I know what you mean about cinematic framerates. I'm not sure what changed in me or in films, but the latest crop of movies I've watched in big theaters have looked unusually bad. When it came to some fast panning shots in Dawn of the Dead, it looks like some frames just got dropped and there were blue-tinged halos on some objects during the pan. This was probably a side-effect of shooting in low light on actual film which needed a faster exposure time than it was given for fast motion.
It's about time for all the big studios to go digital. I'm tired of live action shots (not heavily post-processed ones) looking bad like this.
Yeah, the funny thing about the low-end FX cards (like anything below the 5600) is that it's the same shit they pulled with the MX series previously. Why even put FX on the box if it's not even close to a REAL FX card? The MX's are a shame, and the low end FX cards are too, but at least you know that the MX's are different.
The underpowered 5200FX would get smoked by anything from the Geforce4 ti4x00 range. Nvidia, shame on you.
How can you say ATI's linux strategy is better, given that you have to play some goofy kernel matching game with their released drivers? Then there are patches, glues, all kinds of nonsense you have to go through to get the drivers up and running.
With Nvidia if you have the kernel source, you just run their installer and it builds the drivers and installs them. Anytime I upgrade my kernel, I just re-run the installer and have working drivers in about 30 seconds.
I agree with your assessment that the s2000 is lackluster when placed side by side with other cars in its price range. However, the chassis and driving dynamics are hard to fault.
You forgot to mention naturally aspirated 4 cylinder engine in the s2000.
Honda's design philosophy has been, since day one, 'rev up for power'. This all hearkens back to when Mr. Honda himself first attended an F1 race as a child. We all know how small F1 engines are, how high they rev, and how little torque they have. Then again, an open wheel racer weighing a little over 1500lbs with driver and engine doesn't require alot of torque. Look at all of Honda's 4 cylinder engine designs, they all follow the original philosophy.
Yeah but the torque to horsepower ratio sucks on sportbikes, and the rpms are way too high. You have to rev the shit out of them to get anything worthwhile. Granted, they are impressive little engines, but not for cars or carboats. The Subaru engine has plenty of torque (which is necessary for a 4wd car anyway).
You should read a few posts up, there's a karma whore reposting the article.
At any rate the Subaru engine was chosen for power and size. It was the best solution for a midengined car boat. You have a 2.5 liter turbocharged flat 4 which gives you a smaller engine, a lower center of gravity, and some good ol' Japanese reliability. Also consider the weight savings over a V8.
BTW if you're comparing per liter output, the v8 sucks in this case.
I'm guessing they chose the Subaru engine for packaging. The Subaru STi engine they're using is a turbocharged 2.5 liter flat four (opposing cylinders) boxer engine. The layout and size of the engine is ideal for a watercar. The Camaro v8 is a monstrosity compared to this engine, and it is quite tall in comparison.
Liter for liter, the Subaru engine is better for this application.
" Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and...
Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?
Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.
Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?
Marty DiBergi: I don't know.
Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.
Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
Nigel Tufnel: [Pause] These go to eleven. "
In Thailand and other parts of asia, green tea is making it's way into dozens of unusual products. My wife recently returned from a business trip to Bangkok and told me about the funniest product _ever_.
Green Tea Tampons and Green Tea Maxi Pads.
She's going back in June, I gotta see something this asinine for myself so I told her to bring some back.
Once again we learn the lesson of intake in moderation. Too much of a good thing is a bad thing.
BTW another side effect of tannins, in people with Marfan's syndrome, is the increase in frequency and severity of migraine headaches. Teas aren't the only drinks high in tannins..your favorite red wines may have alot as well.
Take a shower everyday, I guarantee their perception of you will change. Deodorant helps too, prevents those sweat spots the Accounting department keeps making jokes about. You never stopped to wonder why they keep asking you to raise your hand if you're sure?
Well since infrared is warm, you'll feel it eventually. Alot of restaurants and fast food joints use infrared lamps to keep your fatburger warm while you go fill up your drink.
I worked in a photo lab a long time ago and we had spinning-door darkrooms where we'd load exposed paper into the printers to be developed. In each room there was an infrared lamp that was always on. Without goggles it was the blackest room, zero light whatsoever. With night vision (infrared) goggles the place was lit up like a sunny afternoon. You could indeed feel the heat if you put your hand near the lamp.
Now imagine this type of light focused and magnified many times and shot into your eye. I think you'd blink.
I'd be easier to just paint the helmet to look like Connery's hair and face. Depending on the shots it might work, but for closeups, you gotta use good old fashioned matte work.
I wish you knew a little about sentence structure and grammar. Your opening sentence still has me puzzled. "First off i work towers tall buildings..." How do you work them?
Shit, if I was this guy, I would've skipped the cup also. It'd be much wiser to put a cucumber in the suit because the comedy factor is already obvious.
Actually it usually applies to women that wear extremely tight, thin pants or shorts or whatever. The way the labia split and protrude on either side resembles a camel's toe.
This is one of the few, sad instances it applies to a man. Hopefully we won't get any more of these...instances again.
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I know what you mean about cinematic framerates. I'm not sure what changed in me or in films, but the latest crop of movies I've watched in big theaters have looked unusually bad. When it came to some fast panning shots in Dawn of the Dead, it looks like some frames just got dropped and there were blue-tinged halos on some objects during the pan. This was probably a side-effect of shooting in low light on actual film which needed a faster exposure time than it was given for fast motion.
It's about time for all the big studios to go digital. I'm tired of live action shots (not heavily post-processed ones) looking bad like this.
>> Yeah, and maybe the Ultra versions will come with a girlfriend included!
And you thought the card was expensive!
Yeah, the funny thing about the low-end FX cards (like anything below the 5600) is that it's the same shit they pulled with the MX series previously. Why even put FX on the box if it's not even close to a REAL FX card? The MX's are a shame, and the low end FX cards are too, but at least you know that the MX's are different.
The underpowered 5200FX would get smoked by anything from the Geforce4 ti4x00 range. Nvidia, shame on you.
How can you say ATI's linux strategy is better, given that you have to play some goofy kernel matching game with their released drivers? Then there are patches, glues, all kinds of nonsense you have to go through to get the drivers up and running.
With Nvidia if you have the kernel source, you just run their installer and it builds the drivers and installs them. Anytime I upgrade my kernel, I just re-run the installer and have working drivers in about 30 seconds.
I agree with your assessment that the s2000 is lackluster when placed side by side with other cars in its price range. However, the chassis and driving dynamics are hard to fault.
You forgot to mention naturally aspirated 4 cylinder engine in the s2000.
Honda's design philosophy has been, since day one, 'rev up for power'. This all hearkens back to when Mr. Honda himself first attended an F1 race as a child. We all know how small F1 engines are, how high they rev, and how little torque they have. Then again, an open wheel racer weighing a little over 1500lbs with driver and engine doesn't require alot of torque. Look at all of Honda's 4 cylinder engine designs, they all follow the original philosophy.
Yeah but the torque to horsepower ratio sucks on sportbikes, and the rpms are way too high. You have to rev the shit out of them to get anything worthwhile. Granted, they are impressive little engines, but not for cars or carboats. The Subaru engine has plenty of torque (which is necessary for a 4wd car anyway).
You should read a few posts up, there's a karma whore reposting the article.
At any rate the Subaru engine was chosen for power and size. It was the best solution for a midengined car boat. You have a 2.5 liter turbocharged flat 4 which gives you a smaller engine, a lower center of gravity, and some good ol' Japanese reliability. Also consider the weight savings over a V8.
BTW if you're comparing per liter output, the v8 sucks in this case.
I'm guessing they chose the Subaru engine for packaging. The Subaru STi engine they're using is a turbocharged 2.5 liter flat four (opposing cylinders) boxer engine. The layout and size of the engine is ideal for a watercar. The Camaro v8 is a monstrosity compared to this engine, and it is quite tall in comparison.
Liter for liter, the Subaru engine is better for this application.
Sweet tip. I just did 'urpmi units' and sure enough there was a mandrake rpm for it. I'll have to remember this little gem for the future.
MS11 is probably a Spinal Tap joke in this case.
" Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and...
Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?
Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.
Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?
Marty DiBergi: I don't know.
Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.
Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
Nigel Tufnel: [Pause] These go to eleven. "
And I prefer the easiest of all:
urpmi --auto-select
In Thailand and other parts of asia, green tea is making it's way into dozens of unusual products. My wife recently returned from a business trip to Bangkok and told me about the funniest product _ever_.
Green Tea Tampons and Green Tea Maxi Pads.
She's going back in June, I gotta see something this asinine for myself so I told her to bring some back.
Once again we learn the lesson of intake in moderation. Too much of a good thing is a bad thing.
BTW another side effect of tannins, in people with Marfan's syndrome, is the increase in frequency and severity of migraine headaches. Teas aren't the only drinks high in tannins..your favorite red wines may have alot as well.
Jasmine tea isn't green tea at all. I have alot of Thai friends so I know a little about asian teas.
Take a shower everyday, I guarantee their perception of you will change. Deodorant helps too, prevents those sweat spots the Accounting department keeps making jokes about. You never stopped to wonder why they keep asking you to raise your hand if you're sure?
Well since infrared is warm, you'll feel it eventually. Alot of restaurants and fast food joints use infrared lamps to keep your fatburger warm while you go fill up your drink.
I worked in a photo lab a long time ago and we had spinning-door darkrooms where we'd load exposed paper into the printers to be developed. In each room there was an infrared lamp that was always on. Without goggles it was the blackest room, zero light whatsoever. With night vision (infrared) goggles the place was lit up like a sunny afternoon. You could indeed feel the heat if you put your hand near the lamp.
Now imagine this type of light focused and magnified many times and shot into your eye. I think you'd blink.
...about magneto optical storage, or MO drives. Alot of scientists and government agencies rely on them for serious archiving.
Shelf life of around 100 years if I'm not mistaken.
Yeah but with pigeons you always have to worry about hawks in big cities eating them.
Where did you think they got the phrase 'NO CARRIER' from? A pigeon that got 0wnt by a local hawk.
I'd be easier to just paint the helmet to look like Connery's hair and face. Depending on the shots it might work, but for closeups, you gotta use good old fashioned matte work.
I wish you knew a little about sentence structure and grammar. Your opening sentence still has me puzzled. "First off i work towers tall buildings..." How do you work them?
Shit, if I was this guy, I would've skipped the cup also. It'd be much wiser to put a cucumber in the suit because the comedy factor is already obvious.
Worked for Spinal Tap at the airport.
Hey since we're on the comedy train...
I had a cat with two names. First name was Fluffy...last name was Pancake. OH! I kid.
One night, the power went out in my apartment and I didn't have candles.
The next day I developed 36 pictures of my kitchen and living room. OH!
Thank you, remember to tip your waitstaff. I'll be here all week.
Actually it usually applies to women that wear extremely tight, thin pants or shorts or whatever. The way the labia split and protrude on either side resembles a camel's toe.
This is one of the few, sad instances it applies to a man. Hopefully we won't get any more of these...instances again.
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