this is only true on a gas-engine car, not a diesel one. A gas-engine's speed is controlled by choking its air supply. At full throttle, there's NO restriction - that is, all the engine's power goes to the car, not fighting to suck in air.
On the PA Turnpike, there are signs that say something to the effect of DRIVE ON RIGHT PASS ON LEFT. If you're passing people, you SHOULD be switching lanes a lot.
Once you get near one of those signs, there's a lot less tailgaters because there's no jerkoffs trying to pass by going half a mile an hour faster than the other guy.
Speed limits are set so the worst drivers can still safely drive the limit.
That means the 45MPH limit on the random back road is set at 45 so that an 80 year old grandmother can drive her grandchildren to church on sunday - in a concrete truck.
Oh, and while you're at it, the HTC TyTN II actually supports video calling with a front-side VGA camera (The wonderful bastards at AT&T decided to remove it from the Tilt)
Oh, and the SDK doesn't cost jack. You can run any program you damn well please, even if all it does is open up 10 copies of IE and run up your data bill. You can also (easily) replace the OS with a simple, 30-second SPL-unlock. The Bluetooth stack works great - all it takes to tether is to pair the devices and select "Bluetooth" in Internet Sharing.
I'm 21, and if they're going to go for obsolete ports, they missed some of the best:
Old PC serial ports. 21-pin or 9-pin? Hope you got adapters for both, and I hope that BBS you're connecting to can tell you how many stop bits you need.
SCSI, but not PATA/IDE? If you have the cable backwards, you don't get a coded beep or any BIOS warning, just/nothing/.
And, last, but not least, if "game carts" count as a port, why not AT motherboard powertails? I remember "rebuilding" my first PC and replacing the AT mobo with a Slot 1 mobo to get a Celeron 300 and overclock the crap out of it. I also remember trying to return my first mobo because I didn't know the power tails could go backwards - not easy when you're 12 and you used Grandma's discover card and paid her with yard work money!
Isn't there some way to reset that? I have a custom ROM image on my HTC TyTN II (Technically an AT&T Tilt), and despite HTC's lack of a proper video driver for the phone, even with the stock ROM, one can soft reset the phone when it tries to apply the customizations, and voila, no AT&T bs.
Are there any AT&T devices like that? I've never run into one locked up at all (save for limnitations on MP3 size for the ringtone). Sounds like a VZW thing.
Perhaps he is postulating that as we get closer to the summer months, grammar takes a dive due to the multitude of high-school armchair EEs and computer scientists getting the school blues?
iPhone eating Windows Mobile's lunch? What planet are you on?
Windows Mobile isn't going anywhere, and the iPhone is not going to replace the hundreds of Windows Mobile phone models out there. Wanna take a guess why? Windows Mobile is more open.
And here at Penn State, we have our 5-minute logon times for Windows Vista Business, and WE LIKE IT!!!
Well, that is, unless you don't drink coffee. I can go to the lab, type in my U/P, hit log in, go grab a coffee and the paper, and be back just in time for the desktop to pop up.
I bought an AT&T Tilt (HTC TyTN II Rebrand) and it came with the Qualcomm MSM7200 chipset that's supposed (and was advertized) to have ATi hardware 3D rendering and hardware video assist. It seems, however, that even though these features were advertised, HTC users weren't given them. Some amateur research says that it's because of a Broadcomm patent lawsuit against Qualcomm with a judgement preventing them from making drivers (but they were allowed to sell what processors were already being made under other contractual obligation).
See this Firehose article. The videos on htcclassaction.org demonstrate the issue very well.
* Most people probably couldn't pass a college algebra class, so they wouldn't be able to figure out for themselves how long they'd have to own the $30,000, 200MPG car for it to be a better buy than the $18,000, 23MPG car.
* Joe Inventor is going to have to work very, very, very hard to make his jury-rigged Corolla that gets 200MPG into a mass-production-ready, safe, automobile. And that's the easy part. Joe Inventor now has to fund the building of a factory and THEN he can think about building some cars.
* GM, Ford, Toyota, whoever doesn't give a fuck how much it costs you to drive your car. They don't pay for the gas. Not only that, but I'd be willing to bet that the Big Three car companies and the oil companies have their fingers buried up each other's asses so far they can't count the stock certificates without an accountant. Therefore, they're even less likely to do something for the environment.
* There is a market for illegal drugs. Why does the government regulate THAT? Shouldn't the market just work itself out? Eventually all the addicts will get cancer and die. THERE IT IS! The dickbag heroin addicts are going to cost ME money in the end. Analogy sure applies here: Dickbag driving his H2 is going to pollute MY air, and raise MY (and everyone else's) chances of getting cancer. Therefore, the government is right to regulate emissions. Oh, wait, this isn't about emissions? It's about a random prize being offered for doing something progressive in order to (maybe) spur development of commercial high-efficiency cars? Oh. Then what's the issue?
DISCLAIMER: I drive a rear-wheel-drive, V8 vehicle that gets only about 15MPG in town (26+ highway).
Now, pardon me while I waste AT&T's bandwidth using Skype and stealing MobiTV.
I don't understand why AT&T is blamed for all these restrictions, yet they sell a phone such as the Tilt (HTC TyTn II), not that it's problem free, but...
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this is only true on a gas-engine car, not a diesel one. A gas-engine's speed is controlled by choking its air supply. At full throttle, there's NO restriction - that is, all the engine's power goes to the car, not fighting to suck in air.
Actually, in PA the cost for a magistrate trial is $6.
On the PA Turnpike, there are signs that say something to the effect of DRIVE ON RIGHT PASS ON LEFT. If you're passing people, you SHOULD be switching lanes a lot.
Once you get near one of those signs, there's a lot less tailgaters because there's no jerkoffs trying to pass by going half a mile an hour faster than the other guy.
If a cop even tried to touch my phone during a routine speeding stop, I'd be a rich man by the time I was done suing his employer.
Speed limits are set so the worst drivers can still safely drive the limit.
That means the 45MPH limit on the random back road is set at 45 so that an 80 year old grandmother can drive her grandchildren to church on sunday - in a concrete truck.
People still do that? I remember being taught what flashing headlights was supposed to mean, but nobody does it any more.
They're too busy talking on their cell phones, not watching the road.
The tube didn't go, i think it was the flyback transformer.
eLion still looks like its from 1994! :P
Although, if they went and screwed with anything there and lost some transcripts or student schedules, Old Main would burn.
Until one goes like my old monster did: Loud band with a big white flash, 8" from my face.
Oh, and while you're at it, the HTC TyTN II actually supports video calling with a front-side VGA camera (The wonderful bastards at AT&T decided to remove it from the Tilt)
Oh, and the SDK doesn't cost jack. You can run any program you damn well please, even if all it does is open up 10 copies of IE and run up your data bill. You can also (easily) replace the OS with a simple, 30-second SPL-unlock. The Bluetooth stack works great - all it takes to tether is to pair the devices and select "Bluetooth" in Internet Sharing.
Alas, no 3.5mm headphone port.
I'm 21, and if they're going to go for obsolete ports, they missed some of the best:
/nothing/.
Old PC serial ports. 21-pin or 9-pin? Hope you got adapters for both, and I hope that BBS you're connecting to can tell you how many stop bits you need.
SCSI, but not PATA/IDE? If you have the cable backwards, you don't get a coded beep or any BIOS warning, just
And, last, but not least, if "game carts" count as a port, why not AT motherboard powertails? I remember "rebuilding" my first PC and replacing the AT mobo with a Slot 1 mobo to get a Celeron 300 and overclock the crap out of it. I also remember trying to return my first mobo because I didn't know the power tails could go backwards - not easy when you're 12 and you used Grandma's discover card and paid her with yard work money!
Isn't there some way to reset that? I have a custom ROM image on my HTC TyTN II (Technically an AT&T Tilt), and despite HTC's lack of a proper video driver for the phone, even with the stock ROM, one can soft reset the phone when it tries to apply the customizations, and voila, no AT&T bs.
Are there any AT&T devices like that? I've never run into one locked up at all (save for limnitations on MP3 size for the ringtone). Sounds like a VZW thing.
Perhaps he is postulating that as we get closer to the summer months, grammar takes a dive due to the multitude of high-school armchair EEs and computer scientists getting the school blues?
iPhone eating Windows Mobile's lunch? What planet are you on?
Windows Mobile isn't going anywhere, and the iPhone is not going to replace the hundreds of Windows Mobile phone models out there. Wanna take a guess why? Windows Mobile is more open.
Mine works fine set as default browser.
What DID bork it was trying to install one of the 64-bit builds of Firefox. You didn't try that, did you?
And here at Penn State, we have our 5-minute logon times for Windows Vista Business, and WE LIKE IT!!!
Well, that is, unless you don't drink coffee. I can go to the lab, type in my U/P, hit log in, go grab a coffee and the paper, and be back just in time for the desktop to pop up.
Fuck HTC.
I bought an AT&T Tilt (HTC TyTN II Rebrand) and it came with the Qualcomm MSM7200 chipset that's supposed (and was advertized) to have ATi hardware 3D rendering and hardware video assist. It seems, however, that even though these features were advertised, HTC users weren't given them. Some amateur research says that it's because of a Broadcomm patent lawsuit against Qualcomm with a judgement preventing them from making drivers (but they were allowed to sell what processors were already being made under other contractual obligation).
See this Firehose article. The videos on htcclassaction.org demonstrate the issue very well.
* Most people probably couldn't pass a college algebra class, so they wouldn't be able to figure out for themselves how long they'd have to own the $30,000, 200MPG car for it to be a better buy than the $18,000, 23MPG car.
* Joe Inventor is going to have to work very, very, very hard to make his jury-rigged Corolla that gets 200MPG into a mass-production-ready, safe, automobile. And that's the easy part. Joe Inventor now has to fund the building of a factory and THEN he can think about building some cars.
* GM, Ford, Toyota, whoever doesn't give a fuck how much it costs you to drive your car. They don't pay for the gas. Not only that, but I'd be willing to bet that the Big Three car companies and the oil companies have their fingers buried up each other's asses so far they can't count the stock certificates without an accountant. Therefore, they're even less likely to do something for the environment.
* There is a market for illegal drugs. Why does the government regulate THAT? Shouldn't the market just work itself out? Eventually all the addicts will get cancer and die. THERE IT IS! The dickbag heroin addicts are going to cost ME money in the end. Analogy sure applies here: Dickbag driving his H2 is going to pollute MY air, and raise MY (and everyone else's) chances of getting cancer. Therefore, the government is right to regulate emissions. Oh, wait, this isn't about emissions? It's about a random prize being offered for doing something progressive in order to (maybe) spur development of commercial high-efficiency cars? Oh. Then what's the issue?
DISCLAIMER: I drive a rear-wheel-drive, V8 vehicle that gets only about 15MPG in town (26+ highway).
Now, pardon me while I waste AT&T's bandwidth using Skype and stealing MobiTV.
I don't understand why AT&T is blamed for all these restrictions, yet they sell a phone such as the Tilt (HTC TyTn II), not that it's problem free, but...
Yeah, that's real, REAL bad. I don't even think "podría" is a properly conjugated verb. What the hell did you type into it?
Ya wanna explain the burned in STOP screen on my old-ass CRT TV that got there when Vista crashed due to the nVidia driver goin kaputz then?
It's gotta be pretty hard to see without windows on the plane...
Did you try calling them and asking for it on paper?
Well, then you'd have had to pay the damn phone company. And those teachers that taught you to read.
How about you mail them a letter? Then you have to pay them directly for access to it!
Why the hell do you think I'm the one telling him to hand in his license?