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Pradeep, we can only hope one day the Supreme Court finds the kind of extreme gun control laws such as NYC and NYS have to be unconstitutional. I never understood how a handgun with more than 10 rounds suddenly became an assault weapon anyway. IMO states shouldn't be free to enact more extreme...

The only redeeming thing here is that it's too expensive to really catch on. I dread to think of everyone driving one of these. I showed it to my mom-she had some interesting comments on this part: Her response was that they want to make a statement that they're an asshole. :rofl:

Neither will I.

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Is it just me, or does this whole thing sound very similar to the movie The Andromeda Strain? Not the helicoptor capture stunt, but the idea of capturing some extraterrestrial material and returning it to Earth for analysis. In the movie it was called Project Scoop, and I think they captured...

Guys, I was talking about California in a general way. The places where most of the population (i.e. LA, SF, SD) lives are warm all year round, at least by NYC standards. It's always cooler at high altitudes so that's not really a fair comparison. By the same token, I'm sure New York State...

Well, it hasn't been quite so hot here, but I'm glad summer's almost over. I couldn't stand to live in a place like California where it never really gets cold. When I go out walking or riding I'm uncomfortable whenever it's much over about 55°F. Summer sucks.

I'm on broadband-RoadRunner to be specific.

I couldn't find SF just now so I tried those links from a copy of this thread saved on my hard drive. The first link gives me a picture with cars and the text "STATE OF EMERGENCY". The second one gives a cPanel screen which says "There is no website configured at this address". The last two...

Thanks for the compliments-I've never entertained the thought of writing for a living since I'm an engineer and tinkerer by nature. However, contributing an occasional piece to the op-ed column certainly sounds interesting. I'll inquire as to what's involved next time I have something...

Just curious Merc, but how would you feel about a McCain-Guiliani ticket? That's who I really wish was running instead of Bush-Cheney. Guiliani could deal with all the national security stuff, which he is best suited for by training and temperament. McCain could best deal with domestic...

Your power supply might be on the way out. About a year and a half ago I was getting similar problems with one drive (not bad sectors, but SMART told me I had more and more reallocated sectors). I had problems with UDF CD-RWs. I would get bad sectors even on new, freshly formatted disks. My...

mubs, IIRC the utilities that come with new retail Maxtor drives include a way to copy one partition to another, and I'm pretty sure that the folder dates are copied correctly. I'll have to double check that for you one of these days, but I think it works that way. Yes, it's very annoying...

Actually, SR was a typo. I meant to say SF in that sentence. No problems with SR or any other sites, just SF. I'll try the things you say next time it happens and see if they work. The fact that CityK is also experiencing this leads me to believe that we are occasionally being redirected to...

I mentioned this problem in another thread also. Sometimes I'll post here, go back to SF a few minutes later, and then get "site not found", or whatever the message is that IE gives when it can't connect to a site. This condition may persist for only a few minutes, and sometimes even the...

As far as the drive is concerned, all it deals with are commands to write or read to a sector or group of sectors starting at whatever LBA. As Howell mentioned, it is up to the O/S to make sense of the data it stores on the hard drive. Also, whenever anything is done with a hard drive, the...

IIRC Storage Review actually did find a measureably performance increase between drives with 8MB cache versus the same drive with 2 MB cache, so your theory is certainly plausible. If there are regularly a large number of cache hits, then a faster interface should result in better performance...

That might be the problem-some spam blockers block any message where the recipient field is blank since a lot of spam is sent this way. I've personally never received a message I actually wanted where the recipient field was blank. It was all junk.

If you mean background checks (both for criminal acts and a history of mental illness) by harder to obtain then I can go along with that. I can even go along with successfully completing a training course for the type of firearm you wish to obtain (whether it be a rifle, handgun, machine gun...

That's news to me. If so, how come it's next to impossible to get a carry permit in NYC? Even getting a permit to have a shotgun or rifle in the house is a major PITA. And for what it's worth, these highly restrictive laws have made NYC a less safe place to live, at least until Guiliani...

In many ways I've long felt the Republican party would be a lot more palatable to those in the middle or even those somewhat left of middle if they divorced themselves from the religious conservatives. Let's face it, it's not like religious conservatives will suddenly start voting for liberal...

This is one of the most intriguing things I've seen in a long time. As accurate as quartz watches are, they still gain or lose noticeable amounts of time. I remember adjusting two of my watches to keep better time. Eventually, by moving the trimpot by barely perceptible increments, I had the...

:mrgrn: Quite true-because of my schedule, or rather lack of it, there is no one time when I'll definitely be sleeping. In fact, the last few months I basically just stay awake until I'm ready to drop, go in bed a few hours, and repeat when tired again. I find it's easier to get going again...

I've been wondering the same thing. Seems like Gmail invites are being given away like crazy on every forum I frequent. BTW, thanks for the answer to that question, CityK.

I've been on broadband now for close to two months. More and more I'm starting to wonder if there is any point to having a browser cache since pages I've already looked at don't seem to load any faster than ones I haven't. I'm not concerned with gaining back a lousy few hundred MB of disk...

I just want to also add that I find the insistence of these protesters at getting their anti-Bush message across even more bizarre in light of the fact that they're in a city and state which will go overwhelmingly for Kerry come November. It's kind of like preaching to the choir. And there are...

That's funny because from where I stand the press has been all over GWB from day one. Hardly a week doesn't go by that you don't have pundits criticizing his policies, his ability to lead, or even his (admittedly poor) manner of speaking. It's not like the general public isn't already well...

e_dawg, I'm somewhat aware of all the things you mentioned, and of Chinese culture in general (90% of my high school friends were Asian-mostly Chinese, as was my gf). The drowning of baby girls is especially tragic, and is a byproduct of a culture where females are less highly valued than...

I really didn't mean to pick on you, Mercutio, and I do hope you didn't feel that way. It was just something about the way you could just dismiss someone for such a seemingly superficial reason which set me off. For various reasons, I try not to be constrained by any one philosophy. I'll even...

Win 9x and the FAT32 file system is claimed to be able to use drives up to 2TB. I don't think you should have any problems. AFAIK Win9x uses 32 bits for LBA. The remaining 16 will just be padded with zeroes by the controller. Fdisk won't show the size of the drive properly when you partition...

I read your last post, Mercutio, in that "Something Random" thread, and I couldn't help but think how small a gulf really separates you from the dogmatic religious conservatives that you loath, at least as far a mind set goes. Did you not consider that the suddenly lowered esteem in which you...

I'm referring more to technical outsourcing than to manufacturing. I agree shipping manufacturing overseas is good both for the US and for countries like China. However, there have been big problems with technical outsourcing, both from a quality standpoint and from an economic one. If you...

Not unless you kept the money in a mattress. Even at 1%, a single person with $1 million would earn enough interest to put them over the poverty line. And you would be stupid to invest all of $1 million in a regular savings account anyway. Perhaps, but such programs are losing popularity...

Good point, Clocker. Just because someone votes Democrat or Republican doesn't necessarily mean they agree with all or even most of what these parties stand for. I've been voting mostly Republican for as along as I could vote for one simple reason-they tend to tax me less than Democrats. I...

Well, the two times I did that I certainly had a lot satisfaction afterwards, more so than I did anticipating it, and even more thinking about it afterwards. In both cases it wasn't due to a near accident cause by lack of attention on the driver's part, but rather because of intentional malice...

Sad but true. Some days I go for rides and it seems like every a**hole in existence in on the road. Usually, all I can do is give them "the finger". Sometimes my finger is even sore by the end of the ride. :x A few times I get lucky. They notice they finger, get pissed off, stop, and then...

I tend to think if you're under the so-called poverty line then you have trouble getting the basic necessities. Forget cars, movies, designer clothes. I've seen lots of "poor" people who have those things, but it's because they're getting government help, or otherwise lying about their...

Despite the so-called economic recovery, it seems more Americans are living in poverty this year than last year. I think the figures would be even worse if they were adjusted based on the cost of living for a particular region. For example, I totally disagree with the $9,573 income figure for...

That's a great idea, dd. :idea: We can combine Olympic shooting and baseball into one sport. Bonus points if you hit a moving player, extra bonus points for a moving ball.

Actually, Merc, the minimum age is 16 for all athletes, even though some of the gymnasts might look like 9 or 10. 16 is even legal in some states. :diablo: Now if only the games come to NYC in 2012..... :mrgrn:

Speaking of gymnastics, the scoring last night was brain dead. All they were looking at was the landings. Nemov should have won the gold. And then you had I think four gymnasts getting exactly the same score (9.762). In a sport where scoring is done to the thousanths, what exactly is the...

Congratulations as well, Howell! It must be nice to see someone you know on as big a stage as this. If the Olympics comes to NYC in 2012 I'm seriously thinking of trying to get in as a cyclist. Don't know if it would at all be possible (I'll be age 49 then), but riding in my home town for the...

And isn't that why these "gamers" RAID0 the Raptors? :mrgrn:

It's a sad but true fact that outside of the Northeast Corridor Amtrak's on time reliability is pretty poor, but I had no idea they could be that late. I think the train would go faster hitched to my bicycle. :mrgrn: Frankly, I'm shocked, especially given that Amtrak schedules already have...

I have an XT with 640KB RAM, 2 MFM 20 MB hard drives (I found one in a machine by the curb and installed it along with the original), original keyboard and original VGA monitor. I got it from one of my neighbors who claims he paid over $3000. It was made c. 1986. I also had an Amstrad...

Not sure about other OSes but with Win9x you use the line ConservativeSwapFileUsage=1 in the [386Enh] section of the system.ini file. This seems to effectively prevent swap file usage unless you really are using most of the physical memory. The only time I remember seeing the swap file size...

Any lacquer-based paint should be fine (Krylon is lacquer-based). Just clean the surface with alcohol prior to painting, use light coats (too heavy and you can dissolve the plastic), and don't inhale. Better yet, use a mask. The junk that gets up your nose when you spray takes a few days to...

The problem exists here as well. I'd say in NYC at least 50% of drivers are uninsured, and probably nearly as many are unlicensed. It's so bad that at one place I worked another friend of mine drove company vehicles. She didn't even have a driver's license although she did drive decently. I...

They both have their moments. SR goes through spurts where it seems like every idiot online is posting there, or where some of the regulars get particularly argumentative. While SF doesn't have as big a signal to noise ratio problem, we do occasionally go through slow spurts where nobody...

Actually, Greg, that was a 384MB ramdrive that I ran Atto on, but you're right, I'd probably get similar results with data held in cache. I'd also like to point out my system is over 5 years old, with a 112MHz FSB and PC133. I'd probably get 5x the speed on a modern system. For all the talk...