I didn't read anywhere that they would never, ever sell to individuals.
They're a start-up. Their resources are limited. To conserve their resources they decided initially just to sell to utilities.
Nowhere did I read that, a few years from now when they're larger and have more resources, they won't decide to start selling to individuals, or sell to a distributor that will sell to individuals.
But, no retail. They don't sell to individuals and only deal with utility companies.
Sucks to be an individual, but smart for a new company with a new manufacturing process.
No worrying about individual packaging for individual sales. No free support for thousands of homeowners who know nothing about solar power or home wiring trying to install a new product.
Just selling truck loads of product to a few dozen customers who have their own experienced engineers and are willing to pay for support if they need it.
I forget where I read it, but I recently a news article that mentioned the "Streetlight Effect".
We all know the classic joke. A man is walking down the street when he sees a drunk, on his knees, looking for something under a streetlight. The man stops and asks, "What are you looking for?" and the drunk replies. "My keys." So the man gets down on his knees to help him find his keys.
After a half-hour of fruitless searching the man asks, "Well, where did you lose them?" and the drunk replies, "Over in that alley, but the light's better over here."
We can't find Bin Laden. We can't stop al Qaeda. We can't (won't) secure our borders with Mexico. But we damn well make air travel a living hell for millions of innocent air travelers because, well, the light's better over here.
If you can get past the hype, "The Miracle Seven" by John Peterson has all three (calls them the "Furey Squat" and "Furey Pushup", but same thing) plus a lot of other good bodyweight and dynamic resistance exercises. Peterson has some other books out, but they're more expensive and don't add a lot to what's in "The Miracle Seven".
Also, there are videos on YouTube. Search for "Hindu Squat", "Hindu Pushup" and "Back Bridge".
Then you can play original XBox games (which are cheap now), run emulators to play old NES and SNES games and run XBMC so you can use it as your multimedia center.
You forgot to mention their joint development project with NASA to develop LOX/methane fueled rocket engines and their contract with the Rocket Racing League to design and build the first generation of rocket X-Racers.
But aside from that you're right on the money. XCOR isn't some new upstart company; they've been in this business for a long time and take a long-term view towards development. Suborbital vehicle development is just the next step, not the beginning nor the end.
as I understand it, single-cylinder Stirling engines are not self-starting. I wonder how MSI gets around that.
I also notice that the heat-pipe going to the radiator is on the hot side of the Stirling engine. So as the heat is dissipated by the radiator, the hot side of the engine cools down, which causes the engine to slow down. I know eventually it will reach some equilibrium speed, but I wonder how hot the CPU must be to power the engine. Maybe it would be better to put the heat-pipe to the radiator on the cool side of the engine?
i think we should be welcoming this, this way novell ibm and the rest of the linux community will get every penny of the money they're owned,
I'm not saying this is necessarily a bad thing. The purpose of bankrupty court is to either allow a business to reorganize and get back on it's feet or go into Chapter 7 and liquidate.
An honest deal to invest money in SCO and help them out of Chapter 11 so that they can have their day in court should be welcomed.
But this is SCO we're talking about. What are the chances for an "honest deal"? Probably between fat and slim.
Right now they can't buy paperclips without Judge Gross's permission (ok, I'm exaggerating, but only a little).
The US Trustee, Novell and IBM are all going to over the plan with a fine-tooth comb and the judge isn't going to approve it just on SCO's say-so. This could be like the York deal that SCO tried to push though last year, all smoke and mirrors.
So don't go getting your shorts in a bunch just yet.
It's called appropriate technology. Sure, converting solar energy directly into electricity is better, but meanwhile you've got all those coal plants sitting there spewing out pollution and CO2 for years and years while you're switching over to solar. What are you going to do about that? (and affordable solar always seems to be 10 to 20 years in the future, it's almost as bad as fusion.)
As I understand it, the infrared detector on the Wii remote is basically a camera with an IR filter in front of it.
Potentially you could just use a webcam with an IR filter in front of it instead of a Wii remote.
Note: 1) there is usually a filter to filter out IR inside most webcams, so that would have to be removed. 2) IR emitter tracking would have to be done on the PC instead of inside the Wii remote.
just open it up and say "create an autonomous tank and the winner gets $14 million dollars."
Sometimes that works and sometimes it doesn't. They've had three "Challenges" now and they they still don't have a real autonomous vehicle. Just something that, on a good day, might finish a closed course.
So what they've done is actually kinda smart. They've had the Urban Challenge and identified the most promising teams, and now they're funding the first prize winner to develop a "robo-tank". Best of both worlds.
Personally, I think if they were really smart, they'd also fund Stanford and Virgina Tech, the second and third place winners. It hedges their bets and if nothing else it adds a little incentive to any future Challenges.
But the Louisiana Purchase was considered unconstitutional by many and the purchase of Alaska (aka, Seward's Folly) was considered a waste of money at the time. The wisdom of both purchases was only vindicated in hindsight.
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I didn't read anywhere that they would never, ever sell to individuals.
They're a start-up. Their resources are limited. To conserve their resources they decided initially just to sell to utilities.
Nowhere did I read that, a few years from now when they're larger and have more resources, they won't decide to start selling to individuals, or sell to a distributor that will sell to individuals.
But, no retail. They don't sell to individuals and only deal with utility companies.
Sucks to be an individual, but smart for a new company with a new manufacturing process.
No worrying about individual packaging for individual sales. No free support for thousands of homeowners who know nothing about solar power or home wiring trying to install a new product.
Just selling truck loads of product to a few dozen customers who have their own experienced engineers and are willing to pay for support if they need it.
Actually this comes from an old Sufi (Islamic) 'teaching' story and is ascribed to the Mullah Nasrudin.
Heh, that reminds me of Ensign Chekov.
"Da, I have heard of dis story. It was inwented by a Russian."
Kidding.
I forget where I read it, but I recently a news article that mentioned the "Streetlight Effect".
We all know the classic joke. A man is walking down the street when he sees a drunk, on his knees, looking for something under a streetlight. The man stops and asks, "What are you looking for?" and the drunk replies. "My keys." So the man gets down on his knees to help him find his keys.
After a half-hour of fruitless searching the man asks, "Well, where did you lose them?" and the drunk replies, "Over in that alley, but the light's better over here."
This sort of security theater reminds me of that joke.
We can't find Bin Laden. We can't stop al Qaeda. We can't (won't) secure our borders with Mexico. But we damn well make air travel a living hell for millions of innocent air travelers because, well, the light's better over here.
If you can get past the hype, "The Miracle Seven" by John Peterson has all three (calls them the "Furey Squat" and "Furey Pushup", but same thing) plus a lot of other good bodyweight and dynamic resistance exercises. Peterson has some other books out, but they're more expensive and don't add a lot to what's in "The Miracle Seven".
Also, there are videos on YouTube. Search for "Hindu Squat", "Hindu Pushup" and "Back Bridge".
Isn't Asus suppose to be releasing their Asus Box B202 about now?
What's up with that?
Speaking of chairs.
Anyone have any good or bad experiences with this company?
Link to Ext4 entry on Wikipedia for people who aren't familar with it (like me).
If you're collecting stirling engine websites, check out Jim Symanski's stirlings. Especially the Jim Dandy #6; 2.5HP and runs on wood.
... and softmod it.
Then you can play original XBox games (which are cheap now), run emulators to play old NES and SNES games and run XBMC so you can use it as your multimedia center.
You forgot to mention their joint development project with NASA to develop LOX/methane fueled rocket engines and their contract with the Rocket Racing League to design and build the first generation of rocket X-Racers.
But aside from that you're right on the money. XCOR isn't some new upstart company; they've been in this business for a long time and take a long-term view towards development. Suborbital vehicle development is just the next step, not the beginning nor the end.
Sending one person on a one-way trip to Mars isn't exploration, it's a publicity stunt.
And a morbid one at that.
as I understand it, single-cylinder Stirling engines are not self-starting. I wonder how MSI gets around that.
I also notice that the heat-pipe going to the radiator is on the hot side of the Stirling engine. So as the heat is dissipated by the radiator, the hot side of the engine cools down, which causes the engine to slow down. I know eventually it will reach some equilibrium speed, but I wonder how hot the CPU must be to power the engine. Maybe it would be better to put the heat-pipe to the radiator on the cool side of the engine?
i think we should be welcoming this, this way novell ibm and the rest of the linux community will get every penny of the money they're owned,
I'm not saying this is necessarily a bad thing. The purpose of bankrupty court is to either allow a business to reorganize and get back on it's feet or go into Chapter 7 and liquidate.
An honest deal to invest money in SCO and help them out of Chapter 11 so that they can have their day in court should be welcomed.
But this is SCO we're talking about. What are the chances for an "honest deal"? Probably between fat and slim.
SCO is proposing to go private.
Right now they can't buy paperclips without Judge Gross's permission (ok, I'm exaggerating, but only a little).
The US Trustee, Novell and IBM are all going to over the plan with a fine-tooth comb and the judge isn't going to approve it just on SCO's say-so. This could be like the York deal that SCO tried to push though last year, all smoke and mirrors.
So don't go getting your shorts in a bunch just yet.
Of course you realize you are talking about the DHS.
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It's called appropriate technology. Sure, converting solar energy directly into electricity is better, but meanwhile you've got all those coal plants sitting there spewing out pollution and CO2 for years and years while you're switching over to solar. What are you going to do about that? (and affordable solar always seems to be 10 to 20 years in the future, it's almost as bad as fusion.)
As I understand it, the infrared detector on the Wii remote is basically a camera with an IR filter in front of it.
Potentially you could just use a webcam with an IR filter in front of it instead of a Wii remote.
Note: 1) there is usually a filter to filter out IR inside most webcams, so that would have to be removed. 2) IR emitter tracking would have to be done on the PC instead of inside the Wii remote.
just open it up and say "create an autonomous tank and the winner gets $14 million dollars."
Sometimes that works and sometimes it doesn't. They've had three "Challenges" now and they they still don't have a real autonomous vehicle. Just something that, on a good day, might finish a closed course.
So what they've done is actually kinda smart. They've had the Urban Challenge and identified the most promising teams, and now they're funding the first prize winner to develop a "robo-tank". Best of both worlds.
Personally, I think if they were really smart, they'd also fund Stanford and Virgina Tech, the second and third place winners. It hedges their bets and if nothing else it adds a little incentive to any future Challenges.
Where's "+1 Sarcasm" when you need it?
I stand corrected.
Of course my point was that Microsoft and Apple aren't the only companies that want to sell you a all-in-one media center solution.
Microsoft wants to compete with basically every technology company out there. Not necessarily unlike Apple.
Or Sony. Although Sony doesn't have a cellphone and has the PSP instead of an MP3 player. They already have wifi connectivity between the PSP and PS3.
Well, I meant recently.
But the Louisiana Purchase was considered unconstitutional by many and the purchase of Alaska (aka, Seward's Folly) was considered a waste of money at the time. The wisdom of both purchases was only vindicated in hindsight.