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Stephen <mca### [at] aolDOT com> wrote:
> Bill Pragnell wrote:
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> > Ah, I dunno
> >
>
> Give in?
[snip]
> I have dined out on that story for years :-)
Excellent story. I take it the test wouldn't otherwise have been that short,
just ended up that way as a result of your initiative?
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
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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. USUALLY the servo system notices this and stops trying to
> shut the door. Depending on how cheap the drive is...
>
Or the drive fails to stop the disk before ejecting it and it's still
rotating when the tray comes out. You would be surprised how fast the
disc leaves the tray from even a small bump...
-Aero
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
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> I *was* going to buy a Mazda RX8. Almost the same price. [Obviously both
> are second-hand.] It has a 3.0 L Wankel engine, agressive styling,
> bucket seats, the whole lot.
>
> ...but then I took it for a test drive. Man, it JUST DOESN'T MOVE!
You could have tried pressing the gas pedal, you know? The thing about
wankel is that it constantly rotates in just one direction, so it can
reach incredible rpm's. It probably wakes up when an otto-engine hits
the limiter (around 6-8krpm).
> I have since found out that the road tax alone is £500/year - that's
> more than my *insurance*! o_O
Well yes, it's not necessarily a cheap car to own :).
> Well maybe it just *looked* 30 years old then. It was really, really
> rusty. (But then, it was a Land Rover.) For example, there was a hole
> under the accelerator pedal where you can watch the road go past below.
Well yes, Land rover has incredibly traditional look and all, also it
one of the toughest (if not The toughest) cars ever done - they just
keep running.
-Aero
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Stephen wrote:
> You’re getting closer but not too close.
You're Amish?
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Forget "focus follows mouse." When do
I get "focus follows gaze"?
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
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> Once upon a time, some cars actually didn't *have* seatbelts, and so
> you'd have to go fit them. But yeah, today that doesn't happen much. My
> point is really that you now cannot modify almost any aspect of the car
> because there's so much high-tech stuff in there.
Well yes. I guess they've been standard since the 70's.
> Sure is! I guess it got five stars from NCAP for a reason. (That would
> also explain the huge door pillars that obscure the view of the road...)
Well yes. It makes it possible for you to stay alive and get hurt badly
for the rest of your life from the same speed you would've simply died
on your old car :p.
> It just means that if you want to make any modifications at all, you
> have to go through Renault, which limits choice and increases the price.
> (Not to mention that we don't *have* Renault dealers in England...)
Not necessarily, you can achieve the same safety level by doing things
yourself than with your old car. But you don't actually want that,
'cause you can get drastically better safety level by doing things right.
> My car doesn't *have* a warranty anyway. ;-)
Not anymore. It had when it was new.
>> That's probably in the service program, right?
>
> Probably. If I had one.
The service company has one, you can ask them for it. They'll also know
what to do when you'll take your car to be serviced.
>> If you have a properly working automatic wiper option, you simply don't
>> need to touch the lever yourself except for some rare wipe-once
>> -situations - just keep it in the automatic position.
>
> Doesn't work like that. Like I say, automatic seems to just mean "random
> speed". Doesn't appear to be related to the road conditions in any way.
> (Although I presume if it were to rain really hard, the wipers would
> speed up.) The long and short of it is that if I find that I can't see,
> I need the wipers to wipe NOW, not in 20 seconds' time.
Like I said, *properly working* automatic wipers work like that.
This for sure is the automation and not the speed-adjustment you mentioned?
> If I *ever* get a nice girl to sit in my car, I'm not sure they'll be
> any picnic stuff happening. 0;-)
Why not? Girls like picnics.
-Aero
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
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> I've yet to meet a car where the wipers *don't* leave smears. My
> previous two cars have both had dozens of wiper blades, all to no avail.
>
Welcome to look and see.
-Aero
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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. USUALLY the servo system notices this and stops trying to
>> shut the door. Depending on how cheap the drive is...
>>
>
> Or the drive fails to stop the disk before ejecting it and it's still
> rotating when the tray comes out. You would be surprised how fast the
> disc leaves the tray from even a small bump...
I have never seen any drive, ever, do this. Not even lame laptop drives.
(I do, however, have a very old portable CD player. You stop the disk by
opening the lid...)
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Eero Ahonen wrote:
> Well yes. I guess they've been standard since the 70's.
FWIW, they were required on cars starting in '62 or '64 or so in the USA.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Forget "focus follows mouse." When do
I get "focus follows gaze"?
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"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message
news:4b6c992d$1@news.povray.org...
> Eero Ahonen wrote:
> > Well yes. I guess they've been standard since the 70's.
> FWIW, they were required on cars starting in '62 or '64 or
so in the USA.
I didn't remember when, so I looked it up:
Most seat belt legislation in the United States is left to
the states. However, the first seat belt law was a federal
law which took effect on January 1, 1968 that required all
vehicles (except buses) to be fitted with seat belts in all
designated seating positions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt_legislation_in_the_United_States
~db
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DungBeatle <dun### [at] moscowcom> wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt_legislation_in_the_United_States
Is there anything for which there isn't an article at wikipedia?
--
- Warp
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