This is the New York Taxi Commission that we're talking about here, ridiculous doesn't even begin to describe their rules and regulations. They're an entrenched interest in New York with a legally granted monopoly going back a century or more. They're not going to roll over without a fight, no matter how ridiculous their rules might seem. If you thought that the entertainment industry was stuck in the last century, wait until you see these guys.
I use it all the time in DC. I probably use it more because of the fact the DC government doesn't like it.
Although it's not widely known among the general public, Washington DC is one of the last remaining large municipal markets here in the United States without a medallion system. In more heavily regulated cities, like New York, a medallion issued by the taxi commission and limited to a set number of cabs is required to pick up fares hailed from the street. Of course, certain special interests and their hired lobbyists are working to change that, to the detriment of consumers and independent operators, but until they do very little besides a valid drivers license is required to operate a cab in DC.
Worked long in the software business? Badly designed systems with crappy code are routine whereas well designed systems with good code are the exception. Writing good quality software is much harder than most people think and all the more so when constraints of time and budget are thrown into the mix.
It's going to be a cluster anyway, that's just how startups are. If yours somehow survives the first six months followed by another year then maybe you're on to something; otherwise it's game over and insert coins to continue.
which ultimately means more expensive tools for people like you who do know programming.
Unlike other professional activities, which often do require some substantial up front investments in tools and equipment, the only tool that's absolutely indispensable to a professional coder, a computer, can be had for less than $1000 dollars or even less than $500 for a decent used desktop (ex-corporate workstation). After the computer is available, the necessary software tools can mostly be had for free or a very nominal fee. Forking over additional cash for programming courses or a subscription to Safari can also help move things along. However, even with all of these resources, becoming a good coder takes talent, patience, perseverance, experience (gained through extensive practice) and most of all time. It's not something that comes easily or quickly to most people and many of them eventually give up after dabbling for a few months. If you doubt that, look at the pass rate for the basic "introduction to programming" course offered in any CS program. It's usually the first course in the subject that prospective students take and it serves to separate the wheat from the chaff. Failure to pass this course after multiple serious attempts is usually a reliable signal that CS in general and programming in particular are not in a student's professional future or at least not as a primary occupation (note: this is not the same as the "intro to cs" course that's offered to non-majors). Sometimes I think that the politicians out there promoting "lets teach everyone to program" don't fully appreciate that and how difficult, demanding (and boring) the profession can be to those are neither interested nor able. All they see are "good paying jobs" without ever asking themselves why the jobs pay so well in the first place. If it were that easy, everyone would be doing it.
The last time that China had a serious uprising the protesters were machine gunned in the streets and nothing changed. In China those who complain are dealt with quickly and severely. A Chinese person can be disappeared for speaking out. If you're a foreigner, they probably just kick you out of the country after confiscating all your data storage devices. Protesting in China is dangerous and in a very immediate sort of way.
Both of the original Baldur's Gate games had multiplayer functionality way back then.
Yes. Like many other games both then and now, the Baldur's Gate games did indeed have a rudimentary multiplayer mode. How many people actually used it? Probably very few. These were afterthought features, thrown in because the people signing the checks said that the game had to support multiplayer. The multiplayer in the BG games was rough and it showed. I tried it a couple of times and then never used it again. I suspect that most other players didn't bother with it either since Baldur's Gate was always about the storyline and the NPCs, not multiplayer.
Either that or it bogs down what would otherwise be an excellent game with onerous multiplayer development and support.
Indeed. Arcanum is an example of a game which may have suffered somewhat from extra effort necessary to support rarely used multiplayer features. It was and remains a good game in my opinion, but it could have been excellent if not for a few UI issues and some rather annoying quest bugs. As you said, some games benefit and others are harmed by these features. It takes a gamer and designer, who's played many different types of games over the years, to have the wisdom and knowledge necessary to tell the difference. The CEO of EA would do better sticking to the business side of things and insulating his talented developers from meddling from executives and others who fancy themselves "game designers".
There are rumors that BioWare is working on a modernization of the Baldur's Gate saga, beginning with the 1st game and it's expansions. A game like Baldur's Gate is an entirely different proposition than a multiplayer online shooting game. It makes essentially zero sense to waste time adding multiplayer to the Baldur's Gate games because the characters, dialog and story are meant to be savored, like a good novel or a fine wine, at one's leisure. If people want stupid minors and their juvenile pranks, they will play World of Warcraft instead. Frank Gibeau is an idiot for saying that "every game must have an online component". He just doesn't get it. Other than patches and updates, there are many great games, particularly adventure and story based games, that need no "online component" and are in fact diminished by attempts to add them. This is especially true when those efforts come at the expense of extra work on the character interactions, plots and more time spent on good story telling and dialog options. People want to suspend their disbelief and immerse themselves in the world of the game, they want to become their character, and it's difficult to do that when someone else is being stupid and spoiling the whole experience, as would happen with the "online component" in these games. Hopefully EA will be smart and not meddle in the Baldur's Gate modernizations. Remember Frank that we're watching and we will not forget it if you ruin or otherwise diminish any remake of the greatest RPG franchise of all time.
I can barely be hassled "typing" any more than 3-4 sentence email on an ipad before I get annoyed.
Indeed. When I'm doing my professional development work I rely upon multiple instances of the IDE open at a time spread over three monitors with various other tools also running in the background (usually over a dozen windows at a time). I regularly type at 40+ wpm and burst well above 100 with intellisense coupled with rapid alt + tab switching between windows. Compare this to a device with a 10 inch screen, no keyboard and an underpowered processor (compared to my dual quad core xeons) . To even ask the question, "Will developers finally start coding on the iPad" is to reveal one's complete ignorance of professional software development and tools necessary to practice the trade. It's like asking a professional contractor why he doesn't use the Black and Decker folding workbench at a job site. It's a stupid question.
You fit right in as a perfect object of the studies. Your response is Pavlovian to the tee, and confirms everything in the journals and books written on the subject.
Of course. The typically liberal response. What a comfort is must be to regard all your intellectual opponents as brainwashed or mentally impaired, it relieves you of any responsibility, at least in your mind, to prove why you're right and everyone else is wrong. Like many on the left you assume too much. Your tone and lack of humility betrays your underlying conceit.
You have a single party of authority, only differentiated by a thin veneer of style.
And you have your head in the sand, refusing to see, hear or even just to understand the circumstances of those whom you consider to be beneath you; unless, of course, they happen to agree with you. How would you interpret that one Sigmund?
Yet there you are, actually believing whatever falsehoods they broadcast on the TV.
You know, you're right. I'll stop watching NBC, ABC and CBS immediately because clearly their false messaging has turned me into a mindless conservative.
Your faith is a strong, impenetrable, fortress
Believe whatever you wish, but always remember that there are no atheists in foxholes.
Your great 'leaders' depend on on that faith for their power over you.
Yes, I read Marx at university too. Fortunately, I suffered no permanent intellectual impairment from the exercise. Of course, not everyone is so lucky.
"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"
Indeed, why pay attention to anyone who might upset your carefully constructed liberal worldview? Why be concerned with reality or results when you can have the purity of ideological perfection instead?
Explain the tar paper shacks all across the south with Romney signs in their front yard... If that isn't voting against your own interests i don't know what is.
You mean the ones that have been there since before the Johnson Administration and the Great Society programs and that are still there today? You cannot lay all of that at the feet of Mitt Romney, a man who hasn't yet even been elected to national office. What of all the false promises that Democrats made to those people over the decades? Perhaps they're tired of hearing false promises of handouts as being the way to a prosperous middle class lifestyle and are willing instead to try something else. After all, they have little to lose besides their poverty by giving up big government dependance. It's in their interest to try hard to get out of the tar paper shack and some of them believe, wisely in my opinion, that Romney offers them a better opportunity to do that. If you ask these people what they really want it's a chance not a handout. The Republicans promise nothing more than an equal opportunity, a fair chance at success. That's a promise that can be kept, unlike the Democratic promises of prosperity through redistribution which have failed for decades to lift these people out of poverty.
A bad recommendation might be enough to convince someone not to buy a Sony product, particularly when adequate substitutes are readily available as they are for most of the products that Sony markets. However, in the case of Apple products, which are fast approaching a state of mania in the consumer market, even that my not be effective. Even people who can barely use them or don't need them seem to have no problem forking over thousands of dollars on a mobile contract that includes data and service charges that can easily top $100 per month just so that they too can have the newest iPhone and for what essentially amounts to pleasure, not business. Clearly the value of a dollar, what's left of it anyway, is lost on many younger Americans today.
So what, anyone who doesn't see things your way (i.e. the right way) is a fascist? Again, people are not psychologically impaired because they don't agree with you or hold positions to which you would never subscribe. As for promising to give people things or make certain things happen in exchange for political support, well, as you said, that's nothing new and certainly not unique to Fascists, Nationalists, Socialists, Democrats or indeed any other political group or individual. It's a tactic designed to garner support, not a position.
You should be careful telling other people what their interests are. How are you in a position to know that better than them? Have you even considered the possibility that different world views, experiences and philosophies might lead to different interests? For example, it's very difficult to make a purely economic argument for owning a hybrid car as the cheapest and most efficient form of private motorized transportation. Any number of alternatives offer a lower cost of ownership. Shall we regard anyone buying or leasing a hybrid vehicle as an idiot, acting against their own interest (economic in this case)? Few things annoy me more than people who make the argument that others are incapable of understanding the positions that they take and why they take them and that any person who takes a position that's "against their own interest" is an idiot or under the influence of brainwashing. Refusal to understand the viewpoints of others and treating them as inferior is very likely to lead to violence, not conversion to your point of view. In spite of this, it remains one of the most quintessential, and frankly disgusting, qualities of the elitist intellectual left here in America who seem to have forgotten the virtue of humility in their quest for knowledge and truth.
The notion that the FSB, the successor in interest to the KGB, would have any qualms whatsoever about ignoring the "Terms of Service" of an American or European website is laughable. These are people who kill as a matter of doing business, so the fact that their spam bots violate US or European laws doesn't concern them, even in the slightest. The only reason to suggest otherwise is to make an ironic joke.
bottom line is you used a wikipedia reference for truth which invalidates ur entire claim.
Well then, perhaps you'd be kind enough to take them all one-by-one and explain why they're not actually disadvantages? While you're at it, perhaps you can also debunk the research paper of the Berkley scientists, cited in note 13 of the article, which concluded that
"Even under highly optimistic assumptions the compressed-air car is significantly less efficient than a battery electric vehicle and produces more greenhouse gas emissions than a conventional gas-powered car with a coal intensive power mix."
Of course, they also suggested, as I did, that such a system when used as a secondary system in a hybrid car which was powered primarily by something else, probably either fossil fuel or electric, might make sense.
a pneumatic–combustion hybrid is technologically feasible, inexpensive and could eventually compete with hybrid electric vehicles.
HOWEVER, that is most definitely NOT what's being discussed in TFA linked in the summary. The car in that article is based upon work originally done by a French firm, Motor Development International, which has since been acquired by Tata. The vehicle is NOT a hybrid, it runs entirely on compressed air which brings into play all of the known disadvantages and inefficiencies of compressed air vehicles which are numerous and very unlikely to be outweighed by the potential advantages in most everyday circumstances.
Now, a gasoline powered vehicle with a regenerative braking system that compresses air to be released later during the initial acceleration from stop to moving has been built into a concept truck by Ford some years back. The main drawback was that the truck sounded like a very loud jackhammer moving away from each stop. Obviously that's not acceptable in a vehicle designed for everyday use out in public. Another problem was the complexity and maintenance requirements of that pneumatic system which were too high to be feasible in a production car.
While the use of a pneumatic air system to recover energy from braking for use in subsequent starts does have some merit in a hybrid configuration, the idea of a vehicle powered completely by compressed air has been very thoroughly discredited in the published research papers. Yes, it can be done but it's terribly inefficient; almost no other vehicle is less efficient than compressed air, even battery powered vehicles are better. The wiki article on compressed air cars has a comprehensive list of their rather substantial disadvantages. Really the only situations where air cars are even considered are those where sparks or burning of fuels make both internal combustion and electric too dangerous and where their limited range and power are not substantial disadvantages. As one might imagine, these circumstances occur rarely and only in specialized situations (most notably in underground coal mines). Bottom line: air cars are simply not competitive as general purpose vehicles and basically never will be due to the laws of thermodynamics and ideal gas among others. Those who buy an air car without understanding these things are likely to be very disappointed with their vehicle's performance. I predict many angry Indian air car owners complaining about how they were ripped off and lied to by the green marketeers who said whatever it took to make the sale.
And it's also forbidden to cross the street, except at designated crossing points. Do you always do what you're told and follow the rules? Don't be too obedient or obsequious. Instead, always remember that you don't owe these people, who claim to be your masters, anything except that which you've personally promised to deliver onto them. Without your willing and conscious consent, they cannot bind you to their one-sided "agreements".
It's like accountants who like to play "Let's pretend!"
When it comes to charts and tables, D&D's got nothing on Rolemaster; truly a game that only an accountant could love. They don't call it "chartmaster" or "rulemonster" for nothing after all.
Customers may have also lost their data if they weren't polite when coming in for a repair
So nine out of ten customers lost their data then? It seems that almost every iPride user I encounter in public is rude to me. A coincidence perhaps? Or then again perhaps not. Apple and holier than thou liberals, the two seem to go together.
Slashdot Mirror
It's totally ridiculous
This is the New York Taxi Commission that we're talking about here, ridiculous doesn't even begin to describe their rules and regulations. They're an entrenched interest in New York with a legally granted monopoly going back a century or more. They're not going to roll over without a fight, no matter how ridiculous their rules might seem. If you thought that the entertainment industry was stuck in the last century, wait until you see these guys.
I use it all the time in DC. I probably use it more because of the fact the DC government doesn't like it.
Although it's not widely known among the general public, Washington DC is one of the last remaining large municipal markets here in the United States without a medallion system. In more heavily regulated cities, like New York, a medallion issued by the taxi commission and limited to a set number of cabs is required to pick up fares hailed from the street. Of course, certain special interests and their hired lobbyists are working to change that, to the detriment of consumers and independent operators, but until they do very little besides a valid drivers license is required to operate a cab in DC.
Red flag. Badly designed system.
Worked long in the software business? Badly designed systems with crappy code are routine whereas well designed systems with good code are the exception. Writing good quality software is much harder than most people think and all the more so when constraints of time and budget are thrown into the mix.
or it's going to be a cluster.
It's going to be a cluster anyway, that's just how startups are. If yours somehow survives the first six months followed by another year then maybe you're on to something; otherwise it's game over and insert coins to continue.
He'll say stuff like "Hey, what's so hard about doing this, I can write a function to add this feature in 10 minutes, so go make it happen!"
A little knowledge of code can be a dangerous thing, especially for managers.
which ultimately means more expensive tools for people like you who do know programming.
Unlike other professional activities, which often do require some substantial up front investments in tools and equipment, the only tool that's absolutely indispensable to a professional coder, a computer, can be had for less than $1000 dollars or even less than $500 for a decent used desktop (ex-corporate workstation). After the computer is available, the necessary software tools can mostly be had for free or a very nominal fee. Forking over additional cash for programming courses or a subscription to Safari can also help move things along. However, even with all of these resources, becoming a good coder takes talent, patience, perseverance, experience (gained through extensive practice) and most of all time. It's not something that comes easily or quickly to most people and many of them eventually give up after dabbling for a few months. If you doubt that, look at the pass rate for the basic "introduction to programming" course offered in any CS program. It's usually the first course in the subject that prospective students take and it serves to separate the wheat from the chaff. Failure to pass this course after multiple serious attempts is usually a reliable signal that CS in general and programming in particular are not in a student's professional future or at least not as a primary occupation (note: this is not the same as the "intro to cs" course that's offered to non-majors). Sometimes I think that the politicians out there promoting "lets teach everyone to program" don't fully appreciate that and how difficult, demanding (and boring) the profession can be to those are neither interested nor able. All they see are "good paying jobs" without ever asking themselves why the jobs pay so well in the first place. If it were that easy, everyone would be doing it.
The last time that China had a serious uprising the protesters were machine gunned in the streets and nothing changed. In China those who complain are dealt with quickly and severely. A Chinese person can be disappeared for speaking out. If you're a foreigner, they probably just kick you out of the country after confiscating all your data storage devices. Protesting in China is dangerous and in a very immediate sort of way.
Both of the original Baldur's Gate games had multiplayer functionality way back then.
Yes. Like many other games both then and now, the Baldur's Gate games did indeed have a rudimentary multiplayer mode. How many people actually used it? Probably very few. These were afterthought features, thrown in because the people signing the checks said that the game had to support multiplayer. The multiplayer in the BG games was rough and it showed. I tried it a couple of times and then never used it again. I suspect that most other players didn't bother with it either since Baldur's Gate was always about the storyline and the NPCs, not multiplayer.
Either that or it bogs down what would otherwise be an excellent game with onerous multiplayer development and support.
Indeed. Arcanum is an example of a game which may have suffered somewhat from extra effort necessary to support rarely used multiplayer features. It was and remains a good game in my opinion, but it could have been excellent if not for a few UI issues and some rather annoying quest bugs. As you said, some games benefit and others are harmed by these features. It takes a gamer and designer, who's played many different types of games over the years, to have the wisdom and knowledge necessary to tell the difference. The CEO of EA would do better sticking to the business side of things and insulating his talented developers from meddling from executives and others who fancy themselves "game designers".
There are rumors that BioWare is working on a modernization of the Baldur's Gate saga, beginning with the 1st game and it's expansions. A game like Baldur's Gate is an entirely different proposition than a multiplayer online shooting game. It makes essentially zero sense to waste time adding multiplayer to the Baldur's Gate games because the characters, dialog and story are meant to be savored, like a good novel or a fine wine, at one's leisure. If people want stupid minors and their juvenile pranks, they will play World of Warcraft instead. Frank Gibeau is an idiot for saying that "every game must have an online component". He just doesn't get it. Other than patches and updates, there are many great games, particularly adventure and story based games, that need no "online component" and are in fact diminished by attempts to add them. This is especially true when those efforts come at the expense of extra work on the character interactions, plots and more time spent on good story telling and dialog options. People want to suspend their disbelief and immerse themselves in the world of the game, they want to become their character, and it's difficult to do that when someone else is being stupid and spoiling the whole experience, as would happen with the "online component" in these games. Hopefully EA will be smart and not meddle in the Baldur's Gate modernizations. Remember Frank that we're watching and we will not forget it if you ruin or otherwise diminish any remake of the greatest RPG franchise of all time.
vi editor!
Heresy! Do ye not know that VI VI VI is the number of the beast?
I can barely be hassled "typing" any more than 3-4 sentence email on an ipad before I get annoyed.
Indeed. When I'm doing my professional development work I rely upon multiple instances of the IDE open at a time spread over three monitors with various other tools also running in the background (usually over a dozen windows at a time). I regularly type at 40+ wpm and burst well above 100 with intellisense coupled with rapid alt + tab switching between windows. Compare this to a device with a 10 inch screen, no keyboard and an underpowered processor (compared to my dual quad core xeons) . To even ask the question, "Will developers finally start coding on the iPad" is to reveal one's complete ignorance of professional software development and tools necessary to practice the trade. It's like asking a professional contractor why he doesn't use the Black and Decker folding workbench at a job site. It's a stupid question.
You fit right in as a perfect object of the studies. Your response is Pavlovian to the tee, and confirms everything in the journals and books written on the subject.
Of course. The typically liberal response. What a comfort is must be to regard all your intellectual opponents as brainwashed or mentally impaired, it relieves you of any responsibility, at least in your mind, to prove why you're right and everyone else is wrong. Like many on the left you assume too much. Your tone and lack of humility betrays your underlying conceit.
You have a single party of authority, only differentiated by a thin veneer of style.
And you have your head in the sand, refusing to see, hear or even just to understand the circumstances of those whom you consider to be beneath you; unless, of course, they happen to agree with you. How would you interpret that one Sigmund?
Yet there you are, actually believing whatever falsehoods they broadcast on the TV.
You know, you're right. I'll stop watching NBC, ABC and CBS immediately because clearly their false messaging has turned me into a mindless conservative.
Your faith is a strong, impenetrable, fortress
Believe whatever you wish, but always remember that there are no atheists in foxholes.
Your great 'leaders' depend on on that faith for their power over you.
Yes, I read Marx at university too. Fortunately, I suffered no permanent intellectual impairment from the exercise. Of course, not everyone is so lucky.
"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"
Indeed, why pay attention to anyone who might upset your carefully constructed liberal worldview? Why be concerned with reality or results when you can have the purity of ideological perfection instead?
For Apple, I'd say something with a snake will do.
That's brilliant, but I wonder if even our fellow Slashdot users would fully appreciate the symbolism there.
Explain the tar paper shacks all across the south with Romney signs in their front yard... If that isn't voting against your own interests i don't know what is.
You mean the ones that have been there since before the Johnson Administration and the Great Society programs and that are still there today? You cannot lay all of that at the feet of Mitt Romney, a man who hasn't yet even been elected to national office. What of all the false promises that Democrats made to those people over the decades? Perhaps they're tired of hearing false promises of handouts as being the way to a prosperous middle class lifestyle and are willing instead to try something else. After all, they have little to lose besides their poverty by giving up big government dependance. It's in their interest to try hard to get out of the tar paper shack and some of them believe, wisely in my opinion, that Romney offers them a better opportunity to do that. If you ask these people what they really want it's a chance not a handout. The Republicans promise nothing more than an equal opportunity, a fair chance at success. That's a promise that can be kept, unlike the Democratic promises of prosperity through redistribution which have failed for decades to lift these people out of poverty.
A bad recommendation might be enough to convince someone not to buy a Sony product, particularly when adequate substitutes are readily available as they are for most of the products that Sony markets. However, in the case of Apple products, which are fast approaching a state of mania in the consumer market, even that my not be effective. Even people who can barely use them or don't need them seem to have no problem forking over thousands of dollars on a mobile contract that includes data and service charges that can easily top $100 per month just so that they too can have the newest iPhone and for what essentially amounts to pleasure, not business. Clearly the value of a dollar, what's left of it anyway, is lost on many younger Americans today.
So what, anyone who doesn't see things your way (i.e. the right way) is a fascist? Again, people are not psychologically impaired because they don't agree with you or hold positions to which you would never subscribe. As for promising to give people things or make certain things happen in exchange for political support, well, as you said, that's nothing new and certainly not unique to Fascists, Nationalists, Socialists, Democrats or indeed any other political group or individual. It's a tactic designed to garner support, not a position.
specifically designed for the designated politico to "leverage" the mindless sycophants that install such apps
So that would be just about anyone with a Facebook account, right?
You should be careful telling other people what their interests are. How are you in a position to know that better than them? Have you even considered the possibility that different world views, experiences and philosophies might lead to different interests? For example, it's very difficult to make a purely economic argument for owning a hybrid car as the cheapest and most efficient form of private motorized transportation. Any number of alternatives offer a lower cost of ownership. Shall we regard anyone buying or leasing a hybrid vehicle as an idiot, acting against their own interest (economic in this case)? Few things annoy me more than people who make the argument that others are incapable of understanding the positions that they take and why they take them and that any person who takes a position that's "against their own interest" is an idiot or under the influence of brainwashing. Refusal to understand the viewpoints of others and treating them as inferior is very likely to lead to violence, not conversion to your point of view. In spite of this, it remains one of the most quintessential, and frankly disgusting, qualities of the elitist intellectual left here in America who seem to have forgotten the virtue of humility in their quest for knowledge and truth.
The notion that the FSB, the successor in interest to the KGB, would have any qualms whatsoever about ignoring the "Terms of Service" of an American or European website is laughable. These are people who kill as a matter of doing business, so the fact that their spam bots violate US or European laws doesn't concern them, even in the slightest. The only reason to suggest otherwise is to make an ironic joke.
bottom line is you used a wikipedia reference for truth which invalidates ur entire claim.
Well then, perhaps you'd be kind enough to take them all one-by-one and explain why they're not actually disadvantages? While you're at it, perhaps you can also debunk the research paper of the Berkley scientists, cited in note 13 of the article, which concluded that
"Even under highly optimistic assumptions the compressed-air car is significantly less efficient than a battery electric vehicle and produces more greenhouse gas emissions than a conventional gas-powered car with a coal intensive power mix."
Of course, they also suggested, as I did, that such a system when used as a secondary system in a hybrid car which was powered primarily by something else, probably either fossil fuel or electric, might make sense.
a pneumatic–combustion hybrid is technologically feasible, inexpensive and could eventually compete with hybrid electric vehicles.
HOWEVER, that is most definitely NOT what's being discussed in TFA linked in the summary. The car in that article is based upon work originally done by a French firm, Motor Development International, which has since been acquired by Tata. The vehicle is NOT a hybrid, it runs entirely on compressed air which brings into play all of the known disadvantages and inefficiencies of compressed air vehicles which are numerous and very unlikely to be outweighed by the potential advantages in most everyday circumstances.
Now, a gasoline powered vehicle with a regenerative braking system that compresses air to be released later during the initial acceleration from stop to moving has been built into a concept truck by Ford some years back. The main drawback was that the truck sounded like a very loud jackhammer moving away from each stop. Obviously that's not acceptable in a vehicle designed for everyday use out in public. Another problem was the complexity and maintenance requirements of that pneumatic system which were too high to be feasible in a production car.
While the use of a pneumatic air system to recover energy from braking for use in subsequent starts does have some merit in a hybrid configuration, the idea of a vehicle powered completely by compressed air has been very thoroughly discredited in the published research papers. Yes, it can be done but it's terribly inefficient; almost no other vehicle is less efficient than compressed air, even battery powered vehicles are better. The wiki article on compressed air cars has a comprehensive list of their rather substantial disadvantages. Really the only situations where air cars are even considered are those where sparks or burning of fuels make both internal combustion and electric too dangerous and where their limited range and power are not substantial disadvantages. As one might imagine, these circumstances occur rarely and only in specialized situations (most notably in underground coal mines). Bottom line: air cars are simply not competitive as general purpose vehicles and basically never will be due to the laws of thermodynamics and ideal gas among others. Those who buy an air car without understanding these things are likely to be very disappointed with their vehicle's performance. I predict many angry Indian air car owners complaining about how they were ripped off and lied to by the green marketeers who said whatever it took to make the sale.
DRM-circumvention-forbidden
And it's also forbidden to cross the street, except at designated crossing points. Do you always do what you're told and follow the rules? Don't be too obedient or obsequious. Instead, always remember that you don't owe these people, who claim to be your masters, anything except that which you've personally promised to deliver onto them. Without your willing and conscious consent, they cannot bind you to their one-sided "agreements".
It's like accountants who like to play "Let's pretend!"
When it comes to charts and tables, D&D's got nothing on Rolemaster; truly a game that only an accountant could love. They don't call it "chartmaster" or "rulemonster" for nothing after all.
Customers may have also lost their data if they weren't polite when coming in for a repair
So nine out of ten customers lost their data then? It seems that almost every iPride user I encounter in public is rude to me. A coincidence perhaps? Or then again perhaps not. Apple and holier than thou liberals, the two seem to go together.