I'd pay for it if it works as a well integrated alternative to XBMC or iRiver or similar. If it can produce an eye pleasing htpc experience, and pull movie and tv show profiles from open databases, support many codecs and has well support for Logitech Harmony and other remotes, then sure, I'd pay a bit for it.
With the closed nature of the Boxee Box, I have urges to move to an HTPC with a quick interface, lots of eye candy and the ability to pull info from the TV DB and open movie DB.
Girlfriend's car gets around 26mpg. Not too bad for a Relic carburator.
The t-zero would not run close to low 11's. Beating a porsche by a few carlengths puts the car into the higher 12's with a good driver.
Also it would be foolish to believe your 9.2 second penis implant should even be believed considering you posted anonymously.
The quickest STREET Subaru was bored out to 2.5 Litres.
Then artists such as Squarepusher, Richard James(Aphex) would not have a popular following. Pantera would never have topped billboard charts with "Far beyond driven" and I wouldn't be typing this.
Music will almost always make you shake something, but it won't always be your ass, it may be your fist.
It stands to reason then that your power curve is going to raise at probably a 45 degree angle until your rotating mechanisms fail, Of course heat and frictional losses will built up so in reality it wouldn't look quite like this would it.
1 ft/lb @ 100rpm is generating exactly 1/2 the horsepower that 1 ft/;b @ 200rpm would.
Running 11.1 seconds @ 128mph in the 1/4 mile from a tiny 306 smallblock ford, I don't see how this car is impressive.
Furthermore, as of a couple years ago the quickest Electric powered car ran 8's in the 1/4.
What do the torque and horsepower curves look like for an electric motor ? Flat torque curve ? RPM limitations ?
I don't remember what this was called, but back when 3DFX was all the rage,
a utility came out that allowed you to play 2d movies, and your 3dfx card would blur the movie, allowing low resolution movies to be played at full screen and look a little more presentable.
I can't remember what the process is called, but it was the same blurring effect that happened when you walked up to a wall in GL_Quake. instead of getting blocky it would get blury.
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I had the chance to sit in a Phoenix Gold X-max demo car when those subs first came out...
Not much needs to be said other than Both me and my friend experienced nausea for the rest of the evening...
"Think about what the Oracle said to Neo when they were talking about how he could trust her. Neo asks, 'why are you helping us?' She replies, 'I'm interested in one thing Neo, the future. And I know, the only way to get there is together.' "
Nah, I think the oracle said that because her goals are to help him find a path to the source. I think it's only at that level.
I have a strong vocabulary, yet when I watched it the first time, I kept finding myself distracted by the screens. It was difficult to comprehend when I kept missing 1/2 of the words.
In other news, I was really ammused when Neo took off his glasses and fingered the architect.
Running water is here to stay, fossil fuels are not.
To be honest I didn't read the article but unless it's a hydrogen powered cell I can't really see this being a logical step forward over enviromentally "free" energies like what hydro-electric dams produce.
Wasn't there a character in one of the william Gibson novels where he could navigate the "net" simply with his mind and without a dataport ?
Assuming(and this could be a stretch) that the machines are controlled by a system linked to the same systems that run the matrix, maybe neo is powerful enough to control the machines through control of the matrix ?
My only dissapointment in this film, neo didn't seem to be the all powerful superbeing that he was in the end of the second. I mean sure he can fly and kick 100 of smith's ass, but in the first film, he was flexing walls and whatnot, much like tetsuo.
After all, if it wasn't for Sony, I could be playing GTA/Vice City on my Xbox right now and getting much better graphics.
I'm all for Sony getting shafted on this one.
I plan to upgrade my PC though, once doom3 comes out.
And at the end of the day you'll still be the loser in the supra, with the slower timeslip (on the road track or race track) saying "But my car makes more horsepower per litre !"
Ricers always love to say this, but the fact is, Peak numbers don't tell the whole story. It's the area under the curve, The duration of your rpm range where the motor makes power,
Consider that a 8 litre motor will make a huge flat torque curve, it will make big power from idle to redline. It will idle WELL.
It will GO regardless of what gear you're in, and to do all this, it only needs to rev to 5500rpm or so. Trust me, when you're running an endurance race, or just out bagging on your car, 5500rpm is a lot friendlier than 9000rpm (s2000) no matter how much engineering goes into it.
My old 600cc supersport bike, made around 118 horsepower (at the crank) out of.6 litres.
That's just under 200hp/litre ! But guess what, peak power is made around 12,000rpm, and peak torque is just above 10,000.
a viper motor can easily be modded to 650 horsepower or more, ever stop to think that maybe a mass produced 650hp car would be a bad idea ?
OHV motors have been around a long time too, as were turbos (1930's) so don't think some torqueless fuel injected 2 cam motor that makes good hp/litre is some marvel of spaceage technology.
You know why japanese cars are made with such small motors ? cause gas costs triple what it does around here.
I used to play with megahal alot since a buddy altered it to work over IRC.
You could park it, in say, #jesus and #kkk and #rap and it would "learn" from each channel, and then when you asked it things, well, I don't have to say the rest.
I'd say I was a closet nerd in highschool. At home I would play modem doom, play with 3d studio, read books on things most wouldn't have any interest in etc, but when I was outside, I'd have completly different interests,
And that's the thing, I don't think nerds are any smarter than "non-nerds" I think it's just where our interests lie as kids. Most have interests in sociality (is that a word ?) whereas nerds tend to have interests in that which doesn't expose them tot he social aspect of life, leading them to be easy prey to be picked on I figure.
I sort of hid my interests in techy things from everyone around me and did stuff that normal kids did, smoke pot, party, pretend to know how to act around girls etc !
Does Kazaa and all the other file sharing programs not automatically share you files by default, and in many ways go about doing this in a "sneaky" sort of way ?
I work at a giant Canadian cable ISP. Every month we recieve thousands of calls from customers who run file sharing programs wondering why their speeds suck because their outband traffic is being maxed out. I can tell you right now that 80+% of these people have no honest clue that people can "break in and steal files from my computer ?" I feel many innocent people who collect mp3's will suffer as a result of this simply due to lack of a basic understanding of p2p networks.
Putting aside the techie style questions;
Who at google owns the coolest car ?
Romero has his Hummers and Ferraris. Carmack has his twin turbo Ferraris some making upwards of 1000 horsepower at the wheels. Gates has some Porsche 959's that arent legal to drive on the roads in America.
Do you drive anything out of the ordinary ? what about your coworkers ?
Both of my vehicles are multipurpose. For daily driving, and at the racetrack. How would this blackbox differentiate between me going 165mph down the straghtaway and doing the same on a public road ?
"Aside from bandwidth, what other amenities would make an apartment complex ideal for the high tech worker in the 21st Century?"
How about a way to get away from all this techie crap. The last thing on my mind when I get home from work is sitting infront of another crt.
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I'd pay for it if it works as a well integrated alternative to XBMC or iRiver or similar. If it can produce an eye pleasing htpc experience, and pull movie and tv show profiles from open databases, support many codecs and has well support for Logitech Harmony and other remotes, then sure, I'd pay a bit for it. With the closed nature of the Boxee Box, I have urges to move to an HTPC with a quick interface, lots of eye candy and the ability to pull info from the TV DB and open movie DB.
Girlfriend's car gets around 26mpg. Not too bad for a Relic carburator. The t-zero would not run close to low 11's. Beating a porsche by a few carlengths puts the car into the higher 12's with a good driver. Also it would be foolish to believe your 9.2 second penis implant should even be believed considering you posted anonymously. The quickest STREET Subaru was bored out to 2.5 Litres.
Not compared to your average NHRA motors (pick any class) It's less than 1/2 the size of pro-stock mountain motors.
Then artists such as Squarepusher, Richard James(Aphex) would not have a popular following. Pantera would never have topped billboard charts with "Far beyond driven" and I wouldn't be typing this.
Music will almost always make you shake something, but it won't always be your ass, it may be your fist.
It stands to reason then that your power curve is going to raise at probably a 45 degree angle until your rotating mechanisms fail, Of course heat and frictional losses will built up so in reality it wouldn't look quite like this would it. 1 ft/lb @ 100rpm is generating exactly 1/2 the horsepower that 1 ft/;b @ 200rpm would.
Running 11.1 seconds @ 128mph in the 1/4 mile from a tiny 306 smallblock ford, I don't see how this car is impressive. Furthermore, as of a couple years ago the quickest Electric powered car ran 8's in the 1/4. What do the torque and horsepower curves look like for an electric motor ? Flat torque curve ? RPM limitations ?
Can someone tell me the difference between HAM and citizen's band ?
I don't remember what this was called, but back when 3DFX was all the rage,
a utility came out that allowed you to play 2d movies, and your 3dfx card would blur the movie, allowing low resolution movies to be played at full screen and look a little more presentable.
I can't remember what the process is called, but it was the same blurring effect that happened when you walked up to a wall in GL_Quake. instead of getting blocky it would get blury.
I had the chance to sit in a Phoenix Gold X-max demo car when those subs first came out...
Not much needs to be said other than Both me and my friend experienced nausea for the rest of the evening...
"Think about what the Oracle said to Neo when they were talking about how he could trust her. Neo asks, 'why are you helping us?' She replies, 'I'm interested in one thing Neo, the future. And I know, the only way to get there is together.' " Nah, I think the oracle said that because her goals are to help him find a path to the source. I think it's only at that level.
I have a strong vocabulary, yet when I watched it the first time, I kept finding myself distracted by the screens. It was difficult to comprehend when I kept missing 1/2 of the words. In other news, I was really ammused when Neo took off his glasses and fingered the architect.
If he explains it to you, you'll lie down and not wan't to stand ever again.
Running water is here to stay, fossil fuels are not. To be honest I didn't read the article but unless it's a hydrogen powered cell I can't really see this being a logical step forward over enviromentally "free" energies like what hydro-electric dams produce.
Wasn't there a character in one of the william Gibson novels where he could navigate the "net" simply with his mind and without a dataport ? Assuming(and this could be a stretch) that the machines are controlled by a system linked to the same systems that run the matrix, maybe neo is powerful enough to control the machines through control of the matrix ? My only dissapointment in this film, neo didn't seem to be the all powerful superbeing that he was in the end of the second. I mean sure he can fly and kick 100 of smith's ass, but in the first film, he was flexing walls and whatnot, much like tetsuo.
After all, if it wasn't for Sony, I could be playing GTA/Vice City on my Xbox right now and getting much better graphics. I'm all for Sony getting shafted on this one. I plan to upgrade my PC though, once doom3 comes out.
And at the end of the day you'll still be the loser in the supra, with the slower timeslip (on the road track or race track) saying "But my car makes more horsepower per litre !" Ricers always love to say this, but the fact is, Peak numbers don't tell the whole story. It's the area under the curve, The duration of your rpm range where the motor makes power, Consider that a 8 litre motor will make a huge flat torque curve, it will make big power from idle to redline. It will idle WELL. It will GO regardless of what gear you're in, and to do all this, it only needs to rev to 5500rpm or so. Trust me, when you're running an endurance race, or just out bagging on your car, 5500rpm is a lot friendlier than 9000rpm (s2000) no matter how much engineering goes into it. My old 600cc supersport bike, made around 118 horsepower (at the crank) out of .6 litres.
That's just under 200hp/litre ! But guess what, peak power is made around 12,000rpm, and peak torque is just above 10,000.
a viper motor can easily be modded to 650 horsepower or more, ever stop to think that maybe a mass produced 650hp car would be a bad idea ?
OHV motors have been around a long time too, as were turbos (1930's) so don't think some torqueless fuel injected 2 cam motor that makes good hp/litre is some marvel of spaceage technology.
You know why japanese cars are made with such small motors ? cause gas costs triple what it does around here.
Some of us who read the website are gearheads who actually get out and DO stuff with technology rather than making lunix run on a pair of shoes.
I applaud slashdot for posting something for the rest of us.
I used to play with megahal alot since a buddy altered it to work over IRC. You could park it, in say, #jesus and #kkk and #rap and it would "learn" from each channel, and then when you asked it things, well, I don't have to say the rest.
The poop chute is the route.
I'd say I was a closet nerd in highschool. At home I would play modem doom, play with 3d studio, read books on things most wouldn't have any interest in etc, but when I was outside, I'd have completly different interests, And that's the thing, I don't think nerds are any smarter than "non-nerds" I think it's just where our interests lie as kids. Most have interests in sociality (is that a word ?) whereas nerds tend to have interests in that which doesn't expose them tot he social aspect of life, leading them to be easy prey to be picked on I figure. I sort of hid my interests in techy things from everyone around me and did stuff that normal kids did, smoke pot, party, pretend to know how to act around girls etc !
Does Kazaa and all the other file sharing programs not automatically share you files by default, and in many ways go about doing this in a "sneaky" sort of way ? I work at a giant Canadian cable ISP. Every month we recieve thousands of calls from customers who run file sharing programs wondering why their speeds suck because their outband traffic is being maxed out. I can tell you right now that 80+% of these people have no honest clue that people can "break in and steal files from my computer ?" I feel many innocent people who collect mp3's will suffer as a result of this simply due to lack of a basic understanding of p2p networks.
Putting aside the techie style questions; Who at google owns the coolest car ? Romero has his Hummers and Ferraris. Carmack has his twin turbo Ferraris some making upwards of 1000 horsepower at the wheels. Gates has some Porsche 959's that arent legal to drive on the roads in America. Do you drive anything out of the ordinary ? what about your coworkers ?
Both of my vehicles are multipurpose. For daily driving, and at the racetrack. How would this blackbox differentiate between me going 165mph down the straghtaway and doing the same on a public road ?
The less Japanese culture we have here the better. The last thing I want while taking a dump is being raped by some tentacle.
"Aside from bandwidth, what other amenities would make an apartment complex ideal for the high tech worker in the 21st Century?" How about a way to get away from all this techie crap. The last thing on my mind when I get home from work is sitting infront of another crt.