The problem with embedding technology in the car, is that it is so quickly outdated. many Cars from five years ago had iPod docks, yet most of the people I know that had iPods don't have them any longer, and the Docks are unused (if they even work).
Bluetooth is the new connector, and I suspect that in a few years, it will be replaced with Greentooth, which isn't backwards compatible.
My point wasn't about Time Value of Money or the opportunity cost. But thanks for reminding that most decisions are more complicated than that.
I pay cash for good running used cars. I've never been disappointed. I've had new cars, and the cost of a new car isn't worth it IMHO. 2 three year old cars are worth more (IMHO) than a new car in a dealership lot. I drive off in a used car, and I can get nearly what I paid for it anytime afterwards. A new car, you're upside down for around 3.5 years, meaning that if you tried to sell it, you couldn't pay off the loan.
Get the "title" from your cabinet. Take a close look at it. It actually says "Certificate of Title" and it does have your name on it. But it isn't the title, as it is issued by the state where registration takes place. The state requires its own certificate of title to register the vehicle in that state.
If you had a title, the state couldn't require you to have its Certificate of Title, and you wouldn't have to register it. A state requires registration for you to drive on the roads. To drive on the roads, you have to surrender the title to the state, be issued a Certificate of Title, and then register your vehicle. They will not allow you to register without surrendering the title. I know, I've tried.
Take a look at the "Title". It isn't the actual Title (MSO is). It is a State issued Certificate of Title, which is a substitute for the actual title. When you move from California to Oregon, you have to transfer the certificate from California, to Oregon. If it was the actual title, no such transfer is needed.
Yes, this is a dirty little secret that almost nobody actually knows about.
When you buy CASH (money) a vehicle, you can ask for the Manufacturers Statement Of Origin (MSO), and the dealer is obliged to surrender it to you. THIS is the actual Title. You own the car, free and clear.
What happens is, when you buy on credit, the MSO is destroyed, the state issues a Certificate of Title, which is a replacement for the actual title. ON that title, there is a notification of a lien on the vehicle. You cannot sell said vehicle without also providing proof that the lien has been satisfied. --- And yes, there ought to be a standard for in vehicle systems such as this. But it is also in the interest of the Car Companies not to provide a standard, so that they can upsell you on the initial purchase rather than having you go to a customizing vendor to have it installed.
I am not against contract law. Government shouldn't be involved, one way or another, in private contracts, such as marriage. The fact that it requires a "license" to get Married is proof that government defines marriage (when it shouldn't)
Can you contract away rights? Can Contracts grant you more rights than you currently have?
The rights you have in a contract, are your rights outside that contract. You cannot contract new rights that you don't already have. Gay Marriage isn't about "rights" it is about benefits granted by government.
Rights apply to a PERSON, not a group of people. Marriage, is by definition a group of people. Which is why I oppose any government action, support or restriction, on marriages at all.
Tata Nano sells for the equivalent of US$3000 in India
It also doesn't have the latest greatest safety gear required by the US government. My guess, all the required safety requirements would double the cost, increase weight, and lower fuel efficiency. Just take a look at the trouble Elio is having meeting the mandated safety features.
He didn't say big companies can't innovate. He said big companies that can't should be allowed to die, and even gave case scenario to show what he meant. At no point was IBM at risk of dying and needing a Bailout, unlike Government Motors.
The Internet Languished in obscurity for a couple decades. It wasn't until people OUTSIDE of the Military started to use it (because they were allowed to) that it took off. Yeah, "started" doesn't mean "was successful" or "powerful". The UNREGULATED internet was a boom, but we have forgotten that lesson, and now we are starting to regulate it to death, because someone thought... "There ought to be a law" and it was so.
The High End MM interface of today, will be more or less useless in 5 years. And since there is no standardization, upgrading to current tech in 5 years will mean that old and busted remains so.
Unless you paid cash, you didn't buy a car, the bank did. You likely bought a loan. Nothing wrong with it, just saying most people don't buy cars. They buy an illusion of buying cars.
Me, on the other hand, buy my cars. Usually Nice Used cars. I'd rather take my hard earned money and buy other things than nice new Shiny cars, that promptly lose somewhere around 20 % the moment you drive off a lot. I am driving a car I spent $1700 three years ago, and could probably get $1000 today (5/18/15) if I put it up for sale on Craigslist. Apart from normal wear (tires, smog, tuneups etc), I haven't had to put a nickel into it. It rides as nice today, as the day I bought it.
I am a tad arrogant, but that is not the problem here. Good Documentation isn't hard, it is time consuming.
It is time consuming because you have to use it, and test it, and revise it for cases you never thought about. Writing itself isn't hard. Getting the writing usable is just time consuming.
IF you don't put in the time, the writing isn't going to take care of itself, and therefore only appears "hard". Sometimes, it seems the best skill I have is patience;-)
If you do enough Documentation, you can get much closer to a good final product out of the gate, because you can anticipate things better. I am sure coding is similar. In fact, I would suggest to you that Documentation is Coding, just for humans instead of machines:-D
* What kinds of documents are you talking about? Text? Photos? Spreadsheets? Photos aren't documents. Spreadsheets tend to be proprietary.
* What is the source of the documents? Are these currently printed out documents that need to be scanned back in? Are they currently digital, and in a particular file format? This! I tend to classify documents as "Primary Data" (Structured) and "freeform Data" (Human Readable)
* What will people need to do with them when these documents are retrieved? Do they need to be able to edit the documents? Data needs to be organized by purpose (Record keeping = Primary / structured data) and Executive Summary Type data (human readable).
* How much does formatting matter? If someone retrieves the document in 5 years, will it be important that all the line breaks and page breaks are in the same place? Does it need to have all of the correct fonts? Or are you more interested in being able to have access to the information itself? Again, this is a primary data vs freeform data. Primary data should be structured, while preserving free form data is best done with PDF style rendering which preserves it historically.
* When you say that the application will need to allow ".docx, doc,.pdf, etc", what formats are in "etc"? Long Term Editable Documents need to be in the original format. At some point that format will go away, and if you want to maintain edit-ability you'll need to upgrade to newer formats. All others can be saved as PDF before the old format is extinct.
But I'd rather have 100 of those for each legitimate call from an NSI phone which might save one or more lives
1? 10? 100? 1000? 10000? 100000? 1000000?
The problem isn't the idea, it is at what point does one say "no". Lets say for argument, His maximum is 100/1 ratio, which might be reasonable. But the chances of life saving from the phones might not reach even this threshold. The person making this statement didn't say that was his Max, he didn't say what his max was, leaving the statement as undefined, and that is the problem.
It is right up there with all sorts of various nebulous points, for instance "fair share" is never defined. I think everyone should pay their "fair share", but my idea and your idea of "fair share" are likely not even close to being related.
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And North Korea is the epitome of Socialism.
The problem with embedding technology in the car, is that it is so quickly outdated. many Cars from five years ago had iPod docks, yet most of the people I know that had iPods don't have them any longer, and the Docks are unused (if they even work).
Bluetooth is the new connector, and I suspect that in a few years, it will be replaced with Greentooth, which isn't backwards compatible.
My point wasn't about Time Value of Money or the opportunity cost. But thanks for reminding that most decisions are more complicated than that.
I pay cash for good running used cars. I've never been disappointed. I've had new cars, and the cost of a new car isn't worth it IMHO. 2 three year old cars are worth more (IMHO) than a new car in a dealership lot. I drive off in a used car, and I can get nearly what I paid for it anytime afterwards. A new car, you're upside down for around 3.5 years, meaning that if you tried to sell it, you couldn't pay off the loan.
Get the "title" from your cabinet. Take a close look at it. It actually says "Certificate of Title" and it does have your name on it. But it isn't the title, as it is issued by the state where registration takes place. The state requires its own certificate of title to register the vehicle in that state.
If you had a title, the state couldn't require you to have its Certificate of Title, and you wouldn't have to register it. A state requires registration for you to drive on the roads. To drive on the roads, you have to surrender the title to the state, be issued a Certificate of Title, and then register your vehicle. They will not allow you to register without surrendering the title. I know, I've tried.
It isn't title, it is the Certificate of Title. While they function similarly, it isn't the same thing.
Take a look at the "Title". It isn't the actual Title (MSO is). It is a State issued Certificate of Title, which is a substitute for the actual title. When you move from California to Oregon, you have to transfer the certificate from California, to Oregon. If it was the actual title, no such transfer is needed.
Yes, this is a dirty little secret that almost nobody actually knows about.
Here's proof you are not correct.
When you buy CASH (money) a vehicle, you can ask for the Manufacturers Statement Of Origin (MSO), and the dealer is obliged to surrender it to you. THIS is the actual Title. You own the car, free and clear.
What happens is, when you buy on credit, the MSO is destroyed, the state issues a Certificate of Title, which is a replacement for the actual title. ON that title, there is a notification of a lien on the vehicle. You cannot sell said vehicle without also providing proof that the lien has been satisfied.
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And yes, there ought to be a standard for in vehicle systems such as this. But it is also in the interest of the Car Companies not to provide a standard, so that they can upsell you on the initial purchase rather than having you go to a customizing vendor to have it installed.
I am not against contract law. Government shouldn't be involved, one way or another, in private contracts, such as marriage. The fact that it requires a "license" to get Married is proof that government defines marriage (when it shouldn't)
Can you contract away rights? Can Contracts grant you more rights than you currently have?
The rights you have in a contract, are your rights outside that contract. You cannot contract new rights that you don't already have. Gay Marriage isn't about "rights" it is about benefits granted by government.
You can't end the War on drugs, any more than you can end the IRS, too many other industries require it now.
scare people
Best Motivation ever. Slightly ahead of Procreation.
For Troubleshooting (Semi sarcastic)
Rights apply to a PERSON, not a group of people. Marriage, is by definition a group of people. Which is why I oppose any government action, support or restriction, on marriages at all.
Tata Nano sells for the equivalent of US$3000 in India
It also doesn't have the latest greatest safety gear required by the US government. My guess, all the required safety requirements would double the cost, increase weight, and lower fuel efficiency. Just take a look at the trouble Elio is having meeting the mandated safety features.
He didn't say big companies can't innovate. He said big companies that can't should be allowed to die, and even gave case scenario to show what he meant. At no point was IBM at risk of dying and needing a Bailout, unlike Government Motors.
The Internet Languished in obscurity for a couple decades. It wasn't until people OUTSIDE of the Military started to use it (because they were allowed to) that it took off. Yeah, "started" doesn't mean "was successful" or "powerful". The UNREGULATED internet was a boom, but we have forgotten that lesson, and now we are starting to regulate it to death, because someone thought ... "There ought to be a law" and it was so.
The High End MM interface of today, will be more or less useless in 5 years. And since there is no standardization, upgrading to current tech in 5 years will mean that old and busted remains so.
Unless you paid cash, you didn't buy a car, the bank did. You likely bought a loan. Nothing wrong with it, just saying most people don't buy cars. They buy an illusion of buying cars.
Me, on the other hand, buy my cars. Usually Nice Used cars. I'd rather take my hard earned money and buy other things than nice new Shiny cars, that promptly lose somewhere around 20 % the moment you drive off a lot. I am driving a car I spent $1700 three years ago, and could probably get $1000 today (5/18/15) if I put it up for sale on Craigslist. Apart from normal wear (tires, smog, tuneups etc), I haven't had to put a nickel into it. It rides as nice today, as the day I bought it.
I'd rather spend my money elsewhere.
Yeah, knowing i am in the left side of my couch is really important data!
THIS!
History repeating itself, because the people who know history are shouted down by those not willing to learn from it.
A Rice Cooker is for people who don't know how to boil water and cook rice normally.
I am a tad arrogant, but that is not the problem here. Good Documentation isn't hard, it is time consuming.
It is time consuming because you have to use it, and test it, and revise it for cases you never thought about. Writing itself isn't hard. Getting the writing usable is just time consuming.
IF you don't put in the time, the writing isn't going to take care of itself, and therefore only appears "hard". Sometimes, it seems the best skill I have is patience ;-)
If you do enough Documentation, you can get much closer to a good final product out of the gate, because you can anticipate things better. I am sure coding is similar. In fact, I would suggest to you that Documentation is Coding, just for humans instead of machines :-D
Streisand Effect.
* What kinds of documents are you talking about? Text? Photos? Spreadsheets? Photos aren't documents. Spreadsheets tend to be proprietary.
* What is the source of the documents? Are these currently printed out documents that need to be scanned back in? Are they currently digital, and in a particular file format? This! I tend to classify documents as "Primary Data" (Structured) and "freeform Data" (Human Readable)
* What will people need to do with them when these documents are retrieved? Do they need to be able to edit the documents? Data needs to be organized by purpose (Record keeping = Primary / structured data) and Executive Summary Type data (human readable).
* How much does formatting matter? If someone retrieves the document in 5 years, will it be important that all the line breaks and page breaks are in the same place? Does it need to have all of the correct fonts? Or are you more interested in being able to have access to the information itself? Again, this is a primary data vs freeform data. Primary data should be structured, while preserving free form data is best done with PDF style rendering which preserves it historically.
* When you say that the application will need to allow ".docx, doc, .pdf, etc", what formats are in "etc"? Long Term Editable Documents need to be in the original format. At some point that format will go away, and if you want to maintain edit-ability you'll need to upgrade to newer formats. All others can be saved as PDF before the old format is extinct.
But I'd rather have 100 of those for each legitimate call from an NSI phone which might save one or more lives
1?
10?
100?
1000?
10000?
100000?
1000000?
The problem isn't the idea, it is at what point does one say "no". Lets say for argument, His maximum is 100/1 ratio, which might be reasonable. But the chances of life saving from the phones might not reach even this threshold. The person making this statement didn't say that was his Max, he didn't say what his max was, leaving the statement as undefined, and that is the problem.
It is right up there with all sorts of various nebulous points, for instance "fair share" is never defined. I think everyone should pay their "fair share", but my idea and your idea of "fair share" are likely not even close to being related.