I wish I could mod this up - I mean in other countries than the US, for example South Africa, the speed limit is much higher - 130kph, which is I believe about 80mph, and in the UK although 70mph is the limit on the motorway, that's really the slow lane speed and cars in the fast lane generally do 80-90mph except in speed camera areas, and that's perfectly normal.
What I don't like are the boy racers that drive round towns and cities in crap modded cars doing burnouts and crashing into kerbs - the open road is the place for driving fast - and not the freeway/motorway, but on empty backroads. I live in NZ and nearly every road here is an empty back road, many are very twisty, but most are well surfaced with wide, cambered corners and markers that indicate the severity of bends, and most of the year you frequently don't see another car for 10km at a time in more remote areas. The average driver in NZ would be seen as a lunatic in the US or UK, and driving fast (ie on the verge of losing traction on every corner) on public roads is not frowned on like in other countries. Foreign tourists in rental cars frequently cause queues 20 or 30 cars long behind them on more windy roads where overtaking is difficult in the busiest months of the summer, and on the quite common gravel roads that leave the highways here they can be extremely dangerous, locals generally drive fast, maybe on average 80% of the speed of the same road if it was tarmac, and they'll come round a corner and there will be a foreign tourist in the middle of the road crawling along doing 20kph, very hairy.
A 911 would be a very poor choice. I'm not sure about fuel consumption but I'd be surprised if a 911's wasn't a fair bit higher than the old M5's.
But primarily because of visibility - A BMW M5 is a wolf in sheeps clothing, it looks just like a normal sedan, and there are lots of 5-series BMWs on the roads to blend in with - a 911 looks like a flash sportscar and unless you live in Beverley Hills, sticks out like a sore thumb - (if you watch the videos on their you'll see the one they drove for the actual attempt was painted plain, dark blue, not the polizei design shown on the first page).
I would say the (old) M5 was a great choice for the trip, probably the essence of the executive performance tourer. If the time was to be beaten I reckon a lot of time could be saved with less frequent refuelling, I would probably tip a turbo diesel engine with a bigger second tank.
This sort of post I think of as an attack on free speech and free discussion.
I'm used to seeing the likes in the letter pages of Newspapers, but on Slashdot? I'm not talking about anything to do with this topic of driving, but as we call them in the UK, "Outraged of Tunbridge Wells" letters, or in this case, posts (Tunbridge Wells being a famously conservative town in Kent).
As far as I'm concerned, if anyone is posting something like that here, then what the hell are they looking at Slashdot for? Go and read a traditional news media website with professional journalistic standards where you aren't likely to read anything that offends you. It's the frequent departures from these standards and articles like these that make Slashdot worth reading for me.
It's just the same with TV - A US example it would be like watching HBO and being offended by seeing naked breasts - if you are that easily offended, why the fuck are you watching r-rated cable channels?
And yet this sort of thing happens all the time, and these idiots are getting more and more of a voice, through increased public-media interaction and increased use of litigation - it's listening to moral absolutists like this guy that leads to the crazy political correctness, censorship and health and safety laws we have to suffer in most western countries.
"'Some innocent modding stuff isn't getting released,' says Patrick, 'because modders are afraid it might cause another controversy.'"
Yeah and Elvis Presley lives at the bottom of my yard with the fairies. Since when have individuals on the internet been afraid of controversy? Sounds like a load of horsecrap to me. If they really are afraid of controversy, they must have a hugely inflated sense of self importance. Like anyone gives two craps if someone makes a mod in his bedroom, what are they worried about, their carefully crafted professional reputation on the modding scene? The cops coming round to arrest them? Give me a break.
True, but I question the idea that such things are "harmful to children".
Me and all my school friends used to spend hours watching violent 18 rated war films and gory horror film "video nasties" at one lads house when I was growing up, from as early as the age of 8 or 9 when we were first allowed out unsupervised, and I can't see how it could have ever had any negative effects on us. I think the only effect it had on me was that I grew out of finding such things glamorous and cool at a much younger age than most children. We also used to like making model planes and playing at soldiers in the woods, but perhaps we would have done that anyway.
If you ask me what is harmful to kids, I'd say WWE wrestling, and that is supposedly perfectly acceptable and has no rating on it at all. That is something that children do copy, with a lot of resultant injuries, not to mention that it's so moronic it probably actively makes them thicker.
The only way to know the average wind speed at your location is to measure it with an anemometer over a year at the location where you would have the turbine. While those figures are good guidlines as to what wind is like generally in your area, it is a highly localised phenomenon affected by many factors and in the same town a wind turbine could be comepletely uneconomical to one person, but be more than worthwhile to someone who lives in a different situation a couple of miles away.
You'd be better off working by a general idea of "how windy it is usually at my house" than by looking at those figures.
Yeah, you are missing something: an interest in the natural world around us.
There is more to the world we live in than "cities and famous places". I can spend hours and hours on Google Earth, just looking at mountains in the Rockies or Andes for example. The physical world interests me, landforms, geology, physical geography in general. To me, Google Earth is one of the most significant pieces of educational software ever released on any format. Someone in Ohio or Oostende can gain an appreciation of the landforms of Papua New Guinea, fly through the Grand Canyon or explore the Antarctic Peninsula without ever leaving their desks, things they will probably never get a chance to do in real life.
The question you ask is analogous to asking "what's the point of any form of learning that doesn't further our everyday lives?".
Answer: "Some people find it interesting." If software formats and web 2.0 are more interesting to you than the High Himalayas, then that's your bag (...), but you have to appreciate that other's tastes and interests vary.
But we have had this system for years in the UK and it works flawlessly. Once on the list you DO NOT recieve unsolicited calls, not even from places you've bought things from or have used in the past. Three years on the list and one telemarketing call of any description.
Much like your post. You write a strongly worded essay about how the statistics are only 10 years old, but don't explain how that is significant.
Basically your entire post could be truncated to [snip] the data is only 10 years old [snip], and this post could be truncated to [snip] so what? [snip]
From my experience a lot of North Americans equate the word "liberal" with "communist", or at the very least use it in a purely perjorative sense. Certainly a lot of them could do with looking the word up in the dictionary: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=liberal/
they are friendly, clever, well spoken, and generally well thought out.
As a British person who's lived in N. America, I'd say that description fits the Canadians.
Probably most of the English people who live abroad fit that description, and it does fit a fair size of the population.
I don't think English people in England are very outgoing on average. I never noticed how cold and withdrawn we can be (especially with shopkeepers etc) until I lived in Canada. There people in shops smile and make smalltalk with you, and remember you when you come back the next time.
Here they don't speak to or acknowledge the customer unless the customer does to them. Most shop transactions are totally silent apart from "Cheers!" "Thanks, Bye!" when the customer leaves. There are obviously a fair number of exceptions to this rule, but you can guarantee the above happening in a Newsagents/grocery store/supermarket/gas station.
This really carries on to an extent to everything in the UK. We don't generally talk to strangers, we don't go out to be friendly with everyone we meet. Most people are more outgoing to foreigners though.
I prefer the North American way. But people here don't know that they aren't that outgoing, they just see it as the norm.
We're not nearly as cold and withdrawn as the French though.
People have known in the UK for a long time that Fruit Machines are to some extent predetermined - not to the extent that this site shows, but if you regularly spend on a particular machine down the local, or watch others do so, it doesn't take long before you pick up certain patterns in the way the special features, gambles, jackpots etc work.
People who know all the patterns and quirks for a machine will be much, much more likely to win than someone who walks in with no experience of it.
Some people actually become fruit machine buffs. I actually know someone who was barred from a local snooker club, because he worked out one of their £250 jackpot machines so well. He was a regular in there, and would wait 6 or 7 days after he'd last seen or heard that the £250 jackpot had been won (it was usually him that had won it), come in with 40 or 50 £1 coins, and almost every single time he would win the £250.
Apparently the machines will only ever give the largest prizes out once they have accumulated a certain ammount of cash in them.
I'm not sure exactly how they get the ROMs, but I imagine it's the same way people get hold of the ROMs for arcade machines, such as those used in MAME.
It's certainly not a hoax, emulators of (UK) fruit machines and roms for them have been around for a while now, it's not like this site is the only place you can get them.
Nice quote, I thought of it too when I saw this story - I heard it sampled on CD1 of Nick Warrens GU024 Reykjavik album, know where the quote is from originally?
Nice quote, I thought of it too when I saw this story - I heard it sampled on CD1 of Nick Warren's GU024 Reykjavik album, know where the quote is from originally?
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If it takes 10 seconds to transfer a single bit, that is purely a measure of latency.
Great work, cheers!
I wish I could mod this up - I mean in other countries than the US, for example South Africa, the speed limit is much higher - 130kph, which is I believe about 80mph, and in the UK although 70mph is the limit on the motorway, that's really the slow lane speed and cars in the fast lane generally do 80-90mph except in speed camera areas, and that's perfectly normal.
What I don't like are the boy racers that drive round towns and cities in crap modded cars doing burnouts and crashing into kerbs - the open road is the place for driving fast - and not the freeway/motorway, but on empty backroads. I live in NZ and nearly every road here is an empty back road, many are very twisty, but most are well surfaced with wide, cambered corners and markers that indicate the severity of bends, and most of the year you frequently don't see another car for 10km at a time in more remote areas. The average driver in NZ would be seen as a lunatic in the US or UK, and driving fast (ie on the verge of losing traction on every corner) on public roads is not frowned on like in other countries. Foreign tourists in rental cars frequently cause queues 20 or 30 cars long behind them on more windy roads where overtaking is difficult in the busiest months of the summer, and on the quite common gravel roads that leave the highways here they can be extremely dangerous, locals generally drive fast, maybe on average 80% of the speed of the same road if it was tarmac, and they'll come round a corner and there will be a foreign tourist in the middle of the road crawling along doing 20kph, very hairy.
A 911 would be a very poor choice. I'm not sure about fuel consumption but I'd be surprised if a 911's wasn't a fair bit higher than the old M5's.
But primarily because of visibility - A BMW M5 is a wolf in sheeps clothing, it looks just like a normal sedan, and there are lots of 5-series BMWs on the roads to blend in with - a 911 looks like a flash sportscar and unless you live in Beverley Hills, sticks out like a sore thumb - (if you watch the videos on their you'll see the one they drove for the actual attempt was painted plain, dark blue, not the polizei design shown on the first page).
I would say the (old) M5 was a great choice for the trip, probably the essence of the executive performance tourer. If the time was to be beaten I reckon a lot of time could be saved with less frequent refuelling, I would probably tip a turbo diesel engine with a bigger second tank.
I'm used to seeing the likes in the letter pages of Newspapers, but on Slashdot? I'm not talking about anything to do with this topic of driving, but as we call them in the UK, "Outraged of Tunbridge Wells" letters, or in this case, posts (Tunbridge Wells being a famously conservative town in Kent).
As far as I'm concerned, if anyone is posting something like that here, then what the hell are they looking at Slashdot for? Go and read a traditional news media website with professional journalistic standards where you aren't likely to read anything that offends you. It's the frequent departures from these standards and articles like these that make Slashdot worth reading for me.
It's just the same with TV - A US example it would be like watching HBO and being offended by seeing naked breasts - if you are that easily offended, why the fuck are you watching r-rated cable channels?
And yet this sort of thing happens all the time, and these idiots are getting more and more of a voice, through increased public-media interaction and increased use of litigation - it's listening to moral absolutists like this guy that leads to the crazy political correctness, censorship and health and safety laws we have to suffer in most western countries.
"'Some innocent modding stuff isn't getting released,' says Patrick, 'because modders are afraid it might cause another controversy.'"
Yeah and Elvis Presley lives at the bottom of my yard with the fairies. Since when have individuals on the internet been afraid of controversy? Sounds like a load of horsecrap to me. If they really are afraid of controversy, they must have a hugely inflated sense of self importance. Like anyone gives two craps if someone makes a mod in his bedroom, what are they worried about, their carefully crafted professional reputation on the modding scene? The cops coming round to arrest them? Give me a break.
True, but I question the idea that such things are "harmful to children". Me and all my school friends used to spend hours watching violent 18 rated war films and gory horror film "video nasties" at one lads house when I was growing up, from as early as the age of 8 or 9 when we were first allowed out unsupervised, and I can't see how it could have ever had any negative effects on us. I think the only effect it had on me was that I grew out of finding such things glamorous and cool at a much younger age than most children. We also used to like making model planes and playing at soldiers in the woods, but perhaps we would have done that anyway. If you ask me what is harmful to kids, I'd say WWE wrestling, and that is supposedly perfectly acceptable and has no rating on it at all. That is something that children do copy, with a lot of resultant injuries, not to mention that it's so moronic it probably actively makes them thicker.
The European Form of writing dates? More like the USA's form of writing dates, and then all the other countries in the world's way of writing dates.
The only way to know the average wind speed at your location is to measure it with an anemometer over a year at the location where you would have the turbine. While those figures are good guidlines as to what wind is like generally in your area, it is a highly localised phenomenon affected by many factors and in the same town a wind turbine could be comepletely uneconomical to one person, but be more than worthwhile to someone who lives in a different situation a couple of miles away. You'd be better off working by a general idea of "how windy it is usually at my house" than by looking at those figures.
In Canada you can buy crack pipes from the grocery stores, in Vancouver anyway
There is more to the world we live in than "cities and famous places". I can spend hours and hours on Google Earth, just looking at mountains in the Rockies or Andes for example. The physical world interests me, landforms, geology, physical geography in general. To me, Google Earth is one of the most significant pieces of educational software ever released on any format. Someone in Ohio or Oostende can gain an appreciation of the landforms of Papua New Guinea, fly through the Grand Canyon or explore the Antarctic Peninsula without ever leaving their desks, things they will probably never get a chance to do in real life.
The question you ask is analogous to asking "what's the point of any form of learning that doesn't further our everyday lives?".
Answer: "Some people find it interesting." If software formats and web 2.0 are more interesting to you than the High Himalayas, then that's your bag (...), but you have to appreciate that other's tastes and interests vary.
But we have had this system for years in the UK and it works flawlessly. Once on the list you DO NOT recieve unsolicited calls, not even from places you've bought things from or have used in the past. Three years on the list and one telemarketing call of any description.
Typical right wing persecution complex. Everything is about bashing Bush or The Republican Party.
I hope it lets you fast forward to some better posts than this one!
From my experience a lot of North Americans equate the word "liberal" with "communist", or at the very least use it in a purely perjorative sense. Certainly a lot of them could do with looking the word up in the dictionary: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=liberal/
As a British person who's lived in N. America, I'd say that description fits the Canadians.
Probably most of the English people who live abroad fit that description, and it does fit a fair size of the population.
I don't think English people in England are very outgoing on average. I never noticed how cold and withdrawn we can be (especially with shopkeepers etc) until I lived in Canada. There people in shops smile and make smalltalk with you, and remember you when you come back the next time.
Here they don't speak to or acknowledge the customer unless the customer does to them. Most shop transactions are totally silent apart from "Cheers!" "Thanks, Bye!" when the customer leaves. There are obviously a fair number of exceptions to this rule, but you can guarantee the above happening in a Newsagents/grocery store/supermarket/gas station.
This really carries on to an extent to everything in the UK. We don't generally talk to strangers, we don't go out to be friendly with everyone we meet. Most people are more outgoing to foreigners though.
I prefer the North American way. But people here don't know that they aren't that outgoing, they just see it as the norm.
We're not nearly as cold and withdrawn as the French though.
Oh, and People who live in Seattle are rude.
People who know all the patterns and quirks for a machine will be much, much more likely to win than someone who walks in with no experience of it.
Some people actually become fruit machine buffs. I actually know someone who was barred from a local snooker club, because he worked out one of their £250 jackpot machines so well. He was a regular in there, and would wait 6 or 7 days after he'd last seen or heard that the £250 jackpot had been won (it was usually him that had won it), come in with 40 or 50 £1 coins, and almost every single time he would win the £250.
Apparently the machines will only ever give the largest prizes out once they have accumulated a certain ammount of cash in them.
It's certainly not a hoax, emulators of (UK) fruit machines and roms for them have been around for a while now, it's not like this site is the only place you can get them.
Nice quote, I thought of it too when I saw this story - I heard it sampled on CD1 of Nick Warrens GU024 Reykjavik album, know where the quote is from originally?
Nice quote, I thought of it too when I saw this story - I heard it sampled on CD1 of Nick Warren's GU024 Reykjavik album, know where the quote is from originally?