This is a modified product and the original is actually called The One Wheel (or Urban Glider or one of 6 other names since it's a Chinese import). This is a double the price rip off of it. It has a balancing gyroscope that makes it not torque you off backwards or torque steer into a tree. It also has an engine-braking limiter for downhill. Like 35 degrees though and you'd still die before the bottom, lol. It's virtually impossible to crash this thing. I tried. I couldn't crash it. I was riding the original though, which is a side-pegged one instead of front to back. If I recall, it's well over 1000 watts total output. The battery is pretty bad ass and the charger requires its own cooling fan and draws like 8 amps or something. So trust me, power isn't a big thing. To be sporty, I wish it went faster but the manufacturer said that any more power would not be able to be compensated by the gyroscope. In other words, it'd kick you off if it had more power. But it seriously feels pretty fast.
I've tried both this and the actual device that's called The One Wheel (law suit pending I'm sure) which has pegs on the side instead. That is MUCH easier to balance. I have exceptional balance but I strongly preferred this one. Oh and it's half the price and uses the same battery and charging system. That one had quicker acceleration too because you didn't risk scraping any structure on the back.
I just realized that the video features the revised edition of The One Wheel and their website is down but take my work for it, their original prototype (which btw is bullshit, a Chinese company invented it) is actually the same body and engine and charger as the Urban Glider.
My friend actually is importing from the same supplier as The One Wheel so it's literally the same device. Since he's just one ex computer technician in one location, he's selling em for like $750 or something. I tried it and it kicks ass. It's not hard to balance but then again I'm really good at kickboxing and dance dance revolution lol. Check his out at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
and http://urbangliders.com/
Or just keep using completely safe fiberglass as a not so strong but almost as light alternative like they have been for years in race cars. In fact, you know what's usually around the carbon fiber layers in cars? Fiberglass or at least the same epoxy that they use to make it.
Which is also helped by a corn farming subsidy. Both of them are from the government funds which come out of my pocket as a tax payer so I pay for 100% of the price reduction anyway. So it's actually much worse overall.
Yeah, I looked into financial aid. I got partial coverage because I was poor but unfortunately I was born a white male so there goes everything else. It's a shame I'm not a single parent black female or I'd have a free ride. Good grades and being incredibly intelligent don't get you a damn thing when it comes to scholarships.
On the other hand, if he doesn't give a fuck because this is the internet and actually has exceptional interpersonal skills, especially for an IT workers, in normal day to day operations then you'd be wrong, wouldn't you?
I work 25 hours as CIO of a 150 person landscaping company with 50 PCs and 3 servers and work 27 hours at a computer repair company that I started myself and currently solely own. I put most of my competition out of business by being faster and better and simply keeping up on the latest virus and hardware trends. Why didn't I start my own software design company in the middle of Wisconsin? Maybe because I'm not an idiot. I did complete a paid project on my own for a software suite to dump XML data into 3 proprietary Access databases for dog agility trial scoring and ranking management right after college and loved the project. It still didn't lead to a job though despite the software being flawless and needing zero patches for years. So considering I'm 26, I'd say things works out appropriately but I'm still pissed that nobody let me work in software programming because of their inaccurate misconceptions about colleges.
I'm the CIO of my company and we don't hire rich kids. They're spoiled, self-important, arrogant assholes who don't listen to instruction. So if mommy and daddy sent you to a $50,000 a year college, good fucking luck getting a job with someone like me who is wise enough to avoid you. You're automatically disqualified. Unfortunately, most of the world is too stupid to see things the way I do. I got 2 degrees from a local but extremely good technical school. Immediately after that I won several programming competitions and on a national Tek Systems/Aerotek exam I beat 88% of their programmers worldwide. So I'm one of the best programmers anyone could hope to hire. Unfortunately, I'm CIO now instead because NOBODY would hire me as a programmer without a degree from a more expensive school. That's right, they ignored my actual proven ability to do the job in favor of someone who went to a better college because their parents had more money. What a load of shit.
My parents' new car can take E85. It can be filled up a lot cheaper on that fuel but it gets exactly that reduction in gas mileage making it break even. So it's a wash except the lower chemical energy lowers the horsepower. So they don't fill it up with E85. It's a stupid idea and it's wasting corn and upping food prices. We need electric cars that are sourced by fusion power plants.
The other problem is every school already switched to Google Docs. Even at educational discounts, the copies of Office 2013 often cost more than the computers themselves if they want Access and Publisher.
"Good news for HP: Profits are up by 18% over the previous year!"
How the hell is that good news?! Everyone in the tech industry wants them dead. They've been making the highest defect percentage laptops for over a decade. Their desktops are 2nd worst next to emachines. Their tech support is rated worst in the entire industry. Their printers have the highest defect rate and highest TCO out of any brand. Their company is a disease! Who the fuck wrote that?
"Currently, data cannot be directly overwritten onto the NAND chips used in the devices. Files must be written to a clean area of the drive whilst the old area is formatted"
Am I the only one that knows that's not remotely true? I don't even know where to start. So the SSD wants to write to location 0x00000032 but it's occupied by old data. First of all, no it isn't. TRIM already took care of that. But let's say you're using the SSD in Windows XP so TRIM doesn't work. So they claim the SSD writes data to a blank location on the drive temporarily, then erases the original intended location and later moves it back to that location to be contiguous? What's so damn special about that location? Just leave it in the blank location. They claim that causes fragmentation, which has no impact on the performance of an SSD in any way.
This is a useless invention from people who don't know how SSDs work.
Dear Microsoft,
I can type 100WPM on my desktop keyboard, it doesn't have a battery, it has a 25" screen, can run Photoshop, can run all of our custom 3rd party corporate software, can properly be controlled by group policies, has a 0% chance that I will drop it, and has a useable life rating of greater than 2 years, unlike your tablet. So no, fuck you, you're wrong. I want a damn desktop PC and so does everyone who's not an idiot.
I really, really hope that Oculus gets basically shut down as a company. That would mean the most damage ever done to Facebook would be by Facebook itself, which would be hilarious and not remotely surprising. After they privacy violations and what an unbearable douchebag their CEO is, they deserve it.
I love how UFO believers still exist. We literally have flying discs. I think you can buy them on Thinkgeek. With all the crap we have flying around up there like drones and satellites and secret planes and hobbyist stuff and rockets and balloons, the FIRST place they do is still "must be aliens."
Yeah, SURPRISE! Nobody likes your crappy operating system. I certainly didn't find it surprising. How can they look at their sales numbers and find this surprising at this point?
Everyone who supports it gets a free Mr Fusion when it's done! Just kidding, but that would be cool though. You know, I have a feeling that those ITER morons are just a bulky, overly expensive disaster run by an idiot and it's a gigantic money pit. They're like Solyndra. It should work in theory but it's too expensive and run by morons. I also don't believe LPP Fusion though. It sounds like they have an idea that MIGHT work and they're phrasing it like it's a done deal and they just need the cash to build it.
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Same battery, bro. Same manufacturer.
This is a modified product and the original is actually called The One Wheel (or Urban Glider or one of 6 other names since it's a Chinese import). This is a double the price rip off of it. It has a balancing gyroscope that makes it not torque you off backwards or torque steer into a tree. It also has an engine-braking limiter for downhill. Like 35 degrees though and you'd still die before the bottom, lol. It's virtually impossible to crash this thing. I tried. I couldn't crash it. I was riding the original though, which is a side-pegged one instead of front to back. If I recall, it's well over 1000 watts total output. The battery is pretty bad ass and the charger requires its own cooling fan and draws like 8 amps or something. So trust me, power isn't a big thing. To be sporty, I wish it went faster but the manufacturer said that any more power would not be able to be compensated by the gyroscope. In other words, it'd kick you off if it had more power. But it seriously feels pretty fast.
...and then crash your website by going over its bandwidth limit :P
I happen to know this one supports approx a 350 lb person though and technically you're riding on air (inside a tire, lol).
I've tried both this and the actual device that's called The One Wheel (law suit pending I'm sure) which has pegs on the side instead. That is MUCH easier to balance. I have exceptional balance but I strongly preferred this one. Oh and it's half the price and uses the same battery and charging system. That one had quicker acceleration too because you didn't risk scraping any structure on the back.
I just realized that the video features the revised edition of The One Wheel and their website is down but take my work for it, their original prototype (which btw is bullshit, a Chinese company invented it) is actually the same body and engine and charger as the Urban Glider.
My friend actually is importing from the same supplier as The One Wheel so it's literally the same device. Since he's just one ex computer technician in one location, he's selling em for like $750 or something. I tried it and it kicks ass. It's not hard to balance but then again I'm really good at kickboxing and dance dance revolution lol. Check his out at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
and
http://urbangliders.com/
Or just keep using completely safe fiberglass as a not so strong but almost as light alternative like they have been for years in race cars. In fact, you know what's usually around the carbon fiber layers in cars? Fiberglass or at least the same epoxy that they use to make it.
Which is also helped by a corn farming subsidy. Both of them are from the government funds which come out of my pocket as a tax payer so I pay for 100% of the price reduction anyway. So it's actually much worse overall.
Yeah, I looked into financial aid. I got partial coverage because I was poor but unfortunately I was born a white male so there goes everything else. It's a shame I'm not a single parent black female or I'd have a free ride. Good grades and being incredibly intelligent don't get you a damn thing when it comes to scholarships.
On the other hand, if he doesn't give a fuck because this is the internet and actually has exceptional interpersonal skills, especially for an IT workers, in normal day to day operations then you'd be wrong, wouldn't you?
All IT workers swear. If they don't, they're probably a sociopath and serial killer.
I work 25 hours as CIO of a 150 person landscaping company with 50 PCs and 3 servers and work 27 hours at a computer repair company that I started myself and currently solely own. I put most of my competition out of business by being faster and better and simply keeping up on the latest virus and hardware trends. Why didn't I start my own software design company in the middle of Wisconsin? Maybe because I'm not an idiot. I did complete a paid project on my own for a software suite to dump XML data into 3 proprietary Access databases for dog agility trial scoring and ranking management right after college and loved the project. It still didn't lead to a job though despite the software being flawless and needing zero patches for years. So considering I'm 26, I'd say things works out appropriately but I'm still pissed that nobody let me work in software programming because of their inaccurate misconceptions about colleges.
I'm the CIO of my company and we don't hire rich kids. They're spoiled, self-important, arrogant assholes who don't listen to instruction. So if mommy and daddy sent you to a $50,000 a year college, good fucking luck getting a job with someone like me who is wise enough to avoid you. You're automatically disqualified. Unfortunately, most of the world is too stupid to see things the way I do. I got 2 degrees from a local but extremely good technical school. Immediately after that I won several programming competitions and on a national Tek Systems/Aerotek exam I beat 88% of their programmers worldwide. So I'm one of the best programmers anyone could hope to hire. Unfortunately, I'm CIO now instead because NOBODY would hire me as a programmer without a degree from a more expensive school. That's right, they ignored my actual proven ability to do the job in favor of someone who went to a better college because their parents had more money. What a load of shit.
My parents' new car can take E85. It can be filled up a lot cheaper on that fuel but it gets exactly that reduction in gas mileage making it break even. So it's a wash except the lower chemical energy lowers the horsepower. So they don't fill it up with E85. It's a stupid idea and it's wasting corn and upping food prices. We need electric cars that are sourced by fusion power plants.
The other problem is every school already switched to Google Docs. Even at educational discounts, the copies of Office 2013 often cost more than the computers themselves if they want Access and Publisher.
"Good news for HP: Profits are up by 18% over the previous year!"
How the hell is that good news?! Everyone in the tech industry wants them dead. They've been making the highest defect percentage laptops for over a decade. Their desktops are 2nd worst next to emachines. Their tech support is rated worst in the entire industry. Their printers have the highest defect rate and highest TCO out of any brand. Their company is a disease! Who the fuck wrote that?
"Currently, data cannot be directly overwritten onto the NAND chips used in the devices. Files must be written to a clean area of the drive whilst the old area is formatted"
Am I the only one that knows that's not remotely true? I don't even know where to start. So the SSD wants to write to location 0x00000032 but it's occupied by old data. First of all, no it isn't. TRIM already took care of that. But let's say you're using the SSD in Windows XP so TRIM doesn't work. So they claim the SSD writes data to a blank location on the drive temporarily, then erases the original intended location and later moves it back to that location to be contiguous? What's so damn special about that location? Just leave it in the blank location. They claim that causes fragmentation, which has no impact on the performance of an SSD in any way.
This is a useless invention from people who don't know how SSDs work.
Dear Microsoft,
I can type 100WPM on my desktop keyboard, it doesn't have a battery, it has a 25" screen, can run Photoshop, can run all of our custom 3rd party corporate software, can properly be controlled by group policies, has a 0% chance that I will drop it, and has a useable life rating of greater than 2 years, unlike your tablet. So no, fuck you, you're wrong. I want a damn desktop PC and so does everyone who's not an idiot.
I really, really hope that Oculus gets basically shut down as a company. That would mean the most damage ever done to Facebook would be by Facebook itself, which would be hilarious and not remotely surprising. After they privacy violations and what an unbearable douchebag their CEO is, they deserve it.
I love how UFO believers still exist. We literally have flying discs. I think you can buy them on Thinkgeek. With all the crap we have flying around up there like drones and satellites and secret planes and hobbyist stuff and rockets and balloons, the FIRST place they do is still "must be aliens."
If it might not fire when I pull the trigger, I'm 100% against it. So I'm surprised they backpedaled. They certainly hate the idea as much as I do.
Yeah, SURPRISE! Nobody likes your crappy operating system. I certainly didn't find it surprising. How can they look at their sales numbers and find this surprising at this point?
Everyone who supports it gets a free Mr Fusion when it's done! Just kidding, but that would be cool though. You know, I have a feeling that those ITER morons are just a bulky, overly expensive disaster run by an idiot and it's a gigantic money pit. They're like Solyndra. It should work in theory but it's too expensive and run by morons. I also don't believe LPP Fusion though. It sounds like they have an idea that MIGHT work and they're phrasing it like it's a done deal and they just need the cash to build it.
So it can't detect homemade, low density weapons like non-metals and it will cause cancer. Sounds like a great idea.