two very small, fixed LCDs (OLEDs?) combined with eye tracking (camera?) and a system of small, light mirrors on voice coils. when you move your focus, the mirrors move so that you're still looking at the display.you could combine one high resolution display with multiple lower resolution displays for your peripheral vision, the mirrors could probably be engineered to eliminate the gaps. Are there any ~1" 1080p displays?
Sorry, I thought you were talking about regular reciprocating engines. Yeah, turbine -> generator -> motor is a great idea, at least until we find a long lasting, fast charging, high capacity, inexpensive battery chemistry. Which will probably be a while.
I'm not sure about the batteries in hybrids, but lithium-ions optimized for efficiency are about 90%. Coincidentally, batteries optimized for charge efficiency are also optimized for charge time, since less heat is generated while charging.
There have been a few posts about how easy it is to get on the tarmac. Just put a bomb in a suitcase, go around the back and throw it on one of the luggage trains.
Trains are already diesel electric and ships use variable pitch propellers. If it works well, this could be used for large trucks, I don't see them going electric any time soon.
^2 Would any of A, B or C be forced to invent something new before the clones took off to stay ahead, instead of making one innovation and then sitting on their asses?
He's not trying to tell consumers what to do with their devices. He's telling the manufacturer that consumers should be able to choose what to do with their devices. I still don't entirely agree with him though, I think consumers have enough chioce. If you don't want an iPad, don't buy an iPad.
It my not be trivial, but it's still math. My favourite example of a terrible software patent is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_coding. Say you want to store a string consisting of 'A's, 'B's and 'C's in binary. The fast solution is to map each symbol to a block of bits. eg A -> 00, B -> 01, C -> 10. Obviously, the combination 11 is wasted.
Another solution is to convert to a radix 3 number, (A -> 0, B -> 1, C -> 2) and then change base to binary.
Arithmetic coding is a compression scheme in which if the probabilities of the symbols (A, B and C) are not equal, the radix is increased, and some symbols convert to multiple numbers. for example, if A occurs in the string once, B occurs twice, and C occurs three times, the radix is increased to 6, A is mapped to 0, B is mapped to 1 and 2, and C is mapped to 3, 4 and 5. then, when encoding a symbol with multiple numbers in your message, you can pick the number that takes the least additional number of bits. This is the gist of the technique. There's no code, there's no difficult math, but it's still covered by at least nine patents.
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Fine the shareholders. They'd find the people responsible.
RingTFA now. This seems to be the same one, they just finished up the investigation.
The various tyrannies in power now are the result of regime changes.
two very small, fixed LCDs (OLEDs?) combined with eye tracking (camera?) and a system of small, light mirrors on voice coils. when you move your focus, the mirrors move so that you're still looking at the display .you could combine one high resolution display with multiple lower resolution displays for your peripheral vision, the mirrors could probably be engineered to eliminate the gaps. Are there any ~1" 1080p displays?
Sorry, I thought you were talking about regular reciprocating engines. Yeah, turbine -> generator -> motor is a great idea, at least until we find a long lasting, fast charging, high capacity, inexpensive battery chemistry. Which will probably be a while.
I'm not sure about the batteries in hybrids, but lithium-ions optimized for efficiency are about 90%. Coincidentally, batteries optimized for charge efficiency are also optimized for charge time, since less heat is generated while charging.
The faster you go, the less time you spend going.
There have been a few posts about how easy it is to get on the tarmac. Just put a bomb in a suitcase, go around the back and throw it on one of the luggage trains.
who want to destroy the US just because we've been fucking them up for decades.
FTFY
I don't think you know which came first. The US has been sticking it's collective dick in places where it doesn't belong for a very long time.
...those organs belonged to someone who died from having their organs harvested.
FTFY.
Trains are already diesel electric and ships use variable pitch propellers. If it works well, this could be used for large trucks, I don't see them going electric any time soon.
I'm not sure where he got inefficient either. Brush-less motors approach 95% efficiency, much better than an ICE's ~20%
Ah, so I'm not the only one who looked at GRUB2 and thought "what the fuck is this shit?"
do'h, that should be <devil's advocate>^2, newfags can't triforce^W angle bracket
^2 Would any of A, B or C be forced to invent something new before the clones took off to stay ahead, instead of making one innovation and then sitting on their asses?
The most modern multi-touch is still just a boring old grid of capacitors.
He's not trying to tell consumers what to do with their devices. He's telling the manufacturer that consumers should be able to choose what to do with their devices. I still don't entirely agree with him though, I think consumers have enough chioce. If you don't want an iPad, don't buy an iPad.
They're not suprised when it's pointed out so much as they're supprised they're not above the law.
Parent is incorrect and should be ignored.
FTFY. There is no -1 incorrect mod.
Keyword: Person.
It my not be trivial, but it's still math. My favourite example of a terrible software patent is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_coding. Say you want to store a string consisting of 'A's, 'B's and 'C's in binary. The fast solution is to map each symbol to a block of bits. eg A -> 00, B -> 01, C -> 10. Obviously, the combination 11 is wasted.
Another solution is to convert to a radix 3 number, (A -> 0, B -> 1, C -> 2) and then change base to binary.
Arithmetic coding is a compression scheme in which if the probabilities of the symbols (A, B and C) are not equal, the radix is increased, and some symbols convert to multiple numbers. for example, if A occurs in the string once, B occurs twice, and C occurs three times, the radix is increased to 6, A is mapped to 0, B is mapped to 1 and 2, and C is mapped to 3, 4 and 5. then, when encoding a symbol with multiple numbers in your message, you can pick the number that takes the least additional number of bits. This is the gist of the technique. There's no code, there's no difficult math, but it's still covered by at least nine patents.
check out 0:44. is the the display still working?
if he were running windows, just take out the second and third lines.
So how's your dial-up working out for you?