Car & Driver has this to say about the new 2012 Tesla models:
Claims of a 300-mile range, seven-passenger seating, 0-to-60-mph sprints of 5.6 seconds, a 45-minute recharge time, and a base price below $60,000 before government tax incentives—which would be hard to deliver, even if you’re Toyota. Or God. And Tesla is neither.
I'm siding with Top Gear on this.
Then again,it's been often said that bad publicity is better than no publicity.
Vatican says that the Earth is both flat AND the center of the Universe. Reverses yet again decision on excommunication of Galileo, digs up his bones and burns them. And now the sports, over to you Father
IMHO, whose word are w taking that is A. unmanned, B.incapable of being manned?
I was under the assumption that the original plans were for a sub-orbital to drop a company of Marines any place in the world in less than an hour. Or OTOH, I may be wrong and that's a different model.
Rutan was one of the few people who consistently got exotic designs right. He will be tough to replace.
Indeed he will. Since he started designing aircraft, he's been a hero. The "Skunk Works" was always the top innovator, but they stuck to military designs exclusively. Rutan designed craft for the basic Joe Shmoe civilian. He started designing and producing kits for Joe to put together in his garage and fly to the local airshows. Then he started producing full blown ready made aircraft that Joe could buy. I hope he keeps a finger or 2 in the Scaled Composites pie, maybe staying on as Engineer Emeritus.
In 1984 opened a pharmacy servicing mostly welfare recipients and needed a computer to efficiently bill the State for claims, Looked at the Osborne saw it was a dead end and bought a Compaq Portable istead. I thought because it was portable I'd be able to take it home to play around with and maybe teach the kids a little coding.. The Compaq was basically the same hardware as an IBM PC but in a luggable case, and I do mean luggable, as John Cleese once compared it to a fish with the Compaq weighing i at 28 pounds. At 28 pounds I didn't bring it home a lot.
Just to offer my contrary experience, 3D has never made my heard hurt.
Yeah, me neither, and it's my opinion that 3D will evolve as the dominant media. Yes, I said it. Dominant.
First movies were silent and in black and white. Viewers of the silent documentary "Arrival Of The Tongkin Train" by American Mutascope actually thought the train was going to come out of the screen and run them down.
Then came talkies. The first talking motion picture as almost everyone knows, is "The Jazz Singer" People marveled at the sound, yet many said it was just a passing fad, including many silent film stars whose voices sounded like screeching barn owls, because of the high quality of silent films at the time. Watch D. W. Giffith's " Birth Of A Nation and tell me you don't agree.
And on and on it goes. Talkies, color, wide screen, and now 3D. the tech for 3D may not be optimized as yet, but you did go out and see "Avatar" didn't you? Sooer or later, probably later, 3D will be ubiquitous. Quality films will be produced, without gimmicks, and the film industry won't be the same.
I've been using PopCaps Bejeweled 2 for like forever. I enjoy playing it on my iPhone bettter than on the Facebook site, but with every "improvement" they've come up with, useability is terrible. Don't know if this is Zynga's or PopCap's fault, but it's harder to connect, harder to keep connected, and harder just to sign in with every new iteration. I liked the original version better because it was just easier to forget the mechanics and just play.
I assert that being a geek doesn't mean having to like *everything* associated with geek life. And if you have to FORCE yourself to get into it, you're probably going to take all the fun out of it anyway.
Yes, if you have to force yourself to get into anything it won't be fun, but your views are ONLY your personal assessments. The vast majority of geeks hold the complete opposite view. Me along with them.
You “pay” attention (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_economy) by clicking over to a site. And if you like what you see on a site, you might mention it to friends, or link to it on your blog or from your website, enhancing its reputation. And since many businesses and netizens have found ways to convert “wealth” in the attention and reputation economies into the kind of wealth that they can deposit in banks, maybe we need to come to a new understanding of free.
My cousin is a teacher and she does teach summer school to make ends meet, spends extra hours at school with endless meetings, spends hours at home grading papers, preparing lessons etc.
It isn't all beer and skittles my friend.
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Claims of a 300-mile range, seven-passenger seating, 0-to-60-mph sprints of 5.6 seconds, a 45-minute recharge time, and a base price below $60,000 before government tax incentives—which would be hard to deliver, even if you’re Toyota. Or God. And Tesla is neither.
I'm siding with Top Gear on this.
Then again ,it's been often said that bad publicity is better than no publicity.
Vatican says that the Earth is both flat AND the center of the Universe. Reverses yet again decision on excommunication of Galileo, digs up his bones and burns them. And now the sports, over to you Father
I was under the assumption that the original plans were for a sub-orbital to drop a company of Marines any place in the world in less than an hour. Or OTOH, I may be wrong and that's a different model.
Yeah, don't you just hate that?
Rutan was one of the few people who consistently got exotic designs right. He will be tough to replace.
Indeed he will. Since he started designing aircraft, he's been a hero. The "Skunk Works" was always the top innovator, but they stuck to military designs exclusively. Rutan designed craft for the basic Joe Shmoe civilian. He started designing and producing kits for Joe to put together in his garage and fly to the local airshows. Then he started producing full blown ready made aircraft that Joe could buy. I hope he keeps a finger or 2 in the Scaled Composites pie, maybe staying on as Engineer Emeritus.
In 1984 opened a pharmacy servicing mostly welfare recipients and needed a computer to efficiently bill the State for claims, Looked at the Osborne saw it was a dead end and bought a Compaq Portable istead. I thought because it was portable I'd be able to take it home to play around with and maybe teach the kids a little coding.. The Compaq was basically the same hardware as an IBM PC but in a luggable case, and I do mean luggable, as John Cleese once compared it to a fish with the Compaq weighing i at 28 pounds. At 28 pounds I didn't bring it home a lot.
Someone is now looking into why it never materialized but the checks were cached.
Were the checks cached in the cloud somewhere ?
Just to offer my contrary experience, 3D has never made my heard hurt.
Yeah, me neither, and it's my opinion that 3D will evolve as the dominant media. Yes, I said it. Dominant. First movies were silent and in black and white. Viewers of the silent documentary "Arrival Of The Tongkin Train" by American Mutascope actually thought the train was going to come out of the screen and run them down.
Then came talkies. The first talking motion picture as almost everyone knows, is "The Jazz Singer" People marveled at the sound, yet many said it was just a passing fad, including many silent film stars whose voices sounded like screeching barn owls, because of the high quality of silent films at the time. Watch D. W. Giffith's " Birth Of A Nation and tell me you don't agree.
And on and on it goes. Talkies, color, wide screen, and now 3D. the tech for 3D may not be optimized as yet, but you did go out and see "Avatar" didn't you? Sooer or later, probably later, 3D will be ubiquitous. Quality films will be produced, without gimmicks, and the film industry won't be the same.
I've been using PopCaps Bejeweled 2 for like forever. I enjoy playing it on my iPhone bettter than on the Facebook site, but with every "improvement" they've come up with, useability is terrible. Don't know if this is Zynga's or PopCap's fault, but it's harder to connect, harder to keep connected, and harder just to sign in with every new iteration. I liked the original version better because it was just easier to forget the mechanics and just play.
I want to say one word to you. Just one word.
Are you listening?
Plastics.
No, because Andy Granatelli's STP would incorporate it as an ingredient
The domain was .JS
I assert that being a geek doesn't mean having to like *everything* associated with geek life. And if you have to FORCE yourself to get into it, you're probably going to take all the fun out of it anyway.
Yes, if you have to force yourself to get into anything it won't be fun, but your views are ONLY your personal assessments. The vast majority of geeks hold the complete opposite view. Me along with them.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these! Jeebus I'm old.
Scientific notation? Oh come now, this is Slash Dot.
Tell Burt Rutan about this. He seems to do well in design.
Is electric flight the way forward?
Why not? All the Armed Forces UAVs use electric motors I believe.
You “pay” attention (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_economy) by clicking over to a site. And if you like what you see on a site, you might mention it to friends, or link to it on your blog or from your website, enhancing its reputation. And since many businesses and netizens have found ways to convert “wealth” in the attention and reputation economies into the kind of wealth that they can deposit in banks, maybe we need to come to a new understanding of free.
Sounds like whuffie to me
godamn grammar Nazi
My cousin is a teacher and she does teach summer school to make ends meet, spends extra hours at school with endless meetings, spends hours at home grading papers, preparing lessons etc. It isn't all beer and skittles my friend.
And video killed the radio star
It's fun, but other than right click to grab objects, what do you do then? Is it just a vacuum cleaner of websites?
I live in Zacatecas and most of the people around here drink Tecate which colloquially translated means "Shit"
Then why is it that VB has the highest market share in Australia. Is most of Australia gay? (Not that there's anything wrong with that))