G. David Felt

Car is great as long as you are not over 5'8" tall. The car is spunky and a great fun ride, but for people like me at 6'6" tall 275lbs it does not work. DF just go in and tell the sales person you are interested in looking at "Define the car" and once you check it out, ask if you can test drive it. Once the test drive is over, ask for the persons business card and let them know you will be in touch as you are just starting to review cars and once you have finished looking at the others, you will make a decision. I have never had a dealership ever decline me. I test drive all the time as I like to check out the various SUV / trucks. Have fun on the drives.

Nuclear

QUOTE (Satty @ Aug 24 2005, 09:25 PM) Hummer H2-I hate them and the people who drive them. Tools. QUOTE (capriceman @ Mar 27 2009, 06:08 AM) funny i think that about prius drivers. Funny, I will pick them both out of my H2 Grill. I consider myself a considerate defensive driver and the H2 supports my need for offroad fun, pulling trailers and many other needs that the Prius cannot do or any other car. Reality is people who you might consider tools are usually inconsiderate assholes who get in the fast lane and drive 55 cause they think they should force everyone else to their way of thinking or driving. Reality, the freedom of this country is what gives us all the choice to pick the auto we want and drive it the way we want. I just wish people could be nice enough to each other to realize that you stay to the right unless you are passing or driving faster than others and then you get in the left hand lane. In regards to the 5 models, I have decided to pick lines instead and yes I hate to do this to one that I have bought from and love but at this point I believe the long term survival of GM is more important than a product line. Plus they can add the capabilities to other families products. KILL Saturn Hummer Pontiac Survival would be as follows Chevy, entry level to mid level GMC/Buick, mid level to start of luxury Cadillac, total luxury. No need for a set of cars to compete against BMW or Mercedes in their 1 category. That is what BUICK / GMC is for and then people who truly only need entry level eco box's can go to chevy. Said it many times but GM needs to get back to the basic's of just 3 tiers and call it a day.

WEIRD, but this poor economy is really effecting everyone. One the drive into work this morning, I went by the dealerships in Kirkland and discovered that overnight a number of them closed shop. The Hyundia dealership which was huge and had hundreds of cars is closed and the lot empty compared to last night when it was full of auto's. Then about half a mile down the road I saw that Subaru Dealership was also closed and the lot empty of cars. two differant owners and brands and just over night the lots became empty. WEIRD!!!!. Now all that Kirkland has left is a Chevy / Mazda / Kia lot, Honda lot, Ford Lot, Jeep / Dodge / Chrysler lot, toyota lot and the GMCBP lot. Wonder who will go out next? Last year the Nissan, Mitsubishi, Izusu all dissapeared. Only new dealership that opened last year that I forgot to list is the new Infinity dealershp next to Ford lot. Weird place for a lux dealership to open, but oh well. I hope GM can find a new distributor for the brands.

inert

Bikini's

Total Mazarati knock off, but me likey and would buy one.

I could see us one day having a planet just like the movie Star Ship Troopers. If you want to have babies, you must first due your tour and then become a citizen and then you can have babies. Sucks it up Boys and Girls. You fight till your either dead or the enemy is dead! LOL

I think he should have called it "EcoLeak"

How about a couple of them Nice Outlet Store Flat screens from DELL with their wall mounting kit. Then you would not have to change desks? Think of 4 flat panels on the wall so you just sit down and look straight ahead as the four. That would be the Bomb. One big wall screen cut in 4ths. I currently have dual 21" monitors and it rocks. Have not been able to convince the boss I should have 2 more so I could go quad.

Now I do not get the Jag feel but I do see plenty of the Mazarati in this car, from the grill, shape of the nose to the tail is just screams, I stole the Mazarati look.

Glad it works for you, I am all legs with short body so at 6'6" tall I end up having to really dip down to get into an HHR. I feel for you with the back and knees. My mom just had her knees replaced and it was no fun, but need as she can get around better now. Good luck with the HHR.

Considering it has glass all the way to the back of what we might consider a trunk, could it be that is where you have a couple kids sit facing backwards like the old mid 70's Oldmobile Station wagons did? My parents had a Delta 88 Station wagon with the 3rd seat facing backwards. I love it back there, plenty of room to stretch out and look around and button our dog would come back there and curl up on the floor to sleep. It was my own space compared to the middle seat. Only problem was always had to wait for someone to let you out.

DF, does your current system have room for that card? If so then think about Multi Monitor. That works great.

DF, was not trying to get into a pissing contest with you, but enough of OS versions. I have truly been looking for the font for you and have not found the style for free. In fact just looked at my Vista system and realized it has less font styles than on my XP Pro system What is up with that. Here is a free alternatives that do look like it and a comparison list: Free font like Helvetica Some of the fonts that look like Helvetica or are very similiar are Arial, Aristocrat, CG Tiumvirate, Claro, Corvus, Europa Grotesk, Geneva 2, Hamilton, Helio/II, Helv, Helvette, Holsatia, Megaron/II, Nimbus Sans URW, Spectra, Vega, Newton, Sans URW, Sonoran Sans Serif, Swiss, Swiss 721 BT, Switzerland, Swiss 911 BT (Helvetica Compressed), Impact and Placard Bold and Swiss 921 BT (Helvetica Inserat/Compressed), Arial Narrow (Helvetica Narrow). There are probably many others. Good Luck,

Sun Lotion

SWEET Thanks for the post DF, that Car rocks. I do find it funny that they leather makes the interior look dirty, I would think they would have had it wiped down or something, but it also could be the angle the camera took the pic.

Cool Stats, thanks capricman. I just looked on the box as I have to build this thing tomorrow. They actually say 1TB 10K rpm SAS drives. Going to be a fun time tomorrow

I will take one of each! How many times will you see that driving around. Not many I bet.

Dude those are lakes not oceans, but I give you brownie points for them being on the water at least! Rednecks = Answer to the game of your Kansas.

Suck it up to hard cold facts that Windows out sells Linux and Unix! Windows Trumps Unix Now, back here in reality in the third quarter of 2008, Windows trumps Unix unless you count Linux as a kind of Unix (which I do for spiritual and cultural purposes). In Q3, IDC believes that server makers kicked out $5.1bn in Windows machines, a decline of 5.1 per cent and giving Windows a 40.8 per cent of the global server pie in the quarter. Unix, which is mostly a midrange and high-end play these days, accounted for $3.7bn in sales, down 8 per cent and giving Unix a 29.7 per cent share of the pie. Linux server sales fell by 2.5 per cent to $1.8bn in the quarter, giving Linux boxes a 14 per cent share. If you add Unix and Linux together to feel better about competition for Windows, then Uni(linu)x won this quarter, comprising $5.5bn in sales. But it was a squeaker, and the combined based declined by 6.5 per cent, which is a steeper drop-off compared to the Winders platform. Other boxes - and notably IBM's System z mainframes, which are enjoying an upgrade cycle to the new z10 quad-core machines - accounted for the remaining sales couple billion dollars in sales. IBM's System z mainframe saw a revenue bump of 24.8 per cent in Q3 2008. IDC's stats, like the data coming out of Gartner, show that the x64 server market took it hard on the chin in Q3. (But as you can see from the above comparison, nothing at all like Q3 2001). x64 server sales dropped by 6.6 per cent in the third quarter of 2008 to $6.9bn - the largest decline in six years. x64 server sales in the United States were off 12.2 per cent, the worst decline since 2001, and all regions except Latin America have x64 server sales declines. Latin America, a tiny but growing slice of the server market, had a stunning 12.8 per cent revenue spike. (While this is wonderful, considering that the United States and Western Europe are in recession and we are all connected economically in this silly old world, how long can Latin America remain a bright spot?) IDC said that x64 server buyers were cutting back on configurations and were also shopping based on price, which drove down sales. IDC likes to break out numbers for blade servers, which as we all know should account for more of the server market than they do. (Well, if you believe all the benefits that vendors espouse). Blade sales rose by 29.5 per cent in the quarter across all processor architectures to $1.4bn, accounting for 11 per cent of global server sales in Q3. Blades were expected to have two to three times this share by now when they hit the market in early 2000. Hewlett-Packard's blades continue to beat out IBM, which was trouncing HP a few years back. HP had 55.5 per cent revenue growth in Q3 (OK, that is a pretty juicy number), garnering 54.7 per cent of the blade revenue pie. IBM, by contrast, had a 7 per cent revenue decline and only took 22.9 per cent share. Dell had 70 per cent revenue growth in the quarter with blades, but is starting from a small number and still has only 9.3 per cent of sales. The box counters at IDC also like to talk publicly about how sales of servers are doing for various price bands. The so-called volume server segment - machines that cost less than $25,000 - had a 7.2 per cent decline, and the first decline for this segment in 14 quarters. Midrange boxes (which sell for $25,000 to $500,000) had a 9.5 per cent revenue decline, while high-end boxes costing more than $500,000 saw a revenue bump of 4 per cent (thanks in large part to IBM's mainframes). While Gartner pegs IBM as the server revenue leader, IDC thinks that HP managed to edge out Big Blue in the quarter. IDC figures that HP had $3.86bn in server sales in Q3, down 2 per cent, compared to IBM's $3.81bn, down 3.1 per cent. Dell came in third, with $1.51bn in sales (down 4.3 per cent), Sun Microsystems came in fourth with $1.19bn (down 10.9 per cent), and Fujitsu-Siemens had $647m (down 8.4 per cent). All the other tier-two and whitebox vendors added together pushed $1.56bn in servers, a decline of 12.2 per cent. ® Course you will probably follow the rest of people who try to lump unix and linux together to say it beats windows, but for years the growth in Unix has been ZERO and Linux while growing is still way behind windows. I doubt it will ever replace windows. Try again DF, like it always has been for years, Linux, Mac are just pretendars, not a replacement to windows.

LandLocked

Thanks for the post Nos, that was cool to read. Better yet was the battle below between those that said it was bogus and those including the driver who said it was not and was willing to go out and prove the idiots wrong. Great read! :sign0200:

Wolverine!

:rotflmao: You crack me up with the 5.25 floppy drive. Might as well add in that 8" floppy drive you have in the closet! I have decided Spring of 2010 is the time for me to buy / Build a new Dell workstation for my home. Then it will fly by using SSD drives. Course for my work, I just got delivered an AMS500 array, single shelf with 15 1TB 10,000rpm sata drives. Will run it in a raid 6 state so really about 12TB of storage. Should be a blast to play with.