What about the sites that email you the damned password all the time? plaintext, in an email.. it's absolutely moronic, but plenty of sites do it. "This is your monthly password reminder, we'll ignore the fact that you logged in two hours ago!"
ok, I did some reading on faraday cages, and some thinking, and I found so many flaws with what I just said it's not even funny. What I said would only work with a sphere (various shell theorems are probably what I was thinking of), and I already knew that Faraday cages didn't have to be.. So, my understanding of how a faraday cage works is now much better.
I still don't know if it would work if it was just like a wall or two of a structure, as opposed to completely surrounding something (whether with mesh or solid). The webpages linked off the wikipedia article tell me that a closed metal shell around something will create 0 charge on the inside. If you don't have a closed shell though, might that not just add to the interference, acting as noise, esentially?
I'll admit to poor understanding but I thought that the whole concept of a faraday cage only worked if it was enclosed? I was under the impression, and I'm probably wrong, that because of the way the electrical fields worked, they all cancelled each other out, because if you're in the center, you get opposing fields from all sides, and you're neutral, that's obvious. Yet if you go off center, then the interference from the now closer portions of the surface is greater, yet there's more stuff "behind" you as well so that in effect the grand total of the interference? 0.
Now, if there's a hole in it, I can't see this working? Someone correct me, I'm sure I'm wrong on this.
The only time it'd help would be if his portable played the aac format, but not the protected aac format. Since it probably doesn't, he'd have to convert it from aac to MP3, the CD burning phase doesn't lose anything more in this process, just makes it slower.
My car's navigation only works while stopped (technically, it operates under 5mph as well). When I accelerate above 5mph, half of the damned features are shut off. The map is still there and I can still do small things, but anything that would involve reading or typing in to the thing is blocked out. The best I can do is ask it for a list of services (Restaurants, gas stations) around an interstate exit. That's the most complicated thing it can do while I'm moving, and everything else I can use a voice command for.
I don't know what features exactly are locked out of my phone while the car is in motion, since I don't yet have a bluetooth phone, but I know for a fact that I can't enter new numbers in to the system when the car's moving (though I think I can voice dial).
Anyway, I don't like this system. In fact, I freaking hate it. Not because I want to try and be typing in alphabetical shit while I'm driving: I don't want to. But I have a passenger often enough that it'd be really nice for THEM to be able to do it without ripping apart my dash, breaking a wire, and inserting a timer control attached to a switch. Turn the switch on, and the car thinks its going only 5 mph. turn it off, and the system will use GPS and get its bearings again.
Ideally, it'd sense the passenger seat having someone in it (the sensor's already there), the seat belt being buckled (the sensor's already there) and maybe have a separate control not within reach of the driver, though I think the first two would be sufficient. So, what's keeping someone from putting a weight on the seat and buckling the belt? nothing. Though if I see someone doing that, I'd think that it'd be fair to shoot the person on sight. Well, run them off the road first so they don't hurt anyone else, then shoot them. Too bad judges/public/the law/etc. wouldn't agree..
I want ad hoc networks between cars. Just plug in something like this, and I'd be able to know if/where people around me with the same tech are. Quite obviously, they'd have to be using the same frequency and protocol..
Of course, I'm a spoiled little brat, so I'd want it to tie in to the rest of my car, and I'd want information on the other person's car. So basically I'd want it to transmit their phone number, and store it in my car's phone book, and have them appear on my nav system, and have the audio from this system piped to my car's speakers, and use my car's microphone.
Hell, I'd leave the device on just because it was cool, even if I only ever found one other person with it, it'd be worth it. Until, of course, it reached critical mass, and everyone had one, and then it's just lame and just like usenet and stuff and anyone who cares wouldn't use it anymore, and teenagers (wow I'm just out of my teens and already I'm insulting them.) would use it to ask the people next to them out on a date. Oh well.
Toyota HSD (Prius): 2 bars of charge, and it will turn on the gas engine. you'll only ever see this in japanese and european models (or the american ones with a "ev mode" button added, they removed it for some reason for us). You need to be in EV (electric vehicle) mode for the battery to ever drain that low. at 2 bars of charge, the battery is approx. 40% drained.
The Prius CAN run battery only if you run out of gas. (Even the american version, without the mod).
Honda IMA (Insight, Civic, Accord): Whenever the car is moving, BOTH engines are providing power. It can not run with just one.
I can get 99.9mpg (that's the highest it goes cruising at about 45mph, with the gas engine directing some power to charge the battery as well. This is on perfectly level ground. Perfectly level ground at about 65mph gets me about 74mpg. I don't live where there's perfectly level ground though, and supposedly mileage is worse in cold weather, which is the only time I've driven my Prius (only had it a bit over a month).
I think the point is that you need energy to split Hydrogen.. it's really just an energy storage spot. This energy comes from conventional power plants which will have economies of scale going for them, AND can be upgraded/changed much easier than replacing every gas pump in america. Do the hydrogen conversion once, and then use hydrogen to store power generated from wind, solar, nuclear, whatever.
at least, that's the benefit I've always perceived people to be talking about.. unless they dont' even think about where the hydrogen comes from and just assume that it doesn't take any energy to extract.. and that it's a perfect fuel source (only water emissions fromt he burning of hydrogen, yes.. but you need energy to get that hydrogen, and that depends on coal, nucelar, whatever.)
I own a "2nd gen" (really it's the third generation) Prius. My (untested) 0-60 is supposedly 10.9 seconds. I can easily get to 80 miles an hour on the freeway, much faster than my 88 plymouth reliant could. I don't though. I'm one of those people you just mentioned. I got a speeding ticket recently (before I had the Prius) and slowed down. Now that I have cruise control and a car that tells me constantly what it's getting for mpg and the average for the tank, I drive at exactly the speed limit most of the time. Never more than 5 over. But it's my personal choice, not because the car is incapable of going faster than that.
I really only have that POS reliant to compare to, so take this with a grain of salt.. but if I'm not paying attention and I'm not using the Cruise control, without even realizing it I'm up beyond 70, 75 mph. Passing trucks on the highway that have pissed me off, normally I'd floor it, get past them, and get back in to the right lane where I belong (this is in the reliant). Net speed gain over a tractor trailer starting at about 70mph? about 5mph. Starting at 65 in the Prius, passing a truck I've gotten it to 79 before I looked down and started slowing down. Wasn't past the truck yet.
I'm sitting right next to someone who took wine tasting as an elective. Personally? I took study abroad, and crammed the rest of my classes down to three years.
The Prius is powered mostly by a high voltage (200V) battery. There are electromagnetic relays powered by the 12V battery that either engage or disengage. If the 12V battery is dead, then the relays are disengaged, and no power can flow from the 200V battery out to the rest of the car. Some of the electronics work off the 12V circuit, but not many.
To start the internal combustion engine (and it's not needed for driving, many people have run out of gas and gone a couple more miles, or you can feather the pedal and get it to accelerate really slowly off of just battery. There's also mods to enable "Electric Vehicle" mode so that you can be a bit more normal on the gas pedal and it won't switch over to the gasoline engine), the car throws it's multi-function CVT transmission (look up the sun and planet transmissions) to forcibly spin the internal combustion engine to the right speed, then starts the spark plugs.
The spark is electronically controlled, so even if you could somehow get the computer controlled transmission to switch from neutral in to a mode where the wheels drive the internal combusion engine directly (and I don't think the transmission would like this mode at all, usually it'll detect more power from the wheels than engine momentum, and switch it over to one of the electric motors operating in reverse to charge the high voltage battery), there wouldn't be a spark to continue the engine running. Or maybe it's just the fuel valves are closed, so there wouldn't be any fuel in there. Either way, it wouldn't work.
Re: transmission modes.. Now that I think about the workings of the transmission, there has to be a way to get the ring and the planets working at the same time, which should give the internal combustion engine a spin. If it can drive the car, it has to have a direct connection. Rarely, if ever, is the ICE (internal combustion engine) isolated (no power from or to the electric motor), so you'd have to drive those too if you were attempting a push start. I know the car can spin the internal combustion engine off of the axle's momentum as a way to bleed off excess power (for example if the batteries are close to fully charged and you're using the regenerative braking, it doesn't want to overcharge the batteries, so it'll shut off the fuel valves to the ICE and just spin it without fuel as a way to get rid of excess power.)
There are wonderful articles on howstuffworks.com on automatic transmissions. priuschat.com and priusonline.com have a wealth of information on this car as well. Everything I've said is specific to the Prius's Hybrid Synergy Drive. Older Prii (America: 2001-2003 models) and other company's hybrids (I'm also familiar with Honda's system) use different hybrid technology that might work differently. Ford's is similar to Toyota's enough that they had to license parts/all of HSD from Toyota.
(Example: it's impossible for the Honda hybrids to drive without both the ICE and the battery providing power. There's no Battery-only drive mode)
Regular automatics are quite a bit different as well;) Wow this post got long.. I love this car too much.:P
Oh, the joke. you asked about a "push start", and I said "Not in the way you're thinking of".. There's no standard form of ignition on this car. To turn the car on, there's a big "Power" button on the dash that I push.
Push once: Multifunction display turns on. This is powered off the 12V in this stage. Push twice: accessory/ignition on mode. Radio, headlights, etc. The 12V has engaged the 200V battery, and things should be running off of that.
Push once with brake pedal depressed: "Ready" mode. The 200V battery is engaged, and 7 seconds later the internal combustion engine will turn on (earlier than 7 seconds if needed. Non-north american models of the car, and modded north american versions have a switch you can press to make it NOT turn on the engi
Jump starting isn't so bad. There's a pole underneath the hood inside the fuse box. I'd have to read the manual, but I'm pretty sure that's the 12V's positive. Attach negative to the metal of the car, and you're all set.
You can also supposedly jump it off of a lantern battery, or trickle charge the 12V enough to engage the relays to enable the 200V high-voltage battery to work by using a solar panel attached to the front cigarette lighter ("power outlet", since there's no actual cigarette lighter in the car.)
All the 12V does when starting it is engage relays that act as a form of killswitch for the high voltage battery. Doesn't take much juice to flip those. We don't have to power a starter on that battery, which is why it's so tiny:)
I've never tried to disconnect the batteries though. How do you get in to the battery compartment? I don't have the manual handy..
Hybrid. 3rd Gen ('05) Prius. It uses the high voltage battery to spin the engine before starting the cylinders firing, and both of the batteries (there's a 12V and a 200V) are underneath the back seat. I'm pretty sure I'm not able to get back there, though I've never tried. I'm pretty sure it's not easy.
I have the smart key/smart start as well, so I don't even have to use a real key. I just get in to the car. I touch the door handle to have it unlock. As long as the fob is in my pocket..:)
I guess I could disconnect the power button on the dash? I dont' know how well it's wired in there though.
What makes a language 'lightweight' ? When I think of Perl, I don't immediately think a lightweight/simple language to learn. And then I look at the Program (Schedule) on the website and see that it says English is the most lightweight language of all, which doesn't make any sense to me unless you consider how much code it takes to get something accomplished as a feature of the language, so that since English and Perl don't require as much code to get difficult tasks completed, they're 'lightweight' languages?
That definition seems backwards. Can someone please enlighten me?
And linux games will become a reality only if there's video cards that can play them. Sorry, nVidia's 2D hardware has always pissed me off and I refuse to buy one of their cards. I've never had many problems with ATI cards, especially since the windows drivers got better, and every video card I've purchased for myself (all two of them) have been ATIs.
That being said, if there's no good drivers, then how do you expect those awesome games to come to linux? Half the time starting OpenGL causes my linux box to freeze, that's not acceptable (and makes coding OpenGL programs rather difficult). What's the point of half-assing driver support? Oh yeah, marketing..
I don't remember the last time I handed my card to someone. Everywhere I go I swipe the card myself. Sometimes credit, sometimes debit, but it never leaves my hand. Or, I just buy online, which ends up not requiring any proof except for the numbers ON THE CARD. Credit cards have no security at all.
I've been trying to emulate nintendo for a while. Where can I get a decent GC emulator? I can't afford the money for a new console, I just bought an iPod Photo. (this is a joke btw, there's already a GC at my house, and I haven't orded the iPod Photo.. yet.)
I second this. I've not used it for dating (not really looking for it right now), but I've met quite a few people on there, and anyone its said is a good match has been. I've kept in touch with everyone who bothered to reply to me, because they're usually pretty close to the type of people I make friends with normally.
That being said, just be aware that the girls on there, like on any site, are probably flooded with messages. Moreso if they have a picture. My roommate got 15 messages the first day she had her picture up.. it's a bit daunting. Therefore, a lot of the time they won't bother to respond to people, or at least that's been my experience. I've seen several profiles say "I get too many messages, don't bother sending me any more since I won't respond."
Of course, it could just be that I didn't appeal to them. Would have been nice if they'd said so, but whatever. If they act like that, it's not someone I really want to be friends with, so I haven't lost much at all.
Basically, it asks a bunch of questions, you answer the questions for you, then say how you'd like your ideal match to answer the question. Then you go on to the next. It then builds a personality profile, and lets you compare two people w/ cute little graphs, etc. Then they have a bunch of quizzes from the users, which are sometimes fun to take, usually not though. But overall, it's free -- they aren't trying to make money off of the matching directly. And I like that about the site.
It's run by the people who started sparknotes.com and thespark.com, and has their quirky humor in it.
No, it means that Americans are blind to the fact that they're being raped on connection charges, and their phones suck.
I bought a Japanese phone, it has a real address book (not just a phone book), built in email, web browser that would show pictures, games, and many other goodies.. plus it just looked sexy as hell.
That was two years ago. The phone was being phased out for a newer model.. I got it for $46 USD. My plan was $16 USD/month (I did have a student discount, so take this number w/ a grain of salt), and just paid as I went. No dealing with minutes or crap like that. Texting over there is insanely cheap, and it's the way people usually communicate on the things. Only if necessary do you call someone. Sorry. Emailing, since it was pointless to use C-Mail, Sky-Mail, whatever.. Every phone over there had its own email address, and the other texting networks weren't compatible with each other.
I just bought a phone here in the US (Verizon, unfortunately). No email, just SMS (though thankfully it works between providers). My web browser doesn't display pictures. My address book won't even store birthdays. I used to carry my Japanese phone around with me too, because it just did what I wanted, in a quick and easy fashion. I couldn't make calls on it, but I could take quick voice memos, and it stored my addresses. I often reach in to my pocket still and look for it, and am disappointed when I find my $150 verizon phone that can't do any of it.
So, perhaps I'm atypical. But I think it's just because the "Average American Consumer" doesn't demand features in their products that makes it so I have to deal with not being able to find a good phone over here.
(Yes, I know I could go tmobile and spend $700 to get a decent phone or something, but the coverage around here sucks.)
It's already possible to root Windows through an edit control, unless they patched that bug. The way the windows security model works, if there's an edit control in an app that has system privileges (I think McAfee virus scan used to show one), and you get the HWND of this edit control, you can send a WM_TIMER message to it and tell it to callback to a function pointer, and execute arbitrary code. The problem comes from the fact that any user can send a message to any other HWND, and the code executes as the owner of the control, not the person who sent the message.
Anyway. There's been slashdot articles about other media format interpreters being susceptible to buffer overflows recently as well, so you can't even claim that it's only Microsoft here. Yes, even on linux. *Gasp*
I'm not even trolling here, I much prefer Linux to Windows, but this damned zealotry has to stop. I am, however, probably feeding a troll.. *sigh*
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that was a horrible pun, and if I could, I'd find a way to punish you for it.
What about the sites that email you the damned password all the time? plaintext, in an email.. it's absolutely moronic, but plenty of sites do it. "This is your monthly password reminder, we'll ignore the fact that you logged in two hours ago!"
ok, I did some reading on faraday cages, and some thinking, and I found so many flaws with what I just said it's not even funny. What I said would only work with a sphere (various shell theorems are probably what I was thinking of), and I already knew that Faraday cages didn't have to be.. So, my understanding of how a faraday cage works is now much better.
I still don't know if it would work if it was just like a wall or two of a structure, as opposed to completely surrounding something (whether with mesh or solid). The webpages linked off the wikipedia article tell me that a closed metal shell around something will create 0 charge on the inside. If you don't have a closed shell though, might that not just add to the interference, acting as noise, esentially?
I'll admit to poor understanding but I thought that the whole concept of a faraday cage only worked if it was enclosed? I was under the impression, and I'm probably wrong, that because of the way the electrical fields worked, they all cancelled each other out, because if you're in the center, you get opposing fields from all sides, and you're neutral, that's obvious. Yet if you go off center, then the interference from the now closer portions of the surface is greater, yet there's more stuff "behind" you as well so that in effect the grand total of the interference? 0.
Now, if there's a hole in it, I can't see this working? Someone correct me, I'm sure I'm wrong on this.
The only time it'd help would be if his portable played the aac format, but not the protected aac format. Since it probably doesn't, he'd have to convert it from aac to MP3, the CD burning phase doesn't lose anything more in this process, just makes it slower.
My car's navigation only works while stopped (technically, it operates under 5mph as well). When I accelerate above 5mph, half of the damned features are shut off. The map is still there and I can still do small things, but anything that would involve reading or typing in to the thing is blocked out. The best I can do is ask it for a list of services (Restaurants, gas stations) around an interstate exit. That's the most complicated thing it can do while I'm moving, and everything else I can use a voice command for.
I don't know what features exactly are locked out of my phone while the car is in motion, since I don't yet have a bluetooth phone, but I know for a fact that I can't enter new numbers in to the system when the car's moving (though I think I can voice dial).
Anyway, I don't like this system. In fact, I freaking hate it. Not because I want to try and be typing in alphabetical shit while I'm driving: I don't want to. But I have a passenger often enough that it'd be really nice for THEM to be able to do it without ripping apart my dash, breaking a wire, and inserting a timer control attached to a switch. Turn the switch on, and the car thinks its going only 5 mph. turn it off, and the system will use GPS and get its bearings again.
Ideally, it'd sense the passenger seat having someone in it (the sensor's already there), the seat belt being buckled (the sensor's already there) and maybe have a separate control not within reach of the driver, though I think the first two would be sufficient. So, what's keeping someone from putting a weight on the seat and buckling the belt? nothing. Though if I see someone doing that, I'd think that it'd be fair to shoot the person on sight. Well, run them off the road first so they don't hurt anyone else, then shoot them. Too bad judges/public/the law/etc. wouldn't agree..
I want ad hoc networks between cars. Just plug in something like this, and I'd be able to know if/where people around me with the same tech are. Quite obviously, they'd have to be using the same frequency and protocol..
Of course, I'm a spoiled little brat, so I'd want it to tie in to the rest of my car, and I'd want information on the other person's car. So basically I'd want it to transmit their phone number, and store it in my car's phone book, and have them appear on my nav system, and have the audio from this system piped to my car's speakers, and use my car's microphone.
Hell, I'd leave the device on just because it was cool, even if I only ever found one other person with it, it'd be worth it. Until, of course, it reached critical mass, and everyone had one, and then it's just lame and just like usenet and stuff and anyone who cares wouldn't use it anymore, and teenagers (wow I'm just out of my teens and already I'm insulting them.) would use it to ask the people next to them out on a date. Oh well.
Toyota HSD (Prius): 2 bars of charge, and it will turn on the gas engine. you'll only ever see this in japanese and european models (or the american ones with a "ev mode" button added, they removed it for some reason for us). You need to be in EV (electric vehicle) mode for the battery to ever drain that low. at 2 bars of charge, the battery is approx. 40% drained.
The Prius CAN run battery only if you run out of gas. (Even the american version, without the mod).
Honda IMA (Insight, Civic, Accord): Whenever the car is moving, BOTH engines are providing power. It can not run with just one.
I can get 99.9mpg (that's the highest it goes cruising at about 45mph, with the gas engine directing some power to charge the battery as well. This is on perfectly level ground. Perfectly level ground at about 65mph gets me about 74mpg. I don't live where there's perfectly level ground though, and supposedly mileage is worse in cold weather, which is the only time I've driven my Prius (only had it a bit over a month).
I think the point is that you need energy to split Hydrogen.. it's really just an energy storage spot. This energy comes from conventional power plants which will have economies of scale going for them, AND can be upgraded/changed much easier than replacing every gas pump in america. Do the hydrogen conversion once, and then use hydrogen to store power generated from wind, solar, nuclear, whatever.
at least, that's the benefit I've always perceived people to be talking about.. unless they dont' even think about where the hydrogen comes from and just assume that it doesn't take any energy to extract.. and that it's a perfect fuel source (only water emissions fromt he burning of hydrogen, yes.. but you need energy to get that hydrogen, and that depends on coal, nucelar, whatever.)
I own a "2nd gen" (really it's the third generation) Prius. My (untested) 0-60 is supposedly 10.9 seconds. I can easily get to 80 miles an hour on the freeway, much faster than my 88 plymouth reliant could. I don't though. I'm one of those people you just mentioned. I got a speeding ticket recently (before I had the Prius) and slowed down. Now that I have cruise control and a car that tells me constantly what it's getting for mpg and the average for the tank, I drive at exactly the speed limit most of the time. Never more than 5 over. But it's my personal choice, not because the car is incapable of going faster than that.
I really only have that POS reliant to compare to, so take this with a grain of salt.. but if I'm not paying attention and I'm not using the Cruise control, without even realizing it I'm up beyond 70, 75 mph. Passing trucks on the highway that have pissed me off, normally I'd floor it, get past them, and get back in to the right lane where I belong (this is in the reliant). Net speed gain over a tractor trailer starting at about 70mph? about 5mph. Starting at 65 in the Prius, passing a truck I've gotten it to 79 before I looked down and started slowing down. Wasn't past the truck yet.
This car is NOT underpowered.
New York State, USA :)
I'm sitting right next to someone who took wine tasting as an elective. Personally? I took study abroad, and crammed the rest of my classes down to three years.
Not in the way that you're thinking of ;)
;) Wow this post got long.. I love this car too much. :P
The Prius is powered mostly by a high voltage (200V) battery. There are electromagnetic relays powered by the 12V battery that either engage or disengage. If the 12V battery is dead, then the relays are disengaged, and no power can flow from the 200V battery out to the rest of the car. Some of the electronics work off the 12V circuit, but not many.
To start the internal combustion engine (and it's not needed for driving, many people have run out of gas and gone a couple more miles, or you can feather the pedal and get it to accelerate really slowly off of just battery. There's also mods to enable "Electric Vehicle" mode so that you can be a bit more normal on the gas pedal and it won't switch over to the gasoline engine), the car throws it's multi-function CVT transmission (look up the sun and planet transmissions) to forcibly spin the internal combustion engine to the right speed, then starts the spark plugs.
The spark is electronically controlled, so even if you could somehow get the computer controlled transmission to switch from neutral in to a mode where the wheels drive the internal combusion engine directly (and I don't think the transmission would like this mode at all, usually it'll detect more power from the wheels than engine momentum, and switch it over to one of the electric motors operating in reverse to charge the high voltage battery), there wouldn't be a spark to continue the engine running. Or maybe it's just the fuel valves are closed, so there wouldn't be any fuel in there. Either way, it wouldn't work.
Re: transmission modes.. Now that I think about the workings of the transmission, there has to be a way to get the ring and the planets working at the same time, which should give the internal combustion engine a spin. If it can drive the car, it has to have a direct connection. Rarely, if ever, is the ICE (internal combustion engine) isolated (no power from or to the electric motor), so you'd have to drive those too if you were attempting a push start. I know the car can spin the internal combustion engine off of the axle's momentum as a way to bleed off excess power (for example if the batteries are close to fully charged and you're using the regenerative braking, it doesn't want to overcharge the batteries, so it'll shut off the fuel valves to the ICE and just spin it without fuel as a way to get rid of excess power.)
There are wonderful articles on howstuffworks.com on automatic transmissions. priuschat.com and priusonline.com have a wealth of information on this car as well. Everything I've said is specific to the Prius's Hybrid Synergy Drive. Older Prii (America: 2001-2003 models) and other company's hybrids (I'm also familiar with Honda's system) use different hybrid technology that might work differently. Ford's is similar to Toyota's enough that they had to license parts/all of HSD from Toyota.
(Example: it's impossible for the Honda hybrids to drive without both the ICE and the battery providing power. There's no Battery-only drive mode)
Regular automatics are quite a bit different as well
Oh, the joke. you asked about a "push start", and I said "Not in the way you're thinking of".. There's no standard form of ignition on this car. To turn the car on, there's a big "Power" button on the dash that I push.
Push once: Multifunction display turns on. This is powered off the 12V in this stage.
Push twice: accessory/ignition on mode. Radio, headlights, etc. The 12V has engaged the 200V battery, and things should be running off of that.
Push once with brake pedal depressed: "Ready" mode. The 200V battery is engaged, and 7 seconds later the internal combustion engine will turn on (earlier than 7 seconds if needed. Non-north american models of the car, and modded north american versions have a switch you can press to make it NOT turn on the engi
Jump starting isn't so bad. There's a pole underneath the hood inside the fuse box. I'd have to read the manual, but I'm pretty sure that's the 12V's positive. Attach negative to the metal of the car, and you're all set.
:)
You can also supposedly jump it off of a lantern battery, or trickle charge the 12V enough to engage the relays to enable the 200V high-voltage battery to work by using a solar panel attached to the front cigarette lighter ("power outlet", since there's no actual cigarette lighter in the car.)
All the 12V does when starting it is engage relays that act as a form of killswitch for the high voltage battery. Doesn't take much juice to flip those. We don't have to power a starter on that battery, which is why it's so tiny
I've never tried to disconnect the batteries though. How do you get in to the battery compartment? I don't have the manual handy..
Hybrid. 3rd Gen ('05) Prius. It uses the high voltage battery to spin the engine before starting the cylinders firing, and both of the batteries (there's a 12V and a 200V) are underneath the back seat. I'm pretty sure I'm not able to get back there, though I've never tried. I'm pretty sure it's not easy.
:)
I have the smart key/smart start as well, so I don't even have to use a real key. I just get in to the car. I touch the door handle to have it unlock. As long as the fob is in my pocket..
I guess I could disconnect the power button on the dash? I dont' know how well it's wired in there though.
My car doesn't have an ignition coil or battery cable (that I can access) you insensitive clod!
What makes a language 'lightweight' ? When I think of Perl, I don't immediately think a lightweight/simple language to learn. And then I look at the Program (Schedule) on the website and see that it says English is the most lightweight language of all, which doesn't make any sense to me unless you consider how much code it takes to get something accomplished as a feature of the language, so that since English and Perl don't require as much code to get difficult tasks completed, they're 'lightweight' languages?
That definition seems backwards. Can someone please enlighten me?
And linux games will become a reality only if there's video cards that can play them. Sorry, nVidia's 2D hardware has always pissed me off and I refuse to buy one of their cards. I've never had many problems with ATI cards, especially since the windows drivers got better, and every video card I've purchased for myself (all two of them) have been ATIs.
That being said, if there's no good drivers, then how do you expect those awesome games to come to linux? Half the time starting OpenGL causes my linux box to freeze, that's not acceptable (and makes coding OpenGL programs rather difficult). What's the point of half-assing driver support? Oh yeah, marketing..
Check out Apple's AirTunes, I'm almost positive it can already do that (multiple speaker outputs).
I don't remember the last time I handed my card to someone. Everywhere I go I swipe the card myself. Sometimes credit, sometimes debit, but it never leaves my hand. Or, I just buy online, which ends up not requiring any proof except for the numbers ON THE CARD. Credit cards have no security at all.
I've been trying to emulate nintendo for a while. Where can I get a decent GC emulator? I can't afford the money for a new console, I just bought an iPod Photo. (this is a joke btw, there's already a GC at my house, and I haven't orded the iPod Photo.. yet.)
I second this. I've not used it for dating (not really looking for it right now), but I've met quite a few people on there, and anyone its said is a good match has been. I've kept in touch with everyone who bothered to reply to me, because they're usually pretty close to the type of people I make friends with normally.
That being said, just be aware that the girls on there, like on any site, are probably flooded with messages. Moreso if they have a picture. My roommate got 15 messages the first day she had her picture up.. it's a bit daunting. Therefore, a lot of the time they won't bother to respond to people, or at least that's been my experience. I've seen several profiles say "I get too many messages, don't bother sending me any more since I won't respond."
Of course, it could just be that I didn't appeal to them. Would have been nice if they'd said so, but whatever. If they act like that, it's not someone I really want to be friends with, so I haven't lost much at all.
Basically, it asks a bunch of questions, you answer the questions for you, then say how you'd like your ideal match to answer the question. Then you go on to the next. It then builds a personality profile, and lets you compare two people w/ cute little graphs, etc. Then they have a bunch of quizzes from the users, which are sometimes fun to take, usually not though. But overall, it's free -- they aren't trying to make money off of the matching directly. And I like that about the site.
It's run by the people who started sparknotes.com and thespark.com, and has their quirky humor in it.
No, it means that Americans are blind to the fact that they're being raped on connection charges, and their phones suck.
I bought a Japanese phone, it has a real address book (not just a phone book), built in email, web browser that would show pictures, games, and many other goodies.. plus it just looked sexy as hell.
That was two years ago. The phone was being phased out for a newer model.. I got it for $46 USD. My plan was $16 USD/month (I did have a student discount, so take this number w/ a grain of salt), and just paid as I went. No dealing with minutes or crap like that. Texting over there is insanely cheap, and it's the way people usually communicate on the things. Only if necessary do you call someone. Sorry. Emailing, since it was pointless to use C-Mail, Sky-Mail, whatever.. Every phone over there had its own email address, and the other texting networks weren't compatible with each other.
I just bought a phone here in the US (Verizon, unfortunately). No email, just SMS (though thankfully it works between providers). My web browser doesn't display pictures. My address book won't even store birthdays. I used to carry my Japanese phone around with me too, because it just did what I wanted, in a quick and easy fashion. I couldn't make calls on it, but I could take quick voice memos, and it stored my addresses. I often reach in to my pocket still and look for it, and am disappointed when I find my $150 verizon phone that can't do any of it.
So, perhaps I'm atypical. But I think it's just because the "Average American Consumer" doesn't demand features in their products that makes it so I have to deal with not being able to find a good phone over here.
(Yes, I know I could go tmobile and spend $700 to get a decent phone or something, but the coverage around here sucks.)
I wonder how many people realized the two acronyms.. While I'm not sure what a dickle is, it's still funny ;)
It's already possible to root Windows through an edit control, unless they patched that bug. The way the windows security model works, if there's an edit control in an app that has system privileges (I think McAfee virus scan used to show one), and you get the HWND of this edit control, you can send a WM_TIMER message to it and tell it to callback to a function pointer, and execute arbitrary code. The problem comes from the fact that any user can send a message to any other HWND, and the code executes as the owner of the control, not the person who sent the message.
Anyway. There's been slashdot articles about other media format interpreters being susceptible to buffer overflows recently as well, so you can't even claim that it's only Microsoft here. Yes, even on linux. *Gasp*
I'm not even trolling here, I much prefer Linux to Windows, but this damned zealotry has to stop. I am, however, probably feeding a troll.. *sigh*