Comments on: Daily Podcast: Are We Not Carmakers?

By: Mike Solowiow

Mike Solowiow — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:17:31 +0000

The ~~Camaro~~ GTO (there are always two on either side to avoid the jet wash), follow the U-2 on take-off to pick up the wing wheels after they detach. They then throw the wheels in the trunk, and speed off the runway before the next jet needs to take off.

Then upon landing, the GTO shadows the plane (with wing wheels in the trunk), and “talks” the plane down on the radio. i.e…. “Dragon 01, you are 10 ft…. 5ft….. 3, 2, 1, touch down….” since the pilot has such poor downward visibility. Then as the plane slides to a halt they pop the wheels out of the trunk, attach them to the wings, and then it can taxi off to the parking ramp.

I rode in the Camaro, and it is very addictive! Massively fast, so I can only imagine the LS2 powered GTO.

By: Robert Schwartz

Robert Schwartz — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:17:42 +0000

Redbarchetta: Ubuntu Linux is indeed stand alone. It is very simple to install and run.

By: Frank Williams

Frank Williams — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:28:14 +0000

You have to hand it to Microsoft, though. What other company has millions of beta testers finding all the bugs in their products for them?

By: Redbarchetta

Redbarchetta — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:02:57 +0000

I figured he used a Mac, I was refering to the places you can’t control whos software is running your life, work, phone, car, etc. And the fact some applications just wont run on anything else because of their monopoly.

I miss the Unix Sun Spark stations we used to have at RPI.

Thanks Robert Schwartz is this a stand alone Linux-type OS that doesn’t require a DOS foundation like in years past. I just reformatted my laptop and reinstalled a fresh version of XP and it’s still running like sh*t so I think I will try this, can’t be any worse. Don’t anyone suggest Vista, that overly expensive bugged continuation of MS tradition.

By: Robert Schwartz

Robert Schwartz — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:42:59 +0000

Q: Are We Not Carmakers?

A: We are Devo!

Redbarchetta click here and download

By: ZCline

ZCline — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:34:20 +0000

He probably uses a Mac. And if he uses Linux, he just went up 10 respect points in my eyes.

Justin, if you do use a mac, you can probably send word-format documents without word using Apple’s iWork:
http://www.apple.com/iwork/pages/#compatible

If you ARE using linux, you can probably use open office:
http://www.openoffice.org/product/writer.html

By: Jonny Lieberman

Jonny Lieberman — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:25:18 +0000

Tsk, Tsk Robert — in Dick’s story, it is ILLEGAL to kill the ad-insects.

Also — 4 legs good, 2 legs better.

By: Redbarchetta

Redbarchetta — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:22:06 +0000

Justin how do you manage to not use a single Microsoft product, I sure would like to be like that, I hate Microsoft. I don’t know how many computers I have had to rebuild because of their crap software. They are evil, unethical, and have destroyed better software companies with their business practices. They need to be broken up like AT&T was back in the day. Their only interest is in expanding their already huge market share and not in producing great product for their customers, hmm who does that remind you of.

By: Donal Fagan

Donal Fagan — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:00:14 +0000

Stewart and Mandvi get to the bottom of the barrel:

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/03/07/the-daily-show-the-price-of-oil/