Actually the HHR is pretty good. I am not fond of the others myself but I know some people like them. Chevrolet doesn't sell them in Europe because they own Opel, Vauxhall, and Saab. Which they do sell in the EU. While I happen to like European style cars most people in the US don't. In the US it is hard to find a hatch back or estate car. If you want a diesel you are going to be getting a VW Jetta or a MB. Those are you choices here.
But they don't do apps and RockBox doesn't run on the Touch. Frankly I love the touch for watching video, as a PDA, and to surf the net. Now if there was a Linux Distro that ran on the Touch I might put it on but dang the Touch works just too well. And the flight sims, other games, and CAD means that I do have too reboot into windows which is really too bad. I would love to see iTunes on Linux just to reduce the times I need to reboot.
Except I have an IPod Touch. Only ITunes will download apps. Still will not help with FSX. Other than that I tend to use Linux. Oh and now I must add SolidWorks to the reasons why I must reboot. Here is the problem. I like Flight Sims. Falcon, FSX, and IL2 only run on Windows. When I do my next build I will probably run Windows under Virutal Box for ITunes. I sure don't use ITunes to play music. Just to sync my Ipod. I tend to use VLC as my media player.
I can guess why. 1. Microsoft probably offered a bunch of technical help. 2. Silverlight has a much better programing model the Flash. I have not looked at Flex yet but Flash is nasty. 3. Probably thought that they would get better performance out of it.
Flash is in this case is the Devil that we know. Silverlight is the Devil we don't so Flash will probably win this fight.
Bull. Every car company pushed SUVs and Trucks except Honda. Toyota has a full sized pickup and several largish SUVs. All of them get bad mileage. They have a few cars that get good millage plus the Prius. Nissan? Also A good number of SUVs and trucks. Even Honda has an SUV. Gas was cheap. When gas is cheap you don't care about mileage as much. Heck I was looking at some big SUVs back when gas was $1.00 I didn't get one because I just didn't like them. I find this picking on US car companys annoying. Toyota has three small cars that get very good milage. The Yaris, Corolla, and the Pirus. I will leave out Scion and Lexus for now. Ford has one which is the Focus and they are bringing the Fiesta next year. They also have the Fusion Hybrid which gets better millage than the Camry and is much bigger the Pirus. Also the Fusion gets top reliabity rating from Consumer Reports. Chevy has three cars which get good millage. The Aveo, Cobalt, and HHR. These three cars have been in the line up for while. People did choose bigger cars, suvs, and trucks because they wanted them. And EVERY manufacture I can think of pushed them in the US. I am sick of people blaming "advertising". That is the new "The Devil Made Me Do It". Damn companies trying to sell me what will make them the most money! Yes the car companies sold big SUVs because people wanted them and gas was cheap!
"More importantly, they're losing aerodynamics." Are you freaking nuts. Top speed 35 mph. And take a look at it. A small third wheel would add diddly to the drag of that beast. It goes so slow and already has such poor aerodynamics that it just doesn't matter. This is nothing but a cool "look I am high tech" toy. Really where is a less than 50 mile range going to work in the US? New York is the only place where I can see this working. Chicago is too spread out and you have the L. LA? Also way to spread out, Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Phoenix? You can say all that you want about how we need to end sprawl but this would be a solution after sprawl is ended. Now this could work in Japan. The only good way I can see this work is if you could ban personal cars from a city and have these as sort of a rental system. You pick one up at a train station and drive it to where you want to go in the city. Then you drive it back.
It should be possible if you go and check every field on the page to see if any of them have focus. A bit nasty but it can be done. For the fields on the right side of the page I agree that setting the focus on those on slashdot would be a bad choice. You don't have to log on to read and even comment on Slashdot so that would be a bad idea. Not really evil but bad UI design. But I was talking about the pop-up login.
Huhhh. On slashdot when you go to log in you get a pop up window with just the username and password. Making a user use the mouse is evil so setting the focus will make the log in a little easier. Finally even if you are using a page that takes forever to load all you have to do to make you happy is check to see if the user name field is blank. If it is give it the focus. If it is not and the password is blank give that the focus. If that is not blank give the okay button the focus. Maybe you not using the same version of Slashdot but the issue you are suggesting just can not happen.
since the current default is for none of the fields to have focus your not entering you data anywhere. When you log on you have to enter your user name first so why would you start typing in your password before it loads? And isn't typing in your password blind the actual security risk?
Why shouldn't he be fired? Really I have had to fire people in the past and it is very hard but if someone doesn't do their job the make it harder on those that do. Not only that but when you let them go you can give employment to someone that hopefully will do the job well and can grow in the job. But yes the editor could have prevent the columnist from getting fired by doing his job. So if the columnist if fired for publishing the story the editor should be as well for allowing it to be published.
It was a review. It violated company policy. It was illegal. It really was worthless since it was an unfinished version of the movie.
My guess is that any company would have fired him. They should fire his editor for publishing it as well. Actually the editor should have stopped it and given him a strong warning about being stupid then he would still have his job and we never would have heard about it. Just what planet are you from where you think a review of a pirated movie is in-depth investigative reporting?
Well he does have two PC networked running Windows 9x so Freedos might be a step down in functionality. Using Linux with DosBox or with VirtualBox would allow him some extra features like. Backing up to a USB device, Using Open Office or SQL Ledger. And maybe getting on line and using email and what not. OpenOffice could be used to do letters and other reminders if he really wants to. Plus Linux using Dos Box/VirtualBox would allow him to run both Dos programs at the same time. Just like he probably did with Windows 9x.
Solaris might be a good option if Sun lives. IBM is not going to buy it and I hear that HP is interested. After what that company did to DEC I don't have high hopes for Solaris if HP buys Sun. Cisco might be a good match. I would say maybe CentOS or Ubuntu LTS. The Ubuntu upgrades tend to be pretty pain free so far. Or if he doesn't go on line he may not need updates at all.
If you limit the cost they will just run showroom stock. At a $100,000 price limit then I would just run a Corvette since it will be faster than anything you can build one off for $100,000. If I was going to put on a limit it would be fuel. They would have to use standard road fuel and would get x gallons per race. That and if your driver was injured in a crash you loss all your manufacture points for the year. Just to boost safety.
The Touch makes a good Ebook reader. I use it all the time. Also it works well as a browser and to listen to podcasts. I am shocked how much I like. I turn off the wifi to get better battery life when I don't need network access. Even with wifi you can get many hours out of it.
I wouldn't bet on E-Paper for netbook displays. It has a terrible refresh rate. But OLEDs and other display techs will lower the power use for Netbooks over time.
Good point about the raid but hey if you can get it off the CPU why not? Many servers have at least a low end gpu on the motherboard and they spend most of their life just sitting idle. I really do see encryption being the biggest use for gpus. I wonder if compression would be another good use. Maybe for something like a VOIP server.
Not cheap but smart. You say cheap but he didn't ask for a cheap system that would last for 15 years. Replacing systems every few years is a pain. It costs time and money. Not only that but you are filling up land fills with machines.
Will Vista Win7 run his old dos program? Unless new software is part of the plan that is important. I agree with most of your suggestions but would add one. You can build a fan less PC. If you passivly cool everything then you will also cut down on the dust issues. SSDs sound good. Maybe a RAID 1 with a hot standby would be a good plan as well. I would suggest Linux with Virtual Box or DosBox as an option if they want to keep the old software. I would then keep a golden backup of the OS image so that you can do a rapid restore of the OS when it gets junked up. Also he may have NO need for a firewall at all. He may not have those systems hooked to the internet. Not every system must be hooked up to the internet.
Sounds good to me. DosBox or VirtualBox running under Linux would work just fine depending on if you want to run it under Windows 95/98 or Dos. With Virtual Box you could even do a complete backup on a USB key and maybe even to the "cloud". I wounder if you could even run VirtualBox on EC2 and us S3 for making backups.
I can see your point but his business doesn't rely on them. He could do everything with paper and pen. The computer saves him a little and time and money. His current software might do everything that he wants to do. For example take a look at the new ATM machines. They can put up pretty pictures now and in full color. Do they do anything more for me than the old ones? Not really. Now the ones that can read the checks you deposit are really cool but the new ones that just have the new pretty UI bring no extra value to me. An 80 year old hammer is as good as a brand new hammer.
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Actually the HHR is pretty good. I am not fond of the others myself but I know some people like them.
Chevrolet doesn't sell them in Europe because they own Opel, Vauxhall, and Saab. Which they do sell in the EU.
While I happen to like European style cars most people in the US don't. In the US it is hard to find a hatch back or estate car. If you want a diesel you are going to be getting a VW Jetta or a MB. Those are you choices here.
Umm. Netbooks are shipping with XP and only XP right now. Not downgraded...
Microsoft is still selling XP as a current OS for that class of machine.
But they don't do apps and RockBox doesn't run on the Touch.
Frankly I love the touch for watching video, as a PDA, and to surf the net.
Now if there was a Linux Distro that ran on the Touch I might put it on but dang the Touch works just too well.
And the flight sims, other games, and CAD means that I do have too reboot into windows which is really too bad. I would love to see iTunes on Linux just to reduce the times I need to reboot.
Except I have an IPod Touch. Only ITunes will download apps. Still will not help with FSX.
Other than that I tend to use Linux. Oh and now I must add SolidWorks to the reasons why I must reboot.
Here is the problem. I like Flight Sims. Falcon, FSX, and IL2 only run on Windows. When I do my next build I will probably run Windows under Virutal Box for ITunes.
I sure don't use ITunes to play music. Just to sync my Ipod. I tend to use VLC as my media player.
I can guess why.
1. Microsoft probably offered a bunch of technical help.
2. Silverlight has a much better programing model the Flash. I have not looked at Flex yet but Flash is nasty.
3. Probably thought that they would get better performance out of it.
Flash is in this case is the Devil that we know. Silverlight is the Devil we don't so Flash will probably win this fight.
Bull.
Every car company pushed SUVs and Trucks except Honda.
Toyota has a full sized pickup and several largish SUVs. All of them get bad mileage.
They have a few cars that get good millage plus the Prius.
Nissan? Also A good number of SUVs and trucks.
Even Honda has an SUV.
Gas was cheap. When gas is cheap you don't care about mileage as much. Heck I was looking at some big SUVs back when gas was $1.00 I didn't get one because I just didn't like them.
I find this picking on US car companys annoying.
Toyota has three small cars that get very good milage. The Yaris, Corolla, and the Pirus.
I will leave out Scion and Lexus for now.
Ford has one which is the Focus and they are bringing the Fiesta next year. They also have the Fusion Hybrid which gets better millage than the Camry and is much bigger the Pirus.
Also the Fusion gets top reliabity rating from Consumer Reports.
Chevy has three cars which get good millage. The Aveo, Cobalt, and HHR.
These three cars have been in the line up for while. People did choose bigger cars, suvs, and trucks because they wanted them.
And EVERY manufacture I can think of pushed them in the US.
I am sick of people blaming "advertising". That is the new "The Devil Made Me Do It". Damn companies trying to sell me what will make them the most money!
Yes the car companies sold big SUVs because people wanted them and gas was cheap!
"More importantly, they're losing aerodynamics."
Are you freaking nuts.
Top speed 35 mph. And take a look at it. A small third wheel would add diddly to the drag of that beast. It goes so slow and already has such poor aerodynamics that it just doesn't matter.
This is nothing but a cool "look I am high tech" toy.
Really where is a less than 50 mile range going to work in the US?
New York is the only place where I can see this working. Chicago is too spread out and you have the L. LA? Also way to spread out, Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Phoenix?
You can say all that you want about how we need to end sprawl but this would be a solution after sprawl is ended.
Now this could work in Japan.
The only good way I can see this work is if you could ban personal cars from a city and have these as sort of a rental system. You pick one up at a train station and drive it to where you want to go in the city.
Then you drive it back.
For me it comes down to two reasons.
1.iTunes doesn't run under Linux.
2. FSX doesn't run under Linux.
It should be possible if you go and check every field on the page to see if any of them have focus. A bit nasty but it can be done.
For the fields on the right side of the page I agree that setting the focus on those on slashdot would be a bad choice. You don't have to log on to read and even comment on Slashdot so that would be a bad idea. Not really evil but bad UI design.
But I was talking about the pop-up login.
Huhhh.
On slashdot when you go to log in you get a pop up window with just the username and password.
Making a user use the mouse is evil so setting the focus will make the log in a little easier.
Finally even if you are using a page that takes forever to load all you have to do to make you happy is check to see if the user name field is blank. If it is give it the focus. If it is not and the password is blank give that the focus. If that is not blank give the okay button the focus.
Maybe you not using the same version of Slashdot but the issue you are suggesting just can not happen.
since the current default is for none of the fields to have focus your not entering you data anywhere. When you log on you have to enter your user name first so why would you start typing in your password before it loads?
And isn't typing in your password blind the actual security risk?
How about having the username field get focus when you log in.
It would save a little time when logging in.
Why shouldn't he be fired?
Really I have had to fire people in the past and it is very hard but if someone doesn't do their job the make it harder on those that do. Not only that but when you let them go you can give employment to someone that hopefully will do the job well and can grow in the job.
But yes the editor could have prevent the columnist from getting fired by doing his job. So if the columnist if fired for publishing the story the editor should be as well for allowing it to be published.
I feel for his family. I use and really like adblock plus but that is trivial compared to what his lose means to his family and friends.
It was a review.
It violated company policy.
It was illegal.
It really was worthless since it was an unfinished version of the movie.
My guess is that any company would have fired him. They should fire his editor for publishing it as well.
Actually the editor should have stopped it and given him a strong warning about being stupid then he would still have his job and we never would have heard about it.
Just what planet are you from where you think a review of a pirated movie is in-depth investigative reporting?
Well he does have two PC networked running Windows 9x so Freedos might be a step down in functionality.
Using Linux with DosBox or with VirtualBox would allow him some extra features like. Backing up to a USB device, Using Open Office or SQL Ledger. And maybe getting on line and using email and what not.
OpenOffice could be used to do letters and other reminders if he really wants to.
Plus Linux using Dos Box/VirtualBox would allow him to run both Dos programs at the same time. Just like he probably did with Windows 9x.
Solaris might be a good option if Sun lives. IBM is not going to buy it and I hear that HP is interested. After what that company did to DEC I don't have high hopes for Solaris if HP buys Sun.
Cisco might be a good match.
I would say maybe CentOS or Ubuntu LTS. The Ubuntu upgrades tend to be pretty pain free so far. Or if he doesn't go on line he may not need updates at all.
If you limit the cost they will just run showroom stock. At a $100,000 price limit then I would just run a Corvette since it will be faster than anything you can build one off for $100,000.
If I was going to put on a limit it would be fuel.
They would have to use standard road fuel and would get x gallons per race.
That and if your driver was injured in a crash you loss all your manufacture points for the year.
Just to boost safety.
The Touch makes a good Ebook reader. I use it all the time. Also it works well as a browser and to listen to podcasts.
I am shocked how much I like. I turn off the wifi to get better battery life when I don't need network access. Even with wifi you can get many hours out of it.
I wouldn't bet on E-Paper for netbook displays.
It has a terrible refresh rate.
But OLEDs and other display techs will lower the power use for Netbooks over time.
Good point about the raid but hey if you can get it off the CPU why not? Many servers have at least a low end gpu on the motherboard and they spend most of their life just sitting idle.
I really do see encryption being the biggest use for gpus. I wonder if compression would be another good use. Maybe for something like a VOIP server.
Not cheap but smart.
You say cheap but he didn't ask for a cheap system that would last for 15 years.
Replacing systems every few years is a pain. It costs time and money. Not only that but you are filling up land fills with machines.
Will Vista Win7 run his old dos program?
Unless new software is part of the plan that is important.
I agree with most of your suggestions but would add one.
You can build a fan less PC. If you passivly cool everything then you will also cut down on the dust issues.
SSDs sound good. Maybe a RAID 1 with a hot standby would be a good plan as well.
I would suggest Linux with Virtual Box or DosBox as an option if they want to keep the old software.
I would then keep a golden backup of the OS image so that you can do a rapid restore of the OS when it gets junked up.
Also he may have NO need for a firewall at all. He may not have those systems hooked to the internet. Not every system must be hooked up to the internet.
Sounds good to me. DosBox or VirtualBox running under Linux would work just fine depending on if you want to run it under Windows 95/98 or Dos.
With Virtual Box you could even do a complete backup on a USB key and maybe even to the "cloud".
I wounder if you could even run VirtualBox on EC2 and us S3 for making backups.
I can see your point but his business doesn't rely on them. He could do everything with paper and pen. The computer saves him a little and time and money. His current software might do everything that he wants to do. For example take a look at the new ATM machines. They can put up pretty pictures now and in full color. Do they do anything more for me than the old ones? Not really. Now the ones that can read the checks you deposit are really cool but the new ones that just have the new pretty UI bring no extra value to me.
An 80 year old hammer is as good as a brand new hammer.