Well, a Porche, like all German cars is well built, and has all the character of a house brick. The driving experience will be akin to watching paint dry.
A TVR has character, a fabulous exhaust note, and a proper driving experience, i.e you feel involved. A TVR is a drivers car, and the comment about spinning it with injudicious use of the throttle is probably true, and so what, drive it with respect!
This Porsche 959 - 0-100 is 11.4sec >$400K TVR Cerbera 4.5 (current production made in Blackpool, England) - 0-100 is 8.3sec from a 4.5litre V8, cost $80K I think I'd go for the TVR. Not being able to do 215mph (only 195mph from the TVR) is not a big deal. Of course, you could get the TVR T440R if you really must do 215mph. Check out tvr-eng.co.uk
What do you mean?, sound quality got worse in the '70s when transistors became popular.
You are wrong. Amplifiers became vastly better, a valve amp gives much more distortion, mostly second harmonic. This happens to make the sound 'warmer' or 'mellow' which people may prefer but no way is it such a good facsimili of the original recording.
The SoundBug is _not_ NXT technology. That's why it sounds crap.
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It isn't a scare story, although it only happens under unusual circumstances. e.g. a worn out engine - the leakage past the rings will pressurise the crankcase and set the process off.
The other situation is what happened to me - I overfilled the sump with oil in the dark, drove slowly through the services station carpark, then floored the accellerator on the slip road. Of course this got the turbo going, and the engine speed increased, and the oil got whipped up in the sump, and away she went, clouds of smoke, uneven running and when I pressed the clutch boy did she scream!
I shut of the key, no difference, so fortunately I had the presence of mind to stall it by putting it in fifth before a rod escaped through the side.
Trying to restart wouldn't as there was enough oil in the bores to stop the piston reaching TDC, so injectors out to get rid of excess oil, and having lowered the oil level in the sump, away she went.
So don't overfill your diesel engines with oil!, especially not turbocharged ones.
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You are completely mistaken. The problem with a diesel is that if too much oil vapour from the crankcase gets into the air intake, the engine will run on the vapour. The vapour is not being controlled in any way, so the engine will accellerate until it destroys itself. A fuel cutoff will make no difference as the engine will still run on oil vapour. You have to stall it.
Please get your facts right before spouting scare stories.
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VW Jetta might be most fuel efficient now, but it's not as good as some cars in the past have been.
Rover (Austin previously) used to make an estate car (station wagon) which was the same size as the Jetta, called the Montego. The diesel version had a 2.0litre Direct Injection Turbo diesel engine, made by Perkins.
These used to return 75mpg at 56mph and 55mpg at 75mph. They were light years head of anything else at the time - at a cost of increased engine noise because of the direct injection.
At the time, Ford, Vauxhall, Peugeot were all churning out indirect injection diesels which were at least 10mpg worse, and generally slower. The Ford Escort / Sierra diesels were crap.
The Montego Diesel came out around 1988. Now of course they all use direct injection, but are still only nipping at the heels of the Montego in terms of economy. Somewhat ahead of its time.
Shame we make retrograde steps. A bit like the latest windows feature is in fact old hat for any other OS.
Call me a tosser if you will, but what is the point in having a card with 24 bit digital processing if your analogue I/O is limited to 100dB (16.7bits)? Mental masturbation is what I call it.
It is an important project because a lack of Outlook style software is a major reason that I use NT4 for most of my work, and switch to Linux when I have to, rather than vice versa.
Real question is though, will it work with Exchange servers?, i.e. exchange servers that are using M$ proprietary protocols?
Kylix is the sort of decent integrated software Linux needs. You get a complete IDE that all fits together and works.
It is a shame that the rest of Linux is not like that. Different kernels, different window managers, different environments, different shells, different config tools, all written by different people with different syntax and different look and feel. The obstacles to a newbie are phenomenal - I know as I was one recently. The chance of downloading some software and it compiling or working is pretty damn slim, is your kernel the right version, do you have the right glibc, have you the right libraries. What a bloody mess. Linux will only succeed when the entire system is as slick as Kylix, with all the crap thrown out, and Joe Sixpack can use it. Until that day, Linux will stay in the bedroom and the server room, and stay well off the desktop.
And don't expect a decent bit of software like Kylix to be free, there's a lot of work in that, and somebody has to pay for that.
As I recall, when Ireland was partitioned earlier in the century, a vote was taken where people were asked whether they wish to stay with the rest of the UK, or become independent. The results of the poll determined the size of the Irish Republic, and which counties of Ireland remained within the UK. Democracy at work. Unfortunately, fanatical racial hatred, fueled by ignorant non-UK nationals exacerbates a situation that has been arrived at by democratic means.
Wales is in a similar situation at the moment, I wonder how it will self destruct in the following years.
It was indeed. But to the average American, Ireland, Wales and Scotland are all the same. Further, they are all treated so harshly by the English (sarcasm), that they all deserve large fund raising activities to support their bids (sometimes armed) for independence.
Wales is a principality, but it is a subsidiary of England. We conquered it in the 1100's, they revolted in the 1400's we still won, so it's a part of England. The eldest son of the reigning monarch traditionally becomes the Prince of Wales, this one has taken the trouble to learn Welsh too.
To be precise: United Kingdom - Northern Ireland = Great Britain Great Britain - Wales - Scotland = England (Although to be even more precise, Wales is a province of England but don't tell the Welsh that!)
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So I don't understand how sending the same data three times over is efficient? The example illustration is sending 15 bits to code 5 bits.
Please explain.
Well, a Porche, like all German cars is well built, and has all the character of a house brick. The driving experience will be akin to watching paint dry.
A TVR has character, a fabulous exhaust note, and a proper driving experience, i.e you feel involved. A TVR is a drivers car, and the comment about spinning it with injudicious use of the throttle is probably true, and so what, drive it with respect!
This Porsche 959 - 0-100 is 11.4sec >$400K
TVR Cerbera 4.5 (current production made in Blackpool, England) - 0-100 is 8.3sec from a 4.5litre V8, cost $80K
I think I'd go for the TVR. Not being able to do 215mph (only 195mph from the TVR) is not a big deal.
Of course, you could get the TVR T440R if you really must do 215mph.
Check out tvr-eng.co.uk
What do you mean?, sound quality got worse in the '70s when transistors became popular.
You are wrong. Amplifiers became vastly better, a valve amp gives much more distortion, mostly second harmonic. This happens to make the sound 'warmer' or 'mellow' which people may prefer but no way is it such a good facsimili of the original recording.
And what conflict would that be?
The SoundBug is _not_ NXT technology. That's why it sounds crap.
It isn't a scare story, although it only happens under unusual circumstances. e.g. a worn out engine - the leakage past the rings will pressurise the crankcase and set the process off.
The other situation is what happened to me - I overfilled the sump with oil in the dark, drove slowly through the services station carpark, then floored the accellerator on the slip road. Of course this got the turbo going, and the engine speed increased, and the oil got whipped up in the sump, and away she went, clouds of smoke, uneven running and when I pressed the clutch boy did she scream!
I shut of the key, no difference, so fortunately I had the presence of mind to stall it by putting it in fifth before a rod escaped through the side.
Trying to restart wouldn't as there was enough oil in the bores to stop the piston reaching TDC, so injectors out to get rid of excess oil, and having lowered the oil level in the sump, away she went.
So don't overfill your diesel engines with oil!, especially not turbocharged ones.
You are completely mistaken. The problem with a diesel is that if too much oil vapour from the crankcase gets into the air intake, the engine will run on the vapour. The vapour is not being controlled in any way, so the engine will accellerate until it destroys itself.
A fuel cutoff will make no difference as the engine will still run on oil vapour. You have to stall it.
Please get your facts right before spouting scare stories.
VW Jetta might be most fuel efficient now, but it's not as good as some cars in the past have been.
Rover (Austin previously) used to make an estate car (station wagon) which was the same size as the Jetta, called the Montego. The diesel version had a 2.0litre Direct Injection Turbo diesel engine, made by Perkins.
These used to return 75mpg at 56mph and 55mpg at 75mph. They were light years head of anything else at the time - at a cost of increased engine noise because of the direct injection.
At the time, Ford, Vauxhall, Peugeot were all churning out indirect injection diesels which were at least 10mpg worse, and generally slower. The Ford Escort / Sierra diesels were crap.
The Montego Diesel came out around 1988. Now of course they all use direct injection, but are still only nipping at the heels of the Montego in terms of economy. Somewhat ahead of its time.
Shame we make retrograde steps. A bit like the latest windows feature is in fact old hat for any other OS.
And why can't we have these clips in MPEG or something that everybody can see?
Call me a tosser if you will, but what is the point in having a card with 24 bit digital processing if your analogue I/O is limited to 100dB (16.7bits)? Mental masturbation is what I call it.
It is an important project because a lack of Outlook style software is a major reason that I use NT4 for most of my work, and switch to Linux when I have to, rather than vice versa.
Real question is though, will it work with Exchange servers?, i.e. exchange servers that are using M$ proprietary protocols?
Kylix is the sort of decent integrated software Linux needs. You get a complete IDE that all fits together and works.
It is a shame that the rest of Linux is not like that. Different kernels, different window managers, different environments, different shells, different config tools, all written by different people with different syntax and different look and feel. The obstacles to a newbie are phenomenal - I know as I was one recently. The chance of downloading some software and it compiling or working is pretty damn slim, is your kernel the right version, do you have the right glibc, have you the right libraries. What a bloody mess. Linux will only succeed when the entire system is as slick as Kylix, with all the crap thrown out, and Joe Sixpack can use it. Until that day, Linux will stay in the bedroom and the server room, and stay well off the desktop.
And don't expect a decent bit of software like Kylix to be free, there's a lot of work in that, and somebody has to pay for that.
As I recall, when Ireland was partitioned earlier in the century, a vote was taken where people were asked whether they wish to stay with the rest of the UK, or become independent. The results of the poll determined the size of the Irish Republic, and which counties of Ireland remained within the UK. Democracy at work. Unfortunately, fanatical racial hatred, fueled by ignorant non-UK nationals exacerbates a situation that has been arrived at by democratic means.
Wales is in a similar situation at the moment, I wonder how it will self destruct in the following years.
It was indeed. But to the average American, Ireland, Wales and Scotland are all the same. Further, they are all treated so harshly by the English (sarcasm), that they all deserve large fund raising activities to support their bids (sometimes armed) for independence.
And your point is?
Wales is a principality, but it is a subsidiary of England.
We conquered it in the 1100's, they revolted in the 1400's
we still won, so it's a part of England. The eldest son of the
reigning monarch traditionally becomes the Prince of Wales,
this one has taken the trouble to learn Welsh too.
To be precise:
United Kingdom - Northern Ireland = Great Britain
Great Britain - Wales - Scotland = England
(Although to be even more precise, Wales is a
province of England but don't tell the Welsh
that!)
>Why, pray tell, are you "hopeless?"
/. for a few seconds and you'll find the difference.
Asking questions like what's the difference between Linux & Windows.
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