I prefer a spellchecker that can keep it in its pants

2015 Chevrolet Spark base model is $12,270, not too far off. Indeed a crapbox, though.

Why not instead let's say that the US public buys seven MILLION cars every year, so your analogy is even more useless.

They don't have any other models to fall back on, so they are forced to "conservatively" design a car that is visually "acceptable" to just about everyone.

The big automakers have much more freedom to experiment with different designs. And you know what? You are not the arbiter of fashion in the automotive world. It's the consumers that decide what is "good looking". Some cars look ugly and yet they sell well. De gustibus non est disputandem. The sales figures will tell you what "looks good".

Yeah whatever, I have a dented fender on purpose. People see it and they just give me the right of way. I'll take that over a shiny "fun" car any day.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2015/05/04/new-car-transaction-price-3-kbb-kelley-blue-book/26690191/

"The estimated average transaction price of a new car or truck sold in the U.S. in April was $33,560"

Stop bitching about "expensive" electric cars. These new models from Chevy and Tesla are pretty much the same price as the old fashioned gasoline burning, fume belching models.

You mean how like Commodore dominates today's computer market because they were the first ones to introduce an inexpensive personal computer?

Sure they can, they have about 100x the manufacturing capability of Tesla. They have dealers and showrooms and distribution already set up all over the planet. If the market takes off they are MUCH better positioned to get cars made and distributed and sold and supported than a company with basically no distribution network and no dealers.

I tell you what, if you ever, in your entire life, see a BMW with Vermont plates driving at less than 30 mph over the speed limit, you will know that the world is coming to an end. It's not hard to compete with a brand that brands you as an asswipe driver.

You are SUPPOSED to think it is ugly, you are NOT SUPPOSED to appreciate what it looks like. This is standard procedure for an unreleased automobile. They don't want the public to get expectations about what it's going to look like. They don't want the auto press to splash pictures of it on their magazines and web sites. The exterior design is not yet complete, they paint it like that on purpose. The design may change and they don't want to disappoint people who were expecting what they saw.

So your computer is stealing moments from your life on a regular basis, interrupting your flow, disturbing your rhythm, and you "don't find it all that inconvenient"???

Have you ever used a computer that didn't do these things? Did you notice you were more productive and sharper because the computer can keep up with you?

Take a math break and total up all of those short breaks the computer is enforcing on you and realize that this is your life getting flushed down the toilet for nuthin

I find that windows gets out of its own way very very quickly when I pop the linux install disk in the drive.

Yes indeed today you need many gigabytes of RAM so that you can run a word processor.

Reasonable performance? you're using a Boeing 747 to fetch groceries from the corner store.

Recently I had the pleasure of setting up a Windows NT system. It took about an hour from initial power-up to fully installed system. Windows NT absolutely rocks. It is faster than any other operating system I have ever seen. Just about everything happens instantaneously. Honestly I have never ever before seen a computer run so fast. It runs just great in 256 Mb of RAM and it uses less than 1 Gb of disk storage.

I had to install Windows NT recently on a 4 Gb partition, there was over 3Gb left over when I was done installing. Oh and also the machine works great with 256 Mb of RAM.

I guess "efficient" is in the eyes of the beholder