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Charge in 5 minutes, Drive 500 miles?
ctroutwi writes "In the wake of rising gasoline costs there have been plenty of alternatives seen on the horizon. Including Hybrids, Biofuels, fuel cells and battery powered all electric cars. CNN has recently posted a story about a company (EEStor) that plans on offering Ultra-Capacitor storage products. The claim being that you charge the ultra-capacitor in 5 minutes, with approximately 9$ (~$.45 a gallon) of electricity and then drive 500 miles."
Damn!!!!They changed something in the Marix.
Now that I'm in the past, I can use these new lotto numbers I got from the future... I'll be rich!
100's of people posting duplicate messages complaining about a duplicate thread, more productivity to you!
There was almost a 3 hour gap between the latest two stories being published... what was ScuttleMonkey doing in that time? Surely he could have found a few minutes, perhaps whilst drinking his coffee, to actually read the front page of the website he's supposedly editing?!
Are we going to see this type of knotting in the space-time continuum every time someone charges one of these cars with 1.21 jigawatts?
...they want their article back!
So, between this dupe, the dupe editor, and 5 minutes, could I drive 1000 miles?
Really, do the editors even read Slashdot? You CAN read it at work you know. OSTG won't mind.
At the top of the page now it's showing:
Did you know subscribers can see articles in the future?
Oh the irony...
BTW: Mods, try to be on the lookout for copy and paste karma whores (man, plagiarism annoys me). Unfortunately with 700+ comments on the last discussion, this may not be easy, haha.
...i messed around with anagrams of "ScuttleMoney" and got...
Yo celment slut
To clumsy teen
and my favourate...
u my clone test
Jaj
You mean a "White Hole":
CAT: So, what is it?
KRYTEN: I've never seen one before -- no one has -- but I'm guessing it's
a white hole.
RIMMER: A _white_ hole?
KRYTEN: Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. A black hole
sucks time and matter out of the universe: a white hole returns it.
LISTER: So, that thing's spewing time back into the universe? (He dons
his fur-lined hat.)
KRYTEN: Precisely. That's why we're experiencing these curious time
phenomena on board.
CAT: So, what is it?
KRYTEN: I've never seen one before -- no one has -- but I'm guessing it's
a white hole.
RIMMER: A _white_ hole?
KRYTEN: Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. A black hole
sucks time and matter out of the universe: a white hole returns it.
LISTER: (Minus the hat.) So, that thing's spewing time back into the
universe? (He dons his fur-lined hat, again.)
KRYTEN: Precisely. That's why we're experiencing these curious time
phenomena on board.
LISTER: What time phenomena?
KRYTEN: Like just then, when time repeated itself.
CAT: So, what is it?
Good idea, not only would it prevent super-obvious dupes but it would cut on the number of submissions an editor would have to read. Comparing submitted links to, say, all the links of accepted articles in the last week or so should be possible.
"When the atomic bomb goes off there's devastation...but when the atomic bong goes off there's celebraaaaation!"
Which is precisely why I'll never subscribe to slashdot. I've thought about it before, but I refuse to reward Taco&Co for doing a ridiculously half-assed job. Were they to actually take their jobs seriously and show some sort of professionalism in what they do, I'd reconsider.
This guy's the limit!
in the editors memories. Buy you only get 500 miliseconds of storage after final submission.
Cliff Claven
K.E.G. Party Chairman
Founding Leader of: Koncerned for Egalitarin Governance
So strange. I left work with this story at the top of the front page and when I come back in the next morning, I see only one story has been added since then. All /. could come up with in 16 hours was a single story for the front page?
Normally, dupes are annoying, but this one caused me some trauma!