- - All ramps are legally required to be of a sufficient length for any properly maintained car to reach merging speed.

- That is the most vague, made up shit I have every heard on /.

No kidding! The dynamic it misses is the behavior of the traffic.

In my area it is pretty common to find merging circles with a 30 km/h (~19mph) to 50 km/h (~31mph) speed limit with short merge lanes. I agree, one can accelerate through the merge circles...but you're not going to achieve much acceleration until you hit the straightaways. An earlier poster stated he held back until space developed - that works until you have a slow timid driver in front of you. You may be accelerating from 60 to 85 km/h or more with 1/3 or less of your merge lane left, and traffic backed up from the slow driver.

I don't have issue using 4-cyl. or even underpowered cars, but given the option I would opt for the extra power and the larger engine every time.

Lithium is better at treating the "manic" side of bipolar disorder (manic depression) as it is a mood stabilizer.

When treating depression (unipolar disorder) Lithium is also prescribed to enhance other antidepressants, so he is more than half right.

Fantastically funny photo! Way to go! LOL

I would imagine Microsoft are likely using a much larger error package, like "Microsoft Dynamics".

Here, you can post your errors and they'll go unnoticed for some time until some manager decides to read their reports.

http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/default.mspx

"Now why the hell does a friggin' game need admin rights, you ask?..."

      "Users are to blame to put up with it and accept that they're "forced" to use admin privs to run programs. "

In my opinion, "Blame the user" is not part of the problem. The user wants their email, web and apps to work. The user on the most part does not have the required knowledge to understand what they're "forced" to put up with. They rely on administrators or nerds like us to provide the advice they need to help complete their tasks. We're left contending with the flaws to resolve problems that may have no clear resolution... the switch to "admin" gets thrown on as a result.

Is it the users fault? They didn't design the software. Is it the admins fault? The admin shouldn't have given admin capabilities to the user, but again, they didn't design the software either. If the problems remain unresolved by the developer despite the negative feedback, from here, I will agree with your "third party software" blame.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Y6231uAmo&NR=1

(No, Rickrolling)

Read Coryking's post in "Ed Gruberman's" voice...then give him a "Boot to the head"!

Agreed.

Amazon.com: First gift arrived within two days, second arrived within a week. Amazon.ca delivered my third gift in three days. Shop for what's in stock and everything goes pretty smooth.

It's too bad the audio cassette devices at Thinkgeek do not (appear to) have Dolby B & C decoding. Transcribing tapes recorded with B & C noise reduction to wav, without the decoding will sound like crap (especially Dolby C)

One might as well buy a used cassette deck, and use analog hookups to your PC.

"I can't help but wonder who'd care enough about this topic to be writing serious thoughtful comments on it on christmas eve!..."
"...the point is that even I am not spending christmas eve thinking about the next 2.6.28 release notes"

My comment is relative to the AC post above (as I replied to that posting).

"Not all Linux users are Christians, you know. I know several devoutly pagan Linux advocates, and quite a few Jewish ones" ...thanks, I guess, ... Not sure why you feel you must this out since I am referencing one comment.

Writing to the Slashdot community on Christmas eve that you're not thinking about the next kernel notes... sounds like you need a 12 step program for Linux or Slashdot.

to test if ants can be trained to sort tiny screws in space.