Neutral: Do everything you said and make LR models reliable enough so that they would actually be desirable to own on the used market.

Never said it didn’t. I’m saying that it seems like the cap will discharge quickly under normal loads, meaning that the alternator will have to be enabled even when not braking/coasting (essentially generating without loading down the engine) to recharge the cap. The cap that is being used to run the electrical bits…

I really don’t understand how this helps. In your typical car, running DRLs (even LED), the blower motor (for AC or heat), and stereo alone runs a fair number of amps (joules would be the proper measurement), so much so that I find it hard to believe that the capacitor could power all of that for any decent period of…

Windows 8 is the bastard child of Windows Me and Windows Vista.

That’s true, but if you added a second notch, it allowed you to use the second side of the disk. You had to physically flip the disk on a single-sided drive, but not for a double-sided drive. This doubled the amount of storage on a single disk.

That sounds reasonable for the most part.

Speaks to the reliability of JD tractors that you’ve had to rebuild dozens of steering columns on tractors that were less than 5 years old. What was the turn time on the parts? How long were the tractors out of commission?

What’s old is new again. In the old days of IBM/Dec big iron, upgrades where sometimes done by a factory tech coming out, pulling a card, flipping a switch, putting it back in, and calling it a day. Software was “purchased” for a fixed time period.

Were they like this?

There’s a difference between “it broke while harvesting and I need it back in service ASAP” and “it stopped while harvesting because the cabin air filter reached its service hours limit and an authorized service tech needs to come out and replace it with an OEM filter and reset the timer to get it working again.” And…

That would make sense. Empty seats because there’s not enough people eligible for the upgrade to fill them.

I’m pretty sure I’ve seen international upgrades to first class (Polaris) on UA.

For decades, “American cars” have been stigmatized for having poor quality compared to European and Japanese counterparts based on decades-old stereotypes.

Jason is the truest of Jalops. May the FE2O3 gods be good to him.

Congrats Andrew. You are one tough Jalop.

Contract for 10 SLS rockets.

IIRC, it’s cost plus. We can thank Sen. Richard Shelby for the rocket no one needs.

The SLS is delayed and over budget, but since the government is paying for all of that, it doesn’t really matter, as far as they or their stockholders are concerned.

Depends. Most codes require that the car go through 3 drive cycles, usually a cold engine to warm, must get up to some minimum speed, then repeat 2 more times. The idea is that the MIL isn’t suppose to be set unless the failure happens 3 times in a row. This keeps the MIL from lighting due to an intermittent bad…

My guess is that high volume vehicles like the F150 and the Camry will attract the attention of aftermarket companies that will make low cost copies. For low volume cars like the XLR, there won’t be any aftermarket support and typical supply/demand has taken over.