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  1. Re:Interesting, but not new on Electric Car Faster Than A Ferrari or Porsche · · Score: 1

    The thing about the Porsche is that not only can they be incredibly quick, but they handle like you wouldn't believe. Takes some learning - let the gas off in the corners and your tail end will go out in front of you real quick.... of course, its fun letting the ricers try and stick on my tail in the 356, with all of 75 hp. Sharp curves coming on/off interstates (270 degree turn) and accelerate all the way thru...

  2. Re:Are you sure? on El Reg Says Google Choking on Spam Sites · · Score: 1

    So if one links to the other, will it tie it all together into one big loop? 'cause that would be cool...

  3. Re:Interesting, but not new on Electric Car Faster Than A Ferrari or Porsche · · Score: 1

    10mpg in a 930? Dang... Mom's '84 911 (with M491 option - same everything as the 930 except the engine is a regular 3.2L) gets more than twice that, and my 356 gets close to 30....

  4. Re:similar to another well-known adage on Electric Car Faster Than A Ferrari or Porsche · · Score: 1

    Horsepower is for those who can't keep their speed up in the corners.

  5. Re:On the other hand... on How Long Till Virtual Currency Taxation? · · Score: 1

    Why not spend the $ for a couple months worth of WoW and buy a duck stamp instead? Very pretty art work as well on them... Of course, lots of things are taxed under the pitman-robertson act (sp?)

  6. Re:I'm guessing you don't drive a Ferrari either? on The First Quad SLI Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    What'll make you sick is the cars for sale ads in the old car magazines. I've got R&T from the 50s to the mid 90s, and seeing Carrera-engined Speedsters for $2,000 with the engine blown (core engine is worth $50k+ today alone), '65 Mustangs in good shape for under $1k, not to mention the prices on the *new* on the show room muscle cars. Heck, even original spare parts are worth $$ to some people, especially the concours crowd.

  7. Re:distributed on Building a Scalable Mail System? · · Score: 1

    Gee, at work we're using one of them IBM "Sharks" with 2 tb of storage... should we really replace it with a netapp?

  8. I'm happy with mine on It Does Little and Not Very Well · · Score: 1

    I just got one a week or so ago, and it does everything I expected it to do and it does it well. It even serves as a nice walkman type device for when I'm mowing the lawn...

  9. Re:Winternals lawsuit on Best Buy 'Geek Squad' Accused of Pirating Software · · Score: 1

    Would you then offer to give the customer an Ubutnu disc, and send them on their way? Or just point them over to the OS section so they could buy a valid copy of something?

  10. My bank ?.... on Certified Email Not Here to Reduce Spam · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My bank or CC company, or just *any* bank/cc company ?

  11. Re:They must do it! on Government-Aided Phishing · · Score: 1

    Yup, its only 'cause someone out there decided that they'd let the govenment generate unique id numbers for their customer/patient/client/whatever database. From then on, it was all down hill...

  12. 1st post from arm? on ARM Offers First Clockless Processor Core · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    making my first post from my new nokia 770... thanks boss!

  13. Re:From TFA on The Rise and Fall of Franchises · · Score: 1

    Play any classic quakeworld in GL lately? QW at 1600x1200 in GL at 50+ frames/sec on a DSL or cable connection is the way it was *meant* to be...

  14. Re:It makes sense on 42 *IS* The answer to Life, the Universe and Zeta · · Score: 1

    Very (even very very very) improbable != impossible

  15. Re:Accessibility not just for the blind. on Website Accessibility a Legal Issue? · · Score: 1

    And accessability isn't just for blindness at all. Limited hand movements (reduce mousign around and minimize typing), just plain old *very* bad eye sight, long timeouts on things for very slow movement, etc.

  16. Re:Accessibility not just for the blind. on Website Accessibility a Legal Issue? · · Score: 1

    Well, as a state institution (community college) at work we have to be ADA compliant with all our services (online classes, registration system, etc). I think *any* government site should be fully accessable to everyone (and they shouldn't be allowed .coms... they have .gov, .us, .mil, etc) and should be done with Open standards and formats.

  17. Re:Metrics on The State of Online Advertising · · Score: 1

    Do what I do - use the userContent.css file to not *display* ads. I still download 'em - DSL or massive pipe at work, so they don't bother me - I just don't *see* 'em.

  18. But... on Playing The Escape · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... do you wake up disoriented and have to take analgesic to do anything useful?

  19. Re:What would you demand from your IT users? on What Would You Demand From Your IT Department? · · Score: 1

    They selling off any of the old CPUs? I could really use a pair of 1800s to replace this pair of 1200s...

  20. Re:Dual-Booting Can Go Take A Freaking Hike on No EFI Support for Vista · · Score: 1

    I've got a slightly older mobo with dual amd 1.2ghz cpus. Where can I get 2gb of ram for under $200? I need the registered DDR PC2700 stuff. Price hasn't changed but by a couple of dollars since I got my original 512mb stick for $130 when I built the box...

  21. Re:The source on Why Terror Financing is So Tough to Track Down · · Score: 4, Informative

    I found myself reading a few good articles when the Iraq debacle started, then discovered they were on the CSM. Did some research - turns out the CSM has a *very* good reputation for being unbiased, especially with international news and with quite a few people who work for various 3 Letter Agencies.

  22. Re:Finally! on Boxxet, a Tool for Automatic Webpage Generation · · Score: 1

    you are doing it wrong. she should provide the content in plain text, you paste it into templates, etc. and do the formatting. She may not be able to do the desing, etc. but she can do the grunt work of creating the actual content.

  23. Re:Fault on College Student Receives Email of the Lost · · Score: 1

    same wiht a spamtrap@mydomain - lots of bounces to trap@mydomain in my logs..

  24. LMS integration on MS Connects Office and Back-Office Apps · · Score: 1

    MS and WebCT are releasing an "easy publish" feature (webct "powerlink") to publish work and submit it as homework (or presentation i guess) directly from Office. I'm suprised it isn't part of the latest IIS/Windows Server/Office, but then, I don't typically use Windows... so it may be (I know Front Page can do it)

    At least it will end the phone calls from those business course students who can't seem to manage "save as..." and choosing web page.

  25. Re:Freedom fighters on Chinese Journalists Beat Censorship With Web · · Score: 1

    Read up on the battle of Athens, Tennessee. And no, it wasn't during the Civil War.