I think it's important to note that Think wasn't really about electric "cars" it was about electric vehicles. The venture was very much an "outside the box" and it's product line makes that obvious. (Mostly they are small vehicles designed for short trips around town) Not surprisingly, people like cars and don't want
That said... Here's a rejected slashdot story submission about what *I* think was a fairly interesting news. I post it because I think it's on topic and intersting and I put some time in typing it up--obviously, sometimes slashdot doesn't have the space... so no hard feelings. (Maybe I just spelled everything right;-) )
The jist is that GM is betting on fuel cells. Not electric and not "conventional" hyrbids.
Popular Mechanics is carrying an article (with pic's) of GM's latest fuel-cell concept car. The pictures are our first look (mine at least) at GM's new strategy to redefine the basic systems every car they make. It's called AUTOnomy and was written about a little while back in Popular Science. Essentially, because fuel-cells allow a radically different organization of cars' structures, GM is betting it can make cars cheaper. This despite the fact they'd be running on the famously expensive fuel cell. Wired wrote about this"billion dollar bet" in its August issue and quotes a GM exec: "If we're not there by 2010], we'll have dug too deep a hole to recover the time value of that money." In other words: call us stupid if you can't drive one of these by 2010. This is some good reading for those wanting to know more about what GM's plans to do with its fuel cell "platform" that it hopes to use for virtually every vehicle it makes in the future. Of course, as Wired notes, a fairly heavy dose of skepticism is NOT optional. Itís required.
It's not really that 49% of Americans believe Freedom of speech goes to far today that scares me. It's that 39% of Americans felt that way last year
A prof. of mine who studied American political traditions was fond of showing the power of the political elite with such studies. It was always impressive at how true it was. Free speech may not be favored by the majority, but our freedoms arn't going anywhere. There may be a bit of backward movement, but that right isn't going anywhere and the losses will be recovered.
No problem with your arguements. I just think people should know what they're talking about before they post meaningless dribble about it being Christian or Christain Scientists. I.e., even by your standards, it's on par with many of the other slashdot sources.
My mom is starting her first full-time job as a teacher on Tuesday. She's, umm, middle aged and was a stay-at-home'er. But she took a couple classes over the years and learning Windows 3.1/95 and office. In her previous private school part-time jobs, she typed every one of her lessons. So she STILL HAS THEM. She uses Power Point (I'm actually not a big fan in the classroom), but to spice up her Latin for these high school kids she used a Smart Board. This is essentially and interactive chalk board. At her new full-time job, the school (where money is tight) bought her one. She asks me questions a lot. I try to answer them. She is in no way an expert, but she achieved competent user level.
She is so far advanced tech wise for most teachers it is incredible (sad that is) and she's pretty sure it's the reason she got hired for a job that will be a stretch for her first year.
The saddest part? Her new school's admin seems so technologically inept, it's going to be quite difficult. They make her use an iBook (she knows Windows. She's trying to concentrate on learning Latin 4 this summer. Not Mac OS 9.1). It has a (broken) CD-R, but the admin doesn't believe her. (It says so in the Hardware and it screws up cd-r disks. Try to do that with a regular cd-rom) He says e-mail your files to yourself, but if she updates 10 files, she has to e-mail ten files. Not very efficient. It reads her files poorly and transferring them was a nightmare.
My point I guess? A major failure here is the need competent people to help teachers along. Most teachers were running the classrooms. Not taking computer classes. Computers make things much harder, unless you know a good way to set things up. I'll tech my mom to use FTP, get her a zip drive, find a copy of DAVE client or figure out something else to make her life possible.
The school gave her a partially broken computer that makes things nearly impossible to back up or move. Their advice as she picked up her new computer was "It's a Mac. You'll love it."
Oh and if you're interested in the Christian Science Monitor. (As in why should I read a "Christian" newspaper.... go here before you complain about this news source.
Let me rephrase my first point then. There is no doubt, apple could make better product than what's on the market now and make it competitively priced. If that's not a reason to make a product, I don't know what is.
Your Ipod can carry that data, but data entry is difficult. It's not a balanced approach to a PDA product. It's a fantastic MP3 player.
big wink on third point;-)
And your last points. Palm is tanking, but it's tanking because they haven't significantly improved their products. Very little "inovation". And sure jobs said that. I just don't understand why;-). Hence the post
I just don't understand....
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I just don't understand how/why Apple has yet to create a new PDA. I am 90% sure they will though.
Why?
A PDA needs a good os, good applications AND a good physical shape much more than a PC. Apple is hands-down the best at this. (For a PC, expandability is often very important. Apple isn't so hot at this IMO.)
.Mac and the digital hub are crying out for way to TAKE your information with you. How awkward did Palms V5 look in the demonstration unvailing.Mac
A PDA is (was) a new platform and doesn't (didn't anyway) need the existing software so much. It was a level playing field that Apple had a natural gift at competing on.
It's F**ing hardware. I thought you ran a hardware company Jobs!;-)
Frankly I can't come up with a many good reasons not to.
The market already has fantastic products is highly competitive. Palm might have been, but it looks aging. Win CE? It's microsoft on try 3 and the market is still Palms. There is room here
Afraid of a second failure
Waiting for the next BIG thing. Bluetooth? Cheaper color screens? G5s...
Ok so everyone else here probably just made this list, but it was fun speculating!;-)
if you don't want people deep linking into your site, put some sort of CGI in place. Either with refer checking, cookies, or a server side stateful mechinism that tracks a visitors progress through the site. The first two can be defeated if someone really wants in, but will stop most linking.
Translation: If you don't want people deep linking and abusing your site...don't simply ask them to nicely, prevent everyone from linking into your site.
Some sites, are just stupid. Others, have legitamate reasons. (I.e. NPR had this and was worried that sites would link directly to NPR's bandwidth heavy content without giving it credit). They weren't worried about someone bookmarking their favorite link. They could either A. Ask people not to link and then talk to anyone who sets up leechoffnpr.com, and let Joe User get buy, OR B. prevent everyone.
Good point, but there is little room for making "hacks"... which is what all these geek infatuations are. Not brilliantly thought out. Instead, they are usually revolutionary instead of evolutionary.
Because for the geeks something like this is not revered for its COST, but the geek skill to build it. A diamond, requires little knowledge or tweaking. You just dig a lot in the right place and sift carefully.
I think the baloon trip is less clear. I think it's mostly a vocal few who arn't slightly interested, but I think it's mostly that the baloon trip is a LOT of money and because the press hasn't really focused on the technology in the baloon. Just him trying to make it
What I don't understand is how they **JUST** Found these cracks?
I'm not sure it clears it up, but here is a story about the 27-year-old who spotted the crack.
Quoting:
Barely 10 minutes into the job, he saw it, a crack three-tenths of an inch in one of the liners of the hydrogen-fuel pipe that feeds main engine No. 1. "I couldn't believe what I was seeing," he said.
He called over the two technicians working with him. Then main propulsion system engineers were summoned. Strait had to show the engineers where the crack was. "They wear glasses," he said, and couldn't find it themselves.
The truly breakthrough technology is that ID made it possible to spontaneously induce vomiting without noxious fumes!;-)
ARRG (offtopic) Editors please (as in pretty) fix this:
User types in comment and submits it (without subject). Is told to type in subject, but then is told "you have submitted to quickly." User loses comment because it is cleared from browser cache and slashdot doesn't put it in the error page.
Not neccesarily true. WWF (The world wildlife fund) just recently won the exclusive rights to it's abbreviation over the WWE (formely World Wrestling Foundation... now World Wrestling Entertainment)
Obviously the first thought is why not more digits. Turns out that most of the world already (or always has?) used 13 digits. The result is that companies get pissed when they have to apply for another UPC and all that comes with it just to sell their product from one side of the pond to the other.
preloaded.. as in into memory... as in integrated into the OS. Sorry for confusion
Re:Good idea for nuclear waste?
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It's not feasible to send waste into the sun - take a look through a few astronomy texts and you'll see why...You'd require massive amounts of fuel to get it there.
Oh, no. There are some waste products that should only be desposed of in this way--whatever the cost. For example: Richard Simmons
P.S. You arrive home--hungry. The chicken/beef is still frozen like a rock
Do you (or rather should I) A: Microwave B: Just throw it on the grill anyway C: Put it in some hot water (this takes longer than it should though it seems;-) ) D: Just go out to eat.
Or any other super useful trick? (Throw salt on it maybe;-) Melt chicken Melt!)
Other than your book/show. How would you recomend learning to cook. Books and other things welcome. (Not to be a chef, just feed myself healthy and tasty treats for the regular 9-6er.)
I've only seen your show once (Angel food cake), but I was immediately taken up with your approach to cooking. It immediately seemed that this was how I should learn. IMO to cook is to be able to take a number of food items and to create a decent meal. I can't do that. So many books, cooking shows, etc don't understand the truly beginner chef. How do I "stir" this best etc. etc. My girlfriend laughs at me that I asked her how to cut some vegetable... but the thing is that certain foods DO have certain ways to cut them. It was a breath of fresh air that you were EXACT and explained WHY. I don't have time to cook every day and learn the craft. I'm hungry NOW!;-). And usually it's pull out George F. throw some unmarinated frozen (oops forgot to defrost)chicken on it and place on some rice and peas.
Perhaps instead of getting 350 restricted channels, I'll just start paying my $100/month for 10 commercial free, high quality stations that allow me to record.
Eventually the industry will make its product so crappy some newcomers will come in and take over. Adapt or step out of the way. Otherwise, you'll get trounced eventually.
Slashdot Mirror
Can't get Google?
Try the recently released Googlemai;
http://www.capescience.com/google/index.shtml
send an e-mail to: google@capeclear.com with your query in the subject line.
Of course, google cache is probably not accessible
I think it's important to note that Think wasn't really about electric "cars" it was about electric vehicles. The venture was very much an "outside the box" and it's product line makes that obvious. (Mostly they are small vehicles designed for short trips around town) Not surprisingly, people like cars and don't want
;-) )
That said... Here's a rejected slashdot story submission about what *I* think was a fairly interesting news. I post it because I think it's on topic and intersting and I put some time in typing it up--obviously, sometimes slashdot doesn't have the space... so no hard feelings. (Maybe I just spelled everything right
The jist is that GM is betting on fuel cells. Not electric and not "conventional" hyrbids.
Popular Mechanics is carrying an article (with pic's) of GM's latest fuel-cell concept car. The pictures are our first look (mine at least) at GM's new strategy to redefine the basic systems every car they make. It's called AUTOnomy and was written about a little while back in Popular Science. Essentially, because fuel-cells allow a radically different organization of cars' structures, GM is betting it can make cars cheaper. This despite the fact they'd be running on the famously expensive fuel cell. Wired wrote about this"billion dollar bet" in its August issue and quotes a GM exec: "If we're not there by 2010], we'll have dug too deep a hole to recover the time value of that money." In other words: call us stupid if you can't drive one of these by 2010. This is some good reading for those wanting to know more about what GM's plans to do with its fuel cell "platform" that it hopes to use for virtually every vehicle it makes in the future. Of course, as Wired notes, a fairly heavy dose of skepticism is NOT optional. Itís required.
It's not really that 49% of Americans believe Freedom of speech goes to far today that scares me. It's that 39% of Americans felt that way last year
A prof. of mine who studied American political traditions was fond of showing the power of the political elite with such studies. It was always impressive at how true it was. Free speech may not be favored by the majority, but our freedoms arn't going anywhere. There may be a bit of backward movement, but that right isn't going anywhere and the losses will be recovered.
No problem with your arguements. I just think people should know what they're talking about before they post meaningless dribble about it being Christian or Christain Scientists. I.e., even by your standards, it's on par with many of the other slashdot sources.
My mom is starting her first full-time job as a teacher on Tuesday. She's, umm, middle aged and was a stay-at-home'er. But she took a couple classes over the years and learning Windows 3.1/95 and office. In her previous private school part-time jobs, she typed every one of her lessons. So she STILL HAS THEM. She uses Power Point (I'm actually not a big fan in the classroom), but to spice up her Latin for these high school kids she used a Smart Board. This is essentially and interactive chalk board. At her new full-time job, the school (where money is tight) bought her one. She asks me questions a lot. I try to answer them. She is in no way an expert, but she achieved competent user level.
She is so far advanced tech wise for most teachers it is incredible (sad that is) and she's pretty sure it's the reason she got hired for a job that will be a stretch for her first year.
The saddest part? Her new school's admin seems so technologically inept, it's going to be quite difficult. They make her use an iBook (she knows Windows. She's trying to concentrate on learning Latin 4 this summer. Not Mac OS 9.1). It has a (broken) CD-R, but the admin doesn't believe her. (It says so in the Hardware and it screws up cd-r disks. Try to do that with a regular cd-rom) He says e-mail your files to yourself, but if she updates 10 files, she has to e-mail ten files. Not very efficient. It reads her files poorly and transferring them was a nightmare.
My point I guess? A major failure here is the need competent people to help teachers along. Most teachers were running the classrooms. Not taking computer classes. Computers make things much harder, unless you know a good way to set things up. I'll tech my mom to use FTP, get her a zip drive, find a copy of DAVE client or figure out something else to make her life possible.
The school gave her a partially broken computer that makes things nearly impossible to back up or move. Their advice as she picked up her new computer was "It's a Mac. You'll love it."
Oh and if you're interested in the Christian Science Monitor. (As in why should I read a "Christian" newspaper.... go here before you complain about this news source.
Let me rephrase my first point then. There is no doubt, apple could make better product than what's on the market now and make it competitively priced. If that's not a reason to make a product, I don't know what is.
;-)
;-). Hence the post
Your Ipod can carry that data, but data entry is difficult. It's not a balanced approach to a PDA product. It's a fantastic MP3 player.
big wink on third point
And your last points. Palm is tanking, but it's tanking because they haven't significantly improved their products. Very little "inovation". And sure jobs said that. I just don't understand why
Why?
- A PDA needs a good os, good applications AND a good physical shape much more than a PC. Apple is hands-down the best at this. (For a PC, expandability is often very important. Apple isn't so hot at this IMO.)
- .Mac and the digital hub are crying out for way to TAKE your information with you. How awkward did Palms V5 look in the demonstration unvailing
.Mac
- A PDA is (was) a new platform and doesn't (didn't anyway) need the existing software so much. It was a level playing field that Apple had a natural gift at competing on.
- It's F**ing hardware. I thought you ran a hardware company Jobs!
;-)
Frankly I can't come up with a many good reasons not to.- The market already has fantastic products is highly competitive. Palm might have been, but it looks aging. Win CE? It's microsoft on try 3 and the market is still Palms. There is room here
- Afraid of a second failure
- Waiting for the next BIG thing. Bluetooth? Cheaper color screens? G5s...
Ok so everyone else here probably just made this list, but it was fun speculating!Thanks for moding me redundant! It was a pleasure
Is there some mass conspiracy to confuse customers? If it's not a "DVD" why the hell do they call it a DVD!
13933 hits at 5:48 PM EDT ;-)
Already had read through the stuff, so far from the first hit
if you don't want people deep linking into your site, put some sort of CGI in place. Either with refer checking, cookies, or a server side stateful mechinism that tracks a visitors progress through the site. The first two can be defeated if someone really wants in, but will stop most linking.
Translation:
If you don't want people deep linking and abusing your site...don't simply ask them to nicely, prevent everyone from linking into your site.
Some sites, are just stupid. Others, have legitamate reasons. (I.e. NPR had this and was worried that sites would link directly to NPR's bandwidth heavy content without giving it credit). They weren't worried about someone bookmarking their favorite link. They could either A. Ask people not to link and then talk to anyone who sets up leechoffnpr.com, and let Joe User get buy, OR B. prevent everyone.
I ask: In practical terms, which one is better?
Where's my +1 Disgusting!
/. editors! What were you thinking not including that!
I mean come on
Good point, but there is little room for making "hacks"... which is what all these geek infatuations are. Not brilliantly thought out. Instead, they are usually revolutionary instead of evolutionary.
Because for the geeks something like this is not revered for its COST, but the geek skill to build it. A diamond, requires little knowledge or tweaking. You just dig a lot in the right place and sift carefully.
I think the baloon trip is less clear. I think it's mostly a vocal few who arn't slightly interested, but I think it's mostly that the baloon trip is a LOT of money and because the press hasn't really focused on the technology in the baloon. Just him trying to make it
god forbid they shifted the camera a few degrees to the left. Now that would be an ugly crack.
I'm not sure it clears it up, but here is a story about the 27-year-old who spotted the crack.
Quoting:
I would interpret it as "human kind currently" vs. "human kind in the past". I believe this is what the poster is refering to.
As in, when I was a competitive swimmer, 90% of the time I was competing against my previous times. Not the other swimmers in the pool.
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Editors please (as in pretty) fix this:
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Not neccesarily true. WWF (The world wildlife fund) just recently won the exclusive rights to it's abbreviation over the WWE (formely World Wrestling Foundation... now World Wrestling Entertainment)
;-)
As WWE campaign famously says "get the F out"
Obviously the first thought is why not more digits. Turns out that most of the world already (or always has?) used 13 digits. The result is that companies get pissed when they have to apply for another UPC and all that comes with it just to sell their product from one side of the pond to the other.
preloaded.. as in into memory... as in integrated into the OS.
Sorry for confusion
It's not feasible to send waste into the sun - take a look through a few astronomy texts and you'll see why...You'd require massive amounts of fuel to get it there.
Oh, no. There are some waste products that should only be desposed of in this way--whatever the cost. For example: Richard Simmons
IMO, Mozilla blows away IE 5 on the Mac (as opposed to being about even with IE5/6 on the PC). It's faster and neither are preloaded. Very smart move.
P.S. You arrive home--hungry. The chicken/beef is still frozen like a rock
;-) )
;-) Melt chicken Melt!)
Do you (or rather should I)
A: Microwave
B: Just throw it on the grill anyway
C: Put it in some hot water (this takes longer than it should though it seems
D: Just go out to eat.
Or any other super useful trick? (Throw salt on it maybe
Other than your book/show. How would you recomend learning to cook. Books and other things welcome. (Not to be a chef, just feed myself healthy and tasty treats for the regular 9-6er.)
;-). And usually it's pull out George F. throw some unmarinated frozen (oops forgot to defrost)chicken on it and place on some rice and peas.
I've only seen your show once (Angel food cake), but I was immediately taken up with your approach to cooking. It immediately seemed that this was how I should learn. IMO to cook is to be able to take a number of food items and to create a decent meal. I can't do that. So many books, cooking shows, etc don't understand the truly beginner chef. How do I "stir" this best etc. etc. My girlfriend laughs at me that I asked her how to cut some vegetable... but the thing is that certain foods DO have certain ways to cut them. It was a breath of fresh air that you were EXACT and explained WHY. I don't have time to cook every day and learn the craft. I'm hungry NOW!
Perhaps instead of getting 350 restricted channels, I'll just start paying my $100/month for 10 commercial free, high quality stations that allow me to record.
Eventually the industry will make its product so crappy some newcomers will come in and take over. Adapt or step out of the way. Otherwise, you'll get trounced eventually.