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  1. Re:Tesla, here we come on The World's Fastest-Growing Cause of Death Is Pollution From Car Exhaust · · Score: 1

    You should examine the Better Place financials, which are sinking fast.

  2. Re:So ban fatties from driving... on The World's Fastest-Growing Cause of Death Is Pollution From Car Exhaust · · Score: 1

    lets solve over population by giving crazy people guns.

    Bat-shit crazy Africans and Arabs/Muslims are killing each other left and right with guns.

    oh, you already tried that.

    Not effective enough. Not even bat-shit crazy Europeans with guns puts that much of a dent in world population.

    The REALLY effective way to reduce the global population is bat-shit crazy Muslims with nukes.

  3. Re:set goals on Ask Slashdot: How Does an IT Generalist Get Back Into Programming? · · Score: 1

    Or he could use PowerShell to automate routine drudge tasks.

  4. Re:Tesla, here we come on The World's Fastest-Growing Cause of Death Is Pollution From Car Exhaust · · Score: 2

    And we all know what happens when the rich start to buy expensive things...

    They become expensive status symbols?

  5. Re:Tesla, here we come on The World's Fastest-Growing Cause of Death Is Pollution From Car Exhaust · · Score: 1

    What about standard batteries which are swappable at stations?

    Brands and models will have too many differing configurations for that to be practical.

    a cart rolls up

    To haul out and the install 500 lb. of batteries? In 10 minutes? Absurd.

  6. Re:Tesla, here we come on The World's Fastest-Growing Cause of Death Is Pollution From Car Exhaust · · Score: 1

    And when you want to carry something larger than a backpack?

  7. Re:So ban fatties from driving... on The World's Fastest-Growing Cause of Death Is Pollution From Car Exhaust · · Score: 2

    I'm still getting my late 70's muscle car.

    Such a vehicle did not exist. Auto manufacturers stopped making such cars after the 73 oil crisis.

  8. Re:Tesla, here we come on The World's Fastest-Growing Cause of Death Is Pollution From Car Exhaust · · Score: 2

    Call back when Tesla makes a $25,000 minivan with a 275-300 mile range and who's batteries take full charges for 6 years (how long we've owned each of our last to vans).

  9. Re:So ban fatties from driving... on The World's Fastest-Growing Cause of Death Is Pollution From Car Exhaust · · Score: 2

    I think it's worth saving 3.2 million people.

    When the world hit 7 billion, did you complain about overpopulation?

  10. Re:Eh? What change? on AMD Radeon Performance Preview On Linux 3.8 · · Score: 1

    Am I missing something?

    No, you're not.

  11. Re:Is this News? on Cox Comm. Injects Code Into Web Traffic To Announce Email Outage · · Score: -1

    Except that the little X button which closes the window means that your analogies are bogus.

  12. Re:Is this News? on Cox Comm. Injects Code Into Web Traffic To Announce Email Outage · · Score: 2

    FF's pop-up blocker and ABP must be effective at stripping injected code, because I have the email outage, too, but have not seen the Cox windows.

    (BTW, Cox HSI is probably a bit expensive, but my service has been sturdily reliable. Other than hurricanes, I can't remember the last time I had a Cox outage.)

  13. Re:The tao of the engineer on Ask Slashdot: Replacing a TI-84 With Software On a Linux Box? · · Score: 1

    Because then after the fourth time doing "the job", the engineer (or his proxies) have a net savings of time.

  14. Re:Dammit on Linux Nukes 386 Support · · Score: 1

    OS/2 3.0 Warp ran *great* on my 486DX33 with 8MB RAM (and a Tseng video card).

  15. Re:Dammit on Linux Nukes 386 Support · · Score: 1

    I mean is anybody here wanting to run the latest version on a 386?

    Are there any embedded chips based on the 386 instruction set?

    But then, they'd still be on kernel 2.4 or .6. Maybe even 2.2.

  16. Re:something better? what kind of joke is this on Ask Slashdot: Best Laptop With Decent Linux Graphics Support? · · Score: 1

    I've used several generations of nvidia GPUs to drive HTPCs over a number of years and never had any problems like that.

    Not only that, but the whole raison d'etre of the blob is so that Nvidia can sell uber-expensive super-cards to movie studios who run their CG software on Linux machines. They pay a lot for Nvidia to fix bugs and we get the benefit.

  17. Re:Need more information on Ask Slashdot: Best Laptop With Decent Linux Graphics Support? · · Score: 1

    Maybe my CPU is just beefy enough to handle the work itself. (Also, I don't watch lots of full-screen Flash video...)

  18. Re:something better? what kind of joke is this on Ask Slashdot: Best Laptop With Decent Linux Graphics Support? · · Score: 1

    The only way to properly support Linux is with a Free driver

    I live in the real, imperfect, gray will-never-get-everything-I-want world where one must compromise on a regular basis.

  19. Re:something better? what kind of joke is this on Ask Slashdot: Best Laptop With Decent Linux Graphics Support? · · Score: 5, Informative

    nvidia, ... 80% is in closed, crash-inducing binary lumps.

    What universe is this where the nvidia blobs induces crashes on even a semi-regular basis? I can't remember the last time video caused my system to hang/crash and I've been using the nvidia blob for at least 6 years.

  20. Re:Need more information on Ask Slashdot: Best Laptop With Decent Linux Graphics Support? · · Score: 1

    but I personally don't want to waste my time with such things.

    Huh? The fix was trivial. And took no more than 15 minutes of research. Also, it was a solid fix that immediately worked so well that I don't now remember what I did to fix it...

  21. Re:Without the use of a loop!? on How Does a Single Line of BASIC Make an Intricate Maze? · · Score: 2

    What programmer doesn't know/can't figure out rudimentary BASIC?

  22. Re:Without the use of a loop!? on How Does a Single Line of BASIC Make an Intricate Maze? · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's exactly what I thought... Maybe JameskPratt isn't a very good programmer.

  23. Re:Not yet... on Is It Time For the US To Ditch the Dollar Bill? · · Score: 1

    Hunh. Beauty and "enthusiasm" don't last forever...

  24. Re:This is odd... on Black Hole Found That Takes Up 14% of Its Galaxy's Mass · · Score: 1

    That's sure what it sounded like, and to me it sounded really, really wrong.

  25. Re:Familiarity on Is It Time For the US To Ditch the Dollar Bill? · · Score: 1

    Any amount of savings adds up to billions of dollars if you extend it out for an adequate number of decades.

    Real savings comes from slashing entitlements and the Defense department.