That's actually kind of funny, seeing as I see no grammatical error in that post, but I do see one in yours . . .

Zealots like you overlook grammar.

Yahoo *could* stage a comeback, but why? What makes a product or service from Yahoo unique?

Well that's the key question right there now, innit?

Let's just suppose, for the sake of the argument, that they actually come up with a way to make some product or service that is unique. If they do that, they would be perfectly positioned to make a comeback.

On the other hand, let's suppose they do something else. What if their product isn't actually unique, as such, but that they somehow manage to out-google Google. Suppose they figure out a way to do something better? If they can do that, it won't matter if the product is unique as such; it could just be faster or better or both.

He never said that. Maybe, like me, he has better things to do with his time. I, for one, hate car shopping.

Ouch, that sucks, and I seriously feel for you.

I wish we had such lights here, but what we do have is four-lane streets along the length of the two cities I drive through, so passing is possible unless you hit a rolling roadblock.

Speaking of power in the gas tank, it seems that all these tests are conducted with straight gas, but all you can find at the pump these days is 10% ethanol, which immediately cuts your mph by 3 to 4 mph.

True though this may be, I still get 30-37 MPG depending on traffic. This morning's commute was 36.7 according to my trip computer. This is in a 2005 Nissan Sentra, not a hybrid.

No, the root cause of the poor fuel economy is that most people drive like assholes.

You do realize that's the purpose of most DRM out there, right? Software is DRM'd to keep non-paying people from using it. Books, movies are DRM'd to keep non-paying people from using it. Etc.

I disagree. That's the stated purpose. DRM'd books have been demonstrated to be able to disappear when the publisher chooses. Once in my hands, they should be in a form where (a) they can't disapper and (b) I can manipulate it to my liking. Either I'm your customer, or your adversary, but you can't have it both ways.

I can offer one, and only one, case where it seems fuly legit.

I think it is perfectly legit to use cryptographic means for conditional access for pay media (e.g. satellite radio, satellite/cable TV). --BUT-- The purpose is to deliver the product to the paying customer while not deliving it to non-paying. Once it is in the hands of the paying customer, it should be unlocked.

Of course, there are other problems with this business model, but they don't really have much to do with DRM per se.

Well, if they hit such low efficiencies, I'm assuming that it comes in the form of a drop in light output. I'll keep an eye on it, though and periodically check them with a wattmeter. Thanks for the heads-up.

They didn't shut it down. It got slashdotted.

Yep, this problem was alluded to in the article in explaining why this certification was so stringent.

My experience with them is very mixed. Even within brand tier it's been kind of mixed. My best experience for lifespan was from Sylvania, but second-worst was GE. Second-best was Commercial Electric (which I think is now known as nVision) and worst was Lights of America. The quality of CFLs has been very uneven and difficult to predict.

The worst experience was from when we moved into our current home ten years ago and promptly deployed CFLs en masse throughout the house. Of the Lights of America CFLs we bought at the time (about a dozen of them), two of them lived past the first month. Those two are still in service. Of the other ten, we took them back on warranty, and replaced the first few with like, but when they went out on us as well, we started getting refunds and buying another brand.

The best experience, was for two Sylvania CFLs purchased in 1994 when they cost around $20. One died last year when the fixture it was in fell over and broke the envelope. The other one had met a similar fate some years before. I felt that they didn't owe me anything.

I, for one, haven't given them money since their logo consisted of a cube, a sphere and a tetrahedron and the software ran on 6510s.

Feuer Frei by Rammstein, particularly for it's repeated use of "Bang Bang!" in the chorus.

How about Stewart Field? I've flown out of there to avoid using Albany, and it's closer to you than it is to me.

I already posted elsewhere in this thread (the link to lmgtfy above), or I would mod you up.

Let me Google that for you . . .