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Oh, I totally agree with you here... I'm not saying that a premium on a hybrid or electric doesn't make economic sence, but until they get them in the reach of the every day consumer, Hybrids is as close as we're going to get. ...once you start talking about cars in the 20's to 40's that have a few thousand dollar premiums, the "extra milage saves me X over Y number of years" vs "upfront increased cost" becomes a real proposition - ESPECIALLY as gas prices continue to rise. ...and you are right bout the Mish Mash - that matters to some and not to others... and then to the ones it matters to, there are varying degrees of willingness to increase costs in order to have a lower "Carbon Footprint". Everyone has different thresholds of pain.

I've got a Camaro that will run past all three of those cars - I'm not sure what that proves? It certainly isn't fuel efficiant. You'll also note that neither the Ferrari or Porche pilot could hook up in that video - spinning the tires through the 60' mark in both races. Low 11's is impressive for an electric car, no doubt, but as I said with the Tesla - real world numbers is what matters. The Electric Atom is Tiny, little more than a frame, so is wholly impractical. You'd have to get into doing the "how much gas can I buy for my 20-30K car before I spend 100K plus to get an electric?" math.

Well, let's do some math here - I can buy an average pickup truck for 30K, and buy enough gas (at $4 per gallon) to go almost 300,000 miles and still be under the $109,000 investment required to buy the Telsa and still have - Room. Unlimited Range, assuming I can find a gas station. A Vechicle that can be serviced anywhere. Do the same math with a car that gets 20-30 MPG and it REALLY kills the math. Until good performing electrics are available at a reasonable price tag, they just aren't going to be a solution for 99.99% of America.

Well, this article is a good one, but not surprising. First, the mainstream media has gotten a bad rap. Agree or disagree, but the left thinks the media is too right biased, the right things the media is too left biased, and almost everyone believes that the media will make up or keep a story going for rating and dollars. This has created a serious distrust in the print and broadcast media. Enter in the likes of Keith Olbermann, Bill O'Reilly, Chris Matthews, Glenn Beck and the like who have opinion shows on news networks, and their opinions sort of become the news AND the bias of the networks they are on in the minds of the viewers. Finally, combine that with the fact the the internet, really for the first time in history, allows us to communicate and share ideas with people spread over huge geography in a way we never were able to before, and it is pretty easy to see why the traditional Newspaper is changing, and probably even beginning to die off.

I agree, but ADR is part of the RevPAR calculation. If demand for rooms drops, occupancy drops. As occupancy drops, ADR usually begins to fall. ...when both drop, RevPAR goes into the tank. In terms of renovation vs. new construction, new is almost always prefered unless there is a real good reason for keeping the building - but remember, renovation means different thigns depending on the particular project. Renovation may mean new carpet, paint and wallpaper - or it may mean gut the building to the shell, in which case things like HSIA, plumbing and other infrastructure issues can be addressed. I'm not arguing for one over the other - it would be stupid for me to do so without seeing the business case - but renovation shouldn't be discounted hands down without a full study. ...in this case, I'm assuming that has been done and the right decision is being made.

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I don't know nor am I saying it is. The fact is, new hotel rooms are coming on line way faster than the demand for them is keeping up right now. I would expect to see a major slowdown in new hotel construction in 2009. ...any hotel I would build right now would be heavily researched and the local market would have to be ripe for it.

She'd be happy to. Just elect her.

So all White Christan Conservatives are Bigots? Really? WOW. That's a pretty bold statement. A bigot is a person who is intolerant of opinions, lifestyles, or identities differing from his or her own. At this time, I'd like to introduce you to the Kettle.

...and the Bat gets to the REAL Crux of the story! Game Over. Keep control of your animal and this wouldn't have happened. Say it with me... "PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY!!" Good!

This is the same Starwood who damn near went under as (and the actual owners of most of these hotels - 90+% of hotels are not owned by Hilton, Sheraton, etc...) they overbuilt right into the hotel bust of the late 80's, and they seem to be making the same mistake again - Hotel Room inventory is on the rise as demand and ADR's are going down. Remodeling isn't always stupid... it often is the right choice. It may not be in this case, but there are plenty of remodeled hotels that were trash and are now amazing 5 star properties...

Most Underrated post, maybe ever, on this board.

This poll reminds me why Alumni should be running the University... ...but I digress.

The Jedi Squirrls can protect the plans!

Guys... don't take me out of context. I didn't suggest that app compatibiltiy and driver issues aren't there, and that a Vista rollout in the enterprise is something I'd suggest. ...nobody was rolling XP out enmass to an enterprise 6 months after its release either, that's my point. ...what I AM saying is that the OS itself is fine. It works. It is perfectly fine if purchased on a new PC designed to work with it. I just think the complaints that "Vista Sucks" because it works a little differently and has basically the same issues that every new OS has is just sorta silly, especially when the "Microsoft is a Monopoly" crowd who refuses to give MS credit for what they have done for the industry comes out of the woodwork to grab another opportunity to bash a big company. Vista doesn't work with many of the 2000 and 2003 server management snap ins, making it useless for many IT guys who need to use those tools. It isn't ready for everyone - but it works and can be faster than XP with proper resourcing. Moreover, it IS the first step to the next level of computing.

HUH?

Since... ...Here you go... Vanessa Curry, Kobe's other OTHER love interest...

ROTFLMAO!! THAT is CLASSIC!!! That video is Afro-Duck approved. ...BTW, this thread proves how badly we need football season. Seriously.

Then he needs to spread the love around then. Guys would be lined up...

beat me too it... LOL!

I didn't overlook it... it simply isn't relevenat. Microsoft CEO being a turd sandwich doesn't make the OS suck. I'll be yer' huckleberry... If I had a dollar for everytime I've heard "the current technology is all you'll need in X enviroment" only to oversee a migration a year or less later becuase technology pushed it, North Texas would already be playing in a new Stadium - YYZ28 Stadium. ROTFLMAO! "Dude, you'll never need anything more than that 40MB HDD." "Man, you've got dual floppy drives, you can do anything." "Nobody will ever utilize 32 bit processing, as 16 bit is plenty for any concieveable application..." it goes on and on and on... Dude... 4GB ram today costs a third of what 64MB did then. Who cares if it uses a lot of resources if those resources are cheap? ...and when you take into consideration that it can actually USE that 4GB as opposed to the limits XP had, your argument goes in the tank. EVERY OS has been a resource hog compared to the previous verison, I don't care if you're talking Novell, Linux, Windows or Apple. ...and most of the IT people I know, were NOT happy with the XP roll out so shortly after 2000 was widely accepted, and many resisited it for a long time... Don't kid yourself. I'll have to dig through my old CRN's and find the "oh crap - windows XP" articles in that rag.

Wow... ... already been asked that one already... ...and answered it in the negative. Now, is Microsoft anti-competitive? Hell yeah. Didn't say otherwise. ...have they been nailed on anti-trust? Yup. Again, didn't say otherwise. Is MS a ruthless company, run by ruthless people? Yeah. ...are they a monopoly? Nope... by definition. Having lost Anti-Trust suits and being run by a bunch of assholes and having lost some anti-trust lawsuits don't change the fact that Linux, Apple and Novell are in the desktop Operating system business, and Apple has CHOSEN to stay small by making the decision to lock to specific hardware. Microsoft has about 90% of that market, but not 100%. When you step back a little and look at the server market they have ANYTHING but a Monopoly. Microsoft has 39% of the server OS market, Unix has 38%, Linux has 12% and mainframe platforms round out the group with the remaining 11%. They aren't the only office suite on the market. They aren't the only internet browser on the market. They don't control any single software market by themselves. They may steal code. They may engage in attempts to destroy their competition... but they are NOT a Monopoly.

Nice, but bad guess. I don't work for MS. But I'm in the business... Hey, Vista has its issues, don't get me wrong - but my point is that the OS is stable, and driver support is catching up, and SP1 has resolved good amount of issues - these rants are almost EXACTLY like the ones I heard during that transition... People were going crazy when Win 2K was going to be end of lifed. Sounds like the same stuff I heard during the NT4 to 2000 transition. ...and who in the name of god (who has a clue) was using 98se in a business environment when XP came out? XP is LIGHTYEARS better (it was day one) than 98se - but it was the replacement for Windows 2000, not really 98se. ...and XP sufferend MANY of the same problems early on, especially with driver support. No technical advantage or reason? How about 64 bit processing? Folks, that is the whole point of this. That is where this is all going. Support for more than 3.5MB Ram? Gee, who needs that? Support for 64 bit processing (and don't point at XP64 - that was an abortion of an operating system and had virtually ZERO driver support) is what Vista is all about, even though most are using the 32 bit version. Vista is the first step into this new architecture, and EVERYONE is going to have to go that way as the hardware moves that direction as well - the next OS released from MS will have NO 32 bit support - mark it down, you heard it here. My home machine benchmarks faster under Vista 64 than it did under XP 32. Nothing wrong with Ubuntu - I've got the GUI version of Ubuntu on a computer running in my office and I have a MAC in my office as well. But Linux is NEVER going to be a replacement for Windows in the end user environoment - it'll take some of the server market away, but only a few nerds are actually going to run Linux exclusively - most will use it where it is strong and keep going back to the Windows crutch to get their jobs done. As far as me being the only person with a good opinion of Vista, you should do a little reading. Lots of industry press is coming around after SP1. Like it or not, your applications vendors have to keep up with Microsoft - Microsoft doesn't (and shouldn't) try to keep down with them. Vista is designed to take advantage of more ram and better processing, and it does so quite well - no, all legacy apps won't work, but most mainstream hardware and software vendors are catching up with driver and Vista compatibility patches. I'm going to save this thread and copy it into the "Windows 2012 sucks, I can't belive they are killing Vista" threads that are sure to pop up here in a few years... LOL!

Someone has to help me understand this... His wife is A STONE FOX!!! What a dumba$$.