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Comment Re:You can do it without sensors, too. (Score 1) 883

> Perhaps when gas costs more, people will choose to drive more efficiently.

Maybe, maybe not. Over here in the UK our petrol (US:gas) prices are currently roughly around the 7USD/USgallon mark. Yet we're actually seeing an increase in SUV use in urban/suburban environments.

One of the biggest reasons? Celebrities here are driving SUVs, so they're seen as "cool". Which means that everyone is buying them.

I think the solution is to get the celebrities to drive economic vehicles economically of their own accord. Good luck with that one, most of them are still in the "my dick size is related to my car size" school of... I use the term loosely "thought" ;)

Is our driving better than that in the US? Possibly somewhat, but it's not massively better IMO.

Microsoft Hoping for Vista in January 424

WebHostingGuy writes "Bill Gates said Tuesday there was an 80 percent chance the company's next-generation operating system, Vista, would be ready in January. He is also hopeful that the next version of Office will ship in December. The holdup, he says, is due to constant revisions due to beta tester feedback." From the article: "'We've got to get this absolutely right,' Gates said. 'If the feedback from the beta tests shows it is not ready for prime time, I'd be glad to delay it.' He said Microsoft was investing $8 billion to $9 billion in developing Vista and the company's next version of Office, its key cash-generator. He said the company's software partners, in developing and adapting their own products for the two launches, would invest 20 times as much as Microsoft."

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