But Google is patenting them in YELLOW, Microsoft did it in BLUE. Clearly not the same thing.

Similar complaint here: I can only see with one eye. Thus to me, 3D movies only cost more, have a lower contrast and really blurry without special glasses. Of course, I'll still end up watching more of them than I wish because my wife loves the gimmick.

+1 - as someone who HAS driven a formula race car before (even one not remotely as fast as an F1 car, but still immensely quicker than any street car), I can confirm that it is VERY physically demanding. You wouldn't believe the amount of effort it takes just to keep your head upright. I'm a fairly decent athlete (although not pro caliber), yet before doing a concentrated workout routine, I couldn't go more than about 5 laps before I was just too physically tired to continue safely.

It's a fairly minor workout for your legs (although remember that the brake pedal of an F1 car takes nearly 100# of force to push down, ~15 times a lap for 50 laps), but it is a VERY intense workout for your arms and neck.

Anyone who doubts this - I challenge them to just 5 minutes in a 125cc go kart. Despite having nowhere near the capabilities of an F1 car, you'll still get a sense of the physical exhaustion involved. If you can go 20 minutes (at speed) without special training, I commend you.

10% x $0 = $0

And if it was only 2.4 inches "high", one would think that most of the day the island would be underwater anyways. I'm not an expert on tides, but I'm pretty sure they're more than 3 inches in most places.

Thousands of people do it every weekend: http://www.scca.com/hub.aspx?hub=3

I've heard that the second (and bigger) part of the firmware update was that you couldn't shift the Toyota's into neutral if the throttle was past 50%. The thinking was that it would prevent engine damage if you bumped the shifter while accelerating. They didn't think that a stuck throttle could then leave you with a car stuck into gear.

For 99.99% of the street drivers out there - sure. For that matter, even for most race drivers this is also true. However, there are instances where on the track I've needed to use both pedals at the same time. Primarially it's when I'm accelerating out of a tight chicane, and need to settle the car quickly before entering a tight sweeper. If I actually lifted off the gas much it would unsettle the car too much, causing a spin, whereas a SLIGHT touch of the brakes will settle the car quicker, without loosing too much speed.

Someone not hungry enough for 8 pieces. That, or a group of 3 or 6 people.

Thus the air pump - just dump a certain percentage of ambient air into the exhaust prior to the test section, and magically your #'s start to look better.

Same here. It seems the only diesel's available are either in pickups (as part of a very expensive option package) or in a few VW cars. Even then, VW doesn't offer it across their entire model line as they do in Europe. You can only get it in a few models, from a few years, and with very limited additional options. For instance, when my wife bought her New Beetle, we couldn't find a 5 speed + diesel + convertible combination from ANY model year. We ended up having to go with an older 1.8T model to get the 5 speed in a convertible.

Was considering a switch (for our locally cached DNS servers parent servers), but glad I ran a benchmark first:

Cached relative performance:

• Local (backed by ISP)
• ISP (unfiltered results)
• Level 3
• Google

Uncached relative performance:

• Level 3
• ISP
• Local (backed by ISP)
• Google

In all cases, Google's one of our slower options. If anything, it appears I'd be best off using local DNS backed by level 3 for non-cached results.

I know for a fact they're not 100% accurate - Verizon's map shows 100% 3G coverage for all land within a 20 mile radius of my in-laws house. However, Verizon customers (them) get zero signal there (even when standing outdoors away from any obstructions) - not even enough to send a text message.

Conversely, AT&T shows zero 3G coverage there, and "spotty" EDGE coverage within a 20 mile radius. However, I (AT&T) get nearly full 3G signal there, with great speeds.

However, one case point like this only shows they're not 100% accurate, it makes no indication of a general trend between the two.

What would be very interesting to see is an exhaustive third-party study with a decent resolution. What would be involved in calculating this for all major nationwide carriers (AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, etc.).

As has been said before, never underestimate the bandwidth of a stationwagon...

While I agree with the parent, that accepting incoming connections is a bad thing - it may also be the "killer feature" to implement IPv6. Auto-configuring clients to support incoming connections is inherently difficult in NAT.