Bikes also have two skinny tires with small contact areas instead of a car's four wider tires with much larger contact areas.
It's surprisingly difficult to find concrete data on stopping distances, but here's something from a credible looking source: the best stopping distance from 48 km/h was 10.40 meters for a Yamaha FJR 1300 without ABS. That's already longer than your performance and only at 60% of the speed. Unfortunately, they only have one other test speed which is 129 km/h where the Yamaha was again best at 67.5 meters. That's more than double of what a good car can achieve from 100 km/h but of course different speeds make it hard to compare these numbers.
What? That's the first time I see this claim. A car in reasonable shape and average load will outbreak a bike almost any time, but even if it doesn't, there's simply no way a any motorbike can stop from 100km/h within 10 meters. Check your information before you get in an accident.
Do you have any evidence that the car is unsafe? It seems to have done pretty well in EuroNCAP type test. It also probably handles as well if not better than most Toyotas and has better steering feedback as well. It's also rear engined and RWD, so it's just like a Porsche! I'm sure it will suck for hammering down the Autobahn at 250 km/h but then so will a Prius and in any case it's not its intended primary use anyway.
Basically, it seems to be as "good" as a Smart car, but with a reasonable price tag. If you still think it's too dangerous, how safe do you want to make it? S-class safe? If that's good enough, how did you come to the conclusion? Why not make it WRC-car safe? GT-car safe?
Why would you be glad if India decided it's not safe enough? Didn't you state at the beginning that the Nano was good enough for that society? The only thing banning it will achieve now is that fewer people will have access to a reasonably safe four-wheel vehicle. I don't even see how this would create more total deaths as most people would simply be switching from shittier methods of transport instead of just going out and buying a brand new car as their first vehicle.
Holy shit, the new parking meter requires that you walk back to your car to put the ticket on the dashboard. The corporations are exploiting us! Say no to privatization! Down with the man, DOWN WITH CAPITALISM!!
That's the first time I read Avatar's plot summary, and I must say I don't like it at all. The concept - Jake's consciousness in an alien's body is fine, but everything else just reeks of cliches. "Noble savages" for aliens who a have different skin tone, elvish ears and motherfucking flying dragons, greedy white man stealing the alien's natural resources, etc. Uh-oh.
Also, I hope there's a good reason why they can redirect a human's consciousness into an alien, but can't heal partial paralysis. Other than that, the trailer looks good visually... but they have James fucking Cameron directing the movie and the trailer says "From the Director of Titanic"?! If that's their target audience, I think I just might skip it unless the 3D stuff is really kickin' rad!
> Saying cloud computing is "hosting for noobs" is like saying automatic transmissions are "transmissions for noobs."
To be fair, that's exactly what automatic transmissions are.
Cloud computing, on the other hand, doesn't just dumb everything down for the end user, but give a huge amount of flexibility in terms of how you can use it. I think one of the most useful aspects is painless scaling, which just isn't possible if you just keep the server in your closet. Of course it's not the solution to every problem, but I think cloud computing is extremely useful for startups or setting up various test projects, among other things.
I see how you could think that I'm claiming every single PC ever made has tv-out, that was poor wording on my part there. Of course I did not mean to claim that, just that most of the computers which can/are being used for gaming have tv-out. I'm not writing my thesis here, but I'm not just making shit up either; I'm basing that claim on my experience with the cards I listed, as well as the trends I see in new hardware. For instance, even in <$100 category, most cards have analog or HDMI output. If that still doesn't match the input on your TV, you probably need to get a better TV. Or an adapter to whatever video-in it has, that could also work.
Also, Bluetooth dongles are cheaper than dirt so that's not really a problem.
I can't really speak for sports games since I haven't played those in ages, but console ports are all shit by default, and I'm always surprised when one turns out not to be completely terrible in every way.
I'd say that by now pretty much all PCs have an analog TV-out. I know my 10 year old laptop I keep in the kitchen does, as did my 9600Pro, GeForce 6600, and 8800GT. It seems like that's a standard even for onboard graphics nowadays. I agree that most people probably don't have their PCs connected to the TV, but that's not because anything is preventing that.
As for controllers, most fighting or sports games (basically, the only genres that aren't a huge pain to play with more people) support more than one controller. Something like the PC version of Street Fighter 4 lets you press a button on any of the connected controllers to assign that controller that player. I'd assume it works the exact same way in sports games, except with more total players. Anybody knows if the latest FIFA/PES supports 22 players simultaneously? If they don't that's just a design choice on the side of the developers, and not a limitation of the platform.
What kind of games one might want to play with multiple players per console, that can't be played the same way on a PC? You know, you could stick 1024 USB gamepads into a computer if you have that many "friends" over.
The exact numbers might not work in this case, but since they're all pulled from somebody's ass anyway I think it's the principle that's important. Because of the retarded MPG scale you guys use to measure fuel efficiency, going from a 10mpg truck to a 20mpg one is a much larger saving than going from a 25mpg car to a 50mpg one. More info here.
Not that I'm defending the program, IMO it's ridiculous for a number of reasons, including the broken window fallacy, having it effectively set a price floor on used cars, and a bunch of others economic and philosophical reasons.
It seems like a similar program would be introduced here too, but in addition to the usual problems, the requirements and the actual subsidy are such that it makes sense to almost nobody. Basically, you'll be able to get rid of a very old, very cheap car (== a complete shitbox because of age requirements and the subsidy amount) and replace it with a shitty, cheap, low performance new car (because of the requirements of CO2 emissions, price and some other parameters). Ugh.
No, I think it used to be 14 and now they changed it to 15. I wasn't following this too closely since I'm not in the habit of fucking fourteen year olds. Now that I think about it, I'm not in the habit of fucking anyone at all... Maybe I should give 15 y.o. a try.
PS. Dammit, when are they going to fix the stupid input fields (and the rest of the CSS) on ide?!
I don't think they need to make a new episode for this purpose. If the Irish government could collect the fines for all the work they've already done (it's not just South Park!), they could easily fix their economy and buy every priest an altar boy and everybody else a pony.
Yeah, I'll have to agree. It's still impressive, but when using DirectX it just isn't the same. I don't have the D3D SDK installed now, but I recall it was possible to get a teapot to render in a few lines of code, so I'd think by not including any dependencies in the binary the filesize could be very small without getting into any extreme measures.
A few more things:
The demos don't work on 64bit Win7, whether in XP compatibility or not.
They can cram HD graphics in 4Kb, but can't make a website without iframes?
There are separate binaries for each resolution, but nothing for 1680x1050:(
Yeah, but they're making the beer out of fucking strawberries and cherries. Ugh. The only good thing about Belgium is Jean-Claude Van Damme, and even he only goes so far.
> The trouble with Microsoft is that we end up electing the same guy every time.
Ahahahaa... Are you seriously saying that after you guys have elected basically the same guy with a different skin tone, who now makes a mockery of the justice system, equates gay marriage to incest, and turns a blind eye to imprisoning innocent people, torture, and civilian casualties?
Best case, it's exactly like Microsoft. I suspect that it's much worse though, as it gets people fooled into thinking they're changing something.
Except that's not how it's going to work, instead, $50 000 will turn into E55 000 once higher costs and taxes are taken into account, and you'll be looking at something completely different.
Yes it's Apple's problem. It's their product, and they should test it properly to make sure all the components work as they're supposed to on their own and once put together.
Anyway, we don't even know yet if it's the (non user-replaceable) batteries that's causing this so it might very well be a design flaw too.
It's pretty damn obvious if you just look at the available torrents; you don't need to be omniscient or check every single file to get a statistically sound estimate. There are lists of recent and most popular torrents and looking through a few pages of each would give you a pretty accurate picture of what's going on.
While there are quite a few of questionably to probably ok torrents which nobody downloads on the recent additions (WTF is Zatoichi #18 aka Zatôichi hatashi-jô with 0 seeds/peers), the most popular ones are completely different. Here are the top 10 or so:
Knowing[2009]DvDrip[Eng]-FXG
Transformers.Revenge.Of.The.Fallen.TS.XViD-XDurus
Angels and Demons (2009) DVDRip XviD-MAXSPEED
True.Blood.S02E03.HDTV.XviD-NoTV.avi
The Haunting in Connecticut[2009][Unrated Edition]DvDrip[Eng]-FX
Transformers.Revenge.of.the.Fallen.TS.XviD-DEViSE
MICHAEL JACKSON GREATEST HITS [R.I.P.] [Bubanee]
Michael Jackson / The Jackson 5 / The Jacksons Discography
Weeds.S05E04.HDTV.XviD-SYS.avi
Transformers La Vendetta Del Caduto 2009 iTALiAN iNTERNAL LD TS
and for good measure, the three from the bottom of the same list:
The Perfect Sleep (2009) LiMiTED DVDRip XviD-ARiGOLD
Knowing.720p.BluRay.x264-HUBRIS.mkv
Michael Jackson -Thriller 25th Ann[2008][CD+4 SkidVid_XviD+Cov]1
There isn't a single Linux ISO on the list.
Is that not recent copyrighted material? I'm sure uploading and downloading it is legal at least somewhere, like Somalia perhaps, but there's no getting away from the fact that the site is used primarily (by number of downloads at least, if not by torrent counts) to share copyrighted commercial works. Note that I'm not arguing any other point here, like the ethics of any of the parties involved, the fairness of the relevant laws, or whether manufacturers of various tools should be responsible for their use.
The Sony Walkman which my parents got me in the mid 90s also had the awesome Metal tape switch. Too bad I wasn't into the genre at the time, I'm sure it would've amused my young self to no end. Still, it took me a while to figure out what it was for, since of course I did not RTFM.
Unfortunately it was snatched on one of the school trips, so while it's not cluttering up my drawer somewhere, I do still have the kit earbuds. From what I can remember about it, it was a model related to the WM-FX211, though not this exact one. It had auto stop, Mega bass and all the other cool toys. I could even use it as a desktop clock by opening the tape door! Oh, and it was some sort of metallic gray color, which this model was apparently not available in.
Anyway, I'd certainly be willing to volunteer to use a walkman for a week. While the cheap knockoffs (or just older models?) tended to occasionally chew up the tape, I don't remember this ever happening with my Walkman while I was listening to Ace of Base and all the other cheesy 90s crap.
PS. Now that I think about it, I also had some AC/DC tapes for my Walkman, so it wasn't all that bad.
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Bikes also have two skinny tires with small contact areas instead of a car's four wider tires with much larger contact areas.
It's surprisingly difficult to find concrete data on stopping distances, but here's something from a credible looking source: the best stopping distance from 48 km/h was 10.40 meters for a Yamaha FJR 1300 without ABS. That's already longer than your performance and only at 60% of the speed. Unfortunately, they only have one other test speed which is 129 km/h where the Yamaha was again best at 67.5 meters. That's more than double of what a good car can achieve from 100 km/h but of course different speeds make it hard to compare these numbers.
Here's the test:
A Comparison of Stopping Distance Performance for Motorcycles Equipped with ABS, CBS and Conventional Hydraulic Brake Systems
Also, here a GT-R races a Ducati 1098s on a track. Notice how the car always catches up at the braking areas.
What? That's the first time I see this claim. A car in reasonable shape and average load will outbreak a bike almost any time, but even if it doesn't, there's simply no way a any motorbike can stop from 100km/h within 10 meters. Check your information before you get in an accident.
I don't think I buy your reasoning here.
Do you have any evidence that the car is unsafe? It seems to have done pretty well in EuroNCAP type test. It also probably handles as well if not better than most Toyotas and has better steering feedback as well. It's also rear engined and RWD, so it's just like a Porsche! I'm sure it will suck for hammering down the Autobahn at 250 km/h but then so will a Prius and in any case it's not its intended primary use anyway.
Basically, it seems to be as "good" as a Smart car, but with a reasonable price tag. If you still think it's too dangerous, how safe do you want to make it? S-class safe? If that's good enough, how did you come to the conclusion? Why not make it WRC-car safe? GT-car safe?
Why would you be glad if India decided it's not safe enough? Didn't you state at the beginning that the Nano was good enough for that society? The only thing banning it will achieve now is that fewer people will have access to a reasonably safe four-wheel vehicle. I don't even see how this would create more total deaths as most people would simply be switching from shittier methods of transport instead of just going out and buying a brand new car as their first vehicle.
Holy shit, the new parking meter requires that you walk back to your car to put the ticket on the dashboard. The corporations are exploiting us! Say no to privatization! Down with the man, DOWN WITH CAPITALISM!!
Go ahead and take the bus then, nobody's stopping you.
That's the first time I read Avatar's plot summary, and I must say I don't like it at all. The concept - Jake's consciousness in an alien's body is fine, but everything else just reeks of cliches. "Noble savages" for aliens who a have different skin tone, elvish ears and motherfucking flying dragons, greedy white man stealing the alien's natural resources, etc. Uh-oh.
Also, I hope there's a good reason why they can redirect a human's consciousness into an alien, but can't heal partial paralysis. Other than that, the trailer looks good visually... but they have James fucking Cameron directing the movie and the trailer says "From the Director of Titanic"?! If that's their target audience, I think I just might skip it unless the 3D stuff is really kickin' rad!
> Saying cloud computing is "hosting for noobs" is like saying automatic transmissions are "transmissions for noobs."
To be fair, that's exactly what automatic transmissions are.
Cloud computing, on the other hand, doesn't just dumb everything down for the end user, but give a huge amount of flexibility in terms of how you can use it. I think one of the most useful aspects is painless scaling, which just isn't possible if you just keep the server in your closet. Of course it's not the solution to every problem, but I think cloud computing is extremely useful for startups or setting up various test projects, among other things.
I see how you could think that I'm claiming every single PC ever made has tv-out, that was poor wording on my part there. Of course I did not mean to claim that, just that most of the computers which can/are being used for gaming have tv-out. I'm not writing my thesis here, but I'm not just making shit up either; I'm basing that claim on my experience with the cards I listed, as well as the trends I see in new hardware. For instance, even in <$100 category, most cards have analog or HDMI output. If that still doesn't match the input on your TV, you probably need to get a better TV. Or an adapter to whatever video-in it has, that could also work.
Also, Bluetooth dongles are cheaper than dirt so that's not really a problem.
I can't really speak for sports games since I haven't played those in ages, but console ports are all shit by default, and I'm always surprised when one turns out not to be completely terrible in every way.
I'd say that by now pretty much all PCs have an analog TV-out. I know my 10 year old laptop I keep in the kitchen does, as did my 9600Pro, GeForce 6600, and 8800GT. It seems like that's a standard even for onboard graphics nowadays. I agree that most people probably don't have their PCs connected to the TV, but that's not because anything is preventing that.
As for controllers, most fighting or sports games (basically, the only genres that aren't a huge pain to play with more people) support more than one controller. Something like the PC version of Street Fighter 4 lets you press a button on any of the connected controllers to assign that controller that player. I'd assume it works the exact same way in sports games, except with more total players. Anybody knows if the latest FIFA/PES supports 22 players simultaneously? If they don't that's just a design choice on the side of the developers, and not a limitation of the platform.
What kind of games one might want to play with multiple players per console, that can't be played the same way on a PC? You know, you could stick 1024 USB gamepads into a computer if you have that many "friends" over.
>But no, no marine (or soldier, or sailor, or airman) is just given orders to fire at will when they arrive in country.
Except when they basically are.
The exact numbers might not work in this case, but since they're all pulled from somebody's ass anyway I think it's the principle that's important. Because of the retarded MPG scale you guys use to measure fuel efficiency, going from a 10mpg truck to a 20mpg one is a much larger saving than going from a 25mpg car to a 50mpg one. More info here.
Not that I'm defending the program, IMO it's ridiculous for a number of reasons, including the broken window fallacy, having it effectively set a price floor on used cars, and a bunch of others economic and philosophical reasons.
It seems like a similar program would be introduced here too, but in addition to the usual problems, the requirements and the actual subsidy are such that it makes sense to almost nobody. Basically, you'll be able to get rid of a very old, very cheap car (== a complete shitbox because of age requirements and the subsidy amount) and replace it with a shitty, cheap, low performance new car (because of the requirements of CO2 emissions, price and some other parameters). Ugh.
No, I think it used to be 14 and now they changed it to 15. I wasn't following this too closely since I'm not in the habit of fucking fourteen year olds. Now that I think about it, I'm not in the habit of fucking anyone at all... Maybe I should give 15 y.o. a try.
PS. Dammit, when are they going to fix the stupid input fields (and the rest of the CSS) on ide?!
In Soviet California, you bankrupt yourselves!
Talk about a cheap shot...
I don't think they need to make a new episode for this purpose. If the Irish government could collect the fines for all the work they've already done (it's not just South Park!), they could easily fix their economy and buy every priest an altar boy and everybody else a pony.
Yeah, I'll have to agree. It's still impressive, but when using DirectX it just isn't the same. I don't have the D3D SDK installed now, but I recall it was possible to get a teapot to render in a few lines of code, so I'd think by not including any dependencies in the binary the filesize could be very small without getting into any extreme measures.
A few more things:
Yeah, but they're making the beer out of fucking strawberries and cherries. Ugh. The only good thing about Belgium is Jean-Claude Van Damme, and even he only goes so far.
> The trouble with Microsoft is that we end up electing the same guy every time.
Ahahahaa... Are you seriously saying that after you guys have elected basically the same guy with a different skin tone, who now makes a mockery of the justice system, equates gay marriage to incest, and turns a blind eye to imprisoning innocent people, torture, and civilian casualties?
Best case, it's exactly like Microsoft. I suspect that it's much worse though, as it gets people fooled into thinking they're changing something.
I rarely play TF2, but this is awesome, I wish I could hear more responses. Super Techno Nazi Sentry Achievement Griefing
Except that's not how it's going to work, instead, $50 000 will turn into E55 000 once higher costs and taxes are taken into account, and you'll be looking at something completely different.
Phnglui mglwnafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgahnagl fhtagn!
Yes it's Apple's problem. It's their product, and they should test it properly to make sure all the components work as they're supposed to on their own and once put together.
Anyway, we don't even know yet if it's the (non user-replaceable) batteries that's causing this so it might very well be a design flaw too.
It's pretty damn obvious if you just look at the available torrents; you don't need to be omniscient or check every single file to get a statistically sound estimate. There are lists of recent and most popular torrents and looking through a few pages of each would give you a pretty accurate picture of what's going on.
While there are quite a few of questionably to probably ok torrents which nobody downloads on the recent additions (WTF is Zatoichi #18 aka Zatôichi hatashi-jô with 0 seeds/peers), the most popular ones are completely different. Here are the top 10 or so:
and for good measure, the three from the bottom of the same list:
There isn't a single Linux ISO on the list.
Is that not recent copyrighted material? I'm sure uploading and downloading it is legal at least somewhere, like Somalia perhaps, but there's no getting away from the fact that the site is used primarily (by number of downloads at least, if not by torrent counts) to share copyrighted commercial works. Note that I'm not arguing any other point here, like the ethics of any of the parties involved, the fairness of the relevant laws, or whether manufacturers of various tools should be responsible for their use.
Not to mention the missing apostrophe! What an illiterate little fuck.
The Sony Walkman which my parents got me in the mid 90s also had the awesome Metal tape switch. Too bad I wasn't into the genre at the time, I'm sure it would've amused my young self to no end. Still, it took me a while to figure out what it was for, since of course I did not RTFM.
Unfortunately it was snatched on one of the school trips, so while it's not cluttering up my drawer somewhere, I do still have the kit earbuds. From what I can remember about it, it was a model related to the WM-FX211, though not this exact one. It had auto stop, Mega bass and all the other cool toys. I could even use it as a desktop clock by opening the tape door! Oh, and it was some sort of metallic gray color, which this model was apparently not available in.
Anyway, I'd certainly be willing to volunteer to use a walkman for a week. While the cheap knockoffs (or just older models?) tended to occasionally chew up the tape, I don't remember this ever happening with my Walkman while I was listening to Ace of Base and all the other cheesy 90s crap.
PS. Now that I think about it, I also had some AC/DC tapes for my Walkman, so it wasn't all that bad.