Comment Re:Me thinks (Score 1) 690
Some of the Merc AMGs perhaps. They have insanely powerful engines on an otherwise useless car. I wouldn't be surprised if the brakes are crap.
Comment Re:Me thinks (Score 1) 690
If this is indeed the case, putting bigger brakes on the cars will just increase the cost of ownership for those of us who _can_ drive.
Comment Re:No thanks (Score 1) 215
Hulu is ad supported. Youtube is charging money. Hulu finds it profitable to discriminate because some regions bring them less ad revenue than others. Youtube on the other hand will profit equally from countries other than the US.
Comment Re:My word! (Score 1) 52
They don't hate cars, you exceedingly small prick, just the exceedingly small pricks that use them to break the law. Perhaps this is too difficult for a person with such an exceedingly small prick to understand.
People using their pricks for more than they were intended cause posts like parent
Comment Re:First decade of this millennium (Score 2) 346
Well I'll be damned. In any case, I blame the media for my stupidity :-D
And I think my comment was the cause for your down-moderation. My bad!
Comment Re:First decade of this millennium (Score 0) 346
2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 - That's 10 years gone by.. almost.
WTF are you even talking about?
Comment Re:The Year of the Linux on the Desktop? (Score 1) 580
No no my friend. XMMS used to look like winamp. Then winamp moved the goalpost.
Comment Re:The Year of the Linux on the Desktop? (Score 1) 580
Not quite there yet. Now all we need to do is get Open Office to look like MS Office 2007 and Amarok/XMMS to look like winamp and ......
GO ylmf GO !!!
Comment Re:why? (Score 3, Interesting) 580
From what I can see, it doesn't just look like a windows machine, (unlike most windows themes for ubuntu) the GUI behaves like windows too.
This would mean people who were earlier using Windows would be a bit more comfortable using ylmf's ubuntu rather than the regular one.
Submission + - How many queries is too many queries for a CMS? (vbulletin.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: After being in active development for over a year with five beta versions and four release candidate versions, vbulletin 4 went gold today. I am not a very technical guy and while they "extensively tested the product and are confident that they have eliminated all known 'show stopper' issues" — it seems unreasonable to have upwards of 200 queries in a content management package. So that begs the question, how many queries are too many queries for a content management solution?
Submission + - GM rolls the last big block V-8 off the line (buffalonews.com)
DesScorp writes: "It's the end of an era in auto technology, as the very last big block V-8 engine from GM has rolled off the production line. The L18 engine was the last variant of an engine that had been in continuous production for over 50 years. The big blocks powered everything from the classic muscle cars of the 60's and 70's, to heavy duty trucks today. News last June triggered a rush of orders for the engine. The Buffalo News reported "When GM said last June the L18 would be eliminated by year’s end, the announcement triggered another show of devotion to the product. Some customers ordered two years’ worth of L18s, to put on the shelf for future use". More than 5 million big blocks have been produced over the engine's history."
Android's Success a Threat To Free Software? 416
Glyn Moody writes "Two years after its launch, Google's Linux-based Android platform is finally making its presence felt in the world of smartphones. Around 20,000 apps have been written for it. Although well behind the iPhone's tally, that's significantly more than just a few months ago. But there's a problem: few of these Android apps are free software. Instead, we seem to be witnessing the birth of a new hybrid stack — open source underneath, and proprietary on top. If, as many believe, mobile phones will become the main computing platform for most of the world, that could be a big problem for the health of the free software ecosystem. So what, if anything, should the community be doing about it?"
Submission + - Android's Success a Threat to Free Software? (linuxjournal.com)
Glyn Moody writes: Two years after its launch, Google's Linux-based Android platform is finally making its presence felt in the world of smartphones. Around 20,000 apps have been written for it: although well behind the iPhone's tally, that's significantly more than just a few months ago. But there's a problem: few of these Android apps are free software. Instead, we seem to be witnessing the birth of a new hybrid stack: open source underneath, and proprietary on top. If, as many believe, mobile phones will become the main computing platform for most of the world, that could be a big problem for the health of the free software ecosystem. So what, if anything, should the community be doing about it?
Submission + - When Developers Work Late, Should Manager Stay? (earthweb.com) 4
jammag writes: A veteran developer looks back — in irritation — at those times he had to work late, and his unskilled manager stayed too, just to look over his shoulder and add worry and fret to the process. Now that same developer, lo and behold, is a manager himself — and recently stayed late to ride herd over late-working developers. "And guess what? Yep, I hadnâât coded in years and never in the language he had to work with." Yet now he understood: his own butt was on the line so he was staying put. Still, does it really help developers to have management hovering in late evening, even if the boss handles pizza delivery?
Submission + - A Requiem for Saab
Hugh Pickens writes: "The NY Times reports that auto enthusiasts across the country are dismayed by the news that General Motors is planning to shut down Saab, the Swedish carmaker it bought two decades ago, after a deal to sell it fell apart. Even with its modest and steadily declining sales, Saab, an acronym for Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget, or Swedish Airplane Company, long stood out as a powerful brand in spite of itself. “It wasn’t designed to be a fashion statement,” says Ron Pinelli, president of Autodata, which tracks industry statistics. “It was designed to provide transportation under miserable weather conditions.” Many Saab owners consider the brand’s glory days to be the 1980s, when Americans began buying cars again after a recession and energy crisis. “The cars were communicative,” says Pinelli. “They didn’t try to numb the experience like cars do today.” The cars had odd touches and appealed to those who appreciate the unconventional. Swedish engineers assumed drivers would be wearing gloves, so they designed big buttons for the dashboard. Though the cars were compact, with long hoods and short rear ends, there was plenty of headroom inside. Now Saab, a brand that once had one of the clearest identities in the industry, seems headed for extinction just as automakers are searching for more distinctive designs to help set them apart. “It’s a shame that Saab is a victim,” adds Pinelli ."
