Unlike older Wankels, the RX-8 has side exhaust ports. This means it is significantly quieter since the exhaust port is no longer exposed while combustion is still in progress.
I will agree with you that the noise of the old peripheral ported cars can be awesome.:3
Safe handling in snow is all about having the right tires for the job. Americans are lazy, instead preferring the compromise of all-season (no-season!) tires. Having a separate set of rims for snow tires makes sense if you care even a bit about keeping your big stock wheels looking nice by not subjecting them to road salt. Drivetrain configuration is only a big issue if you refuse to consider using proper tires.
Also, the linear torque delivery of the RX-8's engine means it should do a much better job of launching from a standstill in low traction conditions than most comparable cars.
I agree this should be an option. If an article gets as many comments as the Steve Jobs one yesterday, and you want to read all of them... you have to "get more comments" 5 times just to display them all, which is silly.
I understand this is probably a bandwidth saving decision, but please consider it.
Thanks for the link. I spent some time on the Iron forum a few years back, and the dev(s) never seem terribly knowledgeable or talkative... it was nothing like what you see on the forums for NoScript or fanboy's AdBlock, for example. It's entirely believable to me that the whole project is mostly BS.
When I replayed a few of these games more recently, I actually tried to move through without overleveling and it was like a whole new game... sometime a character would actually die fighting a boss, for example.:)
The key layout is all done in software, so you don't have to modify the hardware.
I have rearranged the keys into Dvorak position on my laptop... the only flaw being that you have to leave the F and J keys in the QWERTY position because of their physical difference (touchtyping nubs).
That is indeed unfortunate but until you can solve the even bigger problem of the free rider problem then a well designed patent regime remains better than no patent regime.
Big companies get a free ride from smaller ones in the current system because the small fry can't afford to defend their patents or fully exploit the advantages of their innovation against bigger entrenched interests with far more capital.
If you do something innovative, the most you can hope for is to sell your company to a bigger player... you have next to no chance of actually becoming big yourself.
In attempting to "not be a pirate", you have the chance to confront the complex and contradictory legal realities of the situation and realize how the "piracy" isn't as cut and dried as IP holders make it out to be. There is no way to do what you want to do legally, the option does not exist.
Just by trying to roll your own setup, you are aligning yourself with the lawbreakers from a corporate standpoint. You think of yourself as a non-pirate, but that's not really true. If you want to follow the rules, buy a Wii and enjoy those games Nintendo has seen fit to allow you to emulate.
A lot of DRM schemes used to react badly if they even found ISO mounting software on the PC (to the point where I uninstalled demon tools and ended up installing it within a VM for work purposes so it wasn't on my "leisure" PC install).
Alcohol 120% (and the free 52% version) get around this with a "drive cloaking" function called ACID. Very effective in my experience.
See also the extensive information provided in this Slashdot comment, Firefox is the most unstable program in common use , and the links in the comment.
Posted by you in January 2006? Doesn't sound terribly informative.
For me, 3.5 was the first FF that didn't leak memory and I have never encountered the issue in any subsequent version. 3.5/3.6 was also the point when FF got a big speed up to compete with Chrome's responsiveness. I think of it as the single biggest advance in the browser since I've been using it.
The only issue I see pop up with FF is the Flash plugin occasionally having some problem which consumes a ton of CPU and/or memory, and I just kill it and restart. That exact situation can also happen in Opera or Chromium.
I use FF for many hours ever single day, and I simply do not experience many problems.
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Why not try one of the other *buntus out, instead? Xubuntu would probably be just what you want.
My guess is that Shuttleworth prefers South African animal-based names.
Yep... does anyone have a link to the Lubuntu 11.10 torrents?
Unlike older Wankels, the RX-8 has side exhaust ports. This means it is significantly quieter since the exhaust port is no longer exposed while combustion is still in progress.
I will agree with you that the noise of the old peripheral ported cars can be awesome. :3
Safe handling in snow is all about having the right tires for the job. Americans are lazy, instead preferring the compromise of all-season (no-season!) tires. Having a separate set of rims for snow tires makes sense if you care even a bit about keeping your big stock wheels looking nice by not subjecting them to road salt. Drivetrain configuration is only a big issue if you refuse to consider using proper tires.
Also, the linear torque delivery of the RX-8's engine means it should do a much better job of launching from a standstill in low traction conditions than most comparable cars.
(you still have two cranks and half the valves of a W)
Volkwagen's "W" engines use one crankshaft.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/W_engine
Stephen Colbert, is that you?
I agree this should be an option. If an article gets as many comments as the Steve Jobs one yesterday, and you want to read all of them... you have to "get more comments" 5 times just to display them all, which is silly.
I understand this is probably a bandwidth saving decision, but please consider it.
Bye, n00b. :)
Thanks for the link. I spent some time on the Iron forum a few years back, and the dev(s) never seem terribly knowledgeable or talkative... it was nothing like what you see on the forums for NoScript or fanboy's AdBlock, for example. It's entirely believable to me that the whole project is mostly BS.
Same here... I've always been a powerleveler.
When I replayed a few of these games more recently, I actually tried to move through without overleveling and it was like a whole new game... sometime a character would actually die fighting a boss, for example. :)
Well, any fiction this fan would have made certainly would have included Lulu and her busty goth goodness. :3
You can have the other girls.
The key layout is all done in software, so you don't have to modify the hardware.
I have rearranged the keys into Dvorak position on my laptop... the only flaw being that you have to leave the F and J keys in the QWERTY position because of their physical difference (touchtyping nubs).
It's more efficient to have the low numbers on the bottom because they are statistically used more often, speeding up input.
That is the opposite of what Dvorak found when designing his keyboard layout... he found the top row faster than the bottom row.
I've already got this in my CLI... it's called a pipe.
Best comment I've seen in a while... well played! XD
I'm in the market for a laser printer, and one brand I know I won't buy is HP: why buy something that's going to be an orphan in a few months?
HP announced they would be moving away from PC hardware, not printer hardware.
That is indeed unfortunate but until you can solve the even bigger problem of the free rider problem then a well designed patent regime remains better than no patent regime.
Big companies get a free ride from smaller ones in the current system because the small fry can't afford to defend their patents or fully exploit the advantages of their innovation against bigger entrenched interests with far more capital.
If you do something innovative, the most you can hope for is to sell your company to a bigger player... you have next to no chance of actually becoming big yourself.
In attempting to "not be a pirate", you have the chance to confront the complex and contradictory legal realities of the situation and realize how the "piracy" isn't as cut and dried as IP holders make it out to be. There is no way to do what you want to do legally, the option does not exist.
Just by trying to roll your own setup, you are aligning yourself with the lawbreakers from a corporate standpoint. You think of yourself as a non-pirate, but that's not really true. If you want to follow the rules, buy a Wii and enjoy those games Nintendo has seen fit to allow you to emulate.
Give Xubuntu a try. I decided I didn't want to be a Unity beta-tester with 11.04, and Xubuntu has worked great for me.
A lot of DRM schemes used to react badly if they even found ISO mounting software on the PC (to the point where I uninstalled demon tools and ended up installing it within a VM for work purposes so it wasn't on my "leisure" PC install).
Alcohol 120% (and the free 52% version) get around this with a "drive cloaking" function called ACID. Very effective in my experience.
See also the extensive information provided in this Slashdot comment, Firefox is
the most unstable program in common use , and the links in the comment.
Posted by you in January 2006? Doesn't sound terribly informative.
For me, 3.5 was the first FF that didn't leak memory and I have never encountered the issue in any subsequent version. 3.5/3.6 was also the point when FF got a big speed up to compete with Chrome's responsiveness. I think of it as the single biggest advance in the browser since I've been using it.
The only issue I see pop up with FF is the Flash plugin occasionally having some problem which consumes a ton of CPU and/or memory, and I just kill it and restart. That exact situation can also happen in Opera or Chromium.
I use FF for many hours ever single day, and I simply do not experience many problems.
It's not nearly as bad as it used to be. If they ever release functional adblock and noscript for it
I can manage without NoScript, but my tolerance for browsing the web without adblocking is 60 seconds at most.
100% must-have for me.
... and I take it dead strawmen are your preference?