Comment Re:Use a Lupo engine (Score 1) 543
Yea, the 2.0L TDI engine in my golf is good for 240lbft of torque from 1800-2500RPM, and it doesn't start to really drop off until 4k. PLENTY of torque I assure you.
Yea, the 2.0L TDI engine in my golf is good for 240lbft of torque from 1800-2500RPM, and it doesn't start to really drop off until 4k. PLENTY of torque I assure you.
You've got it backwards. We need to treat them like cars. They ARE currently treated as light trucks, which exempts them from the tougher safety/emissions/CAFE standards.
If you want an efficient SUV, just buy a diesel, no hybrid.
The VW Tuareg TDI, for instance, gets 19 city/28 hw, which for a 5,000lb vehicle with a 7500lb towing capacity is nothing to sneeze at.
- Modern cars have small engines. This is great around the town, but on the highway, mileage suffers horribly. SUVs get much better highway mileage (not better than cars, but not all that far away) because they often put an appropriately sized engine in them.
Does not compute. Power is more important around town than on the highway. Doesn't take a ton of power to maintain a steady state 70mph. Even the big rigs, which way 50,000lbs+ are only 400-600hp.
As for cars, you can get a VW Sportwagen or Passat TDI, both of which, while not Crown Vics are exactly Yarises (Yarii?) either. Comfortable seating for 4 adults, 5 in a pinch, with plenty of cargo space. Both easily get 40mpg highway, over 50mpg in favorable conditions. They're not slow cars either - 0-60 of ~9 seconds, which isn't blistering, but is certainly not slow, and the excellent low RPM torque of the turbo diesel gives them plenty of grunt around town. They can also tow 2,000 lbs comfortably.
Oh, and they have 2.0L engines.
Humble Bundle proves that when you have massive promotion and media attention you can sell some widgets. It does exactly zero to validate indie gaming as a sustainable ecosystem.
You need to really update your knowledge. This isn't 1960 any more. Also, several of your assumptions are flat out wrong.
$25,000 purchase price for a vehicle that is traded in every 100,000 miles is $0.25/mile - At 100k miles a 25k to purchase car will still be worth 8-10k, which you're ignoring
28mpg is crappy these days. Plenty of cars are capable of 35-40MPG (and that's combined cycle, not optimal highway)
Insurance is a fixed cost. Attributing that per-mile is just wrong.
If you're getting oil changes every 3k in a modern vechicle, you're probably getting ripped off. Modern oils are much better than what we had decades ago.
There's no such thing as a "tune up" on a modern car.
If you're changing your oil every 3000 miles, that's part of your problem. Even dino-juice is good for 5-8k in most vehicles, and synthetics can last 15-20k in many cases. Many manufacturers are speccing 10k to 15k change intervals now. 3000 miles is a number invented by Jiffy Lube.
That doesn't really bother me. Top Gear has gotten a bit tired and predictable. Take some time off, think of some actual new stuff, and get back to the roots - go back to being try'shardbutshite instead of ohwe'vegototoplasttimesowe'llrigandstagethingsveryobviously.
Untrue. Vinyl imposes lots of additional limitations, and is much more complicated than a binary "too loud" "not too loud". The louder you cut a record, the wider the groove is. The wider the groove is, the fewer grooves you can physically fit on the record, and thus the less music you can fit per side. If you cut an LP as hot as a typical modern CD (And I'm not even talking a LOUD modern CD, just an average one), you could only fit 12-14 minutes per side. A hot track, and that number will be more like 10 minutes. Whereas with the (sane) mastering common 40 years ago, 20-21 minutes per side was typical, although there were some compromises there too...optimal quality peaks at about 17 minutes per side or so. A recording without a lot of dynamic range, with the loudness turned down a bit (like a live album), and 25 minutes per side isn't at all unreasonable.
You might be advised to check your history. The iTunes store was over 18 months after (April 28th, 2003) the first iPod (November 10th, 2001)
The larger you want your "sweet spot" to be, the more speakers you need. This will give MUCH better surround imaging in a large space, like the local multiplex.
Yea, I was a bit miffed with that. I bought it to get rid of the ads, and like 2 weeks later they made it free.
It wasn't during the time period that they were actually innovating.
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It might be a start. Getting the best out of lilypond will require manual tweaking though. It certainly is a pretty idiosyncratic program, but if you half-way know what you're doing it'll produce output better than commercial packages costing hundreds of dollars. Maybe when I get home I'll typeset 8 bars or so from one of the variations in Lilypond, and also Notion 3 - Notion is commercial software (~$300) but it's much more useful than lilypond for _writing_ music, since it can do live play and enables quick experimentation. It's typesetting is OK but not superb.
That seems incredibly short sited. Lilypond is OSS, and ly files are plain text. I'd much rather have something in one format that produces excellent output, than crappy output from 10 different progs.
The Force is what holds everything together. It has its dark side, and it has its light side. It's sort of like cosmic duct tape.
