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They have a "hardware differential", but it's a purely-open differential. You're thinking of a limited-slip differential.

Quite. I should have stipulated 'open' not 'none'. It is simply that in my mind, when I first learned of diffs when I was a youngin', the limited slip was what was discussed. Just a mental fart.

If I were engineering a moderately-priced medium-performance car, I probably wouldn't put one in either due to cost and weight concerns. For that type of application, using the stability control/braking system to implement LSD functionality is a better trade-off, IMHO.

The only reason I can really see for using a true LSD or locking differential anymore is either in very high performance situations or in very low traction off-road/rock-crawling situations. Otherwise, intelligent application of the brakes to stop spinning wheels is IMHO a better compromise.

It certainly isn't as efficient as a true limited slip, I can attest to that.

I have absolutely no issue replacing hardware with electronics + hardware at a discounted price, as long as the result is the same. Here's an awesome example of just that:

http://vps.l8r.net/Electro-Mechanical_Power_Steering.pdf

I owned a 2007 VW Jetta 2.0T, and I now own an EOS. Both have the above, and while there are minor issues, I do find this tradeoff acceptable. It certainly provides for power failure, it isn't drive by wire, but at the same time it provides for fuel savings, less load on the engine, and a cheaper cost.

That's something I can live with.

EDL though? In a $40k+ car? In cars designed for performance (2.0T cars with 'racing suspension' (marketing term))?

Most certainly, such a car should not have issues getting out of steep gravel driveways, due to EDL. I also don't like how, under heavy acceleration, the entire steering wheel jerks violently as the power shifts back and forth between the two drive wheels. EDL doesn't work above 40km/hr (or so, not sure of the precise speed it necessarily shuts off at).

Also, I think that Ford has beaten VW in build quality/hardiness for at least a decade, at least in the North American market.

Well, I won't disagree, as my Ford experience is from the 80s, and from now... so I can't attest to the last 10 years. I will certainly agree that they seem to be right on their game now, and in the 80s -- horrid, HORRID product. So, they've done a 180 as far as I'm concerned...

And frankly, so has VW.

Er...

Sorry about the url.. here it is again...

http://vps.l8r.net/Electro-Mechanical_Power_Steering.pdf

"Try YDL with Fluxbox, you'll see."

or.. maybe you mean?

"Why Micorsoft is ruling my universes Update!
if you click on that then Ill tell you I promise try it and youll see."

Heh.

http://www.l8r.net/geraldholmes.freeyellow.com/

Listen to this MPAA speech from a couple of years ago!

http://be.back.l8r.net:8000/mpaa_speech.ogg

What Ziviyr (95582) is referring to, are errors even worse than the Guru Meditation (software failure).

Certain hardware errors would turn the screen into one single color like red, yellow and green.

Red : ROM Error - Reseat or replace
Green : CHIP RAM error (reset AGNUS and re-test)
Blue : Custom Chip(s) Error
Yellow : 68000 detected error before software trapped it (GURU)
Black : No CPU

Amiga System Startup Colours

Personally, I've seen a lot of red screens on an Amiga 600 that I sent in for replacement. I've seen the yellow screen a couple of times, and I think I might have seen the green one. I've never seen an Amiga blue-screen or black-screen.

I did see the Guru Meditation (later renamed Software Failure) many times, and its less serious brother, the "Recoverable Alert" -- a Guru Meditation with yellow text and frame on black background that you could just click away to let the program continue.

In the new Amiga OS4, the crash handler is called the "Grim Reaper" and comes with several functions for debugging, as well as choices to kill the offending application, contiue running, or rebooting the system.

Anyway Agnus, the biggest chip in the Amiga and the one most frequently upgraded because it increased your chip memory, is responsible for clock generation in OCS amigas (2500 and below.) here is a pinout for the video slot. Agnus does not generate a clock, it divides an external clock which is apparently 28MHz.

Unfortunately I don't have any amiga manuals lying around any more, so I can't look in the schematic for clock pins and trace them.

If BSD is dead, what the heck is AmigaOS? It was a great platform for it's time, however. Please don't misunderstand me to be an "Amiga Basher".* Who else was preemptively multitasking with a desktop OS back in 1990? No one, at least not on a commercial scale so large. And let's not forget AMIX, the Amiga Unix! The integration with video and sound was unprecedented. ASTOUNDING, even! Sexy machines they were way back when. And those CHIPS! Those wonderful lusty CHIPS!!!**

But, alas, it would seem a decade's worth of lack of software and hardware development renders it about as irrelevant as you can get.

And since Amiga OS 4 is Linux based, why do we need to PAY for Linux based "Amiga" OS? We can just cut out the middleman and run Linux on the hardware. But the new Amiga hardware is sorta spendy, so why not just buy an Intel box and install Linux there? And you can emulate the Amiga environment on top of Linux just fine to boot. Which is really what they're doing with OS 4 , I'm afraid!

If you're a real Amiga enthusiast out of a sense of nostalgia, there's always eBay. I think nostalgia is a perfectly fine reason to be collecting hardware, I can totally appreciate that sentiment. What I would most definitely *NOT* do is try to use this old hardware to get any real work done. I know what time it is! ;)

But is this new Amiga hardware really "Amiga" just because a buncha German folk are saying it is? To me, what makes an Amiga is chips. Chips that are highly specialized and each of them doing their jobs very well, robustly and with gusto. Does this new Amiga board have modern analogue of those wonderful old chips? I have to say, I really have an honestly hard time understanding a country who can't stop using an outmoded computer brandname amd who considers David Hasselhoff to be a major pop music sensation! I think I can actually understand the odd French peoccupation with Jerry Lewis a tad bit better than either of those two traits.


*Despite the fact that bash does run under OS 4.

**And so were the names of the chips. Denise, Paula, Amber, Alice, Gayle, Lisa, Akiko, Grace. Those names had style. Even Gary and Budgie and Ramsey had class, tho not "sexy" names per se like the aforementioned. ;) I tell you what though, those chips are *FUN TO PROGRAM* even in this day and age.

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This poster has a really good point -- usability is what really counts to the consumer. Does your mom really care what processor her cell phone uses? Does she care it can run Java? No. She cares that she can afford it, and it does what she requires. Therefore it is a successful product.

Now, please mod the parent as insightful or something.

Please type "Yes I understand that this is a very bad idea" to continue. -- apt

Rob Malda, the wannabe hacker and latecomer otaku, will soon be out on the streets, begging for spare change by the traffic light. He will spend his nights in a local shopping center, rubbing his ass against the shopping carts for kicks.

Jeff Bates, the wannabe scientist, will be forced to pimp out his little wifey -- amusing, because she's been an amateur whore for so many years already. Bates's primary customer will be Malda, whose Quarter Cartel shall make him one of the most prosperous bums in shopping center.

Gay Nik, although never really part of the Slashdork crew, will join this merry gang of homeless beggers, too, because what questionable BSD "skills" he many have are worthless in this day and age, a day and age in which *BSD is dying. (OpenBSD will never lose any users, though, because the only users it ever had were Theo "The Rat" De Raadt and his canine lover, Farmer.)

Jon Katz, a man who couldn't write an interesting article to save his life but whose knowledge of Microsoft Word's "spell check" facilities makes him a twerp among lamers at the Geek Compound, will make his living by designing the Slashdork crew's "Homeless, five children, please help, godbless" signage. Interestingly enough, the signs prove more of a challenge to Katz than any of the meaningless drivel that he ever spewed while leeching off of Slashdot.

CowboyNeal would be able to subsist on his own fat stores for approximately fifty years, if he weren't destined to be harpooned and eaten by a gang of minority squirrels.

Timothy Gaybone, Michael "Censorship NAZI" Himmler, Jamie "Gay Nights Online" McCarthy, Emmett "Stupid" Galacticon, and Krow the Wannabe DBA will also reside in the shopping center, and provide blowjobs on demand to the local "nerdcore" [geocities.com] fetish group.

Fuck you.

Troll Tuesday 2001. [geocities.com]

--The Messenger

• FUCKING AC -- Wrong!! (Score:-1)
  by Big_Ass_Spork on Wednesday November 14, @04:01PM (#2565634)
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• Nate, come to the dark side... (Score:-1)
  by Big_Ass_Spork on Wednesday November 14, @04:05PM (#2565661)
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I couldn't purchase anything with a name like "Yopy". It reminds me of the Doctor Seuss book, "Horton Hears a Who."

YOP! YOP! Yop! yop! ...

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