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Acura thinking 'value?' Acura: Not having a clue for over a quarter of a century!

The Eagles? Journey? Are we selling Park Avenue's here? I think it'd be a better idea if Chevrolet decided to get with the times and did an ad campaign, using themes that are relevant today. That's what ChryCo did with the 'Imported from Detroit' series and it provoked a response. I'm no fan of today's music but using something that's from 1983 or '73 screams 'We're stuck in the past.' At the very least, go with something along the lines of this:

Broke down and got a Galaxy Note 2. So far, I am quite impressed though I have forgotten how unwieldy Android can be. It's pretty cool how well the Stylus works for text.

I don't disagree. I think the 4.3" size is the sweet spot. The problem is that people are gravitating to larger screens. That being said, the pixel per inch numbers I've read are impressive so if RIM has a knockout screen like HTC's One X, they'll likely duck a lot of criticism.

I've fooled around with BB10's OS and I'm quite impressed with it. RIM is in it to win, although I'm curious how the market will react to the 4.3" screen. It seems only Apple can sell a phone in that category. Everyone else is going for 4.5/4.7".

Google missed their shipping target for my Nexus and by the sounds of things, I'll be without the device for another month. I'm not an impatient person but Google and LG are both showing that they absolutely suck at supply management and communication. I can hate on Apple a lot but at least they do have the customer service thing right most of the time.

Not exactly. The Volt had similar functionality implemented about a year or two ago. An address could be sent from Google Maps to the Volt, with OnStar's turn-by-turn ready to give direction. Also, Google used to have a send-to-car function that was compatible with a lot of makes. I guess that has since been eliminated so Google can now charge a good chunk of money for exclusivity.

Chickasha - Pop. 16,210 Churchville, New York Pop. 1,963 BREAKING NEWS: DEALERS IN BUMF**K, NOWHERE CAN'T SELL VOLTS IN RURAL MARKETS THAT TYPICALLY DON'T BUY ELECTRIC CARS. MOAR AT ELEVEN!

Oh boy! -1'ing people's posts will register three-tenth's of a second faster!

Why do people insist on using $h!stagram and its dumbass filters for their Craigslist car ad photos?! It doesn't make me think you're being an artist. It makes me think you're trying to obscure the rust around the wheel wells of your stupid 1971 Mustang.

But then you get splinters.

I guess if I had to pick one night stand, it'd be this one: It's walnut AND on sale on Amazon!

Dear Infinity marketers, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi5pkP3LXNg

The prices people are asking for the Note 1 on Craigslist are a little rich. It appears I'll be ending up with a Nexus 4 as Google appears to be unable to cancel the order, and it's stuck in limbo until the beginning of January.

The problem with including Apple is that their products are closed-source and the ecosystem, limited. As it stands, CUE works with Apple, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, Symbian, WebOS... you get the idea. Nowadays, iOS doesn't offer anything different in terms of interaction than an Android tablet or a PlayBook. Competing UI's have caught up and have even surpassed Apple's experience. CUE's issues appear to be more granular and that's to do with coding. Unless CUE was entirely driven by iOS, Apple wouldn't be too much help if all they worked on was the front-end. The one thing worth noting is that CUE runs on a CPU that was used in the iPhone... the original one... I wouldn't be surprised that GM stuck with the CPU for all 3 years of CUE's development because the accountants figured it was 'good enough,' even as the coders and engineers added flourishes, transitions and flashy effects which end up taxing the system more than they initially planned.

After some poking around, it appears the Linux kernal here is monolithic. Any crash or bug in one instance can cause the whole operating system to lag or crash entirely. I think GM should have definitely pursued a microkernal setup, where the drivers and filesystems operate on the 'outside,' meaning if one program crashes, the rest of the system operates fluidly while the program restarts. Some of the bugs could be related to just one or two instances that are causing the rest of the system to drag or hang. This approach would allow GM to continue using an older ARM chip but still having it function similarly to a modern tablet. Of course, Texas Instruments' OMAP's would offer the best of both worlds, with efficiency that has very little power draw on standby, whilst providing acceptable cpu/gpu performance for this system's modest needs. ASgreed, the CD player should be at either the top or bottom of the nav system and use the already included ripping software from the Linux system to rip the music onto a 40 or 80GB flash drive to allow a person to have a large database of awesome music. It'd be very easy to implement a process where a CD is automatically ripped in FLAC format as it plays. GM is wise to use an open source system in a way, as these features could be implemented freely or with minimal licensing fees. Flash storage is still a little expensive but you might be on to something. Ultimately, the system would incur few writes over its life, save for a few dozen CD's, and the durability is far greater than a standard disk drive that many of these systems likely rely on.

The top-model dash looks like what someone in 2005 thought a 2012 dash would look like.

CUE runs Linux but not Android. The latency quirks sound awful. From what I've read, the CPU is ARM11, which is quite old by today's standards. If I were GM, I'd be on the phone with Texas Instruments for some OMAP4's that could brute-force through the unoptimized coding until the second software revision. They should look at RIM's QnX as an example of efficient, in-car computing. Apple would make GM use their map software too, and GM really doesn't need people driving off cliffs.

OH NOES TEH GUVMENT IS GONNA FIND OUT ABOUT IRRESPONSIBLE AND DANGEROUS DRIVING HABITS OH SAVE US LADY LIBERTY!!111!

Drivers don't pay attention even to motorcycles with conventional engines. Cars are so well insulated today and drivers so distracted that a motorcycle - conventionally powered, or electric - doesn't register anyways.

It did and I think that was the bike's debut. It came third in the zero-emissions race but was the only one on the podium that wasn't a prototype. Although that version was fully-faired, IIRC. It's a radiator for the battery's liquid-cooling system.

Haters gonna hate. I prefer Brammo's products, specifically the Empulse: This was benched against the Triumph Speed Triple and reviews say it offers a similar experience. That's impressive and I think I've found my next bike.