Push-button ignition can be turned off by holding down the button (kind of like with a computer).
You can cover a lot of ground in four seconds at freeway speeds. (410' at 70 mph, to be precise...close to a tenth of a mile.) Which would you rather have: turn a key and kill the engine right away, or hold down a button for several seconds while your car accelerates out of control? Push-button ignition sounds like a useless, unnecessary complication of something that's best kept simple.
There was an interesting in-between technology that forget the name of that had a code printed in the tv-guide
You're thinking of VCR Plus. While my newer VCRs supported it, I never used it as it only (AFAIK) scheduled one recording of a show instead of setting up a weekly (or whatever) recording.
The funny thing is, I've seen old P4 computers drawing 250w+.
They probably had less-efficient power supplies than your newer machines. Power-supply efficiency only seems to have become a selling point in the past couple or three years.
And you also mean the porting of thousands and thousands of x86 apps as well? If the ARM version of Windows can't run the apps people want, they aren't going to by an ARM netbook.
This doesn't really make sense to me as I used to drive cars with no power steering, and at freeway speed the force of resistance on the wheel in a car without power steering really won't be any different than any modern car with power steering.
I'd beg to differ on that. A few years back, I was borrowing one of my grandparents' cars (an '85 Olds 98, if it matters...first year that model was front-wheel drive) for a trip. While on the freeway, the serpentine belt broke. A short time earlier, I had left the lights on and run down the battery, and the battery hadn't had time to recover from that abuse. As the battery died, the fuel injectors quit doing their job and the engine conked out. Bye-bye power steering. The difference was definitely noticeable...it took a good bit more effort to steer off the road and onto the shoulder than it normally would've.
If I had to guess, it matters if the vehicle is front-wheel-drive or not. The driveaxles want to stay straight while they're spinning. It takes extra force to flex the outer CV joints off-axis. In a rear-wheel-drive vehicle, you don't have this issue to worry about, so you can more easily get away with manual steering (which I had in my first car: an '80 Chevette with manual steering and manual brakes).
Sheez, I don't know how you people manage to live in this dirty, stinky world. That line about cyclists being smelly and dirty is getting really, really old.
I'd like to see you try biking 15-20 miles (each way) through 100+-degree heat without breaking a sweat. Throw in some hills while you're at it, too.
(Hint: what works well in some parts of the world isn't necessarily going to work as well elsewhere. Most of the world isn't flat. Big chunks of it regularly see temperatures above the 60s and 70s, often for months at a time.)
On these new cars, what can you do? The transmission is automatic and won't let you shift into neutral at speed it seems, and there's no key ignition switch to turn off. You can push and hold the "start" button, but how many people know about that?
Did they hire the designer of that system from Microsoft?
Doesn't someone make a DVD player that ignores the unskippable flag?
About 10 years or so ago, I bought one of these. A couple keypresses on the remote will get you past "unskippable" material. Whether something's currently on the market that offers similar functionality, I couldn't say.
An unrestricted 50cc 2 stroke 'should' be able to get 90-105mpg while topping out @ 40mph on the flat.
I was getting ~100 mpg and 30 mph from a 49cc 4-stroke installed on a bicycle, until the clutch came apart on me. (The spot welds holding the output gear to the hub broke...need to have it welded back together, this time with welds around the full circumference of the gear.) I didn't do anything special to the engine (it's a Chinese knockoff of a Honda design), and I weighed somewhere around 250-260 lbs. at the time.
The engine seems decent enough, but the gearboxes have been a weak point...the one on it now is the 2nd, and it broke on me on its first trip across town. The first needed replacement after about 200 miles. I've had half a thought of ditching the gearbox, adding some electric hub-motor wheels, and lashing an alternator, a battery, and some electronics to the engine to make a sort of series-hybrid configuration out of the whole thing.
since I live in WA I already have to pay sales tax on my Amazon orders on top of shipping costs.
I live in Nevada; even though they have a distribution center about a half-hour outside Reno, I've not been charged sales tax on any purchases I can recall. I wonder how they get away with that. (Not that I'm complaining.:-) )
A strange accusation, given that the article (such as it was) appears to have come from a British website. What are the odds they'd knock together a "US-centric" article?
(Then again, complaints of this nature seem rather common here, so I shouldn't be surprised. You might want to get your knee looked at; if it's not jerking, it's at least twitching.)
Stories like this always have the flavor of a urban legend.
The automated roll bar deployment is a feature of some BMW covertibles only.
It uses springs. Not explosives.
A spring under compression can let loose with tremendous, potentially fatal force. Consider, for instance, the coil spring in a MacPherson strut. Disassemble one of those without a spring compressor and you're asking for trouble.
When the movies are sent to you, do they arive in any type of packaging that indicate what type of movie you are getting?
Netflix sends movies in a Tyvek sleeve with a label with the title, plot synopsis, and a few other details. This, in turn, goes in a paper envelope that hides everything on the label, except a barcode. I don't know what is encoded in the barcode; if I had to guess, it's a unique identifier Netflix uses for inventory purposes. Without a way to tie that to a movie title, the only way someone's going to know what you're ordering from Netflix would be if someone intercepted your mail and pulled out the movie.
I suppose I could just give the same fake birthday every time, though.
I usually give them the month and year, but leave the day at 1 (and no, I wasn't born on the 1st of the month). If it's optional, though, I just won't give them anything at all.
The 737 has been around a hell of a lot longer than the A320. The first flight of the 737 was in 1967. The first flight of the A320 was a full 20 years later, in 1987. I'm not sure the numbers you're quoting are as comparable as you'd have people believe; an older fleet with more accumulated mileage is almost guaranteed to have more incidents in its past.
Some old nutter in my condo complex. After I put up flyers with a frame grab from the video, though, I didn't have any further problems with missing newspapers. Who says shame doesn't work?
I would bet that if you were going to put together something and wanted a base to start from, MythTV wouldn't be a bad place to start.
I've actually used MythTV for this purpose before; I was already familiar with it from using it to record TV. I knocked together a system with a spare MPEG encoder card and a wireless camera when I wanted to find out who was stealing my newspaper. Once you get some fake channel information configured, it's just a matter of setting up a bunch of daily recordings to monitor each input.
Time Warner has disabled that functionality in my cable boxes, according to both the diagnostic screen and the fact that the computer detects nothing when I connect it:(
I'm fairly sure that's in violation of FCC regulations. Have a look at this; it provides the ammo you'll want to bring to your cable company to get them to cough up a properly functioning cable box. (Assuming that they didn't put in for a waiver, as is alluded to at the end of the section...if that's the case, they should be able to produce a copy of that. If they do, though, you're still screwed.)
That's rich. You're either unable or unwilling to address the points I've raised, blindly holding onto the various IPCC reports as if they're gospel truth. Now who's the real "denier" here, given the more than ample proof of malfeasance from the "scientists" (I'm using that word rather loosely here) generating the data that serve as the basis for those reports? Anthropogenic global warming is quickly shaping up to be the new Lysenkoism.
All I'm saying is that our peer review process, even with its flaws...
...such as mostly successful attempts by global-warming cultists such as Michael "Hockey Stick" Mann to manipulate the process into excluding contrary viewpoints? Have a look at this or this if you don't believe me.
There's really not much other choice. If you want to use a device that is capable of transferring shows to other devices, it's pretty much TiVo HD or Windows Media Center, if you want to use CableCARDs - and both of those solutions honor the broadcast flags.. Either that, or you can set up some other computer-based solution and use an IR blaster and a cable box, or you can just do analog cable.
You could also use a FireWire cable to connect your cable box to your computer, and record shows that way. HD-capable cable boxes should have FireWire outputs that spit out an MPEG-2 transport stream from whatever channel is selected; ask for a replacement if yours doesn't. MythTV can record this stream and play it back, same as it would from a tuner card. It works like a champ for me, and all the channels to which I subscribe are available this way. Channel changing is also done over FireWire, so you don't have to worry about infrared signals getting lost on their way to the box.
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You can cover a lot of ground in four seconds at freeway speeds. (410' at 70 mph, to be precise...close to a tenth of a mile.) Which would you rather have: turn a key and kill the engine right away, or hold down a button for several seconds while your car accelerates out of control? Push-button ignition sounds like a useless, unnecessary complication of something that's best kept simple.
You're thinking of VCR Plus. While my newer VCRs supported it, I never used it as it only (AFAIK) scheduled one recording of a show instead of setting up a weekly (or whatever) recording.
They probably had less-efficient power supplies than your newer machines. Power-supply efficiency only seems to have become a selling point in the past couple or three years.
Haven't we been down this road before? Twice, in fact?
I'd beg to differ on that. A few years back, I was borrowing one of my grandparents' cars (an '85 Olds 98, if it matters...first year that model was front-wheel drive) for a trip. While on the freeway, the serpentine belt broke. A short time earlier, I had left the lights on and run down the battery, and the battery hadn't had time to recover from that abuse. As the battery died, the fuel injectors quit doing their job and the engine conked out. Bye-bye power steering. The difference was definitely noticeable...it took a good bit more effort to steer off the road and onto the shoulder than it normally would've.
If I had to guess, it matters if the vehicle is front-wheel-drive or not. The driveaxles want to stay straight while they're spinning. It takes extra force to flex the outer CV joints off-axis. In a rear-wheel-drive vehicle, you don't have this issue to worry about, so you can more easily get away with manual steering (which I had in my first car: an '80 Chevette with manual steering and manual brakes).
I'd like to see you try biking 15-20 miles (each way) through 100+-degree heat without breaking a sweat. Throw in some hills while you're at it, too.
(Hint: what works well in some parts of the world isn't necessarily going to work as well elsewhere. Most of the world isn't flat. Big chunks of it regularly see temperatures above the 60s and 70s, often for months at a time.)
Did they hire the designer of that system from Microsoft?
57% of all federal expenditures, according to this (p. 100).
It also apparently doesn't support Firefox, even though HTML 5 is supported by Firefox 3.5.x. Bummer.
About 10 years or so ago, I bought one of these. A couple keypresses on the remote will get you past "unskippable" material. Whether something's currently on the market that offers similar functionality, I couldn't say.
I was getting ~100 mpg and 30 mph from a 49cc 4-stroke installed on a bicycle, until the clutch came apart on me. (The spot welds holding the output gear to the hub broke...need to have it welded back together, this time with welds around the full circumference of the gear.) I didn't do anything special to the engine (it's a Chinese knockoff of a Honda design), and I weighed somewhere around 250-260 lbs. at the time.
The engine seems decent enough, but the gearboxes have been a weak point...the one on it now is the 2nd, and it broke on me on its first trip across town. The first needed replacement after about 200 miles. I've had half a thought of ditching the gearbox, adding some electric hub-motor wheels, and lashing an alternator, a battery, and some electronics to the engine to make a sort of series-hybrid configuration out of the whole thing.
I live in Nevada; even though they have a distribution center about a half-hour outside Reno, I've not been charged sales tax on any purchases I can recall. I wonder how they get away with that. (Not that I'm complaining. :-) )
A strange accusation, given that the article (such as it was) appears to have come from a British website. What are the odds they'd knock together a "US-centric" article?
(Then again, complaints of this nature seem rather common here, so I shouldn't be surprised. You might want to get your knee looked at; if it's not jerking, it's at least twitching.)
A spring under compression can let loose with tremendous, potentially fatal force. Consider, for instance, the coil spring in a MacPherson strut. Disassemble one of those without a spring compressor and you're asking for trouble.
Netflix sends movies in a Tyvek sleeve with a label with the title, plot synopsis, and a few other details. This, in turn, goes in a paper envelope that hides everything on the label, except a barcode. I don't know what is encoded in the barcode; if I had to guess, it's a unique identifier Netflix uses for inventory purposes. Without a way to tie that to a movie title, the only way someone's going to know what you're ordering from Netflix would be if someone intercepted your mail and pulled out the movie.
I usually give them the month and year, but leave the day at 1 (and no, I wasn't born on the 1st of the month). If it's optional, though, I just won't give them anything at all.
The 737 has been around a hell of a lot longer than the A320. The first flight of the 737 was in 1967. The first flight of the A320 was a full 20 years later, in 1987. I'm not sure the numbers you're quoting are as comparable as you'd have people believe; an older fleet with more accumulated mileage is almost guaranteed to have more incidents in its past.
Last time I checked, the Spruce Goose was in McMinnville, Oregon. It used to be in Long Beach, but it left in 1992.
Some old nutter in my condo complex. After I put up flyers with a frame grab from the video, though, I didn't have any further problems with missing newspapers. Who says shame doesn't work?
I've actually used MythTV for this purpose before; I was already familiar with it from using it to record TV. I knocked together a system with a spare MPEG encoder card and a wireless camera when I wanted to find out who was stealing my newspaper. Once you get some fake channel information configured, it's just a matter of setting up a bunch of daily recordings to monitor each input.
I'm fairly sure that's in violation of FCC regulations. Have a look at this; it provides the ammo you'll want to bring to your cable company to get them to cough up a properly functioning cable box. (Assuming that they didn't put in for a waiver, as is alluded to at the end of the section...if that's the case, they should be able to produce a copy of that. If they do, though, you're still screwed.)
That's rich. You're either unable or unwilling to address the points I've raised, blindly holding onto the various IPCC reports as if they're gospel truth. Now who's the real "denier" here, given the more than ample proof of malfeasance from the "scientists" (I'm using that word rather loosely here) generating the data that serve as the basis for those reports? Anthropogenic global warming is quickly shaping up to be the new Lysenkoism.
...and why would I want to waste my time dealing with cooked data of questionable veracity?
...such as mostly successful attempts by global-warming cultists such as Michael "Hockey Stick" Mann to manipulate the process into excluding contrary viewpoints? Have a look at this or this if you don't believe me.
You could also use a FireWire cable to connect your cable box to your computer, and record shows that way. HD-capable cable boxes should have FireWire outputs that spit out an MPEG-2 transport stream from whatever channel is selected; ask for a replacement if yours doesn't. MythTV can record this stream and play it back, same as it would from a tuner card. It works like a champ for me, and all the channels to which I subscribe are available this way. Channel changing is also done over FireWire, so you don't have to worry about infrared signals getting lost on their way to the box.