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Earlier accident studies have shown that a rigid steering column represents a special danger to the driver. Since the 1960s there have been various designs to reduce the risk of injury. Steering columns today have a joint so that they can yield in an impact; newer safety steering columns are able to "absorb" impact ene... |
Since the introduction of the airbag, the steering column’s job has become more complex. It has to supplement the protective potential of the safety belt and the airbag. Telescoping linkages and additional joints largely uncouple steering wheel movement from bulkhead deformation. If the impact does not exceed a certain... |
The Future of Windows: What We Want from Win 8 |
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I personally feel that it's not going to be that radical from Windows 7. |
The real changes will probably come in Windows 9 around 2016. |
I write about Windows 8 at this site |
After 20ish years of using the MS OS I will switch to something else or quit using PCs entirely before I join the cloud mentality. I have zero interest in my stuff being on the "cloud". Nor am I interested in a subscription based Office or apps. Microsoft can shove it if thats the direction they are going in. |
"various recurring monthly or annual subscriptions will grant users access to Office Live applications" |
Just shutup fanboy, Microsoft has already created Xbox live which is 100 times more effective and streamlined than Steam ever was, so why shouldn't they take that experience to the PC? It would be great if when I buy a 360 game I can play it on my PC and earn achievements from the same system, that way if I prefer a mo... |
Also, a little word of advice MS, please Please PLEASE PLEEEEASE don't go to the cloud... that is going NOWHERE... It's just simply garbage. |
Xbox Live is only a matchmaking service. It's the matchmaking service that Microsoft Abandoned Zonematch for. While Xbox Live works better on the front-end than Zone Match, as idiots like you and 8 year old kids know how to click "Find Game." What it really means is that your gaming connection is never going to show yo... |
Microsoft needs to realize that with more and more PC games going crossplatform they need to give users a reason to trust them again, They Killed Mechwarrior after all, one of the most successful franchises in PC History. Microsoft is very responsible for the death of PC gaming, BUT MORE Importantly they're responsible... |
I really hope Microsoft doesn't do anything about adding PC gaming features. GAMES FOR WINDOWS LIVE BLOWS HARDER THAN A PORN STAR ON CRACK. They should just leave PC gaming to the people who actually know how to do it well: Valve Software. End of story. Microsoft can continue to snuggle with their beloved FAILbox 3... |
What, so Valve can monoploize their market? |
I like cheap games as much as anyone else, but you know what I also like: competition. Windows and its components are at the level they are because there's so much competition on every level. |
The most awesome thing they could do right now would be to change the user experience from machine based to actual user based. For example, if they could make it so that I could access the exact same screen from both my laptop while im at work and my desktop while im at home, I would never buy anything but a microsoft ... |
I think that would be great just to have one copy of windows 8 on all PCs. That you could have unifying all of your data. 3 computers one the same OS. You could have all your files all the time and it would basically render flash drives useless except for transferring data to somebody else's unified system. They could ... |
a simple intergrated FTP server would be nice |
There has been an integrated FTP server since windows xp pro. You just gotta install IIS to make it happen. Its pretty easy to install. |
Keep in mind, you have to have XP Pro, vista business, win7 business equivelent though. |
Since i've always ran WinXP Pro, Vita Ultimate, Windows 7 Ultimate i've always had the FTP server functionality available. |
Seriously, it's about time. |
I second that. |
So little discussion of security, privacy. The Cloud implementations so far are severely lacking in this and it remains the biggest problem with computers and the internet today. |
One thing I would like to see in Windows 8, instead of replacing the start menu/taskbar with an Apple style dock would be the ability to customize the start menu and task bar anyway I want. This will sound crazy but think the similar way you would customize your GUI in an MMORPG like World of Warcraft or Everquest exce... |
Custom GUI is cool, but you also need a way to easily switch between your customizations and the default interface for the troubleshooting and fixit duties on someone else's box where you don't know the customizations. |
"Where WHS Version 1 supported a maximum of five hard drives" |
Err, where did you hear that? I have 18 in mine for a total of 21TB formatted. Works fine. |
I heard it from Microsoft senior product manager Michael Leworthy. While there's nothing physically preventing you from running more than five drives in a WHS rig (or more than 10 drives if you're using Vail), Microsoft officially supports only five and 10 drives, respectively. |
Michael Brown, Reviews Editor |
My theory that Alan and Gordon are the same person is finally proved! |
one thing i would like is a virtual desktop manager like in linux :) |
Alan and Gordon have the exact same post under "features we want in windows 8" |
For better or worse, Windows came a long way, made out of building blocks from different experience/experiments. It's actually amazing to see how it manages all the variety of hardware that's out there. It's not perfect, but it works - and for me, with Windows 7, it's working great! I started in DOS (while at the sa... |
+1 except for linux box |
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It's hard to believe, isn't it? That we're here today, you in the fire and me watching it. |
We couldn't have known, old friend, when we set out to see the world. I tell myself that every ten seconds; I come back to it like the sun comes back to rise. |
I tell myself that if I would have known, maybe things would have been different. I'd like to think I would have said no, but my heart whispers to me slyly that I know we would have gone anyway. |
We were so young when we set out. What did we have? Two horses, a satchel of supplies between the two of us, and two weapons. How does anyone survive on that? How do two growing boys set out with a crust of bread between them a day and a little waterskin of warm, thick water? How did we make it to that faraway land we ... |
If you were here, really here, I know you would laugh at me, but you would also tell me something ridiculous and true - that our determination kept us better fed than any of the feasts in our name, that the dreams of honor guided us like the stars, that the world's laws themselves had to bend beneath us and the strengt... |
Selfish of me, isn't it? I was always more selfish of the two of us. Of course I'm happy for you. I know you're going to the place of legends, that the smoke and ashes leaving these flames will carry your spirit far away into the night, where you could not ride before, and I know that at the very prospect of such a gre... |
I'm happy for you, really. |
But as these orange and red flames crack and pop in laughter at me, it's hard to think any battle will be worth riding to, ever again. To be honest, I'd like to follow you, the way I always used to do. Wouldn't it be easy? Put the blade through myself, or purposely lose the next battle. Perhaps just stop trying. |
But you'd be angry with me for saying that right now, and I can't stand to make you angry. What of honor, you would say, what of vows? You would be right. I have no choice; I'll fight. I'll fight for what we last fought for, for the cause that forced you to leave me now. I'll take every one of those fools down with me,... |
As always, you would be right. |
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From the moment it begins beating until the moment it stops, the human heart works tirelessly. In an average lifetime*, the heart beats more than two and a half billion times, without ever pausing to rest. Like a pumping machine, the heart provides the power needed for life. |
This life-sustaining power has, throughout time, caused an air of mystery to surround the heart. Modern technology has removed much of the mystery, but there is still an air of fascination and curiosity. |
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*Note: The average lifetime total heartbeats is based on an average of 72 beats per minute during an average lifespan of 75 years. 72 beats per minute x 60 = 4,320 beats per hour. 4,320 beats per hour x 24 = 103,680 beats per day. 103,680 beats per day x 365 = 37,843,200 beats per year. 37,843,200 beats per year x 75 =... |
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I was taking a nap, when I wake up to the sound of my mother screaming “FUCK YOU!” extremely loud. About two hours later, I heard her scream again, louder “FUCK YOU!” and I came in, and she was giving the computer the finger. My mom, being a really timid person, didn’t usually do stuff like that, so I pretended not to ... |
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Why the MotoGP weight limit changed |
7 February 2012 |
Late last year, the proposed minimum weight for 2012 MotoGP machines changed in the space of six weeks. |
After a meeting of the Grand Prix Commission at the Valencia season finale on November 5 it was announced that the minimum weight for the new 1000cc bikes would be 153kg (three kg more than for the previous 800cc bikes). |
However, this figure then rose to 157kg after the next Grand Prix Commission meeting on December 14. |
Honda seems to be among the most surprised by December's additional 4kg and the factory's reigning world champion Casey Stoner made his views clear during a post-Sepang Q&A with title sponsor Repsol (see separate story). |
"It is rather frustrating. We already had the bike developed and then they decided to change the regulations, so we had to add 4kg to the weight of our bike," he said. "This is a disadvantage for us, because the bike was already developed with a specific weight in mind, and now we have to add more. |
During the Sepang test, Dorna CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta explained why the additional 4kg rise had happened 'so late'. |
It seems to have been caused by a 'misunderstanding' in the Grand Prix Commission, where decisions are made regarding MotoGP rule changes. |
The Commission is composed of Dorna (commercial rights and event organisation), FIM (governing body), IRTA (teams) and MSMA (manufacturers), but the voting structure depends on the type of proposal being discussed. |
"There was a proposal made by Dorna and IRTA, for the Valencia Grand Prix Commission meeting, to raise the minimum weight to 160kg," said Ezpeleta. "Because it was difficult and expensive for the CRT [privateer] bikes to reduce their weight. So if everybody is able to run the same minimum weight that would help CRT. |
"We proposed the weight increase, but the MSMA said that the unanimous decision of the MSMA is against it. If the MSMA decision is unanimous [the Grand Prix Commission] cannot approve the rule, because it is a technical rule. |
"Later on when the minutes arrived, [it turned out] that it was not unanimous. It was by majority. If the opposition of the MSMA is not unanimous we have no obligation to follow that. |
"Then at the meeting of the Grand Prix Commission in December we said 'I'm sorry, the other day we had a misunderstanding about whether the MSMA decision was unanimous. I consider if it is not unanimous we have the right to impose that.' |
"Finally instead of 160kg we requested 157kg [for 2012] and this was approved, by majority of the Grand Prix Commission." |
MotoGP minimum weight will then rise to 160kg for 2013. |
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December 26th, 2012, 16:08 |
I agree with you that XCom is not an RPG, but I still think experience levels are an RPG element. Chess had a progression element, and experience levels are a progression element. However, experience is a very specific kind of progression element, which has just happened to become completely dominant. I mean, monopoly ... |
As for the "wargame" you're referencing, let me put it this way: This wargame that introduced experience levels and other RPG elements.. what was it called? You know, after it was standardized and written down? What was it called again? |
Keep in mind, Chainmail did -not- have these elements. These experience levels were introduced on-the-fly in an attempt to make the experience more personal and dynamic. He then standardized these rules and released it as -something-, alongside the talent behind Chainmail (Gygax). What was it again? |
Edit: To spin it yet another way: You're emphasizing that experience levels were introduced in wargames. However, the "wargame" you're referencing was basically the exact transition point between wargames and RPGs. It's when they took wargame mechanics (Chainmail) and introduced brand new RPG mechanics (experience leve... |
I mean, it was exactly the introduction of these mechanics that -made- D&D the first RPG rather than a straight wargame. Unless you're claiming that D&D is actually a wargame, and all pen and paper RPGs are wargames..? If not, how is D&D any more of an RPG and any less of a wargame than this "pre-D&D wargame" you're re... |
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