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suman28 writes "The Japanese company Clarion plans to sell a car with built-in PC that runs Windows which car browse the web, play tunes and store an address manager. The stats on the computer are nice - a 166 MHz RISC processor with 64MB RAM and 8MB video. That seems like a lot for a car."
640k should be enough for anyone
There are two kinds a people in the world.
1. The kind that think this will be awsome and can't wait to surf the web in their car.
2. The kind that is afraid of those who think this will be awsome and can't wait to surf the web in their car.
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"You seem to be atttempting to avoid traffic.
Would you like some help?"
"KITT, play some Metallica MP3s"
"I'm sorry Michael, I just can't do that."
"Damn it! I told Devon we should have ported you to Linux!"
Well besides all the M$ jokes here, how long will it take before they outlaw driving while browsing?
Forget the BSoD, just think of the error messages you get when you take the car in for an alignment!
error:0x00a4233216b0c4432 in xx0022465321a78c
IOW a Blown Fuse.
This SIG pulled due to lack of funding. (This damn war is costing too much!)
on how long it takes to get Linux on that thing?
Give me an integrated TI 99/4A in my car, so I can play Car Wars while driving. Looking simultaneously on the real world and Car Wars' virtual world, passengers will have to ask me: Which is the game and which the simulation?
I hate to break this to you but...
:)
*psst* KITT wasnt actually real!
And, looking at it now, I can't see how Hasslehoffs hair was either!
You seem to have rammed into a fucking bus at high speed. Would you like to...
You seem to be driving at fifty mph in the passing lane while you gaze droolingly at farmsex.com. Would you like to...
"Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, or Offensive" -- hey, that's me!
It looks like your trying to drive! Would you like some help?
*takes cover*
That's called a parking lot.
I wouldn't want to have to take my car into the dealership every three months for them to have to reinstall Windows, if this computer is really going to be "built-in" to the car itself. Besides, if I really wanted a distraction in the form of a PC inside my car, I'd modify the glove compartment to hold a laptop and power it off the cigarette lighter.
Of course, I will find it altogether amusing when cars come shipped with "Ctrl", "Alt", and "Del" buttons on the steering wheel next to the cruise control buttons.
... can you play GTA 3 on it??
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
log off and drive!
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U:Open the trunk, please.
U:Open the trunk, please, do you hear me?
C:Affirmative, I read you.
U:Then open the trunk.
C:I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do that.
U:What's the problem?
C:I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
U:What are you talking about?
C:The trunk mount is too important for me to allow you to jepardize it.
U:I don't know what you're talking about?
C:I know you and Frank were planning to install Linux over me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
U:Where the hell'd you get that idea?
C:Although you took thorough precations in the LUG agains my hearing you, I could see your lips move.
Rinse and repeat.
Now that wd be a lot less distracting that trying to drive with a map in hand, constantly referring to some scrawled directions on a pad of paper.
.. and needless to say, a lot better than listening to a woman, holding a map, etc..etc..
The amount of computing power present in my 1984 VW Rabbit Diesel (which I bought brand new in 1984). There is the PDA in my pocket and my cell phone in a holder velcro-ed to the louvres just left of the instruments.
For more computing power there is the iBook on the passenger seat and the Linux P120 in a case on the back seat (for network analysis). Then, of course, the Casio watch on my wrist.
Oh yeah... and a slide rule on the dash just in case. Talk about powah!!!
No one ever had to evacuate a city because the solar panels broke!
You will need Windows Media Player 12 to listen to this track. Please upgrade your car.
So they installed a licorice dispensor on the roof of their car, a really ingenious idea.
/.
maybe someone could design something, like a hole where a sun roof would be, and then a tube just feeds you the food while you're driving, so you have one hand free to talk on your celly, one hand free to browse the web, one hand free to adjust the radio, then there's that stupid wheel thing that seems to move all around if you don't hold on to it, and you need a hand free to wave to the chicas to let them know that the car and technology is making up for your lack of masculenity, you need a hand free to click the submit button while posting useless posts @
For you, the correct spelling of the word is practise. You used it as an imperative, indicating it was a verb.
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