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I checked in paint. The one I'm seeing is about 200x100, hence my hilarious 108p comment
At a guess, there's some anti hotlinking stuff going on and you're seeing your cached version
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I'm seeing tiny too
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I wouldn't have thought you'd find many people who appreciate Vista round here...
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Get a room! You're steaming up the thread!
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Paging @blakeyrat!
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Wait, what? [image] :headdesk:
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That's what she said!
[image]Oh, it is tiny ...
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That is nice. It doesn't make me want to play the game, but it does look good.
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What the hell is FP aiming at? Certainly not at anything in the middle of the screen!
Rough estimation:
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My third person mode has a laser sight and works very similarly to that drawing you made.
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Looking at my handy can of WD-40 - it reads:
"For thousands of uses at work and around the home"
"See cautions on reverse" (no, nothing about not using on computers - but it does say you can use it to remove moisture from electrical contacts)
I'm with Andrew on this one... perhaps because my PC cooling fan is currently about 40% WD-40 by weight.
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Ah, but the computers were presumably dry. I guess we found the problem.
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And that surfaces and joints should be dust-free before application.
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Thanks to trying to understand this post I have discovered the people who don't understand that steel softens at a temperature way below its melting point, and so believe the attack on the WTC was actually a government conspiracy.
My family has been involved in practical and theoretical metallurgy since the 1850s. I now discover that there are metallurgical equivalents of anti-vaxxers and Creationists. Filed under: People too stupid to be allowed to live in a First World society.
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PC cooling fans are so cheap, it's probably cheaper to replace them than waste WD-40 on them.
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But the new cooling fan is all the way at the shop, or I have to wait for delivery or whatever, and the WD-40 is right there.
I don't personally use WD-40 all that much. I have cans which actually spray lubricants like lithium grease and I much prefer light machine oil on my cooling fans because it doesn't turn to gum. I've been meaning to try moly grease some time but it's so damn messy and I'm not sure it's light enough.
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Not trying to be a pendant but it must be noted that the Third World needs smart people more than the First. They have bigger problems.
Filed under: something to do with regular expressions, I suppose
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Paging @blakeyrat. Very @TheCPUWizard, no?
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No, not even close.
TheCPUWizard wouldn't mention something like that unless he added, "and I made a ton of money from it, and look at all the sports cars I own, and oh did I mention that science labs all over the world give me advance samples of new alloys to test and they always respect my opinions on them?"
Kupferink's claim sounds pretty normal to me, frankly.
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So wait, is your username actually related to the German word for copper?
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Alas,
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I liked you better when you were a braggart.
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Is it a muscle car then? :trolleybus:
Filed under: [:car: thread](http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/sports-car-hipsters-and-the-foxes-who-love-them/48193)
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Properly speaking, it's not a "car." :passport_control: <will blakey rise to the bait?
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Are you saying OED is not "proper"???
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If they think some sort of small SUV should be called a "car" then yes.
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Looks like a small estate car or larger hatchback to me. What makes it an SUV other than the manufacturer pinky-swearing that this is the case?
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Remember: we're talking about an industry that created the 'urban on-roader', and actually took it seriously :unamused:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rover_Streetwise
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:facepalm:
“Urban” so driven around towns and cities, like most cars, and “on-roader” because all the other vehicles in towns and cities zip around mounted on hoverboards…
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No, a station wagon's more like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_Magnum
(I picked a moderately-ridiculous example, btw).
If you follow Wikipedia enough, you'll find this definition: "a rugged automotive vehicle similar to a station wagon but built on a light-truck chassis".
The key thing is really "truck chassis" as opposed to "car chassis". Of course lines get blurred over time; at one point there was a distinction about an SUV('s floor bottom?) being at least 8" off the ground; for example, the Subaru Outback was redesigned so it could change classifications from station wagon to SUV for rules-gamification.
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Copper, and nickel. You spotted it. c changed to a g out of contrariety.
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Rover wasn't an industry, it was a truly British fustercluck. A friend went to work for them after university and then turned up in a Ford. When we asked why he replied "if you work for Rover and own a Rover people in the factory laugh at you."
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It wasn't a boast, just a statement of fact. I don't consider mine at all an unusual family history, in fact that was my point; I'm amazed so many people build such conspiracy theories because they don't know what anybody who has seen a blacksmith working knows, that steel and iron soften way, way below their melting point. In the 19th century the UK was for a while the world leader in practical metal bashing till the Germans took over; At one time I worked in a research lab with a lot of engineers, chemists and metallurgists; most of the people I knew had a family history in that kind of thing. One guy I knew at U had an alteranting family history of physicians and engineers going back before 1800.
True, but people in the 1st world have more access to education and science. A subsistence farmer in Africa has an excellent excuse for not understanding what happens when a lot of kerosene burns around steel girders. Someone with access to a public library or the Internet who still publishes nonsense, doesn't. When my company had a new steel framed building erected, I was initially surprised to find just how much insulation was needed to give the substantial beams just half an hour of fire resistance to just a cardboard or plastic fire. And that was without the prospect of pouring kerosene over it and adding a large updraft. I would say that, I suspect if that subsistence farmer or a hunter gatherer was as lacking in understanding of his or her environment as many people are in Europe or the US, survival would not be long.
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I worked in Longbridge when Rover went bust. On the day our office was in uproar as we relied on the automotive sector exclusively, and we thought it was the beginning of the end (it wasn't). I got home and my mum called, I thought she was checking if I still had a job or something. Nope.
:facepalm:
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Yeah -- I wouldn't be surprised if you could get rebar (for instance) to a workable temperature with nothing but a propane torch hooked up to a gas grill tank ;)
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In the US, most of those people are urban liberals who've probably never seen a blacksmith and might think milk comes from a supermarket.
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Um...my family have been urban "liberals" and socialists for a long, long time. And one of them was a blacksmith.
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I've seen that done as a demo, to show both the softening and the poor thermal conductivity of iron. Heat in the middle with propane torch, hold ends and bend by hand while the middle is still cherry red. Then quench and invite anyone who thinks they are strong enough to straighten it out again.
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The Panda 4x4 is a surprisingly capable little off-roader; Italian farmers get them into places you wouldn't believe. My wife had one to tour the farms where she had clients, one year when we had flooding I was using it to avoid a 10 mile detour round a flooded road. The odd bash simply doesn't matter. Porsche Cayenne owners now...I'm not sure if the one belonging to our neighbours has ever been through more than a deep puddle.
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The stupid thing about that is the Cayenne is a better off-road car than the Panda; on Top Gear, they basically rallied a Cayenne down a two mile rally stage in two minutes. On road tyres.
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It's very capable, but actually using it as a 4x4 depreciates it much faster than the lease, leaving the proud lessor with a huge bill after three years.
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Which then means they;re buying a Cayenne as a status symbol, which is retarded.
Just get a 911 and let everyone think your joy department doesn't work anymore; you'll still look less of a douche than if you're hooning around in a Cayenne.
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You go to a comedy show for car advice?
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Why would I do that?
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Clearly they're not out of touch with a less urban way of life, though, if they know about blacksmiths and the like.
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Do people buy Cayennes for any other reason?
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What is wrong with a proper (i.e. aircooled) 911, other than that my wife won't let me have one? 911 owners are only douches if they aren't engineers. Old British joke: British engineer has a Rover with a bumper sticker; "My other car is a Porsche". German engineer has a somewhat similar sticker: "Mein anderes Auto is auch ein Porsche" (My other car is also a Porsche.)