This article is written by the same braindead PHB who wrote the "high priests of IT" article. He's trolling Slashdot for cash (page hits). I say the editors should be at least considering blacklisting his submissions at this point. He's one of the biggest submission trolls on Slashdot right now, and the only one doing it for money.
Caterpillar is on the list too. They must have trouble with people pirating their backhoes and bulldozers. That must take a shit-ton of 3D printer feed...
GoDaddy has a long-standing reputation for basically telling boycotters to fuck off. This is the first time they've ever caved to public pressure AFAIK. Maybe the collective damage of the boycotts that happened over the years has finally weakened them.
Not new. I was planning a device that's only become possible due to advancements in battery and electric motor tech made over the last few years. Nothing innovative, it's always been theoretically possible but only recently became practical.
There were patents on every concept involved going back to the freaking 70s. Oddly enough I saw a very unambitious version of my idea released onto the market yesterday, pretty expensive too.
I'm honestly shocked that nobody has patented "fuel cells on a laptop" before. That's the sort of obvious fluff that you'd expect to have been patented the moment some greedy little bastard learned of the concept of fuel cells.
This. GoDaddy is one of those few, special businesses that has pissed off customers so much that it has a dedicated hate site. Glad I never used them for anything I set up myself, and I've been trying to convince the IT manager here to get our domain management off of them. It's bad enough that a domain speculator has the.com for our business, we don't need to lose any more.
Also I'm sure it will turn out that the US government is giving Vkontakte trouble to funnel more money to US-based Facebook (for the info as much as the tax money), not unlike the way they colluded with US-based credit card processors to squeeze European competition as revealed by Wikileaks.
Besides, apart from the initial cost of the hardware, a smsrtphone doesn't have to be more expensive. You don't need a mobile data plan, I'm always on the verge of unsubscribing from mine because it's so unreliable.
Exactly. Not a problem in a small lake (based on calculations for another data center that uses a small lake), definitely not a problem for an ocean coast.
There are a few and they all deal with plug-in hybrids, and it turns out it's not so simple for EVs. Non-plug-in hybrids are cleaner on 100% dirty coal but PHEVs and pure EVs aren't because it turns out 100% dirty coal is actually worse than gasoline:
This article calculates the efficiency of a pure EV running on 100% dirty coal and confirms that it's worse than gasoline, using a real-world worst-case scenario (Wyoming) an EV's emissions are roughly on par with a 25MPG gasoline car:
So an EV running on 100% dirty coal or close to it is worse than a gasoline car, but there are few places where you could find such filthy sources of energy so in practice it should still be much cleaner.
Agreed, touchscreens in vehicles are a very attractive idea - get rid of all that fixed mechanical clutter for one multipurpose control - or at least it seems that way until you realize you now have to look down to find each control since you can't feel for it anymore.
There's really not much to break. Engine maintenance will be almost zero. You have the change the brakes and tires, keep the cooling system topped up, and keep some bearings greased but that's about it. No more engine seals, ignition system, fuel system, oil system, gearbox (nothing so complicated anyways), belt-driven engine accessories...and clutches, turbos and intercoolers are right out.
And even though it releases relatively little carbon, it's still a fossil fuel...with electric cars you just change the power source to something carbon-neutral and all cars in the region are suddenly carbon-neutral.
Don't make me link the study showing that even an electric car running on a dirty coal plant is much cleaner than a gasoline car AGAIN. And don't make me point out that making cars energy-source-agnostic makes it possible to make whole regions cleaner just by changing the power source AGAIN.
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Not yet, the C++ standard is on there though:
https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6670023/Official_Standard_C__0x_C__11_CPP_CXX_ISO_IEC_14882_2011
This article is written by the same braindead PHB who wrote the "high priests of IT" article. He's trolling Slashdot for cash (page hits). I say the editors should be at least considering blacklisting his submissions at this point. He's one of the biggest submission trolls on Slashdot right now, and the only one doing it for money.
Beat me to it.
Caterpillar is on the list too. They must have trouble with people pirating their backhoes and bulldozers. That must take a shit-ton of 3D printer feed...
GoDaddy has a long-standing reputation for basically telling boycotters to fuck off. This is the first time they've ever caved to public pressure AFAIK. Maybe the collective damage of the boycotts that happened over the years has finally weakened them.
If anyone thinks this is ridiculous and could never happen in real life, see this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_ballgame#Proxy_for_warfare
In some games the losing team would be executed. Pretty obvious inspiration for the episode.
Only if you deal in absolutes.
Might as well, I've seen a few hacker projects do similar things over the last year:
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/12/electric-skates-for-sci-fi-roller-diners/
Of course this is a sad little foot-segway compared to the sweet foot-R6 I had in mind.
The patent never revolves around the idea of putting a fuel cell into a laptop - it's about the HOW you do it...
Get laptop, insert fuel cell. I'm sure that took billions in R&D.
Not new. I was planning a device that's only become possible due to advancements in battery and electric motor tech made over the last few years. Nothing innovative, it's always been theoretically possible but only recently became practical.
There were patents on every concept involved going back to the freaking 70s. Oddly enough I saw a very unambitious version of my idea released onto the market yesterday, pretty expensive too.
I'm honestly shocked that nobody has patented "fuel cells on a laptop" before. That's the sort of obvious fluff that you'd expect to have been patented the moment some greedy little bastard learned of the concept of fuel cells.
But this is a fuel cell on a computer!
This. GoDaddy is one of those few, special businesses that has pissed off customers so much that it has a dedicated hate site. Glad I never used them for anything I set up myself, and I've been trying to convince the IT manager here to get our domain management off of them. It's bad enough that a domain speculator has the .com for our business, we don't need to lose any more.
Also I'm sure it will turn out that the US government is giving Vkontakte trouble to funnel more money to US-based Facebook (for the info as much as the tax money), not unlike the way they colluded with US-based credit card processors to squeeze European competition as revealed by Wikileaks.
Well then nothing is clean.
Besides, apart from the initial cost of the hardware, a smsrtphone doesn't have to be more expensive. You don't need a mobile data plan, I'm always on the verge of unsubscribing from mine because it's so unreliable.
Exactly. Not a problem in a small lake (based on calculations for another data center that uses a small lake), definitely not a problem for an ocean coast.
There are a few and they all deal with plug-in hybrids, and it turns out it's not so simple for EVs. Non-plug-in hybrids are cleaner on 100% dirty coal but PHEVs and pure EVs aren't because it turns out 100% dirty coal is actually worse than gasoline:
http://web.mit.edu/mitei/docs/.../electrification-transportation-system.pdf
This article calculates the efficiency of a pure EV running on 100% dirty coal and confirms that it's worse than gasoline, using a real-world worst-case scenario (Wyoming) an EV's emissions are roughly on par with a 25MPG gasoline car:
http://www.carbonlighthouse.com/2011/08/the-coal-powered-electric-car-part-iii/
So an EV running on 100% dirty coal or close to it is worse than a gasoline car, but there are few places where you could find such filthy sources of energy so in practice it should still be much cleaner.
My cars are less than $14k put together. You could even fit the street value of the old POS Daewoo I used to have in there as well.
Because gas is really fucking cheap? We don't all live in Venezuela you know...
Agreed, touchscreens in vehicles are a very attractive idea - get rid of all that fixed mechanical clutter for one multipurpose control - or at least it seems that way until you realize you now have to look down to find each control since you can't feel for it anymore.
There's really not much to break. Engine maintenance will be almost zero. You have the change the brakes and tires, keep the cooling system topped up, and keep some bearings greased but that's about it. No more engine seals, ignition system, fuel system, oil system, gearbox (nothing so complicated anyways), belt-driven engine accessories...and clutches, turbos and intercoolers are right out.
Wow, can't get a more well-informed comparison than that.
And even though it releases relatively little carbon, it's still a fossil fuel...with electric cars you just change the power source to something carbon-neutral and all cars in the region are suddenly carbon-neutral.
Don't make me link the study showing that even an electric car running on a dirty coal plant is much cleaner than a gasoline car AGAIN. And don't make me point out that making cars energy-source-agnostic makes it possible to make whole regions cleaner just by changing the power source AGAIN.