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recent trip my rental car got upgraded to a new (well last year model) mazda,
I'm not travelling a lot, mostly suburban so usually hire a small compact.
anyway this upgraded car had all the fancy stuff, engine stops at the lights, bluetooth to the phone blah blah blah, ... nothing I'm going to bother learning how to use for a few days getting around.
One thing I've noticed in new mid size cars is the windows getting smaller, particularly rear windows.
And it does make a difference, sure it's got a rear view camera but I'm an old fart, when I back up I turn my head down the middle and use the side mirrors.
what a load of crap, can't see sh*t out the back, boot too high, rear side windows tiny and also too high with the fattest rear posts going around.
tried the camera, lined up the projected box ended up crooked and 3 feet away from where I thought I was (because still didn't show right down, camera mounted too high too).
Front view wasn't that great either, rather then sloping bonnet it was flat with rounded just before the end (or front). Seat up as high as possible still couldn't see the tarmac closer than felt like 30 feet in front of the car. Couldn't judge where the front bumper was.
thanks for the upgrade but next time no thanks.
When did new cars (supposed to be safer) get such crap visibility?
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lopatir wrote: When did new cars (supposed to be safer) get such crap visibility?
Have you checked if you had a birds view ? Usually the option is given with cars having a small rear window.
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I think it's two things:
1) Marketing department putting form miles ahead of function (Ford are spectacular at doing this: tiny rear windows, controls a normal sized driver can't reach easily, controls hidden behind the steering wheel, controls labelled on the back rather than the front, ... but it all looks good until you have to use 'em)
2) Marketing ploy to make you buy the rear view camera option ...
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Bought a new vehicle 2 weeks ago, same model as I had before, but all the controls became smaller and more difficult to operate, probably to fit the distracting and unnecessary entertainment/rear camera display. But it is one of the few new vehicles left that has a CD player! yes, that was the first question I posed to the sales person. But the mirror types and placements made visibility pretty good. As far as the front end you get used to that pretty quick.
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Give it a few years. Windows will become unnecessary altogether since the car will be driving you to whatever destination you want to go, so they'll be taken away and you can instead focus on your phone for the duration of the trip just like you should, slave.
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dandy72 wrote: Windows will become unnecessary altogether since the car will be driving you to whatever destination you want to go,
That will make it tough for those driving down random roads in Vermont to drink in the granduer of fall foliage.
But I never wave bye bye
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Don't shoot the messenger. I'm just here to repeat what the "great visionaries" are reporting...
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dandy72 wrote: Windows will become unnecessary
Depending on who you listen to in this forum, Windows has been unnecessary for years already... 
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I agree. I was subjected to driving a Jeep Compass all last week. It was dreadful.
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Quote: When did new cars (supposed to be safer) get such crap visibility?
Gradually since more than 20 years.
Ironically it's claimed to be for safety. The higher waist makes them safer for side impacts. The rear windows follows the design.
Personally I dislike the thick A-pillars more. But they are necessary for front impact protection.
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lopatir wrote: I'm an old fart, when I back up I turn my head down the middle and use the side mirrors.
I wish I could still turn my head that far to see out the back window, stiff necked old coot seems to apply to me. I love my reversing camera.
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It seems that Florian is scheduled to present AngleSharp on day 3 of the DotNetConf. This is starting today and runs for three days of online content.
AngleSharp is an amazing library for parse my and manipulating HTML/CSS DOMs that we use here at CodeProject. I’m looking foreword to learn what I’m doing wrong, and what tricks I can use.
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Already suspected you were an angler (the hat on your avatar gives you away) 
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Please help me out- I'm looking for a small module that was probably intended to be used with some microcontroller or single board computer.
The module had a plug for an USB memory stick and a simple 8 bit parallel interface on the other side. Any 8 bit processor could easily access this parallel interface (as an I/O port for example) and get access to the memory stick. The neat part was that this was not a low lwvel interface. Instead of reading or writing raw sectors, the processor could request or write files and the chip on the module would handle the stick's file system. It did not even cost very much and is effectively all the hard disk a small 8 bit computer could ever hope for.
The problem is that I can't remember what the module was called and searching brought exactly 0.0 results up to now. Can someone point me in the right direction?
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His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Not really. It's more like USB to parallel, with built in access to the USB stick's file system.
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His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Sorry, but no. These devices directly convert USB to all possible other serial protocols, but nothing parallel. Then there also is the problem that with such a direct access to the USB device, I would only get a stream of bytes. I would have to implement my own drivers for the FATxx filesystem on the USB stick, which may not exactly be easy on an 8 bit computer. The module that I was looking for handled that internally and the host system would not have to deal with any details of the file system.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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It does look like the DS_V2DIP1-48 handles the FAT file structure for you. I guess the parallel FIFO would be what you would need to check you can connect to.
What machine are you trying to connect? I am currently soldering an UPURS for my BBC.
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Sounds good.
Quote: CH375 is a USB bus interface chip to support USB-The hOST and USB-DEVICE/SLAVE equipment the way. Locally, CH375 with 8-bit data bus and read, write, chip select control lines and interrupt output can be easily attached to the system bus of the microcontroller/DSP/MCU/MPU controller.
Exactly what I need.
Quote: CH375 firmware also built a dedicated protocol processing Mass-Storage mass storage devices, external microcontroller can be directly used as the basic unit of reading and writing in sectors USB storage devices (including USB hard disk/USB flash drive/U disk).
Sounds more like low level access, but I will take it.
Quote: 5V power supply is powered from the target board.
No problem, even if the CH375 actually runs at 3.3V. I already have to do level shifting for the data bus and the control signals anyway.
Quote: PCB size: 30.16MM * 47.50MM
Should be easy to find a nice place for this when I design the 3D printed case.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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good luck then 
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Do you give to charity?
I just found out Natuurmonumenten (Nature Monuments) has three directors that together earn €479,000 a year 
I'm supporting them for €8 a month, meaning almost 5000 people have to support them year round, like I do, just to pay these ridiculous salaries.
Just to put that into perspective, the average salary of the working population in the Netherlands is €36,900.
These directors make more than four times the average salary (the highest earner is close to five)!
So while people are volunteering and gifting for their cause they make four to five times the salary of those who do the gifting.
I get that these people have to earn a living to eat, but with "just" €80,000 they have a very good salary as well and it would leave €239,000 extra for THEIR charity.
That's almost 10,000 of the €25 donations they're asking now to restore the moorland.
It seems my gift is supporting rich CEO's rather than the cause I signed up for.
I might stop giving altogether and start a "charity" myself 
Too bad most CEOs of "charity" make this kind of money.
There seem to be only a handful of CEOs who make below €100,000 (in the Netherlands)...
But at least they don't all have THREE CEOs making such money
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