It could also be a social thing. If your friends are getting Xbox'en then even if the titles are available on the PS3, they are typically hosted on separate servers, so you need to be using the same console.
That's the Only reason I bought a 360. I had a PS3 already, but I wanted to get some gaming done with my local friends. All the folks with whom I played PC games had moved 2 time zones away and it was hard to schedule gaming time. All the local people had 360s and were playing Halo 3 and Gears of War. Before that I never would have considered playing an FPS on a console.
It turns out I have a lot of fun with the 360 and play on it by myself as much as I do on the PS3. I've learned not to be a snob when it comes to consoles because the only person losing out would be me.
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Yet Microsoft put the R&D into the Xbox 360 game console's proprietary hard drive interface.
Their hard drive interface is strictly SATA. The drive has the drive model and serial numbers written to sectors 16-22 signed by MS. If those sectors don't match what the drive firmware reports, the Xbox doesn't report the drive as attached. You can pull the drive out of the MS casing and use it just like any other 2.5" SATA drive, but unless you make a backup of sectors 16-22 on the drive, you're not going to get the Xbox to recognize it again.
I'm guessing it took MS about 10 minutes to come up with that one.
Think chairs are comfy, but there have been an awful lot of service issues with them. I do a lot of work for a Steelcase dealer and most of the salespeople are reluctant to sell them. If it weren't for that, I'd want one myself.
The Leap V2, though, is an awesome chair. I wish I could afford to bring one home with me to replace the Criterion I have. $850 is the cheapest I've seen them sold through this dealership and that was an order of 800 of them.
I've read the book and have been to his seminar twice. He's a very entertaining guy and a true geek. He makes me want to go back to school and be a physics major. I would reccomend the book for anybody interested in math, physics, comics or any combination of the above. Also, I would reccomend his seminar for anybody in the Twin Cities.
And yet power steering wasn't obvious enough for them to have put it in the first cars ever built. If it's that simple, give me a list of the things that obviously should be around but aren't.
Now give me the obvious implementation of all these things. Also, just as an excersize, I've like you to provide me with your design for a power steering system.
Your logic is a bit faulty. You're saying since we can see how we like having something once we lose it that anybody could have invented it. That's simply not true. The challenge is being the person to come up with something *before* it's widespread.
Generally the ones with crappy upload are residential service. They figure most home users won't be uploading a lot and so allocate less bandwidth. Business lines are more likely to have a higher upload than residential, but they're more expensive because of uptime guarantees that usually come with the package.
I, however, have a residential line at 1.5Mbps down/1Mbps up.
That's kind of how customer service call centers work. I've been in 2 of them. The people that care the most about actually helping the customer usually end up getting shit on because of the way things are set up. Call centers have high turnover rates, so they'll hire just about anybody and the ones that are there the longest are usually the ones who keep their talk times low and call volumes high at the expense of the customer experience. I'm sure you can find an article or two about this.
It's interesting how different our experiences have been.
I switched to AT&T from Sprint a few years ago. I went to the store in Roseville (not the kiosk in Rosedale, but the store just north of County Road C) and got great service. They were quick, knew what they were doing and got me on the right plan.
I switched to GSM a year later. I had to replace my Nokia 3360 twice under warranty (which was a pleasant experience itself), so I figured I'd get a new phone since the warranty was running out on the 3360. I liked their service so much I went back to the store even though I usually prefer shopping online.
I haven't had any billing issues or problems with the coverage area. I had 1 out of about 7 calls to customer support that was bad, but that's understandable. I've worked in call centers and I know what kind of crap happens.
I'm not even going to get started on Sprint because I'd never stop.
Or you go to a large museum and you borrow one to get a map of all the attractions and maybe some accompanying text/voice info on whatever exhibit you're nearest to.
Actually, when the Smithsonian was touring in '97 (may have been '96 or '98), they had Newtons to do this job. It was a pretty neat way of getting people through with more info than was on the placcards without having to have tour guides. There was both audio and text.
When they came up a non-optical device that can take input from a laser. Unless laser no longer means "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation"...
But where'd he get power for this thing? I would think it would require massive alternator upgrades for it to work, but I see nothing of the kind on his page. The only hint is that the inverter link goes to a page suggesting that it needs 30v power, while I thought car power was universally 12v.
30A does not equal 30V. A cigarette lighter probably isn't good enough for the full rating of this invertor (mine, for instance is on a 20A fuse along with the interior lights and stereo), but it's possible to tie in to the alternator output directly.
Just don't buy from RedOctane. They're pretty pricey compared to other places. BNS is a lot cheaper for comparable equipment.
Or you can buy a DDR machine from Channel Beat. My friend (who's working on Techno Motion support for Step Mania) got a Techno Motion machine through Channel Beat and we stuck a StepMania box in there. It's a hell of a lot nicer than using a cheap pad. A tad more pricey, though.
That's funny. I use my I8200 as my primary gaming rig. It's got a slightly slower processor than my desktop, slightly (very slightly) better graphics than my desktop and slower memory than my desktop. It still works a hell of a lot better for gaming. For sound, I use headphones. Not much point having everybody turn up their sound all the way at a LAN party. You just get a big jumble of sound.
If you can't see the difference between the different types of boost control, fine. Venting compressed air to the atmosphere on the intake side is quite different from exhaust gasses bypassing a turbine.
I never said anything about air/fuel maps. I said compressor maps, they're completely different things. A compressor map is a graph that you look at to see relative properties of a compressor wheel and has nothing to do with engine control modules.
And I'm not a bench racer. Bench racers talk about things they've never done and will probably never do. I own and modify (myself, and I don't mean add stickers or body kits) a turbocharged car. I work on the turbocharged cars of others. You call me a bench racer, but it seems as though it's only because you want to over-simplify things and I don't.
And just an opinion: Car & Driver sucks ass. I prefer something with more technical articles like Grassroots Motorsports or even Performance Ford.
The turbo comes before the throttle and after the exhaust manifold. The wastegate is one of the parts that comes after the exhaust manifold. If you want to say that the turbine is also before the throttle because it's attached to the compressor, go ahead. It's not right, but say whatever you want.
I don't agree the difference is small. You have to make different considerations for a supercharger than you do for a turbo. Compressor maps are vastly different. There's no turbine on a supercharger, so no conventional wastegate. If you want to use a pop-off valve to control boost for a supercharger, go right ahead. Just don't try it for a turbo unless you want to buy new turbos all the time. A supercharger's shaft speed won't be affected by that, but a turbo will certainly over-speed and damage something if you try to control boost by venting anything on the intake side of the head.
Wow, are you ever mistaken. A wastegate is never before the throttle or anywhere in the intake. A wastegate controls boost by allowing excess exhaust gasses bypass the turbine when at or above desired boost pressures. The wastegate does not maintain the speed of the turbo, it limits it.
A bypass valve routes intake air from in front of the throttle plate to the compressor inlet when there's manifold vaccum and is mainly touted as a device to keep the turbo spooled up and increase turbo life. A Blow-off valve serves the same functions, but vents to atmosphere instead of back into the compressor inlet.
All of these valves have signal lines behind the throttle plate so they can open and close at apropriate times, but none of them vent the intake after the throttle plate in any way.
Arg! How many of these are we going to get?
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This is at least the 3rd posting in 6 months about changing the programming of a car's ECU. It's not new, it won't go away soon, and it won't let you network your car.
I'm a gamer. I'm a geek. I go LAN parties with other geek gamers. I've got a notebook I bought specifically for use at LAN parties and I sure as hell don't let others use it. I also have a life. Does that mean I fly in the face of your assertaions? I think it does...
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That's the Only reason I bought a 360. I had a PS3 already, but I wanted to get some gaming done with my local friends. All the folks with whom I played PC games had moved 2 time zones away and it was hard to schedule gaming time. All the local people had 360s and were playing Halo 3 and Gears of War. Before that I never would have considered playing an FPS on a console.
It turns out I have a lot of fun with the 360 and play on it by myself as much as I do on the PS3. I've learned not to be a snob when it comes to consoles because the only person losing out would be me.
Yet Microsoft put the R&D into the Xbox 360 game console's proprietary hard drive interface.
Their hard drive interface is strictly SATA. The drive has the drive model and serial numbers written to sectors 16-22 signed by MS. If those sectors don't match what the drive firmware reports, the Xbox doesn't report the drive as attached. You can pull the drive out of the MS casing and use it just like any other 2.5" SATA drive, but unless you make a backup of sectors 16-22 on the drive, you're not going to get the Xbox to recognize it again.
I'm guessing it took MS about 10 minutes to come up with that one.
Seeing as she went to Whedon to come up with a show after she'd signed a deal with Fox, I'm going to guess she had some idea where it was going...
Think chairs are comfy, but there have been an awful lot of service issues with them. I do a lot of work for a Steelcase dealer and most of the salespeople are reluctant to sell them. If it weren't for that, I'd want one myself.
The Leap V2, though, is an awesome chair. I wish I could afford to bring one home with me to replace the Criterion I have. $850 is the cheapest I've seen them sold through this dealership and that was an order of 800 of them.
I've read the book and have been to his seminar twice. He's a very entertaining guy and a true geek. He makes me want to go back to school and be a physics major. I would reccomend the book for anybody interested in math, physics, comics or any combination of the above. Also, I would reccomend his seminar for anybody in the Twin Cities.
And yet power steering wasn't obvious enough for them to have put it in the first cars ever built. If it's that simple, give me a list of the things that obviously should be around but aren't.
Now give me the obvious implementation of all these things. Also, just as an excersize, I've like you to provide me with your design for a power steering system.
Your logic is a bit faulty. You're saying since we can see how we like having something once we lose it that anybody could have invented it. That's simply not true. The challenge is being the person to come up with something *before* it's widespread.
Generally the ones with crappy upload are residential service. They figure most home users won't be uploading a lot and so allocate less bandwidth. Business lines are more likely to have a higher upload than residential, but they're more expensive because of uptime guarantees that usually come with the package.
I, however, have a residential line at 1.5Mbps down/1Mbps up.
That's kind of how customer service call centers work. I've been in 2 of them. The people that care the most about actually helping the customer usually end up getting shit on because of the way things are set up. Call centers have high turnover rates, so they'll hire just about anybody and the ones that are there the longest are usually the ones who keep their talk times low and call volumes high at the expense of the customer experience. I'm sure you can find an article or two about this.
It's interesting how different our experiences have been.
I switched to AT&T from Sprint a few years ago. I went to the store in Roseville (not the kiosk in Rosedale, but the store just north of County Road C) and got great service. They were quick, knew what they were doing and got me on the right plan.
I switched to GSM a year later. I had to replace my Nokia 3360 twice under warranty (which was a pleasant experience itself), so I figured I'd get a new phone since the warranty was running out on the 3360. I liked their service so much I went back to the store even though I usually prefer shopping online.
I haven't had any billing issues or problems with the coverage area. I had 1 out of about 7 calls to customer support that was bad, but that's understandable. I've worked in call centers and I know what kind of crap happens.
I'm not even going to get started on Sprint because I'd never stop.
Or you go to a large museum and you borrow one to get a map of all the attractions and maybe some accompanying text/voice info on whatever exhibit you're nearest to.
Actually, when the Smithsonian was touring in '97 (may have been '96 or '98), they had Newtons to do this job. It was a pretty neat way of getting people through with more info than was on the placcards without having to have tour guides. There was both audio and text.
Misleading statement. Windows XP does not allow accounts with no password to be used with File and Printer Sharing.
That's not true. I've done it without having to do anything special.
When they came up a non-optical device that can take input from a laser. Unless laser no longer means "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation"...
Are those metric or SAE buttloads?
It doesn't matter how new it is; if I have a computer with fans in it, the fans will turn on. That makes for non-silent computing.
The fans in my notebook can get pretty loud.
But where'd he get power for this thing? I would think it would require massive alternator upgrades for it to work, but I see nothing of the kind on his page. The only hint is that the inverter link goes to a page suggesting that it needs 30v power, while I thought car power was universally 12v.
30A does not equal 30V. A cigarette lighter probably isn't good enough for the full rating of this invertor (mine, for instance is on a 20A fuse along with the interior lights and stereo), but it's possible to tie in to the alternator output directly.
Just don't buy from RedOctane. They're pretty pricey compared to other places. BNS is a lot cheaper for comparable equipment.
Or you can buy a DDR machine from Channel Beat. My friend (who's working on Techno Motion support for Step Mania) got a Techno Motion machine through Channel Beat and we stuck a StepMania box in there. It's a hell of a lot nicer than using a cheap pad. A tad more pricey, though.
That's funny. I use my I8200 as my primary gaming rig. It's got a slightly slower processor than my desktop, slightly (very slightly) better graphics than my desktop and slower memory than my desktop. It still works a hell of a lot better for gaming. For sound, I use headphones. Not much point having everybody turn up their sound all the way at a LAN party. You just get a big jumble of sound.
If you can't see the difference between the different types of boost control, fine. Venting compressed air to the atmosphere on the intake side is quite different from exhaust gasses bypassing a turbine.
I never said anything about air/fuel maps. I said compressor maps, they're completely different things. A compressor map is a graph that you look at to see relative properties of a compressor wheel and has nothing to do with engine control modules.
And I'm not a bench racer. Bench racers talk about things they've never done and will probably never do. I own and modify (myself, and I don't mean add stickers or body kits) a turbocharged car. I work on the turbocharged cars of others. You call me a bench racer, but it seems as though it's only because you want to over-simplify things and I don't.
And just an opinion: Car & Driver sucks ass. I prefer something with more technical articles like Grassroots Motorsports or even Performance Ford.
The turbo comes before the throttle and after the exhaust manifold. The wastegate is one of the parts that comes after the exhaust manifold. If you want to say that the turbine is also before the throttle because it's attached to the compressor, go ahead. It's not right, but say whatever you want.
I don't agree the difference is small. You have to make different considerations for a supercharger than you do for a turbo. Compressor maps are vastly different. There's no turbine on a supercharger, so no conventional wastegate. If you want to use a pop-off valve to control boost for a supercharger, go right ahead. Just don't try it for a turbo unless you want to buy new turbos all the time. A supercharger's shaft speed won't be affected by that, but a turbo will certainly over-speed and damage something if you try to control boost by venting anything on the intake side of the head.
"The valve in the turbo *before* the throttle - wastegate."
Looks to me like you said the wastegate is before the throttle. In fact, you emphasized that. What's above is a cut and paste from your post.
As for the difference between a supercharger and a turbocharger being small, that's not correct either.
Wow, are you ever mistaken. A wastegate is never before the throttle or anywhere in the intake. A wastegate controls boost by allowing excess exhaust gasses bypass the turbine when at or above desired boost pressures. The wastegate does not maintain the speed of the turbo, it limits it.
A bypass valve routes intake air from in front of the throttle plate to the compressor inlet when there's manifold vaccum and is mainly touted as a device to keep the turbo spooled up and increase turbo life. A Blow-off valve serves the same functions, but vents to atmosphere instead of back into the compressor inlet.
All of these valves have signal lines behind the throttle plate so they can open and close at apropriate times, but none of them vent the intake after the throttle plate in any way.
This is at least the 3rd posting in 6 months about changing the programming of a car's ECU. It's not new, it won't go away soon, and it won't let you network your car.
Bah! The potholes on 494 are nothing. The potholes on 94 at 35W, now those are potholes!
I'm a gamer. I'm a geek. I go LAN parties with other geek gamers. I've got a notebook I bought specifically for use at LAN parties and I sure as hell don't let others use it. I also have a life. Does that mean I fly in the face of your assertaions? I think it does...