Hmm, how did you get tickets the day before they went on sale? The first showing was sold out by 2pm (BST) today. I just managed to get a ticket for the second showing. Whats your secret?
The second is a USB Bridge which you can connect two USB slave devices and copy files from one to the other without the need for a separate pc. I think that there are also some other portable hard drive cases that have a built in memory card reader to perform a similar function.
Windows Xp Pro can be set up to allow 3GB for the user address space. This gives some applications a little more breathing room, although it doesnt move the ceiling that far.
The main problem I'm coming across with the limited address space is fragmentation of the free space. You can easily get to a point where the is still large amount of free address space available but there are no spaces large enough to allocate the chunk of memory of the size you want.
See http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/platform/server/PAE/PAEmem.asp for info on the/3GB switch.
Look up a combination of "LARGEADDRESSAWARE, boot.ini, bootcfg,/3GB" on msdn to find out more...
You make some valid points, (and I hate ricers too) but I disagree with your approach for improving performance by primarily adding torque power and cubic inches. It is much more effective to improve vehicle performance by removing mass ("adding lightness" to quote Colin Chapman). By adding more power you are only affecting the acceleration and top speed of the vehicle, but by removing mass you are improving the acceleration, reducing braking distances and improving cornering speed.
On your economic point, a counter example is that you can take a cheap 1.8L rover twincam and easily tune to around 200hp. and you will have an engine that weighs roughly 100kg. I guess that 400hp smallblock chevy V8 would weigh around 250-300kg. If you then put the 1.8 liter engine and put into a cheap Locost kitcar chassis and you'll have a car that weighs aroung 500kg (~1100lbs) and you'll have a car that probably performs better upto around 120mph.
As an extreme example as to how less weight is better. A Caterham Superlight R500 held the production car Lap record for the Nurburgring at less than 8 minutes. I think this was held until porsche released the mental GT2. There are also a couple of tuned Caterhams and Westfields that will do mid 10s to low 11s for the 1/4 mile with only 250-300hp.
I like the viper, its just a bit lardy at 1500kg and has really poor volumetric efficiency by only getting 450hp from an 8litre engine. I'd rather have a TVR Tuscan S ~1200kg with 400hp from a 4Litre Straight 6.:o)
Also, in the clubman world. There seems to be a trend towards using lower capacity very high revving superbike engines, which reduces the mass of the car even more.
Anyway, each to their own. There's just more than one way to blow away the ricers.
A couple of months ago i was looking at upgrading and it was ~£28(ukp) ( $40) for a Crucial 256mb 2100 DDR sim, I checked again yesterday and it was now £52(ukp) ($75) thats almost a doubling in price! Its put me off upgrading until the new year.
I'm not sure what the prices have done in the USA
Steven
Neither Lotus or Rover owned by Ford. Lotus are owned by Proton and Rover were bought by the Phoenix consortium after they were sold off by BMW. Ford only bought the Land Rover Part of rover from BMW a couple of years ago.
On the homologation issues, I think that it was more than just the smog certificate for the Rover K series engine in the Elise that was preventing it from being imported. Sun International"http://www.suninternational-usa.com" who are doing the custom elise imports have to do funny things involving temporary bumpers to get the cars registered in the USA.
BTW I would love to have an elise with the Honda Integra Type R engine. 200hp from a 1.8Litre Normally aspirated engine is fantastic, and much better than the stock 130bhp from the Rover engine.
Reynard do have an involvement in Formula 1 as a sponsor of the BritishAmericanRacing F1 team, but I am not sure if they design/manufacture the chassis for the BAR F1 car.
see
http://www.formula1.com/teams/h22.html
and
http://www.britishamericanracing.com/
ninjaz's references do indicate that the Robbery rate of England & Wales exceeds that of the USA.
The statistics will only be for England and Wales as Scotland has a separate judical and policing system so that combined statistics would be unlikely to be available.
I think that your statement that "Scotland drags up the average" is unfair. can you supply any statistics?
One thing that I did notice in the references provided by ninjaz, in the http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/cjusew96.htm
in the Highlights document it states that the Murder rate in the US is six times higher than that in England and Wales. It also states that "according to the 1996 Statistics firearms were used in 68% of Murders in the US compared to 7% of english murders and firearms were used in 41% of US robberies but 5% of English Robberies"
-See, everyone can find statistics to support their Point of View.
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Hmm, how did you get tickets the day before they went on sale? The first showing was sold out by 2pm (BST) today. I just managed to get a ticket for the second showing. Whats your secret?
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http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/movies/show/serenity
I've been looking at this sort of stuff recently. I found a couple of things that look cool.
The first is a USB Master Portable Hard Disk / Media Player which can connect directly to Digital cameras and memory card reader devices and copy images from the camera.
The second is a USB Bridge which you can connect two USB slave devices and copy files from one to the other without the need for a separate pc. I think that there are also some other portable hard drive cases that have a built in memory card reader to perform a similar function.
Steve.
Windows Xp Pro can be set up to allow 3GB for the user address space. This gives some applications a little more breathing room, although it doesnt move the ceiling that far.
E /PAEmem.asp for info on the /3GB switch.
/3GB" on msdn to find out more...
The main problem I'm coming across with the limited address space is fragmentation of the free space. You can easily get to a point where the is still large amount of free address space available but there are no spaces large enough to allocate the chunk of memory of the size you want.
See http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/platform/server/PA
Look up a combination of "LARGEADDRESSAWARE, boot.ini, bootcfg,
cheers,
Steve.
You make some valid points, (and I hate ricers too) but I disagree with your approach for improving performance by primarily adding torque power and cubic inches. It is much more effective to improve vehicle performance by removing mass ("adding lightness" to quote Colin Chapman). By adding more power you are only affecting the acceleration and top speed of the vehicle, but by removing mass you are improving the acceleration, reducing braking distances and improving cornering speed.
:o)
On your economic point, a counter example is that you can take a cheap 1.8L rover twincam and easily tune to around 200hp. and you will have an engine that weighs roughly 100kg. I guess that 400hp smallblock chevy V8 would weigh around 250-300kg. If you then put the 1.8 liter engine and put into a cheap Locost kitcar chassis and you'll have a car that weighs aroung 500kg (~1100lbs) and you'll have a car that probably performs better upto around 120mph.
As an extreme example as to how less weight is better. A Caterham Superlight R500 held the production car Lap record for the Nurburgring at less than 8 minutes. I think this was held until porsche released the mental GT2. There are also a couple of tuned Caterhams and Westfields that will do mid 10s to low 11s for the 1/4 mile with only 250-300hp.
I like the viper, its just a bit lardy at 1500kg and has really poor volumetric efficiency by only getting 450hp from an 8litre engine. I'd rather have a TVR Tuscan S ~1200kg with 400hp from a 4Litre Straight 6.
Also, in the clubman world. There seems to be a trend towards using lower capacity very high revving superbike engines, which reduces the mass of the car even more.
Anyway, each to their own. There's just more than one way to blow away the ricers.
Steven
There seem to have been some increases lately,
A couple of months ago i was looking at upgrading and it was ~£28(ukp) ( $40) for a Crucial 256mb 2100 DDR sim, I checked again yesterday and it was now £52(ukp) ($75) thats almost a doubling in price! Its put me off upgrading until the new year.
I'm not sure what the prices have done in the USA
Steven
A couple of things
" who are doing the custom elise imports have to do funny things involving temporary bumpers to get the cars registered in the USA.
Neither Lotus or Rover owned by Ford. Lotus are owned by Proton and Rover were bought by the Phoenix consortium after they were sold off by BMW. Ford only bought the Land Rover Part of rover from BMW a couple of years ago.
On the homologation issues, I think that it was more than just the smog certificate for the Rover K series engine in the Elise that was preventing it from being imported. Sun International"http://www.suninternational-usa.com
BTW I would love to have an elise with the Honda Integra Type R engine. 200hp from a 1.8Litre Normally aspirated engine is fantastic, and much better than the stock 130bhp from the Rover engine.
Steven (who desperately wants an elise)
Reynard do have an involvement in Formula 1 as a sponsor of the BritishAmericanRacing F1 team, but I am not sure if they design/manufacture the chassis for the BAR F1 car.
see
http://www.formula1.com/teams/h22.html
and
http://www.britishamericanracing.com/
30A @ 5V should be fairly easy for all power supplies to handle.
Voltage * current = Power
5v * 30 A = 150 Watts
Steven
ninjaz's references do indicate that the Robbery rate of England & Wales exceeds that of the USA.
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The statistics will only be for England and Wales as Scotland has a separate judical and policing system so that combined statistics would be unlikely to be available.
I think that your statement that "Scotland drags up the average" is unfair. can you supply any statistics?
One thing that I did notice in the references provided by ninjaz, in the http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/cjusew96.ht
in the Highlights document it states that the Murder rate in the US is six times higher than that in England and Wales.
It also states that "according to the 1996 Statistics firearms were used in 68% of Murders in the US compared to 7% of english murders and firearms were used in 41% of US robberies but 5% of English Robberies"
-See, everyone can find statistics to support their Point of View.
Steven
A quick web search turned up the following site
Chris Cunningham Director File
It is a director file on Chris Cunningham. Lots of Pics from his videos and other interesting stuff.
Steve