Driving and My Digital IQ
1. The first car I ever drove was a… Hmm… I can't remember for sure, but I think it was a Ford minivan. Unless, you count the times when I was two or three and my dad would sit in his old '62 Buick with me while I “drove” it (if you can call it such when the car is off and not moving).2. My dream car is…
That kind of changes. I tend to have “dream computers” more often.I guess I would say the Toyota Prius — it has lots of great electronic features and its a hybrid that makes it a ULEV (Ultra Low Emissions Vehicle). Barring that, I'd probably go for a Volkswagen — perhaps a New Beetle for fun or I really like the new VW SUV — it looks a lot like a Jetta only in a SUV size. Totally impractical dream car: Hummer H2 or, if I was going to have a few dream cars, an H1, but I wouldn't want to have to drive it all the time.
3. Can you drive a vehicle with a stick shift? If yes, how long did it take you to learn?
Nope.4. What is the fastest you have ever driven?
5. How many people you have crammed into a vehicle at one time?
80 MPH. Okay, I'll admit it, I've probably gone a bit over the speed limit — no more than 85 though.
I guess that'd be when we had a extended family outing to a restaurant in years past… usually the max was seven in a minivan or five in a sedan. Neither was comfortable.
I also took the Digital IQ quiz that Christopher did the other day. It was fun. Some of the questions didn't have any answer that fit a GNU/Linux user, but overall, it was nice. You'll find my results below.
How did you do? Post yer results (or your answers to the “Sunday Brunch” questions) below.
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RE: Driving and My Digital IQ
I hit 200+ when I answered all the questions as if I was in my own dream world.
RE: Driving and My Digital IQ
We all live different lives with radically different experiences.
RE: Driving and My Digital IQ
I ran through the Digital IQ survey and wasn’t particularly enthusiastic about a number of the questions that popped up. It seemed to emphasize fads a little too heavily.
One of the questions: Does having a faster processor up your internet downloads? Well, yes and/or no depending on how you analyze things. 1. No it doesn’t… the average person’s internet connection speed is slow enough that virtually any modern processor can handle it 2. Yes … an ancient processor might not be able to handle the load (although you’d have to go a fair ways back in time while retaining the current internet connection speed) 3. Yes … the speed of processors can make a difference if using software raid to write things out to disk [software raid being faster than the hardware variety much of the time] … if disk access is optimized (the system in question currently does about 170 megs/sec), it being the bottleneck (using special protocols and channel-bonded gigabit interfaces) your internet downloads are sped up. 4. Yes … the more processor power the more you can compress data if you decide to do so 5. No … to the average person it won’t necessarily make a difference.