- Apple looking better and better but margin cuts may hurt the stock price. I like the way Apple does updates for the Mac.
- TiVO and Amazon doing a deal where you can watch live TV and then buy a product that you see on the show out-of-the blue. People do not watch entertainment just to buy something.
- General Motors wants electric stations to be set up all over the country by the utilities companies.
- Esquire Magazine is going to use e-Ink for fancy 75th anniversary edition. Should be fascinating.
- iPhone selling for $1000 on eBAY.
- IBM selling off Lenovo shares.
- AMD is on the road to recovery.
- The ASUS eeePC become hot in the EU.
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I agree about the updates from Apple (and Firefox) – I’m running 10.5.4 right now and it’s the best OSX I’ve used. 10.5.0 was a bit off but they got back on track.
Using Vista SP1 on a client’s fricking desktop. There’s nothing I can put my finger but it just “feels” sluggish. Apps come up OK and all that, but it just doesn’t feel right.
I started doing my coding on XP using .NET 3.5 then testing it on the Vista box. Ironically XP running under VMWare on my MacBook Pro feels faster. It’s also a pretty clean XP image without much fluff.
What did your friends PC cost? What did your Mac cost? Cheap under powered hardware is big issue with Vista. On the other hand the hard ware is getting much faster and most machines have enough ram now.
One thing has held back electric cars from the time the first one was built: batteries. They are two heavy, don’t last long enough (as in how many times they can be recharged) and don’t hold a big enough charge.
If they can get around that or the fuel bill is painful enough people are willing to overlook it…
Good for AMD.
I couldn’t care less about an Iphone. It’s past boring.
I like the mini computers. I just don’t have a valid reason to buy one.
I saw a Tahoe Hybrid.
Its get same millage as regular car for it size and also ready to tow a yacht!
GM is once again late to the party. They could have lead the pack, but don’t seem to do much unless they’re forced to.
In the fuel crisis of the 70’s, GM scrambled to build fuel efficient carts. The Chevette, and the X-body cars like the Citation were some of the bigger pieces of junk to hit the road. Foreign small cars took over a good chunk of the market.
Hopefully, they offer something better this time.
Yet another reason to invest in coal and uranium. GTLA.
No, GM doesn’t want the electric car to happen. So they’re using yet another dodge to delay it. They’ll probably say they’re waiting for the utilities to supply the recharging stations before they produce any electric cars. But did the diesel auto makers wait for a garanteed number of refueling stations? I don’t think so! Nor did the flex-fuel cars have to wait for the magic number of ethanol stations. But then, those are all owned by petroleum corporations.
And while I’m on that, isn’t it more than a bit coincidental that the two largest Oil Corporations own the two newest battery technologies. Chevron own the NiMH patent, and Exxon/Mobile own the Lithium Ion patent. Wonder why?!! How about to keep them expensive, and continue to profit from any switch to electric cars? And now T.Boon Pickens, a former oil man, is looking into exploiting wind and solar. I’ve no doubt that the oil barons will never suffer a loss of wealth from any shifts to greener energy sources. That includes Al Gore, who has millions in Occidental Oil stock. Wonder why?
The propaganda that GM is pushing is that the country needs to have hundreds of recharging stations, to that electric cars won’t run out of charge on extended trips. When actually, most hotels, motels, and parking garages could supply this service. In the film “Who Killed the Electric Car”, the 1991 EVs were suppose to recharge to 90% during a lunch break. IOW, under an hour. So your Denny’s and other roadside diners could help out too. And one can still recharge the cars at home. So there’s no real need for the utilities to get involved, at present. After all, are their special recharging stations for your cell phone or laptop PC? And those run down a lot sooner than the cars ever will. This is like saying that the airlines can’t fly across country without airborne refueling tankers. Or that ships can’t cross the oceans without refueling islands. They seem to have managed all these years. Besides, the EVs weren’t really meant for 1000 mile journeys. So using them for such, means you have to plan for recharging stops at rest stops along the way. Those will be so equiped as the demand increases. It doesn’t need to be developed in advanced, with expensive property acquistions, and such. It’s hard enough to get a new gasoline station approved. How likely are there to be these recharging stations built? And how long would they sit idle, waiting for GM to build the cars to use them?