The best mileage happens at the point horsepower production vs speed is at an optimum; I tune my cars, and can monitor everything in real time.
The mpg and speed are both calculated by the eec that is running the car; it knows how much fuel gets injected each time by the injectors, and it knows how many times the hole in the transmission direct clutch goes past the sensor, as part of it's control system.
My Tbird was designed for Nascar, lol, and there was much wind tunnel testing.
My point was that fixed speed limits have nothing to do with fuel consumption.
Asshats blocking the fast lane are more likely to cause poor mileage than anything else, all things considered.
You need good metal detectors that can handle the vertical component of the motion, otherwise you will get a lot of 'noise hits' due to mineral content in the ground.
Also, the discriminator needs to be variable, to be able to be set to pick up iron, not gold or silver, as some cheaper machines have fixed settings.
The large neo-magnet is also a good idea; but a big find will rip it from the frame of the robot, most likely. (Like you'd care...)
Hitting an object (the ringworld) at high speeds with a spacecraft and living thru it, reasonably plausibly. (stasis fields) Looping a piece of string thru a GP hull, and destroying a city. (sinclair thread) An alien with two heads, that will be hard to do. (Puppeteers) Tiger-sized, Cat based humanoids. Who like to eat people, among others. (Kzin) Cranky old people that are Bad-Ass! (Pak)
There are a few books in the series; the orig was in the 60s I think.
This experiment covered only the decay of Gold-198; The ones that were found to be changing were exhibiting electron capture decays, a completely different mechanism.
For such a limited experiment, the claims are grandiose, IMHO.
Neutrinos also oscillate forms; perhaps the emitted form doesn't interact the same way.
I use a right-handed mouse on the left of my keyboard, std button setup, (MX518) and my right hand does everything else, pretty much. I can do better than 35wpm with my right hand, after long years of practice.
For games, I have every key on the right side of the keyboard programmed the same for every game; I've found that adding/changing the mental link between key takes about a week now. I couldn't have done that at all 10 years ago. I set my 'mental keyboard/mouse setup' in the late 80s with Leisure Suit Larry and Day of the Tentacle, lol.
Adding the extra buttons for Crysis took a bit; it was 6 months to where I could forget thinking about it and just do it instead. (I'm talking about the suit controls, if no one plays)
For programming, I'm both hands on keyboard, I don't really use the mouse a lot.
Working on cars, I can do almost anything with either hand; it's just a lot easier with my left. Some things on engines can only be done right or left handed; you really don't get to choose. Guaranteed, if you can't see it, it can only get removed/replaced with the right hand.:)
I was on the forums at around 5 am; they closed around the time of the announcement at PAX, apparently.
I for one, Welcome our new Duke Overlord!!
How many computers have we been thru since the original? I remember the Plutonium Pak had an install bug that complained about my 16MB of ram, lol. It required 8MB, and failed on 16, lol.
It looks like my Duke game directory was last modified in January of 1999; that's the last time I changed a config file, lol.
I'm ready for this to be released; I have vacation time...:)
I have a very nice, for me, rackmount 350MHz 4 channel Tek scope with some very killer plugins.
The scopes I used at work today are really beyond anything needed for home use, unless you're into some extremely expensive hobbies.
The portable scope is a 3054B; 500MHz x4 channels. (~$10k, with options) The good one is an 11GHz x2ch Lecroy ($ almost 6 digits), I made picosecond-order measurements with it today.
The differential probe was $5k each; (wasn't that what gov. spitzer paid? lol.) our newb has killed two. (4Vmax) $2k each to fix.
If you can afford it for home use, I'd recommend the Tek 3054 or a lower bandwidth cousin. They're very easy to use.
If you can get surplus scopes coming out of downsized companies, you can get a deal; that's how I got my rackmount and a stack of plugins for $130. It was a production fixture at a missle plant in the 90s.:)
Digital is great, as long as you realize the limitations; digital displays lie sometimes. If you're going to base a paper on it, use multiple measurements with different equipment.:) I've seen fresh engineers embarrassed by artifacts.
It reads codes, but also allows me to Upload new profiles to my cars' EEC.
A warning: You can really fuck up your car with one of these, as the learning curve is pretty steep.
But being able to vary tuning setups is almost a requirement on older (late 90's) cars with obdii.
An example: The 03 PI engine going into my car has completely different tuning specs than the old engine; it will run, but will run MUCH better with a new tune.
The DOHC version has even more different tuning curves...
The only part of it I hate is the fucking encryption the government insisted on, to keep us out of the eec. That always works, lol.
Their last comments on the issue weren't even close to this kind of money-grubbing attitude.
And if they pull their heads out of their asses, I'll still be playing Crysis 2 on release date.
Crysis was awesome. The add ons were more of the same, and I expected that.
Them coming out bitching about demos makes me think the product is exactly more of the same, which I wont buy new. I'll wait until the price drops to the 'add-on' price range.
No, I wasn't going to wait, but the ubisoft thing and the crytek thing together will make me take a wait and see attitude.
If there's no demo, to me that means the game is so bad that no one would buy it if they played it first.
I also use the demos to decide what I want to play.
FarCry was great. I have 2 copies that I paid top dollar for based on playing it first; I got a 64bit demo.:)
FarCry2 was good enough to make me keep playing it as different people.
Ubisoft really made me happy the games I have of theirs don't include and of the BS that has kept people from playing a single player game. I can't believe anyone would buy a game like that.
Thank you/. for saving me the money I would have spent preordering Crysis 2; two copies were in the group of things I was going to buy when I got home tonight. Our work network doesn't like online buying, lol.
This article saved me almost $100, that's pretty good for slashdot.:)
When someone "shines a light on it" by saying " it initially may appear as a blood-hungry, money-grabbing strategy", that's exactly what they're doing.
Unfortunately, PC gamers aren't as stupid as "they" need us to be. I'll wait until a demo is out, or someone else I know that is stupid enough to buy it blind does, and I play theirs.
I still play Q2:Ground Zero (1 give all per death!) on my lan when we get bored with Crysis Wars or UT3; if they release something I think is a shit product, I won't buy it. Plays great on my HD4780.:)
I still have tons of games to play without their latest 'incremental update'.
I'll wait a year and see if it's worth buying at $20.
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People here still pass at 80, lol.
The best mileage happens at the point horsepower production vs speed is at an optimum; I tune my cars, and can monitor everything in real time.
The mpg and speed are both calculated by the eec that is running the car; it knows how much fuel gets injected each time by the injectors, and it knows how many times the hole in the transmission direct clutch goes past the sensor, as part of it's control system.
My Tbird was designed for Nascar, lol, and there was much wind tunnel testing.
My point was that fixed speed limits have nothing to do with fuel consumption.
Asshats blocking the fast lane are more likely to cause poor mileage than anything else, all things considered.
That's probably the best option.
You need good metal detectors that can handle the vertical component of the motion, otherwise you will get a lot of 'noise hits' due to mineral content in the ground.
Also, the discriminator needs to be variable, to be able to be set to pick up iron, not gold or silver, as some cheaper machines have fixed settings.
The large neo-magnet is also a good idea; but a big find will rip it from the frame of the robot, most likely. (Like you'd care...)
Good hunting!
My mileage drops 10% from 80 to 70 mph.
Measured many times, over my 50 mile one way commute, for the last 10 years.
Given that It doesn't drop nearly as much as adding 10% ethanol to the gas, but it's significant.
Good point.
The part from Canyon to the ring would be a two hour movie. :)
There's some really interesting happenings...
Hitting an object (the ringworld) at high speeds with a spacecraft and living thru it, reasonably plausibly. (stasis fields)
Looping a piece of string thru a GP hull, and destroying a city. (sinclair thread)
An alien with two heads, that will be hard to do. (Puppeteers)
Tiger-sized, Cat based humanoids. Who like to eat people, among others. (Kzin)
Cranky old people that are Bad-Ass! (Pak)
There are a few books in the series; the orig was in the 60s I think.
When the hell is someone worth a fuck going to make a Ringworld movie?
There's so much great SF that no one will touch; Heinlein got raped with Starship Troopers, but The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is a much better story.
Or maybe Lazarus Long...
James P. Hogan's Giant's series would make a great set of movies; it seems like all hollywood wants to do is regurgitate crap.
Yeah, that's pretty much it.
I figure the next earth-destroying meteor will hit about when we found a new religion over a certain stupidity threshold.
Think of it as Evolution in action.
If you're willing to follow something blindly to your death, the world is better off without you.
Note this also applies to politics and religion, at least; probably many more things as well...
My earliest file is a version of the Chi Square algorithm I wrote in 1988 to check D&D dice, lol.
3/13/88
That part is in the public domain already.
I see why YOU post anon.
Douchebags all...
This experiment covered only the decay of Gold-198; The ones that were found to be changing were exhibiting electron capture decays, a completely different mechanism.
For such a limited experiment, the claims are grandiose, IMHO.
Neutrinos also oscillate forms; perhaps the emitted form doesn't interact the same way.
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Free is good.
I use a right-handed mouse on the left of my keyboard, std button setup, (MX518) and my right hand does everything else, pretty much. I can do better than 35wpm with my right hand, after long years of practice.
For games, I have every key on the right side of the keyboard programmed the same for every game; I've found that adding/changing the mental link between key takes about a week now. I couldn't have done that at all 10 years ago. I set my 'mental keyboard/mouse setup' in the late 80s with Leisure Suit Larry and Day of the Tentacle, lol.
Adding the extra buttons for Crysis took a bit; it was 6 months to where I could forget thinking about it and just do it instead. (I'm talking about the suit controls, if no one plays)
For programming, I'm both hands on keyboard, I don't really use the mouse a lot.
Working on cars, I can do almost anything with either hand; it's just a lot easier with my left. Some things on engines can only be done right or left handed; you really don't get to choose. Guaranteed, if you can't see it, it can only get removed/replaced with the right hand. :)
They must pay a bunch of people to post here, judging from the volume.
Added to the S/N ratio a few years ago; one troll tribe among many, I'm afraid.
It would cause weird things to happen, tho.
One of my levels had a corridor that crossed, and if you held down the squat button at the intersection, you could drop to the lower tunnel. :)
Destructable walls is original to Duke, I'm pretty sure.
I was on the forums at around 5 am; they closed around the time of the announcement at PAX, apparently.
I for one, Welcome our new Duke Overlord!!
How many computers have we been thru since the original? I remember the Plutonium Pak had an install bug that complained about my 16MB of ram, lol. It required 8MB, and failed on 16, lol.
It looks like my Duke game directory was last modified in January of 1999; that's the last time I changed a config file, lol.
I'm ready for this to be released; I have vacation time... :)
What is bid for a Darl swirly in the Goatse guys Arse?
Bidding starts at $100.
There's a rumor that Natalie Portman is warming hot grits in Soviet Russia at the thought of posted photos... :)
Incineration fits my idea of fun...
Run a piece of sugar-coated stainless wire across the focus; exploding ants!
lol.
Like all other companies with lifetime warranties, they are shedding the responsibility of the warranties.
They will be 'Back!' in a couple of years, with the same warranties, until the next time. :(
I have a very nice, for me, rackmount 350MHz 4 channel Tek scope with some very killer plugins.
The scopes I used at work today are really beyond anything needed for home use, unless you're into some extremely expensive hobbies.
The portable scope is a 3054B; 500MHz x4 channels. (~$10k, with options) The good one is an 11GHz x2ch Lecroy ($ almost 6 digits), I made picosecond-order measurements with it today.
The differential probe was $5k each; (wasn't that what gov. spitzer paid? lol.) our newb has killed two. (4Vmax) $2k each to fix.
If you can afford it for home use, I'd recommend the Tek 3054 or a lower bandwidth cousin. They're very easy to use.
If you can get surplus scopes coming out of downsized companies, you can get a deal; that's how I got my rackmount and a stack of plugins for $130. It was a production fixture at a missle plant in the 90s. :)
Digital is great, as long as you realize the limitations; digital displays lie sometimes. If you're going to base a paper on it, use multiple measurements with different equipment. :) I've seen fresh engineers embarrassed by artifacts.
Not my God. :)
I just got a phone call to join a bunch of people at an underground virus lab; should I worry that I'm an extraterrestrial biologist?
And, of course, I'm the single one out of the group. (hey, we're on /. , right?)
The real problem is that I always wanted to go by way of thermonuclear explosion; am I the wrong guy to get the override key?
gtg...
I have an older version of this:
http://www.sctflash.com/X3.php
It reads codes, but also allows me to Upload new profiles to my cars' EEC.
A warning: You can really fuck up your car with one of these, as the learning curve is pretty steep.
But being able to vary tuning setups is almost a requirement on older (late 90's) cars with obdii.
An example: The 03 PI engine going into my car has completely different tuning specs than the old engine; it will run, but will run MUCH better with a new tune.
The DOHC version has even more different tuning curves...
The only part of it I hate is the fucking encryption the government insisted on, to keep us out of the eec. That always works, lol.
Their last comments on the issue weren't even close to this kind of money-grubbing attitude.
And if they pull their heads out of their asses, I'll still be playing Crysis 2 on release date.
Crysis was awesome. The add ons were more of the same, and I expected that.
Them coming out bitching about demos makes me think the product is exactly more of the same, which I wont buy new.
I'll wait until the price drops to the 'add-on' price range.
No, I wasn't going to wait, but the ubisoft thing and the crytek thing together will make me take a wait and see attitude.
Ubisoft still has problems with their servers.
If there's no demo, to me that means the game is so bad that no one would buy it if they played it first.
I also use the demos to decide what I want to play.
FarCry was great. I have 2 copies that I paid top dollar for based on playing it first; I got a 64bit demo. :)
FarCry2 was good enough to make me keep playing it as different people.
Ubisoft really made me happy the games I have of theirs don't include and of the BS that has kept people from playing a single player game. I can't believe anyone would buy a game like that.
Thank you /. for saving me the money I would have spent preordering Crysis 2; two copies were in the group of things I was going to buy when I got home tonight. Our work network doesn't like online buying, lol.
This article saved me almost $100, that's pretty good for slashdot. :)
When someone "shines a light on it" by saying " it initially may appear as a blood-hungry, money-grabbing strategy", that's exactly what they're doing.
Unfortunately, PC gamers aren't as stupid as "they" need us to be. I'll wait until a demo is out, or someone else I know that is stupid enough to buy it blind does, and I play theirs.
I still play Q2:Ground Zero (1 give all per death!) on my lan when we get bored with Crysis Wars or UT3; if they release something I think is a shit product, I won't buy it. Plays great on my HD4780. :)
I still have tons of games to play without their latest 'incremental update'.
I'll wait a year and see if it's worth buying at $20.