Surplus barrage balloons and WIMAX should cover a bit of ground in a hurry... Solar power should be relatively easy in that location for the high altitude repeaters.
If you have hills, you need the transmitters on the high ground. 10-15K feet should do.
In addition, this vehicle is why VW didn't bother entering the X-prize contest, as they have alreadt BTDT, years ago.
FWIW, IMHO the VW TDi Lupo from a few years back could be tweeked to get 100MPG by a high school team in a solid weekend... Maybe add compressed air storage for a hybrid mode.
Methinks the X-prize aimed a tad low. An 80 MPG vehicle has been done, run out ot's product life, and dropped from the market already.
In a sane election system that difference would not matter anyway as both sides would end up with the same power. It's just insane to declare a single winner based on such a tiny difference, it leaves half the nation unrepresented. If memory serves me right, at one point in US history the "loser" became the vice president...
That must have been interesting in many ways, but the idea has some merit, certainly better than some $random politico tag along being first in line for the job...
Electric car tech hasn't REALLY improved significantly in the last 100 years. In reality, IC engines really haven't either.
IMHO the biggest difference in vehicle safety/performance in the last ~75 years has been the TIRES.
The 100 year old basic design (with only motor/controller and batterys that are currently availible) will probably perform as well as pretty much any modern electric car, with only minor design effort.
The AWD/direct drive/regenerative braking design Ferdinand Porsche designed back in the 1900s would be a great start for any modern design as well. (Preferably with a tiny turbo diesel, set up as a hybrid)
TDis have frequently sold for far more than list in the US, assuming you can get on it, and for FAR more than a 1.8T.
I don't know if that is currently the case, haven't been in the market for awhile.
The current usual practice (not just from VW) is they will only sell a diesel with vehicles of the very highest levels of trim, usually with every option, take it or leave it.
Much of the "price penalty" likely comes from that practice.
Having said all that, any diesel is the ONLY vehicle on the road, today, that's at least potentially carbon neutral--- It can run on recycled soybean oil etc.
No other production engine is even remotely close.
"...I can't think of a single domestic automaker that has a diesel car..."
I might be taking your comment out of context, but all US automakers AFAIK sell cars in Europe. If they don't make diesels to sell there, they won't stay in business long.
The emissions standards in the US almost seem specifically written to KEEP diesel cars out.
"twistedsymphony (956982) Alter Relationship on Tuesday November 20, @09:49AM (#21420201) (http://thoughthead.com/)
So why is it illegal?
The official reason why it was banned in the first place: [African American]s' satanic music, jazz, and swing, result from marijuana use. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others....Something tells me that excuse wouldn't hold up today."
I thought it was because DOW Chemical wanted to bring Nylon etc to market and wanted hemp off the market, as it was a better, cheaper alternative in most apps.
"Re:Offline Google applications (Score:3, Interesting) by AvitarX (172628) Alter Relationship on Wednesday October 31, @08:34PM (#21191003) Does OO.org print the slide as it appears?"
WYSIWYG actually works, can't remember it ever NOT working when dumping to PS/PDF. Frequently have found that OO.org is more compatible with Office than Office is on different machines. (even running the same version, but it has gotten better over the years, probably a mistake;-))
YMMV of course. Try it, it's Free.
As someone else mentioned, even if you HAVE Office, OO.org is quite handy to have around for when Office... has issues.
Perhaps an online presentation app is for those PHBs not bright enough to be able to download and install Openoffice? (Impress)
It's not Powerpoint. OTOH, it's not Powerpoint, and doesn't rely on web access, and is probably 95% compatible with Powerpoint, likely 100% for the most commonly used features.
I have assembled bit of existing PP presentations into one in OO.org with only minor issues. (Being able to simply dump the whole thing to a PDF for the dead tree version is a nice feature as well)
I have also FIXED borked PP presentations that had crashed powerpoint every time.
I'm sure someone would be glad to provide that service for a 1000% premium or so.
Liscense cost of adding another Linux/BSD VM:$0 Stick in on any beige box. Admin cost for provider---~zero, provides common image, your problem after that for the most part.
The difference in this case is that this setup has two rotors rotating assumedly the same speed, and both sides will produce the same lift regardless, even if you DON't have cyclic controls.
The complex cyclic setup would be very helpful though, allowing al those neat hover/backup/banking w/o changing rotor RPM features.
This setup should be far more efficient at high speed as well.
That list of deps (installing Koffice on a Gnome based system) is about the same size as installing only Gnumeric (which is largely Gnome based) on a simple KDE based system.
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Surplus barrage balloons and WIMAX should cover a bit of ground in a hurry... Solar power should be relatively easy in that location for the high altitude repeaters.
If you have hills, you need the transmitters on the high ground. 10-15K feet should do.
In addition, this vehicle is why VW didn't bother entering the X-prize contest, as they have alreadt BTDT, years ago.
FWIW, IMHO the VW TDi Lupo from a few years back could be tweeked to get 100MPG by a high school team in a solid weekend... Maybe add compressed air storage for a hybrid mode.
Methinks the X-prize aimed a tad low. An 80 MPG vehicle has been done, run out ot's product life, and dropped from the market already.
DIVX died because it also required a special PLAYER...
At least they got it right this time.
Could work, might even make money if they have decent movies available.
I can see these being sold at airports etc where returns aren't practical.
It's probably not really waning interest in engineering...
It's probably more like waning interest in working like a slave and being managed by incompetent managers with no little/no engineering background.
Or perhaps HR departments playing keyword roulette on resumes, requiring ~100% matches in skills vs requirements.
That must have been interesting in many ways, but the idea has some merit, certainly better than some $random politico tag along being first in line for the job...
I'm NOT saying ZFS has anything to do with the old Unix code... directly.
But legally, it doesn't look like Sun bought anything in from SCO in reality that legally enabled the release of Opensolaris.
Novell has leverage, if they choose to flex it or not is up to them.
I'm proposing GPL'ing ZFS as a possible bone for the dog, so to speak.
It occurred to me driving into work that this might happen after all...
Novell still (almost certainly) owns the SysV code.
Sun bought a liscence from SCO (that is probably invalid)so Sun could release OpenSolaris.
Novells ball...
Novell could easily wave it off with a stipulation that say... ZFS would become GPL or std BSD...
Sun would have the choice of killing OpenSolaris, or marginalizing it via GPLing the only parts of it that gives it any advantage over Linux.
As an old SAC weenie, I suggest simply dusting off the SAC patch for Cyber command
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Shield_Strategic_Air_Command.png
I think everyone is missing the point here...
Electric car tech hasn't REALLY improved significantly in the last 100 years.
In reality, IC engines really haven't either.
IMHO the biggest difference in vehicle safety/performance in the last ~75 years has been the TIRES.
The 100 year old basic design (with only motor/controller and batterys that are currently availible) will probably perform as well as pretty much any modern electric car, with only minor design effort.
The AWD/direct drive/regenerative braking design Ferdinand Porsche designed back in the 1900s would be a great start for any modern design as well. (Preferably with a tiny turbo diesel, set up as a hybrid)
One thing that would level the playing field as much or more than anything else...
Prohibit Xp/Vista OEM preinstalls.
You get bare hardware, or preinstalled Linux etc.
New PCs would ONLY come with generic Windows install discs.
THAT would be the nuclear option.
TDis have frequently sold for far more than list in the US, assuming you can get on it, and for FAR more than a 1.8T.
I don't know if that is currently the case, haven't been in the market for awhile.
The current usual practice (not just from VW) is they will only sell a diesel with vehicles of the very highest levels of trim, usually with every option, take it or leave it.
Much of the "price penalty" likely comes from that practice.
Having said all that, any diesel is the ONLY vehicle on the road, today, that's at least potentially carbon neutral--- It can run on recycled soybean oil etc.
No other production engine is even remotely close.
(Off topic, but it occurred to me...)
" ...I can't think of a single domestic automaker that has a diesel car..."
I might be taking your comment out of context, but all US automakers AFAIK sell cars in Europe.
If they don't make diesels to sell there, they won't stay in business long.
The emissions standards in the US almost seem specifically written to KEEP diesel cars out.
"But yet diesels don't sell in anything other than trucks at any appreciable rate in the US."
I think it's more due to the $6-$10K rip off, err... premium charge for the diesel that has virtually zero chance of payback, ever, for 99% of buyers.
Flash works (as well as it does anywhere) with the default 32 bit FF2.0.0.12 installed...
32bit apps run just fine in 64 bit linux, as long as the matching libraries are installed.
As a Florida native, I agree.
nothingofvaluewaslost.
I always find the creationists attitude that it was a "poof! and it existed" scenario over evolution highly amusing for one reason:
It takes a lot of gall to ignore the possibility that evolution is simply how God chose to do the deed.
"twistedsymphony (956982) Alter Relationship on Tuesday November 20, @09:49AM (#21420201)
...Something tells me that excuse wouldn't hold up today."
(http://thoughthead.com/)
So why is it illegal?
The official reason why it was banned in the first place: [African American]s' satanic music, jazz, and swing, result from marijuana use. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.
I thought it was because DOW Chemical wanted to bring Nylon etc to market and wanted hemp off the market, as it was a better, cheaper alternative in most apps.
"Re:Offline Google applications (Score:3, Interesting)
;-))
... has issues.
by AvitarX (172628) Alter Relationship on Wednesday October 31, @08:34PM (#21191003)
Does OO.org print the slide as it appears?"
WYSIWYG actually works, can't remember it ever NOT working when dumping to PS/PDF. Frequently have found that OO.org is more compatible with Office than Office is on different machines. (even running the same version, but it has gotten better over the years, probably a mistake
YMMV of course. Try it, it's Free.
As someone else mentioned, even if you HAVE Office, OO.org is quite handy to have around for when Office
Another solid tool in the box.
Perhaps an online presentation app is for those PHBs not bright enough to be able to download and install Openoffice? (Impress)
It's not Powerpoint.
OTOH, it's not Powerpoint, and doesn't rely on web access, and is probably 95% compatible with Powerpoint, likely 100% for the most commonly used features.
I have assembled bit of existing PP presentations into one in OO.org with only minor issues.
(Being able to simply dump the whole thing to a PDF for the dead tree version is a nice feature as well)
I have also FIXED borked PP presentations that had crashed powerpoint every time.
I'm sure someone would be glad to provide that service for a 1000% premium or so.
Liscense cost of adding another Linux/BSD VM:$0
Stick in on any beige box.
Admin cost for provider---~zero, provides common image, your problem after that for the most part.
Xserve OTOH...
The difference in this case is that this setup has two rotors rotating assumedly the same speed, and both sides will produce the same lift regardless, even if you DON't have cyclic controls.
The complex cyclic setup would be very helpful though, allowing al those neat hover/backup/banking w/o changing rotor RPM features.
This setup should be far more efficient at high speed as well.
Re:Anyone have a working torent going for 6.10?
;-)
(Score:2)
by waferhead (557795) on Saturday October 13, @10:40PM (#20970653)
Thanks!
Now we just need the Linux version
Wait---I think the linux/mac and Windows version are all included in the one file.
Thanks!
;-)
Now we just need the Linux version
Google and all the usual suspects are not turning up any valid torrents of Alien Arena 6.10, just older versions.
Lets use bittorrent for what it's good for, all the std servers are hammered...
Thanks in advance!
That list of deps (installing Koffice on a Gnome based system) is about the same size as installing only Gnumeric (which is largely Gnome based) on a simple KDE based system.
Hard drive space is cheap.