His driver hit a patch of ice and drove the limo into a snow bank.

Gotta agree. I like Star Wars and Star Trek fine but I think what Abrams brought to Trek will be far more suitable to SW. Except the lens flare, that is.

Not really. What you are talking about is capabilities provided by the Dalvik VM whereas what was being discussed was unix-style filesystem permissions.

Agreed.

These were typically "this year's model" mid-size cars from the Emerald Aisle at National.

Wind noise alone is enough to damage hearing. As poster below mentions, earplugs are the answer.

And "It's a Small World" to cyclists.

Wow, either you're a terrible driver or you have no idea of the length of a second.

I have never so far met an automatic gearbox that shifts as quickly as I do (and I'm not even using a short-shifter or anything), met quite a few that lag terribly and met none at all that were able to select the gear I needed ahead of time.

That's not to say fast shifting automatics don't exist but they're on better cars than I have driven. DSG does sound interesting and will likely be on my next car (VW have apparently abandoned the manual gearbox in the US). I have driven a regular automatic VW or two and they are no better (or worse) than others.

Yep. Every time someone has to pay, you're presenting them with the choice to switch to a competitor.

Suggest you look up the history of currencies in the early United States. You want unstable?

It does it very efficiently.

I believe it does matter. But only time will tell. I have no interest in trying to convince anyone though (well, from time to time it's a bit of fun), I believe these things will become evident. If they don't, I'm wrong and so what?

I did too and never had any problems. I just heard of a few exploits of various things that made me uncomfortable with the idea.

You don't even have to typo. There's a nasty bug in Konsole where if you're typing under load, it will get characters out of order. So rm -rf /var/tmp/x /var/tmp/y becomes rm -rf /var /tmp/x/var/tmp/y (or something like that). That was fun to recover from.

Cool. I've been thinking about looking at Glacier as an additional backup option. Really needs to be supplemental to backups under local control as well unless it's just stuff you really don't care about too much.