Wapsi Square Forum

In both, the bottom right corner is attached to the center. Physically different from a SIM card. And even if they were somehow physically compatible, if the programming is different, it still wouldn't work, because the software is incompatible.

AmriloJim wrote:

AnotherFairportfan wrote:Can you provide documentation?

https://socialcompare.com/en/comparison ... comparison

For fun, compare the card that carried your new Net10 SIM to any chip-enabled credit/debit card in your wallet. Orientation of the elements are the same, no?

Gross physical similarity means nothing.

I would say that the fact that the card that carries the SIM and a credit card have th chips in the same relative position is because that means they don't need two different kinds of production machinery.

AnotherFairportfan wrote:

AmriloJim wrote:

AnotherFairportfan wrote:Can you provide documentation?

https://socialcompare.com/en/comparison ... comparison

For fun, compare the card that carried your new Net10 SIM to any chip-enabled credit/debit card in your wallet. Orientation of the elements are the same, no?

Gross physical similarity means nothing.

I would say that the fact that the card that carries the SIM and a credit card have th chips in the same relative position is because that means they don't need two different kinds of production machinery.

In a way, they remind me of Aztec glyphs. Hmm, Wapsi come to real life?

Jedi training - the tradition endures

AnotherFairportfan wrote:Jedi training - the tradition endures

Quotes:

"Are you sure this is how Gal Godat bulked up for Wonder Woman'?"

"...And over there is the Crafts Services Table...".

"Cheeze It!, It's da Cops!"

"And then my brother, Kwai Chang Caine came over the sand dunes, right over there, and we were reunited...".

As it happens, I can drive a stick shift now. I haven't quite got the hang of shifting smoothly, but I can still manage to drive.

Alkarii wrote:As it happens, I can drive a stick shift now. I haven't quite got the hang of shifting smoothly, but I can still manage to drive.

That will get better with practice, and it's a skill you never lose.

Typeminer wrote:

Alkarii wrote:As it happens, I can drive a stick shift now. I haven't quite got the hang of shifting smoothly, but I can still manage to drive.

That will get better with practice, and it's a skill you never lose.

I watch films from the Forties with cute teenage girls driving cars that i MIGHT be able to drive after a few hours of intensive practise ... but not as smoothly.

Stick shifts with unsynchronised gears...

Known as "Crash Boxes".

I learned to use the gear shift on old large-sized trucks. The first time I used one in a normal sized car, I'm surprised I didn't break the clutch pedal or the stick.

The former general manager at the Nissan dealership where I used to work has a truck with two sticks, for shifting into 4-low or 4-high. First time I'd seen anything of the sort.

Alkarii wrote:The former general manager at the Nissan dealership where I used to work has a truck with two sticks, for shifting into 4-low or 4-high. First time I'd seen anything of the sort.

You oughta see an old semi tractor.

Two separate sticks you sometimes have to shift simultaneously...

AnotherFairportfan wrote:

Alkarii wrote:The former general manager at the Nissan dealership where I used to work has a truck with two sticks, for shifting into 4-low or 4-high. First time I'd seen anything of the sort.

You oughta see an old semi tractor.

Two separate sticks you sometimes have to shift simultaneously...

And the old Jeeps had three: One for 3 forward gears plus reverse, one for 2- or 4-wheel drive, and one for high or low range.

"User friendly" wasn't really a thing back in the day, huh?

GlytchMeister wrote:"User friendly" wasn't really a thing back in the day, huh?

That WAS user friendly.

I could joke about "In the Old Days, us'ns had to play our Music With Rocks In on kerosene-powered guitars...", but the simple invention of the self-locking hub, so you didn't have to get out in the rain and the snow and the sleet and the slush to lock the front hubs when you were shifting to 4WD, was a huge (and hugely-appreciated) step forward.

Modern ("Porsche Cone") syncro only became available in 1952 - before that it was pretty much all crash boxes, where you had to pick engine speed and, probably, double-declutch on downshifts, to make it possible to jam the gear teeth together without stripping them. My 1969 Austin-Healey Sprite didn't have synchro on first gear, on the theory you would never shift into it except when standing still - and even then, in order to prevent the occasional minor "crunch!" as i shifted into first, i briefly would shift into second and then down to first. After the first month driving it, that became an automatic reflex.

Actually, if you drive a stick long enough, you will discover that, in the majority of cases as you roll down the road, you will have gotten all the way into top gear with no actual memory of performing the shifts.

The fact that my clutch was practically non-existent by the time I was done with my '93 Escort is all you need to know about my shifting habits.

I don't miss that car. At all.

AnotherFairportfan wrote:I could joke about "In the Old Days, us'ns had to play our Music With Rocks In on kerosene-powered guitars..."

Whoa. You could afford kerosene? We had to use the old coal-fired steel guitars. I know guys who still get pissed off if you mention hot jazz.

AnotherFairportfan wrote:My 1969 Austin-Healey Sprite didn't have synchro on first gear, on the theory you would never shift into it except when standing still - and even then, in order to prevent the occasional minor "crunch!" as i shifted into first, i briefly would shift into second and then down to first. After the first month driving it, that became an automatic reflex.

We drive it only once in a blue moon, but my dad always gives me grief for crunching second gear in his 1965 MGB. Really, the synchro's busted (he and my brother grind it, too), and I never drive it enough to get the double-clutching right. I never ground gears in the Miata, or the Prizm, or the Toyota Corona, or the E150, or the Plymouth Cricket, or the Rambler Classic wagon, or all them Volkswagens, or the International dumptruck, or my uncle's Studebakers, or the Willys Jeep, or . . . .

I learned motorcycle on my Grandpa's 1937 Indian- manual spark advance on the left twist, clutch on the left foot and shift over the tank

Sgt. Howard wrote:I learned motorcycle on my Grandpa's 1937 Indian- manual spark advance on the left twist, clutch on the left foot and shift over the tank

There's a really pretty Indian - a bit newer, i think - in the window at a McDonalds near here.

I suspect it might be operational - they keep a drip pan under the crankcase.

Periodically, i have sledgehammer fantasies.

No forewarning. SFW, though.