Elijah Wood will present the half-hour segment that'll be jam packed with celebs gushing over the console,
Yeah, cause Frodo was an avid gamer in the movies.:P
Seriously, celebs know dick about politics, economics, or video games. I don't think someone with an artsy-fartsy theater background or "duh captain of duh team" is qualified to review a game system or games.
The part you're missing is that this isn't hurting the average exec, it's hurting the stockholders. The extra fees are eating into profit, so everyone's 401k plan is going to start sliding... This BS legislation doesn very little except keep a LOT of auditors employed at the expense of the people the law was meant to protect.
What if it's costing more than all the fraud etc. was before?
It is, if you look at the costs spread out over ALL the publicly held companies in the US. SOX is a money sinkhole, a bit of knee-jerk feel-good legislation that is going to hurt far more than it helps. Yay....
The Vtwin is a nice layout, but it certainly is not unique to Harley. Most of the Italian beauties have it, the Honda VTR and RC51 have it, Suzuki's SV650 and SV1000 have it. There is nothing inherently wrong with the VTwin layout, nor is there anything wrong with the I4 layout. But all those VTwins outperfom poor old Harley, and outlast it too. Well, maybe not the Ducatis...;)
The Vrod motor is a Porsche plant, as I said. Harley had to contract out for their next gen of motor. The current air cooled twin is doomed with new EPA standards that are coming out.
Either way, the OP was incorrect on a lot (all?) of points, starting with his assertion that you can't get torque from an I4 (my ZX11 begs to differ) and ending with the notion that the I4 makes more vibration (again my ZX11 or the Honda Blackbird for example). Coupled with his Easy Rider wannabe mentality in his earlier posts through this thread, I could not pass calling him on it.
I have a Ninja 250 and a Ninja 1100. I ride both enthusiastically.
I think you need to get your bike checked, because in my years of riding I've never seen weight make a bike more or less prone to standing up in a turn, in fact lean angle is completely separate from mass. As far as the drag goes, the forward momentum is irrelevant since you'll still have to use power from the engine to replenish energy lost to drag. You just won't notice sudden gusts as much, but that's because the momentum acts like a kinetic energy capacitor.
There is admittedly a world of difference between the Rebel 250 and the Ninja 250...
I call bullshit! You, like most of your Harley bretheren, simply have no idea. You firmly think displacement = power, and that is just not true. You can gear for any torque you like, you are limmited by horsepower, not torque. Which is faster, a bike with 100ft-lb or torque and 1hp or a bike with 100hp and one ft-lb of torque. Remember, you can change your gearing...
Your average pushrod tech Harley produces around 80hp, and your average 600cc sportbike produces ~105hp from HALF the displacement. Harleys used to be fast, but the Japanese bikes are eating your lunch. Sorry about that.
And as far as the "sewing machine buzzy" motors, I think a water cooled inline 4 is a LOT smoother than that air cooled chrome vibrator your Americruiser comes with. At a light, you can't even see out of your mirrors because they shake so bad!
The REAL reason Harleys still use pushrod tech is because: (1)their riders bought the bike for image which would be ruined if it went high tech (2)less money spent on R&D that way (those motors are still using 30's tech except for the Porsche purchased VRod motor) (3)cheaper to manufacture, keeping costs down and profits high (4)the people who ride them don't know any better anyway, they are happy with what they have
You can spout your drivel about how great the American lead sled is to most people, but those of us who know any better are just going to scoff at you. I wish Harley would build a decent bike, I wish they'd catch the rest of the world on their tech, I wish they'd have let Erik Buell have the funding he needed... Right now though, the company is just an embarrasment to me as an American.
Oddly enough, I agree with you. I think in the long run the countries that are not shackled by crap like this will be the ones who win the technology race. Innovation is asphyxiating tech in the US, and now the EU is going to draw thier last breath... The PRC will march right on by us.:-(
You'll see more phones integrated into more things and they'll all share one number. Your monitor, your steering wheel, TV remote control, your Gameboy... Istead of carrying a phone with you, you'll use the closest device to you.
Yeah, I'm just now figuring that part of it out. I used to drop a couple hundred a month on a handful of games, but WoW has me so addicted I'm not even thinking about buying any new releases. For $15/month, I've found a single game I can stick with instead of hopping from game to game. Sure, I still have (and play) the greats like UT2004, StarCraft, Day of Defeat, and such... But when I go home tonight, odds are I'll fire up WoW instead of driving to EBgames.
No, thanks. I want to be able to join my friends without mucking about for hours rerolling characters. However, if they let whole groups leave, I and my friends would cheerfully move to a less populated server. Eventually, they would all equalize...
Heh... What I want to know is, would you still say the same thing if you were aa 100lb woman or a 65 year old man facing off against a 6'2" 200lb thug in a knifefight? Of course as a (probably) young man a knife fight sounds good, but to many victims a gunfight actually gives better odds.
Since Britain has "abolished" guns, they seem to be increasingly having problems with knife crime, even to the point of running spot checks for them. Somehow, I don't think the gun law solved the real problem.
30 ft range and only 7 channels to choose from? Err, no thanks.
I am not plugging EITHER of those transmitters, because I'm not USING either of those transmitters.
I AM plugging the utility of having an FM transmitter in the home, because I'm doing it and it is truly useful... I rate it as highly as a fileserver or my wireless link.
Keep in mind, too, that not all transmitters have good quality sound. I'd be leery of the cheap ones.
I've had my own FM station on a military surplus transmitter for a year, and it's still fun.
I have a dedicated headless machine on my LAN running WWWinamp (http://www.nullsoft.com/free/wwwinamp/)playing from my MP3 server, and the output from the soundcard goes into my transmitter. I can queue up music from any web browser on my LAN, and hear it all over the house (unlike a tethered PC system).
Plus, everyone that comes to my LAN parties (~24 people) like the ability to have the "Electronic DJ" take requests!
Who mentioned Linux? My point was that your average computer-uneducated Joe doesn't really know what Windows is, or that computers are sold without it. People who don't know any different buy Apples and try to run Windows apps on them. It has nothing to do with Linux.
Hey, you just said support, you never said it had to be open source. Do the majority of hardware vendors release all the specs needed to code a driver? Somehow, I doubt that the ones whose IP can be reverse engineered do.
To be honest, I don't give a rats ass if those drivers are open source or not so long as they are maintained for my current open source OS. I don't think a graphics card is going to give me lock-in like an OS or office app will.
How is it off topic? It references points made at the end of the summary.
With as many catastrophic effects as this event had to both people and (evidently) the planet, I don't think that an occasional nod to the groups willing to help out is a bad thing.
An article I was reading said that their campaign has been so successful, some people think they need Centrino in order to go wireless
That was the whole point of the ad campaign, to make people think that the only way to get a wireless laptop was from Intel (or at least powered by them). Sad thing is, it really did work. Stupid sheeple.:-(
That was actually my thought. How long until you need "electronic-fly repellers" in your bedroom or shower? We're already having trouble with cell phone cameras, and those are fairly obvious. Who is going to look for a spy-fly on the bedroom wall when you and your spouse are in "the mood"?
I read an article not long ago that claimed the owners were making more money off the rinks renting "open ice" to events than they were making playing NHL games because of the player overhead...
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Elijah Wood will present the half-hour segment that'll be jam packed with celebs gushing over the console,
Yeah, cause Frodo was an avid gamer in the movies. :P
Seriously, celebs know dick about politics, economics, or video games. I don't think someone with an artsy-fartsy theater background or "duh captain of duh team" is qualified to review a game system or games.
The part you're missing is that this isn't hurting the average exec, it's hurting the stockholders. The extra fees are eating into profit, so everyone's 401k plan is going to start sliding... This BS legislation doesn very little except keep a LOT of auditors employed at the expense of the people the law was meant to protect.
It is, if you look at the costs spread out over ALL the publicly held companies in the US. SOX is a money sinkhole, a bit of knee-jerk feel-good legislation that is going to hurt far more than it helps. Yay....
The Vrod motor is a Porsche plant, as I said. Harley had to contract out for their next gen of motor. The current air cooled twin is doomed with new EPA standards that are coming out.
Either way, the OP was incorrect on a lot (all?) of points, starting with his assertion that you can't get torque from an I4 (my ZX11 begs to differ) and ending with the notion that the I4 makes more vibration (again my ZX11 or the Honda Blackbird for example). Coupled with his Easy Rider wannabe mentality in his earlier posts through this thread, I could not pass calling him on it.
I think you need to get your bike checked, because in my years of riding I've never seen weight make a bike more or less prone to standing up in a turn, in fact lean angle is completely separate from mass. As far as the drag goes, the forward momentum is irrelevant since you'll still have to use power from the engine to replenish energy lost to drag. You just won't notice sudden gusts as much, but that's because the momentum acts like a kinetic energy capacitor.
There is admittedly a world of difference between the Rebel 250 and the Ninja 250...
Your average pushrod tech Harley produces around 80hp, and your average 600cc sportbike produces ~105hp from HALF the displacement. Harleys used to be fast, but the Japanese bikes are eating your lunch. Sorry about that.
And as far as the "sewing machine buzzy" motors, I think a water cooled inline 4 is a LOT smoother than that air cooled chrome vibrator your Americruiser comes with. At a light, you can't even see out of your mirrors because they shake so bad!
The REAL reason Harleys still use pushrod tech is because: (1)their riders bought the bike for image which would be ruined if it went high tech (2)less money spent on R&D that way (those motors are still using 30's tech except for the Porsche purchased VRod motor) (3)cheaper to manufacture, keeping costs down and profits high (4)the people who ride them don't know any better anyway, they are happy with what they have
You can spout your drivel about how great the American lead sled is to most people, but those of us who know any better are just going to scoff at you. I wish Harley would build a decent bike, I wish they'd catch the rest of the world on their tech, I wish they'd have let Erik Buell have the funding he needed... Right now though, the company is just an embarrasment to me as an American.
This sums it up:http://www.goingfaster.com/angst/noharley2.html
Oddly enough, I agree with you. I think in the long run the countries that are not shackled by crap like this will be the ones who win the technology race. Innovation is asphyxiating tech in the US, and now the EU is going to draw thier last breath... The PRC will march right on by us. :-(
This is a bit down the road, of course. ;-)
Yeah, I'm just now figuring that part of it out. I used to drop a couple hundred a month on a handful of games, but WoW has me so addicted I'm not even thinking about buying any new releases. For $15/month, I've found a single game I can stick with instead of hopping from game to game. Sure, I still have (and play) the greats like UT2004, StarCraft, Day of Defeat, and such... But when I go home tonight, odds are I'll fire up WoW instead of driving to EBgames.
No, thanks. I want to be able to join my friends without mucking about for hours rerolling characters. However, if they let whole groups leave, I and my friends would cheerfully move to a less populated server. Eventually, they would all equalize...
Guns are the great equalizer, like it or not.
Since Britain has "abolished" guns, they seem to be increasingly having problems with knife crime, even to the point of running spot checks for them. Somehow, I don't think the gun law solved the real problem.
I am not plugging EITHER of those transmitters, because I'm not USING either of those transmitters.
I AM plugging the utility of having an FM transmitter in the home, because I'm doing it and it is truly useful... I rate it as highly as a fileserver or my wireless link.
Keep in mind, too, that not all transmitters have good quality sound. I'd be leery of the cheap ones.
I have a dedicated headless machine on my LAN running WWWinamp (http://www.nullsoft.com/free/wwwinamp/)playing from my MP3 server, and the output from the soundcard goes into my transmitter. I can queue up music from any web browser on my LAN, and hear it all over the house (unlike a tethered PC system).
Plus, everyone that comes to my LAN parties (~24 people) like the ability to have the "Electronic DJ" take requests!
Who mentioned Linux? My point was that your average computer-uneducated Joe doesn't really know what Windows is, or that computers are sold without it. People who don't know any different buy Apples and try to run Windows apps on them. It has nothing to do with Linux.
New and uneducated users buy Apples for looks, not for the OS.
That's guaranteed to be a big seller amongst the "disgruntled husbands" demographic. ;-)
To be honest, I don't give a rats ass if those drivers are open source or not so long as they are maintained for my current open source OS. I don't think a graphics card is going to give me lock-in like an OS or office app will.
With as many catastrophic effects as this event had to both people and (evidently) the planet, I don't think that an occasional nod to the groups willing to help out is a bad thing.
That was the whole point of the ad campaign, to make people think that the only way to get a wireless laptop was from Intel (or at least powered by them). Sad thing is, it really did work. Stupid sheeple. :-(
He does that on purpose in all of his posts, it's how you know it's the genuine jellomizer posting and not some cheap clone. ;-)
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux.html
And just FYI, I was able to run 1600x1200x32 right off the bat, the only drivers I had to install were for 3d apps.
That was actually my thought. How long until you need "electronic-fly repellers" in your bedroom or shower? We're already having trouble with cell phone cameras, and those are fairly obvious. Who is going to look for a spy-fly on the bedroom wall when you and your spouse are in "the mood"?
I read an article not long ago that claimed the owners were making more money off the rinks renting "open ice" to events than they were making playing NHL games because of the player overhead...
I'd rather everyone knew the face of war beforehand... :-( By the time the troops come back, it's too late.