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Gail Shaw wrote:
> I wish mine did. The music system's a bit too old. It does read CD
> rewritables, so that's a plus.
Mine plays writables - don't know about rewritables.
> I'd love to be able to plug my ipod/Zen into the car radio. There's probably
> some way to do it.
Yeah... me too!
I did hear some guy who had is car stereo knicked. So he wanted to set
up a laptop running Xine on Linux to act as a music player. He was
asking how to wire a switch to the serial port and script it so he could
change tracks.
At this point, somebody said "dude, you just had your car stereo
knicked, so you want to park a *laptop* on the passenger seat??"
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On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:20:35 +0100, scott wrote:
> Madness isn't
> it?
Yep. :-)
Jim
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On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:18:29 +0100, scott wrote:
>> Cars in the US are a fair bit cheaper than they are in the UK. Part of
>> the reason for that is the additional cost of actually delivering the
>> vehicles to the island - there's not a lot of space for manufacturing
>> plants (though there are a few, of course).
>
> We don't really drive cars that are actually made in the USA in Europe
> :-) Most cars sold here are either built in Europe from a European make
> (mostly French or German) or built in Europe from a Japanese make.
Well, yes, I did know that - I've driven in the UK, and while there are a
few US-made cars around, they didn't seem prevalent and quite expensive.
Similarly, most of the BMWs driven in the US are manufactured in the US
AIUI; same sort of thing for Hondas & Toyotas.
Jim
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On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:21:52 +0000, Orchid XP v7 wrote:
> I did hear some guy who had is car stereo knicked. So he wanted to set
> up a laptop running Xine on Linux to act as a music player. He was
> asking how to wire a switch to the serial port and script it so he could
> change tracks.
Over here you can get aftermarket removable stereos or with removable
faceplates (which takes the entire control interface off the radio). The
thing is, if you get one of those, you'd better *always* take it with you.
> At this point, somebody said "dude, you just had your car stereo
> knicked, so you want to park a *laptop* on the passenger seat??"
Hehehehehehehe
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scott wrote:
> Do you have that rear "wing" that goes across the middle of the rear
> window? I found that it was exactly the right height to block out the
> view of cars behind on the motorway ... perhaps just the way I had the
> seat set and my height?
Nope, thankfully. ;)
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"Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] dev null> wrote in message
news:47a9fabe$1@news.povray.org...
> Gail Shaw wrote:
>
> > I wish mine did. The music system's a bit too old. It does read CD
> > rewritables, so that's a plus.
>
> Mine plays writables - don't know about rewritables.
>
I didn't know until I tried. Is good. Means I can keep on reburning podcasts
to a rewritable CD to listen to. With all the power outages and resultant
traffic chaos lately I should be able to get through my backlog of podcasts
in a couple of weeks. Beats listening to the same songs over and over from
the local radio stations.
> At this point, somebody said "dude, you just had your car stereo
> knicked, so you want to park a *laptop* on the passenger seat??"
That's kinda silly. I suppose he was planning on taking the laptop when he
left the car. If cars only get broken in to when they're parked that might
not be so bad. Here, where smash and grabs and hijackings are the order of
the day, not so bright.
If I have my laptop in the car, it's in a bag, in the boot
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On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:39:00 +0200, Gail Shaw wrote:
> If I have my laptop in the car, it's in a bag, in the boot
Man, around *here* I wouldn't do that. We had our car broken into a few
years ago, and the first thing they did was open the boot. When they
found nothing, they cut the speaker wires. Apart from a bottle of washer
fluid, a backpack with a backlight for my kid's gameboy (but not the
gameboy itself), and about $0.12, they didn't get anything. Burned a
hole in the passenger seat with a cigarette (and the passenger visor has
a burn mark on it), but that was it.
Jim
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On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:56:50 +0100, scott <sco### [at] laptopcom> wrote:
> Actually you would need a gearbox for it to be useful. Electric motors
> generate maximum torque at very slow speeds, the faster the motor goes
> the lower the torque. This is exactly the wrong thing you need for a
> car, where the faster you go the more torque you need to overcome the
> speed squared air drag. If you didn't use a gearbox you'd end up with a
> car capable of burning out the tyres at low speed, but that took 10
> minutes to accelerate from 60 to 70 mph.
http://www.teslamotors.com/performance/acceleration_and_torque.php
Gets by with only two gears, and can supposedly be kept in second gear at
all times while still performing adequately.
--
FE
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"Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote in message
news:47aa0019$1@news.povray.org...
> On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:39:00 +0200, Gail Shaw wrote:
>
> > If I have my laptop in the car, it's in a bag, in the boot
>
> Man, around *here* I wouldn't do that.
Laptop's only in the car if I'm in the car. Car's fairly safe at night -
behind a locked gate. Main worries are parking at shopping centers, smash
and grabs (kinda hard if the item is in the boot) and hijackings. Fortunatly
I drive a car that's not very desired by thieves.
My boss got hijacked last week. They took the car, his laptop, cellphone,
wallet, few other things. Tracking company got the car back. Didn't get the
rest of the stuff
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scott wrote:
> I'm currently working on a radio system for Ford, where most of the core
> components are made in Japan, assembled in either China or Taiwan, then
> moved to Mexico to assemble into the complete radio unit, then moved to
> some Chrysler plant somewhere to be assembled into the car. Madness
> isn't it?
You know what? Screw light bulbs - THIS is the thing we need to fix to
stop global warming! ._.
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