On many modern cars, the ABS replaces the brake proportioning valve. This stops the rear brakes receiving too much pressure. If they have full load, the back end can lock up and put you in a spin.
These used to be physical devices which limited pressure.
These days (I'm led to believe) the ABS system takes care of that.
If you've not got it - fine. If you've got it, but it's broken, it could be dangerous.
When we had our house re-wired, I had 2 double sockets added, with a switched fused spur off, with a further 2 double sockets.
I have the router, printer and mouse charger on the permanently powered, and the PC, monitor etc off the switched sockets.
At bedtime, I can power off, flick a switch and a bank of switches is powered down.
Our old house had something like the above, but not remotely controlled. It was a board about 60cm tall, with 6 switched double sockets, 6 un-switched double sockets, and a big power switch at the top. This peeped over the top of the desk, and would disable half the sockets.
Admittedly these were all off a single 13A socket, but I had a shedload of development equipment that ran off wall-warts, so the total power & current was minimal, but I needed many, many sockets.
I think what they meant was that it'll take 2 weeks - 2 months to carry out the required modifications to the mod, i.e. remove the closed source apps from the mod, and write some software that will extract the apps from the original ROM backup, and put them into a new ROM.
As others have said, it's the bleeding obvious choice: Google ask you to stop distributing their closed-source applications. You stop. You remove them. You write software to extract the binaries from an existing licensed ROM. You merge the two.
Modern common rail diesel engines run on diesel, and diesel alone. Biodiesel, SVO, RVO etc will shred their high pressure diesel pump innards, due to not being lubricating enough (fnarr). The pressures that these pumps generate is insane. I've seen over 28000psi on mine (via its ODB connector)
Diesels aren't allowed in certain Japanese cities (but that seems to be changing now) with improvements in the particulates. Diesel has (AFAIK) never really taken off in the USA, and is (AAIU) not possible to buy a diesel car in California due to emissions laws. If you're trying to sell into Japan and USA, you've got to use a fuel that's allowed and popular.
Petrol engines can run on petrol, alcohol, LPG, CNG, Hydrogen etc. They're also smaller, lighter and quieter.
I'm not prejudiced against diesels BTW. I've got a 2 litre turbo diesel myself, and wouldn't go back to petrol without a really good reason (such as that 2.9 V6 Cosworth Scorpio, full leather interior and LPG conversion for £450 I didn't get) .
I'm hoping that my next car will be a plugin hybrid with min 40 miles range (enough to get to work to charge up)
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On many modern cars, the ABS replaces the brake proportioning valve. This stops the rear brakes receiving too much pressure. If they have full load, the back end can lock up and put you in a spin.
These used to be physical devices which limited pressure.
These days (I'm led to believe) the ABS system takes care of that.
If you've not got it - fine. If you've got it, but it's broken, it could be dangerous.
Rule 35.
That is all.
I've done better than that.
When we had our house re-wired, I had 2 double sockets added, with a switched fused spur off, with a further 2 double sockets.
I have the router, printer and mouse charger on the permanently powered, and the PC, monitor etc off the switched sockets.
At bedtime, I can power off, flick a switch and a bank of switches is powered down.
Our old house had something like the above, but not remotely controlled. It was a board about 60cm tall, with 6 switched double sockets, 6 un-switched double sockets, and a big power switch at the top. This peeped over the top of the desk, and would disable half the sockets.
Admittedly these were all off a single 13A socket, but I had a shedload of development equipment that ran off wall-warts, so the total power & current was minimal, but I needed many, many sockets.
Not upgradeable?
Pah! I got an Orange San Francisco (ZTE Blade) last Christmas, running 2.1.
Within 24 hours of getting it, it was unlocked, rooted and running a custom 2.2 ROM.
I've just put Cyanogen mod on it, so it's running 2.3.4.
Very upgradeable indeed!
@Tony Hoyle
I think what they meant was that it'll take 2 weeks - 2 months to carry out the required modifications to the mod, i.e. remove the closed source apps from the mod, and write some software that will extract the apps from the original ROM backup, and put them into a new ROM.
As others have said, it's the bleeding obvious choice: Google ask you to stop distributing their closed-source applications. You stop. You remove them. You write software to extract the binaries from an existing licensed ROM. You merge the two.
Simples <squeak>
@Time for a career change
Modern common rail diesel engines run on diesel, and diesel alone. Biodiesel, SVO, RVO etc will shred their high pressure diesel pump innards, due to not being lubricating enough (fnarr). The pressures that these pumps generate is insane. I've seen over 28000psi on mine (via its ODB connector)
Diesels aren't allowed in certain Japanese cities (but that seems to be changing now) with improvements in the particulates. Diesel has (AFAIK) never really taken off in the USA, and is (AAIU) not possible to buy a diesel car in California due to emissions laws. If you're trying to sell into Japan and USA, you've got to use a fuel that's allowed and popular.
Petrol engines can run on petrol, alcohol, LPG, CNG, Hydrogen etc. They're also smaller, lighter and quieter.
I'm not prejudiced against diesels BTW. I've got a 2 litre turbo diesel myself, and wouldn't go back to petrol without a really good reason (such as that 2.9 V6 Cosworth Scorpio, full leather interior and LPG conversion for £450 I didn't get) .
I'm hoping that my next car will be a plugin hybrid with min 40 miles range (enough to get to work to charge up)