Yes the 'kev/rider' mobiles tend to be body kitted bangers with no real performance (as if a sports exhaust will actually make a car quicker when it's N/A), however there are many high performance cars being drivena nd street raced over here (in the UK) - though mainly German or Japanese.
Still a nice TVR will leave your camero in it's dust, and for once be more reliable.
The most power Nissan Skyline (it's a GT-R 33 BTW - not the more modern 34) in the UK at the moment is 1000 BHP and lighter than one of your old tanks to boot.
A friend of a friend is tryign to get his Toyota Supra to this mark, but is presently at just 850 BHP. Of course he's spent more on the upgrade parts now than he originally spent on the car.
My MX-5 (Miata) is presently running 180 bhp (stock it's jsut 116) and by whipping off my suppercharger and piggy back ACUm, replacing them with a turbo and decent ECU (MoTeC 4pro being my fave at the mo) I could go to 240+ BHP.
However I'm now looking at getting a RX-7 instead. Sure a decently turboed MX-5 would be faster, but I'm also already looking at how to take this from teh stock 265 BHP to around 450 BHP:)
Power, once you start playing with it, is very, very addictive.
Oh and BTW - before I get any crits about being a danger on teh raod, I use my car's power on the track (not racing).
You ought to try a MX12 MX-5 (Miata to you Americans).
The stock 1,.6 was 116 BHP - mine, presently supercharged is safely running at 180. I did, however have to add safety features, such as a piggy back ECU for timing control, a knock sensor, a water-air charge-cooler, and a 5th injector (programamble as well) to stop my engine going bang.
As to the engine taking it, here in the UK we have turboed MX-5s that have been running at 240-260 BHP (100% increase) for several years now with no problems, and in teh US some of the relaible cars are up to 300+ BHP - this, BTW is all without the use of nitrous.
Lotus got the nickname Lots Of Trouble Usually Serious from the fact serious mechanical failures used to occur due to too many parts being weakened too much in the aim of lightening the car.
It depends on the car. Many cars already have thse readilly available.
The ones I know of are Mazda MX-5/Miata, Mazda RX-y BMW 3 Series, 5 series Caterhams Westfields Nissan 200s, Nissan Silvias, Nissan Skylines Toyota Supra
In fact most of the performance/sports cars out there where there's a big tuning market, especialyl if it invovles adding/upgrading turbos superchargers.
Virtually all of which you can do on a road car by either adding a piggy back ECU or replacing teh existing one with a fully programamble unit like those from Haltech, MoTeC, Link...
While timing and ignition maps can be put on to the new ECU, to fine tune it, you still need to take the car out on the road/rolling road and drive.
The US screw themselves over 2G phones and suddenly people think they're world leaders.
Japan is far ahead of anyone on the 3G game, and the technology is, at least, bieng tested in teh UK and Europe.
Oh and it's not the supposed licensing that's cost the Euro companies so much, it's the fact the governments auctioned off the licences, starting at ridiculously high prices.
Until Linux gets soem thing akin to the mksysb I'd never consider it for any of my clients.
Reliability is highly important, but the ability to be able to recover safely from a disaster is equally important. Not founbd anything else yet to beat the AIX root system backup (rootvg being backed up from a MKSYSB).
Oh and as I work in a department od SOLRIS, HP-UX, DecUNIX and Linux bods, I'm still amazed how envious they get of this part of AIX.
The article was not as bad as I initially thought it would be (as in our phone system is a mess, but we have the best mobile one around because we're American), but it wasn't far off.
I can use my mobile phone virtually any where in the world, except in the US where coverage is poor and the adoption of a newer, but else where unadopted system isolates regions from true mobile roaming.
Yes CDMA may be more technologically advanced, but even the author admits it's expensive and there's technical problems added to which 3G supercedes it, so why should we in the rest of the world consider the US system to be a winner when to us it is already out of date.
Yes DoCoMo had problems at 1st, and the take up has been slow, but it's going, it's the way forwards, and the UK now has 3G as well.
If that were so then cyclists would be a very early alpha release.
Comic as your statement is, you've obviosuly never driven in to or worked in London.
With the way cyclists behave, it's a miracel ONLY 20 of them are kiledl a year. I wonder if there's any stats for how many red lights cuyclist run, or on average how many pedestrians they clip as they ride on the pavement (sidewalks).
If you buy anything from outside the UK valued at over £13 and have it brought in third party then yo are meant to pay both duty and VAT on it.
You;ll find this normally does not happen as there are so many parcels coming through that it would be impossible for customs to deal with them all. Net result is they ignore most (but not all)m smaller items and low value items.
Occasionally you will be unlucky and have a small package targetted. This happened to me with some t-shirts I ordered from the US.
Not quite accurate.
The european equivalent to 'pleading the fifth' was thrown out a couple of years ago after the police appealed agaisnt the reversal of a penalty against a Glawegian woman on the grounds that admitting to driving the car was a forced admission of guilt.
Also, the number of tickets issued for speeding has increased dramatically over the last 3-4 years. The TV program 5th Gear (BEWARE SOUNDS ON SITE) did half a program on it about 3 weeks ago.
And as to Morpheous Geodesy and Origin BlueI - I think one of them is on my shopping list in the near future.
I read the web site and saw they were just pushing a container which:-
1. Came from seeing a device around 10 years ago either in Europe or Asia
2. Replicates existing technologies that have been around for a fair while. The Nestlee product a number of people have mentioned is only a few months old, but the Japanese have been able to get self-heating coffee using this style (as opposed to what the Ontro designers saw back in the early nineties) of technology in a decent working form for a good few years now.
Terms like reinventing the wheel come to mind, as does the apparent preoccupation of US citizens to try and patent existing devices (and sadly succeed).
As some one who does not smoke, but who sees his colleagues head out for about 5 minutes an hour to take a shot of niccotine, I see my web browsing as my equivalent, epsecially as it helps me relax, much in the same way a cigarette does for a smoker, but hopefully without the high addiciton factor.
Perhaps if web access were to be stopped I'd be allowed to leave work a half hour early:-)
Too many people use their PCs to access the 'Net for entertainment and expect to be able to access the same mediums regardless of what OS they have on their machines. Without being able to use the likes of the above they will stick with windows (IMHO).
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I think you've gone blind.
Yes the 'kev/rider' mobiles tend to be body kitted bangers with no real performance (as if a sports exhaust will actually make a car quicker when it's N/A), however there are many high performance cars being drivena nd street raced over here (in the UK) - though mainly German or Japanese.
Still a nice TVR will leave your camero in it's dust, and for once be more reliable.
LOL
you got to be kidding.
The most power Nissan Skyline (it's a GT-R 33 BTW - not the more modern 34) in the UK at the moment is 1000 BHP and lighter than one of your old tanks to boot.
A friend of a friend is tryign to get his Toyota Supra to this mark, but is presently at just 850 BHP. Of course he's spent more on the upgrade parts now than he originally spent on the car.
Oh, neitehr of these uses nitrous BTW.
Damn right.
:)
My MX-5 (Miata) is presently running 180 bhp (stock it's jsut 116) and by whipping off my suppercharger and piggy back ACUm, replacing them with a turbo and decent ECU (MoTeC 4pro being my fave at the mo) I could go to 240+ BHP.
However I'm now looking at getting a RX-7 instead. Sure a decently turboed MX-5 would be faster, but I'm also already looking at how to take this from teh stock 265 BHP to around 450 BHP
Power, once you start playing with it, is very, very addictive.
Oh and BTW - before I get any crits about being a danger on teh raod, I use my car's power on the track (not racing).
drop it and instead put in some thing like a Haltech TEC-3 or a MoTeC 4pro
You ought to try a MX12 MX-5 (Miata to you Americans).
The stock 1,.6 was 116 BHP - mine, presently supercharged is safely running at 180. I did, however have to add safety features, such as a piggy back ECU for timing control, a knock sensor, a water-air charge-cooler, and a 5th injector (programamble as well) to stop my engine going bang.
As to the engine taking it, here in the UK we have turboed MX-5s that have been running at 240-260 BHP (100% increase) for several years now with no problems, and in teh US some of the relaible cars are up to 300+ BHP - this, BTW is all without the use of nitrous.
If done properly - yes.
A decent ECU and rolling road time makes getting the all important fuelling right so much easier.
If you remap your engine to get more power and you don't have the fuel going in, the engine goes bang.
Too much fuel - the car will lsoe performance and start to backfire.
Of course once you start seriously tweaking a car then you do need to make sure you keep it reguarly serviced, but that's about it.
And boy didn't his cars used to fall apart.
Lotus got the nickname Lots Of Trouble Usually Serious from the fact serious mechanical failures used to occur due to too many parts being weakened too much in the aim of lightening the car.
It depends on the car. Many cars already have thse readilly available.
The ones I know of are Mazda MX-5/Miata, Mazda RX-y
BMW 3 Series, 5 series
Caterhams
Westfields
Nissan 200s, Nissan Silvias, Nissan Skylines
Toyota Supra
In fact most of the performance/sports cars out there where there's a big tuning market, especialyl if it invovles adding/upgrading turbos superchargers.
Virtually all of which you can do on a road car by either adding a piggy back ECU or replacing teh existing one with a fully programamble unit like those from Haltech, MoTeC, Link ...
While timing and ignition maps can be put on to the new ECU, to fine tune it, you still need to take the car out on the road/rolling road and drive.
For x-mas my company granted me the exclusion from the 10%.
The 10% of the work force being laid off that is.
The US screw themselves over 2G phones and suddenly people think they're world leaders.
Japan is far ahead of anyone on the 3G game, and the technology is, at least, bieng tested in teh UK and Europe.
Oh and it's not the supposed licensing that's cost the Euro companies so much, it's the fact the governments auctioned off the licences, starting at ridiculously high prices.
Fortunatley I concentrate more with a command line :)
Either that or it's the caffeine withdrawal symptoms again.
Until Linux gets soem thing akin to the mksysb I'd never consider it for any of my clients.
Reliability is highly important, but the ability to be able to recover safely from a disaster is equally important. Not founbd anything else yet to beat the AIX root system backup (rootvg being backed up from a MKSYSB).
Oh and as I work in a department od SOLRIS, HP-UX, DecUNIX and Linux bods, I'm still amazed how envious they get of this part of AIX.
Can a pressure group for blind people sue a book reseller for not having a voice reader friendly website.
What they going to do next ? sue a book reseller for selling books you have to be able to see to read !
The article was not as bad as I initially thought it would be (as in our phone system is a mess, but we have the best mobile one around because we're American), but it wasn't far off.
I can use my mobile phone virtually any where in the world, except in the US where coverage is poor and the adoption of a newer, but else where unadopted system isolates regions from true mobile roaming.
Yes CDMA may be more technologically advanced, but even the author admits it's expensive and there's technical problems added to which 3G supercedes it, so why should we in the rest of the world consider the US system to be a winner when to us it is already out of date.
Yes DoCoMo had problems at 1st, and the take up has been slow, but it's going, it's the way forwards, and the UK now has 3G as well.
CDMA RIP
US mobile users lose again
So it's going to be based on the books ?
rather than the LPs, or the TV series, or (in my opinion the best version) the Radio Series ?
(seeing a 2 mile high tall statues of Arthur Dent in an IMAX cinema would be inpressive).
If that were so then cyclists would be a very early alpha release.
Comic as your statement is, you've obviosuly never driven in to or worked in London.
With the way cyclists behave, it's a miracel ONLY 20 of them are kiledl a year. I wonder if there's any stats for how many red lights cuyclist run, or on average how many pedestrians they clip as they ride on the pavement (sidewalks).
We get virually no anime.
Personally I get mine from Canada - from dvdboxoffice.com
Nothing affected my course work (read poor results) more thean the Paradise version of netrek.
Happy days - now to find a windows (ahem) binary to try it out again.
To me FPS games (Quake, HL, etc.)only caught up with the multiplayer intensity a few years back.
If you buy anything from outside the UK valued at over £13 and have it brought in third party then yo are meant to pay both duty and VAT on it.
You;ll find this normally does not happen as there are so many parcels coming through that it would be impossible for customs to deal with them all. Net result is they ignore most (but not all)m smaller items and low value items.
Occasionally you will be unlucky and have a small package targetted. This happened to me with some t-shirts I ordered from the US.
Not quite accurate. The european equivalent to 'pleading the fifth' was thrown out a couple of years ago after the police appealed agaisnt the reversal of a penalty against a Glawegian woman on the grounds that admitting to driving the car was a forced admission of guilt. Also, the number of tickets issued for speeding has increased dramatically over the last 3-4 years. The TV program 5th Gear (BEWARE SOUNDS ON SITE) did half a program on it about 3 weeks ago. And as to Morpheous Geodesy and Origin BlueI - I think one of them is on my shopping list in the near future.
The Staples in Cambridge had at least one in stock last Friday
I read the web site and saw they were just pushing a container which :-
1. Came from seeing a device around 10 years ago either in Europe or Asia
2. Replicates existing technologies that have been around for a fair while. The Nestlee product a number of people have mentioned is only a few months old, but the Japanese have been able to get self-heating coffee using this style (as opposed to what the Ontro designers saw back in the early nineties) of technology in a decent working form for a good few years now.
Terms like reinventing the wheel come to mind, as does the apparent preoccupation of US citizens to try and patent existing devices (and sadly succeed).
As some one who does not smoke, but who sees his colleagues head out for about 5 minutes an hour to take a shot of niccotine, I see my web browsing as my equivalent, epsecially as it helps me relax, much in the same way a cigarette does for a smoker, but hopefully without the high addiciton factor.
:-)
Perhaps if web access were to be stopped I'd be allowed to leave work a half hour early
It's more basic than that.
..
Look out for linux clients for
Quicktime
Realplayer
Macrovision
....
Too many people use their PCs to access the 'Net for entertainment and expect to be able to access the same mediums regardless of what OS they have on their machines. Without being able to use the likes of the above they will stick with windows (IMHO).