I have E71 as well. It's crap. The difference between us is probably the fact that I have an iPod touch, so I know what my cell-phone could be like. It could have slick and smooth UI, it could be easy to use, it could have powerful apps that are dead-simple to install. It could be capable of playing back my media properly. I could have a web-browser that was actually usable.
But no. Instead of that I have an UI that is about as advanced as Windows 3.1 was. I have crappy performance. I have an UI that I have to navigate with tiny plastic joystick. I have crappy plastic keyboard, which means that the screen is tiny. I have utterly useless web-browser (Of for Christ sake, I have to navigate a tiny pointer with the joystick so I could click on links!).
Sure, E71 is the best Nokia I have ever used, And I have used Nokias since 1997 or so. Which, when you really think about it, is very, very sad. Nokia is the biggest in the business, and they have decades of experience in this stuff, and THIS is the best they can come up with?!?
Oh, well, I'm not stupid. Tons of things in the SW universe make absolutely no sense. The storm trooper uniforms are stupid, kind of remind me of French Legionnaire uniforms that always made me laugh when I saw someone dressed like that in the desert. The red flags on your shoulders make you stick out like a sore thumb regardless of where you are.
Um, that's the dress-uniform. Or are US Marines fighting dressed like this. I can see that sword being handy in modern battlefield....
The actual combat uniform of the Legionnaires is the same as regular French military uses. You can see some pics of those here
I can also warmly recommend the TV-series Once Upon a Time... Life, which is biologically very correct yet entertaining to watch.
I'll second this. The show is very informative, yet entertaining. And it's suitable for just abot all ages. I have been thinking about buying the series on DVD; even though I do not have kids yet, just in case they are not available when I DO have kids.
Hell, I was watching reruns of the series recently. It was around the time when Steve Jobs went on medical leave because he couldn't digest proteins. It was explained in the show that pancreas are involved in digesting proteins. It was then when I realized that his "simple hormone imbalance" is probably related to his earlier pancreatic cancer, and is therefore more serious than we were being told.
"That they had predicted such would happen thousands of years before it did."
Where were the predictions made? In the Bible? And if their predictions had not come through, then what? Lots of religions make lots of predictions, most of them don't come true.
"They are evidence. "
No they are not. The fact that we happen to be on this planet is not "evidence". If I shoot an arrow in to forest blindfolded, and it hits a tree, according to your logic it must be a proof of gods existence, since odds of that arrow hitting that particular tree are tiny. Yet anyone understand that the odds of that arrow hitting some tree in the forest is pretty good.
Same thing with planets and life. Yes, it seems convenient that our planet seems to be so well suited for life. Water, the right distance from Sun, a magnetic field that protects us from radiation etc.... The odds of all those things happening here are quite tiny. But the odds of those things happening somewhere in the universe are pretty damn good. There's nothing "miraculous" in our existence, since the universe if filled with planets. Odds of life appearing somewhere are pretty damn high.
There's exactly ZERO evidence pointing towards creation.
"I'm sure you're getting the idea."
Yeah, I'm getting the idea that you are hell-bent on making the world fit your religious dogma. "we exist, and that's irrefutable proof that we were created".
Yes, Jews exist. And Mithraists do not (they were killed off by the Christians, as it happens). So what exactly is your point? That some groups of people have vanished over the course of the years, wbhile some others have not? And that proves that universe was created... how, exactly?
And what about DNA? Yes, it's complex. So what? Are you saying that something so complex could not happen through evolution? Why not? The odds against it are too great? Well, evolution has been at it on countless planets through billions of years. So even if the odds for complex life appearing on some particular are miniscule, the odds of life taking shape somewhere are pretty damn good. So the fact that complex life exists does NOT prove creator in any shape or form.
"A planet in our solar system supports life complex enough for people to actually debate on the internet whether this post was made by a random chemical reaction reacting obscurely to photons, or a conscious human being."
And there are several planets in our solar system that do not. And there are zillions of planets in the universe where is no life. So how exactly does the existence of life on this particular planet somehow "prove" the existence of a creator?
Like I said, if we look at the universe, we are talking about countless planets. Probability of life forming on some specific planet might be tiny, but when we talk about billions of planets of billions of years, there will be life on some of them.
"Perhaps none of these qualify as "proof", but they are evidence; which is all you asked for."
How exactly is Apple a "monopoly"? Because the have 100% market-share in Macs? I guess Nintendo is a monopoly as well, since they have 100% market-share in the Wii-market....
Um, how exactly is it "invasion of privacy"? Are those water-detectors that are built in to many electronic devices "invasion of privacy" as well? Because that's what this new thingy is continuation of.
You make it sound like Apple is going to take pictures of your apartment with the webcam and record your discussions with the microphone. They are not. What they MIGHT do is to implement a sensor that tells them that has the laptop been dropped or otherwise mandhandled in case you bring it to the for warranty-replacement. Are you saying that it's an "invasion of your privacy" if Apple finds out that you have been kicking your laptop, when you take it to them for repairs? If you are worried about that, you basically have two oppions:
1. Don't kick the laptop 2. If you still want to kick the laptop, don't take it in for repairs when it breaks down
And no, this is not DRM in any shape or form. DRM prevents you from doing certain things with media. This doesn't. You are still free to mandhandle your electronics if you want to. OK, you might not be able to lie to the company and tell them that "I have no idea why it broke down, it just happened just like that".
"How can they possibly distinguish between temperature spikes caused by the device malfunctioning and the environment outside the device?"
Well, if the device starts to burn, I would guess that the temperature of the device shoots up quite high, quite fast. How to tell that apart from changes in the outside environment? Well, last time I checked, the ambient temperature doesn't normally shoot up hundreds of degrees in just few seconds.... Well, unless you throw the device in to a furnace, but I don't think that's covered under the warranty....
I have visited official Apple Store once (the one on Regent Street in London), and the products they were selling were clearly visible. Maybe you saw iMacs, which to PC-user look just like a normal LCD-screen.
Are you seriously claiming that Mac-users walk in to a store, and buy computers without looking at them and testing them first? Or maybe you are just dumb enough to confuse an iMac with a screen?
I remember one hearing the number of open bugs in Mozilla. I believe it was slightly under 50.000. And that was ONE APP!
All software has bugs. 10.000 is nothing unreasonable for a big project like KDE.
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"KDE is coming together, albeit slowly but it is coming."
Slowly? Huh? 4.0 was crap. 6 months later we got 4.1 which was a lot better, but not there yet. 1 year after 4.0 we got 4.2 which was really good. And now we are getting 4.3.
KDE4 is only 18 months old. 18 months. During that 18 months KDE4 has changed A LOT. Compared to KDE3, KDE4 is progressing really, REALLY fast. In KDE3, 18 months got us from KDE 3.0 to KDE3.1.4.
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"I still don't know what the hell plasma activities are supposed to do, except break things. They don't do anything that virtual desktops don't."
Well, I see the difference like this:
VIrtual desktops are for _applications_. You have different apps running on different desktops.
Plasma activities are for _widgets_. You have different widgets running on different activities. You can have different panel-layouts and the like, depending on the activity. You could change your desktop, while keeping your activity. What would happen is that the apps would change, but the widgets (panels etc.) would stay the same.
I admit, the difference between the two is not 100% obvious. But the new feature of giving the user possibility to tie activites to desktops should simplify things. When you change your desktop, you also change the activity.
"Norway has next to no major industries and because of oil and natural gas, which finances their entire social welfare, their unemployment rates will always be much lower. "
Um, to my knowledge Norway uses very little of their oil-earnings. What they do is that they save that money for the time when they do not have any oil anymore.
"As of the valuation in June 2007, it was the largest pension fund in Europe and the fourth largest in the world [1], although it is not actually a pension fund as it derives its financial backing from oil profits and not pension contributions. As of 31 December 2008 its total value is NOK 2.275 trillion ($325 billion), holding 0.77 per cent of global equity markets.[2] With 1.25 per cent of European stocks,[3] it is said to be the largest stock owner in Europe.[4]"
So, do you think it's a good thing to "regulate" discussions about various subjects, including genocide and such? Why? Who is being harmed if some people have a discussion about how to carry out a genocide? People ARE harmed if those people start going around killing others, but merely discussing something should NOT be illegal.
Hell, I have had some discussion with my friends that are about subject-matters that are illegal. Like, "how would you murder someone?". Discussing something like that should NOT be illegal, since no-one is harmed by such discussions. And no, just because we had such a discussion does not mean that we are about to kill someone.
So you are glad to live in a country that tramples on free speech. Well, good luck with that. I on he other hand would much rather live in a country where speech is actually free. Words or thoughts do not harm anyone.
No, it doesn't mean the same thing. Back in the day "Finland" meant "land's end", while "Vinland" was "land of the wine". There's no connection between the two at all.
Well, it seems to me that the Dell-netbooks are solidly built with good design, whereas those cheap as hell Asuses and Acers look and feel like cheap plastic toys. So those Dells might be "overpriced" in the same sense as Toyotas's are "overpriced" when compared to Hyundais. The features might be more or less the same, but Hyundais feel like they are about to fall apart right there and then.
We're not arrogant. We're angry. Angry that such engineering talent went into solving a problem that didn't need to be solved instead of the very real problems that do need to be solved.
Well, the thing is that the new and expensive stuff they use in the Veyron will be available in "normal" cars down the road. To me, Veyron has two roles:
a) A piece of engineering art.
b) testbed for future technologies
First one goes without saying. And so does the second one. VW has spent A LOT of resources on coming up with new and better ways at making the Veyron. The have had to solve problems that were literally unheard of in other cars. And the thing is that those solutions will trickle down to cars that you and I will be driving in the future.
Take the Mercedes S-class for example. It's the car that gets the latest and greatest technologies Mercedes has developed, and it costs a lot of money. But those technologies then become available in other cars as well. But the first car to have that cutting edge technology is going to cost quite a bit. Like the Veyron does. As does the S-class. Those cars make those technologies more mainstream, and they can then be brought over to cheaper cars.
Besides, building the greatest car in the world is a positive thing in on itself, and for that I applaud VW.
You are comparing cars and motorcycles, two completely different beasts. And yes, it does matter whether the vehicle is street-legal or not. And there are more to vehicles that mere acceleration-figures and top-speeds.
OEMs shouldn't *have* to hack into Linux to resolve driver issues, optimize the OS, or anything of that sort. The OS should just do it out of the box.
And Linux would "just do it" if it ran on hardware that it supported. Same goes for Windows. How well would Windows work if it ran on PowerPC-hardware? It wouldn't.
Windows works well on certain set of hardware, and OEM's use that hardware. If they want to use Linux that works well, they should use hardware that works well with Linux. It's the exactly the same thing with both Linux and Windows.
Similarly, you can bet that users didn't return the laptops due to driver issues or speed, but more likely due to usability. It's not the OEM's job or area of expertise to make the system usable.
You are right. I would have preferred if the OEM's had used bog-standard Ubuntu, or Fedora or OpenSUSE. But no, instead they created their own half-baked distros with their OWN crappy UI's. Had they went with what what available, instead of trying to "fix" things, things would have been a lot better.
OEMs shouldn't have done anything since everything was already done for them. But no, they went ahead and ruined everything with their stupidity and incompetence.
If Microsoft comes along and offers them a software package that just works and charges them some money for it, can you blame them for accepting it? Nobody would be crying foul if it was Apple instead of Microsoft.
And OEM's were offered software-packages that just work, and they could have gotten it for free, but instead they decided to create something crappy instead....
But the American customer wants high torque at low RPM
And those turbocharged engines achieve just that. The turbocharged engine gets it's max torque at 1500RPM! Twincharged version reaches it's max torque a bit higher, but I bet that it give more than 200Nm at 1500RPM.
Engines usually idle at a bit below 1000RPM. So in practice you have near the max amount of torque available right above the idle-RPM.
Turbocharging and supercharging increases torque as well. Normal aspirated 1.4-liter engine from VW generates 132Nm @ 3800RPM. The turbocharged version of that engine generates 200Nm @ 1500-4000RPM, whereas the twincharged version generates 240Nm @ 2400RPM. So you obviously do not need to increase the displacement in order to increase the torque.
And if you want torque, then you should be driving a diesel. VW's 2.0TDI generates 320Nm @ 1750-2500RPM.
I'd say that they are turbocharged. But that just begs the question: why do American car-manufacturers prefer large inefficient engines, as opposed to smaller turbocharged engined? Hell, VW has a 1.4 liter engine that generates 125Kw. It's both turbocharged AND supercharged.
What benefit is there in having 3+ liter engine, as opposed to having a smaller turbocharged engine? Seriously?
I see a H2 and think soccer mom in a 4x4 rather than military.
If the original ones makes you think of the military (they were meant for the military after all), why on Earth would normal consumers need or want to drive one? When you see your SUV-driving neighbour, does he remind you of a veteran or a soldier, or just another Joe Sixpack?
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Opera might give me a bit better browser, but it's still not nowhere near as good as Safari on the iPod is.
Why did I get the Nokia? It was issued to me by my employer, that's why.
I have E71 as well. It's crap. The difference between us is probably the fact that I have an iPod touch, so I know what my cell-phone could be like. It could have slick and smooth UI, it could be easy to use, it could have powerful apps that are dead-simple to install. It could be capable of playing back my media properly. I could have a web-browser that was actually usable.
But no. Instead of that I have an UI that is about as advanced as Windows 3.1 was. I have crappy performance. I have an UI that I have to navigate with tiny plastic joystick. I have crappy plastic keyboard, which means that the screen is tiny. I have utterly useless web-browser (Of for Christ sake, I have to navigate a tiny pointer with the joystick so I could click on links!).
Sure, E71 is the best Nokia I have ever used, And I have used Nokias since 1997 or so. Which, when you really think about it, is very, very sad. Nokia is the biggest in the business, and they have decades of experience in this stuff, and THIS is the best they can come up with?!?
Oh, well, I'm not stupid. Tons of things in the SW universe make absolutely no sense. The storm trooper uniforms are stupid, kind of remind me of French Legionnaire uniforms that always made me laugh when I saw someone dressed like that in the desert. The red flags on your shoulders make you stick out like a sore thumb regardless of where you are.
Um, that's the dress-uniform. Or are US Marines fighting dressed like this. I can see that sword being handy in modern battlefield....
The actual combat uniform of the Legionnaires is the same as regular French military uses. You can see some pics of those here
I can also warmly recommend the TV-series Once Upon a Time... Life, which is biologically very correct yet entertaining to watch.
I'll second this. The show is very informative, yet entertaining. And it's suitable for just abot all ages. I have been thinking about buying the series on DVD; even though I do not have kids yet, just in case they are not available when I DO have kids.
Hell, I was watching reruns of the series recently. It was around the time when Steve Jobs went on medical leave because he couldn't digest proteins. It was explained in the show that pancreas are involved in digesting proteins. It was then when I realized that his "simple hormone imbalance" is probably related to his earlier pancreatic cancer, and is therefore more serious than we were being told.
"That they had predicted such would happen thousands of years before it did."
Where were the predictions made? In the Bible? And if their predictions had not come through, then what? Lots of religions make lots of predictions, most of them don't come true.
"They are evidence. "
No they are not. The fact that we happen to be on this planet is not "evidence". If I shoot an arrow in to forest blindfolded, and it hits a tree, according to your logic it must be a proof of gods existence, since odds of that arrow hitting that particular tree are tiny. Yet anyone understand that the odds of that arrow hitting some tree in the forest is pretty good.
Same thing with planets and life. Yes, it seems convenient that our planet seems to be so well suited for life. Water, the right distance from Sun, a magnetic field that protects us from radiation etc.... The odds of all those things happening here are quite tiny. But the odds of those things happening somewhere in the universe are pretty damn good. There's nothing "miraculous" in our existence, since the universe if filled with planets. Odds of life appearing somewhere are pretty damn high.
There's exactly ZERO evidence pointing towards creation.
"I'm sure you're getting the idea."
Yeah, I'm getting the idea that you are hell-bent on making the world fit your religious dogma. "we exist, and that's irrefutable proof that we were created".
Um, OK....
Yes, Jews exist. And Mithraists do not (they were killed off by the Christians, as it happens). So what exactly is your point? That some groups of people have vanished over the course of the years, wbhile some others have not? And that proves that universe was created... how, exactly?
And what about DNA? Yes, it's complex. So what? Are you saying that something so complex could not happen through evolution? Why not? The odds against it are too great? Well, evolution has been at it on countless planets through billions of years. So even if the odds for complex life appearing on some particular are miniscule, the odds of life taking shape somewhere are pretty damn good. So the fact that complex life exists does NOT prove creator in any shape or form.
"A planet in our solar system supports life complex enough for people to actually debate on the internet whether this post was made by a random chemical reaction reacting obscurely to photons, or a conscious human being."
And there are several planets in our solar system that do not. And there are zillions of planets in the universe where is no life. So how exactly does the existence of life on this particular planet somehow "prove" the existence of a creator?
Like I said, if we look at the universe, we are talking about countless planets. Probability of life forming on some specific planet might be tiny, but when we talk about billions of planets of billions of years, there will be life on some of them.
"Perhaps none of these qualify as "proof", but they are evidence; which is all you asked for."
They are neither proof or evidence.
"if Dell was a monopoly like Apple"
How exactly is Apple a "monopoly"? Because the have 100% market-share in Macs? I guess Nintendo is a monopoly as well, since they have 100% market-share in the Wii-market....
Um, how exactly is it "invasion of privacy"? Are those water-detectors that are built in to many electronic devices "invasion of privacy" as well? Because that's what this new thingy is continuation of.
You make it sound like Apple is going to take pictures of your apartment with the webcam and record your discussions with the microphone. They are not. What they MIGHT do is to implement a sensor that tells them that has the laptop been dropped or otherwise mandhandled in case you bring it to the for warranty-replacement. Are you saying that it's an "invasion of your privacy" if Apple finds out that you have been kicking your laptop, when you take it to them for repairs? If you are worried about that, you basically have two oppions:
1. Don't kick the laptop
2. If you still want to kick the laptop, don't take it in for repairs when it breaks down
And no, this is not DRM in any shape or form. DRM prevents you from doing certain things with media. This doesn't. You are still free to mandhandle your electronics if you want to. OK, you might not be able to lie to the company and tell them that "I have no idea why it broke down, it just happened just like that".
"How can they possibly distinguish between temperature spikes caused by the device malfunctioning and the environment outside the device?"
Well, if the device starts to burn, I would guess that the temperature of the device shoots up quite high, quite fast. How to tell that apart from changes in the outside environment? Well, last time I checked, the ambient temperature doesn't normally shoot up hundreds of degrees in just few seconds.... Well, unless you throw the device in to a furnace, but I don't think that's covered under the warranty....
I have visited official Apple Store once (the one on Regent Street in London), and the products they were selling were clearly visible. Maybe you saw iMacs, which to PC-user look just like a normal LCD-screen.
Are you seriously claiming that Mac-users walk in to a store, and buy computers without looking at them and testing them first? Or maybe you are just dumb enough to confuse an iMac with a screen?
I remember one hearing the number of open bugs in Mozilla. I believe it was slightly under 50.000. And that was ONE APP!
All software has bugs. 10.000 is nothing unreasonable for a big project like KDE.
"KDE is coming together, albeit slowly but it is coming."
Slowly? Huh? 4.0 was crap. 6 months later we got 4.1 which was a lot better, but not there yet. 1 year after 4.0 we got 4.2 which was really good. And now we are getting 4.3.
KDE4 is only 18 months old. 18 months. During that 18 months KDE4 has changed A LOT. Compared to KDE3, KDE4 is progressing really, REALLY fast. In KDE3, 18 months got us from KDE 3.0 to KDE3.1.4.
"I still don't know what the hell plasma activities are supposed to do, except break things. They don't do anything that virtual desktops don't."
Well, I see the difference like this:
VIrtual desktops are for _applications_. You have different apps running on different desktops.
Plasma activities are for _widgets_. You have different widgets running on different activities. You can have different panel-layouts and the like, depending on the activity. You could change your desktop, while keeping your activity. What would happen is that the apps would change, but the widgets (panels etc.) would stay the same.
I admit, the difference between the two is not 100% obvious. But the new feature of giving the user possibility to tie activites to desktops should simplify things. When you change your desktop, you also change the activity.
"Norway has next to no major industries and because of oil and natural gas, which finances their entire social welfare, their unemployment rates will always be much lower. "
Um, to my knowledge Norway uses very little of their oil-earnings. What they do is that they save that money for the time when they do not have any oil anymore.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Government_Pension_Fund_of_Norway
"As of the valuation in June 2007, it was the largest pension fund in Europe and the fourth largest in the world [1], although it is not actually a pension fund as it derives its financial backing from oil profits and not pension contributions. As of 31 December 2008 its total value is NOK 2.275 trillion ($325 billion), holding 0.77 per cent of global equity markets.[2] With 1.25 per cent of European stocks,[3] it is said to be the largest stock owner in Europe.[4]"
So, do you think it's a good thing to "regulate" discussions about various subjects, including genocide and such? Why? Who is being harmed if some people have a discussion about how to carry out a genocide? People ARE harmed if those people start going around killing others, but merely discussing something should NOT be illegal.
Hell, I have had some discussion with my friends that are about subject-matters that are illegal. Like, "how would you murder someone?". Discussing something like that should NOT be illegal, since no-one is harmed by such discussions. And no, just because we had such a discussion does not mean that we are about to kill someone.
So you are glad to live in a country that tramples on free speech. Well, good luck with that. I on he other hand would much rather live in a country where speech is actually free. Words or thoughts do not harm anyone.
No, it doesn't mean the same thing. Back in the day "Finland" meant "land's end", while "Vinland" was "land of the wine". There's no connection between the two at all.
Well, it seems to me that the Dell-netbooks are solidly built with good design, whereas those cheap as hell Asuses and Acers look and feel like cheap plastic toys. So those Dells might be "overpriced" in the same sense as Toyotas's are "overpriced" when compared to Hyundais. The features might be more or less the same, but Hyundais feel like they are about to fall apart right there and then.
We're not arrogant. We're angry. Angry that such engineering talent went into solving a problem that didn't need to be solved instead of the very real problems that do need to be solved.
Well, the thing is that the new and expensive stuff they use in the Veyron will be available in "normal" cars down the road. To me, Veyron has two roles:
a) A piece of engineering art.
b) testbed for future technologies
First one goes without saying. And so does the second one. VW has spent A LOT of resources on coming up with new and better ways at making the Veyron. The have had to solve problems that were literally unheard of in other cars. And the thing is that those solutions will trickle down to cars that you and I will be driving in the future.
Take the Mercedes S-class for example. It's the car that gets the latest and greatest technologies Mercedes has developed, and it costs a lot of money. But those technologies then become available in other cars as well. But the first car to have that cutting edge technology is going to cost quite a bit. Like the Veyron does. As does the S-class. Those cars make those technologies more mainstream, and they can then be brought over to cheaper cars.
Besides, building the greatest car in the world is a positive thing in on itself, and for that I applaud VW.
You are comparing cars and motorcycles, two completely different beasts. And yes, it does matter whether the vehicle is street-legal or not. And there are more to vehicles that mere acceleration-figures and top-speeds.
OEMs shouldn't *have* to hack into Linux to resolve driver issues, optimize the OS, or anything of that sort. The OS should just do it out of the box.
And Linux would "just do it" if it ran on hardware that it supported. Same goes for Windows. How well would Windows work if it ran on PowerPC-hardware? It wouldn't.
Windows works well on certain set of hardware, and OEM's use that hardware. If they want to use Linux that works well, they should use hardware that works well with Linux. It's the exactly the same thing with both Linux and Windows.
Similarly, you can bet that users didn't return the laptops due to driver issues or speed, but more likely due to usability. It's not the OEM's job or area of expertise to make the system usable.
You are right. I would have preferred if the OEM's had used bog-standard Ubuntu, or Fedora or OpenSUSE. But no, instead they created their own half-baked distros with their OWN crappy UI's. Had they went with what what available, instead of trying to "fix" things, things would have been a lot better.
OEMs shouldn't have done anything since everything was already done for them. But no, they went ahead and ruined everything with their stupidity and incompetence.
If Microsoft comes along and offers them a software package that just works and charges them some money for it, can you blame them for accepting it? Nobody would be crying foul if it was Apple instead of Microsoft.
And OEM's were offered software-packages that just work, and they could have gotten it for free, but instead they decided to create something crappy instead....
But the American customer wants high torque at low RPM
And those turbocharged engines achieve just that. The turbocharged engine gets it's max torque at 1500RPM! Twincharged version reaches it's max torque a bit higher, but I bet that it give more than 200Nm at 1500RPM.
Engines usually idle at a bit below 1000RPM. So in practice you have near the max amount of torque available right above the idle-RPM.
Turbocharging and supercharging increases torque as well. Normal aspirated 1.4-liter engine from VW generates 132Nm @ 3800RPM. The turbocharged version of that engine generates 200Nm @ 1500-4000RPM, whereas the twincharged version generates 240Nm @ 2400RPM. So you obviously do not need to increase the displacement in order to increase the torque.
And if you want torque, then you should be driving a diesel. VW's 2.0TDI generates 320Nm @ 1750-2500RPM.
The twincharged engine I mentioned runs on normal 95E gasoline, although VW recommends 98E.
I'd say that they are turbocharged. But that just begs the question: why do American car-manufacturers prefer large inefficient engines, as opposed to smaller turbocharged engined? Hell, VW has a 1.4 liter engine that generates 125Kw. It's both turbocharged AND supercharged.
What benefit is there in having 3+ liter engine, as opposed to having a smaller turbocharged engine? Seriously?
I see a H2 and think soccer mom in a 4x4 rather than military.
If the original ones makes you think of the military (they were meant for the military after all), why on Earth would normal consumers need or want to drive one? When you see your SUV-driving neighbour, does he remind you of a veteran or a soldier, or just another Joe Sixpack?