The point was that the software is adaptive. If you stomp throttle (like God intended) the slushbox gives you RPM, if you pussy foot (like when on an emissions dyno) to get a consistent RPM, the transmission will shift quickly to top gear. Intended behavior for a transmission being called cheating.
Old school slushboxes did basically the same thing with analog computers. Engine manifold vacuum, modulator and springs in the transmission valve body.
Digital computers just adjust shift points based on past driving. I bet the computer doesn't produce 'smoother shifts' when someone like me is driving it, I bet it shifts more like it had an old school shift kit...I bet that would annoy the slushbox owner, once I get back into my car with a real transmission.
They are basically bitching that their test doesn't reproduce real world driving. No full throttle testing to yellow line.
Top fuel noise is so far past 'hearing damage' it's not funny. I have no doubt the noise could _not_ be reproduced with 900,000 watts.
The engines are inefficient as fuck and make about 8,000 H.P. If you got a watt of noise for every watt of wheel power that would be 6 megaWatts. I'm guessing more.
Electric cars would have to go with forward facing directional speakers and carry extra batteries. Might compromise range.
You don't remember much about school if you think it used to be 'intermittent and partially escapable'. It hasn't changed, it has just moved.
Of course some people learn to deal with it all wrong and grow up to be SJWs. Getting kids to stand up for themselves prevents this. Not going to go through life as victims (and they always will be).
If they dump those their banking reserves will be truly hollow.
As bad as US bonds are, they are the quality in China's bank asset book. Crooked economies do that. Non performing loans (for Ferraris) made to children of central committee members etc etc etc.
Generic motors doesn't need additional brands. There were once 'Olds drivers', no more. Everybody knows Buick-Olds-Pontiac are just Chevies with a plastic badge. Interiors were uniformly crappy, only the ads were different.
Step 1. Nation 1 pegs its currency to nation 2. Nation 1's exports should drive up the value of its currency, shifting the trade equilibrium in favor of Nation 2's exports. The peg prevents this.
Step 2. Nation 2 prints money, knowing it will cause inflation in Nation 1 (see currency peg point in Step 2).
This continues until Nation 1 realizes that all the things they have been purchasing are actually worth much less than they are paying and that they are working their butts off for scraps. Then Nation 1's people hang their leaders and start again. Especially if the leaders have been doing little but grabbing with both hands.
Economies of scale only go for so long. Once you're producing a lot of something there are only tiny margins left to squeeze. Your cost structure is complicated. Deviating from plan is what raises costs at that point.
If things get really crazy and China tries to take over Taiwan, you can count on prices being the least of our worries.
Taiwan and south China being largely smegged. Mainland China's navy sitting at the bottom of the Pacific. Japan with their newly assembled Atom bombs, watching nervously. Who the fuck knows what Un would do?
Taiwan may not have nukes, they definitely have biological and chemical weapons.
The Chinese already have access to their locally made goods, which are already being made at razor thin margins.
In the short term, there would be shortages of some goods in America and a glut of raw materials worldwide. China would possibly see revolution, depending on what their bubbles did.
In the medium term, people would get rich via arbitrage. All other 3rd world manufacturing economies would shift to running/consuming Chinese goods while shipping their entire output to the USA.
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NHRA had strict 'roots blowers and carbs rules' to try to keep the speeds down in the top classes. Doesn't seem to be working.
Need huge fuel pumps in any case.
It's the missing clutch pedal (for launch control) that sometimes makes a DCT a grey area.
The point was that the software is adaptive. If you stomp throttle (like God intended) the slushbox gives you RPM, if you pussy foot (like when on an emissions dyno) to get a consistent RPM, the transmission will shift quickly to top gear. Intended behavior for a transmission being called cheating.
Old school slushboxes did basically the same thing with analog computers. Engine manifold vacuum, modulator and springs in the transmission valve body.
Digital computers just adjust shift points based on past driving. I bet the computer doesn't produce 'smoother shifts' when someone like me is driving it, I bet it shifts more like it had an old school shift kit...I bet that would annoy the slushbox owner, once I get back into my car with a real transmission.
They are basically bitching that their test doesn't reproduce real world driving. No full throttle testing to yellow line.
Can't go a day without committing a few unintentional felonies.
Might as well commit a few you really enjoy too. Less chance of committing an 'illegal felony' (getting caught) when you are aware.
I'm decades past the 'blow things up real good' stage of life though.
Top fuel noise is so far past 'hearing damage' it's not funny. I have no doubt the noise could _not_ be reproduced with 900,000 watts.
The engines are inefficient as fuck and make about 8,000 H.P. If you got a watt of noise for every watt of wheel power that would be 6 megaWatts. I'm guessing more.
Electric cars would have to go with forward facing directional speakers and carry extra batteries. Might compromise range.
If you've never been to a NHRA top fuel race, you don't know. It will shake the farts right out of you at 100 meters.
IMHO you need some skinny Americans in your fart orchestra. You can't have a choir of all basses.
Should have some queefers too. Just to round out the sound. Going to need a few of those too. Not much range each (in my experience).
Damn it's early, posting silly things, half awake.
If violence doesn't solve your problem, you just aren't using enough of it.
Like I said uptread, Top fuel engine noise. A few hundred thousand watts for speaker power.
For europansies: 19kRPM old F1 engine noise. You'll need a few thousand watts to get the volume right.
For red blooded americans: Top fuel engine noise. You'll need a few hundred thousand watts to get the volume right.
Learning to deal with bullies is vital training.
You don't remember much about school if you think it used to be 'intermittent and partially escapable'. It hasn't changed, it has just moved.
Of course some people learn to deal with it all wrong and grow up to be SJWs. Getting kids to stand up for themselves prevents this. Not going to go through life as victims (and they always will be).
When you punch the bully you need to hurt him/her.
You don't need to win the fight, but you need to hurt the motherfucker.
$5 in Tonganoxie Kansas. Seriously, last place I was expecting an epic nudie bar.
I felt a little sorry for the strippers. A bet their nipples were sore as hell at the end of a shift.
I don't really care. Any group named 'the Race' can fuck themselves. Same as any group named the KKK.
If they dump those their banking reserves will be truly hollow.
As bad as US bonds are, they are the quality in China's bank asset book. Crooked economies do that. Non performing loans (for Ferraris) made to children of central committee members etc etc etc.
Maybe once, in your grandfather's day.
Generic motors doesn't need additional brands. There were once 'Olds drivers', no more. Everybody knows Buick-Olds-Pontiac are just Chevies with a plastic badge. Interiors were uniformly crappy, only the ads were different.
It will get tuned now.
In CA they can register to vote with a utility bill.
At least 3 million voted in CA alone. To say nothing of the dead vote.
Yep, those are both actions in an economic war.
Step 1. Nation 1 pegs its currency to nation 2. Nation 1's exports should drive up the value of its currency, shifting the trade equilibrium in favor of Nation 2's exports. The peg prevents this.
Step 2. Nation 2 prints money, knowing it will cause inflation in Nation 1 (see currency peg point in Step 2).
This continues until Nation 1 realizes that all the things they have been purchasing are actually worth much less than they are paying and that they are working their butts off for scraps. Then Nation 1's people hang their leaders and start again. Especially if the leaders have been doing little but grabbing with both hands.
Economies of scale only go for so long. Once you're producing a lot of something there are only tiny margins left to squeeze. Your cost structure is complicated. Deviating from plan is what raises costs at that point.
Tariffs aren't something you accept or not. I suppose they could abandon the market.
How much do those apartments rent for?
The one in NYC will more or less pay the mortgage with the rent, in China no chance. Chinese real estate is in as bad a bubble as Chinese stocks.
If things get really crazy and China tries to take over Taiwan, you can count on prices being the least of our worries.
Taiwan and south China being largely smegged. Mainland China's navy sitting at the bottom of the Pacific. Japan with their newly assembled Atom bombs, watching nervously. Who the fuck knows what Un would do?
Taiwan may not have nukes, they definitely have biological and chemical weapons.
Because Taiwan has biological and chemical weapons?
Chinese won't buy WalMart quality garbage.
The Chinese already have access to their locally made goods, which are already being made at razor thin margins.
In the short term, there would be shortages of some goods in America and a glut of raw materials worldwide. China would possibly see revolution, depending on what their bubbles did.
In the medium term, people would get rich via arbitrage. All other 3rd world manufacturing economies would shift to running/consuming Chinese goods while shipping their entire output to the USA.
Malaysia, Indonesia, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, Brazil etc are all manufacturing/export economies.
Granting not as big as China, but it's not like there are only two players. India might even pull itself together someday.