Diesel engines don't have throttles, like gas engines do. They are controlled by controlling the amount of fuel that is injected. So if a diesel engine starts running off its own oil, it's hell to stop.
The Olds 350 diesel is only good for one thing- building a killer gas engine out of. The engine block is extremely thick and heavy (to handle being a diesel) so it can withstand a lot of abuse. You can build a 434 cubic inch stroker out of one, which is a hell of a lot of cubes from a small block!
The camaro I traded in for the Civic Hybrid claimed to do 150 MPH, but almost everywhere I go has a Max Speed limit of 45 so I was never able to see if I could drive the car at that speed.
You can also run diesel engines on vegetable oil.. i.e. the stuff they throw away at McDonalds. Requires frequent fuel filter changes, but they are not expensive.
You were doing pretty good until you got to the part of "vote out this money of a president". What, you think Kerry's gonna come into office and suddenly all the problems are gonna be solved? How naive.
Diesel engines are awesome. The main reason diesel engines are not popular in the U.S. has to do with a) sulphur content of our diesel fuel, and b) old stereotypes. Our diesel has high sulphur content, which sucks. Also, diesel engines are viewed as loud, obnoxious, polluting, black-smoke-belching beasts. Nobody wants to drive a car like that. The Olds 350 diesel engine that GM tried in the early 80s didn't help its reputation any.
A little off topic I guess, but an aluminum chassis?? That's about the dumbest idea I've ever heard of. There's *reasons* why car makers overwhelmingly use steel for cars, and soft drink manufacturers use aluminum for drink cans, and nice vice versa.
What it boils down to is this: which is more harmful the environment- throwaway crap like aluminum unibody cars with battery banks that must be disposed of, or traditional cars that put out slightly more pollution, have no batteries, and last longer?
If the US can so call intelligence community can be fooled into sending out alerts based on a Sega game how hard can it be fore AlQuda to send out false threats to yo-yo with the servalince. Since all this does is tell real people to do things sooner or later they will get tired and ignore the warnings thus allowing for a real threat to go further then it would without the DOS attack. I mean the terrorist aholes should start scaring people left and right, force the threat level up and down. How much risk is there to leak false intelligance.. then not follow through. Sooner or later we will get fed up, let our guard down and whamo they get a free ride. Jebus I really should wash my gray hat its looking darker and darker every day.
This isn't a computer, dude, this is the Pentagon. They don't work like that.
Winmodem is a U.S. Robotics/3Com trademark and indeed refers to a specific brand of pure soft modem.
Yes. It's kinda of confusing though, because the term is commonly used to refer to hardware modems (with on-board DSPs) as well, since they also require special software to operate.
In actuality there are some good software modems out there. For example the SV92p chipset from Lucent (Agere). It's a really good chipset with great performance, but unfortunately there are no Linux drivers.
I don't see why a proprietary driver would be needed; simply emulate a serial port in the hardware and expose this virtual faster-than-normal serial port to the software (with a new driver to deal with the ability to set higher speeds if needed).
I'm sure that could be done, but that would require extra hardware. Really, it's not necessary, because it's just as easy to write a new driver.
USB hardware modems don't cost much and there is no way a 56k datalink will ever use 11Mbps so a real hardware modem is still an option.
Just because it's external doesn't mean it's a hardware modem. All current-generation US Robotics modems, external/internal/USB, are software modems. I found this out the hard way, of course.
I finally upgraded my dialup connection to cable today so it is a non-issue now.
Really? Last time I checked line compression was done on the computer, not on the modem.
Nope, the modem does hardware compression (V.44 being the latest and best standard) on board. The data is decompressed on the modem, then sent over the serial link. In many cases the serial link does not have enough throughput to handle this, especially when you're talking about text files and the like where compression can reach 10-15:1.
Thus the need for a DSP instead of a serial link to transport data from modem to computer. However, standard serial drivers obviously can't control it, so that's why you need a special driver.
There's also another type of modem (the kind we all know and hate) which is totally software based. All processing is done in software. In other words, it's not really a modem, just a codec that converts from analog to digital then puts the data right in memory. *That's* the kind many people erroneously think about when they hear the phrase "Winmodem". "Softmodem" is more appropriate term. A "Winmodem" or "hardware DSP" modem is the good stuff.
I use this service and I notice that when you have a song encoded and ready for download, a copy is made on THEIR end, and placed in a special directory. When you download that file it's deleted from their end.
So wouldn't that be basically the same as going to Russia and buying a Russian-made CD? Since the copy is made over there, and you just bring it home.
I don't think that's how it works (though that would make sense), because they have two options- online encoding and online encoding exclusive. The "exclusive" one is only available for certain titles and it means to rip and encode the track. The regular online encoding thus must work off a huge RAID array or something.
Yep, I use it, it's awesome. The site is in no danger of being "shut down" because it is a legally licensed business in Russia, licensed by their version of the RIAA. If you're worried though you can pay via PayPal instead of credit card. Check it out, you'll love it.
Dude, screw $0.99 per song, it costs 1 CENT PER MEGABYTE to download a song off that site. That's it! And you can encode the song to OGG, MP3, WMA (I think), get it as a WAV file, or whatever you want, at any bitrate you choose. I use the site, and download in 192-256 kbps OGG format. It typically costs around 5-10 cents per song like that.
It's a really awesome service. When you order some songs, they've typically finished encoding within 5-10 minutes and are immediately available for download. Your account balance is not charged until you've completely downloaded the song. You can resume it as many times as you want but until you completely finish you are not charged.
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All well and good until it came time for the trojan to spread..
Diesel engines don't have throttles, like gas engines do. They are controlled by controlling the amount of fuel that is injected. So if a diesel engine starts running off its own oil, it's hell to stop.
The Olds 350 diesel is only good for one thing- building a killer gas engine out of. The engine block is extremely thick and heavy (to handle being a diesel) so it can withstand a lot of abuse. You can build a 434 cubic inch stroker out of one, which is a hell of a lot of cubes from a small block!
The camaro I traded in for the Civic Hybrid claimed to do 150 MPH, but almost everywhere I go has a Max Speed limit of 45 so I was never able to see if I could drive the car at that speed.
Speed limit? That never stopped me before..
Which I why I live in Alabama. Fuck CARB.
You can also run diesel engines on vegetable oil.. i.e. the stuff they throw away at McDonalds. Requires frequent fuel filter changes, but they are not expensive.
Costs a shitload to make.
Uses rare metals.
Fuck hydrogen. Give me a diesel any day.
You were doing pretty good until you got to the part of "vote out this money of a president". What, you think Kerry's gonna come into office and suddenly all the problems are gonna be solved? How naive.
Diesel engines are awesome. The main reason diesel engines are not popular in the U.S. has to do with a) sulphur content of our diesel fuel, and b) old stereotypes. Our diesel has high sulphur content, which sucks. Also, diesel engines are viewed as loud, obnoxious, polluting, black-smoke-belching beasts. Nobody wants to drive a car like that. The Olds 350 diesel engine that GM tried in the early 80s didn't help its reputation any.
A little off topic I guess, but an aluminum chassis?? That's about the dumbest idea I've ever heard of. There's *reasons* why car makers overwhelmingly use steel for cars, and soft drink manufacturers use aluminum for drink cans, and nice vice versa.
Check out this comparison to get an idea why.
What it boils down to is this: which is more harmful the environment- throwaway crap like aluminum unibody cars with battery banks that must be disposed of, or traditional cars that put out slightly more pollution, have no batteries, and last longer?
Probably the same as UT2004 does.. superbly.
Unreal Tournament 2004 has already done this. But yes, it's nice ID is doing it too.
If the US can so call intelligence community can be fooled into sending out alerts based on a Sega game how hard can it be fore AlQuda to send out false threats to yo-yo with the servalince. Since all this does is tell real people to do things sooner or later they will get tired and ignore the warnings thus allowing for a real threat to go further then it would without the DOS attack. I mean the terrorist aholes should start scaring people left and right, force the threat level up and down. How much risk is there to leak false intelligance.. then not follow through. Sooner or later we will get fed up, let our guard down and whamo they get a free ride. Jebus I really should wash my gray hat its looking darker and darker every day.
This isn't a computer, dude, this is the Pentagon. They don't work like that.
mod that fucker down
mod parent down
That's really swell for Isreal, but what about North Korea raining down fiery death from above with ballistic missiles that can hit Alaska [miis.edu]?
So? Who cares about Alaska?
.. to complement Janus!
I think you're confusing "easy to learn" with "easy to use". An interface that is simple and intuitive can often get in the way of productivity.
Ok, but Photoshop's interface *doesn't*. It's easy for beginners to learn, yet incredibly powerful.
Do NOT support bands that demand their music is paid for.
Right, because nobody should be paid for his hard work.
Winmodem is a U.S. Robotics/3Com trademark and indeed refers to a specific brand of pure soft modem.
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Yes. It's kinda of confusing though, because the term is commonly used to refer to hardware modems (with on-board DSPs) as well, since they also require special software to operate.
In actuality there are some good software modems out there. For example the SV92p chipset from Lucent (Agere). It's a really good chipset with great performance, but unfortunately there are no Linux drivers.
I don't see why a proprietary driver would be needed; simply emulate a serial port in the hardware and expose this virtual faster-than-normal serial port to the software (with a new driver to deal with the ability to set higher speeds if needed).
I'm sure that could be done, but that would require extra hardware. Really, it's not necessary, because it's just as easy to write a new driver.
USB hardware modems don't cost much and there is no way a 56k datalink will ever use 11Mbps so a real hardware modem is still an option.
Just because it's external doesn't mean it's a hardware modem. All current-generation US Robotics modems, external/internal/USB, are software modems. I found this out the hard way, of course.
I finally upgraded my dialup connection to cable today so it is a non-issue now.
Lucky bastard! No cable available here..
Really? Last time I checked line compression was done on the computer, not on the modem.
Nope, the modem does hardware compression (V.44 being the latest and best standard) on board. The data is decompressed on the modem, then sent over the serial link. In many cases the serial link does not have enough throughput to handle this, especially when you're talking about text files and the like where compression can reach 10-15:1.
Thus the need for a DSP instead of a serial link to transport data from modem to computer. However, standard serial drivers obviously can't control it, so that's why you need a special driver.
There's also another type of modem (the kind we all know and hate) which is totally software based. All processing is done in software. In other words, it's not really a modem, just a codec that converts from analog to digital then puts the data right in memory. *That's* the kind many people erroneously think about when they hear the phrase "Winmodem". "Softmodem" is more appropriate term. A "Winmodem" or "hardware DSP" modem is the good stuff.
I'm not a lawyer.
I use this service and I notice that when you have a song encoded and ready for download, a copy is made on THEIR end, and placed in a special directory. When you download that file it's deleted from their end.
So wouldn't that be basically the same as going to Russia and buying a Russian-made CD? Since the copy is made over there, and you just bring it home.
I don't think that's how it works (though that would make sense), because they have two options- online encoding and online encoding exclusive. The "exclusive" one is only available for certain titles and it means to rip and encode the track. The regular online encoding thus must work off a huge RAID array or something.
Yep, I use it, it's awesome. The site is in no danger of being "shut down" because it is a legally licensed business in Russia, licensed by their version of the RIAA. If you're worried though you can pay via PayPal instead of credit card. Check it out, you'll love it.
Dude, screw $0.99 per song, it costs 1 CENT PER MEGABYTE to download a song off that site. That's it! And you can encode the song to OGG, MP3, WMA (I think), get it as a WAV file, or whatever you want, at any bitrate you choose. I use the site, and download in 192-256 kbps OGG format. It typically costs around 5-10 cents per song like that.
It's a really awesome service. When you order some songs, they've typically finished encoding within 5-10 minutes and are immediately available for download. Your account balance is not charged until you've completely downloaded the song. You can resume it as many times as you want but until you completely finish you are not charged.
Check it out!
Top Fuel big block engines make around 8,000 horsepower. Check out some interesting facts:
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http://kansas.no-ip.com/power.html
Now, THAT'S power. And no, they don't put those in any production cars.