I guess they are depending on the same lock in that is keeping people with inventories of 8 track tapes from switching to LP's and LP's to Compact Cassette, and Compact Cassette to CD, and CD to MP3 & Napster, MP3 to iTunes, to... Hasn't worked in the past. The next best greatest thing that has better value will replace the lower resolution higher cost platform in a heartbeat.
New platforms at higher cost have lower adoption. Only legal action shuts down the low cost options to maintain monopoly pricing. Napster vs iTunes would have been a no contest with iTunes loosing. Larger library, lower prices, no contest.
What always bugged me was HP using the Color ink to pint Black greyscale. This seems to be in the printer and not just the supplied driver. Even when using Ubuntu and connecting to HP printers the greys are printed with the color cartridge.
Try it yourself. Install a dried black cart that does not print. Print the Ubuntu test page. The 100% black does not print. All the rest of the greyscale prints using the color cartridge.
I first became aware of this when I ran out of one color and switched to printing in greyscale to print some stuff and not use the bad color cartrige. I got a greenscale print instead of a greyscale print as the magenta ink was not printing. I thought this was caused by the Windows driver supplied by HP. I found this is still the case with the new versions of Ubuntu. I test printers on occasion using my Ubuntu laptop. When there is an ink problem, the black greyscale makes it crystal clear that they are still using color ink to print greyscale.
Not only does it use up your more expensive color cartridge, but it does it without notifying the end user. Saving color by using greyscale instead of color printing is a real rip off and illusion for the end user trying to save the color ink.
Does anyone know if any of the other printer manufactures pull this stunt? I have not had the chance to test this on Cannon, Lexmark, Kodak, or other printers.
My single question is why isn't there a "regular grade" of affordable ink. I refill. I buy ink by the pint. For most printing of web pages and such, the printout is very acceptable. Having $5.00 carts for printing a mapquest route is all I ask. I can save the $60 color cartridge for printing photos, but at the current price, I take the digital prints to Costco. I get prints without streaks.
My main printer is an old HP Laserjet III with a memory module. HP no longer makes toner cartridges for it. Aftermarket cartridges are 4/$100 with free shipping. Instad of a page yeild of maybe 1,000 pages, I get close to 7,000 pages and the toner never dries out or expiers. I buy toner once ever few years, not several times a year.
For music inexpensive MP3's are good enough. Printer ink needs an equivilant that is affordable.
And you need to eliminate the standard auto starter. It is not designed to take that much extra use. They have a finite life on the brushes, contactor, and Bendix.
Changing starter replacement cylcles from about 120K miles to less than 20 K is unacceptable.
Only a new starter that eliminates those issues can be used with reasonable life expectancy. The Prius for example has solved those problems. It does not use a contactor, brushes, or Bendix. It uses the main electric traction motor to turn the engine. It does not contain a traditional 12 volt starter motor.
Pick up a player that is not licensed by the DVD Consortium. Players that are licensed by them are required to force several undesirable features on consumers. A software player that demonstrates this is GeexBox. The player does violate the DMCA in several countries as it does play encrypted DVD's.
I like it. Load the DVD and the movie plays. What a concept. If I want the menu or any of the other extras, I can choose to watch them later. http://geexbox.org/en/index.html Note, the program does not include any copy functionality. The DMCA violation is simply decoding a DVD you bought to play it. Someone needs to fix this crazy law. It's broken.
I found mechanical Write Protect switches that prevent any writes a good security measure. Unfortunately in the world of flashable memory, this leaves many boot items that used to be in ROM open to attack. For any hypervisor, there should be a hardware jumper or switch that write protects it from any writes.
This is a re-invention of the Toyota Prius transmission. What is missing is the varible speed second shaft (with one planet instead of a full set) has to deal with torque and energy. This announcement failed to consider the transmission under load and the torque and power into or out of the second shaft. the Prius completes this torque path with a pair of motor generators.
Study a Pius transmission and then examine this planitary gear transmission. The Prius uses a full set of planets, a Sun, and ring.
His uses 1 planet (see any unbalanced mass and torque problems?), a Sun, and Ring. He notes the variable ratio just like the Prius. All that is missing is the motor generator pair to take care of the torque the second shaft requires.
A Prius is engine driven into the planet ring. The sun turns a generator (sometimes motor) and the output is on the ring gear which is fed the power generated by the sun gear generator.
His has the engine drive the planet ( notice any thing like the prius? ) and varying the speed of the Sun Gear, (the Prius uses a motor/generator to vary the speed) so the speed of the output ring gear can go from full speed, to stop to reverse (again just like the Prius).
Has the patent office looked at prior art on this? It has already been invented. The Prius version is complete and in production.
I hope the FBI is up to date on the sport of scambaiting. To waste scammer's time, money and resources, some people pretend to be a victim to collect fake check wallpaper. These are never deposited. here is one person that posted his collection of fake checks on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEsC4cD9FEU Some scambaiters do get visits from the feds and many feds are getting an education in the sport of baiting.
Did the BSA bother to count the number of people going legit by using legal alternatives due to the BSA threat?
I use Open Office instead of MS Office due to the legal risk of a misplaced sales receipt or installed on too many machines. Open Office does not come with those risks. Most of the machines in my house run Ubuntu. Slowly as legacy support is no longer needed, we are migrating away from the legal risks involved with bad EULA terms.
They have not learned from the music industry. The music industry was all about having audio in locked down DRM protected formats. This was rejected by consumers who found the high loss MP3 format good enough for sound and just worked. Now if you want to sell audio in downloads, you either have to support MP3 or Apple's iTunes format which permits burning to unprotected CD or as an unprotected fire.
All other formats are pretty much dead. This includes Liquid Audio, Plays for Sure, Protected iTunes, Protected WMA formats, and most others.
Consumers reject broken formats that are not compatible with all their gear. I like to hear my music in my car (CD or MP3 CD), personal MP3 player (MP3 or unprotected WMA), Living room (DVD Player plays MP3 DVD's and CD's), and computer. One format MP3 is universal. Formats that will play on only one device and can't be easly converted are simply not purchased.
There isn't a legal one. The DVD Consortium requires all licensed players to foster that crap on the public.
Moving to ones not blessed by the DVD consortium is a good option. GeexBox is a great one. Free to download. Insert the disk and the Movie plays. What a great concept. If you want the menu, warnings, previews etc, you can watch them later if you wish. Be aware it may not be legal in your location. It does violate the DMCA by playing an encrypted movie. http://geexbox.org/en/index.html
My problem with the cameras is they are a guilty until proven innocent item. Fighting bad tickets is simply not something I like to do on my days off or worse during my work. I've had two moving violations in my life. One was a bad speed radar ticket. It's not like I am the guy collecting tons of tickets. It won't take many automated screwups to get me to the point of endangering the operators of the highway bandits, especially when they are wrong or corrupt.
One of our radio personalities got a red light camera ticket last winter during an ice storm. He literally slid through the intersection.
Due to these issues, I am simply marking red light cameras and frequent speed radar spots on my GPS as closed roads and use alternatives instead. I plan my routes to avoid them. Businesses in the area may suffer as a result. I don't know the business impact overall, but I avoid the areas.
Due to the amount of fraud and corruption in the country, shipping anything to Africa is an expensive proposition. The country is pretty much shut out of online shopping because a very high percentage of purchase attempts are fraudulent in nature. I have an older laptop I was going to give someone in Africa. Shipping on a 10 lb box is in excess of $300 US. I was unwilling to pay that much to give away an old working laptop. Most major carriers such as USPS, UPS, etc will not ship freight collect. DHL is the only major carrier that will ship freight collect, but they will only do so prepaid in cash. They will not take a check or credit card. They are all too often stolen, forged, or fake.
Until the corruption is fixed so it is not a large percentage of all freight going to Africa, this problem will continue. Ebay and Craigslist fraud are a good portion of the stuff that does get shipped to Africa. If you contact the fraud department of UPS or DHL, they admit to the large numbers of complaints on shipments to Africa. The worst area is Western Africa state.
The attempts to acquire goods and money by fraud is so prevelant that answering the fraud offers to ebay scams and such is a sport. Search and read scam warning sites such as scamwarners, 419eater, and others. There is a large range of common well known scams including Advance Fee (419 scam), Music Lessons (piano, guitar, trumpet etc lessons for an unacompanied minor), Property rental (they don't own the property being rented) apartment or vacation rental (they rent your property with fake check or money order then have to cancel) you take the cancellation fee from the fake check and wire them the rest. Guess who gets stung when the check bounces. Learn the scams. One youtube video shows the huge number of fake checks one guy collected in responding to these fake offers.
On one of the scambait sites a couple of the users decided to have a friendly competition to see who could get a scammer to send them the largest fake check. They made a video.
Grab a copy of Geexbox if all you want is a linux media player. Boot it, remove it, and it plays almost everything you can throw at it. It may be a DMCA violation in your local as it does play DVD's without the DVD consortium's blessing or license. The only downside is it is keyboard navigation. The mouse is a paperweight in the program. http://geexbox.org/en/index.html
If you have a bar code reader, or online bar code reader application, you can read the barcode yourself. As the AC mentioned, most of the time it is just a number. Many stores still use 2D barcodes so most online coupons contain 2D number barcodes. Some 3D codes contain much more information.
If you still have one of the old free Cue Cat bar code readers, there is still info online on how to disable the serial number and provide the barcode in plan text instead of wrapped in a simple encryption. Surplus sources often have store scanners for sale at reasonable prices. I picked up a used Symbol scan gun at a local junk shop. A free online Barcode decoder is here; http://www.onlinebarcodereader.com/. Google can provide others.
I dropped them as soon as DSL moved in. This was followed by Clear moving in. The Comcast claim form does ask if you are a current subscriber. It looks like they are going to see the numbers of ex-Comcast customers in the claims. There is not a box to explain why you are no longer a customer.
When I installed Ubuntu, I attempted to remove the Transmission Bittorrent client, but found that is tied into the system updates so removal was highly discouraged. I used to get my distro updates using Bittorrent, but had to move to mirrors of FTP sites even though that is discouraged due to the cost of hosting FTP for the software upgrades.
I Filled out the online form. We will see what happens. When Bittorrent was broken, I tried to D/L some copyrighted material just to see what it did. It started and quickly ground to a crawl then stopped. The amount uploaded was always less then the ammount downloaded, and downloads never completed.
If you have kids at home, Comcast protecting you against RIAA lawsuits can be a good thing.
Incomplete files will never have a matching checksum of a real copyrighted file.
If you registered it with bug me not email, and used some random name, you most likely will never care about the threat. Isn't that the way many people register games?
It would pay to learn the systems on the Prius. Due to the engine shutdown when not needed, the brakes are not of a vacuum boost design. Look it up. Power steering is not hydraulic. Again look it up. The newer Prius cars have zero belt driven alternators, water pumps, power steering pumps, AC Pumps, etc. None. I have an older one, the sedan (not the recalled years) and it has one belt, the AC compressor. It was the lone remaining belt before they switched to a sealed AC system with an electric motor and inverter.
I do believe there has been extensive RFI testing done on this vehicle. A trucker or Ham running 1 or 2 KW in HF bands or 100 or so Watts on 2 Meters should not cause this. Ham radio operators do own these cars.
I have a Prius. When dropping below the minimum speed the stored speed is zero'ed out. Resume does not work from a stop, even when going from freeway speed back to freeway speed. You must set a new speed to engauge the crusise control.
Stepping hard on the brakes while flooring the throttle will stop the car. I tried it.
I actually saw more of their site by the command line than I normaly do. I normaly read the comics. On the command line I explored and found they are building a school in Laos. Wow, I never knew that before. It is amazing what can be found from the command line. I like it.
It was harder to read the comics from it though. I'll have to keep looking to find the archive.
Start by offering 700MB XVID downloads for about USD$5 from fast servers with fantastic bandwidth.
This give you a movie for $5 that has no resale value. I pick up movies for $5 as pre-viewed at 4/$20. When I am done and no longer want them, I am free to put them on Craig's list. I generaly don't buy movies that are over $10. There are plenty that are under $10.
I feel like a glutton. I have two of those and a quad offering from another company M-Audio. The quad supports higher bit rates, balanced inputs, and more than 16 bit recording. The better offerings can hardly be called inexpensive.
Check ebay for the Berhinger U-Control. I picked one up for only $15.
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I guess they are depending on the same lock in that is keeping people with inventories of 8 track tapes from switching to LP's and LP's to Compact Cassette, and Compact Cassette to CD, and CD to MP3 & Napster, MP3 to iTunes, to... Hasn't worked in the past. The next best greatest thing that has better value will replace the lower resolution higher cost platform in a heartbeat.
New platforms at higher cost have lower adoption. Only legal action shuts down the low cost options to maintain monopoly pricing. Napster vs iTunes would have been a no contest with iTunes loosing. Larger library, lower prices, no contest.
What always bugged me was HP using the Color ink to pint Black greyscale. This seems to be in the printer and not just the supplied driver. Even when using Ubuntu and connecting to HP printers the greys are printed with the color cartridge.
Try it yourself. Install a dried black cart that does not print. Print the Ubuntu test page. The 100% black does not print. All the rest of the greyscale prints using the color cartridge.
I first became aware of this when I ran out of one color and switched to printing in greyscale to print some stuff and not use the bad color cartrige. I got a greenscale print instead of a greyscale print as the magenta ink was not printing. I thought this was caused by the Windows driver supplied by HP. I found this is still the case with the new versions of Ubuntu. I test printers on occasion using my Ubuntu laptop. When there is an ink problem, the black greyscale makes it crystal clear that they are still using color ink to print greyscale.
Not only does it use up your more expensive color cartridge, but it does it without notifying the end user. Saving color by using greyscale instead of color printing is a real rip off and illusion for the end user trying to save the color ink.
Does anyone know if any of the other printer manufactures pull this stunt? I have not had the chance to test this on Cannon, Lexmark, Kodak, or other printers.
Besides, use a laser printer.
An HP Laserjet is a laser.
My single question is why isn't there a "regular grade" of affordable ink. I refill. I buy ink by the pint. For most printing of web pages and such, the printout is very acceptable. Having $5.00 carts for printing a mapquest route is all I ask. I can save the $60 color cartridge for printing photos, but at the current price, I take the digital prints to Costco. I get prints without streaks.
My main printer is an old HP Laserjet III with a memory module. HP no longer makes toner cartridges for it. Aftermarket cartridges are 4/$100 with free shipping. Instad of a page yeild of maybe 1,000 pages, I get close to 7,000 pages and the toner never dries out or expiers. I buy toner once ever few years, not several times a year.
For music inexpensive MP3's are good enough. Printer ink needs an equivilant that is affordable.
And you need to eliminate the standard auto starter. It is not designed to take that much extra use. They have a finite life on the brushes, contactor, and Bendix.
Changing starter replacement cylcles from about 120K miles to less than 20 K is unacceptable.
Only a new starter that eliminates those issues can be used with reasonable life expectancy. The Prius for example has solved those problems. It does not use a contactor, brushes, or Bendix. It uses the main electric traction motor to turn the engine. It does not contain a traditional 12 volt starter motor.
Pick up a player that is not licensed by the DVD Consortium. Players that are licensed by them are required to force several undesirable features on consumers. A software player that demonstrates this is GeexBox. The player does violate the DMCA in several countries as it does play encrypted DVD's.
I like it. Load the DVD and the movie plays. What a concept. If I want the menu or any of the other extras, I can choose to watch them later.
http://geexbox.org/en/index.html Note, the program does not include any copy functionality. The DMCA violation is simply decoding a DVD you bought to play it. Someone needs to fix this crazy law. It's broken.
I found mechanical Write Protect switches that prevent any writes a good security measure. Unfortunately in the world of flashable memory, this leaves many boot items that used to be in ROM open to attack. For any hypervisor, there should be a hardware jumper or switch that write protects it from any writes.
This is a re-invention of the Toyota Prius transmission. What is missing is the varible speed second shaft (with one planet instead of a full set) has to deal with torque and energy. This announcement failed to consider the transmission under load and the torque and power into or out of the second shaft. the Prius completes this torque path with a pair of motor generators.
Study a Pius transmission and then examine this planitary gear transmission. The Prius uses a full set of planets, a Sun, and ring.
His uses 1 planet (see any unbalanced mass and torque problems?), a Sun, and Ring. He notes the variable ratio just like the Prius. All that is missing is the motor generator pair to take care of the torque the second shaft requires.
A Prius is engine driven into the planet ring. The sun turns a generator (sometimes motor) and the output is on the ring gear which is fed the power generated by the sun gear generator.
His has the engine drive the planet ( notice any thing like the prius? ) and varying the speed of the Sun Gear, (the Prius uses a motor/generator to vary the speed) so the speed of the output ring gear can go from full speed, to stop to reverse (again just like the Prius).
Has the patent office looked at prior art on this? It has already been invented. The Prius version is complete and in production.
Prius calls the planitary gear system a power split device.
http://eahart.com/prius/psd/
I hope the FBI is up to date on the sport of scambaiting. To waste scammer's time, money and resources, some people pretend to be a victim to collect fake check wallpaper. These are never deposited.
here is one person that posted his collection of fake checks on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEsC4cD9FEU
Some scambaiters do get visits from the feds and many feds are getting an education in the sport of baiting.
Did the BSA bother to count the number of people going legit by using legal alternatives due to the BSA threat?
I use Open Office instead of MS Office due to the legal risk of a misplaced sales receipt or installed on too many machines. Open Office does not come with those risks. Most of the machines in my house run Ubuntu. Slowly as legacy support is no longer needed, we are migrating away from the legal risks involved with bad EULA terms.
http://news.cnet.com/2008-1082_3-5065859.html
How much has this story cost the BSA and Microsoft? I am not Microsoft free yet, but moving in that direction.
They have not learned from the music industry. The music industry was all about having audio in locked down DRM protected formats. This was rejected by consumers who found the high loss MP3 format good enough for sound and just worked. Now if you want to sell audio in downloads, you either have to support MP3 or Apple's iTunes format which permits burning to unprotected CD or as an unprotected fire.
All other formats are pretty much dead. This includes Liquid Audio, Plays for Sure, Protected iTunes, Protected WMA formats, and most others.
Consumers reject broken formats that are not compatible with all their gear. I like to hear my music in my car (CD or MP3 CD), personal MP3 player (MP3 or unprotected WMA), Living room (DVD Player plays MP3 DVD's and CD's), and computer. One format MP3 is universal. Formats that will play on only one device and can't be easly converted are simply not purchased.
There isn't a legal one. The DVD Consortium requires all licensed players to foster that crap on the public.
Moving to ones not blessed by the DVD consortium is a good option. GeexBox is a great one. Free to download. Insert the disk and the Movie plays. What a great concept. If you want the menu, warnings, previews etc, you can watch them later if you wish.
Be aware it may not be legal in your location. It does violate the DMCA by playing an encrypted movie.
http://geexbox.org/en/index.html
My problem with the cameras is they are a guilty until proven innocent item. Fighting bad tickets is simply not something I like to do on my days off or worse during my work. I've had two moving violations in my life. One was a bad speed radar ticket. It's not like I am the guy collecting tons of tickets. It won't take many automated screwups to get me to the point of endangering the operators of the highway bandits, especially when they are wrong or corrupt.
url:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7043325/Driver-parked-in-front-of-speed-camera-gets-tickets.html>
Several people fought an automated ticket with the GPS records. Radar said ticket. GPS with a base accuracy of 0.1mph said innocent. The proven false positives are way too common. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20001248-38.html http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20080712/NEWS/807120355 http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/local/courier_times/courier_times_news_details/article/28/2009/november/10/pa-man-using-gps-to-fight-speeding-ticket.html I carry a GPS and record the track as a regular activity if I have to drive through some parts of town. Most non technical people are unable to use this defense. In some cases, the court has rejected the evidence as they know too little about it. Can you say unfair trial?
One of our radio personalities got a red light camera ticket last winter during an ice storm. He literally slid through the intersection.
Due to these issues, I am simply marking red light cameras and frequent speed radar spots on my GPS as closed roads and use alternatives instead. I plan my routes to avoid them. Businesses in the area may suffer as a result. I don't know the business impact overall, but I avoid the areas.
What I found amusing is the spudgun community responded to this quicker than Slashdot. Their thread is here;
http://www.spudfiles.com/forums/googles-clear-spudgun-in-720p-high-speed-cool-footage-t20946.html
Some jobs require locking hard drives in addition to encryption. It could be interesting.
Due to the amount of fraud and corruption in the country, shipping anything to Africa is an expensive proposition. The country is pretty much shut out of online shopping because a very high percentage of purchase attempts are fraudulent in nature. I have an older laptop I was going to give someone in Africa. Shipping on a 10 lb box is in excess of $300 US. I was unwilling to pay that much to give away an old working laptop. Most major carriers such as USPS, UPS, etc will not ship freight collect. DHL is the only major carrier that will ship freight collect, but they will only do so prepaid in cash. They will not take a check or credit card. They are all too often stolen, forged, or fake.
Until the corruption is fixed so it is not a large percentage of all freight going to Africa, this problem will continue. Ebay and Craigslist fraud are a good portion of the stuff that does get shipped to Africa. If you contact the fraud department of UPS or DHL, they admit to the large numbers of complaints on shipments to Africa. The worst area is Western Africa state.
The attempts to acquire goods and money by fraud is so prevelant that answering the fraud offers to ebay scams and such is a sport. Search and read scam warning sites such as scamwarners, 419eater, and others. There is a large range of common well known scams including Advance Fee (419 scam), Music Lessons (piano, guitar, trumpet etc lessons for an unacompanied minor), Property rental (they don't own the property being rented) apartment or vacation rental (they rent your property with fake check or money order then have to cancel) you take the cancellation fee from the fake check and wire them the rest. Guess who gets stung when the check bounces. Learn the scams. One youtube video shows the huge number of fake checks one guy collected in responding to these fake offers.
On one of the scambait sites a couple of the users decided to have a friendly competition to see who could get a scammer to send them the largest fake check. They made a video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2zEU74LFMk&feature=related
Here is a collection of fake checks sent to just one scambaiter who was wasting the time of fraudsters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEsC4cD9FEU&NR=1
Warning, if you visit the site linked in the video, many of the photos are NSFW.
Grab a copy of Geexbox if all you want is a linux media player. Boot it, remove it, and it plays almost everything you can throw at it. It may be a DMCA violation in your local as it does play DVD's without the DVD consortium's blessing or license. The only downside is it is keyboard navigation. The mouse is a paperweight in the program.
http://geexbox.org/en/index.html
If you have a bar code reader, or online bar code reader application, you can read the barcode yourself. As the AC mentioned, most of the time it is just a number. Many stores still use 2D barcodes so most online coupons contain 2D number barcodes. Some 3D codes contain much more information.
If you still have one of the old free Cue Cat bar code readers, there is still info online on how to disable the serial number and provide the barcode in plan text instead of wrapped in a simple encryption. Surplus sources often have store scanners for sale at reasonable prices. I picked up a used Symbol scan gun at a local junk shop.
A free online Barcode decoder is here; http://www.onlinebarcodereader.com/. Google can provide others.
I dropped them as soon as DSL moved in. This was followed by Clear moving in. The Comcast claim form does ask if you are a current subscriber. It looks like they are going to see the numbers of ex-Comcast customers in the claims. There is not a box to explain why you are no longer a customer.
When I installed Ubuntu, I attempted to remove the Transmission Bittorrent client, but found that is tied into the system updates so removal was highly discouraged. I used to get my distro updates using Bittorrent, but had to move to mirrors of FTP sites even though that is discouraged due to the cost of hosting FTP for the software upgrades.
I Filled out the online form. We will see what happens. When Bittorrent was broken, I tried to D/L some copyrighted material just to see what it did. It started and quickly ground to a crawl then stopped. The amount uploaded was always less then the ammount downloaded, and downloads never completed.
If you have kids at home, Comcast protecting you against RIAA lawsuits can be a good thing.
Incomplete files will never have a matching checksum of a real copyrighted file.
If you registered it with bug me not email, and used some random name, you most likely will never care about the threat. Isn't that the way many people register games?
It would pay to learn the systems on the Prius. Due to the engine shutdown when not needed, the brakes are not of a vacuum boost design. Look it up. Power steering is not hydraulic. Again look it up. The newer Prius cars have zero belt driven alternators, water pumps, power steering pumps, AC Pumps, etc. None. I have an older one, the sedan (not the recalled years) and it has one belt, the AC compressor. It was the lone remaining belt before they switched to a sealed AC system with an electric motor and inverter.
I do believe there has been extensive RFI testing done on this vehicle. A trucker or Ham running 1 or 2 KW in HF bands or 100 or so Watts on 2 Meters should not cause this. Ham radio operators do own these cars.
I have a Prius. When dropping below the minimum speed the stored speed is zero'ed out. Resume does not work from a stop, even when going from freeway speed back to freeway speed. You must set a new speed to engauge the crusise control.
Stepping hard on the brakes while flooring the throttle will stop the car. I tried it.
I actually saw more of their site by the command line than I normaly do. I normaly read the comics. On the command line I explored and found they are building a school in Laos. Wow, I never knew that before. It is amazing what can be found from the command line. I like it.
It was harder to read the comics from it though. I'll have to keep looking to find the archive.
Start by offering 700MB XVID downloads for about USD$5 from fast servers with fantastic bandwidth.
This give you a movie for $5 that has no resale value. I pick up movies for $5 as pre-viewed at 4/$20. When I am done and no longer want them, I am free to put them on Craig's list. I generaly don't buy movies that are over $10. There are plenty that are under $10.
I feel like a glutton. I have two of those and a quad offering from another company M-Audio. The quad supports higher bit rates, balanced inputs, and more than 16 bit recording. The better offerings can hardly be called inexpensive.
Check ebay for the Berhinger U-Control. I picked one up for only $15.