Mitkraft Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 How fast do you estimate this lead foot was going when he passed me? Well he seems to pass you right at 3 seconds. There is a dark clump of grass further down that he seems to pass at 9 seconds and you seem to pass at 12 seconds. Estimating your average speed at 72mph or .02mps times 9 seconds puts your distance from the time he passes to the clump at about .18 miles. .18 miles divided by the 6 seconds it takes him to pass puts him at .03mps or 108mph. That's my estimate... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flottmann1 Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 (edited) I am also for a limit of 130 km / h (81 mph), here in Germany When I was driving in Florida in 2014, it was such a relaxed drive Back in Germany, hustle and racing everywhere it was over with relaxed driving ! Edited February 14, 2019 by Flottmann1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted February 14, 2019 Author Share Posted February 14, 2019 Well he seems to pass you right at 3 seconds. There is a dark clump of grass further down that he seems to pass at 9 seconds and you seem to pass at 12 seconds. Estimating your average speed at 72mph or .02mps times 9 seconds puts your distance from the time he passes to the clump at about .18 miles. .18 miles divided by the 6 seconds it takes him to pass puts him at .03mps or 108mph. That's my estimate... Very precise estimate sir! I'm impressed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 An interesting fact that was recently published: The ratio of failed driving school exams (theory/practise) in Germany has risen to a stunning 39% in 2017. Experts list possible reasons: Traffic has become much denser in the last years, and much less cooperative. For example, changing the lanes in the city requires people to give way to you, and when people spot the car as a driving instructor's, they are even less willing to let them in - a good chance to spoil the exam. Young people today are too much focused on their digital gadgets. In earlier times, they observed the traffic (due to missing distractions), long before they started to learn driving by themselves. This is considered an important phase of driving skill acquisition. Learning to drive has become less important for young people today. A driving license is just one thing among lots of others. In Germany, a driving license is a major investment (typically around €2000,-, i.e. $2250,-). People try to save money and reduce their lessons before the exams. Young people today enjoy a longer time of being taken care of by their parents. On the street, they are confronted with situations that require immediate decisions and that impose an unfamiliar level of responsibility on them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted February 16, 2019 Share Posted February 16, 2019 Pulled the LED third brake light off an old Mazda6 last night to fix. Eight cylindrical 33ohm canister resisters, all pretty much disintegrated, and 20 burned out LEDs. The only good component on the board was a diode. Took almost six hours, but it works now. Anyway, while working on it the damned thing smelled like burning dead fish. Anyone ever come across something like this? Actually, some board substrates decompose a bit and give off that nasty fishy smell when heated, I've run into that a few times in the past. . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+InsaneMultitasker Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 So many things that could be said about this 'news' https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/man-discovers-30-year-old-apple-computer-still-in-working-order/ar-BBTIBcb?li=BBnb7Kz 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitkraft Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 And yet you gave them exactly what they wanted (a bunch more eyeballs...me included) by sharing. I agree this falls in the, wtf, you think thats news? Category. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 (edited) I just uncovered a decomposing box with two of these very drives in my unheated semi-exposed Spa room yesterday... this reminds me I need to try to move them elsewhere now(not to mention the main unit and others). Looks like the weather is really starting to take it's toll(13 Yrs.). Edited February 18, 2019 by HOME AUTOMATION Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted February 18, 2019 Author Share Posted February 18, 2019 So many things that could be said about this 'news' https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/man-discovers-30-year-old-apple-computer-still-in-working-order/ar-BBTIBcb?li=BBnb7Kz I'm more amazed that this article was written by a woman. It's something I'd expect more from a middle aged nostalgic man (like us). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted February 18, 2019 Author Share Posted February 18, 2019 Have some fun - What is it? How big can you get one? << IF YOU NEED HELP FIGURING IT OUT >> 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 ScanLife says product not found! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 This is the form my car-cam driver came in. My tablet doesn't have the reader app. and I don't want to install. ...is there an easy way to decode the drivers address?... Manually install! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted February 18, 2019 Author Share Posted February 18, 2019 Extra hint(s)... 1) Click on QR CODE 2) Click SAVE TO DISK 3) Slide Image to your DESKTOP 4) Load website 5) Upload graphic of QR Code That works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 So many things that could be said about this 'news' https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/man-discovers-30-year-old-apple-computer-still-in-working-order/ar-BBTIBcb?li=BBnb7Kz Yeah, like "how the F*#$ is this news?" I guess I should read the entire article to see if she links to any of the vintage forums. I'm more amazed that this article was written by a woman. It's something I'd expect more from a middle aged nostalgic man (like us). I am more surprised that she could not, or at least did not indicate as such, deal with this part: "My oldest, who is 9, exclaimed "that's a computer?!" in genuine surprise, and then pointed at the floppy drives and asked "what are those?" My younger twins just kept laughing at how silly it seemed to them." At the very least she could have explained how they are like low-capacity SD cards. And besides: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrhodes Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 I was glad to see i am not the only tape user here in the TI section. It seems tape is actually still used a fair amount today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alxqpbSZorA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 I have been sticking to DAT (72, 160, and sometimes 320.) But I am about to retire the last physical machine that uses tape if virtualizing Solaris 8 onto Hyper-V proves successful. I would like to implement another server to do LTO backups. The prices are not too bad. I would be the second-tier behind a spinning rust-based backup system. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted February 18, 2019 Author Share Posted February 18, 2019 ... a spinning rust-based backup system. That's the route I take. Hard drives are so cheap now days, you can get a 2tb USB model for $60-$70. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrhodes Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 That's the route I take. Hard drives are so cheap now days, you can get a 2tb USB model for $60-$70. I own two 3TB usb drives. Strangely, they refuse to boot a operating system, but they work fine for storage. (my computer does support booting from usb) The drives in question are this one: https://www.ebay.com/p/Toshiba-Canvio-3tb-Desktop-External-Hard-Drive-Black/1422563231?iid=382782605890&chn=ps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted February 19, 2019 Author Share Posted February 19, 2019 One last hit to << THIS MESSAGE >> It's related to ArcadeShopper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrhodes Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 (edited) Please ignore this post. Original post retracted. Mods feel free to remove,.. Edited February 19, 2019 by jrhodes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted February 19, 2019 Author Share Posted February 19, 2019 Contents of QR Code ... It would be a cool way to scan in programs for sure... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 The encoder or decoder is HTML-escaping quote characters. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 tipimap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sometimes99er Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 https://curiosity.com/topics/dividing-1-by-998001-yields-a-very-strange-decimal-curiosity/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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