Not in a modern car with an automatic transmission. Once ignition is cut, the solenoids disengage the gears (you're now in neutral) and the engine stops. When you turn the car back on, the transmission will not go into gear because it needs a spinning engine to provide hydraulic pressure to engage the gears, so you are still in neutral. I tested this once in my "dumber" years back in college...
Do you also have trouble operating a microwave? Because "push button" is literally as simple as it gets. The days are long over that the ignition was actually wired - in any serious way - to critical engine systems.
Most push button start cars will NOT shut off with a simple push of the button. Some require you to hold it in for several seconds, or perform other actions.
I agree. The ISP would likely need to make infrastructure changes to support your request. Unless you are using a web-based mail reader, you should be able to find a way to reliably filter all of the emails on your side. Posting some questions to some "tech" (anyone have suggestions?) forums should result in much assistance. Have you considered legal action? It's highly likely that an idiot kid is the "harrasser" and is not doing much to cover their tracks.
There are diminishing returns for cars as they shrink past the size of about a Toyota Corolla. The extra weight needed to meet federal crash standards (USA) on tiny cars wipes out their potential efficiency advantages. Just look at the Smart car as an example. The Honda fit has twice the room and still gets better mileage. The only real benefit of 1 person car would be its ability to squeeze into small spots.
I agree. I wouldn't be surprised if the poster is currently shorting the stock. The ridiculous editorial is exactly the same as the garbage I see on the yahoo finance forums. On top of the positives mentioned by some of the posters in here: Toyota made a large investment in Tesla, and Tesla is going to be building the electric version of Toyota's RAV4. Tesla also has a deal with Daimler to build the battery packs in the electric version of the Smart car. I hardly call this a failure...
Agreed. My clean Win7 install on my new laptop is ready to go as soon as I get to the desktop. I even have anti-virus installed (Microsoft Security Essentials).
..except that the McAfee logo is actually legit (meaning McAfee vouches for the safety of this site). I just verified it. That fact alone makes this a bit more alarming.
I'm so sick of seeing stories like this. I have grown a firm hatred for people that get away with this kind of extortion against helpless startups struggling to become financially stable. It all started when I heard about a website (can't remember the name) that was created in order to mass-produce and fund patents on "inventions" that are not even possible to create now, but could be in great demand in the future (like StarTrek transporter). This idea wasn't necessarily that profitable for reasons that would require a whole new discussion, but the thought still disturbed me.
We really need to create a non-profit, highly organized organization that would be funded by ALL of us (through Paypal etc). Through a large number of small donations, a council could review current cases of rediculous patent lawsuits and fund a powerful legal force. With an organization like this, frivolous patent suits would no longer be as profitable. A patent happy jerk would no longer be able to pick a struggling company with no legal defense funds to prey on, because they could potentially be chosen as the next "project" for this new organization.
I'm telling you, I'm an unemployed web-developer (though I do get some contract gigs) at the moment, just out of school with very limited funds, but would easily dish out $10 here and $10 there to fund this cause.
I really think this should be done NOW. With organization, we would be a formidable force and this craziness might stop some day. It makes me fume when I think about lazy, useless people knowingly destroying/stealing some talented person's money that they worked so hard for, just because they didn't feel like doing any work.
I apologise if this idea has already been mentioned. I did try to make sure before writing this.
I have the best Spam filters around and they work great, but Spam is still a huge problem for me. Last week, I got my SECOND warning from my school's unix admin that my mail spool was too large. This happened because I get 20-30 spam messages per day and wasn't able to check my email for 4 days due to a vacation. When my mail spool overflows, it gets cleared and copied to a big text file that I have to download seperately and deal with. Makes me want to wring the necks of spammers, especially those who send me 3 copies of the same mail within 10 minutes of each other... I may not have to deal with reading spam or filtering them manually, but I still have to deal with the anxiety of having to check my email every few days.. or else.
... I have to say that Netscape/Mozilla has not only shocked me with improvements in reliability and speed, but has in fact pulled me away from IE/Outlook Express which I swore were the greatest Web/EMail tools. I remember back in the days of Netscape 4.X. The darn thing would take forever to load, suck up my computer's resources, and consistantly crash on specific web pages. Being a web-developer made it worse... It was such a pain having to remove nifty DHTML effects from my company's website (or incorperate code to modify HTML output for Netscape) because some people out there were still using it.
I think I'm going too in depth on my point here... Compared to what Nescape USED to be, the current Mozilla/Netscape software is incredible. And this is coming from a WINDOWS user.;) The best thing Nescape ever did was make their browser open srouce (in my opinion). And... The free Bayesian spam filter in the Mozilla mail client has amazed me. I NEVER thought that free technology existed that provided such reliable and accurate spam filtering. I am down from 14 spam messages per day to maybe 1 at most per day. I've only had 2 false positives since I started using it 3 weeks ago.
Alright. I'll stop rambling on this matter. I've just been waiting a while now to outlet my good experiences with Mozilla, especially after hating it so much in the past. *Two thumbs up*
The DHTML menus on their site work fine for me using Mozilla. Maybe you have an older version? I am running Mozilla 1.4 by the way on a Windows2000 setup.
I took the page out of my cache and hosted it on my machine for now.
http://128.119.148.139/default.html
I'll take it down once the site stops getting hammered.
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Not in a modern car with an automatic transmission. Once ignition is cut, the solenoids disengage the gears (you're now in neutral) and the engine stops. When you turn the car back on, the transmission will not go into gear because it needs a spinning engine to provide hydraulic pressure to engage the gears, so you are still in neutral. I tested this once in my "dumber" years back in college...
Do you also have trouble operating a microwave? Because "push button" is literally as simple as it gets. The days are long over that the ignition was actually wired - in any serious way - to critical engine systems.
Most push button start cars will NOT shut off with a simple push of the button. Some require you to hold it in for several seconds, or perform other actions.
I agree. The ISP would likely need to make infrastructure changes to support your request. Unless you are using a web-based mail reader, you should be able to find a way to reliably filter all of the emails on your side. Posting some questions to some "tech" (anyone have suggestions?) forums should result in much assistance. Have you considered legal action? It's highly likely that an idiot kid is the "harrasser" and is not doing much to cover their tracks.
There are diminishing returns for cars as they shrink past the size of about a Toyota Corolla. The extra weight needed to meet federal crash standards (USA) on tiny cars wipes out their potential efficiency advantages. Just look at the Smart car as an example. The Honda fit has twice the room and still gets better mileage. The only real benefit of 1 person car would be its ability to squeeze into small spots.
I agree. I wouldn't be surprised if the poster is currently shorting the stock. The ridiculous editorial is exactly the same as the garbage I see on the yahoo finance forums. On top of the positives mentioned by some of the posters in here: Toyota made a large investment in Tesla, and Tesla is going to be building the electric version of Toyota's RAV4. Tesla also has a deal with Daimler to build the battery packs in the electric version of the Smart car. I hardly call this a failure...
Agreed. My clean Win7 install on my new laptop is ready to go as soon as I get to the desktop. I even have anti-virus installed (Microsoft Security Essentials).
..except that the McAfee logo is actually legit (meaning McAfee vouches for the safety of this site). I just verified it. That fact alone makes this a bit more alarming.
VERY good point.
I'm so sick of seeing stories like this. I have grown a firm hatred for people that get away with this kind of extortion against helpless startups struggling to become financially stable. It all started when I heard about a website (can't remember the name) that was created in order to mass-produce and fund patents on "inventions" that are not even possible to create now, but could be in great demand in the future (like StarTrek transporter). This idea wasn't necessarily that profitable for reasons that would require a whole new discussion, but the thought still disturbed me. We really need to create a non-profit, highly organized organization that would be funded by ALL of us (through Paypal etc). Through a large number of small donations, a council could review current cases of rediculous patent lawsuits and fund a powerful legal force. With an organization like this, frivolous patent suits would no longer be as profitable. A patent happy jerk would no longer be able to pick a struggling company with no legal defense funds to prey on, because they could potentially be chosen as the next "project" for this new organization. I'm telling you, I'm an unemployed web-developer (though I do get some contract gigs) at the moment, just out of school with very limited funds, but would easily dish out $10 here and $10 there to fund this cause. I really think this should be done NOW. With organization, we would be a formidable force and this craziness might stop some day. It makes me fume when I think about lazy, useless people knowingly destroying/stealing some talented person's money that they worked so hard for, just because they didn't feel like doing any work. I apologise if this idea has already been mentioned. I did try to make sure before writing this.
I have the best Spam filters around and they work great, but Spam is still a huge problem for me. Last week, I got my SECOND warning from my school's unix admin that my mail spool was too large. This happened because I get 20-30 spam messages per day and wasn't able to check my email for 4 days due to a vacation. When my mail spool overflows, it gets cleared and copied to a big text file that I have to download seperately and deal with. Makes me want to wring the necks of spammers, especially those who send me 3 copies of the same mail within 10 minutes of each other... I may not have to deal with reading spam or filtering them manually, but I still have to deal with the anxiety of having to check my email every few days.. or else.
... I have to say that Netscape/Mozilla has not only shocked me with improvements in reliability and speed, but has in fact pulled me away from IE/Outlook Express which I swore were the greatest Web/EMail tools. I remember back in the days of Netscape 4.X. The darn thing would take forever to load, suck up my computer's resources, and consistantly crash on specific web pages. Being a web-developer made it worse... It was such a pain having to remove nifty DHTML effects from my company's website (or incorperate code to modify HTML output for Netscape) because some people out there were still using it. I think I'm going too in depth on my point here... Compared to what Nescape USED to be, the current Mozilla/Netscape software is incredible. And this is coming from a WINDOWS user. ;) The best thing Nescape ever did was make their browser open srouce (in my opinion). And... The free Bayesian spam filter in the Mozilla mail client has amazed me. I NEVER thought that free technology existed that provided such reliable and accurate spam filtering. I am down from 14 spam messages per day to maybe 1 at most per day. I've only had 2 false positives since I started using it 3 weeks ago.
Alright. I'll stop rambling on this matter. I've just been waiting a while now to outlet my good experiences with Mozilla, especially after hating it so much in the past. *Two thumbs up*
The DHTML menus on their site work fine for me using Mozilla. Maybe you have an older version? I am running Mozilla 1.4 by the way on a Windows2000 setup.
I took the page out of my cache and hosted it on my machine for now. http://128.119.148.139/default.html I'll take it down once the site stops getting hammered.