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  1. Can you use it on an airplane? on Amazon's Kindle Sells Out In 5.5 Hours · · Score: 1

    Because of the wireless connection, can it be used on a plane? It would mostly appeal to people with money, that tend to fly more then average. And they would like you to turn of devices while taxing (which can take up to 20 minutes sometimes on Schiphol Airport, flying 10 minutes), although nobody does that.

  2. Re:$10,000 on 6 Major Pre-Production Electric Vehicles Compared · · Score: 1

    An Accent is quite efficient, driving in it with your whole family is quite efficient. A hybrid might even use more fuel then the Accent, that I won't calculate right now. The fact is that cars doing more then 10l/100km are a problem!

  3. Re:Conservation still key on 6 Major Pre-Production Electric Vehicles Compared · · Score: 1

    I live in the Netherlands and I can go to my uni in 7 minutes, overtaking cars that won't be near the first traffic light when I've arrived. Oh, it rains a lot now, and it's cold, but it still is better then waiting in your car for 10 minutes, driving 2 minutes and looking 30 minutes for a parking lot... And the bike route is way shorter...

  4. Re:Not a Solution on 6 Major Pre-Production Electric Vehicles Compared · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You both are ignorant fools, because hydrogen isn't a energy source! It's just another form of battery, that might be cleaner and more efficient. The hydrogen still has to be produced... using electricity!

  5. LOOKS great! on KDE 4.0 RC 1 Released · · Score: 1

    I installed it using the OpenSUSE buildservice, but I can't seem to find out how I do these things:

    1) Dock the systray in the panel
    2) Move the taskbar inside the panel (or any other applet for that sake)
    3) Remove plasmoids

    Other then that, it start to look slick!

    PS. I tried finding this information on the internet, found some close bugreports and it seems the functionality might be there, but as long as I cannot find out how it works (I tend to get spammed a lot about computer problems) it's not really userfriendly (or poweruserfriendly for that matter)...

  6. Re:Memory still an issue for me... on Comparing Memory Usage of Firefox 2 vs 3 · · Score: 1

    You can try removing your profile folder, reimport your bookmarks (I had to use restore, import grinded to a non-working halt)... Maybe that's the problem, I don't know but it works nicely now (including some plugins, use extensions.checkCompatibility=false)

  7. Re:In home MRI scanner on First Image Taken With an Ultra Low Field MRI · · Score: 1

    In small to medium sized hospitals the one interpreting the MRI results is probably the highest paid person in the building. Also, if a MRI scan is needed fast you can cut the queue, but you would just make an X-ray/CT because that takes seconds/a few minutes instead of half an hour or so.

  8. Re:in addition, totally unnecessary on Babelfish Sparks Minor Diplomatic Row · · Score: 1

    Probably it's just translated badly, and can be something like

    Pijn doet geen zeer.

    But still, Dutch is quite difficult and has some very strange combinations of words and grammar rules that really suck. I'm not quite sure if Dutch has less words then English, maybe in technical terms.

  9. Re:Myth on Ultracapacitors Soon to Replace Many Batteries? · · Score: 1

    Do they have 15 amps @ 120 Volts in the USA? Because it's not uncommon to have 16amps 240Volts fuses in the Netherlands...

  10. Re:Not a monopoly. on Seagate Offers Refunds on 6.2 Million Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    5 year warranty to 3 or 1 on other drives is a reason to pay $5,99 more

  11. Re:just taking care to take care. on Anti-Terrorism and the Death of the Chemistry Set · · Score: 1

    Why is it that policemen I spoke to find guns less dangerous then knifes? (This is the Netherlands). Mostly because ANYONE can aim a stab, but guns have other problems.

  12. Re:half price on Cheap New GeForce 8800 GT Challenges $400 Cards · · Score: 1

    CAD/CAM, but mostly you'll want Quadro's and FireGL's for that kind of stuff, not consumer cards.

  13. Re:I agree on Vista Vs. Gutsy Gibbon · · Score: 1

    Strange, last time I installed SUSE let me make a fake RAID partition...

  14. Re:Fool me once..... on Driver Update Can Cause Vista Deactivation · · Score: 1

    You just named a few applications that are usually available under Linux like CAD, for example Pro/Engineer, and Thermal Modellers, for example Ansys. But there are a few that won't run on Linux (yet) but might be in the feature because Linux is sometimes used in scientific settings (just read sources of some programs, and find texts like "This is all that's needed to get DSEM working on that toy OS (Windows)"

  15. Re:Elevator Garage? on Very High Tech - Elevator Garages in an NYC Hi-Rise · · Score: 1

    You forget you need to accelerate(!) and de accelerate the lift+car+counterweight. Because those lifts will be fast, so burn energy faster then necessarily needed.

  16. Re:Bring on the whiners on Cellphone Use On Planes Coming Soon? · · Score: 1

    People have the idea that you need to shout in a phone. Most also listen to music so load I can hear it on the other side of the train carriage. So deaf and shouting in the phone(also has something to do with not hearing your own voice back in the phone).

    Also, I found it easier to shut myself out of a normal conversation. People also don't get hints like "Mobile phones, without the dodgy ringtones" and telling someone that I really hate loud music and telephone conversations. I don't mind a 2 minute call, but a girl telling how the sex was with her boyfriend IS IRRITATING, really if they are talking to the person that is waiting for them on the next station (I'm here now, see you in a few seconds).

  17. Re:RAM checking during POST on Pogue and the Bogusness of Advanced Gadget Reviews · · Score: 1

    Nothing found, I looked (HP's own bios mods)

  18. Re:Read with caution on Pogue and the Bogusness of Advanced Gadget Reviews · · Score: 1

    My HP Brio Pentium II with 233 mhz (passive cooling!) and now with 384mb ram (You know how computers "counted" ram when booting, it takes ages with 384mb ram) works just perfect. And faster then most machines I see some people using that should be 10 times faster...

  19. AGP or PCI-Express on Is Video RAM a Good Swap Device? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Is your adapter an AGP or PCI-Express card? Because PCI-Express has fast lanes both ways, and AGP is not so fast in writing back. That could explain a part of the performance problems.

  20. Re:Poor MAFIAA on Yahoo Exec Says "Enough DRM" · · Score: 0

    I only pirate FLAC files!

  21. Re:Waves of Mass histeria on EU Think Tank Urges Full Windows Unbundling · · Score: 0

    we don't have the $!

  22. Central licenses like FlexLM on What's the Right Amount of Copy Protection? · · Score: 0

    You can do something like the big scientific programs do. You have a flexLM license server running on a server (the computer the software is installed on), for 100 concurrent users for example. A business can have as many installs as they like, but only use 100 copies a the same time. You can "lease" a license for a while if you like (laptop) if the server is configured to allow that. This is beneficial for the business because they never need more licenses then that are used (for example, shifts with different computers), but never exceed them (legal problems!).

  23. Re:SFWA represents ... on Science Fiction Writers Write DMCA Takedowns · · Score: 0

    The guy who wrote TFA, for example!

  24. Re:Xorg and "xkill", nuff said. on The Java Popup you Can't Stop · · Score: 0

    ctrl-alt-escape in KDE

  25. Re:cogeneration on EPA Sends Data Center Power Study to Congress · · Score: 0

    That sucks, alcohol evaporates at 78.37 degrees!