Comment Re:Pavement (Score 1) 712
Highway 401 from Tilbury to Windsor is cement. This isn't true for all of Canada.
Comment Impressed with Ford (Score 2, Interesting) 186
After driving foreign cars for years we decided to give the Ford Fusion a try after hearing good things about it. Wow, we honestly were impressed, the price was great so we bought it. It drives nicely, European-like handling, has an interior that surprised us for a domestic, and the 4cyl gets great mileage for a car of this size. If the Fusion is any indication of Ford's direction, the Fiesta could be a hit. I know everyone on Slashdot automatically beats on domestics (I was there!), but really, they seem to be really trying. Plus since Ford didn't beg for any bailout money, that makes us feel even better about our choice. Way to go Ford, it was nice to be able to include a domestic on our shopping list.
Matt Blaze Examines Communications Privacy 44
altjira writes "Matt Blaze analyzes the implications of a recent Newsweek story on the Bush administration's use of the NSA for domestic spying on communications, and questions whether the lower legal threshold for the collection of communications metadata is giving away too much to the government: 'As electronic communication pervades more of our daily lives, transaction records — metadata — can reveal quite a bit about us, indeed often much more than a few out-of-context conversations might. Aggregated into databases with other people's records (or perhaps everyone's records) and analyzed by powerful software, metadata by itself can paint a remarkably detailed picture of connections, relationships, and other patterns that could never be recovered simply from listening to the conversations themselves.'"
Ballmer "Interested" In Open Source Browser Engine 410
Da Massive writes "'Why is IE still relevant and why is it worth spending money on rendering engines when there are open source ones available that can respond to changes in Web standards faster?,' asked a young developer to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in Sydney yesterday. 'That's cheeky, but a good question, but cheeky,' Ballmer said. Then came the startling revelation that Microsoft may also adopt an open source browser engine. 'Open source is interesting,' he said. 'Apple has embraced Webkit and we may look at that, but we will continue to build extensions for IE 8.'"
Comment Perception versus reality (Score 1) 472
I'm not sure why this is so surprising. People make blanket judgements about manufacturers based on country of origin all the time. Sometimes it's due to perceived reputation, other times the argument is about loyalty. I find it ironic though, how many of these "I'll never buy a Chinese laptop" people will later happily drive to work in their foreign car. Perception is often out of step with reality. Chinese quality (for all things) seems to be considered lower, German manufacturing (like VW) gets more credit than their J.D. Power ratings suggest, while the perception of domestic autos is much lower than deserved, especially given huge improvements made in recent models. The only way to beat this is to deliver and keep proving everyone wrong (i.e. the revitalized Nissan). If Lenovo does this, they'll be fine.
I bought an ThinkPad T series recently from Lenovo. The price was heavily discounted and actually about equal to a similarly equipped Dell. I prefer the ThinkPad keyboard (if you've never used one you won't understand), my previous ThinkPad's were all well built, and the TrackPoint is the only mouse substitute I can stand for more than 10 seconds. That and the fact that it's a nice laptop for running Linux on.... No quality differences noted thus far!
I bought an ThinkPad T series recently from Lenovo. The price was heavily discounted and actually about equal to a similarly equipped Dell. I prefer the ThinkPad keyboard (if you've never used one you won't understand), my previous ThinkPad's were all well built, and the TrackPoint is the only mouse substitute I can stand for more than 10 seconds. That and the fact that it's a nice laptop for running Linux on.... No quality differences noted thus far!
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