Whether it be petroleum, natural gas, hydrogen, urine, or garbage, I am pretty sure they will employ some sort of hybrid-electric design. The first goal will be to break fossil fuel dependency for the stuff on the grid, after that electricity may become a cheap/eco friendly enough solution to plug your car in at home/work/truck stops etc. Hybrid design will allow us to transition from our current fuel of choice to a continually greater role of electricity as an energy source.
I think I actually have to credit MS here with doing something fairly original. I think at the right price a game subscribtion service would be a good thing for people like me who play games for 2 weeks and shelve them.
I would like to get something a little better on gas than my sports sedan but I don't want to purchace and license a 200 MPH, $9,000 motorcycle and I am not quite willing to peddle my trek 14mph to work every day. I am looking for a happy in between like a motorized, gear assist bicycle and I am willing to bet that such a 4 HP beast would put even the prius to shame and save me about $2,0000. I know the obvious answer is probably "scooter" but quite honestly the ones I have seen just don't look stable over 35 mph. They are all also about half as tall as my bicycle. There must be better options than welding an engine mount to my trek or going all out "motorcycle".
They also have to pass American crash tests. I think this is the reason you see custom small engine motorcycles and trikes (500-800 lbs) but the next thing up is a full fledged 3000 lb "econocar". I would love to build and sell what is essentially a larger street legal go-cart but I am pretty sure that unlike custom motorcycles they are not legal or people would already be doing this.
To see if the final version of IE7 is also not standards compliant then decide to boycott? It is responses like this that discourage companies from offering public betas in the first place.
I missed your lowest common denominator point and agree with it to some extent, but regardless of the requirement fewer and fewer people are learning Morse code reducing the likelihood that the distress call will be noticed or understood. It is my opinion that a standard digital protocol could be used to compensate for the shortcomings (like noise) of standard analog voice transitions. A swap of the Morse code requirement for more questions on error corrections and digital modulation methods could help advance the technology to keep with the times. Such a shift could also attract people interested in working with cell phone, cable, and satellite communications because it could provide a forum for learning about technologies that are more useful to them. I understand the importance of emergency communication but the examples of where Morse code over ham is used for emergency situations because nothing else is available have become fewer and further between to the point of near nonexistence.
Are you tellimg me that only analog rigs work for emergency communication? Also, in most emergency situations today you are going to reach for a cell phone anyway unless the lines are down.
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Ps, for Ubuntu users:
"sudo apt-get install realplayer"
You can get real player for Linux but I don't suggest installing it on Windows. Try instead: Real Alternative
They also have an RSS feed and for Klipfolio users, the Klip is here. You can click setup in the Klip to get just yahoo tech news. Not a bad site.
So far the best answer might be Nuclear power
Another possible Skype alternitave is Gizmo they charge more than Skype for calling PSTN but the client UI is pretty full-featured.
Whether it be petroleum, natural gas, hydrogen, urine, or garbage, I am pretty sure they will employ some sort of hybrid-electric design. The first goal will be to break fossil fuel dependency for the stuff on the grid, after that electricity may become a cheap/eco friendly enough solution to plug your car in at home/work/truck stops etc.
Hybrid design will allow us to transition from our current fuel of choice to a continually greater role of electricity as an energy source.
I think I actually have to credit MS here with doing something fairly original. I think at the right price a game subscribtion service would be a good thing for people like me who play games for 2 weeks and shelve them.
Actually, Life is a TM that I own and you may use the word too as long as you give my $5,000.
You could just remove flash player...
I might as well link the Apple sponsored Ellen Feiss switch add while we are at it.
It is for the people who couldn't figure out how to link flash from mozilla back then.
I found this honda concept kind of interesting, it is half scooter and half motorcycle.
I would like to get something a little better on gas than my sports sedan but I don't want to purchace and license a 200 MPH, $9,000 motorcycle and I am not quite willing to peddle my trek 14mph to work every day. I am looking for a happy in between like a motorized, gear assist bicycle and I am willing to bet that such a 4 HP beast would put even the prius to shame and save me about $2,0000. I know the obvious answer is probably "scooter" but quite honestly the ones I have seen just don't look stable over 35 mph. They are all also about half as tall as my bicycle. There must be better options than welding an engine mount to my trek or going all out "motorcycle".
They also have to pass American crash tests. I think this is the reason you see custom small engine motorcycles and trikes (500-800 lbs) but the next thing up is a full fledged 3000 lb "econocar". I would love to build and sell what is essentially a larger street legal go-cart but I am pretty sure that unlike custom motorcycles they are not legal or people would already be doing this.
Sounds like some other OS I am using :)
Becasue I am sure attacking google and having the story posted to Slashdot will give them the low profile they are looking for.
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You mean the name was has not already been taken by a porn site? Cool!
To see if the final version of IE7 is also not standards compliant then decide to boycott? It is responses like this that discourage companies from offering public betas in the first place.
This makes me so mad to keep seeing so many people not understand that point. They really should have been more clear in the article summary.
But even WiMAX is really only a last mile solution for FTTN.
I missed your lowest common denominator point and agree with it to some extent, but regardless of the requirement fewer and fewer people are learning Morse code reducing the likelihood that the distress call will be noticed or understood. It is my opinion that a standard digital protocol could be used to compensate for the shortcomings (like noise) of standard analog voice transitions.
A swap of the Morse code requirement for more questions on error corrections and digital modulation methods could help advance the technology to keep with the times. Such a shift could also attract people interested in working with cell phone, cable, and satellite communications because it could provide a forum for learning about technologies that are more useful to them.
I understand the importance of emergency communication but the examples of where Morse code over ham is used for emergency situations because nothing else is available have become fewer and further between to the point of near nonexistence.
Are you tellimg me that only analog rigs work for emergency communication? Also, in most emergency situations today you are going to reach for a cell phone anyway unless the lines are down.
Mine is 20,623 :P
Humans can't transmit RF in realtime either, that is why we use equipment to do it.