
I am personally tired of the stupid "insecure" talk. My iMac runs my servers with ports 80, 443, 22, 5900 open. I watch my logs and have not seen any bad stuff.
On the other hand, I once opened my XP boxes IIS server and saw a crap load of hits in the web logs trying to break it within 48 hours. Thankfully I was running IIS lockdown which really helps.
Comparing XP in 2007 to OS X 10.4 or 10.5 is just stupid. XP has been around for a long, long time. Do a fresh install of XP home SP0 and see how many security updates you need to download.
As a programmer with more than a decade of experience, I don't care about the number of releases for an OS. I care about the timely releases. From my experience, Apple and especially Linux will release a fix as soon as they have it. MS on the other hand seems to go through a PR machine.
Microsoft, I don't care if your product XYZ has a flaw, trust me as a programmer, there will always be flaws. Just release the damn info on the flaw and the URL to the fix. I don't think XP is "crap" because I have had to download more than a GB of updates since SP0. Really, I don't care. As a geek, I actually get excited about a new update from MS. I usually hope for new features, etc.
So, please MS, just publish and release the fixes. 95%+ of people out there don't care if you have 150 "vulnerabilities" or 20. We just want the fix. Give us our "fix" bro!
As a scientist, I have always wondered why I thought "psychology" was just a bunch of bologna. Another generalized "opinion" on how the human mind works, nothing more, nothing less.
Hmm, let me kick your butt off a 150 foot building and then see if you react a certain way. Yup, that is "science".
"It is strange that when a human was falling to their death, they could only read at a certain rate. Strange!" Now what would happen if we gave that same person falling to their death a comfy pillow and a teddy? Could they read a bunch of words flashing before them faster?
Eagleman said. 'The answer to the paradox is that time estimation and memory are intertwined
Yeah, let us make a big statement with zero real scientific evidence.
I have an "experiment". I could kick Eagleman in the face with steel-toe boots, at the time of the kick in the face, I will ask him to read the "Pledge of Allegiance" in a certain time frame. If he cannot do it, well, than that certainly means that human perception of pain is directly related to human perception of time. Right????
Agreed. I'd be all over a.pdf e-reader for under $300 USD. The only requirements for me are easy page turning and most importantly, a virtual bookmark, so I can continue where I left off reading.
Touchscreen and other fancy features only increase cost. Though, I do admit that I would pay a _little_ extra for some features.
As an avid reader with more than 1,500 physical books (which is a small collection to many others) these are the features I want and would pay for:
Affordable, less than $300 USD
Supports PDF
Doesn't require any one OS to work, i.e., no MS-Only solutions.
I can read it in bed with low light
That is about it, any other features may be cool, but I will weigh them against the price to see if those features are worth the extra cost. I love to kick back in bed in low light conditions and just read for hours with a simple book light. I would happily replace all of my dead tree books with e-books if the reader meets the above requirements.
Can you read your copy while it's loaned out? Why should an ebook be different?
Actually I would have no problem with something like this. I can loan out my digital copy to any one person, any number of times. While it is "on loan", I nor anyone else could read it. That would be fine, and a good idea IMO.
However, I doubt it would be implemented like that. It would probably only allow a certain number of loans per book, which is a disadvantage to a real book. A friend and I swap books all the time, and we still keep buying more and more books.
And yes I think these digital problems would be mitigated by eBooks being sold affixed to a physical medium. e.g. SD cards, memory sticks, etc. Just like words are affixed to paper.
Then that would defeat the price advantage, to publishers, over a pure digital download.
Sorry, I understand your point. I wasn't talking about size of adherents. I was more talking about influence. The Abrahamic religions have had much more influence over the people of Earth over the last 300 years or so than any other religion, for better or worse.
Electronic books still suck. They are device dependent and most importantly, DRM-encrusted.
A friend of mine can come over and borrow one of my ~1,500 real books.
They cannot do that with an e-book. They cannot transfer one of my "e-books" to their reader. I guess publishers want everyone that reads a book to pay? Hmmm. Am I the only one that has ever borrowed a book?
I personally was never into vampire books until my dad gave me a book of his to read. Guess what, since reading the one borrowed book, I bought about 12 vampire books.
Lending books without restrictions creates more profit. End of story. My aunt is big on classic works, works in the public domain. After she lent me two books, I paid for copies of several books that I can download free since they are in the public domain.
I am not trolling, e-books currently suck. The readers are crap, sorry kindle-fans, and the DRM/lock-down is not acceptable to avid readers. When an electronic book comes along that I can lend to a friend without it being tracked, then I might consider it. For now, I still want a physical book. I can lend out a physical book without some book company tracking it or putting a time limit on it.
Well, all of the 3 major religions, Christianity, Judaism and Islam consider it wrong to charge interest on loans. Read the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament), New Testament or the Koran. All say it is wrong.
Of course that doesn't matter here in the USA where we are a "Christian-based" nation. The more you can make the better.... Right?
Oh, and as far as Muslim nations not charging interest???? Yeah right. They caved as well. Though I will say that they generally charge less interest than here in the US or in the EU. But interest, charge, do they.
"You shall not charge interest to your countrymen: interest on money, food, or anything that may be loaned at interest.
"Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury"
"If you lend money to any of My people who are poor among you, you shall not be like a moneylender to him; you shall not charge him interest."
Thou shalt not lend upon interest to thy brother; interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of anything that is lent upon interest
Thou shalt not lend to thy brother money to usury, nor corn, nor any other thing
I tried to quote some text from the Qur'an, but for some freaky reason, my companies firewall blocked everything. I work for a big company here in SC USA. I am from the NE (Philly area) and have never seen such strict firewall/proxy blocking since I moved down here.
Anyway, I am sure others can post quotes on usury/interest from the Qur'an for us all, so we get a fair cross-religious look at usury.
Xiph QuickTime Components (XiphQT) is, in short, the solution for Mac and Windows users who want to use Xiph formats in any QuickTime-based application, e.g. playing Ogg Vorbis in iTunes or producing Ogg Theora with iMovie.
Well, I "saw" a show where a guy had no legs and no arms and was still fighting strong. He said he name was something like the black knight or so. The guy was invincible!
I agree with you bud. The sad thing is that these patent trolls and their scum-bag lawyers know where to file suit to get the best judgment. It would be great if companies could ask for the trial to be held in a different court.
With that said, I don't feel bad for any of the companies involved. They have all abused the patent system and tried to sue over trivial "IP". I guess Karma is showing how things are done?
Firefox under Mac OS X? Or Firefox under MS Windows with an IE-Tab plugin? HUGE difference.
Yes, I did try on 3 operating systems with three browsers. Mac OS X (Tiger and Leopard) with Safari and Firefox, WinXP with IE and Firefox, Linux with Firefox and KHTML. I got errors from NBC's crappy effort about browser/OS if I wasn't using Win/IE. No thanks. I will just keep using Usenet to download missed episodes that I can watch with VLC on Linux, Mac and MS Windows.
I know that you can watch ABC shows in Firefox/Safari on Mac OS X and Firefox/IE on MS Windows. Though sadly they don't support Firefox under Linux. I don't know why though, as it is mostly flash.
Two operating systems and 3 browsers for ABC's service is way better than MS Windows only and IE only with NBC's half-@ssed effort.
Dragrace? Are you 16 or something? How freaking juvenile. Seriously. 99% of the teeny-boppers "drag-racing" are driving in their little ricer cars that have crap for horse power and terrible handling. Note: the horse power stinks in these ricer cars, but what really matters for these little cars is handling. They just don't have it, hence all the accidents of some stupid teeny who thinks he is a "race car driver" and then totals his car or more importantly hits another car or worse a person.
If you want to drag race, go to a closed track and do it. The problem with all these little teeny-boppers and their rice-mobiles is that they just wouldn't make the cut at one of the many closed tracks around the country so they make their own "track" on the "streets". I guess it sounds cool if you say you are "racing" on the streets with your little ricer.
Don't put innocent people at risk because you have a crappy little Honda that you put a few after market stupid little gadgets on. It still doesn't give you a "fast ride".
Hell, I have been at the stop light in my wife's "mini-van" with a little Honda ricer next to me revving up the engine. I hardly have to step on the gas to blow them away. Seriously, it is not even funny how slow all of those Honda ricers are. Though for me, I stop at the speed limit. It seems these little teeny-bopper ricers think they "beat" people when they finally catch up and go faster than the speed limit. Yeah, because going 55 in a 40 zone really shows that you have a "racing car".
It is just so funny when almost every morning I get to a red light and a ricer is next to me. 320 HP against their little ricer is just funny. They have their modified exhaust to make it sound fast. But those little ricer cars are not much faster than a tractor. I just look over at them and give them a big laugh, then when the light turns I hit the gas for a few seconds. 3 seconds later they are not even close to where a mini-van is. Damn, they must feel stupid.
Am I the only one who laughs every morning when I see some stupid little Honda with a tail fin that will probably tip the damn car over? Uh, that tail thing doesn't make your 110 HP engine any faster. In fact, is just slows down your ricer by causing more drag. When you are in a ricer with such little HP, putting a stupid fin on it won't do anything for you but make you look stupid!:-)
My wife's "mini-van" has 320 HP, no little ricer even comes close. I guess I should start racing down the street? You know, because I guess I have to fell "fast" or something? Hmmm?
Any way, to get back to what you were saying, no, "drag racing" by yourself in the middle of nowhere is not "cool". You could lose control and crash and die and then you will cost me my tax payer money because you were being a stupid immature kid. Or worse, you could hit an innocent person/kid. Then what? Do we put you in jail for being a dumb stupid kid? Do we tell the parents of the lost child, "sorry, some stupid ricer driver thought they had a fast car and he is too young to go to jail?" Nah, in my opinion, you go to jail, for a long ass time. Note, I didn't say some juvenile place, but adult prison.
Bottom line, racing in streets is NOT COOL, either in a stupid ricer car or on a bike. Go to a farking track if you think you have what it takes. Play with the big boys on a closed track.
Living in FL and SC I have seen too many idiots who think somehow "racing" down a street makes their penis bigger or something. I have seen it too much in Daytona and too much in Myrtle Beach. It will always end up with people getting hurt. From my perspective, I have seen too many innocent by-standers getting hurt, so I hope the ricers and the racing bikers in the places I mentioned above are the ones to get hurt, bad. Yeah, that sounds mean, but there is nothing worse than seeing a person dieing because some idiot on a bike or in a ricer thought they "had it under control".
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Not bad. Though for me I need more support than just MS Windows. Also, I don't want to trust my ultimate privacy to closed source software. For me there is always that little fly buzzing around saying, "you just don't know what the code is doing". I am not an OSS zealot, though for somethings like my private data, voting, etc, I think it is the only way to go.
From a corporate perspective, SafeBoot sounds cool. One problem though, just writing zero's across a drive will not stop the data from being read if someone really wants to read the data. Several passes are needed with random garbage to be certain.
Go now and download TrueCrypt. It is free, open source and runs on Linux and MS Windows, and this month version 5.0 will run on OS X.
;-)
I use it at work, and on my Win and Lin boxes at home. As soon as 5.0 comes out, I will be all set.
I guess you have listened in to the calls from MS sales people I have been on the phone with? No.
I am constantly trying to be sold on other products. For my business, I picked some MS products I feel are good products. I just keep running in to this wall of, well, product X from MS works better/best if you also buy product Y from MS.
As an SMB I just want to be able to use a piece of software labeled X and not be forced or coerced into needing another piece of software labeled Y because I chose X. As my small business is growing, I find I am getting more and more lock-in to MS.
I don't want that. I just want to run my small business, support my family and my employees. I don't want to see this spiraling lock-in. I was looking at share point for a solution, however, I would have to buy a SQL server license and an MS Windows server license. Gee, I want ONE product, now I am stuck buying 2 more? No thanks. I went with an X Server and a PHP solution that is open source for my small companies portal.
I am really considering moving all my computers to Mac Mini and iMac systems. My upfront cost will be a little more, however I can depreciate that cost and in the long run, be ahead of the game cost-wise and most importantly, lock-in wise.
Seriously, this is not 3rd grade math or something. MS "marketing" makes claims about "open". Uh, there is nothing "open" about this. Just another MS marketing play-on-words.
Oh, well, we shouldn't care. Right?
Please, tell me how this is "open"? After all, that is a marketing term MS used to describe this. You know, "open". So as an "SMB", I get "value" from this being an new "open" option?
I am really waiting to hear how as an "SMB", I will benefit from this "open" option. To me it just sounds like more ways for MS to confuse their smaller business customers and get them to pay more.
Dang, I just had to comment on this. I will lose the mods I did, but oh well.
Why, just because you write music do you feel you should own it for life or many years?
I am a software developer with more than a 11 years of experience. Writing software is a creative work. However, I do not get to keep my work for 150+ years. I do it as a work for hire. If I do write software on my own, and sell it; should I be able to "own" it for longer than any human can live, even myself? How exactly would I _or_ you benefit after death on a copyright? Don't give me the "family" crap. If you want to help your later generations, save money, invest money, take out life insurance. Copyright wasn't made so that you and all your kids can milk one work.
If I create a work of software and sell it, I feel that single copy I sold belongs to the person who bought it. Should they be able to duplicate it and sell it? No, not for at least 10 years.
If your music you write is worth anything to others, they will buy it. You make money. After 15 years (IMO), that should be it. The people who paid for your work should be able to use it as public domain. I feel the same about any works I make.
I have heard the argument about authors that don't sell much, but become worth more _after_ they die. Oh, well, that is life. You can go out tonight and be killed in a car accident.
Life is full of uncertainties. Why the hell should people who make/write/produce music or other entertainment get some special privilege just because them make entertainment? Seriously. It is not like entertainment has saved the world, cured cancer, killed AIDS, or any other major problem humans are facing. We all love entertainment, but it needs to be put in to perspective. Right now, entertainment content is treated as if it has saved the world. People can go to freaking jail or be bankrupt because of a stupid entertainment song or video.
Sorry, I just don't think entertainment is worth the free life or financial security of any one human.
As far as the public domain goes, have you kept your fingers in your ears your whole life? You have never listened to a public domain work? I doubt it. So it is OK for you to grow as an artist and human from the public domain, but $DEITY be damned if someone can do the same from one of your works?
It is not the lead, but the mercury that is more dangerous. A typical CF bulb may have 2-5 mg of mercury and if it breaks you don't want to touch it or vacuum it up. The EPA has a guide on how to clean it up and dispose of it.
A little too dangerous for my house with 3 little ones right now. Maybe in 5 years there will be safer alternatives?
Seriously, any ET just needs a radio telescope and would hear all our transmissions, Jerry Springer, Oprah and even Riki Lake.
No wonder we have not been visited yet!
Well, if he/she is a blogger it would be libel, not slander. Libel is the written act of defamation, slander, the oral act of defamation. ;-)
I own two Intel Macs, an iMac and a Macbook. I own two desktops that run XP and two desktops that run Linux.
I am personally tired of the stupid "insecure" talk. My iMac runs my servers with ports 80, 443, 22, 5900 open. I watch my logs and have not seen any bad stuff.
On the other hand, I once opened my XP boxes IIS server and saw a crap load of hits in the web logs trying to break it within 48 hours. Thankfully I was running IIS lockdown which really helps.
Comparing XP in 2007 to OS X 10.4 or 10.5 is just stupid. XP has been around for a long, long time. Do a fresh install of XP home SP0 and see how many security updates you need to download.
As a programmer with more than a decade of experience, I don't care about the number of releases for an OS. I care about the timely releases. From my experience, Apple and especially Linux will release a fix as soon as they have it. MS on the other hand seems to go through a PR machine.
Microsoft, I don't care if your product XYZ has a flaw, trust me as a programmer, there will always be flaws. Just release the damn info on the flaw and the URL to the fix. I don't think XP is "crap" because I have had to download more than a GB of updates since SP0. Really, I don't care. As a geek, I actually get excited about a new update from MS. I usually hope for new features, etc.
So, please MS, just publish and release the fixes. 95%+ of people out there don't care if you have 150 "vulnerabilities" or 20. We just want the fix. Give us our "fix" bro!
Hmm, let me kick your butt off a 150 foot building and then see if you react a certain way. Yup, that is "science".
"It is strange that when a human was falling to their death, they could only read at a certain rate. Strange!" Now what would happen if we gave that same person falling to their death a comfy pillow and a teddy? Could they read a bunch of words flashing before them faster?
Yeah, let us make a big statement with zero real scientific evidence.
I have an "experiment". I could kick Eagleman in the face with steel-toe boots, at the time of the kick in the face, I will ask him to read the "Pledge of Allegiance" in a certain time frame. If he cannot do it, well, than that certainly means that human perception of pain is directly related to human perception of time. Right????
Touchscreen and other fancy features only increase cost. Though, I do admit that I would pay a _little_ extra for some features.
As an avid reader with more than 1,500 physical books (which is a small collection to many others) these are the features I want and would pay for:
- Affordable, less than $300 USD
- Supports PDF
- Doesn't require any one OS to work, i.e., no MS-Only solutions.
- I can read it in bed with low light
That is about it, any other features may be cool, but I will weigh them against the price to see if those features are worth the extra cost. I love to kick back in bed in low light conditions and just read for hours with a simple book light. I would happily replace all of my dead tree books with e-books if the reader meets the above requirements.However, I doubt it would be implemented like that. It would probably only allow a certain number of loans per book, which is a disadvantage to a real book. A friend and I swap books all the time, and we still keep buying more and more books. Then that would defeat the price advantage, to publishers, over a pure digital download.
Hmm, www.safeboot.com seems real secure. What's not to like? ;-)
Sorry, I understand your point. I wasn't talking about size of adherents. I was more talking about influence. The Abrahamic religions have had much more influence over the people of Earth over the last 300 years or so than any other religion, for better or worse.
Electronic books still suck. They are device dependent and most importantly, DRM-encrusted.
A friend of mine can come over and borrow one of my ~1,500 real books.
They cannot do that with an e-book. They cannot transfer one of my "e-books" to their reader. I guess publishers want everyone that reads a book to pay? Hmmm. Am I the only one that has ever borrowed a book?
I personally was never into vampire books until my dad gave me a book of his to read. Guess what, since reading the one borrowed book, I bought about 12 vampire books.
Lending books without restrictions creates more profit. End of story. My aunt is big on classic works, works in the public domain. After she lent me two books, I paid for copies of several books that I can download free since they are in the public domain.
I am not trolling, e-books currently suck. The readers are crap, sorry kindle-fans, and the DRM/lock-down is not acceptable to avid readers. When an electronic book comes along that I can lend to a friend without it being tracked, then I might consider it. For now, I still want a physical book. I can lend out a physical book without some book company tracking it or putting a time limit on it.
Of course that doesn't matter here in the USA where we are a "Christian-based" nation. The more you can make the better.... Right?
Oh, and as far as Muslim nations not charging interest???? Yeah right. They caved as well. Though I will say that they generally charge less interest than here in the US or in the EU. But interest, charge, do they.
I tried to quote some text from the Qur'an, but for some freaky reason, my companies firewall blocked everything. I work for a big company here in SC USA. I am from the NE (Philly area) and have never seen such strict firewall/proxy blocking since I moved down here.
Anyway, I am sure others can post quotes on usury/interest from the Qur'an for us all, so we get a fair cross-religious look at usury.
However, there is a QuickTime Component for Mac/Windows.
I mean, the "robot" was obviously on strings!
Well, I "saw" a show where a guy had no legs and no arms and was still fighting strong. He said he name was something like the black knight or so. The guy was invincible!
I agree with you bud. The sad thing is that these patent trolls and their scum-bag lawyers know where to file suit to get the best judgment. It would be great if companies could ask for the trial to be held in a different court.
With that said, I don't feel bad for any of the companies involved. They have all abused the patent system and tried to sue over trivial "IP". I guess Karma is showing how things are done?
For those not familiar with the area (Eastern District of Texas), what is up?
Does the Eastern district just give away money to any patent troll?
Can Apple, AT&T, etc ask to have the case heard some where else?
Zimbra and Alfresco both look nice. Check out the Alfresco demo.
Firefox under Mac OS X? Or Firefox under MS Windows with an IE-Tab plugin? HUGE difference.
Yes, I did try on 3 operating systems with three browsers. Mac OS X (Tiger and Leopard) with Safari and Firefox, WinXP with IE and Firefox, Linux with Firefox and KHTML. I got errors from NBC's crappy effort about browser/OS if I wasn't using Win/IE. No thanks. I will just keep using Usenet to download missed episodes that I can watch with VLC on Linux, Mac and MS Windows.
I know that you can watch ABC shows in Firefox/Safari on Mac OS X and Firefox/IE on MS Windows. Though sadly they don't support Firefox under Linux. I don't know why though, as it is mostly flash.
Two operating systems and 3 browsers for ABC's service is way better than MS Windows only and IE only with NBC's half-@ssed effort.
Dragrace? Are you 16 or something? How freaking juvenile. Seriously. 99% of the teeny-boppers "drag-racing" are driving in their little ricer cars that have crap for horse power and terrible handling. Note: the horse power stinks in these ricer cars, but what really matters for these little cars is handling. They just don't have it, hence all the accidents of some stupid teeny who thinks he is a "race car driver" and then totals his car or more importantly hits another car or worse a person.
:-)
If you want to drag race, go to a closed track and do it. The problem with all these little teeny-boppers and their rice-mobiles is that they just wouldn't make the cut at one of the many closed tracks around the country so they make their own "track" on the "streets". I guess it sounds cool if you say you are "racing" on the streets with your little ricer.
Don't put innocent people at risk because you have a crappy little Honda that you put a few after market stupid little gadgets on. It still doesn't give you a "fast ride".
Hell, I have been at the stop light in my wife's "mini-van" with a little Honda ricer next to me revving up the engine. I hardly have to step on the gas to blow them away. Seriously, it is not even funny how slow all of those Honda ricers are. Though for me, I stop at the speed limit. It seems these little teeny-bopper ricers think they "beat" people when they finally catch up and go faster than the speed limit. Yeah, because going 55 in a 40 zone really shows that you have a "racing car".
It is just so funny when almost every morning I get to a red light and a ricer is next to me. 320 HP against their little ricer is just funny. They have their modified exhaust to make it sound fast. But those little ricer cars are not much faster than a tractor. I just look over at them and give them a big laugh, then when the light turns I hit the gas for a few seconds. 3 seconds later they are not even close to where a mini-van is. Damn, they must feel stupid.
Am I the only one who laughs every morning when I see some stupid little Honda with a tail fin that will probably tip the damn car over? Uh, that tail thing doesn't make your 110 HP engine any faster. In fact, is just slows down your ricer by causing more drag. When you are in a ricer with such little HP, putting a stupid fin on it won't do anything for you but make you look stupid!
My wife's "mini-van" has 320 HP, no little ricer even comes close. I guess I should start racing down the street? You know, because I guess I have to fell "fast" or something? Hmmm?
Any way, to get back to what you were saying, no, "drag racing" by yourself in the middle of nowhere is not "cool". You could lose control and crash and die and then you will cost me my tax payer money because you were being a stupid immature kid. Or worse, you could hit an innocent person/kid. Then what? Do we put you in jail for being a dumb stupid kid? Do we tell the parents of the lost child, "sorry, some stupid ricer driver thought they had a fast car and he is too young to go to jail?" Nah, in my opinion, you go to jail, for a long ass time. Note, I didn't say some juvenile place, but adult prison.
Bottom line, racing in streets is NOT COOL, either in a stupid ricer car or on a bike. Go to a farking track if you think you have what it takes. Play with the big boys on a closed track.
Living in FL and SC I have seen too many idiots who think somehow "racing" down a street makes their penis bigger or something. I have seen it too much in Daytona and too much in Myrtle Beach. It will always end up with people getting hurt. From my perspective, I have seen too many innocent by-standers getting hurt, so I hope the ricers and the racing bikers in the places I mentioned above are the ones to get hurt, bad. Yeah, that sounds mean, but there is nothing worse than seeing a person dieing because some idiot on a bike or in a ricer thought they "had it under control".