GKPE: General Ramblings thread

joeseph wrote in post #3347326
I had a friend in Ausy get her Barina hit from behind & shunted over the side of a hill and the description reading "it just fell to bits around us" doesn't instill any sense of confidence.

yeah the barina felt smaller around me than the mini cooper, it was a 4-speed gearbox and it felt more lightweight/cheapo than the hyundai accent which is really saying something

Moppie wrote in post #3347608
Bull****.
That would mean you had to drive 3 cars a day working 300 days a year.
Its not possible to get a good apprectation of a car based on a short drive around a car park. Of course the idea that you managed to find and drive 2000 unique models of car...............

with all due respect: i DID drive over 2000 different vehicles, and some i drove many times each as well

the reason i know: I WROTE IT DOWN in a notebook i kept in my pocket as an exercise in curiosity, as soon as i started working there. when i got to 2000 i tired of it and stopped keeping the record. also i was getting sick of the job, and ended up transferring to head office with not as much hands-on work. some of the cars were the same make and model but different years, or differed in certain specs like sports/family/luxury or wagon/sedan etc.

and i never drove them around a car park: i drove them between clients' locations and the workplace, anything from 5km-50km each way - some days i drove more than 10 cars, and i often worked 6 days a week.

and i didnt 'find' them, the car owners came to US for the service which we were providing (which i also would administer to some of the vehicles in question throughout my working day)

have i successfully defended myself? *folds arms*

Nzshrimper wrote in post #3347678
Opel Astra ...

isnt Opel the euro-release name for Holden? given that they both have astras and vectras etc?

weka2000 wrote in post #3349274
Been dating the wrong men then

um - i've never dated my boss actually, not at that job nor any other

SS you should be a lawyer

somethingsimple wrote in post #3349726
isnt Opel the euro-release name for Holden? given that they both have astras and vectras etc?

I thought Vauxhall was the euro name for holden?

weka2000 wrote in post #3349739
SS you should be a lawyer

by that i can assume you suggest i rest my case.

momentz wrote in post #3349759
I thought Vauxhall was the euro name for holden?

if it is, why do opel and holden share model names then? and if you look at the actual cars, they are basically identical

edit:
hmm seems wikipedia lumps all 3 of them together as being virtually identical cars, as well as the saturn versions. they are all GM vehicles marketed under different brands worldwide

forsaken wrote in post #3347821
just hope nothing breaks or goes wrong with it or you will be taking out a second morgage to get it fixed

yea, sure I will go out and buy a car worth over 100k and I wont have the money to fix it. if one can afford a car like that then one can afford the insurance, the running cost and any repair costs that may or may not pop up.

Sure jap cars last a long time and be made for the mass market, but they feel cheap made, and most of the time lack style. toyota is a good example of that. However mazda has gone out of the way to make cars with some style.

regardless I will still buy a euro over a jap any day of the week, if $$$ allows.

lil_miss wrote in post #3349534
Errr yes it is ..
http://en.wikipedia.or​g/wiki/1080p

Panasonic Viera

Why are you going to England??

momentz wrote in post #3349676
1080p is true hd.
You know that 720p isn't true hd format? But it's marketed as such to sell lower spec tvs, and especially the new 'freeview' digital signal, which actually only standard digital, but because it is such a step up in quality from analogue, nobody will argue it's not hd.

LCD and Plasma tvs only use progressive scan. Interlace is for CRT and projection tvs.

TH42PV60 is the exact model number, although I'm pretty sure you could get a deal from weird brands at parallel imported or on trademe. I haven't even looked.

ok you guys are right, I got confused as I normally do with these things, I was thinking of the 1366 x 768 res. which isn't a HD format. again marking at it's worse.

following that link lil_miss sent and other links found within wikipediasay that both 720 and 1080 are HD formats

toyota have released a new model lately, the aurion. be interested to see if that gives them the foot in the door of the executive car market which i think is their focus for it.

Samsung Syncmaster 244T Monitor, 24" LCD has better reviews than the dell.

Yeah, the ITU classifies it as such for marketing purposes, so that consumers know what's compatible with what, basically saying anything digital falls under the 'HD' logo/trademark, because thing were getting confusing (as if they're not still). Technically, though, 720p is standard digital, 1080p is high definition digital.

I might pop in to harey norman and see what they have got.

Kids just managed to blow up another computer
Decided to turn the power off at the wall while it was been rebuilt.
Looks like RAMBUS now has fault. It was my server.

Oh well they can now wait 3 yrs untill I get a new one.

weka2000 wrote in post #3349847
Samsung Syncmaster 244T Monitor, 24" LCD has better reviews than the dell.

samsung, dell and apple for the same size screen use the same lcd panel. At the time of me buying mine it was the only one with the extra connections and thing like pip (picture in picture) samsung didn't have anything like that and also the price was right. dell was having a special at the time.

momentz wrote in post #3349860
Yeah, the ITU classifies it as such for marketing purposes, so that consumers know what's compatible with what, basically saying anything digital falls under the 'HD' logo/trademark, because thing were getting confusing (as if they're not still). Technically, though, 720p is standard digital, 1080p is high definition digital.

that's why I don't believe in marketing and that's also why the next tv I am going to buy is going to 1080p res now if only blueray and HD-DVD war ends so we can have one format and have players that are $500 odd then I would be happy.

I just want a good LCD for my photo editing.

Gouba wrote in post #3349626

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Nah, previous model. Don't care for the shape.

This one.

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weka2000 wrote in post #3349904
I might pop in to harey norman and see what they have got.

Kids just managed to blow up another computer
Decided to turn the power off at the wall while it was been rebuilt.
Looks like RAMBUS now has fault. It was my server.

Oh well they can now wait 3 yrs untill I get a new one.

oh no how annoying
household file server or internet server?

somethingsimple wrote in post #3349956
oh no how annoying
household file server or internet server?

Had all my MP3's on it. To make matters worse it Had SCSI for my backup and all the kids photos were on SCSI HDD. My PC dosnt like the adatec SCSI card