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You just needed one of the spring loaded tables to set the CD player on to smooth out the bumps in the road
Don't forget the cigarette lighter plug so that you don't run down the batteries in your Diskman either.
I was hunting for something in the garage the other day, and came across the whole set-up that my dad had back in the day-cassette adapter, CD player, spring table, and all.
As some here know, I am also pretty seriously into collecting watches.
With many antique American watches, the value of the watch is pretty intimately tied to the value of gold. A 7j Waltham that would be worth $20 in a base metal case is worth the value of the gold case when it's cased in gold. Even most better gold watches(as a general rule) are valued at gold+movement value.
I was at a watch show a year or so back, and the guy at the table next to me got to ranting about smart phones. I smiled and nodded(when you're going to spend two days sitting next to someone, you pick your battles), but heard all the arguments in this thread about he didn't need one, they didn't do anything that his cell phone couldn't do, and that people were always glued to them.
About an hour later-still ranting about smart phones-he asked me if I'd checked gold prices for the day. As it so happened, I hadn't. I responded as such, but said that I would check. I casually pulled out my iPhone, pulled up Kitco GoldLive(which shows up-to-date pricing on all precious metals) and passed my phone over to him. He shut up right away, copied down the numbers on the screen, and passed my phone back to me. I didn't hear another word about smart phones all day.
I saw him at another show about 3 months later(fortunately we didn't have neighboring tables) and I stopped to chat for a minute. Our conversation was interrupted by his iPhone ringing
I agree with the 1st bolded statement
and the second bolded statement is the usual BS sterotypical reasons of owning a Smartphone.
I bought a Discman with a car kit when I was at Uni. There was a mount that attached to the car with special rubber mounts to absorb the shock and the deskman clipped in. At the time the ones with anti-skip buffers were £200+.
Worked pretty well, unless the road was covered in speed humps, but that's probably us car unfriendly Brits being crazy again.
Seriously do you comprehend English?
That was a question by the way, feel free to answer it.
Yes, I think part of my problem was my lead foot. I believe my Discman had some kind of built-in skip protection, but I eventually bought a new Sony head unit for it my truck. It's funny when I look back and realize I spent ~$150 on a radio for a $500 pickup. The joys of being a teenager.I bought a Discman with a car kit when I was at Uni. There was a mount that attached to the car with special rubber mounts to absorb the shock and the deskman clipped in. At the time the ones with anti-skip buffers were £200+.
Worked pretty well, unless the road was covered in speed humps, but that's probably us car unfriendly Brits being crazy again.
I have. I appreciate the thoughtfulness of the heads-up though.
Apple replaced my 2011 with a new rMPB last July after three failed repairs. I was fortunate that in the UK we have consumer laws that entitled me to a no-cost repair even though it was out of warranty. The Sig is my feeble attempt at a making MacRumors readers aware that others were not as fortunate as myself.
At least I know one person has read it now.
My lead foot would never have been a problem. That car was an '85 Jetta with a 55hp engine, well when it rolled off the line 10 years and 115,000 miles ago. It didn't do fast.
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I can remember my sister-10 years my senior-having a Discman in the early 90s.
I thought it was the greatest thing ever created at the time, but in retrospect it was a pretty crummy player. It would skip if moved even slightly. Trying to listen to it in the car-even as a passenger holding it in your lap-was an exercise in frustration.
A few years later(I'd guess about the time that RAM started getting relatively inexpensive) they started putting a few megabytes of buffer in them so that if a skip did occur, the player could keep playing from memory while the laser recovered. I think that my dad bought my sister her Discman about the same time he paid $100/stick for 4mb 30 pin SIMMs for his 486.
My how times have changed
It would stand to reason that Sony would switch to using CD-ROM derived mechanisms instead of pure audio ones, as laptops became more popular and the cost of manufacture would drop. You'd have needed a fair chunk of cache memory for the time. A second of CD Audio is about 150Kb, so 768KB would get you just over 5 seconds.
Neither did my '88 Toyota pickup. But, I did get it going 110 MPH westbound on Beltway 8 in Houston, TX. Took a lot of road and I think the pistons were switching cylinders.My lead foot would never have been a problem. That car was an '85 Jetta with a 55hp engine, well when it rolled off the line 10 years and 115,000 miles ago. It didn't do fast.
anwers to bolded statements:
1. See that the difference a PocketPC IS a computer a iPhone or iPad is not. Tablet computer have been around since 1992 smartphone have been around since 1998 they nothing new and they offer no more now than they did 23 and 16 years ago.
2. Never'll happen. I avoid big cities (hence why I will not travel the 85 miles needed to get recalls preformed on my Daewoo). I avoid all highways I will never in my life drive on Highway 52 OR Interstate 90. I am a good driver and i have never had a accident or been pulled over I won't go on a highway where the chances of being hit by people who don't know how to drive are increased 99% I have enough of that in Rochester with the little bit of places I DO go.
3. Having needs is understandable just like lots of people on MR do not NEED powerpc or Intel macs they dont NEED the iPhone 6 however not ONE person who has a smartphone or a Tablet (regardless if it's Apple, Microsoft or DROID) can give any actualy "Need" or practial use for one. It boils down to people have one "because everyone else does" not because they ACTUALLY have a legit need or use for one. Not one person I know IRL or talked to IRL can actually answer why they have or think they "Need" one and the idea of "it increased productivity" i don't believe that for a second its a BS statement. you can be just as productive by CALLING that person or whoever with a Keyboard phone and can be just as productive checking email on a phone (for example a Tracfone LG800G) or browsing the internet on a keyboard phone using UCBrowser or Opera Mini on a wifi enabled phone such as the BlackBerry-style Samsung S900G.
Actually, iPads and iPhones are computers, just different form factors.
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I saw just over 90mph once, going down a steep hill on the M62 motorway. Head Gasket failed shortly afterwards!
I've always quite fancied the idea of a GTI 16V Jetta. That would have been properly quick with nearly triple the power of mine, but still looked like the local parish priests trundlewagen.
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That's so incorrect it's not funny.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/computer
By the accepted definition my car contains various computers, my television is a computer. An iPod is a computer. The list goes on.
We had this discussion a couple of days ago. Stop spouting rubbish. I have a work issued iPhone because of necessity, where others get basic Nokias.
Where I come from a beginner with a learners license has to follow very much these same practices.
Stay off the main roads....
BTW, if you are concerned about being hit by other drivers, then why would you disable your airbags?
Speaking of underpowered cars, a few years back my dad bought a '91 Ranger primarily because he just wanted a cheap truck. It was about as aerodynamic as a brick and the only concession to modern technology it had was an automatic transmission. The I-4 was rated at about 95HP when new, but a burnt exhaust valve on one of the cylinders(making it effectively an I-3 that shot gas fumes out the tail pipe) hurt it a WHOLE lot. That was my first year of graduate school and I thought I could live at home, so was driving from Frankfort to Louisville(~120 miles round trip) 3-4 times a week(needless to say, that lasted less than a year). In any case, since my dad never drove the truck, he encouraged me to drive it once or twice a week.
There's a fairly steep hill on I-64 just outside Frankfort that most of the underpowered semis on the road today can only manage about 50-55 on when loaded. I would floor the Ranger at the bottom of the hill and keep it there, and was getting passed by semis on the way up.
Finally, I bought a $50 head from a U-pick-it salvage yard here in town, and payed a shade-tree mechanic to swap it out(along with the head gasket, head bolts, water pump, timing belt, coolant, and basically every other expendable part that had to be removed to get the head off). It ended up being about a $500 job-parts and all. I then dropped another $50 or so on plugs, wires, a fuel filter, and all the other maintenance stuff I could do myself. Once it wasn't spitting a cylinder's worth of gas out of the tailpipe on every rotation of the engine, it actually got decent gas mileage and could run 70mph+ on level interstate without too much trouble. I even saw 90 once going downhill with a tailwind . I did still get passed by the occasional semi going uphill, though.
There's a fairly steep hill on I-64 just outside Frankfort that most of the underpowered semis on the road today can only manage about 50-55 on when loaded. I would floor the Ranger at the bottom of the hill and keep it there, and was getting passed by semis on the way up.
Finally, I bought a $50 head from a U-pick-it salvage yard here in town, and payed a shade-tree mechanic to swap it out(along with the head gasket, head bolts, water pump, timing belt, coolant, and basically every other expendable part that had to be removed to get the head off). It ended up being about a $500 job-parts and all. I then dropped another $50 or so on plugs, wires, a fuel filter, and all the other maintenance stuff I could do myself. Once it wasn't spitting a cylinder's worth of gas out of the tailpipe on every rotation of the engine, it actually got decent gas mileage and could run 70mph+ on level interstate without too much trouble. I even saw 90 once going downhill with a tailwind
. I did still get passed by the occasional semi going uphill, though.
1. I would argue that iOS devices are too technically computers. What are you suggesting a PocketPC can do that an iPad/iPhone cannot? Especially considering PPC is obsolete, I can find a lot more uses for iOS than PPC. You're suggesting the smartphone has not evolved since 1998? Either you haven't used an old BlackBerry or you haven't used a new iPhone. The smartphone has evolved in every regard from speed, power, internet functionality, camera/quality, compatibility and integration with the rest of the tech ecosystem, etc.
2. Again this is you impressing your way of life on others. Just because you don't leave where you live does not mean other people do not or should not. I would say there are far more car accidents in city driving than on the highway. Getting out and seeing the world might do you some good. You'll avoid the highway for fear of an accident when the recalled items on your vehicle could potentially produce a far greater harm.
3. It sounds like you don't NEED a GPS or a Car. Or a phone or computer for that matter. If you look around we live far beyond a "need" society. In the US, everybody, including you, lives far beyond what is needed to survive. Compare the human race to chimpanzees. And remember, when you're traveling beyond your house, wifi does not exist everywhere.
My company (a hospital) gives me an iPad. Why? Because I am a clinical pharmacist which means I walk around from patient to patient optimizing their drug therapy. There are hundreds of thousands of drugs and an unlimited number of considerations you must make when prescribing and administering medication. One small error can lead to instant death and believe me it happens. Even with technology there are so many variables than cannot be accounted for. On a regular basis I use about 15 or so books alone that combined would be a few feet thick if they weren't digital. It's impractical to carry 15 books around. There are also many software programs used within the hospital accessible through the iPad. I could use them off a laptop, but a laptop doesn't have the same level or portability or battery life as an iPad. There isn't always room either for me to set down a computer, plug it in, and do it that way. I suppose they could give me a tablet PC, but something like a ThinkPad tablet costs $2000+ versus $500. Multiply this by many other employees in different fields in the hospital, and the fact that the companies that make the software build it for iPad use, and there you have my answer.
I also have a laptop in my office for fulfilling other needs- projects, other specific software use, statistical analysis, research in certain online databases, etc. Again, it's not an either or situation. I use both my laptop, a Thinkpad T-series, and the iPad together in my work. Each serves a specific purpose.
They also give me a pager too! How do you feel about pagers?
Fyi: Print version of one of the top references I use- it's about 4" thick (and becomes outdated every week).
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I can remember my sister-10 years my senior-having a Discman in the early 90s.
I thought it was the greatest thing ever created at the time, but in retrospect it was a pretty crummy player. It would skip if moved even slightly. Trying to listen to it in the car-even as a passenger holding it in your lap-was an exercise in frustration.
A few years later(I'd guess about the time that RAM started getting relatively inexpensive) they started putting a few megabytes of buffer in them so that if a skip did occur, the player could keep playing from memory while the laser recovered. I think that my dad bought my sister her Discman about the same time he paid $100/stick for 4mb 30 pin SIMMs for his 486.
My how times have changed
Bought my mom a Duralast CD Player with the car kit (Tape and Power adaptor) even had a wired remote. However it lacked several things such as a resume function. I bought a MP3 CD Player for myself (before my MP3 Player) and it had a cool buffer - when playing a MP3 CD the CD would spin for like 3 minutes than it would stop spinning all together and continue playing (with the stopped CD) for around a Minute. a friend of mine at the time (in high school) said it's just a CD Player with RAM. I still have the CD Player it is 100% usable in a car however I have not used the player in like 9 years it still works though
No, they are MOBILE DEVICES not computers
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A vehicle computer is nothing like a household computer its called one it functions as one but its not the same thing in aspect. Any just like the other day to claim you were issued a iPhone because of necessity but still never said what that necessity is
The Xbox 360 and the Xbox original as well as the PS2 and PS3 are also computers that is not the point of this discussion.
because I don't need them they rarely work properly in Daewoo's anyway and if im in a accident the car's totaled anyway, I dont need the added expence of tracking down airbags or have it be the factor to it being totaled.
EDIT: I even tried to disabling the airbags on my ex-girlfriend's 1999 New Beetle and she was ok with me doing that.... until i discovered that New Beetles have no airbag fuse; when the only way to disable them would be to remove the driver's seat and unplug the yellow connector she said to forget it. So I did than she wrecked it a few months later luckily not enough to deploy them.
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So-what in your mind makes something a computer?
(and are you aware of what the capabilities of the ENIAC-Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer-the first general purpose electronic computer-were?)
And you love this car, why?
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Those aren't computers. They're gaming consoles!
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Lol. Decided not to incriminate yourself?Hmmm nevermind.
I typed his name into Google and came up with an article about how he lost his job from being on Facebook too much. He worked at a furniture store, read the article on the Las Vegas's newspaper. That's how I know. I did this after the jackass filed about the Mac Pro on ebay.