Same thing with the ones with Richard Simmons. That was probably one of the best waste of times I have had in a while. Although I would have much preferred to be on this flight.
In slackware, after one upgrade, the system will continue to work... not all distros can say the same.
That seems like the understatement of the year after seeing the back and forth over with the most recent Slackware 14.0 and the delays to ensure that everything actually works. As far as the initial configuration after install that has gotten better, I really don't miss trying to get X working like in the old days, and will ovten work out of the box. The other think I like is that stuff appears in the correct spot with the correct name so if you need to build something from source you don't have to try and track crap down that is installed but put into some strange location or has an unexpected name as some distros do.
We could make sessions of congress like summer camp
I am thinking more along the lines of a super max prison where all communication with the outside world is recorded as well as all communications and interactions on the inside. They each have their cell, a dining hall, some recreational areas, an area where they meet with constituents, the various committee rooms, and the house and senate chambers.
My experience with the blocks was with people using them as race engines specifically because they were heavier than other engines of similar displacement but there they were not being used with diesel but as supercharged alcohol burners for drag cars. I honestly thought the heads were reused but then it has been years since I have had anything to do with big iron engines so I have forgotten a lot, even more than I though.
We were talking specifically about the Oldsmobile built diesels which did suck, not the imported ones from countries that knew how to make a small diesel engine.
The blocks were unique as were the cranks (if memory servers) but things like heads, pistons, rods, etc where often reused from other engines. As the block is typically what is used to define the engine (everything else can be changed) they were not converted but stupidly reused parts where they could. As you correctly point out it was done to reuse as much existing infrastructure as possible thus cutting costs but is a great example of penny wise pound foolish. The blocks are actually a good block (Oldsmobile seemed to be a pretty good block manufacturer) it is just all the other crap to make the engine that sucked. If interested you can read all about the failure that was the Oldsmobile diesel engines.
While U-Haul trucks suck (seriously I worked there while in college they suck) most of the people I see with high end SUVs and Trucks (Lincolns, Caddies, Hummers) would never think of hauling anything with them. Hell most people who buy any type of SUV or truck will never do any truck like things, let alone take them off a paved road onto a dirt or gravel one. I have never seen any of the high end truck like vehicles hauling a large horse trailer, camper, fifth wheel trailer, car trailer or anything that might cause a dent, scratch, or dirty their vehicle. The high end truck like vehicles are more of a status symbol than anything else, and while like your self with the Caddie pickup if I could afford a real HMMWV I would haul stuff, tow stuff, and use it on things that somehow qualify as a "road" instead of my beat up high mileage old Jeep Cherokee, most people wouldn't.
Typically when I see compression ratios diesels are usually 20+:1, performance gasoline engines between 14:1 and 12:1 and most daily drivers being in the 8:1 to 9:1 range. With the alcohol fuels you can run them at much higher ratios often approaching that of diesels but there you are taking advantage of the latent heat of the alcohol fuel as well as the fact that you can dump a lot more alcohol into the cylinder for a given charge of air than you can gasoline which provides additional cooling capacity preventing preignition.
you can become 52 if you promise to learn how to say "about"
So are you referring the the way the rest of the USA says it or like the people in northern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin, or the U.P. of Michigan. The Canadians fit right in with those who live in those areas.
The parent may be referring to the starter batteries that were typically used on large American diesel trucks (think F350). These where rather large lead acid batteries and to provide enough power to turn the massive high compression engine they needed 2. In cold weather if they would fail fairly readily if they were much older than a year. I think batteries have gotten better over time and I don't know exactly what the parent was referring to but I gave them the benefit of the doubt on that one.
I don't think many Americans will ever drive a lorry, ride in a lift, live in a flat, of have hundreds and thousands on a cake, or know where the boot or bonnet of their vehicle is .
Those shitty GM diesels of the 80s weren't converted existing engines but were designed to be diesels. The problem was that GM tried to cut cost with those Oldsmobile diesels and reused a number of parts from gasoline engines of similar displacements thus they had shit parts in them. Also at that time American manufactures were still trying to figure out how to make a vehicle that wasn't a giant pollution factory on wheels and the best solution they could come up with was vehicles with a very low specific output. The american vehicles of that vintage just sucked. I owned an '85 Olds Cutlass Supreme (3.8L V6) and also an '85 BMW 528e (2.8L I6) while in college and the BMW was substantially better than the Olds. They both had about the same get up and go but the BMW got close to 40 mpg on the highway while that stupid Olds maybe got 20, but hey gas at that time was under a dollar a gallon. I was always fixing crap on the Olds yet the BMW just got regular maintenance. It didn't hurt that the BMW didn't have a distributor or electronic controlled carburetor and it was actually easy to start in cold or humid conditions. They were both sent off to the crusher at about the same mileage but the Olds was sent there after the 3rd oil pump failed while the BMW got rear ended while sitting at a stop sign by someone doing 55+ mph.
Seriously how is that bad. If one private entity wants to acquire my property because they feel they can make better use of it that I can why should the government side with them. If they want it bad enough they should ask me to submit in writing what it will take to part with the property and then either accept, decline or make a counter offer. It is not like that had been unheard of previously. I also remember a similar story about Rockefeller or Carnegie where 2 people refused to sell property where one didn't want to sell and the other was trying to get some truly absurd amount and Rockefeller or Carnegie gave up trying to acquire either property. I tried looking for it and couldn't find anything on it.
As another poster point out you can read the opinion here. From what I have read of previous supreme court opinions they are fairly readable unlike the laws that are drafted. I haven't read this one but that may be a task for lunch time today. This is also the same court that ruled that something can be both a tax and not a tax within the same ruling so strangeness is to be expected.
Problem is the lack of sanity in the current US legal system. At times it can't even create a coherent line of logic within the same ruling so why would one expect it to be considered sane by any measure.
Well as far as projects for it when my 2 I ordered a week ago show up I plan on building a RTK setup for GPS. It will probably end up costing me about $350 when everything is all said and done but I will end up with a stationary and remote GPS unit that when combined can produce a position accuracy of a few centimeters for the remote unit. I could buy some professional GPS survey equipment but I could probably build close to 50 of my own setups for the cost of one of those (seriously a base station plus mobile unit start at about $15,000 and go up from there). There are also the people who are using the Pi as a device to control automate weather stations and do the reporting. It would also seem like the Pi would make a good device to put at the core of a robot one would like to build (maybe mine will eventually get remade into a lawn mowing robot cause I hate doing that). Just because you can only see them as something to replace a better optimized device doesn't mean others can't.
While it may not cost much to build there is the opportunity cost associated with putting something in that space. $100/table/hour may seem good but what what is the floor space taken up by that. My guess is probably 30-40 square feet, Now how many slot machines could be placed in that same area all of which would have a similar take for the house but you can pack in 14 or 15. Same thing with other traditional table games. If table games provided as much revenue per square foot of casino as slots did there would be more floor space designated for them. As of now they are basically a convenience for those they can't sucker into playing the slots.
You are doing it wrong. You need to state that your pill contains homeopathic ingredients (pick what ever random crap you see and dilute to 10^-200 with sugar) that way it sounds official.
I would have thought most vehicles now would have that. Even my wife's 2000 VW Jetta had a big plastic panel under the engine until she hit a few too many curbs and lost it in a parking lot. My current vehicle has one as well and it is 16 years old, and that had been a popular modification that racers did going back to before WWII when doing speed runs (as well as moveable baffles to close off the front grill for short periods). I had assumed that all manufactures had taken that simple cheap step at this point but it sounds like they haven't. As an added bonus it really keeps the amount of dirt on the bottom of the engine down.
I know that the previous 2 generations of BMW M5s (I assume they are again doing so with the current gen) used a dry sump and I had assumed that it had started to trickle down from the high end to more of the mid range vehicles as things like that usually take 10 to 15 years.
Even with snow and ice tires dropping the pressure helps a lot. but if you really need traction in shit conditions they why not go whole hog and get some tire chains. Problem is that most people think all season tires are good enough even though they are a compromise in all cases. I have a set of winter tires mounted on some steel rims for the winter and my nice alloy rims have the much better looking and much better performance summer tires on them. Also when the weather gets really bad I have a beat up old Jeep Cherokee with some really aggressive tires and posi on both axles. I get passed all the time when I drive that thing in bad weather but at least I am nice enough to pull people out of the ditch when I find them a few miles down the road.
I doubt running the tests with higher ethanol blends for flex fuel vehicles would ever amount to them being able to increase fuel economy, but would allow them to highlight where alcohol fuels shine which is in producing power. To fully utilize the useful properties of ethanol you need to ignore other parts of the environmental regulations. Its very high octane raiting means you can run much higher compression ratios or much higher boost but doing so increases your NOx emissions. Another of its useful property is its stoichiometric ratio which allows you to dump a whole bunch more fuel into the cylinder per unit air than you could with gasoline. This allows more energy to be released for each power stroke than can be with regular un-oxygenated gasoline. The only place where ethanol can be used to increase you MPG is in an alcohol injection system where you are injecting a small portion of ethanol into the cylinder that already contains an air fuel charge. The very high latent heat of ethanol cools the air fuel charge allowing for higher compression ratios which can increase you MPG of gasoline (depends on how the vehicle is setup) at the cost of consuming additional ethanol. If you are going to do this a better option would be to use water as it has an even higher latent heat and costs less. Ethanol, especially in the US, is a joke of a general purpose motor fuel but is awesome from performance engines. Yes I know it works fairly well in Brazil but then they can produce it efficiently because they grow sugar cane which produces much more ethanol per acre than corn could ever hope to. Methanol is even better even though it has a lower octane rating and lower latent heat it allows even more fuel to be consumed per power stroke liberating slightly more energy than ethanol does.
I have looked into using alternative fuels for my project car and have basically settled on E85 because of how available it is in my state and I should be able to produce some impressive H.P. numbers out of that little A-series engine (hoping for close to 200). It doesn't hurt that the only environmental regs I have to conform to are crank case emission ones which are a very low hurdle to get around with a PCV valve which the vehicle already has.
How? If I want to slow down and let off the gas pedal completely the wheels turning will still continue to turn the engine. The valves still open and shut, oil and coolant still circulate. My car does shut off the injectors when coasting and when the RPMs drop too low while doing this it turns them back on to keep the engine running. Typically this happens around 25 mph but can be put off some by selecting a lower gear and even then it is running really lean anyway so it is still consuming less fuel than normal.
As far as traction proper inflation and even over inflation works well on roads that are dry or covered with water but it actually makes things worse on ice. One of the tricks I learned early on was to let a few PSI out of your tires when the roads are icy as that will help with traction there.
Also I bet they were removing the various interior panels, carpeting, passenger seats, sound deadening material etc. Hell it wouldn't surprise me if they also pulled out all sorts of safety equipment to get the weight down as well since they were running on a test track.
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Same thing with the ones with Richard Simmons. That was probably one of the best waste of times I have had in a while. Although I would have much preferred to be on this flight.
In slackware, after one upgrade, the system will continue to work... not all distros can say the same.
That seems like the understatement of the year after seeing the back and forth over with the most recent Slackware 14.0 and the delays to ensure that everything actually works. As far as the initial configuration after install that has gotten better, I really don't miss trying to get X working like in the old days, and will ovten work out of the box. The other think I like is that stuff appears in the correct spot with the correct name so if you need to build something from source you don't have to try and track crap down that is installed but put into some strange location or has an unexpected name as some distros do.
We could make sessions of congress like summer camp
I am thinking more along the lines of a super max prison where all communication with the outside world is recorded as well as all communications and interactions on the inside. They each have their cell, a dining hall, some recreational areas, an area where they meet with constituents, the various committee rooms, and the house and senate chambers.
My experience with the blocks was with people using them as race engines specifically because they were heavier than other engines of similar displacement but there they were not being used with diesel but as supercharged alcohol burners for drag cars. I honestly thought the heads were reused but then it has been years since I have had anything to do with big iron engines so I have forgotten a lot, even more than I though.
We were talking specifically about the Oldsmobile built diesels which did suck, not the imported ones from countries that knew how to make a small diesel engine.
The blocks were unique as were the cranks (if memory servers) but things like heads, pistons, rods, etc where often reused from other engines. As the block is typically what is used to define the engine (everything else can be changed) they were not converted but stupidly reused parts where they could. As you correctly point out it was done to reuse as much existing infrastructure as possible thus cutting costs but is a great example of penny wise pound foolish. The blocks are actually a good block (Oldsmobile seemed to be a pretty good block manufacturer) it is just all the other crap to make the engine that sucked. If interested you can read all about the failure that was the Oldsmobile diesel engines.
While U-Haul trucks suck (seriously I worked there while in college they suck) most of the people I see with high end SUVs and Trucks (Lincolns, Caddies, Hummers) would never think of hauling anything with them. Hell most people who buy any type of SUV or truck will never do any truck like things, let alone take them off a paved road onto a dirt or gravel one. I have never seen any of the high end truck like vehicles hauling a large horse trailer, camper, fifth wheel trailer, car trailer or anything that might cause a dent, scratch, or dirty their vehicle. The high end truck like vehicles are more of a status symbol than anything else, and while like your self with the Caddie pickup if I could afford a real HMMWV I would haul stuff, tow stuff, and use it on things that somehow qualify as a "road" instead of my beat up high mileage old Jeep Cherokee, most people wouldn't.
Typically when I see compression ratios diesels are usually 20+:1, performance gasoline engines between 14:1 and 12:1 and most daily drivers being in the 8:1 to 9:1 range. With the alcohol fuels you can run them at much higher ratios often approaching that of diesels but there you are taking advantage of the latent heat of the alcohol fuel as well as the fact that you can dump a lot more alcohol into the cylinder for a given charge of air than you can gasoline which provides additional cooling capacity preventing preignition.
you can become 52 if you promise to learn how to say "about"
So are you referring the the way the rest of the USA says it or like the people in northern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin, or the U.P. of Michigan. The Canadians fit right in with those who live in those areas.
The parent may be referring to the starter batteries that were typically used on large American diesel trucks (think F350). These where rather large lead acid batteries and to provide enough power to turn the massive high compression engine they needed 2. In cold weather if they would fail fairly readily if they were much older than a year. I think batteries have gotten better over time and I don't know exactly what the parent was referring to but I gave them the benefit of the doubt on that one.
I don't think many Americans will ever drive a lorry, ride in a lift, live in a flat, of have hundreds and thousands on a cake, or know where the boot or bonnet of their vehicle is .
Those shitty GM diesels of the 80s weren't converted existing engines but were designed to be diesels. The problem was that GM tried to cut cost with those Oldsmobile diesels and reused a number of parts from gasoline engines of similar displacements thus they had shit parts in them. Also at that time American manufactures were still trying to figure out how to make a vehicle that wasn't a giant pollution factory on wheels and the best solution they could come up with was vehicles with a very low specific output. The american vehicles of that vintage just sucked. I owned an '85 Olds Cutlass Supreme (3.8L V6) and also an '85 BMW 528e (2.8L I6) while in college and the BMW was substantially better than the Olds. They both had about the same get up and go but the BMW got close to 40 mpg on the highway while that stupid Olds maybe got 20, but hey gas at that time was under a dollar a gallon. I was always fixing crap on the Olds yet the BMW just got regular maintenance. It didn't hurt that the BMW didn't have a distributor or electronic controlled carburetor and it was actually easy to start in cold or humid conditions. They were both sent off to the crusher at about the same mileage but the Olds was sent there after the 3rd oil pump failed while the BMW got rear ended while sitting at a stop sign by someone doing 55+ mph.
Seriously how is that bad. If one private entity wants to acquire my property because they feel they can make better use of it that I can why should the government side with them. If they want it bad enough they should ask me to submit in writing what it will take to part with the property and then either accept, decline or make a counter offer. It is not like that had been unheard of previously. I also remember a similar story about Rockefeller or Carnegie where 2 people refused to sell property where one didn't want to sell and the other was trying to get some truly absurd amount and Rockefeller or Carnegie gave up trying to acquire either property. I tried looking for it and couldn't find anything on it.
As another poster point out you can read the opinion here. From what I have read of previous supreme court opinions they are fairly readable unlike the laws that are drafted. I haven't read this one but that may be a task for lunch time today. This is also the same court that ruled that something can be both a tax and not a tax within the same ruling so strangeness is to be expected.
Problem is the lack of sanity in the current US legal system. At times it can't even create a coherent line of logic within the same ruling so why would one expect it to be considered sane by any measure.
Well as far as projects for it when my 2 I ordered a week ago show up I plan on building a RTK setup for GPS. It will probably end up costing me about $350 when everything is all said and done but I will end up with a stationary and remote GPS unit that when combined can produce a position accuracy of a few centimeters for the remote unit. I could buy some professional GPS survey equipment but I could probably build close to 50 of my own setups for the cost of one of those (seriously a base station plus mobile unit start at about $15,000 and go up from there). There are also the people who are using the Pi as a device to control automate weather stations and do the reporting. It would also seem like the Pi would make a good device to put at the core of a robot one would like to build (maybe mine will eventually get remade into a lawn mowing robot cause I hate doing that). Just because you can only see them as something to replace a better optimized device doesn't mean others can't.
Floor space isn't expensive
While it may not cost much to build there is the opportunity cost associated with putting something in that space. $100/table/hour may seem good but what what is the floor space taken up by that. My guess is probably 30-40 square feet, Now how many slot machines could be placed in that same area all of which would have a similar take for the house but you can pack in 14 or 15. Same thing with other traditional table games. If table games provided as much revenue per square foot of casino as slots did there would be more floor space designated for them. As of now they are basically a convenience for those they can't sucker into playing the slots.
You are doing it wrong. You need to state that your pill contains homeopathic ingredients (pick what ever random crap you see and dilute to 10^-200 with sugar) that way it sounds official.
I would have thought most vehicles now would have that. Even my wife's 2000 VW Jetta had a big plastic panel under the engine until she hit a few too many curbs and lost it in a parking lot. My current vehicle has one as well and it is 16 years old, and that had been a popular modification that racers did going back to before WWII when doing speed runs (as well as moveable baffles to close off the front grill for short periods). I had assumed that all manufactures had taken that simple cheap step at this point but it sounds like they haven't. As an added bonus it really keeps the amount of dirt on the bottom of the engine down.
I know that the previous 2 generations of BMW M5s (I assume they are again doing so with the current gen) used a dry sump and I had assumed that it had started to trickle down from the high end to more of the mid range vehicles as things like that usually take 10 to 15 years.
Even with snow and ice tires dropping the pressure helps a lot. but if you really need traction in shit conditions they why not go whole hog and get some tire chains. Problem is that most people think all season tires are good enough even though they are a compromise in all cases. I have a set of winter tires mounted on some steel rims for the winter and my nice alloy rims have the much better looking and much better performance summer tires on them. Also when the weather gets really bad I have a beat up old Jeep Cherokee with some really aggressive tires and posi on both axles. I get passed all the time when I drive that thing in bad weather but at least I am nice enough to pull people out of the ditch when I find them a few miles down the road.
I doubt running the tests with higher ethanol blends for flex fuel vehicles would ever amount to them being able to increase fuel economy, but would allow them to highlight where alcohol fuels shine which is in producing power. To fully utilize the useful properties of ethanol you need to ignore other parts of the environmental regulations. Its very high octane raiting means you can run much higher compression ratios or much higher boost but doing so increases your NOx emissions. Another of its useful property is its stoichiometric ratio which allows you to dump a whole bunch more fuel into the cylinder per unit air than you could with gasoline. This allows more energy to be released for each power stroke than can be with regular un-oxygenated gasoline. The only place where ethanol can be used to increase you MPG is in an alcohol injection system where you are injecting a small portion of ethanol into the cylinder that already contains an air fuel charge. The very high latent heat of ethanol cools the air fuel charge allowing for higher compression ratios which can increase you MPG of gasoline (depends on how the vehicle is setup) at the cost of consuming additional ethanol. If you are going to do this a better option would be to use water as it has an even higher latent heat and costs less. Ethanol, especially in the US, is a joke of a general purpose motor fuel but is awesome from performance engines. Yes I know it works fairly well in Brazil but then they can produce it efficiently because they grow sugar cane which produces much more ethanol per acre than corn could ever hope to. Methanol is even better even though it has a lower octane rating and lower latent heat it allows even more fuel to be consumed per power stroke liberating slightly more energy than ethanol does.
I have looked into using alternative fuels for my project car and have basically settled on E85 because of how available it is in my state and I should be able to produce some impressive H.P. numbers out of that little A-series engine (hoping for close to 200). It doesn't hurt that the only environmental regs I have to conform to are crank case emission ones which are a very low hurdle to get around with a PCV valve which the vehicle already has.
How? If I want to slow down and let off the gas pedal completely the wheels turning will still continue to turn the engine. The valves still open and shut, oil and coolant still circulate. My car does shut off the injectors when coasting and when the RPMs drop too low while doing this it turns them back on to keep the engine running. Typically this happens around 25 mph but can be put off some by selecting a lower gear and even then it is running really lean anyway so it is still consuming less fuel than normal.
As far as traction proper inflation and even over inflation works well on roads that are dry or covered with water but it actually makes things worse on ice. One of the tricks I learned early on was to let a few PSI out of your tires when the roads are icy as that will help with traction there.
Also I bet they were removing the various interior panels, carpeting, passenger seats, sound deadening material etc. Hell it wouldn't surprise me if they also pulled out all sorts of safety equipment to get the weight down as well since they were running on a test track.