Making Conversation Friday
We expect to have everyone from car modifiers to blog tool creators and mapping gurus for our Friday Long Tail BBQ. If those attending could do their best to prepare conversations similar to the following (you can choose your own topics within reason) :
'Car Guy' : "The RT12 recorded a spectacular 9.7 sec to 200km/h (124mph). “This is the first car we have ever built that can crack 10 seconds to 200km/h”
'Blog Guy' : "That's amazing, because at the end of June 2005, we learned that over 15 million MSN Spaces blogs had been created. MSN Spaces growing by 3+ million blogs per month! This past weekend at Seattle Mind I learned there was now 30 million MSN Spaces blogs. That’s a growth of over three million blogs per month!"
'Map Guy' : "Congratulations, does your blogging tool use any geo-mapping functionality on mobile phones, as a Java application for phones capable of MIDP2 it was quick to load and even though I was using it on a Motorola A1000 which is not the phone for which the iteration of the software I was using was intended. Nevertheless (and especially considering this is supposed to be a beta application (V 1.00) it seemed pretty stable, only locking up and requiring a hard exit once during the day of use."
'Car Guy' - "I know about hard exits. Customers get the choice of rear or four-wheel-drive as with all Ruf 911-based cars. Our red test car had the latter, and this is ideal for transmitting its 650bhp to the tarmac in all weather conditions. While even the 2WD only 911 with its inherently good traction is always going to have a traction edge over its rivals, with 4WD its advantage is overwhelming."
'Blog Guy' - "There are some interesting stats there. Let’s break down these numbers, using three million blogs a month as the target figure:
3,000,000+ blogs created per month
= 100,000 blogs created per day
= 4,166 blogs created per hour
= 69 blogs created per minute (rounded)
'Map Guy' : "I started by entering a location that I needed to find and was pleasantly surprised that the directions were clear and easily understood, though on a phne with a small display reading the directions and trying to see a map would be next to impossible. Also, unlike NHGPS you can't drag the screen around, you have to navigate via the hard controls on your phone or the soft keys built into the MIDP Game Control Bar at the bottom of the screen. Also, menu selections were done using the tiny numeric keys on the bottom of the screen and these are so tiny and so close together that unless you have long fingernails or use a stylus it's all but impossible to select the one you want. This is unfortunate. For example while driving and following the turn-by-turn directions you advance the program by selecting the 3 button. Not once, or twice but a dozen times I hit other buttons forcing me to navigate back to the beginning of my drive and try to get back to the area of the route I was on. This is not a fatal flaw but it is annoying, especially if you are trying to get somewhere in a hurry."
'Car Guy' : "Now we're getting into the detail, good. With its larger 102mm pistons, the RT12 motor has a different character from the Rturbo 590 motor. It is not quite so free-revving, and while the 590 has a really linear power delivery from idle to the cut-out, the more powerful RT12 motor has a pronounced power step around 4,000rpm when it seems to take on a second wind and pushes even harder. This is a characteristic of the bigger turbos and makes the car feel more like a civilised and very strong version of a traditional turbo motor, rather than the 7.0 litre normally-aspirated engine that we felt the 590 more closely approximates. Our usual party trick of dropping the car into sixth gear and letting the revs fall to 1,000rpm at 50km/h (30mph), saw the RT12 pull smoothly with progressive throttle input. With torque as its strong suit, from 2,000rpm on it takes off like a rocket. Making a turbocharged engine that pulls cleanly from 50km/h to 350km/h in one gear is quite an achievement, but that is what Ruf’s expertise with twin-turbo technology is all about. The RT12 feels solidly bolted down no matter what the road surface, no matter how hard you apply power coming out of a bend. Some of this handling panache is a by-product of the Ruf integrated roll cage, which is installed while the car is still a bare shell. This adds at least 25 per cent to the torsional stiffness of the bodyshell, making it a really stable platform for the uprated suspension. The result is that the RT12 delivers a huge amount of driver confidence and shows just what a vital role all-wheel-drive, a stiff structure and well-sorted suspension play in rounding out the performance envelope of a 600bhp plus supercar.
'Blog Guy' : "About 1 MSN Spaces blog created somewhere in the world every second of every day! Wow. That has to blow away any other blog software out there. Yeah, I know MSN Spaces is lame for the hardcore bloggers, doesn’t allow much individual customization, the numbers don’t tell us how many are active blogs (probably a very small percentage), no first party scripts allowed, no hosted domains like Blogger allows, etc, but their success among every day netizens cannot be denied. These numbers are jaw dropping."
'Map Guy' : "The other thing that was fun (and face it, for the most part it IS fun and cool but not terribly useful for most applications) is the satellite imagery. When you can spot your own deckchairs on your roof deck and your own car in the driveway, you should either be terribly impressed or terribly nervous. In any case, the satellite imagery is especially cool on the mobile version and the application in general, though the user interface could grow up some, was awfully impressive for a first go at it."
'Car Guy' : "The RT12 recorded a spectacular 9.7 sec to 200km/h (124mph). “This is the first car we have ever built that can crack 10 seconds to 200km/h”
'Blog Guy' : "That's amazing, because at the end of June 2005, we learned that over 15 million MSN Spaces blogs had been created. MSN Spaces growing by 3+ million blogs per month! This past weekend at Seattle Mind I learned there was now 30 million MSN Spaces blogs. That’s a growth of over three million blogs per month!"
'Map Guy' : "Congratulations, does your blogging tool use any geo-mapping functionality on mobile phones, as a Java application for phones capable of MIDP2 it was quick to load and even though I was using it on a Motorola A1000 which is not the phone for which the iteration of the software I was using was intended. Nevertheless (and especially considering this is supposed to be a beta application (V 1.00) it seemed pretty stable, only locking up and requiring a hard exit once during the day of use."
'Car Guy' - "I know about hard exits. Customers get the choice of rear or four-wheel-drive as with all Ruf 911-based cars. Our red test car had the latter, and this is ideal for transmitting its 650bhp to the tarmac in all weather conditions. While even the 2WD only 911 with its inherently good traction is always going to have a traction edge over its rivals, with 4WD its advantage is overwhelming."
'Blog Guy' - "There are some interesting stats there. Let’s break down these numbers, using three million blogs a month as the target figure:
3,000,000+ blogs created per month
= 100,000 blogs created per day
= 4,166 blogs created per hour
= 69 blogs created per minute (rounded)
'Map Guy' : "I started by entering a location that I needed to find and was pleasantly surprised that the directions were clear and easily understood, though on a phne with a small display reading the directions and trying to see a map would be next to impossible. Also, unlike NHGPS you can't drag the screen around, you have to navigate via the hard controls on your phone or the soft keys built into the MIDP Game Control Bar at the bottom of the screen. Also, menu selections were done using the tiny numeric keys on the bottom of the screen and these are so tiny and so close together that unless you have long fingernails or use a stylus it's all but impossible to select the one you want. This is unfortunate. For example while driving and following the turn-by-turn directions you advance the program by selecting the 3 button. Not once, or twice but a dozen times I hit other buttons forcing me to navigate back to the beginning of my drive and try to get back to the area of the route I was on. This is not a fatal flaw but it is annoying, especially if you are trying to get somewhere in a hurry."
'Car Guy' : "Now we're getting into the detail, good. With its larger 102mm pistons, the RT12 motor has a different character from the Rturbo 590 motor. It is not quite so free-revving, and while the 590 has a really linear power delivery from idle to the cut-out, the more powerful RT12 motor has a pronounced power step around 4,000rpm when it seems to take on a second wind and pushes even harder. This is a characteristic of the bigger turbos and makes the car feel more like a civilised and very strong version of a traditional turbo motor, rather than the 7.0 litre normally-aspirated engine that we felt the 590 more closely approximates. Our usual party trick of dropping the car into sixth gear and letting the revs fall to 1,000rpm at 50km/h (30mph), saw the RT12 pull smoothly with progressive throttle input. With torque as its strong suit, from 2,000rpm on it takes off like a rocket. Making a turbocharged engine that pulls cleanly from 50km/h to 350km/h in one gear is quite an achievement, but that is what Ruf’s expertise with twin-turbo technology is all about. The RT12 feels solidly bolted down no matter what the road surface, no matter how hard you apply power coming out of a bend. Some of this handling panache is a by-product of the Ruf integrated roll cage, which is installed while the car is still a bare shell. This adds at least 25 per cent to the torsional stiffness of the bodyshell, making it a really stable platform for the uprated suspension. The result is that the RT12 delivers a huge amount of driver confidence and shows just what a vital role all-wheel-drive, a stiff structure and well-sorted suspension play in rounding out the performance envelope of a 600bhp plus supercar.
'Blog Guy' : "About 1 MSN Spaces blog created somewhere in the world every second of every day! Wow. That has to blow away any other blog software out there. Yeah, I know MSN Spaces is lame for the hardcore bloggers, doesn’t allow much individual customization, the numbers don’t tell us how many are active blogs (probably a very small percentage), no first party scripts allowed, no hosted domains like Blogger allows, etc, but their success among every day netizens cannot be denied. These numbers are jaw dropping."
'Map Guy' : "The other thing that was fun (and face it, for the most part it IS fun and cool but not terribly useful for most applications) is the satellite imagery. When you can spot your own deckchairs on your roof deck and your own car in the driveway, you should either be terribly impressed or terribly nervous. In any case, the satellite imagery is especially cool on the mobile version and the application in general, though the user interface could grow up some, was awfully impressive for a first go at it."
Girl walks past, talk stops.
posted by redbarren at 12:24 PM
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