Except, if I read the rest of that thread correctly Linus's suggestion to use the "nicer" fix wasn't a bad one. Using it didn't require the huge rewrite warned about but looks to only need another 5 lines or so of mutex code to get back to normal (although apparently normal may also have issues but that problem is outside the scope of this particular issue).

Ultima and Wing Commander in particular.

There hasn't been a good single player fantasy RPG game released in quite a while.

And I grew up on Wing Commander. From pixelated sprites to 3-D models. Nothing like nursing your ship through that last waypoint with one working mass driver hoping you don't meet any more nasties. Space sims seem to have dropped of the edge of the planet in recent years (EVE Online excepted). It would be nice to see one again so I can blow the dust off of my joystick.

Then the simple solution is to have the firmware record the batteries used. If the camera detects a 3rd party battery then toggle a warranty voiding bit in the firmware. If they want to be nice about it give the user a warning first (i.e. toggle the bit if the 3rd party battery is used twice or some such). Admittedly this assumes the warranty bit is readable when the camera is brought in for work but I'm willing to bet it would be unless the damage was catastrophic (in which case there would probably be other evidence of what kind of battery was used).

Yes I've looked at a tax form.

It's exactly because of these bagillion tax loop holes that the GST shouldn't have been cut. It's much harder to avoid paying the GST meaning the rich (or anyone for that matter) can't get out of it. As such it provides a much more stable income stream to the government (on the order of $5 billion per percentage point) which is fairly recession proof (something that would have been nice given the current economy).

Now having said that, I never claimed I don't like the tax cuts. I just said I would have prefered to see a reduction in income tax rates instead of the GST. And note I said reduction, I'm not calling for the elimination of income either (which while being a nice thought really isn't practical). No, I would prefered to see a raise in the personal exemption limit and/or a reduction in the lower bracket tax rates. Proportionally this helps the low to middle class much more than the rich and this is where the tax relief needs to be given.

Now, if you don't pay any income taxes, as you claim to, then you're either really rich and exploiting the system, running a personal business and claiming a lot of deductions, or you're really really poor (as in less than $10,000 taxable income). If you're rich I don't care. If you're really poor a GST cut really isn't going to save you a whole lot as the majority of your spending will be GST exempt already. If you run a business, then cuts in business taxes is probably a better deal than GST as well.

Actually the lower GST was a stupid idea whose only purpose was to buy off votes. It only really benefits the rich. If Harper had truly wanted to lower the tax burden in a meaningful way he would have reduced income taxes. This would have helped lower and middle income families much more than the GST cut did for the same cost in tax revenue. Unfortunately cutting the GST sounds so much better in sound bites during an election.

Can't really suggest a good document management program but I can tell you one to avoid. We use Livelink at my place of work and its indexing and search capabilities are horrible (some would say non-existent). For example every document added to Livelink gets a document number assigned to it. One would expect to be able to retrieve that document by using the same document number but if you enter it into the search bar Livelink returns no results found. Huh? Not to mention some odd UI behaviours like when you add a folder to the favourites box the original folder disappears from the standard file listing (meaning there is no single canonical listing of files and directories, you need to always look in 2 places).

Two Possibilities:

1) They're for the brakes. Their configuration seems to support this possibility. Brakes on F1 or Lemans or similar cars will glow red hot on some corners making brake cooling a priority. Of course assuming they use some form of regenerative braking the load on the brakes should be reduced which brings us to:

2) Electric motor cooling. 100kw electric motors will get quite toasty if not cooled.

Lock-in has worked pretty well for Microsoft so far. They have no motivation to change strategies.

Problem is this isn't lock in. Not in the traditional sense at least. If they had said, "you can only transfer songs to another Microsoft enabled phone." That would be lock in. The user will want to keep buying Microsoft phones to keep their music. By nuking the music when you get rid of the phone there is no incentive to buy another Microsoft phone.

And yes, the person may be locked in to using a particular phone, but that doesn't work either because now the person isn't buying any new phones (with new Micrsoft OS licenses to go with them).

I guess you could argue that the phones OS is the lock-in factor and they are milking that. You want a MS phone? Be prepared to buy all your music again. But that is a dangerous strategy when there are plenty of healthy platforms still competing.

I was having trouble visualizing how this works but then I found this link with a diagram of the eye's anatomy

I guessing it's a "problem" because the carriers don't get to charge their transfer tax if you don't have any pictures/soundbites/songs/whatever to transfer.