Just wanted to add that there is a traditional mechanical valvetrain design that also features all positive movement, specifically the Ducati Desmodromic valvetrain design. It uses another set of rocker arms for closing the valves, and lacks true valvesprings (has little ones to help the engines start).
How do they gauge fuel mileage over there? EPA fuel consumption for the Insight is 60mpg city / 66mpg highway with the 5 speed manual. I find it very odd that no Honda dealer you've talked to has ever heard of it, the car was a fairly big deal for the company. There's two used ones in the local car classifieds for about $15k and $16k CDN. I believe the Civic hybrid is coming there this year if that's any consolation.
I'm groaning, but only because every piece of Rational branded software I've used is so terrible. Four and change gigabytes for a piece of client software? Ridiculous.
Blizzard didn't select the publisher... Vivendi owns Blizzard. They may have made the choice to sell to them at one point, but they were locked into them from that point on.
Also, I wonder if these collector editions of these games are created solely by the publisher to begin with. In which case, it'd be doubtful if Blizzard would have any say one way or the other.
Shit, I don't even know how stuff like that gets garbled from the trip from mind -> keyboard. I didn't mean to say boost temperature, I mean just to say plain old boost pressure. And as I said in another reply above, I did not say that any car came with EGT gauges... I said that buying this for that purpose is silly (though not in those exact words).
Right, I'm not really disputing the fact that a stock ECU isn't up to these things most of the time... I shouldn't have taken on the GBA thingamabob and their ECU at the same time. I guess I'm not really familiar with the UTEC in particular. But when you say "what used to be a cheap product", then I suspect my initial opinion of it to be correct.
Pretty much any car that comes with a turbo, will come with a boost gauge. And I didn't say that any car came with an EGT gauge, but getting this for that purpose is not a terribly good idea. No car will come with an EGT gauge, because it is primarily used for tuning an engine/keeping an eye on it during drag racing. I'm not saying track racers don't use it, I honestly don't know.
I am saying this is useless, because to the racer, everyone this device offers is redundant.
P.S. What was your Corvette, an automatic? I wonder what you traded it in for, Jim...
Currently this useless waste of moolah displays only boost temperatures, engine speeds and exhaust gas temperatures, of which only one of those 'gauges' are not normally found in your average car. However, if I understand correctly, you also have to install the sensor for the EGT anyway, which while being logical in itself, proves that this device is completely useless. Apparently you will be able to use it later on to modify the maps in their custom ECUs, but when they advertise stuff like "Automatically retards timing when the knock is detected safeguarding against engine damage" (something my 5.0L 1988 Grand Marquis station wagon did), I would suggest looking elsewhere. For the cost of their dubious ECU and certainly useless Gameboy peripheral, you could at least purchase some quality performance gauges which would tell you this information, all the time.
Big deal. This kind of thing is already in place on the 407 ETR highway in Ontario, Canada. It's purely a side effect of the automated billing system (it's a toll highway), but you can get speeding tickets based on how long you went through two toll points... both that and your toll bills are mailed to your house, by looking up your address via license plate. I'm sure they check for stolen plates/vehicles while they're at it.
Thank you! I was wondering what the hell that was supposed to be, and that's a plausible explanation. Still, it does look like a Cadillac fin on that thing.
The system reports a specific park area, partnered with coordinates that correspond to special maps. It's easy enough even for your average SUV bulldozing modern mother.
He calls it a theory rightly, and it does weaken the probability of it being true. It is not known to be true! It is merely an idea.
Paul Pettitt, speaking about the discovery in the article, uses qualifiers like could, potentially, plausible. This theory could be true, or it could equally not be true.
Stop defending "theories" as if that word can assign some probability of it being true.
That's EA to a freakin' T, and it practically brings tears to my eyes the projects and franchises they've run into the ground. Okay, namely it's just Ultima Online 2 that will never see the light of day, and it boils my blood that EA dropped the ball on that one! They're riding UO 1 like tobacco companies ride cigarette sales, and... holy hell I hate them for that one. BUURRNNN!!!
I wonder what kind of fantasy world you live in where you can say that Linux has greater hardware support than Windows. Every single box in my house has a piece of hardware that has poor or non-existent support in Linux. Yes, I can run Linux on sparc, powerpc, x86, and IA-64, but it doesn't support my wireless card on any of them! And why would supporting more hardware make Windows "crashy"? That's not even remotely logical, unless you argue that Windows has to support hardware that is somehow inherently unstable... but in that case it's hardly Window's fault, is it?
You have pay a whole freakin' POUND to play those games? Wow... I thought a Canadian dollar was a lot at times. That is unquestionably too much damn money!
Aside from that, though, I have a little bit of a different perspective on this article from the rest of you folk... I'm only 20, but I still never played things like Pacman or whatever in the arcade. I'll never remember what the first game I played was, either:P... but I still play them occasionally today (well, not today literally, as I'm unemployed, heh). I have a few Initial D cards, and I've played Virtua Fighter 4 a bit, as well as the Time Crisis series. I can still relate to some things, like Virtua Fighter being extremely complex. Don't get me wrong, I still think it's a good game... I'll just never be good *at* it. And arcade units are massively expensive... I go to an arcade that imported a Battle Gear 3 unit, which is indeed a cool game, and has got some neat features over Initial D, like a built-in Internet score uplink, and instead of magnetic cards you get these cool car keys. The problem is that said keys cost six dollars and they had to charge $3 for two games for a long time on it.
I remember this one arcade machine that seems to have come and gone, but it was recent. It had no video screen at all, instead it had a real moving object or two and a mirror... all it was was simple shooting gallery, but it could still rank you on your 'shooting' ability... and it was a modern-day quarter! The first time I saw it, it had a line of people waiting to play it.
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Wrong demographic ... you're thinking indie.
Just wanted to add that there is a traditional mechanical valvetrain design that also features all positive movement, specifically the Ducati Desmodromic valvetrain design. It uses another set of rocker arms for closing the valves, and lacks true valvesprings (has little ones to help the engines start).
How do they gauge fuel mileage over there? EPA fuel consumption for the Insight is 60mpg city / 66mpg highway with the 5 speed manual. I find it very odd that no Honda dealer you've talked to has ever heard of it, the car was a fairly big deal for the company. There's two used ones in the local car classifieds for about $15k and $16k CDN. I believe the Civic hybrid is coming there this year if that's any consolation.
As far as I know those signs are just there to make one feel guilty, I don't think they have any ticketing capability.
I'm groaning, but only because every piece of Rational branded software I've used is so terrible. Four and change gigabytes for a piece of client software? Ridiculous.
Mod parent up. Few people seem to understand this basic concept of society today.
Blizzard didn't select the publisher ... Vivendi owns Blizzard. They may have made the choice to sell to them at one point, but they were locked into them from that point on.
Also, I wonder if these collector editions of these games are created solely by the publisher to begin with. In which case, it'd be doubtful if Blizzard would have any say one way or the other.
Can I use that as a sig? Please? First time I laughed today ...
He gets it, you do not. Congratulations.
Shit, I don't even know how stuff like that gets garbled from the trip from mind -> keyboard. I didn't mean to say boost temperature, I mean just to say plain old boost pressure. And as I said in another reply above, I did not say that any car came with EGT gauges ... I said that buying this for that purpose is silly (though not in those exact words).
Right, I'm not really disputing the fact that a stock ECU isn't up to these things most of the time ... I shouldn't have taken on the GBA thingamabob and their ECU at the same time. I guess I'm not really familiar with the UTEC in particular. But when you say "what used to be a cheap product", then I suspect my initial opinion of it to be correct.
(I'm replying a bit late, but what the hey)
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Pretty much any car that comes with a turbo, will come with a boost gauge. And I didn't say that any car came with an EGT gauge, but getting this for that purpose is not a terribly good idea. No car will come with an EGT gauge, because it is primarily used for tuning an engine/keeping an eye on it during drag racing. I'm not saying track racers don't use it, I honestly don't know.
I am saying this is useless, because to the racer, everyone this device offers is redundant.
P.S. What was your Corvette, an automatic? I wonder what you traded it in for, Jim
Currently this useless waste of moolah displays only boost temperatures, engine speeds and exhaust gas temperatures, of which only one of those 'gauges' are not normally found in your average car. However, if I understand correctly, you also have to install the sensor for the EGT anyway, which while being logical in itself, proves that this device is completely useless. Apparently you will be able to use it later on to modify the maps in their custom ECUs, but when they advertise stuff like "Automatically retards timing when the knock is detected safeguarding against engine damage" (something my 5.0L 1988 Grand Marquis station wagon did), I would suggest looking elsewhere. For the cost of their dubious ECU and certainly useless Gameboy peripheral, you could at least purchase some quality performance gauges which would tell you this information, all the time.
Big deal. This kind of thing is already in place on the 407 ETR highway in Ontario, Canada. It's purely a side effect of the automated billing system (it's a toll highway), but you can get speeding tickets based on how long you went through two toll points ... both that and your toll bills are mailed to your house, by looking up your address via license plate. I'm sure they check for stolen plates/vehicles while they're at it.
Don't know why nobody has noticed this yet, but we already covered this topic a couple days ago.
Thank you! I was wondering what the hell that was supposed to be, and that's a plausible explanation. Still, it does look like a Cadillac fin on that thing.
RTFA, as always.
The system reports a specific park area, partnered with coordinates that correspond to special maps. It's easy enough even for your average SUV bulldozing modern mother.
Even though I'm a PC user, this article makes me look down at my old-ish Toshiba keyboard and wonder.
Does anybody know of a company that makes really high quality Dvorak keyboards?
He calls it a theory rightly, and it does weaken the probability of it being true. It is not known to be true! It is merely an idea.
Paul Pettitt, speaking about the discovery in the article, uses qualifiers like could, potentially, plausible. This theory could be true, or it could equally not be true.
Stop defending "theories" as if that word can assign some probability of it being true.
The only reason we have the rights we have is that people just like us died to gain those rights. -- Cheerio Boy
Well I'm all broken up about that man's rights.
Whoa, did I just hear someone describe EA?
... holy hell I hate them for that one. BUURRNNN!!!
That's EA to a freakin' T, and it practically brings tears to my eyes the projects and franchises they've run into the ground. Okay, namely it's just Ultima Online 2 that will never see the light of day, and it boils my blood that EA dropped the ball on that one! They're riding UO 1 like tobacco companies ride cigarette sales, and
Sorry, I misread you there.
Heh, but if we're talking 90's here, I'm not sure stable was a word that could be applied to MacOS or Windows.
I wonder what kind of fantasy world you live in where you can say that Linux has greater hardware support than Windows. Every single box in my house has a piece of hardware that has poor or non-existent support in Linux. Yes, I can run Linux on sparc, powerpc, x86, and IA-64, but it doesn't support my wireless card on any of them! And why would supporting more hardware make Windows "crashy"? That's not even remotely logical, unless you argue that Windows has to support hardware that is somehow inherently unstable ... but in that case it's hardly Window's fault, is it?
You have pay a whole freakin' POUND to play those games? Wow ... I thought a Canadian dollar was a lot at times. That is unquestionably too much damn money!
... I'm only 20, but I still never played things like Pacman or whatever in the arcade. I'll never remember what the first game I played was, either :P ... but I still play them occasionally today (well, not today literally, as I'm unemployed, heh). I have a few Initial D cards, and I've played Virtua Fighter 4 a bit, as well as the Time Crisis series. I can still relate to some things, like Virtua Fighter being extremely complex. Don't get me wrong, I still think it's a good game ... I'll just never be good *at* it. And arcade units are massively expensive ... I go to an arcade that imported a Battle Gear 3 unit, which is indeed a cool game, and has got some neat features over Initial D, like a built-in Internet score uplink, and instead of magnetic cards you get these cool car keys. The problem is that said keys cost six dollars and they had to charge $3 for two games for a long time on it.
... all it was was simple shooting gallery, but it could still rank you on your 'shooting' ability ... and it was a modern-day quarter! The first time I saw it, it had a line of people waiting to play it.
Aside from that, though, I have a little bit of a different perspective on this article from the rest of you folk
I remember this one arcade machine that seems to have come and gone, but it was recent. It had no video screen at all, instead it had a real moving object or two and a mirror
Anyway, I hope the arcade machine never dies!