At this time, nVidia is trying to go it more alone, while ATI is closely coupling itself to Microsoft and Sony.

It's turned out well for nVidia so far, but the reason they can't give us driver sources like they're doing with Tegra is that they got too far into bed with Microsoft...

The lie is that it is similar. I will take this last moment, even though I said I wouldn't, in the interest of a final attempt to make the world a better place. There is simply no congruence between a bank error and someone putting something in a box and sending it to you, and it arriving on your doorstep — obligating you to do something about it. By suggesting that it is the recipient's problem when someone sends them something unsolicited, you are advocating slavery. You may subject anyone to obligation simply by sending them something. Granted, it is a tiny little piece of servitude, but the duration does not alter the degree to which it is true. The postal service is meant to work for The People, not the other way around.

It is simply unreasonable to place the burden upon the recipient. If you cannot avoid addressing the wrong thing and putting it in the mail and sending it to someone, you probably should not be in business. If you cannot manage to provide return shipping information in such a case, you definitely deserve to take a loss on the goods which you incompetently sent out, forcing someone else to spend their time (which they will never get back) dealing with your mistake. In fact, you should be obligated to pay them for their time if you want the goods returned, since your error has caused them actual damages — time and effort lost. And in this particular example, also the delay of arrival of goods which were promised and paid for.

Most of these issues do not exist at all in the case of a bank error, which is also completely different because you are expected to track your own bank balance. You are not expected to fill the shipping crate at the internet retailer from whom you make purchases. There is simply no congruence whatsoever between the two situations, and your insistence that there is proves that you're suffering from cognitive dissonance. You think you're smart, and that smart people are right, and therefore you can't be wrong. Well, you can be smart and wrong.

You'd conceal it next to a queue.

Who told you that, and do you still listen to them? Because they're an idiot. FWD is cheaper on gas because it reduces driveline loss and powertrain weight.

There are two good reasons why that might happen, and a third on tap. One, the design is intended to be AWD. Two, the design was originally a RWD design, the tunnel is critical to its rigidity, and it can't simply be designed out. Third, the tunnel is accommodating the exhaust system.

No, they'd have to redesign the unibody and retool the plant.

This is a cost and weight issue. A rear torsion bar (which is what's on those vehicles) is both cheaper and lighter than a fully independent rear suspension, which not only needs the suspension links but also the subframe to which they attach.

Wait, what? Now look. Making the vehicle RWD improves the weight distribution. But actually, a 60% front weight is ideal in the snow, it helps you keep from swapping ends in a slide because when there's no traction, the heavy end wants to go first. Rear-engine cars are the absolute worst in snow, AWD is the best, FWD is in the middle. Front-engined, rear-wheel-drive cars are not too bad, because they tend to have good weight balance so they are at least relatively predictable, but they're far from the best option in slippery conditions.

No, they're poorly balanced because it was cheap.

Put less driving skill into it, drive like a normal person, then say that again.

It doesn't, though. AWD is worth its weight in gold, especially in a vehicle with a little extra front weight to help it keep from swapping ends.

It wouldn't. Instead, it would have applied power to any driven wheels which could make use of it, and applied braking to any slipping wheel individually, which you cannot do. You probably would have never noticed the loss of traction to begin with if traveling at typically low speeds.

AFAIK heavy trucks don't have to have the driving aids which are now mandatory on all passenger cars in the developed world, but one day they will.

Really? How does it detect another radar receiver, which is not transmitting anything wirelessly?

Ironically and yet predictably and also pathetically for you, Wikipedia provides the citation. Unless an edit war has broken out.

I can't speak to iOS, but on Android you can make apps without even learning to program by stringing actions together in Tasker.

If the NSA knows who is engaging in unpopular speech, that acts as a chilling effect. Thus, the NSA is infringing our first amendment rights to free expression.

I've got a feeling that a lot of people are living in the world where young men from 18-35 dispose of a massive portion of the world's disposable income on bullshit like video games and movies. As far as I know, they are still where the money is. They spend more on entertainment, I'd court them as well.

I'm trying very hard to figure out in what way that is a relevant response to my comment, and I'm coming up blank. I know what a PTO is and what it does. Nothing in my comment suggested otherwise.

I didn't reply to that comment because it was fucking stupid. You should know where. And if you don't, what's the point of even continuing? I won't change your mind.

It shows that at that moment, I didn't want to waste my time with more of your bullshit. And one of my parents is dead and I don't talk to the other one, and good riddance on both counts.

There are security implications for both unlocking and rooting. It's best that they default off.