They were not going to ALLOW any blade that locks. Note box cutters lock. If you have ever used a knife, a locking mechanism is what makes a knife safe to use. A knife without a locking blade is almost always more dangerous to the wielder than the foe. Only thing a non-locking knife is good for is cutting apples.

They are not engineered to handle that kind of constant abuse. Downshifting without rev matching can be extremely taxing on the drivetrain, particularly if you are moving from an engine speed of 2000 RPM up to 6000RPM.

Synchromesh gearboxes removed the requirement to double clutch, they also made it possible to downshift without rev matching, however it is still rough on the drivetrain to send such a large impulse through the system.

Wouldn't such a system make toe-n-heel impossible? While most drivers of a manual do not know how or even why to do such a maneuver, it is required in order to properly downshift a manual transmission. If you do not rev match when downshifting it not only makes for a rough ride but is also very rough on the drivetrain.

Must be a slow evening; this article was posted 2 days ago here on /.

http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/03/22/175200/RNA-Loaded-Nanoparticles-Fight-Cancer?art_pos=1

Do you REALLY believe that Best Buy, a company with revenues of 45 BILLION dollars in 2008, and a company who makes most of its money selling 'technology related goods', isn't having a technically savvy TEAM review things? I'm afraid you're overly simplifying things here...

Did they screw up? Yes. Should we give them the benefit of the doubt? Maybe. Their past fumblings do indeed show a pattern, so my inclination to give them the benefit of the doubt becomes smaller and smaller each time I read stories like these. And right now, my inclination is quite small.

Heck, I'd have trouble *writing* some of my passwords. My really complex ones are purely by finger/type memory.

I go to www.cuil.com and search on the term 'cuil'. It has no idea that the search engine exists (itself).

Sorry, but if a search engine has no idea of its own existence in its own indexes, there's something seriously wrong with their algorithm :-)

Too bad that is Mazda's slogan.

I think that there are more indirect behaviors that go into determining if a message is spam or not (given a filter misses it and it gets to your inbox). First and foremost, do I know the sender? That's a big variable that that quiz cannot reproduce or take into account - so of course people will have a tough time determining if a message is spam or ham. Second is the presence of attachments. If I know the sender, and the message isn't something like "check out this great video!", I'll be pretty sure it's ham.

That quiz is great for the basics and the practice of looking at headers, but I feel it misses the most fundamental aspect of knowing the sender and letting your brain do the work that filters miss.

Ok first there is a Auto attack button that you can click and you automatically swing at your target as long as it is in front of you. Now you can still choose Special attacks with that going. As soon as you change a target then you attack the new target. That way you can do some of the tumbling and shielding that is needed at times. I have been told that Rogues do not have to be hidden to backstab, just flanking or behind someone that is attacking someone else. Hiding does help if you are alone. The grouping does depend on who is in the group and that is true of most if not all MMORPG's. The tanks are in front of the fight with mages and healers in the back. Common sense. The game was made to be a computer version of the Pen and Paper D&D and in most of those all you did was dungeon crawling with some travel between places. You have to understand that this is not a Charge in MMO like many of the others are, it is a bit more real worldly in that it takes time to heal. I actually like both ways and it makes sense for the D&D universe. I agree on the combat music getting tiresome, but it is also a great indicator for when a Slime or Ooze comes out that you may not be able to see clearly. On the Grouping part many times I either had a friend online or found a decent group by just turning on the Looking for Group flag. I usually got a invite pretty quickly and most of the people playing know that grouping is important and are willing to do it. Now you can get some idiots in the groups, but then you simply leave the group. I agree that they need a bit more story telling in the game, hopefully that is on the way. Oh and the Warforged are actually a pretty good race to play, I would call them the "Easy Button" of DDO.

Of course, you'll note with a quick search, there are no Britney songs available for download.