Yes, you add anti-gel'ing stuff to the diesel. It's still an issue today if the place selling the diesel doesn't switch to a "winter mix" (just like stations in the north east sell a summer blend and a winter blend). You can find it in most auto stores, truck stops, etc. They also make an "emergency" additive for if the diesel has already gel'ed (vs the regular stuff which you add at fill up to keep it from geling)
Side note: My father drove 18-wheeler for a *lot* of years long haul before he retired.
They are called glow plugs. They warm the cylinders before you crank the car. Old versions required you turn the key to ignition and wait until the glow plug lamp went out, and then you could start the car or truck. Newer systems use piezzo glow plugs which pull little power and are able to basically always be on (such as in new Ford trucks). This reduces or eliminates the wait-to-start period.
Other than that, diesel uses purely compression to ignite the fuel, which is why if you've ever heard the term of a gasoline engine with too much carbon build up (too much PSI in the cylinders) or one that has become extremely hot (such as top fuel dragsters), they use the term "the engine dieselized" or something along those lines. The heat and compression has become great enough the fuel is auto-igniting, which doesn't require the use of the spark plugs (and in fact on the dragsters killing power doesn't kill the engine since the temps and compression is high enough it will keep running.. you kill the fuel.. but since they run so little to begin with to save weight they are basically empty at the end of the track anyhow).
> The downside is the soot that comes out the back when accelerating hard.
They have filters and urea tanks and such to help with the emissions and soot on newer trucks (may have them on newer cars too not sure). They also have re-burners that after so much driving, auto-ignite the contents to eliminate the soot and such. The only issue is many people either don't know their truck has this, or thinks there's something wrong with the truck when it goes into its self-maintenance routine and shut the truck down in the middle of it, which is not a good thing to do (For example, newer Fords have a system like this)
I remember reading about how when cars were first getting radios, some people wanted them banned because they were a distraction and caused accidents. I guess it's only logical that the replacement and/or add-on devices would also receive the same stigma. That's not to say texting while driving isn't worse, but that any new gadget causes a bigger distraction when the operator isn't use to the unit.
An example is my old Motorola E815... with T9 and having used it enough, I could text (in any setting.. doesn't mean while driving) one handed without looking at the phone just fine. But when I first got it, heck no. I had to look to learn where the keys were, double check the spelling, etc.
Even some of the car systems out there now are just so involved and the nested layouts so horrid there's no way you could operate it without looking. For example the BMW iDrive system (or whatever it's called), with the big silver joystick on the center console by the shifter. Even if you were to look, it's still confusing and harder than heck to find what you're looking for. Now compare that to a simpler system such as a 91 civic where there was a button for every function. It took you no time at all to learn what needed to be pressed without looking.
Touch screen are another issue, because you can't "feel" the buttons and count or position the one you want easily. You tend to look to make sure your finger is where you need/want it to be. But the systems that also have hard buttons you can learn the feel/position in a few uses, and the "count" of each button becomes second nature (IE on my Pioneer AVIC-N3> Press the left most hard button and you know you'll change the source... if it's on radio you know if you press it once it goes to CD, again to iPod, again to DVD, again to XM, and then back to radio.. so you can learn the count. More than that you retract the flip-out screen and theres still enough hard buttons and a joystick on the far right so you can change source, track, or preset easily without looking at the radio.)
So is that a test page using the actual CSS code? Or a static page just showing what it looks like in Opera? If it's the first option, then Chrome doesn't do it right either per that page (but I know Opera, Chrome, Safari, Firefox work on opacity with RGBA just fine on DIV's)
Not only that.. Didn't Toyota invest money in Tesla recently?
"Toyota is designing a new motor through its partnership with Palo Alto, California-based Tesla Motors (NASDAQ:TSLA), an electric sports car manufacturer."
I think the point is the companies were reluctant or slow to roll out increase speeds for whatever reason (cost of the runs and equipment I'd guess:))
To do a car analogy... Let's say 3 people want to stream videos (building a building)...
So 3 projects that require a lot of parts are going on using the same road way to get there. If person A starts now, and is streaming the video, all is ok as the trucks carrying the parts have room to flow. Now suddenly persons B and C start up... now you have a lot of trucks on a 1 or 2 lane road with a low speed limit, so things just jammed up pretty quick (Think of the DC Beltway or any road in philly etc during rush hour).
Instead, if the road was a bit wider, and had a higher speed limit, when user A starts streaming, a lot more stuff could be piled onto a few Oversized load trucks, and all or nearly all of the required parts would be delivered and trucks for Person A off the road before person B and C start streaming.
I know all of that should make fairly common sense.
The part I was just wondering about, instead of limiting the bandwidth to certain services like ISP's want/try to do, instead if the application requires streaming, opening the bandwidth limit and let them just go ultra fast to download the video, while other services stay at the bandwidth the customer is paying for (say select services). This wouldn't be throttling in the sense of "Hey! I'm suppose to be getting 10Mbits/sec download, but this streaming service is only being given 2!!!".. the opposite.. you're paying for 10M/sec, but getting 25, 30, or whatever the max your connection can do to just get the download over and done with so the streaming doesn't run on and on.. instead of putting a 2 hour long load on the network, you'd be putting a much shorter (although much greater) load on the networking.
I guess either way has its issues and benefits, but it does make sense as long as the line isn't ridiculously over-subscribed already. If Verizon, Comcast, etc can already handle services of up to 150Mbits (business class) and 50-100Mbits for home users, it means they have room on their networks (as long as not everyone pounds it at once) that they could implement something along those lines... or one would think.
Yes, and the sad fact is if this was all real, and they hadn't paid, and the hacker(s) did do what they claimed, the company could now have a whole mess of broken regulations and such depending on what type of information they were dealing in and what was taken (which may have cost more than $100,000 in fines, lost customers, damage control and repair costs, etc)...
And I still think this story is bogus, or someone is such an incompetent fool and shouldn't be working for that company.
A lot. I was using's Doc's Rom Kitchen as it had a lot better support for my SGS. I ended up trying a CM7 nightly for my SGS, it was alright, but the cameras were too dark to be functional, and my ability to text went out the window. Reverted to a stock ROM, and while I can receive texts, I still can't send (which is more so confusing to me than anything as I really don't text).
I'm now using the Insanity CM GalaxyS ROM (which is based on CM7, but is very stripped down and lite.. I love it). Also flashed the 2.6.35_7_Glitch Insane Edition V10 ROM for the i9000, which is freakin sweet!
So you have "markets" and "exchanges"... but you can't spend the BitCoins anywhere (other than paying another BitCoin user for "services")... So where does the value come from? I know even gold is only valued by demand and supply (basic economics), but with no real world demand, how do you expect this to go anywhere other than the likes of a Dungeons and Dragons player's fantasy world... only valuable to them or the person/people they play with?
You must have missed the episode where Jeremy plays GT4 (I think it was 4) to learn laguna seca... then tries it for real. He couldn't come close to his lap times, and he even says the techniques, while close, on the PS3 don't quite translate to the real world, and in the game you don't get the fear you get on the track. He also mentions how it feels as if the walls are right beside you, and it feels like you are going to smash into one at any point.
And I'm sure TV killed the local radio news reports, as the networks were based out of bigger cities (NBC, etc)... or your local TV news killed/damaged the local papers when it became popular...
It's always the same "something killed something" over and over, but that's business. I'm not saying it's a good thing (due to maybe the lost local jobs, or the local stories that go un-reported), but those un-reported stories and such are more a CHOICE of the local news NOT reporting on whatever it is, or failing to follow up.
Heck there was a story in the local paper about a year ago about a couple month old baby dying, and there were 3 possible suspects (the death was sometime early in the morning, and the mom, dad, and baby sitter were all there at the time). Anyhow, an autopsy had shown physical trauma to the infant, but that's the last the paper has ever said.
I guess the story is now "old news" and they have to move on to the next hot topic/story like all the others out there.. (notice how when a news station first reports say on a pirate attack or ship-jacking, suddenly that's ALL that's being reported? Or some other "interesting topic"... one news place reports on it suddenly for the next month or two, ANY time that type of incident happens again, ALL the news outlets are on it like a flies on shit.)
yes... it happened here the other week (but the victim lived). The guys were high on "bath salts" and 3 of them became super paranoid and stabbed the 4th guy (who's apartment it was) multiple times
Err sorry, just to add to my above comment.. the other issue with it being a European (or as the link you've provided German) thing is they don't have all of the cars the US has (such as my Xterra), and they have different safety standards, so unless there's a US version of it there's kind of no point.
yes, but as they aren't required or (as far as I know) often used in the US, chances are the firefighters or whoever show up won't even bother to look behind the sun visor.
" ( perhaps near the engine mount, isolated from the rest of the frame but still near the engine and possible to run wires through the chassis to the batteries etc ) out of the way and where hazard crews wont get buzzed if they try get the person out."
If you hit the wire coming from the PARALLEL wired cap, no matter if it's the engine side in your example or the wire going to the battery side, BOTH sides of the wire to where the parallel caps are hooked up carry the EXACT same charge. So even if you hit the wire going to the batteries in your example, is no different than cutting the wire between the capacitor(s) and the engine (again in your example).
See if Ferrari had built this car, with it's 4 wheels, vent controls, and motor.. it would have sold for AT LEAST $100,000.00... But since Rover makes it, it's a DEAL at $15,000!!!
I ran into an issue with IE with CSS. (Besides the transparency tag difference for IE vs FF, Chome, Opera, Safari). I have some blank DIV's setup as spacers in a list (think of like a vertical UL).
I had to mimick a pre-existing Flash based site into just HTML, CSS, JavaScript. Only had a short period to do this for a lady in another department (mostly because it's not a department we oversee, so it was more of a when I had free time deal). Anyhow, looks the same in FF, Chrome, Opera, Safari.. but hit it with IE and the DIV heights just go to shit and the list basically goes from the top to the bottom of the screen. Stupid IE.
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Yes, you add anti-gel'ing stuff to the diesel. It's still an issue today if the place selling the diesel doesn't switch to a "winter mix" (just like stations in the north east sell a summer blend and a winter blend). You can find it in most auto stores, truck stops, etc. They also make an "emergency" additive for if the diesel has already gel'ed (vs the regular stuff which you add at fill up to keep it from geling)
Side note: My father drove 18-wheeler for a *lot* of years long haul before he retired.
They are called glow plugs. They warm the cylinders before you crank the car. Old versions required you turn the key to ignition and wait until the glow plug lamp went out, and then you could start the car or truck. Newer systems use piezzo glow plugs which pull little power and are able to basically always be on (such as in new Ford trucks). This reduces or eliminates the wait-to-start period.
Other than that, diesel uses purely compression to ignite the fuel, which is why if you've ever heard the term of a gasoline engine with too much carbon build up (too much PSI in the cylinders) or one that has become extremely hot (such as top fuel dragsters), they use the term "the engine dieselized" or something along those lines. The heat and compression has become great enough the fuel is auto-igniting, which doesn't require the use of the spark plugs (and in fact on the dragsters killing power doesn't kill the engine since the temps and compression is high enough it will keep running.. you kill the fuel.. but since they run so little to begin with to save weight they are basically empty at the end of the track anyhow).
> The downside is the soot that comes out the back when accelerating hard.
They have filters and urea tanks and such to help with the emissions and soot on newer trucks (may have them on newer cars too not sure). They also have re-burners that after so much driving, auto-ignite the contents to eliminate the soot and such. The only issue is many people either don't know their truck has this, or thinks there's something wrong with the truck when it goes into its self-maintenance routine and shut the truck down in the middle of it, which is not a good thing to do (For example, newer Fords have a system like this)
I remember reading about how when cars were first getting radios, some people wanted them banned because they were a distraction and caused accidents. I guess it's only logical that the replacement and/or add-on devices would also receive the same stigma. That's not to say texting while driving isn't worse, but that any new gadget causes a bigger distraction when the operator isn't use to the unit.
An example is my old Motorola E815... with T9 and having used it enough, I could text (in any setting.. doesn't mean while driving) one handed without looking at the phone just fine. But when I first got it, heck no. I had to look to learn where the keys were, double check the spelling, etc.
Even some of the car systems out there now are just so involved and the nested layouts so horrid there's no way you could operate it without looking. For example the BMW iDrive system (or whatever it's called), with the big silver joystick on the center console by the shifter. Even if you were to look, it's still confusing and harder than heck to find what you're looking for. Now compare that to a simpler system such as a 91 civic where there was a button for every function. It took you no time at all to learn what needed to be pressed without looking.
Touch screen are another issue, because you can't "feel" the buttons and count or position the one you want easily. You tend to look to make sure your finger is where you need/want it to be. But the systems that also have hard buttons you can learn the feel/position in a few uses, and the "count" of each button becomes second nature (IE on my Pioneer AVIC-N3> Press the left most hard button and you know you'll change the source... if it's on radio you know if you press it once it goes to CD, again to iPod, again to DVD, again to XM, and then back to radio.. so you can learn the count. More than that you retract the flip-out screen and theres still enough hard buttons and a joystick on the far right so you can change source, track, or preset easily without looking at the radio.)
So is that a test page using the actual CSS code? Or a static page just showing what it looks like in Opera? If it's the first option, then Chrome doesn't do it right either per that page (but I know Opera, Chrome, Safari, Firefox work on opacity with RGBA just fine on DIV's)
I'm guessing the limited land space and cost of land vs being able to use an "un-used" section of the river
Not only that.. Didn't Toyota invest money in Tesla recently?
"Toyota is designing a new motor through its partnership with Palo Alto, California-based Tesla Motors (NASDAQ:TSLA), an electric sports car manufacturer."
http://resourceinvestingnews.com/18085-toyota-developing-alternatives-to-rare-earth-motors.html
I know there's a better article and more info somewhere out there
I think the point is the companies were reluctant or slow to roll out increase speeds for whatever reason (cost of the runs and equipment I'd guess :))
To do a car analogy... Let's say 3 people want to stream videos (building a building)...
So 3 projects that require a lot of parts are going on using the same road way to get there. If person A starts now, and is streaming the video, all is ok as the trucks carrying the parts have room to flow. Now suddenly persons B and C start up... now you have a lot of trucks on a 1 or 2 lane road with a low speed limit, so things just jammed up pretty quick (Think of the DC Beltway or any road in philly etc during rush hour).
Instead, if the road was a bit wider, and had a higher speed limit, when user A starts streaming, a lot more stuff could be piled onto a few Oversized load trucks, and all or nearly all of the required parts would be delivered and trucks for Person A off the road before person B and C start streaming.
I know all of that should make fairly common sense.
The part I was just wondering about, instead of limiting the bandwidth to certain services like ISP's want/try to do, instead if the application requires streaming, opening the bandwidth limit and let them just go ultra fast to download the video, while other services stay at the bandwidth the customer is paying for (say select services). This wouldn't be throttling in the sense of "Hey! I'm suppose to be getting 10Mbits/sec download, but this streaming service is only being given 2!!!".. the opposite.. you're paying for 10M/sec, but getting 25, 30, or whatever the max your connection can do to just get the download over and done with so the streaming doesn't run on and on.. instead of putting a 2 hour long load on the network, you'd be putting a much shorter (although much greater) load on the networking.
I guess either way has its issues and benefits, but it does make sense as long as the line isn't ridiculously over-subscribed already. If Verizon, Comcast, etc can already handle services of up to 150Mbits (business class) and 50-100Mbits for home users, it means they have room on their networks (as long as not everyone pounds it at once) that they could implement something along those lines... or one would think.
Yes, and the sad fact is if this was all real, and they hadn't paid, and the hacker(s) did do what they claimed, the company could now have a whole mess of broken regulations and such depending on what type of information they were dealing in and what was taken (which may have cost more than $100,000 in fines, lost customers, damage control and repair costs, etc)...
And I still think this story is bogus, or someone is such an incompetent fool and shouldn't be working for that company.
Or each piece he finds isn't worth much, but the total of it all combined over a week is.
So each piece may only be worth $2, but he finds 400 of them, bringing the total to $800. So I doubt that personal property law would apply
Pretty sure they're like Accu-weather and the rest.. they get the raw data from the satellites/NOAA/NWS and make their own interpretations.
A lot. I was using's Doc's Rom Kitchen as it had a lot better support for my SGS. I ended up trying a CM7 nightly for my SGS, it was alright, but the cameras were too dark to be functional, and my ability to text went out the window. Reverted to a stock ROM, and while I can receive texts, I still can't send (which is more so confusing to me than anything as I really don't text).
I'm now using the Insanity CM GalaxyS ROM (which is based on CM7, but is very stripped down and lite.. I love it). Also flashed the 2.6.35_7_Glitch Insane Edition V10 ROM for the i9000, which is freakin sweet!
So you have "markets" and "exchanges"... but you can't spend the BitCoins anywhere (other than paying another BitCoin user for "services")... So where does the value come from? I know even gold is only valued by demand and supply (basic economics), but with no real world demand, how do you expect this to go anywhere other than the likes of a Dungeons and Dragons player's fantasy world... only valuable to them or the person/people they play with?
You must have missed the episode where Jeremy plays GT4 (I think it was 4) to learn laguna seca... then tries it for real. He couldn't come close to his lap times, and he even says the techniques, while close, on the PS3 don't quite translate to the real world, and in the game you don't get the fear you get on the track. He also mentions how it feels as if the walls are right beside you, and it feels like you are going to smash into one at any point.
And I'm sure TV killed the local radio news reports, as the networks were based out of bigger cities (NBC, etc)... or your local TV news killed/damaged the local papers when it became popular...
It's always the same "something killed something" over and over, but that's business. I'm not saying it's a good thing (due to maybe the lost local jobs, or the local stories that go un-reported), but those un-reported stories and such are more a CHOICE of the local news NOT reporting on whatever it is, or failing to follow up.
Heck there was a story in the local paper about a year ago about a couple month old baby dying, and there were 3 possible suspects (the death was sometime early in the morning, and the mom, dad, and baby sitter were all there at the time). Anyhow, an autopsy had shown physical trauma to the infant, but that's the last the paper has ever said.
I guess the story is now "old news" and they have to move on to the next hot topic/story like all the others out there.. (notice how when a news station first reports say on a pirate attack or ship-jacking, suddenly that's ALL that's being reported? Or some other "interesting topic"... one news place reports on it suddenly for the next month or two, ANY time that type of incident happens again, ALL the news outlets are on it like a flies on shit.)
Are you in the US? If so, checks are still used for a lot of stuff (bills, a lot of places require a Voided check for certain things, etc)
Not all renters have a way to pay online, so you use a check for your monthly apartment rent...
Really?
All you need is
A> A knife
B> A gun
Demand the person talk calmly and normally or you'd have to hurt them. You now have force someone else to apply for a credit card which you'll use!
nah, I think I saw it was BitCoins...
I don't. Just look at Alcohol (which is a drug don't forget). Leads to violence, money issues, domestic disputes, etc.
yes... it happened here the other week (but the victim lived). The guys were high on "bath salts" and 3 of them became super paranoid and stabbed the 4th guy (who's apartment it was) multiple times
Err sorry, just to add to my above comment.. the other issue with it being a European (or as the link you've provided German) thing is they don't have all of the cars the US has (such as my Xterra), and they have different safety standards, so unless there's a US version of it there's kind of no point.
yes, but as they aren't required or (as far as I know) often used in the US, chances are the firefighters or whoever show up won't even bother to look behind the sun visor.
Just a thought.
You sir, need to do a little more research :)
" ( perhaps near the engine mount, isolated from the rest of the frame but still near the engine and possible to run wires through the chassis to the batteries etc ) out of the way and where hazard crews wont get buzzed if they try get the person out."
If you hit the wire coming from the PARALLEL wired cap, no matter if it's the engine side in your example or the wire going to the battery side, BOTH sides of the wire to where the parallel caps are hooked up carry the EXACT same charge. So even if you hit the wire going to the batteries in your example, is no different than cutting the wire between the capacitor(s) and the engine (again in your example).
Plus your grounding idea has issues of it's own :)
See if Ferrari had built this car, with it's 4 wheels, vent controls, and motor.. it would have sold for AT LEAST $100,000.00... But since Rover makes it, it's a DEAL at $15,000!!!
yup, thanks Chrome! :)
I ran into an issue with IE with CSS. (Besides the transparency tag difference for IE vs FF, Chome, Opera, Safari). I have some blank DIV's setup as spacers in a list (think of like a vertical UL).
I had to mimick a pre-existing Flash based site into just HTML, CSS, JavaScript. Only had a short period to do this for a lady in another department (mostly because it's not a department we oversee, so it was more of a when I had free time deal). Anyhow, looks the same in FF, Chrome, Opera, Safari.. but hit it with IE and the DIV heights just go to shit and the list basically goes from the top to the bottom of the screen. Stupid IE.