You don't like Japanese sedans, but you simply can't deny that they're the most reliable cars ever built on Earth.
Hell, I don't like 'em very much either (with a few conspicuous exceptions: Mazdaspeed 6, Legacy GT...) but I vastly prefer them to anything with four doors to come out of America in the last 30 years.
What criteria do you have for "decent intake gasket" other than "works for 100,000 miles without any user intervention whatsoever"?
I'm much more worried about cars that run people over than cars that might theoretically someday in non-laboratory conditions transmit a fairly innocuous worm. But that's just me.
Bummer about the name. Where'd you get a 911 Turbo with a four-speed? Or are you a power-off oversteer aficionado? : )
You mean the veteran mechanics who are having trouble adjusting to the new techniques and tools of auto repair? They're the ones who say things like "You can't work on new cars! It's all computer-y under there!", apparently completely failing to notice the entire subculture of import car modification. Just because those guys don't know how to do it, doesn't mean it can't be done.
If you're taking long trips through the desert, get a Land Cruiser or a HMMWV. For real-world driving, if reliability is your concern, buy a Japanese sedan.
You can think all you want. Consumer Reports disagrees with you. Unless you've got some serious evidence, I'd say you're nuts.
There may be different types of failures, but if they're less common, that means "more reliable".
Can you keep old cars running for a long time with proper maintenance? Absofrickin'lutely. That has nothing whatsoever to do with the conversation at hand.
There's more to engineering than block diagrams. Assuming similar parts, yes, the simpler machine will be more reliable. However, since an old Dart and a new Camry do NOT have similar parts, your contention doesn't hold water.
Are you seriously arguing that your Edsel is more reliable than a modern Accord? I think you're high.
There might be fewer single points of failure, yes. However, since cars are better engineered today than they ever have been, modern cars are more reliable. Again, I would love to hear you argue otherwise.
Yes, when I put 3" of water on top of my ECU, it died. Do you think similar failures can't happen to carbureted vehicles?
Buy a Honda. Oh, you had some carbureted car from Mars that's more reliable than that? I'd love to see your numbers, because I'm pretty sure you're making them up.
"Within that 100k miles, there's a good chance that the car will be dead on the road due to something related to EFI or electronic ignition"
I think there's a good chance you're lying.
I had a car's EFI die. I was driving a Miata that didn't have a roof, and I had 3" of water inside the car. The ECU died. I bought another one at a junkyard, plugged it in, and it worked fine.
You claim that carbureted vehicles are more reliable. I defy you to substantiate your claim.
"carbureted bigblock engines get better mileage than injected smallblocks"
And I've seen fuel injected smallblocks get better mileage than carbureted bigblocks.
I bet there are more of mine than there are of yours.
"Cubic inches are free"
Not at the gas pump, they aren't. Mass is never free, particularly when we're talking about performance cars. We are talking about performance cars, right?
Carbs more "reliable"? I don't quite know what that means. You can buy EFI cars today that, assuming you change the oil occasionally and put fuel in the tank, will run for over 100,000 miles. That's reliable enough. No "tune ups" necessary.
There's a reason electronic fuel injection exists. You can't get the power to displacement ratios of modern motors with a carburetor.
There are plenty of reasons to use a carburetor. There are also plenty of reasons to not. Anybody who thinks one system is always better than the other is poorly informed.
So you don't have to have a hard-wired handsfree system. It makes much more sense to have Bluetooth than have different wires for each of the stupid brands of phones...
"This is the problem with Apple's habit of slapping a Happy Fun Name on everything "
This is a feature, not a bug. There are zillions of web sites that list in excruciating detail the nuts and bolts of each model, for the few people (like me) who care. Like, I dunno, Apple's.
Hint: A spec sheet does not make a good product name.
They're only "unfounded" if you have more money for lawyers than the patent holder. If they have enough money, they can make the patent say whatever they want.
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No, it was wise to buy one eight months ago, instead of waiting. Like I did.
You just keep waiting for the price reduction. I'm sure it'll be along any day now. No, really!
You don't like Japanese sedans, but you simply can't deny that they're the most reliable cars ever built on Earth.
Hell, I don't like 'em very much either (with a few conspicuous exceptions: Mazdaspeed 6, Legacy GT...) but I vastly prefer them to anything with four doors to come out of America in the last 30 years.
What criteria do you have for "decent intake gasket" other than "works for 100,000 miles without any user intervention whatsoever"?
Engine out behind the back axle...God bless those wacky Germans.
How often do you change the radiator fluid? : )
"Apple doesn't believe anyone could want better sound than what they have built in so *no* mac's have upgradable sound"
Uh, they're pretty much right. Want different sound? Get a FireWire or USB breakout box.
"However, they could definitely do better."
Can't please everybody. I bet you a donut they're going to please many millions of people, though.
DAMMIT! STOP ruining people's RANTS with your FACTS!
"third party "patch" to get it to work"
You mean like the "drivers" you need to get your "hardware" to "work" on other operating systems? Wow. What ever are people going to do?
I'm much more worried about cars that run people over than cars that might theoretically someday in non-laboratory conditions transmit a fairly innocuous worm. But that's just me.
Bummer about the name. Where'd you get a 911 Turbo with a four-speed? Or are you a power-off oversteer aficionado? : )
You mean the veteran mechanics who are having trouble adjusting to the new techniques and tools of auto repair? They're the ones who say things like "You can't work on new cars! It's all computer-y under there!", apparently completely failing to notice the entire subculture of import car modification. Just because those guys don't know how to do it, doesn't mean it can't be done.
If you're taking long trips through the desert, get a Land Cruiser or a HMMWV. For real-world driving, if reliability is your concern, buy a Japanese sedan.
Yeah, good thing you're here, doin' all the thinking for everybody. I'm sure those guys at NASA have never thought of those issues.
Whew! That was a close one!
You can think all you want. Consumer Reports disagrees with you. Unless you've got some serious evidence, I'd say you're nuts.
There may be different types of failures, but if they're less common, that means "more reliable".
Can you keep old cars running for a long time with proper maintenance? Absofrickin'lutely. That has nothing whatsoever to do with the conversation at hand.
There's more to engineering than block diagrams. Assuming similar parts, yes, the simpler machine will be more reliable. However, since an old Dart and a new Camry do NOT have similar parts, your contention doesn't hold water.
Are you seriously arguing that your Edsel is more reliable than a modern Accord? I think you're high.
There might be fewer single points of failure, yes. However, since cars are better engineered today than they ever have been, modern cars are more reliable. Again, I would love to hear you argue otherwise.
Yes, when I put 3" of water on top of my ECU, it died. Do you think similar failures can't happen to carbureted vehicles?
Yeah, I only see five or six different people a day. I guess that DOES indicate the amount of people buying iPods.
"No, we're talking about reliability."
Buy a Honda. Oh, you had some carbureted car from Mars that's more reliable than that? I'd love to see your numbers, because I'm pretty sure you're making them up.
"Within that 100k miles, there's a good chance that the car will be dead on the road due to something related to EFI or electronic ignition"
I think there's a good chance you're lying.
I had a car's EFI die. I was driving a Miata that didn't have a roof, and I had 3" of water inside the car. The ECU died. I bought another one at a junkyard, plugged it in, and it worked fine.
You claim that carbureted vehicles are more reliable. I defy you to substantiate your claim.
"carbureted bigblock engines get better mileage than injected smallblocks"
And I've seen fuel injected smallblocks get better mileage than carbureted bigblocks.
I bet there are more of mine than there are of yours.
"Cubic inches are free"
Not at the gas pump, they aren't. Mass is never free, particularly when we're talking about performance cars. We are talking about performance cars, right?
Carbs more "reliable"? I don't quite know what that means. You can buy EFI cars today that, assuming you change the oil occasionally and put fuel in the tank, will run for over 100,000 miles. That's reliable enough. No "tune ups" necessary.
Why do you care what other people have in their cars?
And where did you get a Cayenne with a four-speed?
...and flush your fuel economy down the toilet.
There's a reason electronic fuel injection exists. You can't get the power to displacement ratios of modern motors with a carburetor.
There are plenty of reasons to use a carburetor. There are also plenty of reasons to not. Anybody who thinks one system is always better than the other is poorly informed.
So you don't have to have a hard-wired handsfree system. It makes much more sense to have Bluetooth than have different wires for each of the stupid brands of phones...
"This is the problem with Apple's habit of slapping a Happy Fun Name on everything "
This is a feature, not a bug. There are zillions of web sites that list in excruciating detail the nuts and bolts of each model, for the few people (like me) who care. Like, I dunno, Apple's.
Hint: A spec sheet does not make a good product name.
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OK, here's two. 768mb in my 12" PowerBook is more than sufficient. I've got ten apps open simultaneously with a 100mb of free memory.
They're only "unfounded" if you have more money for lawyers than the patent holder. If they have enough money, they can make the patent say whatever they want.
That moist "thwap" sound was the point hitting you in the forehead.
"You're probably in the right ballpark with estimating that 50% can't even handle that."
So, by using YOUR management strategy, you can usually deal with almost 50% of your subordinates.
I think you're a really bad manager.
"Going FireWire or USB2 on mini is no solution, they are half as slow as internal even with fast drives"
Huh?
It worked for Palm.
Size matters.
"So you want Windows?"
No, I want a server GUI that's actually designed by people who are not idiots.
"GUI for server tasks is very much overrated..." Just because it's never been done well before doesn't mean it can't be done well.