goddamn you're funny. You make all these claims about how inadequate the Corvette is and yet you've mentioned nothing to back it up. Sounds like I'm not the one with feelings of inadequacy.
The nitpicking began when you mentioned the Cadillac 8-6-4 tech was the current high water mark for Displacement on Demand. That's _Displacement on Demand_....GM's words, not mine.
While Saab (a GM owned company) does have a motor that changes displacement (and hence compression ratio) in the lab, there's not any planned usage for it yet. DoD has been announced for several 2005 model year Cadillacs. (Whether they make it to production or not remains to be seen, but the pre-production test drives are VERY telling.)
My _98_ Corvette, while it has much less drag than the 89
I'd be surprised if that's really true, but I don't have anything at hand to answer that definitively. Suffice it to say though, Corvette's have generally gotten larger with each generation and whatever wind tunnel work has been done on the C5 may be offset by its increase frontal area with respect to the C4.
Believe what you like. The 89's a convertible with a, like.45 Cd...the 98's a coupe with a 0.28 Cd. Granted, drag is crossectional area * Cd, but the C5 doesn't cut a much larger hole than the C4. Given both cars, at highway speeds, the C4 got noticable better mileage...at a near 100 hp deficit.
Engine displacement is a large component of fuel efficiency and the Veyron's engine is huge in terms of displacement.
Displacement is a component in efficiency only at wide extremes of the envelope; very very small motors (600cc) or very very large ones (The aforementioned Veryon. Which I doubt had mileage ANYWHERE NEAR the list of design criteria.) in the range of 2 to 6 liters, you can make damn near ANY motor configuration make killer amounts of power, or very very good milege. If you're good, you can get a lot of both, while giving up some of the ultimate power (or mileage).
Hmph, I bought the _second_ vette (both of which I still own) at 26. I guess I'll be dead at 45 if that's a mid-life crisis. The first vette's turned into a serious hacker excercize with a homebuilt motor and tranny...and it turns mid-12's in the quartermile. It's also seen quite a bit of tracktime.
As far as driving skill in the twisties, I'll bet I've had more PROFESSIONAL instruction than you've encountered.
Step out from behind that AC and we'll debate on a rational level.
(And I'm not 'biting' on that johnson comment. The overwhelming majorities of gays and Bi-s I know are wonderful people...not a single troll amongst 'em.)
Bzzt. You're _mostly_ right, but you've got a few critical things wrong.
Mileage is partially caused by the efficiency of the motor, and partly by the efficiency of the package it's wrapped in. my 89 Corvette could easily get 30-32mpg (or 3), my PT cruiser, with it's smaller motor attached to its more efficient manual tranny, gets 26-28 depending on A/C use.
My _98_ Corvette, while it has much less drag than the 89 - has a much more advanced motor but gets 4-6mph worse mileage. Why? because they weighted the variables towards performance, rather than mileage. it's also immune to heat soak, and has fewer parts, in light of the throttle by wire system removing ASR, Cruise, and throttle mechanicals.
Several manufaturers are releasing a displacement on command feature. making the V8 a V4 by shutting down four cylinders and removing the oil that keeps the lifters filled (and hence, lifting valves.) GM, Porsche and IIRC BMW have motors announced.
The next really REALLY cool tech you'll see is a camless motor. Lotus has done a LOT of research on solenoid actuated valves. If there's no cam, there's no limitation to valve timing! You can tune the motor to optimum fuel efficiency, max low end torque or max upper end hp.
Perhaps you slept through that whole excercize known as the dot-com-era? You know, the one where the workers worked inhuman hours sleeping under desks cause after 6 months of inhuman labor they 'just knew' they'd be rich, and the bosses kept pushing harder because after this batch of codemonkeys burnt out, there'd be a long line of OTHER code monkeys waiting to take their place...knowing that 6 hours of inhuman labor would make them rich.
Can you clarify how Google's toolbar tricks users? I was always under the impression they were a pretty aboveboard shop (Nervously looking at the toolbar in this window.)
I always thought LEAP's strengths were in the time based key exchange. If the keys are exchanged some aribtrarily short period of time, you won't have the time to do a 128-bit crack.
Not having used LEAP, during a 'deauthentication' is there any notification to the client that the wireless subsystem is 're-authenticating'?
Are sharing code, then it stands to reason that keeping your system proactively patched protects you from more and more virii.
It's getting to the point at the office that all new virii noise on the IDS box is laptops coming in from the VPN. I can see a spike in traffic from one laptop, which gets reported to the Help Desk for cleaning, and the net result to the rest of the (properly patched) network sees NO negative result.
Sure it may look like XP, it may even ACT like XP, but when aunt martha wants to upgrade Real (or Winamp, or Internet Explorer, or Mozilla, or Flash) she's gonna pick the XP version to download and the app will fail.
She'll either call her service technician (you), or take it to CompUSA, where the tech will blow a gasket trying to figure out why his windows based diagnostic tools don't work.
I'm not saying there aren't linux equivalent apps for most windows XP things, but there isn't a 1 to 1 correlation, and the Devil is in the Details.
Case in point: I got my mom an iOpener one year. It worked well, it did what she needed, but she always felt there was stuff she couldn't do because the device couldn't accomodate 100% of the things her church buddies could do. (Quicktime? Windows Media? Get infected with Gator?)
Granted, that's not all bad - especially the inherent security features, but it IS an issue that will arise.
I've gota 508....the first one failed after 4 months, the second one had slightly altered operation (I suspect to cut down on HD useage and file fragmentation) The second one has run for 8-10 months without a hitch.
Aside from the thumbs up/thumbs down feature of the TiVo, this has become an irreplaceable paret of our home theatre. I won't be moving to HDTV until a cheap PVR solution is available (I got the 508 for $200, installed)
For the longest time I wanted a display device in the livingroom. Something that would play DVD/video/mp3s/internet streaming content. The Xbox seemd like the IDEAL solution based on the horsepower, ethernet and digital multichannel audio out. I'd heard rumors that it was CAPABILE of sending a progressive scan DVD video signal with just a software upgrade and it sounded even better.
Then a whole lotta nothing happened. I'd have been willing to spend another $50-$75 to microsoft/whoever for the capability. The modchip seems like the quickest way to get an unencumbered display device next to your TV in the family room, but at the expense of a lot of futzing around with the hardware.
Unfortunately, they missed their target opportunity as 99% of the world out there isn't gonna hack their Xbox to do this, and the only announcement I've seen from Microsoft is a software package that'll ONLY talk to a media center version of Windows XP. (here, you can do this, but first you have to buy this $2000 computer)
Meanwhile, I realized that internet radio sucks, and my iPod with iTunes fm modulator plus the dish network PVR provides everything I truely needed above and beyond the Xbox's DVD player.
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How bout a Segw~z^H@# NO CARRIER
Please oh please why won't somebody pull the plug on this dead horse?
Yeah yeah, different model, but an embedded linux box, just the same.
KIDNEY! You r were missing a KIDNEY!
Sheesh. {mumbles}Probably not even a _redundant_ kidney either}
Hmph. I just bought a Moto v600. Lasts a week on a charge, bluetooth, GREAT SCREEN, camera.
It also has the java stuff and plays games and uses mp3s as ringtones and a whole lotta other stuff.
But it's also a pretty damn good phone for $175.
My wife sounded like a LOT of you guys: I don't want a damn camera, I don't want a damn color screen....
Then she IM's me with a link to the V600. Says it's pretty. Likes the 'environmental mood lighting'.
Some engineer figured that, for another $3, he could put red, green, blue, and white LEDs behind the top and the camera would sell like hotcakes.
Not because of the camera, or the quadband, or the JVM....but because it's pretty.
Did you say something?
It seems like MOST of these beasties throw themselves into the Run and/or Runonce registry keys. Why can't those keys be locked down?
goddamn you're funny. You make all these claims about how inadequate the Corvette is and yet you've mentioned nothing to back it up. Sounds like I'm not the one with feelings of inadequacy.
While Saab (a GM owned company) does have a motor that changes displacement (and hence compression ratio) in the lab, there's not any planned usage for it yet. DoD has been announced for several 2005 model year Cadillacs. (Whether they make it to production or not remains to be seen, but the pre-production test drives are VERY telling.)
Believe what you like. The 89's a convertible with a, like
Hmph, I bought the _second_ vette (both of which I still own) at 26. I guess I'll be dead at 45 if that's a mid-life crisis. The first vette's turned into a serious hacker excercize with a homebuilt motor and tranny...and it turns mid-12's in the quartermile. It's also seen quite a bit of tracktime.
As far as driving skill in the twisties, I'll bet I've had more PROFESSIONAL instruction than you've encountered.
Step out from behind that AC and we'll debate on a rational level.
(And I'm not 'biting' on that johnson comment. The overwhelming majorities of gays and Bi-s I know are wonderful people...not a single troll amongst 'em.)
Dear, dear (homophobic) troll. What praytell do YOU consider a real car?
Bzzt. You're _mostly_ right, but you've got a few critical things wrong.
Mileage is partially caused by the efficiency of the motor, and partly by the efficiency of the package it's wrapped in. my 89 Corvette could easily get 30-32mpg (or 3), my PT cruiser, with it's smaller motor attached to its more efficient manual tranny, gets 26-28 depending on A/C use.
My _98_ Corvette, while it has much less drag than the 89 - has a much more advanced motor but gets 4-6mph worse mileage. Why? because they weighted the variables towards performance, rather than mileage. it's also immune to heat soak, and has fewer parts, in light of the throttle by wire system removing ASR, Cruise, and throttle mechanicals.
Several manufaturers are releasing a displacement on command feature. making the V8 a V4 by shutting down four cylinders and removing the oil that keeps the lifters filled (and hence, lifting valves.) GM, Porsche and IIRC BMW have motors announced.
The next really REALLY cool tech you'll see is a camless motor. Lotus has done a LOT of research on solenoid actuated valves. If there's no cam, there's no limitation to valve timing! You can tune the motor to optimum fuel efficiency, max low end torque or max upper end hp.
Anybody else get a popup to install GAIN?
If it's all the same to you, I'm not gonna RTFA
Damn, I I thought _I_ was the only guy that remembered making 16x16 grids, making them binary, then converting them to hex!
"FEFEFEFE" damn "FDFDFDFD"
Perhaps you slept through that whole excercize known as the dot-com-era? You know, the one where the workers worked inhuman hours sleeping under desks cause after 6 months of inhuman labor they 'just knew' they'd be rich, and the bosses kept pushing harder because after this batch of codemonkeys burnt out, there'd be a long line of OTHER code monkeys waiting to take their place...knowing that 6 hours of inhuman labor would make them rich.
And that you really did KNOW stress til you're working with 6 hours of sleep a night.
What, you think 6 hours of sleep is adequate? Try it in three 2 hour doses.
Okay, lets just say you have a music application...it'll list all of your music on your loacl drive and let you purchase music from the Interweb.
It'll need a list of songs, and need playback controls.
Just exactly how many GUIs exist for this? If a person knows >> and , why make them learn something else?
Can you clarify how Google's toolbar tricks users? I was always under the impression they were a pretty aboveboard shop (Nervously looking at the toolbar in this window.)
I always thought LEAP's strengths were in the time based key exchange. If the keys are exchanged some aribtrarily short period of time, you won't have the time to do a 128-bit crack.
Not having used LEAP, during a 'deauthentication' is there any notification to the client that the wireless subsystem is 're-authenticating'?
Are sharing code, then it stands to reason that keeping your system proactively patched protects you from more and more virii.
It's getting to the point at the office that all new virii noise on the IDS box is laptops coming in from the VPN. I can see a spike in traffic from one laptop, which gets reported to the Help Desk for cleaning, and the net result to the rest of the (properly patched) network sees NO negative result.
Sure it may look like XP, it may even ACT like XP, but when aunt martha wants to upgrade Real (or Winamp, or Internet Explorer, or Mozilla, or Flash) she's gonna pick the XP version to download and the app will fail.
She'll either call her service technician (you), or take it to CompUSA, where the tech will blow a gasket trying to figure out why his windows based diagnostic tools don't work.
I'm not saying there aren't linux equivalent apps for most windows XP things, but there isn't a 1 to 1 correlation, and the Devil is in the Details.
Case in point: I got my mom an iOpener one year. It worked well, it did what she needed, but she always felt there was stuff she couldn't do because the device couldn't accomodate 100% of the things her church buddies could do. (Quicktime? Windows Media? Get infected with Gator?)
Granted, that's not all bad - especially the inherent security features, but it IS an issue that will arise.
I've gota 508....the first one failed after 4 months, the second one had slightly altered operation (I suspect to cut down on HD useage and file fragmentation) The second one has run for 8-10 months without a hitch. Aside from the thumbs up/thumbs down feature of the TiVo, this has become an irreplaceable paret of our home theatre. I won't be moving to HDTV until a cheap PVR solution is available (I got the 508 for $200, installed)
For the longest time I wanted a display device in the livingroom. Something that would play DVD/video/mp3s/internet streaming content. The Xbox seemd like the IDEAL solution based on the horsepower, ethernet and digital multichannel audio out. I'd heard rumors that it was CAPABILE of sending a progressive scan DVD video signal with just a software upgrade and it sounded even better.
Then a whole lotta nothing happened. I'd have been willing to spend another $50-$75 to microsoft/whoever for the capability. The modchip seems like the quickest way to get an unencumbered display device next to your TV in the family room, but at the expense of a lot of futzing around with the hardware.
Unfortunately, they missed their target opportunity as 99% of the world out there isn't gonna hack their Xbox to do this, and the only announcement I've seen from Microsoft is a software package that'll ONLY talk to a media center version of Windows XP. (here, you can do this, but first you have to buy this $2000 computer)
Meanwhile, I realized that internet radio sucks, and my iPod with iTunes fm modulator plus the dish network PVR provides everything I truely needed above and beyond the Xbox's DVD player.
Sorry, that'd be a DMCA violation - AOL and O.C.C. Already did that with their acceleration technology.