Well, there IS the option of a 2 cylinder range extender engine. Guess that needs an oil change every now and then.

The range extender is an option. Maybe it is not offered in the US (although it is mentioned in reviews), but it is available in Germany: http://www.bmw.de/de/neufahrze...

It is a 2 cylinder engine which according to the BMW website increases the range to 300-340km total (about 200 miles).

Atari 800 http://oldcomputers.net/pics/a...

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Atari 800XL http://oldcomputers.net/pics/a...

The issue is that it is more like

1. I rent a post office box.
2. I pay Amazon to ship me products to that PO box
3. Amazon pays the USPO the usual, agreed-upon amount of money for delivering the stuff to my local post office
4. My local post office additionally also demands money from Amazon for putting the parcel into my post office box the same day it arrives because people order so much stuff from Amazon, otherwise they wait until the next day.

The graph you link only goes up to 1855, so it is no wonder it shows no warming. Still, this graph keeps popping up to show that there has been no warming in recent years...

From http://www.skepticalscience.co...

"Easterbrook plots the temperature data from the GISP2 core, as archived here. Easterbrook defines “present” as the year 2000. However, the GISP2 “present” follows a common paleoclimate convention and is actually 1950. The first data point in the file is at 95 years BP. This would make 95 years BP 1855 — a full 155 years ago, long before any other global temperature record shows any modern warming. In order to make absolutely sure of my dates, I emailed Richard Alley, and he confirmed that the GISP2 “present” is 1950, and that the most recent temperature in the GISP2 series is therefore 1855."

They publicly stated that the activation servers will not be turned off, so there is no need yet for such a patch.

The thing I always ask myself when I hear people claim that MS has an obligation to "support" Windows XP indefinitely is - where do you draw the line? What IS "support and fixing security issues"? XP is so old by now that it is lacking a lot of newer security features, so it "by design" is less secure than, say, Windows 7 or 8. If those people demanding eternal support got their way, would Microsoft have to "fix" these security issues by providing updates which effectively would turn Windows XP into a more modern operating system? Would Microsoft face lawsuits if they said "nope, those are features only Windows 7 and 8 have, we won't put those into XP" and then the machines running XP got turned into spam zombies due to someone exploiting those security holes?

Yes, that is exactly what it was like. If you wanted to buy some specific item, you had to go to some "bazaar" area, which was basically one of several larger halls inside town, in which you found the NPC retainers of other players standing around, pretty much like the terracotta army. Each retainer was the private shop of one player, and you had to walk up to each and every single one to check if that shop had the item you wanted, and at which price. So if you wanted to see all the options for a particular item, you had to check all the shops, because there was no overall list of items on offer. The only saving grace was that at least the bazaar areas were labelled as to which areas were for which general type of items (like armor, weapons, ...). But this was, as far as I can remember, not enforced, so you could have private shops in the wrong area. And the server lag made checking out the private shops as slow and annoying as you can imagine. Basically the whole system was as bad as it was possible to make it.

This. Seriously. Any management GUI which requires Java deserves to die in a fire. Because when you need to use it - which for some management GUI like a storage box which is configured once and then left alone until something needs to be changed might happen once every couple months - you can be ABSOLUTELY SURE that the computer you are sitting at either has no Java runtime environment at all or one which is the wrong version. At work, I have special VMs sitting around which I can fire up in case I need to connect to one of those ancient remote management boards which need Java 1.4.1 or stuff like that, and I have to be careful not to accidentally update those machines.

It is super annoying to find out that just to be allowed to click that one button, you first have to get a Java runtime (in the right version!) and install it, because sometimes you do not have an Internet connection available so you have to mess around with a USB stick, you introduce additional security risks by installing Java, most likely you accidentally forget about NOT leaving that Ask toolbar install option selected and have to clean up afterwards, etc.

Exactly. The good thing about the whole time system we have right now is that you can tell exactly what is going on at someone's place when he/she mentions a local time. If it's 3am local time at someone's location, you know he probably won't be at work and that it would be pointless to call them. Yes, you would have to look up the time zone difference to actually know that it is 3am there right now. But if we had the same time everywhere and it's 10am right now, you would STILL have to look up some information to know what the effective difference to that location is, because even though it might be 10am everywhere right now, that person won't be at work if it is still in the middle of the night. So there would STILL be "time zones", they just would not be called that anymore. So you'd have 10am universal time, but they might be at -7 "working time" difference. What would be the whole point of the universal time then?

You just cannot have an effective universal time as long as it is not night/day at the same time everywhere, and I do not think we are close to fixing that problem anytime soon, because it might have to involve transforming our planet into a flat earth.

It's as simple as that - you do not understand WHY people visit Slashdot.

Nobody goes here to read amazing fresh news. It's safe to say what whatever "news" you put up have already been posted elsewhere at least half a day before. Your users come here for the discussions, to read what other Slashdot users think about the stories and to reply to those comments. That's why the comments are absolutely, 100%, the most important thing on the Slashdot website, and your beta site makes them much more annoying to read and reply to. Seriously, how can you NOT see that this will cause an exodus if it will go live? This is not a minor inconvenience people will get used to after a few days, it is a fundamental flaw, like replacing the juicy steak on someone's plate with a huge steaming turd.

Your website redesign is going in a completely wrong direction. Everybody is telling you that, you claim to hear it, but you ignore it. This won't end well.

Oh, and get rid of all that whitespace. I am using a 27" screen, not a portrait-oriented iPad, thank you very much.

Yup, especially if the pictures have nothing to do with the actual story, but instead are stock photography etc. If a story is about some new networking equipment, I do not need a large picture of a bunch of network cables above the story.

No. It's also standard Proliant servers. Read the mails quoted in other posts here. The summary just links to a mail received by somebody owning HP9000 stuff, that's why it only mentions HP9000 products.

No, it's just that the link went to the email received by a customer who is using HP9000 stuff. The change DOES also apply to the usual stuff like HP Proliant DL380 etc. For example, the mail I received today (as a Proliant user) was:

"Update: HP ProLiant Servers: Access to Firmware Updates & Service Pack for ProLiant

You are receiving this communication because you have been identified as a customer using HP ProLiant Servers and HP Services.

HP has made significant investments in its intellectual capital to provide the best value and experience for our customers. We continue to offer a differentiated customer experience with our comprehensive support portfolio. HP, as an industry leader, is well positioned to provide reliable support services across the globe with proprietary tools, HP trained engineers, and genuine certified HP parts. Only HP customers and authorized channel partners may download and use support materials.

In line with this commitment, starting in February 2014, Hewlett-Packard Company will change the way firmware updates and Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) on HP ProLiant server products are accessed. Select server firmware and SPP on these products will only be accessed through the HP Support Center http://customer.hp.com/r?2.1.3... to customers with an active support agreement, HP CarePack, or warranty linked to their HP Support Center User ID and for the specific products being updated. We encourage you to review your current support coverage to ensure you have the appropriate coverage to maintain uninterrupted access to firmware updates and SPP for these products. "