Jesse Isaacson

All of the Baltimore area BBs sold out within minutes. The closest one to me only had five, I was 8th in line (showed up right at 5pm). Plenty of wifi models to be had though.

I own a D90 and like it a lot, but it looks like the Canon is going to stomp it for video (view some of the other samples, especially the NYC street one). The lame sample inside the station used here is ridiculous, totally useless. 30 fps sort of sucks, but the Canon seems to totally outshine the Nikon when the camera pans or moves. Any want to buy a slightly used D90?

Remove all of them... the entire management too. Do it or force GM into bankruptcy. These greedy bastards took advantage of American patriotism (the only thing that kept their products selling) for decades.
There are legions of qualified people to replace them, from board members to engineers, clean the house.

I have an '03 and a '96 Jetta and they both work fine. The radio went in the '03 which was annoying, but not the end of the world (ironically the radio in the '96 was stolen). I'll admit that VW's often have "minor" issues, electrical or otherwise, but often are very sound mechanically (I've owned a LOT in the past). They're no Honda or Toyota, but I enjoy driving VWs more than the Japanese cars.

I think overall most modern cars are extremely reliable, no matter where they're made, period.

"it costs just $5 to drive 230 miles." Now, this would be about 92 miles per gallon at current gasoline prices ($2 a gallon), and this seems about right, otherwise who would care about electric cars? So, from that statement we can infer some things...

Now, this car would be plugged into your house, so we can assume that each Kwh = .12 cents (what the electric company charges us). So, $5 divided by .12 cents = 41.6 Kwh (or 41,600 watt hours). Ok (bear with me), 41.6 Kwh divided by 230 would = your per mile Kwh used... this is .18 Kwh. So, this is roughly 181 watts per mile.

A typical $450 solar panel produces 4.5 amps per hour - or 2200 watt hours per day (4.5 amps per hour x 4.5 average hours of direct sunlight for Vermont = 20 amps and then multiply that times 110 volts equals 2200 watt hours).

Divide 2200 by 181 watts needed to travel 1 mile and you get 12 miles per solar panel (per day). So, 3 solar panels would get you 36 miles per day, or what the average (roughly) American drives, 13,140 miles per year. 3 solar panels = $1,350. Of course, you need an inverter and batteries to store the power during the day which costs more, but you get the general example that I'm painting here.

Driving 13,140 miles per year in my car would cost $1,051 dollars (assuming a $2 per gallon 25 miles per gallon average). Basically, for the cost of 3 years in gas (or $3,000 dollars for panels, batteries, and inverter) I would never have to pay for my travel again (except for the cost of the vehicle and maintenance)?

Am I missing something?

Next thing you know they'll levy a tax on overweight drivers....

I got November too... a local Ritz... very rural though, clueless I'm betting.

Not a peep anywhere on the net and absolutely no follow-up by Engadget? Do you people work or just repost press-releases and emails that you receive? What a gig, regurgitate with some humor... lame.

Sign me up!

This is a SUPER dumb question, but just hoping for some insight. Suppose you through in a SIM from one of T-Mobile's new WiFi phones (samsung & Nokia). It wouldn't just work over WiFi would it? It would need some serious software hack yes?
(Live in VT, no reception from any carrier at current spot, but have WiFi and would like to ditch Verizon Lan).