I think you you meant "ruse". Some trannies in fact have seven gears (Mercedes-Benz 7GTRONIC), and others yet have just about infite "gears" - the Van Doorne CVT for example. However, I'm sure they're well aware of this...;-)
Not sure why no-one's mentioned gqview, which works amazingly well. Can catalogue, find dupes, etc, etc, etc. Plus runs on Linux (and other non-MS platforms) and is GPLd. http://gqview.sourceforge.net/
gqview is your answer (errrr - google it,;-). Can find dupes based on size, name or similarity of image. It is an awesome program, and I'm not sure why no-one has mentioned it here yet. GPL of course too;-)
A dude with a nick that sounds like a dodgy German industrial band said: "Do you also prohibit Apple from shipping apps with Mac OS X? Or Mandrakesoft with Mandrake? Or do you only prohibit Microsoft from doing so, because their OS is so ubiquitous?"
Precisely. Exactly. Without a doubt. Absolutely. Yes.
Just wondering what options these organisations will have once SCO's case is dismissed? At what point is public deception so severe that criminal cases can be opened against executives who knowingly lie to the public?
Under the control of an independent court-authorized expert appointed by Renault and with the consent of the customer, Renault evaluated the Renault Vel Satis 3L Dci automatic, registration number 218 TH 18, in static and dynamic conditions on Wednesday October 6.
According to the driver's comments as reported in the media, the car was jammed at high speed on the A71 motorway on Sunday October 3, due to a faulty cruise control. The driver reportedly said that it was impossible for him to stop the car after trying different possibilities for almost an hour.
The evaluation covered all the vehicle's electronic, mechanical and hydraulic functions. The data collected and the facts as established reveal no malfunction. The braking system, which shows no sign of abnormal wear, the gearbox control, the powertrain and the cruise control all worked perfectly. A full detailed report is expected very shortly.
Given the findings of the evaluation and its concern about the impact this incident might have on its product image, Renault has decided to take legal action in the form of a summary proceeding, without prejudice to other actions taken in compensation for any damage suffered by the company.
No worse than the US/UK's insistence that Iraq had WMD. Found any yet? Thought not. One stupid politician's as bad as another - in our case at least she isn't running the damn place...;-)
Obviously, Darwinism takes longer than we would like. I'm surprised though that despite your obvious genetic deficiencies you've managed to not only switch a computer on, but make it to Slahdot AND post. Not bad for someone just a mutation or two away from a syphilitic sewer rat. Now go and fuck your mother-sister.
We all know that electric
vehicles (EV's) are slower
than internal combustion,
right? Well, right now, there's
an opportunity to change that.
The single-wheel record is
beatable, and (as far as we
can find out) this will be the
first time an EV has held an
outright speed record.
Not true. Camille Jenatzy's La Jamais Contente held the outright land speed record and was electric powered.
Link for those who care
Ciao
Zak
Actually not. The true spirit of Bugatti is light weight, pared-to-the-essentials performance cars. Behemoths like the Type 41 (La Royale) and this extremely over-hyped VW partsbin rummage monstrosity are the Bugatti exceptions rather than the norm. VW has lost face over this big time too - only recently they downgraded their claims somewhat from the 250 mph original claim. It is now in doubt whether the Veyron will ever attain its stated goal: to topple the McLaren F1 as the ultimate road car. The downgrade was necessary thanks to technical implications of that much power in their (IMHO) poorly-engineered effort here. Cooling and other concerns seem to have taken a back seat to other concerns that seem to be quite out of place in an effort such as this. When (if!) the Veyron is offered for general sale it will not have the 1001 PS (_not_ bhp - they are slightly different) or the 250 mph claimed top end. VW has the nasty choice to make: re-engineer the whole thing from scratch or take a performance knock. Considering their hefty investment thus far, throwing it all away and starting again isn't really an option.
Wanna nit-pick? Well the original Ford GT (as it was correctly called - the "40" being just a nickname) was actually 40.5 inches high - but GT40 sounded much better than GT40.5;-)
First things first: Current F1 champions, both driver & constructor. Many racing teams would be over the moon to achieve iether one once. Ferrari has done this more often than any other team. Ferrari also has the most F1 wins, most F1 points, have contested the most F1 races and seasons. Ferrari was, until the advent of Toyota and the buyout of Benneton by Renault, the only team to make both the engine and the chassis for themselves.
Ferrari also has the most uncompromising history of building great sportscars. Initially they were a sideline to fund the racing department, but today cars like the Enzo and 360 Modena are class-leaders - if not in absolute drag-strip times but there are few in their respective classes faster around a racetrack. I would be surprised if the McLaren F1 was consistently faster than the Enzo around a series of tracks.
As for your autobahn machines question, that is a highly competitive class, with the Bentley Continental GT, Mercedes-Benz E,S and SL 55 AMGs and the new Ferrari 612 Scaglietti all right there at the front of the pack.
You mention the Ford GT. The original GT40 did in fact clean up at Le Mans for a period of three or four years. However I have to mention that the project would never had been so successful if Ford did not simply buy Eric Broadley and his Lola GT project and use that as a starting point. Remember too that at that time, Ferrari was consciously moving away from the sports-racing category and into Formula One racing exclusively. The original GT40 though is still an awesome piece of kit, no two ways about that, but one does I feel have to contextualise what transpired.
No other manufacturer ever has a list of production machines that makes the enthusiast drool. From the 250 SWB, 250 TdF, 500 Superfast, 250 GTO - widely regarded as the paragon of sports cars - to the 275 GTB/4, 365 GTB/4 Daytona, the little Dino, the 3x8s, the Testarossa, the 360, the 288 GTO, the F40, F50 and now the Enzo they have always produced something for the enthusiast. All this adds up to Ferrari having the ultimate name in automotive performance.
And, for the record, there is something about the Italian way of producing cars that has produced some of the finest machinery around. Alfa-Romeo, Fiat, Lancia, Maserati, Abarth, Ferrari, De Tomaso, Lamborghini, Osca, Stanguellini, Bizzarrini, ATS, ASA, ISO, Moretti, Francis Lombardy, and the design houses of Pininfarina, Bertone, Zagato, Touring, Marazzi, Boana, Ghia, Ellena, Vignale, ItalDesign & Giugiaro have between them produced a mind-boggling array of high-performance machines and in most cases utterly gorgeous bodies. The area around Modena in particular has spawned an impressive array of truly amazing sportscars and supercars: Ferrari, Maserati, De Tomaso and Lamborghini all are from around Modena, and the brief resurrection of Bugatti (the EB110 in the early nineties) was also based around there somewhere.
Seconded. A number of cars on the list are undeserving, but the SM is possibly the least worthy of its position here. Another interesting feature of the SM was the ability of its headlights to swivel as the wheel is turned, allowing for the beams to illuminate where the car is heading instead of where the nose is pointing. Similar systems are now being introduced on certain brands - I know of Opel for sure but there are possibly others.
However dodgy your personal experiences with the 'Sud, it's actually highly regarded by those in the know. A few foibles apart, it was a dynamic and innovative model that would probably make an expert's Top 250 or possibly even Top 100 cars of all time list. Clue: Forbes seems to know as much about cars as they do about Free Software and GNU/Linux especially....
Ciao
Zak (For once my url is relevant: http://www.carfolio.com/ )
When ATM fraud is committed, the individual whose account is stolen from takes the fall. When banks are robbed at gunpoint, it isn't feasible to make just one account holder carry the can for it, so it has to be amortised over a number of accounts. It is obviously cheaper for the banks to allow relatively easy ATM crime than to be robbed at a branch. Remember, no-one ever steals from banks - they only steal from you. Both the banks and the "criminals" I mean...
Nice! Much better than my effort. Now if only we could get a few thousand of these sent in to the RFID consortium we might just have a shot at making them re-think their business model as the legal costs to respond to each such notice spirals way beyond what they could have feared.
Here is the text of a letter I wrote to them. Feel free to improve on the text if you're a lawyer so that it may actually work as a contract, and also to suggest any other changes that may force them to rethink their business strategy on the basis of our privacy not actually being free for them to use..........
I hereby note my wholehearted objection to your complete and total disregard for
my privacy. Furthermore, should you plan to derive profit at the expense of my
privacy, I expect compensation. After all, the privacy is *mine*, not yours to
profit off.
Should I find that an RFID tag has compromised my privacy, I shall bill you at
an amount I feel is acceptable. Your issuing of RFID tags or the technology to
implement them to any company that will indiscriminately embed it in any kind of
product that I might purchase, through choice or otherwise, or be issued with,
by choice or otherwise, will indicate your acceptance of these terms.
Slashdot Mirror
Gawd I hope you're right... I have a feeling you are, but evilness as, well, evil as Flash just makes me scared ;-)
Death to Flash!
Ciao
Zak
I think you you meant "ruse". Some trannies in fact have seven gears (Mercedes-Benz 7GTRONIC), and others yet have just about infite "gears" - the Van Doorne CVT for example. However, I'm sure they're well aware of this... ;-)
"...has broke the news..."
Are English you're most language?
It's either "...broke the news..." or "...has brokeN the news...", with the former being slightly more palatable, IMHO.
Ciao
Zak
Not sure why no-one's mentioned gqview, which works amazingly well. Can catalogue, find dupes, etc, etc, etc. Plus runs on Linux (and other non-MS platforms) and is GPLd. http://gqview.sourceforge.net/
Ciao
Zak
gqview is your answer (errrr - google it, ;-). Can find dupes based on size, name or similarity of image. It is an awesome program, and I'm not sure why no-one has mentioned it here yet. GPL of course too ;-)
Ciao
Zak
A dude with a nick that sounds like a dodgy German industrial band said: "Do you also prohibit Apple from shipping apps with Mac OS X? Or Mandrakesoft with Mandrake? Or do you only prohibit Microsoft from doing so, because their OS is so ubiquitous?"
Precisely. Exactly. Without a doubt. Absolutely. Yes.
Ciao
Zak
Just wondering what options these organisations will have once SCO's case is dismissed? At what point is public deception so severe that criminal cases can be opened against executives who knowingly lie to the public?
http://www.carfolio.com/specifications/models/id/? id=112409
V6, 167 bhp, twin turbo, yum!
Only 10 made though, unfortunately...
Ciao
Zak
FYI, from their media site:
After one of its vehicles is incriminated
RENAULT TAKES LEGAL ACTION
Under the control of an independent court-authorized expert appointed by Renault and with the
consent of the customer, Renault evaluated the Renault Vel Satis 3L Dci automatic, registration
number 218 TH 18, in static and dynamic conditions on Wednesday October 6.
According to the driver's comments as reported in the media, the car was jammed at high speed
on the A71 motorway on Sunday October 3, due to a faulty cruise control. The driver reportedly
said that it was impossible for him to stop the car after trying different possibilities for almost an
hour.
The evaluation covered all the vehicle's electronic, mechanical and hydraulic functions. The
data collected and the facts as established reveal no malfunction. The braking system, which
shows no sign of abnormal wear, the gearbox control, the powertrain and the cruise control all
worked perfectly. A full detailed report is expected very shortly.
Given the findings of the evaluation and its concern about the impact this incident might have on
its product image, Renault has decided to take legal action in the form of a summary
proceeding, without prejudice to other actions taken in compensation for any damage suffered
by the company.
Bollocks mate. NY Times? BBC? SEC.gov? National Geographic? If you consider these sources "left" then you really are very far to the right yourself...
Ciao
Zak
No worse than the US/UK's insistence that Iraq had WMD. Found any yet? Thought not. One stupid politician's as bad as another - in our case at least she isn't running the damn place... ;-)
Ciao
Zak
Obviously, Darwinism takes longer than we would like. I'm surprised though that despite your obvious genetic deficiencies you've managed to not only switch a computer on, but make it to Slahdot AND post. Not bad for someone just a mutation or two away from a syphilitic sewer rat. Now go and fuck your mother-sister.
We all know that electric vehicles (EV's) are slower than internal combustion, right? Well, right now, there's an opportunity to change that. The single-wheel record is beatable, and (as far as we can find out) this will be the first time an EV has held an outright speed record. Not true. Camille Jenatzy's La Jamais Contente held the outright land speed record and was electric powered. Link for those who care Ciao Zak
Actually not. The true spirit of Bugatti is light weight, pared-to-the-essentials performance cars. Behemoths like the Type 41 (La Royale) and this extremely over-hyped VW partsbin rummage monstrosity are the Bugatti exceptions rather than the norm. VW has lost face over this big time too - only recently they downgraded their claims somewhat from the 250 mph original claim. It is now in doubt whether the Veyron will ever attain its stated goal: to topple the McLaren F1 as the ultimate road car. The downgrade was necessary thanks to technical implications of that much power in their (IMHO) poorly-engineered effort here. Cooling and other concerns seem to have taken a back seat to other concerns that seem to be quite out of place in an effort such as this. When (if!) the Veyron is offered for general sale it will not have the 1001 PS (_not_ bhp - they are slightly different) or the 250 mph claimed top end. VW has the nasty choice to make: re-engineer the whole thing from scratch or take a performance knock. Considering their hefty investment thus far, throwing it all away and starting again isn't really an option.
Ciao
Zak
Wanna nit-pick? Well the original Ford GT (as it was correctly called - the "40" being just a nickname) was actually 40.5 inches high - but GT40 sounded much better than GT40.5 ;-)
Ciao
Zak
First things first: Current F1 champions, both driver & constructor. Many racing teams would be over the moon to achieve iether one once. Ferrari has done this more often than any other team. Ferrari also has the most F1 wins, most F1 points, have contested the most F1 races and seasons. Ferrari was, until the advent of Toyota and the buyout of Benneton by Renault, the only team to make both the engine and the chassis for themselves.
Ferrari also has the most uncompromising history of building great sportscars. Initially they were a sideline to fund the racing department, but today cars like the Enzo and 360 Modena are class-leaders - if not in absolute drag-strip times but there are few in their respective classes faster around a racetrack. I would be surprised if the McLaren F1 was consistently faster than the Enzo around a series of tracks.
As for your autobahn machines question, that is a highly competitive class, with the Bentley Continental GT, Mercedes-Benz E,S and SL 55 AMGs and the new Ferrari 612 Scaglietti all right there at the front of the pack.
You mention the Ford GT. The original GT40 did in fact clean up at Le Mans for a period of three or four years. However I have to mention that the project would never had been so successful if Ford did not simply buy Eric Broadley and his Lola GT project and use that as a starting point. Remember too that at that time, Ferrari was consciously moving away from the sports-racing category and into Formula One racing exclusively. The original GT40 though is still an awesome piece of kit, no two ways about that, but one does I feel have to contextualise what transpired.
No other manufacturer ever has a list of production machines that makes the enthusiast drool. From the 250 SWB, 250 TdF, 500 Superfast, 250 GTO - widely regarded as the paragon of sports cars - to the 275 GTB/4, 365 GTB/4 Daytona, the little Dino, the 3x8s, the Testarossa, the 360, the 288 GTO, the F40, F50 and now the Enzo they have always produced something for the enthusiast. All this adds up to Ferrari having the ultimate name in automotive performance.
And, for the record, there is something about the Italian way of producing cars that has produced some of the finest machinery around. Alfa-Romeo, Fiat, Lancia, Maserati, Abarth, Ferrari, De Tomaso, Lamborghini, Osca, Stanguellini, Bizzarrini, ATS, ASA, ISO, Moretti, Francis Lombardy, and the design houses of Pininfarina, Bertone, Zagato, Touring, Marazzi, Boana, Ghia, Ellena, Vignale, ItalDesign & Giugiaro have between them produced a mind-boggling array of high-performance machines and in most cases utterly gorgeous bodies. The area around Modena in particular has spawned an impressive array of truly amazing sportscars and supercars: Ferrari, Maserati, De Tomaso and Lamborghini all are from around Modena, and the brief resurrection of Bugatti (the EB110 in the early nineties) was also based around there somewhere.
Seconded. A number of cars on the list are undeserving, but the SM is possibly the least worthy of its position here. Another interesting feature of the SM was the ability of its headlights to swivel as the wheel is turned, allowing for the beams to illuminate where the car is heading instead of where the nose is pointing. Similar systems are now being introduced on certain brands - I know of Opel for sure but there are possibly others.
Ciao
Zak
However dodgy your personal experiences with the 'Sud, it's actually highly regarded by those in the know. A few foibles apart, it was a dynamic and innovative model that would probably make an expert's Top 250 or possibly even Top 100 cars of all time list. Clue: Forbes seems to know as much about cars as they do about Free Software and GNU/Linux especially....
Ciao
Zak
(For once my url is relevant: http://www.carfolio.com/ )
Come on moderators - the parent needs modding up.
What a dickhead. Fuck.
When ATM fraud is committed, the individual whose account is stolen from takes the fall. When banks are robbed at gunpoint, it isn't feasible to make just one account holder carry the can for it, so it has to be amortised over a number of accounts. It is obviously cheaper for the banks to allow relatively easy ATM crime than to be robbed at a branch. Remember, no-one ever steals from banks - they only steal from you. Both the banks and the "criminals" I mean...
As opposed to the bad dictator they have currently? ;-)
Ciao
Zak
Nice! Much better than my effort. Now if only we could get a few thousand of these sent in to the RFID consortium we might just have a shot at making them re-think their business model as the legal costs to respond to each such notice spirals way beyond what they could have feared.
Ciao
Zak
Here is the text of a letter I wrote to them. Feel free to improve on the text if you're a lawyer so that it may actually work as a contract, and also to suggest any other changes that may force them to rethink their business strategy on the basis of our privacy not actually being free for them to use. .........
I hereby note my wholehearted objection to your complete and total disregard for
my privacy. Furthermore, should you plan to derive profit at the expense of my
privacy, I expect compensation. After all, the privacy is *mine*, not yours to
profit off.
Should I find that an RFID tag has compromised my privacy, I shall bill you at
an amount I feel is acceptable. Your issuing of RFID tags or the technology to
implement them to any company that will indiscriminately embed it in any kind of
product that I might purchase, through choice or otherwise, or be issued with,
by choice or otherwise, will indicate your acceptance of these terms.