Simplest games? I had written several Space exploration games that were quite complex. You had to read your sensor and change your course based on sensor input. you could also input a formula based on the sensor variables and create a type of "auto pilot" as well. It was very cool playing with a text only simulation of the Solar system and slingshot the ship around trying to use the least amount of fuel to land on titan from earth.
It required a knowledge of Physics and trigonometry to play the game.
I had also written several combat simulators One was three player using a special serial cable with diodes. I never did find a third person to play with so we used the Old Co-Co as a third player.
They are highly advanced computers. Even the Sharp Pocket PC was advanced enough to do some amazing things. People are utterly spoiled with their insane levels of computing available today.
How do you get work to install charging plugs outside. 99% of all office buildings do not have any electrical outlets outside or charging stations for cars.
That's called sniff testing. your logs are full of "is there something here?" and "is this ran by a moron using one of these 20 common passwords?" after that it's handed to a real hacker.
read up on what you are really seeing, these guys are getting sophisticated at their automation to find soft targets.
electric cars are NOT A NEW TECHNOLOGY. It predates the Internal combustion powered car. I know people that have had electric vehicles in the 70's and 80's. the only thing that has been lacking is the Battery technology cost per watt. Back then you drove around with thousands of pounds of lead acid batteries that can not be discharged below 60% without damaging them. Deep cycle batteries let you go down to 40% but at a cost of longevity.
Today, if you found a source for the batteries, you could build yourself a Li-ION pack that would weigh a few hundred pounds and have the same 40 mile range that a "fiat Le-Car" with a DC-10 started bolted in place of the engine would give you. This was a incredibly common conversion that people did in the 80's
And this is based on the old electric motor-> transmission design. NEW technology would be hub motors, and not even GM can do that. The Volt is nothing more than a fancy-optioned 1980's electric car conversion. there is nothing at all on that car that is innovative in ANY WAY. They even had "regenerative braking" back in the 80's by doing what is called "engine braking" and it is how he Volt and the others all do it. use the motor to generate power, you set up a dead zone in the brakes that trips a switch. the brakes really don't do anything for the first 1/4 pedal travel but trip the switch to let the motor generate electricity and slow the car moderately, after that they actually engage the hydraulic brakes to slow the car even faster than the engine generation does.
Again, all of this is very old technology that has been around and in the public domain forever. the ONLY thing new is the battery. and this battery will not see the light of day for another 10 years.
A 200 mile low cost electric car can be made right now. The car makers refuse to do it because they dont want thin profit margins and the general public is still stupid enough to pay $20K for a commuter car.
Why $16,900? because that is the price point that most real middle class (If you make more than $100K you are upper class) can afford. anything more is a far harder expense to swallow so they will stick with ICE cars..
The point of Electric cars is to get off of oil. you cant do that until you make one that people can afford. and $16,900 is a price point that will start adoption. $40,000 is not.
sorry kid they dont put a hugely oversized turbo on a car and tune it back, maybe you should learn about turbos.
typical OEM turbo car has a 6-12 psi turbo. very,very, very few have a digital waste gate to control boost, most are fixed. trying to adjust a 12 psi turbo to 50 psi will do nothing at all but LOSE horsepower as you leave the efficiency island and start generating heat so badly that you get detonation all over the place so the car retards ignition trying to get rid of the detonation and loses HP fast. This ignores that the intercooler, if it has one, will get heat soaked instantly further reducing Horse Power.
Why? I can fill jerry cans and keep a supply at home. People do this now with the current scumbag pricing that gas stations do. My neighbor keeps 60 gallons of gas in 15 jerry cans in his garage when prices are normal. when they do the $0.25 a gallon spike for the weekend or no reason, he uses his can gas.
not a problem, maybe for someone who is too lazy to lift cans, but that is a lazy bum problem not a logistics problem.
My range anxiety is 200 miles. as being a typical american who cant afford to live within 30 miles of where my job is, I have to drive close to 125 miles a day. 200 mile range will make up for the winter range degradation that everyone sees with electric cars. I would prefer a 300 mile range to make up for range loss due to the fact that batteries will lose about 30% of their capacity in the first 2-3 years and this car MUST last 10 years.
Add all the above together and the car can NOT cost more than $16,900 MSRP or it will be a complete failure like the Volt is at the $42,000 only the rich man price tag. It needs to be simple. No it does not need heated leather seats with 12 way power adjust and siatshu massage. No you dont need carpet. Do the right things to make it light and affordable.
Electric cars are NOT new technology. They existed before the current car. Everyone tries the bullshit response of "it's new tech it has to be expensive" no it doesnt.
If these car makers really wanted to change the world, make one that sells NEW for $9,999. even a 2 seater commuter that had hand crank windows would sell like hotcakes at that price. Because it's in the price range of even the bottom 15% They could afford to buy one with their tax refund and credits.
"I for one, really do want to buy a car running on a RMS style of software freedom. "
Then buy a used car that has one of the completely hacked ECM's in it. No manufacturer will ever be open. you have to buy a car or platform that has already been hacked to be wide open.
any older car from the 90's that has the 7730ECM is the ultra in wide open. there are custom firmwares out there for that ECM that enable sport/economy mode switching and other features you only see on the newest cars.
Um no it does not. you enable Race mode/Track mode from the dash buttons.. Where do you get this wierd idea that it has a GPS database of all race tracks on the planet?
If they broke into my car, hooked up to the ECM, then powered on the car by hot wiring it so they can upload code? I think I have a lot of legal recourse on that. Or are you believing the outright LIES that a car can be hacked wirelessly or over the internet? Because none of them can be.
I have been ":hacking" car computers cince 1989. How is any of this new? There is a huge community of car tuners out there and all of them HACK car computers.
" you bought a poorly designd (and perhaps overpriced) piece of shit."
Like all BMW's and AUDI's with adaptive steering. if you command it to engage BOTH solenoids at once you lock gearing and lose steering. there have been reports of this happening on BMW's
Let me guess,You think your chevy camaro is the perfect car. Think again when you can disable brakes by engaging the Anti Lock system motors non stop.
They dont scare me. a idiot that drops a 300 shot NO2 kit on his honda civic will not b e a problem, as the idiot will blow up the engine in the first 2 blocks.
Adding a turbo is also a skill thing, the honda forums are full of morons that slap on a random turbo and blow up their engines.
Hardware mods have a wonderful thing of destroying the motor if you dont know what you are doing. 99% of the time they dont even get out of their driveway.
There is a higher chance of a brake line failing on all cars made, than bad code causing a car to explode. Mostly because all cars are built with crap quality soft steel lines instead of stainless steel that is corrosion proof.
Almost all cars that are more than 10 years old have heavy corrosion on the brake lines and have a significantly elevated risk of total brake failure. Because the car makers wanted to save $200.00 and dont care about your safety.
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that emulator is incomplete. It does not emulate the keys getting stuck.
Simplest games? I had written several Space exploration games that were quite complex. You had to read your sensor and change your course based on sensor input. you could also input a formula based on the sensor variables and create a type of "auto pilot" as well. It was very cool playing with a text only simulation of the Solar system and slingshot the ship around trying to use the least amount of fuel to land on titan from earth.
It required a knowledge of Physics and trigonometry to play the game.
I had also written several combat simulators One was three player using a special serial cable with diodes. I never did find a third person to play with so we used the Old Co-Co as a third player.
They are highly advanced computers. Even the Sharp Pocket PC was advanced enough to do some amazing things. People are utterly spoiled with their insane levels of computing available today.
How do you get work to install charging plugs outside. 99% of all office buildings do not have any electrical outlets outside or charging stations for cars.
That's called sniff testing. your logs are full of "is there something here?" and "is this ran by a moron using one of these 20 common passwords?" after that it's handed to a real hacker.
read up on what you are really seeing, these guys are getting sophisticated at their automation to find soft targets.
"Considering it's a new technology,"
Again, people who cant read nor know any history.
electric cars are NOT A NEW TECHNOLOGY. It predates the Internal combustion powered car. I know people that have had electric vehicles in the 70's and 80's. the only thing that has been lacking is the Battery technology cost per watt. Back then you drove around with thousands of pounds of lead acid batteries that can not be discharged below 60% without damaging them. Deep cycle batteries let you go down to 40% but at a cost of longevity.
Today, if you found a source for the batteries, you could build yourself a Li-ION pack that would weigh a few hundred pounds and have the same 40 mile range that a "fiat Le-Car" with a DC-10 started bolted in place of the engine would give you. This was a incredibly common conversion that people did in the 80's
And this is based on the old electric motor-> transmission design. NEW technology would be hub motors, and not even GM can do that. The Volt is nothing more than a fancy-optioned 1980's electric car conversion. there is nothing at all on that car that is innovative in ANY WAY. They even had "regenerative braking" back in the 80's by doing what is called "engine braking" and it is how he Volt and the others all do it. use the motor to generate power, you set up a dead zone in the brakes that trips a switch. the brakes really don't do anything for the first 1/4 pedal travel but trip the switch to let the motor generate electricity and slow the car moderately, after that they actually engage the hydraulic brakes to slow the car even faster than the engine generation does.
Again, all of this is very old technology that has been around and in the public domain forever. the ONLY thing new is the battery. and this battery will not see the light of day for another 10 years.
A 200 mile low cost electric car can be made right now. The car makers refuse to do it because they dont want thin profit margins and the general public is still stupid enough to pay $20K for a commuter car.
Why $16,900? because that is the price point that most real middle class (If you make more than $100K you are upper class) can afford. anything more is a far harder expense to swallow so they will stick with ICE cars..
The point of Electric cars is to get off of oil. you cant do that until you make one that people can afford. and $16,900 is a price point that will start adoption. $40,000 is not.
Linux IS a Target, MOST internet servers are Linux, and Linux servers hold a lot of money in information.
But you see, they are such high value targets they do hacking to get into them and not a spray and pray virus.
sorry kid they dont put a hugely oversized turbo on a car and tune it back, maybe you should learn about turbos.
typical OEM turbo car has a 6-12 psi turbo. very,very, very few have a digital waste gate to control boost, most are fixed. trying to adjust a 12 psi turbo to 50 psi will do nothing at all but LOSE horsepower as you leave the efficiency island and start generating heat so badly that you get detonation all over the place so the car retards ignition trying to get rid of the detonation and loses HP fast. This ignores that the intercooler, if it has one, will get heat soaked instantly further reducing Horse Power.
so no. it wont.
Why? I can fill jerry cans and keep a supply at home. People do this now with the current scumbag pricing that gas stations do. My neighbor keeps 60 gallons of gas in 15 jerry cans in his garage when prices are normal. when they do the $0.25 a gallon spike for the weekend or no reason, he uses his can gas.
not a problem, maybe for someone who is too lazy to lift cans, but that is a lazy bum problem not a logistics problem.
"A dollar for Apple is a dollar for the worst influence and biggest bully in the tech industry."
So a dollar for Microsoft is a dollar for the Charles Manson of the tech industry?
The same number that are at full saturation of 144 cars an hour. None.
People already do this. The tank exchange racks are not selling you a full tank but a 80% full tank.
I am more lazy. I dont want to plug it in. Why cant they make induction charging mats? Drive over it, the charge light comes on.
Sadly a Leaf cant make my 40 mile commute and back. not when the weather is below 70 degrees F which is 70% of the year.
Oh and it costs more than a Honda Civic + 10 years of gasoline at $5.00 a gallon.
Have you timed a whole gas stop? I have yet to find any car that can refuel in 5 minutes. A gas stop is 10 minutes to 15 minutes.
My range anxiety is 200 miles. as being a typical american who cant afford to live within 30 miles of where my job is, I have to drive close to 125 miles a day. 200 mile range will make up for the winter range degradation that everyone sees with electric cars. I would prefer a 300 mile range to make up for range loss due to the fact that batteries will lose about 30% of their capacity in the first 2-3 years and this car MUST last 10 years.
Add all the above together and the car can NOT cost more than $16,900 MSRP or it will be a complete failure like the Volt is at the $42,000 only the rich man price tag. It needs to be simple. No it does not need heated leather seats with 12 way power adjust and siatshu massage. No you dont need carpet. Do the right things to make it light and affordable.
Electric cars are NOT new technology. They existed before the current car. Everyone tries the bullshit response of "it's new tech it has to be expensive" no it doesnt.
If these car makers really wanted to change the world, make one that sells NEW for $9,999. even a 2 seater commuter that had hand crank windows would sell like hotcakes at that price. Because it's in the price range of even the bottom 15% They could afford to buy one with their tax refund and credits.
"At GM at least, the car software is written by real engineers"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
These are the same engineers that make the air filter change a 40 minute job where you disassemble the air intake.
they are "engineers" only by name. They certainly don't have any skill, not anymore.
"I for one, really do want to buy a car running on a RMS style of software freedom. "
Then buy a used car that has one of the completely hacked ECM's in it. No manufacturer will ever be open. you have to buy a car or platform that has already been hacked to be wide open.
any older car from the 90's that has the 7730ECM is the ultra in wide open. there are custom firmwares out there for that ECM that enable sport/economy mode switching and other features you only see on the newest cars.
Um no it does not. you enable Race mode/Track mode from the dash buttons.. Where do you get this wierd idea that it has a GPS database of all race tracks on the planet?
"What if somebody else hacks your car?"
If they broke into my car, hooked up to the ECM, then powered on the car by hot wiring it so they can upload code? I think I have a lot of legal recourse on that. Or are you believing the outright LIES that a car can be hacked wirelessly or over the internet? Because none of them can be.
I have been ":hacking" car computers cince 1989. How is any of this new? There is a huge community of car tuners out there and all of them HACK car computers.
"I suspect a monkey can click on a file. Cause, that's all you really need to do to load firmware."
So I can click on a file, select the list of cars out in the parking lot and upload? When did this magical thing happen?
OR are you ignoring that getting a ODB-II programming interface is expensive as hell AND not available at walmart.
" you bought a poorly designd (and perhaps overpriced) piece of shit."
Like all BMW's and AUDI's with adaptive steering. if you command it to engage BOTH solenoids at once you lock gearing and lose steering. there have been reports of this happening on BMW's
Let me guess ,You think your chevy camaro is the perfect car. Think again when you can disable brakes by engaging the Anti Lock system motors non stop.
"There are cars out there where you can get 150 more horsepower with a software mod."
No there are not. NO car on the streets can give you 150hp with a chip, stop believing the chip sellers marketing.
They dont scare me. a idiot that drops a 300 shot NO2 kit on his honda civic will not b e a problem, as the idiot will blow up the engine in the first 2 blocks.
Adding a turbo is also a skill thing, the honda forums are full of morons that slap on a random turbo and blow up their engines.
Hardware mods have a wonderful thing of destroying the motor if you dont know what you are doing. 99% of the time they dont even get out of their driveway.
There is a higher chance of a brake line failing on all cars made, than bad code causing a car to explode. Mostly because all cars are built with crap quality soft steel lines instead of stainless steel that is corrosion proof.
Almost all cars that are more than 10 years old have heavy corrosion on the brake lines and have a significantly elevated risk of total brake failure. Because the car makers wanted to save $200.00 and dont care about your safety.