Those EFI boxes also live in a complete electronic hell that is an engine bay served by a fairly noisy electrical system - and are heavily shielded and potted as a result. I won't say that an EMP pulse wouldn't take them out but they are far more hardy than people may think. The sensors that feed them on the other hand might not be. Given a choice between a carb, mechanical fuel pump, and a points ignition or a modern EFI I think I'd take the mechanical stuff to be on the safe side...
WHOA! Gasoline will ignite due to compression at far LOWER ratios than what is produced in an automotive diesel engine! What do you think knock is?! It's autoignition occurring too soon. This is what occurs when the octane rating is too low - high octane gas is for higher cylinder pressure engines and actually is HARDER to ignite. Pump grade gas ignites fairly easily.
A diesel engine may have a 15:1 or higher compression ratio, gasoline auto engines seldom go above 12:1 unless they're running Nitro or pure Meth alcohol. Passenger gasoline engines run 11:1 or so tops.
Gasoline in a diesel engine is BAD news. It will ignite from the compression very early in the compression cycle while the piston is still rising and beat the crap out of the ring lands and bearings. I disagree that gasoline isn't volatile enough to ignite, it's TOO volatile! Your first paragraph gets it wrong, the rest I agree with - you appear to contradict yourself.
Actually no many American remember the truly SHITTY "diesel" attempts made by GM with converted V8 engines. These things quickly fell apart, spewed ungodly amounts of black smoke, and had to be recalled wholesale. Whenever diesel is mentioned to the majority of American buyers they hold their nose and tell you they don't want no stinkin' diesel! Oh that and they say "but diesel is more expensive" without bothering to do any math whatsoever...
Others are a little smarter and realize that these days are better and buy the TDI from VW or one of the nicer BMW or Mercedes diesel. Sales of the Liberty diesel were poor enough though that they stopped making it although I think it may yet come back. As slow as those things apparently were it was probably a service that they were stopped.
A better idea rather than subtracting a percentage is to use a site like Fuelly.com to look and see what others are getting for mileage in the same car before buying one...
Very few use a dry sump and those that do often use poorly designed ones aka the Corvette. The 911 has one too, not sure which others. However many do use scrapers and baffles so hitting the oil isn't nearly the problem it was in say the 60s.
The ECU in many cars is tuned to recognize an EPA drive cycle and react accordingly. The drive cycles are apparently pretty specific and, much like video drivers, can be gamed to get higher performance under specific conditions. The EPA uses pretty bad testing methodology too and it's only slowly being updated. There's an article in one of the Road and Track type mags on the stand this month detailing it and discussing the methodology, I was surprised they didn't also mention the ECU tuning
Or perhaps where people who's hardware console has died or who no longer have room for arcade machines but still wish to enjoy the software could enjoy them yes. I'm okay with double standards too occasionally, especially for things that are no longer supported or produced. Emulate say a PS3 and yeah, I think I'd have some issues with that.
NES, SNES, MAME, and others. I'll admit Wayland and SDL are interesting but my hardware already runs XBMC fine using VDPAU and I'm more excited about getting the ability to run games vs a different display technology...
If it's an IOS tablet run Plex server and the Plex client. Smooth as glass via wireless on my setup. Not sure if they have an Android client or not but it takes care of getting through my firewall and finding my IP when I'm on the road - love it!
Something to consider - Tivo HD and KMTTG. Yes, you pay but when done the content is on your HDD. OTA has been authorized for copy control although as of yet I don't think it's been implemented. I'd like to setup a Myth setup, I even have an HDHR but the setup is daunting and I've not ever been able to get it right and gain anything over my Tivo setup...
FWIW I'm in a situation pretty close to your's except I only have to support my own TV watching. SAB and Sick are a lifesaver but I'd really like to also watch live TV occasionally. I use my Tivo to record things and Kmttg to remove them for my own use. I have an HDHR but sadly OTA is a PITA and even setting it up to grab clear QAM from my cable has proven a chore. I'd love some sort of standard IPTV service or a way to use myth to grab content that's not clear QAM, really my Tivo have been the best way so far but they cost a pile on top of the damned service and also obey the content flags. I was really hoping to see insightful answers to your question - so far not so much just bitching about TV in general. If folks don't like TV why are they even in this conversation?
No need to go Pro for this IMO. Logmein rocks and is usable from an iPad for remote admin. Likewise putting them on a non-admin account is a good idea and I'd consider DeepFreeze too. However one area we differ is OS - get them the hell off of XP and move them from IE to Chrome too. I'd consider an AV as well but damned if I know of one that I'd trust. The best ones are made overseas and Essentials just isn't cutting it
Sounds like perhaps a little washing and disinfecting of bags to be reused would solve the issue and that the fault doesn't lie with banning bags but with the users. I'll admit I don't wash the bags I use over and over but then I don't put anything nasty in them either! I wish they would ban them here, I so much prefer the paper sacks over these damned plastic things and they can be used for many other things or recycled as paper.
That's no limitation that's a benefit. Better that some guilty go free to avoid an innocent going to jail. Or at least that's how it's supposed to work but prosecutors game the system to get their stats up. As tempting as it might be to throw them both in jail I think maybe it would be better if both rotted, apart, until the testing was done since sure as hell one of them did do it.
So instead of using the magic that is DNA they might have to actually really do some police work? 6 attacks and both have airtight alibis? No other evidence at all except eye witnesses who cannot tell them apart? Honestly this simply sounds like they need to look harder and if that doesn't work then fine take the budget hit and do the test. Heck, are they sure no lab would donate some effort towards this? Cost shouldn't be what stops the conviction or sure as hell it will give other's ideas.
Yes, dual link, same number of pins as the one I pulled off though, perhaps not all populated. Any monitor over 24 is going to be dual. I was worried I might not be able to drive two - seems I can drive 3 or so I'm told:-)
These do have a decent number of inputs, DisplayPort was one I wanted to be sure I had for the future but am not using now. All in all a good deal considering the cost of alternatives.
I don't program with them but I can give some feedback.
Mine are from Auria bought from MicroCenter. They are 27inches and have a glossy finish which you may not like on your screen if you have things that could reflect behind you. Neither one had a single dead pixle and after about 2months of use I really like them. The stands did NOT allow for pivoting but I'm using a dual stand off of Amazon anyway so I could pivot if I needed to. You MUST use the included DVI cables as they're apparently some new version of the cable, when I used my old duplicate looking DVI cables I got no video. Controls are sparse and I hate that they have a damned bootup screen - I turn monitors OFF when not being used. The off switch is a hassle, it's under the front edge vs a button on the front but no biggie. I drive mine with a GTX 680 at 2560X1440 refreshed at 59hz, 32bit color depth. Oh, they are a little bright so expect to turn them down and fiddle colors. I see a little light leakage but overall I like these monitors and would most certainly buy again. For the cost of both of these I might have been able to buy ONE high end monitor from a known company - screw that!
Hope that helps. I know there are a bunch of others on eBay and even sites dedicated to reviewing them but popularity has driven costs up and these were at a store near me where I could return if needed. I saw a few open box in the store, I couldn't help but wonder if perhaps they were find and were plugged into cards that couldn't drive them or with wrong cables:-)
Oh no we can do WAY better than 35MPG. Hell I was getting 42MPG beating the living crap out of a Chevy Sprint I owned YEARS ago. Poorly tuned, had a carburator, and the AC would slow it down 5MPH on the highway. Try selling one of these today - it won't fly. You see everyone wants SUV to "survive an accident" and "see better". That car weighed nothing, didn't cocoon me in airbags, wasn't full of impact bars, and didn't have bumpers that could stop a Sherman. Hell I got hit in that thing from behind pretty good and it survived with nothing but a wrinkle in the rear quarter but that's not good enough these days. In an effort to "save everyone" we all drive around in techie wonders that weigh a metric shit ton!
I drove one of the new Ford Cobra, makes 500+ HP and can spin the wheels if you so much as sneeze! Drives like a fat pig because it has so much damned mass to it. Must be at least 4Klbs so while the HP number is stunning it's acceleration is far worse than it should be because it's trying to shove all that fat down the road. 300HP in a Miata would probably give it a run for the money. Speaking of which, the Miata has also blown up like a Macy's balloon. Seen the new "Mini"? They ought to call them Maxi they've grown so fat.
So can we make high MPG cars? Sure we can! Drop some of the safety standards and let manufacturers build smaller lighter cars. No one will buy them because they all want heyuge boats they can drive like bumper cars but they sure as hell could do it. Shit in my state they want to drop the damned gas tax and raise sales tax. Penny wise and pound foolish all the lemmings are cheering. If I were king for a day I'd double the damn tax and watch the piles of SUV hit the sales lot for pennies on the dollar. A friend of mine has just been handed a monster commute, he did the math and it's CHEAPER for him to buy a damned Prius than it is to drive his gas guzzler to and fro - the savings will likely pay for his car payment - seriously!
Alcohol was never about MPG, it was to stretch the supply of crap gas and to lower emissions by forcing carburated cars and crappy EFI cars of the day to run leaner. Those benefits went out the window LONG ago, EFI these days run wide band O2 sensors and some of them run sensors to detect alcohol percentage too for adjustment of fuel ratios. This stuff is providing zero benefit other than an octane boost to crappy gas. For a performance car tuned and built for it alcohol is nice, especially E85, as the octane is outstanding. you can optimize spark, raise compression or boost, and make big power. But you will be flowing TONS of it to do so and that is plain retarded for a trip to the grocery. If I could get access to E85 I'd run it in a performance car but not in a commuter. Better is running it in a tuned performance car and spraying pure alky only when octane was needed - been there done that and it helped a great deal. But when not under boost it's not needed and they shouldn't be adding the crap to our gas! As you've seen the stuff doesn't help mileage which if you lookup the BTU values for gas and alcohol is clear as day. Hell in my area you can't even buy gas without it - EVERY pump has this trash in it.
Ethanol was added to gas to reduce emissions and to stretch limited supply. How did it reduce emissions? By making cars run leaner. See when this was first done cars ran carbs and really crude EFI. The alcohol made the cars run leaner than straight gas and it also provided some octane bump so crappier gas could be sold. Trouble is we don't run carbs any more and the EFI on most of the cars running around is smart enough to recognize the leaner mixture and richen it up. Emissions benefit out the window and we all see the MPG hit from this stuff. Alcohol is a terrific fuel for max power - if you jack the compression ratio and boost to the Moon and run it rich as hell. Economical it sure isn't and the exhaust is damn near noxious. For commuter cars built to to be able to run on straight gas compression ratios and boost must be kept down to allow for it, no benefit from the higher octane and other benefits for power that alcohol can offer. Build a car that can only run on high percentages of alcohol and you might see some benefits power wise (and tuners DO this) but forget MPG. Alcohol simply contains LESS BTU per gallon than gasoline and is a poorer fuel per gallon for normal HP applications. All those "flexfuel" capable cars are giant compromises running around. The only way to get anything decent out of something liek that is to slap a turbo on it and a fuel sensor to jack boost up when there's decent octane, anything naturally aspirated is screwed. Even if you do this you won't see an MPG benefit to speak of IMO but certainly higher HP when flooring it.
As an added bonus alcohol is corrosive and while many brand new cars can handle it (maybe) many BOATS and mowers cannot at it's current levels and cars are showing some issues too. This gets better - they want to INCREASE the amount of alcohol allowed to be dispensed at the pump for normal commuter cars. Think there are issues now? Just wait and see. MPG will go DOWN further and you know damned well prices won't follow.
Then there's the fact that we make this stuff from corn which is a feedstock and food. This is fine when we have a surplus of the stuff floating around but right now we don't. We'd be better off selling surplus to countries that need it or finding other uses I think. Mind you I'm a gearhead and love the power potential of things like E85 with a honking big turbo but the ideas that this lowers emissions and somehow has benefits is a joke. Alcohol has octane but you have to flow much more of it and it's not economical at all while it's trying to eat up your fuel system.
My data connection drops, I have to toggle Roaming to get it back. I've never had roaming turned on and prefer it off but turning it on and then back off or simply turning it on brings back the data connection - for awhile. The screen also seems a bit dimmer and softer especially in dark conditions but I'm not seeing any issues with battery life or performance of 3G for phone calls. The data thing, THAT is a killer that needs to be fixed and hopefully without breaking the jailbreak that's out.
I've done the jailbreak on an iPad2 and want to do it to an older iPhone 4 but I'm having issues upgrading the 4 to 6.1 from 5.1.1 that I suspect have to do with the jailbreak. I'm going to take it through recovery mode with fingers crossed as a simple upgrade wouldn't do it nor would it clear correctly when asked. This experience is making me a little less eager to jailbreak my primary device to say the least. However some of the tweaks are pretty nice and I'll admit make Android a little more attractive. They have their own issues too with custom ROMs and whatnot so I know it's no panacea there either and I like my existing hardware. We'll see what Apple does next, if they break the JB I'm going to be peeved...
He supposedly got a million subscribers on the first day, including myself. 150 takedown notices is significant in light of this? Google probably process that many in a half day and no one says a thing. That this new service has so few should probably be the news rather than the other way around. This seems pretty trivial to me, especially in light of the fact that his previous service handled so many takedowns that they granted the content folks special access like YouTube does. Bet he doesn't do that again...
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Those EFI boxes also live in a complete electronic hell that is an engine bay served by a fairly noisy electrical system - and are heavily shielded and potted as a result. I won't say that an EMP pulse wouldn't take them out but they are far more hardy than people may think. The sensors that feed them on the other hand might not be. Given a choice between a carb, mechanical fuel pump, and a points ignition or a modern EFI I think I'd take the mechanical stuff to be on the safe side...
There are adapters for that or if you're careful you can usually get the high flow ones to pump but wow is it a PITA ;-)
WHOA! Gasoline will ignite due to compression at far LOWER ratios than what is produced in an automotive diesel engine! What do you think knock is?! It's autoignition occurring too soon. This is what occurs when the octane rating is too low - high octane gas is for higher cylinder pressure engines and actually is HARDER to ignite. Pump grade gas ignites fairly easily.
A diesel engine may have a 15:1 or higher compression ratio, gasoline auto engines seldom go above 12:1 unless they're running Nitro or pure Meth alcohol. Passenger gasoline engines run 11:1 or so tops.
Gasoline in a diesel engine is BAD news. It will ignite from the compression very early in the compression cycle while the piston is still rising and beat the crap out of the ring lands and bearings. I disagree that gasoline isn't volatile enough to ignite, it's TOO volatile! Your first paragraph gets it wrong, the rest I agree with - you appear to contradict yourself.
Actually no many American remember the truly SHITTY "diesel" attempts made by GM with converted V8 engines. These things quickly fell apart, spewed ungodly amounts of black smoke, and had to be recalled wholesale. Whenever diesel is mentioned to the majority of American buyers they hold their nose and tell you they don't want no stinkin' diesel! Oh that and they say "but diesel is more expensive" without bothering to do any math whatsoever...
Others are a little smarter and realize that these days are better and buy the TDI from VW or one of the nicer BMW or Mercedes diesel. Sales of the Liberty diesel were poor enough though that they stopped making it although I think it may yet come back. As slow as those things apparently were it was probably a service that they were stopped.
A better idea rather than subtracting a percentage is to use a site like Fuelly.com to look and see what others are getting for mileage in the same car before buying one...
Very few use a dry sump and those that do often use poorly designed ones aka the Corvette. The 911 has one too, not sure which others. However many do use scrapers and baffles so hitting the oil isn't nearly the problem it was in say the 60s.
The ECU in many cars is tuned to recognize an EPA drive cycle and react accordingly. The drive cycles are apparently pretty specific and, much like video drivers, can be gamed to get higher performance under specific conditions. The EPA uses pretty bad testing methodology too and it's only slowly being updated. There's an article in one of the Road and Track type mags on the stand this month detailing it and discussing the methodology, I was surprised they didn't also mention the ECU tuning
Or perhaps where people who's hardware console has died or who no longer have room for arcade machines but still wish to enjoy the software could enjoy them yes. I'm okay with double standards too occasionally, especially for things that are no longer supported or produced. Emulate say a PS3 and yeah, I think I'd have some issues with that.
So what you got out of this is that XBMC has something to do with games?! You might better hit the search engine again
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=146711
NES, SNES, MAME, and others. I'll admit Wayland and SDL are interesting but my hardware already runs XBMC fine using VDPAU and I'm more excited about getting the ability to run games vs a different display technology...
If it's an IOS tablet run Plex server and the Plex client. Smooth as glass via wireless on my setup. Not sure if they have an Android client or not but it takes care of getting through my firewall and finding my IP when I'm on the road - love it!
Something to consider - Tivo HD and KMTTG. Yes, you pay but when done the content is on your HDD. OTA has been authorized for copy control although as of yet I don't think it's been implemented. I'd like to setup a Myth setup, I even have an HDHR but the setup is daunting and I've not ever been able to get it right and gain anything over my Tivo setup...
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/12/10/15/1855245/fcc-to-allow-cable-companies-to-encrypt-over-the-air-channels
Newsflash: OTA providers have now been told they too can set this flag. I don't think it's gone into effect yet but it's been passed.
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/12/10/15/1855245/fcc-to-allow-cable-companies-to-encrypt-over-the-air-channels
FWIW I'm in a situation pretty close to your's except I only have to support my own TV watching. SAB and Sick are a lifesaver but I'd really like to also watch live TV occasionally. I use my Tivo to record things and Kmttg to remove them for my own use. I have an HDHR but sadly OTA is a PITA and even setting it up to grab clear QAM from my cable has proven a chore. I'd love some sort of standard IPTV service or a way to use myth to grab content that's not clear QAM, really my Tivo have been the best way so far but they cost a pile on top of the damned service and also obey the content flags. I was really hoping to see insightful answers to your question - so far not so much just bitching about TV in general. If folks don't like TV why are they even in this conversation?
No need to go Pro for this IMO. Logmein rocks and is usable from an iPad for remote admin. Likewise putting them on a non-admin account is a good idea and I'd consider DeepFreeze too. However one area we differ is OS - get them the hell off of XP and move them from IE to Chrome too. I'd consider an AV as well but damned if I know of one that I'd trust. The best ones are made overseas and Essentials just isn't cutting it
Sounds like perhaps a little washing and disinfecting of bags to be reused would solve the issue and that the fault doesn't lie with banning bags but with the users. I'll admit I don't wash the bags I use over and over but then I don't put anything nasty in them either! I wish they would ban them here, I so much prefer the paper sacks over these damned plastic things and they can be used for many other things or recycled as paper.
That's no limitation that's a benefit. Better that some guilty go free to avoid an innocent going to jail. Or at least that's how it's supposed to work but prosecutors game the system to get their stats up. As tempting as it might be to throw them both in jail I think maybe it would be better if both rotted, apart, until the testing was done since sure as hell one of them did do it.
So instead of using the magic that is DNA they might have to actually really do some police work? 6 attacks and both have airtight alibis? No other evidence at all except eye witnesses who cannot tell them apart? Honestly this simply sounds like they need to look harder and if that doesn't work then fine take the budget hit and do the test. Heck, are they sure no lab would donate some effort towards this? Cost shouldn't be what stops the conviction or sure as hell it will give other's ideas.
Yes, dual link, same number of pins as the one I pulled off though, perhaps not all populated. Any monitor over 24 is going to be dual. I was worried I might not be able to drive two - seems I can drive 3 or so I'm told :-)
These do have a decent number of inputs, DisplayPort was one I wanted to be sure I had for the future but am not using now. All in all a good deal considering the cost of alternatives.
I don't program with them but I can give some feedback.
Mine are from Auria bought from MicroCenter. They are 27inches and have a glossy finish which you may not like on your screen if you have things that could reflect behind you. Neither one had a single dead pixle and after about 2months of use I really like them. The stands did NOT allow for pivoting but I'm using a dual stand off of Amazon anyway so I could pivot if I needed to. You MUST use the included DVI cables as they're apparently some new version of the cable, when I used my old duplicate looking DVI cables I got no video. Controls are sparse and I hate that they have a damned bootup screen - I turn monitors OFF when not being used. The off switch is a hassle, it's under the front edge vs a button on the front but no biggie. I drive mine with a GTX 680 at 2560X1440 refreshed at 59hz, 32bit color depth. Oh, they are a little bright so expect to turn them down and fiddle colors. I see a little light leakage but overall I like these monitors and would most certainly buy again. For the cost of both of these I might have been able to buy ONE high end monitor from a known company - screw that!
Hope that helps. I know there are a bunch of others on eBay and even sites dedicated to reviewing them but popularity has driven costs up and these were at a store near me where I could return if needed. I saw a few open box in the store, I couldn't help but wonder if perhaps they were find and were plugged into cards that couldn't drive them or with wrong cables :-)
Oh no we can do WAY better than 35MPG. Hell I was getting 42MPG beating the living crap out of a Chevy Sprint I owned YEARS ago. Poorly tuned, had a carburator, and the AC would slow it down 5MPH on the highway. Try selling one of these today - it won't fly. You see everyone wants SUV to "survive an accident" and "see better". That car weighed nothing, didn't cocoon me in airbags, wasn't full of impact bars, and didn't have bumpers that could stop a Sherman. Hell I got hit in that thing from behind pretty good and it survived with nothing but a wrinkle in the rear quarter but that's not good enough these days. In an effort to "save everyone" we all drive around in techie wonders that weigh a metric shit ton!
I drove one of the new Ford Cobra, makes 500+ HP and can spin the wheels if you so much as sneeze! Drives like a fat pig because it has so much damned mass to it. Must be at least 4Klbs so while the HP number is stunning it's acceleration is far worse than it should be because it's trying to shove all that fat down the road. 300HP in a Miata would probably give it a run for the money. Speaking of which, the Miata has also blown up like a Macy's balloon. Seen the new "Mini"? They ought to call them Maxi they've grown so fat.
So can we make high MPG cars? Sure we can! Drop some of the safety standards and let manufacturers build smaller lighter cars. No one will buy them because they all want heyuge boats they can drive like bumper cars but they sure as hell could do it. Shit in my state they want to drop the damned gas tax and raise sales tax. Penny wise and pound foolish all the lemmings are cheering. If I were king for a day I'd double the damn tax and watch the piles of SUV hit the sales lot for pennies on the dollar. A friend of mine has just been handed a monster commute, he did the math and it's CHEAPER for him to buy a damned Prius than it is to drive his gas guzzler to and fro - the savings will likely pay for his car payment - seriously!
Alcohol was never about MPG, it was to stretch the supply of crap gas and to lower emissions by forcing carburated cars and crappy EFI cars of the day to run leaner. Those benefits went out the window LONG ago, EFI these days run wide band O2 sensors and some of them run sensors to detect alcohol percentage too for adjustment of fuel ratios. This stuff is providing zero benefit other than an octane boost to crappy gas. For a performance car tuned and built for it alcohol is nice, especially E85, as the octane is outstanding. you can optimize spark, raise compression or boost, and make big power. But you will be flowing TONS of it to do so and that is plain retarded for a trip to the grocery. If I could get access to E85 I'd run it in a performance car but not in a commuter. Better is running it in a tuned performance car and spraying pure alky only when octane was needed - been there done that and it helped a great deal. But when not under boost it's not needed and they shouldn't be adding the crap to our gas! As you've seen the stuff doesn't help mileage which if you lookup the BTU values for gas and alcohol is clear as day. Hell in my area you can't even buy gas without it - EVERY pump has this trash in it.
Ethanol was added to gas to reduce emissions and to stretch limited supply. How did it reduce emissions? By making cars run leaner. See when this was first done cars ran carbs and really crude EFI. The alcohol made the cars run leaner than straight gas and it also provided some octane bump so crappier gas could be sold. Trouble is we don't run carbs any more and the EFI on most of the cars running around is smart enough to recognize the leaner mixture and richen it up. Emissions benefit out the window and we all see the MPG hit from this stuff. Alcohol is a terrific fuel for max power - if you jack the compression ratio and boost to the Moon and run it rich as hell. Economical it sure isn't and the exhaust is damn near noxious. For commuter cars built to to be able to run on straight gas compression ratios and boost must be kept down to allow for it, no benefit from the higher octane and other benefits for power that alcohol can offer. Build a car that can only run on high percentages of alcohol and you might see some benefits power wise (and tuners DO this) but forget MPG. Alcohol simply contains LESS BTU per gallon than gasoline and is a poorer fuel per gallon for normal HP applications. All those "flexfuel" capable cars are giant compromises running around. The only way to get anything decent out of something liek that is to slap a turbo on it and a fuel sensor to jack boost up when there's decent octane, anything naturally aspirated is screwed. Even if you do this you won't see an MPG benefit to speak of IMO but certainly higher HP when flooring it.
As an added bonus alcohol is corrosive and while many brand new cars can handle it (maybe) many BOATS and mowers cannot at it's current levels and cars are showing some issues too. This gets better - they want to INCREASE the amount of alcohol allowed to be dispensed at the pump for normal commuter cars. Think there are issues now? Just wait and see. MPG will go DOWN further and you know damned well prices won't follow.
Then there's the fact that we make this stuff from corn which is a feedstock and food. This is fine when we have a surplus of the stuff floating around but right now we don't. We'd be better off selling surplus to countries that need it or finding other uses I think. Mind you I'm a gearhead and love the power potential of things like E85 with a honking big turbo but the ideas that this lowers emissions and somehow has benefits is a joke. Alcohol has octane but you have to flow much more of it and it's not economical at all while it's trying to eat up your fuel system.
My data connection drops, I have to toggle Roaming to get it back. I've never had roaming turned on and prefer it off but turning it on and then back off or simply turning it on brings back the data connection - for awhile. The screen also seems a bit dimmer and softer especially in dark conditions but I'm not seeing any issues with battery life or performance of 3G for phone calls. The data thing, THAT is a killer that needs to be fixed and hopefully without breaking the jailbreak that's out.
I've done the jailbreak on an iPad2 and want to do it to an older iPhone 4 but I'm having issues upgrading the 4 to 6.1 from 5.1.1 that I suspect have to do with the jailbreak. I'm going to take it through recovery mode with fingers crossed as a simple upgrade wouldn't do it nor would it clear correctly when asked. This experience is making me a little less eager to jailbreak my primary device to say the least. However some of the tweaks are pretty nice and I'll admit make Android a little more attractive. They have their own issues too with custom ROMs and whatnot so I know it's no panacea there either and I like my existing hardware. We'll see what Apple does next, if they break the JB I'm going to be peeved...
He supposedly got a million subscribers on the first day, including myself. 150 takedown notices is significant in light of this? Google probably process that many in a half day and no one says a thing. That this new service has so few should probably be the news rather than the other way around. This seems pretty trivial to me, especially in light of the fact that his previous service handled so many takedowns that they granted the content folks special access like YouTube does. Bet he doesn't do that again...