Yeah there is just one problem with your current keyless entry system: Mazda charges over $400 for each replacement key! I'm pretty sure I can buy a cell phone for less than that!
Simple logic: when car's get stolen, the car manufacturer gets to sell a replacement car, covered by insurance. What incentive does the car manufacturer have to build a theft-proof car? That would decrease their revenue and increase their support costs for dealing with people that locked themselves out of their car! Repeat the mantra: all corporate behavior can be explained through simple profit motive!
I'd extend that to ALL keyless entry systems include a mechanical lock as backup, because yes, car batteries DO go dead... especially when they are constantly drawing current because they are listening for keyless entry transmitters!
Yeah, you know you still need to be able to unlock the car when the car battery goes dead, too, right? So regardless of what wireless keys exist, there will always be a mechanical unlocking mechanism present. My Mazda senses the transmitter/key in my pocket, but the transmitter also contains an old-fashioned key I can use to unlock the door and start the engine. In general, good engineers always design in mechanical backups to electronic systems... especially for electronic sunroofs!
Phone companies just don't care. My ex went into T-Mobile and walked out with $406 worth of equipment, charging the whole thing to an equipment purchase installment plan. The only problem is, she gave them my phone number, and they charged it to my account! She even gave them her Oregon Driver's license so they didn't charge her sales tax, but at no point did the friendly salesperson think to check that the name, address, and phone number listed at the top of the contract actually matched the name of the person that signed it! (They took it off my account and charged it to hers instead only when I complained in person.)
One thing I've noticed from recently adding to Facebook several people I went to high school with 40 years ago: all the hot chick in the class now look used up and spit out, kind of like bag ladies, while all the plain girls that couldn't get a date in high school to save their lives still look the same, like they haven't really aged in 40 years. Meanwhile, me and all my male friends are now bald and creepy looking. If only I'd known then how well preserved they would be later, I would have gone for the unpopular girls in high school instead of the popular girls!
Did you also buy a "lifetime membership" in a health club, despite the well-known fact that all "lifetime membership" organizations change their name and invalidate all existing lifetime memberships every couple years, as a deliberate part of their business plan? Shame on you, my friend. Anybody that buys a "lifetime" subscription to anything on line knows in advance their access will only continue as long as there are other fools buying more subscriptions.
One of the people I went to college with had modified his van with a custom wooden bumper that had an apparently real marijuana leaf laminated in the center. I often wondered how often he got pulled over...
I drive an older, silver mid-size sedan with no decals or stickers. I frequently remove some of the factory-installed badges from my cars. I've gotten used to anonymity, and I'd rather not attract attention.
Person with leftist bumper stickers thinks ANYONE taking pictures of their car is doing so to add them to an FBI tracking list, and yet the people posting violent anti-government rhetoric on the Internet in support of the unlawful actions of the Malheur Wildlife Reserve occupiers somehow don't think they are making the FBI pay any attention to them at all... after all, they have a _right_ to protest against the government, right?
There is a simpler explanation: most companies are completely incapable of measuring the actual productivity of programmers, so compensation is based on other factors... like who is better at kissing up to the boss. (I would think women would be better than men at that... why aren't they paid more?)
Sysadmin is the most thankless job in the world; you only get attention when things don't work. Keep everything working perfectly, and you're invisible It's not a position I would wish on anyone.
Speaking from personal experience, my penis makes me a MUCH more productive programmer. I can count to 11, while female programmers can only count to 10!
Aren't the LG OLED TVs Active Matrix? However, they are really pricey due to still low yields on making OLED screens that large. Give it a couple years for the price to come down. I think the big market for AMOLED is wearable computing, that can be done now at a decent price.
So the Trump supporters have the same poorly-hidden huge insecurities that Trump himself has? What do you expect from a guy with tiny little baby hands?
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Yeah there is just one problem with your current keyless entry system: Mazda charges over $400 for each replacement key! I'm pretty sure I can buy a cell phone for less than that!
Simple logic: when car's get stolen, the car manufacturer gets to sell a replacement car, covered by insurance. What incentive does the car manufacturer have to build a theft-proof car? That would decrease their revenue and increase their support costs for dealing with people that locked themselves out of their car! Repeat the mantra: all corporate behavior can be explained through simple profit motive!
I'd extend that to ALL keyless entry systems include a mechanical lock as backup, because yes, car batteries DO go dead... especially when they are constantly drawing current because they are listening for keyless entry transmitters!
Yeah, you know you still need to be able to unlock the car when the car battery goes dead, too, right? So regardless of what wireless keys exist, there will always be a mechanical unlocking mechanism present. My Mazda senses the transmitter/key in my pocket, but the transmitter also contains an old-fashioned key I can use to unlock the door and start the engine. In general, good engineers always design in mechanical backups to electronic systems... especially for electronic sunroofs!
Phone companies just don't care. My ex went into T-Mobile and walked out with $406 worth of equipment, charging the whole thing to an equipment purchase installment plan. The only problem is, she gave them my phone number, and they charged it to my account! She even gave them her Oregon Driver's license so they didn't charge her sales tax, but at no point did the friendly salesperson think to check that the name, address, and phone number listed at the top of the contract actually matched the name of the person that signed it! (They took it off my account and charged it to hers instead only when I complained in person.)
One thing I've noticed from recently adding to Facebook several people I went to high school with 40 years ago: all the hot chick in the class now look used up and spit out, kind of like bag ladies, while all the plain girls that couldn't get a date in high school to save their lives still look the same, like they haven't really aged in 40 years. Meanwhile, me and all my male friends are now bald and creepy looking. If only I'd known then how well preserved they would be later, I would have gone for the unpopular girls in high school instead of the popular girls!
...those who check daily to see if anybody has "liked" them on dating websites are 100 times more likely to be depressed!
Did you also buy a "lifetime membership" in a health club, despite the well-known fact that all "lifetime membership" organizations change their name and invalidate all existing lifetime memberships every couple years, as a deliberate part of their business plan? Shame on you, my friend. Anybody that buys a "lifetime" subscription to anything on line knows in advance their access will only continue as long as there are other fools buying more subscriptions.
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One of the people I went to college with had modified his van with a custom wooden bumper that had an apparently real marijuana leaf laminated in the center. I often wondered how often he got pulled over...
I know, those people with the "Coexist" and "Bark less, wag more" bumper stickers are SUCH aggressive assholes, am I right?
I drive an older, silver mid-size sedan with no decals or stickers. I frequently remove some of the factory-installed badges from my cars. I've gotten used to anonymity, and I'd rather not attract attention.
Exactly my reaction: "What?!? You mean juggalos AREN'T a criminal organization?!?" If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
Person with leftist bumper stickers thinks ANYONE taking pictures of their car is doing so to add them to an FBI tracking list, and yet the people posting violent anti-government rhetoric on the Internet in support of the unlawful actions of the Malheur Wildlife Reserve occupiers somehow don't think they are making the FBI pay any attention to them at all... after all, they have a _right_ to protest against the government, right?
They all look alike in the dark...
There is a simpler explanation: most companies are completely incapable of measuring the actual productivity of programmers, so compensation is based on other factors... like who is better at kissing up to the boss. (I would think women would be better than men at that... why aren't they paid more?)
You haven't met any actual female computer programmers, have you?
Sysadmin is the most thankless job in the world; you only get attention when things don't work. Keep everything working perfectly, and you're invisible It's not a position I would wish on anyone.
Speaking from personal experience, my penis makes me a MUCH more productive programmer. I can count to 11, while female programmers can only count to 10!
Aren't the LG OLED TVs Active Matrix? However, they are really pricey due to still low yields on making OLED screens that large. Give it a couple years for the price to come down. I think the big market for AMOLED is wearable computing, that can be done now at a decent price.
Haven't you learned by now, you pay them their $99/year AppleCare extortion fee, and they just fix it for you...
Will AMOLED customizable jewelry be a thing by this Christmas, or next Christmas?
So the Trump supporters have the same poorly-hidden huge insecurities that Trump himself has? What do you expect from a guy with tiny little baby hands?
If they had trained it entirely on RealDonaldTrump tweets... would there have been any difference in the results?
"I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords!"