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Not many doctors, lawyers, professors, etc, and not many toll booth operators, and grocery baggers but there are ALOT of really good solid typical middle class job filled workers.
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using technology that was available or cutting edge in the early '80s.
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Not many doctors, lawyers, professors, etc, and not many toll booth operators, and grocery baggers but there are ALOT of really good solid typical middle class job filled workers.
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Chris Harris has a column on his Drivers-Republic website where he is lamenting the slow pace of automotive progress. I think he just fails to appreciate that automobiles are mature products and progress more slowly than newer products. In his column, he is comparing recent automobile progress with the transition from piston bombers to jet bombers. Anyway, as part of his lament, he includes this which may be of interest to us:
"I find the notion of progress in automobiles a vexing topic. On the one hand I can drive a new Gen.2 997 Carrera and find myself marvelling at the new touch screen sat nav, appreciating the move to direct injection and wondering at the smooth PDK-gearshifts. But on the other hand, I�m reminded that 11-years ago, the 996 was nearly as fast, lighter and smaller � albeit a good deal dirtier. For a species that rates itself as being so damn clever, you have to wonder what has happened to the progression of automotive technology."
I, for one, very much appreciate the incremental progress. I would very much like to have a 997.2, but this helps explain why I can be pretty darn happy with my 996.
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Chris Harris Column
Forgot where I read it b/c as I was younger I asked the same question. I remember reading that while the technology is definitely there, there are several factors coming into play. Dollars and assimilation. You can't just drop an iPhone in the lap of somebody in the early 90's when bag phones just came out. Technology shock would be on the user end. More importantly, business revenue to keep funding R&D for future products would be lost. Change and evolution must come in proper intervals. It's probably on the slower side for the revenue reasons.
You are correct, I reviewed Web TV in the mid 90's which was purchased by Microsoft and then died, as well as the Apple Newton which died soon after the release of the Palm Pilot. There are other factors other than user acceptance though. A big part of technology product's acceptance has to do with the market and availability related products as well as economies of scale during production.
True... but in terms of a bell curve, 90% of the population will be living 25 years (or more!) behind the top... and the bottom will still be using the outhouse.
The question is: where is the middle of that curve, and what are they ready for?
Wasn't it just a year or 2 ago that computers outsold TVs for the first time?
The middle of the bell curve? I assume you are referring to a normal distribution and if so, then that middle section represented by + or - 1 standard deviation is represented by 68% of the population.
What are you referring to about 25 years or more?
So, 68% is the "bulk" of the bell curve? 16% resides at the opposite ends? I think I get the theory, but not the specifics...
The 25 years was just my guess at the era that
most
people "live" in. I.e. using technology that was available or cutting edge in the early '80s. Maybe it's more, maybe it's less - it would be cool to calculate. I guess we'd have to make some metrics first... Music distribution technology, internet access technology, television viewing technology, cell phones, etc.
In every population (defined) we have what is called a normal distribution (in theory). This is what you think of when you refer to the bell curve. The "Bell Curve" is a book written 2 guys that were largely racist and in a nut shell claimed that race was a major determinant of intelligence and that blacks were just not up to par. What was missed is the point that the MAJORITY of any population sit within 1 standard deviation from the mean (comprises 68%). This is what you call "average". For example, wrt intelligence, the "average" person has an IQ of 100 but 68% of the population has an IQ from 85-115 or what is deemed the average range of intelligence. As you get further from the mean (each direction) the percent of the population gets smaller and small and each interval (sd) is smaller and smaller.
For example, the first standard deviation from the mean in a normal distribution is ~34% whereas the distance from the 1st and 2nd sd id only 14% and the next interval is roughly 2%. I say "roughly" because 100% of the population does NOT reside between + and - 3sd's. (roughly 99.8%)
Apply the same concept to grades. The majority of people fall in the middle. There are usually very few A+ sutdents and very few F students but there are whole bunch of C students. Not many doctors, lawyers, professors, etc, and not many toll booth operators, and grocery baggers but there are ALOT of really good solid typical middle class job filled workers. Generally speaking.
Does your brain hurt yet?
Well I'm trading in my 996 for a new 997 ASAP!
I'm getting really sick of getting out an turning that big crank every time I want to start it.
On the way home from work last night my lanterns blew out twice!
The 2 stands for the two blowers on the bottom of the car that supplies the air curtain between the car and the road. This system is known as VASM which stands for Verticle Air Suspension Management.
They are currently working a C4F which will have two blowers in the front and two in the rear. In keeping with tradition, the C4F will be a heavy pig so it needs 4 blowers. Who said pigs can't fly?
Remember when The Flintstones met The Jetsons?
But I did think that electronically adjustable suspension would have been more widespread by now, but I guess the C2F addresses that.
