Sure, more than a few things went wrong with those vehicles. It is the nature of mechanical things to occasionally require repair. Eventually wear items will catch up with you if nothing else. Things likes batteries, brakes, bearings, lamps, etc.
Are you asking if I had major mechanical trouble with any of those vehicles? The answer to that would be an unqualified no.
Sorry, but I didn't have any exploding transmissions or engine failures. No seized up pistons or wheels that fell off.
You should also know that the SUV / Trucks that I own do some work. They are not typical suburban vehicles that get driven to the office every day and parked in the garage at night. Mine haul trailers and go off the pavement and quite often they do that at the same time.
My heavy vehicles have never had an easy a life as your Corolla's and comparing the two is silly. My Chevy / GM / Pontiac cars never had any major problems either.
Oh, and I hate to break it to you but your Prizm was GM also. Quoth the WikiPedia article "All Prizms were built at NUMMI (New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc), a joint venture plant between Toyota and General Motors in Fremont, California that builds General Motors cars with Toyota."
The Yukon my wife drives replaced a Chevy Tahoe which replaced a Ford Explorer which replaced a Chevy Beretta.
The Pontiac Grand Prix GTP that I drive replaced an F150. The GP will be replaced by a 3/4 Ton Quad Cab or a Chevy Volt, depending on what my needs are at the time.
I grew up driving Fords and before I could drive my family owned Dodge / Chrysler vehicles.
In general I find GMC/Chevy vehicles to be more reliable, better built, and more standardized than Fords. I find Fords to be better, as a subjective measure of quality, than Dodge.
To the point though, it's clear from my purchasing history that you are full of...horse hockey.:D
I wish I had mod points. Your post surely deserves an "interesting" mod. ESPECIALLY your second paragraph.
With a little modification and "webification" you could have the perfect carpool setup, even between strangers. The vehicle need never be empty or hauling a sole passenger. Payment accepted on the website at the time of trip schedule. Some routing magic similiar to what logists (freight) companies already do and POOF, small scale mass transit that would work almost anywhere!
We already DO build all of this stuff into televisions!
Are you not old enough to remember the original cable boxes that had tuning crystals in them? You'd either turn a knob or hit a button on a box seperate from the TV. That box would modulate it's output to TV channel 3 (or 4) and that's the channel you would turn your television to.
As time went on and cable systems standardized televisions started getting cable tuners built into them. This is why most televisions now can tune the first 70 or so cable channels. Those analog channels were standardized sometime back in the 80s and all TVs now have tuners built into them for this.
What people are seeking is a return to this convenience for DIGITAL cable.
Frankly digital should have been deployed like this from the get go and I can't understand why cable companies are blocking a return to A/V equipment with built in tuners.
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Why do "we", which I'm going to define as society at large, HAVE to accept one or the other? How about if society decides that mechanical reproduction, and sharing, should be essentially free and that money should be made on live performances and original sales of physical media only?
It's people like you that leave me scratching my head. You have apparently forgotten that it's we, the people who make up society, that decide what the rules (laws) of the land are going to be!
Having owned two Ford Explorers, a Chevy Tahoe, and a GMC Yukon I can categorically state that speeds of 90MPH are completely possible in these SUVs. Whether they qualify as average or not I cannot say. None of them would go faster than 115MPH no matter how much straight and clear highway you fed them.
Even with large V8 engines none of these vehicles go 0-60 in anything like 4 seconds. While I've never timed them the acceleration rate is probably more like 9 - 10 seconds.
A range of 100 miles would make a vehicle unfit for travel outside of town in Central Wyoming where I live. To the South or West there is not a gas station for approximately 200 miles! To the North it's about 120 and to the East it's about 55 miles. A vehicle with your specs would be nigh on useless. These distances are entirely COMMON in the American West. There are places in this state where the distances would be HIGHER.
Another SUV would probably do serious damage to mine depending on the collision speed. It would likely do a good job of crushing my Pontiac Grand Prix or any of my motorbikes as well. If you doubt a Yukon's ability to crush a "SMART" you obviously do not understand the energy involved in vehicular collisions. Perhaps you should retake your physics courses.
I happen to like the looks of the American SUV. The imported ones like BMW, Porsche, etc....not so much.
I'd like to see you navigate 6"+ of snow or pull a trailer with a weight of 2,000lb+ with that 45km/h car. Heck, I'd like to see that car on the Interstate here with it's steep grades while maintaining anything CLOSE to the 75MPH interstate speed with a full passenger load.
Different tools for different jobs and different vehicles. What works for you in Amsterdam wouldn't work at all for me in Wyoming.
I have a 100W CFL in the garage and I have the same complaint, it takes a good two minutes to come to full brightness when it is cold outside.
I have a laundry room just off the garage. I keep the heat off in that room to save energy. I also have CFLs in the fixture in that room. They also take sixty seconds, or more, to come to full brightness when it's cold outside.
Since I live in central Wyoming "cold outside" pretty much starts in October and ends in May. That's a good chunk of the year when these dang CFLs are aggravating to use.
All of those CFLs are less than 12 months old and were bought at a home improvement store. They were also not the cheapest ones available. So now I have to be an expert and be able to distinguish a "good" CFL from a "bad" CFL? How am I supposed to do this? Spend an hour researching to make sure I get "good" ones? I have more important things to get done then expend a bunch of time and effort to find "good" bulbs.
Also, in the winter a traditional incandescent is not wasting energy. The extra heat that they generate warms the room.
I wish I had mod points for you. You certainly deserve them. Why a site filled with geeks who SHOULD be smarter and more observant than average don't automatically understand your argument is beyond me.
We keep adding all of this stuff to our vehicles that increases weight and electrical demand and yet somehow we can't understand why fuel economy isn't improving!
This isn't rocket science, hell it isn't even High School Science!
No applause necessary for my masterful display of spite!:D
In all seriousness I already AM an Opera user. Deploying it to my two new workstations and new BlackBerry 8830 would have been part of my standard "end user kit" anyway.
The Wii browser, well, my Bro-In-Law wants it and Xmas is coming up so why the heck not?
If there is a finer mobile browser on the market I have yet to experience it. Additionally, can you name another browser with supported releases that run on any web enabled device from game consoles to personal computers?
That's okay, I've installed Opera on two additional computers and a mobile device to make up for it. I'm also going to give my brother in law some Wii points so he can get Opera for his console.
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On the other hand I know a half a dozen couples who are actively trying to find one for Christmas, in fact I'm helping them by looking whenever I go through a store that carries them. I have YET to find one sitting on a shelf where I live.
Using your logic that means that no one who wants one has one yet.
I don't know why you are being so nasty about it but the term "last mile" specifically refers to the line connection between the DSL providers DSLAM and the end user. That line is is a copper loop dedicated to the subscriber and that is most definetly NOT shared in any normal DSL configuration.
Now I could be wrong, but to the best of my understanding what I've lined out above is accurate.
Why do you assume that the establishment has no landline that can be used? When you whip out your cell to summon 911 assistance will you know the address of where you are sitting or will you have to ask one of the wait staff for it?
I'm sorry, but this is not NEARLY as large a problem as many of you are making it out to be.
Funny and the sonic truth of the statement is born out by the astute arguments of the people who replied ahead of me. However, in one thing the original poster is correct. No matter how fast you sample there is always a small amount of the source material you are going to miss. As you sample faster this missed material will become vanishingly small but it will still exist.
Expressed simply; you cannot completely represent a line with a sequence of dots. You may be able to ACCURATELY represent it, but you cannot COMPLETELY represent it./kookmode
I keep hearing this but I honestly cannot understand it. I've been able to use the built in BroadCom AirForce One in my HP Laptop since Ubuntu 6.04 or 6.10. Without NDISWrapper.
What is the major problem everyone encounters with this? fwcutter and your Windows driver and your up and going. Frankly the lack of a functional WPAsupplicant caused me more heartburn and even that has been corrected now.
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Sure, more than a few things went wrong with those vehicles. It is the nature of mechanical things to occasionally require repair. Eventually wear items will catch up with you if nothing else. Things likes batteries, brakes, bearings, lamps, etc.
Are you asking if I had major mechanical trouble with any of those vehicles? The answer to that would be an unqualified no.
Sorry, but I didn't have any exploding transmissions or engine failures. No seized up pistons or wheels that fell off.
You should also know that the SUV / Trucks that I own do some work. They are not typical suburban vehicles that get driven to the office every day and parked in the garage at night. Mine haul trailers and go off the pavement and quite often they do that at the same time.
My heavy vehicles have never had an easy a life as your Corolla's and comparing the two is silly. My Chevy / GM / Pontiac cars never had any major problems either.
Oh, and I hate to break it to you but your Prizm was GM also. Quoth the WikiPedia article "All Prizms were built at NUMMI (New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc), a joint venture plant between Toyota and General Motors in Fremont, California that builds General Motors cars with Toyota."
To you I say...horse hockey.
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The Yukon my wife drives replaced a Chevy Tahoe which replaced a Ford Explorer which replaced a Chevy Beretta.
The Pontiac Grand Prix GTP that I drive replaced an F150. The GP will be replaced by a 3/4 Ton Quad Cab or a Chevy Volt, depending on what my needs are at the time.
I grew up driving Fords and before I could drive my family owned Dodge / Chrysler vehicles.
In general I find GMC/Chevy vehicles to be more reliable, better built, and more standardized than Fords. I find Fords to be better, as a subjective measure of quality, than Dodge.
To the point though, it's clear from my purchasing history that you are full of...horse hockey.
I wish I had mod points. Your post surely deserves an "interesting" mod. ESPECIALLY your second paragraph.
With a little modification and "webification" you could have the perfect carpool setup, even between strangers. The vehicle need never be empty or hauling a sole passenger. Payment accepted on the website at the time of trip schedule. Some routing magic similiar to what logists (freight) companies already do and POOF, small scale mass transit that would work almost anywhere!
We already DO build all of this stuff into televisions!
Are you not old enough to remember the original cable boxes that had tuning crystals in them? You'd either turn a knob or hit a button on a box seperate from the TV. That box would modulate it's output to TV channel 3 (or 4) and that's the channel you would turn your television to.
As time went on and cable systems standardized televisions started getting cable tuners built into them. This is why most televisions now can tune the first 70 or so cable channels. Those analog channels were standardized sometime back in the 80s and all TVs now have tuners built into them for this.
What people are seeking is a return to this convenience for DIGITAL cable.
Frankly digital should have been deployed like this from the get go and I can't understand why cable companies are blocking a return to A/V equipment with built in tuners.
Why do "we", which I'm going to define as society at large, HAVE to accept one or the other? How about if society decides that mechanical reproduction, and sharing, should be essentially free and that money should be made on live performances and original sales of physical media only?
It's people like you that leave me scratching my head. You have apparently forgotten that it's we, the people who make up society, that decide what the rules (laws) of the land are going to be!
Having owned two Ford Explorers, a Chevy Tahoe, and a GMC Yukon I can categorically state that speeds of 90MPH are completely possible in these SUVs. Whether they qualify as average or not I cannot say. None of them would go faster than 115MPH no matter how much straight and clear highway you fed them.
Even with large V8 engines none of these vehicles go 0-60 in anything like 4 seconds. While I've never timed them the acceleration rate is probably more like 9 - 10 seconds.
A range of 100 miles would make a vehicle unfit for travel outside of town in Central Wyoming where I live. To the South or West there is not a gas station for approximately 200 miles! To the North it's about 120 and to the East it's about 55 miles. A vehicle with your specs would be nigh on useless. These distances are entirely COMMON in the American West. There are places in this state where the distances would be HIGHER.
Another SUV would probably do serious damage to mine depending on the collision speed. It would likely do a good job of crushing my Pontiac Grand Prix or any of my motorbikes as well. If you doubt a Yukon's ability to crush a "SMART" you obviously do not understand the energy involved in vehicular collisions. Perhaps you should retake your physics courses.
I happen to like the looks of the American SUV. The imported ones like BMW, Porsche, etc....not so much.
I'd like to see you navigate 6"+ of snow or pull a trailer with a weight of 2,000lb+ with that 45km/h car. Heck, I'd like to see that car on the Interstate here with it's steep grades while maintaining anything CLOSE to the 75MPH interstate speed with a full passenger load.
Different tools for different jobs and different vehicles. What works for you in Amsterdam wouldn't work at all for me in Wyoming.
It would be faster to have them meet in a room with a table but no chairs.
I have a 100W CFL in the garage and I have the same complaint, it takes a good two minutes to come to full brightness when it is cold outside.
I have a laundry room just off the garage. I keep the heat off in that room to save energy. I also have CFLs in the fixture in that room. They also take sixty seconds, or more, to come to full brightness when it's cold outside.
Since I live in central Wyoming "cold outside" pretty much starts in October and ends in May. That's a good chunk of the year when these dang CFLs are aggravating to use.
All of those CFLs are less than 12 months old and were bought at a home improvement store. They were also not the cheapest ones available. So now I have to be an expert and be able to distinguish a "good" CFL from a "bad" CFL? How am I supposed to do this? Spend an hour researching to make sure I get "good" ones? I have more important things to get done then expend a bunch of time and effort to find "good" bulbs.
Also, in the winter a traditional incandescent is not wasting energy. The extra heat that they generate warms the room.
I am not impressed with CFLs at all.
Why would you want to keep executives with a proven track record of failure?
"Nuke their city". G.W. is that you?
Call Cisco.
I wish I had mod points for you. You certainly deserve them. Why a site filled with geeks who SHOULD be smarter and more observant than average don't automatically understand your argument is beyond me.
We keep adding all of this stuff to our vehicles that increases weight and electrical demand and yet somehow we can't understand why fuel economy isn't improving!
This isn't rocket science, hell it isn't even High School Science!
Can you recommend a better mobile browser that works on WM or Blackberry?
No applause necessary for my masterful display of spite! :D
In all seriousness I already AM an Opera user. Deploying it to my two new workstations and new BlackBerry 8830 would have been part of my standard "end user kit" anyway.
The Wii browser, well, my Bro-In-Law wants it and Xmas is coming up so why the heck not?
If there is a finer mobile browser on the market I have yet to experience it. Additionally, can you name another browser with supported releases that run on any web enabled device from game consoles to personal computers?
That's okay, I've installed Opera on two additional computers and a mobile device to make up for it. I'm also going to give my brother in law some Wii points so he can get Opera for his console.
On the other hand I know a half a dozen couples who are actively trying to find one for Christmas, in fact I'm helping them by looking whenever I go through a store that carries them. I have YET to find one sitting on a shelf where I live.
Using your logic that means that no one who wants one has one yet.
Put a heavy rock on the base. That should hold it!
I don't know why you are being so nasty about it but the term "last mile" specifically refers to the line connection between the DSL providers DSLAM and the end user. That line is is a copper loop dedicated to the subscriber and that is most definetly NOT shared in any normal DSL configuration.
Now I could be wrong, but to the best of my understanding what I've lined out above is accurate.
Nice rant but do you realize that DSL is not a shared connection over the last mile?
Why do you assume that the establishment has no landline that can be used? When you whip out your cell to summon 911 assistance will you know the address of where you are sitting or will you have to ask one of the wait staff for it?
I'm sorry, but this is not NEARLY as large a problem as many of you are making it out to be.
That the police are going to really dislike this.
Funny and the sonic truth of the statement is born out by the astute arguments of the people who replied ahead of me. However, in one thing the original poster is correct. No matter how fast you sample there is always a small amount of the source material you are going to miss. As you sample faster this missed material will become vanishingly small but it will still exist.
/kookmode
Expressed simply; you cannot completely represent a line with a sequence of dots. You may be able to ACCURATELY represent it, but you cannot COMPLETELY represent it.
Not really, it's just a strong 2. ;)
I keep hearing this but I honestly cannot understand it. I've been able to use the built in BroadCom AirForce One in my HP Laptop since Ubuntu 6.04 or 6.10. Without NDISWrapper.
What is the major problem everyone encounters with this? fwcutter and your Windows driver and your up and going. Frankly the lack of a functional WPAsupplicant caused me more heartburn and even that has been corrected now.