First of all FFS put a link to the actual company in the the summary, and don;t just link to a blog talking about it. How hard is that to do? Local Motors
Ok.. its a 3d printed body of a car that slips onto a pre-built electric car chassis (from Renault according to their FAQ). But the big question I have is about this statement in the FAQ:
Does it drive? Hell yeah. Once the 3D-printed car is cleared by U.S. vehicle rules and regulations, it will be drivable on public roads; our goal is to complete this in 2015.
What I don't know about US car regulations is what is needed to certify a car as being able to drive on the road. The classic manufacturers basically get a particular model certified and then stamp out millions that conform to that, and have QA departments that verify what they produce is what the expect to be producing.
But in this case the car is effectively being made from scratch each time on a small jobbing basis. So does that mean that every instance of one of theses cars needs to be certified on a per car basis?
And now they are starting to burn the evidence that one particular class of devices ever existed. In another year we'll all be saying "RT, what was that?"
This is the plot gimmick used in the horrible movie "The Dilemma" starring Vince Vaughn and his fake sound makers to make Dodge electric car engines sound "less gay".
Which, given that there has been moves to add noise to electric vehicles, is art imitating life.
I was at the local dealer during the Livewire tour, (the Livewire being Harley's all electric bike) and like you I wondered how they were going to make the "classic Harley sound". They didn't try, at least in the current version of the product. But it hasn't been released yet, so there's still time.
What I love about the videos on the Livewire website is that they make it sound a bit like Luke Skywalker's Land speeder. Which to me is cool in its own little way.
Mental note: When establishing a questionably legal site for definitely illegal transactions to be made through, don't keep any logs about it, nor your conversations regarding it.
The first rule of Questionably Legal Site is . . . [fill in the blanks]
So unless the electric HD handles like the current motorcycles they make, then it'll probably do fairly well.
I know there are a few niche companies making electric bikes, but its exciting to see a big name brand like HD testing out demonstrator models rather than just sticking to their 2 big pistons until they die of old age and irrelevancy. While I'm sure the other brands have their own electric bike projects in progress, HD seems to be in the lead right now.
Checkout Project Livewire. The bike doesn't even look like a current Harley.
Years ago I saw a doc on Harley Davidson and a part of the design process was ensuring that the bikes made the "correct" HD noise*. What was interesting for a technical perspective was seeing a bike in an anechoic chamber, which had a robot arm waving around an array of microphones so that they could localize sounds emanating from different parts of the bike.
While I had no idea that car manufactures were doing this to such an extreme, it's not surprising when you are selling an image rather than just a product.
* what will be more fun in the future is seeing what the HD sound will be if their electric bike takes off. The reviews I have seen from the test riders have been really positive.
Wait, you mean that picture of Obama shaking hands with Hitler was fake? Gosh, sure could have fooled me.
It's pretty obvious to spot the fakes. If Obama is not wearing his Islamic clothing, or does't have a connection to Kenya and/or Sharia law, then obviously the picture is a fake.
Jeebus Weeps - don't you people have any common sense??????????
There should be a requirement that if you flag a story as false, you have to provide a link to a reputable source refuting it.
Years ago I did this at work when some administrative staff person sent around the chain email warning you not to press a certain sequence of buttons when on your home phone as that would let the bad guys do all sorts of nefarious things. (#90 scam I was nice about it, only replied to the person who originated the email and pointed them to the Snopes article showing the said information was a hoax.
In return, instead of thanks, I got a blistering email about who I was wasting company time by looking at things on the internet. From that, and other attempts to point out wrong things, I have come to the conclusion that some people would rather be in denial to the truth than admit that they were taken in by a hoax, and get very angry when confronted with their own stupidity.
Wine emulates 32-bit Server 2003 fairly well. Hell, Visual C++ 6 works perfectly. For all your legacy crap, it's time for Wine.
You do know that that the name Wine is one of those fancy-pants self-referential recursive bacronyms, don't you? You know.. "Wine Is Not an [fill in the blank]"
One of TFA says 5 stories and the other FA says 6 stories. I guess it all depends on how you like to count. But I am going with 5 stories as that is the number of windows high the apartment block is, and that particular FA seems to be the more authoritative one.
What makes teams smart must be not just the ability to read facial expressions, but a more general ability, known as "Theory of Mind," to consider and keep track of what other people feel, know and believe."
That sounds a whole like Empathy to me, but dressed up in some fancy new clothes.
Perhaps we in the west should start with curbing muslim immigration.
Are you then suggesting that the muslim equivalent of anti-Semitism is an acceptable practice? Limiting immigration because of a person's religion and not because of their character?
Seems to me that I would save that for emergencies. Use the high speed descent to pressurize air for controlling.
While IANARE, The problem with pressurized air as a control mechanism is that it is elastic/compressible (while hydraulic fluid is basically non-elastic/non-compressible). Which means that if you use air your control is basically going to suck big donkey's balls as your control vanes will bounce around in the airstream as the air in the control system acts like a big spring. Thus degrading the landing accuracy of your rocket.
On the other hand hydraulic fluid being stiff means that when you send the control vane to a position it stays there, and the only thing that moves it is a leak or destruction of the vane. Note that they will be some bounce in a hydraulic system, but nowhere near as much as in an air based system.
Now as to the hydraulic fluid in this case being used up, I am guessing that they considered the mass imposed by a collection system and decided, "fuck it, it's too much mass to recycle it, we're just going to dump that shit overboard".
Amazon is an internet logistics company, not a health spa. They solve difficult problems that require sharp thinking and logic. Kissing asses and holding hands isn't part of their business model.
From anecdotes that I have heard, and from speaking to people at companies that set them up, even Amazon's fulfillment centers are not the best places to work either.
Guess your one of those smarter than the rest of the world techs, nerds etc. A colleague confining with others on his life matters and you want to bust balls about how tech Davy you are. 15 maybe? Damn man grow up.
It's been broken and invalid for at least 13 years. No one gives a shit, at least those that can fix it.
Well someone fucked it up good and proper in the last 2 days. The layout is now totally borked on Safari 6.1, whereas at the start of the week it was perfectly fine.
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First of all FFS put a link to the actual company in the the summary, and don;t just link to a blog talking about it. How hard is that to do? Local Motors
Ok .. its a 3d printed body of a car that slips onto a pre-built electric car chassis (from Renault according to their FAQ). But the big question I have is about this statement in the FAQ:
Does it drive?
Hell yeah. Once the 3D-printed car is cleared by U.S. vehicle rules and regulations, it will be drivable on public roads; our goal is to complete this in 2015.
What I don't know about US car regulations is what is needed to certify a car as being able to drive on the road. The classic manufacturers basically get a particular model certified and then stamp out millions that conform to that, and have QA departments that verify what they produce is what the expect to be producing.
But in this case the car is effectively being made from scratch each time on a small jobbing basis. So does that mean that every instance of one of theses cars needs to be certified on a per car basis?
one os for all devices?
And now they are starting to burn the evidence that one particular class of devices ever existed. In another year we'll all be saying "RT, what was that?"
I am thankful for the tach in my Armada when I am towing my boat.
Is there Irony in a vehicle named after a collection of boats, towing an actual boat?
This is the plot gimmick used in the horrible movie "The Dilemma" starring Vince Vaughn and his fake sound makers to make Dodge electric car engines sound "less gay".
Which, given that there has been moves to add noise to electric vehicles, is art imitating life.
The Livewire has more in common with Buell than the conventional Harley models.
As soon as you said Buell I saw the resemblance. It makes me wonder how much of the deign came from a place like Buell and how much was HD in house.
I was at the local dealer during the Livewire tour, (the Livewire being Harley's all electric bike) and like you I wondered how they were going to make the "classic Harley sound". They didn't try, at least in the current version of the product. But it hasn't been released yet, so there's still time.
What I love about the videos on the Livewire website is that they make it sound a bit like Luke Skywalker's Land speeder. Which to me is cool in its own little way.
Mental note: When establishing a questionably legal site for definitely illegal transactions to be made through, don't keep any logs about it, nor your conversations regarding it.
The first rule of Questionably Legal Site is . . . [fill in the blanks]
So unless the electric HD handles like the current motorcycles they make, then it'll probably do fairly well.
I know there are a few niche companies making electric bikes, but its exciting to see a big name brand like HD testing out demonstrator models rather than just sticking to their 2 big pistons until they die of old age and irrelevancy. While I'm sure the other brands have their own electric bike projects in progress, HD seems to be in the lead right now.
Checkout Project Livewire. The bike doesn't even look like a current Harley.
Years ago I saw a doc on Harley Davidson and a part of the design process was ensuring that the bikes made the "correct" HD noise*. What was interesting for a technical perspective was seeing a bike in an anechoic chamber, which had a robot arm waving around an array of microphones so that they could localize sounds emanating from different parts of the bike.
While I had no idea that car manufactures were doing this to such an extreme, it's not surprising when you are selling an image rather than just a product.
* what will be more fun in the future is seeing what the HD sound will be if their electric bike takes off. The reviews I have seen from the test riders have been really positive.
Since Obama became president. See the affordable care act subsidies.
So you're saying that the IRS unilaterally went out and made changes to the tax law without direction from POTUS or Congress?
That this forces simplification of the tax code.
Since when does the IRS decide what the Federal Tax laws are?
Wait, you mean that picture of Obama shaking hands with Hitler was fake? Gosh, sure could have fooled me.
It's pretty obvious to spot the fakes. If Obama is not wearing his Islamic clothing, or does't have a connection to Kenya and/or Sharia law, then obviously the picture is a fake.
Jeebus Weeps - don't you people have any common sense??????????
There should be a requirement that if you flag a story as false, you have to provide a link to a reputable source refuting it.
Years ago I did this at work when some administrative staff person sent around the chain email warning you not to press a certain sequence of buttons when on your home phone as that would let the bad guys do all sorts of nefarious things. (#90 scam I was nice about it, only replied to the person who originated the email and pointed them to the Snopes article showing the said information was a hoax.
In return, instead of thanks, I got a blistering email about who I was wasting company time by looking at things on the internet. From that, and other attempts to point out wrong things, I have come to the conclusion that some people would rather be in denial to the truth than admit that they were taken in by a hoax, and get very angry when confronted with their own stupidity.
Wine emulates 32-bit Server 2003 fairly well. Hell, Visual C++ 6 works perfectly. For all your legacy crap, it's time for Wine.
You do know that that the name Wine is one of those fancy-pants self-referential recursive bacronyms, don't you? You know .. "Wine Is Not an [fill in the blank]"
Jeezus fuck. Its bad enough that we get Dicevertisments, but Diceverticements with Campaign ID's on them?
Anyway this is the direct link to the D Language
Is apparently on the good drugs that doctors don't over-precsribe to us.
And yet summary says 6...
One of TFA says 5 stories and the other FA says 6 stories. I guess it all depends on how you like to count. But I am going with 5 stories as that is the number of windows high the apartment block is, and that particular FA seems to be the more authoritative one.
...to zap smartphones with a beam of light whenever they are not properly silenced.
Screw zapping the phone, the phone doesn't know any better. Zap the user instead.
What makes teams smart must be not just the ability to read facial expressions, but a more general ability, known as "Theory of Mind," to consider and keep track of what other people feel, know and believe."
That sounds a whole like Empathy to me, but dressed up in some fancy new clothes.
Perhaps we in the west should start with curbing muslim immigration.
Are you then suggesting that the muslim equivalent of anti-Semitism is an acceptable practice? Limiting immigration because of a person's religion and not because of their character?
he tweeted
Next rocket landing on drone ship in 2 to 3 weeks w way more hydraulic fluid. At least it shd explode for a diff reason.
Seems to me that I would save that for emergencies. Use the high speed descent to pressurize air for controlling.
While IANARE, The problem with pressurized air as a control mechanism is that it is elastic/compressible (while hydraulic fluid is basically non-elastic/non-compressible). Which means that if you use air your control is basically going to suck big donkey's balls as your control vanes will bounce around in the airstream as the air in the control system acts like a big spring. Thus degrading the landing accuracy of your rocket.
On the other hand hydraulic fluid being stiff means that when you send the control vane to a position it stays there, and the only thing that moves it is a leak or destruction of the vane. Note that they will be some bounce in a hydraulic system, but nowhere near as much as in an air based system.
Now as to the hydraulic fluid in this case being used up, I am guessing that they considered the mass imposed by a collection system and decided, "fuck it, it's too much mass to recycle it, we're just going to dump that shit overboard".
Amazon is an internet logistics company, not a health spa. They solve difficult problems that require sharp thinking and logic. Kissing asses and holding hands isn't part of their business model.
From anecdotes that I have heard, and from speaking to people at companies that set them up, even Amazon's fulfillment centers are not the best places to work either.
Guess your one of those smarter than the rest of the world techs, nerds etc. A colleague confining with others on his life matters and you want to bust balls about how tech Davy you are. 15 maybe? Damn man grow up.
The irony is strong with this one.
It's been broken and invalid for at least 13 years. No one gives a shit, at least those that can fix it.
Well someone fucked it up good and proper in the last 2 days. The layout is now totally borked on Safari 6.1, whereas at the start of the week it was perfectly fine.