Mail Order Refueling Available In UK From Petrol Direct - petroldirect.com

I would love to know if this site is really going to send fuel to some brit's house? I tried to find out if it was real, but the site returned and error and said to try again later.

I admire the irony if it is a hoax....

Otherwise it seems to have a couple of flaws in the overall safety of it's product and / or consumers. Not to mention the issue of the postal service hauling around explosive materials.

Is it real or is it Terragen?

Is it real or is it Terragen? Believe it or not this image is 100% digitally created. Everything you see was rendered using a program called Terragen (for Windows or Mac). That's 'terra' = Latin for earth or land i.e. terra firma and 'gen' for generator.

The program is free for home users and the only limits applied are the size of the output file is limited to 800x600. Still if you really want to produce poster-sized outputs pay the $80 to register.

The cool thing is that anybody can create these awesome looking landscapes by fiddling around with the various menus that control the number sets used by the program to make the renderings.

That means that if you limit the ground to 200 ft altitude and the valleys to 350 Ft below sea level, plus make the water table level 15 Ft below sea level, the resulting output will show a realtively flat landscape with a lake that surround land gently sloops down too.

Try it some time. The program is small, but of course the tax on your system to generate a rendering is brutal. Forutenately Terragen lets you previews what the output rendering will basically look like infinetly until you actually are happy and want to make a big one. Depending on the detail level of the "world" you are creating (and layers of details are as limiting as a photoshop file with 500 layers) it may take 2 minutes or 45mins. I have made some animated output frames that take 3 minutes a piece and I needed 40 frames a second for 3 minutes (thats 40x60x3=7200 frames) at 3 minutes apiece or 15 days of straight rendering.

I might have to get a big faster machine before I try to render something the likes of Shreck2 again.

Sharing computing activity

I have folding@home (FAH) on a couple of my backup machines and think it is great. Easy to give away something I wasn't using anyway to a good cause.

Unfortunately on my main machine I have to choose between FAH and google desktop et al, because if I run both together there are no resources left for me, the user, to use unless I want to work at a glacier's fastest past. The google desktop and associated programs hog so many resources (mostly RAM + Virtual Memory) that I have to shut it down (which is a more convoluted task than it should be). Why does google have to only offer a full package or nothing as my choices?

I have 1gb of DDR 400 running on a P4 2.8ghz machine with WinXP. I do have a ton of storage and I am active on the Internet, but so far after committing the last few months to using gmail, GDS and many other google toys that i enjoy, the only benefits I receive are the google desktop bar and the detailed web history. I have yet to have the desktop search find anything I am looking for on the 1st, 2nd maybe the 3rd attempt. I expect GDS to have more data that is cross referenced or crunched in a different way than ever seems available. I can find what I am looking for on my own desktop faster by poking around or using the search function in XP without the indexing service turned on ( another huge disappointment). What is GDS using upwards of 75mb's of RAM including all the various processes and hidden modules to provide barely any advantage to me if I am not experiencing new and different results of my local searches?

The 3rd party content is mostly irrelevant since many sources offer basically the same services. If my machine is idle then GDS will ramp up and use 100% of my CPU/kernel power along with 65% of my Virtual Memory, that leaves nothing for FAH which wants 100% CPU but nominal RAM. The only winner here is google being able to provide more exposure for its adsense clients. That is a fine model, but untenable for any length of time if I continue to only benefit from the fancy desktop interface and never get any worthwhile results from the desktop searches?

FAH hogs my resources also...but they are up front about it and offer workable solutions that google should take note of. First, how about GDS providing a slider bar to cap the total resources used. That includes All the various modules associated with GDS since there is never less than 4 or 5 running even when GDS is supposedly shutdown. Google could also offer a lowering of the process priorities to give more useful and relevant programs a chance to jump to the front of the resources food line. How about the choice to run only through the screen saver?

Google positions themselves as a company that whats to offer users something different, but as long as mother google always has to have 100% participation or 0% and doesn't offer fair and equitable adjustments to this model, it will remain the pseudo socially conscious behemoth that is has become. I guess if I knew that some of those wasted resources were going to FAH or some other equally deserving program I would accept the situation as something that is a good start in a positive direction.

As it is, I will choose to boot google desktop search and keep the FAH. I will somehow manage to carry the burden of spending an extra minute here and there find files on my desktop to make a contribution through distributed computing to the greater good of mankind. While I don't think Stanford University is a poor, neglected orphan in the 3rd world they are clearly more deserving of a sacrifice on any users part than google is.

JR

Putfile - Upload Video and Upload Images

Putfile - Upload Video and Upload Images

Free iPod batteries, Apple to return $ from battery scam

I guess are those star-crossed idiots that love the look of the iPod never thought to wonder how Apple had made a battery that lasted for ever. Because users can't open the thing and NiMhd batties on have have maybe 500 'cycles'. Each plug-in to a power source uses up 1 of the 500. Full charge all the time freaks will have a highly temerpemtal Ipod after 15 months of use.

How come 15 months too short a lifecycle? I guess now the battery can be replaced or units take Akaline (not enviromentally safe but Apple doesn't care)

If you need a new battery, want a new battery or just like to fuck with big corporations sign up for the class action payout Apple is offering after getting busted for the disposable ipod scam

Home-Apple iPod Settlement

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And then when I wanted to get divorced I asked MY PITBULL who he thought was good and he sent me to her then. I definitely think you should talk to a good attorney who is female. You got to work on your ex's level or she gets to continue to effect your life. That is assuming that you will be "nobody but" and continue to work the keep her satisfied route. You seem intent on carry the cross all the way up fucking mt. Everest. Have you made a decision on how much abuse you are willing to take along the way? I would recommend the minimum but I am a pussy when it comes to confrontations that can be avoided. It is only when cornered that I turn on my pursuer...like a SCORPION....I think I am going to get a red cape to wear around downtown. I'll dub myself "the scorpion" . Does this now mean that I can randomly cuss at people and graze on whatever I see in the Ralph's?

Oh yeah, I do the anyway

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Why are Harley's Deafening Rumbles Ignored?

Why do police or whomever is in charge of noise pollution not interested in cite motorcyclist. Other than concerts I don't think loud is cool. Don't even try to say the cops have better things to do, because I regularly see them standing in groups of three or four "shooting the shit" and carousing while we pay their salary.

Would I challange this? Never I get enough trivial citations and I spend most of my time hiding from the police.

Whats the difference between US & EU?

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Re: VW update

a copy of a recent email:

Dad,

Because it is Cali babe the whole thing was different than anywhere else. The to dealers I usually deal with were not available. One was scheduling for Tues the 13th and the other is by appointment only same story. The roadside service lady couldn't believe the dealers didn't take emergency repairs.

I ended up calling the VW dealer out by the hospital that you went to for the "heart-attack" scare that was the virus thing. That dealer is the worst stereotypical sales place with high pressure, kept the drivers license as collateral.

Surprisingly the service guy in 30 secs said "battery is bad, bring it out now we will work you in". I did and he did and I am bask on the road, no cost!

I wont bore you with the 47 traumas that occurred in the middle. No input as to why or what, but I figure Franz the overly Bauhaus inspired, but under ergonomically gifted Volkswagen engineer designed an electrical system with a flaw in it somewhere. ;-)

R

How does A Site Win Your Trust?

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Russian bride site Confidential connections has web cameras in their office to prove they are real and not like the usual run-of the-mill Russian conartists.

Live Webcams of an office somewhere on the planet is such is such convincing evidence I want to pay $450us to see all the videos (sorry guys, non-nude, for sure) on your site of the same three translators making up romantic answers for some pretty stone-face chicks. Unless I am missing something here I am missing something here isn't this a line-of-thinking extension of the "trust-me" line of reasoning that I am convinced, How about you?

Throw in that 10 cameras are not working. Oh I meant "off" right now, and I'm sold or maybe changing my name to Mr. Sarcasm.