Serious Sam 3 debut with Linux support.

Please tell me that you attached them all to the same email. That would have been great watching them stumble over themselves.

Agreed, car sales people are the worst which is why I'm going no haggle in the future (if possible). The last car I bought was new, but I went to a no haggle shop which was a great experience. I was extended test driving a car from a bigger guy that gave me the run around "take it or leave it" price when all I wanted to know what the employee price was (since my father in law is a GM retire) when I went to to the no haggle place. I asked the sales person why the cars where as cheap and she gave me the 3 discounts why right off the bat. I told her what I was looking for and in 15 minutes she located the exact car we wanted 300 miles away, and they arranged a trade. The perks where great too, tires for life vs "personal assistant" (riiiiiight). The other place called me and asked what I thought about the test drive, then they parked a car with some of the features and wrong color at the door I would use to try to get me to buy it. I handed them the keys and told them no thanks, wrong color.

It was a sad day when that bigger guy bought out our dealership....service prices doubled and no more tires perk.

Right, but that only applies at night. What about during the day when you are catching glare from the sun? I find the conventional dim bulbs annoying and even more so when the guy has blackout covers on his lights. You can't see them at all then.

Just do a rsync backup of your local mirror to a external drive or similar. Have it run nightly or more often.

So we have tools to keep the ISP in check, but what keeps the ISP from playing the tools? Like the synthetic benchmarks for computer hardware and companies creating special cases for them, the ISP will do it too. Take for example a current tool, speedtest.net, it downloads and uploads a small file. However, Time Warner does a speed boost for the first Xmb( or seconds ) after which the speed drops. This does benefit to small amounts of data like email and webpages, but notice how it seems to handle that speedtest file quite well?

The last cube I had with a window became a oven in the afternoon as the sun shined in...during the winter. I would walk to the corner store a half mile away for a snack because I couldn't focus. It also didn't help that the sun would wash out my monitor as well.

What happens when you start hearing your neighbors music because they are trying to drown out the noise? I had this happen in cube land.

Must be a small cube. All the ones I had I could ride my bike into work and keep it in my cube. Sorry, no measurements on my current which I do ride to work. One place I couldn't do it in was because all the cubes had a large cabinet that sat next to the entrance. I don't think anybody really needed it. It was too far to ride anyways so not a big deal.

I have saw smaller cubes though.

Planners are not going for full bans. They are just trying to improve the transportation options in the city for all users while making people feel like they belong in the city. While some DIY types will transport all they need by bikes (including whole house moves, fridge and all), but nobody is calling for a complete ban of service trucks.

Just like debates we have about commuter cars and public transportation. If you need a private vehicle, or something bigger, many times it is cheaper to rent as needed than to own one full time. I'm sure taxi's will still be around as well. Congestion is the result of too many vehicles taking up space that they don't need too.

I have ridden mine several times this winter through the snow on the roads going uphill. Worked just fine with minimal wheel spin (which happens to be in the same places a car would have problems). They make studded tires for ice which do a great job as well.

The one day I had to drive my car for errands is the only day this winter I froze my butt off all the way home in it.

Like all things well engineered or not, they are likely to go off when you don't need them too. Like riding over rails in traffic. A malfunction shouldn't blind you.

Me too, I just liberated a hand-me-down XP laptop last week, and I have a unused desktop waiting for its liberation as well as soon as I find a job for it.

I still have my Intellimouse Explorer v1.0 that looks like it has been through hell and back. Well, it been to college and back a few times along with countless lan parties. The only reason I pushed it to the work bench is because the buttons where not working well in games, and the appearance was getting to the point that you wanted a shower before touching it (but it was clean). I followed up with the v3 mouse that looks just like it.

Now, at work I went through several of the v4 mice, they just wouldn't last 2 years.

It isn't hard to use 32GB between photos, home movies, and the handbrake rips of the kids favorite movies. My 32GB phone only has 15GB free (1300 photos and home videos with 1 kid movie, I don't have time I need to move the media to my fileserver). However, my 40GB mp3 player is half full with 128 bit songs and I'm in the process of flac'ing my collection. It will probably be converted to 256 bit when it is stored on my phone.