[jacksonpt]

i should say that he THINKS he knows all.. for instance, he doesn't know ANYTHING about portable music players

*let the fun begin*

Now things are starting to make sense. When I met him in Carbondale, he got out of his truck, came over to mine, held out his hand and asked if I had ever seen one of these before. He had an MP3 player, but had the Rio covered with his thumb so I didn't know what it was. He said it was the best on the market, etc. etc. etc..

 

[syadasti]

Oh yeah thats right, you didn't carry out my evil plan :eviltongu

 

[Westy]

 

[stosh]

Oh yeah thats right, you didn't carry out my evil plan :eviltongu

It was great meeting you though! Maybe sometime I could meet you again and not ride with ya.

 

[MtnBikerNJ]

i just read that BMW is coming out with a retrofit that will allow remote controlling an ipod from the steering wheel. the ipod stays in the glove box. notice i said IPOD not " ANY MP3 PLAYER"

anyway. i'm not going to hijack this thread...

so next year maybe we should all meet at the campground up the road where we can drink all we want without fear of THE MAN. And you can cook us burgers. with watery swiss. With a grill that has gas.

 

[stosh]

i just read that BMW is coming out with a retrofit that will allow remote controlling an ipod from the steering wheel. the ipod stays in the glove box. notice i said IPOD not " ANY MP3 PLAYER"

anyway. i'm not going to hijack this thread...

so next year maybe we should all meet at the campground up the road where we can drink all we want without fear of THE MAN. And you can cook us burgers. with watery swiss. With a grill that has gas.

Hey you got the last meal I cooked so be happy. I actually felt really bad, all my meals came out really well....

If we stay at the other campsite which doesn't sound like a bad idea I may be forced to take a shower and not just go swimming in the lake. The lake IMO makes Mauch Chunk campground.

 

[syadasti]

i just read that BMW is coming out with a retrofit that will allow remote controlling an ipod from the steering wheel. the ipod stays in the glove box. notice i said IPOD not " ANY MP3 PLAYER"

Haha, its so funny how dumb Apple zealots are, "Oh yeah Apple has this new innovative widget, its never been done before cause Jobs said so!"

Don't forget the fine print - most BMWs come with changers so you are screwed and this is useless:
Only available for model year 2002, 2003 and 2004 BMW3 Series; Z4 Roadster; X3 and X5 SAV; and MINI models. Not available on vehicles with navigation system, CD changer, DSP cassette player or satellite radio

ALPINE DEBUTS WORLD'S FIRST CAR AUDIO HEAD UNITS THAT ALLOW TRUE INTEGRATION WITH iPod
TORRANCE, Calif, January 6, 2004


Icelink for iPods - far superior and works with other makes and models of cars

Don't forget one of the first ever commercial HDD players beat the Apple/BMW by a long shot - it was developed by the same division that is responsible for the Rio Karma, in 1998:
http://www.empeg.org/products/car_history.html

 

[MtnBikerNJ]

ok thread jacker. i didn't say bmw was the first to do it just the most recent to have a press release. you missed the point as always

anyway stosh i was just bustin balls. the cheese burger really hit the spot and the cheese was fine. it was just funny when jeff pulled it outta the cooler and it had al the water.

i didn't take many pics this year because it was josh's turn ( i think he's fired after this though, because he only took a few as well)...

 

[syadasti]

Bait denied!?!? What a rip off :eviltongu

You have to admit though, Apple is still full of sh*t - they have on their website "The first seamless integration of iPod and automobile" even though Alpine beat them by 6 months and empeg car unit beat even the 1G iPod by a long shot. Its not as bad as claiming first 64-bit desktop when the Alpha PC had come out more than a decade before the G5 though

I got 6 photos, but they are on my desktop at home - five are scenery and one of Anthony posing on the bottom of those rock shelves on our way back down to the race course...

 

[MtnBikerNJ]

yea bait denied... and it was proven in a trial in europe that apple did in fact have the first 64 bit desktop - the other computer makers marketed their machines as workstations not desktop machines - making apples claim valid (it was a case about false marketing). whether you agree with it or not is another story.

and i can't believe you only took 6 pics with your new camera

 

[stosh]

Bwahhhhhhhhhhhh you got a pic of all the reflectors we put on Jeff's bike. Thats funny! I was mad because we didn't get a pic of it. We were making fun of him because he still had all he reflectors on his bike. I happend to have 3 of them floating around with me so I threw them on his bike when he wasn't looking.

 

[syadasti]

The mileage and lack of items to play on did not really lend itself to photos..

Yeah but its wrong, in 1993 the DECpc (using the 64-bit 21064 CPU) came out in Europe at the time they also made a DECstation - ie they had a cheap PC version for desktop NT and a expensive workstation model for unix:

"1992 - February
Alpha was a totally new, open, 64-bit RISC architecture, addressing the needs of a broad range of computer users, engineered to support multiple operating systems and designed to increase performance by a factor of 1000 over its anticipated 25-year life. The first Alpha chip was the 21064, which provided record-setting 200-MHz performance"

"1993 - September:
DIGITAL began shipping Windows NT preloaded on the DECpc AXP 150 personal computer just 5 weeks after Microsoft's initial release. By the end of 1993, over 500 applications from DIGITAL and other software vendors would run on the DECpc AXP 150 under Windows NT."

"The DECpc 150/AXP was the first 'Alpha PC' produced by Digital. The idea behind them was to make an Alpha system with a PC-like peripheral environment, thereby allowing to use as much cheap PC hardware as possible. DEC's primary intent was to run Windows NT, and this machine was sold with a preinstalled NT 3.1 via Vobis, Germany's largest computer seller. It was a great flop, given that the NT 3.1 this machine was sold with was the first Alpha version of NT that still consisted mostly of i386 code, so the processor spent most of the time emulating an Intel CPU. Selling it with only 16 Mbytes of RAM didn't make the situation better... ":
http://john.ccac.rwth-aachen.de:8000/alf/axp150/

Later on in the late 90s, Alpha Windows NT Boxes (ran NT with the FX!32) - started at under $2K released in 1997 - Polywell was one of the three main vendors with an offering - failed to catch on cause it was slower emulating 32-bit x86 programs than running them on the real thing again (duh).

Finally AMD also beat the G5 in June of 2003 shipping the first 64-bit Operton Prosumer Desktop machine running Windows, it was dual processor just like the G5...

And AMD also beat then on the notebook front by a long shot for the mainstream (nov 1997 there were sun workstation notebooks though) in Sept 2003...

 

[stosh]

Man you fockers!!!!!!!!!!!!

Go to www.youguysarenerds.com and post this crap.

 

[MtnBikerNJ]

don't look at me for being a nerd.. josh is plenty for this whole forum combined!

i hadn't even noticed those reflectors until i saw the pic this morning.. i wondered what the he!l he was doing with all of those! You shoulda asked, I had 2 or 3 in my toolbox, as well as one for handlebar and seatpost. that'd make it perfect!

 

[stosh]

don't look at me for being a nerd.. josh is plenty for this whole forum combined!

i hadn't even noticed those reflectors until i saw the pic this morning.. i wondered what the he!l he was doing with all of those! You shoulda asked, I had 2 or 3 in my toolbox, as well as one for handlebar and seatpost. that'd make it perfect!

Damn it! I'm going to make sure to save them up for the next time I see him which is in 2 weeks.

 

[mobius]

Looks like it was a nice gathering and nice riding.

 

[MtnBikerNJ]

i'm going to start gathering computer chips and hot glue them to josh's ride since he's so into it... with a long ethernet cable so he can stay connected to the net just in case we mention "computer" during a ride...

 

[stosh]

i'm going to start gathering computer chips and hot glue them to josh's ride since he's so into it... with a long ethernet cable so he can stay connected to the net just in case we mention "computer" during a ride...

Yeah maybe that would slow him down.

 

[syadasti]

Overwrote the better ridgetop photo of the riders with my POS viewer program that has a ****ty compression routine, so you'll have to settle for the natural ridgeriders shot :mumble:

 

[MtnBikerNJ]

cool thanks for those josh. too bad you didn't get a shot of me falling on my face down that chute on day 1. that ridge top shot is nice... looks alot like one I took. Although I'm sure yours has more detail since its a much bigger capture.

what software were you using for your viewer program? - and no, I'm nt going to say anything about apple programs... Don't know if you have photoshop CS or even 7, but they have a fair image browser element. Then you could compress them any way you want.

 

[syadasti]

Although I'm sure yours has more detail since its a much bigger capture.

what software were you using for your viewer program? - and no, I'm nt going to say anything about apple programs... Don't know if you have photoshop CS or even 7, but they have a fair image browser element. Then you could compress them any way you want.

Well our web ones won't differ much due to resizing and compression...

All those are PS 7. I had one at a KB or so over 100KB and decided to try to make it smaller the lazy way (use the freeware irfanview, but I think I have it set on some crappy resize scheme (Lancsoz filter) and I accidently overwrote the original after I deleted the web version that was too big

I haven't looked into the different resizing algorithms and their + / -, so I should do that some time...

 

[stosh]

There goes Josh blaming the software....

 

[MtnBikerNJ]

he wouldn't have had that problem using apples iPhoto or graphic converter (apple only)

I remember when I first met josh, thiis guy Pete had given him a bike to ride, which was a big heavy DH bike, thinking he could try to slow josh down so the rest of us could keep up. it just didn't work... I don't think there is anything that will slow the man down

 

[stosh]

he wouldn't have had that problem using apples iPhoto or graphic converter (apple only)

I remember when I first met josh, thiis guy Pete had given him a bike to ride, which was a big heavy DH bike, thinking he could try to slow josh down so the rest of us could keep up. it just didn't work... I don't think there is anything that will slow the man down

bwahhhhhhhhhhhh

Next time we meet I'll bring a bike thats to small and only has a front shock that seals are blown and we'll tie a concrete block to the seat post. Maybe then we can keep up with him.

 

[syadasti]

he wouldn't have had that problem using apples iPhoto or graphic converter (apple only)

Irfanview (PC only) is far superior and free. I would have had that problem with any program if I didn't pay attention and save over the original (which is what I did)...

I blame RM attachment restrictions, 100K - that sucks ass - thats what caused the problem...

 

[stosh]

Irfanview is far superior and free. I would have had that problem with any program if I didn't pay attention and save over the original (which is what I did)...

I use Irfanview I must be smart like Josh.

 

[syadasti]

All your base, are belong to Irfanview for a free, quick, fast & dirty editor (ie you don't feel like waiting for PS7 to load and its not a significant task):

IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003.

It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals.

IrfanView was the first Windows graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple (animated) GIF support. One of the first graphic viewers WORLDWIDE with Multipage TIFF support. The first graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple ICO support.

Some IrfanView features:
Many supported file formats (click here the list of formats)
Multi language support
Thumbnail/preview option
Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD)
Show EXIF/IPTC/Comment text in Slideshow/Fullscreen etc.
Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters
Drag & drop support
Fast directory view (moving through directory)
Batch conversion (with image processing)
Email option
Multimedia player
Print option
Change color depth
Scan (batch scan) support
Cut/crop
IPTC editing
Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Adobe 8BF, Filter Factory, Filters Unlimited, etc.)
Capturing
Extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs
Lossless JPG rotation
Many hotkeys
Many command line options
Many PlugIns
Only one EXE-File, no DLLs, no Shareware messages like "I Agree" or "Evaluation expired"
No registry changes without user action/permission!

 

[MtnBikerNJ]

All your base, are belong to Irfanview for a free, quick, fast & dirty editor (ie you don't feel like waiting for PS7 to load and its not a significant task):

wow that things does almost half of what graphic converter does. yea, you have to pay for it if it doesn't come on your machine (but its free on apple's pro machines). and iphoto is just alot easier than pretty much anything else

but stosh, i think even doing that wouldn't slow him down enough. I'm thinking that we just have to tie him to a tree and put glue in the hubs... friday after we got there, josh had just finished a 10-15 mile ride or something, then went back out with us without hardly a break, and he still kicked our assses..

 

[stosh]

wow that things does almost half of what graphic converter does. yea, you have to pay for it if it doesn't come on your machine (but its free on apple's pro machines). and iphoto is just alot easier than pretty much anything else

but stosh, i think even doing that wouldn't slow him down enough. I'm thinking that we just have to tie him to a tree and put glue in the hubs... friday after we got there, josh had just finished a 10-15 mile ride or something, then went back out with us without hardly a break, and he still kicked our assses..

I just use MS Paint. I can draw mustaches with it.

 

[MtnBikerNJ]

haha

i just use film and a paintbrush

NOT

 

[spincrazy]

Update: I have what very much resembles pneumonia. I blame Craig.


Somebody come rebuild my bike and pick up the hubs and rims and have them built up.

Work sux. Working sick sux more.

Pedros?

 

[stosh]

Update: I have what very much resembles pneumonia. I blame Craig.


Somebody come rebuild my bike and pick up the hubs and rims and have them built up.

Work sux. Working sick sux more.

Pedros?

Thank god you aren't blaming my burgers.

 

[MtnBikerNJ]

you bastard! jk.. i didn;t have pneumonia... and the bronchitis was gone by then after takng megadoseage antibiotics... maybe its from the burgers?

 

[syadasti]

It was a dirty tea cup

 

[stosh]

It was a dirty tea cup

bwahhhhhhhhhhhhh


Good point!

 

[MtnBikerNJ]

watery swiss? gatoraide? smelling josh's stiff socks?

 

[stosh]

watery swiss? gatoraide? smelling josh's stiff socks?

hey... you know how you had mentioned the odd position of my seat this past weekend. I played with it and tried a different position. What a difference. I also see how a slightly longer stem may help.

 

[spincrazy]

I'd have sars if it wasn't for the healing power of burgers. Josh's socks, just the idea of smelling them, may be a contributing factor. Still coughing up yellow phlegm balls - so nice.

Seats are much more comfortable when you sit on the large part and they're parrallel to the ground, not sticking straight up. (I know it was a good fit, but c'mon it was a family weekend)

 

[syadasti]

I'd have sars if it wasn't for the healing power of burgers. Josh's socks, just the idea of smelling them, may be a contributing factor.

I asked you to touch them, not smell them. They were dry and crusty

 

[stosh]

I'd have sars if it wasn't for the healing power of burgers. Josh's socks, just the idea of smelling them, may be a contributing factor. Still coughing up yellow phlegm balls - so nice.

Seats are much more comfortable when you sit on the large part and they're parrallel to the ground, not sticking straight up. (I know it was a good fit, but c'mon it was a family weekend)

I was all ready for the naked ride though!