1) The new rating is 238. The old rating was 247. While various people have dyno'd and believe the true rating is below 238, there's some question as to if this is due to the car being too smart for single axel dynos and limiting performance if it doesn't detect the front wheels moving (plenty of BMWs do this too).
At any rate, the car's perfectly capable of pulling a "less than 6.0" 0-60. 5.9 secs if you want to be precise.
2) Yes, 159 lb-ft of torque is less than 160... It also redlines at 9000 rpms. It's a sports car so you rev it high and leave it there (and eat your gas bill). This isn't particularly different from the WRX (which admittedly isn't as bad) or S2000 both of which also lack low end torque (the WRX needs to get its turbos going before the fun really starts).
Anyone want to take a stab at how much a horse eats per mile? I guess to be fair, you'd probably want to multiply it by 4 at least. Even then it's only 4 horsepower versus like 100-150 in your standard economy car.
Check out Gyricon. It's an e-paper technology by Xerox. Though I haven't heard if they've actually released an actual product yet. It looks like they're starting with large format signs that can be easily changed (billboard advertising for example).
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You can use VCF files to make todo lists/display random text data.
And it's a heck of a lot easier and more elegant than setting up mp3 tags.
begin:vcard version:3.0 fn:To Do List title:1) Write Perl Script\n2) Write.vcf file\n3) Copy to contacts folder on iPod end:vcard
It's a fairly widespread notion that primitive human beings invented because, physically, we're inferior to other species. It's reasonable to take from this that a smart but physically capable species would only develop as much technology as was necessary for them to survive.
The other driving force for human technology is war. If the apes had fewer wars or a shorter history, they would again have had less reason to develop high technology.
How about we combine some technologies? There's supposedly been subsonic or ultrasonic (I forget which) devices invented by the army that can make people nauseous by being too close.
Why not setup a bunch of these in a circle around this thing we don't want people to go near? We can use the plutonium to provide power. The only issue left would be having it maintain itself. Some advances in robotics technology over the next several hundred years should manage that.
In the end, we'll have this big structure where people will naturally avoid because they'll feel sick as they approach it. Unless human physiology evolves quickly enough to render the subsonic technology worthless. But better to depend on evolution than society I'd figure.
Perhaps this is just wishful thinking on my part but shouldn't SEGA have been able to design in some backwards compatibility into the lan adapter? Surely they could have arranged it so that it looked like a normal modem to older games and just piped packets through.
Modem emulation doesn't sound like it should be that hard to me but then I don't know much about the DCs architecture so maybe they just weren't thinking ahead when they designed the expansion port originally.
At anyrate, it isn't as if too many games have net play yet so it could be a moot point.
This topic is presented better in this article. But I'll try to sum it up:
The electoral college is like the world series.
Say on average, team A should be able to score 2 more runs per game than team B. If you were to determine the winner of the world series by who scored the most runs after 7 games ( popular vote) then team A would almost never lose. Occasionally, team B would outscore team A in a game but on average, team A would come out ahead. And since you're totalling the runs, all that coming out ahead adds up.
On the other hand, if you determine the winner by who won the majority of the games (electoral college), team B's chances improve. The odds that they'll win 4 close games while losing 3 not-as-close games are better than their chances to outscore team A over 7 games.
If you're a player on team b, your actions in the second scenario matter more than in the first. Or to make an analogy, if team A is much better than team B, then no matter what you do on team b, it's generally meaningless. But if the difference is not as great, then while your actions in an electoral college may still be meaningless, they'd be less meaningless than in a straight popular vote.
The article presents this concept with better backing so give it a read.
The listed "electoral college" article actually has nothing to say about the electoral college system. It talks about the problems with plurality voting when there's more than 2 candidates.
Here's an article about how the electoral college among other things, helps prevent extremist from getting elected.
Math Against Tyranny by Will Hively from Discover Magazine 11/96.
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You should get your facts right.
1) The new rating is 238. The old rating was 247. While various people have dyno'd and believe the true rating is below 238, there's some question as to if this is due to the car being too smart for single axel dynos and limiting performance if it doesn't detect the front wheels moving (plenty of BMWs do this too).
At any rate, the car's perfectly capable of pulling a "less than 6.0" 0-60. 5.9 secs if you want to be precise.
2) Yes, 159 lb-ft of torque is less than 160... It also redlines at 9000 rpms. It's a sports car so you rev it high and leave it there (and eat your gas bill). This isn't particularly different from the WRX (which admittedly isn't as bad) or S2000 both of which also lack low end torque (the WRX needs to get its turbos going before the fun really starts).
Anyone want to take a stab at how much a horse eats per mile? I guess to be fair, you'd probably want to multiply it by 4 at least. Even then it's only 4 horsepower versus like 100-150 in your standard economy car.
Divisibility by 3 and 4 is a good point. How about basing your projects on 12 cm units then? Or alternately, 36 cm which is close to a foot (14").
Check out Gyricon. It's an e-paper technology by Xerox. Though I haven't heard if they've actually released an actual product yet. It looks like they're starting with large format signs that can be easily changed (billboard advertising for example).
You can use VCF files to make todo lists/display random text data.
.vcf file\n3) Copy to contacts folder on iPod
And it's a heck of a lot easier and more elegant than setting up mp3 tags.
begin:vcard
version:3.0
fn:To Do List
title:1) Write Perl Script\n2) Write
end:vcard
Voila.
It's a fairly widespread notion that primitive human beings invented because, physically, we're inferior to other species. It's reasonable to take from this that a smart but physically capable species would only develop as much technology as was necessary for them to survive.
The other driving force for human technology is war. If the apes had fewer wars or a shorter history, they would again have had less reason to develop high technology.
How about we combine some technologies? There's supposedly been subsonic or ultrasonic (I forget which) devices invented by the army that can make people nauseous by being too close.
Why not setup a bunch of these in a circle around this thing we don't want people to go near? We can use the plutonium to provide power. The only issue left would be having it maintain itself. Some advances in robotics technology over the next several hundred years should manage that.
In the end, we'll have this big structure where people will naturally avoid because they'll feel sick as they approach it. Unless human physiology evolves quickly enough to render the subsonic technology worthless. But better to depend on evolution than society I'd figure.
Perhaps this is just wishful thinking on my part but shouldn't SEGA have been able to design in some backwards compatibility into the lan adapter? Surely they could have arranged it so that it looked like a normal modem to older games and just piped packets through.
Modem emulation doesn't sound like it should be that hard to me but then I don't know much about the DCs architecture so maybe they just weren't thinking ahead when they designed the expansion port originally.
At anyrate, it isn't as if too many games have net play yet so it could be a moot point.
The electoral college is like the world series.
Say on average, team A should be able to score 2 more runs per game than team B. If you were to determine the winner of the world series by who scored the most runs after 7 games ( popular vote) then team A would almost never lose. Occasionally, team B would outscore team A in a game but on average, team A would come out ahead. And since you're totalling the runs, all that coming out ahead adds up.
On the other hand, if you determine the winner by who won the majority of the games (electoral college), team B's chances improve. The odds that they'll win 4 close games while losing 3 not-as-close games are better than their chances to outscore team A over 7 games.
If you're a player on team b, your actions in the second scenario matter more than in the first. Or to make an analogy, if team A is much better than team B, then no matter what you do on team b, it's generally meaningless. But if the difference is not as great, then while your actions in an electoral college may still be meaningless, they'd be less meaningless than in a straight popular vote.
The article presents this concept with better backing so give it a read.
Here's an article about how the electoral college among other things, helps prevent extremist from getting elected. Math Against Tyranny by Will Hively from Discover Magazine 11/96.