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Many new cars today come with built-in navigation systems, but a lot of frustrated new car owners just use their phones for directions, according to a new survey. Maybe that's because my phone won't withhold directions while I'm in motion.
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Because built in sat-navs cost a fortune to update?
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...and sometimes upgrades are dropped after only 2 years, while a car should last at the very least 8? And sometimes they aren't upgradable at all?
I have my TomTom Via, will probably change it for a TomTom Go in the not-so-next future. At least I can port it on any car and use it on feet too if I need (I don't leave it in the car, if it is exposed then I'll get a broken glass and one empty spot, if I leave it in the front storage it melts during Summer).
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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den2k88 wrote: a car should last at the very least 8?
The reality is closer to 3x that. The most recent numbers I've seen for the average age of a car on the road in the US is 11.X years which handwaves to a probable ~20-25 year lifespan. (With only 2 points on the decay curve anything other than handwaving is impossible, and I've never seen more finegrained breakdown on what percentage of cars of each year are still running.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I've been conservative, as I always am - my current car is 13 and my backup (former current) car is 18. My dad's cars are 11, 14 and 20. It helps he's a mechanic though.
Newer cars have less lifespan but increased security, they hardly last more than 10 years - but I speak mainly of FIAT, which is the one with best (average) quality at low (not so low) prices in Italy.
To me a car should last at the very least 8 years with medium-heavy usage, from the medium-low cost range (I avoid Daewoo, Skoda, Kia, Dacia for reliability issues and Japanese cars have intolerable waiting times and prices for servicing in Italy so Toyota and Nissan aren't options).
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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That's probably just FIAT, in the US the average age number is going up a few months every year as cars improve. Being a mechanic definitely helps with stretching the life out; I'm probably going to replace my 06 within the next few months due to rising maintenance costs. I've been running $1000-1500/year for the last 3 or so and have 2 things that are likely to turn into $1k+ fishing expeditions to solve (one will need fixed to pass my emissions test next spring hence the deadline, the 2nd just is really annoying) for a car which is down to ~$3k book value. Even ignoring the lost time element, keeping it going is approaching the replacement cost threshold and I'm still grumpy about 2 breakdowns in the last 18mo.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Oook 1000 - 1500 / year is much much more than what we usually spend on cars (in my family), our expense is usually between 200€ and 500 € per car. That could explain the difference in duration.
Stay away from Chrysler if you don't like FIAT (which I should call FCA but I'll behave like the elder people, naming things as they used to be 20 years ago). And Ford / General Motors. And Range Rover. And Jeep.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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the rough breakdown's been:
~200-600/year for suspension bits and wheel bearings (I'm guessing these've been prematurely killed by the suspension bits crapping out slowly enough not to trigger my 'something is broken' reaction); which's apparently the biggest quality failing for ~2006 GM cars. (When I bought mine their new platforms were winning awards for initial quality.)
~800-1000(?) in two hits for whole an exhaust system (everything but the cat the 1st time then it the next year). The liquid salt the road crews started using a few years ago eats any exposed bits of metal on the underbody alive. 
~$500 for the water pump, with a bonus 2nd tow and $150(?) of labor 8 months later because the out of town garage only replaced the pump and not a pair of $5 plastic fittings that only last slightly longer than the pump itself. 
~500(?) for breaks once.
~$700 for new tires once.
The first ticking bombs is a check engine light related to cat efficiency, this came on twice intermittently before the cat replacement, both O2 sensors were replaced, and my shop thinks since I'm slowly losing oil without any signs of a leak that my engine might be burning a trace of it as the most likely next thing to look at. That requires going to a bigger and more expensive garage that can rip the engine apart; and that's not going to be cheap regardless of what they find.
The second is my power locks were blowing a fuse a week before I put in a self resetting breaker in the fuse slot. Unfortunately I haven't been able to pick up a pattern of when/what is triggering the fault since then and the only place willing to work on electrical problems is probably the stealership (and even they would probably opt out if they could without screwing up their franchise agreement).
My mom got 230k miles over 12 years in her 04 Chevy before hers was murdered by a deer (and she was a year or two into knowing it was about time to start looking for a replacement) to my 110 over 10 in my Buick; so it looks like it was more the years than the miles to blame. And excluding the tires labor probably cost me a bit more than half the total maintenance cost.
If it hadn't been for the two big problems hitting one on top of the other, I'd've probably kept it another one or three years hoping some of the lane assist/blindspot check/adaptive cruise features in new cars would change from $5k upsells to $2k standard features.  At least I didn't take a coworkers suggestion of paying more for a stainless exhaust that theoretically should've been salt proof at something like double the initial cost.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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DeepMind, an artificial intelligence firm that was acquired by Google in 2014 and is now under the Alphabet umbrella, has developed a computer than can refer to its own memory to learn facts and use that knowledge to answer questions. “The last thing we want is a bunch of bureaucrats slowing us down as we chase the unicorn out there.”
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DeepMind, an artificial intelligence firm that was acquired by Google in 2014 and is now under the Alphabet umbrella, has developed a computer than can refer to its own memory to learn facts and use that knowledge to answer questions. Do you question the nature of your reality?
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Have you ever heard of wardriving? It’s the act of searching for and mapping Wi-Fi networks from a moving vehicle. It’s a really cool way to create a map of the wireless signals in a certain location. Don't get too excited; you actually have to do stuff.
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Facebook recently put bots in charge of picking articles for its Trending section – a decision that was met with backlash after it was found that the algorithms had surfaced a fake report about Fox News’ Megyn Kelly, within days of being implemented. "The Human Torch was denied a bank loan."
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A University of California IT employee whose job is being outsourced to India recently wrote Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) for help. Feinstein's office sent back a letter addressing manufacturing job losses, not IT, and offered the worker no assistance. "Dear Citizen, Life is hard and then you die. Warmest regards, Senator Feinstien."
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Today, President Obama outlined a vision to CNN for the future of space exploration. The President instructed NASA to develop spacecraft and technologies geared toward sending astronauts to deep space, while at the same time partnering with American companies to build a strong space economy
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This guide is by and for engineers who use AWS. It aims to be a useful, living reference that consolidates links, tips, gotchas, and best practices. It arose from discussion and editing over beers by several engineers who have used AWS extensively. A work in-progress, but also in-depth.
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Bookmarked!
Kudos to authors for the efforts to put up those at single place. 
I might add few things in weekend.
You can have all the tools in the world but if you don't genuinely believe in yourself, it's useless.
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Most of the changes in the latest Windows 10 preview release, build 14942, look like minor tweaks. But they point the way to more significant changes to come next year. Here's what to look out for. Surprise #1: All your software works just fine again.
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Surprise #1 : Edge does not work properly anymore
Surprise #2 : Link to Internet Explorer in start Menu
Surprise #3 : iTunes does not seems to automatically open when connecting USB cable.
Philippe Mori
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Philippe Mori wrote: Surprise #3 : iTunes does not seems to automatically open when connecting USB cable.
How is anything going wrong with iTunes a surprise?
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iTunes breaks more often than anything else in this universe.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I thought iTunes was end-of-lifed by apple.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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That was Safari and QuickTime.
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Quote: So in this build, on PCs with more than 3.5 GB of RAM, services are no longer grouped under shared Svchost entries. Instead, each gets its own process.
I'd've killed for this at my last job.
At least one of the dumpster fires corporate IT blighted my Weven laptop with regularly went berserk and had its service host process devouring a core for anywhere between 15 minutes and an hour. The large number of services running it it meant I wasn't able to do anything beyond generic rage at the admins since i couldn't ever point to a single offender and the process in question was full of stuff that would cause real problems if I started killing them left and right (assuming it wasn't running at a level of protection my local admin couldn't overrule anyway).
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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