When you stop quickly, much of your weight shifts to the front wheel. If you use the rear brake much during hard braking, you can easily lock it up, causing a loss of gyroscopic effect from the rear wheel... When this happens, your rear wheel tends to slide out of alignment with the front, leading to an eventual crash.
If the rear brake is release while the rear wheel is out of alignment, when the rear wheel regains traction, you tend to perform a highside, which is the worst type of motorcycle crash (picture what would happen if a bike was sliding sideways at 100kph on ice and it suddenly the ice turned into pavement).
Plus, the front doesn't seem to be "that" unstable, considering some of the stoppies people can pull (1000ft at a time).
I also used the I-Pac in my mame box, it works great, I highly reccomend it. It's available from Ultimarc. I also bought two j-stiks from them and they work great, high quality stuff.
If you're in an accident where the impact was hard enough to shatter a tiny microchip inside your body (say: your parachute didn't open), I'd say you've got bigger problems.
"If you have a game involving keeping a car on the road, you do that by tilting,"
Oh great, so now we're gonna have morons driving down the road, trying to keep their car on the road while using their cellphone to play a game, where they try to keep their car the on road.
this reminded me of a txt i saw on a bbs once
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Light Bulb Replacements
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The Dark Sucker Theory
For years, it has been believed that electric bulbs emit light, but recent information has proved otherwise. Electric bulbs don't emit light; they suck dark. Thus, we call these bulbs Dark Suckers.
The Dark Sucker Theory and the existence of dark suckers prove that dark has mass and is heavier than light.
First, the basis of the Dark Sucker Theory is that electric bulbs suck dark. For example, take the Dark Sucker in the room you are in. There is much less dark right next to it than there is elsewhere. The larger the Dark Sucker, the greater its capacity to suck dark. Dark Suckers in the parking lot have a much greater capacity to suck dark than the ones in this room.
So with all things, Dark Suckers don't last forever. Once they are full of dark, they can no longer suck. This is proven by the dark spot on a full Dark Sucker.
A candle is a primitive Dark Sucker. A new candle has a white wick. You can see that after the first use, the wick turns black, representing all the dark that has been sucked into it. If you put a pencil next to the wick of an operating candle, it will turn black. This is because it got in the way of the dark flowing into the candle. One of the disadvantages of these primitive Dark Suckers is their limited range.
There are also portable Dark Suckers. In these, the bulbs can't handle all the dark by themselves and must be aided by a Dark Storage Unit. When the Dark Storage Unit is full, it must be either emptied or replaced before the portable Dark Sucker can operate again.
Dark has mass. When dark goes into a Dark Sucker, friction from the mass generates heat. Thus, it is not wise to touch an operating Dark Sucker. Candles present a special problem as the mass must travel into a solid wick instead of through clear glass. This generates a great amount of heat and therefore it's not wise to touch an operating candle.
Also, dark is heavier than light. If you were to swim just below the surface of the lake, you would see a lot of light. If you were to slowly swim deeper and deeper, you would notice it getting darker and darker. When you get really deep, you would be in total darkness. This is because the heavier dark sinks to the bottom of the lake and the lighter light floats at the top. The is why it is called light.
Finally, we must prove that dark is faster than light. If you were to stand in a lit room in front of a closed, dark closet, and slowly opened the closet door, you would see the light slowly enter the closet. But since dark is so fast, you would not be able to see the dark leave the closet.
Next time you see an electric bulb, remember that it is a Dark Sucker.
Quoting my computer architecture textbook: "The current (PCI) standard allows the use of up to 64 data lines at 66MHz, for a raw transfer rate of 528MBytes/s, or 4.224 Gbps."
There should be enough bandwidth for a couple of 1000baseX nics...
>Given there are 180+ different versions of Linux >out there, you have 180+ linux distros all >fighting over 8 million users. That means each >distro has an average of 44-45 thousand users.
You must take into account the fact that most of the people using linux are using one of the "main" distros (RedHat, SUSE, Debian). I'm sure there isn't even close to 45000 people using phat linux or yellow dog...
-Gord
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And chevy used to wonder why their Nova car didn't sell very well in mexico...
I'd like to see the battery life for a laptop using a processor that draws 150watts...
When you stop quickly, much of your weight shifts to the front wheel. If you use the rear brake much during hard braking, you can easily lock it up, causing a loss of gyroscopic effect from the rear wheel... When this happens, your rear wheel tends to slide out of alignment with the front, leading to an eventual crash.
If the rear brake is release while the rear wheel is out of alignment, when the rear wheel regains traction, you tend to perform a highside, which is the worst type of motorcycle crash (picture what would happen if a bike was sliding sideways at 100kph on ice and it suddenly the ice turned into pavement).
Plus, the front doesn't seem to be "that" unstable, considering some of the stoppies people can pull (1000ft at a time).
The poster meant that you don't appreciate your right to protest because you take it for granted.
I also used the I-Pac in my mame box, it works great, I highly reccomend it. It's available from Ultimarc. I also bought two j-stiks from them and they work great, high quality stuff.
If you're in an accident where the impact was hard enough to shatter a tiny microchip inside your body (say: your parachute didn't open), I'd say you've got bigger problems.
Yeah someone post a torrent please!
Anyone heard of MIT?
At least I got a new sig out of it.
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"Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell."
"If you have a game involving keeping a car on the road, you do that by tilting,"
Oh great, so now we're gonna have morons driving down the road, trying to keep their car on the road while using their cellphone to play a game, where they try to keep their car the on road.
For those of you who use bittorrent, try:
linux-2.4.22.tar.bz2
patch-2.4.22.bz2
The Dark Sucker Theory
For years, it has been believed that electric bulbs emit light,
but recent information has proved otherwise. Electric bulbs don't
emit light; they suck dark. Thus, we call these bulbs Dark Suckers.
The Dark Sucker Theory and the existence of dark suckers prove
that dark has mass and is heavier than light.
First, the basis of the Dark Sucker Theory is that electric bulbs
suck dark. For example, take the Dark Sucker in the room you are in.
There is much less dark right next to it than there is elsewhere. The
larger the Dark Sucker, the greater its capacity to suck dark.
Dark Suckers in the parking lot have a much greater capacity to suck
dark than the ones in this room.
So with all things, Dark Suckers don't last forever. Once they are
full of dark, they can no longer suck. This is proven by the dark spot
on a full Dark Sucker.
A candle is a primitive Dark Sucker. A new candle has a white wick.
You can see that after the first use, the wick turns black, representing
all the dark that has been sucked into it. If you put a pencil next to
the wick of an operating candle, it will turn black. This is because
it got in the way of the dark flowing into the candle. One of the
disadvantages of these primitive Dark Suckers is their limited range.
There are also portable Dark Suckers. In these, the bulbs can't
handle all the dark by themselves and must be aided by a Dark Storage
Unit. When the Dark Storage Unit is full, it must be either emptied
or replaced before the portable Dark Sucker can operate again.
Dark has mass. When dark goes into a Dark Sucker, friction from
the mass generates heat. Thus, it is not wise to touch an operating
Dark Sucker. Candles present a special problem as the mass must travel
into a solid wick instead of through clear glass. This generates a
great amount of heat and therefore it's not wise to touch an operating
candle.
Also, dark is heavier than light. If you were to swim just below
the surface of the lake, you would see a lot of light. If you were to
slowly swim deeper and deeper, you would notice it getting darker and
darker. When you get really deep, you would be in total darkness. This
is because the heavier dark sinks to the bottom of the lake and the
lighter light floats at the top. The is why it is called light.
Finally, we must prove that dark is faster than light. If you were
to stand in a lit room in front of a closed, dark closet, and slowly
opened the closet door, you would see the light slowly enter the closet.
But since dark is so fast, you would not be able to see the dark leave
the closet.
Next time you see an electric bulb, remember that it is a Dark Sucker.
Man, I'm glad ibm is taking over chip prodution for apple. Now we'll see some speedy machines!
That can't be right, I can get a 50 pack of blanks at future shop for ~$25.
Quoting my computer architecture textbook:
"The current (PCI) standard allows the use of up to 64 data lines at 66MHz, for a raw transfer rate of 528MBytes/s, or 4.224 Gbps."
There should be enough bandwidth for a couple of 1000baseX nics...
I think mac refers to a mac10 submachine gun.
Personally I don't think children that are young enough to get tricked by this sort of thing should be using IMing without supervision.
If a computer program could trick them then a real person could too...
gordIs this actually possible? If it was possible to expand the dreamcast like this it could lead to a whole bunch interesting possibilities...
If anyone has any links on information along these lines please post em!
Gord
How about the solar sombrero?
Gord
4. Put picosats in an unstable orbit and allow them to burn up re-entering the atmosphere.
>Given there are 180+ different versions of Linux >out there, you have 180+ linux distros all >fighting over 8 million users. That means each >distro has an average of 44-45 thousand users. You must take into account the fact that most of the people using linux are using one of the "main" distros (RedHat, SUSE, Debian). I'm sure there isn't even close to 45000 people using phat linux or yellow dog... -Gord