I only ask because I've heard similar from other sources, and when pressed, the clause they quote isn't actually in there. i.e. riding my bike through the bank drive-through. "You can't ride that through here. Our insurance doesn't cover it." 'Oh. Could you have the manager fax me that particular clause' Days later - "Oh, we were mistaken."
Also, knowing the limits of bike-style helmets, what would happen in the unlikely event a renter were injured while wearing one? They are not as protective as the companies make them out to be.
Yes they did, and no, using a cell phone is not a certainty to cause problems.
It does, however, carry the potential to introduce errors in various systems. Would you want the altimeter to read 200 feet too high, or have an uncommanded left turn, because some numbnuts is yakking on the cellphone?
"DC-9 flight crew experienced an involuntary turn by the autopilot during cruise. Autopilot reacted normally after the captain asked passengers to turn off any personal electronic devices. Crew later learned that a cell phone in an overhead bin was heard during the time of the autopilot problem."
UPS. Depending on where this is, beach houses suffer from enough storms and power outages to make this a necessity. Sand and water. This is at the beach. Little Jimmy will start pecking away with sandy fingers. A weatherproof keyboard, at the very least. Sealed cabinet for the case, maybe.
Personally, I'd just give them access, and not the actual PC.
Office or OpenOffice.org, for writing a vacation diary. Dig cam access software to empty the camera disk (and then burn to CD) A few games for rainy days
Would you buy a car you're not allowed to fix yourself and still retain the warranty? You can drive it all you want, just don't screw with it.
And that's what most people do with their PC. Drive it. Not muck around under the hood and tweak the fuel injectors, or adjust the slope of the ABS initiation.
In the amount of information available, yes. Literally hundreds of different readings. Real time readings, written to a log file. How fast was the car going when X happened? What gear were you in? What was the ignition timing (modified in realtime by the puter in the car) when Y happened? Is the cyl head temp rising at a different rate than the H2O temp?
It's an indepth debugger for your car, rather than beep beep POST errors. You DO have to know what to do with the info, though.
Having helped the mechanic (not dealer) troubleshoot my randomly overheating truck, I've seen that the code readers can be *very* comprehensive. Such as reading the increasing voltage output by the cyl head temp sensor as the heat rises. Or finding out that cyl 2 & 6 are misfiring, but only intermittently. (and for a real informative, find out *how* the OBD knows a particular cyl is misfiring-it's not jut an absence of spark)
Reading the freeze frame (what turned the light on), can be very instructive, if only as a place to start.
Knowing the code that comes out of that freeze frame still requires a bit of basic mechanical troubleshooting skill.
Reagarding my truck (2000 F-150)...the mechanic blew off the misfire as 'we'll fix that after we get the overheating down'. $150 later, still overheats. I hooked up my friends OBD scanner to my laptop, drove for a while, and then analysed the resultant file. Replace the plug wires, no more intermittent misfire, vastly lower percentage of overheating. It still does it some, but not nearly as bad. Next step is to replace the ignition coil pack.
The newer laptop OBD hookups and software DO snag all the standard codes, and if you get the specific manufacturer pack, all the specific ones as well. AutoTap sells the extended code sets for $99 each. Or all the majors (GM, FordBasically, you get a virtual dashboard for everything thats going on in the car. Replayable at home for analysis. There are open source versions of the basic code set as well. As well as instructions for building your own serial port adapter.
Go to Autozone. The nice man there has a code reader, and will read the code, for free, and tell you what it means. Of course he wants you to buy some parts to fix it, but you don't have to.
Alternatively, you can look it up here Input your car model and year, and the specific code.
Go buy one of the many, many aftermarket products that do exactly what is this. Interface with te cars serial port, and display in colorful graphics on your laptop or Palm, exactly what the particular code(s) means.
Anywhere in price from $80 to several thousand. AutoTap is probably the best midrange one, at $200-300.
Now...if you lack the skill to put a gas cap on correctly, these may not help you.
Some (not all) of the costs to keep the public road system going comes from taxes on fuel at the pump, be it diesel or gas. They get rolled into the general fund to pay for road construction, maintenance, police, fire, EMT, etc.
Those costs do not change, no matter what the power source. Accept the fact that other fees (taxes) will rise elsewhere to compensate.
The ONLY thing saved is purchasing foreign oil. Which is not a bad thing. But don't kid yourself that it will be cheap for all, forever.
Exactly. These guys do marketing and pricing research out the ass. If a new model will earn them more profit (more $$ per unit, or more units), they will look into it heavily.
I will not tolerate a $10-a-month utility plan on my software applications.
What if it were $10/month ($0 upfront fee), and you get (if you want) the next version when it comes out. and the version after that. And the one after that?
That's what they want...perpetual small payments. And a LOT of people will go for it. $10/month may be easier to sell than a $200 lump every other year.
Consider phone, or broadband service. How many people would have DSL or cable if the only option were a once a year fee of $550? Not many. Same price, but much harder to sell than smaller monthly payments.
Governments, at all levels, are not necessarily averse to open source tools. Linux and others are used in many state & local governments.
But there is no finished, deliverable, open source voting method. Right now. Today.
So when they looked around for an e-voting solution, what other choice did they have? Start a new project, which may or may not be done in time for whatever election they wanted to use it for? Or listen to the nice man from Diebold, with a packaged solution, ready to go.
Unfortunately, now they are finding out some of the problems in that choice.
...it can also be used in a devastating weapon. Gasoline (oil) is therefore also bad, due to the existance of napalm. Electricity must be horrendous, because of the electric chair.
Coal is bad because gunpowder exists.
Jesus, Bruce...any energy source can be compacted and used as a weapon.
Mark an X, punch a hole in a piece of paper, write a name...and a bunch of your fellow citizens (from all sides of the political spectrum) count them, by hand. Any questions - "I demand a recount!"
Only recently has it gone into a black box. The magical computer.
A move to continue the 'openness' would be advisable, no matter what the technology.
And there's a reason the exact capabilities of military weapons are classified. If someone were to want to attack you, would you want them to know the exact maximum range of your guns and where they are deployed?
Publically verifiable code. Sure. The geeks who can read and understand it will, far more than current distros and projects. If only for the novelty.
But then what is needed is a strict, multiparty custody chain, to ensure that the specific, compiled, verified code, as well as the machines it is run on, are what was actually verified. it does no good to verify codebase X, if what finds its way to the machines is codebase Y
If she has MS Office, VBA would seem to be the place to start. Excel & Word macros. If she has Office Pro, adding some Access development would go far. Maybe a GUI for a home inventory DB or catalog of kids pictures.
No MS Office? OO.o macros would work just as well. Have her build a spreadsheet app to scale the amount of ingredients in a recipe needed for different servings.
Programming as a hobby is one thing. Programming as a hobby for something you really like to do is vastly better.
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It's also the patent numer (by IBM!) for a 'graded channel field effect transistor'
Conspiracy indeed!
It is their responsibility to manufacture a product that, if used by an average person, can be maintained by an average person.
I assume you apply this same standard to Linux installations as well?
I only ask because I've heard similar from other sources, and when pressed, the clause they quote isn't actually in there.
i.e. riding my bike through the bank drive-through.
"You can't ride that through here. Our insurance doesn't cover it."
'Oh. Could you have the manager fax me that particular clause'
Days later - "Oh, we were mistaken."
Also, knowing the limits of bike-style helmets, what would happen in the unlikely event a renter were injured while wearing one? They are not as protective as the companies make them out to be.
Does your insurance policy actually have that clause in it? "Renter must wear a helmet"
Bikes - no. Usually illegal, almost always more dangerous.
Incredible Adventures has the fix you need. Not an A-10, but way, way faster. Will a MiG-29 do?
Yes they did, and no, using a cell phone is not a certainty to cause problems.
It does, however, carry the potential to introduce errors in various systems.
Would you want the altimeter to read 200 feet too high, or have an uncommanded left turn, because some numbnuts is yakking on the cellphone?
"DC-9 flight crew experienced an involuntary turn by the autopilot during cruise. Autopilot reacted normally after the captain asked passengers to turn off any personal electronic devices. Crew later learned that a cell phone in an overhead bin was heard during the time of the autopilot problem."
The best type of ads to display on your website?
You're asking the bastion of ad blocking/workarounds/avoidance? The very center of "free"?
Dude...you are gonna get so flamed.
Can't use it for much, but hey...at least they can't screw anything up with it.
UPS. Depending on where this is, beach houses suffer from enough storms and power outages to make this a necessity.
Sand and water. This is at the beach. Little Jimmy will start pecking away with sandy fingers. A weatherproof keyboard, at the very least. Sealed cabinet for the case, maybe.
Personally, I'd just give them access, and not the actual PC.
Office or OpenOffice.org, for writing a vacation diary.
Dig cam access software to empty the camera disk (and then burn to CD)
A few games for rainy days
Just not on the same day.
Would you buy a car you're not allowed to fix yourself and still retain the warranty? You can drive it all you want, just don't screw with it.
And that's what most people do with their PC. Drive it. Not muck around under the hood and tweak the fuel injectors, or adjust the slope of the ABS initiation.
is OBD-II an improvement over the paper clip?
In the amount of information available, yes. Literally hundreds of different readings. Real time readings, written to a log file.
How fast was the car going when X happened? What gear were you in?
What was the ignition timing (modified in realtime by the puter in the car) when Y happened?
Is the cyl head temp rising at a different rate than the H2O temp?
It's an indepth debugger for your car, rather than beep beep POST errors.
You DO have to know what to do with the info, though.
Having helped the mechanic (not dealer) troubleshoot my randomly overheating truck, I've seen that the code readers can be *very* comprehensive. Such as reading the increasing voltage output by the cyl head temp sensor as the heat rises. Or finding out that cyl 2 & 6 are misfiring, but only intermittently.
(and for a real informative, find out *how* the OBD knows a particular cyl is misfiring-it's not jut an absence of spark)
Reading the freeze frame (what turned the light on), can be very instructive, if only as a place to start.
Knowing the code that comes out of that freeze frame still requires a bit of basic mechanical troubleshooting skill.
Reagarding my truck (2000 F-150)...the mechanic blew off the misfire as 'we'll fix that after we get the overheating down'. $150 later, still overheats. I hooked up my friends OBD scanner to my laptop, drove for a while, and then analysed the resultant file.
Replace the plug wires, no more intermittent misfire, vastly lower percentage of overheating. It still does it some, but not nearly as bad. Next step is to replace the ignition coil pack.
The newer laptop OBD hookups and software DO snag all the standard codes, and if you get the specific manufacturer pack, all the specific ones as well. AutoTap sells the extended code sets for $99 each. Or all the majors (GM, FordBasically, you get a virtual dashboard for everything thats going on in the car. Replayable at home for analysis.
There are open source versions of the basic code set as well. As well as instructions for building your own serial port adapter.
Go to Autozone. The nice man there has a code reader, and will read the code, for free, and tell you what it means. Of course he wants you to buy some parts to fix it, but you don't have to.
Alternatively, you can look it up here Input your car model and year, and the specific code.
Go buy one of the many, many aftermarket products that do exactly what is this. Interface with te cars serial port, and display in colorful graphics on your laptop or Palm, exactly what the particular code(s) means.
Anywhere in price from $80 to several thousand. AutoTap is probably the best midrange one, at $200-300.
Now...if you lack the skill to put a gas cap on correctly, these may not help you.
Some (not all) of the costs to keep the public road system going comes from taxes on fuel at the pump, be it diesel or gas. They get rolled into the general fund to pay for road construction, maintenance, police, fire, EMT, etc.
Those costs do not change, no matter what the power source. Accept the fact that other fees (taxes) will rise elsewhere to compensate.
The ONLY thing saved is purchasing foreign oil. Which is not a bad thing. But don't kid yourself that it will be cheap for all, forever.
Exactly. These guys do marketing and pricing research out the ass. If a new model will earn them more profit (more $$ per unit, or more units), they will look into it heavily.
I will not tolerate a $10-a-month utility plan on my software applications.
What if it were $10/month ($0 upfront fee), and you get (if you want) the next version when it comes out. and the version after that. And the one after that?
That's what they want...perpetual small payments. And a LOT of people will go for it. $10/month may be easier to sell than a $200 lump every other year.
Consider phone, or broadband service. How many people would have DSL or cable if the only option were a once a year fee of $550? Not many. Same price, but much harder to sell than smaller monthly payments.
Because, currently, there is no alternative .
Governments, at all levels, are not necessarily averse to open source tools. Linux and others are used in many state & local governments.
But there is no finished, deliverable, open source voting method. Right now. Today.
So when they looked around for an e-voting solution, what other choice did they have? Start a new project, which may or may not be done in time for whatever election they wanted to use it for? Or listen to the nice man from Diebold, with a packaged solution, ready to go.
Unfortunately, now they are finding out some of the problems in that choice.
...it can also be used in a devastating weapon.
Gasoline (oil) is therefore also bad, due to the existance of napalm.
Electricity must be horrendous, because of the electric chair.
Coal is bad because gunpowder exists.
Jesus, Bruce...any energy source can be compacted and used as a weapon.
Mark an X, punch a hole in a piece of paper, write a name...and a bunch of your fellow citizens (from all sides of the political spectrum) count them, by hand. Any questions - "I demand a recount!"
Only recently has it gone into a black box. The magical computer.
A move to continue the 'openness' would be advisable, no matter what the technology.
And there's a reason the exact capabilities of military weapons are classified. If someone were to want to attack you, would you want them to know the exact maximum range of your guns and where they are deployed?
Publically verifiable code. Sure. The geeks who can read and understand it will, far more than current distros and projects. If only for the novelty.
But then what is needed is a strict, multiparty custody chain, to ensure that the specific, compiled, verified code, as well as the machines it is run on, are what was actually verified.
it does no good to verify codebase X, if what finds its way to the machines is codebase Y
What does she like to do? Interests?
If she has MS Office, VBA would seem to be the place to start. Excel & Word macros. If she has Office Pro, adding some Access development would go far. Maybe a GUI for a home inventory DB or catalog of kids pictures.
No MS Office? OO.o macros would work just as well. Have her build a spreadsheet app to scale the amount of ingredients in a recipe needed for different servings.
Programming as a hobby is one thing. Programming as a hobby for something you really like to do is vastly better.