G. David Felt

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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.

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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.

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.