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  1. Re:Lindor on UMG v. Lindor Ends, No Fees, No Sanctions · · Score: -1, Troll

    That's Lindt, dumbass. :P

  2. Re:Force Feedback? on Toyota Experimenting With Joystick Control For Cars · · Score: 1

    Admittedly. You have to agree that I'm right for the Camry and Prius though.

  3. Re:Force Feedback? on Toyota Experimenting With Joystick Control For Cars · · Score: 1

    Remember that this is Toyota though, where any pretense to steering feedback is drowned out in a shitshow of power assisted bleh.

  4. High-tech Buzz on Harvard's Robotic Bees Generate High-Tech Buzz · · Score: 1

    Is it bad that the first thing I thought of was marketing shills?

  5. Re:Thinkpad T-series on Best Developer's Laptop? · · Score: 1

    I have an R61 Thinkpad. It's good, and was very cheap for a very good spec (~1000 bucks for a T9300 Core 2 Duo, and I bought 4 gigs of ram myself for $70 at the time, 1680x1050 resolution).

    Upsides: Whatever else will be in this thread. For the most part it's been great.

    Downsides:
    -Left mouse button feels like it's hinged oddly after a year and a half of use
    -'b' key feels stuck occasionally
    -headphone jack has some lose piece inside so it's hard to get a good audio out without wiggling the jack around a bit (which probably makes the problem worse)
    -the power adapter it came with suffered a broken neck (bent, came off) after about 6 months. replacement working ok since then.

    So basically, the important parts of the laptop itself have been solid, but there are some small niggling faults.

    I'd buy it again, though. Though this time I'd probably spring for a T series.

  6. Re:Not everyone can afford top of the line on First Look At Wild New "Level 10" Concept PC Case · · Score: 1

    Actually, the civic will probably have the better engine and handling.

    Are you mad?

  7. Re:And this is on slashdot why? on New Motorcycle World Speed Record, 367.382 mph · · Score: 2

    Just FYI, Nissan never was in F1.

  8. Re:And this is on slashdot why? on New Motorcycle World Speed Record, 367.382 mph · · Score: 1

    I'm a computer geek. Do it in school, do it for a living.

    I've been into cars ever since I saw a picture of a Ferrari F40 when I was 7.

  9. Re:Tailgate alarm on Ford's New Radar Technology Based On Open Source · · Score: 1

    I believe that tyres of a given compound respond differently to different loads on them. ie. Higher stopping power by mass for lighter car.

    It's been a while since I looked at tyre related data though so I might be wrong.

  10. Serious Outage? on GMail Experiences Serious Outage · · Score: 0

    Why so serious?

  11. Re:Gutless? on World's Only Diesel-Electric Honda Insight · · Score: 1

    I've drive two petrol engined cars. One's at 232k and admittedly needs to be retired.

    The others at 203k and going strong.

    Increase your expectations!

  12. Re:Lenovo does the same thing on No Windows 7 XP Mode For Sony Vaio Z Owners · · Score: 1

    I have a Thinkpad with a T9300 with VT enabled. Don't know about the 9400.

  13. Re:Should I? on Alan Cox Quits As Linux TTY Maintainer — "I've Had Enough" · · Score: 1

    Oh come on. We're humans, and can one up the bears.

    Put food on said tree, wait till the bears come calling.

    Set up two people with M249 SAWs and two riflemen to back them up. When the bears start working on getting the bait food out of the tree, open up on them.

    The resulting meat should feed your band for at least a week. Longer, if salted.

  14. Tag on Transparent Aluminum Is "New State of Matter" · · Score: 1

    Tag this 'transparisteel'

  15. Re:Wing Commander on Which Game Series Would You Reboot? · · Score: 1

    Howdy.

    http://standoff.solsector.net/

    http://www.wcsaga.com/

    Fan mods, the second one is newer and I haven't tried it.
    The first one is *by far* the best wing commander game I've ever played from a combat pov.

  16. Re:Bell curve??? on California's Revised Pay-As-You-Drive Insurance Draws Continued Objections · · Score: 1

    That's meaningless. I rode a bike after many years and got it going within seconds.

    Anecdotes get us nowhere.

  17. Re:I'd fix bugs and contribute quality code on Firefox 3.5.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Presumably you'd need to at least be capable of building software before the maintainers would trust your bugfixed code...

    For example, the linux kernel is a lot easier to compile than contribute to.

  18. Re:Wait... on Lenovo Software Update Stealthily Installs Adware · · Score: 1

    Speaking as a college student, I run my computer hardware as long as possible and pay for my own laptops, thank you very much.

  19. Re:Link on Iran Tries To Pacify Protesters With Lord of The Rings Marathon · · Score: 1

    That would explain why it looks like ass on Firefox in Fedora and Ubuntu, then.

  20. Re:Moving targets on Memory Usage of Chrome, Firefox 3.5, et al. · · Score: 1

    It turns out OP is really, really fat. ;)

  21. New name suggestion? on Google Suggest Disabled In China Due To Porn · · Score: 4, Funny

    Google Suggestive.

  22. Re:Good luck with that on For Airplane Safety, Trying To Keep Birds From Planes · · Score: 1

    Slashdot is sadly missing the +1 Awesome mod.

  23. Re:Can't See Comment Titles on A Curmudgeonly Look At Google Wave · · Score: 2, Informative

    If it's such a problem, browse in Low Bandwidth mode with NoScript turned on. Turns into a very nice website indeed with those options.

  24. For what its worth on VHDL or Verilog For Learning FPGAs? · · Score: 1

    I've only ever used VHDL, but it is fairly clean and easy to get started with.

    I suppose I should have given Verilog more of a chance, but I just ran away screaming whenever I opened up a *.v file.

  25. No on Is ext4 Stable For Production Systems? · · Score: 1

    As someone who recently had the latest ubuntu trash every inode on my ext3 partitions, I'd have to say no. Not because my case is related to ext4 in any way, but because if a kernel (2.6.28) can get ext3 wrong, I shudder to think what happens with ext4.