each employer is of course a bit different, everything is negotiable and at least where i got hired (a company you may be familiar with for its allegedly disreputable overall business practices) there was a process that i could follow to try and reconcile their safety-net-worded statement, and my interests.
where it was one of the worst economic periods in history (on the tail end at least). One of the only times in US history where you had stagflation - inflation coupled with high unemployment and sagging GDP.
because audiophile grade audio uses tubes in a non-overdriven state, and the benefit of tubes for guitarists is their degradation characteristics when they are overdriven.
IOW, if your goal is 100% perfect sound reproduction with zero distortion amplitude implification, thats something that solid state can do nicely.
If your goal is to color the sound by over-driving the amplification device, thats soemthing that transistors really suck at, and tubes are really good at. The only solid state amps which sound any good at all use DSP and software to model the sonic transformation of an over driven tube system. transistor amps call it "distortion" because the waveforms are clipped. on tube amps its called "overdrive" the effect is much different (and nicer).
Finally, if you read between the lines, tube audiophile rags and proponents talk about the tube equipment coloring the sound. it may sound better, but its a preference and value proposition thing. at the point that you're talking about coloring sound, you're not dealing with faithful 100% reproduction of source material.. you're talking about subjectively pleasing somebody.
i know its "their" website and all, but can we collectively fire the yellow journalists that make up the slashdot staff ?
this headline is the most absurd thing i have _ever_ read here. everytime i think i've seen the dumbest peice of editorial slant condensed into just the few lame sentences they add to the usually slanted lame article submission.. something like this comes along and moves the bar.
listen, taco - your proseletyzing(sp?) is really dragging down an otherwise nice site.
Historically there's been plenty of things to be mad at microsoft for. There's no need to resort to just making shit up. If you want to dedicate all of slashdot to hatred-fueled Microsoft bashing, you could at least stick to things that are accurate!!
i go clothes shopping with my wife quite often (can you hear that whip cracking sound?) and its amazing what a wide variety of garments seem to pass off as being the same size.
i'm even worse. I am 95% pragmatic in my clothing purchases, which means when i try on a pair of pants, i put my normal cargo load in the pockets, sit down, stand up, walk around, etc. Most garments fail the load-pockets-and-sit-down test (i have fat legs).
when i try on coats i try sitting, standing, buttoned, unbuttoned, and so on. i insert and remove my phone from the breast pocket, if so equipped. I hold my arms in the full range of positions for steering and shifting a car. My shoulders and chest are quite large from weight training and i've only ever found one sport coat that wasn't ready to burst the shoulder seams and back pleating when i tried to put my arms in the steering wheel position. It a cheap JC penny coat that had a lycra blend in its composition.
so anyhow, garment manufacturers don't currently take my particular oddities into account. nor do they widely manufacture for people shaped like my wife. yet some how they suspect that they can even get away from the facility of test fittings on real humans ?
on the other hand, perhaps this would be useful if they'd use the body scans, remove the heads and send the data back to the designers to get an accurate sampling of the customer base.
its obvious from my user info (as you've discovered). you don't mention who you work for when you post, why should i ?
i don't speak on behalf of my company, but im often privy to information that non-MS employees (and the typical slashdot poster) are not.. not that i can really disclose any of that but i often have a perspective that doesn't agree with what some people say here for a variety of reasons... certainly not the least of which is that i don't have the built-in anti-MS bias that many do.. but that is not the only factor..
my point was that it is pretty clear that some EU member nations _really_ want to promote indiginous businesses and alternatives.. germany especially. Viewed alone, thats fine. In conjunction with severe penalties against their political opponent (MS and/or the USA) it's somewhat disingenuous, i think.
My personal feeling is that the MS proceedings are more about promoting software of EU origin and reducing dependance on non-EU members more than any actual complaints with what MS is doing. It's a big easy target, and its politically popular to get the US and its wildly successful capitalist (monopolist?) representative out of Europe.
what was their assessment ? that they hated to see the US do anything that marginalized their importance ? that they didn't want to lose any of the contracts they had in iraq ?
I think this is an EU vs USA thing. the EU _hates_ depending on America. It's trying to pretend like that's not whats going on. The political top-down approach to getting MS software out of germany reeks of principle/idealism as opposed to a well thought out plan. The way it totally backfired is indicative of that.
The whole IRAQ showdown with a few of the more independantly minded EU nations really put a perspective on the EU's struggle for legitimacy as the next super power... the EU wanted solidarity in opposing the IRAQ war but many of the new member nations (uncoincidentally the ones that had suffered under butcherous regimes, some of which the US had a hand in liberating) would not speak out against the US.
As a result, the EU solidarity on the issue dissolved and some of the more vocal states felt the US was to blame.
The US pretty much told europe where to go on the IRAQ issue.
Look for the EU to start militarizing under the EU banner as opposed to its independant nation states. The collective memories of the french and german governments are apparently not quite 60 years long..
it's very easy to see when and which files are loaded by Windows as it boots. try the/SOS switch in boot.ini. Better yet, run XP under the kernel debugger (you do know how to do this, right ? I mean, you _are_ an expert on windows OS design, right ?)
XP is one of the fastest booting MS operating systems there has ever been, since the DOS days at least. Significant engineering effort went into optimizing the boot time.... Which is hillarious because XP also needs to be rebooted / bugchecke'd LESS frequently than any previous MS Os..
wal-mart also has cameras all over the store. they already know that your 4 year old daughter entered the store. how do you know their image recognition technology isn't already good enough to id people in real time from video feeds ? there are of course cameras on all the check out lines as well. if they see you come in, they see you pay, and they see you leave, what data will rfid give them that they dont have ?
yesterday i was wearing enough layers on my torso and pants that i didn't even need a coat.
but my fingers ? They're always too cold. Infact, when i finally came inside my finger tips hurt so badly that the very centers of the pain didn't really have feeling at all.
I suspect that i was in the very beginning stages of a frost bite.
I was running electrical circuits in our garage and there was no wind but the ambient temp was 7 below (F). Even with gloves my hands did not stay warm.
Just todtay i was lamenting to my boss that i'd buy the gloves they give shuttle astronauts (airtight, with water jacket circulation) if they were availabvle. Looks like they are.
my second year we were doing MIPS (well, SPIM) assembly and this was the dreaded recursion assignment. I had my homework all coded up but it was not working right and i had NO idea why.
Reading the code seemed correct, running it produced the wrong answer. There was no interactive debugger facility available so i was kind of screwed. The assignment was due the following day so i was working quite hard on it trying to get it to work, but eventually i said to hell with it and went to bed.
I woke up early next morning (on my own, without an alarm) and immediately knew where my bug was. I sat down and had it fixed in minutes.
I literally opened my eyes, looked at the ceiling, and smiled, because I KNEW i knew what the fix was and had somehow awaked "smarter" than when i went to bed.
i dont care how good or bad a movie is.. i want as many movies as possible to make as much money as possible to move "Titanic" down the list as far as possible.
I'd willingly have explosive diareahh for days (sp) if i could cover all persons involved in the Titanic project.
yeah, what a shitty deal that PhD's don't just come free with your 2 cars and a house. I mean. the government could afford all of that!
I don't see any evidence of the US not being able to pay its bills. Surely you cant be critical of the US's national debt... not after you just mentioned being in debt yourself over college of all things..
so which is it - do you want government healthcare, or do you NOT want to pay for retiring baby boomers ? or do you some how get both in some plan your debt-financed education has allowed you to concoct ?
_did_ know better than everyone else. Go use an original NeXt system. It's delicious.
Problem is, OS X isn't NeXT step. it's this goofy hybrid thing that often manages to take the worst of OS9 and NeXTStep:)
See, in NS the dock was on the SIDE of the screen. Thats because most documents are PAGE shaped, which run in a portrait orientation. vertical real estate is at a premium.
OS X shat all over that - sure you can move the dock to the side, but the damn apple bar is a permanant vertical space hog.
The keyboard navigation - something OS9 at least did some places, is pretty crappy in OSX. My personal favorite is how you can hti the power button on a mac, but have to use the mouse to actually shut the thing off. No arrow keys or tab keys work on that dialog:)
A lot of people say they hate Microsoft because they say its on a mission of world domination.
Linus has been talking about world domination for 10 years.
Now debian writes a tool that auto-converts your machine into a debian machine, and calls it a plan for domination.
So when its microsoft, people get antsy, but when its linux or debian, world domination is ok ?
Is that because 1) linux+debian are "inherently" good, and microsoft is inherently bad? 2) people are hypocritical and don't think more than about 8 inches infront of them 3) some other reason im missing..
If MS released the "Linux Upgrade Kit" that put whatever SKU of windows you wanted on the box, people would be furious.
OBD-II wasn't even mandatory/ratified then (its 96+, afaik)
even my 88 cars require some dealer computer tools if you want to be pedantic. As you should know, brake fluid should be replaced quite regularly. Both of my 1988 cars have Bosch ABS and while you can bleed/change fluid like normal, you wont get the fluid trapped in the ABS chamber. The dealers have a tool which actuates the ABS valves to eject the old fluid out of the abs system as well. DIYers do this by changing the fluild then doing some panic stops (to get full ABS engagement), then changing it again.
uh.. you might want to stick to talking about computers. because im not sure you know wtf you're talking about when it comes to cars.
let me give you some basics:
an engine is an air pump. the more air you send through it in unit time, the more power it makes.
a great way to get more air into an engine is with forced induction. turbocharging is one route to acheive forced induction.
where are the turbo cars indeed ? - subaru WRX - lancer evo 8 - Audi RS6 - Dodge SRT-4 - Porsche 996TT
these are some of the fastest cars you can buy, each in their own respective price bracket.
there were some early reliability concerns with turbocharging because people forgot that americans are stupid and do things like not change their oil or keep running the car even though its obviously over heating. this would often lead to oil coking in the turbine and eventual bearing failure, causing turbos to wear out.
incidentally, replacing a turbine is a pretty common modification, and an easy way to extract more power from an engine (when part of a well thought out systems engineering approach that has the appropriate modifiactinos in inductino and exhaust to support the new turbine and keep it in its ideal efficiency range for the cfm/boost desired)
so, turbo charging is alive and well, some of the worlds most exciting cars are benefitting from it.
but some of the worlds most mundane, reliable cars are as well. turbo deisel engines are incredibly common and reliable in the fleet industry. ford has some 7+ liters turbo deisel truck motors that go hundreds of thousands of miles with only regular maintenance. and turbo diesel cars are huge in europe where diesel is cheaper and more energy efficient (and cleaner) then it is here... VW is introducing more TDI engined models this year infact. many of them make twice as much peak torque as naturally aspirated motors with similar displacement.
high RPM engines are also wildly successful in racing. They DO give the best performance. It's easy to see why:
SAE horsepower = (Torque (ft/lbs) * RPM) / 5252
in other words, the more revs you make, the more horsepower you'll produce. As long as your rpms are climbing faster than the non-constant torque curve is decreasing, you want to continue to rev higher.
This is why the BMW-Williams P82 Formula 1 motor redlines at slightly north if 19,000 RPM. It's a 3 liter V10 naturally aspirated motor making in excess of 900 horsepower. It isn't making as much torque but doesn't need to - only about 280ft/lbs or so.. because the car its installed in weighs bout 1000lbs. High-RPM high horsepower cars are the most performant in typical tarmac racing because you can take advantage of aggressive, torque multiplying gear ratios.
Incidentally, thats still more torque than most of the motors driving 3000+ lb street cars are producing.
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have you tried doing this ?
OBD-II only has a "Base" set of codes that are common to all cars. It's sort of like SNMP where anyone can go and define their own MIBs as long as they're in the right form. The difference is, if you want he VW proprietary codes or functions, you cant do it with a generic tool, you need a special one.
I'm guessing you've never actually tried this - a bill was just passed forcing auto makers to open up the diagnostic tools/info they have to independant mechanics. If you wanted to do some basic types of operations on a BMW, for instance, there are a few different machines you need.. a DIS.. a MODIC, etc. These are like 5-digit cost custom computers that knowhow to do things like reprogram the key to match the ECU, tell the car that its OK that it has a different engine than the one its expecting, etc etc.
_Every_ current car has something in it that can only be repaired at the dealership right now.
im running my laptop in case sensitive mode currently. As near as i have experienced, nothing is broken. i can create files with unix vi and open them using wordpad - just like i'd expect.
i dont see why combining $HOMEPATH and $HOMEDRIVE is inherently worse than $HOME. Its more letters I guess. If you want $HOME, why not just use $HOMEDRIVE\$HOMEPATH ?
Incidentally, SFU shells set $HOME for you.
SFU isn't included by default because the default customer doesn't need any of the things it provides (or any of the things you're mentioning). Even so, it IS available. If you choose to try and make your windows machine act like a unix machine, there's a supported way of doing that, and it works quite well. Much better than making a unix machine act like a windows machine:)
hrmm. You must be right - i've never written any software:)
Let me ask you this. suppose im trying to word wrap. Do i care about what strlen tells me, or do i care about the width of the displayed characters ?
Let's say im trying to size a window to some displayed text. Do i care about strlen(), or do i care about something else ?
you're the one claiming various easily done tasks are impossible in windows. I don't see how im being the ignorant one.
have you ever run windows in case-sensitive mode ? have you ever tried to access objects via the object-space names ?
C is just a symlink created by the IO manager. You're right in the sense that explorer is too dumb to use the native representation, but that doesn't mean you can't write a better explorer that does what you want.
SFU also presents the machine as having a singly rooted file system. for instance, when i type df i show a/dev/fs/C/... mounted volume..
i dont know why you're responding either, being as you're basically incorrect. maybe its to tell me that im ignorant ?
drive letters are primarily provided for backwards compat. They're slowly going away.
$HOMEDRIVE and $HOMEPATH are both defined on this XP machine.
you can make files (and other objects) case sensitive if you like; services for UNIX install will do this for you if you so desire.
Services for UNIX does include many GNU utilities... i use tcsh on my XP laptop quite frequently. gcc is there if you want bash, zsh, or anything else you can think of..
UTF-8 is a poor standard - it's what happens when there's too much legacy tied to ANSI C and C style strings. With UTF-8, strlen no longer means anything:/
NT is actually UCS-2 from the ground up - a much more reasonable way to do unicode, IMO.
NT is unix compatible enough that you can clean compile many userland unix things form source with interix/SFU.
Please let me know when you find something where NT differs from unix where the unix design is "obviously better to everyone".
i dont know which part of "check into the number of" means "all"
infact, it pretty much explicitly says "not all", since i suggest that he find out "what amount" (which could be 0 x all)
if you were to visit several daycare/preschool facilities i think you'd find my observation about the number of single moms working there to be accurate. I also suspect you'll find that the intersection of "single moms employed at this preschool/daycare" and "WT" is non-null.
What Linux standards ? How many differnet "Linux" distros are compliant with these standards ? what are they ?
Furthermore, how would it benefit Microsoft to tout that "longhorn is compliant with xx". Microsoft already has source level compat with much free software via the Services For Unix Interix SDK. Windows can be an NFS client or server with SFU. CIFS interop between linux and windows could be better I suppose, but my feeling is that samba needs to move upwards, and microsoft has little incentive to move downward to acheive this.
I guess i'd just be curious to know where this statement came from. It sounds mostly like a "wouldn't that be nice" without a lot of thought behind it.. like an emotional victory rather than something of technical significance..
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each employer is of course a bit different, everything is negotiable and at least where i got hired (a company you may be familiar with for its allegedly disreputable overall business practices) there was a process that i could follow to try and reconcile their safety-net-worded statement, and my interests.
where it was one of the worst economic periods in history (on the tail end at least). One of the only times in US history where you had stagflation - inflation coupled with high unemployment and sagging GDP.
please (if you don't mind) email me about what you disliked about Great Plains dynamics.
;)
I transferred to Great Plains from Redmond in November
(Great Plains is now owned by Microsoft)
because audiophile grade audio uses tubes in a non-overdriven state, and the benefit of tubes for guitarists is their degradation characteristics when they are overdriven.
IOW, if your goal is 100% perfect sound reproduction with zero distortion amplitude implification, thats something that solid state can do nicely.
If your goal is to color the sound by over-driving the amplification device, thats soemthing that transistors really suck at, and tubes are really good at. The only solid state amps which sound any good at all use DSP and software to model the sonic transformation of an over driven tube system. transistor amps call it "distortion" because the waveforms are clipped. on tube amps its called "overdrive" the effect is much different (and nicer).
Finally, if you read between the lines, tube audiophile rags and proponents talk about the tube equipment coloring the sound. it may sound better, but its a preference and value proposition thing. at the point that you're talking about coloring sound, you're not dealing with faithful 100% reproduction of source material.. you're talking about subjectively pleasing somebody.
i know its "their" website and all, but can we collectively fire the yellow journalists that make up the slashdot staff ?
this headline is the most absurd thing i have _ever_ read here. everytime i think i've seen the dumbest peice of editorial slant condensed into just the few lame sentences they add to the usually slanted lame article submission.. something like this comes along and moves the bar.
listen, taco - your proseletyzing(sp?) is really dragging down an otherwise nice site.
Historically there's been plenty of things to be mad at microsoft for. There's no need to resort to just making shit up. If you want to dedicate all of slashdot to hatred-fueled Microsoft bashing, you could at least stick to things that are accurate!!
i go clothes shopping with my wife quite often (can you hear that whip cracking sound?) and its amazing what a wide variety of garments seem to pass off as being the same size.
i'm even worse. I am 95% pragmatic in my clothing purchases, which means when i try on a pair of pants, i put my normal cargo load in the pockets, sit down, stand up, walk around, etc. Most garments fail the load-pockets-and-sit-down test (i have fat legs).
when i try on coats i try sitting, standing, buttoned, unbuttoned, and so on. i insert and remove my phone from the breast pocket, if so equipped. I hold my arms in the full range of positions for steering and shifting a car. My shoulders and chest are quite large from weight training and i've only ever found one sport coat that wasn't ready to burst the shoulder seams and back pleating when i tried to put my arms in the steering wheel position. It a cheap JC penny coat that had a lycra blend in its composition.
so anyhow, garment manufacturers don't currently take my particular oddities into account. nor do they widely manufacture for people shaped like my wife. yet some how they suspect that they can even get away from the facility of test fittings on real humans ?
on the other hand, perhaps this would be useful if they'd use the body scans, remove the heads and send the data back to the designers to get an accurate sampling of the customer base.
its obvious from my user info (as you've discovered). you don't mention who you work for when you post, why should i ?
i don't speak on behalf of my company, but im often privy to information that non-MS employees (and the typical slashdot poster) are not.. not that i can really disclose any of that but i often have a perspective that doesn't agree with what some people say here for a variety of reasons... certainly not the least of which is that i don't have the built-in anti-MS bias that many do.. but that is not the only factor..
my point was that it is pretty clear that some EU member nations _really_ want to promote indiginous businesses and alternatives.. germany especially. Viewed alone, thats fine. In conjunction with severe penalties against their political opponent (MS and/or the USA) it's somewhat disingenuous, i think.
My personal feeling is that the MS proceedings are more about promoting software of EU origin and reducing dependance on non-EU members more than any actual complaints with what MS is doing. It's a big easy target, and its politically popular to get the US and its wildly successful capitalist (monopolist?) representative out of Europe.
what was their assessment ? that they hated to see the US do anything that marginalized their importance ? that they didn't want to lose any of the contracts they had in iraq ?
I think this is an EU vs USA thing. the EU _hates_ depending on America. It's trying to pretend like that's not whats going on. The political top-down approach to getting MS software out of germany reeks of principle/idealism as opposed to a well thought out plan. The way it totally backfired is indicative of that.
The whole IRAQ showdown with a few of the more independantly minded EU nations really put a perspective on the EU's struggle for legitimacy as the next super power... the EU wanted solidarity in opposing the IRAQ war but many of the new member nations (uncoincidentally the ones that had suffered under butcherous regimes, some of which the US had a hand in liberating) would not speak out against the US.
As a result, the EU solidarity on the issue dissolved and some of the more vocal states felt the US was to blame.
The US pretty much told europe where to go on the IRAQ issue.
Look for the EU to start militarizing under the EU banner as opposed to its independant nation states. The collective memories of the french and german governments are apparently not quite 60 years long..
you have no idea what you're talking about.
/SOS switch in boot.ini. Better yet, run XP under the kernel debugger (you do know how to do this, right ? I mean, you _are_ an expert on windows OS design, right ?)
... Which is hillarious because XP also needs to be rebooted / bugchecke'd LESS frequently than any previous MS Os..
it's very easy to see when and which files are loaded by Windows as it boots. try the
XP is one of the fastest booting MS operating systems there has ever been, since the DOS days at least. Significant engineering effort went into optimizing the boot time.
wal-mart also has cameras all over the store. they already know that your 4 year old daughter entered the store. how do you know their image recognition technology isn't already good enough to id people in real time from video feeds ? there are of course cameras on all the check out lines as well. if they see you come in, they see you pay, and they see you leave, what data will rfid give them that they dont have ?
yesterday i was wearing enough layers on my torso and pants that i didn't even need a coat.
but my fingers ? They're always too cold. Infact, when i finally came inside my finger tips hurt so badly that the very centers of the pain didn't really have feeling at all.
I suspect that i was in the very beginning stages of a frost bite.
I was running electrical circuits in our garage and there was no wind but the ambient temp was 7 below (F). Even with gloves my hands did not stay warm.
Just todtay i was lamenting to my boss that i'd buy the gloves they give shuttle astronauts (airtight, with water jacket circulation) if they were availabvle. Looks like they are.
my second year we were doing MIPS (well, SPIM) assembly and this was the dreaded recursion assignment. I had my homework all coded up but it was not working right and i had NO idea why.
Reading the code seemed correct, running it produced the wrong answer. There was no interactive debugger facility available so i was kind of screwed. The assignment was due the following day so i was working quite hard on it trying to get it to work, but eventually i said to hell with it and went to bed.
I woke up early next morning (on my own, without an alarm) and immediately knew where my bug was. I sat down and had it fixed in minutes.
I literally opened my eyes, looked at the ceiling, and smiled, because I KNEW i knew what the fix was and had somehow awaked "smarter" than when i went to bed.
i dont care how good or bad a movie is.. i want as many movies as possible to make as much money as possible to move "Titanic" down the list as far as possible.
I'd willingly have explosive diareahh for days (sp) if i could cover all persons involved in the Titanic project.
http://maddox.xmission.com/titanic.html
yeah, what a shitty deal that PhD's don't just come free with your 2 cars and a house. I mean. the government could afford all of that!
I don't see any evidence of the US not being able to pay its bills. Surely you cant be critical of the US's national debt... not after you just mentioned being in debt yourself over college of all things..
so which is it - do you want government healthcare, or do you NOT want to pay for retiring baby boomers ? or do you some how get both in some plan your debt-financed education has allowed you to concoct ?
_did_ know better than everyone else. Go use an original NeXt system. It's delicious.
:)
:)
Problem is, OS X isn't NeXT step. it's this goofy hybrid thing that often manages to take the worst of OS9 and NeXTStep
See, in NS the dock was on the SIDE of the screen. Thats because most documents are PAGE shaped, which run in a portrait orientation. vertical real estate is at a premium.
OS X shat all over that - sure you can move the dock to the side, but the damn apple bar is a permanant vertical space hog.
The keyboard navigation - something OS9 at least did some places, is pretty crappy in OSX. My personal favorite is how you can hti the power button on a mac, but have to use the mouse to actually shut the thing off. No arrow keys or tab keys work on that dialog
A lot of people say they hate Microsoft because they say its on a mission of world domination.
Linus has been talking about world domination for 10 years.
Now debian writes a tool that auto-converts your machine into a debian machine, and calls it a plan for domination.
So when its microsoft, people get antsy, but when its linux or debian, world domination is ok ?
Is that because
1) linux+debian are "inherently" good, and microsoft is inherently bad?
2) people are hypocritical and don't think more than about 8 inches infront of them
3) some other reason im missing..
If MS released the "Linux Upgrade Kit" that put whatever SKU of windows you wanted on the box, people would be furious.
people that grew up after the transformers got lame and stupid and turned into "BEAST WARS" now have themselves grown up and have jobs in the Army.
your 94 integra is 9 years old.
OBD-II wasn't even mandatory/ratified then (its 96+, afaik)
even my 88 cars require some dealer computer tools if you want to be pedantic. As you should know, brake fluid should be replaced quite regularly. Both of my 1988 cars have Bosch ABS and while you can bleed/change fluid like normal, you wont get the fluid trapped in the ABS chamber. The dealers have a tool which actuates the ABS valves to eject the old fluid out of the abs system as well. DIYers do this by changing the fluild then doing some panic stops (to get full ABS engagement), then changing it again.
Really.
uh.. you might want to stick to talking about computers. because im not sure you know wtf you're talking about when it comes to cars.
let me give you some basics:
an engine is an air pump. the more air you send through it in unit time, the more power it makes.
a great way to get more air into an engine is with forced induction. turbocharging is one route to acheive forced induction.
where are the turbo cars indeed ?
- subaru WRX
- lancer evo 8
- Audi RS6
- Dodge SRT-4
- Porsche 996TT
these are some of the fastest cars you can buy, each in their own respective price bracket.
there were some early reliability concerns with turbocharging because people forgot that americans are stupid and do things like not change their oil or keep running the car even though its obviously over heating. this would often lead to oil coking in the turbine and eventual bearing failure, causing turbos to wear out.
incidentally, replacing a turbine is a pretty common modification, and an easy way to extract more power from an engine (when part of a well thought out systems engineering approach that has the appropriate modifiactinos in inductino and exhaust to support the new turbine and keep it in its ideal efficiency range for the cfm/boost desired)
so, turbo charging is alive and well, some of the worlds most exciting cars are benefitting from it.
but some of the worlds most mundane, reliable cars are as well. turbo deisel engines are incredibly common and reliable in the fleet industry. ford has some 7+ liters turbo deisel truck motors that go hundreds of thousands of miles with only regular maintenance. and turbo diesel cars are huge in europe where diesel is cheaper and more energy efficient (and cleaner) then it is here... VW is introducing more TDI engined models this year infact. many of them make twice as much peak torque as naturally aspirated motors with similar displacement.
high RPM engines are also wildly successful in racing. They DO give the best performance. It's easy to see why:
SAE horsepower = (Torque (ft/lbs) * RPM) / 5252
in other words, the more revs you make, the more horsepower you'll produce. As long as your rpms are climbing faster than the non-constant torque curve is decreasing, you want to continue to rev higher.
This is why the BMW-Williams P82 Formula 1 motor redlines at slightly north if 19,000 RPM. It's a 3 liter V10 naturally aspirated motor making in excess of 900 horsepower. It isn't making as much torque but doesn't need to - only about 280ft/lbs or so.. because the car its installed in weighs bout 1000lbs. High-RPM high horsepower cars are the most performant in typical tarmac racing because you can take advantage of aggressive, torque multiplying gear ratios.
Incidentally, thats still more torque than most of the motors driving 3000+ lb street cars are producing.
have you tried doing this ?
OBD-II only has a "Base" set of codes that are common to all cars. It's sort of like SNMP where anyone can go and define their own MIBs as long as they're in the right form. The difference is, if you want he VW proprietary codes or functions, you cant do it with a generic tool, you need a special one.
I'm guessing you've never actually tried this - a bill was just passed forcing auto makers to open up the diagnostic tools/info they have to independant mechanics. If you wanted to do some basic types of operations on a BMW, for instance, there are a few different machines you need.. a DIS.. a MODIC, etc. These are like 5-digit cost custom computers that knowhow to do things like reprogram the key to match the ECU, tell the car that its OK that it has a different engine than the one its expecting, etc etc.
_Every_ current car has something in it that can only be repaired at the dealership right now.
im running my laptop in case sensitive mode currently. As near as i have experienced, nothing is broken. i can create files with unix vi and open them using wordpad - just like i'd expect.
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/dev/fs/C/... mounted volume..
i dont see why combining $HOMEPATH and $HOMEDRIVE is inherently worse than $HOME. Its more letters I guess. If you want $HOME, why not just use $HOMEDRIVE\$HOMEPATH ?
Incidentally, SFU shells set $HOME for you.
SFU isn't included by default because the default customer doesn't need any of the things it provides (or any of the things you're mentioning). Even so, it IS available. If you choose to try and make your windows machine act like a unix machine, there's a supported way of doing that, and it works quite well. Much better than making a unix machine act like a windows machine
hrmm. You must be right - i've never written any software
Let me ask you this. suppose im trying to word wrap. Do i care about what strlen tells me, or do i care about the width of the displayed characters ?
Let's say im trying to size a window to some displayed text. Do i care about strlen(), or do i care about something else ?
you're the one claiming various easily done tasks are impossible in windows. I don't see how im being the ignorant one.
have you ever run windows in case-sensitive mode ? have you ever tried to access objects via the object-space names ?
http://www.winntmag.com/Articles/ArticleID/299/pg
C is just a symlink created by the IO manager. You're right in the sense that explorer is too dumb to use the native representation, but that doesn't mean you can't write a better explorer that does what you want.
SFU also presents the machine as having a singly rooted file system. for instance, when i type df i show a
i dont know why you're responding either, being as you're basically incorrect. maybe its to tell me that im ignorant ?
dude, what are you talking about ?
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drive letters are primarily provided for backwards compat. They're slowly going away.
$HOMEDRIVE and $HOMEPATH are both defined on this XP machine.
you can make files (and other objects) case sensitive if you like; services for UNIX install will do this for you if you so desire.
Services for UNIX does include many GNU utilities... i use tcsh on my XP laptop quite frequently. gcc is there if you want bash, zsh, or anything else you can think of..
UTF-8 is a poor standard - it's what happens when there's too much legacy tied to ANSI C and C style strings. With UTF-8, strlen no longer means anything
NT is actually UCS-2 from the ground up - a much more reasonable way to do unicode, IMO.
NT is unix compatible enough that you can clean compile many userland unix things form source with interix/SFU.
Please let me know when you find something where NT differs from unix where the unix design is "obviously better to everyone".
i dont know which part of "check into the number of" means "all"
infact, it pretty much explicitly says "not all", since i suggest that he find out "what amount" (which could be 0 x all)
if you were to visit several daycare/preschool facilities i think you'd find my observation about the number of single moms working there to be accurate. I also suspect you'll find that the intersection of "single moms employed at this preschool/daycare" and "WT" is non-null.
What Linux standards ? How many differnet "Linux" distros are compliant with these standards ? what are they ?
Furthermore, how would it benefit Microsoft to tout that "longhorn is compliant with xx". Microsoft already has source level compat with much free software via the Services For Unix Interix SDK. Windows can be an NFS client or server with SFU. CIFS interop between linux and windows could be better I suppose, but my feeling is that samba needs to move upwards, and microsoft has little incentive to move downward to acheive this.
I guess i'd just be curious to know where this statement came from. It sounds mostly like a "wouldn't that be nice" without a lot of thought behind it.. like an emotional victory rather than something of technical significance..