if you have a self cleaning oven, it gets really freaking hot. I don't doubt that the internal metal parts (like the metal shaft that touches the plastic knob) can get up to 105 C.
That thing got beat with the nasty end of the ugly stick. I predict they won't sell many just because it's soooo damn ugly, no matter what the underpinnings might be or what kind of range it gets.
You DO understand that the Bolt is just a Chevrolet Spark with an electric drivetrain? Look at the pictures.
And then realize that the identical-looking gasoline powered Spark is actually selling well:
It does seem like Tesla Motors is the only company that believes an electric car should look like a "normal full-size car,"
They don't have any other models to fall back on, so they are forced to "conservatively" design a car that is visually "acceptable" to just about everyone.
The big automakers have much more freedom to experiment with different designs. And you know what? You are not the arbiter of fashion in the automotive world. It's the consumers that decide what is "good looking". Some cars look ugly and yet they sell well. De gustibus non est disputandem. The sales figures will tell you what "looks good".
"The estimated average transaction price of a new car or truck sold in the U.S. in April was $33,560"
Stop bitching about "expensive" electric cars. These new models from Chevy and Tesla are pretty much the same price as the old fashioned gasoline burning, fume belching models.
There's no way it can compete with Tesla M3 on equal ground.
Sure they can, they have about 100x the manufacturing capability of Tesla. They have dealers and showrooms and distribution already set up all over the planet. If the market takes off they are MUCH better positioned to get cars made and distributed and sold and supported than a company with basically no distribution network and no dealers.
ask yourself in what way Bolt can compete with BMW?
I tell you what, if you ever, in your entire life, see a BMW with Vermont plates driving at less than 30 mph over the speed limit, you will know that the world is coming to an end. It's not hard to compete with a brand that brands you as an asswipe driver.
You are SUPPOSED to think it is ugly, you are NOT SUPPOSED to appreciate what it looks like. This is standard procedure for an unreleased automobile. They don't want the public to get expectations about what it's going to look like. They don't want the auto press to splash pictures of it on their magazines and web sites. The exterior design is not yet complete, they paint it like that on purpose. The design may change and they don't want to disappoint people who were expecting what they saw.
I've noticed on my machine that applications take longer to open, and windows stay in the 'partially drawn' state for a longer time. Also, it takes windows 7 longer to navigate through contents of folders in explorer. That said, Windows is still my preferred OS to use personally and I don't find it all that inconvenient, but that is just what I have noticed.
So your computer is stealing moments from your life on a regular basis, interrupting your flow, disturbing your rhythm, and you "don't find it all that inconvenient"???
Have you ever used a computer that didn't do these things? Did you notice you were more productive and sharper because the computer can keep up with you?
Take a math break and total up all of those short breaks the computer is enforcing on you and realize that this is your life getting flushed down the toilet for nuthin
Recently I had the pleasure of setting up a Windows NT system. It took about an hour from initial power-up to fully installed system. Windows NT absolutely rocks. It is faster than any other operating system I have ever seen. Just about everything happens instantaneously. Honestly I have never ever before seen a computer run so fast. It runs just great in 256 Mb of RAM and it uses less than 1 Gb of disk storage.
Windows 10 will help. Windows Server 2016 can install in just 8 gigs of space so my guess is 10.1 will be even more efficient
I had to install Windows NT recently on a 4 Gb partition, there was over 3Gb left over when I was done installing. Oh and also the machine works great with 256 Mb of RAM.
I guess "efficient" is in the eyes of the beholder
Go through Vista, 7, 8, and then 10. There would be no meaningful slowdown
no meaningful slowdown? really? you can do all of that upgrading without any expended time on your part? You can spend hours and hours installing and upgrading and it won't slow down your work to take all that time out from doing productive work?
Hard to clean the fan on most laptops, and may not be worth the time on many old desktops.
Not worth 5 minutes of work with a pair of tweezers? I got about a whole cat's worth of hair out of my laptop with tweezers and a flashlight in about 5 minutes, and now all of my thermal problems are gone.
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You can melt iron with used motor oil even charcoal.
In your home? You can easily die of carbon monoxide poisoning and maybe kill your whole family too.
You should play with that kind of stuff where proper ventilation is available.
your comment viewed on the screen is a fine example of 2-d printing. Granted it's not permanent printing, but 2-d printing nevertheless.
if you have a self cleaning oven, it gets really freaking hot. I don't doubt that the internal metal parts (like the metal shaft that touches the plastic knob) can get up to 105 C.
That thing got beat with the nasty end of the ugly stick. I predict they won't sell many just because it's soooo damn ugly, no matter what the underpinnings might be or what kind of range it gets.
You DO understand that the Bolt is just a Chevrolet Spark with an electric drivetrain? Look at the pictures.
And then realize that the identical-looking gasoline powered Spark is actually selling well:
http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/2015/05/01/chevy-spark-ev-price-cut-appears-to-have-worked-as-april-sales-surge/
so much for "no matter what the underpinnings might be"
I'm imagining a crash test between a Bolt and a Tesla, they would need a broom to clean up what's left of the Bolt.
Don't you have a fucking spellchecker?
I prefer a spellchecker that can keep it in its pants
you cant buy a crapbox with no options for 10K anymore.
2015 Chevrolet Spark base model is $12,270, not too far off. Indeed a crapbox, though.
This is very useless statistic. Let's say one woman buys 80k car, two guys buy 10k cars so average price is 33k.
Why not instead let's say that the US public buys seven MILLION cars every year, so your analogy is even more useless.
It does seem like Tesla Motors is the only company that believes an electric car should look like a "normal full-size car,"
They don't have any other models to fall back on, so they are forced to "conservatively" design a car that is visually "acceptable" to just about everyone.
The big automakers have much more freedom to experiment with different designs. And you know what? You are not the arbiter of fashion in the automotive world. It's the consumers that decide what is "good looking". Some cars look ugly and yet they sell well. De gustibus non est disputandem. The sales figures will tell you what "looks good".
Most people want a car that looks fun and interesting
Yeah whatever, I have a dented fender on purpose. People see it and they just give me the right of way. I'll take that over a shiny "fun" car any day.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2015/05/04/new-car-transaction-price-3-kbb-kelley-blue-book/26690191/
"The estimated average transaction price of a new car or truck sold in the U.S. in April was $33,560"
Stop bitching about "expensive" electric cars. These new models from Chevy and Tesla are pretty much the same price as the old fashioned gasoline burning, fume belching models.
The first company which can make a 10000$ electric car (and that is road-legal in all countries) will dominate the market.
You mean how like Commodore dominates today's computer market because they were the first ones to introduce an inexpensive personal computer?
There's no way it can compete with Tesla M3 on equal ground.
Sure they can, they have about 100x the manufacturing capability of Tesla. They have dealers and showrooms and distribution already set up all over the planet. If the market takes off they are MUCH better positioned to get cars made and distributed and sold and supported than a company with basically no distribution network and no dealers.
ask yourself in what way Bolt can compete with BMW?
I tell you what, if you ever, in your entire life, see a BMW with Vermont plates driving at less than 30 mph over the speed limit, you will know that the world is coming to an end. It's not hard to compete with a brand that brands you as an asswipe driver.
It is frigging ugly in that paint job.
You are SUPPOSED to think it is ugly, you are NOT SUPPOSED to appreciate what it looks like. This is standard procedure for an unreleased automobile. They don't want the public to get expectations about what it's going to look like. They don't want the auto press to splash pictures of it on their magazines and web sites. The exterior design is not yet complete, they paint it like that on purpose. The design may change and they don't want to disappoint people who were expecting what they saw.
I've noticed on my machine that applications take longer to open, and windows stay in the 'partially drawn' state for a longer time. Also, it takes windows 7 longer to navigate through contents of folders in explorer. That said, Windows is still my preferred OS to use personally and I don't find it all that inconvenient, but that is just what I have noticed.
So your computer is stealing moments from your life on a regular basis, interrupting your flow, disturbing your rhythm, and you "don't find it all that inconvenient"???
Have you ever used a computer that didn't do these things? Did you notice you were more productive and sharper because the computer can keep up with you?
Take a math break and total up all of those short breaks the computer is enforcing on you and realize that this is your life getting flushed down the toilet for nuthin
but over time Windows always seems to be unable to get out of its own way.
I find that windows gets out of its own way very very quickly when I pop the linux install disk in the drive.
Only software installed on them in Office 2010, Adobe writer & antivirus.
Yes indeed today you need many gigabytes of RAM so that you can run a word processor.
Reasonable performance? you're using a Boeing 747 to fetch groceries from the corner store.
Recently I had the pleasure of setting up a Windows NT system. It took about an hour from initial power-up to fully installed system. Windows NT absolutely rocks. It is faster than any other operating system I have ever seen. Just about everything happens instantaneously. Honestly I have never ever before seen a computer run so fast. It runs just great in 256 Mb of RAM and it uses less than 1 Gb of disk storage.
Windows 10 will help. Windows Server 2016 can install in just 8 gigs of space so my guess is 10.1 will be even more efficient
I had to install Windows NT recently on a 4 Gb partition, there was over 3Gb left over when I was done installing. Oh and also the machine works great with 256 Mb of RAM.
I guess "efficient" is in the eyes of the beholder
Go through Vista, 7, 8, and then 10. There would be no meaningful slowdown
no meaningful slowdown? really? you can do all of that upgrading without any expended time on your part? You can spend hours and hours installing and upgrading and it won't slow down your work to take all that time out from doing productive work?
I'm looking on my computer right now...
How many versions of GTK+ does the average linux distro come with?
one
libav?
one
gstreamer?
one
Heck, the qt3 compatibility library is built-in to qt4.
nope, not installed
Then there's the 32-bit stuff on 64-bit systems which, granted, is optional, but almost always installed for something.
nope, not installed, don't need it
you got nuthin
Hard to clean the fan on most laptops, and may not be worth the time on many old desktops.
Not worth 5 minutes of work with a pair of tweezers? I got about a whole cat's worth of hair out of my laptop with tweezers and a flashlight in about 5 minutes, and now all of my thermal problems are gone.
Oh please. Business intelligence is one of the oldest types of software in existence.
what are you saying? I have no idea! Are you saying that business software has been offering real-time service to individuals since mainframes? huh?
I do not see any relevance to - or deep profound effect on- IT/etc.
Really? IT people design and make the "social engineering" software that makes things like Uber possible!