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Given proper HARD-ware in your hand you can be some real competition for CD.

Very excellent perspective. What camera did you use?

GM on an average has spent $15B on R&D annually over past 3-4 years. Total R&D from the three closes to 25B.

They are not run by Dr. Z anymore.

I agree with you that their cars are solid, but as much credit people give to Nissan for having the fun factor, I don't agree with them. Yes they are a notch above Toyota (every car manufacturer is), but certainly not fun drive vehicles. Take for example the V-6 Altima coupe, despite having power almost on par with the Accord V-6 coupe and being about 300 pounds lighter, it was outgunned or matched by the Accord in Edmunds Comparo.. This sentence sums it all,

Thank you for sharing my emotions. However, I will give it to the new 370z which is a little bit better, but everything else is plain vanilla.

Two purposes come to my mind: 1. Carrying a missile 2. Carrying a prestressed concrete girder.

I guess there was some sarcasm involved in N*'s post.

Jeff Dunham? Are you talking about "When you put the hand out of the window (of a Prius) the vehicle will Turn?" His Achmed the Dead Terrorist has already set statistics on fire on You Tube.

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How about them Caddy CTS wagons which will start off production soon? Genesis coupe is appealing, what would be your engine choice on it, a V-6 or I-4T? Wow Maxima, speechless.... However, Ven will jump over that idea.

Ask my doctor friends, to them s(h)itting on the crapper is the best time to talk to their honies as time is a rare commodity.

<sarcasm><singing> It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.. <end singing><end sarcasm>

475 lb-ft is the ceiling for the torque that 7-speed will handle. With 738 lb-ft coming from those V12's it was not a possibility. With forced induction on smaller engines MB may be capable of exceeding the 475 lb-ft, thus we may not see the 7-speed. As for the W-12, the way it is set up, it may give equal or worse fuel economy compared to the V-12. W-12 is just a packaging convinience.

Newt has my respect too. He somehow reminds me of Lutz but much better balanced than uncle Bob. With modern GIS, and seismography, deep sea exploration, as well as difficult terrain explorations can be much simple. However, those systems have their drawbacks too, but are certainly better off than the systems used in the 60's when oil exploration was at its peak.

Celeron and 512mb of ram - my guess is probably PC3200, are not a good company. You need at least 1gb for XP to function smoothly.

As much as I have stayed away from everything I am glad that it is going to be done for the next 2 years (yeah campaigning will start early 2011 for 2012). Guess what though, I will be somewhere over Germany when the results finally come in. Three weeks in South Asia. Yay.

Get a 750i in Black. How about the Phaeton with Diesel or W12?

Yeah there are a number of CAD models that compete with AutoCAD. But we use the Civil 3D, the only thing comes close to it is Eagle Point. Due to the dynamic nature of Civil 3D, the program can become a resource hog. NVIDIA's FX series video cards are not that adept with Linux as you mentioned regarding the hardware problem. Email the Crossover to me. I will PM you the email id.

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In heavy duty Finite Element Modeling and AutoCAD 3-D analyses, XP 64-bit is pretty powerful. Macs used to be fast, but they are blown out of water by the XP performance. Linux is good, but there is no product support. That sounds good. I would like to have one. Put it on some FTP if it does not infringe copyright.

All three Chrysler, Ford, and GM are stingy with manual transmission. I do not understand the reason, if a person comes looking for a manual transmission he will have to preorder it. Ask BMW and Infiniti, they have few if not any manual transmissions on the lot. People usually wait to get the manual transmissions of those brands. This not only means lesser bargaining power for the customer, but also more money for the manufacturer. When I went to test drive a TSX, the dealer said that he could not go any lower with manual trasnmission other than $100 over invoice, but with the automatic he was going to negotiate "lower" than the invoice, given the automatic and manual transmissions are priced same, Acura will be making more money off the manual transmission vehicle compared to the automatic. Granted manual transmissions are only 5-10% at the most 25% of the total car orders of a particular class of a vehicle. Even if GM will pick less than the 5-10% of the total vehicles sold of that particular class, those are the sales which GM is not having.

Linkity As the election ends, Gingrich says the real energy challenges begin. By Daniel Stone | NEWSWEEK Published Nov 1, 2008 During the presidential campaign, voters have heard endless talk about the candidates' plans to overhaul U.S. energy policy. Starting this week the winner will begin working to enact that vision—and, in the process, he'll confront the political and budgetary challenges that have constrained previous presidents from making the country more energy independent. Former House speaker Newt Gingrich understands these challenges better than most, and in a new book, "Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less," he outlines his ideas for how America should take control of its energy future. Gingrich, now a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, spoke to NEWSWEEK's Daniel Stone. Excerpts: STONE: Haven't both candidates overplayed the notion of green jobs and green investment boosting the economy? GINGRICH: No, I don't think so. One of the reasons I'm so angry about energy is because we were supposed to have our first future-generation coal plant by 2008. Now it's supposed to be 2016. Meanwhile, the Chinese will open their first plant next year. There's a very high likelihood that the technology that goes around the world and earns royalties will be Chinese. Now that is a terrible comment on American bureaucracy and red tape. These kinds of things can lead to dramatic economic growth. We need to have a very large infrastructure of energy. We need to be competitive. With countries like China less concerned about the environment, can a better U.S. energy policy really make a big difference? You actually can solve the environmental problems better in the U.S. [even] at a time when China is building one new coal-burning electric plant per week. [solutions aren't] going to come from China and India and countries that won't give up growth for the environment. So I think the sound, healthy [policy] is to tax America's energy producers, because we are the country most likely to have very high environmental standards. What happens to McCain's "all of the above" approach if the Democrats—who favor a more reserved strategy on drilling—take over multiple branches of government in January? I think the challenge [the Democrats] have is that this is a center-right country. This is a country that would [like to] build nuclear-power plants. We would drill for oil offshore. This is a country that, by a 72 to 18 margin, has more faith in entrepreneurs than bureaucrats to solve our problems. The next time gas is $4 a gallon, people will look at their leaders. If Obama gets to be president, for his entire presidency, the majority of Americans will still have traditional internal-combustion engines. What do you drive? I drive an Escalade. That's quite a guzzler. Well, it's a hybrid. And I am very much in favor of more biofuels and hydrogen cars. I was driving a Tesla in San Jose and it's a terrific sports car—but it's also a long way from replacing 220 million vehicles. Even if we increase oil drilling, engineers point to a significant lag time—up to a decade—before new supplies of oil can truly relieve gas prices. Why bother? We fought the entire Second World War in three years and eight months. Think about that … We haven't had a seismographic survey since 1984 on fuel reserves, so you have new 3-D seismographic capabilities. No one has even tried using them. So we're told on one hand we don't have any capacity, but that we also are not allowed to look. Don't you worry about the potential devastation of oil spills from offshore drilling? First of all, there's natural seepage in the Santa Barbara Channel every day. There's natural seepage off Norway every day. It's an inherent part of those natural systems. Even with the oil coming in from Saudi Arabia, those ships still dock in Florida. And the fact is that, statistically, ships are more dangerous. What do you make of T. Boone Pickens's energy plan? Wind has a role to play. I would very much favor the federal government helping create the [electrical] transmission system he wants. But on natural gas, you have to ask: how rapidly, talking realistically, can you really convert vehicles to run on natural gas? That is a huge project. I don't think it fulfills the requirement for the foreseeable future. The internal-combustion engine will continue to be very important. If Obama wins and you had a line-item veto on his energy plan, what would you eliminate? His energy plan is largely pious hope. He hopes they can make breakthroughs and do this or that. Obama said in one of the debates that Americans need to sacrifice and cut back their energy usage. How do you think that'll fly as part of the solution? Just as well as it did with Jimmy Carter. People don't elect presidents who tell them to sacrifice. They elect presidents who solve problems so they don't have to sacrifice. The cost of oil is less than half what it was earlier this year. Will talk about green tech and energy efficiency dissipate? It's not going to go away for two reasons. First, even with prices lower, we're still sending money overseas to people who turn around and use that money to buy our companies. Second is that long-term demand from China and India for oil and gas is inevitable. This won't go away. Civilizations are growing, and as more and more people desire a better life all over the world, they're going to use more energy.

XP Pro mostly however dabbling into Ubuntu.

Is she recoverable at a reasonable price, and moreover is she worth the B I N for $5500?