I'm not talking about Russia. The G4 is lobbying for un Security Council reform including adding more permanent member seats including Germany. Russia opposes this and energy dependence weakens Germany.

The timing of this could not be worse. Germany should admit now that they made a mistake and suspend the shutdown until better replacements are implemented.

More gas from Russia sets them up for further dependence and manipulation, preventing them from more forcefully calling Russia to stop illegal annexation in Ukraine and Crimea or more vocally lobbying for permanent UN security council membership.

An energy independent Germany makes Europe stronger and the world safer.

It's sort of unclear from the article how the ECU was disabled. Was it damaged during the crash or did the insurance company disable it when they sold the car?

In any case, it seems to me he has some recourse against the seller of the vehicle. On the other hand, the laws should address this scenario. California law already strongly protects consumers from insurance forcing shops to use second-rate parts. If that is a good idea, and I think it is, we should have some requirement that also forces manufacturers to make replacement parts available under non-discriminatory terms to consumers, parts stores and anyone else who wants them.

It's not for Tesla to decide what car is roadworthy. This was a business decision and Tesla knows it. It has nothing to do with actual liability and more to do with their stock price every time a Tesla driver goes off the road and t-bones a minivan.

As has been stated repeatedly before, elsewhere, I wish I had mod points right now.

With that in mind, the first two statements pretty much sum it up. "Because I want to change it" is not a good reason, nor really is a designer saying "I don't like how it looks" if, while ugly, it's intuitive for the user to figure out.

I think I've taken all of half a dozen looks at the beta site, and without fail, my response is "get me the f*** out of here", not because it's unfamiliar (though it is), but because what I see is a jumbled mess that makes following LKML in message-received order when there are multiple heated discussions going on in parallel an easy task.

With that said, I don't consider JS to be the harbinger of death and otherwise all that is evil. Some designers & developers have never heard of progressive enhancement though, causing problems left and right. There are things that can be added to the current UI without completely breaking it that make things more convenient ("Load more comments" is actually one I use regularly, because I'm also aware of how broken the pagination of comments happens to be - but then again, threaded commenting doesn't lend itself to pagination without complete disposal of context. I'd rather read the comment threads and if that means a bit of script, so be it.)

I'll come out of hiding for this one.

First, polls aren't scientific. It's in the FAQ. Anyone doing market research with Slashdot polls is higher than a kite.

Second, many businesses depend heavily on off the shelf solutions to strategic business problems. Until I created forecasting software for my company, we depended on Excel reports heavily with mixed results. So maybe it doesn't seem "high tech" to you, but this poll is far more relevant to most readers than asking who is on TDMA, CDMA or WCDMA networks or whatever bullshit you'd find more interesting.

No it isn't. Class D power supplies are like 70-95% efficient.

I guess if you want a wave form other than square or sine wave it gets expensive - but what else would you really need in a car?

I'm immediately skeptical because he says no hydrogen is consumed in the process. Is the hydrogen a catalyst only? And if he found a way to produce fusion with no secondary radiation production, this would be all over the news all over the world.

The equation must balance and this just doesn't seem plausible.

I liked the concept of SGU but they fucked it all up on execution. Good actors acting out bad scripts with a plot going nowhere.

Now that I think about it... it is a lot like Battlestar Galactica but without the awesomeness.

It sounds like you don't know any better lol.

Winforms has a nice API, but there are a lot of drawbacks to it. Essentially it is a wrapper for WIN32 GDI and that brings in a lot of limitations. Microsoft made a poor decision in choosing to not reimplement controls in Winforms because they would have very quickly been able to add a lot of flexibility and features that are missing from other frameworks like Qt.

You'll quickly run into huge problems depending on which controls you try to subclass.

Try subclassing a rich text control to add syntax highlighting without using WPF. It can be done, but it is a HUGE pain in the ass. You'll need anger management therapy when you're done.

Winforms, for all its API sanity and OO goodness, is still just a fancy wrapper for WIN32 GDI - including all the gotchas. If they want me to take it seriously, they need to reimplement these "problem controls" either in the standard GDI library or reimplement them in Winforms.

That's a good point here in that Qt isn't just a GUI. It's a complete application framework, including threading, super easy mutexes, thread pool automation, multimedia, scripting, etc.

The GUI is only a small part of the Qt library.

I've been using Qt for a few years. The API is really nice, with just a couple of bad exceptions.

It's buggy though and bugs don't always get fixed quickly.

I have had problems with Mono. It's not production ready yet IMO.

I called 911 on a drunk driver a couple months ago. He was drifting over the centerline a few feet and would always over-correct.

Certainly it could have been a distracted driver, drunk, tired, high, heart attack, whatever. Doesn't really matter why because he shouldn't have been on the road, no matter what the cause was. I saw in the newspaper later that he did in fact get charged with DWI instead of DUI but no BAC was listed, so it likely was just medication or something. Regardless, head on collisions at 55+ MPH are no joke. There's a reason crash test ratings are done at 40 MPH. Faster and it's anybodies guess what happens.