From: Mxsmanic on 13 Aug 2006 16:46 Stephen Dailey writes: > The Super Chief appears to be a concept vehicle, so the short answer would > be no: no one owns one as a car since they're not for sale. :-) However, > the Super Chief is based on the F250 4-door pickup, which is quite > common. I see them a lot at gas stations. They seem to spend a lot of > time there. The Super Chief looks way too much like that eerie, demonic car in the movie _The Car_. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Mxsmanic on 13 Aug 2006 16:47 Jim Ley writes: > You're assuming the inconvenience was the getting it out of the > pocket, rather than the remembering to carry, transfer between > clothes, risk of losing etc. No. Pocket watches were often attached to a chain that could in turn be attached to clothing, precisely for the purpose of preventing what you describe. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Mxsmanic on 13 Aug 2006 16:49 Jim Ley writes: > Interesting claim you're making, and one which has little basis in > fact, it will of course depend on what technology your mobile phone is > operating on, as certain formats rely on very accurate clocks and send > the exact time to the phone, they're likely a lot more accurate than > your watch. My watch is accurate to 1 second in three million years. No cellphone does better than that. In fact, I wasn't aware of any cellphones that do anything to keep accurate time. Which ones have such a feature? -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Mxsmanic on 13 Aug 2006 16:51 Miguel Cruz writes: > In some places (e.g., USA) the time on the phone is set by the network > and I must assume that's very precise. It depends on the network; they don't necessarily set their clocks carefully, although the smart ones do. > It always agrees with the time on my computer, which is a good sign. You can use NTP to keep your computer within milliseconds of the correct time. This is built in to recent versions of Windows, although I can't remember if it is enabled by default (and it only synchronizes once a week by default, which can leave your PC several minutes off). > Elsewhere I have to set it myself and I find that it loses a minute or > two a week, which is fine for my purposes. Do you require more precision > than that? Yes. I want it to be perpetually correct within a fraction of a second. It's easy to find watches like this today, and they are inexpensive. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Mxsmanic on 13 Aug 2006 16:52
mrtravel writes: > A lot of them are time synced. My phone changes timezones when turned on > after arriving in a new timezone. To what source are they synced? -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |