Considering the game engine, which is usually at least 40% of the programming (modifying it being the other 60%), and licensing the engine can't cost more than $10 million there seems to be a lot of hollywood style waste going on, which is what they're after it seems. Without the multimillion dollar movie star eating up a large portion of the budget.
Gotta break some eggs on the way to #1 omelette. You're pretty good at finding recalls. Go find the recall where Ford had to replace all the steering columns on Focuses because the Steering wheel would come off while driving or how about the Saturn Vue where the rear suspension would collapse under normal driving conditions. Don't forget Ford's famous tire exploding phenomenon with the Explorer. That kind of crap on these complex machines is bound to happen and I bet you could find 100 for any manufacturer for any year. You can't argue with the fact that Toyota is #1, and Toyota/Honda's reliability record reflects those sales numbers, so you won't, and cant.
Well I was going to say "action packer" but unless you do a lot of camping you probably don't know what that is. Its the same type of plastic with the same texturing even, and if you've ever seen one you would make the connection immediately. Tupperware is a close analog and gets the point across nicely. Have you seen the inside of a Chevy Malibu? I'm not exaggerating when I say tupperware.
Attacking my descriptions doesn't help your argument, the fact still remains that American cars have generally terrible, plastic interiors. Nissan, Honda and Mazda (Mazda is owned by Ford, though you wouldn't know it sitting in one of their cars). Cadillacs are fairly nice inside, but you can buy a topped out Honda Accord for half the price and of better quality. VW and Toyota make pretty nice looking interiors for cars in the 18-30K range (what most people can afford). Though I wouldn't recommend a VW for reliability either.
All of your comments sound decidedly anti-foreign cars and I haven't heard a single concession from you about them which really hurts your credibility.
I haven't seen a Japanese car from _any_ manufacturer recently that didn't look like plastic puked inside, and you're bitching about the domestics?
Go look at a Nissan Murano, Mazda 3, Mazda 6, Honda Civic, Honda Accord, Toyota Corolla, Toyota Camry. Those are all excellent cars with fantastic interiors, near-spotless (the civic had some transmission issues in 2001 since it was an all-new car) reliability record for the past 20+ years. That's my "argument", which is accepted by the general public if you look at the sales data and consumer reports reliability records.
When every Honda and Toyota I've been in recently looks like it was made by Fisher Price, but maybe without the horrendous colours I'll concede the Challenger is damn cool looking, along with the Charger. But all of Ford's cars look awful, the new mustang looks nice but gutless compared to prototypes; GM makes "jellybeans"; other than a few halo cars American styling isn't much to write home about either.
The irrefutable proof is the complete and total failure (and I am in no way exaggerating - see also: the buyout of GM, the sale of Chrysler to Fiat (FIAT! seriously.)) of the American auto industry, and the ascendancy of Toyota to the #1 manufacturer. Not to mention the interior quality (or complete lack thereof, have you seen the inside of a Chevy Malibu lately? You'd have a hard time determining if you were in a giant tupperware tub or an American Car) and the overall poor long term reliability (exception: trucks).
But keep buying American! Someone has to keep my government's stake in the company afloat long enough to sell the company to the next sucker.
Your car was run over by a bulldozer? No? Get back to me when it does. The rest of the world, who usually avoids parking in active construction zones, will happily continue driving their hondas and toyotas to 300,000 miles. Most parents would cringe at the idea of sending their kid off to college in a Ford Taurus with 150,000 miles on it. For those american car owners following along at home, that's half of 300,000 miles. If your first thought was "yeah, but who would want to be stuck driving in a 300,000 mile car anyways?" Well, that just drives home the point further that american cars are complete junk even today. American cars in 2009 are just warmed over versions of their smoke spewing, oil belching 1980s cousins. Need proof? How about the fact that you still need a 15/16ths inch socket to do some repairs. I mean seriously. The only american cars I would buy today are the ford focus and perhaps an F150 or similar pickup. Nobody gives a damn about your video.
I think Sci-Fi is almost as profitable as the cartoon network. They funded (50-50 with sky in europe) Battlestar Galatica and seem to be doing quite well. I think they're funding in large part the Greystones series as well.
Are you suggesting we nuke detroit from orbit or what? The soil in my back yard here in east (urban) dallas is terrible yet its yielding plenty of green peppers, jalapenos, and I have some cantelope and watermelon developing on the vine. Soil is soil and for the most part crops don't transfer heavy metals, etc into the consumed food product which is about the only worry you'd have in this situation.
We're using a Win3.1 app called LaserFiche on XP with > 250,000 documents and it's lightning fast, works with TIFF files and PDF and probably more. Includes file and folder permissions.
Its an excellent marketing tool, but for non-corporations, it's medium is too limiting and doesn't really provide any extensible media tools or user generated , which is why Facebook (and to a lesser extent Myspace) have taken off so well.
I think it's closer to 98% hype. I've never heard someone in a social setting mention twitter, and at work it's only the marketing type that talk about it. Reporters only like Twitter because they can search for #trends and get interviews easily. Facebook is here for at least another two years, having achieved critical mass. I think the number of twitter articles will fall off significantly. You don't see too many facebook articles because user's statuses aren't publicly viewable/searchable in most cases and reporters can't directly access them in the same way that they can with twitter.
The thing is, it's artificially peaked, due to being pumped up by the media. People at my work, social gatherings, etc always mention/talk about facebook; I've never, ever heard someone say "twitter" or "tweet" out loud. It's only peaked (piqued?) in the social consiousness because of the media and it's use for advertising. For inter/intra personal communication it's a poor medium and that's why it will never take off like the media keeps saying it will. It has it's uses, but in general people don't need their own RSS feeds. Better tools exist, even if they don't use SMS to accomplish it.
When we finally raze detroit to the ground we'll have acres and acres of prime farming land just minutes away from the largest source of fresh water on the continent.
Or in the case of livejournal, you have a "blog" account, but you use it mostly to read LJ communities and comment on friend's blogs. I update mine once a year or so, so that distant family members can keep track and make sure I'm not dead.
hand drawn maps are still faster and more personalized (your Mom) than google maps in 99% of cases. lol @ rebates. you could just all print your sister's recipies off in one monolithic print job at kinkos for $10 and save $100+ a year on printer maintanence.
rest of post: I'm not arguing for linux at retail; I'm arguing against home printers.
I said it before and ill say it again I don't think the home user needs a personal printer any more than they need to smoke cigarettes. Unless you have a child who needs to print stuff off for school reports, the number of real times you will print non-photo things that can't be written down in 10 seconds by hand come by but once every two months ON AVERAGE. Even writing directions somewhere and drawing a copy (tracing) a map to go with it only takes 10 seconds in 99% of the cases. The only time I've used a printer in the last three years for "home use" was to print off resumes. Photos simply get printed at wally world (using a better process no less!) And resumes get printed at Kinkos for 0.20 a copy of whatever. The cost of driving to kinkos once every other year and driving to walmart to print photos once a fortnight is still much cheaper than the cost and upkeep on a home printer. Anything else gets printed at work (guitar tabs, etc). I've been without a home printer now for seven years with no issue whatsoever.
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Considering the game engine, which is usually at least 40% of the programming (modifying it being the other 60%), and licensing the engine can't cost more than $10 million there seems to be a lot of hollywood style waste going on, which is what they're after it seems. Without the multimillion dollar movie star eating up a large portion of the budget.
Why didn't you say that the buick video is yours? I could have wasted so much less time responding to your posts...
What fantasy world do you live in?
Gotta break some eggs on the way to #1 omelette. You're pretty good at finding recalls. Go find the recall where Ford had to replace all the steering columns on Focuses because the Steering wheel would come off while driving or how about the Saturn Vue where the rear suspension would collapse under normal driving conditions. Don't forget Ford's famous tire exploding phenomenon with the Explorer. That kind of crap on these complex machines is bound to happen and I bet you could find 100 for any manufacturer for any year. You can't argue with the fact that Toyota is #1, and Toyota/Honda's reliability record reflects those sales numbers, so you won't, and cant.
Well I was going to say "action packer" but unless you do a lot of camping you probably don't know what that is. Its the same type of plastic with the same texturing even, and if you've ever seen one you would make the connection immediately. Tupperware is a close analog and gets the point across nicely. Have you seen the inside of a Chevy Malibu? I'm not exaggerating when I say tupperware.
Attacking my descriptions doesn't help your argument, the fact still remains that American cars have generally terrible, plastic interiors. Nissan, Honda and Mazda (Mazda is owned by Ford, though you wouldn't know it sitting in one of their cars). Cadillacs are fairly nice inside, but you can buy a topped out Honda Accord for half the price and of better quality. VW and Toyota make pretty nice looking interiors for cars in the 18-30K range (what most people can afford). Though I wouldn't recommend a VW for reliability either.
All of your comments sound decidedly anti-foreign cars and I haven't heard a single concession from you about them which really hurts your credibility.
Go look at a Nissan Murano, Mazda 3, Mazda 6, Honda Civic, Honda Accord, Toyota Corolla, Toyota Camry. Those are all excellent cars with fantastic interiors, near-spotless (the civic had some transmission issues in 2001 since it was an all-new car) reliability record for the past 20+ years. That's my "argument", which is accepted by the general public if you look at the sales data and consumer reports reliability records.
When every Honda and Toyota I've been in recently looks like it was made by Fisher Price, but maybe without the horrendous colours
I'll concede the Challenger is damn cool looking, along with the Charger. But all of Ford's cars look awful, the new mustang looks nice but gutless compared to prototypes; GM makes "jellybeans"; other than a few halo cars American styling isn't much to write home about either.
The irrefutable proof is the complete and total failure (and I am in no way exaggerating - see also: the buyout of GM, the sale of Chrysler to Fiat (FIAT! seriously.)) of the American auto industry, and the ascendancy of Toyota to the #1 manufacturer. Not to mention the interior quality (or complete lack thereof, have you seen the inside of a Chevy Malibu lately? You'd have a hard time determining if you were in a giant tupperware tub or an American Car) and the overall poor long term reliability (exception: trucks).
But keep buying American! Someone has to keep my government's stake in the company afloat long enough to sell the company to the next sucker.
Agreed.
Your car was run over by a bulldozer? No? Get back to me when it does. The rest of the world, who usually avoids parking in active construction zones, will happily continue driving their hondas and toyotas to 300,000 miles. Most parents would cringe at the idea of sending their kid off to college in a Ford Taurus with 150,000 miles on it. For those american car owners following along at home, that's half of 300,000 miles. If your first thought was "yeah, but who would want to be stuck driving in a 300,000 mile car anyways?" Well, that just drives home the point further that american cars are complete junk even today. American cars in 2009 are just warmed over versions of their smoke spewing, oil belching 1980s cousins. Need proof? How about the fact that you still need a 15/16ths inch socket to do some repairs. I mean seriously. The only american cars I would buy today are the ford focus and perhaps an F150 or similar pickup. Nobody gives a damn about your video.
I think Sci-Fi is almost as profitable as the cartoon network. They funded (50-50 with sky in europe) Battlestar Galatica and seem to be doing quite well. I think they're funding in large part the Greystones series as well.
Isn't Weeds on Showtime? Weeds (and TruBlood, dunno what channel that's on either) are what get me through the summer here in Texas.
Like American car manufacturers to Honda/Toyota
Per David Pouge it's coming to Verizon next.
You're in for a shocker as to how low customer service can be.
You obviously haven't had to deal with Sprint customer service yet.
+99, insightful, informative, funny, underrated
You are aware that Verizon will have the Pre in about six months, aren't you? Enjoy your two years of hell. That's hell with a capital S
Are you suggesting we nuke detroit from orbit or what? The soil in my back yard here in east (urban) dallas is terrible yet its yielding plenty of green peppers, jalapenos, and I have some cantelope and watermelon developing on the vine. Soil is soil and for the most part crops don't transfer heavy metals, etc into the consumed food product which is about the only worry you'd have in this situation.
We're using a Win3.1 app called LaserFiche on XP with > 250,000 documents and it's lightning fast, works with TIFF files and PDF and probably more. Includes file and folder permissions.
Its an excellent marketing tool, but for non-corporations, it's medium is too limiting and doesn't really provide any extensible media tools or user generated , which is why Facebook (and to a lesser extent Myspace) have taken off so well.
I think it's closer to 98% hype. I've never heard someone in a social setting mention twitter, and at work it's only the marketing type that talk about it. Reporters only like Twitter because they can search for #trends and get interviews easily. Facebook is here for at least another two years, having achieved critical mass. I think the number of twitter articles will fall off significantly. You don't see too many facebook articles because user's statuses aren't publicly viewable/searchable in most cases and reporters can't directly access them in the same way that they can with twitter.
The thing is, it's artificially peaked, due to being pumped up by the media. People at my work, social gatherings, etc always mention/talk about facebook; I've never, ever heard someone say "twitter" or "tweet" out loud. It's only peaked (piqued?) in the social consiousness because of the media and it's use for advertising. For inter/intra personal communication it's a poor medium and that's why it will never take off like the media keeps saying it will. It has it's uses, but in general people don't need their own RSS feeds. Better tools exist, even if they don't use SMS to accomplish it.
About half the people following me are part of the associated press. I'm convinced that's all they do these days.
When we finally raze detroit to the ground we'll have acres and acres of prime farming land just minutes away from the largest source of fresh water on the continent.
Or in the case of livejournal, you have a "blog" account, but you use it mostly to read LJ communities and comment on friend's blogs. I update mine once a year or so, so that distant family members can keep track and make sure I'm not dead.
hand drawn maps are still faster and more personalized (your Mom) than google maps in 99% of cases. lol @ rebates. you could just all print your sister's recipies off in one monolithic print job at kinkos for $10 and save $100+ a year on printer maintanence.
rest of post: I'm not arguing for linux at retail; I'm arguing against home printers.
You can print a lifetime supply of character sheets at kinkos for a dollar
I said it before and ill say it again I don't think the home user needs a personal printer any more than they need to smoke cigarettes. Unless you have a child who needs to print stuff off for school reports, the number of real times you will print non-photo things that can't be written down in 10 seconds by hand come by but once every two months ON AVERAGE. Even writing directions somewhere and drawing a copy (tracing) a map to go with it only takes 10 seconds in 99% of the cases. The only time I've used a printer in the last three years for "home use" was to print off resumes. Photos simply get printed at wally world (using a better process no less!) And resumes get printed at Kinkos for 0.20 a copy of whatever. The cost of driving to kinkos once every other year and driving to walmart to print photos once a fortnight is still much cheaper than the cost and upkeep on a home printer. Anything else gets printed at work (guitar tabs, etc). I've been without a home printer now for seven years with no issue whatsoever.
No, parent's wife is making up for parent's, uh, size. He wasn't willing to "man" up so she had to :)
Its amazing what the metabolism of a high schooler can do! 4 lbs of muscle in two weeks? No problem. Just wait till he hits 25...