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Euro NCAP, which tests vehicles for safety, has pedestrian safety as a key part of the score. Go to the website, select a vehicle and see the scores to understand what I mean. This has to flow down to all countries, though.

jtr, I never implied ESC os good for drunk drivers. You can be in the best condition to rive, you can be a very good driver, and can still benefit from ESC. Nasty, unpredicable bends, snow, sand, unexpected patch of water, etc. can all cause serious loss of control. There are enough videos on...

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Awesome. While ESC I believe is now mandatory in Europe, most manufacturers have to be dragged kicking and screaming to improve safety. Remember the protests against seat belts? And airbags? Seatbelts, ABS and EBD now seem to be standard even in economy cars in most parts of the world. Airbags...

Well, sis is on the wrong side of 50 :), and she's no hawk-eye like good ole Pradeep or our other gent from Chicago, Fushigi. And this machine will pretty much be used like a desktop - parked in one place while being used, then put away on a shelf. Except that the whole thing is much smaller...

My sister's 3-yr old Dell laptop is getting flaky (she lives 600 miles away). The Dell store guy has tempted her with a buyback offer, offering a decent amount for the current laptop if she buys a new one. The new ones look crappy to me: see here. She mainly uses it for email, some web surfing...

Whoever buys it, it'll be to milk the IP.

Methinks the second big para in the middle of your post starting with "FlexRAID:" should have started with "SnapRAID" ?

Not true. Compatibility pack for Office 2003 (a free download from MS) has been around for years, and is one of the first things any competent IT group would have installed on users' machines, as was the case in my company. It allows you to open, edit and save back in Office 2007 and 2010...

My heartfelt condolences, Handy. May you have the strength to bear this loss, and fond memories that never fade.

Is there an app that tells me what is using mobile data and battery power, and how much? On my Galaxy Grand Duos, I've got GPS, WI-Fi and BT off. I left mobile data on, and the battery depletes really fast (full charge gone in a day) without me using 3G/2G data explicitly. If I turn mobile data...

I use Syncback, free version. Handy linked to that years ago. It is my manually operated Raid-1 & back-up system. Works very well.

I'm a few days into my first Android (4.1.2) - Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos. Stumbling and bumbling my way though. I looked at a few apps, but it seems every app wants acess to your USB storage, your emails, your location, what not. I feel very naked. So Merc, which calculator do you use?

DD, best option is for her to get travel insurance before leaving her home country. It will be the cheapest and most hassle free; no pre-existing conditions etc. Don't know how old she is and what her medical condition is, but when my mother used to stay in the US for about 6 months (in her...

I used to save web pages as .MHT files in IE (would open IE just to save that web page). A few years later, I couldn't open those mht files with later versions of IE. I've given up saving as mht for this reason and live with the .html and associated child files.

Hey, Bartender, long time no see! Hope everything's well with you and yours. DD, I love Macallan 15 too. It's in the top few of my favorites.

Yeah right. And who's doing so much construction around the house?

Holy cow, everything one clicks on is Flash. Even I could have done a better job! How do people make a living with such crappy work? Paugie, dump this guy in a big hurry.

I've never seen / tried Win 8. But from the heated arguments and differences of opinion, it seems to me that each of you deal with different market segments and with different realities and have different perspectives. I think all of you are right in your own world, and what's right for one...

These things are very popular here. Everything from units that sit between the ECU and the sensors (sending modified data to the ECU) to a full reflash of the ECU itself. If the service center ever finds out, that would bork the warranty of course. There are several domestic companies in the...

Buying decisions may be made on maximum figures, but they are seldom achieved in real life. Unfortunately, every manufacturer in the world always lists the maximum HP/Torque numbers, and these almost always occur at fairly high RPMs that will seldom be reached in the city. Doubtful if those RPMs...

Lovely place, fb.

Thank time. Nope. It's a heavy car (doors close with a thunk); kerb weight of 1230 kgs (2705 lbs). A lower variant comes with a normally aspirated engine 1.4L that makes 90ps/6000 rpm and 115Nm/4500 rpm. It's slow and a dog, didn't sell well (besides being a petrol and not a diesel). Fiat...

Thanks fb. Continental Premium Contact and Continental Premium Contact 2 are the only two Continental Premium Contact tyres available here.

Thanks Coug. Hope to do a bit of touring with it. Initial choice was a domestic 4x4 SUV. I liked it, but wife didn't. She found it difficult to get in and out (she's petite). Also the second row of seats is a bear to get in and out of; its position with respect to the rear door isn't good...

I'm mulling changing the OEM tyres (Goodyear Eagle NCT 5) on my new car; they're known to be hard rubber that is noisy and that starts losing grip after 15k kms. I'd like the replacements to be reasonably quiet and have a reasonable life (30k kms+), with grip / handling being top priority. The...

This is my new car. My fist new car since 1994, and the second car since then (bought a used one in 2006). I'm getting the Turbo-Jet (T-Jet) Petrol, variant is Emotion (current top line). My decision is contrary to the majority here, who prefer diesel for the lower fuel price and higher mileage...

Auto trans in India are still a rarity, and expensive. People are still mentally tuned to driving sticks. There is a limited choice on auto trans; most lower end are 4-speed and have horrible mileage figures. Fuel is really expensive here (unlike the US), so that limits usage as well. It is more...

The intention was not to diss Russia. What amazes me is that in most or all the incidents, there are no injuries. I don't know if the selection of the accidents was purposely made that way. Some clips I've seen indicate China is nearly as bad. India is close. Ranks about 12th in vehicle...

Driving in Russia An email forward from an acquaintance: "Russia now requires dash cams in passenger cars so some amazing driving videos are coming out of there. Having just been in Russia last month, I can personally tell you…they drive aggressively and crazy. These are real events…not...

+1. So true.

Nice! I'm always befuddled when I see sudden blotches of color in the middle of nowhere on cats and dogs. I'm really curious as to what biological process makes this happen. Just like a random, long hair in a totally bald place, like my Adam's apple, for instance. A cell that lost it's way? A...

+1 ! She hardly looks like a kitten! Someone I know had a cat with legs 6 feet tall (ok, I'm exaggerating, but you know). Obviously was a cross, probably with a jungle cat because in those days there were forested areas behind their home.

Lovely pics, DD! Even the full pic of her crying is good. I like her in that one too. Little one has character! Enjoy her at every stage; each stage passes so quickly. And take lots pf pics.

You panic easily, don't you, Coug ? ;-)

DD, put up a pic of her smiling/laughing. Poor thing is not happy as shown. How old is she now? Is she big for her age?

MS is being kind to you. They understand that if you don't use your grey cells, they'll atrophy and die. So they build these little tricks in their OSes so you'll have to exercise the grey cells and keep them fit. Sorta like Easter Eggs. Or, you'll have to drink lots of beer. Look up those...

WHY??? They just removed the only incentive to stay with MS products. As many of you have been saying, this is the final nail in the coffin; MS is at the end of the road and time to say bye. I hope they honor keys obtained with previous Technet subs.

The forum has been slow for me for the last month. And that is with an internet connection is twice as fast as the one I had in June. Since nobody else brought it up, I didn't say anything, thinking it might be a latency issue on my side.

Hasbro is a toy company; your expectations are unrealistic, don't you think?

A dying or dead motherboard coin battery produces weird results. Worth it to spend a few bucks to replace it, reset BIOS to defaults and try again before you throw out the CPU/MB.

You must be some kind of alien. You have way too much energy, stamina and endurance to be human! :bow:

Sometimes lawyers can be good and humorous.

Handy, Tannin being so quality conscious, I doubt he'd be buying Intel if he really thought they were crappy. I put it down to rhetoric :)

Thanks all fore the Father's Day greetings. Congrats, Chewy!

Merc, I rarely exceeded the old 15GB quota; only when downloading from Technet when I had my membership for a year, and sometimes when downloading from Youtube of a particular genre of stuff. It was pretty irritating when it slowed down, though. I think I'll be a happy camper now. We rarely have...

At least some things go well in life! In my previous location, my internet plan cost $20 a month for 4 Mbit speed and 15GB download (speed drops to 256 kbit if I download more than 15 GB in that month. Speed goes back to normal when the 30 days are up). In my new location, I pay $23 for 8 Mbit...

This was a hand-me-down for my daughter from my sister's family in ~ 2004; no idea how old it already was. Ran well, but had consistent video card problems. I kept alternating between two AGP video cards I had, and things would be fine for a year or so, then the same problems would resurface...

Thanks Howell. In my case, the kid will want to sync with store anyway... Sigh.

Got an Ipod Touch 5th Gen + wall charger + protective case + screen protector today for the kid. She's happy, but still can't use it; her system's not set up after the move. This has been the roughest move we've made, with the movers excelling at fraud every step of the way. The store guy said...