I sometimes wonder if my NES and the God-knows-how-many-games is either in my brothers care or long gone... but this brings back memories...

I dont understand. 10.9 @ 127. There are bone stock C6Zs running that time (and quicker) with ONLY a set of drag radials, and the bolt on Zs have made it int the 9s. I know of a couple with 134+ trap speeds. I believe the record is 138.9.

Doesnt seem impressive in the least bit, also is he using GTO spare wheels are front runners on the vette?

I need that in my life. lol

The sounds of excitebike will forever be burned into my memory. I can hear every sound in my head right now, and it's been probably 15 years since I played it last.

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Never played it.

I don't even know how many hours I spent between Paperboy, Jaws, Excitebike and California Games...

I have a theory on this one: In German, Sweden and I believe several other European countries, you have the option to go by public transporation when you, for example, go to and from the airport. This is perfectly safe, cheap and very common. Taxi is considered a bit more of an expensive method, used by those who have a bit more cash or those who are on a business trip for example. I only went by taxi once when I lived in NC, but my conclusion from that ride was that a different norm is applied there.
I fully agree on this one. I used to work for a large company with production in both Sweden (head quarter), Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Poland and the US. The Italians did everything by a guess and a hunch, never planning anything and always ending up way late with products that didn't work, but with great sales material and powerpoints. The Germans where honest, telling not how perfect and assume their project/product was but the truth, which made selling the whole thing to the board quite difficult, even when the product was in fact very good. The Swiss never changed anything on their product, but had a unit that only fitted the very special kitchen standard that exists only in Switzerland. Their unit was by far (!!) the most expensive when it left the factory, since it was wildly over engineered, but they still made good money since the swiss are all rish. The Americans started every project with very high specs and ambitions, which they never fullfilled and always ended up firing the project manager 50% into the project. The polish guys never did anything that wasn't a direct order and since the Swedish people at the head guarted where very uncomfortable in giving direct orders, the synergy wasn't great.

Best. Ad. Ever.

Well, to take New York City as an example, taxis are definitely considered a luxury item by people who live there, but they are perhaps less so for people who are visiting from out of town. (Public transportation by rail is considered normal in NYC regardless of income or social status, but in most other US cities, it is viewed as being only for poor people who cannot afford cars or social misfits who, for instance, have lost their driver's license as a result of a drunk driving conviction.)

However, here's the thing. The subway system in NYC, while perfectly safe and reliable, is also hot, noisy, crowded, filthy, leaks when it is raining outside, and in winter, is usually filled with homeless people (and their urine / feces) who seek warmth and shelter there. Most stations are in very poor cosmetic condition (bad lighting, peeling paint, etc), and the same is true of the trains, many of which have been in service since the 1970s.

This does not seem to bother the locals. Frankly, I've gotten used to it, and nowadays it strikes me as unusual when I am in a station or on a train which is clean, cool, quiet and well-lit.

The same is true, to a lesser extent, in most other US cities I have been in which have comprehensive light-rail systems. The one exception is St. Louis, Missouri. I don't know why, but their train system, while small, is quite nice. I consider this an aberration.


Getting back to New York, if you fly into JFK airport and wish to go to Manhattan (a small island which, in reality, is only a tiny part of NYC, but which is what most people think of as being typical of NYC) you have two options. By train, the cost is $7.25. By Taxi, the cost is fixed at $45 plus tolls. Both methods take about the same length of time, except in the morning, when the taxis are considerably slower.

So you would think that there would be some incentive for the taxi operator to make their cab a more pleasant experience, such as having a clean, well-maintained car driven by someone who speaks English fluently. And yet this is not the case. Most NYC taxis are in poor cosmetic condition (both inside and out), the mechanics of the taxicab conversion are usually quite shoddy executed (lots of exposed wiring for lighting and fare control, poorly-fabricated mounting brackets for fare meter and privacy screen between driver and passengers, etc), and in general, they just aren't a very pretty thing to look at. Typically, the interior bears a strong resemblance to that of a police car, including the plastic rear bench seat.

This is in contrast to a German taxi, which more-or-less resembles a stock Mercedes sedan right down to the clean leather interior and alloy wheels.



I surmise the following: In the US, it is more important that something is cheap than that it be of perceived high quality. Ironically, if that thing ever fails in a way that causes harm, the aforementioned is completely forgotten by the public and the press, who then ask "Why was this thing not safer?" while ignoring the fact that they didn't want to pay to maintain it.

......arghh

You should check out a Japanese taxi. When I was there(it's been a while) they were all diesel Toyota Crowns. They were almost operating-room clean, and the rear seats were covered with starched white linen. The drivers wore white gloves, and drove as carefully as if you were a visiting head of state.
They even had remote controls to open and close the rear doors, slowly.

But they were relatively expensive.

Anyone ever read about Conway's Game of Life?

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^Absolutely. I've been to Japan 3 times, and this is also my experience. Most of them speak enough engrish to say please/thank you appropriately, and are polite to the point of making you feel like an ------- by just being in their presence.

Being a taxi-driver is a fairly respected profession in Japan. They are honest to a fault. There is no tipping, and no haggling.

So, have you been reading "Hackers" by Steven Levy, or did you come across this by another avenue?

These days, Life is not exactly well-known outside of the old-school minicomputer crowd.

I don't know about that, Joe.

I remember having to program Life during a class for a CS Bachelor's as a normal class assignment.

I was flipping through Stephen Hawking's "The Grand Design", and it's mentioned near the end of the book.

The NSX looks good in a picture, but 100x better in person. I will have one.
Saw this one today:
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These dumb hoes talking about black people and my high school.

Y'all made it on WORLDSTARHIPHOP lol.

06:00-06:25 for the gist or jest.

Really?

There's hope for mankind after all.

(I assume your prof had grey hair and a beard.)

Wow. I don't even know what you'd call that. A glider gun breeder?

ROFL!!!!!!!

Well, this was ~5 or so years ago and said prof was in his ~30s, although he was from a foreign country. Based on accent, I'd lay money it was a foreign Russian satellite country.

Christ, I'd throw up if I were dressed like that too.

The DC metro is also very clean but kind of expensive.

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Pyros are hitting Greece.
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Whenever I see MSpaint editing in a photo, I think of the SFW pr0n pictures. Surely I'm not the only one?

Are you saying you are in for some TF2?

I LOLed.

And now, Paul and Storm, Professional Singing Persons, presenting the longest 3 minute song ever recorded:

oh man, wish we could start one of those threads! Those are PRICELESS!!!

Mario and Luigi's verses were weaksauce.

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THE MORE I WATCH IT THE MORE I LIKE IT!!!! 16 minutes into it and I'm now staring into the cats eyes!

A bit late response, but I find the ”cabs and public transportation” discussion very interesting. I personally think it is a spiral and that the environment affects the attitude of people stronger than one would think. For example, a team working in an old and worn out office is less likely to keep the desks clean and if one or two paper ball misses the trash bin, that’s still ok. When the office is renovated the behavior changes. Stockholm subway tried a program some years ago when they had problems with graffiti and general thrashing of the trains. As soon as a cart got so much as a mm of paint on it was taken out of service and cleaned. It worked and the problem went away. If 9 taxis are worn and ugly, the motivation to keep the 10th nice is quickly gone. If the cart is in good shape, the mental step to trashing it is bigger. Just my :2cents: theory.

Naturally there are levels. I just bought a used car, a -06 BMW325 Touring and it is the nicest car I ever owned. To others, it is probably a beater. And then, of course, there are the situations when other things are at stake: Same chicane as the Volvos in the earlier post, but a bit more expansive:
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I'm just wondering, on that X5, doesn't it have the accident logging? I know a lot of new cars will log what was going on just before an accident and that would show that they were in reverse when it occurred.

Just a thought in case you don't have a cam and it happens to you.

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This is exactly what I want to do on a daily basis to just about anyone that's behind me when I'm driving.

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Add as attachment genius.

Thanks darling.

Nice sounds from TVRs on a dyno. Could be interesting for guys in the US who aren't familiar with TVR.

Also, 'tis the same hub dyno as I'll be getting tuned on at some point in the probably quite distant future.
A Honda S2000 with bolt ons and full AEM tune put down 225hp at the hubs, just to give people an indication as to how it reads.

Do i see that right? ...a 4.6l making only 225 brake horse power.....not much to brag about. 225HP at the wheels, still not that great. Maybe I am reading that wrong.

What he said.

Should be a public service announcement during the superbowl.

You'd almost think it's an american car:party::party:

soo wait, my 4k pound supra has more hp? wtf?

My 1.8 golf has almost as much

My 5.0 Mustang was rated at that back in 1989. Surely they can do better nowdays?

my guess is that they are trying to save on gas since gas is super expensive in the UK, or they just run out of HP funds... or the TVR is just borked.

And the answer is………………..


Rover V8s are just ----.

They're based on a Buick design from the 50s, and just don't flow and don't rev. The two things they have going for them is that they're very light and sound good. Popular in kit cars in the UK. TVR used them right through to the mid 90s, which was when they designed their own V8 (liek wot's in the Cerberas in the video), and later, their own inline six (Tuscan, T350c).

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I'm pretty sure I've seen that truck around before.

I should race him with our '74 Autocar. :)

I lol'd

Went to MegaCon yesterday. I didnt take too many photos though, I was hella tired.

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I think the machinist I used last time I built my motor now works for those guys building show trucks. I have seen that truck around a few times.

The Speed6 with the Jaguar Inline six was more impressive. I had a bone stock 2.3L turbo motor that cranked out similar wheel numbers as the V8 TVR...

1000hp, 1800rpm, and most importantly 3000 pounds of torque. Diesel and gearing FTW!