A Volkswagen TDI-based vehicle will get nearly the same milage as a hybrid, with about the same emmissions, with better torque and around-town drivability, and its a LOT cheaper.
That said, I watched a Toyota Prius running at the Rallye De Quebec last year (SCCA/FIA ProRally), and it was pretty damn quick until its batteries died and it had to run on the measely power the engine makes. On the short stage at the Hippodrome, it was pretty damn cool to see this beefed up rally car go screaming by... with just the sound of tires on gravel.
A pro theif wouldn't waste the time to do that. Most car models have 20-30 different keys, thats it. Someone with dealer contacts can *easily* get a keychain of all the possible keys for a given model in a given year. Doesn't take long in a car to run through 20-30 keys to open the door.
Whats interesting, too, is you can do the math on the number of colors of your car, and the average number of keys per model (generally 20) and figure out the odds of you accidentally driving off with someone else's car in a parking lot.
Happened to me once when I was a kid -- we came out, got in the car and started it, and I told my Mom someone had broken into the car and stolen everything because the car was spotless (and ours certainly wasn't).
Crap dude, you just made me feel so old... certainly the number of people on here who remember/have owned/still own laserdiscs can't be that small.
I still have a stack of forty or so of them at home, and a still functioning player, with at least a dozen titles that I can't get on DVD (how about a high-resolution version of the non-adulterated first three episodes of Star Wars, frame accurate and no compression artifacts?)
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Except officially NASA still has all of them, a fact that can be easily found in a couple Google searches. NASA can't rebuild the Saturn V because there are no sources for most of the electronics it used any more, and there are no launch pads left that can launch them, since they were all converted for Shuttle use. Given the expense in rebuilding the pads and redesigning the flight electronics, they might as well start with a new design. The rest of it isn't rocket science.
I'll put frilly panties on my head and jump around naked with a fake lightsaber if it'll get 85,000 people to sign a petition for me to be in a scene with Natalie Portman.
In fact, lets get 85,000 people to sign a petition for me not to dance around naked.
Um, they've complained since day one about used CD stores. Numerous attempts were made to shut them down, and to make them illegal. Sure, it was ten plus years ago when most of/. was riding bigwheels in their parents driveways, but they most certainly DID do precisely that.
If its just docs you choose to use DRM with, then whats the problem? You choose to do that knowing the limitations because it makes sense for your use case. If thats a problem, you don't use it.
If I, as a company, choose to require all outgoing docs to have DRM, its my need to protect my information thats locking people in, not Microsoft.
And for what its worth, I don't use a speck of Microsoft software outside of work, and wouldn't. But lets get real here.
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I would've put this on the list -- not because it faded as a result of the dot com bust, but its fading was indicitive of the craziness of the dot-com boom in general.
It computes just fine if it makes me more productive. Speed isn't everything, and most people would never notice the difference between a 1.2 ghz and a 2.6ghz processor.
If you didn't have an acoustic coupler, you're a n00b. I remember what a pain in the ass it what when the phone died, and I had to find a replacement phone like the old ATT ones that would fit the damn thing. It was an exciting day when I moved up to a 300 baud modem you could actually plug straight into the phone line. Unfortunately the house wasn't wired with RJ-45 jacks, which was an entirely other issue.
I have a SunBlade 100 sitting under my desk that I've not logged into in a year... the thing was worthless from day one. Sure, it was a $1500 sun workstation, but it was slower than a $400 PC was two years ago. Not the best of the current 64-bit chips? Not even better than a lowly 700mhz PIII was... not even close.
Man, yet another case of/. moderators not thinking...
Anyway, not to be picky, but just because the X-prize is $10m doesn't mean the vehicles are costing $10m.
I'd hazard a guess that not a single one of them will have cost even remotely close to that, when all is said and done. Thats less than the cost of a good business jet which can take advantage of the economies of scale. When you add the cost of the vehicles that fail to those that succeed, the cost of development for a successful private sub-orbital space vehicle might be pretty suprising.
I agree with the general idea of your post though...
Yup. Others had already explained why he was wrong (ie, redshift)... my point was the unusual moderation on the message. Or perhaps the fact that its not such an unusual moderation...
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You're clearly not from Massachusetts. You'd get run off the road if you were only doing 70, and you don't hit "agressive" until you're triple digit.
A Volkswagen TDI-based vehicle will get nearly the same milage as a hybrid, with about the same emmissions, with better torque and around-town drivability, and its a LOT cheaper.
That said, I watched a Toyota Prius running at the Rallye De Quebec last year (SCCA/FIA ProRally), and it was pretty damn quick until its batteries died and it had to run on the measely power the engine makes. On the short stage at the Hippodrome, it was pretty damn cool to see this beefed up rally car go screaming by... with just the sound of tires on gravel.
A pro theif wouldn't waste the time to do that. Most car models have 20-30 different keys, thats it. Someone with dealer contacts can *easily* get a keychain of all the possible keys for a given model in a given year. Doesn't take long in a car to run through 20-30 keys to open the door.
Whats interesting, too, is you can do the math on the number of colors of your car, and the average number of keys per model (generally 20) and figure out the odds of you accidentally driving off with someone else's car in a parking lot.
Happened to me once when I was a kid -- we came out, got in the car and started it, and I told my Mom someone had broken into the car and stolen everything because the car was spotless (and ours certainly wasn't).
Our car was two rows over.
Doesn't work that way if their installer isn't GPL.
Crap dude, you just made me feel so old... certainly the number of people on here who remember/have owned/still own laserdiscs can't be that small.
I still have a stack of forty or so of them at home, and a still functioning player, with at least a dozen titles that I can't get on DVD (how about a high-resolution version of the non-adulterated first three episodes of Star Wars, frame accurate and no compression artifacts?)
Except officially NASA still has all of them, a fact that can be easily found in a couple Google searches. NASA can't rebuild the Saturn V because there are no sources for most of the electronics it used any more, and there are no launch pads left that can launch them, since they were all converted for Shuttle use. Given the expense in rebuilding the pads and redesigning the flight electronics, they might as well start with a new design. The rest of it isn't rocket science.
I'll put frilly panties on my head and jump around naked with a fake lightsaber if it'll get 85,000 people to sign a petition for me to be in a scene with Natalie Portman.
In fact, lets get 85,000 people to sign a petition for me not to dance around naked.
Damn that safe-sex lobby.
A 70+mph roller coaster in the rain is pretty bad, too.
Um, they've complained since day one about used CD stores. Numerous attempts were made to shut them down, and to make them illegal. Sure, it was ten plus years ago when most of /. was riding bigwheels in their parents driveways, but they most certainly DID do precisely that.
Lets not go overboard here...
Now I feel old. Thats what most people had when I was in highschool.
Ouch.
Where does it say *all* docs will be protected?
If its just docs you choose to use DRM with, then whats the problem? You choose to do that knowing the limitations because it makes sense for your use case. If thats a problem, you don't use it.
If I, as a company, choose to require all outgoing docs to have DRM, its my need to protect my information thats locking people in, not Microsoft.
And for what its worth, I don't use a speck of Microsoft software outside of work, and wouldn't. But lets get real here.
Damn you're cool. ;)
I would've put this on the list -- not because it faded as a result of the dot com bust, but its fading was indicitive of the craziness of the dot-com boom in general.
Sadly, most people have never heard of it now...
Its all fun and games until you try to traceroute your keys and get a screen full of *'s or !H's.
Whatever. :) All I know is I had a giant plug with four prongs on it.
It computes just fine if it makes me more productive. Speed isn't everything, and most people would never notice the difference between a 1.2 ghz and a 2.6ghz processor.
If you didn't have an acoustic coupler, you're a n00b. I remember what a pain in the ass it what when the phone died, and I had to find a replacement phone like the old ATT ones that would fit the damn thing. It was an exciting day when I moved up to a 300 baud modem you could actually plug straight into the phone line. Unfortunately the house wasn't wired with RJ-45 jacks, which was an entirely other issue.
I can't see why a blind person would be e-mailing me.
:)
*ba-dum bum!*
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Sex? I've worked right in the middle of MIT, and didn't even know that! Why the hell didn't someone tell me that when I was single!?!?
I have a SunBlade 100 sitting under my desk that I've not logged into in a year... the thing was worthless from day one. Sure, it was a $1500 sun workstation, but it was slower than a $400 PC was two years ago. Not the best of the current 64-bit chips? Not even better than a lowly 700mhz PIII was... not even close.
Man, yet another case of /. moderators not thinking...
Anyway, not to be picky, but just because the X-prize is $10m doesn't mean the vehicles are costing $10m.
I'd hazard a guess that not a single one of them will have cost even remotely close to that, when all is said and done. Thats less than the cost of a good business jet which can take advantage of the economies of scale. When you add the cost of the vehicles that fail to those that succeed, the cost of development for a successful private sub-orbital space vehicle might be pretty suprising.
I agree with the general idea of your post though...
Yup. Others had already explained why he was wrong (ie, redshift)... my point was the unusual moderation on the message. Or perhaps the fact that its not such an unusual moderation...
You know, its a sign of the quality of readers on here that this post got modded to +5, being completely wrong.