> And here I was thinking that they just make the same cars over and over
> again...

The worrying thing is that I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not :-)

> Cars actually advance noticeably in a 10-year period? Not, like, a
> 40-year period or something?

Well I guess if you don't notice things like dual-clutch transmissions, 
better fuel economy, lower CO2 emissions, USB sockets, bluetooth, 
navigation, keyless start/entry, HUDs, run-flat tyres etc then no, you 
won't notice anything changed over the last 10 years.

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On 5/4/2012 1:16, Le_Forgeron wrote:
> It means that if you produced only one item at the end, that item costed
> 5 years of salary of many peoples, at least.

Cars and CPUs are both in the same range: About half the total end-user cost 
over the lifetime of the design goes into the design, and half into the 
manufacturing and distributing the rest.

Which is to say, when that new x64 CPU comes out, the first one costs half 
of all the money they'll ever collect in selling them, and all the others 
combined cost the other half.

That's why you see things like ARM cores, PCI boards, built-in devices 
connected via USB, and so on. It tremendously reduces the cost of production.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Oh no! We're out of code juice!"
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    in the cabinet."

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On 3-5-2012 10:46, Invisible wrote:
> On 03/05/2012 09:06 AM, scott wrote:
>>>> Pop quiz: You're 86 miles from home, you're in the shower in a public
>>>> changing room, when you suddenly remember that YOU DO NOT HAVE A
>>>> TOWEL. What do you do? O_O
>>>
>>> I put on my clothes.
>>
>> Then get in the car, turn on the fans, and drive for 86 miles.
>
> Screw fans, turn the air conditioning on! ;-)
>
Screw fans? are that metal fans with a very limited taste?


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On Fri, 04 May 2012 08:44:06 +0100, scott wrote:

>> Hmm, wet + cold = hypothermia.
>>
>> No thanks. :)
> 
> In all cars I've been in you can use the air-con with heat, not just
> cool.
>  In winter it is much more effective at demisting the windows if you the
> A/C turned on (along with heat), especially if the occupants are wet.

I grew up in Minnesota - so yes, I know about running the AC and the 
heater to dry the air out to keep the windows fogging up.

I was being somewhat silly. :)

Jim

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