My '85 520i BMW has this. I'm pretty sure all the ones since then have them as well, not sure about before it though.
Ditto my '85 Vette. Was able to squeeze 25mpg out of it, if I was taking it easy on the highway (~65mph). But during the six month I had it in Germany, my mpg was pretty bad...Autobahn driving, so I couldn't resist hitting 155mph.
It takes more energy to accelerate quicker than it does to accelerate slower.
As a blanket statement, this is false. Going from zero to sixty in ten seconds may end up requiring more work than doing the same in twenty seconds. However, depending on the engine, the gears, the wheels, the road, and all sorts of other factors, it may not. It's a complex problem that can't be solved via simple analysis.
But they will wait untill SCO empties its funds before IBM fights back.
What purpose would it serve to wait? When (if?) SCO goes bankrupt, IBM won't be able to collect anything. Unless that's a false assumption, why continue spending money on attornies when it's coming out of your own budget?
My question is...assuming that SCO loses, and goes bankrupt, don't they get to rise back from the ashes? Unless Darl & others are convicted of fraud, what's the downside for them?
Now when playing shooter games I often notice a sudden drop in fps when some service or other decides it needs to do something.
Interesting point. I play World of Warcraft on a Athlon 1800+, 512M machine, over cable modem. Whenever any background task launchs (virus scan, skim backup, etc.) I notice a significant lag. I bought a nice new $300 video card, but that was no help...I'm going to try more memory next since the game uses nearly 300M. Other than that, I figure I'll have have to upgrade to a faster machine, but not until I try it on my daughters 3300+ first.
Another poster suggested offloading tasks to another machine, but obviously, you can't do that with virus scanners, backup, and other essentials.
As a life long conservative, you might find it hard to believe that I'm in full agreement with you regarding Guantanamo...one of the dumbest ideas ever! That said, it has nothing to do with my point about and ICC being another stupid idea.
There are many issues to resolve if you really want an ICC. Could any country demand that you be extradited for trial? How do you ensure that you've got impartial judges...example: certainly you wouldn't want a South Korean brought before a North Korean judge. Would there be an international Bill of Rights? When UN troops (read US forces) are used as peacekeepers in a somewhat hostile location, how do you prevent situations where locals bring up false charges against them? Will we all need to be extra careful not to upset someone while overseas on vacation, only to come home and find the UN police knocking down our doors? Will we need yet another layer of blood sucking lawyers for this?
This is like the US saying that it "protects everybodys interests by sitting on the UN" - and then using its veto for say - The International Criminal Court.
At the risk of being off-topic, like you, I'm afraid I'm about to feed a troll, but here goes...
Would it be agreeable to you to allow citizens of (insert your country here) to be extradited for trial by a court run by the UN? The same organization that brought us the oil for food scandal? The same organization that put Libya on the human rights board? At times when nations are feuding with each other, what do you think your chances would be if you got stuck with a judge from the other side?
Maybe someday when we all live in your version of Utopia we could have a successful international criminal court...I won't hold my breath.
I think the free market is great. My post was about the hypocrisy of those who espouse the Free Market as a solution to all possible problems, and then support anti-competitive legislation like this.
After all, if one really believed in an unfettered competitive marketplace, then the only response to the rise of municipal WiFi would be: "Bring 'em on".
Interesting that a professed liberal (I'm making an assumption based upon your sig) like you, and a conservative capitalist like myself appear to be in full agreement on this.
Ah, yes. The free-market system, unfettered from legislative "regulations". Behold its efficiency!
It would seem that that system has put us in the position of being the worlds largest economy...some problem with that? This story has nothing to do with free-market, and everything to do with the problems we've got with monopoly power, soft-money lobbists, and the politicans that suckle at their teats.
I live due west of DC, not even 10 miles from the beltway, no DSL service out here... its a DSL deadzone or something.
You're probably within 5 miles of where I'm typing this right now. You're right about DSL in the Centreville/Chantilly area, Verizon is screwing all of us, and stonewalling everyone.
And nobody here likes Cable, it's soooo horrendous...
HUH??? My Cox Cable rocks.
Also, I sware the cable company has an 'anti-gaming' block on the service, I can't stay connected to an online game more then an hour to save my life...
I'm on WoW all the time. In three years, i've had about 4 outages, and only once for a whole day.
Certainly, you have the choice of getting satellite as well.
I went through the same basic training as the parent back in '77. The only people I saw having serious trouble were those who took it very seriously. There was nothing really difficult (except the time I had 18hrs of KP...not punishment, but as a task). Even the PT was easy...we only had to run 1.5 miles in under 14:30 (which I can still easily do 28 yrs later). The hard part was keeping a straight face while the TI was chewing your ass, because 99% of the time it was just to get a reaction out of you, and for something truely trivial. I'm certain that all those TIs go and yuck it up every day with their friends/family about how they got some poor 18 yr old to wet his pants that day. All in all, the experience was a blast though, and it enabled me to get the Vietnam era GI bill (couldn't afford college after high school), nearly a year of computer tech training, and some great European travel.
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I understand this behavior because I see it; Our very own Fearless Leader exhibits this "thin slicing" with a remarkable success rate.
I do a significant amount of research in an effort to predict certain kinds of market trends and behaviors but what bothers me is that he [often] gets the same results without that work.
I suspect that this is somewhat like playing chess, which has alot to do with pattern recognition. You're working out the brute-force method (more tactical, but you can't see really deep that way), but he's doing it based upon strategic thinking. It's sort of like being able to glance at the board, and see that you'll be able to promote a pawn in a few moves, but the computer has to check every permutation before it can "see" the same.
If the question isn't being asked disingenuously then it's being asked ignorantly in my opinion.
So are you suggesting that you could always tell the difference between human art (assuming that you don't get to peek in the signature block), and that which is generated by a computer?...sort of a Turing test if you will. If not, than how can you justify your comment? IANAA, so I'm asking this question out of ignorance...please enlighten me.
I think that there's no sense in starting an uproar over "creating new species" and "playing god" yet
While I agree with you, and I'm all for scientific research, I believe that it's important to have the public debate as well. I'm sure that there are lines that we wouldn't want to cross, but will be, simply because someone had the funds, or ego, to do so. There should be some limitations on what's acceptable, and the public discussion about where those limits are should occur sooner rather than later.
...the final nail in the coffin for me. The only reason I've stuck with them is because I've had an account dating back over a dozen years, and didn't want to give up that e-mail address. Between this, and the 33% price increase I saw when they did away with their 2 yr. plan, I see little reason to stay with them anymore...rat bastards.
Perhaps you're talking about hang gliders or parasailing?
Nope...most definately a glider. I agree though...I don't know the reasoning behind the chutes, just know that I had one on for the only time in my life.
However, I don't know if I really want software companies making desktop software fault tolerant to things such as the hard drive being removed.
Agreed, however I think we're talking primarily about mission critical systems in this case...situations where lives can be lost, or big bucks wasted. Not switching on the system, is pure incompetence...heads should roll (or maybe I need to RTFA).
As a defense contractor, our customers usually have high expectations (and rightfully so), though it may vary depending upon the application. Our bugs reports are prioritized, and some customers demand that we have no Pri-1 or 2 (out of 5) bugs at delivery, which requires alot of testing, time, and budget. The area where I see us getting burned most often is when management wins a contract based upon promises to deliver something way to quickly (but we couldn't have won the contract otherwise)...very common in the industry. It's a constant struggle between engineering and management...we know we need to win the contracts, but we also want to do the job right.
BULLSHIT. I'm a glider pilot, and we don't use parachutes.
I beg to differ. I'm also a private pilot, and my only experience in a glider involved strapping on a parachute. The fellow that took me (a friend, coworker, and glider pilot instructor) also wore one.
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My '85 520i BMW has this. I'm pretty sure all the ones since then have them as well, not sure about before it though.
Ditto my '85 Vette. Was able to squeeze 25mpg out of it, if I was taking it easy on the highway (~65mph). But during the six month I had it in Germany, my mpg was pretty bad...Autobahn driving, so I couldn't resist hitting 155mph.
You said:
It takes more energy to accelerate quicker than it does to accelerate slower.
As a blanket statement, this is false. Going from zero to sixty in ten seconds may end up requiring more work than doing the same in twenty seconds. However, depending on the engine, the gears, the wheels, the road, and all sorts of other factors, it may not. It's a complex problem that can't be solved via simple analysis.
Ummm...was Newton wrong about F=m*a?
But it's not doing much good for the kids. Maybe a less broad "Microsoft is 100% evil" attitude would help the kids. Their the ones learning
You forgot to use the Microsoft grammer checker. Or, maybe you did?!?
But they will wait untill SCO empties its funds before IBM fights back.
What purpose would it serve to wait? When (if?) SCO goes bankrupt, IBM won't be able to collect anything. Unless that's a false assumption, why continue spending money on attornies when it's coming out of your own budget?
My question is...assuming that SCO loses, and goes bankrupt, don't they get to rise back from the ashes? Unless Darl & others are convicted of fraud, what's the downside for them?
Now when playing shooter games I often notice a sudden drop in fps when some service or other decides it needs to do something.
Interesting point. I play World of Warcraft on a Athlon 1800+, 512M machine, over cable modem. Whenever any background task launchs (virus scan, skim backup, etc.) I notice a significant lag. I bought a nice new $300 video card, but that was no help...I'm going to try more memory next since the game uses nearly 300M. Other than that, I figure I'll have have to upgrade to a faster machine, but not until I try it on my daughters 3300+ first.
Another poster suggested offloading tasks to another machine, but obviously, you can't do that with virus scanners, backup, and other essentials.
Come on, it's a couple days old already. Ok, I'm expecting to the the obligatory "you're new here, aren't you" response.
As a life long conservative, you might find it hard to believe that I'm in full agreement with you regarding Guantanamo...one of the dumbest ideas ever! That said, it has nothing to do with my point about and ICC being another stupid idea.
There are many issues to resolve if you really want an ICC. Could any country demand that you be extradited for trial? How do you ensure that you've got impartial judges...example: certainly you wouldn't want a South Korean brought before a North Korean judge. Would there be an international Bill of Rights? When UN troops (read US forces) are used as peacekeepers in a somewhat hostile location, how do you prevent situations where locals bring up false charges against them? Will we all need to be extra careful not to upset someone while overseas on vacation, only to come home and find the UN police knocking down our doors? Will we need yet another layer of blood sucking lawyers for this?
The ship, being of US registry, can be confiscated and searched by US authorities.
What makes you think they'll be using a US registered ship??? DOH! I been on several cruise ships, none registered to the US.
This is like the US saying that it "protects everybodys interests by sitting on the UN" - and then using its veto for say - The International Criminal Court.
At the risk of being off-topic, like you, I'm afraid I'm about to feed a troll, but here goes...
Would it be agreeable to you to allow citizens of (insert your country here) to be extradited for trial by a court run by the UN? The same organization that brought us the oil for food scandal? The same organization that put Libya on the human rights board? At times when nations are feuding with each other, what do you think your chances would be if you got stuck with a judge from the other side?
Maybe someday when we all live in your version of Utopia we could have a successful international criminal court...I won't hold my breath.
Or in reverse what if the pressure of the ocean was greater and we open a giant drain in the middle of the atlantic?
Well, it depends...If the hole was below the equater, all the water would flush in the opposite direction.
I hate stupid poeple...
DOH
I think the free market is great. My post was about the hypocrisy of those who espouse the Free Market as a solution to all possible problems, and then support anti-competitive legislation like this.
After all, if one really believed in an unfettered competitive marketplace, then the only response to the rise of municipal WiFi would be: "Bring 'em on".
Interesting that a professed liberal (I'm making an assumption based upon your sig) like you, and a conservative capitalist like myself appear to be in full agreement on this.
Ah, yes. The free-market system, unfettered from legislative "regulations". Behold its efficiency!
It would seem that that system has put us in the position of being the worlds largest economy...some problem with that? This story has nothing to do with free-market, and everything to do with the problems we've got with monopoly power, soft-money lobbists, and the politicans that suckle at their teats.
I live due west of DC, not even 10 miles from the beltway, no DSL service out here... its a DSL deadzone or something.
You're probably within 5 miles of where I'm typing this right now. You're right about DSL in the Centreville/Chantilly area, Verizon is screwing all of us, and stonewalling everyone.
And nobody here likes Cable, it's soooo horrendous...
HUH??? My Cox Cable rocks.
Also, I sware the cable company has an 'anti-gaming' block on the service, I can't stay connected to an online game more then an hour to save my life...
I'm on WoW all the time. In three years, i've had about 4 outages, and only once for a whole day.
Certainly, you have the choice of getting satellite as well.
Uhm... could somebody who has served please translate that for a lazy European conscientious objector?
And who says "security through obscurity" doesn't work???
I went through the same basic training as the parent back in '77. The only people I saw having serious trouble were those who took it very seriously. There was nothing really difficult (except the time I had 18hrs of KP...not punishment, but as a task). Even the PT was easy...we only had to run 1.5 miles in under 14:30 (which I can still easily do 28 yrs later). The hard part was keeping a straight face while the TI was chewing your ass, because 99% of the time it was just to get a reaction out of you, and for something truely trivial. I'm certain that all those TIs go and yuck it up every day with their friends/family about how they got some poor 18 yr old to wet his pants that day. All in all, the experience was a blast though, and it enabled me to get the Vietnam era GI bill (couldn't afford college after high school), nearly a year of computer tech training, and some great European travel.
So thats where child processes come from!
I thought those were from forking.
I understand this behavior because I see it; Our very own Fearless Leader exhibits this "thin slicing" with a remarkable success rate.
I do a significant amount of research in an effort to predict certain kinds of market trends and behaviors but what bothers me is that he [often] gets the same results without that work.
I suspect that this is somewhat like playing chess, which has alot to do with pattern recognition. You're working out the brute-force method (more tactical, but you can't see really deep that way), but he's doing it based upon strategic thinking. It's sort of like being able to glance at the board, and see that you'll be able to promote a pawn in a few moves, but the computer has to check every permutation before it can "see" the same.
Then again, maybe I've got my head up my ass.
If the question isn't being asked disingenuously then it's being asked ignorantly in my opinion.
So are you suggesting that you could always tell the difference between human art (assuming that you don't get to peek in the signature block), and that which is generated by a computer?...sort of a Turing test if you will. If not, than how can you justify your comment? IANAA, so I'm asking this question out of ignorance...please enlighten me.
I think that there's no sense in starting an uproar over "creating new species" and "playing god" yet
While I agree with you, and I'm all for scientific research, I believe that it's important to have the public debate as well. I'm sure that there are lines that we wouldn't want to cross, but will be, simply because someone had the funds, or ego, to do so. There should be some limitations on what's acceptable, and the public discussion about where those limits are should occur sooner rather than later.
Ever heard of the phrase "cow tipping?
Ever done it? I'd bet a bundle you haven't! For those who believe this bullshit (pun intended), take a look at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_tipping
...the final nail in the coffin for me. The only reason I've stuck with them is because I've had an account dating back over a dozen years, and didn't want to give up that e-mail address. Between this, and the 33% price increase I saw when they did away with their 2 yr. plan, I see little reason to stay with them anymore...rat bastards.
Perhaps you're talking about hang gliders or parasailing?
Nope...most definately a glider. I agree though...I don't know the reasoning behind the chutes, just know that I had one on for the only time in my life.
However, I don't know if I really want software companies making desktop software fault tolerant to things such as the hard drive being removed.
Agreed, however I think we're talking primarily about mission critical systems in this case...situations where lives can be lost, or big bucks wasted. Not switching on the system, is pure incompetence...heads should roll (or maybe I need to RTFA).
As a defense contractor, our customers usually have high expectations (and rightfully so), though it may vary depending upon the application. Our bugs reports are prioritized, and some customers demand that we have no Pri-1 or 2 (out of 5) bugs at delivery, which requires alot of testing, time, and budget. The area where I see us getting burned most often is when management wins a contract based upon promises to deliver something way to quickly (but we couldn't have won the contract otherwise)...very common in the industry. It's a constant struggle between engineering and management...we know we need to win the contracts, but we also want to do the job right.
BULLSHIT. I'm a glider pilot, and we don't use parachutes.
I beg to differ. I'm also a private pilot, and my only experience in a glider involved strapping on a parachute. The fellow that took me (a friend, coworker, and glider pilot instructor) also wore one.