I have to guess that more folks download stuff just because they can with no intention of ever purchasing if it wasn't available in download.
How many folks on this board who do renders do you thing paid for their $3500 copy of 3dsmax? How many do you think paid $600 for photoshop just to paint computer cars?
How many folks on this board who do renders do you thing paid for their $3500 copy of 3dsmax? How many do you think paid $600 for photoshop just to paint computer cars?
Doesn't help. I get up at 5 am every morning through the week. There are times that I look at the clock and it's still 4 am and I'm still trying to get to sleep.
Ever hear of restless leg syndrom over there? They started advertizing medicine on TV as they do for all the new stuff they figure out. As soon as they mentioned this, I thought, "That's exactly what I have!"
I can be dogdead tired and lay down in bed. As soon as I lay down, my legs feel like they need to go on a 10 mile run. For years my wife has often rubbed my legs at night so I could get to sleep.
I can be on my feet all day long and still be restless at night. There are times I spend 10-12 hours standing at a molding press on a concrete floor with steeltoe boots and jeans sweating like a pig because it's about 120 F and extremely humid, and I am nearly collapsed when I get home, yet I go to bed and I can't sleep because my legs feel restless. Other days I can climb up and down stairs all day long. I counted one day that I often climb up and down 120 flights of stairs (13-15 stairs each flight) in an 8-10-12 hour period, and still can't get to sleep.
If I could afford to go to the doctor and check out this "restless leg syndrom" a bit more, I would. It's great having private medical insurance, paying thousands a year for medical benefits and still not to be able to afford to go to the doctor's.
FWD is better than RWD in snow. It is easier to pull a vehicle than it is to push. The FWD craze started in the early 80s.
RWD needs a tire replacement for driving in the snow. Keep the same tire on it in summer and winter and you will just sit at any intersection, stopsign, or traffic light and spin. FWD can pull a car with relative ease from a standstill in snow with the same tires. (We generally use all-season tires here, not switching to a "summer" tire as I've seen talked about here on the forum.)
More of these car based "Crossover" SUVs are going towards AWD or this newfangled "automatic" 4WD systems. Quite frankly, just like an automatic transmission, I think these auto 4WD systems suck as well. When I am in 2 feet of snow, I want to know that I am in 4WD. In my opinion, when it says it "senses slip", isn't it too late? Hasn't the tires already slipped if it is sensing slip? Give me back my damn lever moving a mechanical connection, Grrrrrr....
RWD needs a tire replacement for driving in the snow. Keep the same tire on it in summer and winter and you will just sit at any intersection, stopsign, or traffic light and spin. FWD can pull a car with relative ease from a standstill in snow with the same tires. (We generally use all-season tires here, not switching to a "summer" tire as I've seen talked about here on the forum.)
More of these car based "Crossover" SUVs are going towards AWD or this newfangled "automatic" 4WD systems. Quite frankly, just like an automatic transmission, I think these auto 4WD systems suck as well. When I am in 2 feet of snow, I want to know that I am in 4WD. In my opinion, when it says it "senses slip", isn't it too late? Hasn't the tires already slipped if it is sensing slip? Give me back my damn lever moving a mechanical connection, Grrrrrr....
Wrong.
Kia Sportage isn't necessarily a 4x4. Not all 4WD run in RWD when in 2WD mode. My Mazda Tribute is FWD/4WD.
But, I don't know how the Kia 4WD system is. It sounds a little older of a vehicle because the majority now transfers power to 4 wheels when it senses (they are automatic.) I would guess not since you have a switch. The older Ford Escapes/Mazda Tributes use to have a transfer case and 4WD, but now they are automatic and it is a type of AWD for example.
With a true 4WD system, the front and rear drivetrain is locked together via the transfer case. When you are turning in 4WD, your front wheels will be rotating at a faster speed than the rear because they are traveling a longer distance. Think of how the differences are in LFS between the left and right wheels with the locked differential. Same principle. Thus, on dry pavement, when trying to turn, the front wheels will "chirp" signifying that they are trying to spin (well, not trying, they are.) The transfer case in this instance is binding up and forcing the front to spin and unbind the t-case. This is not good when driving at normal conditions and the t-case will eventually break.
Low range is merely a much lower gear ratio. You probably couldn't get the vehicle up to 45 mph at redline in top gear. It is for off-road only.
You can drive in snow/ice conditions just fine in a locked 4WD system because easy slippage in the snow keeps the front drivetrain from binding up.
As james12 said, AWD has a center differential and allows the front and rear to spin at different speeds.
What year of Kia Sportage? I test drove one in 2007 and I believe it was automatic 4WD (like my Tribute) with a center differential lock switch and no low range.
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So it would have been better all these years to produce vehicles no one wanted rather than the vehicles that sold? I look around town and at work and GM did rather well with their massive petrol-drinking vehicles.
Obviously, yeah, they should have had some R&D in the works, but it was rather sudden over here with the fuel price increase. 2007 I was paying $2/gallon, 2008 I was paying over $4/gallon. That's quite an increase in just a year, far quicker than you could expect an automotive manufacturer to completely revamp their product, especially when folks were still buying the big stuff like it was going out of style.
Fact of the matter is, they are an American manufacturer, the largest American manufacturer. No one around me is buying cars, big or small. They are keeping their cars now rather than buying new constantly. No one wants little tiny underpowered cardboard boxes. They are quite difficult to drive around here with things called hills and mountains.
Nothing wrong with wanting to hit a 50 year old. The older you get, the younger 50 gets to you 
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We have two 50 yr olds at work, not too shabby for their age. Of course, I am closer to 50 than I am to someone whom is just on the legal side of age
.We have two 50 yr olds at work, not too shabby for their age. Of course, I am closer to 50 than I am to someone whom is just on the legal side of age
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I actually ended up dating her best friend.
A few different scenarios that can get all mixed up... You are walking past someone at work and.....
Other person: "How ya doing?"
You: "Not much..."
Other person: "Hey, what's going on?"
You: "Good, how bout you?"
Did this on several occasions throughout my years....
Waitress: "Enjoy your meal."
Me: "Thanks, you too."
I always end the checking out at the store with.....
"Thanks, have a good day..." at 10 at night.
or
"Thanks, have a good evening...." at 9 in the morning.
Why do you have to be more aware of braking points, turns, and anything else if you are driving a manual? Please explain...
You can't possibly tell what type of transmission someone is driving as they go by you completely unaware with a cell phone glued to the side of their head. That is completely irrelevant.
When I was young, and I don't condone this behavior now of course, but I was fully capable of driving my manual transmission while rolling a joint steering with my knee and not using a clutch to shift when needed while paying attention to where I was going. I didn't say it was smart, just that I wasn't oblivious to my surroundings. It's the fact that people become oblivious to their surroundings while engaged on a cell phone that is the problem, not the fact that they are only able to do it because they drive an auto.
I was going to mention that. It drives me crazy. My foot literally gets stuck under the brake pedal if I need to be quick off the throttle and onto the brake in my Altima, there is so little foot room to begin with. Then the brake pedal the size of my living room couch compounds on top of the room thing.
January 31, 2007 was the last time I drove a manual as that's when I traded my old truck for Wifey's new one. To this day, I still go for the clutch and reach for the stick in a "panic" situation. Panic situations where I live is when deer run out in front of you which happens very often. There's no time to do any fancy footwork and shifting (in manual), you just slam both feet down, one on the clutch and one on the brake, and I still find myself going with both feet after nearly 2.5 years and about 40,000 miles being without a manual.
Says you. I have been driving 4WD Toyota pickup trucks for the past 12 years not including the last 2 with the wifey-hand-me-down I mentioned earlier. When the snow flew it was time to play
. No low revs for me. Front and rear wheels firmly connected to the engine, I never needed to change my driving any with throttle blips on downshifts and using engine braking. Of course there is allowance for leaving a lot more room for braking, but in snow I actually engine braked even more than on dry clear roads.Call me Grandpa. I had to ride my bike with a pocket full of quarters to the arcade to play video games.
Anyone else remember this.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-MONIvP6kI
Anyone else remember this.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-MONIvP6kI
Just watched a show on the Travel Channel the other day and they featured a restaurant I don't remember where here in the States owned by a Lady from Britan. Everything was deep fried and you could bring your own items in and they would deep fry it.
Percieved notion that there is a lot more maintenance to a manual. My parents were very hesitant on my buying a manual as my first purchased car (after their hand-me-down.) The general public seems to think that you have to changed the clutch constantly or something. It wasn't until my 5th manual vehicle that I had to replace the clutch. That was a Toyota 4x4 and the maintenance is pretty straight forward from my experience. Front brakes every 50k, rear brakes every 150k, and clutch every 150k, nearly exact.
Also if you look at what a shop charges to replace a clutch, it will blow your mind. I paid $125 I think for the clutch itself and changed it in a weekend. No more than removing two handfuls of bolts, lowering the tranny on a jack, pull and replace the disk, and reinstall the transmission. Very simple, yet a shop would have charged me $1200-1500 to have it done. Took me 8 hours by myself with only a socket set, torque wrench, and a regular floor jack with a homebuilt cradle for the transmission. Easy as pie. A shop has much better specialty tools and pneumatic tools that make the job even easier.
Sticky and horrible, that's humidity there bud, not temperature. I'd much rather hang out in 90 F (whatever C, I closed my conversion site) with no humidity than 75-80 F with high humidity.
It's a lovely 59F (15C) where I am. Yesterday was comfortable all day at about 65ish, but then the rain came bringing with it the humidity. The house was very comfortable all afternoon, then just got unbearably sticky. Wish I had air conditioning....
1988 I got my driver's license and a hand-me-down automatic Ford Escort. 1990 I bought my first car on my own and it was a 4 speed. I've driven manual up until 2007 when I had to dump my vehicle due to problems and bought my wife a new one and took hers as a work runner hand-me-down. So now I've been stuck with an automatic for myself for the past 2 years.
I live out in the country and grew up in a small town outside of Pittsburgh PA. I spent some time commuting and working in Pittsburgh back in the 90's. The traffic was stop and go as you got into the city. I found the manual lovely because it was much easier to stick it in gear and let the idle pull along at a pace to keep me from starting and stopping. Everyone else would blast up 20 feet, stop, blast up 20 feet, stop while I just idled along at a steady pace and kept up at 15 mph or whatever was required for keeping a steady pace. Manual was much nicer than an auto in traffic in my opinion.
Tis true, but as was said, 90% of the people use a car as merely a tool for getting from point A to point B. They don't care about feeling the car, they just move and steer it. Unless you are one to enjoy the actual act of driving (as most here I assume do) then there is no need to "feel" the car nor do you no matter what type of equipment the car has because you aren't pushing the car any.
Indeed I am also angered about the majority driving automatic. Why is that? It is because I am very limited on the cars that I have available to purchase over here in the US. For most models, a manual is no longer available. For most that it is available, I would have to buy the bare bones minimum model to get a manual. If I had to cut wood for heating my home (very common out where I live), had a boat that I wanted to haul, or any other reason for needing a larger truck, I couldn't get it in a manual anymore. I am currently in need of a car, but I need a 4 door with room for the kids now that the wife works and would have the family runner with her, there aren't any available that interests me that would have a manual. I would need to buy a small hatchback usually in a 2 door configuration or other similar small car if I want a manual which none would suit my other needs of hauling the kids and dog around. That is why it angers me, the market in the US is not there for manual transmissions, thus there is nothing in the market for me.
Up hills, yes you can force it into gear, usually. Usually because until very recently, even if you have it forced down a gear, depending on how close you are to the limit, it will simply refuse to change, or it will change up anyways even though you've gotten it forced down. My 2 year old Mazda Tribute (that's the family runner I mentioned I bought for the wife) is the first automatic I've driven that if I put it in 2nd gear from a start, it actually started in 2nd gear (useful in snow/ice.)
Snow and ice, there's another point in the auto vs. manual debate, with 4wd. Everyone states "there's nothing you can do on ice" when you have to brake. They just assume that you can not brake without locking the wheels up. That is where the ABS falls into play and is the main arguement for ABS. But, if you take a 4WD (true 4WD I'm talking, not the AWD stuff) out in snow and ice with a manual, the engine is directly connected to the drivetrain, thus the engine spinning helps to keep the wheels unlocked under braking. With auto, you touch the brakes, the wheels are going to lock. This also goes with FWD as well. RWD not so much because the drivetrain isn't connected to the front wheels where the majority of the braking force is at.
I'm the exact opposite of Sam here. Though I'm not quite as wrinkly aged as Sam (), I am getting to the middle-age and with family history, I'd argue that I am well past middle aged for the family life expectancy. I just turned 37 and wow, that sounds SO much closer to 40 than 36 did, hehehe. Anyways, like I said, I'm stuck currently with the wifey-hand-me-down auto and I'm hating it. I got the boy racer out of the system years ago as well, but I am still hating driving an auto transmission.
I live out in the country and grew up in a small town outside of Pittsburgh PA. I spent some time commuting and working in Pittsburgh back in the 90's. The traffic was stop and go as you got into the city. I found the manual lovely because it was much easier to stick it in gear and let the idle pull along at a pace to keep me from starting and stopping. Everyone else would blast up 20 feet, stop, blast up 20 feet, stop while I just idled along at a steady pace and kept up at 15 mph or whatever was required for keeping a steady pace. Manual was much nicer than an auto in traffic in my opinion.
Tis true, but as was said, 90% of the people use a car as merely a tool for getting from point A to point B. They don't care about feeling the car, they just move and steer it. Unless you are one to enjoy the actual act of driving (as most here I assume do) then there is no need to "feel" the car nor do you no matter what type of equipment the car has because you aren't pushing the car any.
Indeed I am also angered about the majority driving automatic. Why is that? It is because I am very limited on the cars that I have available to purchase over here in the US. For most models, a manual is no longer available. For most that it is available, I would have to buy the bare bones minimum model to get a manual. If I had to cut wood for heating my home (very common out where I live), had a boat that I wanted to haul, or any other reason for needing a larger truck, I couldn't get it in a manual anymore. I am currently in need of a car, but I need a 4 door with room for the kids now that the wife works and would have the family runner with her, there aren't any available that interests me that would have a manual. I would need to buy a small hatchback usually in a 2 door configuration or other similar small car if I want a manual which none would suit my other needs of hauling the kids and dog around. That is why it angers me, the market in the US is not there for manual transmissions, thus there is nothing in the market for me.
Up hills, yes you can force it into gear, usually. Usually because until very recently, even if you have it forced down a gear, depending on how close you are to the limit, it will simply refuse to change, or it will change up anyways even though you've gotten it forced down. My 2 year old Mazda Tribute (that's the family runner I mentioned I bought for the wife) is the first automatic I've driven that if I put it in 2nd gear from a start, it actually started in 2nd gear (useful in snow/ice.)
Snow and ice, there's another point in the auto vs. manual debate, with 4wd. Everyone states "there's nothing you can do on ice" when you have to brake. They just assume that you can not brake without locking the wheels up. That is where the ABS falls into play and is the main arguement for ABS. But, if you take a 4WD (true 4WD I'm talking, not the AWD stuff) out in snow and ice with a manual, the engine is directly connected to the drivetrain, thus the engine spinning helps to keep the wheels unlocked under braking. With auto, you touch the brakes, the wheels are going to lock. This also goes with FWD as well. RWD not so much because the drivetrain isn't connected to the front wheels where the majority of the braking force is at.
I'm the exact opposite of Sam here. Though I'm not quite as wrinkly aged as Sam (
), I am getting to the middle-age and with family history, I'd argue that I am well past middle aged for the family life expectancy. I just turned 37 and wow, that sounds SO much closer to 40 than 36 did, hehehe. Anyways, like I said, I'm stuck currently with the wifey-hand-me-down auto and I'm hating it. I got the boy racer out of the system years ago as well, but I am still hating driving an auto transmission."Huge" in a good way. Congratulations.
Ok, fess up now. Who are you over on thephotoforum?
I also frequent the digital-photography-school forum, but I don't keep up too much there. I'm addicted to forums and I have too many to keep up with them all.
I will vote if you vote for me!
http://www.funrise.com/photoco ... hoto.aspx?id=030312503961
Won the monthly and I'm still in the running for the grand prize...
Actually, I did vote. I also voted before reading where you asked for folks to stop voting.
http://www.funrise.com/photoco ... hoto.aspx?id=030312503961
Won the monthly and I'm still in the running for the grand prize...
Actually, I did vote. I also voted before reading where you asked for folks to stop voting.
Pffft.... Bunch of noobs. Half are pointing one way and the other half are aiming the other way. They obviously have no idea where the action is.
Canikon, ha ha! I like that!
Thephotoforum? What's that? Is it a good forum to join?
Hmm, that bastard on Thephotoforum! His avatar looks amazingly like my favorite photo of my dog!
All depends on economics though, really. Jakg mentioned his job in another thread a while back, his part time job at a freakin mall store and it appeared to me that he makes more as a kid at a part time job than many of the people I work with at full time jobs trying to support a family and household. I could be wrong, but it sure appeared that way from the numbers he mentioned.
At $7 per hour over here as a youngster working part time, it's not that you simply can't afford a few of the insurance rates I've seen some of you mention, it's that you're not even going to make that much in a year.
Then again, you guys seem to be buying used cars for thousands less than we can. I believe I remember someone paying £2000 pounds for a Toyota MR2 and when I looked up that year around me, they were advertising for about $10-12,000. That's a significant difference.
What you would be suggested in a photography forum to do is, pick the camera up in your hands and try it out to see if you like it.
Image quality wise, there is very little difference between Sony, Olympus, Pentax, Canon, Nikon, Fuji (do they still have a dSLR?) or any other when comparing the compatible models. I've seen outstanding shots from the Nikon D40 and terrible shots from a Nikon D700 ($500 compared to $3000+ cameras.) I have shots from my 2mp Fuji point and shoot that are miles better in quality than my coworker's $1500 worth (at the time he purchased) of XTi and equipment.
What it boils down to is, there are differences between comparable models, but the differences don't amount to much. Maybe camera X has great image quality up to ISO 1600 and camera B can be pushed to ISO 3200 with the same quality, but the biggest difference is in the person pushing the button. Thus, it really comes down to the ergonomics when deciding between like models. Just look at Don's previous posts of his rally photos. They are astounding and shot with a Rebel XT (300D?). I've seen (rich) people posting on photo forums with shots that come from $5000 cameras that are terrible. The camera really has very little to do with it.
Image quality wise, there is very little difference between Sony, Olympus, Pentax, Canon, Nikon, Fuji (do they still have a dSLR?) or any other when comparing the compatible models. I've seen outstanding shots from the Nikon D40 and terrible shots from a Nikon D700 ($500 compared to $3000+ cameras.) I have shots from my 2mp Fuji point and shoot that are miles better in quality than my coworker's $1500 worth (at the time he purchased) of XTi and equipment.
What it boils down to is, there are differences between comparable models, but the differences don't amount to much. Maybe camera X has great image quality up to ISO 1600 and camera B can be pushed to ISO 3200 with the same quality, but the biggest difference is in the person pushing the button. Thus, it really comes down to the ergonomics when deciding between like models. Just look at Don's previous posts of his rally photos. They are astounding and shot with a Rebel XT (300D?). I've seen (rich) people posting on photo forums with shots that come from $5000 cameras that are terrible. The camera really has very little to do with it.
I find this interesting. Here we drive on the right, and walk on the right. There in the UK you drive on the left. I would have thought that you would also walk on the left. Kind of weird how that is. 
Nikon and Canon have the best new lens selection. They are the easiest to aquire as well at least where I am (I don't even know where I would buy a Sony or other around here...) But, Sony bought out Minolta and it will mount any old Minolta lenses you could find on the used marken, as far as I know.
My own personal view which has nothing really to do with specifically Sony dSLR cameras is, I will never buy another Sony product after my experiences with their audio equipment. I still have my 1991 trunk mount CD 10-disc changer that still works flawlessly, but every other Sony product I've purchased or used has been garbage (several portable radios, expensive auto head unit, personal CD players, and a single digital P&S camera.) I now boycott Sony and it doesn't matter what others will say, I won't ever buy again.
My own personal view which has nothing really to do with specifically Sony dSLR cameras is, I will never buy another Sony product after my experiences with their audio equipment. I still have my 1991 trunk mount CD 10-disc changer that still works flawlessly, but every other Sony product I've purchased or used has been garbage (several portable radios, expensive auto head unit, personal CD players, and a single digital P&S camera.) I now boycott Sony and it doesn't matter what others will say, I won't ever buy again.
For the holding 3 doors open for you, it's an impossibility. Dude holds first door open for you, you walk through, you are now ahead. What does the other guy do? Run blazing past you to get ahead again? Next door is your turn to hold. That's how it happens.
I've never had 3 doors in a row. Most is usually 2 doors. Dude opens first, I step through, thanks, next door I hold. If it's a lady or children, I try to step so that I can hold all the doors for her/them.
Definitely been there done that. Recently, the idiot didn't cut me off, he was behind me. 55 mph limit, I'm doing about 70, and idiot in his penis-compensation Ford F350 is all over my bumper. I literally could not see past the reflection in my own windshield from his headlights. Well, let's see how he likes 45 mph then, until we hit the nice straight stretch. I smoked him then and got away from him. Onto the backroads thinking he's gone and I'm back to driving normally (40 mph limit, normal driving speed around 50.) He catches back up and is all over my bumper again. Ok, now let's see how he likes 20 mph! Through the woods, up the hill, around the bend, down the hill, around the next bend, onto the next road, turn off that road, to the stopsign, up the hill, onto the access road, into the parking lot, he's still there. He was a coworker. We had words, many words. I never liked that idiot anyways. Total jackass. "I've never been this late..." he said. Well, next time he's sure to be late if I ever can't see out in front of me because of his headlights.
This is only reserved for very good friends, as in almost family kind of friends. Else, it would be a normal hand shake.
How about coming up to someone you know and haven't seen forever, and it's not who you think it is? Christmas time, I'm walking through the front of a grocery store and I see Tom whom I went to college with (14 people started, 6 of us made it through the program to get a degree, we were a tight nit group.) I haven't seen Tom for quite a long time. Tom has a VERY deep voice. I walked up, gave a big, "Hey! Tom! Merry Christmas, how have you been?" and extend to shake his hand (not the 'American Twat way as you say...) 'Tom' squeaks in a squeaky voice, "Merry Christmas to you too..." Hmm..... definitely not Tom.... /me runs....
I've never had 3 doors in a row. Most is usually 2 doors. Dude opens first, I step through, thanks, next door I hold. If it's a lady or children, I try to step so that I can hold all the doors for her/them.
Definitely been there done that. Recently, the idiot didn't cut me off, he was behind me. 55 mph limit, I'm doing about 70, and idiot in his penis-compensation Ford F350 is all over my bumper. I literally could not see past the reflection in my own windshield from his headlights. Well, let's see how he likes 45 mph then, until we hit the nice straight stretch. I smoked him then and got away from him. Onto the backroads thinking he's gone and I'm back to driving normally (40 mph limit, normal driving speed around 50.) He catches back up and is all over my bumper again. Ok, now let's see how he likes 20 mph! Through the woods, up the hill, around the bend, down the hill, around the next bend, onto the next road, turn off that road, to the stopsign, up the hill, onto the access road, into the parking lot, he's still there. He was a coworker. We had words, many words. I never liked that idiot anyways. Total jackass. "I've never been this late..." he said. Well, next time he's sure to be late if I ever can't see out in front of me because of his headlights.
This is only reserved for very good friends, as in almost family kind of friends. Else, it would be a normal hand shake.
How about coming up to someone you know and haven't seen forever, and it's not who you think it is? Christmas time, I'm walking through the front of a grocery store and I see Tom whom I went to college with (14 people started, 6 of us made it through the program to get a degree, we were a tight nit group.) I haven't seen Tom for quite a long time. Tom has a VERY deep voice. I walked up, gave a big, "Hey! Tom! Merry Christmas, how have you been?" and extend to shake his hand (not the 'American Twat way as you say...) 'Tom' squeaks in a squeaky voice, "Merry Christmas to you too..." Hmm..... definitely not Tom.... /me runs....
Wouldn't running Windows on a Mac be ricing your Mac? Tristan?
Does it have decent FOV settings? I couldn't drive the BMW Challenge from in the cockpit because I can't stand driving from the back seat. Can I get about a 50-60 degree FOV?
Sorry, but this is the exact definition of rice. That is ridiculous right there. How is it possible to even drive with a wheel and tire combo, sorry a Rimz and tire combo, like that?
Also, what happens when you hit a bump? Would you just have a stack of fenders sitting in the garage to bolt on every time you came across a pebble on the road and ripped the fender up?
No, I'm not AJP or Tristan, but that is indeed a classic example of rice.
I wonder the same thing, for many folks who post virus stuff here.
Mostly what people call a virus is nothing more than a pest. A browser hijacker and popup pest.
I've been on the net since 1995 and I don't actively run anitvirus. I have it installed, just nothing running and watching. I've had 2 "viruses" as well in 14 years. One was 6-9 months ago when I was on Ikea's website and downloaded what I thought was a simple little "room organizer" program and the other from a browser game I play (cyberairlines.net). Neither were really a virus, just a hijacker thing that created popups and hijacked the browser. Scanned with AVG and Malware Bytes and it was taken care of easily enough.
When you are constantly downloading porn, music, and pirated software on P2P networks, yeah, you are bound to have virus problems. Live with it, or quit stealing other peoples stuff.
Mostly what people call a virus is nothing more than a pest. A browser hijacker and popup pest.
I've been on the net since 1995 and I don't actively run anitvirus. I have it installed, just nothing running and watching. I've had 2 "viruses" as well in 14 years. One was 6-9 months ago when I was on Ikea's website and downloaded what I thought was a simple little "room organizer" program and the other from a browser game I play (cyberairlines.net). Neither were really a virus, just a hijacker thing that created popups and hijacked the browser. Scanned with AVG and Malware Bytes and it was taken care of easily enough.
When you are constantly downloading porn, music, and pirated software on P2P networks, yeah, you are bound to have virus problems. Live with it, or quit stealing other peoples stuff.
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