Most of the commercial, professionally-made films are utter shit too.
How often do you need to see Bruce Willis/Nicholas Cage/Vin Diesel/Other Replaceable Hero running away from a CG explosion/plane crash/earthquake/tsunami before you realise you've just paid a tenner to watch a bunch of video game cutscenes strung together?
Well kind of, but it's more that you can write - and legally enforce - a policy at your company that says that you will hand over any information about your customer on request, just so long as the person requesting it has that customer's explicit written permission to do so.
Now consider how this would work when they want to find out who has been torrenting from a particular IP address...
"We want the name and the address of the person using *this* IP at *this* date and time" "Sure, just get me written permission from that person, and I'll send it right over" "..." "Ah, it's Data Protection, y'see, can't just hand it over..."
... we have the Data Protection Act (the US doesn't have anything like this, unfortunately).
You could quite legitimately say that in accordance with your data protection policies, you will quite happily hand over the IP addresses and other information associated with them, no problem at all.
Just as long as you get written permission from the person who was using that IP address first.
On the other extreme, my boss believes that the patient should own their own medical record as a file they carry with them everywhere on a thumbdrive, I see that as a recipe for lost records and forgotten passwords.
"Thumbdrive". Run with that idea. Implant a micro SD card under the thumbnail, maybe...?
UK, motorway speed limit is 70mph but the police generally don't bother you unless you're obviously going way faster than everyone else. Over 100mph will get you noticed.
Twisty mountain roads aren't much slower, which is why we have a frankly horrific accident rate in the summer up here in Scotland.
I've never really liked flappy paddle gearboxes, mostly because of the lack of clutch control on hills and when pulling away very gently. Obviously once the car is moving the clutch is no longer relevant, on either a flappy-paddle or a manual, but it does make it easier to creep up to trailer hitches and stuff.
Braking and engine braking cause the car to behave in very different ways, particularly on rear wheel drive vehicles. On cars with automatic gearboxes you have to brake quite hard and lose a lot of road speed to get the thing to suddenly wake up and realise it needs to change gear.
You don't change gear to "keep the revs where you are comfortable", you change gear to match the engine's power and torque output to the requirements of the vehicle dynamics. Whether you like it or not is immaterial - it's what it makes the car do that's important. You really can't do that on cars with automatic gearboxes, at least not nearly as effectively.
And you drive on the track, how often exactly? By maintaining a comfortable, balanced driving style I have - to use your phrase - completely slaughtered your automatic driver on a couple of hundred miles of country roads.
Furthermore, you still haven't solved the problem of needing to tell the automatic gearbox when to change gear. It can't see the road. It can't respond to corners or hills. You've got to wait until the engine slows right down before the gearbox decides "oh, better cog it down a bit". Why bother with all that complicated extra tacked-on stuff, when you can have a nice simple ordinary gearbox?
I do wonder how people who drive automatics manage to cope with fast, curvy roads like we have in this part of the world (NW Scotland, twisty mountain roads with a 60mph limit that is considered a rough guideline for the minimum speed on the worst parts). You need to change gear pretty much constantly to keep the car balanced, otherwise you'll just fall off the road.
When I'm driving an automatic, I'm constantly switching between Drive, 3rd and even 2nd depending on the road conditions. You get used to switching a couple of seconds earlier than you'd change on a manual, to give the gearbox time to get its little hydraulic head together...
Obviously I'm not talking about taking ten minutes to change gear, I'm talking about the difference between the 500ms it takes to change gear with a manual gearbox versus the 100ms it takes the very fastest dual-clutch systems to change gear.
If it's in the wrong gear at the wrong time, it doesn't matter how quickly it changes...
How quickly you change gear makes absolutely no difference to performance. *When* you change gear is crucial, and no automatic gearbox can solve that problem.
Exactly. Even if you're not very good at sending or receiving Morse, you will have a distinctive "fist" - just as distinctive as your handwriting or the sound of your voice. As you get better, your speed and accuracy will improve but your fist will sound just the same.
Machine-sent Morse is as weirdly unintelligible as synthesized speech, and for much the same reason - the inflections are missing or wrong.
HOWEVER - the actions of this small group of zealots does not excuse folks like wisnoskij, to whom my original response was directed, from their fucked up, narcissistic world view that apparently involves locking rape victims in asylums.
Good work on missing the point to an almost aggressive degree.
The original poster wasn't talking about "locking rape victims in asylums", he was talking about getting people who are so mentally and emotionally damaged that they are likely to commit violent acts and harm themselves or others simply because they hear a "trigger", and requiring them to have the psychological and psychiatric treatment that they so clearly need before they can be safe among the rest of society.
That's the first post I've made in the thread, and the gp was in reply to someone else.
While I take your point that people are swayed by performance and reliability, I'd still say that most people don't really care what actually powers the car.
Maybe you're right, though - in the US most people seem to choose cars powered by heavy, thirsty, underpowered V8s even though they are hopelessly outperformed by modern European diesels.
Most people don't choose cars based on the bits that make them go
Really? I've never bought a car that didn't have the "bits that make them go."
I never thought I'd ever see one so skilled in the art of missing the point.
How much exactly do you care about the "bits that make it go" in your current car? Who manufactured the gearbox? Who manufactured the engine? What kind of timing belt does it use?
The steel chassis could easily be very much weaker than the plastic body.
Materials aren't only chosen for their strength. Maybe they want to use a steel chassis which is less likely to deform under light stress, but will catastrophically fail well before the plastic panels do.
People don't choose to be Mexican. They do choose to break into your house, but that's not related to where they come from. There isn't really much of a connection between where someone comes from, and burglary.
People choose to be Christian. They also choose to plant bombs under people's cars because they happen to follow a slightly different flavour of Christianity. There *is* a connection between having a particular set of beliefs (namely, that anyone who doesn't choose your way of life should die) and terrorism.
It's really pretty simple. I don't see where you get anything about race from, that's entirely down to you.
These guys race cars that require serious endurance to drive, they aren't anything like the POS you drive
Yeah, they're a little bit faster but to gain that speed they have sacrificed all the handling, braking and ride that make "ordinary" cars bearable.
They do it in heat at speeds that would make you crap your pants
Why not have air conditioning? Touring cars have it. Le Mans entrants have it.
These guys understand aerodynamics and they have to react constantly just to keep the cars on track
That's because American manufacturers haven't discovered suspension yet. Get out on the track in a straight-from-the-showroom BMW 335d and see how it goes
They risk their lives and exhaust themselves doing it while breathing monoxide.
Why not use diesel engines, which are simpler, much more powerful and cleaner - and don't produce any carbon monoxide because they always run lean?
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Let me just state for the record. ...
If France is on one side of an issue
There is about a 92.6% chance I am on the other.
Why's that then? Is that because they wouldn't join in George W Bush's antisemitic War on Brown People?
I must admit, Linux Mint is pretty good. I can't wait for them to start shipping with Unity though, then it will be just about perfect.
If your speedometer is under-reading, it is defective. They are designed to over-read by somewhere between 5% and 10%.
Most of the commercial, professionally-made films are utter shit too.
How often do you need to see Bruce Willis/Nicholas Cage/Vin Diesel/Other Replaceable Hero running away from a CG explosion/plane crash/earthquake/tsunami before you realise you've just paid a tenner to watch a bunch of video game cutscenes strung together?
You're a fucking fire hazard.
Well kind of, but it's more that you can write - and legally enforce - a policy at your company that says that you will hand over any information about your customer on request, just so long as the person requesting it has that customer's explicit written permission to do so.
Now consider how this would work when they want to find out who has been torrenting from a particular IP address...
"We want the name and the address of the person using *this* IP at *this* date and time"
"Sure, just get me written permission from that person, and I'll send it right over"
"..."
"Ah, it's Data Protection, y'see, can't just hand it over..."
... we have the Data Protection Act (the US doesn't have anything like this, unfortunately).
You could quite legitimately say that in accordance with your data protection policies, you will quite happily hand over the IP addresses and other information associated with them, no problem at all.
Just as long as you get written permission from the person who was using that IP address first.
On the other extreme, my boss believes that the patient should own their own medical record as a file they carry with them everywhere on a thumbdrive, I see that as a recipe for lost records and forgotten passwords.
"Thumbdrive". Run with that idea. Implant a micro SD card under the thumbnail, maybe...?
UK, motorway speed limit is 70mph but the police generally don't bother you unless you're obviously going way faster than everyone else. Over 100mph will get you noticed.
Twisty mountain roads aren't much slower, which is why we have a frankly horrific accident rate in the summer up here in Scotland.
So closer to normal Autobahn speeds, then, or somewhat less than 1.5 times normal motorway speeds.
I've never really liked flappy paddle gearboxes, mostly because of the lack of clutch control on hills and when pulling away very gently. Obviously once the car is moving the clutch is no longer relevant, on either a flappy-paddle or a manual, but it does make it easier to creep up to trailer hitches and stuff.
Braking and engine braking cause the car to behave in very different ways, particularly on rear wheel drive vehicles. On cars with automatic gearboxes you have to brake quite hard and lose a lot of road speed to get the thing to suddenly wake up and realise it needs to change gear.
You don't change gear to "keep the revs where you are comfortable", you change gear to match the engine's power and torque output to the requirements of the vehicle dynamics. Whether you like it or not is immaterial - it's what it makes the car do that's important. You really can't do that on cars with automatic gearboxes, at least not nearly as effectively.
And you drive on the track, how often exactly? By maintaining a comfortable, balanced driving style I have - to use your phrase - completely slaughtered your automatic driver on a couple of hundred miles of country roads.
Furthermore, you still haven't solved the problem of needing to tell the automatic gearbox when to change gear. It can't see the road. It can't respond to corners or hills. You've got to wait until the engine slows right down before the gearbox decides "oh, better cog it down a bit". Why bother with all that complicated extra tacked-on stuff, when you can have a nice simple ordinary gearbox?
I do wonder how people who drive automatics manage to cope with fast, curvy roads like we have in this part of the world (NW Scotland, twisty mountain roads with a 60mph limit that is considered a rough guideline for the minimum speed on the worst parts). You need to change gear pretty much constantly to keep the car balanced, otherwise you'll just fall off the road.
When I'm driving an automatic, I'm constantly switching between Drive, 3rd and even 2nd depending on the road conditions. You get used to switching a couple of seconds earlier than you'd change on a manual, to give the gearbox time to get its little hydraulic head together...
Obviously I'm not talking about taking ten minutes to change gear, I'm talking about the difference between the 500ms it takes to change gear with a manual gearbox versus the 100ms it takes the very fastest dual-clutch systems to change gear.
If it's in the wrong gear at the wrong time, it doesn't matter how quickly it changes...
How quickly you change gear makes absolutely no difference to performance. *When* you change gear is crucial, and no automatic gearbox can solve that problem.
Exactly. Even if you're not very good at sending or receiving Morse, you will have a distinctive "fist" - just as distinctive as your handwriting or the sound of your voice. As you get better, your speed and accuracy will improve but your fist will sound just the same.
Machine-sent Morse is as weirdly unintelligible as synthesized speech, and for much the same reason - the inflections are missing or wrong.
HOWEVER - the actions of this small group of zealots does not excuse folks like wisnoskij, to whom my original response was directed, from their fucked up, narcissistic world view that apparently involves locking rape victims in asylums.
Good work on missing the point to an almost aggressive degree.
The original poster wasn't talking about "locking rape victims in asylums", he was talking about getting people who are so mentally and emotionally damaged that they are likely to commit violent acts and harm themselves or others simply because they hear a "trigger", and requiring them to have the psychological and psychiatric treatment that they so clearly need before they can be safe among the rest of society.
A bit like slashdot trolls, really.
Actually as the other reply to my previous post said, V8s are more common in large cars and trucks, which is a fair point.
But even then, why would you cripple a large vehicle with a wheezy old petrol engine?
That's the first post I've made in the thread, and the gp was in reply to someone else.
While I take your point that people are swayed by performance and reliability, I'd still say that most people don't really care what actually powers the car.
Maybe you're right, though - in the US most people seem to choose cars powered by heavy, thirsty, underpowered V8s even though they are hopelessly outperformed by modern European diesels.
Most people don't choose cars based on the bits that make them go
Really? I've never bought a car that didn't have the "bits that make them go."
I never thought I'd ever see one so skilled in the art of missing the point.
How much exactly do you care about the "bits that make it go" in your current car? Who manufactured the gearbox? Who manufactured the engine? What kind of timing belt does it use?
The steel chassis could easily be very much weaker than the plastic body.
Materials aren't only chosen for their strength. Maybe they want to use a steel chassis which is less likely to deform under light stress, but will catastrophically fail well before the plastic panels do.
People don't choose to be Mexican. They do choose to break into your house, but that's not related to where they come from. There isn't really much of a connection between where someone comes from, and burglary.
People choose to be Christian. They also choose to plant bombs under people's cars because they happen to follow a slightly different flavour of Christianity. There *is* a connection between having a particular set of beliefs (namely, that anyone who doesn't choose your way of life should die) and terrorism.
It's really pretty simple. I don't see where you get anything about race from, that's entirely down to you.
Why, what happened then, here? Apart from the news was full of some crap about a building falling over somewhere in Mexico or something.
These guys race cars that require serious endurance to drive, they aren't anything like the POS you drive
Yeah, they're a little bit faster but to gain that speed they have sacrificed all the handling, braking and ride that make "ordinary" cars bearable.
They do it in heat at speeds that would make you crap your pants
Why not have air conditioning? Touring cars have it. Le Mans entrants have it.
These guys understand aerodynamics and they have to react constantly just to keep the cars on track
That's because American manufacturers haven't discovered suspension yet. Get out on the track in a straight-from-the-showroom BMW 335d and see how it goes
They risk their lives and exhaust themselves doing it while breathing monoxide.
Why not use diesel engines, which are simpler, much more powerful and cleaner - and don't produce any carbon monoxide because they always run lean?