More cops issuing fines to people whose poor driving skills makes driving more difficult/dangerous for everyone else? Yup, that's pretty much what we need. Or just snipers stationed on bridges (to steal an idea from J. Clarkson), shooting everyone who's in the left lane without currently passing anyone.

This was an INFURIATING and very unexpected experience when I was driving in the US for the first time. What you write about Germany is pretty much true in all of Europe. Are you currently not passing anyone? Keep right. Are you driving at the speed limit and need to pass a slow-moving vehicle? Go to the left lane,…

That's a topic that I think warrants its own article: When did the perception of small and simple cars shift from being a hairy-chested man's alternative to a motorbike to being a teenage girl's graduation gift from her dad? Was it as cars got more reliable? During the muscle car craze? During some intense marketing…

I'm emulating Wii without any major issues on a 1.5-year-old ultrabook with an i5 and integrated graphics. Not sure how it compares in performance to some more modern hardware, but it seems like anything over an Atom/Intel U should be able to do it?

Thank you, yes. There have been some infected fights in the world of nice suits regarding some companies' misuse of that word. Have they made the product before you order it? Does your order change any detail in how the product is made?

The “no toys”-trim. I love the luxurious feel of a properly built interior. Carefully stitched leather, real chrome rather than painted plastic, nice wooden details, soft plushy carpets. Just sitting in a car knowing that they actually spent some money and some work into making the interior as good as possible. At the…

From this exact angle it looks like someone welded together the back of a Volvo 240 with the front of a Lotus Elan, proportions-wise.

This. I don't play the GT series anymore (mostly because of the clutch implementation with my G27 wheel being a bit wonky, and the physics being better in AC), but those are some of my all-time favourite video game moments. I've been playing Gran Turismo for 17 years now, and I love the feeling of finally beating a…

Use tax money to pay a professor's salary at the university, providing free education for those growing up in poverty, and it's filthy communism. Use tax money to pay Lockheed to build toys that aren't needed and it's glorious patriotism.

To be fair, I can also get a Skoda with leather seats far cheaper than an Audi without any extras. Maybe it’s a difference between European and American perspectives, but over here BMW, Audi and Mercedes aren’t close to competing with Maserati in terms of prestige. The aforementioned three are fancier alternatives to…

Speaking as a Swede who hadn't set his foot in an English-speaking country until a year ago: English is not just the language spoken in a few countries previously part of the British empire. It's the lingua franca of the world, a second language to pretty much every single person in the developed world and a language…

So this could just be simplified as "Is your computer running on a valid 7, 8 or 8.1 install, or any new version on top of a valid 7, 8 or 8.1 install?". If yes, you'll get a free upgrade. If not, you'll have to pay for it.

Sometimes I see American Jalops being all excited about European cars that are considered tremendously boring over here in Europe, simply because they're unusual and exotic. This is the reverse. GIVE IT TO ME NOW. I will give it a nice home and fix it up and paint it and read a bedtime story to it every night and…

Like if you were making a soft ice cream cone. With your butt.

Same month, I’d think (June 2011). I thought that it meant 6th of November at first, since I’m used to the DD/MM/YY format. Could be 11th of June as well, I guess, since mr. DeMuro is a ‘murican?

What I meant by ‘traditional means’ is that the rare points in universe that contains civilization could be generated non-procedurally, like they are being done today. The difference would be that these points would be spread out in a vast, mostly dead and more or less featureless universe, meaning that the player…

There are exactly 0 games that do what I want, which is why I was excited that there might be one. I’ve logged so many hours doing what you talk about in Kerbal Space Program, but there you are confined to a single solar system. Also, procedurically generated terrain could be persistent on a given server, so when you…

Huh? Traffic and road patterns? I’m talking about a realistic space exploration game. The universe would be to 99.9% desolate, dead and empty. Yes, writing an algorithm that generates interesting worlds would still be hard, but colonized planets (or even any planets with life on them) could easily be generated through…

Does anyone want to hazard a guess as to where the source photography is from? Wherever it is, I want to go there.

It's something that non-off-roaders can very easily relate to. I can see a muddy slope and (probably incorrectly) imagine that my car can climb it with the right tires. But when I see the wading depth I can instantly recognize that it's something my car couldn't do, which is why it comes off as impressive.