I just hope this kind of thing will stop the phone integration hell that everyone is riding. Give us simple phones!
Not everyone wants a integrated mess, some of use just want small clean simple phones that work and are dirt cheap. I don't want color screens (or need more like it), cameras, office apps, keyboards......
I just want a very small phone, that gets good battery life, is durable, have a vibrate mode (most every phone has this now), a well thought out phone book, an alarm clock, no protruding antenna.
All this other crap is just that, and makes a phone cost way more then it should, plus make it more buggy, and harder to use.
Fortunately there is some growing movement against integration, there was some study a bit back showing people more and more want their simple phone back. But for now we are forced to get this train wreck of phones since phones with just the basic features are big huge dinosaurs that leave people going for the gadget filled phone just to avoid having a huge clunky phone.
How clueless are you, Chevy is GM. Furthermore nearly all car companies are going with XM, the only one that i can think of right away that is with Sirius is Ford.
Sorry, I was trying to come up with a place in the middle of no where with no water sources. I didn't take the time to reseach a place i just picked one.
Have you ever seen the test on those containers. Where they run locomotives in them, toss them off bridges, hit them with cruise missles. They are plenty strong enough to call industructable.
Nuclear plants are built in places where the conditions are right. Primarily where there is a large source of water for cooling. Usualy big lakes or rivers, sometimes oceans. You need a massive amount of water to keap them going without killing all the fish and such in the water source when the hot water is dumped back in.
Since the location of plants is defined by water, it tends to put them in the same regions where cities grew up, next to lakes and rivers. They try to put them in isolated spots, but by the nature of things, areas around them grow up.
You can't put them in the middle of nebraska cause they don't have a place to get anough water for cooling. Also you want your powersource near the place of use to eliminate losses.
Besides, their is nothing wrong with nuke plants in ones back yard, i would be perfectly happy with such a thing. Far better then any coal plant or similar. It's nuclear, their is nothing to fear, unless you are one with that bizare fear that something that is glassified then incased in indestructable storage containers that are then moved to remote areas has even a remote chance of ever harming you.
I'm sure glad you don't run the government when it comes to such things. People need to stop living in this narrow minded veiw where everything can be done in some crud basic way they like just for their religious veiw points on things.
Government documents should be in the best tool for the job, that serves the needs of people best and allows the message/information they need to convay to be best presented. It's doubtful that all things could be in text, last I knew text files don't handle images and graphics very well.
The world moved past RTF because it didn't give them everything they wanted. The world would suck if documents where in HTML, HTML is for the web, not documents, if someone sent me a document in HTML form there would probably be a bullet heading back at them.
Furthermore things still come back to having to interact with the world. To do that best you have to use what the majority uses for their documents, which is MS office files.
Well at the time they started I highly doubt there was any such options. For good formats or office programs. Furthermore the government has to interface with the outside world. So they still need to use MS office formats since thats what the world uses.
Now I agree, it would be nice for them not to use them, but thats just not practical. I could care less about open source programs and such. I do think that there should be some law requiring programs to use open interchangible file formats. You can make your own, but you have to let 3rd parties have access to the file format, doesn't even need to be for free, just you must allow people to obtain the full information for a reasonable price and such.
What was done in the past, is done and now the goverment is working with that.
Also there is nothing wrong really with the.doc format it works well, as does MS office. MS windows works rather well to. Having this and that problem with one thing is not a reason to toss the whole thing.
You like many miss the fact that OOo is not MS word, and does not have an official bless by MS file format tool to handle.doc files. It doesn't matter how close it might ever be (still way off in my book). If it's not an official deal, it's a no go for the military and most any company. Companies and the Gov. have mountains of files in MS office file formats. They are never going to chance some geek hack with them. They need them to work, and they need to insure what OOo creates works with MS windows since thats what others use.
This is a simple cut and dry reason why people will never go to an open source alternitive, and I highly doubt MS will ever contribute such a key peice to Open Office.
Furthermore, the airforce probably did look at other things, but they were quickly toss for simple reasons like having to retrain users (think about how many people the military has), things like file compatibility, missing apps, their custom apps would need to be re-written and so forth.
Its one thing to look at linux if say you are looking at getting your first computer systems, but once you get the ball rolling, it's very hard to change. That or you can simply look at what it says about linux if even when people get feed up with windows they stick with it compaired to the other options.
is the salt flat driving legal. I know driving on the flats coming out of salt lake city heading to bonniville i was thinking about it, figured thats way ilegal.
Oh and what the fuck is that thing mid way on that stretch on 80, some funky sculpture.
yeah, i'm curious too. If it's 12in diameter and say 2 feet tall from that picture (if it's taking all the vertical space in the frame). Then I come up with it weighing ~800 lbs if made of iron. I would guess it's made of some crazy ceramic type matarial, still don't see it making 1.5 ton, would have to have a density of ~1.0 lb/in^3
it won't have an opposite effect, it would hit people equaly.
And yes, its nice to encourage people to by efficent cars, but they shouldn't need added encouragement, since the car using less gas is their encouragement.
Anyways. You forget road wear, no matter what your milage is, your still putting wear and tear on a road, and clogging it up and so forth. If you drive a whole lot, your using that system more then those who don't use it much. Maybe a person has a car that gets 1 mpg, but only drives to church and the grocery store on sundays in a 5 mile loop. But the person in a Prius drives 1000 miles a week, the person in the prius is using the system much much more.
I think you don't understand the concept of the game for Duke Nukem Forever, the whole game is the waiting, the wondering, the coming up with better and better jokes about duke nukem forever.
More true with the hardware, there isn't much support in software since one shouldn't require support.
Apple is an example of not making money on the software but making it on the hardware. They made a lot of money on me when i bought an OS from them, came fully functional will a heavy aluminum box.
no, he's going to say screw you and find something else, maybe from someone else giving the software out for free.
Basing things on support is horrible. A good peice of software won't need support. If someone has to call you to figure out how to work it, then the software has a problem.
There is probably some forms of support that work, maybe you give the app away for free, but you charge for plugin that add features, or there is some prescription for an aspect of it, like you pay to have the program get feed info all the time (like a tivo like app, or a weather program would need).
But in the end support fails on these ones to, because someone else won't have any intention of being a business, they will just be making something and giving every aspect of it away, and doesn't need support. At that point no free software business model will work.
Pay software will survive though. For one there is less diversity, thus more people using the same app which makes person to person (friends) support work better, and just nice to know that a big chunk of the world is using the same as you, so you get things like "oh hey, my bank lets me download my statements in the format my app uses". Also when something goes wrong with it, there is someone to hold responsible.
People want to buy stuff from solid companies that they know of, and can feel certain that company will be around. Free software doesn't give that. Redhat is probably the most solid company out there for this, and few outside the linux world have ever heard of them, and even then no one looks at them as a company they know for certain will be around even 3 years from now.
The problem here is Bush's stance is BS. Increased Polution controls creates jobs, not destroys. No one gets laid off because a company can't meet some polution reg. The company hires more people to solve these problems. Or they have to buy more stuff from companies that make polution reducing hardware which then makes those companies grow. Bush's stance that reducing polution cost jobs is one of the most mind numbing of his policies. Sadly people tend to not call him on it since people just seam to belive even the dumbest things he says.
Also the idea of loosing a few jobs should never be a concern verses loosing the whole planet.
If there was some company that made a device that did nothing but make polution, that was it's purpose "bobs earth killing device co: All polution, no Purpose" You wouldn't say we shouldn't shut that company down to save 2 jobs at that company. It would be gone over night.
Also by going after companies that polute it gives companies that are clean a foot hold to grow.
Environmental friendliness is a win win all around.
speak for yourself, because of a typo in it i was forced to be turned into a parrot, and others i know too. Not only was the bill not read, it wasn't spell checked either.
yes, matrox is a high quality 2D card maker, and or multi head card maker.
They realize it would be foolish to try to compete with the big 2. That and a large chunk of the people out there don't game, or just simply don't care about FPS and so forth. They just want something that is solid, works, quiet, and not space heater.
Maybe it's because boeing is smart anough to relize that there isn't money in space travel. About the best you can do right now is selling space hardware to others (nasa) or launching commercial satilites.
Space travel lacks one big thing. A true compelling reason that everyone agrees on that makes it needed, and makes it worthwhile, to make money from space travel is all but impossible. If say we ran out of gold on earth, and it became the most important thing to keap life going on earth, and we found some out and space, then you would have something. Until such things happen, it's not going to work. Space tourism will never keap it up since there isn't anough people wanting to go, or have anough money to go. And often people who want to go are those without the money, and those with the money are the ones who don't care to go.
Considering China doesn't really consider it'self communist anymore and just about anyone under 40 goes about life like any american or similar would. Probably not.
Yeah, I don't understand how the heck these are the Holy Grail. Maybe to a few, but I would be pretty sure most of us don't want these to happen.
What you said is correct, and pretty much the reason they won't happen. Just cause it happens in Sci Fi doesn't mean we are trying to head that way. We could have flying cars today, but we don't because they arn't a good thing.
you are building a series hybrid, if your original plan was an EV, now you see you are making a range extending EV, which basicly is a series vehicle with a real small APU.
Your generator doesn't need to be the size of your drive motor, thats the whole idea. You only need a generator that would meet the continuous power requirements for your vehicle. The batteries are there to supply lots of power for accelerations, and to put power on regen.
For your motor, keap in mind the speed it runs and what kind of reduction you can get and and have a ok top end speed, you will find you will have lots of torque. Your problem comes with if you use your truck as a truck, if your going to tow, or hual stuff, you will need high continous power, and at that point you are better off with sticking with the gas engine. This is the problem for Hybrid SUVs and trucks, is getting the gains from hybrids, but keaping the continous power levels there.
Also DC motors just arnt well suited for this kind of thing. Good EVs and hybrids used AC motors for size, control, and power. Also you have to use motors ment for such things, your regular industrial motors out there arn't going to cut it. You need stuff from solectria, brusa, AC propulsion.
oh, and yeah, you could mount a motor you your stock tranny.
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I just hope this kind of thing will stop the phone integration hell that everyone is riding. Give us simple phones!
Not everyone wants a integrated mess, some of use just want small clean simple phones that work and are dirt cheap. I don't want color screens (or need more like it), cameras, office apps, keyboards......
I just want a very small phone, that gets good battery life, is durable, have a vibrate mode (most every phone has this now), a well thought out phone book, an alarm clock, no protruding antenna.
All this other crap is just that, and makes a phone cost way more then it should, plus make it more buggy, and harder to use.
Fortunately there is some growing movement against integration, there was some study a bit back showing people more and more want their simple phone back. But for now we are forced to get this train wreck of phones since phones with just the basic features are big huge dinosaurs that leave people going for the gadget filled phone just to avoid having a huge clunky phone.
Windows XP SP1 fixes this. So it's a non issue.
How clueless are you, Chevy is GM. Furthermore nearly all car companies are going with XM, the only one that i can think of right away that is with Sirius is Ford.
Sorry, I was trying to come up with a place in the middle of no where with no water sources. I didn't take the time to reseach a place i just picked one.
Have you ever seen the test on those containers. Where they run locomotives in them, toss them off bridges, hit them with cruise missles. They are plenty strong enough to call industructable.
Nuclear plants are built in places where the conditions are right. Primarily where there is a large source of water for cooling. Usualy big lakes or rivers, sometimes oceans. You need a massive amount of water to keap them going without killing all the fish and such in the water source when the hot water is dumped back in.
Since the location of plants is defined by water, it tends to put them in the same regions where cities grew up, next to lakes and rivers. They try to put them in isolated spots, but by the nature of things, areas around them grow up.
You can't put them in the middle of nebraska cause they don't have a place to get anough water for cooling. Also you want your powersource near the place of use to eliminate losses.
Besides, their is nothing wrong with nuke plants in ones back yard, i would be perfectly happy with such a thing. Far better then any coal plant or similar. It's nuclear, their is nothing to fear, unless you are one with that bizare fear that something that is glassified then incased in indestructable storage containers that are then moved to remote areas has even a remote chance of ever harming you.
I'm sure glad you don't run the government when it comes to such things. People need to stop living in this narrow minded veiw where everything can be done in some crud basic way they like just for their religious veiw points on things.
Government documents should be in the best tool for the job, that serves the needs of people best and allows the message/information they need to convay to be best presented. It's doubtful that all things could be in text, last I knew text files don't handle images and graphics very well.
The world moved past RTF because it didn't give them everything they wanted. The world would suck if documents where in HTML, HTML is for the web, not documents, if someone sent me a document in HTML form there would probably be a bullet heading back at them.
Furthermore things still come back to having to interact with the world. To do that best you have to use what the majority uses for their documents, which is MS office files.
Well at the time they started I highly doubt there was any such options. For good formats or office programs. Furthermore the government has to interface with the outside world. So they still need to use MS office formats since thats what the world uses.
.doc format it works well, as does MS office. MS windows works rather well to. Having this and that problem with one thing is not a reason to toss the whole thing.
Now I agree, it would be nice for them not to use them, but thats just not practical. I could care less about open source programs and such. I do think that there should be some law requiring programs to use open interchangible file formats. You can make your own, but you have to let 3rd parties have access to the file format, doesn't even need to be for free, just you must allow people to obtain the full information for a reasonable price and such.
What was done in the past, is done and now the goverment is working with that.
Also there is nothing wrong really with the
You like many miss the fact that OOo is not MS word, and does not have an official bless by MS file format tool to handle .doc files. It doesn't matter how close it might ever be (still way off in my book). If it's not an official deal, it's a no go for the military and most any company. Companies and the Gov. have mountains of files in MS office file formats. They are never going to chance some geek hack with them. They need them to work, and they need to insure what OOo creates works with MS windows since thats what others use.
This is a simple cut and dry reason why people will never go to an open source alternitive, and I highly doubt MS will ever contribute such a key peice to Open Office.
Furthermore, the airforce probably did look at other things, but they were quickly toss for simple reasons like having to retrain users (think about how many people the military has), things like file compatibility, missing apps, their custom apps would need to be re-written and so forth.
Its one thing to look at linux if say you are looking at getting your first computer systems, but once you get the ball rolling, it's very hard to change. That or you can simply look at what it says about linux if even when people get feed up with windows they stick with it compaired to the other options.
is the salt flat driving legal. I know driving on the flats coming out of salt lake city heading to bonniville i was thinking about it, figured thats way ilegal.
Oh and what the fuck is that thing mid way on that stretch on 80, some funky sculpture.
yeah, i'm curious too. If it's 12in diameter and say 2 feet tall from that picture (if it's taking all the vertical space in the frame). Then I come up with it weighing ~800 lbs if made of iron. I would guess it's made of some crazy ceramic type matarial, still don't see it making 1.5 ton, would have to have a density of ~1.0 lb/in^3
it won't have an opposite effect, it would hit people equaly.
And yes, its nice to encourage people to by efficent cars, but they shouldn't need added encouragement, since the car using less gas is their encouragement.
Anyways. You forget road wear, no matter what your milage is, your still putting wear and tear on a road, and clogging it up and so forth. If you drive a whole lot, your using that system more then those who don't use it much. Maybe a person has a car that gets 1 mpg, but only drives to church and the grocery store on sundays in a 5 mile loop. But the person in a Prius drives 1000 miles a week, the person in the prius is using the system much much more.
I think you don't understand the concept of the game for Duke Nukem Forever, the whole game is the waiting, the wondering, the coming up with better and better jokes about duke nukem forever.
More true with the hardware, there isn't much support in software since one shouldn't require support.
Apple is an example of not making money on the software but making it on the hardware. They made a lot of money on me when i bought an OS from them, came fully functional will a heavy aluminum box.
no, he's going to say screw you and find something else, maybe from someone else giving the software out for free.
Basing things on support is horrible. A good peice of software won't need support. If someone has to call you to figure out how to work it, then the software has a problem.
There is probably some forms of support that work, maybe you give the app away for free, but you charge for plugin that add features, or there is some prescription for an aspect of it, like you pay to have the program get feed info all the time (like a tivo like app, or a weather program would need).
But in the end support fails on these ones to, because someone else won't have any intention of being a business, they will just be making something and giving every aspect of it away, and doesn't need support. At that point no free software business model will work.
Pay software will survive though. For one there is less diversity, thus more people using the same app which makes person to person (friends) support work better, and just nice to know that a big chunk of the world is using the same as you, so you get things like "oh hey, my bank lets me download my statements in the format my app uses". Also when something goes wrong with it, there is someone to hold responsible.
People want to buy stuff from solid companies that they know of, and can feel certain that company will be around. Free software doesn't give that. Redhat is probably the most solid company out there for this, and few outside the linux world have ever heard of them, and even then no one looks at them as a company they know for certain will be around even 3 years from now.
The problem here is Bush's stance is BS. Increased Polution controls creates jobs, not destroys. No one gets laid off because a company can't meet some polution reg. The company hires more people to solve these problems. Or they have to buy more stuff from companies that make polution reducing hardware which then makes those companies grow. Bush's stance that reducing polution cost jobs is one of the most mind numbing of his policies. Sadly people tend to not call him on it since people just seam to belive even the dumbest things he says.
Also the idea of loosing a few jobs should never be a concern verses loosing the whole planet.
If there was some company that made a device that did nothing but make polution, that was it's purpose "bobs earth killing device co: All polution, no Purpose" You wouldn't say we shouldn't shut that company down to save 2 jobs at that company. It would be gone over night.
Also by going after companies that polute it gives companies that are clean a foot hold to grow.
Environmental friendliness is a win win all around.
speak for yourself, because of a typo in it i was forced to be turned into a parrot, and others i know too. Not only was the bill not read, it wasn't spell checked either.
Parachutes made of paper?
this isn't true. Manned subs have been on the deepest spot of the ocean. So there isn't a real limit.
The real differance is it is way cheaper to make a unmanned sub to do the same.
Maybe she is part Newt.
yes, matrox is a high quality 2D card maker, and or multi head card maker.
They realize it would be foolish to try to compete with the big 2. That and a large chunk of the people out there don't game, or just simply don't care about FPS and so forth. They just want something that is solid, works, quiet, and not space heater.
Maybe it's because boeing is smart anough to relize that there isn't money in space travel. About the best you can do right now is selling space hardware to others (nasa) or launching commercial satilites.
Space travel lacks one big thing. A true compelling reason that everyone agrees on that makes it needed, and makes it worthwhile, to make money from space travel is all but impossible. If say we ran out of gold on earth, and it became the most important thing to keap life going on earth, and we found some out and space, then you would have something. Until such things happen, it's not going to work. Space tourism will never keap it up since there isn't anough people wanting to go, or have anough money to go. And often people who want to go are those without the money, and those with the money are the ones who don't care to go.
Considering China doesn't really consider it'self communist anymore and just about anyone under 40 goes about life like any american or similar would. Probably not.
Yeah, I don't understand how the heck these are the Holy Grail. Maybe to a few, but I would be pretty sure most of us don't want these to happen.
What you said is correct, and pretty much the reason they won't happen. Just cause it happens in Sci Fi doesn't mean we are trying to head that way. We could have flying cars today, but we don't because they arn't a good thing.
you are building a series hybrid, if your original plan was an EV, now you see you are making a range extending EV, which basicly is a series vehicle with a real small APU.
Your generator doesn't need to be the size of your drive motor, thats the whole idea. You only need a generator that would meet the continuous power requirements for your vehicle. The batteries are there to supply lots of power for accelerations, and to put power on regen.
For your motor, keap in mind the speed it runs and what kind of reduction you can get and and have a ok top end speed, you will find you will have lots of torque. Your problem comes with if you use your truck as a truck, if your going to tow, or hual stuff, you will need high continous power, and at that point you are better off with sticking with the gas engine. This is the problem for Hybrid SUVs and trucks, is getting the gains from hybrids, but keaping the continous power levels there.
Also DC motors just arnt well suited for this kind of thing. Good EVs and hybrids used AC motors for size, control, and power. Also you have to use motors ment for such things, your regular industrial motors out there arn't going to cut it. You need stuff from solectria, brusa, AC propulsion.
oh, and yeah, you could mount a motor you your stock tranny.