Amazon Prime works fine with Mint 11.

Have you done

sudo apt-get install hal

If you buy your smartphones, you could get a cheap talk/text plan from a number of companies - straight talk, simple mobile, etc.

Most recent trends? A million new devices a day running Linux.

Bought 10 CFL bulbs for my kitchen. They all died in less than a year.

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My netbook was $250, has Windows 7 Home Premium and a HDMI out. Of course it has an AMD C-60 processor.

The real question is what will the efficiency be after 10-20-30 years?

Wife has a Camry, I have a Sable. My Sable is far better than her car. I've got 212,000 miles on my car; she has 167,000 miles on her car. (for those outside NA, a Sable is basically a Ford Taurus).

Jimmy Carter took away the collective bargaining rights of the federal employee unions back in the 1970's.

Animal cruelty. Think of the Sharks.

I guess we can call the new Microsoft shills Metro-sexuals.

I've got the season 1 BD set. The picture quality is amazing.

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But it won't run on a WP7 phone. And Microsoft has been **VERY** silent on the upgradability of the current WP handsets to WP8.

"Kimberly Hester does not have clean hands. Posting an offensive picture of a co-worker with pants around ankles could be considered sexual harassment."

So you claim this to be a fact?

>>Any ideas what a domestic company would have told me had my ECU failed at 100K out of warranty?

I'd assume that any car company would have done it since it was a recall.

My Sable will hit 199,000 miles when I drive home today. Amazing car considering how I've beaten it, and have had almost no problems. It has had fewer problems than my wife's Camry.