Freud? I'm more worried about the fact that the phrase regarding a "monkey's uncle" and the song "Uncle Fucker" wafted across my brainspace just now...
I need some sleep. Or more San Andreas. Or something.
Perhaps falling asleep playing San Andreas with Uncle Fucker playing on the radio...
I'm'a just guessin' here, (IANAA(IANA-Anything)) but....
DNA testing?
OLD: You got raped? He had a ski mask on? Hrm...
NEW: You got raped? Lets run a sample of the lovely parting gift you received through the system... AHA! *writes arrest warrent for Mr. Joe P. Skimaski, and digitally sends it to all patrol units out and about*
Now, hopefully Mr. Skimaski is someone who is a known offender, because REGISTERING SAMPLES OF DNA FROM LAWFUL PEOPLE (do they exist any more?) is, don't miss it... BADDDD!!!!
Next time you dump on people for being stupid, i'd learn to spell Kazaa right, and know the difference between Where, Were, Ware, and your intended target, We're.
You're partly right, but your terms are mixed up a bit.
The file that is posted to kickstart the download is the "torrent", which is also the term for the computers in the micro-network.
The tracker is a specfic computer who acts as a clearing house, it keeps an eye on things so you can connect more easily; it can go pure p2p, and does for the moving of data, but finding the peers is what the tracker does.
A lot of client programs for BT can do magnet URIs now, so getting into a torrent can be something as simple as a hash that is on a website, IMed to you, emailed, etc. The hash would be hard to argue against allowing, since it's just a hash of the thing, with the torrent file being distributed.
I'll take a look at the link when i have some more time, thanks.
I also corrected myself, sulfur != smoke, (but sulfur does equal bad fuel, or bad fuel,emissions-wise)
What I was trying to say about the pumps and the labels was like this: In the US, the agency that regulates things like this (is it the weights and measures bureau? I think it's something like that), such as markings on gas and diesel pumps, and calibrating the guages and such
While the requirements for octane in gasoline (labeling and actual content) are very strict, the requirements for cetane in diesel are not.
All it has to be is over a threshold, which is about 40, i believe, and it's fit for sale, even if the pump claims it to be of a higher grade,they do not require and/or do not inforce that the pump dispence what it claims.
Hopefully things change next year with ULSD fuel.^_^
I'll take a look at the link when i have some more time, thanks.
I also corrected myself, sulfur != smoke, (but sulfur does equal bad fuel, or bad fuel,emissions-wise)
What I was trying to say about the pumps and the labels was like this: In the US, the agency that regulates things like this (is it the weights and measures bureau? I think it's something like that), such as markings on gas and diesel pumps, and calibrating the guages and such, while the requirements for octane in gasoline are very strict, the requirements for cetane in diesel are not. All it has to be is over a threshhold, which is about 40, i beleive, and it's fit for sale, even if the pump claims it to be of a higher grade,they do not require and/or do not inforce that the pump dispence what it claims.
Hopefully things change next year with ULSD fuel.^_^
I can agree with you on the main points, truth someplace in the middle, i'm guessing.
The fuel, you're right, it isn't a matter of sulfur content (which is most of the "crud" in the diesel), but the cetane rating of it which tends to be subpar. The black smoke produced when the engine is loaded is due to the incomplete combustion of the fuel delivered to the combustion chambers. (The smoke is mostly partially burned fuel, is it not?)
So, if the fuel is of a standard that burns correctly, the smoke is minimized/eliminated.
If i remember correctly, the TDI's are designed for a minimum of 47 cetane, but the USA minimum standard is only... I want to say 43, but 45 also comes to mind. Either way, it's below specs for the engine, which causes a lot of the so called "problems" with diesels.
Only one time have I seen a pump marked with it's rating on it, but it still wasn't a absolute; there aren't any rules that say that the diesel has to be anything but the minimum, unlike gasoline and octane.
I bet a gas engine would run pretty bad if you fed it 84 octane gas, too.
SPY
PS: How do you get black smoke out of a gas engine, anyway?Only kind that comes to mind is blue oil smoke from bad rings... Anyway...
I don't see your arguement... You're trying to say that while the VW "may" out-accelerate the Prius, the Honda will win all (which it may, i've not driven one to compare the two) because the prius' *gas* *HALF* of its powerplant is half the displacement of the Honda's.
The Prius uses the electric half for nearly ALL of its "Off The Line" power.
As you say about turbochargers, they normally take a while to spool up, yes.
But the turbo that the new(er) VW's use is rather atypical... It is a variable vane turbocharger, with a output of 14-18 psi, which is far more then about any other in the engine displacment class (1900-2000 CC).
And i'm curous how the comparison between a 300SD and a TDI|PRIUS|HONDA'BRID is valid. It's a diesel, but that's about it... It's older, heavier, and an entirely different make of car.
Semi trucks are diesels too, but I never said they would have outstanding preformance from a stoplight either.
Please re-read my post, there in it, i said I have driven a TDI extensivly, (as my primary transportation) and not just for a little while.
Yes, you are correct, many many of the TDI's sold are slow off of the line. This is for a reason, and I forgot about it: 90% of the VW diesels sold in NA (I do not know the figures for other regions, sorry) are automatic transmissions. The one I owned was a manual. There is a large difference in preformance.
I never claimed it the fastest car on the road, but frankly, a lot of people who have them don't know how to drive the things. Most drivers don't know/care that the torque peak is at 1900rpm, and the HP peak is at 3750. I fully admit that the VW diesels have to be driven precicely to get (good)preformance out of them.
But please don't tell me i'm a liar, esspecialy without having actually read my post; Mine WAS chipped, but it still was a quite decent car any which way.
SPY
PS: as for the smoke, it's mostly regional. Until next year, USAian diesel fuel is mostly crap. Some places are less crap then others, which goes right into the ammount of black smoke.
Soo... you're comparing a 10-15 year old UNturbocharged diesel which may or may not use direct injection with a pair of modern hybrids?
Here is some advice from someone who has driven both a 05 prius extensivly along with a 02 VW TDI (which was admittedly electronically upgraded to european power): The hybrid can and will do better on mileage. The VW will MAUL it on acceleration, along with most other standard cars. (a modern corvette could match it off of a stop, but not much else,)
ANYWAY, you know, grain of salt, not scientific...Just remember, when comparing apples and oranges, don't use rotten apples to make the oranges look better.
I think Atari had the "Lynx", to go with the cat theme...
Good thing they tanked a long time ago, or we'd be bickering over stories about apple and atari bickering over trying to trademark the name of a kind of animal,:-P
I don't know about Q3, but I know I have RtcW:ET dmixing itself. That is not to say that it is perfect, ET using also tends to lock up and no one seems to know why. So maybe the source code can be ported to ET and its problems fixed.
PS: ALSA 1.0.9 seemed to have added some dmix improvments as well. It did for me anyway, but I don't have to wrap things anymore to get them to work.
While PearPC is slow, the nightlies I tried last winter with altivec support, plus JIT features, bumped the speed into the "useable, if slugish" range.
They don't emulate anything they don't have to, disk IO, etc, are all on par with other emulators. Maybe not as fast as a Vmware type, but certainly up to a QEMU.
I think a copy of Panther took about 2 hours to install, and about a 10 minute bootup. Those probably would go faster if the box I was testing on had more ram in it, however.
Just a personal report, for what it's worth.
PS: The box was an XP Pro, 3.0 Ghz P4, with 512 of Ram. Having worked with macs since then, I would guess that the PearPC was probably on par with about a 200 Mhz PPC computer.
While I appreciate humor (or in this context, humour), I certainly didn't see it in your post. While I agree that mixing two units like that is a bit silly, it didn't seem prudent to entirely disregard an entire country for something that they probably have no control over. (Even as I think about it, i'm hard pressed to recall who/what exactly controls labling of food products.. I am wanting to say either the FDA or the USDA, but i'm unsure. Don't blaim US schools, they haven't put any hours on me, this is just me not being able to remember;-).
But on a totally unrelated and off-topic note, if you had disparaged the leader, i probably would have agreed with you; 50 and a half percent vs. 49 and a half percent in an election doesn't make a population united.
Basicly my point is that the way I received your comment would have been something akin to me saying that since they don't use dollars or euros in the UK, they should not be listened to in matters of finance. I would have been flamed to a cinder, that's all i'm saying. Humour may have been the intent, but something got lost in the transmition on to the intarwebs,;)
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Freud? I'm more worried about the fact that the phrase regarding a "monkey's uncle" and the song "Uncle Fucker" wafted across my brainspace just now...
I need some sleep. Or more San Andreas. Or something.
Perhaps falling asleep playing San Andreas with Uncle Fucker playing on the radio...
I'm'a just guessin' here, (IANAA(IANA-Anything)) but....
DNA testing?
OLD: You got raped? He had a ski mask on? Hrm...
NEW: You got raped? Lets run a sample of the lovely parting gift you received through the system... AHA! *writes arrest warrent for Mr. Joe P. Skimaski, and digitally sends it to all patrol units out and about*
Now, hopefully Mr. Skimaski is someone who is a known offender, because REGISTERING SAMPLES OF DNA FROM LAWFUL PEOPLE (do they exist any more?) is, don't miss it... BADDDD!!!!
*shrugs*
SPY
If you know any spanish, it is the difference between "Libre" and "Gratis", with Gratis="free beer" and Libre="Free Speech".
Actually, and I just tried this myself, you CAN do exactly what the GP said.
He gave the instructions for moving the QUICK LAUNCH to another panel, and moving it around.
Try it, it works. It takes a little bit of fidgeting to get it to move, but it does. First it changes to a window, but it's dockable to the sides.
He never said the taskbar moves, but you can move the quicklaunch.
My detector is in the shop... Total asshat or just a odd sense of humor? Um... flame half of him! ;)
Next time you dump on people for being stupid, i'd learn to spell Kazaa right, and know the difference between Where, Were, Ware, and your intended target, We're.
;)
You know, just FYI
You're partly right, but your terms are mixed up a bit.
The file that is posted to kickstart the download is the "torrent", which is also the term for the computers in the micro-network.
The tracker is a specfic computer who acts as a clearing house, it keeps an eye on things so you can connect more easily; it can go pure p2p, and does for the moving of data, but finding the peers is what the tracker does.
A lot of client programs for BT can do magnet URIs now, so getting into a torrent can be something as simple as a hash that is on a website, IMed to you, emailed, etc. The hash would be hard to argue against allowing, since it's just a hash of the thing, with the torrent file being distributed.
Hope that is clearer, maybe?
SPY
Gah, goddamn HTML mode...
here it is indented...
I'll take a look at the link when i have some more time, thanks.
I also corrected myself, sulfur != smoke, (but sulfur does equal bad fuel, or bad fuel,emissions-wise)
What I was trying to say about the pumps and the labels was like this: In the US, the agency that regulates things like this (is it the weights and measures bureau? I think it's something like that), such as markings on gas and diesel pumps, and calibrating the guages and such
While the requirements for octane in gasoline (labeling and actual content) are very strict, the requirements for cetane in diesel are not.
All it has to be is over a threshold, which is about 40, i believe, and it's fit for sale, even if the pump claims it to be of a higher grade,they do not require and/or do not inforce that the pump dispence what it claims.
Hopefully things change next year with ULSD fuel.^_^
I'll take a look at the link when i have some more time, thanks. I also corrected myself, sulfur != smoke, (but sulfur does equal bad fuel, or bad fuel,emissions-wise) What I was trying to say about the pumps and the labels was like this: In the US, the agency that regulates things like this (is it the weights and measures bureau? I think it's something like that), such as markings on gas and diesel pumps, and calibrating the guages and such, while the requirements for octane in gasoline are very strict, the requirements for cetane in diesel are not. All it has to be is over a threshhold, which is about 40, i beleive, and it's fit for sale, even if the pump claims it to be of a higher grade,they do not require and/or do not inforce that the pump dispence what it claims. Hopefully things change next year with ULSD fuel.^_^
I can agree with you on the main points, truth someplace in the middle, i'm guessing.
The fuel, you're right, it isn't a matter of sulfur content (which is most of the "crud" in the diesel), but the cetane rating of it which tends to be subpar. The black smoke produced when the engine is loaded is due to the incomplete combustion of the fuel delivered to the combustion chambers. (The smoke is mostly partially burned fuel, is it not?)
So, if the fuel is of a standard that burns correctly, the smoke is minimized/eliminated.
If i remember correctly, the TDI's are designed for a minimum of 47 cetane, but the USA minimum standard is only... I want to say 43, but 45 also comes to mind. Either way, it's below specs for the engine, which causes a lot of the so called "problems" with diesels.
Only one time have I seen a pump marked with it's rating on it, but it still wasn't a absolute; there aren't any rules that say that the diesel has to be anything but the minimum, unlike gasoline and octane.
I bet a gas engine would run pretty bad if you fed it 84 octane gas, too.
SPY
PS: How do you get black smoke out of a gas engine, anyway?Only kind that comes to mind is blue oil smoke from bad rings... Anyway...
I don't see your arguement... You're trying to say that while the VW "may" out-accelerate the Prius, the Honda will win all (which it may, i've not driven one to compare the two) because the prius' *gas* *HALF* of its powerplant is half the displacement of the Honda's.
The Prius uses the electric half for nearly ALL of its "Off The Line" power.
As you say about turbochargers, they normally take a while to spool up, yes.
But the turbo that the new(er) VW's use is rather atypical... It is a variable vane turbocharger, with a output of 14-18 psi, which is far more then about any other in the engine displacment class (1900-2000 CC).
And i'm curous how the comparison between a 300SD and a TDI|PRIUS|HONDA'BRID is valid. It's a diesel, but that's about it... It's older, heavier, and an entirely different make of car.
Semi trucks are diesels too, but I never said they would have outstanding preformance from a stoplight either.
*sighs*
Please re-read my post, there in it, i said I have driven a TDI extensivly, (as my primary transportation) and not just for a little while.
Yes, you are correct, many many of the TDI's sold are slow off of the line. This is for a reason, and I forgot about it: 90% of the VW diesels sold in NA (I do not know the figures for other regions, sorry) are automatic transmissions. The one I owned was a manual.
There is a large difference in preformance.
I never claimed it the fastest car on the road, but frankly, a lot of people who have them don't know how to drive the things. Most drivers don't know/care that the torque peak is at 1900rpm, and the HP peak is at 3750. I fully admit that the VW diesels have to be driven precicely to get (good)preformance out of them.
But please don't tell me i'm a liar, esspecialy without having actually read my post; Mine WAS chipped, but it still was a quite decent car any which way.
SPY
PS: as for the smoke, it's mostly regional. Until next year, USAian diesel fuel is mostly crap. Some places are less crap then others, which goes right into the ammount of black smoke.
Soo... you're comparing a 10-15 year old UNturbocharged diesel which may or may not use direct injection with a pair of modern hybrids?
Here is some advice from someone who has driven both a 05 prius extensivly along with a 02 VW TDI (which was admittedly electronically upgraded to european power): The hybrid can and will do better on mileage. The VW will MAUL it on acceleration, along with most other standard cars. (a modern corvette could match it off of a stop, but not much else,)
ANYWAY, you know, grain of salt, not scientific...Just remember, when comparing apples and oranges, don't use rotten apples to make the oranges look better.
compared to a 1/4A, an A would be quite fearsome, but the point is still made, and not lost on me.(read: I got the joke.) ;)
I don't think i'd be brave enough to try *anything* in an x85 environment, ;-)
I think Atari had the "Lynx", to go with the cat theme...
:-P
Good thing they tanked a long time ago, or we'd be bickering over stories about apple and atari bickering over trying to trademark the name of a kind of animal,
They have.
;)
A lot.
They sound alot like you!
Enough repititions of anything, and you can tune it out. It's kinda like how you don't notice what the inside of your shoe feels like.
And for number twoooo...
Yes. Next question?
I think you would be best served with either,
a:*SFX-Jaw-Hitting-Floor*,
or b: Hoooooooooooooooooly Fucking Moses!
See sibling replies for links to the Orbiter Galleries.
*is off to install latest version of Orbiter on Windows box* *g*
Spy
I don't know about Q3, but I know I have RtcW:ET dmixing itself. That is not to say that it is perfect, ET using also tends to lock up and no one seems to know why. So maybe the source code can be ported to ET and its problems fixed.
PS: ALSA 1.0.9 seemed to have added some dmix improvments as well. It did for me anyway, but I don't have to wrap things anymore to get them to work.
I dare you to stuff something sqaure into a eMac, or a iLamp.
Apple makes some weirdly shaped computers, to be honest. But they work.
DISCLAIMER: I have not opened/worked in a eMac before, so I may be wrong. I'm just guessing i'm not.
You're new here, aren't you?
I suspect that the US Department of Transportation would hold those statistics, they oversee the road system here.
Question: Wouldn't they have a good chance of dying no matter the speed at which you hit them? Think of how much metal you just ran someone over with!
If anything, at a higher speed, they might suffer less, in a morbid-logic sort of way, wouldn't they?
While PearPC is slow, the nightlies I tried last winter with altivec support, plus JIT features, bumped the speed into the "useable, if slugish" range.
They don't emulate anything they don't have to, disk IO, etc, are all on par with other emulators. Maybe not as fast as a Vmware type, but certainly up to a QEMU.
I think a copy of Panther took about 2 hours to install, and about a 10 minute bootup. Those probably would go faster if the box I was testing on had more ram in it, however.
Just a personal report, for what it's worth.
PS: The box was an XP Pro, 3.0 Ghz P4, with 512 of Ram. Having worked with macs since then, I would guess that the PearPC was probably on par with about a 200 Mhz PPC computer.
While I appreciate humor (or in this context, humour), I certainly didn't see it in your post. While I agree that mixing two units like that is a bit silly, it didn't seem prudent to entirely disregard an entire country for something that they probably have no control over. (Even as I think about it, i'm hard pressed to recall who/what exactly controls labling of food products.. I am wanting to say either the FDA or the USDA, but i'm unsure. Don't blaim US schools, they haven't put any hours on me, this is just me not being able to remember ;-).
;)
But on a totally unrelated and off-topic note, if you had disparaged the leader, i probably would have agreed with you; 50 and a half percent vs. 49 and a half percent in an election doesn't make a population united.
Basicly my point is that the way I received your comment would have been something akin to me saying that since they don't use dollars or euros in the UK, they should not be listened to in matters of finance. I would have been flamed to a cinder, that's all i'm saying. Humour may have been the intent, but something got lost in the transmition on to the intarwebs,