Have you ever actually worked on a job that has been outsourced to a country willing to do the work for less money? Every single time I've seen a company try to save money by outsourcing work, it winds up costing nearly as much, if not more. Usually, the software is not written to the specifications, and needs to be rewritten. Other times the software is poorly written, and is at the point where it is completely unusable for production code. I've NEVER seen an outsourcing project go right, and especially never seen one that actually wound up saving the company money.

There's no need for fancy mirrors like that to eliminate blind spots, assuming you've got your mirrors aligned right (Which most people don't). Here's the proper way to align your mirrors.

1) Start by aligning your rear view mirror. It should give you a clear view straight back when you're sitting in your normal driving position.
2) Align the passenger side mirror. To do this, lean so that your head is directly in the center of the vehicle. Align the passenger mirror so that while your head is in that position, you can barely see the outside edge of your vehicle.
3) Align the driver's side mirror so that you can barely see the outside edge of your vehicle while you're in your normal driving position.

When your mirrors are first aligned this way, it will take a few hours of driving to get used to them being that way. Once you're used to it however, you'll realize how much of the blind spots have been completely eliminated. Most people drive around with their side mirrors aimed so that about half of the mirror is showing the side of the vehicle. That leaves huge blind spots that are completely unnecessary.

I would like to see a train go through the Rockies at 350mph.

Fry's had two Sony readers on sale this past week, one of which was $99 (Not sure of the model #). I picked up the PRS-600 touchscreen model for $129. It's box had three price tags on it. $299, $199, $169. The prices on it dropped 4 times before my particular one was sold. Kindles are down to $139 now.

Reader prices are plummeting, I would imagine that by Christmas there will be several nice models available for less than $100.

On a side note, I typically despise Sony for their proprietary formats, but their ebook readers seem to be the most open. They support epub and pdf out of the box. I've loaded several 1,500+ page tech manuals on mine so now I can carry around my reader instead of thousands of pages of books or having to fire up my laptop.

Books and audio CDs aren't routinely shipped with known defects that affect the product, and their publishers don't have a "Ship it now, we'll patch it later" attitude.

Knock its horns off, and stampede it past the grill. If the center is warmer than room temperature, you've over cooked it.

I had a Motorola KRZR for a few years. It survived being frequently left in my truck overnight, in the worst of Montana winters (-30 to -40 degrees). It always worked fine after that it just took a while for the screen to warm up and respond normally. Not too long ago I couldn't find it, and called it from my wife's phone. We heard it ringing, and finally traced it to the clothes dryer, where it was being dried in my pants pocket, on high heat. It had survived a wash cycle, and the dry cycle while powered on, and still worked fine.

I recently replaced it, with another Motorola.

My parents have AT&T Uverse, it sucks. Unless it's changed in the last few months, you can't schedule recordings from any TV except for the one that the main box is connected to. Same with deleting recordings. You also can't pause or rewind live tv. These are all basic functionality that are missing, that every other DVR that I've seen supports.

One thing I would surely like to see in email clients however - the gmail like threaded conversation view. It's just so much better and nicer to use, but still many email applications tend to have the plain-list-of-messages view.

I've been using Thunderbird 3 beta for a while, so I'm not sure if this feature is new to Thunderbird 3 or not (I suspect that it was in 2, not sure though), but you can read your email in a threaded view. In Thunderbird 3, on the column headers, there is a Thread View column to the very left. It is next to the Starred column. Click on that to view your emails in threaded view.

Montana code 61-8-303(2) allows you to speed up to 10mph over the limit on two lane highways to safely pass another vehicle.

"A vehicle subject to the speed limits imposed in subsection (1) traveling on a two-lane road may exceed the speed limits imposed in subsection (1) by 10 miles an hour in order to overtake and pass a vehicle and return safely to the right-hand lane."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article6931566.ece

Better luck next time.

On the contrary, I think that local papers are one of the few papers that could pull this off.

For example, searching for news on the Bozeman, MT gas explosion yields results from a handful of local papers (This was a pretty major, although local event that happened earlier this year). There is absolutely no major news coverage, everything is from a handful of local news sites. If they all charged for access, you couldn't get this news online for free.

However, something that a major site like Fox would cover will be available from hundreds of sites, at least one of which will be free.

It would be stupid to sign up for the "lite" version of this instead of the full version. But being able to forward my existing cell phone # to use google voice for voicemail is huge to me. I no longer have to wade through Verizon's crappy voicemail system (Which has no way of deleting all new messages - I get a ton of spam messages).

Maybe it's not enabled for all carriers, but I've got an option on my settings page to revert back to using Verizon's voicemail if I like.

I also love the old Benzes, particularly the W116. I owned a 73 450SE (Which was my second car, purchased after the 57 Ford that I mentioned in the parent post), and I still own a 79 450SEL 6.9 (Grey market, originally imported from France by a lawyer who moved to Hollywood). The 6.9 is an absolute beast, and really amazing to drive. I test drove an E class around 2001, and it simply didn't compare to the 6.9. It didn't have the raw power, didn't drive as nice, and didn't ride nearly as smooth as the 6.9 (The hydro pneumatic suspension is awesome, I've never ridden in another car that drove that smooth). I still have the 6.9, but don't get it out very often. It's an awesome car though, with some seriously impressive engineering.

The W126 is also a beautiful car. I almost bought a 560SEC at one point, but found the above mentioned 6.9 and bought it instead.

My first car was a 57 Ford Custom 300 (Full size sedan). This was in 1995. The bumpers were massive and thick steel, and were bolted directly to the frame, nothing that a strong toddler could bend.

I was in an accident in it, a guy in a 1981 Toyota ran a red light and I t-boned him, going about 30mph. His frame was bent, axles were snapped, all side windows, the windshield, and rear window were broken. The frame damage snapped a few of his engine mounts, and also broke his radiator. His car was totaled. My car had the frame holding the headlight pushed back about half an inch, and scuffed the chrome bumper.

My observations were that I'd much rather be in an old tank like that in a minor accident. Anything major, and I'd rather be in a modern car with things like seatbelts, crumple zones and air bags.