The engineers of GM vehicles are outclassed HARD by garage tinkerers that love a vehicle. I know people that know more about the camaro than all the engineers at GM that designed it.
I'm happier with my $3000 gas full size touring motorcycle that does 55mpg city if I'm keeping my hand out of the throttle and can go up to 140mph oh and it has no problem carrying a second rider + another 60 pounds of things in it's saddle bags and trunk as well as being highly comfortable for a 500 mile long ride.
I bought used and got 90X more bike than I would have bough new with the same money. I can now ride the interstates very comfortably and my bike is faster than any car on the road so I dont have to worry about being smushed by some idiot in a SUV that cant see a scooter, he cant miss my 8 foot long 950 pound bike.
Next time you upgrade, look at a full motorcycle. If you dont want a full cruiser, used honda dauvilles or (nt700v) are around that price range as well, carry a lot more , get you up in the air more, and can do 100-120mph so you can ride the autobahn or keep up with traffic around atlanta, or other major cities, oh and they last forever without major repairs.
Never buy new, always buy used. and dont be afraid of a larger bike. Honestly, think about trading up, it really opens up options. I added a taller windscreen so now at 75mph on the highway I am out of the wind so much that at highway speed only my legs get wet during rain. Dont buy a sportbike, those things are useless for daily driving. Plus I can outdistance any sportbike. after 350 miles without a stop I feel fine, I have yet to meet a sportbike rider that can do 1500 miles in 2 days. Comfort and utility is far more important than speed, I can carry 2 up + all camping gear for a 3 week trip on my bike.
Look at the smartcar, in Europe it sold NEW for the base model for $5500-6500US when it hit here it sold for $17,500 for the base model and it's gas mileage dropped drastically because they had to add "safety features" that are useless.
The Smart car has stellar safety ratings all over europe, yet it was deemed "unsafe" in the USA and needed to be retrofitted with US safety equipment. Now it has to have the big engine in it ot move it, and Oh you cant have the Diesel engine that get's 80mpg.
Hopefully someone will circumvent the retarded US auto laws and sell it as a "kit" so it does not have to meet ANY US safety or other laws and can be a home made car that fits under the "experimental" rules like they do iwth aircraft.
"Native Linux app development sucks because of a lack of standardization. Conflicting projects, changing APIs, and aggressive attitudes from the community have all contributed to the failure of native Linux development."
No not really. Statically compile your binaries and call it done with the stupid dependency hell and API change hell. That way you can release binaries that "just work"(tm) instead of the 6 hours to get this damned bullshit app to run that uses hyper alpha library Development version 6.32.01.2 and anything else will not work because the programmer is a fricking moron.
Honestly, why did linux embrace the "spread crap everywhere" windows software installation model, instead of the Apple software install model? IT's retarded to have to install files shotgun style all over the fricking FS.
Please pull your head out of your ass and do the following...
Buy a iPad2, take it apart.
Build something better at the same price point.
Put a vanilla tablet android on it and leave the bootloader UNLOCKED.
You will win compared to all other non apple tablets. The techies will love you because they can easily put their favorite flavor of OS tweaks on it, your regular users will love you because it's a non screwed up Android release.
Everyone will be happy, you will make money and dominate the tablet market.
If you pull typical HP tricks by locking the bootloader and modifying the OS to have HP crap in it, you will completely and utterly fail.
It depends. Honest authors love people borrowing books and sharing them. The dishonest assholes are the ones that think you are stealing from them if you let someone else read your copy.
I have met both.. It's about a 60/40 mix with 60% being the honest people who love people that read their stories.
Then you have the far right raging idiots, like Brian Edwards who says that libraries are stealing from him by allowing people to read his books.
Why? Because we cant make reactors withstand 9.7 earthquakes and being slammed buy a 60 foot tall wall of water?
Sounds like you have unrealistic expectations. To me They did a fantastic job and are proof that Nuclear energy is safe. Even with the worst the planet was able to throw at them in natural disasters, it was still mostly contained.
You make it sound as if the plant was fine and then Kim Kardassian walked by and it exploded.
"They are water resistant, very durable and can be dropped from 30 feet without breaking."
Whereas an iPad2 must be used in a very dry environment, even high humidity will make it die, insanely delicate, and can develop a screen crack or shatter if it was placed on a table hard or dropped 6 inches onto deep shag carpet.
The iPad1 is a far superior product to the iPad2 in durability. Whoever though making the screen glass thinner was a idiot.
You have not tried the older iphone system. I had 100% reliability at 80mph on a motorcycle with mine. Siri on the other hand has problem with noise rejection.
Siri is a great demo or toy, it falls on it's face because it does not have an option to deliver ALL responses in voice.
I.E. I am driving and my phone in in my pocket, I should be able to hit the BT answer button to activate siri, ask something or give it a command, the response is completely in speech, I can then continue the commands and all responses are in speech, I should never have to touch the phone or look at it's screen.
Two reasons, First, accessibility, Siri is a utter joke to anyone that is blind... when it displays the result it's useless. The same problem is for normal abled people when in a situation where it is not safe to look at the device.
Second, Honestly voice control over something that returns the result on a screen is an Epic Fail. Come on, This is voice control, give me 100% voice response. I should be able to do all this without looking while walking down the street.
I hope they fix it, but I doubt it. it's really only a toy and done at a server farm instead of in the phone. Maybe when we are walking around with dual quad core processors in our phone they can do it in the phone.
Nope, They have not evolved to adapt to the spraying of Garlic oil for mosquito control over the past 200 years, so It's highly doubtful that they will get together and rapidly evolve to overcome this. They also have not evolved to defeat the highly effective mosquito traps.
Contrary to your belief, they do not have a science council or war council to work on their war against humanity. and evolution takes a lot more time.
Like everything else that does large ram drives.. use a ram drive assembly. They have been around for decades for high end. I had a 16 gig ram drive on a Pentium 4 in 2001, it acted like a Ultra320 SCSI drive.
so your exchange servers are ran by morons then? I have ZERO problems with iphones and android phones on the corperate Exhance servers. they fricking work better than the blackberry garbage.
The zune had potential, the problem was that Microsoft let the RIAA dictate it's software.
the heaping piles of steamy DRM on the unit made it fail. it's "share tunes feature" was a ipod killer, and if MSFT told the RIAA to stuff it in their ass sideways and made the thing without any DRM in it it could have really made a difference.
BAH, why? build a metric buttload of ram on it and have it simply make snapshots of the ramdisks to rotating media when changes are made using a coprocessor letting the main process scream along. you get insane speeds and ram is dirt. if each processor had 64 gig of ram, each can run 4 website VM's with plenty of memory and storage and still outperform the quad bonded OC48 connections into the Server Farm.
This is how Comcasts Video on demand system runs. Main spinning storage servers spool out to ramdisk only servers at local headends.
Buy your child a $350-$900 ipad for a toy, you deserve little johnny buying crap off of the app store and in game. WTF is wrong with adults that buy kids these things?
Hell, I told my 19 year old child that I will not buy her an iPad, she can go buy one on her own. Here have a stick, they can be fun.
Too bad the self control of most people under 30 is that of a deranged squirrel in a nut processing plant. They have zero clue as to what good music is, and they cant stop consuming it... gotta gotta gotta, gimmie gimmie gimmie.. good god.
IF you have to watch it or hear it, at least pirate it from a friend that will not rat on you and get a better copy in the process... I.E. borrow someone elses disc and rip it. itunes will rip music effortlessly,. and handbrake 2 versions back also will do this. (current handbrake is crap as they removed decss)
Nope, because NONE of those apps will work with a touchscreen. Nice try at trolling, but I've been there with a linux tablet several times. 1st time in 1999 with a fujistu stylistic and redhat. Epic fail in useability because desktop apps designed for keyboard and mouse fail completely in a touchscreen setup.
2nd time in 2004 again on a newer Fujitsu (they are the only company making real tablets instead of the toys you buy now) it's a little better but again, email apps and web-browsing sucks.. the on screen keyboard was better if it kept focus.
3rd time was 6 months ago... Ubuntu and it's unity. the desktop works great but again, firefox was an epic fail because the on screen keyboard is no a part of unity and holds focus in a transparent mode over the screen.
Linux has ZERO apps that will work on a phone or tablet, they ALL need to be re-written. It's why windows 7 is a epic fail on a tablet and why ipad and androidpad kick the crap out of it in useability because the OS and apps were written specifically for a toucscreen environment.
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The engineers of GM vehicles are outclassed HARD by garage tinkerers that love a vehicle. I know people that know more about the camaro than all the engineers at GM that designed it.
I'm happier with my $3000 gas full size touring motorcycle that does 55mpg city if I'm keeping my hand out of the throttle and can go up to 140mph oh and it has no problem carrying a second rider + another 60 pounds of things in it's saddle bags and trunk as well as being highly comfortable for a 500 mile long ride.
I bought used and got 90X more bike than I would have bough new with the same money. I can now ride the interstates very comfortably and my bike is faster than any car on the road so I dont have to worry about being smushed by some idiot in a SUV that cant see a scooter, he cant miss my 8 foot long 950 pound bike.
Next time you upgrade, look at a full motorcycle. If you dont want a full cruiser, used honda dauvilles or (nt700v) are around that price range as well, carry a lot more , get you up in the air more, and can do 100-120mph so you can ride the autobahn or keep up with traffic around atlanta, or other major cities, oh and they last forever without major repairs.
Never buy new, always buy used. and dont be afraid of a larger bike. Honestly, think about trading up, it really opens up options. I added a taller windscreen so now at 75mph on the highway I am out of the wind so much that at highway speed only my legs get wet during rain. Dont buy a sportbike, those things are useless for daily driving. Plus I can outdistance any sportbike. after 350 miles without a stop I feel fine, I have yet to meet a sportbike rider that can do 1500 miles in 2 days. Comfort and utility is far more important than speed, I can carry 2 up + all camping gear for a 3 week trip on my bike.
Look at the smartcar, in Europe it sold NEW for the base model for $5500-6500US when it hit here it sold for $17,500 for the base model and it's gas mileage dropped drastically because they had to add "safety features" that are useless.
The Smart car has stellar safety ratings all over europe, yet it was deemed "unsafe" in the USA and needed to be retrofitted with US safety equipment. Now it has to have the big engine in it ot move it, and Oh you cant have the Diesel engine that get's 80mpg.
Hopefully someone will circumvent the retarded US auto laws and sell it as a "kit" so it does not have to meet ANY US safety or other laws and can be a home made car that fits under the "experimental" rules like they do iwth aircraft.
"Native Linux app development sucks because of a lack of standardization. Conflicting projects, changing APIs, and aggressive attitudes from the community have all contributed to the failure of native Linux development."
No not really. Statically compile your binaries and call it done with the stupid dependency hell and API change hell. That way you can release binaries that "just work"(tm) instead of the 6 hours to get this damned bullshit app to run that uses hyper alpha library Development version 6.32.01.2 and anything else will not work because the programmer is a fricking moron.
Honestly, why did linux embrace the "spread crap everywhere" windows software installation model, instead of the Apple software install model? IT's retarded to have to install files shotgun style all over the fricking FS.
Breathing is ok as they are in the mines filtering out all the dust they are making with their lungs. It's a Win Win.
Please pull your head out of your ass and do the following...
Buy a iPad2, take it apart.
Build something better at the same price point.
Put a vanilla tablet android on it and leave the bootloader UNLOCKED.
You will win compared to all other non apple tablets. The techies will love you because they can easily put their favorite flavor of OS tweaks on it, your regular users will love you because it's a non screwed up Android release.
Everyone will be happy, you will make money and dominate the tablet market.
If you pull typical HP tricks by locking the bootloader and modifying the OS to have HP crap in it, you will completely and utterly fail.
It depends. Honest authors love people borrowing books and sharing them. The dishonest assholes are the ones that think you are stealing from them if you let someone else read your copy.
I have met both.. It's about a 60/40 mix with 60% being the honest people who love people that read their stories.
Then you have the far right raging idiots, like Brian Edwards who says that libraries are stealing from him by allowing people to read his books.
I help friends crack and strip the DRM and we share the epubs. works great.
it also has the side effect of giving me ownership of the ebook so it cant be taken from me or dictated as to what device I can read it on.
It's a Win-Win.
Posting out his ass? he has explosive, high pressure diarreia that paints walls with that feceies coming out of his ass.
WE can fix that by replacing the heavy equipment in the mines with human slaves.
Why? Because we cant make reactors withstand 9.7 earthquakes and being slammed buy a 60 foot tall wall of water?
Sounds like you have unrealistic expectations. To me They did a fantastic job and are proof that Nuclear energy is safe. Even with the worst the planet was able to throw at them in natural disasters, it was still mostly contained.
You make it sound as if the plant was fine and then Kim Kardassian walked by and it exploded.
"They are water resistant, very durable and can be dropped from 30 feet without breaking."
Whereas an iPad2 must be used in a very dry environment, even high humidity will make it die, insanely delicate, and can develop a screen crack or shatter if it was placed on a table hard or dropped 6 inches onto deep shag carpet.
The iPad1 is a far superior product to the iPad2 in durability. Whoever though making the screen glass thinner was a idiot.
You have not tried the older iphone system. I had 100% reliability at 80mph on a motorcycle with mine. Siri on the other hand has problem with noise rejection.
Siri is a great demo or toy, it falls on it's face because it does not have an option to deliver ALL responses in voice.
I.E. I am driving and my phone in in my pocket, I should be able to hit the BT answer button to activate siri, ask something or give it a command, the response is completely in speech, I can then continue the commands and all responses are in speech, I should never have to touch the phone or look at it's screen.
Two reasons, First, accessibility, Siri is a utter joke to anyone that is blind... when it displays the result it's useless. The same problem is for normal abled people when in a situation where it is not safe to look at the device.
Second, Honestly voice control over something that returns the result on a screen is an Epic Fail. Come on, This is voice control, give me 100% voice response. I should be able to do all this without looking while walking down the street.
I hope they fix it, but I doubt it. it's really only a toy and done at a server farm instead of in the phone. Maybe when we are walking around with dual quad core processors in our phone they can do it in the phone.
Nope, They have not evolved to adapt to the spraying of Garlic oil for mosquito control over the past 200 years, so It's highly doubtful that they will get together and rapidly evolve to overcome this. They also have not evolved to defeat the highly effective mosquito traps.
Contrary to your belief, they do not have a science council or war council to work on their war against humanity. and evolution takes a lot more time.
Like everything else that does large ram drives.. use a ram drive assembly. They have been around for decades for high end. I had a 16 gig ram drive on a Pentium 4 in 2001, it acted like a Ultra320 SCSI drive.
so your exchange servers are ran by morons then? I have ZERO problems with iphones and android phones on the corperate Exhance servers. they fricking work better than the blackberry garbage.
not difficult at all, iphone supports exchange perfectly.
No not really. MAcbook Air is tiny as hell.
http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-duo/pd is a pad/laptop hybrid
and honestly an ipad with a BT keyboard.
I think the Grandparent never touched one.
The zune had potential, the problem was that Microsoft let the RIAA dictate it's software.
the heaping piles of steamy DRM on the unit made it fail. it's "share tunes feature" was a ipod killer, and if MSFT told the RIAA to stuff it in their ass sideways and made the thing without any DRM in it it could have really made a difference.
BAH, why? build a metric buttload of ram on it and have it simply make snapshots of the ramdisks to rotating media when changes are made using a coprocessor letting the main process scream along. you get insane speeds and ram is dirt. if each processor had 64 gig of ram, each can run 4 website VM's with plenty of memory and storage and still outperform the quad bonded OC48 connections into the Server Farm.
This is how Comcasts Video on demand system runs. Main spinning storage servers spool out to ramdisk only servers at local headends.
Buy your child a $350-$900 ipad for a toy, you deserve little johnny buying crap off of the app store and in game. WTF is wrong with adults that buy kids these things?
Hell, I told my 19 year old child that I will not buy her an iPad, she can go buy one on her own. Here have a stick, they can be fun.
Too bad the self control of most people under 30 is that of a deranged squirrel in a nut processing plant. They have zero clue as to what good music is, and they cant stop consuming it... gotta gotta gotta, gimmie gimmie gimmie.. good god.
IF you have to watch it or hear it, at least pirate it from a friend that will not rat on you and get a better copy in the process... I.E. borrow someone elses disc and rip it. itunes will rip music effortlessly,. and handbrake 2 versions back also will do this. (current handbrake is crap as they removed decss)
They have snipers that will just go out and shoot possible infringes in the head. and then scream.... I AM THE LAW!
Nope, because NONE of those apps will work with a touchscreen.
Nice try at trolling, but I've been there with a linux tablet several times. 1st time in 1999 with a fujistu stylistic and redhat. Epic fail in useability because desktop apps designed for keyboard and mouse fail completely in a touchscreen setup.
2nd time in 2004 again on a newer Fujitsu (they are the only company making real tablets instead of the toys you buy now) it's a little better but again, email apps and web-browsing sucks.. the on screen keyboard was better if it kept focus.
3rd time was 6 months ago... Ubuntu and it's unity. the desktop works great but again, firefox was an epic fail because the on screen keyboard is no a part of unity and holds focus in a transparent mode over the screen.
Linux has ZERO apps that will work on a phone or tablet, they ALL need to be re-written. It's why windows 7 is a epic fail on a tablet and why ipad and androidpad kick the crap out of it in useability because the OS and apps were written specifically for a toucscreen environment.