Samsung had a license for these patents but it has expired. Ericsson wants to significantly raise the license cost this time around and Samsung objects.

'Spiritually' is crap as well. It's a know-nothing version of religion.

You are. You are also responsible for the repercussions.

They don't crush cars at the races much any more. You need to be a real asshat to get that penalty. I still want to win a IoE award. I'm not sure what car I'll need to successfully race to get it though.

So far I've competed in one of these races: http://www.24hoursoflemons.com/ and I'll be doing one of these next. http://www.chumpcar.com/

It's hardly new. Most GameCube games supported progressive scan. Hold down the B button on boot.

I don't know about that. The first Mortal Kombat movie was entertainingly funny.

What it means is that medical care is going to get more expensive so the insurer's 20% is bigger.

Here in the Pacific North West it's been raining so much I have mushrooms growing on my lawn. In July!

Users pin apps to the taskbar because the UI for launching apps sucks. Long ago (Win2K) I would make my own folders at the root level in the start menu and group apps in a way that made sense. Win 7 broke my ability to do that without pinning. If Microsoft stopped breaking things that worked well for users they might have more time to 'innovate' actual improvements.

Well, if you an afford one of these I see no reason you can't buy one fro your Mom's basement.

Move out of the sticks, hayseed!

The other things that people don't understand is that the original 'New Orleans' city was build ABOVE sea level. The French Quarter is almost 20ft above sea level. It just all the newer development from the last century is in a shitty location. Below sea level shouldn't be rebuilt and the stuff above sea level wasn't flooded much.

'Just' 2000 rpm? So it'll sound like a hair dryer. No thanks, I'll keep my 450 rpm silent CPU fan.

Web 3.0 with the error checking turned off?