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I enjoy wearing them, and they're honestly a better choice for a wetlab chemist.
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Since about 99% of my collection is pocket watches, that's primarily what I wear.
I enjoy wearing them, and they're honestly a better choice for a wetlab chemist.
Welcome to my thread discussing buying PPC or Intel
Awwww, you killed it! I just made popcorn....
I know I shouldn't feed the troll, but hey...
ABS allowed me to steer around what would have been a very nasty accident a few years ago. The rear axle decided to detach itself from a light commercial vehicle a couple of hundred meters in front. I managed to steer around most of the rear hub that was in the outside lane of a dark unlit motorway flowing at 70+mph during evening peak.
Had that safety system not been sufficient I'd be very glad to have airbags and a strong car that performs well in NCAP tests. I've seen accidents in the family where these safety systems had they been available would have prevented very serious injury.
I've said my piece, even though our resident "expert driver" surely knows better.
ABS allowed me to steer around what would have been a very nasty accident a few years ago. The rear axle decided to detach itself from a light commercial vehicle a couple of hundred meters in front. I managed to steer around most of the rear hub that was in the outside lane of a dark unlit motorway flowing at 70+mph during evening peak.
Had that safety system not been sufficient I'd be very glad to have airbags and a strong car that performs well in NCAP tests. I've seen accidents in the family where these safety systems had they been available would have prevented very serious injury.
I've said my piece, even though our resident "expert driver" surely knows better.
I know I shouldn't feed the troll, but hey...
ABS allowed me to steer around what would have been a very nasty accident a few years ago. The rear axle decided to detach itself from a light commercial vehicle a couple of hundred meters in front. I managed to steer around most of the rear hub that was in the outside lane of a dark unlit motorway flowing at 70+mph during evening peak.
Had that safety system not been sufficient I'd be very glad to have airbags and a strong car that performs well in NCAP tests. I've seen accidents in the family where these safety systems had they been available would have prevented very serious injury.
I've said my piece, even though our resident "expert driver" surely knows better.
Which is the point of ABS the control, the side benefit is it helps you stop faster.
Too many "expert drivers" panic and mash the pedal to the floor, forgetting to steer around something in their path.
Hell yeah! Collectors like myself need not any Apple II's or 512k's. Heck, one could argue that you don't need a mobile phone, or a laptop, or any computer...
We are all lucky enough to have any of these devices. If we enjoy them, then buy as much as can fit in the house!
I truly believe the future for continuing using PowerPC Macs is in emulation. First because second-hand ppc are getting older and they're more likely to get out of order. Second because they're noisier than new Macs (I've been used to silence. So, if we've a fully working emulator at some point, we'll have ultraquiet PowerPC Macs running on new Macs.Welcome to my thread discussing buying PPC or Intel
It can be funny but I foresee a near-term future of buying Macs just for emulating old ones.
That's why I started the thread about emulation.
I'm old enough to remember when we used to call this "pumping" the brake pedal.
Or as many as you wife will let you.Hell yeah! Collectors like myself need not any Apple II's or 512k's. Heck, one could argue that you don't need a mobile phone, or a laptop, or any computer...
We are all lucky enough to have any of these devices. If we enjoy them, then buy as much as can fit in the house!
I've owned one car with ABS I've gotten pretty good at in in my last ~25 years of driving, but ABS has been around more than a few decades now and it is better and safer.
Or as many as you wife will let you.
Friends, girlfriend, family, parents...they all judge...but nothing stop me, mwahahaha! Mac is love, Mac is life I say.
Actually, with a car WITHOUT ABS, the best way to maintain control, is to pump the brakes. This is especially true (as i have done) when the roads are slippery. I have avoided sliding through many intersections by doing this and "Steering" around is how i avoided the 3 almost T-Bone accidents I had in 2 weeks back in July 2014 from 3 dip***** that refused to even TRY to stop at a 4 way stop intersection!
ABS may work in modern cars and on dry roads but ABS doesn't work that well in the late 90s as i have stated. And even MODERN ABS don't do **** on slippery roads
The video I posted demonstrates this exact statement.
Pumping the brakes is quite a novel solution you've discovered. I'll have to pull my ABS fuse and try that out. I believe that you in your omniscient and omnipotent nature can brake better than ABS in all circumstances. I believe you can mentally calculate all four wheel speeds simultaneously >30x per second. I also believe you can also calculate how much brake pressure to apply to each wheel and can modulate each brake individually with a single brake pedal.
I disagree, I think a MatthewLTL processor is clearly the way to go.Quad G5 all the way
1. I never said pumping the brakes is better or worse than ABS. I am simply stating that under no circumstance should you ever slam on the brakes as that is just asking to be ass-ended. When it comes to Icy roads and if you are driving a car that doesn't have ABS (or ABS isn't functioning) you should slowly and gradually pump the brakes as this minimizes you sliding. Just like ABS on icy roads, Pumping brakes on dry roads is just pointless.
2. Huh?
1. Go back and watch the video I showed you of the car with/without ABS stopping on both dry and wet (slippery surfaces). ABS will stop you faster on ice than pumping the brake. ABS stops you in a faster distance more often than not. This is a well proven, well accepted fact, and distributed by automotive professionals and authorities. If what your saying is true, statistically ABS would cause more accidents, and therefore be forbidden. There are very few cases were ABS increases stopping distances. The most common cause, which is rare, is braking with one tire hitting a pothole and unnecessarily triggering the ABS when it is not needed. Again that's rare. The other is offroad driving, where wide, deep, loose surfaces (sand, gravel) activates the system at low speeds where slight skidding a tiny would be more efficient.
I'm not sure what you base this information off of but statistically ABS and Airbags prevent accidents and save lives. Otherwise they wouldn't exist, right? On top of it you're ignoring the statistics that say your car could potentially cause danger to you due to the recalled issues. You cannot also solely base whiplash or long term injuries on airbag deployments when being struck buy a multi thousand pound vehicle at a high rate of speed. It doesn't take much force to screw up a back. I have permanent spinal damage from being checked with a lacrosse stick 7 years ago in a game. Whiplash can be caused in any car accident, regardless of airbags. The force of the car striking your car is what causes whiplash. The only way to *decrease* it is with properly designed head restraints. Which not all cars offer, especially historically.
You may be the greatest driver the world has ever seen, but that doesn't make you invisible from other bad drivers on the road. You could be the most vigilant and coordinated driver and your Daewoo could be the best handling vehicle ever made, but if a drunk driver swerves into and hits you, theres no way you can prevent yourself from hitting him- it doesn't matter if it's on a backroad or a highway. ABS or not. If you think you can avoid every danger in life... I'm not going to get into that but the greeks would call it hubris and there is a theme of what happens to those with hubris.
I'm very tired of this debate here and you can see no one else thinks what your doing is a smart idea or remotely agrees with you, if that means anything. But consider you take advice from these same people on a daily basis. Well done statistics don't lie and are useful tools in identifying preventing harm. Perhaps you should do some research and look at some numbers before basing your philosophy off of biased personal experience. Being able to admit or recognize your biases and faults, I assure you, will make you a much smarter person in life and help you in every aspect of your life.
This is the last I am going to comment on this. But if I'm driving and have to stop short, and you skid into the back of my BMW, your paying.
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2. The MatthewLTL processor is infallible, it makes no errors, it makes perfect predictions, and it is impervious to damage. Best processor choice out there to be making decisions.