Hmm only 100kW from a 2.5 litre CR diesel??? Come on, 132kW 2.5 litre diesels have been available for years (VW/Audi):) but anyway nice developments, now only dump those stupid suv's and start driving normal vehicles.
-20 centigrade isn't all that bad, below -30 it's getting a little uncomfortable... I've been in Finland in February 1997 and it was -25 during the day and below -30 during nighttime, it wasn't uncomfortable at all. when the temperature went above -10 I unzipped my coat because it was warm..:)
I use recycled cartridges. They are less then half the price of a normal HP cart and come with a E.5,- money back when you bring the empty cart back to the store.
Problem with MP3 in my opinion is that still the players have lousy battery life. There are MD players out there that have a battery life that spans around 100 hours on one AA battery and the rechargeable battery included with the player. And for in home use it's vastly superiour to MP3. Even at 384kbps I was able to distinguish MD from MP3 in a blind listening test. I couldn't however tell the difference between MD and the original CD.
FireWire is not just here NOW, it was here YESTERDAY. There is no place-your-bets atmosphere on FireWire, just incredibly happy and productive users doing things they used to only dream about.
Absolutely true, I don't use the full potential of my firewire adapter, I use it only for my camcorder which pumps through 3,6 mbytes per second on average. No dropped frames, very low CPU load, try that with USB....
Why wouldn't you want a firewire external harddrive? Firewire is a much better choice...
Don't see why USB2.0 would be better for a external hardrive...
The cops in Holland follow the so called "Oportunitaetsprinzip (German, sorry wouldn't know the correct translation). This means in essence, that when a crime is considered chicken-shit, the cops have better things to do then fine you 50 Gilders because have two grams of grass in your posetion and should use their resources to go after really bad guys.
well... the cops here in the netherlands will probably be to busy with doing nothing but catching people who are speeding 1km on a 80km/h road that they will not notice any hackers:)
and in Enschede, where HAL is, there are enough shops to buy pot anyway;-)
I think of computer art as a evolved way of painting. Just because one can undo parts is a reason for it not to become fine art?
maybe people talked the same way as you when they moved from rock carvings and paintings to painting on canvas or papyrus or whatever./Remco
what a laugh.... have you ever seen or driven a modern european diesel car? you won't even notive it's a diesel besides the slightly higher engine noise. for the rest it drives better then petrol. much more torque at a lower rev count. for example, VW has a 1.9liter (in prehistoric measures it's 116ci) which produces 150bhp and has a torque of 310Nm (228 lb-ft) available at 1900 rpm.... do I need to say more.... and what I sayd earlier modern petrol engines which use direct injection like mitsubishi's GDI and VW's FSI engine produce about the same amount of particles as a diesel engine, but they are much smaller so the penetrate the lungs deeper....
I saw that car from BMW on TV, it's a nice machine... the didn't take their small 3-series but they took a 750 and converted it to hydrogen... And for those who don't understand BMW's model number, the 50 stands for a 5 liter 12 cylinder engine:) together with the 12 pot engine of Merc it's the smoothest bit of machinery made by man:)/remco
I don't think that I can totally agree with you on the fact that an internal combustion engine only is 25% efficient. That 25% figure is probably true for petrol engines, but we allso can choose to drive a much more efficient diesel powered car. The modern diesel engines such as developed by VW are among the cleanest cars around. In a typical small hatchback you get a fuel economy which is around 4,5 liters per 100 km. And the CO2 emission is allso much, much lower then that of a petrol engine and recent research in Sweden has concluded that the modern direct injected petrol engines, like Mitsubishi's GDI engine are more dangerous to the health then diesel engines.
We certainly need an alternative for IC engines, but for now I believe that the diesel engine is the better choice. And the cars are now even faster then their petrol driven couterparts. VW has a 1,9 liter 4 cylinder diesel which pumps out 150 bhp and 310 Nm of torque and that magnificent torque comes out of it at only 1900 rpm./remco
Why stay away from metric? Those US measures are prehistoric...
Those English people are starting to come to their senses by adopting metrics. BUT because screens (and let's not forget tyre sizes) have allmost allways been in inches, allso here in europe I think that we should keep those things in inches, but for the rest, distances and so on, the metric system is much better... That shit with inches, feet and miles sucks... There is no logic in this. An inch is 2,54cm, a feet is about 30cm and a mile is 1,6km (nautical miles are 1,8km)
The metric system is much easier to understand in this and especially in weight and volume measurements because the Americans and British use different pounds, ounces and gallons...
Remco
I thought they were using a new system in stead of GPS for army uses.
the new system could come in handy when I try to find my house after a night in the pub....:)
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Hmm only 100kW from a 2.5 litre CR diesel??? :) but anyway nice developments, now only dump those stupid suv's and start driving normal vehicles.
Come on, 132kW 2.5 litre diesels have been available for years (VW/Audi)
my car does a 100mph on 60bhp... 50bhp is not to be concidered a very low power engine...
598,6 HP
1kW is 1,36HP
-20 centigrade isn't all that bad, below -30 it's getting a little uncomfortable... I've been in Finland in February 1997 and it was -25 during the day and below -30 during nighttime, it wasn't uncomfortable at all. when the temperature went above -10 I unzipped my coat because it was warm.. :)
I use recycled cartridges. They are less then half the price of a normal HP cart and come with a E.5,- money back when you bring the empty cart back to the store.
Problem with MP3 in my opinion is that still the players have lousy battery life. There are MD players out there that have a battery life that spans around 100 hours on one AA battery and the rechargeable battery included with the player. And for in home use it's vastly superiour to MP3. Even at 384kbps I was able to distinguish MD from MP3 in a blind listening test. I couldn't however tell the difference between MD and the original CD.
FireWire is not just here NOW, it was here YESTERDAY. There is no place-your-bets atmosphere on FireWire, just incredibly happy and productive users doing things they used to only dream about.
Absolutely true, I don't use the full potential of my firewire adapter, I use it only for my camcorder which pumps through 3,6 mbytes per second on average. No dropped frames, very low CPU load, try that with USB....
Why wouldn't you want a firewire external harddrive? Firewire is a much better choice...
Don't see why USB2.0 would be better for a external hardrive...
Remco
The cops in Holland follow the so called "Oportunitaetsprinzip (German, sorry wouldn't know the correct translation). This means in essence, that when a crime is considered chicken-shit, the cops have better things to do then fine you 50 Gilders because have two grams of grass in your posetion and should use their resources to go after really bad guys. well... the cops here in the netherlands will probably be to busy with doing nothing but catching people who are speeding 1km on a 80km/h road that they will not notice any hackers :)
and in Enschede, where HAL is, there are enough shops to buy pot anyway ;-)
I think of computer art as a evolved way of painting. Just because one can undo parts is a reason for it not to become fine art? maybe people talked the same way as you when they moved from rock carvings and paintings to painting on canvas or papyrus or whatever. /Remco
Yeah right... Here in the Netherlands we pay around US$20 for a CD... CD's are way cheaper in the US then overhere... Remco
what a laugh.... have you ever seen or driven a modern european diesel car? you won't even notive it's a diesel besides the slightly higher engine noise. for the rest it drives better then petrol. much more torque at a lower rev count. for example, VW has a 1.9liter (in prehistoric measures it's 116ci) which produces 150bhp and has a torque of 310Nm (228 lb-ft) available at 1900 rpm.... do I need to say more.... and what I sayd earlier modern petrol engines which use direct injection like mitsubishi's GDI and VW's FSI engine produce about the same amount of particles as a diesel engine, but they are much smaller so the penetrate the lungs deeper....
I saw that car from BMW on TV, it's a nice machine... the didn't take their small 3-series but they took a 750 and converted it to hydrogen... And for those who don't understand BMW's model number, the 50 stands for a 5 liter 12 cylinder engine :) together with the 12 pot engine of Merc it's the smoothest bit of machinery made by man :) /remco
I don't think that I can totally agree with you on the fact that an internal combustion engine only is 25% efficient. That 25% figure is probably true for petrol engines, but we allso can choose to drive a much more efficient diesel powered car. The modern diesel engines such as developed by VW are among the cleanest cars around. In a typical small hatchback you get a fuel economy which is around 4,5 liters per 100 km. And the CO2 emission is allso much, much lower then that of a petrol engine and recent research in Sweden has concluded that the modern direct injected petrol engines, like Mitsubishi's GDI engine are more dangerous to the health then diesel engines. We certainly need an alternative for IC engines, but for now I believe that the diesel engine is the better choice. And the cars are now even faster then their petrol driven couterparts. VW has a 1,9 liter 4 cylinder diesel which pumps out 150 bhp and 310 Nm of torque and that magnificent torque comes out of it at only 1900 rpm. /remco
Why stay away from metric? Those US measures are prehistoric... Those English people are starting to come to their senses by adopting metrics. BUT because screens (and let's not forget tyre sizes) have allmost allways been in inches, allso here in europe I think that we should keep those things in inches, but for the rest, distances and so on, the metric system is much better... That shit with inches, feet and miles sucks... There is no logic in this. An inch is 2,54cm, a feet is about 30cm and a mile is 1,6km (nautical miles are 1,8km) The metric system is much easier to understand in this and especially in weight and volume measurements because the Americans and British use different pounds, ounces and gallons... Remco
I thought they were using a new system in stead of GPS for army uses. the new system could come in handy when I try to find my house after a night in the pub.... :)