Yeahh. Who was that? Yogi Bear's sidekick?

Me too. The Xoom has been a great tablet, we take it everywhere.

Going from 1 user to 3 users is indeed a growth rate of 200%, but relying on rate without quantity (measured in absolute units or market share percentage) means nothing.

Please astroturf somewhere else.

And don't forget the Kin phone Microsoft released a couple years ago (2009/10 IIRC). You know, that was pushed in the commercials where the awkward dude stalked the girl, took pictures of her, and geeked out on his computer about it, while she gives the final "Go To Hell" look at him? Yep, the Microsoft Kin -- the cell phone designed for stalkers.

@Follow Meeee, you are on crack. Microsoft has absolutely failed at mobile devices, including the Zune, Zune HD, Kin, and Surface RT. Considering they have only sold 900,000 Surface RT & Pro tablets with an estimated 6 million unsold devices on hand, nobody can declare their Surface tablets anything like a success. As a retail product, as well as a technology demonstrator to spur other manufacturers to produce Win 8 mobile devices, it is an absolute failure. No other manufacturers are getting behind it.

The blue bird eats a taco.

I repeat, the blue bird eats a taco.

I have a porch in the front and back of my house, and a "real swimming pool" versus one of those hastily-programmed "virtual swimming pools".

There's a difference between "dubbing" and "merely including a snippet of" a language in a movie.

I remain unimpressed by the whole load of bullshit.

It doesn't need to compare the file contents bytewise. Each end of the rsync connection generates hashes of blocks of the file, and the hashes that do not match indicate underlying file differences. If a 1MB chunk in the middle of a 100MB database file generates different hashes, then only that 1MB chunk is transferred. That's how bandwidth savings are guaranteed.

I forget which software exposed their assembly environment, but it was the third language I used on the 99/4a. First was Logo, second was their Basic & Extended Basic, and third was assembler. The poster a few parents up from here may not have known that TI's extended basic included poke, peek like other systems. TI's built-in Basic did not have those calls.

How many of you 99/4a owners had the disk drive (180KB single-sided awesomeness) AND learned to punch holes in floppy sleeves to use the other side?

- in automotive service departments to print trim pieces in the right colour

A friend of mine has a ferrari of some kind, and I asked about maintenance costs since I was curious how it was. Overall, he said it was certainly more than a ford, but his car had been well maintained and hadn't had any big problems. But recently, a plastic clip inside the door broke, and it rendered the outside handle useless.

To fix it, the shop got a replacement part to the tune of US$1200, plus labor to install it.

It's parts like these that I would look to print on a 3d printer. Not every part can be satisfactorily printed, however, but it's worth checking.

I offered to only charge my friend $500 for the part, what a deal! He was not amused.

Re: the comment about "$5 per cubic inch". I just calculated the material cost of a calibration object of volume 4cm^3, with a fairly moderate infill. On my printer it consumed 3g of plastic, which costs $40/kg. This object cost $0.12 in plastic, or about $0.03/cm^3. Continuing.... 1 cubic inch is 16.4 cm^3, or an equivalent cost of about $0.49. Five dollars is a bit high for a personal machine cost, even including the electricity.

Printing services will double or triple the material cost to account for waste & setup and include machine time in the price. With triple material charges, the above object would be $1.50, and it would take about 10 minutes at $0.15/min ($1.50). This is a total cost of $3.00 for an object of this size, in plastic.

No, it's a separate system. The parking/emergency brake is an entirely separate brake system that uses a mechanical linkage instead of the main hydraulic system. Even if your car has 4-wheel disc brakes, the rear rotors have a small drum brake designed into them, actuated by the parking brake pedal, lever, etc. A loss of brake fluid or other outright failure in the primary system does not affect this mechanical backup.

The bad part is that so many cars are FWD, and the parking brake is on the rear wheels. This is a testament to it doubling as an emergency brake (you do not want e-brake on the front, steering wheels), yet being nearly useless in FWD cars. That is, instead of fighting directly the output torque of the engine at the wheels, e-brakes in FWD cars can only add slight drag to the car. A runaway throttle in a FWD car can't be directly fought with the e-brake like RWD cars.

Well, like they say, "when all you have is a battery-powered drill from Home Depot, make lemons." Or something like that.