[ale] Android Tablets

[William Fragakis]

While I'm pasting in links:

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/question395.htm

"Change your computer chip. Sometime­s, but certainly not always, you
can change a car's performance by changing the ROM chip in the engine
control unit (ECU). You usually buy these chips from aftermarket
performance dealers. It is valuable to read an independent review of the
chip you are contemplating, because some chips are all hype and no
performance."

If you are a car nut and ever down in McDonough, this place is a good
way to kill an hour - it's just off I-75:

http://www.summitracing.com/search/Department/Ignitions-Electrical/Section/Computers-Chips-Programmers/Part-Type/Computer-Programmers/?Ns=Rank|Asc

regards,
wf


On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 11:07 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> The fun happens when it doesn't work as advertised and there is no way
> to find this out until you buy it. The return policy prohibits the use
> of the device long enough to find the faults and still be able to
> return it or there's a contract service associated with the device.
> 
<snip>
> ipad is an overpriced tv set. For a gazillion people, that's OK. But
> once it's mine (I won't buy one of these things so this is rhetorical)
> if MINE. Is it _wise_ to tinker with the car computer? Probably not.
> But I can. Will it void the warranty? Yes. Is it wise to deliberately
> open up oneself to the hassles of a voided warranty? If you have the
> cash to burn, knock yourself out and publish your trials and
> tribulations so others can benefit from your misery or triumph.
> 
> But to deliberately create a process that denies owners from using the
> device in any way they choose even after warranty period has expired
> smells like 4 day old fish in the sun. The exception to this is if the
> device can still be a safety issue to other non-owners (i.e. some sort
> of safety issue like trashing the car computer that now disables the
> electronic brake sub-system).
> 
> Lemmings over a cliff is still lemmings over a cliff. Industry
> Standard is not always a good thing. As standards are designed by
> committees of financially vested interests, the out put standards tend
> to strongly favor the profit making over the performance, safety,
> durability, effectiveness, and pretty much anything else that could be
> standardized to the benefit of buyers.
> 
> Except for the LSB. I think they are doing a pretty good job.
> 
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Jerald Sheets <questy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         
>         On Aug 20, 2010, at 10:20 AM, James Sumners wrote:
>         > 
>         > So if a device doesn't work like you think it should, and
>         > you know it
>         > does things to prevent you from making it work like you
>         > think it
>         > should, just don't buy it.
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         Precisely.  good word, James.
>         
>         
>         --j
>         
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