If you think we have a cure for every disease you need to lay off the crack. For every disease we know about I'll bet that 5 are still in the wild and have yet to be discovered. Eventually we'll find them all after we saturate areas that have had low numbers of people. Or look into things that were consided to be "physclogical instead of physiological".
Cancer is yes very dangerous and still extreamly prevelant but the question is...is it natural, or is it due to enviromental factors. I feel that it's due to the enviromental factors aka toxins in the enviroment.
AIDS is still on the upswing, they still find a couple of new mutated strains every year, small pox is no longer "wild" but is still exists, yeah anthrax is pretty common...go and stick your hands in a patch of dirt. Ebola is semi-isolated but all it needs is someone to get on a jet before infection sets in to bring is somewhere else.
Bubonic plage/pnunomic plauge is around now as much as it always has been, actually there is an outbreak in california with the squrrils in the mountains right now. There are also atleast TWO strains that immune to all antibiotics, probbly more due to stupid people and their inabiltiy to "take all of the antibiotics prescribed". Just remeber that for every strain that is antibiotic immune it's due to some stupid human that decided they knew better.
That I will somewhat agree with, though disease is still a major impact on us as a species that and in general old age. Though we are living longer and what not...that has more to do with our enviroment and standard of living.
Ahh...I know more then a few people who have eaten people...but...it's not something that I'll dance to very easily they were doing some stuff over in africa during one of those civil wars, they ate without knowing what it was.
Anyway...there is alot of stuff that we still need to evolve over.
is if they don't release recordable DVD players for public consumption. People want small media that are easy to store, and don't take up much space. After all I can put 15 DVD in side the area of one VHS tape.
While the idea is good and all...it's about 3 years too late. DVD as it stands are the way to go, if I could get away from VHS compleatly I would but some of my favorite movies not available for buying are on VHS aka "warriors of the wind"(bastardized american version), and a few others. I suppose the biggest thing is that the life time of a DVD/CD disc are 50-200 years depending on care, ect. If I leave even a video tape sitting for a few years the rust starts to break down.
But, I am moving them to CD right now...and hope that the orignals don't degrade.:)
It's something like 2-3% for every recordable media that we buy from the store. I thinks/. rand a story on it not too long ago. Might have been somewhere else.
By your post I can tell your not a mechanic, I was. I can tell you that while yes a cooling system on a car will eventually leak but you have to remeber that this is compleatly diffrent from a water cooling solution.
In a car you have a closed loop system under 13-18PSI @ 212-240F at highest non-engine damageing tempatures. Most common failures in modern cars is the platic tanks on the radiators cracking. This doesn't count on vibration, contstant heating & cooling, & lack of proper maintance.
Hell the rad hoses on my saturn have 120,000 miles on them. Why? Because I know I have to change the fluid, see anti-freeze eats rubber and alunimum when it gets old. Hence the reason you change it. My old lynx was 15 years old and had 290,000 miles before the engine went but had factory hoses on it.
Anyway I guess the point I'm getting at is there is a huge diffrance between a car cooling system and a computer cooling system. While some people will disagree, I can tell you now your not takeing your computer down the road @ 65mph, with an engine speed of 3100rpm, with potholes all over the place. With your car you are, and that's alot of wear and tear.
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Yeah easy enough to do. From the main pump line use a Y splitter to the two water blocks, then from the line out on the two water blocks use a nother Y spiltter to merge the two flows, I would also suggest useing a larger return hose. You DO NOT want to go from Block A to Block B, since the water will not cool, and a good chance exists that you'll cook your second processor.
You know the nice thing about being the head of a govement is you can make stats dance on their head. You are the type controling goverments love, the non-questioning types.
Regardless have you ever been in a true car jacking? That 9mm my friend had made that car jacker dance in the street while the cops came. Guess what I'm not going to be a victim.
Now murder rates, see this is an intresting point. Depending what state you live in, and depending on the city your murder rates are diffrent you goto Washington DC and they have one of the highest murder rates, and the one of the toughest gun control laws along with chiago and a few other places. You goto a city with relaxed gun laws, or where citizens are required by LAW to carry a gun and low and be hold...the crime and murder rates are low to non-existant.
So, unless you know what in the hell your talking about, you can go back to your snibling anti-gun retoric and hope someone doesn't hold you up. Because I refuse to be a victim.
Moving on...
Actually most people don't believe that they have the right to own a machine gun, they believe that they have the RIGHT to protect themselfs, and their families from some fruit cake that wants to rob them. Specific reasons exist in the US that gun laws are the way they are, there is a reason the right to bare arms is protected in the consitution. I'm glad your an australian who is happy that they can't protect themself, I know a good number of canadians that are NOT happy with the goverment. You know what you get when guns are gone? Ever read some history? Take a look in europe specificly in the 1930-48 around germany. I'll let you read some stuff, and open your mind to the truth.
Actually compartivly speaking, the US is more "free" than say australia or canada. You have simply been brain washed by goverment propaganda, why else does the goverment control the media hmm? Just remeber that your rights are not guarneteed, they are a privilage.
Actually been to aussie land, while it's nice and all you can keep it, I prefer to live somewhere where I'm allowed to do what I would like. Freedom is a nice thing.
Every goverment has made mistakes, no doubts there just the aussie goverment has made some massive screw ups and so have others. Ahh yes, here is the question...is the murder rate lower(goverment controled figures), or is it the fact the person couldn't kill the other one quickly enough before the cops arive? Or is it like toronto where they had a whole pile of murders and they simply were not reported on the news(either papers, radio or TV)?
I'm sorry my friend, but you need to wake up and smell the shit on the wind.
Canada in truth doesn't have alot of things to be proud of, sure we have the neutrino detector, I've been there that damn thing is neat, been to a few particle accelerators but intresting none the less.
Well gold could be a problem but that could be regulated. Plutonium hell we burn that in our power plants. Canada is considered a non-nuclear power but as the ability to build the bomb, in canada there is no stratigic importance to build them, after all we have the states to protect us...I hate saying that but 99% of canadaians think that way.
Well you can go talk to russia about the diamonds, they have 40-50 billion US dollars worth sitting in store rooms they have an agreement with the diamond cartel not to sell them though, and they get some money from them every year. On another note, when they were doing some geo-surveying up north(in the territories), they found that the concentration of diamonds makes the finds in africa look like a pin in a pin box.
Regardless, there are lots of good things that can come from this, after all maybe we can crack the understanding of the universe or something from it.
I have no clue where you live, I would guess the US, but even then...in the states most schools use PC's, in canada the last time I saw a "non-ibm" computer was with our video toasting(tm) software for our amiga's. Regardless, all the schools I have been in here have been in here use PC's...well except when I was younger and used Icon's(tm).:)
A possible problem with the proliferation of MS software is the fact that in canada, the goverment has bailed out Corel so many damn times it's not funny, but corel give them huge breaks on the software wether it be schools or goverment. Which all run under windows 9x or higher.
I remeber chatting on there back in 91, run by quatradeck(quarterdeck?) corp? outta cali?, met a lot of intresting people there, gone and drifted since then...and to think...it's been 10 years since that. I think the server eventually folded around 93-94 when the company closed up shop.
But script kiddies have no skills...why do you think the hacking and cracking community calls them script kiddies?
They do one thing, take other peoples work and run it. They know nothing, zip zero zilch...now if we turned around and made them work in an IT dept. where the servers were constantly over run by virii/trojans/ect run by other script kiddies, maybe that would get though to them.
I notice alot of "it will be underwhelming" ect, blah blah, not as good as last months...blah blah. Well damn I'm glad for you, I'm freakin' happy you saw the one last month. Guess what? I was in peak zone, and it was bloody well overcast, which means...I saw squat.
To think on it, last time I actually did see a metor shower would have been somewhere around 1991-92. That's counting the fact it wasn't overcast...raining, or had some other weather system passing over where I live.
You do know that Yosemitie National Park is on top of one the "super" volcano's. I mean if the thing blew again there is a chance it would cause massive loss of life, they are talking 3ft of ash 3000 miles away.
Regardless all you need is a natural cavern which the city is built on(see NYC), that's atleast 2000-3000ft deep(see NYC), where an earthquake cracks the cavern, or due to large ammounts of people or structures weakens the dome to the point where a large enough earthquake cause it to colapse.
Not exactly far fetched, almost like the annazi temple off the coast of japan sunk in 30ft of water. Though the temple exactly mirrors the aztec temples in central america...hmm...could it be possible that we've been semi-advanced before only to be almost wiped out by a massive geologic event? And the human race was scattered to the winds, leading to similar advances in technology and structures around the world, or is this all coincidence?
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I can see it now...some people complain and all but I can see important things comeing from all of this.
Most importantly...the fact that MPS(mechaps.com) can license the gryo setup for the mechs! Damn right!
See...I can see the bright side of any situation...though I can see little to no public use for "it" right now, though warehouse or workers in assembly plants could use them. Good for conjested cities but how good is it on inclines? I mean sure it can climb a hill but where I live...some hills are 10-11% gradient...and I don't live near moutains...but where the glaciers cut the great lakes.
Doing some home experimentation, I can get a broadcast range of roughly 50ft with a small trasnistor radio and my home computer. In the city it's less due to the fact my city uses low-pressure sodium lighting, which kicks up alot of AM interfearance, try listening to a city 25mi away that broadcasts at 15,000watts and barely being able to pick it up.
Regardless, I can pick up the AM boomers out on the east coast, 1210 and 1290 both broadcasting at 50,000watts, but it might have something to do with broadcasting at a higher range, the 15k watt job is only 900.
So, comeing back to it...does that mean that the higher your range the better your broadcasting ability? Quite possibly, maybe someone with more time can do some better experimentation.
Such as, on-net cracking...all someone needs to do is bluff their way though security or come up with a good forged security pass, especially a visitor pass, slip in and get onto a terminal that's secluded. I beleive that/. already had an article on this, same rules still apply...
I suppose it comes down to this, you can make the most perfect, impenertable network but...as long as you have lax human security someone will still get into it.
A few things come to mind, they need to be more worried about dumb ass script kiddies, even an idiot can run a program and do something, crackers would be their next likely problem. If they want some help, I'm sure there are many hackers that would jump at the chance to work for them. It is a tough time in the technology field right? Besides, who is more likely to know about all the exploits, crackers for sure, but a very good chance that it is the hackers who were the people that originaly found the exploit.
We don't have our noses's burried in books and reading the "latest and greatest" security information for no reason.
Sorry to tell you but, in Canada we already live in a Police State, CSIS has had those powers for years and years. Includeing wire taps, WITH NO Warrent, and holding a citizen or forgien national with no cause.
To cut, you can use a hack saw, or variable speed saw, even a dremal to cut the plexiglass. Just remeber if the blade speed is too high you'll simply melt the stuff.
Depending on how thick the plexiglass is you can use screws. Or even bolts with tap'd holes.
You can bond plexiglass with acrylic bonding cement, contact cement, 3M Polymyr Glue, Krazy Glue, lots of stuff. Hell even Weld Bond[Brand Name](stuff they use to stick the tiles on the space shuttle), will work. You simply need to use some sand paper on the edges you want to bond to get some griping surface. Probbly the same for the rest of the other glues. The actual bonding goo for plexiglass melts the two peices together...hence the reason it's so expensive.
Most cars already have a computer(based either on 386/486 proc's), that control fuel injection, igntion, knock, map, O2, and your instrument panel(depending on analong/digital controls).
There are anywhere between 2-5 computers on the modern car. Even the older cars(early 80's) had a basic computer that were mostly for voltage regulation ect. For example, you have Primary, engine, body, ABS, accessory.
Unfortunatly, when you mix computers and cars bad things happen. You don't need a computer to run a car, actually cars manufactured during the 1960's run cleaner then some cars now. If your O2 sensor goes for a fluke, well you get bad fuel economey, if the map sensor or TPS goes, the car won't start.
Volkswagon had it right with the rabbit, fuel injection with no computers. Anyone who tells you that computerized cars run cleaner are lying to you, if we didn't have Catylidic Convertor's, we wouldn't have as many problems with sulfur dioxide(acid rain).
Now onto the rest of the message, your car's computer already logs everything. If you take the car to a garage, they can pull up fuel economey, milage, top speed, ect. Ever hear of OnStar? Built in GPS, auto maping, call an ambulance & police if you get into an accident. Though it costs $29/mo(two way service). The Pontiac GTP, and Saturn cars have traction control that works with the ABS system, along with a transaxle auto-wheel slip transfer system.
Besides, do you really need a computer for MP3's when satilite radio is available, and MP3 audio players for cars are already out? I listen to more AM radio(talk radio) then most things.
Why do something complicated when the solutions already exist.
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And don't forget about Gibson's dire prediction's that XP's use of Raw Sockets will cause the internet to collapse into a pile of melted routers and CAT5 cable!
Don't forget to register! If you don't, we'll kill your copy of XP within 30 days, and even if you do we might decide to do it anyway!
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If you think we have a cure for every disease you need to lay off the crack. For every disease we know about I'll bet that 5 are still in the wild and have yet to be discovered. Eventually we'll find them all after we saturate areas that have had low numbers of people. Or look into things that were consided to be "physclogical instead of physiological".
Cancer is yes very dangerous and still extreamly prevelant but the question is...is it natural, or is it due to enviromental factors. I feel that it's due to the enviromental factors aka toxins in the enviroment.
AIDS is still on the upswing, they still find a couple of new mutated strains every year, small pox is no longer "wild" but is still exists, yeah anthrax is pretty common...go and stick your hands in a patch of dirt. Ebola is semi-isolated but all it needs is someone to get on a jet before infection sets in to bring is somewhere else.
Bubonic plage/pnunomic plauge is around now as much as it always has been, actually there is an outbreak in california with the squrrils in the mountains right now. There are also atleast TWO strains that immune to all antibiotics, probbly more due to stupid people and their inabiltiy to "take all of the antibiotics prescribed". Just remeber that for every strain that is antibiotic immune it's due to some stupid human that decided they knew better.
That I will somewhat agree with, though disease is still a major impact on us as a species that and in general old age. Though we are living longer and what not...that has more to do with our enviroment and standard of living.
Ahh...I know more then a few people who have eaten people...but...it's not something that I'll dance to very easily they were doing some stuff over in africa during one of those civil wars, they ate without knowing what it was.
Anyway...there is alot of stuff that we still need to evolve over.
is if they don't release recordable DVD players for public consumption. People want small media that are easy to store, and don't take up much space. After all I can put 15 DVD in side the area of one VHS tape.
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While the idea is good and all...it's about 3 years too late. DVD as it stands are the way to go, if I could get away from VHS compleatly I would but some of my favorite movies not available for buying are on VHS aka "warriors of the wind"(bastardized american version), and a few others. I suppose the biggest thing is that the life time of a DVD/CD disc are 50-200 years depending on care, ect. If I leave even a video tape sitting for a few years the rust starts to break down.
But, I am moving them to CD right now...and hope that the orignals don't degrade.
It's something like 2-3% for every recordable media that we buy from the store. I thinks /. rand a story on it not too long ago. Might have been somewhere else.
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By your post I can tell your not a mechanic, I was. I can tell you that while yes a cooling system on a car will eventually leak but you have to remeber that this is compleatly diffrent from a water cooling solution.
In a car you have a closed loop system under 13-18PSI @ 212-240F at highest non-engine damageing tempatures. Most common failures in modern cars is the platic tanks on the radiators cracking. This doesn't count on vibration, contstant heating & cooling, & lack of proper maintance.
Hell the rad hoses on my saturn have 120,000 miles on them. Why? Because I know I have to change the fluid, see anti-freeze eats rubber and alunimum when it gets old. Hence the reason you change it. My old lynx was 15 years old and had 290,000 miles before the engine went but had factory hoses on it.
Anyway I guess the point I'm getting at is there is a huge diffrance between a car cooling system and a computer cooling system. While some people will disagree, I can tell you now your not takeing your computer down the road @ 65mph, with an engine speed of 3100rpm, with potholes all over the place. With your car you are, and that's alot of wear and tear.
Yeah easy enough to do. From the main pump line use a Y splitter to the two water blocks, then from the line out on the two water blocks use a nother Y spiltter to merge the two flows, I would also suggest useing a larger return hose. You DO NOT want to go from Block A to Block B, since the water will not cool, and a good chance exists that you'll cook your second processor.
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You know the nice thing about being the head of a govement is you can make stats dance on their head. You are the type controling goverments love, the non-questioning types.
Regardless have you ever been in a true car jacking? That 9mm my friend had made that car jacker dance in the street while the cops came. Guess what I'm not going to be a victim.
Now murder rates, see this is an intresting point. Depending what state you live in, and depending on the city your murder rates are diffrent you goto Washington DC and they have one of the highest murder rates, and the one of the toughest gun control laws along with chiago and a few other places. You goto a city with relaxed gun laws, or where citizens are required by LAW to carry a gun and low and be hold...the crime and murder rates are low to non-existant.
So, unless you know what in the hell your talking about, you can go back to your snibling anti-gun retoric and hope someone doesn't hold you up. Because I refuse to be a victim.
Moving on...
Actually most people don't believe that they have the right to own a machine gun, they believe that they have the RIGHT to protect themselfs, and their families from some fruit cake that wants to rob them. Specific reasons exist in the US that gun laws are the way they are, there is a reason the right to bare arms is protected in the consitution. I'm glad your an australian who is happy that they can't protect themself, I know a good number of canadians that are NOT happy with the goverment. You know what you get when guns are gone? Ever read some history? Take a look in europe specificly in the 1930-48 around germany. I'll let you read some stuff, and open your mind to the truth.
Actually compartivly speaking, the US is more "free" than say australia or canada. You have simply been brain washed by goverment propaganda, why else does the goverment control the media hmm? Just remeber that your rights are not guarneteed, they are a privilage.
Actually been to aussie land, while it's nice and all you can keep it, I prefer to live somewhere where I'm allowed to do what I would like. Freedom is a nice thing.
Every goverment has made mistakes, no doubts there just the aussie goverment has made some massive screw ups and so have others. Ahh yes, here is the question...is the murder rate lower(goverment controled figures), or is it the fact the person couldn't kill the other one quickly enough before the cops arive? Or is it like toronto where they had a whole pile of murders and they simply were not reported on the news(either papers, radio or TV)?
I'm sorry my friend, but you need to wake up and smell the shit on the wind.
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It is intresting and insightful.
Canada in truth doesn't have alot of things to be proud of, sure we have the neutrino detector, I've been there that damn thing is neat, been to a few particle accelerators but intresting none the less.
Well gold could be a problem but that could be regulated. Plutonium hell we burn that in our power plants. Canada is considered a non-nuclear power but as the ability to build the bomb, in canada there is no stratigic importance to build them, after all we have the states to protect us...I hate saying that but 99% of canadaians think that way.
Well you can go talk to russia about the diamonds, they have 40-50 billion US dollars worth sitting in store rooms they have an agreement with the diamond cartel not to sell them though, and they get some money from them every year. On another note, when they were doing some geo-surveying up north(in the territories), they found that the concentration of diamonds makes the finds in africa look like a pin in a pin box.
Regardless, there are lots of good things that can come from this, after all maybe we can crack the understanding of the universe or something from it.
I have no clue where you live, I would guess the US, but even then...in the states most schools use PC's, in canada the last time I saw a "non-ibm" computer was with our video toasting(tm) software for our amiga's. Regardless, all the schools I have been in here have been in here use PC's...well except when I was younger and used Icon's(tm). :)
A possible problem with the proliferation of MS software is the fact that in canada, the goverment has bailed out Corel so many damn times it's not funny, but corel give them huge breaks on the software wether it be schools or goverment. Which all run under windows 9x or higher.
Maybe goverment is part of the problem as well?
I remeber chatting on there back in 91, run by quatradeck(quarterdeck?) corp? outta cali?, met a lot of intresting people there, gone and drifted since then...and to think...it's been 10 years since that. I think the server eventually folded around 93-94 when the company closed up shop.
But script kiddies have no skills...why do you think the hacking and cracking community calls them script kiddies?
They do one thing, take other peoples work and run it. They know nothing, zip zero zilch...now if we turned around and made them work in an IT dept. where the servers were constantly over run by virii/trojans/ect run by other script kiddies, maybe that would get though to them.
I notice alot of "it will be underwhelming" ect, blah blah, not as good as last months...blah blah. Well damn I'm glad for you, I'm freakin' happy you saw the one last month. Guess what? I was in peak zone, and it was bloody well overcast, which means...I saw squat.
To think on it, last time I actually did see a metor shower would have been somewhere around 1991-92. That's counting the fact it wasn't overcast...raining, or had some other weather system passing over where I live.
Ahh...well I'm humbly sorry...I suppose I should wake up before I post eh? :)
You do know that Yosemitie National Park is on top of one the "super" volcano's. I mean if the thing blew again there is a chance it would cause massive loss of life, they are talking 3ft of ash 3000 miles away.
Regardless all you need is a natural cavern which the city is built on(see NYC), that's atleast 2000-3000ft deep(see NYC), where an earthquake cracks the cavern, or due to large ammounts of people or structures weakens the dome to the point where a large enough earthquake cause it to colapse.
Not exactly far fetched, almost like the annazi temple off the coast of japan sunk in 30ft of water. Though the temple exactly mirrors the aztec temples in central america...hmm...could it be possible that we've been semi-advanced before only to be almost wiped out by a massive geologic event? And the human race was scattered to the winds, leading to similar advances in technology and structures around the world, or is this all coincidence?
I can see it now...some people complain and all but I can see important things comeing from all of this.
Most importantly...the fact that MPS(mechaps.com) can license the gryo setup for the mechs! Damn right!
See...I can see the bright side of any situation...though I can see little to no public use for "it" right now, though warehouse or workers in assembly plants could use them. Good for conjested cities but how good is it on inclines? I mean sure it can climb a hill but where I live...some hills are 10-11% gradient...and I don't live near moutains...but where the glaciers cut the great lakes.
Doing some home experimentation, I can get a broadcast range of roughly 50ft with a small trasnistor radio and my home computer. In the city it's less due to the fact my city uses low-pressure sodium lighting, which kicks up alot of AM interfearance, try listening to a city 25mi away that broadcasts at 15,000watts and barely being able to pick it up.
Regardless, I can pick up the AM boomers out on the east coast, 1210 and 1290 both broadcasting at 50,000watts, but it might have something to do with broadcasting at a higher range, the 15k watt job is only 900.
So, comeing back to it...does that mean that the higher your range the better your broadcasting ability? Quite possibly, maybe someone with more time can do some better experimentation.
Such as, on-net cracking...all someone needs to do is bluff their way though security or come up with a good forged security pass, especially a visitor pass, slip in and get onto a terminal that's secluded. I beleive that /. already had an article on this, same rules still apply...
I suppose it comes down to this, you can make the most perfect, impenertable network but...as long as you have lax human security someone will still get into it.
Look in at around 19sec in the full trailer, he's on the left side.
A few things come to mind, they need to be more worried about dumb ass script kiddies, even an idiot can run a program and do something, crackers would be their next likely problem. If they want some help, I'm sure there are many hackers that would jump at the chance to work for them. It is a tough time in the technology field right? Besides, who is more likely to know about all the exploits, crackers for sure, but a very good chance that it is the hackers who were the people that originaly found the exploit.
We don't have our noses's burried in books and reading the "latest and greatest" security information for no reason.
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Sorry to tell you but, in Canada we already live in a Police State, CSIS has had those powers for years and years. Includeing wire taps, WITH NO Warrent, and holding a citizen or forgien national with no cause.
To cut, you can use a hack saw, or variable speed saw, even a dremal to cut the plexiglass. Just remeber if the blade speed is too high you'll simply melt the stuff.
Depending on how thick the plexiglass is you can use screws. Or even bolts with tap'd holes.
You can bond plexiglass with acrylic bonding cement, contact cement, 3M Polymyr Glue, Krazy Glue, lots of stuff. Hell even Weld Bond[Brand Name](stuff they use to stick the tiles on the space shuttle), will work. You simply need to use some sand paper on the edges you want to bond to get some griping surface. Probbly the same for the rest of the other glues. The actual bonding goo for plexiglass melts the two peices together...hence the reason it's so expensive.
Most cars already have a computer(based either on 386/486 proc's), that control fuel injection, igntion, knock, map, O2, and your instrument panel(depending on analong/digital controls).
There are anywhere between 2-5 computers on the modern car. Even the older cars(early 80's) had a basic computer that were mostly for voltage regulation ect. For example, you have Primary, engine, body, ABS, accessory.
Unfortunatly, when you mix computers and cars bad things happen. You don't need a computer to run a car, actually cars manufactured during the 1960's run cleaner then some cars now. If your O2 sensor goes for a fluke, well you get bad fuel economey, if the map sensor or TPS goes, the car won't start.
Volkswagon had it right with the rabbit, fuel injection with no computers. Anyone who tells you that computerized cars run cleaner are lying to you, if we didn't have Catylidic Convertor's, we wouldn't have as many problems with sulfur dioxide(acid rain).
Now onto the rest of the message, your car's computer already logs everything. If you take the car to a garage, they can pull up fuel economey, milage, top speed, ect. Ever hear of OnStar? Built in GPS, auto maping, call an ambulance & police if you get into an accident. Though it costs $29/mo(two way service). The Pontiac GTP, and Saturn cars have traction control that works with the ABS system, along with a transaxle auto-wheel slip transfer system.
Besides, do you really need a computer for MP3's when satilite radio is available, and MP3 audio players for cars are already out? I listen to more AM radio(talk radio) then most things.
Why do something complicated when the solutions already exist.
Sellout! Ack Ack!
.NET support will allow us to tell you when you need to upgrade! Not to mention selling your e-mail address to every spammer on the planet!!
With the new Fisher-Price(TM), interface even idiots can figure out how to use WindowsXP(TM), but watch out for those 3l33t h4X0r'5, you need to upgrade and get the special Microsoft Security Pack(TM)!
And don't forget about Gibson's dire prediction's that XP's use of Raw Sockets will cause the internet to collapse into a pile of melted routers and CAT5 cable!
Don't forget to register! If you don't, we'll kill your copy of XP within 30 days, and even if you do we might decide to do it anyway!
And you can have all this for $299!!! With our new spy soft...uhh
Uhh...$2.00 for an mp3? Try $14.95 per MP3, and then your talking RIAA's tune.