Heh - I used to do something similar with my old Porsche Sportamatic.
Stick shift. No clutch pedal. Operated by 'magic' (ie you touch the shifter and it activates the clutch).
Cool thing was that it was so sensitive that if I moved the shift boot, it would no longer engage the clutch again - and you could start the car, but not actually shift into gear.
Even the valets hated that thing, but realistically car thieves just toss them onto a tow truck and pretend they're doing their job.
Now my old Corvair with the bad wiring that gave you a nasty shock if you didn't touch the handle just right - that was theft deterrent
I disagree - a decent carabiner with a screwgate and a good weight rating is easily worth $18
Exactly - I have my keyrings split out.
Daily use: Car and house (nothing else). Anything more would ruin the line of a suit.
Key ring on fridge: Mailbox, gym, random stuff like that.
Spare key for wife's car in my glove box, spare for mine in hers (just in case).
Can't carry too many keys, need room for important stuff
Wow, I'm envious. My NEWEST (working) laptop is older than that
My daily use laptop is a Titanium Powerbook G4. I had an Acer Aspire 5100 and an Acer Aspire One, but both died.
I have a SPARCstation 10 too, it's fun. It's my netboot server. Great little box
But the oldest machine I use regularly anymore is a Titanium 15" PowerBook G4 which is 9 years old. That one sees regular daily use. I have a Macintosh Plus (with 4MB of RAM woooo) that I used to do most of my finances on, but I finally got around to porting that finance app off
At work I support IBMs that stretch back about 15 years, and until recently I supported MicroVAX boxes from the late 80s (which finally got retired, thank goodness)
They do: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARCstation
I have no idea what he's talking about, but my guess is it's definitely not a SPARC Station. I have one. It most certainly does not run King's Quest (though it does run BSD and SunOS
Yes, when the humidity rises above 50% or 60%, it really starts to feel unpleasant.
My favorite example of this are the Monsoons - here it will rain heavily for about 15 minutes, drop the temp by 10 degrees, and leave a horribly humid and nasty condition. Sort of like summer in Miami, but it only lasts an hour
Watching rain fall but not hit the ground is good too - it evaporates about 5 feet up due to the low overall humidity and high temp.
Now that would suck!
I think after the first week I'd go buy a new off-grid water heater
Right - I believe that was my point. That we should be paying roughly similar amounts (below $200 at least).
I'll agree with the fact that Miami with 100% RH and 100F feels like murder, but until you've opened the car door and left a bright red mark on your hand it's not hot
I'll submit as reference (aside from having been here)
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19900627&id=8uYNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eXUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7078,925768
It gets HOT.
The building AC thing is weird like that here, too - it adds to the shock when you leave an office set to 65 or 70 into an exterior that's 115-120.
Ironically, in the winter, they set the buildings to almost 90 when it's 60 out.
You pay $847 a month?? Holy cow, I live in AZ where it actually gets hot (not like Northern California - I mean REALLY hot) and I only pay $100 a month for a house about that size.
You seriously should consider weather stripping and insulation!
BTW - 100 isn't hot. 120 is hot. AZ it gets hot enough that they ground airplanes. If you're complaining from Dubai, I can understand that.
If they killed my hot water during the summer in AZ, I'd be ok with that. As it is I take the coldest showers I can get, because going to work when it's already 90 is the suck.
Anyone who works with medium to high megapixel digital images, for example... though I can't image why *anyone* on Slashdot would do that...
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest