Well said
Yeah I've seen several of the modern muscle swaps. I can understand those a bit just because they're already modern vehicles. The ones I shake my head at are the ones that turn a '70 Cuda with a 440 into an EV. It just kills what the car was known for and the visceral experience of an iconic big block sound. Plenty of EV pony/muscle cars will be out soon to scratch that itch.
The difference being that the company trying to get FAA certification probably has at least a flying prototype. I don’t think there’s evidence of a Delorean built new after, what, ‘82?
Whoa now watch it! That 130 HP PRV is a beast. Slams my head to the seat.
And I’m sure it’s never occurred to anyone to do so in the nearly 40 years since? The rumors don’t pass the sniff test. Just one guy’s opinion, of course. I mean, I guess it’s theoretically POSSIBLE that someone bought up a massive amount of parts and all and paid the huge expenses associated with letting it all sit in a large industrial facility for close to four decades…
None of which lends any credibility to tales of huge stockpiles of new DMC parts that someone’s been sitting on for 40 years.
Maybe I mis-read.
That's what happens when a car is featured in a movie. Have you seen the prices lately on a 1985 Toyota Hilux 4x4's (aka the Marty McFly truck)?
Or Microsoft?
I know of far less MS Fanbois. We all know and hate MS, and actually talk about the problems with it. Apple people not so much. I think in the Apple EULA it says "thou may not talk badly about Apple, and if Siri hears you do so, your phone will brick."
I guess it depends on how you define the term. I've used (and currently use) both. There are plenty of Apple-esque "features" that are just as annoying as a cloud of gnats around your head. There's plenty of discussion about Apple flaws, but they're all on Apple user forums where you really have to hunt for them. I also couldn't even begin to estimate the number of Windows users I've heard ridiculing the very idea of anything Apple related... if that's not "fanboi" class behavior, I'm not sure what is.
As much as I'd love Linux for the desktop, it's simply not viable if you have to coexist with corporate systems -- especially in an industry that requires any sort of security and auditability. I'm a techie type, but have worked in the financial sector since, oh, 1999.
That's why I didn't say anything about servers. Where I've been there have been mixes of Linux and Windows (and Solaris, and HPUX, and every other flavor of UNIX and mainframe OS imaginable). In my current role we're 100% Linux on the back end, and while I have a pulse and a paycheck it will remain that way.
My personal experience disagrees. My previous corporate masters were very heavily into Windows virtual desktops and some sort of thin client stuff for one of our subsidiaries. Anyone could get a VDI, so I got one and used it occasionally, like when I simply could not have an ssh session disconnect at an inopportune time. It was a productivity killer of the first order. Excruciatingly slow. Maybe it was just their heavy-handed implementation, but if you're not going to be heavy-handed then you don't really need to confine people to VDIs. And to be clear, I'm on gigabit fiber at home, and would routinely see 2-300 MB per sec over the VPN, so it's not like I was on dialup.
