The Metro XFi came with the same Suzuki motor, just detuned. Also it was not available right away. It was rated at 56 MPG highway in the US. I don't know if they use the larger imperial gallons in India.
The engines were awful though. Eventually you lost compression in the center cylinder.
It is a 623cc petrol engine that you are comparing to a diesel. Also you may be using imperial gallons and I am unsure about the Tata. At such a small displacement they probably don't care too much about how lean the burn is and it is a simple cheap engine with nothing fancy such as variable valve timing. Also your tires and alloy wheels probably cost more than the Tata.
This post at rec.games.vectrex does a good job of explaining it:
Christopher L. Tumber
Jan 30 1999, 2:00 am
Of course I had to pull mine out and check how it works since theoretically
it shouldn't work at all.
And really, it doesn't, at least not like a normal raster base light pen or
gun works but those boys at GCE were clever...
What happens when you play a light pen "game" is that the game puts a cursor
on the screen. You must use the light pen to DRAG this cursor around. If you
just point the pen at a random location on the screen, it does not work.
Instead, you must point to the cursor and drag it.
So what it's doing is it draw the cursor which is really a shape similar to a
bullseye. As you move the pen, you cross the "rings" of the bullseye. This
new position is detected as with any light pen/gun and the center of the
cursor is moved to this new position. Repeat as neccessary.
So, you could do this with a light gun, but again you'd need to drag around a
gun sight which probably isn't a great idea...
With a sailboat the lee helm is cased by one side of the boat being slightly under the other. This happens because the sail on the mast acts as a long lever. This will not happen in this kite system. In fact it may help to pull the bow up.
The 1541 was SLOW and they kept getting out of alignment. I hated those things, they were the worst part about the c64. Anyone else remember the words, "Welcome to the world of friendly computing," or something like that printed on the inside of the c64 box. I still remember that to this day.
Compared to the slower lower power SRAMs you would use in a battery backed scenario (measured in years), this new MRAM would be faster. MRAMs I have seen are bigger in size and way more expensive than SRAMs though.
Yeah we use a cap and coin cell combo here at work. The capacitor provides about a week's worth of time, then the battery can do years. The cap is also useful for replacing the battery.
I have dealt with kernel code (vxWorks and Linux) that had workarounds for PHB (Marvell) errata that I did not have the access to because of NDAs and it is not a good place to be. You have this nearly uncommented code that you only know was added because of some number of errata and you can sort of vaguely guess what may be wrong. When it comes time for maintenance you are always very scared to perturb anything too much because you do not really know the details. IIt is no fun, AMD should have already released everything it knew in the errata list.
I have no cellphone. I used payphones three time this year, definitely under $4 in total. Your idea forces me to plan ahead and buy $95 + tax of stuff periodically during the course of the year.
That's worth a laugh. In college my boss told me about a blind professor that came in to give a talk. He used emacs with text to voice at 400 WPM, 100 would seem a snails pace to him. He had never seen a person use a computer so quickly with everything done from the keyboard inside emacs.
Part of my family are farmers in South Eastern Poland. Chernobyl was in Spring, all the crops failed, instead of summer it was fall. Imagine brown leaves in June. Then my grandmother got bone cancer, another relative skin cancer, then multiple relatives and more cancers. My family had no history of cancer before that. Everybody got sick and no one really could say what the diseases were. Some are dead, some are still effected to this day (for example my cousin in his thirties in diapers), some seem to have gotten better.
Another interesting aspect is that so many went bald, even my aunt-in-law.
If you get the chance don't. My wife and I went sometime 2000-2004. They were late. When they got there instead of going to perform they walked around and it when they got to my wife it was clear they were not trying to rouse the crowd but simply get women backstage for after. When they went-up they greeted San Antonio even though the concert was in San Jose. One of them (the bassist I believe) was so drunk or high he could barely perform and even crashed so hard into the mic stand at one point I think I saw him lose a tooth, something definitely flew out of his mouth.
We left early, there were more stalls selling t-shirts than beer. I just decided to think of it as a Ted Nugent concert and forget about the headliners at all. We were not the only ones that left early.
I think you do not understand war. My family is Polish. In WWII my great grandfather, a young farmer, was never heard from again. Simply one day the Gestapo came and rounded-up all the young men that looked German and they were taken away to the German army or worse.
One of my great aunts was raped by Germans and Russians. Another to be spared that fate hid in a closet for the duration of the war. After the war she developed something almost like schizophrenia. Her son became an alcoholic and her husband ended-up killing himself because he could not deal with her. Her husband was a man that survived two German concentration camps, she was mad indeed.
My own grandmother was a young girl at the time. A German soldier decided it would be funny to throw her off a train going over a bridge. My other great grandfather fought off the soldier long enough that when she was finally cast-out the side of the valley was near-by. Weeks later my great grandfather found her. A goat herder had luckily found her before the wolves with many broken bones.
Starvation and living out in the open in the elements were constant worries. One time my family stumbled across a cow that had died as a result of the bombing. As they were preparing it the Germans attacked and they fled. In spite the Germans bombed the carcass. My aunt's father is a cripple thanks to the Russians. As a young boy, he and a friend stumbled across two horses from the Red army and stole them in order to feed their families. The Russians caught them and beat them terribly and left them in the snow to die. His friend died, he survived as a cripple.
A Great uncle of mine was relocated into Russia where he had to work for the Russian chemical and nuclear programs for years until he was able to return. By then all that had taken a toll and he was never the same. Today he is the classical crack-pot scientist.
My uncles' father was French and by happen-stance was in Poland when the war began with his father. They tried to return to France after the war, the father angered the Russians and then were sent to Siberia. There the father died and the son had to prostitute himself in order to survive. Eventually he met my grand mother and then his son tried to get them to France. In the end my uncle spent years in a ward for the insane after he shot a superior officer and jumped from a four story building to try to escape the hospital. Now he resides in France.
My great grand father's glass working business was destroyed by the Germans. After the war he rebuilt it, only to have the Russians take it over. My family that were farmers lost most of their land.
War is hideous. It has consequences that affect people even generations later. War 'crimes' are routine but even if they did not occur starvation and freezing kill many. I think with the A-bomb the US had a choice where there was no good decision that could be made and you accuse the US of making a bad one.
Microsoft basically paid for the new members in the Swedish OOXML vote and a subsidiary of Microsoft in Hungary was raided by the police in July. I have no knowledge that it is related to either of this, an out-right firing of such a high level person usually means basically stealing money. Not even a sexual harassment scandal would do that, just a quiet resignation.
It is going in the right direction though. The goal is to have X11.app open source and a part of the most recent X from X.org. In fact the git repository is available and Ben Byer from apple (also an X maintainer) has been adding patches to fix many of the bugs basically daily. In fact yesterday or this morning William Mortensen submitted a patch to fix yet another bug and Ben added it to git. This really is a refreshing change to how things were for X11 land on apple before.
The mailing list is providing links to binaries to download and use instead. The list of fixed items stands at this currently (from the mailing list emails):
* X11 windows do not come to the front * Yellow / invisible cursor on Intel platform * Unable to drag windows between screens * X11 apps don't "honor" the menu bar (meaning you can drag them underneath) * Badly-formatted.xinitrc warning message * Customized Apps menu items with arguments did not work * Modifier keys (shift, control, etc) would get stuck if you switch away from X11 while holding down the key. ?If you still see this problem with anything other than Spaces (which is an entirely more complicated problem), please let me know. * "Fake mouse button" fix ?-- Option-click should now emulate the middle mouse button, while Command-click should emulate the right mouse button * stability fixes (added -DROOTLESS_WORKAROUND and fixed overflow bug with QueryFontReply)
Basically with these patched X11.app is again usable in Leopard unless you use Spaces. He asked help from the community to see places where the offset bug may be because he will soon have a meeting with those devs. Rarely have we had such an amazing opportunity to have this connection with the engineers inside Apple. Also Ben wrote an email today saying basically that he had spent a month trying to get full screen X working and he needs help from the community.
Personally I am glad we finally we are in a position to determine when and how we will have a modern and useful X server on Mac OS X.
All that onion routing stuff is incredibly complicated. Simply why not UDP instead of TCP to break even the TCP RSTs and possibly encryption keyed on a hash of the contents of the.p2p file.
Does ipfw still work on Leopard? Are there some sort of new rules for per app/service in ipfw? Is there some kind of way to see what the rules really are in the SW firewall and to set them via a shell script?
If you had a stateful firewall, you could queue the RST for a few seconds, and if no more normal (ACK+NOFIN+NORST) traffic comes in on the stream for a few seconds, only *then* accept the RST and pass it up to your computer.
That is incredibly clever, seems it should have been a part of the TCP/IP stack itself...
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The Metro XFi came with the same Suzuki motor, just detuned. Also it was not available right away. It was rated at 56 MPG highway in the US. I don't know if they use the larger imperial gallons in India.
The engines were awful though. Eventually you lost compression in the center cylinder.
It is a 623cc petrol engine that you are comparing to a diesel. Also you may be using imperial gallons and I am unsure about the Tata. At such a small displacement they probably don't care too much about how lean the burn is and it is a simple cheap engine with nothing fancy such as variable valve timing. Also your tires and alloy wheels probably cost more than the Tata.
I had a similar experience. It was so strange afterward. For example my thumb felt as if it were the size of an inflated balloon.
We had PPV in the '80s. We informed the cable company with a phone call before the show. I imagine today it could be done over http.
Nintendo probably can't do a thing, they most likely get the Wiis through a distributor.
Where are the strippers? Why all the muscle shots? The pig cop was good though.
Also Road Rage was like Crazy Taxi, and also a great game.
Then they would not need any plans for new HW.
With a sailboat the lee helm is cased by one side of the boat being slightly under the other. This happens because the sail on the mast acts as a long lever. This will not happen in this kite system. In fact it may help to pull the bow up.
The 1541 was SLOW and they kept getting out of alignment. I hated those things, they were the worst part about the c64. Anyone else remember the words, "Welcome to the world of friendly computing," or something like that printed on the inside of the c64 box. I still remember that to this day.
Compared to the slower lower power SRAMs you would use in a battery backed scenario (measured in years), this new MRAM would be faster. MRAMs I have seen are bigger in size and way more expensive than SRAMs though.
Yeah we use a cap and coin cell combo here at work. The capacitor provides about a week's worth of time, then the battery can do years. The cap is also useful for replacing the battery.
I have dealt with kernel code (vxWorks and Linux) that had workarounds for PHB (Marvell) errata that I did not have the access to because of NDAs and it is not a good place to be. You have this nearly uncommented code that you only know was added because of some number of errata and you can sort of vaguely guess what may be wrong. When it comes time for maintenance you are always very scared to perturb anything too much because you do not really know the details. IIt is no fun, AMD should have already released everything it knew in the errata list.
I have no cellphone. I used payphones three time this year, definitely under $4 in total. Your idea forces me to plan ahead and buy $95 + tax of stuff periodically during the course of the year.
That's worth a laugh. In college my boss told me about a blind professor that came in to give a talk. He used emacs with text to voice at 400 WPM, 100 would seem a snails pace to him. He had never seen a person use a computer so quickly with everything done from the keyboard inside emacs.
4) stop distribution
Honestly it is a game from 2001, I bet that might be the simplest thing.
Part of my family are farmers in South Eastern Poland. Chernobyl was in Spring, all the crops failed, instead of summer it was fall. Imagine brown leaves in June. Then my grandmother got bone cancer, another relative skin cancer, then multiple relatives and more cancers. My family had no history of cancer before that. Everybody got sick and no one really could say what the diseases were. Some are dead, some are still effected to this day (for example my cousin in his thirties in diapers), some seem to have gotten better.
Another interesting aspect is that so many went bald, even my aunt-in-law.
If you get the chance don't. My wife and I went sometime 2000-2004. They were late. When they got there instead of going to perform they walked around and it when they got to my wife it was clear they were not trying to rouse the crowd but simply get women backstage for after. When they went-up they greeted San Antonio even though the concert was in San Jose. One of them (the bassist I believe) was so drunk or high he could barely perform and even crashed so hard into the mic stand at one point I think I saw him lose a tooth, something definitely flew out of his mouth.
We left early, there were more stalls selling t-shirts than beer. I just decided to think of it as a Ted Nugent concert and forget about the headliners at all. We were not the only ones that left early.
I think you do not understand war. My family is Polish. In WWII my great grandfather, a young farmer, was never heard from again. Simply one day the Gestapo came and rounded-up all the young men that looked German and they were taken away to the German army or worse.
One of my great aunts was raped by Germans and Russians. Another to be spared that fate hid in a closet for the duration of the war. After the war she developed something almost like schizophrenia. Her son became an alcoholic and her husband ended-up killing himself because he could not deal with her. Her husband was a man that survived two German concentration camps, she was mad indeed.
My own grandmother was a young girl at the time. A German soldier decided it would be funny to throw her off a train going over a bridge. My other great grandfather fought off the soldier long enough that when she was finally cast-out the side of the valley was near-by. Weeks later my great grandfather found her. A goat herder had luckily found her before the wolves with many broken bones.
Starvation and living out in the open in the elements were constant worries. One time my family stumbled across a cow that had died as a result of the bombing. As they were preparing it the Germans attacked and they fled. In spite the Germans bombed the carcass. My aunt's father is a cripple thanks to the Russians. As a young boy, he and a friend stumbled across two horses from the Red army and stole them in order to feed their families. The Russians caught them and beat them terribly and left them in the snow to die. His friend died, he survived as a cripple.
A Great uncle of mine was relocated into Russia where he had to work for the Russian chemical and nuclear programs for years until he was able to return. By then all that had taken a toll and he was never the same. Today he is the classical crack-pot scientist.
My uncles' father was French and by happen-stance was in Poland when the war began with his father. They tried to return to France after the war, the father angered the Russians and then were sent to Siberia. There the father died and the son had to prostitute himself in order to survive. Eventually he met my grand mother and then his son tried to get them to France. In the end my uncle spent years in a ward for the insane after he shot a superior officer and jumped from a four story building to try to escape the hospital. Now he resides in France.
My great grand father's glass working business was destroyed by the Germans. After the war he rebuilt it, only to have the Russians take it over. My family that were farmers lost most of their land.
War is hideous. It has consequences that affect people even generations later. War 'crimes' are routine but even if they did not occur starvation and freezing kill many. I think with the A-bomb the US had a choice where there was no good decision that could be made and you accuse the US of making a bad one.
Microsoft basically paid for the new members in the Swedish OOXML vote and a subsidiary of Microsoft in Hungary was raided by the police in July. I have no knowledge that it is related to either of this, an out-right firing of such a high level person usually means basically stealing money. Not even a sexual harassment scandal would do that, just a quiet resignation.
It is going in the right direction though. The goal is to have X11.app open source and a part of the most recent X from X.org. In fact the git repository is available and Ben Byer from apple (also an X maintainer) has been adding patches to fix many of the bugs basically daily. In fact yesterday or this morning William Mortensen submitted a patch to fix yet another bug and Ben added it to git. This really is a refreshing change to how things were for X11 land on apple before.
.xinitrc warning message
The mailing list is providing links to binaries to download and use instead. The list of fixed items stands at this currently (from the mailing list emails):
* X11 windows do not come to the front
* Yellow / invisible cursor on Intel platform
* Unable to drag windows between screens
* X11 apps don't "honor" the menu bar (meaning you can drag them underneath)
* Badly-formatted
* Customized Apps menu items with arguments did not work
* Modifier keys (shift, control, etc) would get stuck if you switch away from X11 while holding down the key. ?If you still see this problem with anything other than Spaces (which is an entirely more complicated problem), please let me know.
* "Fake mouse button" fix ?-- Option-click should now emulate the middle mouse button, while Command-click should emulate the right mouse button
* stability fixes (added -DROOTLESS_WORKAROUND and fixed overflow bug with QueryFontReply)
Basically with these patched X11.app is again usable in Leopard unless you use Spaces. He asked help from the community to see places where the offset bug may be because he will soon have a meeting with those devs. Rarely have we had such an amazing opportunity to have this connection with the engineers inside Apple. Also Ben wrote an email today saying basically that he had spent a month trying to get full screen X working and he needs help from the community.
Personally I am glad we finally we are in a position to determine when and how we will have a modern and useful X server on Mac OS X.
All that onion routing stuff is incredibly complicated. Simply why not UDP instead of TCP to break even the TCP RSTs and possibly encryption keyed on a hash of the contents of the .p2p file.
Does ipfw still work on Leopard? Are there some sort of new rules for per app/service in ipfw? Is there some kind of way to see what the rules really are in the SW firewall and to set them via a shell script?
That is incredibly clever, seems it should have been a part of the TCP/IP stack itself...