I like this comma joke better... http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/serial%20comma?before=19

where is it that these cars are hard to start? I'm in Minnesota (Minneapolis), park outdoors at my apartment, and there is some grumbling on days below -20F, but my car always starts just fine. I see lots of VW TDI around here as well. I assume that they also start without issues given how many I see, but i could be wrong. There are none avaialbe on the used market either.

I used to live in Marquette Michigan, same thing there, no issues with starting in the winter.

I've found i like VWs DSG automatic. I'd even like the paddle shifters if they would just mount them on the column and not on the wheel. It gets hard to grab second when the up paddle is on a different side. Or perhaps they could make them pull in and push out instead of one for up and one for down.

Drive a VW DSG sometime if you like the feel of a manual. I drove my bosses GTI and despite haven drive automatics for the last few years found myself reaching for a clutch and shiftier. On lift off of the throttle the car slows down just like you'd expect in a manual. I had to try very hard to not press the "clutch" as the brake was one of those "automatic double wide" brakes and when you press a brake peddle like you would a clutch it gets fun in a hurry.

I know your are an AC, but I am tasking you on behalf of the entire linux community to write and maintain the documentation for your grandma for every single UEFI bios/computer/variant out there on how to create and add a key.

Right, that is a huge task because every vendor is going to do it differently.

near a super volcano, I think not!

I assume that there would be a whitelist "allows allow tabs at these sites to play sounds" sort of a thing.

why don't we build a gen 4 reactor and actually decommission it when it's useful life is at an end, instead of running it for 10 more years, and ignoring all of the warning signs that it will be in trouble?

ohh and then complain that when a larger event than the facility was designed causes "minor" issues. Should we design all nuke plants to survive a direct hit from 2012DA14 without releasing any more radiation than you receive while flying across the USA in a commercial airliner? How about the moon? what about an off the scales hurricane, while there is a category 10 earthquake, and the "terrorists" try to blow it up? What if the sun explodes or aliens show up?

This is why they have things called phones. I work with Representatives all day. They are all over the country. I have on several occasions after two or 3 e-mails back and forth, just picked up the phone and called them. Honestly, given the small size of my office, and the frequency that someone is traveling, I could work from home, but I know I would be much less effective that way. I know that I need the physical location context switch to help trigger "work mode". If I was working from home i would have to have separate locations for work, and home life. I'm ignoring the fact that I have kids below school age that also distract me.

nothing i have written has had any care what amount of time has gone by, so yes, it should all "just work".

Ansys is not designed really for your HPC football field sized super computer, but for high end workstations, or a small in house farm. Going OpenCL must have been seen as a good idea. AMD still makes FireGL cards, and using OpenCL lets Ansys work everywhere.

Hmm, I've not actully used a AMD/ATI videocard in 10 years, and the last one I had was an oddball PCI one in an oddball laptop (fujitsu P2110 if anyone cares). I did finally get it to work, but it took most of a year and around 4 distros. That said, I'm on my 4th or 6th nvidia card, and installing the nvidia drivers, and running "xorg --configure" was the most I have had to do (well back in the bad old days i had to swap the driver line in xorg.conf. These days everything seems to just work, and there are no issues when playing games in wine. (not that I really need to anymore, thank you valve).

I don't see an "ACC" but i do see "OFF"....

Coasting to a stop would take less time then driving to Belgium and would be safer.

or a "press and hold for 5 seconds to turn it off" sort of setup. I know that after trying neutral, I would have tried that.

Man all of these stories, make me want to stick with 19xx manual trans cars with cable throttles.