MickyJ - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Batteries are history (Score 2, Funny) 650

by MickyJ on Thursday October 01, 2009 @01:27AM (#29602171) Attached to: Electric Car Nano-Batteries Aim For 500 Mile Range

"Yes dear, the battery in the car is flat, I've just got to wait an hour for it to charge, then I'll be on my way home..."

Comment Batteries are history (Score 0, Troll) 650

by MickyJ on Thursday October 01, 2009 @01:16AM (#29602119) Attached to: Electric Car Nano-Batteries Aim For 500 Mile Range

Battery powered cars will never become popular. Who wants to wait hours (or even tens of minutes) to recharge a battery? Hydrogen powered cars are the future, not battery powered cars. Honda have already created a car that runs off hydrogen: http://automobiles.honda.com/fcx-clarity/

Submission + - Ridiculous Software Bug Workarounds?

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theodp

on Saturday May 23, 2009 @08:05PM

theodp writes: "Ever get a workaround for a bug from a vendor that's so rigoddamndiculous that there has to be a clueless MBA or an ornery developer behind it? For example, Microsoft once instructed users to wiggle their mouse continuously for several minutes if they wanted to see their Oracle data make it into Excel (yes, it worked!). And more recently, frustrated HP customers were instructed to use non-HP printers as their default printer if they don't want Microsoft Office 2007 to crash (was this demo'ed in The Mojave Experiment?). Any other candidates for the Lame Workaround Hall of Fame?"

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