The mp3 has been around since the mid 90s and plenty of other simpler formats were around before that. Macs were doing 8 bit PCM music back in the late 80s and if you want to be pedantic about it synthesized music on a personal computer has been around since the 8 bits days in the early 80s.
Because most techie types simply will refuse to buy it. Anything Sony has a bad smell about it now and that won't change anytime soon. Sure, techies may only be a small percentage of total buyers but even if its only 1 or 2% thats still a lot of sales money for Sony to lose to its competitors.
"Find me a gasoline engine with that kind of torque and such a low HP rating"
Yes , nice try and spinning it 180. Find a 3.0 gasoline engine that will give that sort of torque.
"They subsidize diesel by charging less tax"
So less tax is a subsidy? Thats an... interesting definition of the word.
"Fine, then compare with a 300C. You can buy a 300C gasoline version will get to 60 in less than 5 seconds. Yes, the fuel economy will be lower than your diesel, but the power is much higher."
And the engine requires almost twice the cubic capacity to do it - 5.7 vs 3.0 And its torque is only slightly more than the diesel. As far as comparisons go it sucks. As for fuel economy - lower doesn't even start to describe it. Try less than half!
"Power = horsepower or wattage. A diesel is too heavy and has too much throw to spin fast enough to generate a lot of power. Railways use diesels for a number of reasons, but high power is not one of them."
Bullshit. For a start power in an internal combustion engine is torque multiplied by rpm and diesels have a lot of torque so even though they don't rev as high as a petrol they can still produce a lot of power. To use my car as an example it generates 215hp and 376lb/ft.
"Yes, it is cost effective if the government subsidizes it - much like electrics in the US."
Sorry, what government subsidy? Do you seriously think diesel cars or fuel in europe is subsidised?? You do realise the price of a gallon of diesel in the UK is roughly 8 dollars?
"That's not very impressive on this side of the pond. A Hyundai Sonata does better and my minivan does 0-60 in 7.1 seconds."
In 7.1 seconds? Let me guess, a 5.0 V8 that does single figure mpg? Did I forget to mention I get 40mpg average? As for the Sonata you're refering to the V6 which probably doesn't weigh 2 tons unlike a 300C. FWIW the 3.5 petrol V6 300C does 0-60 in 9.5 and tops out at 130.
If you don't think diesels are powerful you might like to take a look inside a railway locomotive. As for cost effective , well most of europes drivers disagree with you.
AFWIW my 300C 3.0 diesel does 0-60 in 7.5 and 143 in standard tune. You yanks need to drag yourselves into the 21st century.
Yeah , and how often does that happen? Have you ever heard of landlords taken rent over the net? No, me neither. They come round once a month and you give them cash or a cheque. He just made it up.
"P.S. Feel free to try a fortnight without any internet access"
Actually I frequently go a lot longer without it when I go travelling. Not all of us as sad pasty faced geeks who can't be away from a keyboard for more than 24 hours without getting tremors. Get a fucking life you loser.
Theres no point sending humans up into space if theres nowhere for them to actually go (with current technology). You wouldn't have found columbus sailing out into the atlantic , doing a U turn and coming back again just to say he'd been to the mid atlantic. He had a destination in mind which was possible survive at for a long time. Not something you can say about the moon or mars.
Pity there isn't a -1 Arsehole for you buddy. You quite obviously have NO IDEA what he's talking about you lame idiot. Visit sub saharan africa some time and you'll find out what the fight for REAL human rights are all about.
I think Berners Lee and others are assuming an importance to the web that it doesn't deserve. Sure, without it life can become harder if you do a lot of shopping and banking online , but jesus Tim , get a sense of perspective.
Using a multi threaded program when your HTML and javascript parsers were flaky enough to crash the program was a moronic decision. And AFAIR the Netscape browser used to be split process so did someone think that was old hat and multi threaded was the latest and greatest flavour of the month so thats the way Firefox had to go?
There is no excuse for using threads with todays versions of unix with copy on write and other efficiencies , its just lazy programming. Sure, use threads with Windows which has a hobbled process model but keep it out of the Unix arena please.
So while they're certainly dangerous they're not the world toppling danger they're made out to be. Far more dangerous are the corrupt governments around the world with proper armies, proper weapons and very smart intelligence people.
I tend to agree with you. "You" are more than just the hardware in your brain because if you weren't you wouldn't disappear every night when you go to sleep. As you say , the "soul" is some analogue of a program "running" in the brain and this program can and will be suspended and other programs take over - eg dreaming, sleepwalking.
Since from a visual point of view spirit was in a far more interesting area with hills and varied lanscape. Opportunity is in the middle of a vast desert with just the odd crater to break things up.
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The mp3 has been around since the mid 90s and plenty of other simpler formats were around before that. Macs were doing 8 bit PCM music back in the late 80s and if you want to be pedantic about it synthesized music on a personal computer has been around since the 8 bits days in the early 80s.
Because most techie types simply will refuse to buy it. Anything Sony has a bad smell about it now and that won't change anytime soon. Sure, techies may only be a small percentage of total buyers but even if its only 1 or 2% thats still a lot of sales money for Sony to lose to its competitors.
"Find me a gasoline engine with that kind of torque and such a low HP rating"
Yes , nice try and spinning it 180. Find a 3.0 gasoline engine that will give that sort of torque.
"They subsidize diesel by charging less tax"
So less tax is a subsidy? Thats an ... interesting definition of the word.
"Fine, then compare with a 300C. You can buy a 300C gasoline version will get to 60 in less than 5 seconds. Yes, the fuel economy will be lower than your diesel, but the power is much higher."
And the engine requires almost twice the cubic capacity to do it - 5.7 vs 3.0 And its torque is only slightly more than the diesel. As far as comparisons go it sucks. As for fuel economy - lower doesn't even start to describe it. Try less than half!
"Power = horsepower or wattage. A diesel is too heavy and has too much throw to spin fast enough to generate a lot of power. Railways use diesels for a number of reasons, but high power is not one of them."
Bullshit. For a start power in an internal combustion engine is torque multiplied by rpm and diesels have a lot of torque so even though they don't rev as high as a petrol they can still produce a lot of power. To use my car as an example it generates 215hp and 376lb/ft.
"Yes, it is cost effective if the government subsidizes it - much like electrics in the US."
Sorry, what government subsidy? Do you seriously think diesel cars or fuel in europe is subsidised?? You do realise the price of a gallon of diesel in the UK is roughly 8 dollars?
"That's not very impressive on this side of the pond. A Hyundai Sonata does better and my minivan does 0-60 in 7.1 seconds."
In 7.1 seconds? Let me guess, a 5.0 V8 that does single figure mpg? Did I forget to mention I get 40mpg average?
As for the Sonata you're refering to the V6 which probably doesn't weigh 2 tons unlike a 300C. FWIW the 3.5 petrol V6 300C does 0-60 in 9.5 and tops out at 130.
If you don't think diesels are powerful you might like to take a look inside a railway locomotive. As for cost effective , well most of europes drivers disagree with you.
AFWIW my 300C 3.0 diesel does 0-60 in 7.5 and 143 in standard tune. You yanks need to drag yourselves into the 21st century.
They don't *need* glowplus, you can start one without - eventually. they just speed starting up a lot.
Yeah , and how often does that happen? Have you ever heard of landlords taken rent over the net? No, me neither. They come round once a month and you give them cash or a cheque. He just made it up.
"P.S. Feel free to try a fortnight without any internet access"
Actually I frequently go a lot longer without it when I go travelling. Not all of us as sad pasty faced geeks who can't be away from a keyboard for more than 24 hours without getting tremors. Get a fucking life you loser.
"If you pay rent via the internet,"
Wtf are you talking about??
Theres no point sending humans up into space if theres nowhere for them to actually go (with current technology). You wouldn't have found
columbus sailing out into the atlantic , doing a U turn and coming back again just to say he'd been to the mid atlantic. He had a destination in mind which was possible survive at for a long time. Not something you can say about the moon or mars.
Well if it was a "human right" then they wouldn't be allowed to refuse you a license no matter what. Do try and keep up.
So the government forcing you to take a driving test before you can drive a car is wrong then?
"The internet plays a MAJOR role in today's world"
No it doesn't. It plays a major role in YOUR world - thats not the same thing.
Pity there isn't a -1 Arsehole for you buddy. You quite obviously have NO IDEA what he's talking about you lame idiot. Visit sub saharan africa some time and you'll find out what the fight for REAL human rights are all about.
I think Berners Lee and others are assuming an importance to the web that it doesn't deserve. Sure, without it life can become harder if you do a lot of shopping and banking online , but jesus Tim , get a sense of perspective.
Err , firefox does use multithreading. But a crash in one thread can bring down the whole process hence their desire to go back to multi process.
Using a multi threaded program when your HTML and javascript parsers were flaky enough to crash the program was a moronic decision. And AFAIR the Netscape browser used to be split process so did someone think that was old hat and multi threaded was the latest and greatest flavour of the month so thats the way Firefox had to go?
There is no excuse for using threads with todays versions of unix with copy on write and other efficiencies , its just lazy programming. Sure, use threads with Windows which has a hobbled process model but keep it out of the Unix arena please.
Well quite clearly it wasn't just for the day.
I don't think you could ever prove it. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck etc etc...
So while they're certainly dangerous they're not the world toppling danger they're made out to be. Far more dangerous are the corrupt governments around the world with proper armies, proper weapons and very smart intelligence people.
I tend to agree with you. "You" are more than just the hardware in your brain because if you weren't you wouldn't disappear every night when you go to sleep. As you say , the "soul" is some analogue of a program "running" in the brain and this program can and will be suspended and other programs take over - eg dreaming, sleepwalking.
"That's still a thousand times more interesting than any surface feature on Earth."
Speak for yourself.
Since from a visual point of view spirit was in a far more interesting area with hills and varied lanscape. Opportunity is in the middle of a vast desert with just the odd crater to break things up.
Segmentation on x86 is for 16 bit code so unless they're running old DOS programs I don't see how that can work on 32 or 64 bit memory address spaces.
"As for the trains, I would be surprised if they were running on low voltages"
Prepare to be surprised - most metro systems use 750V DC or thereabouts. Google it.
Which will take them 6 months to fix as they concentrate on pleasing the Oooh shiny! crowd with ever more useless bells and whistles.
Cynic? Moi?