I drive a CX-5 and have found the overall interface to be incredibly intuitive. Their joystick control is what really makes the system work.
  It's incredibly intuitive after about 15 seconds of playing with it and the placement is perfect, right where you hand would rest when you put your arm on the rest. No huge reach over controls, just right there. I really, really wish Mazda would find a way for Android Auto, Car Play to change the temperature settings so I can change it by voice (hmm, an app connected to car via Bluetooth and tied to the specific car, come on, Mazda!). When I drive my wife's Forester, I constantly reach for the control stick, and there isn't anything. It's all touchscreen and it's a decent reach to get to some things, and I'm 6'3". I love the overall layout and displays on the Forester over the Mazda, but that missing control stick is enough to keep me from considered a Subaru for my next car.

Personally, the improvement of voice control in cars really makes the idea of using a physical or touchscreen control while moving kinda dumb. Yes, this is a premium feature generally and does add cost, but on my car when I'm moving, I don't touch controls very often and find that keeps my focus on the outside world.

I'm shocked, shocked that the LAPD would try to hide their behavior so they could keep acting like asshats.

All we need now is for Andrew Schlafly and his Conservapedia to welcome those scorned by Wikipedia to come to them. Should go nicely with their other crap (see evolution, global warming, anything related to Obama and just about everything else near and dear to the far-right).

They do, but there are too many bugs in the code for them to get any information!

This just means that they will use locally produced copies of Cisco equipment. Which is dramatically different from what they do now ... Yeah...

This. Focus on what they need to know for this decision. The part part about proprietary vs open source? ONLY if you're considering a proprietary package and an open source package. If they think you are wasting their time, they will tune you out and you will all be wasting your time.

And sgroyle, this really just look like a cheap grab at publicity for your books. You seriously need to update your blog with an apology at least to Kobo and probably to WHSmith.

There was a post on the Kobo boards where someone contacted Kobo about this. Apparently there was a known problem on the WHSmith website where it would show the books as having DRM. When they'd go to Kobo to actually DL the books it would be DRM free. Just looked at the books on WHSmith's website and getting a different format availability than the OP's blog - Format Availability: epub. Apparently they've fixed the bug.

Go to a store and you'll generally see competing products next to each other and that's okay. But try to do something similar on-line? Horror! Unfair! Must file lawsuit! It's become our culture but the practice of suing for anything and everything has become utterly ridiculous in the last decade or so.

Yawn. The linked "article" is just a press-release from a fringe candidate. I'll be impressed if I see a mainstream candidate saying something like this and it's not just in a press-release.

Bungie didn't make Tribes, that was Dynamix (at least for the versions that were worth a damn). Before Halo, Bungie's big games were Marathon and Myth.

Nope! No drawbacks here. Why would the headline be written in anything other than pure, positive spin? Especially since this was probably posted from a chipped car with big brother watching quite carefully for any accidents, traffic or wrong thoughts.

-- Ravensfire

Isn't this the way it should be working? Allocate X dollars to group. Group really needs X + Y dollars to do everything they want so they create a group to review all the projects and allocate the dollars. If you don't have enough funding, programs WILL be cut or scaled back. Save program A and program B is cut, which costs jobs around program B. Congrats though, program A's jobs are intact.

Prioritization sucks but if you don't have all the funding you need you have to make the call at some point. Having a (theoretically neutral) group review everything and make the call is better than having Congress make the decisions for you. And yeah, it would be much better for everyone if there was enough funding, that's the easy way out of this dilemma.

-- Ravensfire

"1) Transparency. If an opponent is making a claim against you then be transparent about the issue and prove them wrong. Allow an independent body to investigate and verify your taxes or whatever is in question."

Congrats - utterly ineffective. Candidate A releases a claim shortly before the election about Candidate B. Claim is false, but has JUST enough plausibility to get it through libel laws. Claim affects the election because you can't prove it false in time. Yup, happens now quite often and one of the most effective dirty tricks out there. Transparency is a great way to make someone feel better ... after the fact and rarely makes up for the damage done.

-- Ravensfire