I don't know what sort of MPG the SV650 gets. Right now I'm riding a cruiser style putt putt, a Suzuki GZ 250. It's really fun in the city, but as you might easily guess, a real dog at freeway speeds. (I did ride it up 101 to SF, though.) It's like a toy, its so small, but it makes it really good for moving around in traffic.
I've kind of limited myself to what sort of bike I can get since teaching my dog to ride on the tank. No joke! He gets upset when I go riding without him! I'm planning a vacation (actually I plan to blow off work for the next 6 months to a year) riding in Mexico, and I plan to bring Iggy. So I'm looking for a touring cruiser with good mileage and a big, flat, fat gas tank for both fuel capacity and to give Iggy a more secure perch.
Back at the time Dvorak made his prediction, there was talk that Apple would move to AMD processors. Can those who predicted that outcome claim credit because Apple moved to an x86 architecture? (This is how Cringley claims credit for many of his predictions, BTW.)
if you make enough guesses, some of them will eventually come true
Yeah, and a broken clock is right twice a day. But Dvorak's predictions are more like, "I bet that by 2008, most of the world will be putting ketchup and mustard on its breakfast cereal.
How many times do you need to repost your tale of woe? I got it the first two times. You had a bad experience, you won't buy Apple products again, and you want to either warn others off or do your little bit to damage Apple's reputation. Well and good, but is it necessary to drive the point into the ground on multiple posts on the same story?
Same story as above. My extended Applecare paid for itself three times over, at least. Maybe you posted too many flamebaits, trolls, and redundancies to slashdot and built up some bad karma.
Maybe it's the late hour, but I totally busted a gut laughing at Sorny. I had to read the rest of the sentence one name brand at a time, I was laughing so hard. Even now I'm struggling to type this while giggling.
Actually, if you research this, you will find that Steve Jobs had a personal hand in creating the iTunes Music Store. Who do you think convinced the music cartel to release their catalog to Apple? Who do you think cut the deals with the record companies? Steve Jobs.
More to the point, Douglas Englebart at Xerox Parc created a really cool prototype GUI, but Xerox did nothing with it, and never did anything with it. It might have languished, for all we know.
Steve Jobs put the GUI onto a personal computer, introducing it for the first time to millions of people. Today, we take the GUI for granted.
If that's not changing the world, I don't know what is.
Apple's visit to the Parc is documented, as well as the stock trade for IP use. Bill's "borrowing" of the GUI, without compensating either Apple or Xerox, is also documented. If anyone says this is BS, let's see the proof. Otherwise it's just talk.
It's all water under the bridge. Nobody at this late stage is going to accuse MS of ripping off the Mac GUI for XP or Vista. Vista is merely going to be a poor copy of features that have been in OS X for a while. Maybe, just maybe, MS will achieve parity with OS X Leopard late in 2008, when they release Vista X Pro 2009 (i.e., the paid SP 4).
Dvorak has ceased to be a computer scientist. Now he's a Vanna White
Last week, Apple was going to dump OS X for MS Windows. This week, Apple is going to (or should) open source OS X.
What Dvorak really is, is a rabid and deranged monkey throwing poop against a wall to see what sticks. He's gone beyond gazing at his own navel to compulsively eating the belly button lint (and trying to get the rest of us to have a taste).
My only remaining curiosity about John Dvorak is whether or not he and Donald Rumsfeld were separated at birth.
My next vacation is going to be riding a motorcycle in Mexico. I've been reading a lot about 650 dual sports in Mexico. The problem for me is that I want to take my dog, and the gas tanks on the dual sports are too small for him to sit on. So I'm thinking cruiser in the 650 - 800 cc range, something with a big fat flat tank, like the Honda ACE or the Suzi Volusia.
Most people don't buy race cars, so your comparison is not apt. "Performance oriented" are based on race bikes. Nothing wrong with them, per se, but don't argue that most motorcycles don't get better milage than a compact. If you want to compare a RC51 or a Hayabusa to something, compare it to it's automotive equivalent.
Besides which, more often then not, many people buying these bikes are either buying them to show off (and not ride much) or quickly take themselves out of the picture.
Ouside of track days, is there any reason for a liter sportbike?
For cruisers, unless you're a great fat ass (as many cruiser riders are), is there any real need for more than a liter? 1.5 liter at most? I don't think so. It's all more performance than 99% of the riders out there can actually use.
Don't get bent all out of shape. When someone complains about SUVs, they're really not complaining about the mini-SUVs such as the one you drive, which is basically a 4WD hatchback.
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You're going to doubt the word of someone who has been a Java programmer for over 20 years*? =)
*In an alternate universe
If you upgrade from Mexican Hairless, the terriers have already won.
I fear you're going to get marked down as flamebait, but that was pretty funny, not to mention apt.
Missing from the list:
This will cause you to grow a goatee.
This will cause an incredible thirst for lattes and koolaid.
I don't know what sort of MPG the SV650 gets. Right now I'm riding a cruiser style putt putt, a Suzuki GZ 250. It's really fun in the city, but as you might easily guess, a real dog at freeway speeds. (I did ride it up 101 to SF, though.) It's like a toy, its so small, but it makes it really good for moving around in traffic.
I've kind of limited myself to what sort of bike I can get since teaching my dog to ride on the tank. No joke! He gets upset when I go riding without him! I'm planning a vacation (actually I plan to blow off work for the next 6 months to a year) riding in Mexico, and I plan to bring Iggy. So I'm looking for a touring cruiser with good mileage and a big, flat, fat gas tank for both fuel capacity and to give Iggy a more secure perch.
The reason that DN:F has been continually delayed is because game testers keep getting eaten by a Grue.
Back at the time Dvorak made his prediction, there was talk that Apple would move to AMD processors. Can those who predicted that outcome claim credit because Apple moved to an x86 architecture? (This is how Cringley claims credit for many of his predictions, BTW.)
if you make enough guesses, some of them will eventually come true
Yeah, and a broken clock is right twice a day. But Dvorak's predictions are more like, "I bet that by 2008, most of the world will be putting ketchup and mustard on its breakfast cereal.
I wasn't implying that Dvorak was internally inconsistent, I was implying that he is consistently absurd.
How many times do you need to repost your tale of woe? I got it the first two times. You had a bad experience, you won't buy Apple products again, and you want to either warn others off or do your little bit to damage Apple's reputation. Well and good, but is it necessary to drive the point into the ground on multiple posts on the same story?
Same story as above. My extended Applecare paid for itself three times over, at least. Maybe you posted too many flamebaits, trolls, and redundancies to slashdot and built up some bad karma.
Maybe it's the late hour, but I totally busted a gut laughing at Sorny. I had to read the rest of the sentence one name brand at a time, I was laughing so hard. Even now I'm struggling to type this while giggling.
Now, can I run a company or write for a magazine?
No, but I foresee a promising career as a consultant!
Is this guy just throwing darts at a board with theoretical possibilities to come up with this stuff?
Not to be a spelling Nazi, but I think you misspelled "picking at his crack and pulling shit out of his ass".
That was the best cut-up of JC Dvorak I have EVAR read. You are a genius. I hope you put that on your blog.
Only once, actually, that we know for sure. We don't really know if he would have won in 2000 because he was appointed by the Supreme Court.
Actually, if you research this, you will find that Steve Jobs had a personal hand in creating the iTunes Music Store. Who do you think convinced the music cartel to release their catalog to Apple? Who do you think cut the deals with the record companies? Steve Jobs.
More to the point, Douglas Englebart at Xerox Parc created a really cool prototype GUI, but Xerox did nothing with it, and never did anything with it. It might have languished, for all we know.
Steve Jobs put the GUI onto a personal computer, introducing it for the first time to millions of people. Today, we take the GUI for granted.
If that's not changing the world, I don't know what is.
Uh, yeah. And that would make you wrong, I guess.
Apple's visit to the Parc is documented, as well as the stock trade for IP use. Bill's "borrowing" of the GUI, without compensating either Apple or Xerox, is also documented. If anyone says this is BS, let's see the proof. Otherwise it's just talk.
It's all water under the bridge. Nobody at this late stage is going to accuse MS of ripping off the Mac GUI for XP or Vista. Vista is merely going to be a poor copy of features that have been in OS X for a while. Maybe, just maybe, MS will achieve parity with OS X Leopard late in 2008, when they release Vista X Pro 2009 (i.e., the paid SP 4).
Dvorak has ceased to be a computer scientist. Now he's a Vanna White
Last week, Apple was going to dump OS X for MS Windows. This week, Apple is going to (or should) open source OS X.
What Dvorak really is, is a rabid and deranged monkey throwing poop against a wall to see what sticks. He's gone beyond gazing at his own navel to compulsively eating the belly button lint (and trying to get the rest of us to have a taste).
My only remaining curiosity about John Dvorak is whether or not he and Donald Rumsfeld were separated at birth.
My next vacation is going to be riding a motorcycle in Mexico. I've been reading a lot about 650 dual sports in Mexico. The problem for me is that I want to take my dog, and the gas tanks on the dual sports are too small for him to sit on. So I'm thinking cruiser in the 650 - 800 cc range, something with a big fat flat tank, like the Honda ACE or the Suzi Volusia.
No doubt that many are weekend riders, at least here in L.A. But I also see a fair amount of what I assume are commuter riders.
I didn't know the RC51 was good in the turns. I'd heard that it didn't turn quite as easily as gsxrs and others like that.
About the SV650: Every rider I've met has said they're very happy with it.
Oh, man, that is hilarious! And the comments are too much.
But you claim that it only took you fifteen minutes, which leaves three hours and forty-five minutes unaccounted for.
That must be cool when you need to contact her. You can just dial any number at random and ask to speak to her.
So, in other words, you spend that 4 hours lying to people on slashdot. =)
I run Windows, MacOS, OSX AND Linux. . . . I have a girlfriend that I can hump.
Most people don't buy race cars, so your comparison is not apt. "Performance oriented" are based on race bikes. Nothing wrong with them, per se, but don't argue that most motorcycles don't get better milage than a compact. If you want to compare a RC51 or a Hayabusa to something, compare it to it's automotive equivalent.
Besides which, more often then not, many people buying these bikes are either buying them to show off (and not ride much) or quickly take themselves out of the picture.
Ouside of track days, is there any reason for a liter sportbike?
For cruisers, unless you're a great fat ass (as many cruiser riders are), is there any real need for more than a liter? 1.5 liter at most? I don't think so. It's all more performance than 99% of the riders out there can actually use.
Don't get bent all out of shape. When someone complains about SUVs, they're really not complaining about the mini-SUVs such as the one you drive, which is basically a 4WD hatchback.