You've never dealt with fundamentalists then. Or feminists. Or Nascar fans. Or Slashdot geeks. Or.. a lot of other groups. The squeaky wheel gets the oil so it sometimes pays dividends to act like a bunch of whiners.
That second paragraph sounds perfectly reasonable. In fact it would be a good idea in general. That first paragraph sounds like you made the same mistake Amazon did and the third supports that conclusion. Most of the people that I've seen make that argument are trying to get anything and everything 'homosexual-related' dumped into the adult category. This includes everything from John Holmes material to Martina Navratilova's autobiography and everything else that involves gays as more than porn or a fetish.
This tends to support the conclusion that it was a glitch as I doubt that Amazon would do that without trying to curry favor with those demographics that would like it.
Why? I would have expected under/oversteer to depend more on weight distribution and on acceleration than on wheel configuration.
It does. It's nothing fundamental it's just that it's usually more practical to put the engine nearest the end with 2 wheels.
Most 3 wheelers with the 2-front configuration are also front engined front wheel drive in order to reduce costs and weight and to help keep the center of gravity low.
Most of the rear wheel drive 3-wheelers Ive seen are similar for the same reasons.
There are exceptions though, the Scorpion and the T-Rex that someone else mentioned further down, for instance. The designers responsible for the T-Rex managed to get a low CoG with a rear-engined rear drive design.
"Hey GM, if you want to get another gov't loan, you have to do this partnership with Segway..."
Will create the perfect urban vehicle that sells as much as the original Segway does.
Why not just have GM resell these... Maybe bring the Oldsmobile name back just for them...
That's probably not far from the reasoning behind this. It does look a lot like a Hoveround for the road. They even point out the aging baby boomer demographic.
Two wheels forward, one back ("tadpole") is a very stable design (assuming a reasonable CG -- low and near the front)... but rear steering is not. It's hard to get used to and is very prone to oversteer.
Hm, yes it would be if it weren't managed somehow. An electronically assisted system would relieve that problem and leave you with increased maneuverability for parking. It'd also jack up the weight and cost though.
Damn, that's some machine! Nice. I remember the old Trihawks. I got the opportunity to drive one once and it was nice but compared to that it looks to be positively sedate.
I'd bet that thing likes to be steered with the throttle.
Two front wheels and one rear wheel = understeer. The other way around = oversteer. The former is generally considered to be safer.
The center of gravity is also a big concern. The reason those three-wheeled ATV's that vlm mentioned above were a problem was that they were top heavy and the engine was too far forward. If they'd put the engine a bit aft of the rear wheels and made it a flat configuration they'd have been much more stable.
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It had better. Most jobs get tedious in a few months at most. And thats for the better ones.
Let us welcome our future monopolistic overlords! so... they're gonna cap them at 5 gigs of data transfer a month for 200$ ? gotta pay for the bills of the bran new network!
Some may swallow that plan but it'll take a lot more than bran to pass it.
The DSL had become unusable for an extended period for the second time in two years. The first time they sent a tech out after a short talk with tech support. It turned out it was a badly configured DSLAM. The tech took several hours to find the problem but they did find it.
The second time it happened it took a week to get them to send someone out and then he spent about five minutes on it and pronounced it normal and left. It dropped out shortly afterwards and stayed out until about noon the next day.
We've only been on Charter for 3 months but so far it hasn't gone down once. Maybe it is crap elsewhere or maybe they just fail on a yearly schedule like Verizon but they've been good so far.
I really hope they remain a going concern. the only other options we have for internet here are a WISP through trees at long range, 3G with caps so low I'd go through them in about a week, or satellite at ridiculous prices.
Agreed. I notice they used that "Let's make it look just like the real thing." aesthetic. So they basically copied the current mess and deleted tactile response. It looks like a kludge.
The biggest problem with the Aptera is the fact that it is only going to be available in California. They say they'll look into distribution in other states later but for now its out.
The second biggest problem with the Aptera is that that three-wheeled design is treated as a motorcycle for insurance purposes in many places. Yes they say its safe but is it? I'd like to see tests done before I buy. Hopefully by the time they expand their distribution network this will be done.
Those are resolvable problems. The third problem may not be though. Where I live there is a significant percentage of the population that will associate the Aptera with.. certain political leanings. One of my relatives is a mechanic. He says he's found bullet holes in planes on more than one occasion. It seems stupid people sometimes enjoy shooting at planes.
I have concerns over driving such a distinctive vehicle when it just might have a bullseye painted on it.
This DA does seem to be one of those who work to give the position the reputation it now enjoys. Like many I do have some mixed feelings about the ACLU but, honestly, thank god for them. I'd have preferred seeing the parents of most of those kids get together and sue the school district though. I'm no big fan of the 'sue 'em all!' mentality but if the school hadn't been going through things that they had no business going through this would never have happened in the first place.
That's a really easy opinion to hold until you try riding public transit four hours each day to and from your menial minimum-wage job. And I'm not making this up, I know someone with a college degree who is in this position.
That, of course, is assuming public transportation is actually usable at all. The local bus is a senior-citizens only affair. Its fine if you want to go grocery shopping or such but it doesn't get to anyplace I needed to get to. It was actually faster to ride my bicycle.
I noticed my performance in reflex-oriented things declining in my late 30's. An earlier postet mentioned catching flies. I could do that when I was a teenager. These days I can only catch the slow, almost dead ones.
In high school my visual reflexes were untestable. I remember the person that performed the tests just assumed that I was cheating. She didn't say how I was supposed to be doing that. ESP perhaps? She'd gotten to the point where everybody else had just given up and was advancing the machine as fast as it could go and I was saying "Hey wait I can't write that fast". She said "There's no way you can be seeing that." so I told her the last four symbols and she just shut the machine off.
I trust you all know about the TB bacteria, which in recent years has regained prominence, due mainly to the fact that (multi) resistive strains are being encountered in patients worldwide with ever increasing incidence.
It's susceptible to UV and this keeps a lid on TB epidemics.
Now, imagine if somehow TB could be made UV resistant.
Wet dreams of some mad dictator in his efforts to conquer the world? Or destroy humankind altogether? This could be it.
TB was not exposed to modern drugs until humans started using them. That is it never had an evolutionary reason to work out a solution so it didn't waste the energy needed to do that. It is exposed to UV though. Even the low amount at sea level kills it. Odds are, if it could develop a resistance to UV it probably would have by now.
Mine certainly didn't. If anything it only reinforced the idea that If I ever did have kids again It would be with someone who had more patience with them than I did.
Agreed. This is damaging to the society they have to live in and to them as well in the long run. Its okay to be quirky, it can even be a good thing sometimes, but it doesn't grant a get out of social responsibilities free card.
Why is it a good thing? Is it bad for a woman to work? What about get an education? If she doesn't work why does she need to be educated?
You haven't articulated your argument fully.
I was referring to the fact that its so one-sided. If a woman quits or takes a leave of absence to care for her children she's a good mother. If a man does it he's a 'couch slug'. Yes that's sexist but it does reflect the mainstream opinion more closely in my experience
Most feminists that I know do not differ in this preconception. That is, they're about as rigid and resistant to change as the conservatives are in this matter.
At an undisclosed Internet company, analysis of (non-verbal) communications was used to produce a circle to represent each employee â" those determined to generate or pass along valuable info were portrayed as large and dark-colored circles ('thought leaders' and 'networked curators'), while those with small and pale circles were written off as not adding a hell of a lot. 'You have to bring the same rigor you bring to operations and finance to the analysis of people,' explains Microsoft's Rupert Bader
This is rigorous analysis!?
So in other words they want schmoozers and suits, not people who are busy.. working?
Great. So just stand on the throttle until you hit something. Because that worked so well for the economy.
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You've never dealt with fundamentalists then. Or feminists. Or Nascar fans. Or Slashdot geeks. Or.. a lot of other groups. The squeaky wheel gets the oil so it sometimes pays dividends to act like a bunch of whiners.
That second paragraph sounds perfectly reasonable. In fact it would be a good idea in general. That first paragraph sounds like you made the same mistake Amazon did and the third supports that conclusion. Most of the people that I've seen make that argument are trying to get anything and everything 'homosexual-related' dumped into the adult category. This includes everything from John Holmes material to Martina Navratilova's autobiography and everything else that involves gays as more than porn or a fetish.
This tends to support the conclusion that it was a glitch as I doubt that Amazon would do that without trying to curry favor with those demographics that would like it.
Why? I would have expected under/oversteer to depend more on weight distribution and on acceleration than on wheel configuration.
It does. It's nothing fundamental it's just that it's usually more practical to put the engine nearest the end with 2 wheels.
Most 3 wheelers with the 2-front configuration are also front engined front wheel drive in order to reduce costs and weight and to help keep the center of gravity low.
Most of the rear wheel drive 3-wheelers Ive seen are similar for the same reasons.
There are exceptions though, the Scorpion and the T-Rex that someone else mentioned further down, for instance. The designers responsible for the T-Rex managed to get a low CoG with a rear-engined rear drive design.
"Hey GM, if you want to get another gov't loan, you have to do this partnership with Segway..."
Will create the perfect urban vehicle that sells as much as the original Segway does.
Why not just have GM resell these... Maybe bring the Oldsmobile name back just for them...
That's probably not far from the reasoning behind this. It does look a lot like a Hoveround for the road. They even point out the aging baby boomer demographic.
Two wheels forward, one back ("tadpole") is a very stable design (assuming a reasonable CG -- low and near the front)... but rear steering is not. It's hard to get used to and is very prone to oversteer.
Hm, yes it would be if it weren't managed somehow. An electronically assisted system would relieve that problem and leave you with increased maneuverability for parking. It'd also jack up the weight and cost though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38TFetQAe2o
Damn, that's some machine! Nice. I remember the old Trihawks. I got the opportunity to drive one once and it was nice but compared to that it looks to be positively sedate.
I'd bet that thing likes to be steered with the throttle.
Two front wheels and one rear wheel = understeer. The other way around = oversteer. The former is generally considered to be safer.
The center of gravity is also a big concern. The reason those three-wheeled ATV's that vlm mentioned above were a problem was that they were top heavy and the engine was too far forward. If they'd put the engine a bit aft of the rear wheels and made it a flat configuration they'd have been much more stable.
And, perhaps, fulfillment can come from sources other than work...
It had better. Most jobs get tedious in a few months at most. And thats for the better ones.
Let us welcome our future monopolistic overlords! so... they're gonna cap them at 5 gigs of data transfer a month for 200$ ? gotta pay for the bills of the bran new network!
Some may swallow that plan but it'll take a lot more than bran to pass it.
It's odd that they would have even considered this. Their cap is 5GB/month. I would think that that would be enough to stop most of this activity.
I recently went from Verizon's DSL to Charter.
The DSL had become unusable for an extended period for the second time in two years. The first time they sent a tech out after a short talk with tech support. It turned out it was a badly configured DSLAM. The tech took several hours to find the problem but they did find it.
The second time it happened it took a week to get them to send someone out and then he spent about five minutes on it and pronounced it normal and left. It dropped out shortly afterwards and stayed out until about noon the next day.
We've only been on Charter for 3 months but so far it hasn't gone down once. Maybe it is crap elsewhere or maybe they just fail on a yearly schedule like Verizon but they've been good so far.
I really hope they remain a going concern. the only other options we have for internet here are a WISP through trees at long range, 3G with caps so low I'd go through them in about a week, or satellite at ridiculous prices.
Agreed. I notice they used that "Let's make it look just like the real thing." aesthetic. So they basically copied the current mess and deleted tactile response. It looks like a kludge.
The biggest problem with the Aptera is the fact that it is only going to be available in California. They say they'll look into distribution in other states later but for now its out.
The second biggest problem with the Aptera is that that three-wheeled design is treated as a motorcycle for insurance purposes in many places. Yes they say its safe but is it? I'd like to see tests done before I buy. Hopefully by the time they expand their distribution network this will be done.
Those are resolvable problems. The third problem may not be though. Where I live there is a significant percentage of the population that will associate the Aptera with.. certain political leanings. One of my relatives is a mechanic. He says he's found bullet holes in planes on more than one occasion. It seems stupid people sometimes enjoy shooting at planes.
I have concerns over driving such a distinctive vehicle when it just might have a bullseye painted on it.
This DA does seem to be one of those who work to give the position the reputation it now enjoys. Like many I do have some mixed feelings about the ACLU but, honestly, thank god for them. I'd have preferred seeing the parents of most of those kids get together and sue the school district though. I'm no big fan of the 'sue 'em all!' mentality but if the school hadn't been going through things that they had no business going through this would never have happened in the first place.
Something like Krita perhaps? That looks promising.
True. Blah. I should have done more thinking before I posted that.
That's a really easy opinion to hold until you try riding public transit four hours each day to and from your menial minimum-wage job. And I'm not making this up, I know someone with a college degree who is in this position.
That, of course, is assuming public transportation is actually usable at all. The local bus is a senior-citizens only affair. Its fine if you want to go grocery shopping or such but it doesn't get to anyplace I needed to get to. It was actually faster to ride my bicycle.
A nicely finished wooden case for a laptop would be nice. I f we could get around the microwave radiation issues and the heat issue.
He says he's going to get it up to roughly the same power that an early 80's home computer had. It looks like he's not far off.
I noticed my performance in reflex-oriented things declining in my late 30's. An earlier postet mentioned catching flies. I could do that when I was a teenager. These days I can only catch the slow, almost dead ones.
In high school my visual reflexes were untestable. I remember the person that performed the tests just assumed that I was cheating. She didn't say how I was supposed to be doing that. ESP perhaps? She'd gotten to the point where everybody else had just given up and was advancing the machine as fast as it could go and I was saying "Hey wait I can't write that fast". She said "There's no way you can be seeing that." so I told her the last four symbols and she just shut the machine off.
Apparently I'm a mutant. :-/
I trust you all know about the TB bacteria, which in recent years has regained prominence, due mainly to the fact that (multi) resistive strains are being encountered in patients worldwide with ever increasing incidence. It's susceptible to UV and this keeps a lid on TB epidemics.
Now, imagine if somehow TB could be made UV resistant.
Wet dreams of some mad dictator in his efforts to conquer the world? Or destroy humankind altogether? This could be it.
TB was not exposed to modern drugs until humans started using them. That is it never had an evolutionary reason to work out a solution so it didn't waste the energy needed to do that. It is exposed to UV though. Even the low amount at sea level kills it. Odds are, if it could develop a resistance to UV it probably would have by now.
Mine certainly didn't. If anything it only reinforced the idea that If I ever did have kids again It would be with someone who had more patience with them than I did.
This is very likely. For every genius there are dozens of two-bit con men.
Agreed. This is damaging to the society they have to live in and to them as well in the long run. Its okay to be quirky, it can even be a good thing sometimes, but it doesn't grant a get out of social responsibilities free card.
Why is it a good thing? Is it bad for a woman to work? What about get an education? If she doesn't work why does she need to be educated? You haven't articulated your argument fully.
I was referring to the fact that its so one-sided. If a woman quits or takes a leave of absence to care for her children she's a good mother. If a man does it he's a 'couch slug'. Yes that's sexist but it does reflect the mainstream opinion more closely in my experience
Most feminists that I know do not differ in this preconception. That is, they're about as rigid and resistant to change as the conservatives are in this matter.
At an undisclosed Internet company, analysis of (non-verbal) communications was used to produce a circle to represent each employee â" those determined to generate or pass along valuable info were portrayed as large and dark-colored circles ('thought leaders' and 'networked curators'), while those with small and pale circles were written off as not adding a hell of a lot. 'You have to bring the same rigor you bring to operations and finance to the analysis of people,' explains Microsoft's Rupert Bader
This is rigorous analysis!?
So in other words they want schmoozers and suits, not people who are busy.. working?
Great. So just stand on the throttle until you hit something. Because that worked so well for the economy.