None right now can quick charge without the high-voltage quick charge station of course. But you don't have even a slow gas pump that can fill your car from a 110v or 220v socket. All the charging ports (including quick-charge ports) are standardized now, any electric car made in the last few years will have the standard ports.
The 2012 Fit will just reach 100 miles. There are more expensive electric cars that will do it easily (like the Tesla S).
I think you misunderstand how this particular scheme is working. This isn't a bunch of paid human astroturfers, this is a group of bots all repeating the same message, so my android analogy was spot on.
Still I don't think a single person being able to drown out the voice of many using money or hacking skill is a good thing for free speech. That's pretty close to preventing others from expressing their own views. Let's say for the sake of argument, using the Android analogy that I think is well-supported, that on the first day of the Occupy protests the Koch brothers had their turf-droids storm Wall St, mixing with and outnumbering real protesters with a counter-protest. That's basically what's happening on Twitter with the Russian protests. Sounds highly questionable at the least.
A big factor is that all the clueless drivers in 4WDs think that they have lots of grip because it feels hooked up better than a 2WD (especially if the car has traction control which keeps them from feeling the first bit of slippage), but they don't realize that by driving at speeds close to what they would do on a dry road, they're pushing it right near the limit, so when they finally push past the limit the loss of traction is dramatic and pretty much unrecoverable.
Apple deserves A LOT of the blame. The profit potential in curated computing was always known but it was a greedhead pipe dream. The thought of actually implementing such a model was laughable, it was business suicide, users and developers would avoid your product like the plague.
But somehow Apple made it sexy for both users and developers. A good business decision, perhaps, but the iPhone's success is probably the most damaging event in the history of computing. It was something that shouldn't have been done, every geek knew it would ruin their hobby and career and reduce consumer choice, but Jobs was no geek.
Slashdot has a long history of shrilling crying out doom and gloom, and it's been wrong on every occasion that I can remember.
We cried doom and gloom at mobile device software and we were right. Now everything needs to be rooted/jailbroken. This doesn't seem as serious as it is because we mostly use modified versions of the original OS, but make no mistake, mobile devices are completely closed. We cheer if the bootloader isn't locked. It only feels like the water isn't so hot because we've been stewing in it for so long.
We cried about the security issues of RFID. Now your credit card number can be stolen wirelessly. XP activation and Vista activation caused problems for many people who had their keys randomly blacklisted, and MS must now approve changes to our computer hardware. Trusted computing still isn't widely used so that's still in the air.
I think you just don't have a problem with authoritarianism so it doesn't bother you.
There's also an ad for a little Kia hatch (Soul?) that shows it driving through a ruined city, and an ad for the 370Z that looks like it was shot in Detroit.
The argument some women put forward is that idealizing these models perpetuates anorexia in the population due to women starving themselves to achieve the same body shape.
But if you hear the argument that it's the fault of men, don't buy it. It's not men, it's the fashion industry who wants living mannequins. Best case in point: Most porn stars do not have this kind of figure.
I was thinking about that the other day when I was flipping channels and caught Surrogates. I wonder what would happen to body image over time in the world of Surrogates (or GiTS, if you prefer). Would people stick to realistic-ish forms or keep pushing the boundaries until within a few decades most people look seriously alien? It would give a very solid answer to the nature vs. nurture influence of sexual attraction.
Yeah they're pretty fake looking, right off the bat you can see both pics have been mangled pretty hard in Photoshop. It's hard to tell that they're completely artificial though, I could believe that the pics were based on real women at some point.
Model on the right in TFA has a face a lot like Alyx Vance. Is it just me though or do her shoulders seem a bit strange? Like they're a bit wider and lower than they should be?
Also they both look a bit too skinny and narrow-hipped for my taste, but that's just me. For some of us Serena Williams has the perfect body shape:-P
I thought someone might say this, but isn't astroturfing inherently anti-free-speech? It's impersonation. The IRL equivalent would be to form a protest with a mob of androids for the purpose of making an unpopular viewpoint seem more popular. I'd argue that one person deceptively impersonating a large group is damaging to free speech.
One or two ICE rental cars might fit the bill. I guess future ICE models will use diesel like the long-haul trucks, so you can fill up at any gas/charge station (which will retain at least one pump for each of those for a while, since there will still be old cars and hybrids around)
...but there are a couple of moons with surfaces covered in water ice RIGHT NOW which have liquid water below the surface, so it's hard for me to get excited.
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D'oh, beaten to first car with 3D-printed bodywork!
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2395582&cid=37191660
None right now can quick charge without the high-voltage quick charge station of course. But you don't have even a slow gas pump that can fill your car from a 110v or 220v socket. All the charging ports (including quick-charge ports) are standardized now, any electric car made in the last few years will have the standard ports.
The 2012 Fit will just reach 100 miles. There are more expensive electric cars that will do it easily (like the Tesla S).
Well that wouldn't be a suborbital flight. But this could be:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-orbital_spaceflight
That's the difference between SpaceShipOne, a 747 and a kid on a trampoline.
I think you misunderstand how this particular scheme is working. This isn't a bunch of paid human astroturfers, this is a group of bots all repeating the same message, so my android analogy was spot on.
Still I don't think a single person being able to drown out the voice of many using money or hacking skill is a good thing for free speech. That's pretty close to preventing others from expressing their own views. Let's say for the sake of argument, using the Android analogy that I think is well-supported, that on the first day of the Occupy protests the Koch brothers had their turf-droids storm Wall St, mixing with and outnumbering real protesters with a counter-protest. That's basically what's happening on Twitter with the Russian protests. Sounds highly questionable at the least.
A big factor is that all the clueless drivers in 4WDs think that they have lots of grip because it feels hooked up better than a 2WD (especially if the car has traction control which keeps them from feeling the first bit of slippage), but they don't realize that by driving at speeds close to what they would do on a dry road, they're pushing it right near the limit, so when they finally push past the limit the loss of traction is dramatic and pretty much unrecoverable.
Most regular electric cars have a range of around 100 miles now and can do an 80% quick charge in minutes.
Apple deserves A LOT of the blame. The profit potential in curated computing was always known but it was a greedhead pipe dream. The thought of actually implementing such a model was laughable, it was business suicide, users and developers would avoid your product like the plague.
But somehow Apple made it sexy for both users and developers. A good business decision, perhaps, but the iPhone's success is probably the most damaging event in the history of computing. It was something that shouldn't have been done, every geek knew it would ruin their hobby and career and reduce consumer choice, but Jobs was no geek.
Slashdot has a long history of shrilling crying out doom and gloom, and it's been wrong on every occasion that I can remember.
We cried doom and gloom at mobile device software and we were right. Now everything needs to be rooted/jailbroken. This doesn't seem as serious as it is because we mostly use modified versions of the original OS, but make no mistake, mobile devices are completely closed. We cheer if the bootloader isn't locked. It only feels like the water isn't so hot because we've been stewing in it for so long.
We cried about the security issues of RFID. Now your credit card number can be stolen wirelessly. XP activation and Vista activation caused problems for many people who had their keys randomly blacklisted, and MS must now approve changes to our computer hardware. Trusted computing still isn't widely used so that's still in the air.
I think you just don't have a problem with authoritarianism so it doesn't bother you.
(to us Australians who aren't afraid of the human body, this seem pants on head retarded).
What if it was a nude woman with small breasts?
You would make Windows a much more appealing OS so I'm glad they have a fat sweaty car salesman in charge instead.
So Metro is like a Unity desktop and the Aero interface is like Gnome 2 running in a Xephyr window?
And I'm guessing that the majority of folks here have at least one windows box.
...For now. Maybe 2012 will be the Year of the Linux Gaming PC?
no one expects General Motors to advertize their latest car in south central LA,
A lot of cars are being presented with dull and dystopian looking backdrops these days. Cases in point:
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2006/06/50633-d-cap-.jpg
http://www.imperial2009.com/images/2012-Toyota-Scion-FR-S-Concept-Rear-Angle-View-01.jpg
Makes the car stand out more I guess.
There's also an ad for a little Kia hatch (Soul?) that shows it driving through a ruined city, and an ad for the 370Z that looks like it was shot in Detroit.
It's possible, but it takes a lot of work, and consistent dry weather.
The argument some women put forward is that idealizing these models perpetuates anorexia in the population due to women starving themselves to achieve the same body shape.
But if you hear the argument that it's the fault of men, don't buy it. It's not men, it's the fashion industry who wants living mannequins. Best case in point: Most porn stars do not have this kind of figure.
+1 for the curves camp!
I was thinking about that the other day when I was flipping channels and caught Surrogates. I wonder what would happen to body image over time in the world of Surrogates (or GiTS, if you prefer). Would people stick to realistic-ish forms or keep pushing the boundaries until within a few decades most people look seriously alien? It would give a very solid answer to the nature vs. nurture influence of sexual attraction.
Yeah they're pretty fake looking, right off the bat you can see both pics have been mangled pretty hard in Photoshop. It's hard to tell that they're completely artificial though, I could believe that the pics were based on real women at some point.
Model on the right in TFA has a face a lot like Alyx Vance. Is it just me though or do her shoulders seem a bit strange? Like they're a bit wider and lower than they should be?
Also they both look a bit too skinny and narrow-hipped for my taste, but that's just me. For some of us Serena Williams has the perfect body shape :-P
Aw man this thread is depressing...
Oh jeez, Siemens probably owns the IP on the entries T_T
I thought someone might say this, but isn't astroturfing inherently anti-free-speech? It's impersonation. The IRL equivalent would be to form a protest with a mob of androids for the purpose of making an unpopular viewpoint seem more popular. I'd argue that one person deceptively impersonating a large group is damaging to free speech.
One or two ICE rental cars might fit the bill. I guess future ICE models will use diesel like the long-haul trucks, so you can fill up at any gas/charge station (which will retain at least one pump for each of those for a while, since there will still be old cars and hybrids around)
The controller account is @master_boot. Take it down to score one for free speech.
...but there are a couple of moons with surfaces covered in water ice RIGHT NOW which have liquid water below the surface, so it's hard for me to get excited.