On Fri, 26 Jun 2015, Warner wrote:
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 07:17:51PM -0700, David Lang([email protected]) wrote:
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no analogy is perfect. our field is young and ifyou go back and look at
what cars were like around the turn of the last century, you'll see that
things weren't much better there.
Speaking of cars, having just crawled from under one of mine, which has
nothing to do with the keyboard I'm on now unless I'm opening a forum
or an electric version of a Bentley manual.
It's interesting how auto manufactures have been deviating away from
standard methods of diagnosis and engineering. This happened before,
which is what prompted the ODB standard. Many cars over the past decade
have proprietary programming systems that are required for randomly
surprising things. Things have been leaning proprietary to encourage
service at dealers, which brings a higher profit margin. I'm still
randomly surprised by a part that was once a routine swap that now
requires an hour of billable labor at a mechanic with the right
computer.
yep. I can point out similar non-standard components (power supplies, drive
bays, etc) from the highest end computer manufactuers as well. For similar
reasons.
David Lang
More a hobby, really. One I spend less and less time on.
Warner
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