Member: Gaming Hall of Fame. (Only one person makes it per year, you are voted in by peers and fans). Co-creator Doom, Doom 2, Quake,Call of Cthulhu, Civilization (the computer game), and Age of Empires.
http://www.ensemblestudios.com/ourteam/petersen. sh tml
Somewhere is an interesting interview about his involvement in Doom as a Latter Day Saint, but I can't find it right now.
Now, mind you explaining is easy. Check out this page, go all the way to the bottom and you'll find a lot of links to people discussing the changes in the Book of Mormon.
If there's anything I've learned in years of intense religious discussion is that there is no such thing as an easy proof that another religion is wrong. There is not even an easy way to disprove atheism.
My favourite example was about the American Indians fighting battles with *steel swords* ca. 1000 A.D. (yeah, right -- show me the archeological evidence).
Alas, however its rather futile to use evidence in the world of such politically charged science. While no one expects an archeological proof to arise amidst this tension, the Book of Mormon is more credible after 180 years of research then when it was written. Not many books written by an uneducated 20 year old farmer in the 19th century can say that.
Not to speak for all of them but we were told to keep our vists to under 59 minutes. Although we would stay longer when the people seemed were particularly lively in the Bible discussion.
In the Book of Mormon, the angel Moroni fulfills this "mysterious being" slot, with Joseph Smith being the "narrator" (author).
You'd be suprised to find out that Joseph Smith is not in the Book of Mormon. There are a few narrators in the Book of Mormon, but the main one is simply named Mormon.
I'd drag out my annotated Book of Mormon and ARGUE
Good for you. You don't seem very informed though. Calling Moroni an "angelic visitor" in the Book of Mormon is about as ignorant a statement as they come.
One of my favorite all-time quotes from a flame war was about this topic.
"While they sit in ivory towers, the mongols are multiplying in the hills. Soon, the towers will lay waste and the hordes will have moved on victorious."
Of course he was talking about the ivory tower of PERL, and how the TCL was going to become the dominant force in scripting language. But I've loved the allegory ever since.
-------------------- OnRoad: Becuase hacking funner with a hacksaw.
Its the boxy, earlier car. An '88 in this case. I am in the US but I have a passion for foreign cars. From Deux Cheveux's to Unimogs to Lancias.
I think you did get the GTX's. I can be more sure that you got the Ford Lasers which are about the same thing. I know this because I've talked to a few owners of these cars down under.
Yeah, I can't wait to get my `88 Festiva (Mazda 121, Kia Pride) rolling. Its getting a 100kw 1.6L turbo, the same that is found in the Mazda 323 GTX's. Since it weighs only 1800lbs I expect some fun results. Some of the people that have already done this swap complain of traction problems though.
Yeah, the irony is not lost on me. But it seems to me that anything more then the smallest configuration issue would be solved with a "reset" back to factory settings or a replacement before you could convince a mechanic to start hunting and clicking for the problem.
Its not that they are crooked, although for those that are this would be very easy to pawn off. Its that as a systems admin, I know that is what I would rather do then scour/etc files, or even worse point and hunt through a maze of menus.
Yes, my friend, I agree. The "swap it" mentality is not a good thing.
I recently used a soldering iron to fix the windshield wipers. With the part from the junkyard (which wasn't needed after all) it was $20. The previous owner had a mechanic friend that said he'd fix it real cheap, like $330 cheap.
You can't even argue that it took lest time to fix then swapping it. Fixing it was 1/2 an hour, but to get the steering wheel off and everything would have been 1.5 hours.
-------------- OnRoad: It gets you there and back again.
If you like the Cooper, you might also like the CLio. Unfortunately, like many cool pocket rockets its not available in the US.
Personaly, I like cars like my computers. Hacked personally by me. I've recently had a car-hacking rennasaince of a sort.
After hacking with the enigmatic bits and code, it feels good to take a hacksaw to cold steal (thats not just allegorical flowery either, I'm serious that it feels good). After feeling the afterglow of installing Gentoo and finally get it working, I look forward to feeling the rush of punching the accelorator down on my car.
Right now I'm putting a 1.6L turbo engine from a Mercury Capri into a Festiva. My progress is updated in my personal journal at OnRoad. You can read up on how to do it at fordfestiva.com.
I've used that technique myself, both in off road situations like you mentioned. I've gone 30ft or so uphill on nothing more then a starter. Its for that reason that my father told me a long time ago to always get the biggest battery you can. I think you have a point, they are a natural for crawlers.
I know Ford and Dodge are looking into hybrid setups for their SUV's. They cleverly use the ground as the medium to tramsit power from the engine in the back wheels to the electrical motors/generators. But that kind of kills the coolness you bring up of getting truely distributed 4wd power from having motors on all four wheels.
In highschool I had the idea of a turbine hybrid Mickey Thomson like race truck where the turbine powered the generator, directly feeding power to the engines and the rest went to batteries. If electrical motors could produce more high-rev HP, I think it would be a pretty cool idea.
Do you know any good technical sites for crawlers? Its one of the things I always wanted to include on OnRoad.
Two cylinder flatheads or two cylinder boxers? I'm not sure what I said to convince you of those.
Nevermind that your scenario has nothing to do with the car in question which doesn't hold power constant, but reduces power, and thus fuel requirments, by cutting out the cylinders.
I have news for you then. Power output is constant. To overcome air resistance and rolling friction (those are just the major two) you need a certain amount of power. As a driver behind the wheel going a fixed speed, you modulate the power of the engine with the throttle to match the power required to overcome the forces slowing you down at that speed.
Thats what governs the power output. Whether you are in second gear or fifth, using 8 cylinders or 4, part throttle or full you will never be able to change that to maintain a certain speed you are using a fixed amount of power.
In this case, since we are talking about an engine that modulates between four and eight cylinders you can even add engine friction as requiring a fixed amount of power. Its ludicrous to think that you are actually stopping motion in four cylinders when you cut from eight to four cylinders.
So if cutting to four cylinders doesn't cut the power output *at all*, where do you think the efficiency is coming from? It comes from the thermodynamic efficiency of the combustion itself. The greater the charge in the cylinder the greater the thermodynamic efficiency.
Isn't it like a pipeline, so you get the power from a charge of displacement 3 times a revolution? Come to think of it I'm not sure how a wankle measures displacement, but I figured it is the max volume of the rotor on the intake side like every other IC engine.
------------------- Onroad: Mining urban legend for fuel efficiency.
You probably have just as much if not more torque at a standstill with an internal combustion engine. There is a lot of energy in the flywheel (a lot), as well as a clutch/torque converter that can translate the torque of higher rpm's to that initial start.
Debug car suddenly speaking in German 40 man hours
I'm sure that if they can't reset it they'll just replace it. People are all to used to paying mechanics $500 each time they visit them. Besides at 10 hours of mechanic time you've already hit the price of the component.
I wonder how long before this and GPS guidance systems combine to make for a road trip where my wife and I can both relax in the back of the winebego for the trip. Or even better, I can truely put it in cruise control and follow through on the age old parental threat, "don't make me come back there".
Cutting out half your cylinders increases the air/fuel charge in the remaining cylinders for the same power output. You get better BFCM(?) (combustion efficiency) with greater charge.
------------------- Extremely efficient engines of the past. The 200mpg carburator and Smokey Yunick's miracle engine evaluated.
Yeah I still remember the sweet spot in the Arena, where you could sneak up on a bad guy and kill them before the computer woke them up to fight. And all the places in the fencing where you could slip through and go cross country.
Looking at Appleby's and Dave and Busters, I see a real blurring between bar and family establishment. We recently attended a birthday party at D&B's, but we had misgivings since we couldn't find a babysitter for our daughter. We thought that they didn't allow anyone under 21.
Well they told us "we are a family establishment", and that they allow three minors for every person over 25 in the group. When we got there and went inside, there was about a 2-1 ration between adults and kids at the arcade machines.
Its a wierd collision. I'm not quite sure what to make of it and your "neighborhood family bar" like Appleby's. But I can say that I enjoy those establishments better then say Denny's and the local arcade (but not better then a local family park like Boomers! or Scandia). I wonder how much its cutting into the Chuck E. Cheese marketshare.
On a grander note, I think the aquisitions are inevitable. With all the downsizing going on I think its hard to say if there is a depression in video games, or just a depression in general.
---------------- OnRoad: Delving into the social ramifications of racing games.
Actually, we only get about 1 marketing call a month and also tell them to never call back (with legal merit). I like the Do Not Call registry, and I'll sign up when it comes to California, but in the mean time I've had success with the following.
Caller ID blocking, which blocks everyone that doesn't show a valid Caller ID number.
Unlisted number
Looking at the Caller ID to see if the number makes sence. I don't have to recognize the number, but telemarketers usually come across as unlisted somehow (still).
Those that do get through are so infrequent (once a month) that get a little nervous like we are missing someone real when it happens. We pick it up, tell them never to call back.
--------------- OnRoad: We get you there and back again.
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So is Sandy Petersen:
Member: Gaming Hall of Fame. (Only one person makes it per year, you are voted in by peers and fans). Co-creator Doom, Doom 2, Quake,Call of Cthulhu, Civilization (the computer game), and Age of Empires.
http://www.ensemblestudios.com/ourteam/petersen
Somewhere is an interesting interview about his involvement in Doom as a Latter Day Saint, but I can't find it right now.
Now, mind you explaining is easy. Check out this page, go all the way to the bottom and you'll find a lot of links to people discussing the changes in the Book of Mormon.
If there's anything I've learned in years of intense religious discussion is that there is no such thing as an easy proof that another religion is wrong. There is not even an easy way to disprove atheism.
My favourite example was about the American Indians fighting battles with *steel swords* ca. 1000 A.D. (yeah, right -- show me the archeological evidence).
Where, I wonder will this evidence ever turn up.
Alas, however its rather futile to use evidence in the world of such politically charged science. While no one expects an archeological proof to arise amidst this tension, the Book of Mormon is more credible after 180 years of research then when it was written. Not many books written by an uneducated 20 year old farmer in the 19th century can say that.
Not to speak for all of them but we were told to keep our vists to under 59 minutes. Although we would stay longer when the people seemed were particularly lively in the Bible discussion.
In the Book of Mormon, the angel Moroni fulfills this "mysterious being" slot, with Joseph Smith being the "narrator" (author).
You'd be suprised to find out that Joseph Smith is not in the Book of Mormon. There are a few narrators in the Book of Mormon, but the main one is simply named Mormon.
I'd drag out my annotated Book of Mormon and ARGUE
Good for you. You don't seem very informed though. Calling Moroni an "angelic visitor" in the Book of Mormon is about as ignorant a statement as they come.
Mormonism: religion -> science fiction
Yep, between Orson Scott Card and the producer of Battlestar Galactica and a host of others Mormons are capable of writing science fiction.
You might appreciate this interview with OSC on Religion, Science Fiction, and Fantasy. It hits the nail on the head.
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OnRoad: Hit the Road.
One of my favorite all-time quotes from a flame war was about this topic.
"While they sit in ivory towers, the mongols are multiplying in the hills. Soon, the towers will lay waste and the hordes will have moved on victorious."
Of course he was talking about the ivory tower of PERL, and how the TCL was going to become the dominant force in scripting language. But I've loved the allegory ever since.
--------------------
OnRoad: Becuase hacking funner with a hacksaw.
I'm looking for a few good car enthusiasts to help me out with http://onroad.onlawn.net if your interested.
Its the boxy, earlier car. An '88 in this case. I am in the US but I have a passion for foreign cars. From Deux Cheveux's to Unimogs to Lancias.
I think you did get the GTX's. I can be more sure that you got the Ford Lasers which are about the same thing. I know this because I've talked to a few owners of these cars down under.
www.fordlaser.com
Too bad the mod points have moved on, thats the best I've heard in weeks.
Yeah, I can't wait to get my `88 Festiva (Mazda 121, Kia Pride) rolling. Its getting a 100kw 1.6L turbo, the same that is found in the Mazda 323 GTX's. Since it weighs only 1800lbs I expect some fun results. Some of the people that have already done this swap complain of traction problems though.
Like the Renaults, we did for a while. The Peugot 505's were imported in the early 80's I think. Those 205's are pretty sweet.
Yeah, the irony is not lost on me. But it seems to me that anything more then the smallest configuration issue would be solved with a "reset" back to factory settings or a replacement before you could convince a mechanic to start hunting and clicking for the problem.
Its not that they are crooked, although for those that are this would be very easy to pawn off. Its that as a systems admin, I know that is what I would rather do then scour
----------------
Extreme fuel efficiency. 200mpg carburator and Smokey Yunick's miracle engine evaluated.
Yes, my friend, I agree. The "swap it" mentality is not a good thing.
I recently used a soldering iron to fix the windshield wipers. With the part from the junkyard (which wasn't needed after all) it was $20. The previous owner had a mechanic friend that said he'd fix it real cheap, like $330 cheap.
You can't even argue that it took lest time to fix then swapping it. Fixing it was 1/2 an hour, but to get the steering wheel off and everything would have been 1.5 hours.
--------------
OnRoad: It gets you there and back again.
If you like the Cooper, you might also like the CLio.
Unfortunately, like many cool pocket rockets its not available in the US.
Personaly, I like cars like my computers. Hacked personally by me. I've recently had a car-hacking rennasaince of a sort.
After hacking with the enigmatic bits and code, it feels good to take a hacksaw to cold steal (thats not just allegorical flowery either, I'm serious that it feels good). After feeling the afterglow of installing Gentoo and finally get it working, I look forward to feeling the rush of punching the accelorator down on my car.
Right now I'm putting a 1.6L turbo engine from a Mercury Capri into a Festiva. My progress is updated in my personal journal at OnRoad. You can read up on how to do it at fordfestiva.com.
I've used that technique myself, both in off road situations like you mentioned. I've gone 30ft or so uphill on nothing more then a starter. Its for that reason that my father told me a long time ago to always get the biggest battery you can. I think you have a point, they are a natural for crawlers.
I know Ford and Dodge are looking into hybrid setups for their SUV's. They cleverly use the ground as the medium to tramsit power from the engine in the back wheels to the electrical motors/generators. But that kind of kills the coolness you bring up of getting truely distributed 4wd power from having motors on all four wheels.
In highschool I had the idea of a turbine hybrid Mickey Thomson like race truck where the turbine powered the generator, directly feeding power to the engines and the rest went to batteries. If electrical motors could produce more high-rev HP, I think it would be a pretty cool idea.
Do you know any good technical sites for crawlers? Its one of the things I always wanted to include on OnRoad.
---------------------
Extreme fuel efficiency. 200mpg carburator and Smokey Yunick's miracle engines evaluated.
Which is why all cars should be flat twos.
Two cylinder flatheads or two cylinder boxers? I'm not sure what I said to convince you of those.
Nevermind that your scenario has nothing to do with the car in question which doesn't hold power constant, but reduces power, and thus fuel requirments, by cutting out the cylinders.
I have news for you then. Power output is constant. To overcome air resistance and rolling friction (those are just the major two) you need a certain amount of power. As a driver behind the wheel going a fixed speed, you modulate the power of the engine with the throttle to match the power required to overcome the forces slowing you down at that speed.
Thats what governs the power output. Whether you are in second gear or fifth, using 8 cylinders or 4, part throttle or full you will never be able to change that to maintain a certain speed you are using a fixed amount of power.
In this case, since we are talking about an engine that modulates between four and eight cylinders you can even add engine friction as requiring a fixed amount of power. Its ludicrous to think that you are actually stopping motion in four cylinders when you cut from eight to four cylinders.
So if cutting to four cylinders doesn't cut the power output *at all*, where do you think the efficiency is coming from? It comes from the thermodynamic efficiency of the combustion itself. The greater the charge in the cylinder the greater the thermodynamic efficiency.
--------------------
Extreme fuel efficiency. 200mpg carburators and Smokey Yunick's miracle engine evaluated.
Isn't it like a pipeline, so you get the power from a charge of displacement 3 times a revolution? Come to think of it I'm not sure how a wankle measures displacement, but I figured it is the max volume of the rotor on the intake side like every other IC engine.
-------------------
Onroad: Mining urban legend for fuel efficiency.
You probably have just as much if not more torque at a standstill with an internal combustion engine. There is a lot of energy in the flywheel (a lot), as well as a clutch/torque converter that can translate the torque of higher rpm's to that initial start.
----------------
Extreme fuel efficiency. 200mpg Carburator and Smokey Yunick's miracle engine evaluated.
Debug car suddenly speaking in German 40 man hours
I'm sure that if they can't reset it they'll just replace it. People are all to used to paying mechanics $500 each time they visit them. Besides at 10 hours of mechanic time you've already hit the price of the component.
------------------
Extreme fuel efficiency! 200mpg carburator and Smokey Yunicks miracle engine evaluated.
I wonder how long before this and GPS guidance systems combine to make for a road trip where my wife and I can both relax in the back of the winebego for the trip. Or even better, I can truely put it in cruise control and follow through on the age old parental threat, "don't make me come back there".
----------------
Extreme fuel efficiency. 200mpg carburator and Smokey Yunick's miracle engine evaluated.
Actually no.
Cutting out half your cylinders increases the air/fuel charge in the remaining cylinders for the same power output. You get better BFCM(?) (combustion efficiency) with greater charge.
-------------------
Extremely efficient engines of the past. The 200mpg carburator and Smokey Yunick's miracle engine evaluated.
Yeah I still remember the sweet spot in the Arena, where you could sneak up on a bad guy and kill them before the computer woke them up to fight. And all the places in the fencing where you could slip through and go cross country.
Looking at Appleby's and Dave and Busters, I see a real blurring between bar and family establishment. We recently attended a birthday party at D&B's, but we had misgivings since we couldn't find a babysitter for our daughter. We thought that they didn't allow anyone under 21.
Well they told us "we are a family establishment", and that they allow three minors for every person over 25 in the group. When we got there and went inside, there was about a 2-1 ration between adults and kids at the arcade machines.
Its a wierd collision. I'm not quite sure what to make of it and your "neighborhood family bar" like Appleby's. But I can say that I enjoy those establishments better then say Denny's and the local arcade (but not better then a local family park like Boomers! or Scandia). I wonder how much its cutting into the Chuck E. Cheese marketshare.
On a grander note, I think the aquisitions are inevitable. With all the downsizing going on I think its hard to say if there is a depression in video games, or just a depression in general.
----------------
OnRoad: Delving into the social ramifications of racing games.
Actually, we only get about 1 marketing call a month and also tell them to never call back (with legal merit). I like the Do Not Call registry, and I'll sign up when it comes to California, but in the mean time I've had success with the following.
Caller ID blocking, which blocks everyone that doesn't show a valid Caller ID number.
Unlisted number
Looking at the Caller ID to see if the number makes sence. I don't have to recognize the number, but telemarketers usually come across as unlisted somehow (still).
Those that do get through are so infrequent (once a month) that get a little nervous like we are missing someone real when it happens. We pick it up, tell them never to call back.
---------------
OnRoad: We get you there and back again.