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Comment · 10 years ago
It's only correct for modern automatic transmissions. Plus sometimes start/stop.

Probably not for old "3 gear with torque converter" or similiar.

Comment · 10 years ago
This applies to my computer as well. I use it to drive on the information superhighway.
Comment · 10 years ago
Lack of touchscreen was a + point when deciding to buy my current car.

IMO, if the touchscreen serves as more than one button/action while driving, it's a broken design.

Even the BMW "wheel button" is a better one.

Comment · 10 years ago
This is why you don't buy DRM and root your devices.
Comment · 10 years ago
Perhaps browsers should have p { max-width: 72ex; } by default. And a user setting for this, just like default font size.
Comment · 10 years ago
Disband all corporations > 1000 people.
Comment · 10 years ago
How much power does that use? I run linux a firewall/router on an older laptop + usb ethernet(2) and it's about 20w. I'd prefer < 10. Perhaps I need to try Raspberry Pi next.
Comment · 10 years ago
Is it because of an in-house software maintenance problem, or mostly due to being tied to 3rd party software and would have to buy new licenses / migrate?
Comment · 11 years ago
I've used at times it to crash the program (core dump), producing a cleaner stack than abort().
Comment · 11 years ago
Killing XUL has the potential of killing Firefox. I bet the last good XUL version will be forked.
Comment · 11 years ago
My eyes filter all that out already.
Comment · 11 years ago
There's nothing structured about core dumps. Better to do nothing so the developer can see a clean core dump.
Comment · 11 years ago
+1 I really don't understand the fights about GNOME3 and Unity UI. They both suck for me. KDE is okay-ish, but needs a lot of polish compared to Gnome 2.
Comment · 11 years ago
This reminds me of the good old days when you could actually set your own fonts and colors in a browser and disable javascript.

The inventors of CSS have failed greatly.

Comment · 11 years ago
We need a declarative hypertext web back desperately. (I am running NoScript, but I have to enable it for too many sites)

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