It wasn't that it was slow, it's just that it didn't reach the top. James May guessed it was too heavy to go around the corners quickly.
Ironically, if Bugatti had let them run the Veyron around the track when it was first launched in 2005, it would've been at the top of the Top Gear Power Board for almost a year, when it would've been beaten by the Koenigsegg CCX2, with the wing added. Then the Ascari A10 a year and a half after that, then the Gumpert, Zonda F Convertible, and the Caterham R500 in 2008.
You assume that you'd drive it at full throttle all the time. As the Top Gear presenters also showed, if you drive a Toyota Prius at full throttle, you get about 17 miles to the (imperial) gallon.
I mean the Veyron's not exactly a gas-sipper; if Wikipedia is to be believed, then it gets 10 miles per (US) gallon with "combined" driving. But don't assume that it'll be using all 1000 horsepower all the time.
Right. At least one car (the SSC Ultimate Aero) has beaten the Bugatti's speed record for a production car, but the Bugatti is simply an engineering marvel. Most "really fast" cars are designed to hit their speed limit a few times, and F1 cars are designed to do a couple races, but the Veyron is designed to last 20 or 30 years of road driving.
The Top Gear presenters kept comparing it to Concorde. That's how big of a leap forward it was.
The boss of Volkswagen did this after they bought Bugatti. He said "let's build a car that produces 1000bhp and goes 400kph". Then it took years for the engineers to figure out how such a thing might be possible. In the end, they did it, and it's probably the greatest car ever made.
My school's network actually worked somewhat like this. If "worm-like activity" was found, then it would kick you off the network automatically, and have you complete a checklist saying you'd performed a virus check, and things like that.
If you were found to still be infected (usually because you lied about actually doing a virus check), you couldn't get back on without an IT rep checking your computer (usually within a few hours if you needed them to come to you; pretty good for a public school I thought).
That system wasn't too bad; it helped prevent the spread of malware without being a major inconvenience if you were infected. That is, as long as it was a weekday. Boy, was it a pain to have the system catch a false positive (caused by having my max number of BitTorrent connections too high) on Friday at 7PM. But that's not an issue in an office environment.
And I cry any time a school says it requires a piece of software that can only run on one OS.
Then again, at my school the standard response would've been "there are plenty of cluster computers available all over campus, if yours won't run the necessary software."
Any video card, or any monitor/TV, that includes HDMI must support HDCP. There are monitors and video cards that support HDCP over DVI but don't have an HDMI port, but if you want to be absolutely sure, that's probably the best way.
DivX makes an encoder/decoder package that you can buy from them. However, their primary business seems to be certifying hardware devices for playback of their format.
DivX 4-6 == MPEG-4 Part 2 (XviD is also MPEG-4 Part 2 compatible)
DivX 7 == MPEG-4 Part 10 (MKV+H.264)
A few months ago I bought a DVD player, and I got the specific model that I did because it was certified DivX 6 compatible. That means I can take a DVD filled with DivX 6-compatible files (actually encoded with XviD), and they'll play back to back. This is very handy.
If I get a player that supports DivX 7, then that means I can take MKV files encoded with x264, and play them off of a disc as well.
Controversy and the games industry go hand-in hand like Ico and Yorda, if you'll forgive the incredibly nerdy analogy. And like Yorda, the controversy tends to stay focused for an average of about eight nanoseconds before getting bored and drifting off to do something else. But when it does get focused it can get very exasperating, such as when youthful paragons of self-control are called nasty names and decide that murder would be the wittiest comeback, and then is found to have stood next to a videogame sometime in the past. Then the media generally start drooling the usual uninformed questions as to whether wholesome, boyish pretend violence has any correlation with the real world. Short answer: No. Long answer: No, and go fuck yourselves, you ignorant, scaremongering cockbags. [Text in review: No, and I consider your argument misinformed.]
First off, I started off as self-taught, then moved on to get a B.S. in Computer Science (is there a school that offers a B.A.?). Would you fault me for getting an education?
Second, I started teaching myself at age 18. You'd reject me simply because I started six years later?
Just because it's harder to learn something later in life doesn't mean you can't learn it, whether it be French, Italian, or C.
Well, to clarify my "potentially buggy" statement, it's more like that betas will usually have major known bugs. In the world of easy bugfixes, you release when all/most of the known bugs are "medium" priority or lower.
As for who you have test your program, that all depends on how you feel like doing it. Most companies won't release alpha software to the outside world, maybe a demonstration at most. That doesn't mean you can't though, and it also doesn't mean you can't have a closed beta release.
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It wasn't that it was slow, it's just that it didn't reach the top. James May guessed it was too heavy to go around the corners quickly.
Ironically, if Bugatti had let them run the Veyron around the track when it was first launched in 2005, it would've been at the top of the Top Gear Power Board for almost a year, when it would've been beaten by the Koenigsegg CCX2, with the wing added. Then the Ascari A10 a year and a half after that, then the Gumpert, Zonda F Convertible, and the Caterham R500 in 2008.
You assume that you'd drive it at full throttle all the time. As the Top Gear presenters also showed, if you drive a Toyota Prius at full throttle, you get about 17 miles to the (imperial) gallon.
I mean the Veyron's not exactly a gas-sipper; if Wikipedia is to be believed, then it gets 10 miles per (US) gallon with "combined" driving. But don't assume that it'll be using all 1000 horsepower all the time.
Right. At least one car (the SSC Ultimate Aero) has beaten the Bugatti's speed record for a production car, but the Bugatti is simply an engineering marvel. Most "really fast" cars are designed to hit their speed limit a few times, and F1 cars are designed to do a couple races, but the Veyron is designed to last 20 or 30 years of road driving.
The Top Gear presenters kept comparing it to Concorde. That's how big of a leap forward it was.
The boss of Volkswagen did this after they bought Bugatti. He said "let's build a car that produces 1000bhp and goes 400kph". Then it took years for the engineers to figure out how such a thing might be possible. In the end, they did it, and it's probably the greatest car ever made.
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My school's network actually worked somewhat like this. If "worm-like activity" was found, then it would kick you off the network automatically, and have you complete a checklist saying you'd performed a virus check, and things like that.
If you were found to still be infected (usually because you lied about actually doing a virus check), you couldn't get back on without an IT rep checking your computer (usually within a few hours if you needed them to come to you; pretty good for a public school I thought).
That system wasn't too bad; it helped prevent the spread of malware without being a major inconvenience if you were infected. That is, as long as it was a weekday. Boy, was it a pain to have the system catch a false positive (caused by having my max number of BitTorrent connections too high) on Friday at 7PM. But that's not an issue in an office environment.
And I cry any time a school says it requires a piece of software that can only run on one OS.
Then again, at my school the standard response would've been "there are plenty of cluster computers available all over campus, if yours won't run the necessary software."
Plus there's: "The Telegraph and other sources, a study..."
Nice grammar there too. Reminds me of the "I accidentally the whole [noun]" meme.
"Do not use. Not safe. bullet in the brain pan squish"
I wish the API docs actually said that... that would be awesome.
If movies have taught us anything, it's that real hackers who take down alien races use MacBooks.
I hated him, up until Night at the Museum. That's the first Ben Stiller movie that I've genuinely liked (Meet the Parents was ok I guess...).
Are they pronounced the same?
Any video card, or any monitor/TV, that includes HDMI must support HDCP. There are monitors and video cards that support HDCP over DVI but don't have an HDMI port, but if you want to be absolutely sure, that's probably the best way.
DivX makes an encoder/decoder package that you can buy from them. However, their primary business seems to be certifying hardware devices for playback of their format.
DivX 4-6 == MPEG-4 Part 2 (XviD is also MPEG-4 Part 2 compatible)
DivX 7 == MPEG-4 Part 10 (MKV+H.264)
A few months ago I bought a DVD player, and I got the specific model that I did because it was certified DivX 6 compatible. That means I can take a DVD filled with DivX 6-compatible files (actually encoded with XviD), and they'll play back to back. This is very handy.
If I get a player that supports DivX 7, then that means I can take MKV files encoded with x264, and play them off of a disc as well.
Controversy and the games industry go hand-in hand like Ico and Yorda, if you'll forgive the incredibly nerdy analogy. And like Yorda, the controversy tends to stay focused for an average of about eight nanoseconds before getting bored and drifting off to do something else. But when it does get focused it can get very exasperating, such as when youthful paragons of self-control are called nasty names and decide that murder would be the wittiest comeback, and then is found to have stood next to a videogame sometime in the past. Then the media generally start drooling the usual uninformed questions as to whether wholesome, boyish pretend violence has any correlation with the real world. Short answer: No. Long answer: No, and go fuck yourselves, you ignorant, scaremongering cockbags. [Text in review: No, and I consider your argument misinformed.]
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Well that's unfair...
First off, I started off as self-taught, then moved on to get a B.S. in Computer Science (is there a school that offers a B.A.?). Would you fault me for getting an education?
Second, I started teaching myself at age 18. You'd reject me simply because I started six years later?
Just because it's harder to learn something later in life doesn't mean you can't learn it, whether it be French, Italian, or C.
Well, to clarify my "potentially buggy" statement, it's more like that betas will usually have major known bugs. In the world of easy bugfixes, you release when all/most of the known bugs are "medium" priority or lower.
As for who you have test your program, that all depends on how you feel like doing it. Most companies won't release alpha software to the outside world, maybe a demonstration at most. That doesn't mean you can't though, and it also doesn't mean you can't have a closed beta release.
The biggest cause of stress among IT staff is problems arising from operational day-to-day tasks
In other news, doctors get stressed by having to do clinicals, and retail workers get stressed out by daily customers.
The way I learned it:
Pre-Alpha: No working code
Alpha: Compiles and runs, but not feature-complete
Beta: Feature-complete, but potentially buggy
By that scale, Google probably isn't convinced that GMail isn't buggy.
I'd rather be entertained by bad science than bored by bad drama.
Maybe because GPGPU is coming soon, and the GPU makers want people to think of them as individual cores? So... partly marketing, I guess.
I don't mind her, but even if you like the character, her episodes were usually bad.
Not true, there are plenty of other episodes that were far worse.
Hell, the episode directly before that one was terrible, IMO: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_the_Beholder_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)
And just about any episode with Troi's mother, but here's my least favorite even among those: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_Living_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)
Rare Venomous Mammal
Is it a Klingon who keeps the venom in a sac on the side of his jaw, and goes after amphibian women?
Homer: "No TV and no beer make Homer something something..."
Marge: "...go crazy?"
Homer: "Don't mind if I do! WAAAH WAAAH HOO HA HOO..."
Early reports say that no audience members were injured at today's CES, a rare occurrence for a Ballmer speech.