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On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:12:17 -0500, Warp wrote:
> Maybe they are philanthropes honestly worried about the safety of
> children.
Well, children are "potential future customers".
Jim
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"Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote in message
news:4b6b6ac7$1@news.povray.org...
>
> Just like people who grew up driving without a seat belt
on at all - many
> have a hard time just putting the belt on. Me, I can't
drive even to a
> new parking space - or back down the driveway - with my
seatbelt off. It
> just feels weird.--Jim
I grew up without them and it took me years to create a
seatbelt habit. My dad installed seatbelts in a '57 Chevy
wagon sometime in the '60s. He only required us to put them
on when we were on the freeway (we lived in Los Angeles at
the time). My previous car had those seatbelts that
automatically pulled over you when you closed the door, I
miss that...
~db
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On 2/4/2010 6:07 AM, Invisible wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>
>> It's got a CD-changer in the front, which is nice. It's slot-loading
>> though, so any CDs you put in it are likely to get ruined. But then, I
>> always use custom CDs for the car anyway. If one gets broke, I burn
>> another copy.
>
> Wrong.
>
> Yesterday I thought I had a front-loading 6-disk CD changer which might
> even support MP3.
>
> Today I discovered that there's no MP3 support, but more seriously
> there's no CD changer either. It plays one and only one CD.
>
> So not only is this thing slot-load, but I'm going to be doing an awful
> lot of loading and ejecting disks! o_O
Hmm. Probably can't top that, but.. Got two new phones in the last three
days. Why? Old one was a junk throw away they gave for free, with no
features, but I could, with some tricks, get images and a midi file that
"sort of" didn't sound horrible onto it. So, I request a phone that
supports MP3. I get a "newer" model W385, which has no SD slot, no
support in 4.5 of the phone tools at all, no way to get things on/off
the phone, other than contacts, except via the data options, like web
access, which I don't pay them for... Hmm. Ok, but I "can" cut a 30
second bit from the MP3, buy a $50 version of Phone Tools 5.0, which
supports it, then sort of upload the file, kind of..
The other option? Take the damn thing back, pay $20 more for a new
Motorola RazrV3, which, because its an update of the V1 *is* compatible
with the version of the tools I have, and upload/download any damn thing
I want from/to it, including full MP3s, or any pictures I might take
(other one had a camera, but you could only email/upload them via web
access to get them off the phone).
I have, at this point, stopped trusting *anything* anyone says about
hand held devices. Your lucky if you can run 3rd party stuff written for
them properly without them crashing, use the features without 14 addons,
or a higher cost plan, or special software, and half the time what "is"
on them doesn't work all the time.
Nice to know I can look forward to the same BS from cars, if/when I ever
get one. lol
--
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if version = "Vista" {
call slow_by_half();
call DRM_everything();
}
call functional_code();
}
else
call crash_windows();
}
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> Quizzical fact: I passed my car driving test first time, in about 10
> minutes, after one driving lesson and driving through a red traffic light
> and parking on the pavement (sidewalk) in a major city.
>
> How?
Because they were desperate for people to drive stuff in the war and were
handing out licenses to anyone with at least one leg and one foot? :-D
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> About the only thing that can go wrong with a tray-load drive is if the
> disk isn't sitting in it properly, and it gets mashed when the tray tries
> to shut.
Or if, for example, as the tray was closing you went over a little bump and
the CD moved... Or worse you are carefully trying to press the CD into the
tray when you go over a bigger bump and you snap the tray right off!
FWIW I've had a slot load CD drive in every one of my cars (I nabbed my
dad's old one for my Pug 205!) and never had any issue with them damaging or
scratching discs.
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> I have a slot CD player that won't always release my CDs.
Happened on my Peugeot 206 when it was about 4 months old - took it back and
they put a new one in there, and posted me back the stuck CD a few weeks
later! No problems after that - guess it was a design issue they fixed.
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>> Go ahead and give Saab 9-3 TTiD or BMW 123d a test-drive. They both have
>> *two* turbos, still no whistle nor mentionable lag.
>
> Oh yeah, like they're *really* going to let some college kid test-drive a
> £400,000 car. :-P
a) you're not a college kid, and b) they don't cost that much. The Saab or
BMW dealer is going to jump all over you to try and sell you the car, of
course with some horrendouly expensive finance scheme that they get
commission for :-)
> Still, the only vehicle I've come across that had a turbo was a busted old
> Land Rover that was, like, 30 years old or something and rusting apart...
> Maybe they've improved since then?
You think? No sh!7.
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> Yesterday I thought I had a front-loading 6-disk CD changer which might
> even support MP3.
>
> Today I discovered that there's no MP3 support, but more seriously there's
> no CD changer either. It plays one and only one CD.
Haha, you've been had!
> So not only is this thing slot-load, but I'm going to be doing an awful
> lot of loading and ejecting disks! o_O
Doesn't it have an aux input, just get an iPod or something, that's what I
do.
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> My previous car (exact same brand and model, just the previous revision)
> had a clutch which behaved normally. (Although it was starting to wear out
> TBH. One more reason to get rid of it!)
Maybe get the clutch checked out, it might need adjusting? (if you still
need to do such things nowadays, IDK)
>> That's actually a good thing. Light automation rocks, when you get used
>> to it you'll hate the German cars without it :-).
>
> This morning I drove to work on a dark, cloudy day - but the computer
> still decided I didn't need my lights on. *I* would have kept them on
> anyway...
I just have my lights on all the time, think I've only touched the light
switch about 5 times in the 18 months I've had the car, it just stays in the
"on" position.
> The wipers leave little streaks behind at exactly eye-height [but only on
> the driver's side].
Clean them! Or more extreme, replace the wiper blades (like 10 quid from
Halfords and 10 minutes to attach).
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>> Yesterday I thought I had a front-loading 6-disk CD changer which
>> might even support MP3.
>>
>> Today I discovered that there's no MP3 support, but more seriously
>> there's no CD changer either. It plays one and only one CD.
>
> Haha, you've been had!
More like the sales staff just don't know what they're talking about.
>> So not only is this thing slot-load, but I'm going to be doing an
>> awful lot of loading and ejecting disks! o_O
>
> Doesn't it have an aux input, just get an iPod or something, that's what
> I do.
There's instructions in the manual for how to enable or disable aux
input. But, helpfully, it doesn't say WHERE IT IS.
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