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Disco Pope posted:When I worked for a game store during/slightly after Uni, we ended up selling Ngage games for 2p each and the console itself for some silly low price too. I know the n-gage posts are old, but my Aunt worked for nokia, and I was in my early teens when this came out. I remember her asking me and my brother what we thought of it before it was even out. She got very offended when we both told her no one was going to want to play several year old ps-1 games on a tiny screen with junk controls. She should have listened!
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ninmeister posted:Wow, I thought the DX4's stopped at 100MHz. I had a DX4 75, because my motherboard didn't support the 100. These were the Overdrive chips. With 8 megs of ram. Awwww yeahhhh. Intel's stopped at 100MHz, since they didn't want to compete with their own Pentium line. Other manufacturers went faster. I had an AMD 5x86, which was a 486 with a little extra boost due to larger, write-back L1 cache. It ran at 133MHz to perform the same as a Pentium 75, though with a little luck you could overclock to 160MHz for P90 performance.
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# ? May 11, 2014 07:22 |
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Killer robot posted:Intel's stopped at 100MHz, since they didn't want to compete with their own Pentium line. Other manufacturers went faster. I had an AMD 5x86, which was a 486 with a little extra boost due to larger, write-back L1 cache. It ran at 133MHz to perform the same as a Pentium 75, though with a little luck you could overclock to 160MHz for P90 performance. It could probably also do math without screwing up, much unlike my Pentium 60.
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# ? May 11, 2014 07:25 |
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moller posted:It could probably also do math without screwing up, much unlike my Pentium 60. Astrophysicist from the early 90s spotted.
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# ? May 11, 2014 08:35 |
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Yeah the fdiv bug was really insignificant to like 99% of users. And nobody ever talks about the F00F bug.
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# ? May 11, 2014 12:43 |
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I feel like my car is full of obsolete things... Manuel windows, stick shift and a zune hd (which I love).
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# ? May 11, 2014 19:43 |
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Zig-Zag posted:I feel like my car is full of obsolete things... Manuel windows, stick shift and a zune hd (which I love). I don't know who Manuel is but stick shift is still a beloved feature by many people.
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# ? May 11, 2014 19:59 |
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I've never even seen an automatic before, but then again, I live in Europe.
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# ? May 11, 2014 20:03 |
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They stopped teaching manuals at my local high school a decade ago.
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# ? May 11, 2014 20:05 |
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Taeke posted:I've never even seen an automatic before, but then again, I live in Europe. Really? I live in Europe too and automatics are not as rare as people want to believe.
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Zig-Zag posted:I feel like my car is full of obsolete things... Manuel windows, stick shift and a zune hd (which I love). Manual windows aren't obsolete, or at least they shouldn't be. If I drive into a river I want to be able to open my windows, not have them short out and trap me in my soon-to-be-hearse. Okay, sure, I can carry a glass-breaker in my glove box, but I'd rather not have the problem in the first place. Yes, I know I could also avoid it by not driving into rivers thank you for telling me.
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# ? May 11, 2014 20:23 |
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I learned to drive a manual. My instructor didn't believe in things like "designated instruction routes" so when I managed to stall less than half the time on the closed track he was allowed to drive me around, we were out into Moscow traffic. Fun times!
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# ? May 11, 2014 20:28 |
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DNova posted:I don't know who Manuel is I bet he's still kicking himself over that one.
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# ? May 11, 2014 20:32 |
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I see a lot of second-hand games being sold on the internet with a big "NO MANUEL!!!" text in the description and boy that Manuel must have burned a lot of sellers they should put him in jail or something.
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# ? May 11, 2014 20:33 |
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Ensign Expendable posted:I learned to drive a manual. My instructor didn't believe in things like "designated instruction routes" so when I managed to stall less than half the time on the closed track he was allowed to drive me around, we were out into Moscow traffic. Fun times!
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# ? May 11, 2014 20:40 |
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I like in the UK, and while I've never personally owned or driven an automatic car, they seem pretty popular with my older relatives. Autos aren't that rare here. Also my car is a 2010 model (SEAT Altea) and despite it having mostly all mod cons (mp3 connectivity, front and rear 12volt charger sockets etc), the rear windows are manual. Which I couldn't quite believe when I saw it. I gave up a 2004 Honda with all-electric windows for this ??
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# ? May 11, 2014 21:35 |
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I would pay extra for a car with manual windows if it had automatic locks. Right now, I have one working window in my car because the other three window motors would only lower the window, not raise it and it's a pain to get them replaced. All the tricks the internet told me to try didn't work, so I had to disconnect the motors so if anyone tried to open a window it wouldn't get stuck.
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# ? May 11, 2014 21:45 |
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I learned manual transmission as well, in the mid-90s- I'm on my fourth car now, and it's my first car with automatic transmission, power windows, and a key fob... it is, however, a 1994 Ford Taurus, the oldest car I've ever owned.
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# ? May 11, 2014 21:54 |
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DNova posted:I don't know who Manuel is but stick shift is still a beloved feature by many people. They're not my windows.
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# ? May 11, 2014 22:23 |
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Electric windows are terrible, they're so agonisingly slow and often only work with the ignition on. It's not a deal breaker but I'd take the winder any day. I'll accept that manual gearboxes are almost obsolete now that modern automatics have reduced or removed the economy and performance penalties of a traditional auto, but they're still hideously complicated pieces of machinery compared to a manual box and I don't expect them to ever replace manuals across the board.
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# ? May 11, 2014 22:44 |
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Winding down the window doesn't work if the car is submerged in water anyway. The pressure differential is too great. You're better off having a glass breaker either way.
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# ? May 11, 2014 22:49 |
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Is there even any advantage to having a manual transmission, as far as the end user is concerned? They look like the most needlessly complicated things, and god help if you there are lots of hills where you live.
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Wanamingo posted:Is there even any advantage to having a manual transmission, as far as the end user is concerned? They look like the most needlessly complicated things, and god help if you there are lots of hills where you live. If memory serves automatics sometimes gently caress up and manuals get better fuel economy. Automatics are also mechanically more complex.
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# ? May 11, 2014 22:59 |
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Wanamingo posted:Is there even any advantage to having a manual transmission, as far as the end user is concerned? Nobody will bother you to borrow your car?
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Wanamingo posted:Is there even any advantage to having a manual transmission, as far as the end user is concerned? They look like the most needlessly complicated things, and god help if you there are lots of hills where you live. I live in San Fran and automatics are annoying as hell. No engine braking so you have to constantly be feathering the brakes down hills and up hills they upshift way too early and leave you with no power unless you floor it and wait for it to finally get the message. Once you've been driving manual long enough you don't have to think about it, automatics only have downsides to me. It's like having a blind and deaf man shift for you. It's also a great excuse not to lend bad drivers your car without having to hurt their feelings.
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Wanamingo posted:Is there even any advantage to having a manual transmission, as far as the end user is concerned? They look like the most needlessly complicated things, and god help if you there are lots of hills where you live. Used to be that there was a bigger gap in fuel economy between manual and automatic equipped cars. Now, there are some cars where the automatic's mileage is as good or better. Also for those interested in performance, it wasn't odd for a competent driver to pull quarter mile times a half second faster (or more) with a manual than in a similarly equipped car with a slushbox .
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ToxicSlurpee posted:If memory serves automatics sometimes gently caress up and manuals get better fuel economy. Automatics are also mechanically more complex. If your battery dies, you can get a push start in a manual, As far as gas mileage goes, if you aren't that good at shifting, your mileage may actually vary.
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# ? May 11, 2014 23:09 |
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DNova posted:Really? I live in Europe too and automatics are not as rare as people want to believe. In Sweden if you take your driver's license test in an automatic car you get a mark of shame on your license.
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# ? May 11, 2014 23:33 |
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In the UK, if you learn on an automatic, your license does not allow you to drive a manual car. If you learn on a manual, you can drive any kind of car. Frankly, I don't know why you wouldn't drive manual cars. The control that you have over the cars behaviour is much more fine-grained, because — as mentioned — you have things like engine braking. It also makes overtaking easier, because you can set the gears up so that a downshift will put you just below the peak torque RPM for the car, allowing you to pull out more quickly.
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# ? May 11, 2014 23:58 |
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Here in Ireland automatics are ultra-rare. Autos are pretty much just full-car sized go-karts as far as we're concerned. We also have the thing were if you learn on an automatic you can't drive a manual but if you learn on a manual you can drive whatever. I sort of learned to drive intially by riding motorbikes (that will make sense to some people) so manual transmission cars are superior for me.
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# ? May 12, 2014 00:02 |
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Personally I like stick shifts because of the control you have over the vehicle. Plus being able to save on gas if you drive them right. I live in america and its almost impossible to finds newer cars with manual transmission. Most lots have maybe 5 at most and are always older or used vehicles. Edit: I just got a new clutch installed too. O man it is soooo smooth Zig-Zag has a new favorite as of 00:10 on May 12, 2014 |
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Wanamingo posted:Is there even any advantage to having a manual transmission, as far as the end user is concerned? They look like the most needlessly complicated things, and god help if you there are lots of hills where you live. Automatics and manuals are both compromises: the engine's only going to deliver peak torque in a narrow rpm range so you need a way to keep the engine in that rpm range over a wide range of vehicle speeds. Historically, manual transmissions were more efficient: automatics used torque converters which waste energy in the fluid coupling. Automatics were also more mechanically complex, so you didn't see them with as many gears. And, again due mainly to the torque converter, they couldn't handle as much input power as contemporary manuals (there were exceptions to this; the '53 Corvette infamously came with a two-speed automatic because Chevy didn't have a manual capable of handling 150 horsepower). Most of these disadvantages have decreased or disappeared. Automatics are still mechanically complex, but they're a mature technology and you see luxury cars with 7- or even 8-speed automatics, which means that "a manual gets better mileage" isn't necessarily true anymore. The advantage of a manual in my opinion is that it allows you to anticipate. An automatic only knows what you're doing with the car *now*, it doesn't know what you're planning on doing. Highway passing in an automatic is annoying; you need to give the car enough gas for the ECU to realize "Hey, this guy must want to pass," and then wait for it to downshift. With a manual, you just downshift and go. You can downshift ahead of turns to be in the right gear to accelerate out of the turn. And I'm not sure why you think manuals are annoying on hills, they're a downright pleasure, because you don't even have to touch the brakes: just put it in whichever gear limits your speed as you descend, and then just throw it into a higher gear as you reach the bottom. Driving in hilly country with an automatic is really annoying by comparison (of course, sitting in stop-and-go traffic is more annoying with a manual). Again, they're both compromises. Ideally you'd want an engine with a completely flat torque curve that delivers the same torque no matter how fast it's spinning, but that's not really possible. The electric motors in things like the Tesla, which deliver maximum torque at 0rpm, are neat and that's one of the things that makes them so mechanically simple: the transmission is just a single fixed gear. But even that doesn't give you the anticipatory abilities of a manual.
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Horace posted:Electric windows are terrible, they're so agonisingly slow and often only work with the ignition on. It's not a deal breaker but I'd take the winder any day. The first part is definitely not true - electric windows are usually a lot faster than manual winders (unless something is wrong with them). As for manual vs auto - I would prefer an manual but on my car it would have cost thousands more as they're far more sought after in the second hand market (mainly due to scarcity)
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# ? May 12, 2014 00:19 |
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I just can't seem to grasp manual, I've tried to learn it for 12 years now, but it just doesn't go smooth at all. Lots of jerking around. I guess it's not for eveyrone.
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Datasmurf posted:I just can't seem to grasp manual, I've tried to learn it for 12 years now, but it just doesn't go smooth at all. Lots of jerking around. I guess it's not for eveyrone. Shouldn't have tried it on a BMW they have poo poo clutches
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# ? May 12, 2014 00:30 |
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Sudo Echo posted:I live in San Fran and automatics are annoying as hell. No engine braking so you have to constantly be feathering the brakes down hills and up hills you know you can move the gear selector down to "2" or "1" to make it stay in lower gears, right
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# ? May 12, 2014 00:31 |
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atomicthumbs posted:you know you can move the gear selector down to "2" or "1" to make it stay in lower gears, right That sort of knowledge is available to only the privileged few who can read the manual.
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# ? May 12, 2014 00:32 |
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atomicthumbs posted:you know you can move the gear selector down to "2" or "1" to make it stay in lower gears, right Yeah this is a thing I didn't know until last winter, when I needed to restrict it to 1st gear in order to get out of the snowy uphill that is the only access to my apartment complex.
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dissss posted:The first part is definitely not true - electric windows are usually a lot faster than manual winders (unless something is wrong with them). I don't doubt there are poorly designed manual windows out there, but I've driven a lot of new cars with slow windows. They usually take about three seconds to close completely, you can spin a handle round a few times a lot quicker than that.
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atomicthumbs posted:you know you can move the gear selector down to "2" or "1" to make it stay in lower gears, right Yeah. It'd be one hell of a hill indeed that that's what you'd want to do, though. And if it has a "3" you can use that for a passing gear. But if that's what you're going to do, probably you should just get a manual.
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