Actually, it's emissions are much better than gasoline or diesel fuel. Check out Home Power Magazine's current issue. They have an article on something they call 'biodeisel' - recycled vegetable oil from restaurant deep fat fryers. You have to download a large.pdf to read it, but you may find it interesting.
Also, the original deisel engine could run on vegetable oil, and was designed to do so. Modern deisels need some slight modifications to the oil to use it without modifying the engine. The article above describes this process in detail.
Warning! The ingredients used to make the chemical used in the process are readily available and relatively safe to handle (methanol and lye), but when combined as in the article, they make sodium methoxide, a very dangerous compound.
No no no.. Come on, people, think! WHY would Origin pull an _obvious_ profit-maker? Only one reason - technical difficulties.
Any 3-d online game has to be stretching the boundaries of current internet protocols, not to mention the load on your machine. 3D rendering would probably cause some machines to lose enough packets that the game would be unplayable. Origin probably ran into a bandwidth/machine loading snag and now has two choices: Dumb down the interface to reduce resource needs, or sit back and wait until faster machines (1 GHz+) and high-speed connections become ubiquitous.
MHz has always been a palrty substitute for a real indicator of processor power. Just look at the Pentium 4 and the PowerPC vs. Pentium wars a few years back. Not to mention the current Athlon craze.
A good benchmark program is always a better indicator of processor power anyway. No, they aren't perfect, but if you take the results of a few different ones, selected to balance their strengths/weaknesses, you end up with a good idea of how a processor really 'stacks' up;-).
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Actually, a dark green or even blue would absorb almost as much IR (heat) as black, and not look quite so bad!
Also, the original deisel engine could run on vegetable oil, and was designed to do so. Modern deisels need some slight modifications to the oil to use it without modifying the engine. The article above describes this process in detail.
Warning! The ingredients used to make the chemical used in the process are readily available and relatively safe to handle (methanol and lye), but when combined as in the article, they make sodium methoxide, a very dangerous compound.
No no no.. Come on, people, think! WHY would Origin pull an _obvious_ profit-maker? Only one reason - technical difficulties.
Any 3-d online game has to be stretching the boundaries of current internet protocols, not to mention the load on your machine. 3D rendering would probably cause some machines to lose enough packets that the game would be unplayable. Origin probably ran into a bandwidth/machine loading snag and now has two choices: Dumb down the interface to reduce resource needs, or sit back and wait until faster machines (1 GHz+) and high-speed connections become ubiquitous.
MHz has always been a palrty substitute for a real indicator of processor power. Just look at the Pentium 4 and the PowerPC vs. Pentium wars a few years back. Not to mention the current Athlon craze.
;-).
A good benchmark program is always a better indicator of processor power anyway. No, they aren't perfect, but if you take the results of a few different ones, selected to balance their strengths/weaknesses, you end up with a good idea of how a processor really 'stacks' up