I've tried it on OSX a few times but I'm always put off that it's so totally Windows centric. Search for something and most of the results will be Windows-only. It's full of "OMG try this new cool game!!" recommendations and when you click them you find out that it's only available for Windows. I'M RUNNING THE OSX CLIENT SO FUCKING STOP SHOWING ME WINDOWS-ONLY GAMES ALL THE TIME! FUCKING TEASERS! Until the implement a "only show me stuff I can actually use" configuration option I'm not going to bother more with it.

The main point for me to use ext4 over ext3 is that ext3 has broken fsync() behaviour. If you fsync() a single file descriptor on ext3 it will flush the whole filsystem buffer instead of just the dirty blocks of that file descriptor. Terrible for write concurrency, especially with databases.

ext4 and almost all other filesystems, in chorus: You want a guarantee that the data you just wrote is permanently stored even in case of a power failure? Use fsync() you lazy bastard.

What that really means is "The ALSA drivers and distributions' default configurations seem to be stable now", much thanks to the hard work of the PulseAudio developers. With good drivers and properly configured, PulseAudio has been stable for a long time.

...or, at least in non-UK Europe, the more common "this content is not available in your region".

In the cloud, of course.

I play games (PS3 mostly) for 16 hours/day, 2 or 3 days in a row about once every second month and 2-5 hours/evening once every 1 or 2 weeks.

Those paddles are optional addons to automatic gearboxes so they are still counted as automatic. Even if you have the paddles you still have a fully automatic mode available. I still prefer real manual gearboxes with a clutch pedal though. I've tried my parents new automatic 2012 VW Golf. It's better than manual when driving in town but I feel I have a lot less fine grained control when navigating tight parking lots and similar. Maybe it's just because I'm so used to manual that it's in my spine while I have to actively use my brain when parking an automatic.

Almost all cars in Europe have automatic transmission as an option, even the cheapest ones. It generally means +€1000-2000 on the price though.

I probably have the most un-american car of them all: A 5-speed manual transmission diesel hatchback VW Polo . :) I've just upgraded (ordered but not yet delivered) to a slightly more american car though: A 6-speed manual transmission diesel hatchback Honda Civic (2012 EU-version Executive+nav+cmbs. Not to be confused with the quite worse 2012 US-version Civic).

Welcome to Europe, where 3 out of 4 cars have manual transmission, including brand new ones.

Or just press the clutch.

Feelyat!

A common problem when driving in cities is that you must often know in advance which lane you want to exit into when making a turn to get a chance to make the next turn. When driving in cities I mostly follow the GPS visually and it works most of the time.

Yes, but then you have to say it with a high pitch italian accent.