One thing the gameing industry needs is a shared content license similar to how open source is set up. If someone spends 6 months makeing a detailed land scape for level 14 of a game and it turns out the everyone blows through level 14 in just a couple of minutes is level 14 worth those 6 months?
Not really, but if that level was "Open Source" sort of speak, it would then be able to be modified, with modifications going back to the original, and used in the next game. With several improvments over time that section would eventually become a great peice of colabirated art.
Technically NG is less volatile than typical gasoline. NG usually has an octane rating of around 120-130, similar to diesel fuel. It is more dangerous do to it's natural form at room temperature being a gaseous form rather than liquid.
PS. Octane rating has to do with the volatility of a fuel. the lower the Octane rating the less stable the fuel is and there for more explosive. High compress sports cars will need higher octane ratings to prevent a knock known as pre-combustion (the fuel exploding before it is suppose to) With super high compression vehicles such as diesels you need to use diesel fuel which is around 120 Octane rating. This is not high enough to run in a regular vehicle.
Raw devices are only negligably faster, and much more of a pain in the as to actually use. from Oracle documentation:
Raw Devices Raw devices are disk partitions or logical volumes that have not been formatted with a file system. When you use raw devices for database file storage, Oracle writes data directly to the partition or volume, bypassing the operating system file system layer. For this reason, you can sometimes achieve performance gains by using raw devices. However, because raw devices can be difficult to create and administer, and because the performance gains over modern file systems are minimal, Oracle recommends that you choose ASM or file system storage in preference to raw devices.
being known as "the computer guy" gets a lot of, "Hey, can you look at my computer." I also do quite a bit of auto mechanics, "Hey, can you look at my car."
No, as citizens we only have our self to blame, as voters we don't have a good choice to begin with. When offered a cat turd or a dog turd which am I suppose to vote for?
Politics doesn't attract intelligence on average. typically you don't have a good choice. As citizens intelligent people should be more active in politics.
the first fortune that came up for me: fortune >tmp;cat tmp; cat tmp| perl -pe 's/\b(\w+)\w\b/$1izzle/g'
More than any time in history, mankind now faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
-- Woody Allen, "Side Effects" Morizzle thaizzle anizzle timizzle iizzle historizzle, mankinizzle noizzle faceizzle a crossroadizzle. Onizzle patizzle leadizzle tizzle despaiizzle anizzle utteizzle hopelessnesizzle, thizzle otheizzle tizzle totaizzle extinctioizzle. Leizzle uizzle praizzle thaizzle wizzle havizzle thizzle wisdoizzle tizzle choosizzle correctlizzle.
-- Woodizzle Alleizzle, "Sidizzle Effectizzle"
more but still nothing diffrent. Vehicles are little more than bigger guns, teamwork is little more than deathmatch with more people. about the only real diffrence is objectives which were added to doom with the ctf games.
other than prettier graphics what's the diffrence between doom and ut2004. I played doom and heritic head to head over phone lines 10 years ago. Now I play head to head on line. prettier graphics is about the only diffrence. I still run around a limited environment with a gun and shoot other people.
I think it is common for people to make up something that helps fill gaps in science. sometimes it turns out right many times it turns out wrong. many times this happens such as space ether.
When we can't explain something we are sometimes better off makeing something up that fills the gap until we can find the more correct answer. There is no such thing as exact science. Only reproduceable observation which eventually becomes accepted fact. Although there is no reason for it to always stay fact if someone says, "Hey, I tried to do the experiment and used this method to test it and I got a diffrent observation!" Well, now it's time to re think that scientific fact.
What happens typically is that the person is downplayed as doing something wrong, adding some new variable to the mix, or something that would throw off the observation in some way. Politics in science is as complicated and painful as anywhere.
I'd hate to see the cost of my work desktop in Microsoft tax. There would be so many applications I would have to buy.
I use: open office free...would have to by MS Office Planner free....would have to by MS Project Dia free....would have to by visio Gimp and Sodipodi free....MS doesn't even have one would have to go to another vendor
I'd say the $0.00 dollars I spent on Debian is much better than the ~$1500+ I would have to spend to get the above software.
I sure hope so, I could get out sourced. My company profits could go through the roof and my 401k would be so profitable I wouldn't have to work any more. Outsourceing rulz.
You mean to jump on every criticizeable point as if it were the end of the world? I think most slashdoters already consider politics the same as trashing Microsoft.
The only difference I see is that the Hybrid is very temperamental. Although the worst I have ever got has been the 37.4 and that is with a lot of AC and carrying 3 other people around town, by my self when weather is nice I get closer to 50MPG and average more like 45.
I do plan to trade my Civic in for an Accord Hybrid later this year. The Accord will be a performance sports care with a 240hp V6 and a 90hp electric Hybrid and still get 35+MPG.
I bought a Hybrid more to support the technology then to save on gas, although I do have quite a commute of 45 miles a day and the gas savings is nice, I think the technology needs to be available on all vehicles, of which I think it will be soon.
whoa are you miss informed. The electric motor used on a hybrid runs both as a starter and an alternator. You don't ever run on electric power only. As a hybrid you run on a combination of electric power and gas power. You _CAN'T_ run a Hybrid out of gas and still drive it to the gas station.
think of it like this. you start your car but the starter stays engaged and continues to turn the motor over for added power. When you hit the brakes your alternator charges extra hard to get more power for the batteries.
Now because there is technically little diffrence between an alternator and an electric motor combine them into one, make them somewhat larger and desgined to add power or charge batteries and you have a hybrid.
Nope, Hybrid is just too new right now. This fall it is going into several sports cars and trucks. It wont be long before it goes into diesel. Personaly I think it is going to be a natural marrage. The low RPM efficiency of a diesel with the added acceleration of an electric motor they would complement each other well.
except that 90% of Hybrids recharge comes from braking and slowing down not from any inefficiency of the engine. Last I checked diesel engines haven't been able to overcome the need to slow down or stop occasionally.
Of course you'll only be able to car pool comfortably with one other person. My civic can comfortably take 4 people and could even squiz 5 thus doubling its fuel efficincy compared to the smaller car.
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One thing the gameing industry needs is a shared content license similar to how open source is set up. If someone spends 6 months makeing a detailed land scape for level 14 of a game and it turns out the everyone blows through level 14 in just a couple of minutes is level 14 worth those 6 months?
Not really, but if that level was "Open Source" sort of speak, it would then be able to be modified, with modifications going back to the original, and used in the next game. With several improvments over time that section would eventually become a great peice of colabirated art.
Technically NG is less volatile than typical gasoline. NG usually has an octane rating of around 120-130, similar to diesel fuel. It is more dangerous do to it's natural form at room temperature being a gaseous form rather than liquid.
PS. Octane rating has to do with the volatility of a fuel. the lower the Octane rating the less stable the fuel is and there for more explosive. High compress sports cars will need higher octane ratings to prevent a knock known as pre-combustion (the fuel exploding before it is suppose to) With super high compression vehicles such as diesels you need to use diesel fuel which is around 120 Octane rating. This is not high enough to run in a regular vehicle.
Raw devices are only negligably faster, and much more of a pain in the as to actually use. from Oracle documentation:
Raw Devices
Raw devices are disk partitions or logical volumes that have not been formatted
with a file system. When you use raw devices for database file storage, Oracle
writes data directly to the partition or volume, bypassing the operating system file
system layer. For this reason, you can sometimes achieve performance gains by
using raw devices. However, because raw devices can be difficult to create and
administer, and because the performance gains over modern file systems are
minimal, Oracle recommends that you choose ASM or file system storage in
preference to raw devices.
being known as "the computer guy" gets a lot of, "Hey, can you look at my computer." I also do quite a bit of auto mechanics, "Hey, can you look at my car."
My next skill, OBGYN!
volkswagon beatle sizes please.
No, as citizens we only have our self to blame, as voters we don't have a good choice to begin with. When offered a cat turd or a dog turd which am I suppose to vote for?
Politics doesn't attract intelligence on average. typically you don't have a good choice. As citizens intelligent people should be more active in politics.
Imagine if they used a beawulf cluster over the internet to calculate seti.
the first fortune that came up for me:
fortune >tmp;cat tmp; cat tmp| perl -pe 's/\b(\w+)\w\b/$1izzle/g'
More than any time in history, mankind now faces a crossroads. One path
leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction.
Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
-- Woody Allen, "Side Effects"
Morizzle thaizzle anizzle timizzle iizzle historizzle, mankinizzle noizzle faceizzle a crossroadizzle. Onizzle patizzle
leadizzle tizzle despaiizzle anizzle utteizzle hopelessnesizzle, thizzle otheizzle tizzle totaizzle extinctioizzle.
Leizzle uizzle praizzle thaizzle wizzle havizzle thizzle wisdoizzle tizzle choosizzle correctlizzle.
-- Woodizzle Alleizzle, "Sidizzle Effectizzle"
Meza think youza full of shitza
-JarJar
i think SCO has sued all three because they are all names that are obviously derivative works of SCO's original name.
I see us like a keyboard baby, you and i are pressed next to each other. Ohh yea.
more but still nothing diffrent. Vehicles are little more than bigger guns, teamwork is little more than deathmatch with more people. about the only real diffrence is objectives which were added to doom with the ctf games.
other than prettier graphics what's the diffrence between doom and ut2004. I played doom and heritic head to head over phone lines 10 years ago. Now I play head to head on line. prettier graphics is about the only diffrence. I still run around a limited environment with a gun and shoot other people.
I think it is common for people to make up something that helps fill gaps in science. sometimes it turns out right many times it turns out wrong. many times this happens such as space ether.
When we can't explain something we are sometimes better off makeing something up that fills the gap until we can find the more correct answer. There is no such thing as exact science. Only reproduceable observation which eventually becomes accepted fact. Although there is no reason for it to always stay fact if someone says, "Hey, I tried to do the experiment and used this method to test it and I got a diffrent observation!" Well, now it's time to re think that scientific fact.
What happens typically is that the person is downplayed as doing something wrong, adding some new variable to the mix, or something that would throw off the observation in some way. Politics in science is as complicated and painful as anywhere.
I'd hate to see the cost of my work desktop in Microsoft tax. There would be so many applications I would have to buy.
I use:
open office free...would have to by MS Office
Planner free....would have to by MS Project
Dia free....would have to by visio
Gimp and Sodipodi free....MS doesn't even have one would have to go to another vendor
I'd say the $0.00 dollars I spent on Debian is much better than the ~$1500+ I would have to spend to get the above software.
I sure hope so, I could get out sourced. My company profits could go through the roof and my 401k would be so profitable I wouldn't have to work any more. Outsourceing rulz.
You mean to jump on every criticizeable point as if it were the end of the world? I think most slashdoters already consider politics the same as trashing Microsoft.
The only difference I see is that the Hybrid is very temperamental. Although the worst I have ever got has been the 37.4 and that is with a lot of AC and carrying 3 other people around town, by my self when weather is nice I get closer to 50MPG and average more like 45.
I do plan to trade my Civic in for an Accord Hybrid later this year. The Accord will be a performance sports care with a 240hp V6 and a 90hp electric Hybrid and still get 35+MPG.
I bought a Hybrid more to support the technology then to save on gas, although I do have quite a commute of 45 miles a day and the gas savings is nice, I think the technology needs to be available on all vehicles, of which I think it will be soon.
whoa are you miss informed. The electric motor used on a hybrid runs both as a starter and an alternator. You don't ever run on electric power only. As a hybrid you run on a combination of electric power and gas power. You _CAN'T_ run a Hybrid out of gas and still drive it to the gas station.
think of it like this. you start your car but the starter stays engaged and continues to turn the motor over for added power. When you hit the brakes your alternator charges extra hard to get more power for the batteries.
Now because there is technically little diffrence between an alternator and an electric motor combine them into one, make them somewhat larger and desgined to add power or charge batteries and you have a hybrid.
except you were compareing my worst to his best.
OK, I'll look it up...
Civic Hybrid
93hp total 80 gas 13 electric
48/47 MPG epa I average 45 without ac 37 with ac
regular Civic 4 door
98 for GX up to 114 for LX
across all models 29 low 38 high
don't know what a reall average would be
Nope, Hybrid is just too new right now. This fall it is going into several sports cars and trucks. It wont be long before it goes into diesel. Personaly I think it is going to be a natural marrage. The low RPM efficiency of a diesel with the added acceleration of an electric motor they would complement each other well.
except that 90% of Hybrids recharge comes from braking and slowing down not from any inefficiency of the engine. Last I checked diesel engines haven't been able to overcome the need to slow down or stop occasionally.
Of course you'll only be able to car pool comfortably with one other person. My civic can comfortably take 4 people and could even squiz 5 thus doubling its fuel efficincy compared to the smaller car.
and with 10 year 100,000 mile warranty I have little to worry about. $36 dealer oil change every 10,000 miles isn't a big deal to me.