I had a go last week and I can tell you that from my experience, its hard to even hold a conversation when interacting with glass, yet alone drive a vehicle. It is /not/ like using the radio or satnav - it's at least ten times more distracting. Don't get me wrong - It's a cool, cool piece of tech, but it ain't for use behind the wheel!

Fair comment, except that in Windows 8.1 you /cannot/ install any AMD-supplied driver on my HD3870. It's a perfectly serviceable card, but has now been rendered obsolete through the manufacturer abandoning it. The reason is that they won't supply WDDM 1.3 or 1.2 drivers for this card, and they won't supply updated WDDM 1.1 drivers for 8.1

Certainly makes me think twice about buying another AMD card...

...and stupid people take them seriously.

Favourite quote from one of the Trek tomes referring to replication and, specifically, why you can't replicate a starship - i.e. they have to be constructed:

If you could replicate a starship, you wouldn't need to.

I still like this quote :)

Same story, but I ended up with Altap Salamander. I simply can't manage without it these days, which I think is why I don't find Windows 8 that offensive - I never actually see the GUI as I spend my days staring at Chrome and Salamander :)

One of the advantages of being old is that I'm now in charge of my own infrastructure...and we push out Salamander to every Windows server in the company by policy :)

I'll check out TC on Android though. Thanks for the hint.

Or maybe your ass just isn't as good as hers... ;-)

Sideways dig or not, it's probably still true:

Most countries [who?] outside North America adhere to internationalized European ECE vehicle and equipment regulations rather than the U.S. Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards. ECE airbags are generally smaller and inflate less forcefully than U.S. airbags, because the ECE specifications are based on belted crash test dummies.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbag#United_States

Yes, Glooge.

Glad to have cleared that up.

To clarify: It works very well indeed, but in 4.0.1 and 4.0.2 it only works with WiFi. Apparently, the 4.0.2 LTE version works fine on both WiFi and cellular connections.

In 4.0.3 it works very well on both WiFi and 3G and is a monumentally excellent feature to be added :-)

"Proper" Cisco VPN support (i.e. with group usernames and passwords) was added in 4.0 (Ice-Cream Sandwich) and works very well indeed. Be aware that there appears to be a bug in 4.0.1 and 4.0.2 on the GSM Galaxy Nexus which cause it to reboot as soon as you pass data over a VPN, connected via 3G...wifi works fine.

I'm running an AOSP (kang) 4.0.3 here and this has now been fixed. I believe the official 4.0.3 is just around the corner, so yey! This has been my top #1 feature request since Android day 1 and I bought the GN specifically because of it. Yey Glooge!

Daern

Try Altap Salamander too - www.altap.cz. Cracking software, especially if you prefer to press keys rather than click buttons :-)

Everyone you know?

Ok, well I don't know you but, hey, we're all friends on here so I kinda feel thatI know you ;-)

I /did/ use Linux on my primary laptop for a while (Ubuntu and Fedora, if you're interested) and while I like parts of it, other parts of it stank. Badly. Multi-monitor support was, frankly, embarrassing and suspend/resume was patchy at best. It certainly wasn't more reliable as I found it more likely to "lock up" in a given situation than Windows 7, which TBH, is very usable and a good workhorse.

Don't get me wrong, I use Linux as much as the next one....in the data centre...but it's /still/ got a long way to go on the desktop. Personally, I've got real work to do...and I'm sticking with Windows for now.

Daern

ps. Oh, I do love XBMC Live for the tellybox though :-)

The more you drive, the more you use, the more you pay. If you drive a big truck, you pay more. If you drive a mid-size european-type car (you'd call them "toys" I guess), you'll pay much less because they'll do 60-70mpg. US fuel is priced too cheaply for its scarcity and really needs to be brought in line with the rest of the world. It's amazing how economy (in choice of vehicle, miles travelled and driving technique) comes to the forefont of your mind when fuel costs around $7-8/gallon... Daern (who does vehicle tracking for a living, funnily)