G. David Felt

Thank you People like you is who allowed Microsoft to grow and create millions of jobs that people are doing around the world. Microsoft has created more jobs than Linux, Unix, Solaris or Mac has ever created. Windows Rocks!

:rotflmao: DF you and I will always agree to disagree about DELL. What do I have against Linux, Unix and Solaris you ask? last 20 years of working on them, the ever changing NON standards. The lack of any consistency among them. The harsh vague world of certification they have to get your products approved to work with their servers and OS. I started out with the best Unix company in the world, DIGITAL. Their down side was not the Awesome Engineering but their lack of Marketing and selling. That technology ended up at Compaq who bought them and grew the sales before messing up their own sales / marketing and then they got bought by HP. I used to be a big fan of Tru64, the Alpha, etc. yet every time those of us that tried to get the Unix world to come together to have a universal interface and set of commands, people would end up bitching about their version of Unix was better than everyone else. In the end, Unix stayed fragmented and windows started to grow. Then you had Linux come along and promise to do all that Unix had failed to do and long story short, we are fragmented again, Redhat, SuSE, Ubunto, etc. Sun came out talking about standards, easy to use interface, etc and instead they stayed proprietary and while their CLI is somewhat strong, their GUI sucks and worse yet, their is NO standards and so it becomes hell to get your hardware certified with them. Apple came out started and screwed over their fans in the late 70's who helped them grow and then again in the mid 80's as they pushed in to the Enterprise area only to pull back and leave companies with millions of dollars of unsupported hardware. They are now trying to push again into big business, but most who remember getting burned will NEVER let them in again. While Windows is not perfect and many will curse it, MSFT has at least kept the end user experiance consistant and allowed a world of people to grow, have jobs and be successful by keeping standards in place. yes things need to always improve and as long as my job requires me to program and test on windows, Linux, Solaris and Unix. I will do what is needed to keep my job, but my preference is windows. There will come a day when I will say screw em all I am out of here to a nice relaxing change of career, but for now this pays the bills well, my life style and other things. Windows Rocks, the rest are just Blocks and with that they have flowed out to sea to be lost. IMO you will never see Linux replace windows or Mac's in the home or school. It is not and has never been user friendly.

Sadly not all of us fit in these small auto's and worse yet, they sit way too low to the ground. Reality check, as you get older it is not always easy to keep doing deep knee bends to get into a vehicle that sits on the ground. This is a major reason you see middle age people going with cross overs, the HHR is just too small, too low to the ground and over all just a kids car. NOT an adult or family car. My opinion and I am keeping to it.

Nice auto for small people. Sadly I feel I am a dying breed of 6'6" tall people who really only are comfortable in full size sedans or trucks / SUV's.

I saw in the news they just came out with a Trillion dollar bill for that country. I would think it was time to change the evaluation. That is crazy that they have a note that high and it is only worth a few USD.

Mac's Suck, they screwed me in the early 80's and the piece of $h! CEO and his turd company will never again get a cent from me. Apple can die along with Linux, Solaris and Unix. DELL and HP both have sweet new notebooks that come out in April that are supposed to be thinner than the Mac Crap.

Sweet Deal, I told everyone DELL was good for a Deal!

Regeneration!

Wall Street Journal - Auto Task Force set to back more Loans, but with Strings. "President Barack Obama last month handed his auto-industry team a seemingly impossible task: to engineer the most complicated industrial restructuring ever attempted by the federal government, and to do it fast. With almost no experience in the car business, the team's dozen core members have undergone a crash course in the myriad woes plaguing the U.S. auto industry. Within days, just over a month after setting to work, they'll begin announcing decisions. Interviews with task-force members indicate that the administration doesn't want to let General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC slip into bankruptcy protection, a course advocated by some critics of the industry. Instead, the task force is expected to say that it sees viable futures for both GM and Chrysler, but only if there are sacrifices from their managements, unions and GM's bondholders. The team will also lay out a firm timeline for action." Over all I am very pleased with what I read here in this story and it seems that the right things are being done. I am not thrilled with everything and some of these bean counters clearly only see numbers and lack the vision and the common sense to understand the passion that drives auto sales and the need for this passion, but at least it does help with eventually Keeping GM and Chrysler and the millions of other people working at companies that supply these two giants working. Your Thoughts?

AIG makes me want to

Thanks Hyperv6 for posting 2008 numbers, would you have the 2007 and 2006 numbers for comparison? Thanks Dud,

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We'll some will agree with me and other will hate me, but this product does have a place here. As stated for those with poor credit, it can change their behavior and get them to be more responsible in making their payments. Some people need this type of leash to change and become better citizens, responsibility is not always common sense to people and to protect the products they sell and the value in the product, this helps the companies. Now for those of us that are responsible and have credit, this should not be used on the auto's and if it is on a auto, then it should be removed if the vehicle is fully paid for. Lucky for me and many of my fellow C&G members we probably have enough skill to remove these bastard items and have our car the way we want it. Live Free and Die hard driving all the way to hell is my Moto!

Yea along with their bankrupt state income tax and moron free hand outs to the illegals. The state will truly self destruct in time.

This is as stupid as it comes, What about all the accidents that will be caused by the reflective windows???? Great we want to keep the heat out of the car so everyone gets their windows tinted with a reflective polarizing treatment and now you are blinded driving down the road by everyones windows. What a bunch of Idiots. Keep your f@#king hands off my choice of colors and window tints.

Yea GMC Man is an Idiot, He has no Idea what Cadillac is about let alone the premium auto segment. Probably one of these blinded by the lights, love Asian only morons covering up his embarrasment of driving a Coffin on wheels fit in with everyone gutless wonder as gmc man.

GM is probably saving money by not shipping in the 09 versions.

Linky is not working, can someone repost the video so I can see it. Sounds like a interesting view. Thanks in advance.

Love it!!! This will be successful.

Airy

Sorry but was that supposed to be funny? To me it was not, But to the Birthday boy, Happy B Day Again.

My garden is all ready for planting once the weather warms up here in Seattle. Let the corps rot for those that think they can control me! Personally I have my wine cellar stocked and with fresh veggies and beef on the barby I am all ready for a relaxing spring and summer. For now, I will enjoy my spring skiing, snowing hard in the mountains here, Let it Snow, Let is Snow, Let is Snow!!! At the end of the day another bottle of wine to open and drink.

Congrates, welcome to the Drinking club!

I see Hyperv6 says 100,000 units sold, Where? Here in Seattle, I have gone by the Kirkland, Bothell, Everett, lynnwood chevy dealerships and they all have ton's of HHR sitting on the lots but talking to the sales people they have been sitting, most of these are last year models and no new versions are being taken. No one is buying the HHR here in the Northwest. This must be a vehicle that is selling in select areas. Personally the HHR says I am old and from the past, the Orlando at least say's modern and I could even see this as an AWD version for wet and snowy weather. I have no other info on this as this is the first time I have seen the Orlando and I like what I see just like I liked the HHR when it came out also but also acknowledge that the HHR was for people who Wanted to relive the past style. IMO, If the HHR is profitable and truly selling 6 figure units, then keep it going, but consider what the fall off has been for the last couple years. If the HHR has reduced 30-40K units year over year then this vehicle has already lost it's shine and is probably only selling with incentives that rob the profit from the vehicle. At that point then it needs to be massivly updated or replaced. Does anyone have the last 3 years of selling for the HHR to validate if it is really holding onto market share or is it dying off as I suspect it is? Humans are fical and like change, keeping a model around just to resist change is like Ex Prez Bush and his Stay the Course attitude that did not serve this country well. If someone has the sales numbers, please post them to justify keeping the HHR or show that it is time to replace it with this Orlando. ciao,

Love the style, interior and exterior of the Camero and Challenger, but the Mustang is just Blah, nothing special. So far every Mustang I have looked at have not impressed me, especially all the rusty parts. I was at a dealership, Totem Lake Ford of Kirkland, WA and they had a Green Bullit on the show room floor along with a Saleen and a GTO and what I noticed was all three had rusty brake systems, looking under the hood, there was rusty parts on the engines. The tail pipes on one of them was rusty and I could go on and on about the poor quality. The sales person came up to me and asked me if I would like to test drive the only Real American Muscle car left in America that was the best in Quality that no Asian or European builder could match. We'll I could not disappoint the man, so I pointed out while others were looking at the cars also all the flaws I could see, less I say I never did get to test drive it, but was not really wanting to anyway. For those that would say why were you there? I was there doing a good dead for my 78 year old neighbor who wanted his oil changed on his expedition he owns. So I drove it down and got it done and while I was waiting took a look in the showroom and came away very dissappointed in Ford. Those that think their cars are getting better need to take off the sun shades as it was pathetic to see the exact cheap ass plastic vents in the escort, taurus, mustang, trucks, etc. It seems that every model uses the same vents, same radios, etc. People Bitch about GM doing cloning and yet you get the same plastic garbage in the econo box vehicle as you do in their top of the line 65K Ranch Ford Pickup truck or Expedition XL SUV. Why should a high 5 figure vehicle have the same cheap ass plastic dash components as a 15K car? In my book Ford is NOT getting it done with their cars, crossovers, SUV and trucks.