If you live in the U.S. and you routinely drive half that speed your driver's license is going be gone in a month.
I am living proof this is not true. You just have to be careful, and spend a lot of your time driving around at 4AM on empty highways. I very frequently drive most of the way to work at around 140 MPH. Where I live, we have LONG stretches of highway with no on-ramps, and walls/barricades on both sides, and long flat sections where you can literally see for miles and miles. And my car is usually race-prepped. I can do a 140-to-zero stop faster than most cars can stop from 70.
However, I do not drive at high speed in or near traffic, and I don't street race.
There is simply no reason to even allow a car with this much power to be licensed for highway driving.
Who died and made you queen?
If you buy a car with this much power, and then drive anywhere close to the speed limit you are just a retard compensating for your absence of a penis and or brains.
*Yawn.*
Re: Are there any cars out there better than this?
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Unless you're talking about a 911 GT2 or a race-prepped GT3, any street-driven Viper will mop the floor with a 911. And if you're talking GT2 or GT3, a more apt comparison is a Viper Competition Coupe, which again will eat the Porsche's lunch.
That being said, if 911's weren't so overpriced, I'd still buy one for my wife.
Indy cars don't need anything even remotely approaching 400 MPH to generate that kind of downforce. The Ferrari 360 Modena (barely even an exotic) makes sufficient downforce to support it's own weight at about 150 MPH due to its elaborately engineered undertray. However, the all-time downforce winner is the Toyota Eagle MKIII GTP car from the late 80's (or maybe early 90's, I forget) which had configurations that generated downforce in excess of 11,000 pounds at 200 MPH (which it could attain in places like the Mulsanne straight at Le Mans).
Comparing Apache to IIS in terms of lock-in is missing the point "gbjbaanb" was trying to make. He is comparing the RedHat/Apache combination to the Microsoft/IIS combination.
There is no lock-in to IIS. If you let it install during setup, it takes all of about 30 seconds to uninstall it later on. Whether you uninstall it or not, you're free to install anything else, including Apache. (I'm not sure why you'd run both, but there isn't any reason you can't.)
An argument based on bundling is valid -- Apache has no way to slipstream their product into a given OS release without the willing help of an outside party (whomever distributes that OS) -- but that's unrelated to gbjbaanb's post.
On top of that, selling 50,000 copies at $50 is a lot easier than selling 250,000 copies at $10 to the same audience (who will assume a $10 game is probably junk).
Worst of all, the Sony Memory Stick is a "dumb" format. Unlike Compact Flash, all of the read/write electronics are in the device itself. This probably makes the Memory Sticks cheaper to produce, although you'll notice they don't sell for less, funny how that works. Compact Flash, on the other hand, has most of the read/write electronics in the CF media itself. This means the device is potentially simplified a bit (probably not much chance of affecting the price significantly, but less to break over time), but more importantly it means you can gain important read/write speed improvements just by purchasing newer media.
When I bought my camera, the best LexarMedia CF cards had a write speed of about 8X. Today they're about three times as fast, and that translates almost directly into faster "ready for the next photo" speeds.
Granted, this aspect probably wouldn't matter much in this specific e-book application (unless maybe you can search book content? seems likely, the article mentions a keyboard), but it's a great illustration of how the Sony format sucks in comparison.
Aside from the obvious fact that Sony itself sucks.
Re:Following distance? We don't need no stinking f
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A Taurus is pretty much bottom-of-the-line transportation short of a cheapy import like a Kia or whatever, so take that into account. It's the car you buy when (1) you don't much like or pay attention to cars, and (2) both of your jobs involve the phrases "sales associate" and "department store". Or (3) you work for Ford, and they just give you one.
Additionally, Detroit has a well-deserved reputation for having some of the worst roads in the country. This is ironic considering how important it's supposed to be to our auto industry, but there you have it.
There are definite (and sometimes extreme) regional differences in driving habits, too. For several years my work required that I do a lot of traveling, and being a car guy, I always found these differences very interesting.
In short, what you saw riding in a crappy Ford on a crappy Detroit road really doesn't give you a clear picture of what things are like across the other 160,000 miles of highway in this country...
Chips already regulate speeds in cars now. Police Crown Victorias are almost completely stock, just without the 'Guv chip.
Not even close. Cop Crown Vics get different suspension, transmission, rear-end, wider rims and tires, different headers, a larger fan and radiator, an oversize alternator, 4-wheel disc brakes (stock has drums in back), a more powerful AC compressor, and stiffer springs and shocks. None of these items are stock, and most of them are not available as an option to the public (new from the manufacturer, anyway). If the locale can afford it, other items are available like a small screw-drive motor to crack the hood open from inside the car, a second battery, battery relocation to the trunk, and bumper upgrades. Then of course, you have all the usual cop equipment (lights, radios, cages, etc).
So, no, they don't just have an ungoverned engine.
A good friend of mine used to do final prep on cop cars at a local dealership that cranks out about 1000 cop cars per year.
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If you live in the U.S. and you routinely drive half that speed your driver's license is going be gone in a month.
I am living proof this is not true. You just have to be careful, and spend a lot of your time driving around at 4AM on empty highways. I very frequently drive most of the way to work at around 140 MPH. Where I live, we have LONG stretches of highway with no on-ramps, and walls/barricades on both sides, and long flat sections where you can literally see for miles and miles. And my car is usually race-prepped. I can do a 140-to-zero stop faster than most cars can stop from 70.
However, I do not drive at high speed in or near traffic, and I don't street race.
There is simply no reason to even allow a car with this much power to be licensed for highway driving.
Who died and made you queen?
If you buy a car with this much power, and then drive anywhere close to the speed limit you are just a retard compensating for your absence of a penis and or brains.
*Yawn.*
Unless you're talking about a 911 GT2 or a race-prepped GT3, any street-driven Viper will mop the floor with a 911. And if you're talking GT2 or GT3, a more apt comparison is a Viper Competition Coupe, which again will eat the Porsche's lunch.
That being said, if 911's weren't so overpriced, I'd still buy one for my wife.
Indy cars don't need anything even remotely approaching 400 MPH to generate that kind of downforce. The Ferrari 360 Modena (barely even an exotic) makes sufficient downforce to support it's own weight at about 150 MPH due to its elaborately engineered undertray. However, the all-time downforce winner is the Toyota Eagle MKIII GTP car from the late 80's (or maybe early 90's, I forget) which had configurations that generated downforce in excess of 11,000 pounds at 200 MPH (which it could attain in places like the Mulsanne straight at Le Mans).
Typo. Try this:
"Why don't you tell us once your country has lost wars for 2,000 years?"
Heh... I can't argue with that!
[golf clap]
Comparing Apache to IIS in terms of lock-in is missing the point "gbjbaanb" was trying to make. He is comparing the RedHat/Apache combination to the Microsoft/IIS combination.
There is no lock-in to IIS. If you let it install during setup, it takes all of about 30 seconds to uninstall it later on. Whether you uninstall it or not, you're free to install anything else, including Apache. (I'm not sure why you'd run both, but there isn't any reason you can't.)
An argument based on bundling is valid -- Apache has no way to slipstream their product into a given OS release without the willing help of an outside party (whomever distributes that OS) -- but that's unrelated to gbjbaanb's post.
Nice flamebait though.
Web apps will be what ultimately kills .Net
.NET.
Web apps are only a tiny, relatively insignficant part of
I speak this from experience as somebody with math/engineering background (B.S. / M.S.) and switched into quantitative finance.
For someone bearing the actual username "grammar nazi", that sentence is a real mess.
Quiet, you! He's "inately" superior.
Hmm... Several tracks from the Run Lola Run soundtrack has lyrics...
You mean you've implemented this in C#? Or are you saying what you could do?
Sorry but there's no way to do it in the current C# implementation.
He described changes to the JIT... in other words, he is proposing something for use by C#, not necessarily something written in C# itself.
On top of that, selling 50,000 copies at $50 is a lot easier than selling 250,000 copies at $10 to the same audience (who will assume a $10 game is probably junk).
and people forced to upgrade to run the OS
Sounds more like they were "forced" to upgrade to run the "huge levels of spyware/crapware".
That ought to make it pretty easy to live up to the hype...
The refresh to display a new page is a bit low...
Someone has lost the plot here. Is it them, or is it me?
Unfortunately, we have lost the plot.
Your sig precisely defines the Sony business model.
"Ur" probably able to store a bookmark on the flash memory card. Just think, "u" no longer have "2" worry about losing "ur" bookmark.
I suspect that this is not possible with this device.
You need only look as far as the "Sony" name badge to confirm that...
Can we just leave Sony out of it and pay for geek knife fights directly?
Worst of all, the Sony Memory Stick is a "dumb" format. Unlike Compact Flash, all of the read/write electronics are in the device itself. This probably makes the Memory Sticks cheaper to produce, although you'll notice they don't sell for less, funny how that works. Compact Flash, on the other hand, has most of the read/write electronics in the CF media itself. This means the device is potentially simplified a bit (probably not much chance of affecting the price significantly, but less to break over time), but more importantly it means you can gain important read/write speed improvements just by purchasing newer media.
When I bought my camera, the best LexarMedia CF cards had a write speed of about 8X. Today they're about three times as fast, and that translates almost directly into faster "ready for the next photo" speeds.
Granted, this aspect probably wouldn't matter much in this specific e-book application (unless maybe you can search book content? seems likely, the article mentions a keyboard), but it's a great illustration of how the Sony format sucks in comparison.
Aside from the obvious fact that Sony itself sucks.
A Taurus is pretty much bottom-of-the-line transportation short of a cheapy import like a Kia or whatever, so take that into account. It's the car you buy when (1) you don't much like or pay attention to cars, and (2) both of your jobs involve the phrases "sales associate" and "department store". Or (3) you work for Ford, and they just give you one.
Additionally, Detroit has a well-deserved reputation for having some of the worst roads in the country. This is ironic considering how important it's supposed to be to our auto industry, but there you have it.
There are definite (and sometimes extreme) regional differences in driving habits, too. For several years my work required that I do a lot of traveling, and being a car guy, I always found these differences very interesting.
In short, what you saw riding in a crappy Ford on a crappy Detroit road really doesn't give you a clear picture of what things are like across the other 160,000 miles of highway in this country...
Chips already regulate speeds in cars now. Police Crown Victorias are almost completely stock, just without the 'Guv chip.
Not even close. Cop Crown Vics get different suspension, transmission, rear-end, wider rims and tires, different headers, a larger fan and radiator, an oversize alternator, 4-wheel disc brakes (stock has drums in back), a more powerful AC compressor, and stiffer springs and shocks. None of these items are stock, and most of them are not available as an option to the public (new from the manufacturer, anyway). If the locale can afford it, other items are available like a small screw-drive motor to crack the hood open from inside the car, a second battery, battery relocation to the trunk, and bumper upgrades. Then of course, you have all the usual cop equipment (lights, radios, cages, etc).
So, no, they don't just have an ungoverned engine.
A good friend of mine used to do final prep on cop cars at a local dealership that cranks out about 1000 cop cars per year.
The very first phrase answers all of your questions about the license itself:
If you distribute, license or sell a Licensed Implementation
Does this section mean that everyone who implements this must notify Microsoft that they are using it?
Only if you distribute, license, or sell it.
If you're "not licensed to distribute a Licensed Implementation", then does each end user have to check in with MS?
Since you're not licensed to distribute an implementation, you'd not supposed to have "end users" at all (other than yourself).
If I write, say an e-mail class in PHP that can use this spec for my personal web site, do I have to notify MS?
Not if it's for personal use. If your site "distributes" that capability to end users, it seems to me that you'd be in violation.
Of course, IANAL.