> There is no way to adjust timing anymore.

You do it via OBD-II and CAN via software now, not by a vaguely semi-accurate twisting of a distributor. It's a heck of a lot more complex than it used to be - multiple lookup tables to build but for many makes there are software suites online made my enthusiasts and even performance timing and fuel curve profiles you can download for various makes and models. The benefits are huge; timing isn't driven by RPM and vacuum any more, but by actual power requests made by the position of the throttle position sensor, and air intake is now metered rather than a moronic mechanically-driven butterfly valve that you'd find in a Quadrobog carburator, and the best part is modern ECUs are often learning ECUs, where they test the fuel to see how lean the mixture can run and how far timing can be advanced without pinging, maximizing BOTH performance and economy.

I'd rather give up having to constantly replace worn distributor caps and rotors and monkey around with a timing light for the increased overall efficiency and reliability. Yes, the coil pack-on-plug design is more expensive to service but when the coil packs normally last 200K+ miles, who the heck cares? That would have been about 10 distributor cap and rotor sets, plus many sets of ignition wires. Good riddance to distributors and quadrobog carburators.

Good receivers now adapt for reflections and standing waves so there is no reason one cannot set up a good reasonably-priced component system that sounds absolutely fantastic.

"The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book. It has been compiled and recompiled many times over many years and under many different editorships. It contains contributions from countless numbers of travellers and researchers.
The introduction begins like this: "Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindboggingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space. Listen ..." and so on."

Faith without evidence? One may as well believe in Santa Claus or the FSM.

Let me guess: they used OCZ flash memory?

astronomers, astrophotographers, hunters, target shooters, etc.

That, too.

In a related story, going to the console and booting to single user mode will allow you to set the root password to anything you like. ZOMG!!!

Of course not but Fox admits to it and they claim to be "fair and balanced" but they are obviously biased to the far right.

-1, Flamebait? Obviously someone with mod points has no sense of humor. This is why people jokingly refer to Fox News as "Faux news:"

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Faux News is not much of a loss. :)

I have an idea - let them run adverts and offer the channels for free, OR charge cable and dish companies (ultimately the viewer) for the channels and run no adverts. End the greedy double-dipping. Cable and Satellite carriers perform a service by increasing their potential viewer share, which increases their advertising value. It is the networks who are greedy, not the rebroadcasters.

There are differences in firmware though when you compare enterprise 7200rpm drives to desktop 7200rpm drives - error timeouts for example, and caching algorithms. You can tweak the drives to change the timeouts and recalibration times to make desktop drives behave better in arrays but they are _not_ otherwise identical. Also, although you can throw a SATA drive on a SAS controller (I have such a setup at home) throughput in an array is generally much better with SAS drives. At home I edit the timeouts on my personal drives, but I work in a data center and at work I would not take such a risk. If I screw up I risk down time for 300k people, and would put my job at risk. We buy enterprise drives across the board for servers.Throughput also isn't as critical on my home system. Running desktop drives on an array controller comes with certain risks, even if you know what you're doing. I have daily backups running at home to mitigate the risk.

Run desktop drives in an enterprise array, go ahead, and you'll see drives regularly drop out of the array even though nothing is wrong with the drives. They paused to recalibrate or error correction exceeded a timeout (so reliability in an array CAN and WILL suffer). You can yank the drive and reinsert it then it will run just fine for a while, then another one might drop out. Not acceptable for the enterprise, plus desktop hard drives are not rated/tested for 100% duty cycle while enterprise drives are. They are very similar but not identical. If you need a server (a tertiary DNS server or whatever) with a single drive, a desktop drive may be fine, but do NOT run a desktop drive in an array in the enterprise. Sooner or later you WILL regret it when 2-3 drives drop out of an array and you get called in at 2:00am to rebuild the server. Or, you could tweak the timeouts, risk fucking it up and put your job at risk.

And, on the higher end (such as you would install in an EMC or Netapp filer), have you seen any 10000 or 15000rpm desktop drives that compare to enterprise drives? I haven't.

Chances are you're in a DUL/dynamic list on SORBS or another service. What you need to do is work your way up past the first level grunt at Comcrap and speak to an actual engineer, and they need to submit updated lists of dynamic vs. static IP lists to the various blacklists and also key email providers (gmail, yahoo, notHotmail, etc.) and other providers (time warner, etc.) so that they acknowledge your block as a static block of IPs.

What happened is some grunt at Comcast probably fat-fingered when updating these lists.

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