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  1. Re:This really sucks on Trimble To Acquire Google SketchUp · · Score: 1

    You are right, but the Google Pro version is very cheap for what it can do. With Trimble, I think they we will see some price increase. That Pro version has dynamic components and solids which you normally see in very expensive programs like Revit. I also think the free version will get way behind. They (Google) operated just like Autodesk when back in the day they wanted people to pirate their program for non commercial use got everyone hooked on that. Well the first does is always free, and hate to see SU Pro go up to $3 grand or more.

    I have a bad feeling about this.

  2. This really sucks on Trimble To Acquire Google SketchUp · · Score: 3, Informative

    Enough said if true.

  3. Re:Voice recognition on Is Siri Smarter Than Google? · · Score: 1

    Didn't you used to be able to download a better one on iTunes like Vlingo or something? I can't think of the name.

  4. Re:Is she? on Is Siri Smarter Than Google? · · Score: 2

    Short answer is no. Even Steve Wozniak said so. Next.

  5. Re:Call or e-mail your Congresscritter. on Telcos Oppose Bill To Respect 4th Amendment · · Score: 1

    I don't think he said one was better than other just that both are the same simply with different spin. Romney was a liberal Republican at one time as Governor of Mass. We must be eating a lot of beef for there to be as much BS as there is with all sides.

  6. Re:More valuable if they keep it in space on Planetary Resources Confirms Plan To Mine Asteroids · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't be if it was 100%. They are after something else.

  7. Re:I'll believe it on Planetary Resources Confirms Plan To Mine Asteroids · · Score: 1

    Agreed, gold is not worth much in industry. Palladium is even used more to make things. Copper and silver are even better conductors but gold doesn't tarnish or corrode. You might get an ounce if you spend a lot scrapping 500 computers or is it 5000? People get hung up on Gold when other materials are really much more valuable to industry.

    They may be going after He2 or maybe even dark matter, who knows?

  8. Re:Best of Luck on Planetary Resources Confirms Plan To Mine Asteroids · · Score: 1

    They may even make some money as for some if they find a cure for Asteroids. Oh, wait a minute......

  9. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Planetary Resources Confirms Plan To Mine Asteroids · · Score: 1

    Damn, is the price of gold that high?

  10. Re:Call or e-mail your Congresscritter. on Telcos Oppose Bill To Respect 4th Amendment · · Score: 1

    In fact I do and it was bullshit then too. Remember all those files Hoover had? I think if they get my call history or text messages for free, what the hell they doing anyway no matter what the law actually said.

    All they are going to get out of this is stupid stuff. Real terrorists use old fashion methods to deliver messages. They only use cell phones to blow people up. They would have to be very bored to even put most people on the radar but who knows what the next guy in charge will do with power like that?

  11. Re:Call or e-mail your Congresscritter. on Telcos Oppose Bill To Respect 4th Amendment · · Score: 1

    Yeah Obama extended the Patriot Act. What's the difference?

  12. Re:Sounds like the teens just won the lottery on UT Dallas Professor Captures the Mobile Interactions of 175 Texas Teens · · Score: 1

    Of course not they are the ones with your private info.

  13. Re:Am I the only one in the world that likes Ribbo on 12 Ways LibreOffice Writer Tops MS Word · · Score: 1

    Of course because they are faster with someone that has the skill to use them.

  14. Re:Number One! on 12 Ways LibreOffice Writer Tops MS Word · · Score: 1

    No it's sold that many because of people upgrading their OEM licenses when they have to replace that XP machine. Office 2010 has nothing to offer that Office 2003 didn't do just as good or better. I hate it.

  15. Re:Sounds like the teens just won the lottery on UT Dallas Professor Captures the Mobile Interactions of 175 Texas Teens · · Score: 1

    NOTHING is private anymore period. Just simple as that.

  16. Re:If he worked for a magazine writing this stuff on Florian Mueller Outs Himself As Oracle Employee · · Score: 1

    OJ probably is too low on cabbage and the cigarette industry even had the balls to advertise on Ferrari. The bar-code was the same on both that car and Marlboro cigarettes. Subliminal, no?

  17. Re:This just shows paranoid FOSS fanatics are on Florian Mueller Outs Himself As Oracle Employee · · Score: 1

    Really, there is a difference between the two terms.

  18. Re:Wait, wtf, NASA again?!? on Mandatory Brake-Override Proposed For All Cars · · Score: 1

    Well I didn't think so. Maybe some people just need to go to driving school.

  19. Re:Just turn off the car? on Mandatory Brake-Override Proposed For All Cars · · Score: 1

    Some paddles are tied to automatic gearboxes. Some are tied to electronically controlled double clutch gearboxes that have no slip because they don't have a torque converter. There is no way you could shift as fast with that clutch pedal with one of those but yeah some are tied to automatic gearboxes with a torque converter which only gives you the look and no real good reason to have it. It does appear the Golf has what you say though.

  20. Re:I don't know how it is in the US.... on Mandatory Brake-Override Proposed For All Cars · · Score: 1

    I think it was a Toyota problem in their ECU software otherwise it just can't happen with a new vehicle. The brakes have been able to overcome the engine probably since they started putting disk breaks on cars or at least half of the wheels.

  21. Re:It's confirmed on Mandatory Brake-Override Proposed For All Cars · · Score: 1

    No if you want to build a tin can get the title to an old car. They grandfather back. That is currently the only sensible way to build your own car. Put a 5 point harness in it and some scaffolding and you will be safe as anyone with drive by wire and air bags. Oh and wear a helmet.

  22. Re:This is going ... on Mandatory Brake-Override Proposed For All Cars · · Score: 1

    Now cars have launch control to screw that up.

  23. Re:At least it should be easy to do on Mandatory Brake-Override Proposed For All Cars · · Score: 1

    --Personally I'm more concerned about what happens when the oxygen sensor goes on a car. When that happens, you have to keep "feathering" the gas pedal even while stopped so that the engine doesn't stall out on your way to the shop to get it fixed.--

    Me too and they do break.

    --If tapping the brake overrides the accelerator, that means that in the future you'll have to pay a tow truck to get your oxygen sensor replaced. A rather pricey add-on to what is already an over-priced part.---

    Some newer cars will do this through the computer as there is less physical linkage to the accelerator. The brakes wont normally stop the gas from flowing but they will stop you maybe messing up a torque converter. It's better than being dead either way.

  24. Re:That's what brakes are for on Mandatory Brake-Override Proposed For All Cars · · Score: 1

    Reach down and pull it out after applying brakes. That can happen to just about any car.

  25. Re:Just turn off the car? on Mandatory Brake-Override Proposed For All Cars · · Score: 1

    You could do that with a toggle switch and a Dremel.