Microsoft squeezing virtualization

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:02:23PM -0500, Alex Beamish wrote:
> Just about all drivers were wasteful, right up until the Energy Crisis in
> the 70's (good grief I sound old), when suddenly the small, gas-sipping
> Japanese cars started to look most attractive, compared to the big, heavy,
> thirsty American cars.

Certainly.  Of course it seems in the rest of the world gas stayed
relatively expensive, while around here it got too cheap again.

> American car companies quickly made drastic plans, with mostly poor results:
> witness the Ford Pinto/Mercury Bobcat; also the AMC Gremlin, essentially one
> of their regular models with the back 1/3 chopped off.

Yeah, and hatchbacks were becoming popular and they needed one quick. :)

> Ah .. and, may I ask, how long have you been a parent? ;) Sometimes kids
> just don't get along, no matter how wonderful a parent you may be.

True, I remember not always getting along with my sister.  We still had
to share the back seat of the car though and deal with it.

> My wife and I got a minivan (a Pontiac Montana) with a second row of
> Captain's seats because we knew that the boys would grow. Sure enough, five
> years later they're now both 6' tall; the younger one is 15, and may still
> grow a bit more.

Nothing a perfectly normal car couldn't carry.

> Just wait .. it'll come. :) Oh, and don't forget about boyfriends,
> girlfriends, pets, bicycles, soccer balls, skates, hockey equipment, and
> weekly expensive trips to the grocery store for the ever-hungry teenagers.

Given most peopel are driving around with just themselves in the car
most of the time, I don't see how the groceries can't fit.  The majority
of the world seems to be able to do it, so we should be able to here as
well.

I carry bicycles on the roof when I need to.  Inside the car tends to
get them scratched too easily.

> At one point, I seriously considered buying a pickup truck .. I was single,
> needed just basic transportation, and a truck was thousands less than a car.
> I also considered a motorcycle (I was in California, it would have made
> sense), but eventually ended up going with a VW Fox sedan .. small and
> economical.

Seems like a good choice.  Your stuff doesn't get rained on, and you can
lock the trunk. :)

And trucks don't seem to come in 'inexpensive' versions anymore, much to
the annoyance of many farmers.  Some of the new vans are rather
impresive for their carying ability and their efficiency.  The old
breadloafs with V8s on the other hand were just stupid, and all seemed
to have last been redesigned in the 60s.

> And a pickup truck isn't that great -- a van's got much more space, and is
> enclosed, something that's handy when it rains on Moving Day.

Absolutely.

I think SUVs and pickups are like windows.  Big and wasteful.  linux is
more like a small efficient car that gets the most of of the resources
given to it without wasting any on being fancy and impresive looking.

There is the linux connection back. :)

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