Here in the Netherlands you can sell or buy your house all on your own. And you know what? Real estate agents are still active. They do add value or save cost in many cases: Sell: They know what the maximum is that you can ask while keeping people interested. That is separate from the taxation. A good one helps you to make proper pictures that really show off the good sides of the house. They know what you should inform the buyer of (in writing) to prevent lawsuits for hidden but known flaws. Buy: They have experience in seeing the problems of a house. Trouble some people wouldn't see until it's too late. Often they have already seen a few houses in the area and in your budget and they may be able to hint at interesting houses once they know what you want. They can help you on your offer. You don't want to pay too much but you don't want to close negotiations either.
If a real estate agent costs you E1000 but saves you E 5000 then it is money well spend. A few percent on a house can easily be thousands of euro's.
Why don't you start a real estate agency that is simply the cheapest around and do only just enough to let the seller or buyer confirm to that foolish law that requires them to have a real estate agency? Undercut them by 90% if they add no value!
By the way, I am in the process of buying an apartment. I do not use a real estate agent for my buying because I do not feel I would save more than I would spend.
If it doesn't coincide with your plans for this year than that is a reason not to buy right now. Slide the date setting to 2015 and see what they are planning: full coverage. As with all such plans: a bit of salt is required, but I fully expect them to have the 2015 coverage maps by 2017. And Tesla's or other electric cars are not good enough yet for everybody. That doesn't matter, the emission savings will be monstrous if 60% makes the switch (and the electricity is from either nuclear or other green sources).
Most cars are sold after those 5 years, not scrapped. A car that is designed to last 50 years is going to have a far greater resale value than one that is designed to last 5 years.
If you're being pedantic you'd better be right. It's Wh, short for W*h or "Watt times hours". Not W-h which would be "watt minus hours" and that is wrong on many levels.
The only experience with HDMI-CEC is that it is slow, obnoxious and irritating. My TV (and my parent's TV) took about 3 minutes to switch. Why must that be so much slower than manual switching or the ancient SCART switching? If you were watching a DVD and the sat receiver switched on because it was going to record something the TV switched to the sat. I turned it off because it was far to badly designed to use. By the way: if a set-top box is switched off because HDMI-CEC tells it the TV is off and plans to switch on when the TV is on again then it can not be in a deep sleep state, because it needs to check the HDMI-CEC state. To fix that you'd need a dedicated pin so that the power-on system can be a simple relay. No power usage when turned off.
Will this finally include the ability to use compressed audio to make more efficient use of the GSM spectrum (over LTE of course)? We are wasting a lot of bandwith there with ancient uncompressed audio, while modern phones are easily capable of doing that properly.
If the monitor is big and bulky you are using a CRT. That's not going to measure your heartrate. Modern heartrate sensors are definitely noticable, but big and bulky they are not.
Yes, but not for the reasons you think. Pressure is not the issue, the vessel is pressurized (else the astronauts would asphyxiate quite quickly). Gravity is the issue. They don't want boiling hot liquid dancing around in a space ship.
The main difference between white and whole grain bread is the fibers. White doesn't have much of them. In starch content they are quite similar (if you compensate for the difference in serving size). Fibers help your bowel movements. They prevent the most common blockages in your intestines but in extreme cases it can cause continuous diarrhea due to the same reason. They don't do anything else, they aren't absorbed through the intestine wall. For most people this means "eat whole grain", because our intestines are used to the fibers. If you don't you risk blocking your intestines, which is quite painful. Personally I shouldn't eat to much whole grain because blockages aren't the issue with me. On the contrary.
Ergo: white bread is digested more slowly than whole wheat. Quite the opposite of your statement. That doesn't mean your conclusion is wrong. slow bowel movements means more starch (and other nutrients) are absorbed in the body. Fast bowel movements means that more carbohydrates are pooped out and thus not turned to fat in the body. If you add the other stuff you eat with the fibers (a burger for example) which also passes through faster and more of which gets pooped out then you see WHY fibers are good for weight loss.
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor. I just spend a lot of time with doctors and extensively discuss healthy food with them. I have spend a lot of time trying to understand how food works and why some foods are unhealthy. I have, however, not had formal education on it.
Theoretically I would hazard a guess that it is possible to make the undo history configurable (undo history max X steps) like it used to be or even automatically depend on the free space on the device if we really want to continue the current folly of "If you don't like our settings then %*&* you" and "EVERYTHING FIXED!!!1!!ONE!!1!!!1!" instead of decent options.
I love "About:config" and other advanced options panels. They separate the ordinary users from the advanced options but leave them available for advanced users.
Not exactly always, but there should be a really good reason when not to recover to the previous state.
My bank app doesn't recover to the previous state and that is how it should be. Any clear interruption should require a new login for banking information.
Why would they kick down your door when the child pron is downloaded on the secondary WIFI network with a separate ISP and with the credentials of the actual downloader? They can just kick the actual downloader's door in.
(note: I do not know how good the security is. It may be easy to set up a honeypot and get some credentials. In that case the door of the one who's credentials the actual downloader is using gets kicked in.)
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"Added Value" is marketing speech for "Added Cost".
Here in the Netherlands you can sell or buy your house all on your own. And you know what? Real estate agents are still active.
They do add value or save cost in many cases:
Sell:
They know what the maximum is that you can ask while keeping people interested. That is separate from the taxation.
A good one helps you to make proper pictures that really show off the good sides of the house.
They know what you should inform the buyer of (in writing) to prevent lawsuits for hidden but known flaws.
Buy:
They have experience in seeing the problems of a house. Trouble some people wouldn't see until it's too late.
Often they have already seen a few houses in the area and in your budget and they may be able to hint at interesting houses once they know what you want.
They can help you on your offer. You don't want to pay too much but you don't want to close negotiations either.
If a real estate agent costs you E1000 but saves you E 5000 then it is money well spend. A few percent on a house can easily be thousands of euro's.
Why don't you start a real estate agency that is simply the cheapest around and do only just enough to let the seller or buyer confirm to that foolish law that requires them to have a real estate agency? Undercut them by 90% if they add no value!
By the way, I am in the process of buying an apartment. I do not use a real estate agent for my buying because I do not feel I would save more than I would spend.
They have 2 models, the S and the X.
But your argument stands.
If it doesn't coincide with your plans for this year than that is a reason not to buy right now.
Slide the date setting to 2015 and see what they are planning: full coverage.
As with all such plans: a bit of salt is required, but I fully expect them to have the 2015 coverage maps by 2017.
And Tesla's or other electric cars are not good enough yet for everybody. That doesn't matter, the emission savings will be monstrous if 60% makes the switch (and the electricity is from either nuclear or other green sources).
Hi Cello!
Death is only the beginning.
Most cars are sold after those 5 years, not scrapped. A car that is designed to last 50 years is going to have a far greater resale value than one that is designed to last 5 years.
Yup, as the dust collects in them the power usage increases to accelerate EOL and sell new boxes.
*note: this comment has no connection to actual facts*
If you're being pedantic you'd better be right.
It's Wh, short for W*h or "Watt times hours". Not W-h which would be "watt minus hours" and that is wrong on many levels.
The only experience with HDMI-CEC is that it is slow, obnoxious and irritating.
My TV (and my parent's TV) took about 3 minutes to switch. Why must that be so much slower than manual switching or the ancient SCART switching?
If you were watching a DVD and the sat receiver switched on because it was going to record something the TV switched to the sat.
I turned it off because it was far to badly designed to use.
By the way: if a set-top box is switched off because HDMI-CEC tells it the TV is off and plans to switch on when the TV is on again then it can not be in a deep sleep state, because it needs to check the HDMI-CEC state. To fix that you'd need a dedicated pin so that the power-on system can be a simple relay. No power usage when turned off.
Will this finally include the ability to use compressed audio to make more efficient use of the GSM spectrum (over LTE of course)? We are wasting a lot of bandwith there with ancient uncompressed audio, while modern phones are easily capable of doing that properly.
Maybe they really think it is only for intensive purposes and not for low intensity purposes.
If the monitor is big and bulky you are using a CRT. That's not going to measure your heartrate.
Modern heartrate sensors are definitely noticable, but big and bulky they are not.
It's a small screen so it'll probably work with a paralax barrier screen.
It has ceased to be customary to hit your date with a rock before mating. These days that is frowned upon.
All cars can fly. It's just that most don't fly very far and the landing is quite rough. Just like back then.
Yes, but not for the reasons you think.
Pressure is not the issue, the vessel is pressurized (else the astronauts would asphyxiate quite quickly).
Gravity is the issue. They don't want boiling hot liquid dancing around in a space ship.
+~5 kg in 2 years of depression speaks of either a lot of luck with your genetics or a hell of a lot of self control. Congratulations.
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The main difference between white and whole grain bread is the fibers. White doesn't have much of them. In starch content they are quite similar (if you compensate for the difference in serving size).
Fibers help your bowel movements. They prevent the most common blockages in your intestines but in extreme cases it can cause continuous diarrhea due to the same reason. They don't do anything else, they aren't absorbed through the intestine wall.
For most people this means "eat whole grain", because our intestines are used to the fibers. If you don't you risk blocking your intestines, which is quite painful.
Personally I shouldn't eat to much whole grain because blockages aren't the issue with me. On the contrary.
Ergo: white bread is digested more slowly than whole wheat. Quite the opposite of your statement.
That doesn't mean your conclusion is wrong. slow bowel movements means more starch (and other nutrients) are absorbed in the body. Fast bowel movements means that more carbohydrates are pooped out and thus not turned to fat in the body. If you add the other stuff you eat with the fibers (a burger for example) which also passes through faster and more of which gets pooped out then you see WHY fibers are good for weight loss.
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor. I just spend a lot of time with doctors and extensively discuss healthy food with them. I have spend a lot of time trying to understand how food works and why some foods are unhealthy. I have, however, not had formal education on it.
Theoretically I would hazard a guess that it is possible to make the undo history configurable (undo history max X steps) like it used to be or even automatically depend on the free space on the device if we really want to continue the current folly of "If you don't like our settings then %*&* you" and "EVERYTHING FIXED!!!1!!ONE!!1!!!1!" instead of decent options.
I love "About:config" and other advanced options panels. They separate the ordinary users from the advanced options but leave them available for advanced users.
Not exactly always, but there should be a really good reason when not to recover to the previous state.
My bank app doesn't recover to the previous state and that is how it should be. Any clear interruption should require a new login for banking information.
I can save much more than that on car insurance by not having a car.
Wow that guy must be ancient by now!
Not everything. My skin does exactly the opposite. There may be a specific process at work with the lunar regolite.
Why would they kick down your door when the child pron is downloaded on the secondary WIFI network with a separate ISP and with the credentials of the actual downloader? They can just kick the actual downloader's door in.
(note: I do not know how good the security is. It may be easy to set up a honeypot and get some credentials. In that case the door of the one who's credentials the actual downloader is using gets kicked in.)
You can bet that the data you download is subtracted from your download cap. You have to login with your Comcast account so they know who you are.