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entwisi · 05-09-2005, 07:18

There have been many a situation on my daily commute I have been in where I have needed to get out of the way of someone doing something stupid through either being half asleep or just driving like a nutter. Having plenty of reserve is what makes it safer. Likewise cars that are capable of higher speeds are equipped with better brakes, suspension etc and will stop faster(and hence safer) than a car that has only adequate brakes. Also there is no limit on how fast you can accelerate. the power needed to do this also has the knack of giving more top speed as well. On my bike I enjoy the acceleration far more than outright speed. 150mph is boring, any idiot could do it with a straight road. Getting a bike down a twisty lane at 70(%Cough%) is far more fun. There are also plenty of track days where owners of fast cars can go and put their cars through their paces.

Let me put another analogy to you. I reckon 99% of people who use this forum have PCs with processors over 1 Gig. Yet I bet 90% of people could happily get away with a p3-500 with no real difference in how it performs for what they use it for. Should Intel and AMD have been told to stop developing at 1Gig? Who really needs 1 gig RAM? unless you are into real top end gaming or rendering full res DVDs then you quite simply don't. At work I use a P3 1 gig with 512 RAM. This is for full J2EE development, Application Server builds and Message broker flow designing. These are all quite demanding yet my work PC copes quite admirably.

05-09-2005, 07:18	#45
entwisi God Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Up Bash Posts: 7,827 Blog Entries: 3 Liked: 44 times Rep Power: 4390	Re: Cruise Control There have been many a situation on my daily commute I have been in where I have needed to get out of the way of someone doing something stupid through either being half asleep or just driving like a nutter. Having plenty of reserve is what makes it safer. Likewise cars that are capable of higher speeds are equipped with better brakes, suspension etc and will stop faster(and hence safer) than a car that has only adequate brakes. Also there is no limit on how fast you can accelerate. the power needed to do this also has the knack of giving more top speed as well. On my bike I enjoy the acceleration far more than outright speed. 150mph is boring, any idiot could do it with a straight road. Getting a bike down a twisty lane at 70(%Cough%) is far more fun. There are also plenty of track days where owners of fast cars can go and put their cars through their paces. Let me put another analogy to you. I reckon 99% of people who use this forum have PCs with processors over 1 Gig. Yet I bet 90% of people could happily get away with a p3-500 with no real difference in how it performs for what they use it for. Should Intel and AMD have been told to stop developing at 1Gig? Who really needs 1 gig RAM? unless you are into real top end gaming or rendering full res DVDs then you quite simply don't. At work I use a P3 1 gig with 512 RAM. This is for full J2EE development, Application Server builds and Message broker flow designing. These are all quite demanding yet my work PC copes quite admirably.