Your implication was that they were "unable to come up with electric cars faster than" Tesla.
I'm not arguing the reasons behind jettisoning the EV1 project, but rather the fact that it *can be done* by any company willing to put their minds to it. GM proved it while using inferior battery technology than is available today in a comparable time frame.
It's a damn shame they gave up on it, and I sure hope Tesla doesn't run out of money due to lack of purchases and/or one-too-many lawsuits.
Hmmm Microcenter has a Mac Mini for $399 after rebate.
That $399 Mini (http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0264432) is the previous model, while the current model (http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0307581) is $599. [I had to check b/c I want a cheap Mini, but was sadly disappointed by previous post.]
Statistically, 40% to 50% of them also tried marijuana
PUUUULLLEEEZE, let's not start making up usage statistics wildly.
In case anyone is curious, teen marijuana usage is down significantly year-over-year (U of Maryland: http://tinyurl.com/c5krlp, Marijuana Public Policy: http://tinyurl.com/6b9ut6, Partnership for Drug-Free America: http://tinyurl.com/cvocb2). The non-government-funded research my company performs continues to agree with this as well, so let's not get all crazy and assume The Man is behind these stats, either.
Whether or not 50% those eeevviiiilll district attorneys and prosecutors ever smoked marijuana is up for debate. IMHO, if half of them did, they would be less likely to prosecute. Maybe that's why they became prosecutors and not public defenders in the first place.
Stuart Mackenzie: Well, it's a well known fact, Sonny Jim, that there's a secret society of the five wealthiest people in the world, known as The Pentavirate, who run everything in the world, including the newspapers, and meet tri-annually at a secret country mansion in Colorado, known as The Meadows.
Tony Giardino: So who's in this Pentavirate?
Stuart Mackenzie: The Queen, The Vatican, The Gettys, The Rothschilds, *and* Colonel Sanders before he went tits up. Oh, I hated the Colonel with is wee *beady* eyes, and that smug look on his face. "Oh, you're gonna buy my chicken! Ohhhhh!"
Charlie Mackenzie: Dad, how can you hate "The Colonel"?
Stuart Mackenzie: Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes ya crave it fortnightly, smartass!
-Source IMDB
/ I thought the last line was "...crave for it nightly..."
All ACID tests are attempts at benchmarking the ability of a browser to apply standards (W3C standards, to be specific) correctly. Unless your browser showed you the image exactly as it appears here http://acid3.acidtests.org/reference.html, your browser did not pass the ACID3 test.
I do not see any "'t's in reversed yellow boxes" in the reference document, so I am going to go out on a limb and suggest your browser does not pass the ACID3 test.
GPU? NVidia has 38 families of chipsets. At ~5 products for each chipset, you're over 190.
What about all of the other hardware on a motherboard? Bluetooth, USB, Firewire, network drivers and modems are some of the largest contributers to OS development overhead/headache; tell me, have you ever tried to load up Feisty Ubuntu using a Broadcomm wireless device?!?
By the way, this doesn't include all of the half-assed components people drop onto their computers like humping dog memory sticks or coffee warmers let alone all of the out of date drivers people have installed on their systems (have you checked your BIOS rev lately?).
This isn't "Microsoft's way of saying 'we don't know what's wrong with Vista,'" it's Microsoft's way of saying, "we're trying our damnedest to clean this up, but you idiots keep pissing in the pool."
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Your implication was that they were "unable to come up with electric cars faster than" Tesla. I'm not arguing the reasons behind jettisoning the EV1 project, but rather the fact that it *can be done* by any company willing to put their minds to it. GM proved it while using inferior battery technology than is available today in a comparable time frame. It's a damn shame they gave up on it, and I sure hope Tesla doesn't run out of money due to lack of purchases and/or one-too-many lawsuits.
Please see: EV1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1 It's not that they're "unable" but rather they're unwilling.
Hmmm Microcenter has a Mac Mini for $399 after rebate.
That $399 Mini (http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0264432) is the previous model, while the current model (http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0307581) is $599. [I had to check b/c I want a cheap Mini, but was sadly disappointed by previous post.]
Since Dell has been the common comparator in this thread, a quick look found the Dell Studio Hybrid, a similarly spec'd & sized product starting at $499. http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/desktop-studio-hybrid?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
For what it's worth, I use Apple and Dell hardware.
Fair enough, bad habit from too much Twittering, I suppose.
U of Maryland: http://www.healthcalculators.org/calculators/teen_marijuana.asp, Marijuana Public Policy: http://www.jointogether.org/news/research/summaries/2005/study-teen-marijuana-use-in.html, Partnership for Drug-Free America: http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/About/NewsReleases/20th_Annual_Teen_Study
Statistically, 40% to 50% of them also tried marijuana
PUUUULLLEEEZE, let's not start making up usage statistics wildly.
In case anyone is curious, teen marijuana usage is down significantly year-over-year (U of Maryland: http://tinyurl.com/c5krlp, Marijuana Public Policy: http://tinyurl.com/6b9ut6, Partnership for Drug-Free America: http://tinyurl.com/cvocb2). The non-government-funded research my company performs continues to agree with this as well, so let's not get all crazy and assume The Man is behind these stats, either.
Whether or not 50% those eeevviiiilll district attorneys and prosecutors ever smoked marijuana is up for debate. IMHO, if half of them did, they would be less likely to prosecute. Maybe that's why they became prosecutors and not public defenders in the first place.
Stuart Mackenzie: Well, it's a well known fact, Sonny Jim, that there's a secret society of the five wealthiest people in the world, known as The Pentavirate, who run everything in the world, including the newspapers, and meet tri-annually at a secret country mansion in Colorado, known as The Meadows.
Tony Giardino: So who's in this Pentavirate?
Stuart Mackenzie: The Queen, The Vatican, The Gettys, The Rothschilds, *and* Colonel Sanders before he went tits up. Oh, I hated the Colonel with is wee *beady* eyes, and that smug look on his face. "Oh, you're gonna buy my chicken! Ohhhhh!"
Charlie Mackenzie: Dad, how can you hate "The Colonel"?
Stuart Mackenzie: Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes ya crave it fortnightly, smartass!
-Source IMDB
/ I thought the last line was "...crave for it nightly..."
All ACID tests are attempts at benchmarking the ability of a browser to apply standards (W3C standards, to be specific) correctly. Unless your browser showed you the image exactly as it appears here http://acid3.acidtests.org/reference.html, your browser did not pass the ACID3 test.
I do not see any "'t's in reversed yellow boxes" in the reference document, so I am going to go out on a limb and suggest your browser does not pass the ACID3 test.
Your funny math makes my brain hurt.
The number of vendors is a horrible measurement. Try variants on for size:
How many CPU variants does one of the two manufacturers currently support? Try over 125. http://products.amd.com/en-us/DesktopCPUResult.aspx?f1=&f2=&f3=&f4=&f5=&f6=&f7=&f8=&f9=& Oh, and that's just for the desktop.
GPU? NVidia has 38 families of chipsets. At ~5 products for each chipset, you're over 190.
What about all of the other hardware on a motherboard? Bluetooth, USB, Firewire, network drivers and modems are some of the largest contributers to OS development overhead/headache; tell me, have you ever tried to load up Feisty Ubuntu using a Broadcomm wireless device?!?
By the way, this doesn't include all of the half-assed components people drop onto their computers like humping dog memory sticks or coffee warmers let alone all of the out of date drivers people have installed on their systems (have you checked your BIOS rev lately?).
This isn't "Microsoft's way of saying 'we don't know what's wrong with Vista,'" it's Microsoft's way of saying, "we're trying our damnedest to clean this up, but you idiots keep pissing in the pool."