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Comment Re:It was never worth it to begin with (Score 2) 556

It was the same here. Our car supports E85 and the three tanks of it we tried we got 13% less mileage and paid only 6% less for the fuel. It just didn't make sense. The first fill-up was nice, because the price per tank was lower, but that came crashing down when I had to fill up much earlier than I normally do (based on miles on the tank).

Comment Re:Legacy Applications? (Score 1) 780

I like the move, but it will be difficult or impossible to run older (poorly written) applications that need a GUI to run.

This is a critical point, when the lack of GUI actually comes to pass. The main barrier for people switching from Windows is older/legacy software. If that legacy stuff stops working completely, I think people will have a different answer to "Do I want to learn the expensive OS CLI or the free beer OS CLI?"

Comment Re:108? Typical /. bull (Score 1) 643

That's not BS, the car was going 108 as it slid off the roadway.

Here's the BS:

Lieutenant Governor Timothy P. Murray was driving 100 miles per hour, without a seat belt... The investigation showed Murray was driving 75 miles per hour in the seconds leading up to the crash... The posted speed limit in the area is 65 miles per hour, and the lieutenant governor had previously said that he had not been speeding and that he had been wearing a seat belt.

So he was speeding 10 mph over and he wasn't wearing a seat belt. That's exactly like "wearing a seat belt" if by "wearing" you mean "not at all wearing".

Comment Re:Nobody has looked at the orbits very well (Score 5, Interesting) 158

Exactly. TFA puts it thusly:

"The X-37B is in a much lower inclination which means it can only see a very narrow band of latitudes, and the only thing that's of real interest in that band is the Middle East and Afghanistan.

There's nothing the US would want to look at in the Middle East, right? If it catches side glances at a Chinese space station, that's just gravy.

The article does end on a winner:

Wilder theories have also reared their heads, such as that both Tiangong-1 and the second X-37B spotted "something else" in space and went to have a look at it - but that seems a little bit like wishful thinking from ET-loving dreamers.

Yup, that's totally it. I can see Michael Bay's next screenplay forming...

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