I'd rather have one of these:

This is true. It is the engineers responsibility to hold as their highest priority the safety, health, and welfare of the public. If they cut corners to meet time or budget constraints, or just because, or if they were simply ill-equipped to do this job but they did it anyway, then it is on them. Also, while to…

Don't these devices have built in accelerometers? Surely there's an app for that ;-)

Not sure if this is a #correction or not...

Why not go the other way? Modify the desktop image to match the icons?

Thank you for making my day!

That's why I'm an engineer :-)

If I had to guess, I'd say it's less exact than that. Probably something to do with the fact that it is impossible to make something that is truly 100% infallible, because given an infinite amount of time, a vulnerability will always be discovered, theoretically.

I would contend that often times, the risk associated with passing on certain two lane roads is not worth the time saved. If you are traveling less than 20-30 miles and the speed differential between you and the vehicle you're passing is not more than 5-10 miles per hour, you really aren't going to be saving yourself…

Also, I've found that burning a candle nearby helps cut down on the effect.

What about a louvered cover? Top half has the louvers pointing one way, bottom half has them pointing the other way.

@pj_rage: Sometimes, you get this message:

@suryamp: Wow, that Zoho looks pretty cool. And its equation editor appears to provide more support for latex commands than Word does. Could be a good stepping stone!

@suryamp: Thanks for the tips! I make extensive use of Matlab for doing calculations and then Word (desktop app) for writing up papers and use Word's built-in equation editor to create the equations I need. I like the idea of webapps and have made efforts to make the transition to them. Unfortunately, being a…

What about a plane with a wing that can be set to a variable oblique angle for quartering into/out of the wind? I guess you'd still have the wind blowing up against the fuselage.

I need equation editor before I can make good use of it :-(

I suppose if you are in a situation where you can park your car close enough to your home for it to get a wi-fi signal from there then you could have system which, while it doesn't sync continuously, would sync daily at least.

I just made one of these:

@tomsomething: When are you running for office?

@jupiterthunder: I imagine it wouldn't be terribly difficult to make some sort of stops which would leave it at whatever height best suits your application. I have a piano bench with a mechanism which allows you to set the height to 4 or 5 different levels using a similar scissor arrangement. Something like that could…