I have a 95 (108,000 miles) Nissan Sentra (1.6 liter inline 4) and it gets 45+ miles per gallon regularly (in town its usually between 40 and 35). Once while driving home (about 4 hours, 300+ miles) I got over 48+ (I filled it after 498 miles). And this is with the cheap gas from Arco... Tell me why I should get one of these Hondas again?
Then there's my 84 Plymouth Gran Fury (last of the great American cars) which weights (unloaded) about 5000 pounds. Anyhoo it gets on the highway about 20-25 miles per gallon - its the squarest car in the world, so I'm not getting this whole drag coefficent thingy. It also over 300,000 miles on it, and a 5.2 liter 318 2bbl mopar V8 - and its still getting better milage then most SUV's/newer sports cars. And it will do a quarter mile in less then 10 seconds.
Your right, but I think for some of us our buying power is lower.
Also while we were building america's highways, we weren't building america's railway system (in fact we were tearing it up...). America's economy is really centered around cheap fuel prices. Were screwed if all the oil goes away.
" Gasoline and the US Mail are the best deals around. Shut your collective pie holes. Gas is pumped out of the ground, shipped across the planet, refined, and sold for about the same price as water, which last I checked, fell from the sky"
Look I'm a mechanic, and I've never seen a gasoline engine thats 95% efficent. Maybe in a diesel engine... Why do you think modern "ICE's" still have air compression pumps - I'll tell you - its to speed up the burning of fuel in the catalytic converter that wasn't burnt in the engine. Look on any cars tailpipe too, you'll see hords of black deposits, unburnt fuel...
I'd go you 25% efficent, but thats it...
"Relative to electric motor, internal combustion engine (ICE) is highly inefficient. While good motor with a good controller can give you close to 95% efficiency, an ICE is at 17% in a good day. Worse it's peak efficiency is at certain torque and at certain speed. That is why we have gearbox system and clutch. When the car stops, you have supply it with some fuel to keep spinning (idling) which is 100% loss (0% efficient). With electric motor you can adjust your torque and speed electrically and reclaim energy in braking.
I usually listen to the files while they are downloading. If I hear something out of the ordinary I cancle and delete the file.
Its just like disk based copy protection we used to see on the C64... They come up with some brilliant way to keep people from pirating their warez, one second later some kid comes up with a way of defeating it.
I think its interesting that the SDK clearly focuses on 2D gfx effects. One of the things I still use my Amiga for is 2D gfx effects, which are useful in Video Production and various bits of art.
Its nice to see someone catering to the 2D crown instead of 3D gfx accelerators and software.
I think this is somewhat over-rated. Most people base this on the "fact" that the translation is not butchering the script. For instance in the fansub on Ponpoko (Racoon Wars of HeiSei) - where they say private parts, most people that know anything about Japanese knew they said balls.
Or take Animeigo's translation of the KOR series. Kyusuke consistantly calls Madoka by her last name - Ayukawa (thats a japanese thing - a good example of this was in Wisper of the Heart). But Animeigo subtitled it Madoka. And its funny too, because we they finally commit to falling in love he starts calling her Madoka and its translated as Madoka.
Ideally in a free trade society (a over-rated and over-used concept if you ask me) this wouldn't matter since the Japanese and English release would practically be the same (like most Pioneer releases)
My guess is that the Japanese DVD's cost more and the US ones cost less. Both are distrobuted by Bunea Vista (Disney) in both country's (really!). Sounds like product dumping to me... All its going to encourage is the pirating of the fansubbed version in the short run.
Thing is AMD is in a position were they have to either define the new 64 bit standard (which Intel has already done?) or make something that is compatible with the existing platform.
I think the only way around this dilemma is if Intel and AMD got together to define a new standard that was compatible with the other.
Except that theres no way in hell that Pakistan is going to launch anything into orbit in the next five years. So who are they competing against?
Everyone knows who the first country to launch something into space was - Russia, and the second was the USA - who was the third (I'll give you a clue "true north strong and free")
Well I think thats more the OS then anything. I mean my Amiga 3000 is a very responsive computer and its based on a MC68030. It really shows its lack of speed these days when its rendering (heh - not so long ago I used to be able to show up the Power Mac people in sheer rendering performance) or playing quake. As far as the user experience feels it does feel like your using a 600+ mhz P3 - I mean it switches tasks instantly (yes - it will switch tasks as fast as you can click the mouse), opens windows pretty fast too.
Why not - it was the corperations that helped pay for the last Nazi propaganda machine. There's no doubt in my mind that if the Record companies could force Divx players down our throat they would.
Now that I think of it - that Porcshe arguement is flawed too. I may want a porsche, but in the mean-time I found a more affordable car to drive around. Simple economic theory states that this is a substitute. Name a subsititute to a CD/Record/Tape/8-Track? So fine take away all our mp3 files - simple economic theory also states that a new black market will arise to meet the demands of the people who are sick and tired of paying 20$-40$ for a CD.
And another thing - did anyone notice during the 80's that when CD's came out they were more expensive then tapes? Its funny - count the number of moving parts in a tape - they have to cost more to manufacture then a CD. I mean I can make a CD at home for as low as.75$ - you'd think an industrial plant could make them for cheaper (I read in Popular Mechanics a while back that they cost less then.05$ per disk actually).
Simple economic theory teaches me that this is a scam.
Other then the fact it looks like it was written by a 10 year old. What the hell is "Simple economic theory" - these are the kinds of papers we used to destroy in economics 200 classes.
I'd like to see some supply/demand curves backing up his statement (and yes "simple" ones will suffice). If CD's are selling efficientally at their current price how come there is sooo much surplus?
Its like there are people that buy MS-Office (I've never seen one...) even though it costs 400$ - does that mean its selling at market equilibrium? No - in fact I don't know anyone in my circle that has a legit copy of it. And another question - why is there such a huge black market for pirated copies of MS-Office and MP3's? Because their too expensive for some people.
Thing is you're using the Amiga as an OS. I use the Amiga as a solution. Besides the fact that there is NO OS on the planet today that multitasks as smoothly as an Amiga 3000 running OS 3.1... The Amiga can do some really nifty hardware tricks like genlocking and stuff that make it extremely handy for subtitling, video effects and stuff like that - which I still use it for - that Linux doesn't even start to have the software for not to mention the hardware support (are there any genlock control programs for Linux PC's?) Michael Jantzen ^_^
I was sitting there waiting for the bus actually thinking about this in the morning - your right - if you make every scanline a different pallent (kinda like dragging screens half way between each other) you can do some amazing high rez 4096 colour pictures:) - don't they call that HAM-E? ViewTek/ADPRO will view those style pictures actualy.
Anyone that visited the 1986 Expo (Worlds Fair) Amiga pavilion in Vancouver BC would have decribed the presentation as what you described in the above paragraph - except that it wasn't humans controlling all the media - it was an Amiga 1000.
And I have to say that I've never seen another multimedia presentation (from any company other then Commodore/Amiga) that was as impressive.
The Amiga 1000 custom chipset (OCS) can only do 4096 colours in HAM (hold and modify) at a max rez of 320x240...
And actually auto-config wasn't a term until Kickstart 1.3 - which the A1000 didn't ship with originally. You used to have to use Addmem commands to get it to recognize more then 512k of ram.
However when you see an ancient A2000 (originally 1024k of ram, no hd, 68000-8MHz processor) running with a GVP/040-50, SCSI (on the CPU upgrade board, and additional controllers on the Zorro2 bus), and over 96 megs of ram spaned accross maybe three memory upgrade cards (this describes my old machine) really shows you how cool Auto-Config really is. And mind you it all worked the FIRST time:).
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Then there's my 84 Plymouth Gran Fury (last of the great American cars) which weights (unloaded) about 5000 pounds. Anyhoo it gets on the highway about 20-25 miles per gallon - its the squarest car in the world, so I'm not getting this whole drag coefficent thingy. It also over 300,000 miles on it, and a 5.2 liter 318 2bbl mopar V8 - and its still getting better milage then most SUV's/newer sports cars. And it will do a quarter mile in less then 10 seconds.
Also while we were building america's highways, we weren't building america's railway system (in fact we were tearing it up...). America's economy is really centered around cheap fuel prices. Were screwed if all the oil goes away.
" Gasoline and the US Mail are the best deals around. Shut your collective pie holes. Gas is pumped out of the ground, shipped across the planet, refined, and sold for about the same price as water, which last I checked, fell from the sky"
I'd go you 25% efficent, but thats it...
"Relative to electric motor, internal combustion engine (ICE) is highly inefficient. While good motor with a good controller can give you close to 95% efficiency, an ICE is at 17% in a good day. Worse it's peak efficiency is at certain torque and at certain speed. That is why we have gearbox system and clutch. When the car stops, you have supply it with some fuel to keep spinning (idling) which is 100% loss (0% efficient). With electric motor you can adjust your torque and speed electrically and reclaim energy in braking.
You obviously don't believe in a market based society. Like DeCss the cork cannot be put back in the bottle.
I think that depends on various discolures made at the concert...
Good point - but to be truely Leet you have to do all that with a Commodore 64 or an A500.
You know how much of a pain in the arse this is? Like I'd sit around and edit mp3's all day...
Its just like disk based copy protection we used to see on the C64... They come up with some brilliant way to keep people from pirating their warez, one second later some kid comes up with a way of defeating it.
Its nice to see someone catering to the 2D crown instead of 3D gfx accelerators and software.
Or take Animeigo's translation of the KOR series. Kyusuke consistantly calls Madoka by her last name - Ayukawa (thats a japanese thing - a good example of this was in Wisper of the Heart). But Animeigo subtitled it Madoka. And its funny too, because we they finally commit to falling in love he starts calling her Madoka and its translated as Madoka.
My guess is that the Japanese DVD's cost more and the US ones cost less. Both are distrobuted by Bunea Vista (Disney) in both country's (really!). Sounds like product dumping to me... All its going to encourage is the pirating of the fansubbed version in the short run.
You should read up on the AV-RO projects involving launching a man to the moon :).
I think the only way around this dilemma is if Intel and AMD got together to define a new standard that was compatible with the other.
Not if has Caldera Linux on it :(.
Everyone knows who the first country to launch something into space was - Russia, and the second was the USA - who was the third (I'll give you a clue "true north strong and free")
Well I think thats more the OS then anything. I mean my Amiga 3000 is a very responsive computer and its based on a MC68030. It really shows its lack of speed these days when its rendering (heh - not so long ago I used to be able to show up the Power Mac people in sheer rendering performance) or playing quake. As far as the user experience feels it does feel like your using a 600+ mhz P3 - I mean it switches tasks instantly (yes - it will switch tasks as fast as you can click the mouse), opens windows pretty fast too.
Skuld.
And another thing - did anyone notice during the 80's that when CD's came out they were more expensive then tapes? Its funny - count the number of moving parts in a tape - they have to cost more to manufacture then a CD. I mean I can make a CD at home for as low as .75$ - you'd think an industrial plant could make them for cheaper (I read in Popular Mechanics a while back that they cost less then .05$ per disk actually).
Simple economic theory teaches me that this is a scam.
Skuld.
I'd like to see some supply/demand curves backing up his statement (and yes "simple" ones will suffice). If CD's are selling efficientally at their current price how come there is sooo much surplus?
Its like there are people that buy MS-Office (I've never seen one...) even though it costs 400$ - does that mean its selling at market equilibrium? No - in fact I don't know anyone in my circle that has a legit copy of it. And another question - why is there such a huge black market for pirated copies of MS-Office and MP3's? Because their too expensive for some people.
Skuld.
Thing is you're using the Amiga as an OS. I use the Amiga as a solution. Besides the fact that there is NO OS on the planet today that multitasks as smoothly as an Amiga 3000 running OS 3.1... The Amiga can do some really nifty hardware tricks like genlocking and stuff that make it extremely handy for subtitling, video effects and stuff like that - which I still use it for - that Linux doesn't even start to have the software for not to mention the hardware support (are there any genlock control programs for Linux PC's?) Michael Jantzen ^_^
Under the Commodore name? 1994 :)
I was sitting there waiting for the bus actually thinking about this in the morning - your right - if you make every scanline a different pallent (kinda like dragging screens half way between each other) you can do some amazing high rez 4096 colour pictures :) - don't they call that HAM-E? ViewTek/ADPRO will view those style pictures actualy.
And I have to say that I've never seen another multimedia presentation (from any company other then Commodore/Amiga) that was as impressive.
And actually auto-config wasn't a term until Kickstart 1.3 - which the A1000 didn't ship with originally. You used to have to use Addmem commands to get it to recognize more then 512k of ram.
However when you see an ancient A2000 (originally 1024k of ram, no hd, 68000-8MHz processor) running with a GVP/040-50, SCSI (on the CPU upgrade board, and additional controllers on the Zorro2 bus), and over 96 megs of ram spaned accross maybe three memory upgrade cards (this describes my old machine) really shows you how cool Auto-Config really is. And mind you it all worked the FIRST time :).
Not to mention I have yet to see a pure assembler routine that is useful (for like an OS) that is really faster/smaller then a well written C program.