I’m not sure, to be honest. Here we have usually very few options, and the models come something like 2 or 3 years later than in EU/USA. What I do know is the kind of testing of emissions we do here is with the car in Parking, not the roller-dyno the EPA uses, FWIW.

Re: the Dieselgate... I wonder if this also affects somehow the few models they sell with TDI motors in Mexico? I’m eyeing a Jetta TDI for later this year...

I have to disagree with the Grado being comfortable. At least not the SR series. I just bought some weeks ago an SR225e and they do sound amazing, really amazing, like i-dont-want-to remove-them amazing... but they are uncomfortable as hell. The head band is just a plastic-or-metal thingy with a very thin layer of…

In the video there is a small part where you can see the side of the lens, and it actually reads 1.7... if that's indeed the aperture for the whole range then it's *really* amazing. Even if the sensor is not 35mm or APS-C (I don't know what is used in TV) mantaining that for that zoom range is quite impressive.

Apart from what others have said (that you usually only need big uploads if you are hosting something, and that makes the ISP want more money...), most broadband connections are ADSL: A for Asymetric: by design the connection is asymetrical, and gives more bandwidth to downloads than uploads. The reason for that…

I had the idea that 3D movies were projected at 48fps, so you got the usual 24fps on each eye. And some light searching on the internet found something that supports this believe: http://www.imago.org/index.php?new=76.

Well, the ground is in focus, all of it, because that's the plane the camera is focusing, and I would venture that the camera plane is parallel to the ground. The other parts of the rover are less in focus in what seems to me ok with the distance beteween the focus plane and the other planes in the image. Look at how…

Yeah, I have the choice. And I do exercise my choice. I moved to BCN 2 years ago and started going out with people who smoked a lot (everybody smokes here!). And... after a little while, stopped going out with them. For good or bad. It's a shame, because there are people who I really enjoy being with, but some of…

Well, I don't really have a very formed opinion about weed. I mean, I hate smoke, in all it's forms (and more than just hate, I'm really sensitive to it, so it affects me a lot, not just that I don't like the smell) and if you smoke weed, then... well... I will be uncomfortable. The effects of weed, well... yes,…

To be honest, I don't care at all what anybody does with his/her own body, and I'm not trying to decide what's good for you or anybody else. The problem with smoking is that *I can't choose not to smoke too* if I'm around people smoking. I can't choose what's good or bad for me in that case, how's that fair to me?.…

The oldest I have right now is from January 4th, 2003. It's from my business account. I did had email since... I don't know, 1996 probably, but at some point I had several HDD crashes (and no backups, and I used my email as POP...) and I lost all that.

Didn't they change from a native app to a webbrowser-shell-app some time ago to avoid the problem of updating or adding some functionality and having to wait for Apple's approval in the App Store?

I thought the Suckeeyum was called Whatsapp!

Not exactly. Yes, it rains a lot in the world. Every day. But that doesn't make the water wells below the surface fill at the same rate that we use them. So, at some point, no matter how much it rains, you are still not going to have water in your water wells. I lived in a city in the center of México (where it really…

As far as I understand, GCD is a library/API for apps to become multithreaded more easily than what it used to be. It doesn't make a ST app a MT automatically, and It doesn't change the way the OS handles different apps per se. I mean, since several versions, both Windows and Mac have been very good at spreading work…

Well, yeah, the parent gave a bad example: HDDs are not something special, and even if that was the case, it's already proved by Google that "server grade" HDDs are not really so special in the long run. In any case, always have a backup of your data and a backup HDD lying around to replace when they fail. Because…

Hahahahaha.... not exactly the same, but I still have and use (you would have to take it from my cold dead hands) my old HP Keyboard from 1996. Not as clicky as the famous IBM ones, but almoooooost the same. And I just love this keyboard. Been working 12 years with it and I don't know what I'll do when it breaks and…

You don't know us mexicans! :D We are quite happy to make jokes of almost anything :)

Yeah, but in spanish, "no va" is more or less "doesn't work"... or my sarcasm/irony detector is way off today?

Well, regarding the Switzerland... I would be hard pressed to assume that the fact that every house with a male has a military issued rifle is the reason for the lower rate of violent crimes. I guess the real reason would be the excellent economy they have (4% of unemployment, IIRC), more than the fact that everybody…