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Danny Roberts (Dlr)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2001 - 6:26 pm: | 
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I'm in the market for a new digital camera and have just about settled on Olympus, either the d-460 (1.3mpixel) or the d-490(2.1mpixel). Does anyone have any experience with either of these? I want to stay with the smart media card, since I have a good supply. One thing that bothers me is that there are so many of these models that have been re-furbished for sale on e-bay, kinda like the Compaq laptops. Does this mean that a lot of these get brought back with problems and get re-furbished??? Any help would be appreciated. |
Chuck Deaton
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, November 12, 1999 - 8:39 pm: |
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Gale, my opinion is that DVD and Sony digital cameras will change the world as we know it.State Farm and others have already gone to a paperless file. That means that 10 years from now files that are stored digitally will still be available.
What if a company got all the Best Buy type inventories and compiled them onto a DVD and the providers of the information sponsored the effort and the company gave the DVD away.
Once DVD becomes the product that it will eventually be nearly every computer user will have a DVD player. If for no other reason than the fact that Block Buster is slowly making the change from VHS to DVD. Eventually virtually all catalogs will be on DVD or CD ROM. DVD will make automobile estimating programs with photos of all the different models possible. If you are writing an estimate on a Blue 98 Taurus it will be possible to see the correct color Blue 98 Taurus and a photo of the replacement part along with the addres and phone #'s of the supplier and body shops that will do the work and a photo of the shop and the repairman. The possibilities are infinite.
I don't think that there is a market for such a DVD, but then I really didn't have a use for the Whole Earth Catalog I bought either, but I bought one anyway and spent long happy hours reading the ads and so did millions of other people.
When I watched A Long Kiss Goodnight on my new Compaq 1692 I think I saw the future. 2.5 hours of good quality video and audio.
I have to say that I saw the possibilities of this site the first time I saw it in 1997, that is why my resume is the first one on the list. |
Gale Hawkins
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, November 11, 1999 - 10:33 pm: |
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Wow Chuck I never ran into an adjuster quite like you. I see why you would want to stick with what you are using since it works great for your special adjusting needs. DVD is a great medium that is changing several industries already. Since you often work in a niche within a niche I wonder if there would be enough adjusters that would purchase the package you described to make it affordable? I would like the info on getting a copy of the Whole Earth Catalog. With 50% of adjusters still hand writing property claims and desk top systems and adjusting software both breaking the $500 price threshold I feel that this is the group at will be driving the market for the next few years. As more and more companies move to digital catalogs your idea will be much more affordable. For our contents databases we have to key in the JC Penney’s catalog where as Best Buy will just email theirs’ to any vendor wanting to use it. This move cost Best Buy nothing yet it will increase their business as the homeowners start jumping on their web site and start replacing their lost items. Just moving the adjusting industry into the digital world will have fantastic spin offs for all. Just think what this site is doing to move the industry forward. |
Chuck Deaton
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, November 11, 1999 - 6:51 pm: |
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Gale, as a heavy duty muli-line adjuster I see alot of things and do a lot of things others don't. Example in 1999 I started the year in an Allstate office working a desk in their auto liabilty section, then worked a hail storm for Crawford, not a one carrier deal but for several different companies, then I moved to St Paul and did long haul trucking for several months, then to Charleston, again for Crawford, working Floyd claims for the SC Wind and Hail people and some larger commercial and from there to Miami and handling all commercial, some small some large.
As you know Crawford supplies DDS and I use it. Went to the class two times and still have issues. Working for one company with one class of business is a peice of cake, say Florida wind, one, two maybe three coverages and about as many deductibles, the vast majority is residential. On the other hand I have horse farms, plant nurseries, condos, outboard marine clubs property and Business Interruption. Very nearly every claim I have is with a different carrier on a different form, some on manuscript. Some of the estimates I write are 20 pages with multiple locations and multiple buildings of every type known to mankind.
I can write an Excel spreadsheet and use Filemaker Pro. My time sheet is set up in Filemaker Pro and the form I use for estimates on heavy equipment. My thought is that someone like you could compile and put out a DVD with lots of companies data bases on it, maybe the companies would actually sponsor it. I need prices for Saran 73% shadecloth, 1/4" steel cable, telephone poles, sprinkler heads, pumps and a lot of other stuff. Something similar to the Whole Earth Catalog mixed with Lowe's and Snap-On. Wouldn't hurt a thing if it had all the ISO, AAIA and JUA forms from the various states on it.
DVD is just such a monster medium. |
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