"He showed me two Mercedes on two different occasions that different owners placed electrical tape over the warning indicators rather than take them in to be fixed. One was simply to get the oil changed."
Proof that having money does not equal having an IQ....
You CAN push a valve past it's capacity. you can NOT do this with silicon. Tubes can take a HUGE surge past rated capacity and survive. This is how they survive EMP.
""Apple Mackintosh" which got shortened because it was the only thing that wasn't an "IBM Compatible PC"."
For a real education on this and spending 10 minutes on Wikipedia for specifics....
at that time.. there was MORE than just Apple Macintosh and IBM Compatible PC's.
Atari and Commodore BOTH had viable and high powered platforms at that time as well. the PC Jr and the PC and it's wave of Clones plus Apple were NOT the only game in town. In fact most TV stations had an Amiga with a Toaster Card in it for the News CG crawl.
The Atari ST was made until 1993 well into the "PC revolution" the Atari TT the last model made was a full fledged 32 bit computer. Commodore Amigas were made until 1994. they two were pretty darn advanced computers and not as uncommon as you would think.
Calling it a MAC came about as an advertising campaign of apple. Ads in Byte Magazine from Apple called the Macintosh a "MAC" as early as 1986.
Calling it a MAC was a Apple thing not some clever word that people made up.
When are they going to make a fold open, dual 21" ipad that can do full video editing AND run After Effects for Composting and CGI. Oh and while you are at it, Show me the Maya 3D app for iPad...
Yeah, PC's are dead... for the appliance users not for those of us that actually use computers.
I changed mine. the check engine light was easy to get to so I printed a new legend that simply said "OH SHIT".. That was on my old car I wonder what the new owners though the first time that light came on....
The manufacturers fixed that with VIN locked electronic parts.
They made it illegal for anyone but a dealer to have to tool to set a Vin number in a device, and in a double whammy made all junkyard parts useless as the CANBUS will ignore all devices that do not report the vehicles VIN number.
All in the name of the bullshit lie that is "theft deterrent"
A TRAINED mechanic will look at that and then run a ODBII test with the car running. Oh look the downstream Oxygen sensor has erratic readings, replace it.
Reading that are way off but consistant mean the Catalytic converter is bad. replace that. you might as well replace the sensors as well as they have been compromized by the failed converter.
Just because you go to incompetent boobs for car repairs does not mean all of them are.
The average IQ of a car owner is 100. this means 3 out of 5 car owners have an IQ of 100 or LESS. we cant expect him to actually know anything about cars.
Honestly we are lucky that most people can keep the car between the lines and put gas in the right hole.
"has a scrolling display with ambiguous messages like "service theft alarm" "
You left your WIFI open again haven't you. we told you at SAAB that we will be watching you and you did not listen... you should not be surprised when two large blonde men show up at your door that have a strong Norwegian accent..
Wait, I though I was supposed to go set fires for every PC I saw on... are we not supposed to be doing that anymore? Why dont people tell me these things?
Microsoft learns nothing. they rehash everything over and over.
The AutoPC failure of 1999 is the Microsoft embedded automotive of today. Both have the same flaw. only blessed by microsoft apps can run on the platform. Only advantage they have is suckering ford into using their system.
Actually most older cars had a single blinker light on the dash. same light was for both left and right and only after it was common that people forgot to turn off the blinker as self cancelling blinkers were not normal until the late 50's.
Ding! Attention... your oil change is due. There are several options with your local ford dealer offering a 10% discount today, shall I set the GPS route to this location?
DING! ATTENTION: Continuing to ignore my alerts to the need of an oil change at a FORD SERVICE CENTER will force me to report this infraction to FORD MOTOR COMPANY and invalidate your warranty.
Only because it has the "it's different.... WOW!" factor. after that it will be a meh moment.
Prezi is a PITA to use compared to Keynote or Libre Impress. I have given the info to some of the marketing people here and they give up after 10 minutes and go back to Libre Office and their dancing gif's and stupid looking presentations.
Now Google Docs, if they come in FTW and have linux,Windows,OSX native apps that work when not connected to the intarwebs.... I'm all for it.
MY 40mm automatic repeating rifle with explosive rounds is mighty effective against the krill.. as long as I'm not overrun as this dang thing is mighty heavy to move.
I can explode a coyote from well over 1500 yards with this beautiful gun.
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"He showed me two Mercedes on two different occasions that different owners placed electrical tape over the warning indicators rather than take them in to be fixed. One was simply to get the oil changed."
Proof that having money does not equal having an IQ....
That is nicely epic.
"Valves don't give you anything extra."
Really?
You CAN push a valve past it's capacity. you can NOT do this with silicon. Tubes can take a HUGE surge past rated capacity and survive. This is how they survive EMP.
It's already obsolete now. MOST PEOPLE do not own a blu ray player.
Plus I cant find that "burn to DVD/BluRay" button on my IPad version of iMovie.
You understand wrong. the #1 question I get from people is "how do I made a video DVD From my camcorder video?"
My answer 90% of the time is "buy a mac mini and use iMovie" because windows's best offering is garbage to the typical end user.
""Apple Mackintosh" which got shortened because it was the only thing that wasn't an "IBM Compatible PC"."
For a real education on this and spending 10 minutes on Wikipedia for specifics....
at that time.. there was MORE than just Apple Macintosh and IBM Compatible PC's.
Atari and Commodore BOTH had viable and high powered platforms at that time as well. the PC Jr and the PC and it's wave of Clones plus Apple were NOT the only game in town. In fact most TV stations had an Amiga with a Toaster Card in it for the News CG crawl.
The Atari ST was made until 1993 well into the "PC revolution" the Atari TT the last model made was a full fledged 32 bit computer.
Commodore Amigas were made until 1994. they two were pretty darn advanced computers and not as uncommon as you would think.
Calling it a MAC came about as an advertising campaign of apple. Ads in Byte Magazine from Apple called the Macintosh a "MAC" as early as 1986.
Calling it a MAC was a Apple thing not some clever word that people made up.
When are they going to make a fold open, dual 21" ipad that can do full video editing AND run After Effects for Composting and CGI.
Oh and while you are at it, Show me the Maya 3D app for iPad...
Yeah, PC's are dead... for the appliance users not for those of us that actually use computers.
And they go to 11...
I changed mine. the check engine light was easy to get to so I printed a new legend that simply said "OH SHIT".. That was on my old car I wonder what the new owners though the first time that light came on....
The manufacturers fixed that with VIN locked electronic parts.
They made it illegal for anyone but a dealer to have to tool to set a Vin number in a device, and in a double whammy made all junkyard parts useless as the CANBUS will ignore all devices that do not report the vehicles VIN number.
All in the name of the bullshit lie that is "theft deterrent"
Um no.
A TRAINED mechanic will look at that and then run a ODBII test with the car running. Oh look the downstream Oxygen sensor has erratic readings, replace it.
Reading that are way off but consistant mean the Catalytic converter is bad. replace that. you might as well replace the sensors as well as they have been compromized by the failed converter.
Just because you go to incompetent boobs for car repairs does not mean all of them are.
The average IQ of a car owner is 100. this means 3 out of 5 car owners have an IQ of 100 or LESS. we cant expect him to actually know anything about cars.
Honestly we are lucky that most people can keep the car between the lines and put gas in the right hole.
BMW has had that for over 30 years.
"has a scrolling display with ambiguous messages like "service theft alarm" "
You left your WIFI open again haven't you. we told you at SAAB that we will be watching you and you did not listen... you should not be surprised when two large blonde men show up at your door that have a strong Norwegian accent..
Wait, I though I was supposed to go set fires for every PC I saw on... are we not supposed to be doing that anymore? Why dont people tell me these things?
You don't buy Dell of HP then. as they DON'T give you a reinstall CD/DVD anymore to discourage this unpatriotic behavior.
Microsoft learns.....
You made a funny!
Microsoft learns nothing. they rehash everything over and over.
The AutoPC failure of 1999 is the Microsoft embedded automotive of today. Both have the same flaw. only blessed by microsoft apps can run on the platform. Only advantage they have is suckering ford into using their system.
Actually most older cars had a single blinker light on the dash. same light was for both left and right and only after it was common that people forgot to turn off the blinker as self cancelling blinkers were not normal until the late 50's.
Ding! Attention... your oil change is due. There are several options with your local ford dealer offering a 10% discount today, shall I set the GPS route to this location?
DING! ATTENTION: Continuing to ignore my alerts to the need of an oil change at a FORD SERVICE CENTER will force me to report this infraction to FORD MOTOR COMPANY and invalidate your warranty.
You have 30 seconds to comply....
I think I'll pass on that feature.
So all Android developers are running linux?
Doesnt fix the bug in iOS app development that requires a $699.00 fee plus $99 a year to start writing Apple iOS apps.
Apple still has not released a way to write, compile and sign apps without buying at least an entry level mac mini.
I tried to use it as I got in on the early beta and tried several times to make a basic app. and Gave up in frustration several times.
Honestly, it was poorly designed from day one, and as a programmer if I was frustrated a "average joe" would have gave up 60 seconds in.
Only because it has the "it's different.... WOW!" factor. after that it will be a meh moment.
Prezi is a PITA to use compared to Keynote or Libre Impress. I have given the info to some of the marketing people here and they give up after 10 minutes and go back to Libre Office and their dancing gif's and stupid looking presentations.
Now Google Docs, if they come in FTW and have linux,Windows,OSX native apps that work when not connected to the intarwebs.... I'm all for it.
MY 40mm automatic repeating rifle with explosive rounds is mighty effective against the krill.. as long as I'm not overrun as this dang thing is mighty heavy to move.
I can explode a coyote from well over 1500 yards with this beautiful gun.
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