the search options in even Windows XP (I can't remember if the 9x's did it) allows you to pick the locations to search for media (certain drives, folders, etc.. be them networked, optical, hard drives, etc, etc)
Not only MX VP, but others play everything just fine too. I was bored the one night and tested quite a few different video players plus the stock player on.avi, mp4, mkv, and vob videos. Some didn't like VOB or mkv, and some that did didn't play them smoothly, but a few played with no issues.
Also, a lot do streaming just fine now... one such is Avia which is made by a company my friend works for (Videon-Central) who's done quite a bit of work on GoogleTV stuff (both software and hardware wise). Right now it's focused as an app for GoogleTV devices, but the APK my friend sent works absolutely fine on my Galaxy S GT-i9000 (running CyanogenMod 7) for both regular videos as well as finding DLNA/streaming devices on my network (including my Belkin router with the USB ports). The only thing I haven't tested with it yet is if MKV's and VOBs play smooth or at all (and if it will stream those etc etc.. sometime I'll get around to that). The layout is pretty straight forward, though I don't care for how it automatically plays the next video after the one you selected is done playing.
Anyhow, you may or may not find it in your market. I know it doesn't come up in my market which is why my friend had send the apk to me.
Either way, you have to know where you are to determine when stuff happens.
For example, I'm on the east coast. I travel to California, set my clock back 3 hours (or for a cell phone it adjusts its self possibly.. some phones do some don't). I still know stores open at 8 or 10 am.. lunch is at 12, done working at 5.. stores close at 9.. etc.
Now with the op's idea.. I have to constantly remember the stores open at 5am or 7am, lunch is at 9am, done working at 2pm, stores close at 6pm.. how is that *any easier*? Instead of changing one factor and the rest fall in place, you're now keep that one the "the same" and having to remember to adjust *all* of the rest that are typically a given constant. And if you can't figure out UTC +/- then you have other issues.
So how long would a consumer grade "raid chipset" take to rebuild that raid if it was a raid 5 setup (with the drives split into 3 different raid 0 setups)?
Here in central pa (huntingdon and Alexandria) its as if you only noticed it indoors. My father-in-law said the shelves at his work vibrated, and the sister-in-law came out and asked if I felt anything (digging a support pole for a deck extension at their place)... I said no and both her and her mom said they did inside and the neighbor did too... weird as I was on the ground digging with a crazy small shovel due to it being a tight spot.. felt nothing)
The thing is what the computer tells you may not be a sensor directly. Such as bank 1 lean... ok so is the oxygen sensor screwed up, a bad injector, MAF sensor.. etc.
Even as it is now you can purchase a code read that will tell you the code (and purchase a cheap repair manual such as a Hyanes so you can look them up) or get a code read that lists the code # and what it means. Or for those who want to know right away or watch your MPGs and all that, get a scangauge II which is basically like what the setup in the article is
Yup, you missed to which politicians pocket the money is being tucked erred... donated, and from which corporation or entity its coming from... that has a pretty big impact on that politicians' or group of politicians decisions on who/what/when to cut or raise and for what areas etc:)
Social services are needed (or the poor will suffer worse... you really want that?). What needs to be done with them though is like what Florida did and myself and others have bitched about for a while... people who abuse the system need to go, period. Do like Florida and do random drug tests; I'm sorry but if you're breaking the law like that then you shouldn't get public funding,a better automated monitoring for Medicare Billings and stiffer penalties for those found to be overbilling etc in a knowingly way, and so forth.
There's so many issues with people abusing the system getting social program benefits who shouldn't have them period. The sad fact is two people I know, husband and wife and friends of mine, are doing just that right now and it pisses quite a few people off. I could go into details and lay out what they've done (or lack thereof) and I'm sure more than a few of you would be pretty pissed off too
Trumpet winsock or whatever most likely. That's what I had to use. And I remember downloading a game (can't remember which) from happy puppy on a 2400 baud modem. Left it to download over night only to find out the connection dropped for whatever reason at 900k of the 1.2 M game. That's sucked!
They're used at Penn State fairly heavily, and I know so for the Education College. There's a lot of Macs used both by employees in the Education College, as well as by students, and the XServes are used in a rack to host the stuff for the Mac systems (using for example OpenDirectory pushing stuff from the Active DIrectory windows servers, as well as for DeployStudio and other uses)
If used regularly, the batteries in the leaf will need to be replaced a lot sooner than if this system wasn't used at all, which will add a significant price to the setup
It all depends... if you purchased a Honda Prelude, they were build in Japan also... it really depends on where the "sister car" is made (ie: the car that the Lexus, infinity, Toyota is made off of)
Where do you find the best prices on stuff? Online, not in the store.. the in store prices are higher (except Circuit City before they closed up.. the last year or so they had the same price in all stores and on the web).
How are a lot of services done now? Online. The yellow pages here no long publish people's phone numbers (mostly because of people switching numbers, moving, and the biggest.. cell phones). So if I want to find someone's number now, it's either 611 or (local exchange + 5252 or whatever) if people even know/remember about those options anymore.. otherwise it's check online to see if they have a land line and if it's listed.
Finding business? Yes, you can look in the "phone book" if you have one or haven't lost it, but again online.
Online classes are cheaper and you can do at your own pace, good for single parents or those who work a full time job or more.
Now could they use standard, cheap DSL to do all this? Yes, but I think by the Universities helping out the local ISP's by providing the higher speeds, it's more of an incentive to expand into these areas and help customers who normally couldn't afford it
Now granted the one I got to play with was a pre-public release a developer at my friends company was given that he setup in the company's theator room... but the remote was ugly and looked like a label maker mated with an Xbox 360 remote. I don't think it had any more functionality than the logictech, but I believe its price tag was $100 *more* than the logictech unit
Cars and light trucks are considered separately for CAFE and are held to different standards. As of early 2004, the average for cars must exceed 27.5 mpg, and the light truck average must exceed 20.7 mpg. Trucks under 8500 pounds must average 22.5 mpg in 2008, 23.1 mpg in 2009, and 23.5 mpg in 2010. After this, new rules set varying targets based on truck size "footprint."
This is why Chrysler got the PT Cruiser in as a "light truck" per NHTSA CAFE. What are the chances other lesser MPG cars will get entered that way?
American stigma. Diesel are "known" for being loud, dirty, etc, etc" and that's stuck with them ever since the 70's and 80's. Same thing happened to Honda, Nissan and Toyota. They were Econo-boxes, small fuel sipping cars with no power when they first came over during the 70's and 80's. Granted the fuel crunch helped their sales, but that idea of them being cheap stuck. So when they went to make more "upscale" cars with a higher price tag, they introduced new "brands".. Acura for Honda, Infinity for Nissan, Lexus for Toyota... Most people would balk at purchasing a $50K, $80K, or even higher Honda, Nissan, or Toyota.. but not the Acura, Infinity or Lexus... one reason it's a named the Acura NSX here in the states and not the Honda NSX like the rest of the world (who would pay $80,000 for a Honda when it came out? Acura.. now that's a different story in American eyes)
But I'm with you, I'd absolutely love if our Xterra we own had the diesel engine that was an option in central america and other parts of the world. But instead, gas it is since they known diesel is evil in the eyes of most Americans (and mostly those who don't really know)
"Most modern cars have spark plugs that are designed to last 100,000 miles"
But you're forgetting the spark plug is the least of your electronic ignition worries.
For all cars: Cam shaft position sensor and crank shaft position sensors are used to monitor the position of each and adjust the electronic timing. One goes bad, and you can really lose gas mileage or the car will throw a fit and not run right.
For cars with distributors, you have the coil (either internal or external) that can go out, you have the rotor and cap which wear out.. the bearing within the distributor that can go out.. and yes most of those are easy fixes, unless it's an internal coil or the bearing. Most people either a> can't source one, and b> even if they could wouldn't have a clue or the tools to replace it (such as the bearing which requires a press). So you end up getting a new distributor which can cost $250+. You also have plug wires that wear out, some distributors can be rotated to adjust them slightly which can cause issues when you replace them with a new one, etc.
The distributorless cars use coil packs on each plug, which are *not* cheap to replace when they take a shit. And yes, they do, it's not uncommon. I wrench on cars a lot and known a lot of people in dealership repair shops and auto parts retail. Plus even then it may be something else within the system that goes out (05-07 altima's have an issues with a sensor.. i forget which one, failing and also the ECU burning out (literally).. and they've pretty much linked the two).
So to talk about spark plugs designed to last 100,000 is basically listing the "cheap, simple, easily replaced" part of the system while forgetting to mention the *rest* of the system that's required as well that doesn't cost a few bucks and can be harder to replace.
No, HP is a mathematical term. HP = Torque * RPM / 5252... hence if you look at *ANY* dyno graph the horsepower and torque will *always* cross at 5252 RPM's. It's why diesel motors are rated like 550 lb/ft torque but only 300 HP, because they use larger bore to stroke than a high revving gas motor so the red line is low. Now if you take a small motor like the Honda S2000, it's torque is low, but since it revs out to 9,000 RPM's, the Horsepower will read high. Now granted a torque line isn't flat or linear and will vary with engine design (cams, etc will all determine the point where the power starts to tapper off). That's one reason say a 2001 Nissan Xterra 3.3L V6 lists 170HP and 200 LB/FT torque.. even though it's red line is around 6000 rpms. At the higher end, the cam design, stroke ratio, etc cause the power to tail off in the higher RPMs, so at the 5252 point and beyond the torque drops off causing the HP rating to stay below the highest torque output.
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the search options in even Windows XP (I can't remember if the 9x's did it) allows you to pick the locations to search for media (certain drives, folders, etc.. be them networked, optical, hard drives, etc, etc)
^^^ What they said.
Not only MX VP, but others play everything just fine too. I was bored the one night and tested quite a few different video players plus the stock player on .avi, mp4, mkv, and vob videos. Some didn't like VOB or mkv, and some that did didn't play them smoothly, but a few played with no issues.
Also, a lot do streaming just fine now... one such is Avia which is made by a company my friend works for (Videon-Central) who's done quite a bit of work on GoogleTV stuff (both software and hardware wise). Right now it's focused as an app for GoogleTV devices, but the APK my friend sent works absolutely fine on my Galaxy S GT-i9000 (running CyanogenMod 7) for both regular videos as well as finding DLNA/streaming devices on my network (including my Belkin router with the USB ports). The only thing I haven't tested with it yet is if MKV's and VOBs play smooth or at all (and if it will stream those etc etc.. sometime I'll get around to that). The layout is pretty straight forward, though I don't care for how it automatically plays the next video after the one you selected is done playing.
Anyhow, you may or may not find it in your market. I know it doesn't come up in my market which is why my friend had send the apk to me.
Either way, you have to know where you are to determine when stuff happens.
For example, I'm on the east coast. I travel to California, set my clock back 3 hours (or for a cell phone it adjusts its self possibly.. some phones do some don't). I still know stores open at 8 or 10 am.. lunch is at 12, done working at 5.. stores close at 9.. etc.
Now with the op's idea.. I have to constantly remember the stores open at 5am or 7am, lunch is at 9am, done working at 2pm, stores close at 6pm.. how is that *any easier*? Instead of changing one factor and the rest fall in place, you're now keep that one the "the same" and having to remember to adjust *all* of the rest that are typically a given constant.
And if you can't figure out UTC +/- then you have other issues.
Man.. and make sure its the 5.25" drives that love to chatter... kind of like a commodore 64 drive loading up flight simulator ][
So how long would a consumer grade "raid chipset" take to rebuild that raid if it was a raid 5 setup (with the drives split into 3 different raid 0 setups)?
Sadly... that would apply to me as well :)
I don't think you realize how much freight actual enters via Alaska (especially air freight to anchorage and then shipped to the lower 48
Here in central pa (huntingdon and Alexandria) its as if you only noticed it indoors. My father-in-law said the shelves at his work vibrated, and the sister-in-law came out and asked if I felt anything (digging a support pole for a deck extension at their place)... I said no and both her and her mom said they did inside and the neighbor did too... weird as I was on the ground digging with a crazy small shovel due to it being a tight spot.. felt nothing)
The thing is what the computer tells you may not be a sensor directly. Such as bank 1 lean... ok so is the oxygen sensor screwed up, a bad injector, MAF sensor.. etc.
Even as it is now you can purchase a code read that will tell you the code (and purchase a cheap repair manual such as a Hyanes so you can look them up) or get a code read that lists the code # and what it means. Or for those who want to know right away or watch your MPGs and all that, get a scangauge II which is basically like what the setup in the article is
Yup, you missed to which politicians pocket the money is being tucked erred... donated, and from which corporation or entity its coming from... that has a pretty big impact on that politicians' or group of politicians decisions on who/what/when to cut or raise and for what areas etc :)
Social services are needed (or the poor will suffer worse... you really want that?). What needs to be done with them though is like what Florida did and myself and others have bitched about for a while... people who abuse the system need to go, period. Do like Florida and do random drug tests; I'm sorry but if you're breaking the law like that then you shouldn't get public funding,a better automated monitoring for Medicare Billings and stiffer penalties for those found to be overbilling etc in a knowingly way, and so forth.
There's so many issues with people abusing the system getting social program benefits who shouldn't have them period. The sad fact is two people I know, husband and wife and friends of mine, are doing just that right now and it pisses quite a few people off. I could go into details and lay out what they've done (or lack thereof) and I'm sure more than a few of you would be pretty pissed off too
And would you have the PS3 in your other pocket? Sorry, but that's a dumb idea (plus it would make for a poor controller I'm sure)
Trumpet winsock or whatever most likely. That's what I had to use. And I remember downloading a game (can't remember which) from happy puppy on a 2400 baud modem. Left it to download over night only to find out the connection dropped for whatever reason at 900k of the 1.2 M game. That's sucked!
But they required their browser be located on the desktop and no one else's or the OEMs didn't get the extra $$ from Microsoft.
They're used at Penn State fairly heavily, and I know so for the Education College. There's a lot of Macs used both by employees in the Education College, as well as by students, and the XServes are used in a rack to host the stuff for the Mac systems (using for example OpenDirectory pushing stuff from the Active DIrectory windows servers, as well as for DeployStudio and other uses)
Lets try again:
If used regularly, the batteries in the leaf will need to be replaced a lot sooner than if this system wasn't used at all, which will add a significant price to the setup
I was wondering this as well as the summary doesn't mention a transmitter in the laptop, only a receiver
It all depends... if you purchased a Honda Prelude, they were build in Japan also... it really depends on where the "sister car" is made (ie: the car that the Lexus, infinity, Toyota is made off of)
Where do you find the best prices on stuff? Online, not in the store.. the in store prices are higher (except Circuit City before they closed up.. the last year or so they had the same price in all stores and on the web).
How are a lot of services done now? Online. The yellow pages here no long publish people's phone numbers (mostly because of people switching numbers, moving, and the biggest.. cell phones). So if I want to find someone's number now, it's either 611 or (local exchange + 5252 or whatever) if people even know/remember about those options anymore.. otherwise it's check online to see if they have a land line and if it's listed.
Finding business? Yes, you can look in the "phone book" if you have one or haven't lost it, but again online.
Online classes are cheaper and you can do at your own pace, good for single parents or those who work a full time job or more.
Now could they use standard, cheap DSL to do all this? Yes, but I think by the Universities helping out the local ISP's by providing the higher speeds, it's more of an incentive to expand into these areas and help customers who normally couldn't afford it
They do... its called the postal inspector. Granted its not *every* package, but they do catch stuff and arrest people
Now granted the one I got to play with was a pre-public release a developer at my friends company was given that he setup in the company's theator room... but the remote was ugly and looked like a label maker mated with an Xbox 360 remote. I don't think it had any more functionality than the logictech, but I believe its price tag was $100 *more* than the logictech unit
Cars and light trucks are considered separately for CAFE and are held to different standards. As of early 2004, the average for cars must exceed 27.5 mpg, and the light truck average must exceed 20.7 mpg. Trucks under 8500 pounds must average 22.5 mpg in 2008, 23.1 mpg in 2009, and 23.5 mpg in 2010. After this, new rules set varying targets based on truck size "footprint."
This is why Chrysler got the PT Cruiser in as a "light truck" per NHTSA CAFE. What are the chances other lesser MPG cars will get entered that way?
American stigma. Diesel are "known" for being loud, dirty, etc, etc" and that's stuck with them ever since the 70's and 80's. Same thing happened to Honda, Nissan and Toyota. They were Econo-boxes, small fuel sipping cars with no power when they first came over during the 70's and 80's. Granted the fuel crunch helped their sales, but that idea of them being cheap stuck. So when they went to make more "upscale" cars with a higher price tag, they introduced new "brands".. Acura for Honda, Infinity for Nissan, Lexus for Toyota... Most people would balk at purchasing a $50K, $80K, or even higher Honda, Nissan, or Toyota.. but not the Acura, Infinity or Lexus... one reason it's a named the Acura NSX here in the states and not the Honda NSX like the rest of the world (who would pay $80,000 for a Honda when it came out? Acura.. now that's a different story in American eyes)
But I'm with you, I'd absolutely love if our Xterra we own had the diesel engine that was an option in central america and other parts of the world. But instead, gas it is since they known diesel is evil in the eyes of most Americans (and mostly those who don't really know)
"Most modern cars have spark plugs that are designed to last 100,000 miles"
But you're forgetting the spark plug is the least of your electronic ignition worries.
For all cars: Cam shaft position sensor and crank shaft position sensors are used to monitor the position of each and adjust the electronic timing. One goes bad, and you can really lose gas mileage or the car will throw a fit and not run right.
For cars with distributors, you have the coil (either internal or external) that can go out, you have the rotor and cap which wear out.. the bearing within the distributor that can go out.. and yes most of those are easy fixes, unless it's an internal coil or the bearing. Most people either a> can't source one, and b> even if they could wouldn't have a clue or the tools to replace it (such as the bearing which requires a press). So you end up getting a new distributor which can cost $250+. You also have plug wires that wear out, some distributors can be rotated to adjust them slightly which can cause issues when you replace them with a new one, etc.
The distributorless cars use coil packs on each plug, which are *not* cheap to replace when they take a shit. And yes, they do, it's not uncommon. I wrench on cars a lot and known a lot of people in dealership repair shops and auto parts retail. Plus even then it may be something else within the system that goes out (05-07 altima's have an issues with a sensor.. i forget which one, failing and also the ECU burning out (literally).. and they've pretty much linked the two).
So to talk about spark plugs designed to last 100,000 is basically listing the "cheap, simple, easily replaced" part of the system while forgetting to mention the *rest* of the system that's required as well that doesn't cost a few bucks and can be harder to replace.
No, HP is a mathematical term. HP = Torque * RPM / 5252... hence if you look at *ANY* dyno graph the horsepower and torque will *always* cross at 5252 RPM's. It's why diesel motors are rated like 550 lb/ft torque but only 300 HP, because they use larger bore to stroke than a high revving gas motor so the red line is low. Now if you take a small motor like the Honda S2000, it's torque is low, but since it revs out to 9,000 RPM's, the Horsepower will read high. Now granted a torque line isn't flat or linear and will vary with engine design (cams, etc will all determine the point where the power starts to tapper off). That's one reason say a 2001 Nissan Xterra 3.3L V6 lists 170HP and 200 LB/FT torque.. even though it's red line is around 6000 rpms. At the higher end, the cam design, stroke ratio, etc cause the power to tail off in the higher RPMs, so at the 5252 point and beyond the torque drops off causing the HP rating to stay below the highest torque output.