None of those studies had any statistically significant real accident rate numbers for hands free calling ... the simulation measured metrics during conversation (which is not the critical point of cellphone use in a car) and the questionnaire stuff is all from pre-2005, so they'll have what ... 2 hands free callers in there?

Smoking takes very little cognition ... why does it cause accidents? Because when something burning at high temperature falls into your crotch you start paying attention, it's the edge cases which get you. For cellphone use simulation you need to include call establishment in the equation or you might as well not bother.

No accident has ever happened because someone dropped his (non headset) handsfree kit ...

Most of these kind of studies are pretty much bullshit ... they tend to try to measure something easy with a correlation with accidents for a given situation and then pretend the correlation will hold come hell or high water.

If they had to actually put people in sims for 1000s of hours for each paper they couldn't publish a lot of papers of course.

I hope they make exceptions for the cream of the crop, or otherwise they will have very few.

For an industry which has billion dollar IPOs without their prospectus's even being read they are awfully selective.

Of course except for Sitara and i.MX6 the GPIO on ARM processors tends to be pathetic.

The resonant frequency is just going to dance around any way. Why not just modulate the voltage on the plasma directly? (Relative to the metal super structure of the craft.) If you do it with a square wave you can very easily recover the energy the same as if you were using resonance ... and these guys don't have to worry about the FCC.

Mix in random poisons.

People can't deal with leap seconds when they know they have to ... postponing it into one huge clusterfuck isn't going to improve matters.

There are a lot of republicans too who are interested in preserving the flow of the water into the delta and it's not because of the smelt.

It won't just affect nature, it will affect companies and property values too.

That was Windows RT and it was a massive mistake ... Win32 and Office are Microsoft, everything else loses them money and focus. Getting into phones was their biggest mistake, getting into consoles their second biggest. Ditching Windows RT and just leveraging their win32 advantage on tablets was a great decision.

The only thing XAML has going for it is it's security model and the appstore, for the rest it's useless and slow ... win32 needs that security model as well, Microsoft is sorta kinda giving it with Centennial but it's essentially deprecated before it's even introduced. They only present it as a transitional method, not as what it should be. The standard way of developing store apps using their most powerful and useful API.

Of course with German taxes it's slightly easier to recoup significant amounts of money than US taxes.

Joining the EU wasn't the problem ... joining the Euro was.

Frats are as big a thing for most of the established universities as they are in the US ... if you're a badass frat you can even still do mensur fencing in Germany.

Most foreign students just have a bit more of a nose to the grindstone attitude than the domestic ones.

Germany runs a trade surplus, so that's not exactly right. They can afford it because they are best in the Euro zone at extracting capital from the capitalists. They are winning the race to the bottom, the destination is not so good but as long as the race is on winning the race is still better than not winning.

It's consistently good enough to not mind the first half dozen ... after that all lagers are excellent to me.

Everyone working for the TSA is a potential terrorist, 73 are one some list somewhere.