This might be a little callous, but I think it's at least part of why this is such a bigger disaster - there's a lot more planes, trains and cars moving around every day, and they're not nearly so engineered as a Shuttle...and they still actually have a lower accident rate than the Shuttle, which is 2 for 107. I'd personally expect a lot better performance from something that's that overbuilt; it's like a fully loaded, completely redundant IBM/SUN/SGI/&c. server spontanously failing 1 in 50 instances.
hm. Flamebait. whereas outright ridiculing and deriding somebody for daring to believe in something beyond The Great Almighty God Science and trying to take solitude in that belief is...Funny. really, will you please rationally explain what you so have against religion? it's not like there's a bunch of bible-thumping Fundies here claiming this was God's way of punishing the Sodomite americans and that we all need to convert now or die...it was just somebody asking for prayers, a request that you're perfectly free to ignore. i notice the post about not modding funny is getting knocked down as a troll...you people must have thought 9/11 was an absolute scream.
ASSHOLE (moderator), SINCE WHEN IS ANYTHING ABOUT HUMAN TRAGEDY FUNNY? you insensitive, inhuman, soulless piece of dog shit dickwad...note the prior post pointing out exactly how unfunny this is, i couldn't agree more. and to the poster: it's an expression, a small prayer, just desigend to give those who do have faith some comfort in their faith. just because you think it's foolish and medivial to believe in a deity doesn't mean other won't, and that they won't try and get some consolation from their faith at a time like this.
do Shuttles carry flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders? they could be extremely helpful in somthing like this, assuming they survived the event...
no, but it's probably one of the top 10 news stories of the last 10 years...i'd say it comes under the same exception as 9/11. and remember, on 9/11, slashdot was one of the only news/information sites that actually stayed up under the load.
It seems that the conclusions of the former test are founded on principals of scientfic testing and have more credibility
i am a scientist, and neither of these tests has any sort of scientificism about them. you got the second one ok, but the first one used a poor choice of software (should have been the leanest, most optimized package for each system), a very limited set of test processes, and incredibly disparate hardware - yes, it was supposed to be 'top of the line' systems, but it's really bananas to cherries here; it's like dragging an extremely elegant, sophisticated, state-of-the-art 800hp F1 car up against an old-school brute-force 8000hp Top Fuel dragster and declaring the dragster a much better overall car, because it can romp in the 1/4. by that reasoning, i could say that this rock repels tigers...
yeah, but IIRC AltiVec is a much cleaner, better implementation of a VPU than the x86 flavors (do they still share the FP registers a la MMX?) - so its code is still probably going to be faster than SSE optimized code (on a specialized black hole simulation that one of my former professors uses, i've seen a >20x speedup with good AltiVec code).
ski areas have been usiing variations on this for years - a while back (mid, late 90s) there was a fuss about using mildly engineered enterococcal bacteria in the water to not only provide nuclei for the 'snowflakes' to form (that's why wastewater's so useful, full of dead bacteria and bits of protein and crap), but also to secrete some enzyme that would increase the temperature they could blow snow to 35 or 38F or something. this is probably safer than most snowblowing systems; they just use water atraight from the nearest pond/lake.river/stream/whatever - friend of mine got giardia from eating made snow once...
told my dad to curve EVERYONE's grade in his class so that the girl got an A.
if your father had tenure (which i'm assuming he does), she should have politely told the principal to stuff hsi academic dishonesty where the sun don't shine, told the girl if she wants an A she can earn it, and gone back to class. hell, even if he didn't have tenure, he should have stood up for what was right - what would the school do, fire him and have the whole story come out? intructors need to stop caving like this.
They purposefully take many more crew members than they need so that when they lose half of them in battle the ship can still function.
A lot of people have been pointing this out, but it seems to me to be largely irrelevant in this day and age - any kind of combat an armed surface ship is going to encounter is going to either do so little actual physical damage as to be irrelevant, or it's going to straight-up sink it (look at the Sheffield, the oversize crew was just that many more people to die). Basically, here just don't seem to be that many weapons systems left these days that have the capability to do severe damage to a ship, killing half the crew, and leave her in any shape that the surviving half is going to want to try and stay aboard - it's either a skiff full of C4 attacking you in harbor, or an Exocet missile blowing you clean in half, there's no middle ground anymore.
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If you don't believe me, check how much 10 seconds of superbowl publicity cost.
Well, the ads aren't that bad, and there's a pretty good reason they cost so much (average of $2,100,000 for 30s); last year's game was the 5th most watched program in TV history.
SCUBA is the best thing you'll ever do with your clothes on.
nope, sorry, i have to argue with you on that one. i have SSI Deep Diver and PADI Nitrox certs; i'm working on Drysuit and Decompression so I can dive the doria next summer. i would have agreed with you on SCUBA being that much fun, but last summer i took a trip to SDLI...screw that, there is *nothing* you can do in the water that is anywhere near the rush you get stepping out onto 13,500 feet of air - i could see Long Island from manhattan to montauk. i still love SCUBA, but now I'm trying to scrape together/another/ $3000 for my USPA license and $5000 for my rig...*sigh* (not that tech dive gear is any cheaper)
actually, i did know that - the pipes from the gun are still rusting outside of baghdad today. yes, he was believed killed by Mossad - three silenced.22 rounds to the back of the head at his hotel room door, the $25,000 (90?) in cash he had was untouched, and nobody saw a thing. eh well, i can't blame them, that gun would have been great for lobbing VX at Tel Aviv. shells are still ballistic for all practical intents though; you can calculate to within a few feet exactly where that thing is going as soon as it leaves the barrel, and there's no way to change it.
Then you'd get the 12 kg of Pu vaporized and in the air causing cancer for the next million years or so.
actually, airborne PuO (plutionium is pyrophoric, expose fine bits to O2 and they burn right up) is much more lethally toxic than carcinogenic [actually, being an alpha emitter, it's really not that bad at all; the rads are stopped by your skin - gammas cause the most damage from external exposure]; i'm at work so i can't reference, but i believe something like 20ug (yes, MICROgrams) inhaled will cause a horrifically unpleasant internal-alpha-radiation-induced death within a few weeks. Of course, then the PuO is still rattling around, but at least it's sequestered in your dead and buried body. unless you opt for cremation...
yeah, you're right, but i was counting boost in the ballistic phase...combination brain fart and early-morning laziness. and my physics book says "air resistance for most ballistic trajectories can be ignored":P (although i don't know if that would actually matter more than a couple of inches in the field with a 16" shell).
A balistic weapon traveling at 4,600 MPH can't change direction much in 300M
No, a ballistic weapon can't change direction at all once it's fired. That's what separates a ballistic weapon (bullet, shell, dumb bomb) from a 'smart' weapon (guided missile, smart bomb); the guided weapons are just that, while a ballistic weapon relies soley on it's own momentum from firing and gravity to put it on target (remember projectile motion from Phys101?). 'ballistic missiles' aren't technically truly ballistic, with final-stage guidance on the MIRVs, but the launch to suborbit is.
chisel it open (even if you do have torxes; it's much more destructive, and amusing), bend up the platters, and sandpaper the hell out of them, that should do it.
the stuff we use at work has to have a minimum resistivity of 18MOhm/cm; I wat till it stabilizes at 18.2 usually, put that in a clean, mostly-plastc system and you'll have no worries. Still, ground it all just to be sure. (i work with 3-10kV H20-colled powersupplies, granted they're in the neighborhood of.1mA, so...)
No, he used the OS X flavor of the Canon sofware, which SUCKS. it does have MP support cuz it's Cocoa, but it's entirely ignorant of AltiVec, which i suspect in this case would have helped the speeds immensely, probably would have whipped the Alienware up and down the block. (i'm not a professional, but AFAIK image processing is one of those things that is super-vectorizable)
10megabits (OOL) is just too slow, i need that 4x increase. Now, a 4x increase in uploads, across a cable modem, would be a different story. though i don't really need more than a megabit, sometimes an increase there would be nice.
DirecTV lowered my monthly bill TWICE in 2002. What more can I ask for? tv that stays on when it rains? seriously - i had directv for two years, the dish was mounted on a 6x6 pine post sunk 4ft onto concrete (barn beam), with all the mounting bolts tightened till the metal was distorted, and the reciever would still lose the satellite lock if the winds were gusting more than 30kts. i live on the ocean, so that's a bigger problem than it sounds. dense cloud cover, that made for some interesting jaggies...and fugeddaboutit in the rain. this with a signal booster on ~75ft of cable no less! i'm happy with digital cable - i get almost as many channels as dTV, really everything except the sports package, the same image and sound quality, and my tv stays on 24x7! even in the rain!
Yeah. That's why I drive a VW Golf. That's why I've owned cars by Mitsubishi, Suzuki, Volvo, and Renault. You really are perceptive.M just about as perceptive as you. but pray tell, if FWD sucks so horribly, why do you insist on driving one? don't come up with some lameass excuse like ""winter"; AWD and even RWD are perfectly functional in the snow and a lot better in the dry.
I'll forgive you for being a poor writer, instead. "As I looked over at the deep blue Viper sitting next to him at the stoplight, the shadowy figure inside, barely visible through the dark tint of the passenger window, jabbed his throttle quickly, making the slablike car bark sharply and rock slightly, as if a giant invisible child were holding the car and making "vroom-vroom" noises before flinging it down the hallway. I looked forward, down the road shimmering slightly in the heat, the red light swinging lazily in the breeze, the lane lines coming together at some infintely far off point just below the snowcapped mountain on the horizon. Glancing down at the small LCD mounted below my stero, blinking and flashing like some outrageous Christmas ornament, showing me the pulse of my own car, I thought to myself, 'this one should be easy'. Seeing everything normal, I looked back out at the other guy and gave him a histrionic 'let's go, buddy!' thumbs-up, complete with foolish grin, and lightly bounced my foot on my own gas pedal, idly revving my engine up to a screaming seventy-five hundred revs right as the light turned green. His monstrous chariot, the epitome of the American Muscle Car, with no higher calling in life than to simply go as fast as possible in a straight line, came to life, howling like a Top Fuel dragster and spinning the huge rear tires like pinwheels, totally obscuring my view of the road ahead as his car leapt out ahead of mine. I laughed quietly to myself as I slipped the transmission out of first and into neutral and slowly rolled to a stop, looking up just in time to see the blue and white sparkle of the state trooper's lights as he skidded to a halt in the middle of the road, blocking the Viper and insuring a hefty ticket for that shadowy figure who dared to look at me and blip his throttle. 'Suckers,' I thought to myself as I unwrapped a stick of gum, 'gets them every time.'" I've gotten an A in every single creative writing class I've ever taken in highschool and college; call me what you wand and opinionate how you will on cars, but don't dare to call me a bad writer. forgive the subject, it was easiest to work with.
No, I didn't miss any point of the article. And I've forgotten more about building performance engines than you are ever likely to know. so if less turbulent mixing in the combustion chamber produces a more even flame front that moves faster, why does it tend to increase detonation around the periphery of the cylinder? a really turbulent, inhomogenous vapor flow in the chamber does make for a rougher overall burn, but i know it tends to reduce detonation, at least significantly away from the flame front; detonation on the front isn't nearly so bad since those kernels are rapidly surrounded by the burn proper. i have yet to figure this out; maybe you can help with your infinite wisdom.
Like "asshole" was car-related. at least 'asshole' is just a single 'i'm not too fond of your fucking attitude' snap, instead of having to resort to daddy-sex jokes. if you think i'm such a troll, stop feeding me, it's a wickedly boring day at work.
I didn't say that you had a Honda, did I? >Have you ever seen a car turn the 1/4 mile in 5 seconds at over 300mph using a hot-rodded Honda Civic engine? >Now let's talk drivetrain. Have you ever tried to get 550hp to hook-up with front wheel drive? Your only hope of beating the aforementioned 427 is if you race on snow. >Starting with a Honda Civic in order to make a performance car is like starting with a 68K-based Mac to make a high-performance computer.
hell, sure seems implied. i know the article was about hondas, but you could have said "japanese shitbox" (since you do seem to be one of those who has something against any car w/o an American badge).
Who cares if you can build a peaky motor with a lifespan that can be measured with the trip meter?
heh, you seem to have totally missed one point of the article, namely that with all these sophisticated electronics, it's entirely possible to run the engine aspro, with no boost and appropriate fuel maps and valve timing, getting all the benefits of high mileage and reliability, and then switch on-the-fly to a 35lb boost, race-mapped, high-lift high-duration monster. of course, with detroit iron it's a moot point, since superchargers can't be controlled like turbos; are there any 'classic' big-block pushrod engines with variable valve timing? or electronic engine control for that matter? anyway, you brought forced inuction into this: If you want to see what big-blocks can do with blowers, nitrous, etc., just watch any drag race.
You're the one who referred to your car as a "ricer", not me. Don't give me shit because I took you at your word.
yeah, i did say ricer. now, what kid with a civic 4-door decked out with Si and TypeR stickers and a gigantic GT wing have you ever heard call himself a ricer? it was less of a mouthful than "compact japanese sports car"; forgive me for thinking you'd catch the sarcasm.
I'm not the one that made you scream "daddy, please don't, it hurts" during sex, so don't take it out on me.
hah, i get offended that you think anybody who doesn't drive a Real Car(TM) automatically drives mommy's riced-out 4-door Civic, and you turn it into daddy sex? sounds like somebody still has some issues (or maybe you just miss daddy's 'pacifier' at night?)...you could have at least kept it car related.
incidentally, what do you think of the BMW M-Series...just more wow-i-wish-i-could-be-badass-like-you-big-manly-am ericans import trash?
...and drifting is orders of magnitude harder than keeping a car going straight, even if it is a 70 Camaro with 650+ rwhp. keeping a car straight really just needs an intuitive feel for how the car fishtails; you have to be able to feel the car starting to come around and be just a split-second ahead with a tinly little correction. it's not *easy* as such, but once you get the hang of it it almost comes naturally, without much thought. a full four-wheel intertial drift, where the force to slide the wheels comes soley from excessive corner speed (as opposed to brake drift or throttle drift, where you use a touch of brake or gas to slip the tires, see the Gran Turismo manuals for some good background) OTOH takes a lot more skill to learn, and to repeat over and over again, since the car will very rarely drift the same way twice, even through the same corner. the really hard part of that is picking your speed right, with a finely tuned car you only have a ~3mph window between no tire slip at all and a spin into the gravel (if you're dumb enough to be drifiting on public roads you deserve to hit the trees); you have to focus totally on the sounds of the tires and the squirming of the car underneath you. i'm not knocking drag racing; it's defintely a challenge to keep a car straight (i can't even imagine what 8000hp would be like), but in my somewhat limited expericence (i still need two more full days to get my SCCA license)a proper inertial drift is a LOT mre challenging than a proper drag race.
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This might be a little callous, but I think it's at least part of why this is such a bigger disaster - there's a lot more planes, trains and cars moving around every day, and they're not nearly so engineered as a Shuttle...and they still actually have a lower accident rate than the Shuttle, which is 2 for 107. I'd personally expect a lot better performance from something that's that overbuilt; it's like a fully loaded, completely redundant IBM/SUN/SGI/&c. server spontanously failing 1 in 50 instances.
hm. Flamebait. whereas outright ridiculing and deriding somebody for daring to believe in something beyond The Great Almighty God Science and trying to take solitude in that belief is...Funny. really, will you please rationally explain what you so have against religion? it's not like there's a bunch of bible-thumping Fundies here claiming this was God's way of punishing the Sodomite americans and that we all need to convert now or die...it was just somebody asking for prayers, a request that you're perfectly free to ignore. i notice the post about not modding funny is getting knocked down as a troll...you people must have thought 9/11 was an absolute scream.
ASSHOLE (moderator), SINCE WHEN IS ANYTHING ABOUT HUMAN TRAGEDY FUNNY? you insensitive, inhuman, soulless piece of dog shit dickwad...note the prior post pointing out exactly how unfunny this is, i couldn't agree more. and to the poster: it's an expression, a small prayer, just desigend to give those who do have faith some comfort in their faith. just because you think it's foolish and medivial to believe in a deity doesn't mean other won't, and that they won't try and get some consolation from their faith at a time like this.
do Shuttles carry flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders? they could be extremely helpful in somthing like this, assuming they survived the event...
no, but it's probably one of the top 10 news stories of the last 10 years...i'd say it comes under the same exception as 9/11. and remember, on 9/11, slashdot was one of the only news/information sites that actually stayed up under the load.
It seems that the conclusions of the former test are founded on principals of scientfic testing and have more credibility
i am a scientist, and neither of these tests has any sort of scientificism about them. you got the second one ok, but the first one used a poor choice of software (should have been the leanest, most optimized package for each system), a very limited set of test processes, and incredibly disparate hardware - yes, it was supposed to be 'top of the line' systems, but it's really bananas to cherries here; it's like dragging an extremely elegant, sophisticated, state-of-the-art 800hp F1 car up against an old-school brute-force 8000hp Top Fuel dragster and declaring the dragster a much better overall car, because it can romp in the 1/4. by that reasoning, i could say that this rock repels tigers...
yeah, but IIRC AltiVec is a much cleaner, better implementation of a VPU than the x86 flavors (do they still share the FP registers a la MMX?) - so its code is still probably going to be faster than SSE optimized code (on a specialized black hole simulation that one of my former professors uses, i've seen a >20x speedup with good AltiVec code).
ski areas have been usiing variations on this for years - a while back (mid, late 90s) there was a fuss about using mildly engineered enterococcal bacteria in the water to not only provide nuclei for the 'snowflakes' to form (that's why wastewater's so useful, full of dead bacteria and bits of protein and crap), but also to secrete some enzyme that would increase the temperature they could blow snow to 35 or 38F or something. this is probably safer than most snowblowing systems; they just use water atraight from the nearest pond/lake.river/stream/whatever - friend of mine got giardia from eating made snow once...
told my dad to curve EVERYONE's grade in his class so that the girl got an A.
if your father had tenure (which i'm assuming he does), she should have politely told the principal to stuff hsi academic dishonesty where the sun don't shine, told the girl if she wants an A she can earn it, and gone back to class. hell, even if he didn't have tenure, he should have stood up for what was right - what would the school do, fire him and have the whole story come out? intructors need to stop caving like this.
They purposefully take many more crew members than they need so that when they lose half of them in battle the ship can still function.
A lot of people have been pointing this out, but it seems to me to be largely irrelevant in this day and age - any kind of combat an armed surface ship is going to encounter is going to either do so little actual physical damage as to be irrelevant, or it's going to straight-up sink it (look at the Sheffield, the oversize crew was just that many more people to die). Basically, here just don't seem to be that many weapons systems left these days that have the capability to do severe damage to a ship, killing half the crew, and leave her in any shape that the surviving half is going to want to try and stay aboard - it's either a skiff full of C4 attacking you in harbor, or an Exocet missile blowing you clean in half, there's no middle ground anymore.
If you don't believe me, check how much 10 seconds of superbowl publicity cost.
Well, the ads aren't that bad, and there's a pretty good reason they cost so much (average of $2,100,000 for 30s); last year's game was the 5th most watched program in TV history.
SCUBA is the best thing you'll ever do with your clothes on.
/another/ $3000 for my USPA license and $5000 for my rig...*sigh* (not that tech dive gear is any cheaper)
nope, sorry, i have to argue with you on that one. i have SSI Deep Diver and PADI Nitrox certs; i'm working on Drysuit and Decompression so I can dive the doria next summer. i would have agreed with you on SCUBA being that much fun, but last summer i took a trip to SDLI...screw that, there is *nothing* you can do in the water that is anywhere near the rush you get stepping out onto 13,500 feet of air - i could see Long Island from manhattan to montauk. i still love SCUBA, but now I'm trying to scrape together
actually, i did know that - the pipes from the gun are still rusting outside of baghdad today. yes, he was believed killed by Mossad - three silenced .22 rounds to the back of the head at his hotel room door, the $25,000 (90?) in cash he had was untouched, and nobody saw a thing. eh well, i can't blame them, that gun would have been great for lobbing VX at Tel Aviv.
shells are still ballistic for all practical intents though; you can calculate to within a few feet exactly where that thing is going as soon as it leaves the barrel, and there's no way to change it.
Then you'd get the 12 kg of Pu vaporized and in the air causing cancer for the next million years or so.
actually, airborne PuO (plutionium is pyrophoric, expose fine bits to O2 and they burn right up) is much more lethally toxic than carcinogenic [actually, being an alpha emitter, it's really not that bad at all; the rads are stopped by your skin - gammas cause the most damage from external exposure]; i'm at work so i can't reference, but i believe something like 20ug (yes, MICROgrams) inhaled will cause a horrifically unpleasant internal-alpha-radiation-induced death within a few weeks. Of course, then the PuO is still rattling around, but at least it's sequestered in your dead and buried body. unless you opt for cremation...
yeah, you're right, but i was counting boost in the ballistic phase...combination brain fart and early-morning laziness. and my physics book says "air resistance for most ballistic trajectories can be ignored" :P (although i don't know if that would actually matter more than a couple of inches in the field with a 16" shell).
A balistic weapon traveling at 4,600 MPH can't change direction much in 300M
No, a ballistic weapon can't change direction at all once it's fired. That's what separates a ballistic weapon (bullet, shell, dumb bomb) from a 'smart' weapon (guided missile, smart bomb); the guided weapons are just that, while a ballistic weapon relies soley on it's own momentum from firing and gravity to put it on target (remember projectile motion from Phys101?). 'ballistic missiles' aren't technically truly ballistic, with final-stage guidance on the MIRVs, but the launch to suborbit is.
chisel it open (even if you do have torxes; it's much more destructive, and amusing), bend up the platters, and sandpaper the hell out of them, that should do it.
the stuff we use at work has to have a minimum resistivity of 18MOhm/cm; I wat till it stabilizes at 18.2 usually, put that in a clean, mostly-plastc system and you'll have no worries. Still, ground it all just to be sure. (i work with 3-10kV H20-colled powersupplies, granted they're in the neighborhood of .1mA, so...)
No, he used the OS X flavor of the Canon sofware, which SUCKS. it does have MP support cuz it's Cocoa, but it's entirely ignorant of AltiVec, which i suspect in this case would have helped the speeds immensely, probably would have whipped the Alienware up and down the block. (i'm not a professional, but AFAIK image processing is one of those things that is super-vectorizable)
10megabits (OOL) is just too slow, i need that 4x increase. Now, a 4x increase in uploads, across a cable modem, would be a different story. though i don't really need more than a megabit, sometimes an increase there would be nice.
DirecTV lowered my monthly bill TWICE in 2002. What more can I ask for?
tv that stays on when it rains?
seriously - i had directv for two years, the dish was mounted on a 6x6 pine post sunk 4ft onto concrete (barn beam), with all the mounting bolts tightened till the metal was distorted, and the reciever would still lose the satellite lock if the winds were gusting more than 30kts. i live on the ocean, so that's a bigger problem than it sounds. dense cloud cover, that made for some interesting jaggies...and fugeddaboutit in the rain. this with a signal booster on ~75ft of cable no less! i'm happy with digital cable - i get almost as many channels as dTV, really everything except the sports package, the same image and sound quality, and my tv stays on 24x7! even in the rain!
dammit, that tag was closed when i previewed the damned thing.
Yeah. That's why I drive a VW Golf. That's why I've owned cars by Mitsubishi, Suzuki, Volvo, and Renault. You really are perceptive.M
just about as perceptive as you. but pray tell, if FWD sucks so horribly, why do you insist on driving one? don't come up with some lameass excuse like ""winter"; AWD and even RWD are perfectly functional in the snow and a lot better in the dry.
I'll forgive you for being a poor writer, instead.
"As I looked over at the deep blue Viper sitting next to him at the stoplight, the shadowy figure inside, barely visible through the dark tint of the passenger window, jabbed his throttle quickly, making the slablike car bark sharply and rock slightly, as if a giant invisible child were holding the car and making "vroom-vroom" noises before flinging it down the hallway. I looked forward, down the road shimmering slightly in the heat, the red light swinging lazily in the breeze, the lane lines coming together at some infintely far off point just below the snowcapped mountain on the horizon. Glancing down at the small LCD mounted below my stero, blinking and flashing like some outrageous Christmas ornament, showing me the pulse of my own car, I thought to myself, 'this one should be easy'. Seeing everything normal, I looked back out at the other guy and gave him a histrionic 'let's go, buddy!' thumbs-up, complete with foolish grin, and lightly bounced my foot on my own gas pedal, idly revving my engine up to a screaming seventy-five hundred revs right as the light turned green. His monstrous chariot, the epitome of the American Muscle Car, with no higher calling in life than to simply go as fast as possible in a straight line, came to life, howling like a Top Fuel dragster and spinning the huge rear tires like pinwheels, totally obscuring my view of the road ahead as his car leapt out ahead of mine. I laughed quietly to myself as I slipped the transmission out of first and into neutral and slowly rolled to a stop, looking up just in time to see the blue and white sparkle of the state trooper's lights as he skidded to a halt in the middle of the road, blocking the Viper and insuring a hefty ticket for that shadowy figure who dared to look at me and blip his throttle. 'Suckers,' I thought to myself as I unwrapped a stick of gum, 'gets them every time.'"
I've gotten an A in every single creative writing class I've ever taken in highschool and college; call me what you wand and opinionate how you will on cars, but don't dare to call me a bad writer. forgive the subject, it was easiest to work with.
No, I didn't miss any point of the article. And I've forgotten more about building performance engines than you are ever likely to know.
so if less turbulent mixing in the combustion chamber produces a more even flame front that moves faster, why does it tend to increase detonation around the periphery of the cylinder? a really turbulent, inhomogenous vapor flow in the chamber does make for a rougher overall burn, but i know it tends to reduce detonation, at least significantly away from the flame front; detonation on the front isn't nearly so bad since those kernels are rapidly surrounded by the burn proper. i have yet to figure this out; maybe you can help with your infinite wisdom.
Like "asshole" was car-related.
at least 'asshole' is just a single 'i'm not too fond of your fucking attitude' snap, instead of having to resort to daddy-sex jokes. if you think i'm such a troll, stop feeding me, it's a wickedly boring day at work.
I didn't say that you had a Honda, did I?
m ericans import trash?
>Have you ever seen a car turn the 1/4 mile in 5 seconds at over 300mph using a hot-rodded Honda Civic engine?
>Now let's talk drivetrain. Have you ever tried to get 550hp to hook-up with front wheel drive? Your only hope of beating the aforementioned 427 is if you race on snow.
>Starting with a Honda Civic in order to make a performance car is like starting with a 68K-based Mac to make a high-performance computer.
hell, sure seems implied. i know the article was about hondas, but you could have said "japanese shitbox" (since you do seem to be one of those who has something against any car w/o an American badge).
Who cares if you can build a peaky motor with a lifespan that can be measured with the trip meter?
heh, you seem to have totally missed one point of the article, namely that with all these sophisticated electronics, it's entirely possible to run the engine aspro, with no boost and appropriate fuel maps and valve timing, getting all the benefits of high mileage and reliability, and then switch on-the-fly to a 35lb boost, race-mapped, high-lift high-duration monster. of course, with detroit iron it's a moot point, since superchargers can't be controlled like turbos; are there any 'classic' big-block pushrod engines with variable valve timing? or electronic engine control for that matter? anyway, you brought forced inuction into this: If you want to see what big-blocks can do with blowers, nitrous, etc., just watch any drag race.
You're the one who referred to your car as a "ricer", not me. Don't give me shit because I took you at your word.
yeah, i did say ricer. now, what kid with a civic 4-door decked out with Si and TypeR stickers and a gigantic GT wing have you ever heard call himself a ricer? it was less of a mouthful than "compact japanese sports car"; forgive me for thinking you'd catch the sarcasm.
I'm not the one that made you scream "daddy, please don't, it hurts" during sex, so don't take it out on me.
hah, i get offended that you think anybody who doesn't drive a Real Car(TM) automatically drives mommy's riced-out 4-door Civic, and you turn it into daddy sex? sounds like somebody still has some issues (or maybe you just miss daddy's 'pacifier' at night?)...you could have at least kept it car related.
incidentally, what do you think of the BMW M-Series...just more wow-i-wish-i-could-be-badass-like-you-big-manly-a
...and drifting is orders of magnitude harder than keeping a car going straight, even if it is a 70 Camaro with 650+ rwhp. keeping a car straight really just needs an intuitive feel for how the car fishtails; you have to be able to feel the car starting to come around and be just a split-second ahead with a tinly little correction. it's not *easy* as such, but once you get the hang of it it almost comes naturally, without much thought. a full four-wheel intertial drift, where the force to slide the wheels comes soley from excessive corner speed (as opposed to brake drift or throttle drift, where you use a touch of brake or gas to slip the tires, see the Gran Turismo manuals for some good background) OTOH takes a lot more skill to learn, and to repeat over and over again, since the car will very rarely drift the same way twice, even through the same corner. the really hard part of that is picking your speed right, with a finely tuned car you only have a ~3mph window between no tire slip at all and a spin into the gravel (if you're dumb enough to be drifiting on public roads you deserve to hit the trees); you have to focus totally on the sounds of the tires and the squirming of the car underneath you. i'm not knocking drag racing; it's defintely a challenge to keep a car straight (i can't even imagine what 8000hp would be like), but in my somewhat limited expericence (i still need two more full days to get my SCCA license)a proper inertial drift is a LOT mre challenging than a proper drag race.