That's definitely part of it. But I'd think without the gravel guard, after 20 years, the rock thrashing would have cleared through the zinc.
Although I have a few different generation VW golfs, and I don't *think* they're galvanized, at least not to the extent of the audis, and the undercoating seems to hold up well on them, also.
That could be half the problem with yank undercoating... the german cars ship with it, applied in (assumedly) pristine condition, whereas on American cars, you need the kid at the dealership to apply it.
I could never understand why they do it like that... a make work project for the dealers?
Maybe the yankee "tar" style undercoating, but the white rubberized undercoating on kraut cars lasts forever. I've got a 20 year old german car with the stuff on it, and it's like new under there. you need a torch to get the stuff off.
I doubt that, as there's nothing like RoHS in North America, and every car has lead acid batteries, regardless. There are plenty of sealed lead acid batteries around (old people scooters for example, a similar device...).
I'd like to think that if everywhere on earth less the americas could free up 900/1800 for GSM, surely we could too.
It's just like how we were stuck with NTSC *way* past expiry date, because we didn't want to screw the people that had TV's from the 40's. Then, instead of hurting early adopters, and making a clean break to a superior standard, the old standard reaches critical mass and we are stuck with it into the 21st century.
Now everyone has to make two models of phones and transmitters (or frequency agile versions) which makes the cost as a whole go up, and hurts interoperability. anyways. whatever. I hate partially broken standardization.
What was 900MHz allocated to in the US anyways? stupid home cordless phones?
Handbrake is cable. The foot brake is hydraulic, always was, and should be for the foreseeable future. Steering is also a direct mechanical link. The only thing that is an electronic link is the throttle, because it doesn't really matter if it fails, unlike brakes & steering.
VW and Audi have had fly by wire (throttle) for 15 years now, and I've never heard of a problem with them.
Scratch that, some googling makes it look like the toyota hybrids do have electronic brake - that was stupid decision... I didn't think that was even legal.
So.. I go to google news, search "hamburger".
I find all the summaries boring, except an article about the hamburger festival in Abkhazia, which is what I was *actually* looking for. I then proceed to click on that article.
I had no intention of reading the other articles, I wasn't looking for them, so why would it be expected that I click on them?
Are they able to store double the words in 32 bit mode though? Or does it just stick a 32bit word in a 64bit register, and waste half of it?
If that's the case, it shouldn't give x64 a performance hit...
I should add - after years, plain cadmium plating oxidizes, and turns to a sort of butternut yellow coloured powder. I think this is when it is most dangerous, because it is very easy to inhale or ingest.
I see it on occasion on the metalwork of electronic equipment from the 50's and 60's.
It's very effective corrosion resistance plating as well. Even better when you put on a chromate conversion coating after (also toxic). It's not used much in consumer goods though, mostly military stuff (chrome conversion can conveniently turn it olive-drab, too.)
I believe the main problem with Cd is - it's very similar to Zn. And due to this similarity, your body absorbs it, as zinc, but you are unable to excrete it, and get something like a horrible zinc deficiency? I'm not entirely certain, but I seem to recall something like that.
Coincidentally, Cd and hex-chrome as both banned in the EU, under RoHS, - Well It would be if these were electronics.
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That's definitely part of it. But I'd think without the gravel guard, after 20 years, the rock thrashing would have cleared through the zinc.
Although I have a few different generation VW golfs, and I don't *think* they're galvanized, at least not to the extent of the audis, and the undercoating seems to hold up well on them, also.
Fair enough, I should have said non-german.
That could be half the problem with yank undercoating... the german cars ship with it, applied in (assumedly) pristine condition, whereas on American cars, you need the kid at the dealership to apply it.
I could never understand why they do it like that... a make work project for the dealers?
There's a wee bit of a difference between pane glass, and an aerosol. One is slightly more prone to being inhaled.
Maybe the yankee "tar" style undercoating, but the white rubberized undercoating on kraut cars lasts forever. I've got a 20 year old german car with the stuff on it, and it's like new under there. you need a torch to get the stuff off.
Fail2ban only bans the attacking IP, not all traffic... how would that cause a DoS?
You can change how many attempts, how long to ban, things like that.
Microwave should fly right through chicken wire, no problem.
I doubt that, as there's nothing like RoHS in North America, and every car has lead acid batteries, regardless.
There are plenty of sealed lead acid batteries around (old people scooters for example, a similar device...).
I'd like to think that if everywhere on earth less the americas could free up 900/1800 for GSM, surely we could too.
It's just like how we were stuck with NTSC *way* past expiry date, because we didn't want to screw the people that had TV's from the 40's. Then, instead of hurting early adopters, and making a clean break to a superior standard, the old standard reaches critical mass and we are stuck with it into the 21st century.
Now everyone has to make two models of phones and transmitters (or frequency agile versions) which makes the cost as a whole go up, and hurts interoperability. anyways. whatever. I hate partially broken standardization.
What was 900MHz allocated to in the US anyways? stupid home cordless phones?
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Even when their designs were inferior to AMD's, they remained competitive because they could afford to paid off dell, HP, et al.
Fixed.
Entirely false. The computer on an Audi 5000 *only* controls spark. It can slightly influence the fuel mixture, but that's it.
Fuel delivery - mechanical (K jetronic)
Throttle - mechanical linkage
transmission - mechanical, no electronics *at all*
Brake - mechanical
How would a software upgrade do anything to affect this?
It was a case of morons stomping on the gas, nothing more.
Funny thing, that after installing an interlock that made you step on the brake before shifting into drive, the incidents disappeared.
Handbrake is cable. The foot brake is hydraulic, always was, and should be for the foreseeable future.
Steering is also a direct mechanical link. The only thing that is an electronic link is the throttle, because it doesn't really matter if it fails, unlike brakes & steering.
VW and Audi have had fly by wire (throttle) for 15 years now, and I've never heard of a problem with them.
Scratch that, some googling makes it look like the toyota hybrids do have electronic brake - that was stupid decision... I didn't think that was even legal.
I'm suddenly reminded of horrible apps written in VB97, with no concern for the back end, horrible input kludge, etc.
So.. I go to google news, search "hamburger".
I find all the summaries boring, except an article about the hamburger festival in Abkhazia, which is what I was *actually* looking for. I then proceed to click on that article.
I had no intention of reading the other articles, I wasn't looking for them, so why would it be expected that I click on them?
Are they able to store double the words in 32 bit mode though? Or does it just stick a 32bit word in a 64bit register, and waste half of it?
If that's the case, it shouldn't give x64 a performance hit...
Bingo. Instead of donating $2/hour manual labour, you could do your normal job and donate some real hard currency.
Not being able to buy the govn't would be a "drawback" for the corps...
More parties would increase the chances of one of them having a backbone, though.
AKA "Evil".
I pretend I'm reading the printout from a selectric.
impossible, google doesn't go down.
Canada != Ontario.
... $10k fine, with a one week licence suspension and car impounding... they don't keep it.
Even then, first offence is a $2k
I should add - after years, plain cadmium plating oxidizes, and turns to a sort of butternut yellow coloured powder. I think this is when it is most dangerous, because it is very easy to inhale or ingest.
I see it on occasion on the metalwork of electronic equipment from the 50's and 60's.
It's very effective corrosion resistance plating as well. Even better when you put on a chromate conversion coating after (also toxic).
It's not used much in consumer goods though, mostly military stuff (chrome conversion can conveniently turn it olive-drab, too.)
I believe the main problem with Cd is - it's very similar to Zn. And due to this similarity, your body absorbs it, as zinc, but you are unable to excrete it, and get something like a horrible zinc deficiency? I'm not entirely certain, but I seem to recall something like that.
Coincidentally, Cd and hex-chrome as both banned in the EU, under RoHS, - Well It would be if these were electronics.