That's just because you've never had raw milk (goat's milk is even better) or even rice/soy milk, all of which are orders of magnitude beyond pasteurized and homogenized cow's titjuice.
I'm going to have to call bullshit on this one. I've done extensive testing involving actually filling up with gas, cruise control, and other things to even out conditions and I've found that in every car I've tried it out in, you're wrong. The optimum speed seems to always be about five mph BELOW the normal top gear shifting speed. For example, in my Scion xB, Geo Prizm, my brother's Mitsubishi Eclipse, and his Ford F-150 (all with manual transmissions), 40 MPH got the BEST gas mileage. Scion xB = 35, Geo Prizm = 45, Mitsu Eclipse = 30, Ford F-150 = 20. In automatics (I tested several including a Ford F-150 and a Ford Fusion), it was always more like 45, like because that's when most automatics shift into overdrive at that speed.
At higher speed, the fuel efficiency decreased logistically. By 85 the Scion was down to 25 MPH, the Geo was down to 35. Those are big differences. I don't know what you guys are smoking that you claim 85 is the most efficient speed. It's not. And no, modern cars aren't designed for higher speeds either. They're designed for the EPA mileage tests which test at 43 mph, which is right along with my research.
Now, maybe with your 6-speed tranny, you're most efficient speed will be higher, but probably won't be much higher than the recommended shift point for sixth gear (which is probably like 55 mph). Try it sometime with fillups and math and not the dashboard counter, and you'll see.
(For the curious, all my tests were conducted on the 24-miles between Coopersville, MI and Cascade, MI on I-96)
Actually, that 53k limit was lifted about two years after the first 56k standards were introduced (x2 and k56flex IIRC). In fact, I remember patching my external k56flex modem twice. Once to upgrade it to standard 56k with the 53k limitation, and once to upgrade to standard 56k without the limitation.
Having said that, I've never seen a 56k modem actually connect at 56k. The best I've seen was in the upper 40s. Then I got cable.
Don't get quad core yet. Spend the same money on a dual core that has 1.5 times the clock speed (unless you're rolling in the dough). Why? Because very, very few games a written with multiple cores in mind as of yet. While I expect some to start coming out soon, the majority of games are written in a traditional single-thread manner. This means that the game will be stuck in one core. Your OS, drivers and other software will sit in the other core, thus giving you benefit, but because of the limiting nature of single-threaded games, you'll see more benefit from a faster dual-core CPU than from a slower quad-core.
True, but condensation can't be an issue anyway. The compressor and condenser must be outside, or you'll just have a fancy heater that blows cold air on one side and drips water on the floor. See the laws of thermodynamics for details.
Dude, you're applying Victorian era morals to Ben Franklin. That's just not accurate. Contrary to what most people think, the moral standards of today are relatively prudish compared to Revolutionary War era moral standards. Ben Franklin, being a man of his time, was a known womanizer and was thought to have numerous sexual partnerships until well into his 80s. He could easily be compared to President Clinton in that regard (although Clinton was much more guarded).
If you really want to blow your mind, you should do some reading about the Puritan-era in the Colonies. The only reason people knew of "crimes" such as adultery is because other people peeked in their windows to get a show, on purpose. While we think of it as a time of incredible prudishness, they were much more open about sex than we realize.
If you knew more about plastic, you'd probably avoid it all (reasonable) costs. While there are certain things where plastic is indispensible (surgical devices, for example), there are likewise, a large number of things where you should never use it. Things which touch food and drink for example, should NEVER be made of plastic, especially if children are eating and drinking out of them. Use glass, metal and ceramic instead. The reason for this avoidance of plastic is the outgassing of dangerous chemicals that act as artificial hormones and/or are carcinogens, like bisphenol-A. Bisphenol-A is currently used as a plasticiser in PET (the kind of plastic used in pop bottles, disposable silverware, etc.). It leaks out slowly (faster with it) and is known to act as an artificial estrogen. It is thought the be the main cause for the average girl's first period in the US going from 16 to 10, and a serious contributing factor in the rise of breast cancer.
You could just buy up a small stock of spare batteries and a four battery charger. That's what my brother did (he uses his Treo to listen to music over his cell plan's Internet using his Bluetooth headset. The battery lasts like an hour.). The batteries are cheap as hell now that the Centro came out. I think he said something about getting four of them for under $50.
Trust me on this one, JonWan was right. My dad used to own a video store in the 90's. While, yes, those small stores would pay 5-8 times the normal price for their tapes, there wasn't any difference between them and the cheaper tapes other than time frame of availability. They cost more solely because the video stores got them at the earliest release. About 6 weeks later you could order more at around $15 a piece.
He was wrong about DVD's though. They didn't have the whole "rental place early purchase price" thing. The reason was because Sony and the rest of the DVD Consortium (mostly large conglomerates who make the movies, the media and the players) decided to skip the whole rental thing and try to capture the larger home video purchase market with cheaper first-available DVD's. This is because people don't generally buy a movie they've already watched. Naturally, rentals, therefore, cost them money, since people who rent (which was the only way to watch new releases during the VHS era) don't usually buy.
About the license thing: No, No, No. The first-sale doctrine allows unlimited rental of legally owned videos all you want, without any license or permission from the copyright holder. There is an exception which requires you to get a license to rent, but it only applies to computer software (I'm not sure about games, but probably not) and audio. While movies contain audio, they aren't audio under the law, so they can be rented sans license no matter what.
It works more like this. Imagine water flow. Amps are the area of the cross-section of the pipe. (This is why Amperage determines wire thickness. If the wire isn't as thick as the cross-section then heat will build up. Not good.)
Volts are the pressure on the water (think length of pipe's worth of water per second. That's pressure. Regardless of the diameter of the pipe, the same length of pipe's worth of water will come out per second at the same pressure. Same thing with Volts).
Watts are volts times amps which in water equivalent would be like volume per time (that's what you get when you multiply area by length/time). Multiply Watts by time and you get energy (measured in Watt-hours or whatever).
No, it's 2^5-1. You can't hold down all five buttons at once, unless you're a mutant. Of course 31 notes is quite comparable to a number of real world musical instruments.
1. It's "Common Era". 2. Replace Judeo-Christian with Christian. The Jews aligned their calendar with the Romans such that the Sabbath (Saturday) fell on the last day of the week (which, according to the Romans was Saturday.). The Christians decided that they would celebrate their new prophet on the first day of the week (Since most early Christians were originally of the Roman religion rather than Jewish, they equated Jesus with Sol, their Sun god, who was worshipped weekly on Sunday.). Later that celebration merged with the Sabbath concept, but the day of Sunday stuck, only now most people erroneously think of it as the end of the week.
Why do people always spout this crap? The most efficient speed will ALWAYS be the bottom speed of your top gear. In 90% of cars today this is, and likely always will be, 45-50 mph. Of course, this assumes you drive at a constant speed. Hypermilers will tell you that you should accelerate at 75% throttle (for most cars), in the manual recommended gear (automatics may require slightly less power or special tricks for correct upshifting) until you reach about 55mph. Then put in the clutch (or transmission into neutral) and coast until the bottom of your top gear. Then accelerate at 75% throttle to 55mph. Then coast again. Repeat. This the most effecient. Wind resistance prevents the most efficient speed from going higher than around 55mph, no matter what you do about gears.
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You've been watching Lexx lately haven't you. Next thing you'll know, you'll start referring to His Great Shadow every third sentence.
That's just because you've never had raw milk (goat's milk is even better) or even rice/soy milk, all of which are orders of magnitude beyond pasteurized and homogenized cow's titjuice.
I'm going to have to call bullshit on this one. I've done extensive testing involving actually filling up with gas, cruise control, and other things to even out conditions and I've found that in every car I've tried it out in, you're wrong. The optimum speed seems to always be about five mph BELOW the normal top gear shifting speed. For example, in my Scion xB, Geo Prizm, my brother's Mitsubishi Eclipse, and his Ford F-150 (all with manual transmissions), 40 MPH got the BEST gas mileage. Scion xB = 35, Geo Prizm = 45, Mitsu Eclipse = 30, Ford F-150 = 20. In automatics (I tested several including a Ford F-150 and a Ford Fusion), it was always more like 45, like because that's when most automatics shift into overdrive at that speed.
At higher speed, the fuel efficiency decreased logistically. By 85 the Scion was down to 25 MPH, the Geo was down to 35. Those are big differences. I don't know what you guys are smoking that you claim 85 is the most efficient speed. It's not. And no, modern cars aren't designed for higher speeds either. They're designed for the EPA mileage tests which test at 43 mph, which is right along with my research.
Now, maybe with your 6-speed tranny, you're most efficient speed will be higher, but probably won't be much higher than the recommended shift point for sixth gear (which is probably like 55 mph). Try it sometime with fillups and math and not the dashboard counter, and you'll see.
(For the curious, all my tests were conducted on the 24-miles between Coopersville, MI and Cascade, MI on I-96)
Get off my lawn!!!
Actually, that 53k limit was lifted about two years after the first 56k standards were introduced (x2 and k56flex IIRC). In fact, I remember patching my external k56flex modem twice. Once to upgrade it to standard 56k with the 53k limitation, and once to upgrade to standard 56k without the limitation.
Having said that, I've never seen a 56k modem actually connect at 56k. The best I've seen was in the upper 40s. Then I got cable.
Don't get quad core yet. Spend the same money on a dual core that has 1.5 times the clock speed (unless you're rolling in the dough). Why? Because very, very few games a written with multiple cores in mind as of yet. While I expect some to start coming out soon, the majority of games are written in a traditional single-thread manner. This means that the game will be stuck in one core. Your OS, drivers and other software will sit in the other core, thus giving you benefit, but because of the limiting nature of single-threaded games, you'll see more benefit from a faster dual-core CPU than from a slower quad-core.
Yes, but that's what HTTP interfaces are for.
True, but condensation can't be an issue anyway. The compressor and condenser must be outside, or you'll just have a fancy heater that blows cold air on one side and drips water on the floor. See the laws of thermodynamics for details.
Dude, you're applying Victorian era morals to Ben Franklin. That's just not accurate. Contrary to what most people think, the moral standards of today are relatively prudish compared to Revolutionary War era moral standards. Ben Franklin, being a man of his time, was a known womanizer and was thought to have numerous sexual partnerships until well into his 80s. He could easily be compared to President Clinton in that regard (although Clinton was much more guarded).
If you really want to blow your mind, you should do some reading about the Puritan-era in the Colonies. The only reason people knew of "crimes" such as adultery is because other people peeked in their windows to get a show, on purpose. While we think of it as a time of incredible prudishness, they were much more open about sex than we realize.
Actually, the US Constitution is written on sheep, not hemp. No joke.
You should take a job-related book with you to your smoke breaks. Crack it open whether you read it or not. Or some kind of PDA.
RAID0's also not RAID. It fails on the "redundant" part.
You should be using mouse gestures anyway.
BAH! Who uses the keyboard anymore? It's hold right-click, move down, let-go. Mouse gestures all the way, baby!!!
You must not live in the US. I have to go 1.5 miles just to leave my neighborhood. There's only 100 houses in it.
If you knew more about plastic, you'd probably avoid it all (reasonable) costs. While there are certain things where plastic is indispensible (surgical devices, for example), there are likewise, a large number of things where you should never use it. Things which touch food and drink for example, should NEVER be made of plastic, especially if children are eating and drinking out of them. Use glass, metal and ceramic instead. The reason for this avoidance of plastic is the outgassing of dangerous chemicals that act as artificial hormones and/or are carcinogens, like bisphenol-A. Bisphenol-A is currently used as a plasticiser in PET (the kind of plastic used in pop bottles, disposable silverware, etc.). It leaks out slowly (faster with it) and is known to act as an artificial estrogen. It is thought the be the main cause for the average girl's first period in the US going from 16 to 10, and a serious contributing factor in the rise of breast cancer.
As far as camping goes, aluminum is your friend.
So it's condom eating Viagra. Score?
You could just buy up a small stock of spare batteries and a four battery charger. That's what my brother did (he uses his Treo to listen to music over his cell plan's Internet using his Bluetooth headset. The battery lasts like an hour.). The batteries are cheap as hell now that the Centro came out. I think he said something about getting four of them for under $50.
Those licensing requirements only apply to computer software and audio. Videos, books, and lawn mowers can be rented out sans license.
Trust me on this one, JonWan was right. My dad used to own a video store in the 90's. While, yes, those small stores would pay 5-8 times the normal price for their tapes, there wasn't any difference between them and the cheaper tapes other than time frame of availability. They cost more solely because the video stores got them at the earliest release. About 6 weeks later you could order more at around $15 a piece.
He was wrong about DVD's though. They didn't have the whole "rental place early purchase price" thing. The reason was because Sony and the rest of the DVD Consortium (mostly large conglomerates who make the movies, the media and the players) decided to skip the whole rental thing and try to capture the larger home video purchase market with cheaper first-available DVD's. This is because people don't generally buy a movie they've already watched. Naturally, rentals, therefore, cost them money, since people who rent (which was the only way to watch new releases during the VHS era) don't usually buy.
About the license thing: No, No, No. The first-sale doctrine allows unlimited rental of legally owned videos all you want, without any license or permission from the copyright holder. There is an exception which requires you to get a license to rent, but it only applies to computer software (I'm not sure about games, but probably not) and audio. While movies contain audio, they aren't audio under the law, so they can be rented sans license no matter what.
It works more like this. Imagine water flow. Amps are the area of the cross-section of the pipe. (This is why Amperage determines wire thickness. If the wire isn't as thick as the cross-section then heat will build up. Not good.)
Volts are the pressure on the water (think length of pipe's worth of water per second. That's pressure. Regardless of the diameter of the pipe, the same length of pipe's worth of water will come out per second at the same pressure. Same thing with Volts).
Watts are volts times amps which in water equivalent would be like volume per time (that's what you get when you multiply area by length/time). Multiply Watts by time and you get energy (measured in Watt-hours or whatever).
No, it's 2^5-1. You can't hold down all five buttons at once, unless you're a mutant. Of course 31 notes is quite comparable to a number of real world musical instruments.
Two mistakes:
1. It's "Common Era".
2. Replace Judeo-Christian with Christian. The Jews aligned their calendar with the Romans such that the Sabbath (Saturday) fell on the last day of the week (which, according to the Romans was Saturday.). The Christians decided that they would celebrate their new prophet on the first day of the week (Since most early Christians were originally of the Roman religion rather than Jewish, they equated Jesus with Sol, their Sun god, who was worshipped weekly on Sunday.). Later that celebration merged with the Sabbath concept, but the day of Sunday stuck, only now most people erroneously think of it as the end of the week.
Why do people always spout this crap? The most efficient speed will ALWAYS be the bottom speed of your top gear. In 90% of cars today this is, and likely always will be, 45-50 mph. Of course, this assumes you drive at a constant speed. Hypermilers will tell you that you should accelerate at 75% throttle (for most cars), in the manual recommended gear (automatics may require slightly less power or special tricks for correct upshifting) until you reach about 55mph. Then put in the clutch (or transmission into neutral) and coast until the bottom of your top gear. Then accelerate at 75% throttle to 55mph. Then coast again. Repeat. This the most effecient. Wind resistance prevents the most efficient speed from going higher than around 55mph, no matter what you do about gears.
Huh, what? My Intel HDA chip (on a Dell mobo), works great on Linux (Gentoo on x86_64). Front, back, multichannel, all excellent.