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

    I had a car that, for it's entire life, never had power steering. Really, at any speed faster than a jog, you really couldn't tell, and even at slow/stop speeds, isn't too difficult (though I could see it as too much for some). On the few occasions where I have lost power to the brakes, it feels weird at first that the car isn't slowing at the same rate it normally does, but pushing significantly harder (advantage if you have a decent amount of weight with which to push) seems to get the job done nicely.

  2. Re:Stay Classy Microsoft on Microsoft's Anti-Google Video Campaign · · Score: 1

    There is Alfresco. I haven't looked much into it, but it appears to be an alternative to SharePoint (even being able to appear as an actual SharePoint server with the correct addon). Has a proprietary enterpriase edition and an open source community edition. My company is considering a SharePoint server, and I've suggested Alfresco as a potentially cheaper alternative.

  3. Re:Apple sells millions of tablets for $500+ on What HP's TouchPad Fire Sale Teaches iPad Rivals · · Score: 2

    40. They changed it to 40.

  4. Re:My opinion on Nintendo Slashes Profit Forecast and 3DS Price · · Score: 1

    Uhm.... Nintendo does have an app store of sorts, and has had such for quite some time. The Wii Shop Channel for WiiWare, Nintendo DSi Shop Channel for DSi and DSiXL, and now the Nintendo eShop for 3DS. It's fairly simple to use and download games. That said, not exactly easy or cheap to develop for, as Nintendo has and still does require all developers of their systems to have valid non-residential office addresses.

  5. Re:Level of writing skillz in this post is 5C4RY on Study Sez Txt Msgs Make Kidz Gr8 Spellrz · · Score: 1

    I personally do not see anything grammatically wrong with that sentance. I even mentally broke it down into a grammar tree. The main verb of the sentence is "is." There is also a dependant clause, and it's verb is "is damaging." When you start to take out basic modifiers (such as "no" in "no evidence," "children's" and "language" from "children's language play," the prepositional adverb phrase "when using mobile phones" and "literacy" from "literacy development" you end up with an easy to understand sentence "There is evidence that play is damaging development." (Note, this has a different meaning as important modifier words and phrases were removed.)

    After carefully dissecting the sentence, I can now see how it could be interpreted otherwise, as the word "when" can be used either as a preposition (as it was intended in this sentence) or as a subordinating conjuction which would then require a full clause, infering that the verb "is damaging" then be part of the adverb clause, leaving no verb for the adjective clause.

  6. Re:125 MORE years until the US gets time... on 125 Years of Longitude 0 0' 00" At Greenwich · · Score: 1

    The 31st of April? That's an April Fool's joke, right?

  7. Zero Wing on Which Game Series Would You Reboot? · · Score: 1

    For great justice, someone to setup us a game new!! Main console screen turn on, play for 3-D hours!! Take off every online players, for all their base are belong to us!! What happen!! You know what you doing!! With new zero wing, you have no chance of survive make your time!!

  8. Re:Evolution is great. (mostly) on New Zealand Tree Stuck In Evolutionary Time Warp · · Score: 2, Informative

    The time period for a generation has little to do with how long the organism can survive, but rather how long until the organism is capable of reproduction.

  9. Re:It doesn't matter on Memory Usage of Chrome, Firefox 3.5, et al. · · Score: 1
  10. Re:How do you punish a corporation? on Verizon Tells Cops "Your Money Or Your Life" · · Score: 1

    Hell, they probably have the technology to do so without the dude even being able to make a call other than 911.

    I may be mistaken, but I have been led to believe that all cell phones (possibly mandated by law) were required the ability to make emergency calls to 911 regardless of service status. I know with all the phones I've had, with the SIM card removed (no SIM, no authentication, no service, no calls) allows emergency calls to 911 (in fact, will ignore all key presses other than the sequence 9,1,1, TALK).

  11. Re:how about that on Design Software Giants Target the Unemployed · · Score: 1

    Unless I misread you, or you made a mistake in your post... In what way are the free student and VS Express software temporary? Other than the eligibility of obtaining student software being temporary (you can't be a student for life), once you obtain the software, you are licenced for life. And, the VS Express products have been free from the first beta of 2005 until this very day.

  12. Re:Fuck Python, no, Fuck C# on How To Make Money With Free Software · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not sure how serious you were, but I think I can counter.

    First, you say that C# is a closed and proprietary language. You also say there is no spec for the C# language. While Microsoft's C# compiler itself may be closed source and proprietary software, it is an open standard per ECMA. You also state that developers won't be porting the language to new systems, yet I can count at least two compilers (both open source) available for non Microsoft systems.

    You then ask if it can be used to create an operating system, if it can program set top boxes, or be used in embedded systems. Well, yes (Singularity), eventually (it has been noted that one use of Singularity would be set top boxes) and yes (.NET Compact Framework or Embedded Linux with Mono).

    You may state these solutions are inefficient or inadequate, and I won't argue against that. However, to say they don't exist at all is not true.

  13. Re:Move to Indiana on Alternatives to Daylight Saving Time? · · Score: 1

    Uhm..... I don't think that will work anymore....

  14. Re:Move to Arizona on Alternatives to Daylight Saving Time? · · Score: 1

    I can tell you that DST does not help the farmers in any way. They get up with the sun, and go to bed with the sun, reguardless of what any clock tells them. In Indiana, just prior to the adoption of DST, the Republicans pushed for ET (New York), the Democrats pushed for CT (Chicago), and the farmers pushed for no change.

  15. Re:If you wanted an uptime contest... on Microsoft Considers "Instant On" Windows · · Score: 1

    I don't quite understand why people tend to be so proud of their unnecessarily long uptime. After all, a penis larger than 9 inches (23 centimeters) is mostly wasted.

  16. 2012 on Second Snag This Week Could Delay LHC for Weeks · · Score: 1

    Clearly the LHC will constantly have problems not allowing it to function, at least not for the next four years. When it finally debuts on December 21, 2012, well.....

  17. Re:Then why not support the largest server distro? on Microsoft Hyper-V Leaves Linux Out In The Cold · · Score: 1

    The omission of RHEL is probably because it's not Microsoft's job to make sure every piece of software can work on its system. It's the providers of the software to make sure it can run on the system. Just as you wouldn't expect Microsoft to support running Adobe's Photoshop, Apple's iTunes, Borland's Delphi, or InterVideo's WinDVD, (or, GIMP, Songbird, Free Pascal, and mplayer, for those Free Software people), you shouldn't expect Microsoft to support anything that can run on Hyper-V either.

    If your company relies specifically on RHEL, requires support, and Red Hat also won't support Red Hat on Hyper-V, then you just have to choose one of the other virtualization options.

  18. Re:Jumper on Cloverfield Discussion · · Score: 1

    Although the opening does mention "Digital SD Card," I don't believe the initial recording was meant to be saved directly to SD. Though I admit I do not know how a digital video camera saves to random access media such as an SD card, if it's anything like the typical digital photo cameras with video capability, they would save video clips as individual files. However, the previous Coney Island video (along with when Hud mentions "rewinding the tape" to view the footage of the monster, and the many references to "tape" itself) tend to suggest some sort of linear storage method. Now, I don't know how well a tape, whether digital or analog, or any other linear format storage media would fare against a nuclear blast, but I would doubt the original footage would have been shot on SD (more likely the DoD would have copied it to SD for archival purposes).

  19. Free for a year? on Wii Opera Browser is Free Until Next Year · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well, the last time I heard of a company releasing a software product free for one year was from a very large well known company and a certain popular software development product. They seemed to have changed their minds within a couple months.

  20. CoLinux on Useful Apps for First-Time Windows Users? · · Score: 1

    Yes, and it is called CoLinux

  21. Re:That's nice... on GBA SP Updated with Brighter Backlit Screen · · Score: 2, Informative

    But where's the incredible Gameboy Revolution that you can throw like a dart or kick like a soccer ball?

    You can do that already with a GBA SP..

    Just don't expect it to continue working afterwards..


    Well, considering that I've dropped, thrown, ran over, dunked in water, punched, taken apart, etc, and it still works like the day I bought it, I don't think that would be a problem.

  22. Re:How Much .NET Can I use? on Miguel de Icaza Talks About Mono · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, Mono supports ASP.NET. It has an XSP application (mini ASP.NET webserver), and an apache module mod_mono (basically sends requests to XSP via named pipes). I currently have an ASP.NET website completely run by Apache/Mono, and it works perfectly.

  23. Bob and Tom on Monday, January 24th to be Worst Day of the Year · · Score: 1

    The Bob and Tom Show just did a report about this, and have dedicated todays show as an official antidepresant show, much like the Prozac of radio shows.