Do you have an XP install disk or is it a restore disk from the Packard Bell PC? I'm guessing it is not an actual XP disk beings it is Packard Bell. If that's the case, it won't work because even if you change out the DVD, it doesn't work due to not having all the original hardware.
I don't see where he indicated that the skin color reflected the fact that he was slow. He didn't say, "the black man, who was slow because he was black..." He just said which guy it was and the fact that he was slower than the normal guy.
When I talked about my previous boss, no one knew who I was talking about until I said, "the japanese guy". When I talk about one of the salesmen that I work with, no one knows until I say "the tall guy". And when I talked about one of the guys from a different plant that I work with, no one knows who I mean until I say "the black guy".
Oh yeah, want to talk about offensive? We had a guy, Gene, long scraggly dark grey hair and long scraggly beard. We called him Osama Gene Laudin. He was never offended by it and laughed all the time about it, especially when everyone complained when he shaved that he didn't look like Osama bin Laudin any more.
When I talked about my previous boss, no one knew who I was talking about until I said, "the japanese guy". When I talk about one of the salesmen that I work with, no one knows until I say "the tall guy". And when I talked about one of the guys from a different plant that I work with, no one knows who I mean until I say "the black guy".
Oh yeah, want to talk about offensive? We had a guy, Gene, long scraggly dark grey hair and long scraggly beard. We called him Osama Gene Laudin. He was never offended by it and laughed all the time about it, especially when everyone complained when he shaved that he didn't look like Osama bin Laudin any more.
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Flymike, I'm the opposite. I'm wondering how over here it has come to where there is hardly a car I would pay money for because hardly anything is available in a manual.
Over here, I would say 99% of all drivers on the road utilize the car as nothing more than a tool, a tool to get from point A to point B. There is no enjoyment to driving, it's just something that has to be done. Myself, I enjoy driving, immensly.
You commented on driving a manual in a parking garage or heavy traffic. That is probably the most common condition people talk about when stating how it's nicer to have an automatic. Even driving in these conditions, a manual is better. There is no surging, you put it in gear and let the clutch out. You just let the idle pull the car along without any input by you all the while if everyone else did the same, traffic would smoothly move along. Instead, everyone is in auto trans cars and they boot the gas, then stomp the brake, boot the gas, then stomp the brake. That is far less smooth than sticking it in gear and letting the car pull along at idle. Traffic moving a little faster? Stick it in 2nd gear, or higher yet, and let the idle just pull it along. High traffic areas would go much smoother if people drove like that rather than the speed up/stomp the brake version that auto trans drivers tend to drive like.
You also mention low powered car with manual transmission. There is nothing worse than a low powered car with an automatic transmission. When approaching a hill, how does a manual transmission shift gears? By input of the driver who sees the hill and anticipates the need go to a lower gear and climbs the hill at a constant speed. How does an automatic transmission shift gears when approaching a hill? By throttle position. As you start climbing the hill in an automatic, the car slows down due to being in too high of a gear. Thus, you the driver increases throttle position and suddenly, the car shifts down and starts to acellerate. Now as the car starts screaming up towards redline and speed exceeds what is intended by the driver, he lets up on the throttle and the car shifts back to the higher gear. Now the car again slows down, driver increases throttle, car shifts and acellerates.... and the cycle continues. Now what is all this talk about "surging" with a manual transmission?
We could get into talk about control during understeer and oversteer and such, but we are talking about driving on the road, not on a race track. We could also talk about control in bad weather such as the snow in the middle south of the US where it can be measured in feet in some places, but that is too much for me to type at the moment. Perhaps I could later when I have more time.
I have a few examples of where an automatic transmission is down right dangerous to drive as well. I can explain them at a later time if you'd like.
Over here, I would say 99% of all drivers on the road utilize the car as nothing more than a tool, a tool to get from point A to point B. There is no enjoyment to driving, it's just something that has to be done. Myself, I enjoy driving, immensly.
You commented on driving a manual in a parking garage or heavy traffic. That is probably the most common condition people talk about when stating how it's nicer to have an automatic. Even driving in these conditions, a manual is better. There is no surging, you put it in gear and let the clutch out. You just let the idle pull the car along without any input by you all the while if everyone else did the same, traffic would smoothly move along. Instead, everyone is in auto trans cars and they boot the gas, then stomp the brake, boot the gas, then stomp the brake. That is far less smooth than sticking it in gear and letting the car pull along at idle. Traffic moving a little faster? Stick it in 2nd gear, or higher yet, and let the idle just pull it along. High traffic areas would go much smoother if people drove like that rather than the speed up/stomp the brake version that auto trans drivers tend to drive like.
You also mention low powered car with manual transmission. There is nothing worse than a low powered car with an automatic transmission. When approaching a hill, how does a manual transmission shift gears? By input of the driver who sees the hill and anticipates the need go to a lower gear and climbs the hill at a constant speed. How does an automatic transmission shift gears when approaching a hill? By throttle position. As you start climbing the hill in an automatic, the car slows down due to being in too high of a gear. Thus, you the driver increases throttle position and suddenly, the car shifts down and starts to acellerate. Now as the car starts screaming up towards redline and speed exceeds what is intended by the driver, he lets up on the throttle and the car shifts back to the higher gear. Now the car again slows down, driver increases throttle, car shifts and acellerates.... and the cycle continues. Now what is all this talk about "surging" with a manual transmission?
We could get into talk about control during understeer and oversteer and such, but we are talking about driving on the road, not on a race track. We could also talk about control in bad weather such as the snow in the middle south of the US where it can be measured in feet in some places, but that is too much for me to type at the moment. Perhaps I could later when I have more time.
I have a few examples of where an automatic transmission is down right dangerous to drive as well. I can explain them at a later time if you'd like.
I'm sort of torn. I know you should be for your country, but Sydney is also our local guy. I'd really like to see Syd with a gold medal, but I didn't think at the time the US would be as good as they are playing. Tonight's game is a bit of a shock for me.
Sheesh, can Pronger make everyone else look any more like midgets out there on the ice? Hal Gill at 6' 7" doesn't look as big as Pronger does at only 6' 5". He's got to have some extended height on those skate blades.
This afternoon is the only time Ovechkin would get cheers from Penguin fans when he leveled Jagr.
Back in force with a dusting of 4 inches, huh?
I just shoveled off my roof yesterday. Had probably 20 inches packed up there. It's all melting now creating ice dams at the gutters. I should have shoveled it off a while ago, but I'm old and it was too cold out to bother. Now I have 6-8 inches of solid ice at the roof edge the entire length of the roof.
The icicles never did reach the ground, only about half way. I saw some on the store I visit in the mornings that reached the ground.
I just shoveled off my roof yesterday. Had probably 20 inches packed up there. It's all melting now creating ice dams at the gutters. I should have shoveled it off a while ago, but I'm old and it was too cold out to bother. Now I have 6-8 inches of solid ice at the roof edge the entire length of the roof.
The icicles never did reach the ground, only about half way. I saw some on the store I visit in the mornings that reached the ground.
$150,000, isn't that like £4000 to you folks? In US or Canadian dollars, Danowat, surely this fits into your £4000 budget, doesn't it? 
Nice hockey game Thursday night by the Swiss. US dominated them in puck possession the first game and they played like they had something to prove against Canada. I was in shock to see it tied up clear through 3 shooters in the shootout. I was sitting on the edge of the couch eyes glued to the TV through the 3rd, OT, and the shootout until my Pittsburgh man Sydney Crosby stepped up to his 2nd shootout attempt.
The other surprise was to see Russia lost when I woke up Friday morning (not even sure who they played....)
Pissing me off that the TV coverage is starting with 2-3 minutes left of the 1st period every game.
US vs. Canada tomorrow night. I can't wait!
The other surprise was to see Russia lost when I woke up Friday morning (not even sure who they played....)
Pissing me off that the TV coverage is starting with 2-3 minutes left of the 1st period every game.
US vs. Canada tomorrow night. I can't wait!
Because he's old. I want to just lay on the beach as well.
Unfortunately for me, I'm taking the family to Disneyworld in wonderful I expect 95 F humid heat for a week in the summer walking miles and miles and miles each day. Not sure how much fun this is going to be for the wife and I, but the kids should have fun.
Tuesday, times are eastern time and those are the channels down here. Don't know what you guys have as far as channels.
Gonna check out USA when I get home from work, but I'm more interested in watching Canada and Russia games. I can handle Can v Nor 8-10 but can't do the Russia v Latvia until 2:30 and still get up at 5 for work. I only stay up when the Pens are playing Washington in one of their marathon playoff overtimes, which I've stayed up all night for quite a few in the past so I could get ready and go to work half hour or an hour after the game ended.
2/16/10 3-6:00pm USA USA v. Switzerland
2/16/10 8-10:00pm CNBC Canada v Norway
2/17/10 12:30-2:30AM CNBC Russia v. Latvia
2/17/10 3-5:00pm MSNBC Finland v. Belarus
2/17/10 8-10:00pm CNBC Sweden v. Germany
2/18/10 12:30-2:30am CNBC Czech v. Slovakia
2/18/10 3-5:00PM USA USA v. Finland
2/18/10 8-10:00pm CNBC Canada v. Norway
2/19/10 12:30-2:30am CNBC Russia v. Slovakia
2/19/10 3-5:00pm MSNBC Sweden v. Belarus
2/19/10 8-10:00pm CNBC Czech v. Latvia
2/20/10 12-3:00am MSNBC Finland v. Germany
2/20/10 3-5:00pm MSNBC Norway v. Swtzerland
2/20/10 7:30-10:00PM MSNBC Slovakia v. Latvia
2/21/10 12-3:00am MSNBC Belarus v. Germany
2/21/10 3-5:00pm NBC Czech v. Russia
2/21/10 7-10:00pm MSNBC Candan v. USA
2/22/10 12-3:00am MSNBC Sweden v. FinlandMy favorite Finnish player is on the team, Jarkko Ruutu. He was a scream with his antagonizing antics on the ice when he played for the Pittburgh Penguins. I was really sad to see him go. He was my favorite player (aside from Crosby and Malkin of course.)
USA team is lousy. Patrick Kane is great, but the rest..... Ryan Malone on the 3rd line is a local from Pittsburgh. He was traded after Pittsburgh lost the Cup finals 2 years ago. He was a great gritty player, but nothing special.
Sweden has a tough team. Lot of Redwings on there. Zetterburg, Naslund, Sundin, Forsberg, Franzen, Holmstrom, lot of tough players there.
Canada has 2 amazing goaltenders, Brodeur and Luongo.
For Russia, watch Sergei Gonchar lining up his shot and shooting from the blue line. Any time Ovechkin and Malkin are on the ice, do not under any circumstances..... blink.
The Canadian team, in their home, with that goal tending, there's no way they are not going to take gold. Congrats to Canada already, LOL.
Canada - Gold
Russia - Silver
Sweden - Bronze
USA - who?
I think we are done. Not much coming down in the past few hours. The snow in the yard is up to my hip. Wifey just got home and said roads are bad, but that's a woman talking. They are probably snow covered, but that's not what I call "bad". Bad is when the snow on the road is thick and you are actually needing to drive through the snow rather than on scraped and packed down snow.
Record breaking for February in Pittsburgh at 29.5 inches. 57.x inches for the winter total is #16th worst snowfall. We were a half an inch away from the record of 1994 for a single snowfall this past weekend, at least in Pittsburgh, the local city. Up where I am an hour+ north, it wasn't quite as bad.
Record breaking for February in Pittsburgh at 29.5 inches. 57.x inches for the winter total is #16th worst snowfall. We were a half an inch away from the record of 1994 for a single snowfall this past weekend, at least in Pittsburgh, the local city. Up where I am an hour+ north, it wasn't quite as bad.
Yeah, it's definitely snowing now. Roads are completely covered (have to be snowing good for that to happen here because we have plenty of snow removal trucks to keep up.)
I had to take the day off, not because of the snow but because my clothes washer broke and I can't wait a month for them to deliver. I had to drive my wife's mallrunner POS SUV in through the yard to the back basement steps because I wasn't carrying a 300 pound washer around the house on my back. So, I had to snowblow a path wide enough to manouver the truck around through the yard. It was plenty deep enough, way above the snowblower now.
My old pickup truck, I would have just driven right through the yard, snow and all....
Got the truck driven around, washer is installed and in a first cleaning cycle. Now I have to go out and do the 125 foot driveway and since my neighbor has people walking up the 3 feet of snow in her driveway to check on the house while she isn't home, I feel the neighborly thing to do is to go clear her drive out as well.
Fun fun fun. This is the first year having a snowblower. I'm having a blast.
I had to take the day off, not because of the snow but because my clothes washer broke and I can't wait a month for them to deliver. I had to drive my wife's mallrunner POS SUV in through the yard to the back basement steps because I wasn't carrying a 300 pound washer around the house on my back. So, I had to snowblow a path wide enough to manouver the truck around through the yard. It was plenty deep enough, way above the snowblower now.
My old pickup truck, I would have just driven right through the yard, snow and all....
Got the truck driven around, washer is installed and in a first cleaning cycle. Now I have to go out and do the 125 foot driveway and since my neighbor has people walking up the 3 feet of snow in her driveway to check on the house while she isn't home, I feel the neighborly thing to do is to go clear her drive out as well.
Fun fun fun. This is the first year having a snowblower. I'm having a blast.
Isn't it going to tire you out putting a strap on that and hanging it on your shoulders? I'd think the bass behind it would be far more comfortable. Even sitting down it would be tough it sitting on your leg.
Ouch! I've got a total of $13 in replacing the strings on both my acoustic and electric.
Becky, cool! My acoustic's name is Sally Sue. The kids named her. They named the electric Hot Rox, but I call her Roxy. Just learning is frustrating, but it comes quick. The fingers feel weak and stupid for a while but then get sorted out pretty quickly.
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All night long on the news it was "WE'RE GONNA DIE!" type snow forecasts. I wake up this morning and we have an inch if we are lucky.
No school over a 6 inch snowfall? We had 18-21 depending on where in the county you are over the weekend. I'm in the 18 range out in my yard and my kids had school. A lot of south of us was canceled on Monday where they were close to breaking records for snow, but my kids went. No delay or anything.
Actually, most if not all of the closings in southern PA are from power outages, not the actual snow.
"Other ways" of getting TDU doesn't allow you to get online. Pretty boring game if you're not online.
Especially when Punch has 4 planes converging at the runway at the same time
Last time I flew ATC on WSPilots I was on dialup so had to transmit everything via the chat. Control barks off to me where the hell was I going miles and miles off course when I was only following his directions when he forgot about me, LOL.
Been wanting to try VATSIM, but at my old age, I'm not into the chatting on a microphone in games. That and the few times I've jumped on Teamspeak talking to some of the guys I fly with, Wifey has made fun of me, LOL.
Don't know about the VATSIM, but my experience with horrible sound quality from Teamspeak and Ventrillo causes me to think it would be too much of a hassle to try to understand what ATC was telling me. I've done informal ATC on the servers I fly at through Teamspeak and gave up trying to figure out what everyone else is saying.
I've been signed up at VATSIM for around 5 years and have never gone online. Maybe next weekend when I have some time I'll join in just to observe. I think you can do that.
Don't know about the VATSIM, but my experience with horrible sound quality from Teamspeak and Ventrillo causes me to think it would be too much of a hassle to try to understand what ATC was telling me. I've done informal ATC on the servers I fly at through Teamspeak and gave up trying to figure out what everyone else is saying.
I've been signed up at VATSIM for around 5 years and have never gone online. Maybe next weekend when I have some time I'll join in just to observe. I think you can do that.
Don't know what this forum is, but it was just the 2nd link in google. Not only do they have the same poll, but this one appears to be poll #2!
We're not all that pathetic on here....
I don't remember the "front to back / back to front" thread, but I do remember the leg washing thread (danowat started I think..)
We're not all that pathetic on here....
I don't remember the "front to back / back to front" thread, but I do remember the leg washing thread (danowat started I think..)
LMAO, and that sig is classic Tommy as well.
Of course it's B. As has been said, A makes no sense.
Lucky for me, out of 4 people in the household, I'm the only one who knows how to even put the roll on the holder, let alone which way it should go.
I remember talking about the same thing a good while back about our forklift throttles here at work. They are completely unresponsive. So, I did a bit of search as I thought we discussed this and we did. As a matter of fact, I was the one that started the thread, from back in September of 2007. Completely forgot about starting that....
I've been saying for years that the drive-by-wire stuff isn't going to be good.
What is really amazing is that humans have made it this far without extinction from floor mats in the past. My 94 doesn't have hooks to hold the floor mat, nor has any other older vehicle I've owned ever had a hook. My 96 and all newer cars I've owned has had a hook for the floor mat.
I've been driving for 21 years, of which I've driven far more cars that had loose floor mats, and mats that were just generic purchased or even homemade from old household carpet, yet I've never died from a floor mat causing my throttle pedal to become stuck or even had my pedal stuck at all.
Now think about how long have cars been around. For about 100 years, we've had cars that probably for the most part have had floor mats in them. Now suddenly, for the last 10-15 years, we've had floor mats held in place with hooks and our species is dying at an alarming rate because of these hooks not effectively holding the floor mat in place.
Is this how it all ends in 2012 for mankind? Extinction by shifting floor mats?
I've been driving for 21 years, of which I've driven far more cars that had loose floor mats, and mats that were just generic purchased or even homemade from old household carpet, yet I've never died from a floor mat causing my throttle pedal to become stuck or even had my pedal stuck at all.
Now think about how long have cars been around. For about 100 years, we've had cars that probably for the most part have had floor mats in them. Now suddenly, for the last 10-15 years, we've had floor mats held in place with hooks and our species is dying at an alarming rate because of these hooks not effectively holding the floor mat in place.
Is this how it all ends in 2012 for mankind? Extinction by shifting floor mats?
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