Snap-On can easily supply you with a device to read SOME or even MOST of the codes. The issue here is that the OEMs have access to additional stuff far beyond the OBDII mandated outputs. The additional data allows the authorized dealer to diagnose more accurately and quickly. That gives the dealer an unfair advantage over the independant repair shop.
My nick gives you a clue that I work for a pretty big company. We have been using Remedy for a couple of years now. It seems to work well for us. Scalability doesn't seem to be an issue. We have hundreds, maybe thousands of staff, multiple thousands of sites and, I think, workstation numbered in 6 digits.I don't have a clue how practical it would be for a small operation but it is enterprise ready.
Guess what? I don't really give a rip about sending a message. I want a phone that works. I have Verizon and my son has T Mobile. GSM may have cute phones but the coverage STINKS. 4 times out of 5, if we check our phones at the same spot, I'll have service and he won't. I made several road trips last summer. I had service 90% of the time and he had nothing outside cities and towns. I don't need to carry a fancy paperweight in my pocket, I need a real phone.
I sat backed and looked at my computer desk and my entertainment center one day and realized the contents of the computer desk were less valuable that the audio/video stuff. I went out the next day and bought an additional UPS for the entertainment stuff. The power went out a while back when I was watching TV and I didn't even notice right away. The only light I had on was at the computer so nothing even blinked. After a while, I noticed the rest of the house was really quiet (my upper end hearing is shot so I didn't hear the tiny beep from the UPS's). Kind of weird getting up and looking out the front door. Not a single light visible for about a mile.
Actually, skid marks play a very much smaller role than in the past. A little thing called anti-lock brakes means a driver can be in full, pedal down, panic stop and not leave an inch of skid marks.
The vss - vehicle speed sensor - feeds the computer. The computer drives an output to the speedometer and writes data as required. There wasn't, isn't, and never will be any difference between the two. The is no magic absolute speed sensor. It's all determined by how fast the axles are turning.
Well, in Boulder, CO, the cameras are at street level so that idea is out. I think they now have pole top camera watching the other cameras to catch people trying to jack with the red light cam.
I guess you've never had the pleasure of blowing a port from plugging and unplugging hot. It is a pain. Turn off the printer, you say. Now the second to connect a cable becomes 5 minutes while the printer self tests and warms up. BT makes perfectly good sense in that senario
Last time I was in my lawyer's office, the secretary was happily sitting in front of the computer inputting complex legal documents in WordPerfect 5.1. Word has tries and, pretty much failed, to capture that market. There seem to be a lot of add in that don'rt support Word.
So you are saying that europeans are paying almost $4 a gallon in fuel taxes and you haven't overthrown the government yet? What is that? Over 600% tax on an essential commody? Please don't extoll the virtues of europe to me.
There are niftly little hot plate kind of things to sit on your desk to keep the coffee warm. Why not a commeccial version of this I can sit beside me at work and keep my Pepsi cold. Drinking faster doesn't work here. I need to meter the caffeen intake over the whole graveyard shift to survive. Ever try and find one of those cute cozys to fit a 1 liter bottle?
Gee! Isn't it amazing that countries that don't have an infrastructure would be building one using current technology and a country that has a huge, solid, working one would be a little slower to convert to something new. Because the US was an "early addopter" of telephone technology, we're a little slower upgrading but we've been talking all over the country for a loooong time.
The magnetic equipment is not all that hard to come by. Mag stripes are used in all kinds of applications. Our office uses mag stripe timecards. I've examined the information on my cards by putting a timeclock in test mode and we have a writer to produce our own cards. Good stuff would only set you back a couple of thousand. Not really script kiddie range but it could be paid off in the first transaction by a serious user. With more and more stores going to self service checkout, you don't even need to make it look like a real card anymore.
Actually, there is another issue that is a roadblock. That is insurance. I spend a lot of time in my behemouth Suburban because I do pull a boat and a few other things. I would have no problem buying a high efficency vehicle for my mundane drives but then I would have to license and insure two vehicles. The cost of insurance over a year or two easily exceeds the purchase price of many a used car. If I could insure ME, I could have several purpose-built vehicles and use the right one all the time. The capital cost is not so much of an issue as is the mandated recurring charges.
O K, this is really tough. a US phone has a GPS reciever that just transmits data to the tower where it is decoded. That same phone is NOT a one way link, The same device that sends the data could easily receive its location data back. The big issue is the GPS receiver which already must be built in to every new phone sold here. Everything else is just a software tweak (and maybe some memory). I think the big issue is marketing and profit. If they give us too much right away, we won't have any reason to upgrade continually.
I guess that depends on where you are. In Colorado (52 14,000 foot+ peaks) there are several reports each summer of rescues being iniated by cell phone calls Coverage is not perfect but extends supprisingly well.
Before I moved recently, I was slightly outside the range of ADSL and I had DirecTV so no cable. I had a second line for dial-up which I kept nailed up most of the time. I paid a premium for Compuserve as my ISP because they would only drop my dialup connection a couple of time a week. I consistantly got 46 to 48 k speeds. When I moved, I was less than 7000 feet from the CO on old, thick copper and went with DSL. My Qwest 256/256 DSL and new ISP are actually a few bucks a month cheaper than dialup by the time I figure all the taxes and fees on the second line. For me, it was definitly a question of availability, not cost. I'd probably have wireless broadband at the old place now. I could see a Richocet pole top box from my computer.The old service at $75 a month was too much but I got a flyer in my door from the new company the other day. They seem to be coming back up and looking for customers in Denver.
Given the power requirements of ever faster processors, I think you may see bigger, fatter power supply cables. The physics of wire size / current capacity are pretty well established. Unless room temp superconductors become a cheap reality, plan on a wad to power the MB.
Bah! The building I work in has a large room full of conductive hookup chargers in use every day and I don't remember a problem in the last 20 years. We charge several different voltage batteries and just have non-interchangeable connectors to avoid misconnects. This is a 24-7 operation so some chargers are connected/disconnected 3 times a day. One thing I've never seen suggested for a electric car is a readily interchangeable battery. We have special equipment but change dozens of batteries a day. With an easy-to-change spare, you eliminate much of the need for a high speed charger which drastically increases battery life and eases the peak loading on the power plants.
The laws about unsolicited merchandise are pretty clear. You have NO obligation. I ordered a roll of labels from an advertisement. Since then, I have received a lot of free labels. Since the wording on the original order was somewhat distinctive, I know exactly how I got on the new lists. No bad, actually. A lifetime supply of return address labels for 1 $3 order.
In the U. S., paying by the minute for local landline phone service is almost unheard of. I don't know about Austrailia but most of Europe pays for usage. Before I moved into an area where I could get DSL, I had a second phone line for my dialup internet. I was able to keep that connection nailed up pretty much 24 hours a day for $15 a month. I think the attitude here on cellular is that I want to be able to be contacted so I pay. Elsewhere it's They want to contact me so they pay. A difference in philosophy.
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Snap-On can easily supply you with a device to read SOME or even MOST of the codes. The issue here is that the OEMs have access to additional stuff far beyond the OBDII mandated outputs. The additional data allows the authorized dealer to diagnose more accurately and quickly. That gives the dealer an unfair advantage over the independant repair shop.
"certain molecular compounds" They are advertising "pure" (elemental) silver. Tests should work fine!
My nick gives you a clue that I work for a pretty big company. We have been using Remedy for a couple of years now. It seems to work well for us. Scalability doesn't seem to be an issue. We have hundreds, maybe thousands of staff, multiple thousands of sites and, I think, workstation numbered in 6 digits.I don't have a clue how practical it would be for a small operation but it is enterprise ready.
Guess what? I don't really give a rip about sending a message. I want a phone that works. I have Verizon and my son has T Mobile. GSM may have cute phones but the coverage STINKS. 4 times out of 5, if we check our phones at the same spot, I'll have service and he won't. I made several road trips last summer. I had service 90% of the time and he had nothing outside cities and towns. I don't need to carry a fancy paperweight in my pocket, I need a real phone.
I sat backed and looked at my computer desk and my entertainment center one day and realized the contents of the computer desk were less valuable that the audio/video stuff. I went out the next day and bought an additional UPS for the entertainment stuff. The power went out a while back when I was watching TV and I didn't even notice right away. The only light I had on was at the computer so nothing even blinked. After a while, I noticed the rest of the house was really quiet (my upper end hearing is shot so I didn't hear the tiny beep from the UPS's). Kind of weird getting up and looking out the front door. Not a single light visible for about a mile.
Actually, skid marks play a very much smaller role than in the past. A little thing called anti-lock brakes means a driver can be in full, pedal down, panic stop and not leave an inch of skid marks.
The vss - vehicle speed sensor - feeds the computer. The computer drives an output to the speedometer and writes data as required. There wasn't, isn't, and never will be any difference between the two. The is no magic absolute speed sensor. It's all determined by how fast the axles are turning.
Well, in Boulder, CO, the cameras are at street level so that idea is out. I think they now have pole top camera watching the other cameras to catch people trying to jack with the red light cam.
I've got to wonder why a US company would collect EU taxes. Wouldn't the destination country just do it when the merchandise is picked up?
I guess you've never had the pleasure of blowing a port from plugging and unplugging hot. It is a pain. Turn off the printer, you say. Now the second to connect a cable becomes 5 minutes while the printer self tests and warms up. BT makes perfectly good sense in that senario
Last time I was in my lawyer's office, the secretary was happily sitting in front of the computer inputting complex legal documents in WordPerfect 5.1. Word has tries and, pretty much failed, to capture that market. There seem to be a lot of add in that don'rt support Word.
So you are saying that europeans are paying almost $4 a gallon in fuel taxes and you haven't overthrown the government yet? What is that? Over 600% tax on an essential commody? Please don't extoll the virtues of europe to me.
There are niftly little hot plate kind of things to sit on your desk to keep the coffee warm. Why not a commeccial version of this I can sit beside me at work and keep my Pepsi cold. Drinking faster doesn't work here. I need to meter the caffeen intake over the whole graveyard shift to survive. Ever try and find one of those cute cozys to fit a 1 liter bottle?
Unless, of course, your pickup device just happens to be near a real working terminal and just quietly listens.
One part of my job is replacing the proximity cards our security system uses who's batteries have failed. We seem to average about a 3 year card life.
Gee! Isn't it amazing that countries that don't have an infrastructure would be building one using current technology and a country that has a huge, solid, working one would be a little slower to convert to something new. Because the US was an "early addopter" of telephone technology, we're a little slower upgrading but we've been talking all over the country for a loooong time.
The magnetic equipment is not all that hard to come by. Mag stripes are used in all kinds of applications. Our office uses mag stripe timecards. I've examined the information on my cards by putting a timeclock in test mode and we have a writer to produce our own cards. Good stuff would only set you back a couple of thousand. Not really script kiddie range but it could be paid off in the first transaction by a serious user. With more and more stores going to self service checkout, you don't even need to make it look like a real card anymore.
Actually, there is another issue that is a roadblock. That is insurance. I spend a lot of time in my behemouth Suburban because I do pull a boat and a few other things. I would have no problem buying a high efficency vehicle for my mundane drives but then I would have to license and insure two vehicles. The cost of insurance over a year or two easily exceeds the purchase price of many a used car. If I could insure ME, I could have several purpose-built vehicles and use the right one all the time. The capital cost is not so much of an issue as is the mandated recurring charges.
O K, this is really tough. a US phone has a GPS reciever that just transmits data to the tower where it is decoded. That same phone is NOT a one way link, The same device that sends the data could easily receive its location data back. The big issue is the GPS receiver which already must be built in to every new phone sold here. Everything else is just a software tweak (and maybe some memory). I think the big issue is marketing and profit. If they give us too much right away, we won't have any reason to upgrade continually.
I guess that depends on where you are. In Colorado (52 14,000 foot+ peaks) there are several reports each summer of rescues being iniated by cell phone calls Coverage is not perfect but extends supprisingly well.
Before I moved recently, I was slightly outside the range of ADSL and I had DirecTV so no cable. I had a second line for dial-up which I kept nailed up most of the time. I paid a premium for Compuserve as my ISP because they would only drop my dialup connection a couple of time a week. I consistantly got 46 to 48 k speeds. When I moved, I was less than 7000 feet from the CO on old, thick copper and went with DSL. My Qwest 256/256 DSL and new ISP are actually a few bucks a month cheaper than dialup by the time I figure all the taxes and fees on the second line. For me, it was definitly a question of availability, not cost. I'd probably have wireless broadband at the old place now. I could see a Richocet pole top box from my computer.The old service at $75 a month was too much but I got a flyer in my door from the new company the other day. They seem to be coming back up and looking for customers in Denver.
Given the power requirements of ever faster processors, I think you may see bigger, fatter power supply cables. The physics of wire size / current capacity are pretty well established. Unless room temp superconductors become a cheap reality, plan on a wad to power the MB.
Bah! The building I work in has a large room full of conductive hookup chargers in use every day and I don't remember a problem in the last 20 years. We charge several different voltage batteries and just have non-interchangeable connectors to avoid misconnects. This is a 24-7 operation so some chargers are connected/disconnected 3 times a day. One thing I've never seen suggested for a electric car is a readily interchangeable battery. We have special equipment but change dozens of batteries a day. With an easy-to-change spare, you eliminate much of the need for a high speed charger which drastically increases battery life and eases the peak loading on the power plants.
The laws about unsolicited merchandise are pretty clear. You have NO obligation. I ordered a roll of labels from an advertisement. Since then, I have received a lot of free labels. Since the wording on the original order was somewhat distinctive, I know exactly how I got on the new lists. No bad, actually. A lifetime supply of return address labels for 1 $3 order.
In the U. S., paying by the minute for local landline phone service is almost unheard of. I don't know about Austrailia but most of Europe pays for usage. Before I moved into an area where I could get DSL, I had a second phone line for my dialup internet. I was able to keep that connection nailed up pretty much 24 hours a day for $15 a month. I think the attitude here on cellular is that I want to be able to be contacted so I pay. Elsewhere it's They want to contact me so they pay. A difference in philosophy.