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  1. Re:This again? on Toyota Partners With Tesla To Make Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    Electricity also has transmission losses, unless we have superconductor lines carrying them.
    Also can a home charger be used for the Tesla? I know Nissan LEAFs charger costs $2200.

  2. Health concerns on Linux-Based PMP Features Head-Up Display · · Score: 1

    Can this thing explode? Also I feel dizzy when watch something too closely.

  3. Re:So now I can make my foe look like a spammer? on Google's Site Ranking Secrets · · Score: 1

    So maybe it's better just to discount these spam links rather than penalize the linked-to site.

  4. This haptic technology was there in 1996! on PlayStation Sales Halted? · · Score: 4, Informative

    The patent was file in 2000.

    But in 1996 I played with exactly the same kind of haptic technology (or called force feedback) before. It was called Phantom (tm) used in scientific apps:
    http://www.sensable.com/products/phantom_ghost/pre mium6DOF.asp

    For example you can put on a finger thimble and feel a virtual 3D surface.

    I even wrote an SGI program to use it as a flight cnotrol device.

  5. I've seen this kind of technology in 1996 on PlayStation Sales Halted? · · Score: 1

    It was called Phantom (tm) used in scientific apps:
    http://www.sensable.com/products/phantom_gh ost/pre mium6DOF.asp

    For example you can put on a finger thimble and feel a virtual 3D surface.

    I even wrote an SGI program to use it as a flight cnotrol device.

  6. I had a phone interview with Google on Google's Ph.D. Advantage · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The first question they threw at me is a statistics/probability theory one. It's like how many bits you need to randomly assign a number to each person. My math was rather rusty then and failed that. The other ones are developing some algorithms under a very tight space/time constraint or both. I did better on those but still couldn't get an on-site interview.

  7. sounds like work done at Fluent Machines by E Abir on Romancing The Rosetta Stone · · Score: 1

    The idea seems very similar to Eli Abir's, now commercialized at the company of

    Fluent Machines.

  8. Re:Anyone use Velocity? on Jakarta Velocity Tools 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Yes. I love it. We used it for a on-line casino content management system. Basically I rewrote all the old JSPs the JSPs only compute values then invoking the Velocity templates for presentation. Good thing is I stored all the Velocity templates in a database with versioning. So the casino can have a live content release with an development release independently evolving. See Lokitech for details.

  9. Re:It sounds like your job can't be oursourced on Giant Sucking Noise · · Score: 1

    Wrong. Other companies may be doing the same outsourcing and get the same cost savings. And their CEOs may choose to reinvest their $105,000 to increase their productivity and lower their costs, thereby undercutting this company whose CEO choose a fat paycheck. Remember entrepreneurs choose to put off consumption in order to invest and grow their business. So in your case the shareholders may vote to have the $105,000 reinvested.

  10. School vouchers will solve the education problem on Whither America's Technological Edge? · · Score: 1

    As a firm believer of introducing free market competition into public education system, I believe school vouchers will work its magic. Obviously the Superme Court and state of Ohio know that, see:

    http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/06/27/scotus.school. vo uchers/

    http://www.findarticles.com/m1061/2_109/59270719 /p 1/article.jhtml
    AND IT does, in fact, appear that today's voucher programs are succeeding, at least from the perspective of the families taking part in them. Though isolating the deciding factor in improved test scores is a notoriously difficult business, studies by Harvard's Paul E. Peterson and other social scientists have found that students with vouchers perform at least as well--and often much better--than their peers in public schools.(*) Looking at the question from a different angle, John F. Witte of the University of Wisconsin reports that voucher recipients in Milwaukee have resisted the "normal pattern" of declining achievement among inner-city students,

  11. On line Bookmarks only on IE on Ars Technica Reviews Mozilla · · Score: 1

    I use Yahoo Bookmarks. Love it. Only on IE though. Mozilla has
    Bookie project. I once tried to contribute
    but found it hard to get up to speed.

  12. Re:User input could solve problems on Google Juice · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is still prone to abuse. What spammers mark all pages they don't like as crap?

  13. Here is one way to alleviate the bombing. on Google Juice · · Score: 2, Informative

    Google only value page A's vote for page B
    if page A itself is highly ranked. So if some
    site (IP block) is found (either by human or
    clever AI) guilty of blogging, then its rank can be lowered or set to 0 permanently.