The torque curve from the engine may be flat. However when you add gears to that you can create different amounts of torque in different gears. So yes, the acceleration would be better through a 6 speed manual transmission than through a 2 speed. Though with a wider torque curve you might need wider gear ratios.
Also, electric engines operate more efficiently in the higher RPM. With more gears you'd have more power, higher top speed, and better acceleration.
Also, give me an engine whine or rumble. There is nothing more annoying when people can't hear you coming from around the corner.
Also, I still hate the automatics. There is nothing more annoying than a transmission that keeps frying itself.
I just hope that all these manufactures have the fun driver in mind.
That means,
- Available with an 5-6 speed stick shift
- No traction control, or, the ability to permantly turn it off
- RWD
Different though, when 2000 came out it was pretty much everything Microsoft claimed and any transition to it was done with minimal compatability issues. Often times more things worked better after the switch.
With XP, in the early years anyways there were some compatability issues. But again and overall users were happier in XP.
VISTA comes out, users make the switch and the interface confuses everyone, Including the IT pro's. It has driver issues and backwards compatability issues. Even HP's own basic business systems have more compatability Errors with Vista than with XP. In other cases the interface is easier. But, to do anything advanced requires relearning how to a number of menu's. Things take longer...
Have you ever typed out a full post with case points and examples. Then realised, if I said this I'd be fucked.
I'm gonna agree with most of the people on this board. There really is no reason not to get another 2 weeks out of a quality employee if you can. I've had bosses that actually spent half a day talking to me about things to watch out for in the future things that they think I can improve on etc. Right after I put in my notice. Now, if you don't trust them then by all means start the process quickly and walk them out the door. I think it solely depends on the person and whether you trust them enough to continue doing good work for a couple more weeks.
Ever since Kevin, took over from Walmart, operations at the retail level have sucked, and not in a good way. A lot of good people have left, and even more want to leave. Something like a 30-40 percent turnover per year. It's rediculous.
Also, I'm willing to bet that Kevin had something to do with him getting discovered as he was the former CIO at Walmart who's ethical practices aren't exactly "well known".
Who saw this as a way of computerizing all of China's military system so that they can have a full supply chain management system that keeps track of everything so they can mobilize all thier wharehouses, brainwipe supersoldiers canidates, and attack within 10 days or less?
I envision a game called Ambulance chaser. Your whole job is to catch the ambulance so you can hand them court papers. Extra points for every illegal move you make in the proccess of catching said ambulances.
Then afterwards you get to choose your idiotic statement towards the arguement that we need to sue the ambulance guys because the may have saved my life, but in the proccess they broke my foot.
Having lived through 3 different cable providers giving me the same service. Started with TCI, then moved to ATT, then moved to Comcast. I'd have to say I'm the least satisfied with Comcast out of all three. I hate thier customer service. Thier CRM setup is a complete joke.
Personally, I think the woman is a hero, If she had a paypal posted I'd send a buck for making my day.
Comcast should have this happen in every one of thier offices every single day until they get the point. Treat thier customers right.
I dunno, I think these days you would've found yourself under arrest if you had warned the police about the exploit. Plus, they'd likely charge you for terrorism.
I wouldn't say it was crap... For the time, it was quite realistic, and the difficulty level made it challenging to get through. I'm a realism guy what can I say.
We've actually had windows updates that pretty much crippled our autodesk batch printing systems and cost us nearly 2 weeks worth of man hours to fix. Our final workaround was to have a machine totally unpatched that just simply does autodesk batch printing.
The old need for speed was amazing... I remember talking to a product manager once. Asking him "will you ever release Porsche Unleashed again?" His response to this was "that game was harddddd". I had to chuckle in that it was probably the best overall realistic racing game that the Need For Speed series ever released. After that, it wasn't as much fun. It was just lame arcade physics beyond that which pretty much stopped me from buying Need for Speed all together.
Forza 1, Forza 2, Dirt, GT1, GT2, GT3, GTHD, Rallisport 1-2, colin Mcrae series. Those have all pleased me far more than the most recent of the Need For Speed series.
Seriously, give me a car that actually responds to throttle lift.
EA tends to buy game companies and run 1 or 2 titles forever. Doesn't even sell off any of the titles they aquire.
Seriously, EA would be better off just buying the rights to specific games with the design team than buying a whole company.
The method they currently use discourages the overall growth and diversity of gaming.
Every person I've worked with that was involved with EA takeover in some way pretty much took thier Cash and left.
A great number of good games could have been made had EA not done thier best to destroy them. Or release everything they make with Serious bug issues.
Microsoft back in the early days of gaming did everything they could to foster the creativity of gaming into what it is today. With big budgets, big parties, big group gatherings.
God those were the days when I was happy to be in the industry. Now I'm happy to be out of it and buy a few slect games every year.
I bought most of those games back then and enjoyed them all throughly. Lately though, I picked up a sim game tried it out in the store and bleh was my utter response to it.
I'm going to go out on a Alloy Steel, carbon fiber, military strength beam and agree with everyone here. EA ruins games. I've worked with a ton of people who used to work for the companies that EA bought. All of them basically took the cash and ran like the wind. When EA did something screwy like buying the owning company of renderware and firing the development team. Many of those guys just called up the users and said what happened. Look what happened? No more RenderWare.....
EA has no idea of how to treat thier people. Or, do they have any concept of how to make a long term game better than anyone else's other than buying everyone else's. The vision I get of EA is that they have a very good sales/marketing VP who knows how to pretty much dominate the market. The best company out there to get bought by is probably Microsoft. At least there if you have a successful games you pretty much get whatever you want.
I find it sad that lately Microsof hasn't put as much emphasis and enthusiasm into games as they once did. The creativity they inspired with thier parties and gatherings practically built the gaming industry as we know it today.
If EA were smart they'd create mostly self managed groups of people, let them choose a game from the past within EA parts bin to recreate or rebuild so to speak. Set them a due date that they actually have a chance at and let them build it.
I've been advocating something similar to this for a while. Integrating a GPU onto a cpu letting the GPU work with an external Video Card under an open source interface. Combined with your idea this would essentially let people just install a daughter card memory controller/ram card on the motherboard via a PCI express of some sort and install a crapload of ECC on it for use as a massive mulitchannel swap disc for really powerful video cards to essentially just use in an SLI hookup.
They may have been trying to protect themselves. Which by the old knee jerk reaction, sounds good but practices badly when you just go by feel rather than by the numbers.
Ultimately, it's not Apple that forced themselves out of the market. Its the EU that forced good products out of the market. Because they limited the ability of business to make money on a product; They limited what products consumers can or can't buy. Companies will generally only make products from which they can achieve a profit from. Thus, the EU forced new and good products away from thier own market and/or drove up the price of any products that do make it to market. The only thing that consumers need to be protected against is deceptive sales practices(lying to customer on the package or otherwise, not accepting returns, etc.), safety issues(lead paint), and forced takeovers(buying all the local competition and making only a few products availible).
This has rather large implications on the local economy too. This means that there is also less money for local businesses to hire more people. In France's case it is a severe problem with thier anti business laws.
Oddly enough, most consumers here in the states don't really mind locking into contracts. It's not like they aren't getting anything in return. We still have a good phone selection and good prices for the minutes to dollar conversion. You can get unlimited minutes, text, with no long distance for 40 a month and pay nothing but the tax for a good phone. Good luck getting anywhere near that in the EU.
Japan's new model might have air superiority in close range combat, but I seriously doubt it'd be able to shoot down a F-22 let alone see the damn thing before it was shot down itself.
The moral of this story is simply to make sure you take the RIAA to court every single time then if you lose just sell your assets for cash conversion before filing for bankruptcy. Instead of them getting 10k from you they spend 30k to get nothing from you.
With 200k plus in bills with no on paper capitol and limited income its very easy.
Wait 3 months, take a silly class, and show up to court a few times drive around a small old car for a while is really all you need to do.
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The torque curve from the engine may be flat. However when you add gears to that you can create different amounts of torque in different gears. So yes, the acceleration would be better through a 6 speed manual transmission than through a 2 speed. Though with a wider torque curve you might need wider gear ratios.
Also, electric engines operate more efficiently in the higher RPM. With more gears you'd have more power, higher top speed, and better acceleration.
Also, give me an engine whine or rumble. There is nothing more annoying when people can't hear you coming from around the corner.
Also, I still hate the automatics. There is nothing more annoying than a transmission that keeps frying itself.
If they start handing out tickets with it. Then they better make it bullet proof. Kinda like the Red light camera housings are now.
I just hope that all these manufactures have the fun driver in mind. That means, - Available with an 5-6 speed stick shift - No traction control, or, the ability to permantly turn it off - RWD
Different though, when 2000 came out it was pretty much everything Microsoft claimed and any transition to it was done with minimal compatability issues. Often times more things worked better after the switch. With XP, in the early years anyways there were some compatability issues. But again and overall users were happier in XP. VISTA comes out, users make the switch and the interface confuses everyone, Including the IT pro's. It has driver issues and backwards compatability issues. Even HP's own basic business systems have more compatability Errors with Vista than with XP. In other cases the interface is easier. But, to do anything advanced requires relearning how to a number of menu's. Things take longer...
Why don't you have one of those LCD license plate covers. Just turn it on everytime you get near a camera. No tracking...
Have you ever typed out a full post with case points and examples. Then realised, if I said this I'd be fucked. I'm gonna agree with most of the people on this board. There really is no reason not to get another 2 weeks out of a quality employee if you can. I've had bosses that actually spent half a day talking to me about things to watch out for in the future things that they think I can improve on etc. Right after I put in my notice. Now, if you don't trust them then by all means start the process quickly and walk them out the door. I think it solely depends on the person and whether you trust them enough to continue doing good work for a couple more weeks.
Ever since Kevin, took over from Walmart, operations at the retail level have sucked, and not in a good way. A lot of good people have left, and even more want to leave. Something like a 30-40 percent turnover per year. It's rediculous. Also, I'm willing to bet that Kevin had something to do with him getting discovered as he was the former CIO at Walmart who's ethical practices aren't exactly "well known".
Seriously, this is very typical of Walmart. What do you expect from a company who's own employees get in the way more than the customers.
Who saw this as a way of computerizing all of China's military system so that they can have a full supply chain management system that keeps track of everything so they can mobilize all thier wharehouses, brainwipe supersoldiers canidates, and attack within 10 days or less?
This sir, is the best post I've read all week... If I had points I'd mod you to the moon for this.
I cracked up laughing at this....
I envision a game called Ambulance chaser. Your whole job is to catch the ambulance so you can hand them court papers. Extra points for every illegal move you make in the proccess of catching said ambulances. Then afterwards you get to choose your idiotic statement towards the arguement that we need to sue the ambulance guys because the may have saved my life, but in the proccess they broke my foot.
Having lived through 3 different cable providers giving me the same service. Started with TCI, then moved to ATT, then moved to Comcast. I'd have to say I'm the least satisfied with Comcast out of all three. I hate thier customer service. Thier CRM setup is a complete joke. Personally, I think the woman is a hero, If she had a paypal posted I'd send a buck for making my day. Comcast should have this happen in every one of thier offices every single day until they get the point. Treat thier customers right.
I dunno, I think these days you would've found yourself under arrest if you had warned the police about the exploit. Plus, they'd likely charge you for terrorism.
I wouldn't say it was crap... For the time, it was quite realistic, and the difficulty level made it challenging to get through. I'm a realism guy what can I say.
We've actually had windows updates that pretty much crippled our autodesk batch printing systems and cost us nearly 2 weeks worth of man hours to fix. Our final workaround was to have a machine totally unpatched that just simply does autodesk batch printing.
Check out Need for Speed Porsche Unleashed for the PC. Best one they ever made in my opinion.
The old need for speed was amazing... I remember talking to a product manager once. Asking him "will you ever release Porsche Unleashed again?" His response to this was "that game was harddddd". I had to chuckle in that it was probably the best overall realistic racing game that the Need For Speed series ever released. After that, it wasn't as much fun. It was just lame arcade physics beyond that which pretty much stopped me from buying Need for Speed all together.
Forza 1, Forza 2, Dirt, GT1, GT2, GT3, GTHD, Rallisport 1-2, colin Mcrae series. Those have all pleased me far more than the most recent of the Need For Speed series.
Seriously, give me a car that actually responds to throttle lift.
EA tends to buy game companies and run 1 or 2 titles forever. Doesn't even sell off any of the titles they aquire. Seriously, EA would be better off just buying the rights to specific games with the design team than buying a whole company. The method they currently use discourages the overall growth and diversity of gaming.
Nope...
Every person I've worked with that was involved with EA takeover in some way pretty much took thier Cash and left.
A great number of good games could have been made had EA not done thier best to destroy them. Or release everything they make with Serious bug issues.
Microsoft back in the early days of gaming did everything they could to foster the creativity of gaming into what it is today. With big budgets, big parties, big group gatherings.
God those were the days when I was happy to be in the industry. Now I'm happy to be out of it and buy a few slect games every year.
I bought most of those games back then and enjoyed them all throughly. Lately though, I picked up a sim game tried it out in the store and bleh was my utter response to it. I'm going to go out on a Alloy Steel, carbon fiber, military strength beam and agree with everyone here. EA ruins games. I've worked with a ton of people who used to work for the companies that EA bought. All of them basically took the cash and ran like the wind. When EA did something screwy like buying the owning company of renderware and firing the development team. Many of those guys just called up the users and said what happened. Look what happened? No more RenderWare..... EA has no idea of how to treat thier people. Or, do they have any concept of how to make a long term game better than anyone else's other than buying everyone else's. The vision I get of EA is that they have a very good sales/marketing VP who knows how to pretty much dominate the market. The best company out there to get bought by is probably Microsoft. At least there if you have a successful games you pretty much get whatever you want. I find it sad that lately Microsof hasn't put as much emphasis and enthusiasm into games as they once did. The creativity they inspired with thier parties and gatherings practically built the gaming industry as we know it today. If EA were smart they'd create mostly self managed groups of people, let them choose a game from the past within EA parts bin to recreate or rebuild so to speak. Set them a due date that they actually have a chance at and let them build it.
I've been advocating something similar to this for a while. Integrating a GPU onto a cpu letting the GPU work with an external Video Card under an open source interface. Combined with your idea this would essentially let people just install a daughter card memory controller/ram card on the motherboard via a PCI express of some sort and install a crapload of ECC on it for use as a massive mulitchannel swap disc for really powerful video cards to essentially just use in an SLI hookup.
They may have been trying to protect themselves. Which by the old knee jerk reaction, sounds good but practices badly when you just go by feel rather than by the numbers.
Ultimately, it's not Apple that forced themselves out of the market. Its the EU that forced good products out of the market. Because they limited the ability of business to make money on a product; They limited what products consumers can or can't buy. Companies will generally only make products from which they can achieve a profit from. Thus, the EU forced new and good products away from thier own market and/or drove up the price of any products that do make it to market. The only thing that consumers need to be protected against is deceptive sales practices(lying to customer on the package or otherwise, not accepting returns, etc.), safety issues(lead paint), and forced takeovers(buying all the local competition and making only a few products availible).
This has rather large implications on the local economy too. This means that there is also less money for local businesses to hire more people. In France's case it is a severe problem with thier anti business laws.
Oddly enough, most consumers here in the states don't really mind locking into contracts. It's not like they aren't getting anything in return. We still have a good phone selection and good prices for the minutes to dollar conversion. You can get unlimited minutes, text, with no long distance for 40 a month and pay nothing but the tax for a good phone. Good luck getting anywhere near that in the EU.
Japan's new model might have air superiority in close range combat, but I seriously doubt it'd be able to shoot down a F-22 let alone see the damn thing before it was shot down itself.
The moral of this story is simply to make sure you take the RIAA to court every single time then if you lose just sell your assets for cash conversion before filing for bankruptcy. Instead of them getting 10k from you they spend 30k to get nothing from you. With 200k plus in bills with no on paper capitol and limited income its very easy. Wait 3 months, take a silly class, and show up to court a few times drive around a small old car for a while is really all you need to do.