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  1. Re:Cognitive science on Tesla, Ford, Amazon Hint At Cloudy Future For Cars · · Score: 2

    I'm currently repairing my friends car made in 1999 that has the heater controls on a 7" LCD. It's not touchscreen, it uses physical controls but the setting is shown on the screen and it is impossible to even demist the windows without it.

    The replacement is prohibitively expensive but used units are available from end of life cars, however they may not last very long and the labour involved in fitting them is very lengthy.

  2. Re:Gee, why not just send the police then on UK Plan Would Use CCTV To Stop Uninsured Drivers From Refueling · · Score: 1

    I didn't say anything about how it is spent, I just used a common colloquial term and not the latest bureaucratic phrase.

    "Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) (also commonly known as vehicle tax, car tax and road tax)"

  3. Re:Gee, why not just send the police then on UK Plan Would Use CCTV To Stop Uninsured Drivers From Refueling · · Score: 1

    (because you can't get an MOT without insurance)

    Yes you can, there are no prerequisites for either an MOT or insurance in the UK. To buy a road fund license ('road tax') you do need to have both insurance and an MOT but the case you describe is plain wrong.

  4. Re:eMacs not good enough? on Ann Arbor Schools Want $45M For Tech, Partly For Computers To Run Google Docs · · Score: 1

    eMacs run Emacs just fine.

  5. eMacs on Ann Arbor Schools Want $45M For Tech, Partly For Computers To Run Google Docs · · Score: 5, Informative
    eMacs are PowerPC based and therefore won't run recent versions of Mac OS and also won't run recent versions of Safari or Firefox. I wouldn't be surprised if this means they don't support Google Docs etc fully or even at all.

    They really are pretty much useless these days, I have just retired an office full of them that have been soldiering on for years but the number of websites that were simply not available to them became too great.

  6. Re:55 miles is pretty good, and not the point on Top Gear Fights Back At Tesla · · Score: 1
    "When was the last time you saw Top Gear give a Consumer Reports review of a car"

    In the early nineties.

  7. Re:Geroge Carlin on Super Strong Metal Foam Discovered · · Score: 1
    "George Carlin used to point out that if you put a large spike on the steering wheel so that the driver would suffer badly in a collision, the numbers of collisions would drop dramatically."

    He got the idea from TE Lawrence.

  8. Microsoft on Apple to 'Switch' to Windows? · · Score: 1

    Apart from anything else, Microsoft wouldn't allow Apple to switch to Windows, they need a competitor and an ideas factory...

  9. Re:Upgrade technique? on Mac OS X Tiger Released and Analyzed · · Score: 1
    a pre-FireWire iMac

    a what?

  10. Re:Hey Brits!! on Britons Frustrated by DRM · · Score: 1

    teatime in the uk has /nothing/ to do with tea the drink.

  11. Re:What is the UV lighting for? on Offshoring to a Ship in International Waters · · Score: 1
    UV lighting would kill your plants in no time

    no it wouldn't. In fact there is a correllation between high amounts of UV and high potency pot. UV lighting alone isnt enough to grow marijuana but is used by professional growers and breeders more and more often these days.

  12. tzero on Toshiba's One-Minute-Recharge Li-ion Batteries · · Score: 1

    an electric perfromance car called the Tzero already has regenerative brakes with enough braking force to lock the wheels so it doesn't look like getting the charge into the battery fast enough is an issue anyway.

  13. nothing new really on iPod Most Popular Music Player on Microsoft Campus · · Score: 1

    I worked for Apple UK a few years ago and was told to keep a fujitsu server running nt hidden from senior management even though I was using it to support educational customers with nt servers!

  14. when will they stop bloody spinning on IBM Increases HD Density with "Pixie Dust" · · Score: 1

    I will only be impressed when mass storage devices stop being spinny bloody wheels inside my otherwise solid state computer...

  15. Re:my friends mom on "e-mail" vs "email" · · Score: 1
    You rollin?

    yes. ;))

  16. Re:Am I the only one wondering "WHY" ? on Apple Buying Back Troubled PowerBooks · · Score: 1

    > Macs gained so much speed until last year Apple are well known for selling macs stuck at the same speed for the last year...

  17. Re:Mislabeled? on Razorfish Sued For "Shoddy Web Site" · · Score: 1

    heh, yes. Its got me thinking of using browser type as demographic info...some interesting connations there ;)

  18. Re:Old Mac cases even resisted a hammer on The Cathedral And The Bizarre · · Score: 1
    Performa 6300 series maybe? I never could figure out how to get one of those damn things open. One of my users had one and the hard drive died. I sheepishly told him (after about two hours) that I could not figure out how to open the case.

    Two clips on the front bezel need to be pushed up with a flat screwdriver, then the plastics can be removed. Then just a single screw holds the hd tray in.

    Easy...when you know how...


    /K

  19. Re:I couldn't think of a subject. on Mozilla Adds MNG Support · · Score: 2

    tif[f] is a widely used format. Developed by Aldus (now part of Adobe) and Microsoft. Tiff also contains the LZW compression that Unisys own the patent for...

    K

  20. Re:that's right! on Mozilla Adds MNG Support · · Score: 1

    don't forget [Macromedia] fireworks too...

  21. Re:Who cares? on Mozilla Adds MNG Support · · Score: 1
    I agree. Without civil disobedience we will get nowhere.

    K

  22. damn on Mozilla Adds MNG Support · · Score: 3

    I hoped Unisys' plot to destroy banner ads was going to work...;( K

  23. mesh computers on 700 MHz Athlon · · Score: 1

    the register has an interesting article about a UK box builder called mesh that has advertised its 700MHz systems already...