I tend to read many then believe whatever has the most support behind it.
This is the first one I've seen that says there has been this drastic a shift, and the fact that the shift IS so drastic makes it even less believable. When I see more confirming it then I'll believe it. Until then...
Top Gear has also mentioned it as being the ultimate quick test of a car though.
On a track it is all about cornering, but lets face it, at 30k USD fully loaded the Mustang will never be a track car because its not intended to be. The Skyline and Evo have the same problem, they're both significantly more expensive unless you start talking about packaged or modded Mustangs that make so much more horsepower they could win on a lot of tracks by doing the straights in 30%+ less time than it takes something else. Now, they likely won't win unless they're on a track with more straight than turn, but again, these cars are Muscle Cars. They make big horsepower and go fast in a straight line, and they're cheap. People who like to Drag and people on a budget that want the feeling of shitloads of horsepower buy them.
The Mustang is meant to put big horsepower and a fun car into the hands of more people, thats it. It works as what it is. Poking holes in it for something its not is like me saying the Ferarri 458 is a piece of shit because a 2013 Mustang GT with 10-15k in bolt ons can completely rape it on the 1/4 mile.
I think it also has a lot to do with the roads over here. Our roads in North America in general are much more straight than turn, while I understand its pretty much the opposite in Europe with a few exceptions. The modded Mustang GT that runs into the 458 on the highway here could actually rape it in a real world situation, which to a lot of folks is all that matters. In Europe(again from what I understand) you're spending most of your time either on fairly twisty roads or on something like the autobahn where you need a load of top-end instead of low-mid range.
Thats a lot of speculation on my part though. I do hope to travel Europe one of these days, then I'll be able to confirm or toss out my hypothesis.
It boots you into regular desktop mode too often. You're changing inputs constantly, and when they try to just use mouse/keyboard its totally unusable.
The fact it can hold its own against an M3 in any measurement is impressive. The M3 costs OVER DOUBLE what the Mustang GT costs. Even in the UK it costs over 75% more than the cost of buying a mustang and having it shipped in. Then with a few k in bolt-ons you have a Mustang thats going to smoke the M3 in most any real-world situation on the street.
Neither is a race car, but both are good cars. In their own right.
I hate europeans that don't understand the point of a Mustang... it goes fast. It goes fast cheaply. It makes a lovely sound and looks amazing for the price of a base model family sedan. It can be made to go faster than anyone could ever possibly need for under 10k USD.
If we're going to compare Mustang to M3 lets put the GT500 onto a track against it. I'll bet dollars to donuts that the extra horsepower on the GT500 makes up most of the time difference. Because thats what the M3 is. Its in the GT500 price range, and it only MIGHT beat the GT500 around a track(its a might because it will depend on which track, one with a lot of straights the M3 is a bit screwed, and vice-versa for the GT500), even with the SRA, because the GT500 outdoes it on both horsepower and horsepower to weight by a lot.
That said, the 1/4 mile is often considered the ultimate test of a car, and I'll mention about the first fucking thing they do on Top Gear UK with very nearly every-single-car they bring on there. If they do a comparison test its always either 1/4 mile, standing mile, or 0-100 and back to 0, which are all essentially the same thing.
The 1/4 mile is the easiest and fastest way to say "My car beats the pulp out of your car".
Besides that, for the same reason as James May on Top Gear says the Fiat Panda is fun, the Mustang is fun. Cars are most fun when they're driven at the edge of their capabilities. Its due to this that the Mustang with its SRA is more fun than any of the BMW's I've test-driven. The Mustang can be fun on a daily basis, relatively within the legal local speed limits. The M3 is about as boring as it gets until you can get it onto a track somewhere.
Theres little hope of any sort of widespread adoption for windows 8. I've gotten no less than 4 calls from family members since the 25th wondering if I can get rid of windows 8 for them or if they're doing something wrong. All but one of them did give it a fair shot, but its WAY too un-intuitive for anyone to figure out anything. They get to the desktop and go "salvation!" only to be yanked back into metro for something else, and to realize "oh wait, my entire point & click easy to use interface(i.e. the start menu) is gone." To be fair only one identified no start menu as a deal-breaker but the other two just couldn't deal with metro. They both said they could probably manage fine without one, but that metro was in no way a replacement.
In all cases they have since installed a program called startisback that fixes windows 8.
No, thats the one I saw in september. for this to be accurate and not skewed somehow apple would have to have sold more iphones in the last 3 months than it has for the last 12 months.
I'll wait for verifications on that... I know 3 of my local bell dealers are reporting lackluster iPhone 5 sales at the moment due to the myriad issues with the phone, but that could just be here.
For the market to swap that drastically since the last report I saw in july... with Samsung reporting higher sales numbers than Apple on its own... I can't really believe that until I see other confirmation. This reeks of paid research to try to boost slightly flagging share prices.
AAPL has seen a significant drop over the last ~3 months, it remains to be seen if thats due to a lack of shareholder confidence in its new management due to recent production issues or if its just because the stock is way overpriced(it is, by a lot, if I had to peg a number I'd say by a minimum of around 20% still based on gross revenues and profits).
I could be totally wrong, but every single indicator I've seen for the last 12+ months points in the opposite direction of this happening.
I'll be perfectly honest and state outright that MS released windows 8 with such horrible implications for corporate environments just to get the several millions of windows 7 sales from the corporate holdouts that are still on windows xp.
Don't know how this got to +5 insightful... Random thefts would snatch an Android device much more often than iPhones.... iPhones are just easily identified as having high value. Android has been outselling by a lot for over 18 months in an expanding market. Certain cities full of hipsters this would be true but not for most of the US.
iPads I believe would be more common, but not by a large margin.
The thing protecting the S3 is obscurity. Its harder to identify amongst a host of other cheaper products, On the other hand if they steal an apple phone they know the price is high and that theres a resale market for it and its ridiculously easy to identify.
Geo-thermal vents spring to mind, amongst other things, such as using this technique along with the exhaust from a nuclear reactor to increase its power output.
Over-QUALIFIED people are just fine, most of the time.
Over-EDUCATED people are not. Where the two groups intersect, the Over-education takes the priority for being unemployable.
The second group thinks the world owes them something. The first group has worked their way up and have enough life experience to know that the world doesn't owe them jack shit, and they should do their best at whatever task they are given.
Essentially, this is exactly what I'm talking about.
I have 2 friends who are probably around the same intelligence level as me.
One works as a manager at Mcdonalds and plays video games.
The other is about as lazy as can be and does as little as humanly possible.
Also, to the others, I mentioned the trouble with english. The emphasis there should have been on the taught I think, as the literally would only apply to that particular word. Sentence fragments within sentences and whatnot... I can speak the language quite well, I swear!
To be honest most of the bad students I knew wouldn't ever benefit from a more qualified teacher. A more qualified teacher is, in general, more likely to have so much education as to be completely useless at dumbing things down to explain them to anyone at all that doesnt catch on quickly.
Those people crying foul ARE wrong. Completely wrong. This is a symptom of the "everyones a winner!" bullshit from the 90's. Not everyone is a winner. In order for there to be winners at all there are, of a necessity, losers.
Besides which, more intelligent people getting into more important positions benefits ALL of society.
I won awards left and right at first, then basically stopped bothering because I could fudge my way through just about anything(except english for some reason...) and still get better than average grades.
Partly I didn't have much encouragement from those around me, partly the school system itself here had absolutely zero way to accommodate someone like me who finished the entire curriculum for the year in the first month of classes with no at-home work.
They'd just recently banned the practice of pushing students ahead grades based on intelligence and ability to learn plus they hadn't implemented any sort of gifted programs. I believe the case is still the same. Its beyond reprehensible as they're turning some of the brightest minds we produce into lazy good-for-nothings that are LITERALLY taught to skate by.
For energy needs relative to land mass Quebec may as well be the least populated place on the planet.
In fact going by Energy Need vs land mass quebec would at least be in the top 10.
Newfoundland exports a shitload of Hydro as well... but we have 750k people and several large hydro plants... every single potential hydro source in newfoundland fully developed wouldn't power new york state alone, and we have more potential hydro energy than any 5 of the northeastern states combined.
startisback actually works better. I had start8 first, its better at eliminating ALL of metro, but Startisback is better at restoring full win7 start menu.
Plus the bits of metro that seep through startisback are actually better IMHO.
The one thing I REALLY hate is every now and then an update will "mysteriously" lose all of my default program settings, causing them to default back to metro crap.
My biggest fear is that I'm being counted as one of the successes and I've looked at metro maybe 8 times since I installed startisback.
I tried to use it but the UI is like a fucking hamster on crack. It can't figure out if it wants to be Windows or some random tablet UI of which there are already a billion that both do their own jobs better and ALSO don't belong on a desktop. It switches back and forth so often you could have an epileptic seizure just from trying to use it.
Also, anyone that basically does code-monkey or software/hardware engineering work doesn't even need a company cell phone and an in-house desk phone network is much more efficient.
It seems we have a mixture of desk-jockeys and others chiming in. The non desk-jockeys are the ones that understand what I'm talking about.
I run windows 8. I installed startisback... I'm not entirely sure why its not an improvement over windows 7 anymore.
Metro UI, the main part of it that is essentially a tablet-only UI, is garbage. The rest is basically good, and in most cases drastic design improvements over windows 7. Some of the easy functionality of windows xp has even been restored.
Company Phonebook aside... a direct phone number is the easiest way to get ahold of people.
Cell phones are also the devil. If you ever actually want to work a 9-5 and only more when absolutely needed, you should be pushing for your desk phone to be your ONLY phone from work.
People are screwing themselves over because they think its more convenient for themselves. Did you folks ever consider WHY the company is more than happy to give you a cell?
It isn't an obnoxious elitist attitude, thats just what current politicians and social workers and thier "Everyones a winner!" bullshit guilts you into thinking. Not everyone is a winner. In order for there to be winners at all there are, of necessity, losers. The message they SHOULD be sending is that just because you're a loser in one field doesn't mean you can't be a winner in another.
The reality is that its one of the most selfless thing you could ever do. You're procreating purely to help others. Your children have much much more potential than other children to be doctors, researchers, many different things that could GREATLY benefit society as a whole. Partly because of genetics and partly because of the fact that you can provide them with a proper education in whatever fields interest them.
I'm NOT a parent as yet(soonish though). I'm just going to have kids. The regret thing is just pure fact. You will likely think about it in years to come and regret it, even if only a little bit. Even if you adopt later it could be nearly as fulfilling but you'll still wonder.
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I tend to read many then believe whatever has the most support behind it.
This is the first one I've seen that says there has been this drastic a shift, and the fact that the shift IS so drastic makes it even less believable. When I see more confirming it then I'll believe it. Until then...
Actually since Top Gear is in the UK its still the 1/4 mile and still the 0-100.
I live in Canada though so I'm comfortable with either.
I didn't say it didn't.
Top Gear has also mentioned it as being the ultimate quick test of a car though.
On a track it is all about cornering, but lets face it, at 30k USD fully loaded the Mustang will never be a track car because its not intended to be. The Skyline and Evo have the same problem, they're both significantly more expensive unless you start talking about packaged or modded Mustangs that make so much more horsepower they could win on a lot of tracks by doing the straights in 30%+ less time than it takes something else. Now, they likely won't win unless they're on a track with more straight than turn, but again, these cars are Muscle Cars. They make big horsepower and go fast in a straight line, and they're cheap. People who like to Drag and people on a budget that want the feeling of shitloads of horsepower buy them.
The Mustang is meant to put big horsepower and a fun car into the hands of more people, thats it. It works as what it is. Poking holes in it for something its not is like me saying the Ferarri 458 is a piece of shit because a 2013 Mustang GT with 10-15k in bolt ons can completely rape it on the 1/4 mile.
I think it also has a lot to do with the roads over here. Our roads in North America in general are much more straight than turn, while I understand its pretty much the opposite in Europe with a few exceptions. The modded Mustang GT that runs into the 458 on the highway here could actually rape it in a real world situation, which to a lot of folks is all that matters. In Europe(again from what I understand) you're spending most of your time either on fairly twisty roads or on something like the autobahn where you need a load of top-end instead of low-mid range.
Thats a lot of speculation on my part though. I do hope to travel Europe one of these days, then I'll be able to confirm or toss out my hypothesis.
Three were. They'd heard the touch screen thing.
It boots you into regular desktop mode too often. You're changing inputs constantly, and when they try to just use mouse/keyboard its totally unusable.
The fact it can hold its own against an M3 in any measurement is impressive. The M3 costs OVER DOUBLE what the Mustang GT costs. Even in the UK it costs over 75% more than the cost of buying a mustang and having it shipped in. Then with a few k in bolt-ons you have a Mustang thats going to smoke the M3 in most any real-world situation on the street.
Neither is a race car, but both are good cars. In their own right.
I hate europeans that don't understand the point of a Mustang... it goes fast. It goes fast cheaply. It makes a lovely sound and looks amazing for the price of a base model family sedan. It can be made to go faster than anyone could ever possibly need for under 10k USD.
If we're going to compare Mustang to M3 lets put the GT500 onto a track against it. I'll bet dollars to donuts that the extra horsepower on the GT500 makes up most of the time difference. Because thats what the M3 is. Its in the GT500 price range, and it only MIGHT beat the GT500 around a track(its a might because it will depend on which track, one with a lot of straights the M3 is a bit screwed, and vice-versa for the GT500), even with the SRA, because the GT500 outdoes it on both horsepower and horsepower to weight by a lot.
That said, the 1/4 mile is often considered the ultimate test of a car, and I'll mention about the first fucking thing they do on Top Gear UK with very nearly every-single-car they bring on there. If they do a comparison test its always either 1/4 mile, standing mile, or 0-100 and back to 0, which are all essentially the same thing.
The 1/4 mile is the easiest and fastest way to say "My car beats the pulp out of your car".
Besides that, for the same reason as James May on Top Gear says the Fiat Panda is fun, the Mustang is fun. Cars are most fun when they're driven at the edge of their capabilities. Its due to this that the Mustang with its SRA is more fun than any of the BMW's I've test-driven. The Mustang can be fun on a daily basis, relatively within the legal local speed limits. The M3 is about as boring as it gets until you can get it onto a track somewhere.
Theres little hope of any sort of widespread adoption for windows 8. I've gotten no less than 4 calls from family members since the 25th wondering if I can get rid of windows 8 for them or if they're doing something wrong. All but one of them did give it a fair shot, but its WAY too un-intuitive for anyone to figure out anything. They get to the desktop and go "salvation!" only to be yanked back into metro for something else, and to realize "oh wait, my entire point & click easy to use interface(i.e. the start menu) is gone." To be fair only one identified no start menu as a deal-breaker but the other two just couldn't deal with metro. They both said they could probably manage fine without one, but that metro was in no way a replacement.
In all cases they have since installed a program called startisback that fixes windows 8.
No, thats the one I saw in september. for this to be accurate and not skewed somehow apple would have to have sold more iphones in the last 3 months than it has for the last 12 months.
Stranger things have happened but....
I'll wait for verifications on that... I know 3 of my local bell dealers are reporting lackluster iPhone 5 sales at the moment due to the myriad issues with the phone, but that could just be here.
For the market to swap that drastically since the last report I saw in july... with Samsung reporting higher sales numbers than Apple on its own... I can't really believe that until I see other confirmation. This reeks of paid research to try to boost slightly flagging share prices.
AAPL has seen a significant drop over the last ~3 months, it remains to be seen if thats due to a lack of shareholder confidence in its new management due to recent production issues or if its just because the stock is way overpriced(it is, by a lot, if I had to peg a number I'd say by a minimum of around 20% still based on gross revenues and profits).
I could be totally wrong, but every single indicator I've seen for the last 12+ months points in the opposite direction of this happening.
I'll be perfectly honest and state outright that MS released windows 8 with such horrible implications for corporate environments just to get the several millions of windows 7 sales from the corporate holdouts that are still on windows xp.
Don't know how this got to +5 insightful... Random thefts would snatch an Android device much more often than iPhones.... iPhones are just easily identified as having high value. Android has been outselling by a lot for over 18 months in an expanding market. Certain cities full of hipsters this would be true but not for most of the US.
iPads I believe would be more common, but not by a large margin.
The thing protecting the S3 is obscurity. Its harder to identify amongst a host of other cheaper products, On the other hand if they steal an apple phone they know the price is high and that theres a resale market for it and its ridiculously easy to identify.
Geo-thermal vents spring to mind, amongst other things, such as using this technique along with the exhaust from a nuclear reactor to increase its power output.
This isn't quite true.
Over-QUALIFIED people are just fine, most of the time.
Over-EDUCATED people are not. Where the two groups intersect, the Over-education takes the priority for being unemployable.
The second group thinks the world owes them something. The first group has worked their way up and have enough life experience to know that the world doesn't owe them jack shit, and they should do their best at whatever task they are given.
Essentially, this is exactly what I'm talking about.
I have 2 friends who are probably around the same intelligence level as me.
One works as a manager at Mcdonalds and plays video games.
The other is about as lazy as can be and does as little as humanly possible.
Also, to the others, I mentioned the trouble with english. The emphasis there should have been on the taught I think, as the literally would only apply to that particular word. Sentence fragments within sentences and whatnot... I can speak the language quite well, I swear!
To be honest most of the bad students I knew wouldn't ever benefit from a more qualified teacher. A more qualified teacher is, in general, more likely to have so much education as to be completely useless at dumbing things down to explain them to anyone at all that doesnt catch on quickly.
Those people crying foul ARE wrong. Completely wrong. This is a symptom of the "everyones a winner!" bullshit from the 90's. Not everyone is a winner. In order for there to be winners at all there are, of a necessity, losers.
Besides which, more intelligent people getting into more important positions benefits ALL of society.
Not in all cases, but they may as well.
I got a t-shirt and not much else.
I won awards left and right at first, then basically stopped bothering because I could fudge my way through just about anything(except english for some reason...) and still get better than average grades.
Partly I didn't have much encouragement from those around me, partly the school system itself here had absolutely zero way to accommodate someone like me who finished the entire curriculum for the year in the first month of classes with no at-home work.
They'd just recently banned the practice of pushing students ahead grades based on intelligence and ability to learn plus they hadn't implemented any sort of gifted programs. I believe the case is still the same. Its beyond reprehensible as they're turning some of the brightest minds we produce into lazy good-for-nothings that are LITERALLY taught to skate by.
The 105 Zephyr gun from the Liberty says Hi.
So does the Additional Burster for the Burster max.
The T-9 Carv S, which is in all ways a direct upgrade of the T9 Carv you start with as a heavy....
In fact there is a rather large room full of weapons that have sprouted arms and mouths saying "Over here! You haven't seen me yet!"
For energy needs relative to land mass Quebec may as well be the least populated place on the planet.
In fact going by Energy Need vs land mass quebec would at least be in the top 10.
Newfoundland exports a shitload of Hydro as well... but we have 750k people and several large hydro plants... every single potential hydro source in newfoundland fully developed wouldn't power new york state alone, and we have more potential hydro energy than any 5 of the northeastern states combined.
startisback actually works better. I had start8 first, its better at eliminating ALL of metro, but Startisback is better at restoring full win7 start menu.
Plus the bits of metro that seep through startisback are actually better IMHO.
The one thing I REALLY hate is every now and then an update will "mysteriously" lose all of my default program settings, causing them to default back to metro crap.
The PDF viewer is the absolute WORST.
My biggest fear is that I'm being counted as one of the successes and I've looked at metro maybe 8 times since I installed startisback.
I tried to use it but the UI is like a fucking hamster on crack. It can't figure out if it wants to be Windows or some random tablet UI of which there are already a billion that both do their own jobs better and ALSO don't belong on a desktop. It switches back and forth so often you could have an epileptic seizure just from trying to use it.
You would be more of an exception than a rule.
Also, anyone that basically does code-monkey or software/hardware engineering work doesn't even need a company cell phone and an in-house desk phone network is much more efficient.
It seems we have a mixture of desk-jockeys and others chiming in. The non desk-jockeys are the ones that understand what I'm talking about.
I run windows 8. I installed startisback... I'm not entirely sure why its not an improvement over windows 7 anymore.
Metro UI, the main part of it that is essentially a tablet-only UI, is garbage. The rest is basically good, and in most cases drastic design improvements over windows 7. Some of the easy functionality of windows xp has even been restored.
Company Phonebook aside... a direct phone number is the easiest way to get ahold of people.
Cell phones are also the devil. If you ever actually want to work a 9-5 and only more when absolutely needed, you should be pushing for your desk phone to be your ONLY phone from work.
People are screwing themselves over because they think its more convenient for themselves. Did you folks ever consider WHY the company is more than happy to give you a cell?
Skype etc is just an extension of that.
It isn't an obnoxious elitist attitude, thats just what current politicians and social workers and thier "Everyones a winner!" bullshit guilts you into thinking. Not everyone is a winner. In order for there to be winners at all there are, of necessity, losers. The message they SHOULD be sending is that just because you're a loser in one field doesn't mean you can't be a winner in another.
The reality is that its one of the most selfless thing you could ever do. You're procreating purely to help others. Your children have much much more potential than other children to be doctors, researchers, many different things that could GREATLY benefit society as a whole. Partly because of genetics and partly because of the fact that you can provide them with a proper education in whatever fields interest them.
I'm NOT a parent as yet(soonish though). I'm just going to have kids. The regret thing is just pure fact. You will likely think about it in years to come and regret it, even if only a little bit. Even if you adopt later it could be nearly as fulfilling but you'll still wonder.