Good post. Separating the infrastructure (e.g. tracks) from the service (e.g. trains) would definitely be a good idea, since the "natural" monopolies always arise from the former, rather than the latter.
However, in the US, deregulation almost always means privatizing infrastructure along with service. And whoever owns the infrastructure will inevitably end up monopolizing the service in a deregulated industry.
Today's political climate would NEVER allow the US government to seize telco infrastucture under emminent domain, so unfortunately, we will never know if what you propose would work.
>There is a ton of proof that de-regulating monopolies creates better products, including the municipal arena.
And there is a ton of proof that unregulated monopolies are not only harmful, but so harmful, in fact, that we have anti-trust laws that make many types of monopolies outright illegal. Are you proposing those laws are anti-competitive and anti-free market?
Also note that three of the examples in your deregulated, privatized, Randian utopia are NOT conducive to natural monopolies - bus service, airplane service, and drumroll... the PC market (wow, talk about the odd one out). And newsflash, killing Amtrak unions would do NOTHING to revive the passenger train service market. Its dead, dead, dead. Almost every single mode of transportation is preferable except for (intra-state) commuter trains, which would still have to be heavily subsidized to survive.
Your water example is pure anecdote. Cable is simply an extension of telecom at this point, and your argument there is simply "oh I bet deregulation would be good!"
Curious how you mention the PC market and how it is "deregulated" but do not mention the most amazing "regulated" of government enforced, non-natural monopolies - software patents and copyrights.
t is regulation that creates monopolies, not deregulation.
Ludicrous. Reminder, this is the telecom provider market. That means there will ALWAYS be monopolies - its the nature of the beast, like road, sewer, water, and energy providers. Regulation of those natural monopolies creates regulated monopolies. De-regulation of those natural monopolies creates unregulated monopolies.
Pick your posion, but don't pretend that deregulation will magically prevent monopolies from forming in a market where natural monopolies are unavoidable.
The solution is obvious. The constitution awards patents and gives copyright protection in return for making your ideas and expressions thereof publicly available. When you DRM something, you no longer deserve consideration under current copyright law. If you do not publish your work (i.e. it is not encumbered with DRM), do are not given copyrights to it.
It becomes similar to trade secrets: if it is ever cracked or leaked (the activity of which being illegal), it falls into the public domain.
From 4.1 Combination of Trademarks in Product Names...
"Licensees may combine the UNIX Trademark with their own trademarks as a product name, provided they seek prior approval by submitting the proposed combination including a sketch of the proposed use. If approporate, to X/Open Company. X/Open Company may ask to review a proof of the final artwork."
"Licensees may use the UNIX Trademark as part of the proper name of a product."...
"The License specifically prohibits Licensees of any Trademarks from registering with the relevant trademark authorities specific forms of the Trademarks including Trademarks used in combination."
>I claim that freedom can only come through religion. Those who have no religion are stuck in prison. They can't see beyond the grave. They have no hope for a better life. They have no purpose in life.
Only if you are irretreivably stupid or incredibly unimaginitive.
>Comparing the leaders of my church with the leaders of the cult at Waco Texas is an insult.
Not really. It is quite apt. Psuedoscience, cults, and religion are birds of a feather. Go read "Under the Banner of Heaven"
It should, and *you* should know that name before donning your tin-foil hat and making stuff up, when the MSFT/BS/RBC connection is staring at you in the face.
>Get off your high horse asshole. You are increasing boost pressure by upping the wastegate relief pressure, thereby slowing down the exhaust flow, thereby lowering your initial torque. You have to make up for it by either launching and remaining at a higher RPM or increasing the exhaust area.
Nope. Not generally true. In fact, only true for VERY large turbos (like the drag strip queen supra example) that are limited by exhaust flow pressure.
I'd like to know which tracks you have run in your car; i'm sure i could teach you a lesson or two.
Also, you might want to check out what, say, the World Challege GT cars are running, and ask if they are losing torque when they increase wastegate pressure.
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>I'd start to worry about charge temperature at 18psi boost (I'm not familiar enough with the 1.8T setup to know if they typically have quality intercoolers, or any intercooler at all).
There are TONS of aftermarket intercoolers available for most of these FI cars. The stock one works fine for most simple chip applications.
>You'll also have to bump up to premium gas if the car didn't require it already to prevent detonation caused by the higher temperatures.
Yes, the audi 1.8t and 2.7tt require 91 oct.
Again, tuners have addressed detonation and timing issues. Trust me, this is NOT a new art.
most turbocharged cars REQUIRE 91 octane minimum
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and many tuners offer race gas programs tuned for specific gas.
run 87 in one of these, and watch the ECU kill the timing - you won't necessarily even detonate, just lose a ton of power and mileage.
>why would factories bother with a whole new ECU, exhaust, porting, cams, et cetera, if they could get functionally identical results by just blowing a new EPROM?
the question is ease of install. simply blowing a new eeprom isn't that simple - most advanced ECUs do NOT let you simply blow a new eeprom through the OBD port. you have to resolder a new one on, in which case, while you are in there, you may as well add a way to upgrade the eeprom you just added.
All this is probably too much for the average customer, so most reputable tuners for these kinds of chips either a) supply their own stock ecus for modding or b) require you to send in your own ecu for modding.
>People who have insane amounts of drive and passion for life and their work (like Bill Gates) have plenty of friends.
Nope. I have first hand accounts that Bill Gates is a pariah at parties and social events. He mostly sits in the corner alone because nobody will talk to him.
"On its Web site, the firm said the software could beam 135,000 pop-up ads at consumers every hour, and claimed to have a database of over two billion Internet addresses, according to the FTC."
2^32, minus subnets and netmasks, minus 10, 127, 192.168, etc...
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Wrong movie.
That one is "its a TRICK"
Good post. Separating the infrastructure (e.g. tracks) from the service (e.g. trains) would definitely be a good idea, since the "natural" monopolies always arise from the former, rather than the latter.
However, in the US, deregulation almost always means privatizing infrastructure along with service. And whoever owns the infrastructure will inevitably end up monopolizing the service in a deregulated industry.
Today's political climate would NEVER allow the US government to seize telco infrastucture under emminent domain, so unfortunately, we will never know if what you propose would work.
>There is a ton of proof that de-regulating monopolies creates better products, including the municipal arena.
And there is a ton of proof that unregulated monopolies are not only harmful, but so harmful, in fact, that we have anti-trust laws that make many types of monopolies outright illegal. Are you proposing those laws are anti-competitive and anti-free market?
Also note that three of the examples in your deregulated, privatized, Randian utopia are NOT conducive to natural monopolies - bus service, airplane service, and drumroll... the PC market (wow, talk about the odd one out). And newsflash, killing Amtrak unions would do NOTHING to revive the passenger train service market. Its dead, dead, dead. Almost every single mode of transportation is preferable except for (intra-state) commuter trains, which would still have to be heavily subsidized to survive.
Your water example is pure anecdote. Cable is simply an extension of telecom at this point, and your argument there is simply "oh I bet deregulation would be good!"
Curious how you mention the PC market and how it is "deregulated" but do not mention the most amazing "regulated" of government enforced, non-natural monopolies - software patents and copyrights.
Why is that?
t is regulation that creates monopolies, not deregulation.
Ludicrous. Reminder, this is the telecom provider market. That means there will ALWAYS be monopolies - its the nature of the beast, like road, sewer, water, and energy providers. Regulation of those natural monopolies creates regulated monopolies. De-regulation of those natural monopolies creates unregulated monopolies.
Pick your posion, but don't pretend that deregulation will magically prevent monopolies from forming in a market where natural monopolies are unavoidable.
The solution is obvious. The constitution awards patents and gives copyright protection in return for making your ideas and expressions thereof publicly available. When you DRM something, you no longer deserve consideration under current copyright law. If you do not publish your work (i.e. it is not encumbered with DRM), do are not given copyrights to it.
It becomes similar to trade secrets: if it is ever cracked or leaked (the activity of which being illegal), it falls into the public domain.
480i/480p/540p are noticably HORRIBLE on the smallest of HD TVs
get it right
"Selective enforcement" has a long, glorious history.
Please do your research.
"Selective enforcement" is a phrase that is supposed to trigger a libertarian response from you.
Try to keep up.
oh no you dont, Darl
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From 4.1 Combination of Trademarks in Product Names
"Licensees may combine the UNIX Trademark with their own trademarks as a product name, provided they seek prior approval by submitting the proposed combination including a sketch of the proposed use. If approporate, to X/Open Company. X/Open Company may ask to review a proof of the final artwork."
"Licensees may use the UNIX Trademark as part of the proper name of a product."
"The License specifically prohibits Licensees of any Trademarks from registering with the relevant trademark authorities specific forms of the Trademarks including Trademarks used in combination."
>I claim that freedom can only come through religion. Those who have no religion are stuck in prison. They can't see beyond the grave. They have no hope for a better life. They have no purpose in life.
Only if you are irretreivably stupid or incredibly unimaginitive.
>Comparing the leaders of my church with the leaders of the cult at Waco Texas is an insult.
Not really. It is quite apt. Psuedoscience, cults, and religion are birds of a feather. Go read "Under the Banner of Heaven"
You might learn a thing or two.
it will nuke the whole line in one fell swoop.
no thanks.
a db should not require *ANY* X components to install, run or maintain, period.
whoever @ orcacle is reponsible for this "feature" should be shitcanned.
forTuneCooOkie
It should, and *you* should know that name before donning your tin-foil hat and making stuff up, when the MSFT/BS/RBC connection is staring at you in the face.
hrm musta used a bigendian machine
but you knew that.
funny how they keep adding turbos to big diesel engines to get torque. I guess they must be going about it all wrong and shouldn't bother.
>Get off your high horse asshole. You are increasing boost pressure by upping the wastegate relief pressure, thereby slowing down the exhaust flow, thereby lowering your initial torque. You have to make up for it by either launching and remaining at a higher RPM or increasing the exhaust area.
Nope. Not generally true. In fact, only true for VERY large turbos (like the drag strip queen supra example) that are limited by exhaust flow pressure.
Any commments on this dyno?
I'd like to know which tracks you have run in your car; i'm sure i could teach you a lesson or two.
Also, you might want to check out what, say, the World Challege GT cars are running, and ask if they are losing torque when they increase wastegate pressure.
>I'd start to worry about charge temperature at 18psi boost (I'm not familiar enough with the 1.8T setup to know if they typically have quality intercoolers, or any intercooler at all).
There are TONS of aftermarket intercoolers available for most of these FI cars. The stock one works fine for most simple chip applications.
>You'll also have to bump up to premium gas if the car didn't require it already to prevent detonation caused by the higher temperatures.
Yes, the audi 1.8t and 2.7tt require 91 oct.
Again, tuners have addressed detonation and timing issues. Trust me, this is NOT a new art.
and many tuners offer race gas programs tuned for specific gas.
run 87 in one of these, and watch the ECU kill the timing - you won't necessarily even detonate, just lose a ton of power and mileage.
>why would factories bother with a whole new ECU, exhaust, porting, cams, et cetera, if they could get functionally identical results by just blowing a new EPROM?
the question is ease of install. simply blowing a new eeprom isn't that simple - most advanced ECUs do NOT let you simply blow a new eeprom through the OBD port. you have to resolder a new one on, in which case, while you are in there, you may as well add a way to upgrade the eeprom you just added.
All this is probably too much for the average customer, so most reputable tuners for these kinds of chips either a) supply their own stock ecus for modding or b) require you to send in your own ecu for modding.
boosting the pressure increases both torque and HP.
typically, the torque band is not as flat, but that is not killing your torque band. Nowhere is the torque LOWER for a given rpm.
you really have no idea what your are talking about.
its called increasing boost.
just a chip in my 2.7 twin turbo will add 50hp easy.
>People who have insane amounts of drive and passion for life and their work (like Bill Gates) have plenty of friends.
Nope. I have first hand accounts that Bill Gates is a pariah at parties and social events. He mostly sits in the corner alone because nobody will talk to him.
"On its Web site, the firm said the software could beam 135,000 pop-up ads at consumers every hour, and claimed to have a database of over two billion Internet addresses, according to the FTC."
2^32, minus subnets and netmasks, minus 10, 127, 192.168, etc...