As an installer you seem to not understand that MOST car stereos draw 30-50ma in standby. Hell the Honda ECM sucks down 30ma when the car is off on it's own. When was the last time you actually looked at the standby current draw of items sold for cars? GM cars are the worst. I see 250-300ma standby draws for the whole vehicle from STOCK GM vehicles across the board from 2003-2013.
No modern car can go more than 2 weeks sitting without draining the battery. They expect you to drive them daily or put it on a battery tender. CodeAlarm alarms draw 120ma on their own and the typical car will have a 120-140ma draw just sitting there.
Just like how comcast became Xfinity.... Same sucky service with a new name.
It's a hasbeen craptastic AV suite that is so over bloated it's not funny. IF intel hires all new programmers and cuts out 1/2 or more of the utter crap that slows everything down to a crawl, they might have a chance..
But I know it's going to be a failure. Intel might be better off just selling the assets off to an unsuspecting patsy.
Wings? the only difference between them is the color of the pin on their jacket. Nothing else. We had a real 3rd party with rand paul, but he turned completely republican within a short time. Now he is right in line with doing what he is told to do.
It was used only as a visual aid to be able to teach mere mortals about gravity.
Will someone please smack these researchers, they obviously have zero social skills or understand you have to find a simple way of explaining things to the normals without their eyes glossing over and wandering away.
Yes if you find the right MiniITX board with a soldered on processor. but nothing that will have 4 or more ethernet ports. honestly you need 3 network interfaces just for a basic router.
But you can buy better hardware that is more open right now for less money. There are lots of options for a DIY router, boards that even have card slots so you can put on your own wireless card, etc..
Alix boards, and lots of others out there both ARM and even X86 based. Plus those boards you can run a real router like pfSense or IPCop on them instead.
1 Easy to use UI for automotive cases. Big fleshy sausage sized buttons on screen, and a default User hard button or communications interface to steering wheel hard buttons.
On screen volume controls are an epic fail, they MUST be physical buttons.
Next, put in place priority levels for apps. I need the radio to have top priority, then navigation, then other stuff. Happy fun app should never be able to override my navigation and cause the unit to lock up due to a bad app. Low priority apps get killed by the OS Violently if they do not instantly respond to a "STFU" request from the OS or the user.
Android on it's own is junk for a car stereo. It's missing a LOT of things that makes it happy in a car environment. such as it should use sram instead of Dram so I can turn off the car and have android sleep in less than.1 seconds, then on startup it wakes and starts running from sram again in that same 0.1 seconds. Using less than 50ma while in sleep mode so the car can sit unused for 2 weeks without killing the battery. No boot times, no shutdown times. it MUST be instant based on power input from the car.
Right now Android is not suited to car use. and when Microsoft designed their AutoPC platform they made all the above failures UI sucked for meaty fingers, long boot and shutdown times, bad device interface design, etc...
"But the real cold was expected last night, when a "polar vortex" of freezing, dense air that has collected at the North Pole was due to reach the mainland, reinforcing already frigid conditions."
So Canada is an ocean now? It came directly across Canada.
As a lifelong resident of Michigan, this is actually a normal winter. It is not bad, it is not "The worst" , it's a medium winter. I remember when Lake michigan was frozen past the visible horizon, I remember when we had 2 feet of snow in early November and so much snow you had 5 foot tall snowbanks in milder places like Grand Rapids.
You think this is the "worst ever" I laugh heartily at that. Please move to Houghton,MI or along the lake shore of Lake Michigan from Grand Haven northward. They see 1-2 feet nightly almost all winter long on a Normal winter. This cold is very normal, I remember a recent Winter in the past 12 years when I lived in Big Rapids that it was -10 for 2-3 days in a row.
I drove from the lake shore in a ford minivan with all season tires to the middle of the state this morning just fine, (actually I was passing a lot of SUV's) I left with 4 feet on the ground to this wimpy 16-18 inches here in the city without a problem. When you live in Michigan you learn to drive in snow and/or you buy snow tires. (Work is too cheap to buy them for me, all my personal cars have snows on them right now) I had fresh snow up to my knees while I dug out the work van to drive into work this morning at 6:30am this is Just another winter day.
Heck just 4 years ago we had storms so bad that I had 6 feet of snow in my yard with drifts that almost covered the doors, This winter is nothing like the one we had just 4 years ago.
First OEM cars DONT BLIND PEOPLE. It's the dipshits that own hondas and pickup trucks that do aftermarket HID retrofits from ebay that blind people. REal stuff doesnt do that.
So if you see someone's car that blinds you, that person themselves is a complete moron that did that on purpose. I imported the Honda Civic real HID assemblies tha tyou can not get in the USA and installed them on my Commuter 2007 civic. I have 3X the light on the road and a severe shutter cut off that makes it so that oncoming traffic actually sees DIMMER headlights than a stock car, while I can see further than most other cars with their high beams on.
The headlight assemblies cost me $1500, more than the value of the POS ricer cars with the blue headlights you see on the road. Why did I do this upgrade? I drive close to 2500 miles a month in the dark, so I need to see better than the rest of you.
Stock US cars out drive the headlights at 50mph. In order to safely drive at 70 on the highway you need to do real upgrades.
"Yet somehow no one wants to talk about how to prevent Saudis from funneling money into Al Qaeda."
Give money to the enemies of the USA? WE bomb all of your assets and try like hell to kill your family. Nothing like a bunch of dead "Princes" to get their attention. Problem solved.
300 pound smart bomb placed directly on your gold plated Bugatti Veyron from 15,000 feet will get the point across.
It is because it has experienced management in place. The companies that have fresh Grads from Business Management colleges are the ones that have the fools that think that your facebook profile is important.
The #1 problem with all companies in the past decade. Putting a snot nosed 20 somethings in a management position. I don't care if they have a PHD in something, they are stupid in regards to managing people. The ONLY way to learn how to manage people is by doing it and that takes time. Honestly Management age brackets should start at 35 years old as the YOUNGEST unless they prove themselves to be some kind of people management savant.
Otherwise you get these idiotic ideas that digging into your employees personal life has any relevancy to their work life. I have worked places where these idiots out of college tried to make everyone post something positive about he company daily on their Facebook/etc as a part of your employment. They claimed it was for "morale boosting". It was simply an attempt at free marketing.
Obvious security cameras OUTSIDE help a lot as well. Thieves hate being watched, and if it is obvious you have cameras, then they tend to avoid the place. Real cameras not the garbage "fake" ones. anyone with an IQ above 40 can spot the fake ones from a mile away.
an 8 channel DVR can be had for $100 (Zmoto) and cameras less than $40 each with premade 100 foot wires. add in a $40 multi camera power supply and you have a setup you can easily monitor from the internet. Although their software on the DVR is pure china crap, but I have seen the $2100 systems have worse software.
The video security world is all poorly designed software on commodity hardware.
And it's still better than any of the utter crap sold as a "security DVR" out there.
And better off buying Axis? Did he say he had $2500 just for the license for the software that goes on the PC? Axis is only for extremely rich people, their cameras are nearly 10X the cost of normal cameras and are simply re branded junk. We were an Axis dealer for years, I have seen inside all of their products.
Honewell or other real security system purchased from a wholesaler then DIY install it. Alarm installers are not typically very smart, so most people can do what they do, BUT getting a real alarm system with the installation and programming documentation is the trick. Alarm companies try to keep that stuff hidden to protect their dealer network and try and force people to pay for alarm companies.
Also to hide the fact that most do not set up the alarms correctly. I installed my own Honewell Lynx Touch system with the touchscreen, and every other one I have seen installed by "professionals" had the default codes still programmed in them so I could easily get in to disable the alarm.
Do research, pick a popular alarm (Honeywell Lynx Touch L5100) and learn all you can about it before you buy even try to get the installer and programming documentation first. and when you do buy the alarm, be damned sure it is a NEW one that will have a default installer code so you can program it. Used alarms are garbage unless they will provide you with the installer code and 100% refund if the installer code is wrong.
So what magical plastic do you have is sun tracking, any magnification will require a lot of mechanical systems to track the sun to keep it focused on the panel.
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As an installer you seem to not understand that MOST car stereos draw 30-50ma in standby. Hell the Honda ECM sucks down 30ma when the car is off on it's own.
When was the last time you actually looked at the standby current draw of items sold for cars? GM cars are the worst. I see 250-300ma standby draws for the whole vehicle from STOCK GM vehicles across the board from 2003-2013.
No modern car can go more than 2 weeks sitting without draining the battery. They expect you to drive them daily or put it on a battery tender. CodeAlarm alarms draw 120ma on their own and the typical car will have a 120-140ma draw just sitting there.
Just like how comcast became Xfinity.... Same sucky service with a new name.
It's a hasbeen craptastic AV suite that is so over bloated it's not funny. IF intel hires all new programmers and cuts out 1/2 or more of the utter crap that slows everything down to a crawl, they might have a chance..
But I know it's going to be a failure. Intel might be better off just selling the assets off to an unsuspecting patsy.
Wings? the only difference between them is the color of the pin on their jacket. Nothing else. We had a real 3rd party with rand paul, but he turned completely republican within a short time. Now he is right in line with doing what he is told to do.
It was used only as a visual aid to be able to teach mere mortals about gravity.
Will someone please smack these researchers, they obviously have zero social skills or understand you have to find a simple way of explaining things to the normals without their eyes glossing over and wandering away.
Yes if you find the right MiniITX board with a soldered on processor. but nothing that will have 4 or more ethernet ports. honestly you need 3 network interfaces just for a basic router.
But you can buy better hardware that is more open right now for less money. There are lots of options for a DIY router, boards that even have card slots so you can put on your own wireless card, etc..
Alix boards, and lots of others out there both ARM and even X86 based. Plus those boards you can run a real router like pfSense or IPCop on them instead.
FORCE AT GUNPOINT the following...
1 Easy to use UI for automotive cases. Big fleshy sausage sized buttons on screen, and a default User hard button or communications interface to steering wheel hard buttons.
On screen volume controls are an epic fail, they MUST be physical buttons.
Next, put in place priority levels for apps. I need the radio to have top priority, then navigation, then other stuff. Happy fun app should never be able to override my navigation and cause the unit to lock up due to a bad app. Low priority apps get killed by the OS Violently if they do not instantly respond to a "STFU" request from the OS or the user.
Android on it's own is junk for a car stereo. It's missing a LOT of things that makes it happy in a car environment. such as it should use sram instead of Dram so I can turn off the car and have android sleep in less than .1 seconds, then on startup it wakes and starts running from sram again in that same 0.1 seconds. Using less than 50ma while in sleep mode so the car can sit unused for 2 weeks without killing the battery. No boot times, no shutdown times. it MUST be instant based on power input from the car.
Right now Android is not suited to car use. and when Microsoft designed their AutoPC platform they made all the above failures UI sucked for meaty fingers, long boot and shutdown times, bad device interface design, etc...
"But the real cold was expected last night, when a "polar vortex" of freezing, dense air that has collected at the North Pole was due to reach the mainland, reinforcing already frigid conditions."
So Canada is an ocean now? It came directly across Canada.
As a lifelong resident of Michigan, this is actually a normal winter. It is not bad, it is not "The worst" , it's a medium winter. I remember when Lake michigan was frozen past the visible horizon, I remember when we had 2 feet of snow in early November and so much snow you had 5 foot tall snowbanks in milder places like Grand Rapids.
You think this is the "worst ever" I laugh heartily at that. Please move to Houghton,MI or along the lake shore of Lake Michigan from Grand Haven northward. They see 1-2 feet nightly almost all winter long on a Normal winter. This cold is very normal, I remember a recent Winter in the past 12 years when I lived in Big Rapids that it was -10 for 2-3 days in a row.
I drove from the lake shore in a ford minivan with all season tires to the middle of the state this morning just fine, (actually I was passing a lot of SUV's) I left with 4 feet on the ground to this wimpy 16-18 inches here in the city without a problem. When you live in Michigan you learn to drive in snow and/or you buy snow tires. (Work is too cheap to buy them for me, all my personal cars have snows on them right now) I had fresh snow up to my knees while I dug out the work van to drive into work this morning at 6:30am this is Just another winter day.
Heck just 4 years ago we had storms so bad that I had 6 feet of snow in my yard with drifts that almost covered the doors, This winter is nothing like the one we had just 4 years ago.
Nither, it was Kelvin.
So cold that not only did atomic motion stop, it reversed.
Yet I am right and you are simply stupid.
Because the car makers lobbied against it. Having those systems in the car decreases profit by 0.04% and we can not have that.
So you know nothing about your own vehicle then? Try and actually reading about what you own and maintaining it.
Then yours are horribly out of adjustment. Honda S2000 has a tight cutoff ECE headlight system.
Real HID kits cost $750 per headlight, so these will cost about $2100 each.
No the crap HID stuff you pay $49.00 on ebay are not real.. Those are poesur crap, which is why they come in Blue and purple.
Adaptive headlight system. GO look it up, My BMW motorcycle has it as well.
First OEM cars DONT BLIND PEOPLE. It's the dipshits that own hondas and pickup trucks that do aftermarket HID retrofits from ebay that blind people. REal stuff doesnt do that.
So if you see someone's car that blinds you, that person themselves is a complete moron that did that on purpose. I imported the Honda Civic real HID assemblies tha tyou can not get in the USA and installed them on my Commuter 2007 civic. I have 3X the light on the road and a severe shutter cut off that makes it so that oncoming traffic actually sees DIMMER headlights than a stock car, while I can see further than most other cars with their high beams on.
The headlight assemblies cost me $1500, more than the value of the POS ricer cars with the blue headlights you see on the road. Why did I do this upgrade? I drive close to 2500 miles a month in the dark, so I need to see better than the rest of you.
Stock US cars out drive the headlights at 50mph. In order to safely drive at 70 on the highway you need to do real upgrades.
"Yet somehow no one wants to talk about how to prevent Saudis from funneling money into Al Qaeda."
Give money to the enemies of the USA? WE bomb all of your assets and try like hell to kill your family. Nothing like a bunch of dead "Princes" to get their attention.
Problem solved.
300 pound smart bomb placed directly on your gold plated Bugatti Veyron from 15,000 feet will get the point across.
It is because it has experienced management in place. The companies that have fresh Grads from Business Management colleges are the ones that have the fools that think that your facebook profile is important.
The #1 problem with all companies in the past decade. Putting a snot nosed 20 somethings in a management position. I don't care if they have a PHD in something, they are stupid in regards to managing people. The ONLY way to learn how to manage people is by doing it and that takes time. Honestly Management age brackets should start at 35 years old as the YOUNGEST unless they prove themselves to be some kind of people management savant.
Otherwise you get these idiotic ideas that digging into your employees personal life has any relevancy to their work life. I have worked places where these idiots out of college tried to make everyone post something positive about he company daily on their Facebook/etc as a part of your employment. They claimed it was for "morale boosting". It was simply an attempt at free marketing.
The military is NOT protecting me. Sorry, but the United States Military that exists today has NOTHING to do with protecting the citizens.
Obvious security cameras OUTSIDE help a lot as well. Thieves hate being watched, and if it is obvious you have cameras, then they tend to avoid the place. Real cameras not the garbage "fake" ones. anyone with an IQ above 40 can spot the fake ones from a mile away.
an 8 channel DVR can be had for $100 (Zmoto) and cameras less than $40 each with premade 100 foot wires. add in a $40 multi camera power supply and you have a setup you can easily monitor from the internet. Although their software on the DVR is pure china crap, but I have seen the $2100 systems have worse software.
The video security world is all poorly designed software on commodity hardware.
And it's still better than any of the utter crap sold as a "security DVR" out there.
And better off buying Axis? Did he say he had $2500 just for the license for the software that goes on the PC? Axis is only for extremely rich people, their cameras are nearly 10X the cost of normal cameras and are simply re branded junk. We were an Axis dealer for years, I have seen inside all of their products.
Honewell or other real security system purchased from a wholesaler then DIY install it. Alarm installers are not typically very smart, so most people can do what they do, BUT getting a real alarm system with the installation and programming documentation is the trick. Alarm companies try to keep that stuff hidden to protect their dealer network and try and force people to pay for alarm companies.
Also to hide the fact that most do not set up the alarms correctly. I installed my own Honewell Lynx Touch system with the touchscreen, and every other one I have seen installed by "professionals" had the default codes still programmed in them so I could easily get in to disable the alarm.
Do research, pick a popular alarm (Honeywell Lynx Touch L5100) and learn all you can about it before you buy even try to get the installer and programming documentation first. and when you do buy the alarm, be damned sure it is a NEW one that will have a default installer code so you can program it. Used alarms are garbage unless they will provide you with the installer code and 100% refund if the installer code is wrong.
So what magical plastic do you have is sun tracking, any magnification will require a lot of mechanical systems to track the sun to keep it focused on the panel.
It currently is only capable of moving forward only at normal speed.