They do similar stretches in many other offroad rallies, as well as Le Mans and LeMons (which are more physically exhausting - the Le Mans driver time limit is 4 hours).
If you think that's scary you REALLY won't like what some truckers do on the same roads as you.
You think fuel cells are going to take off despite the problems involved in hydrogen storage? Barring some unforeseen radical breakthroughs I put all my money on batteries.
You should look into using a junkyard Prius battery pack. You might need to build custom charging equipment though, since only the more recent models are plug-in hybrids.
Driving for more than 2 hours without a break is generally a bad idea.
Oh please, I've driven a 4x4 offroad at high speed in 2 back-to-back 5 hour shifts many times with only a 1 hour break. I don't even get tired until near the end of the second shift. And I'm not very fit either.
If they got rid of all their social network logins I would be happy, but the fact that they whittled it down to email and Facebook tells me they see those two as being the most important, as if they're in the same league. Why was Facebook more important than all the others that were ditched?
Maybe it's the latter. I know that computer-illiterate grannies and total morons buy stuff from spam ads (basically the 419 victim crowd), but I can't imagine the number of them is great enough to make any significant profit for the businesses that advertise through spamming. The act of spamming itself I know is profitable, no question about that...
Fisher-Price announced today that they will be producing a utility pickup vehicle. It will ship with a sonic lifeform identification unit, and a string-activated audible warning system. The power plant will be an aero-plastic bobble-bed reactor with a Kinetic Inductance Drive transmission and it will run on injection-molded run-flat composite tire-wheels.
Someone sent me a survey they were doing as part of a school project recently, on social networks. I couldn't fill it out because I don't use any social networks at all. Basically the minimum level of social network activity that the survey assumed was possible was occasional Facebook use. It gave you the option to say that you didn't use G+, Twitter, etc at all, but it was assumed that you at least occasionally used Facebook.
True. The thing with spam, like much advertising, is that it's based on wishful thinking and something almost like superstition. They spend money on advertising, and unless they're a huge megacorporation doing serious market research, they just sort of hope that it pays off. Unless there is a big dive in profits that correlates with a marketing campaign, ideally with many angry letters to give the marketroids a hint at what's going on, they'll assume it's all hunky-dory.
They spam, profits are roughly the same or increase, it works! Spam more! And it repeats like that until they get hit with a clue bat.
The only reason I can imagine sites are doing this is very short-term thinking. When you make Facebook your only way to log in, you make yourself dependent on Facebook, which let's not forget, could fall out of favor just as quickly as Myspace, or Geocities before that.
It's a precedent that other sites should be afraid to set at all. They should be avoiding centralized login services like the plague. The current system is the best, where the only point of centralization is an email address, because email is 100% free and open (for now, although port 25 blocking and spam blocklist maintainers are threatening that)
Well first you have to realize you're part of a tiny minority with extreme range driving requirements, so electric cars will be practical for most people long before they will be for you specifically.
Next, the reason a lot of environmentalists are wary of geo-engineering is because it's more risky, no ulterior motives necessary. We've increased the atmospheric CO2 so the safest way to reverse it is to stop releasing fossil CO2 and eventually start putting some atmospheric CO2 back into the ground. Personally I don't think geo-engineering should be ruled out, the way I see it we're already drastically messing with the atmosphere with no real goal, so why not drastically mess with it with the aim of doing something positive? That said, continuing to release CO2 while compensating with some other geo-engineering technique obviously isn't sustainable in the long term. Many environmentalists are worried that this is what will happen if geo-engineering is allowed, and that we'll just end up putting ourselves into a bigger shit sandwich by over-using a quick fix.
Nothing magic about it, it's just the same reason you now have cheap and tiny RC aircraft that were unimaginable a decade ago, and why you don't need to stick 12 AA batteries into your iPhone4 to make it run for a day.
Yes the WRX is already one of the safest but the soccer moms will want MORE and MORE. There's no end to the safety arms race - at least not until you can walk away from a head-on collision at highway speeds with no injuries, and even then you better hope nobody starts it up again by producing a new SUV-like penis compensator that's bigger than everything else on the road.
Come on, Android is hardly Linux, the Linux-based kernel isn't even compatible with the mainline Linux kernel. Apart from that distinction, it's about as far from a locked-down security-centric distro as you can get.
And yes you can lock down Windows with an insane amount of work, but why not put that work towards a more fundamental and long-term solution, instead of slapping armor onto a vulnerable black box that was never designed to do the job?
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Yep, I immediately figured it was another one of his publicity stunts. The last one was charging differently for fat passengers IIRC.
They're always entertaining so I don't mind.
You should ask this guy a question:
http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/members/Nashco/
He built a Fiero hybrid using a Prius battery pack and an electric S10 motor. He probably has a build log he could link you to.
No, that's what I do for fun! :-)
They do similar stretches in many other offroad rallies, as well as Le Mans and LeMons (which are more physically exhausting - the Le Mans driver time limit is 4 hours).
If you think that's scary you REALLY won't like what some truckers do on the same roads as you.
If you buy cars in the <$30k range like most of us working-class joes, then yeah, if you have to ask...
Running cars on electricity is dirt cheap in the US, even if the stations run a massive markup it shouldn't be expensive at all.
You think fuel cells are going to take off despite the problems involved in hydrogen storage? Barring some unforeseen radical breakthroughs I put all my money on batteries.
You should look into using a junkyard Prius battery pack. You might need to build custom charging equipment though, since only the more recent models are plug-in hybrids.
I think you answered your own question. Why buy a luxury sedan vs. a cheapo car?
The range is more than sufficient for most people so it has nothing to do with that.
Something from VW I bet. Jetta, Golf or Scirocco Bluemotion.
Driving for more than 2 hours without a break is generally a bad idea.
Oh please, I've driven a 4x4 offroad at high speed in 2 back-to-back 5 hour shifts many times with only a 1 hour break. I don't even get tired until near the end of the second shift. And I'm not very fit either.
If they got rid of all their social network logins I would be happy, but the fact that they whittled it down to email and Facebook tells me they see those two as being the most important, as if they're in the same league. Why was Facebook more important than all the others that were ditched?
I assume you mean the other Bugmenot that doesn't respond to takedown requests, because Facebook is blocked from bugmenot.com
Maybe it's the latter. I know that computer-illiterate grannies and total morons buy stuff from spam ads (basically the 419 victim crowd), but I can't imagine the number of them is great enough to make any significant profit for the businesses that advertise through spamming. The act of spamming itself I know is profitable, no question about that...
Fisher-Price announced today that they will be producing a utility pickup vehicle. It will ship with a sonic lifeform identification unit, and a string-activated audible warning system. The power plant will be an aero-plastic bobble-bed reactor with a Kinetic Inductance Drive transmission and it will run on injection-molded run-flat composite tire-wheels.
Haha true XD
Someone sent me a survey they were doing as part of a school project recently, on social networks. I couldn't fill it out because I don't use any social networks at all. Basically the minimum level of social network activity that the survey assumed was possible was occasional Facebook use. It gave you the option to say that you didn't use G+, Twitter, etc at all, but it was assumed that you at least occasionally used Facebook.
True. The thing with spam, like much advertising, is that it's based on wishful thinking and something almost like superstition. They spend money on advertising, and unless they're a huge megacorporation doing serious market research, they just sort of hope that it pays off. Unless there is a big dive in profits that correlates with a marketing campaign, ideally with many angry letters to give the marketroids a hint at what's going on, they'll assume it's all hunky-dory.
They spam, profits are roughly the same or increase, it works! Spam more! And it repeats like that until they get hit with a clue bat.
The only reason I can imagine sites are doing this is very short-term thinking. When you make Facebook your only way to log in, you make yourself dependent on Facebook, which let's not forget, could fall out of favor just as quickly as Myspace, or Geocities before that.
It's a precedent that other sites should be afraid to set at all. They should be avoiding centralized login services like the plague. The current system is the best, where the only point of centralization is an email address, because email is 100% free and open (for now, although port 25 blocking and spam blocklist maintainers are threatening that)
Good points.
Well first you have to realize you're part of a tiny minority with extreme range driving requirements, so electric cars will be practical for most people long before they will be for you specifically.
Next, the reason a lot of environmentalists are wary of geo-engineering is because it's more risky, no ulterior motives necessary. We've increased the atmospheric CO2 so the safest way to reverse it is to stop releasing fossil CO2 and eventually start putting some atmospheric CO2 back into the ground. Personally I don't think geo-engineering should be ruled out, the way I see it we're already drastically messing with the atmosphere with no real goal, so why not drastically mess with it with the aim of doing something positive? That said, continuing to release CO2 while compensating with some other geo-engineering technique obviously isn't sustainable in the long term. Many environmentalists are worried that this is what will happen if geo-engineering is allowed, and that we'll just end up putting ourselves into a bigger shit sandwich by over-using a quick fix.
It could make a nice fish farm ;-P
Nothing magic about it, it's just the same reason you now have cheap and tiny RC aircraft that were unimaginable a decade ago, and why you don't need to stick 12 AA batteries into your iPhone4 to make it run for a day.
Yes the WRX is already one of the safest but the soccer moms will want MORE and MORE. There's no end to the safety arms race - at least not until you can walk away from a head-on collision at highway speeds with no injuries, and even then you better hope nobody starts it up again by producing a new SUV-like penis compensator that's bigger than everything else on the road.
Come on, Android is hardly Linux, the Linux-based kernel isn't even compatible with the mainline Linux kernel. Apart from that distinction, it's about as far from a locked-down security-centric distro as you can get.
And yes you can lock down Windows with an insane amount of work, but why not put that work towards a more fundamental and long-term solution, instead of slapping armor onto a vulnerable black box that was never designed to do the job?
In about 10 years you can have your electric WRX (of course it will weigh even more, because SAFETY dammit, SAFETY!)
Aw come on it should be fine if we can just get a robot to believe that it has a religious duty to aim the beam properly...
Har har.
Yeah when the DHS was first founded I was stunned at the name, sounded very authoritarian/dystopian. I guess the shock value just wore off over time.