Well, since the requirement is that is the traded in vehicle must get less than 18MPG, it sounds like your Nissan pickup won't make the cut. Still seems like a silly idea though.
From what I've seen is they plug into the computer and talk directly to it through the OBD2 port. So while your idea is good, it won't work. Though if you have your own scan tool, you could reset the computer right before the test, and pull into the station with the engine cold. The engine computer probably won't redo its self-diagnostics until the engine is warm so you may get away with it.
How about a game like roulette, or many other odds game? It doesn't matter how you play roulette, in the long term the results are going to be the same due to the way the odds/payouts are structured. So playing randomly is a strategy that would be just as effective as any other one.
The biggest problem the computer makers have right now is competing with their old products. In that sense, I see Apple having a problem with the fact that most of their users are now using newer machines thanks to the Intel switchover. I don't know any Mac users that don't have at least one Intel Mac by now, whereas a good portion of of the PC users I know are using PCs that are over 3 years old. I've always figured that Apple's sales would slow down once people were done replacing their PPC machines with Intel ones, now it could be worse if they can't convince those who have the first generations of the Intel Macs (2-3 years old) to get the latest and shiniest.
I've never seen this myself. What will happen is that if you install updates, and Windows asks you to reboot, and you push 'no', Windows will eventually force the issue. But otherwise, I set my computers to download but let me choose when to install them, and so long as I ignore that little yellow shield I can go weeks/months without rebooting.
I would just skip the ram test entirely, as those cheesy single pass tests don't verify anything, including whether you have the DIMM seated completely in the slot (I've seen it pass where you could look at the DIMM and see that half the connector was clearly not touching the pins). If you suspect you have bad ram, you're going to have to boot into something like memtest86 to let it churn so just disable the BIOS test save yourself the seconds.
Otherwise, it could be a crappy bios, or a motherboard with a ton of bells and whistles that need to be initialized. I have a Dell where the POST takes ~1 second, so by the time the monitor warms up you're looking at the Windows XP loading screen. And it's nothing special, some old P3-based Celeron system.
Funny mods don't give you karma unless that's been changed recently. In fact you usually wind up losing karma because of the jackasses that like to hit every joke they don't get with an overrated mod.
They've been in some aftermarket car stereos for a while now, I had one I think 5-6 years ago in a Pioneer unit. So I really don't know what the big hold up is at this point - is it hard to make them in color or something? (the car stereo I had was monochrome with a blue-greenish color to the display)
Well, CRT -> OLED isn't a bad upgrade path. If you care about picture quality, a good CRT will blow away the LCD TVs and projectors. Plasmas are competitive but their shorter life and higher cost leaves me inclined to keep the CRT for now. There is DLP, but some people are annoyed by the rainbow effect. So why not wait for the OLED TVs?
3 - They pull the display model TV out of the box and hook it up. However the engineers at the factory set it up is how it is on the shelf, and Sony and Samsung tune them differently. 4 - The customers have been screwing with the settings.
Or the TVs could be different. I've got a Samsung and Sony LCDs in a dual head set up on my PC, and no matter how I screw with the settings on the Samsung the Sony has a better picture.
Are you sure it's not a power thing? Unpowered hubs aren't capable of providing the full 500mA of power to attached devices. If a device requests more power than the port it is connect to says it can provide, the device won't come on. You may want to try some powered hubs with those devices.
Depends on who owns the Cessna 172. The US Air force and Army both operate 172's, though the militarized version is called the T-41 Mescalero. They are typically used as trainers.
Dunno, they just don't seem all that special and most other people under 30 that I ask also seem to agree.
One thing about being young is that you get to hear The Beatles alongside all those other bands that emulated The Beatles. In that sense, they don't seem all that special, because they sound just like a lot of other bands from that era. What you're missing is first-hand experience how they broke new ground and changed music. I was the same way about The Dead Kennedys - to me they were just another punk band so I didn't really get why they were so special until I read up and found out that they were one of the pioneers of the whole scene. A movie example would be Star Wars (the 1977 one) - to some it's another Sci Fi movie with a somewhat tried-and-true formula, but they are missing out on how completely different it was than everything else prior to it.
The first person to spill a drink on one of these things will realize why that form factor disappeared over the years... replacing a $15 keyboard is a lot cheaper:)
Actually, the form factor is extremely common if you consider a laptop nothing other than a variation where the screen is attached.
You might want to be careful. I don't know where you live, but if the weather is cold enough the insides of the outside walls can get below freezing and you'll wipe out your savings if a pipe bursts. If your kitchen sink is on an outside wall, I would at the very least recommend you leave your undersink kitchen cabinent doors open.
And, in terms of practicality, running DoD-7 takes about 1000 times longer than whipping out the old Sledge-O-Matic.
Anyone motivated enough isn't going to have any problems with the bent platters the sledge-o-matic is going to leave. Things like melting the drive to slag with thermite may be fun, but most people don't have easy access to thermite or should be messing around with it in the first place. Really, most people are probably best off with the DoD-7 is they have data they absolutely don't want to get out ever.
I actually tried to light a room with LED Christmas lights. The lighting was both nice in the sense that it was an even illumination, and incredibly annoying as the light visibly flickered at 60Hz. Maybe I should try running them on DC though.
That's pretty normal for one of the early large plasma TVs. They consume a lot of power and can have a bit of a start up spike. You might want to consider moving any sensitive electronics (computers, etc.) to another circuit.
It should be noted that as you make the battery thinner, you'll lose more volume to the casing, as the most efficient shape would be a cube (well, actually a sphere, but there would be other problems with a spherical battery). So part of the reason why Apple gains so much by going the internal battery route is because they insist on making their laptops so thin, so in that sense it's really a problem they brought onto themselves (I really don't see the appeal of a thin 17" laptop myself).
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It's not bricked if you can fix it without modifying the hardware. It's a nice term -- stop destroying it.
In which case, I'm sure all the people with 500GB that the BIOS won't recognize would love to know your method of fixing their new "bricks".
Well, since the requirement is that is the traded in vehicle must get less than 18MPG, it sounds like your Nissan pickup won't make the cut. Still seems like a silly idea though.
From what I've seen is they plug into the computer and talk directly to it through the OBD2 port. So while your idea is good, it won't work. Though if you have your own scan tool, you could reset the computer right before the test, and pull into the station with the engine cold. The engine computer probably won't redo its self-diagnostics until the engine is warm so you may get away with it.
How about a game like roulette, or many other odds game? It doesn't matter how you play roulette, in the long term the results are going to be the same due to the way the odds/payouts are structured. So playing randomly is a strategy that would be just as effective as any other one.
The biggest problem the computer makers have right now is competing with their old products. In that sense, I see Apple having a problem with the fact that most of their users are now using newer machines thanks to the Intel switchover. I don't know any Mac users that don't have at least one Intel Mac by now, whereas a good portion of of the PC users I know are using PCs that are over 3 years old. I've always figured that Apple's sales would slow down once people were done replacing their PPC machines with Intel ones, now it could be worse if they can't convince those who have the first generations of the Intel Macs (2-3 years old) to get the latest and shiniest.
I've never seen this myself. What will happen is that if you install updates, and Windows asks you to reboot, and you push 'no', Windows will eventually force the issue. But otherwise, I set my computers to download but let me choose when to install them, and so long as I ignore that little yellow shield I can go weeks/months without rebooting.
I would just skip the ram test entirely, as those cheesy single pass tests don't verify anything, including whether you have the DIMM seated completely in the slot (I've seen it pass where you could look at the DIMM and see that half the connector was clearly not touching the pins). If you suspect you have bad ram, you're going to have to boot into something like memtest86 to let it churn so just disable the BIOS test save yourself the seconds.
Otherwise, it could be a crappy bios, or a motherboard with a ton of bells and whistles that need to be initialized. I have a Dell where the POST takes ~1 second, so by the time the monitor warms up you're looking at the Windows XP loading screen. And it's nothing special, some old P3-based Celeron system.
You, sir, a true karma-whore :)
They've been in some aftermarket car stereos for a while now, I had one I think 5-6 years ago in a Pioneer unit. So I really don't know what the big hold up is at this point - is it hard to make them in color or something? (the car stereo I had was monochrome with a blue-greenish color to the display)
Well, CRT -> OLED isn't a bad upgrade path. If you care about picture quality, a good CRT will blow away the LCD TVs and projectors. Plasmas are competitive but their shorter life and higher cost leaves me inclined to keep the CRT for now. There is DLP, but some people are annoyed by the rainbow effect. So why not wait for the OLED TVs?
Given that it's a Best Buy, I would say:
3 - They pull the display model TV out of the box and hook it up. However the engineers at the factory set it up is how it is on the shelf, and Sony and Samsung tune them differently.
4 - The customers have been screwing with the settings.
Or the TVs could be different. I've got a Samsung and Sony LCDs in a dual head set up on my PC, and no matter how I screw with the settings on the Samsung the Sony has a better picture.
How much cruisin' does google prevent?
And is that more or less than the amount of wardriving Google causes?
Are you sure it's not a power thing? Unpowered hubs aren't capable of providing the full 500mA of power to attached devices. If a device requests more power than the port it is connect to says it can provide, the device won't come on. You may want to try some powered hubs with those devices.
Depends on who owns the Cessna 172. The US Air force and Army both operate 172's, though the militarized version is called the T-41 Mescalero. They are typically used as trainers.
To be fair, that's also the case now with the Core i7.
One thing about being young is that you get to hear The Beatles alongside all those other bands that emulated The Beatles. In that sense, they don't seem all that special, because they sound just like a lot of other bands from that era. What you're missing is first-hand experience how they broke new ground and changed music. I was the same way about The Dead Kennedys - to me they were just another punk band so I didn't really get why they were so special until I read up and found out that they were one of the pioneers of the whole scene. A movie example would be Star Wars (the 1977 one) - to some it's another Sci Fi movie with a somewhat tried-and-true formula, but they are missing out on how completely different it was than everything else prior to it.
Yeah, but without the "byte" being a SI unit, the "kilobyte" is just a word. Or do you think a megaphone is 10^6 phones?
Actually, the form factor is extremely common if you consider a laptop nothing other than a variation where the screen is attached.
My house is set at 45 degrees.
You might want to be careful. I don't know where you live, but if the weather is cold enough the insides of the outside walls can get below freezing and you'll wipe out your savings if a pipe bursts. If your kitchen sink is on an outside wall, I would at the very least recommend you leave your undersink kitchen cabinent doors open.
And, in terms of practicality, running DoD-7 takes about 1000 times longer than whipping out the old Sledge-O-Matic.
Anyone motivated enough isn't going to have any problems with the bent platters the sledge-o-matic is going to leave. Things like melting the drive to slag with thermite may be fun, but most people don't have easy access to thermite or should be messing around with it in the first place. Really, most people are probably best off with the DoD-7 is they have data they absolutely don't want to get out ever.
I actually tried to light a room with LED Christmas lights. The lighting was both nice in the sense that it was an even illumination, and incredibly annoying as the light visibly flickered at 60Hz. Maybe I should try running them on DC though.
That's pretty normal for one of the early large plasma TVs. They consume a lot of power and can have a bit of a start up spike. You might want to consider moving any sensitive electronics (computers, etc.) to another circuit.
Yeah, but it isn't portable like my TI-85!
If Dell said they were going to non-removable batteries, there would be s hit storm.
Why? For the most part, people would just shrug go and buy a HP/Acer/Lenovo/Toshiba/whatever. That's the nice thing about having competition around.
It should be noted that as you make the battery thinner, you'll lose more volume to the casing, as the most efficient shape would be a cube (well, actually a sphere, but there would be other problems with a spherical battery). So part of the reason why Apple gains so much by going the internal battery route is because they insist on making their laptops so thin, so in that sense it's really a problem they brought onto themselves (I really don't see the appeal of a thin 17" laptop myself).