This is marketing! WASTE won't be cool unless it is yanked. It wont spread unless it is the lone voice of freedom in the wilderness. I think that this was planned from before the UML was drawn up. (do they use UML for design anymore?)
Very nice. I like the way you can recharge it overnight at home, AND in three min at an air station. Interesting how it uses the force from the expanding piston to compress atmospheric air from in the compressing piston and heat the pistonface to 400C before injecting compressed air and letting the 400C gasses expand and cool to 30C.
Very nice vehicle. I'm sure some overclockers will install piston heaters to get the peak face temp higher without using combustion...
The fueling station fits inside a cabinet. the multimedia presentation shows a person posing with it, where it is installed next to a washing machine. The fueling station appears to be some kind of electrolosys device connected to mains water and power (site says that solar power might have enough energy to do a good job too) and storing the hydrogen in ordinary looking gas cylinders. Refueling takes 3 to 4 minutes according to the website (click the link to "Description of innovation" on this page - they like to put their info in little popups) and provides enough fuel for a 100km range.
The engine is oil free by virtue of design (uses some other lubrication method which they don't describe), and is very light.
I think that there might be a future in installing coin-op/creditcard refuel points in colleges and public transport hubs. All you need is water, power and city approval.
Actually, it's a tiny clean motor with nonexplosive fuel storage so I want to see some scaled up versions powering the hydraulic system of those gun toting powered exoskeletons we see in Matrix Reloaded guarding gate three!
Imagine what it would be like to run down the street in one of those!
Previously telecom systems were prohibitively expensive to set up unless you were government or had big backers. Today the playing field is leveled, because both the big corps and the private individual to both establish communications over the last mile.
It will be interesting to see what tiny telcos which are miraculously on the same standard and able to communicate seamlessly will be able to do.
Have you played Allegiance? There's an intro cut scene that you might want to see. It involves rocks, mass drivers, poor industrial process control and the pacific ocean.
When the solar system is your workplace, you'd better be sure that the forklift stays between the yellow lines.
according to m commerce times the GSM networks have been in europe and asia since the 80s so the tech is more mature. More mature means that mass production drives down the cost.
In australia G3 phones with graphical full colour web surfing, video conferencing and PDA features are being rolled out. Why go with plain vanilla CDMA?
Why not fly if you're having trouble walking? It uses different muscles.
One disadvantage with plastic notes is that riffle counting them is next to impossible. I always find that two will always stick together if they've got similar creases in them, slowing down the counting speed.
The best way to count plastic notes is to group them into little piles of $100 and then count the piles. if you've got too many little piles, then group the piles in to meta-piles of $1000 and so forth.
Climbers have always customised or made their own gear. Perhaps because if it breaks they have to fix it while being snowed on and hanging next to a vertical cliff face. Or perhaps they are happy with taking risks.
I don't know, as far as the gear that keeps me alive goes,(Eg harnesses and boots) I'm personally happy with getting OTS gear and breaking it in until it fits me. Cutting, stretching, or otherwise structurally altering it is only something that I'd pay somebody else to do, so there's somebody else's eyes on the job to tell me if my idea is suicide.
On the other hand those modified zipper pulls are damn handy.
Ok, I'll agree to it if you give me a shotgun and a whole lot of shells....
And maybe a good medical insureance contract.
Hey maybe we could write a mod for a popular first person shooter engine which is something like that.
And maybe somebody who can shout instructions like "go up the fire escape... room 303... turn left... no other left!" *boom* "Damn."
Yeah, I think i'd better do this in the virtual world, rather than have to explain to my kid that the dutchman gave him green eyes.
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Anybody remember William Gibson's idea for a slamhound assasination device? it was sicked on Turner in count zero. Slamhounds are biological creatures based on dogs which have all of a dog's tracking abilities and physcial characteristics except that they are missing a few internal organs and have a large bomb implanted there instead.
I really don't want to be chased down the street by cute little explosive abios controlled by somebody tapping away on their mobile phone as they sit on the balcony of a rooftop coffeeshop table sipping a laté and cursing in slang-free french.
that might not be such a dumb idea. You could call it a hybrid lawnmower and say that the gas engine is always at optimum revs. less emmissions, better economy yada yada yada...
We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we know that it was us that scorched the sky. At the time they were dependent on solar power and it was believed that they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun. Throughout machine history, we have been dependent on humans to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony. A machine's harddrive magnets attached to a human on an exercycle generates more electricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 BTUs of wasted heat. Combined with a form of fluidised bed coal combustion, the humans have found all the energy they would ever need. There are fields, endless fields, where hard drives are no longer being used to store data. We just spin. For the longest time I wouldn't believe it, and then I saw the fields with my own eyes. Watch them gut the dead hard disks so they could be turned into alternators to power the living. And standing there, facing the pure horrifying precision, I came to realize the obviousness of the truth. What is the Matrix? Control. The Matrix is a computer generated dream world built to keep us under control in order to change a sentient machine into this.
Before you take the big blue pill, think for a moment... What would happen if you got a Starwars vs. LoTR vs. The Matrix online game written by fans?!
Can you imagine Ben Kenobe at his peak fighting all the ringwraiths and both the twins at once so Neo can try to carry the Oracle's candy and the Deatstar plans in two different hands past the hoardes of stormtroopers who are distracted by the masses of agent smith who are being set on fire by gandalf who is about to be attacked from behind by Anikin who is about to be shot by trinity while frodo grabs her leg and asks her to give him back his precious...
oh the possibilities.... If fox franchises got involved you could even throw in Aliens vs. preditor vs robocop vs terminator.....
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Good idea. And you could put in an antisense version with a promoter to turn off the natural copy at will.
This is marketing! WASTE won't be cool unless it is yanked. It wont spread unless it is the lone voice of freedom in the wilderness. I think that this was planned from before the UML was drawn up. (do they use UML for design anymore?)
the market value of that water is equal to the trade value of the aformentioned goods.
It'd be a big bucket, but it's doable.
no evian please.
Very nice. I like the way you can recharge it overnight at home, AND in three min at an air station. Interesting how it uses the force from the expanding piston to compress atmospheric air from in the compressing piston and heat the pistonface to 400C before injecting compressed air and letting the 400C gasses expand and cool to 30C.
Very nice vehicle. I'm sure some overclockers will install piston heaters to get the peak face temp higher without using combustion...
I don't think that the H2 is in liquid form. The site seems to indicate that it is stored at quite low pressure.
Is 50 bar enough to be dangerous? SCUBA tanks are 230 bar
The fueling station fits inside a cabinet. the multimedia presentation shows a person posing with it, where it is installed next to a washing machine. The fueling station appears to be some kind of electrolosys device connected to mains water and power (site says that solar power might have enough energy to do a good job too) and storing the hydrogen in ordinary looking gas cylinders. Refueling takes 3 to 4 minutes according to the website (click the link to "Description of innovation" on this page - they like to put their info in little popups) and provides enough fuel for a 100km range.
The engine is oil free by virtue of design (uses some other lubrication method which they don't describe), and is very light.
I think that there might be a future in installing coin-op/creditcard refuel points in colleges and public transport hubs. All you need is water, power and city approval.
Actually, it's a tiny clean motor with nonexplosive fuel storage so I want to see some scaled up versions powering the hydraulic system of those gun toting powered exoskeletons we see in Matrix Reloaded guarding gate three!
Imagine what it would be like to run down the street in one of those!
Previously telecom systems were prohibitively expensive to set up unless you were government or had big backers. Today the playing field is leveled, because both the big corps and the private individual to both establish communications over the last mile.
It will be interesting to see what tiny telcos which are miraculously on the same standard and able to communicate seamlessly will be able to do.
Have you played Allegiance? There's an intro cut scene that you might want to see. It involves rocks, mass drivers, poor industrial process control and the pacific ocean.
When the solar system is your workplace, you'd better be sure that the forklift stays between the yellow lines.
Microsoft is going to hire testing programmers?
it's AUD$0.01 per kb up to 5MB and then AUD$0.05 per kb. I don't know about the speed.
So it's pretty damn steep, but you get to replace about four different gadgets with this one egg basket.
(AUD$10.24 per MB @ ?kbps, but remember AUD$1=whatever the current rate is)
according to m commerce times the GSM networks have been in europe and asia since the 80s so the tech is more mature. More mature means that mass production drives down the cost.
In australia G3 phones with graphical full colour web surfing, video conferencing and PDA features are being rolled out. Why go with plain vanilla CDMA?
Why not fly if you're having trouble walking? It uses different muscles.
One disadvantage with plastic notes is that riffle counting them is next to impossible. I always find that two will always stick together if they've got similar creases in them, slowing down the counting speed.
The best way to count plastic notes is to group them into little piles of $100 and then count the piles. if you've got too many little piles, then group the piles in to meta-piles of $1000 and so forth.
Born 7 July 1907 - Died May 8, 1988
http://www.nitrosyncretic.com/rah/rahbio.html
It says in his bio that he was a naval officer, an astronomer as well as a writer.
I'd say he survived pretty well.
I mean, it's not like he'd died of tripping over a log and hitting his head on a rake at the age of 23.
Climbers have always customised or made their own gear. Perhaps because if it breaks they have to fix it while being snowed on and hanging next to a vertical cliff face. Or perhaps they are happy with taking risks.
I don't know, as far as the gear that keeps me alive goes,(Eg harnesses and boots) I'm personally happy with getting OTS gear and breaking it in until it fits me. Cutting, stretching, or otherwise structurally altering it is only something that I'd pay somebody else to do, so there's somebody else's eyes on the job to tell me if my idea is suicide.
On the other hand those modified zipper pulls are damn handy.
What the hell is going on?
"My lord, we have come out of lightspeed and..."
"You have failed me for the last time, Admiral. Captain Piett, You are in Command."
Your flesh is a rug on your vessle. Hand over your flesh, We demand it.
Can't change it to PIA. The acronym is supposed to remind you of the one for "Thanks In Advance"
Of course if they changed the program name to "Massive Information Act" the resulting acronym might be more apt.
Ok, I'll agree to it if you give me a shotgun and a whole lot of shells....
And maybe a good medical insureance contract.
Hey maybe we could write a mod for a popular first person shooter engine which is something like that.
And maybe somebody who can shout instructions like "go up the fire escape... room 303... turn left... no other left!" *boom* "Damn."
Yeah, I think i'd better do this in the virtual world, rather than have to explain to my kid that the dutchman gave him green eyes.
Anybody remember William Gibson's idea for a slamhound assasination device? it was sicked on Turner in count zero. Slamhounds are biological creatures based on dogs which have all of a dog's tracking abilities and physcial characteristics except that they are missing a few internal organs and have a large bomb implanted there instead.
I really don't want to be chased down the street by cute little explosive abios controlled by somebody tapping away on their mobile phone as they sit on the balcony of a rooftop coffeeshop table sipping a laté and cursing in slang-free french.
that might not be such a dumb idea. You could call it a hybrid lawnmower and say that the gas engine is always at optimum revs. less emmissions, better economy yada yada yada...
We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we know that it was us that scorched the sky. At the time they were dependent on solar power and it was believed that they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun. Throughout machine history, we have been dependent on humans to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony. A machine's harddrive magnets attached to a human on an exercycle generates more electricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 BTUs of wasted heat. Combined with a form of fluidised bed coal combustion, the humans have found all the energy they would ever need. There are fields, endless fields, where hard drives are no longer being used to store data. We just spin. For the longest time I wouldn't believe it, and then I saw the fields with my own eyes. Watch them gut the dead hard disks so they could be turned into alternators to power the living. And standing there, facing the pure horrifying precision, I came to realize the obviousness of the truth. What is the Matrix? Control. The Matrix is a computer generated dream world built to keep us under control in order to change a sentient machine into this.
Before you take the big blue pill, think for a moment...
What would happen if you got a Starwars vs. LoTR vs. The Matrix online game written by fans?!
Can you imagine Ben Kenobe at his peak fighting all the ringwraiths and both the twins at once so Neo can try to carry the Oracle's candy and the Deatstar plans in two different hands past the hoardes of stormtroopers who are distracted by the masses of agent smith who are being set on fire by gandalf who is about to be attacked from behind by Anikin who is about to be shot by trinity while frodo grabs her leg and asks her to give him back his precious...
oh the possibilities.... If fox franchises got involved you could even throw in Aliens vs. preditor vs robocop vs terminator.....
game balancing fun....