This seems to disprove the hack. They don't send a lock signal. They fail to send a re-validation and the subscription times out.
Sounds like someone trying to get someone else to try out his theory without him having to leave an unused $100 reciever offline for a year. Nice try but no takers.
You may not otherwise reproduce, perform, distribute, display or create derivative works from the Content
I keep hoping they will offer a service someday that I would like to subscribe to. The above list is why I'm not a subscriber. I don't agree to their TOS. I am not stealing their service. I whine a little, because I would like to be a subscriber, but they don't provide the services I would like yet. I am hopeful that someday.... But I'm not holding my breath. I'm sticking to the MP3 jukebox.
and people started making all sorts of applications to play with them.
So just about the time they have a killer application that people would want, they kill it.
I'd be interested in creating playlists, building a library, using it it at parties, etc. Just about the time I have a reason to subscribe, it's called theft and is forbidden the TOS. Well I have a TOS for the use of my paycheck. They haven't agreed to it yet. I'm having my doubts they ever will. (Translation, I vote with my pocketbook. I doubt they are going to put my wish list up for a vote.)
I guess I'm going to have to stick with my MP3 collection for the juke box for now.
When the chief feature distinguishing "good" from "evil" is how pretty the characters are, it's a clue that maybe the whole saga deserves a second look.
If you want the story, it's a very old one. Look to the old westerns for the story. Starwars is just a cowboy western in a new setting.
The story line. The bad guy and his gang of outlaws is taking sweet sue's ranch. She becomes captured. Only the hero and nobody else can rescue her. Sometimes the hero has a dumb sidekick. There is a bar fight in the saloon. There is a big shootout. The good guys win. Did I miss anything?
Now watch the film again and fill in the names of the players in the roles.
Saw it plain and simple witht the first one released. Don't read too much into it. It's a Cowboy western. John Wayne has been replaced.
So you dont want li-ion batteries fine, you dont need to go telling world about it.
Actualy, I've bought too many things and was impressed by the ooh- aah bright and shiny thing, only to be disapointed later by something that spoiled it BY DESIGN.
Being unable to replace the battery without emptying the wallet was a bummer so yea ooh aah it's a shiny thin cool camera. We will see who is still shooting at the end of the parade. Hope you got extra money for batteries (can you get them? how much? how long to wait?) and memory. Are you already using SD for memory? If not, plan on making an investment.
This would make a great camera for a mom to keep in the house in the cradle (so it's charged) to shoot all the cute things the kid does. It doesn't take much room in the purse so you can take it to the birthday party. For more serious uses, I like a more substantual camera with more optical zoom, and use easly found replacement battries. I don't like getting stuck with a dead camera and nothing I can do about it. The corner 7-11 isn't going to have the replacement batteries for this camera. Wal-Mart and other stores will have memory for it though.
Actualy I do prefer rechargables. I have come to not rely on them as a single power source as I often find them dead after the first 10 shots or so. This is true for the intermittant amature photographer. In regular use, the batteries are maintained, charged and used before they self discharge. In an amature setting, the state of charge is not known due to self discharge and discharge by the camera to maintian the clock and such. This is why I often have batteries in the camera on the last quarter tank even when they were charged after the last use.
I had one camera that used a Li-ion battery. It was fine as long as everything could be done in an hour or less. (flash, indoors, carmera on waiting for the right pose...) This usualy left me with a dead camera before the recrption was over. I was to the point of carying a couple disposable cameras to back up my camera. That gave me film and batteries ready to go. I was glad to get rid of that camera. Instead of buying a couple $40 batteries, I replaced the camera.
I've gone to the "refillable tank" and never considered going back. I sometimes do a lot of heavy shooting. The moment isn't always right, so I shoot lots, keep the good ones and toss the rest. With flash, I am a little hard on batteries. I like them priced as a consumable because they don't last forever, not priced as an investment.
Since when is a 3.2 megapixel size bad, especially for a small digital camera?
My biggest beef with this camera is the battery choice. Re-chargable batteries self discharge. When I need shots, I need to grab and go. Expensive batteries that may or may not be ready to go are not an option for me. This camera takes a Li-ion battery. This means, dead camera at unexpected times, insufficient capacity for the birthday party, parade, sporting event, wedding, Burning Man weekend, etc. I'll take a slightly larger camera if I can use off the shelf batteries in a pinch as needed. I have several cameras. Any of them that can't share memory cards and batteries have been replaced. The type of battery and type of memory are the two things that are as important to a camera now as pixel count, low light, size and zoom range. If any of the requried features are lacking, I can't use it. When I go to shoot something, I take one or both of the cameras, the memory cards, 2 sets of NiMH batteries and a new pack of Alkalines, more if it's expected to be a big shoot. If the rechargables are dead, then I don't have a dead camera. If they are good, then I don't need the alkalines this time. I can't do this in an affordable way with a camera that uses a propritory battery. I can buy at least 4 sets of rechargable batteries for my camera for about the price of one propritory battery. Li-ion batteries are usualy $40 and up each. This significantly adds to the cost of ownership if you plan on having enought battery power to cover all the various needs. This is especialy true if you can't use off the shelf batteries in a pinch as needed.
I am thinking very hard of your ass being spanked,
I don't usualy feed the trolls, but your other point is valid..
Did you contact any of the manufacturers of your favourite sowftware to ask them for a Linux version?
Actualy I did. It went right to the marketing department on the little consumer survey card (registration card) Please add Apple/Unix/Linux version. That phrase goes on almost all product registration cards.
From TFA: "One that pulls from the dash when you want to load a significant volume of songs and takes flash media when the user only wishes to transfer a few tunes."
I hope someday they will get WiFi. That would be ideal. Park the car, open a port with a password, surf to it with either a laptop or home network, start transfer... I'd also prefer it to be trunk mount so the in-dash DVD/NAV doesn't have to come out.
You missed the bulge that is building in the The Three Sisters in Central Oregon.
http://www.registerguard.com/news/2004/03/25/a1. bu lge.0325.html
Cut and paste from the above article..
confirming geologists' belief that a large bulge that has grown over the past seven years near the dormant volcanoes could be caused by an upwelling of molten rock miles underground.
Not a problem if I want to use multiple laptops, one with WINE and one for the other map programs. I also use the laptop with my MIDI setup because it has a joystick port with MPU-401. To set it up seems to require a Windows machine to get the executibles. Seeking the path of least resistance, I simply installed to the laptop and called it good. I have kids and family. I don't have unlimited time to install on another machine, set up WINE, try to conifgure propritory laptop hardware, transfer the software, find the other apps that probably won't work, try to debug it, etc. I'm not a software engineer. Do you know if Piano Discovery System software works with WINE with MPU-401 support? How about Voyetra MIDI Music Workstation? Um.. back to maps, Rand McNally Streetfinder? Will the sound work on my laptop for the voice prompts? I'm not ready to take something that works open a new can of worms. KISS... Keep It Simple Stupid.
Sorry if I sound like a troll or flaimbait, but the above is the reason the laptop is running Win 95. It works with the applications and the software. Why break it?
My old boss told me of a pub he visited. The policy was to leave the outside behind. Right beside the door was a cell phone nailed to the wall with a very large nail. The message was clear. If your phone rings, it goes next to the first one.
I don't want to carry two laptops and make a splitter for my gps.
I understand that problem. The perfect solution doesn't exist yet. Some programs are WIN only. Some are Apple or Linux only. Life is choices. Do I dual boot? Do I take two laptops? Do I forget about one? I'm waiting for Linux to achieve a big enough groundswell so I can go into Best Buy or Office Max and pick up either the MS, Apple, or Linux version. The best would be all versions in one retail box. (National Geographic, Delorme, Rand McNally, are you listening?)
In the early days of computing, friends used to ask me buying advice for hardware.
My answer has not changed in 20 years. Find the applications you need to run and find the best hardware to run it.
It's great that Linux is getting support for GPS. That's fantastic and I'm excited. I have a Linux box.
Taking my own advice, I have an old Win 95 laptop with limited memory (72 meg EDO max). It's my kick about GPS machine. I run National Geographic Back Roads Explorer (great program!) with the State series maps. It not only uses the NMEA information to real time display position, but supports my GPS protocol for waypoint, route and track management.
I also run StreetFinder & TripMaker by Rand McNally. This gives me the best of both Raster and Vector maps. It includes route finding.
Because I took my own advice, I have legal maps for the entire 50 states, has Magellan protocol support, and no downloading or compiling needed. (stuck on dial-up)
The articles wish list included real time routing. In the feature list of the software includes everything in the wishlist. "NEWLY UPDATED FEATURES
New GPS Navigation features!
No more shuffling discs!
StreetFinder® users can install the entire street network for the contiguous United States to their hard drive. This data-compression technique means fast directions and route generation to your desktop, laptop, or Palm OS® handheld device.
Generate clear directions with Highlighted Route Lines A wealth of new navigation features for GPS* includes: Rotating Maps: upcoming turn instructions face the same direction you do
One-Touch Rerouting: Miss a turn? StreetFinder® Deluxe gets you back on track.
AutoZoom for Palm OS®: No need to manually pan for your next driving instruction.
Voice Prompter: Advance notication of upcoming turns
Not meant to troll, but wake me when Linux GPS map support is up to snuff. Expecialy wake me when both of the mentioned programs come out in a Linux version! Then I can ditch the obsolete OS on the laptop and use a modern OS.
A wish list is nice. But I found these programs meet my GPS needs already. When Linux replacements are a reality, and I can ditch the last of my MS stuff, I'll be very interested.
Linux apps need to be as functunal as the MS counterparts to comptete. I'm hoping for the day multiple versions of the mainstream software hit the shelves so I have a real choice.
Um, Does your GPS output NMEA? Read the owners manual. If you read the article, then you would know both programs use NMEA from the GPS on a serial port.
If your GPS provides it then Ok it should work, If it doesn't, then your milage may vary.
Covered that in point 1. Won't play on my portable, or car, or generic MP3 player, CD player, living room DVD player (MP3's and CD's). Free music is fine to bundle with a hamburger. Just make sure all three legs are there. How about passing out red book CD's or MP3's? I can play either format and convert into the other as needed.
There's a P2P market because the cost of production is zero
As mentioned in my parent post, three things are needed for the industry to compete. Take away any one of the three and sales fail.
Your comment covers the third point. How many people got a free tune from a Pepsi Cap or a hamburger purchase but didn't redeem it because of the first point and or the second point.. Even though it was free. Free alone does not sell the product. I have un-redeemed Pepsi caps and hamburger wrappers. The free stuff is simply incompatible.
compatibility, usability, and value
It's a three legged stool. Eliminate any one and it no longer stands. Litigation is not a substitute for any leg.
Speaking of DRM, DRM does stop CD sales. There are some market droids research that show otherwise with a DRM'ed CD outselling the rest on the shelf, but theat droid failed to measure the chilling effect of DRM overall.
I don't want to buy a broken CD. Nobody does. Knowing that the supply chain is polluted has mostly ended my shopping in stores. Now before purchase, I have to know if the title is free from problems. This has almost completely killed the hear it in the store and buy it impulse buy.
Most CD's now fail to carry the Compact Disk logo showing they are Phillips license compliant. This means it's hard to tell by looking at a CD on the shelf if it's a true CD or part of the broken stuff.
downloaders don't buy more music
This is easy to believe regardless of the survey. If you download and it doesn't work, what have you lost? If you buy a DRM CD and it doesn't work, what have you lost?
The downloaders have a better chance of getting something that works. Getting a replacement for a bad copy? Guess which one is better!
Everyone is talking about DRM, DRM, DRM. Knock it off. Tell me instead about compatibility, usability, and value. That's why there is a P-P market.
unfortunately the RIAA is probably the least likely to take part so a solution is likely still far away.
The industry isn't interested in compatibility, usability, and value. Too bad..
(IIRC, ~2 kw to cruise and 10kw to accelerate a small car.)
10 KW is really poor performance. It may accelerate you out of the driveway and up to your local supermarket, but it's not going to safely merge you on the freeway ramp.
I have an older Prius ('02) and it uses both the gas and battery electric to accelerate onto a freeway. The electric end is 20 KW. Using electric only and limited to 10KW would limit me to the golf course and off the freeway.
Electric bicycles are typicaly in the 350 watt range. They are not known for their great acceleration and high speeds in spite of their light weight.
Every time I wanted to stop, I just knocked the car into neutral, used the brakes to slow down while turning off the engine. This did engage the steering lock, so I turned the key back as soon as the engine had spun down enough that it wouldn't restart, releasing the steering lock.
Please tell me more about this car. Make Model and Year would be appreciated. I don't know of ANY car that goes from run to lock without an intermediate position such as ACC or off. There were a couple older cars where the key could be removed in the off position before putting it in lock. I did know of a couple cars that ACC had the key twist the other way, but that was before locking steering.
Again, what car goes straight from run to lock without an ACC or Off position first?
To get the keys out, you have to put it into park, but you don't have to lock the steering.
I don't know what kind of car you drive, but I know on all mine, the key won't come out until it is turned to the lock position. It won't go to the lock position unless the transmission is in park. It is true the steering wheel can be turned some after turning to the lock position, but to try to drive it that way is foolish. It will lock in a position at the first corner. Don't be fooled into a little false sense of drivability because it can be moved some before the locking pin drops home and prevents movement.
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This seems to disprove the hack. They don't send a lock signal. They fail to send a re-validation and the subscription times out.
Sounds like someone trying to get someone else to try out his theory without him having to leave an unused $100 reciever offline for a year. Nice try but no takers.
You may not otherwise reproduce, perform, distribute, display or create derivative works from the Content
I keep hoping they will offer a service someday that I would like to subscribe to. The above list is why I'm not a subscriber. I don't agree to their TOS. I am not stealing their service. I whine a little, because I would like to be a subscriber, but they don't provide the services I would like yet. I am hopeful that someday....
But I'm not holding my breath. I'm sticking to the MP3 jukebox.
and people started making all sorts of applications to play with them.
So just about the time they have a killer application that people would want, they kill it.
I'd be interested in creating playlists, building a library, using it it at parties, etc. Just about the time I have a reason to subscribe, it's called theft and is forbidden the TOS. Well I have a TOS for the use of my paycheck. They haven't agreed to it yet. I'm having my doubts they ever will. (Translation, I vote with my pocketbook. I doubt they are going to put my wish list up for a vote.)
I guess I'm going to have to stick with my MP3 collection for the juke box for now.
When the chief feature distinguishing "good" from "evil" is how pretty the characters are, it's a clue that maybe the whole saga deserves a second look.
If you want the story, it's a very old one. Look to the old westerns for the story. Starwars is just a cowboy western in a new setting.
The story line. The bad guy and his gang of outlaws is taking sweet sue's ranch. She becomes captured. Only the hero and nobody else can rescue her. Sometimes the hero has a dumb sidekick. There is a bar fight in the saloon. There is a big shootout. The good guys win. Did I miss anything?
Now watch the film again and fill in the names of the players in the roles.
Saw it plain and simple witht the first one released. Don't read too much into it. It's a Cowboy western. John Wayne has been replaced.
So you dont want li-ion batteries fine, you dont need to go telling world about it.
Actualy, I've bought too many things and was impressed by the ooh- aah bright and shiny thing, only to be disapointed later by something that spoiled it BY DESIGN.
Being unable to replace the battery without emptying the wallet was a bummer so yea ooh aah it's a shiny thin cool camera. We will see who is still shooting at the end of the parade. Hope you got extra money for batteries (can you get them? how much? how long to wait?) and memory. Are you already using SD for memory? If not, plan on making an investment.
This would make a great camera for a mom to keep in the house in the cradle (so it's charged) to shoot all the cute things the kid does. It doesn't take much room in the purse so you can take it to the birthday party. For more serious uses, I like a more substantual camera with more optical zoom, and use easly found replacement battries. I don't like getting stuck with a dead camera and nothing I can do about it. The corner 7-11 isn't going to have the replacement batteries for this camera. Wal-Mart and other stores will have memory for it though.
Perhaps you have a bad battery or camera?
Actualy I do prefer rechargables. I have come to not rely on them as a single power source as I often find them dead after the first 10 shots or so. This is true for the intermittant amature photographer. In regular use, the batteries are maintained, charged and used before they self discharge. In an amature setting, the state of charge is not known due to self discharge and discharge by the camera to maintian the clock and such. This is why I often have batteries in the camera on the last quarter tank even when they were charged after the last use.
I had one camera that used a Li-ion battery. It was fine as long as everything could be done in an hour or less. (flash, indoors, carmera on waiting for the right pose...) This usualy left me with a dead camera before the recrption was over. I was to the point of carying a couple disposable cameras to back up my camera. That gave me film and batteries ready to go. I was glad to get rid of that camera. Instead of buying a couple $40 batteries, I replaced the camera.
I've gone to the "refillable tank" and never considered going back. I sometimes do a lot of heavy shooting. The moment isn't always right, so I shoot lots, keep the good ones and toss the rest. With flash, I am a little hard on batteries. I like them priced as a consumable because they don't last forever, not priced as an investment.
Since when is a 3.2 megapixel size bad, especially for a small digital camera?
My biggest beef with this camera is the battery choice. Re-chargable batteries self discharge. When I need shots, I need to grab and go. Expensive batteries that may or may not be ready to go are not an option for me. This camera takes a Li-ion battery. This means, dead camera at unexpected times, insufficient capacity for the birthday party, parade, sporting event, wedding, Burning Man weekend, etc. I'll take a slightly larger camera if I can use off the shelf batteries in a pinch as needed. I have several cameras. Any of them that can't share memory cards and batteries have been replaced. The type of battery and type of memory are the two things that are as important to a camera now as pixel count, low light, size and zoom range. If any of the requried features are lacking, I can't use it. When I go to shoot something, I take one or both of the cameras, the memory cards, 2 sets of NiMH batteries and a new pack of Alkalines, more if it's expected to be a big shoot. If the rechargables are dead, then I don't have a dead camera. If they are good, then I don't need the alkalines this time. I can't do this in an affordable way with a camera that uses a propritory battery. I can buy at least 4 sets of rechargable batteries for my camera for about the price of one propritory battery. Li-ion batteries are usualy $40 and up each. This significantly adds to the cost of ownership if you plan on having enought battery power to cover all the various needs. This is especialy true if you can't use off the shelf batteries in a pinch as needed.
I am thinking very hard of your ass being spanked,
I don't usualy feed the trolls, but your other point is valid..
Did you contact any of the manufacturers of your favourite sowftware to ask them for a Linux version?
Actualy I did. It went right to the marketing department on the little consumer survey card (registration card) Please add Apple/Unix/Linux version. That phrase goes on almost all product registration cards.
two good reasons why it's a stupid thing to put on a car.
What do you mean?
I know it's a price sensitive market, and potentially a security problem,
This didn't stop Microsoft from selling Windows... (ducks)
From TFA: "One that pulls from the dash when you want to load a significant volume of songs and takes flash media when the user only wishes to transfer a few tunes."
I hope someday they will get WiFi. That would be ideal. Park the car, open a port with a password, surf to it with either a laptop or home network, start transfer... I'd also prefer it to be trunk mount so the in-dash DVD/NAV doesn't have to come out.
You missed the bulge that is building in the The Three Sisters in Central Oregon.
http://www.registerguard.com/news/2004/03/25/a1
Cut and paste from the above article..
confirming geologists' belief that a large bulge that has grown over the past seven years near the dormant volcanoes could be caused by an upwelling of molten rock miles underground.
Another Tuesday Patch roulette over with....
I've been trying to convince some people to switch to something secure. I said watch the Windows bugs. It's at least one new one found per week.
Wow 10 this week. I think I convinced them.
Now if I can get a few must have apps ported...
software has always worked great on WINE.
Not a problem if I want to use multiple laptops, one with WINE and one for the other map programs. I also use the laptop with my MIDI setup because it has a joystick port with MPU-401. To set it up seems to require a Windows machine to get the executibles. Seeking the path of least resistance, I simply installed to the laptop and called it good. I have kids and family. I don't have unlimited time to install on another machine, set up WINE, try to conifgure propritory laptop hardware, transfer the software, find the other apps that probably won't work, try to debug it, etc. I'm not a software engineer. Do you know if Piano Discovery System software works with WINE with MPU-401 support? How about Voyetra MIDI Music Workstation? Um.. back to maps, Rand McNally Streetfinder? Will the sound work on my laptop for the voice prompts? I'm not ready to take something that works open a new can of worms. KISS... Keep It Simple Stupid.
Sorry if I sound like a troll or flaimbait, but the above is the reason the laptop is running Win 95. It works with the applications and the software. Why break it?
Believe it or not there are better resources for emergencies than you on a phone (poison centers, 911 operators, and good babysitters).
True, but try getting little johnny admited for emergency services without parental consent. The delay can be life threatning.
My old boss told me of a pub he visited. The policy was to leave the outside behind. Right beside the door was a cell phone nailed to the wall with a very large nail. The message was clear. If your phone rings, it goes next to the first one.
I don't want to carry two laptops and make a splitter for my gps.
I understand that problem. The perfect solution doesn't exist yet. Some programs are WIN only. Some are Apple or Linux only. Life is choices. Do I dual boot? Do I take two laptops? Do I forget about one? I'm waiting for Linux to achieve a big enough groundswell so I can go into Best Buy or Office Max and pick up either the MS, Apple, or Linux version. The best would be all versions in one retail box. (National Geographic, Delorme, Rand McNally, are you listening?)
and a sextant for when the fool thing breaks... and I know how to use these tools, too.
I've spent some time on a boat. Umm how do you use a sextant in the fog? I didn't learn that fine point.
The real problem is the availability of maps
In the early days of computing, friends used to ask me buying advice for hardware.
My answer has not changed in 20 years. Find the applications you need to run and find the best hardware to run it.
It's great that Linux is getting support for GPS. That's fantastic and I'm excited. I have a Linux box.
Taking my own advice, I have an old Win 95 laptop with limited memory (72 meg EDO max). It's my kick about GPS machine. I run National Geographic Back Roads Explorer (great program!) with the State series maps. It not only uses the NMEA information to real time display position, but supports my GPS protocol for waypoint, route and track management.
I also run StreetFinder & TripMaker by Rand McNally. This gives me the best of both Raster and Vector maps. It includes route finding.
Because I took my own advice, I have legal maps for the entire 50 states, has Magellan protocol support, and no downloading or compiling needed. (stuck on dial-up)
The articles wish list included real time routing. In the feature list of the software includes everything in the wishlist.
"NEWLY UPDATED FEATURES
New GPS Navigation features!
No more shuffling discs!
StreetFinder® users can install the entire street network for the contiguous United States to their hard drive. This data-compression technique means fast directions and route generation to your desktop, laptop, or Palm OS® handheld device.
Generate clear directions with Highlighted Route Lines
A wealth of new navigation features for GPS* includes:
Rotating Maps: upcoming turn instructions face the same direction you do
One-Touch Rerouting: Miss a turn? StreetFinder® Deluxe gets you back on track.
AutoZoom for Palm OS®: No need to manually pan for your next driving instruction.
Voice Prompter: Advance notication of upcoming turns
Not meant to troll, but wake me when Linux GPS map support is up to snuff. Expecialy wake me when both of the mentioned programs come out in a Linux version! Then I can ditch the obsolete OS on the laptop and use a modern OS.
A wish list is nice. But I found these programs meet my GPS needs already. When Linux replacements are a reality, and I can ditch the last of my MS stuff, I'll be very interested.
Linux apps need to be as functunal as the MS counterparts to comptete. I'm hoping for the day multiple versions of the mainstream software hit the shelves so I have a real choice.
Um, Does your GPS output NMEA? Read the owners manual. If you read the article, then you would know both programs use NMEA from the GPS on a serial port.
If your GPS provides it then Ok it should work, If it doesn't, then your milage may vary.
I have an objection to DRM
Covered that in point 1. Won't play on my portable, or car, or generic MP3 player, CD player, living room DVD player (MP3's and CD's). Free music is fine to bundle with a hamburger. Just make sure all three legs are there. How about passing out red book CD's or MP3's? I can play either format and convert into the other as needed.
There's a P2P market because the cost of production is zero
As mentioned in my parent post, three things are needed for the industry to compete. Take away any one of the three and sales fail.
Your comment covers the third point. How many people got a free tune from a Pepsi Cap or a hamburger purchase but didn't redeem it because of the first point and or the second point.. Even though it was free. Free alone does not sell the product. I have un-redeemed Pepsi caps and hamburger wrappers. The free stuff is simply incompatible.
compatibility, usability, and value
It's a three legged stool. Eliminate any one and it no longer stands. Litigation is not a substitute for any leg.
(DRM isn't going to stop it though),
Speaking of DRM, DRM does stop CD sales. There are some market droids research that show otherwise with a DRM'ed CD outselling the rest on the shelf, but theat droid failed to measure the chilling effect of DRM overall.
I don't want to buy a broken CD. Nobody does. Knowing that the supply chain is polluted has mostly ended my shopping in stores. Now before purchase, I have to know if the title is free from problems. This has almost completely killed the hear it in the store and buy it impulse buy.
Most CD's now fail to carry the Compact Disk logo showing they are Phillips license compliant. This means it's hard to tell by looking at a CD on the shelf if it's a true CD or part of the broken stuff.
downloaders don't buy more music
This is easy to believe regardless of the survey. If you download and it doesn't work, what have you lost? If you buy a DRM CD and it doesn't work, what have you lost?
The downloaders have a better chance of getting something that works. Getting a replacement for a bad copy? Guess which one is better!
Everyone is talking about DRM, DRM, DRM. Knock it off. Tell me instead about compatibility, usability, and value. That's why there is a P-P market.
unfortunately the RIAA is probably the least likely to take part so a solution is likely still far away.
The industry isn't interested in compatibility, usability, and value. Too bad..
(IIRC, ~2 kw to cruise and 10kw to accelerate a small car.)
10 KW is really poor performance. It may accelerate you out of the driveway and up to your local supermarket, but it's not going to safely merge you on the freeway ramp.
I have an older Prius ('02) and it uses both the gas and battery electric to accelerate onto a freeway. The electric end is 20 KW. Using electric only and limited to 10KW would limit me to the golf course and off the freeway.
Electric bicycles are typicaly in the 350 watt range. They are not known for their great acceleration and high speeds in spite of their light weight.
Every time I wanted to stop, I just knocked the car into neutral, used the brakes to slow down while turning off the engine. This did engage the steering lock, so I turned the key back as soon as the engine had spun down enough that it wouldn't restart, releasing the steering lock.
Please tell me more about this car. Make Model and Year would be appreciated. I don't know of ANY car that goes from run to lock without an intermediate position such as ACC or off. There were a couple older cars where the key could be removed in the off position before putting it in lock. I did know of a couple cars that ACC had the key twist the other way, but that was before locking steering.
Again, what car goes straight from run to lock without an ACC or Off position first?
To get the keys out, you have to put it into park, but you don't have to lock the steering.
I don't know what kind of car you drive, but I know on all mine, the key won't come out until it is turned to the lock position. It won't go to the lock position unless the transmission is in park. It is true the steering wheel can be turned some after turning to the lock position, but to try to drive it that way is foolish. It will lock in a position at the first corner. Don't be fooled into a little false sense of drivability because it can be moved some before the locking pin drops home and prevents movement.