i disagree, i know more people who use AIM than the other networks, IM is just easier to use i reckon. However, MSN (for me at least) is catching up - more people seem to have hotmail etc accounts than have decoded to sign up for AIM.
as for living 90mins from london and only having dialup, it's entirelt possible. i live 15 miles from a major city and my local exchange hasn't been enabled yet, and cable seems to have passed us by...
yeah, but thats a different thing all together, like the other reply says, as long as the problem gets fixed, they could measure stuff in leagues for all i care, but what you're probably find is that people under 30 will use metric, whereas people older will use imperial.
for example, i'm in the middle of building a frame for a rock and roll bed for the back of my van (bought it with no interior) and as i keep most of my tools at my parents place, my dad is helping me. i'll measure something and say its 13mil etc and he'll pause for a bit while he converts it then reply with 'ok, so we need some 1/4 inch bar' or whatever....
so i'd say there are more people using metric than aren't.
" First of all bhp and ps are slightly different animals. Bhp or brake horsepower is a calculation where the engine horsepower is measured with no load from a chassis or any accessories attached to the engine whatsoever. It's also called gross horsepower. PS, on the other hand, is a measurement of net horsepower. It's horsepower calculated with the engine installed in the vehicle, complete with accessories and ductwork. So you can't really convert one measurement to the other with a simple formula.
However, just to give you a better idea on what "ps" stands for, we can talk a little more about horsepower. Just as there are different ways of measuring temperature, as in Centigrade or Fahrenheit, you can measure the power of your engine in several ways, too. Horsepower is simply your engine's ability to move mass over a certain amount of time. If you want to be technical about it: one horsepower can lift 33,000 pounds up one foot in one minute. And that's the measure of horsepower you're familiar with, the one used in the U.S., and it's the standard set by the Society of Automobile Engineers, which is why it's also called SAE horsepower. The ps you're asking about is short for the German word Pferdestarke, the term for metric horsepower, also known as DIN horsepower. DIN is short for Deutsche Industrie Normen which simply translates to "German industrial standard".
So, in summary, hp is the U.S. standard for horsepower, while ps is the standard in continental Europe. If you want to dazzle your friends, you can say that one horsepower is equal to 1.0139 ps, making SAE horsepower roughly 98.6% of the metric DIN measurement."
so, as far as i can work out, 'x BHP at the wheels' should be the same as 'x PS' put very simply.
i enjoy going to the cinema, primarily as i get to see films before i can watch them (in reasonable quality anyway) at home. but people chatting during the film? gah! I'm pretty sure that the movie industry makes most of it's mney from people going to see a film twice due to morons talking through the first one.
in fact, could they talkative idiots actually be a plant from the movie industry themselves, it's a conspiracy! just a moment, there's someone at the door....
duty on petrol is just that - a nice tax bonus for the govt.
note to americans worried about the price of petrol: here in the UK we pay 80% tax on petrol and diesel (slightly less on LPG) this morning my local petrol station has unleaded at 78 pence a litre....
very little, if any, of this tax goes anywhere near the road systems, it just helps balance the govts books.
it's about time the flash memory players got some extra storage, i'm not prepared to splash out on a neat mp3 player that can only hold one album at a decent bit rate. according to the article, they won't be getting to the UK for a while yet though...
Novell seem to provide support above and beyond that that Microsoft offer. I'm no Novell expert and as such I make quite a lot od use of http://support.novell.com and i can say without a doubt that i've got more sense out of that site than any of the Microsoft support sites. This isn't a go at Microsoft, I don't thisnk they're as bad as made out on this site, it just seems that Novell appreciate customer service a little better.
buy an Atari Falcon - they were the 'next generation' ST, better chips, onboard DMA, har drive etc etc. For some reason Atari saw fit not to tell anyone about it, so the only people that bought them were cubase using studio dwellers and it died a death...
however, it's a great machine and people are still making hardware (though not many people admittedly) for it.
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nah, sounds more like Vi to me ....
i disagree, i know more people who use AIM than the other networks, IM is just easier to use i reckon.
However, MSN (for me at least) is catching up - more people seem to have hotmail etc accounts than have decoded to sign up for AIM.
... could be possible terorist weapons :)
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gah! it's viruses. how many times
is that near Nomansland then ?
y =1 14009&z=3&sv=nomansland&st=3&tl=Nomansland,+Devon+ [Town]&searchp=newsearch.srf&mapp=newmap.s rf
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http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=283347&
as for living 90mins from london and only having dialup, it's entirelt possible. i live 15 miles from a major city and my local exchange hasn't been enabled yet, and cable seems to have passed us by
yeah, but thats a different thing all together, like the other reply says, as long as the problem gets fixed, they could measure stuff in leagues for all i care, but what you're probably find is that people under 30 will use metric, whereas people older will use imperial.
for example, i'm in the middle of building a frame for a rock and roll bed for the back of my van (bought it with no interior) and as i keep most of my tools at my parents place, my dad is helping me. i'll measure something and say its 13mil etc and he'll pause for a bit while he converts it then reply with 'ok, so we need some 1/4 inch bar' or whatever....
so i'd say there are more people using metric than aren't.
i've often wondered this, so i checked:
" First of all bhp and ps are slightly different animals. Bhp or brake horsepower is a calculation where the engine horsepower is measured with no load from a chassis or any accessories attached to the engine whatsoever. It's also called gross horsepower. PS, on the other hand, is a measurement of net horsepower. It's horsepower calculated with the engine installed in the vehicle, complete with accessories and ductwork. So you can't really convert one measurement to the other with a simple formula.
However, just to give you a better idea on what "ps" stands for, we can talk a little more about horsepower. Just as there are different ways of measuring temperature, as in Centigrade or Fahrenheit, you can measure the power of your engine in several ways, too. Horsepower is simply your engine's ability to move mass over a certain amount of time. If you want to be technical about it: one horsepower can lift 33,000 pounds up one foot in one minute. And that's the measure of horsepower you're familiar with, the one used in the U.S., and it's the standard set by the Society of Automobile Engineers, which is why it's also called SAE horsepower. The ps you're asking about is short for the German word Pferdestarke, the term for metric horsepower, also known as DIN horsepower. DIN is short for Deutsche Industrie Normen which simply translates to "German industrial standard".
So, in summary, hp is the U.S. standard for horsepower, while ps is the standard in continental Europe. If you want to dazzle your friends, you can say that one horsepower is equal to 1.0139 ps, making SAE horsepower roughly 98.6% of the metric DIN measurement."
so, as far as i can work out, 'x BHP at the wheels' should be the same as 'x PS' put very simply.
erk, would anyone believe me if i said that was a typo ?
... :)
i had the 10 > 100 > 1000 range in my head while typing that
1/100th of a meter is indeed a centimeter, but 1/100th of a kilogram is actually 100 grams.
centimeter > meter > kilometer
gram > 100 grams (hectogram) > kilogram
easy see?
are you sure ?
admittedly road signs are still in miles / mph but when i go to the supermarket, everything is in kilos / grams.
when i build shelves etc, i measure in cm / m not inches, all schools teach metric from the outset, petrol is sold in litres etc etc
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+1: Damn Right
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i enjoy going to the cinema, primarily as i get to see films before i can watch them (in reasonable quality anyway) at home.
but people chatting during the film? gah! I'm pretty sure that the movie industry makes most of it's mney from people going to see a film twice due to morons talking through the first one.
in fact, could they talkative idiots actually be a plant from the movie industry themselves, it's a conspiracy! just a moment, there's someone at the door
>YES we have soul and I cant prove it as much as you cant prove the opposite.
so that makes it true then?
a pretty weak argument if you ask me.
by the way, i am God, i can't prove it, but neither can you disprove it.
awaiting the -1 flamebait,
i thankyou.
same quotes but some more insightful comments:
t ml
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/30688.h
nah, 'crypographically gifted'
:)
ahoy there! it be pirate day today!
well, if something doesn't 'pass muster' then it doesn't 'cut the mustard' maybe thats what you were thinking of ? :)
shurley thats what 'road tax' is for ?
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duty on petrol is just that - a nice tax bonus for the govt.
note to americans worried about the price of petrol: here in the UK we pay 80% tax on petrol and diesel (slightly less on LPG) this morning my local petrol station has unleaded at 78 pence a litre
very little, if any, of this tax goes anywhere near the road systems, it just helps balance the govts books.
>David Eddy's Archimedes software dares to turn human heartbeats into the ones and zeros of the digital age --
:)
but could be useful as a new form of ID ?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/30315.html
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it's about time the flash memory players got some extra storage, i'm not prepared to splash out on a neat mp3 player that can only hold one album at a decent bit rate. according to the article, they won't be getting to the UK for a while yet though
i agree with this post.
Novell seem to provide support above and beyond that that Microsoft offer. I'm no Novell expert and as such I make quite a lot od use of http://support.novell.com and i can say without a doubt that i've got more sense out of that site than any of the Microsoft support sites.
This isn't a go at Microsoft, I don't thisnk they're as bad as made out on this site, it just seems that Novell appreciate customer service a little better.
Checking manually that the number matches the one shown in the photo.
checking it against what exactly ?
Grommit ?
buy an Atari Falcon - they were the 'next generation' ST, better chips, onboard DMA, har drive etc etc. For some reason Atari saw fit not to tell anyone about it, so the only people that bought them were cubase using studio dwellers and it died a death...
however, it's a great machine and people are still making hardware (though not many people admittedly) for it.
some links:
atari scene news
myatari - online monthly mag
cheers.
it's called http://www.ojuice.net
:)
or scene.org
or pouet.net
or www.dhs.nu
phil