As others have mentioned, a RWD car isn't necessary to achieve your goals of wanting "something fun and semi-sporty to drive but practical in terms of initial cost, maintainence, and gas mileage."
Plenty of FWD cars can be made to handle very well (and yes, oversteer!) with a few suspension tweaks. In fact, your Civic is one of most modified FWD platforms in the world and can very easily be made to handle very well pretty inexpensively while getting great gas mileage.
I haven't done the research, but if the new Civic Hybrid and Civic share the same suspension, I suspect that the hybrid would be a good choice if you want to get a car with low emissions and could handle well.
While it doesn't look for the closest peers, it does have support "High Speed LAN Transfers" which gives you unlimited bandwidth between peers on the same subnet. It's a start, anyway:
Most packages I have seen on Linux distros are compiled with -O2 or -O3. It is highly unlikely that the various other switches provided by GCC will provide anything significant.
Besides the obvious -O parameters to gcc, specifying the arch of the platform (-march=i386 for example) can sometimes have a decent effect on performance. A lot of distributions compile for the most common platform which usually means specifying -march=i386 -mtune=i686. That gets you binaries that run on any i386 or better, while tuning the code for i686 machines. If you're running an older processor or something like a VIA or AMD cpu, often compiling with -march=c3-2 or -march=athlon64 or whatever specific CPU you're running can provide a noticable benefit, especially on newer versions of gcc.
In fact I run BitTorrent (Azureus) 24x7 to distribute large legitimate files. Out of the active torrents I'm seeding now, I've uploaded well over 200GB of data, and that's limiting my upstream to 15kB/s when I'm not downloading data via BitTorrent.
I've got a Kill-A-Watt, it's pretty useful. You'll go around measuring how much various components draw on/off.
My biggest beef with Compact Flourescents is that some of them take a while to warm up and produce usable light. It's most noticable with the ones I've got which have a plastic cover around the light to make it look like a "normal" light bulb (important for the spouse when the bulb is exposed).
I wish I could find some that lit to near full brightness in a few seconds instead of the 15-30 they take to warm up.
I used to have a digital cable box which sucked down 30-45w all the time (or something, don't have it anymore, ditched it for normal cable). On/off, didn't make a difference. That thing was always hot.
I've got plenty of wall-worts which suck power, even when nothing is plugged into them, but it's a PITA to unplug them. If the power strips they were plugged into didn't have other electronics plugged in, it'd be easy enough to hit that switch, but who wants a power strip or switch on every single wall-wart they have?
Replacing the power supplies in my PCs with a high efficiency units from Seasonic made a noticable difference. Power draw was reduced 20-30% all the time which is nice.
The charger for my Samsung A670 cell phone is the best, it doesn't use any power when plugged in without the phone. It's so light and small, it doesn't have your typical AC/DC converter in there, not sure how they convert wall power to DC to charge it.
Water freezes in winter, which is perhaps the worst on.
Yes, but you can mix water with alcohol or methanol 50/50 which will also keep the water from freezing, but that creates additional hassle. And didn't I say it was pioneered in WWII as well? Though the tractor you mention from 1904 is well before WWII.
Yes, but I've also heard of water injection being used in diesel engines to improve efficiency and power output, a quick google search should turn up some hits.
I was thinking about it, and really the effects aren't really all that similar to water injection, but rather the opposite. However, the end effect of both is more efficient and cleaner combustion.
Water injection slows down the burn process, similar to the effect of having a higher octane fuel, while hydrogen speeds it up.
Speeding up the burn process is very useful when trying to fully burn lean mixtures, slowing it down can be useful when it might be useful to slow down the burn, for example under high load in gasoline engines.
The effects of hydrogen injection sound similar to the effects from water injection, except that it may work better without additional engine tuning.
Water injection (often mixed up to 50% with alcohol or methanol) has been used to improve the detonation resistance of combustion engines for many years. It was pioneered by WWII engineers looking to extract more power out of their engines during takeoff and landing, but now is typically only used by people modifying or racing their cars/trucks.
In your typical combustion engine, maximum power is very often limited by a phenomenom call detonation, also called ping or knock. What happens is that during the compression stroke, the air/fuel mixture overheats and spontaneously combusts which results in a huge spike in combustion chamber pressure. If it is bad enough, it can break pistons or damage rod/crank bearings leading to engine failure.
There are a number of ways to reduce the chance of detonation which primarily involve cooling temperatures in the combustion chamber. A very common way of doing this is to add extra fuel to the mixture, but obviously this is not efficient or clean.
By injecting a small mist of water into the air/fuel mixture, the presence of water will help cool the mixture and prevent detonation, letting you lean out the engine to where maximum power is produced as well as adding additional timing advance and/or add boost (if running a turbo or supercharger).
As a side effect, the water ends up "steam cleaning" your combustion chamber which keeps carbon deposits to a minimum and your engine running well.
However, water injection does nothing unless your power output is detonation limited. In fact, if you inject water with no other changes, power output will go down a small amount.
It sounds like hydrogen injection may improve power and combustion efficiency in all situations.
Since the amount of hydrogen generated can't be that large, I imagine that using hydrogen injection in addition to water injection for heavy engine loads would be a great combination.
All of the points in the article were valid points.
Not even close to all of the points were valid points. Not even half of them made any sense! And you can't even call TFA an article, it's a friggin' press release.
VOIP, closed source and NAT traversal are hardly anything that your typical business spends any time worrying about. In fact, VOIP, closed source software and NAT traversal is standard operating procedure for most companies (or at least 2 of 3 of them).
Some sources are reporting that the EPA estimated mileage for the current generations of hybrids is as much as 42% more than the real world mileage, while the margin of error for compact gas only vehicles is only about %30.
These people who are getting crappy mileage in their cars are bad drivers.
They are the people you see constantly speeding up and down, speeding on the freeway at 80mph+, are hard on the accelerator and hard on the brakes and zipping from stoplight to stoplight.
I've yet to find a car which doesn't meet it's EPA mileage estimates when driven even only somewhat smoothly.
Tips to improve your Gas Mileage really should be tought in basic drivers ed as they would make driving a lot less stressful as well as being more fuel efficient.
It can be tricky to acquire the Copyright an open source project if there are multiple developers involved, as each one will need to agree to the aquisition.
Unless each developer who submits code to the project also turns over the copyright to a single entity, it can only take 1 developer to dissent and prevent the aquisition from happening except under the terms of the original license.
One module makes the switch to Apache 2 worth it from Apache 1: mod_deflate. While there is mod_gzip available with Apache 1, it does not integrate or perform nearly as well with Apache as mod_deflate.
For example, you can not serve SSL content with mod_gzip (well, you can with some tricky usage of virtual hosts at a large performance hit).
mod_deflate plays nicely with PHP, Tomcat (mod_jk) and every other module I've tried, and it results in a huge bandwidth savings for most sites and also reduces page download times.
For those who aren't familiar with mod_deflate or mod_gzip, mod_deflate compresses content before sending it to the client, and most HTML content is *very* compressible. It's not uncommon to see compression ratios of 10:1 or better.
The Great Lie of motoring is that 5mph isn't a big deal. It's not a real crime.
You're right, travelling 5mph over the speed limit is not necessarily a real crime. At least here in California, we have a law called the "Basic Speed Law". What this means is that most posted speed limits are only a recommended maximum speed, and not the maximum allowable. There are many cases where one can safely and legally exceed the speed limit, though not many people are aware that they legally can (but do anyway).
The guy in the Saturn is a dumbass. The last thing you do when going down a hill at is to put car in neutral. Especially when you're travelling at 100mph+.
I wouldn't say that the UTEC has ever been cheap, the cheapest I can remember it being was around $750-800. So now you're paying another $200-250 for a very small portable tool which lets you tweak UTEC maps, where before you'd have to get a laptop. Not easy to find a laptop for $200-$250.
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So what is your beef? You can't afford a 350z or an NSX?
No, he wants a sports car that gets better gas mileage. I want one, too.
As others have mentioned, a RWD car isn't necessary to achieve your goals of wanting "something fun and semi-sporty to drive but practical in terms of initial cost, maintainence, and gas mileage."
Plenty of FWD cars can be made to handle very well (and yes, oversteer!) with a few suspension tweaks. In fact, your Civic is one of most modified FWD platforms in the world and can very easily be made to handle very well pretty inexpensively while getting great gas mileage.
I haven't done the research, but if the new Civic Hybrid and Civic share the same suspension, I suspect that the hybrid would be a good choice if you want to get a car with low emissions and could handle well.
While it doesn't look for the closest peers, it does have support "High Speed LAN Transfers" which gives you unlimited bandwidth between peers on the same subnet. It's a start, anyway:
i on=2.4.0.0
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/changelog.php?vers
In fact I run BitTorrent (Azureus) 24x7 to distribute large legitimate files. Out of the active torrents I'm seeding now, I've uploaded well over 200GB of data, and that's limiting my upstream to 15kB/s when I'm not downloading data via BitTorrent.
I've got a Kill-A-Watt, it's pretty useful. You'll go around measuring how much various components draw on/off.
My biggest beef with Compact Flourescents is that some of them take a while to warm up and produce usable light. It's most noticable with the ones I've got which have a plastic cover around the light to make it look like a "normal" light bulb (important for the spouse when the bulb is exposed).
I wish I could find some that lit to near full brightness in a few seconds instead of the 15-30 they take to warm up.
I used to have a digital cable box which sucked down 30-45w all the time (or something, don't have it anymore, ditched it for normal cable). On/off, didn't make a difference. That thing was always hot.
I've got plenty of wall-worts which suck power, even when nothing is plugged into them, but it's a PITA to unplug them. If the power strips they were plugged into didn't have other electronics plugged in, it'd be easy enough to hit that switch, but who wants a power strip or switch on every single wall-wart they have?
Replacing the power supplies in my PCs with a high efficiency units from Seasonic made a noticable difference. Power draw was reduced 20-30% all the time which is nice.
The charger for my Samsung A670 cell phone is the best, it doesn't use any power when plugged in without the phone. It's so light and small, it doesn't have your typical AC/DC converter in there, not sure how they convert wall power to DC to charge it.
And in case anyone was wondering how a diesel works:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_engine
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/diesel.htm
Water freezes in winter, which is perhaps the worst on.
Yes, but you can mix water with alcohol or methanol 50/50 which will also keep the water from freezing, but that creates additional hassle. And didn't I say it was pioneered in WWII as well? Though the tractor you mention from 1904 is well before WWII.
Yes, but I've also heard of water injection being used in diesel engines to improve efficiency and power output, a quick google search should turn up some hits.
I was thinking about it, and really the effects aren't really all that similar to water injection, but rather the opposite. However, the end effect of both is more efficient and cleaner combustion.
Water injection slows down the burn process, similar to the effect of having a higher octane fuel, while hydrogen speeds it up.
Speeding up the burn process is very useful when trying to fully burn lean mixtures, slowing it down can be useful when it might be useful to slow down the burn, for example under high load in gasoline engines.
The effects of hydrogen injection sound similar to the effects from water injection, except that it may work better without additional engine tuning.
Water injection (often mixed up to 50% with alcohol or methanol) has been used to improve the detonation resistance of combustion engines for many years. It was pioneered by WWII engineers looking to extract more power out of their engines during takeoff and landing, but now is typically only used by people modifying or racing their cars/trucks.
In your typical combustion engine, maximum power is very often limited by a phenomenom call detonation, also called ping or knock. What happens is that during the compression stroke, the air/fuel mixture overheats and spontaneously combusts which results in a huge spike in combustion chamber pressure. If it is bad enough, it can break pistons or damage rod/crank bearings leading to engine failure.
There are a number of ways to reduce the chance of detonation which primarily involve cooling temperatures in the combustion chamber. A very common way of doing this is to add extra fuel to the mixture, but obviously this is not efficient or clean.
By injecting a small mist of water into the air/fuel mixture, the presence of water will help cool the mixture and prevent detonation, letting you lean out the engine to where maximum power is produced as well as adding additional timing advance and/or add boost (if running a turbo or supercharger).
As a side effect, the water ends up "steam cleaning" your combustion chamber which keeps carbon deposits to a minimum and your engine running well.
However, water injection does nothing unless your power output is detonation limited. In fact, if you inject water with no other changes, power output will go down a small amount.
It sounds like hydrogen injection may improve power and combustion efficiency in all situations.
Since the amount of hydrogen generated can't be that large, I imagine that using hydrogen injection in addition to water injection for heavy engine loads would be a great combination.
Hmm, maybe I better patent that idea.
All of the points in the article were valid points.
Not even close to all of the points were valid points. Not even half of them made any sense! And you can't even call TFA an article, it's a friggin' press release.
VOIP, closed source and NAT traversal are hardly anything that your typical business spends any time worrying about. In fact, VOIP, closed source software and NAT traversal is standard operating procedure for most companies (or at least 2 of 3 of them).
Has there BEEN any vulnerabilities reported?
Yes, and Skype even has a web page dedicated to describing them:
http://www.skype.com/security/bulletins.html
And all of the listed vulnerabilities there have been fixed.
Yep, same thing happened to me, too. Finally just downloaded the installer manually after having the updater update itself to the same thing 3 times.
They are the people you see constantly speeding up and down, speeding on the freeway at 80mph+, are hard on the accelerator and hard on the brakes and zipping from stoplight to stoplight.
I've yet to find a car which doesn't meet it's EPA mileage estimates when driven even only somewhat smoothly.
Tips to improve your Gas Mileage really should be tought in basic drivers ed as they would make driving a lot less stressful as well as being more fuel efficient.
If comparing a Civic and Prius based solely on economic reasons, then yes, the Civic is a better buy than the Prius.
If comparing a Civic and Prius based fuel consumption, emissions output (think greenhouse gasses), the Prius wins hands down.
There's a lot more reasons to buy a Prius than any potential $$$ savings, which is why they are still selling as fast as they can make them.
I'd bet that the AC comment you are referring to is Andre Hedrick, once known as the Linux IDE guy.
Here's a previous Slashdot interview featuring him.
I would think that a type-o or other small one-liners would not get you any copyright sharing.
Writing whole functions or adding new files to the application would give you copyright over those sections.
It can be tricky to acquire the Copyright an open source project if there are multiple developers involved, as each one will need to agree to the aquisition.
Unless each developer who submits code to the project also turns over the copyright to a single entity, it can only take 1 developer to dissent and prevent the aquisition from happening except under the terms of the original license.
Just limit your upstream bandwidth in your client after your download is complete to lay low. Something like 1/5 of your total upstream should be OK.
I will typically limit upstream to 10-20KB/s after the download is complete using Azureus.
One module makes the switch to Apache 2 worth it from Apache 1: mod_deflate. While there is mod_gzip available with Apache 1, it does not integrate or perform nearly as well with Apache as mod_deflate.
For example, you can not serve SSL content with mod_gzip (well, you can with some tricky usage of virtual hosts at a large performance hit).
mod_deflate plays nicely with PHP, Tomcat (mod_jk) and every other module I've tried, and it results in a huge bandwidth savings for most sites and also reduces page download times.
For those who aren't familiar with mod_deflate or mod_gzip, mod_deflate compresses content before sending it to the client, and most HTML content is *very* compressible. It's not uncommon to see compression ratios of 10:1 or better.
Better than payment, the Fedora Legacy project would really love to have more people doing QA and testing.
It's not the most glorious job out there, but someone has to do it! Right now, that is usually the biggest hold up to getting updates out.
You're right, travelling 5mph over the speed limit is not necessarily a real crime. At least here in California, we have a law called the "Basic Speed Law". What this means is that most posted speed limits are only a recommended maximum speed, and not the maximum allowable. There are many cases where one can safely and legally exceed the speed limit, though not many people are aware that they legally can (but do anyway).
The guy in the Saturn is a dumbass. The last thing you do when going down a hill at is to put car in neutral. Especially when you're travelling at 100mph+.
I wouldn't say that the UTEC has ever been cheap, the cheapest I can remember it being was around $750-800. So now you're paying another $200-250 for a very small portable tool which lets you tweak UTEC maps, where before you'd have to get a laptop. Not easy to find a laptop for $200-$250.