Also worked in the industry, yes, it's badddd. Way bad. Their plastic is arguably good compared to the shit I keep snapping om german cars...

I'm replying strictly because you have none, and I usually lurk. This one is too interesting to let go.

I am highly intelligent, and went to public school (I likely could have used a private school or otherwise if it was anywhere near my parents means). Yes, shenanigans go on there. You don't have to be a part of it though - it really usually is a small group of those out to just break the rules. It's not that crazy, I often befriended such types to keep from getting bulllied (verbally was the worst part, I'm quite capable of the physical but it should really not come to that). It's not the outlaw country you're portraying, though I can see how you would get that from a private school POV.

It's funny to watch private school types melt when presented with real life problems or someone thinking irrationally.

I've been an auto tech for six years and have had this happen exactly on a couple occasions - "It must be in here, the car turns on." Saved me looking all over the shop, but didn't keep me from having to pull the center console to get it out of the emergency brake.

No, Couldn't tell you exactly how they triangulate it, but the cars with fobs are fairly intelligent about whether or not the key is actually IN the car vs. just outside the car.

I'm an auto tech and inspector where I reside, and I deal with this all the time. Some BMWs have places to put them (not required usually unless they fob is really dead), some have nowhere to put them (cupholder looks great), some like Audi have you push the key fob into a slot as the start button, then it ejects back out to a run position until you pull it out. As far as I can tell, it makes little difference if they key leaves the vehicle other than an annoying message. Leave it running and you're home free. I have all sorts of customers walk away with the fob, and it makes no difference except to the fuel they burn inside.

GODDAMNIT why couldn't they just use 1360 or 1368?

Nailed it - I used to make all sorts of money on random things 12 years ago - As an adult working 60 hour weeks, it just don't happen like that anymore. It happens in all sorts of markets, like used cars. Someone is willing to let it go for less than it's worth, someone else is willing to hold on to/repair it, and someone else is willing to pay more for it just because it's immediately available.

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Problem solved.

I'm on a FIOS connection in a metropolitan area - I can torrent a movie faster than it takes me to go to the library/redbox/whatever, and it comes ready to play on multiple devices. DRM on physical media has caused me hell on the other hand. They keep shooting themselves in the foot with it.

I think what the GP was getting at was not that it isn't on the market, but more likely that you're going to be strictly presented with VGA if it isn't YOUR projector.

source: four years in university with hundreds of rooms with projectors, that aren't going to be updated strictly because "something new, must have."

I don't mean to be pedantic, but what exactly is a gen?

I usually sit on a ton of mod points - this is +5 funny material here.

Don't have anything to back this off the top of my head, but you must be right - I can't think of anything I put in my fridge with less specific heat capacity than air.

It'll implode like the unicode in your comment?

What the fuck does being white have to do with it?