Hmm, I've not actully used a AMD/ATI videocard in 10 years, and the last one I had was an oddball PCI one in an oddball laptop (fujitsu P2110 if anyone cares). I did finally get it to work, but it took most of a year and around 4 distros. That said, I'm on my 4th or 6th nvidia card, and installing the nvidia drivers, and running "xorg --configure" was the most I have had to do (well back in the bad old days i had to swap the driver line in xorg.conf. These days everything seems to just work, and there are no issues when playing games in wine. (not that I really need to anymore, thank you valve).

I don't see an "ACC" but i do see "OFF"....

Coasting to a stop would take less time then driving to Belgium and would be safer.

or a "press and hold for 5 seconds to turn it off" sort of setup. I know that after trying neutral, I would have tried that.

Man all of these stories, make me want to stick with 19xx manual trans cars with cable throttles.

counting the iPad, apple has what? 6 hardware models that they keep supported at any one time? How many has samsung had in that time? HTC? Heck even nokia has had more than that. Now I am counting the 4 and 4S as different, when they weren't really.

Also Apple has had the ability to stand up to the carriers in the US. There are a few versions of the Samsung Galaxy S3 in the wild. I think it is at least 3.

I have several websites that I like whitelisted in adblock. In general though, I disliked the video ads from a few years back enough to blanket block just about everything.

If the webmasters would prefer we could recode adblock to download them, but never show them. Would that make them happier? At least their logs would seem to show that they were loaded but not clicked on.

even when the mouse is next to the keyboard. Imagine entering values into a spreadsheet without being able to use tab or enter. How annoying is to have to lift your hand up move it 6" to the mouse, and then move the mouse a 1/2 inch and then return your hand to the keyboard and find your place on it again. It gets old around the 5th time you do that.

Anyways, just agreeing with you for the most part.

right, he could have at least made a look-alike of one of those pedestals with the reflective metal balls on it that you see in peoples gardens.

Are any of them convertible, as in the screens can be rotated and folded down to make them tablets? I'd like a touchscreen laptop like that, as long as the hinge/folding part came with a 5 year warranty.

Wake me up when using excel is nice with no keyboard and I can get Tony Starks cad setup he uses when he gets back from being held captive in Iron Man 1 (and his rapid prototyping facility) and I'll buy one of these touchscreen laptop things.

Lifting my hands off the keyboard breaks the flow. The exception is AutoCAD/Inventor, where one hand is on a mouse full time, and the other on the keyboard.

I haven't used a mousepad since I went to optical mice some 10+ years ago. My whole desk is my mouse pad, and generally that is enough space.

All trackpads on every laptop i've had have been disabled. The Dell at work, the thinkpads, the Acer's at home, everyone first thing to do is disable the trackpad. This took me 30-45 minutes to figure out how to do on my work Dell, as it was missing the Alps software.

But if the ITU is going to make it a standard, it really should require patent grants for any patents that would cover that standard, and require all entities that are participating to sign agreements that they are agreeing that any patents they currently hold or will hold in the future will not be used against those implementing this standard.

Even with a few number of points couldn't you use relative strength and which points could see you to get down to a few feet? Mapping every aisle with a know device to calibrate the system would probably be required.

I agree, if the ISP purposefully limits during times where not doing so would not harm network "stability" then the ISP is in the wrong. If it is limiting people at peak hours to ensure everyone can get some access then fine. I guess my point was if they oversell enough, those hours of congestion could easily become 90% of the day.

I would rather see the system set up in reverse. A customer buys a minimum speed, and can sometimes get more than that, but the network is sized such that everyone using their connection at the same time will mean everyone gets the minimum speed they paid for. That would mean smaller numbers on the paper, and likely less money for the ISP, but I can dream. Granted I have yet to notice a time where my 20mbps DSL didn't provide 20mbps of through put.

So what if I tell you you can have your pick from up to 6 widgets, but not at 5PM at night as i'm trying to get everyone else a widget as well so you what ever one was on top. If you came for your widget at 11PM, then you could have have your pick of any of the 6 widgets. Now say that instead of from 5PM to 6PM it's busy, I've hired enough people to make the times that there are not enough widgets for anyone to really get a choice from 4AM to 11PM? just come in to pick at a crappy time, and you can pick.