On Thursday 19 June 2008 11:06, Jules Richardson wrote:
Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
Oh, and it's got to go to the dealer for its
next service, because
it's due a firmware update.
Gah, I just foresaw the future, where every car has mobile Internet, and
downloads firmware updates automatically whilst the car's in motion...
bleh!
</offtopic rant>
Yeah... sorry!
J.
Ick.
I'm happy to have an *old* truck where the only electronics in there are the
voltage regulator and the ignition module (because breaker points are a
PITA :-).
Post-EMP I can drop a couple of alternative parts in there and it'll still run
just fine...
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin