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mrodgers
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Quote from ferrarifan777 :the only thing i'm weary about the K-x is that it runs on AA batteries, and according to the reviews the charge doen't last long even with rechargeable batteries, and i dont want to dish out alot of money buying batteries.

For the price of a Rebel XSi battery ($40ish range), I could have 8 complete sets of AA rechargeables at $5 for 4....

I'd much prefer AA batteries over proprietary batteries from a camera manufacturer.
mrodgers
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Quote from Becky Rose :Believe me it gets no better when you date the same sex.

And which sex are you, thus which sex are you dating? Exactly! The same sex that he said "you want to throttle them" about
mrodgers
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Quote from DeadWolfBones :You forgot to mention what kind of car you drive.

Sorry Ben, thought it was obvious, but I guess it wasn't.

I drive a 94 Honda Civic, with 184k miles and a blown head gasket that I get 35-36 mpg in. That's not relevant to the post though. I was talking about both of us driving her Mazda. She doesn't speed ever and gets 19 mpg. I speed all the time and get 24 mpg, in the Mazda.

She will hold speed going down the hill and let the truck lose speed up the next hill causing her to apply more throttle. I will let the truck pick up speed downhill so that I need less throttle on the uphill. Our work commute road is like a roller coaster.
mrodgers
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Not crashing, but an example of the difference between men and women. Note, my wife is 35 and I am 38.

My wife has an 06 Mazda Tribute, a small SUV. The EPA rated mileage is 19-24 city and 23-29 highways.

My wife does not speed. She generally drives the speedlimit, maybe 5 mph over. I am the opposite. I do speed, generally I do 70-75 in my work commute on a 55 mph road and 50-60 on back roads where the limit can be anywhere from 35 to 45 mph.

My wife gets an average of 19 mpg. I get an average of 24 mpg. We live out in the country and rarely drive in any city or town, so the driving for either of us is basically all long runs at larger speed limits (me being well over as was said.)
mrodgers
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Quote from Tomba(FIN) : By what name can you separate the ones that has been just resized and the ones that has been "edited" then?

Hey, note the smiley.... But since you asked, in my definition, post processing is any processing done after taking a photo. In actuality, every photo is post processed as either you shoot RAW and convert and process yourself, or you shoot JPEG and the camera does the processing.

Resizing, or anything else would be post processing

Editing on the other hand, in my opinion, is more specific than "post processing". Editing is modifying the image. I look at post processing as sharpening, color correction, white balance correction, cropping and resizing. I look at editing as completely changing a photo beyond those listed above.

I was just having a dig at ya anyways.
mrodgers
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Quote from Tomba(FIN) :Thanks for the info, I rather not post process at all

Some pictures from a enduro race.

Those images are 1200x800. Sorry, you've post processed
mrodgers
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Quote from logitekg25 :well, you drive a nice car, 'nuff said.

What is is? I don't see anywhere that says what it is, only pictures of a car that's not available to us.
mrodgers
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Quote from danthebangerboy :http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=173961515122

Must log in...
Quote from danthebangerboy :This is the 4th go i had at uploading it, the video on my hdd is 1 minute 20 odd in length, but everytime i upload it it comes up as a 56 second long vid and the end is missing!

http://vids.myspace.com/index. ... ual&videoid=103896939

Please upgrade your browser....

Grrrrrrr.....


And, I don't want to download the thing.
mrodgers
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I'll agree with the Jet Li. Video was blocked for the US though.
mrodgers
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Possible because I'm stuck in IE6. Work computer.
mrodgers
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Saying IE is crap doesn't help anyone even if it is the most common suggestion of help.

Menu: View>Toolbars>Address bar


That's how you help someone.....
mrodgers
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I'm not on Facebook, I couldn't care less about these social networking sites.

But a friend at work just got caught watering his tulips on Farmville today at work. That has to be embarrassing. The plant manager walked up to him while he was on the computer and said, "This can't be work related..." and took a peak around the monitor at what my friend was doing. Plant manager just shook his head and walked away.
mrodgers
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Quote from ATC Quicksilver :£20 fills my car up to just under half a tank.

My vehicles for years have been in the 18-20 gallon range. I recently acquired a little Honda Civic last year. I filled it the first time and I overfilled it because I only had $16 or so on the meter. In my other vehicle, the nozzle shuts off all the time before it is full, so I'm use to that along with the $30 it takes to fill it. I didn't believe it was full at $16. 11 gallon tanks are tiny little things.
mrodgers
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Quote from BlakjeKaas :Which makes me wonder, why would you care if you drive a pick up?

Interesting concept. If I have to haul stuff all the time and need a pickup truck, then I don't care whether I would get better fuel mileage or not. But if I don't have to haul stuff a lot and drive a car, then I would....

Ever think that not everyone wants to drive around in a little tin box that can't get up to speed just to worry about fuel mileage? I liked to go 4wheeling as recreation and also camping, which even some trucks wouldn't make it to my camping spot. Thus, I chose the truck based on my needs, which was to climb down the near vertical slope, cross the river, and climb up the near vertical slope. Because of that, I didn't care about the mileage I got in my truck?

I have to fill the wife's because she can only go 3 days to work on a full tank. Usually I have hardly anything left in the checkbook after that, so I fill mine up with about $10 worth. I can go all week on $10.
mrodgers
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Quote from DeadWolfBones :Anybody wanna buy my bitchin' Pog collection?

Even I had to look that up.

All I had was baseball cards.... and the Atari 2600. Nothing tore us away from the Atari.
mrodgers
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Fill up the swimming pool! Ran around in the yard all day playing with the kids in shorts and a t-shirt! It got up to about 68 F. Man, I'm sweating like a pig.

The weather comes crashing down again next week as it sinks back to 50 F and rain. Thought I could take a break on the electricity bill and not have the sump pump running nonstop for a longer period of time.
mrodgers
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Quote from Klutch :And i'm sure you could do MUCH better, right?

Hmm.... Don't know. I've never driven anything with 600 hp. I do live out in the middle of nowhere and have played around quite a bit with a weak 117 hp in the snow on good off-road tires (read as tons of traction) in an old Toyota 4Runner for many many years.

Can't see how it's so difficult. I've fishtailed my vehicles around plenty of times. I've just never had it with such easy capability as it would be with huge hp numbers. If he would get the car sideways, I would change my opinion. But just fishtailing a car out a wee tiny bit isn't what I call skill, especially when you have such capability on tap and hardly use any of it.
mrodgers
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I was never able to go online with TDU because of certain reasons....

Anyone want to buy me a new computer? My kid loved TDU when I was "trying it" before my gfx card took a plunge. Currently with TDU on my computer, you are on one side of the island and in the next frame you are halfway across the island, hehehe.

I always wanted to try TDU online, but the gfx card crapped out before I got a chance.
mrodgers
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Am I the only one not impressed with this? So he fishtails a little bit up a twisty road . Hardly what I call skill at making a car's rear swing out so little. All he really is doing is burnouts the entire way up the road with the tail fishtailing a little bit, which isn't real impressive in a 600 hp "race" car.

Oh, and wheel4hummer, you think you could pick a straighter road than that? Interstate 80 through PA looks more twisty than that.
mrodgers
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Quote from rich uk :Have a sunset on me

Real airplanes or RC? They look RC to me.
mrodgers
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Quote from Shotglass :anyone whos had a laptop crash on him or herself in the last 10 years or so (ie pretty much everyone) must be able to come up with the idea of holding the button for a few seconds to turn the thing off

Last 10 years? Try since nearly the beginning of home computing. I remember the trouble I had with my girlfriends new 286 computer in 1990 and had to hold the button down for 3 seconds to turn it off. The concept certainly shouldn't be new to anyone from elementary school through a good bit above middle age (halfway to dead as Kev would say.)
mrodgers
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I have a 1994 Honda Civic with a blown head gasket. I acquired the car with the blown head gasket and 179,000 miles on the clock. I'm now at 184,000 miles, so 5000 miles with a blown head gasket and the car is easily the best running car I've owned yet aside from my old Toyota pickup truck.

I didn't pay for the car and with the cost near $1000 to have the gasket replaced, I'm not planning on putting that much money into a car with that many miles. Thus, if I make it another 15,000 miles to 200k with the blown head gasket, I will resurrect this thread a year from now and declare myself the winner of "who owns the best car on lfs forum."

Blown head gasket or not, this car runs fantastic aside from the fact that it has a girlamatic transmission in it. I think the car will last another 15k. I'm just not sure if I can last another 15k driving a girlamatic.
mrodgers
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Imagine the great fuel mileage he's getting on his work commute.
mrodgers
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Quote from Forbin :My sister's boyfriend (at the time) tried to replace the muffler on her '90 Honda CRX. He got it off and couldn't put the new one on. Somehow I got stuck driving it to the muffler shop, sans muffler. 15 miles away. Most embarrassing drive ever.

Just to the muffler shop? That all?

I wasn't driving at the time but was a kid in the back seat of an 83 Ford Escort heading down the highway on the way to vacation at the beach. Heard a thud and a clank and a scrape. Dad pulled over and we watched him kicking at the back of the car. Muffler rusted off. We proceeded to drive for about 100 miles down the interstate before we could find a muffler shop to get a new one put on. Sitting in the back of an 83 Ford Escort, all 70 horses of it blowing straight out the pipe under our butts for 100 miles or so isn't much fun. I'll take my sister's boyfriend's Honda sans muffler from home to the shop any time over 100 miles down the interstate sitting in the back seat.
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