Even better: The writer of the patch should enforce a copyright on the code and binary, and patent the idea...then demand Windows be open-sourced as payment.
Maybe not. I wouldn't want the guy to have his whole neighborhood bought by a pissed off Bill Gates and turned into a toxic waste dump...a mere pittance spent by Bill on a stunt like that would ruin the patch-writer financially if he owns his home.
I did RTFA from Digg yesterday and while I found it interesting I thought it showed a misunderstanding of procrasination. One thing it is not is lazyness, often extrememly active people procrastinate.
Maybe you should have procrastinated, and RTFA just before posting here. What I read in TFA was exactly what you say -- not lazyness, active folks procrastinate.
Personally, I'm not bothered by the "type B" and "type C" procrastination described in TFA, where one chooses to do one thing instead of another. I've never called that "procrastination"; I call it "prioritization". The procrastination I do would be the "type A" -- I do nothing when something needs to be done; or at least, I feel like I'm doing nothing.
Maybe resting, playing a game, and reading slashdot count as doing something, in so far as I'm making me happy. Meanwhile, however, I've got the thank you letters which were mentioned in TFA (I recently got married), I've got shower doors that I bought in June but haven't yet installed (as well as a million other home improvements), I've got bits of "Just Married" still painted on the back window of my truck, I've got cleaning to do everywhere, or it could be the work day and I'm slacking here on slashdot when I should be accomplishing something.
I've got a fog light to repair that has been like that for three out of the four years I've had the truck. The new one is in the back seat, and has been since a couple months after I broke the existing one (I didn't procrastinate about buying it on ebay, I guess). Maybe I should just remove the remaining one for symmetry's sake.
I've got Cat5 to run all over my house. I've got a stereo that I gave a mere five minute effort into hooking up, not even properly connected to the tv, computer, vcr, dvd player, and a bunch of speakers. I've got to practice my C++ before I completely forget everything I learned about it. I've got to fix the port forwarding on my firewall.
I've got piles of junk waiting for me to hack them into useful stuff. I've got gigabytes of mp3s that need to be sorted and tagged.
And you know what? Just thinking about it makes me so tired. It's 9:18pm, past my usual bed time, so I'd be tired anyway, but no matter what time I think of this stuff, I get tired. It's too bad, because once I feel inspired, I go to it, and I have fun doing all of those things.
That was modded informative by somebody who doesn't know how superchargers and turbochargers work. While the turbocharger uses kinetic energy in exhaust gas to push something, don't forget what it's pushing: more gas and air into the engine.
I can't imagine a reason why a turbocharger couldn't be used at the same time as an exhaust-heat-powered steam engine. The steam engine uses the heat from the exhaust to drive the car (efficiency + performance gain), while the turbocharger uses kinetic energy from the exhaust to shove more fuel/air into the combustion engine (performance gain only).
What I want to know, is why doesn't the steam engine also get heat from the coolant, whose sole job is to remove heat from the combustion engine?
The brakes might also be able to provide some heat for steam.
One small problem I imagine: You have to carry extra weight in water to become steam.
Sorry, I should have put quotation marks around "Bigoted hicks". I was merely providing a possible cause why those that are "Bigoted hicks" should be bigoted; I was not suggesting that everybody in central PA is a "Bigoted hick".
During the two weeks I spent in the area, in which I spent no less than an afternoon finding the mine fire extensively interesting (and my post was an excuse to google the mine fire and think about digging out my photos of it), I found the people there to be no less pleasant than the "bigoted, elitist fags" here in Rhode Island. I did, however, meet mostly people in the tourism industry. I am not qualified to provide insight into the condition of the general population.
Oh, and by the way AC, you're a "bigoted elitist fag" and should suck my "bigoted, elitist" dick. I hope I didn't forget any quotation marks.
You forgot these options: 4. Trying to help OP speak/write properly 5. Taking an opportunity to educate the masses 6. Making OP look ignorant
On the occasion that I grammar nazify, I generally do it for options 4 and 5, even though most people probably find it unwelcome. I, OTOH, prefer to be told when I've made a mistake, so that I won't make it again (cue 63 replies pointing out my numerous mistakes here).
FYI, I'm not the OP, parent, GP, GGP, or the hair on a donkey's scrotum.
the cigarrettes they've been selling for decades -- are "unsafe". And they've been doing everything they can to deny that blindingly obvious fact.
Wha? You've got to stop smoking crack. Maybe you should consider smoking cigarettes instead (yuck). One click into their site ( http://www.philipmorrisusa.com/en/health_issues/de fault.asp?source=home_fca1 ), you'll find this: Philip Morris USA agrees with the overwhelming medical and scientific consensus that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema and other serious diseases in smokers. Smokers are far more likely to develop serious diseases, like lung cancer, than non-smokers. There is no safe cigarette.
The whole page is filled with short paragraphs like that, all linked to longer articles. They even link to numerous surgeon general reports and such.
Cigarettes may be icky, but that's no reason to spread FUD, propoganda, and lies.
That kind of land is probably cheap. In fact, power companies and government probably own loads of it, unutilized, already.
Come to think of it, isn't Area 51 surrounded by a bunch of wasteland desert?
Either way, I want solar that can pay for itself quicker than I have to pay off a loan for it, else I can't afford the capital investment. I'd plaster my whole roof with it.
Solar roof shingles and solar standing seam metal roofing are too expensive, too.
I just came from Maui. I was there for 9 days. I have been elsewhere. I wanna go back!
There's enough non-tourism stuff for me to do there. The only thing missing is italian food -- there's loads of italian joints, but they're all too fancy-schmancy and none have cheese ravioli. Longhi's has huge manicotti which are good, but very expensive, and the sauce leaves something to be desired (namely, it's missing...sauce! It's just damned chunks of tomato.)
Maybe those jerks have an opening for an out-of-practice help desk guy who's got a basic education in java and c++...
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That post stinks!
Maybe it could be effecting avolution...
a tion ) -- hence "Flying".
Okay, no decent uses of "avolution. How about...
Flying Spaghetting Monster effects avolition ( http://www.answers.com/topic/avolition?method=8 ) -- I'd pray to FSM everyday, but I just don't feel like it.
Flying Spaghetting Monster effects avolation ( http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=Avol
How do you know when the FSM is done? He sticks to the ceiling! Hah!
The other two replies don't get the joke. If you don't get it either, then just move along...
Even better: The writer of the patch should enforce a copyright on the code and binary, and patent the idea...then demand Windows be open-sourced as payment.
Maybe not. I wouldn't want the guy to have his whole neighborhood bought by a pissed off Bill Gates and turned into a toxic waste dump...a mere pittance spent by Bill on a stunt like that would ruin the patch-writer financially if he owns his home.
No, that'd be a freeze-frame LEAPing kick like in The Matrix...
Thanks, musicbrainz sounds like just what I need...and you're right about the thank you cards.
Personally, I'm not bothered by the "type B" and "type C" procrastination described in TFA, where one chooses to do one thing instead of another. I've never called that "procrastination"; I call it "prioritization". The procrastination I do would be the "type A" -- I do nothing when something needs to be done; or at least, I feel like I'm doing nothing.
Maybe resting, playing a game, and reading slashdot count as doing something, in so far as I'm making me happy. Meanwhile, however, I've got the thank you letters which were mentioned in TFA (I recently got married), I've got shower doors that I bought in June but haven't yet installed (as well as a million other home improvements), I've got bits of "Just Married" still painted on the back window of my truck, I've got cleaning to do everywhere, or it could be the work day and I'm slacking here on slashdot when I should be accomplishing something.
I've got a fog light to repair that has been like that for three out of the four years I've had the truck. The new one is in the back seat, and has been since a couple months after I broke the existing one (I didn't procrastinate about buying it on ebay, I guess). Maybe I should just remove the remaining one for symmetry's sake.
I've got Cat5 to run all over my house. I've got a stereo that I gave a mere five minute effort into hooking up, not even properly connected to the tv, computer, vcr, dvd player, and a bunch of speakers. I've got to practice my C++ before I completely forget everything I learned about it. I've got to fix the port forwarding on my firewall.
I've got piles of junk waiting for me to hack them into useful stuff. I've got gigabytes of mp3s that need to be sorted and tagged.
And you know what? Just thinking about it makes me so tired. It's 9:18pm, past my usual bed time, so I'd be tired anyway, but no matter what time I think of this stuff, I get tired. It's too bad, because once I feel inspired, I go to it, and I have fun doing all of those things.
Well, nobody here cares anyway.
See my tagline...
Oops. I just reread the article, and it DOES also use heat from the cooling system.
That was modded informative by somebody who doesn't know how superchargers and turbochargers work. While the turbocharger uses kinetic energy in exhaust gas to push something, don't forget what it's pushing: more gas and air into the engine.
I can't imagine a reason why a turbocharger couldn't be used at the same time as an exhaust-heat-powered steam engine. The steam engine uses the heat from the exhaust to drive the car (efficiency + performance gain), while the turbocharger uses kinetic energy from the exhaust to shove more fuel/air into the combustion engine (performance gain only).
What I want to know, is why doesn't the steam engine also get heat from the coolant, whose sole job is to remove heat from the combustion engine?
The brakes might also be able to provide some heat for steam.
One small problem I imagine: You have to carry extra weight in water to become steam.
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b rowse_frm/thread/7f04006c3370dd72/576fdc5b0ec5048e -- and get it right or pay the price!
He said he carries it in a pail, not a bucket. See http://groups.google.com/group/alt.usage.english/
And in the US, if you can't remember somebody's name, and don't necessarily have a lot of respect for him, you refer to him as "what's his face"...
Sorry, I should have put quotation marks around "Bigoted hicks". I was merely providing a possible cause why those that are "Bigoted hicks" should be bigoted; I was not suggesting that everybody in central PA is a "Bigoted hick".
During the two weeks I spent in the area, in which I spent no less than an afternoon finding the mine fire extensively interesting (and my post was an excuse to google the mine fire and think about digging out my photos of it), I found the people there to be no less pleasant than the "bigoted, elitist fags" here in Rhode Island. I did, however, meet mostly people in the tourism industry. I am not qualified to provide insight into the condition of the general population.
Oh, and by the way AC, you're a "bigoted elitist fag" and should suck my "bigoted, elitist" dick. I hope I didn't forget any quotation marks.
Then, inattentive, I misread your truncated tagline:as
Altogether disturbing, I must say.
Bigoted hicks in central PA have probably been breathing fumes from the Centralia Mine Fire. First google hit on it: http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/centrali a.htm
Maybe, with further genetic manipulation, it can eat 50 Cent and Eminem, and such...
You forgot these options:
4. Trying to help OP speak/write properly
5. Taking an opportunity to educate the masses
6. Making OP look ignorant
On the occasion that I grammar nazify, I generally do it for options 4 and 5, even though most people probably find it unwelcome. I, OTOH, prefer to be told when I've made a mistake, so that I won't make it again (cue 63 replies pointing out my numerous mistakes here).
FYI, I'm not the OP, parent, GP, GGP, or the hair on a donkey's scrotum.
Philip Morris USA agrees with the overwhelming medical and scientific consensus that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema and other serious diseases in smokers. Smokers are far more likely to develop serious diseases, like lung cancer, than non-smokers. There is no safe cigarette.
The whole page is filled with short paragraphs like that, all linked to longer articles. They even link to numerous surgeon general reports and such.
Cigarettes may be icky, but that's no reason to spread FUD, propoganda, and lies.
That kind of land is probably cheap. In fact, power companies and government probably own loads of it, unutilized, already.
Come to think of it, isn't Area 51 surrounded by a bunch of wasteland desert?
Either way, I want solar that can pay for itself quicker than I have to pay off a loan for it, else I can't afford the capital investment. I'd plaster my whole roof with it.
Solar roof shingles and solar standing seam metal roofing are too expensive, too.
I just came from Maui. I was there for 9 days. I have been elsewhere. I wanna go back!
There's enough non-tourism stuff for me to do there. The only thing missing is italian food -- there's loads of italian joints, but they're all too fancy-schmancy and none have cheese ravioli. Longhi's has huge manicotti which are good, but very expensive, and the sauce leaves something to be desired (namely, it's missing...sauce! It's just damned chunks of tomato.)
Maybe those jerks have an opening for an out-of-practice help desk guy who's got a basic education in java and c++...