You can't shift a Toyota Auris (Corolla hatch in Australia) with manual transmission into neutral while there is high torque on the gearbox (rapid acceleration or engine braking) without first stepping on the clutch. Stepping on the clutch does, of course, cut said torque immediately. Just to make it clear, the interlock only prevents you from shifting out of gear without using the clutch - use the clutch and you'll be fine.
I can, however, attest that there is some degree of quirkiness in the cruise control:
Set cruise control at 100km/h in sixth gear and cruise for a while
Without manually cancelling cruise control, drop a gear or two and accelerate rapidly to about 120km/h - use of the clutch will implicitly cancel cruise control
Shift back up to sixth, drop to about 98km/h and tap cruise stalk up to reset last set point
The car should accelerate back to 100km/h, but it doesn't - it accelerates to 120km/h
The quirkiness doesn't happen every time you do this, but it happens enough that I know to watch for it. You can easily stop the acceleration, though - just tap the cruise control stalk down, or perform any action that cancels cruise control (tapping brake or clutch, pulling cruise stalk towards steering wheel, pressing cruise on/off button).
At this rate, WebKit could be the new IE6 - it could become so pervasive that people take it for granted, and develop web sites that only render correctly in WebKit. It's already in Safari, Chrome, Konqueror, iTunes, Steam, Midori, Maemo, Moblin, iPhone and WebOS, and will be coming to Blackberry soon. What does this mean for the interoperable web? (Yes, it's better than IE6 in that it's reasonably standards-compliant, cross-platform and licensed under LGPL2.)
That argument is bullshit. The drivers are "maintained" in that they are updated so they continue to compile and link. However, there is no way in hell that the kernel maintainers have access to the devices these drivers support, or the facilities to test them all. Just keeping a driver building in the kernel doesn't mean it's in a useful state.
You'll find that Romance languages is the accepted English term for the language group including French, Italian and Spanish. The name for the group including English, Dutch and German is Germanic languages. (Not the capitalisation, too.)
Yeah, but the only 68k Macs that could support the GeoPort Telecom Adaptor (not modem!) were the Quadra AV models that had an on-board AT&T DSP chip that run independently of the main CPU. This chip had plenty of power for doing the number crunching, and wasn't affected by the lack of preemptive multitasking. The only code that needed to run on the main CPU ran at interrupt time, so it wasn't affected either.
But they're on the same side, and they get their buddies into plum jobs - just look at how good Henry Paulson was for them. Why would American banks argue with the American government? Everyone would benefit more if they just agreed to scratch each others' backs. (Well, except for the customers, but who cares about them, right?)
SWIFT doesn't actually perform fund transfers. SWIFT just provides a standard platform for sending messages between banks. It's the Indian banks (and other ForEx providers) who have to report transactions to the government, anyway.
FORTRAN has dug itself into a corner where it survives quite nicely. It's used for mathematical, engineering and scientific libraries. FORTRAN just seems to lend itself to expressing these sorts of problems better. Mind you, the whole program probably won't be written in FORTRAN - any UI code and other glue will be written in C. F# is filling the same niche for.NET - the mathematical and analytic libraries are being written in F# while C# is used for UIs and other glue. So even if it's a completely different paradigm, in spirit it's the FORTRAN of the CLR.
So because you can use it via Silverlight, you say that you can use Theora in Safari and IE? Well, by that standard, you'd have to say that h.264 is just as well supported, because you can use it in Firefox via Flash or Quicktime.
That sounds like the kind of thing an enemy of Freedom(TM) would say. I think we need to fast-track the retrieval of headkase's personal information, so we can find something that could be construed as evidence of support for terrorism and put him away before he robs us of our lifesytle.
You see, it's the Freedom(TM) to agree with whoever is currently top dog - not freedom to make your own decisions. (Kind of like RMS GNU/Freedom, really.)
You go through brakes a lot faster. In heavy traffic, with a manual, you can sit in second a lot of the time while crawling and just adjust your foot on the accelerator. With an auto, you're constantly having to move your foot from accelerator to brake, and wearing out those pads.
Yeah, I was bullied until I got strong enough (and psychotic enough) that people found out it was a bad idea to mess with me. I got in a lot of trouble for fighting back, though.
Ballmer's actually a good guy when you're having a beer with him. I've never had to work for him - he might be a total dick as a boss - but I wouldn't mind meeting him again for another beer.
As long as Theora isn't implemented in video chipsets, it is irrelevant. I think more people care about decent performance than RMS-approved GNU/Freedom (Free as in beards).
Really? I've gone without Flash on my work PC for three months, and the only things it stops me from using that I actually care about are funny videos that people send around the office, and the web site of the company that made the hardcore orange juicing machine in the kitchen (we'd lost the manual). Most of the stuff that's actually useful doesn't need Flash.
How many USB ports does it have? Do they support the high-power charging extensions? Does it have FireWire, and if so, what speed? Does it have S/P-DIFF optical audio I/O? I'm not questioning whether it has any I/O at all - I want to know what I/O it has. The specs page is very light on detail.
Mac Mini: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M OpenPC: Intel GMA950
Mac Mini: Core 2 Duo 2.26 GHz OpenPC: Atom N330 1.6GHz
Mac Mini: 160 GB HDD OpenPC: 160 GB HDD
So for 190 Euro more, you get OS X, a much faster, 64-bit, virtualisation-capable CPU, and a real GPU with dual display support, but lose 1GB RAM. I see no mention of I/O on the OpenPC, either - the Mac Mini has USB ports for days and FireWire 800.
In Australia, cyclists aren't supposed to ride on the footpath, so if they hit me while I'm walking, I knock them down and bend their spokes. Serves the mofos right. When I ride my bicycle, I obey the law, and show consideration for other road users. I expect other cyclists to do the same.
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You can't shift a Toyota Auris (Corolla hatch in Australia) with manual transmission into neutral while there is high torque on the gearbox (rapid acceleration or engine braking) without first stepping on the clutch. Stepping on the clutch does, of course, cut said torque immediately. Just to make it clear, the interlock only prevents you from shifting out of gear without using the clutch - use the clutch and you'll be fine.
I can, however, attest that there is some degree of quirkiness in the cruise control:
The quirkiness doesn't happen every time you do this, but it happens enough that I know to watch for it. You can easily stop the acceleration, though - just tap the cruise control stalk down, or perform any action that cancels cruise control (tapping brake or clutch, pulling cruise stalk towards steering wheel, pressing cruise on/off button).
At this rate, WebKit could be the new IE6 - it could become so pervasive that people take it for granted, and develop web sites that only render correctly in WebKit. It's already in Safari, Chrome, Konqueror, iTunes, Steam, Midori, Maemo, Moblin, iPhone and WebOS, and will be coming to Blackberry soon. What does this mean for the interoperable web? (Yes, it's better than IE6 in that it's reasonably standards-compliant, cross-platform and licensed under LGPL2.)
That argument is bullshit. The drivers are "maintained" in that they are updated so they continue to compile and link. However, there is no way in hell that the kernel maintainers have access to the devices these drivers support, or the facilities to test them all. Just keeping a driver building in the kernel doesn't mean it's in a useful state.
You'll find that Romance languages is the accepted English term for the language group including French, Italian and Spanish. The name for the group including English, Dutch and German is Germanic languages. (Not the capitalisation, too.)
Don't you mean a real Perl programmer? They can do anything in one line of code!
Yeah, but the only 68k Macs that could support the GeoPort Telecom Adaptor (not modem!) were the Quadra AV models that had an on-board AT&T DSP chip that run independently of the main CPU. This chip had plenty of power for doing the number crunching, and wasn't affected by the lack of preemptive multitasking. The only code that needed to run on the main CPU ran at interrupt time, so it wasn't affected either.
Yeah, maybe. But "Nook e-book reader" sounds too much like "nooky book reader" for my liking ;)
But they're on the same side, and they get their buddies into plum jobs - just look at how good Henry Paulson was for them. Why would American banks argue with the American government? Everyone would benefit more if they just agreed to scratch each others' backs. (Well, except for the customers, but who cares about them, right?)
SWIFT doesn't actually perform fund transfers. SWIFT just provides a standard platform for sending messages between banks. It's the Indian banks (and other ForEx providers) who have to report transactions to the government, anyway.
Western Union doesn't hold funds in accounts for you, and doesn't do short-term loans.
FORTRAN has dug itself into a corner where it survives quite nicely. It's used for mathematical, engineering and scientific libraries. FORTRAN just seems to lend itself to expressing these sorts of problems better. Mind you, the whole program probably won't be written in FORTRAN - any UI code and other glue will be written in C. F# is filling the same niche for .NET - the mathematical and analytic libraries are being written in F# while C# is used for UIs and other glue. So even if it's a completely different paradigm, in spirit it's the FORTRAN of the CLR.
No they aren't - JPEG is covered by lots of patents.
So because you can use it via Silverlight, you say that you can use Theora in Safari and IE? Well, by that standard, you'd have to say that h.264 is just as well supported, because you can use it in Firefox via Flash or Quicktime.
That sounds like the kind of thing an enemy of Freedom(TM) would say. I think we need to fast-track the retrieval of headkase's personal information, so we can find something that could be construed as evidence of support for terrorism and put him away before he robs us of our lifesytle.
You see, it's the Freedom(TM) to agree with whoever is currently top dog - not freedom to make your own decisions. (Kind of like RMS GNU/Freedom, really.)
You go through brakes a lot faster. In heavy traffic, with a manual, you can sit in second a lot of the time while crawling and just adjust your foot on the accelerator. With an auto, you're constantly having to move your foot from accelerator to brake, and wearing out those pads.
Yeah, I was bullied until I got strong enough (and psychotic enough) that people found out it was a bad idea to mess with me. I got in a lot of trouble for fighting back, though.
No, I'm serious. I met him at an IEEE 802.11 working group conference once. He was a cool guy when he had a beer in his hand.
Ballmer's actually a good guy when you're having a beer with him. I've never had to work for him - he might be a total dick as a boss - but I wouldn't mind meeting him again for another beer.
As long as Theora isn't implemented in video chipsets, it is irrelevant. I think more people care about decent performance than RMS-approved GNU/Freedom (Free as in beards).
Doesn't some fat Roman governor serve aurochs at an orgy in Asterix in Helvetia?
PSA: don't blindly search Google if you want to find out what a "three-holer" is - I don't think any of the top hits are what he's referring to.
Really? I've gone without Flash on my work PC for three months, and the only things it stops me from using that I actually care about are funny videos that people send around the office, and the web site of the company that made the hardcore orange juicing machine in the kitchen (we'd lost the manual). Most of the stuff that's actually useful doesn't need Flash.
How many USB ports does it have? Do they support the high-power charging extensions? Does it have FireWire, and if so, what speed? Does it have S/P-DIFF optical audio I/O? I'm not questioning whether it has any I/O at all - I want to know what I/O it has. The specs page is very light on detail.
Let's compare:
Mac Mini: 549 Euro
OpenPC: 359 Euro
Mac Mini: 2GB RAM
OpenPC: 3GB RAM
Mac Mini: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
OpenPC: Intel GMA950
Mac Mini: Core 2 Duo 2.26 GHz
OpenPC: Atom N330 1.6GHz
Mac Mini: 160 GB HDD
OpenPC: 160 GB HDD
So for 190 Euro more, you get OS X, a much faster, 64-bit, virtualisation-capable CPU, and a real GPU with dual display support, but lose 1GB RAM. I see no mention of I/O on the OpenPC, either - the Mac Mini has USB ports for days and FireWire 800.
In Australia, cyclists aren't supposed to ride on the footpath, so if they hit me while I'm walking, I knock them down and bend their spokes. Serves the mofos right. When I ride my bicycle, I obey the law, and show consideration for other road users. I expect other cyclists to do the same.