TFA mentions that it's 130 mpg after the initial charge of the batteries is drained. The 300 mpg claim hides the electrical energy that's put into the car, as if that's free. I appreciate that specifying fuel consumption is complex for a plug-in hybrid, but this type of claim is just plain lying.
The newly-released 0.9.2 even has a Lua scriptlet specifically designed to allow you to drop a YouTube URL directly into the playlist.
How do you do this? I can open a Youtube URL manually by choosing Media-Open Network and then pasting the URL, but drag and dropping a URL into the playlist as you suggest doesn't seem to work (Firefox 3 and VLC 0.9.4 Windows, btw).
With short clips the YouTube UI is bad enough. For full-length TV shows I want: - a UI that can be controlled from arbitrary input devices, e.g. an IR remote and rotary controller (Griffin Powermate). Sitting at your computer doesn't cut it, I want control from my comfy chair. - a full-featured UI with controls for skip forward/reverse (at short/long intervals), aspect ratio, mute, etc. Basically, I want the VLC UI.
Who modded this Informative? In my experience, the Germans are very good at yielding to faster traffic, especially on the Autobahn. Probably because they're used to being overtaken with a speed difference of 100 km/h. In the Netherlands on the other hand, a "get all the suckers out of the way" design comes in handy (but even then you'd be routinely ignored).
Sulfur Hexaflouride is apparently safe enough to inhale... well, as safe as helium, anyway.
If it's heavier than oxygen, wouldn't it pool at the bottom of your lungs? I.e. with each breath a little more SF6 gets left in your lungs, and pretty soon only the swept volume of your lungs is operational. It'd at least take more effort to clear SF6 from your system than He would.
On one hand it's a logical progression: integrate an AppleTV into an LCD screen, analogue to an iMac. On the other hand, you'd expect the TV to be usable long after the computer has become obsolete, so you end up with a TV that contains useless parts (and knowing Apple, limited options for connecting other peripherals).
As an excellent and safe driver who has been caught out by the 1-second delay between "oh shit" and physical action taking place on at least one expensive occasion, I'd welcome a system that can assist me in such situations. Current implementations (radar cruise control, brake assist etc) are designed to engage only when the situation has become life-or-death, i.e. long after a competent driver would have taken action himself and changed the situation to non-lifethreatening. You're in control at all times, the system can't lock you out.
Cars communicating with each other is a good idea, and being worked on. Signalling that a car is braking is one obvious use, despite the stupid comment in TFS. Having the car react automatically to the car in front saves the 1+ second reaction time of the human driver, making you less likely to rearend someone. The only drawback is that you're relying on external inputs. This system won't stop for a pedestrian, or an older car (which doesn't broadcast its intentions in a machine-readable way), for instance. Radar seems a better bet for this particular application. But there are more uses for a network between cars. Relaying congestion data is one, you could synchronize cars so they run at the same speed instead of harmonica-ing all the time (prevents traffic jams), etc.
Using LED signalling instead of radio might be a good way to avoid the problems with RF (interference, limited number of channels available).
To be fair, TFA doesn't "trumpet this as a breakthrough". It's the ionic liquid coated with silver which is new and the breakthrough that would make lunar liquid telescopes feasible.
1. Most accidents don't happen on motorways (the only place where speeds of >80 mph would be likely). You'd have to have location-dependent speed limits to make significant inroads. This is already being done, the new Nissan GT-R has (in the Japanese version) a 120 mph speed limiter which is swiched off automatically when you're on a racetrack; it uses GPS to decide where you are. IMO, this is a nightmare scenario. It reduces the driver's freedom even more, and encourages people to just drive at the governed limit blindly, instead of paying attention to circumstances. The lack of dynamics in the traffic around you (everyone going at the same speed) lulls you into a false sense of security (see below).
A governed limit means there'll be small differences in speed due to calibration errors, etc, which means people will be overtaking with 1 mph speed difference all the time. In Europe, trucks already have a speed limiter, and as a result you get huge tailbacks behind two trucks going 50+/-1 mph side-by-side. To prevent this, you'd have to mandate radar-guided cruise control as well, and before you know it fully autonomous vehicles are mandatory.
2. Most accidents aren't caused by speeding, but by not paying attention. This means that having a speed limiter won't have much effect, and due to the false sense of security it provides, may increase the number of incidents.
Well, they could leave it docked to the ISS. Extra space always comes in handy, and the ATV's solar panels are useful too. They'd have to add a second airlock so the modules can be daisychained, though.
How would that help? As always, it's the 'last mile' problem: connecting 500 million homes, spread over a continent with a low average population density and lots of undeveloped terrain would be hugely expensive. This is the reason landline telephony has remained a privilege of the rich, and the continent has mostly gone straight to mobile telephony.
why use a lame 'virtual submarine' UI? IMO this only limits what you can see and do. For example, photo 5 shows features of the shipwreck being obscured by submarine controls. You can't do things like zoom in with a submarine, and subs have limited maneuverability, so eventually the UI breaks down/becomes unrealistic. Other virtual worlds show that we can navigate without such clumsy avatars.
The challenge in this project is dealing with the underwater environment: photos and video are all short-range due to limited visibility. It's going to be harder to mesh these into a coherent 3D model than surface photos would be. At least they're making it a little easier by taking their own photos, instead of having to rely on existing material.
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TFA mentions that it's 130 mpg after the initial charge of the batteries is drained. The 300 mpg claim hides the electrical energy that's put into the car, as if that's free. I appreciate that specifying fuel consumption is complex for a plug-in hybrid, but this type of claim is just plain lying.
Sorry, I'm using the PowerMate on a Windows system. I've no idea how to get it to work with Linux.
The newly-released 0.9.2 even has a Lua scriptlet specifically designed to allow you to drop a YouTube URL directly into the playlist.
How do you do this? I can open a Youtube URL manually by choosing Media-Open Network and then pasting the URL, but drag and dropping a URL into the playlist as you suggest doesn't seem to work (Firefox 3 and VLC 0.9.4 Windows, btw).
With short clips the YouTube UI is bad enough. For full-length TV shows I want:
- a UI that can be controlled from arbitrary input devices, e.g. an IR remote and rotary controller (Griffin Powermate). Sitting at your computer doesn't cut it, I want control from my comfy chair.
- a full-featured UI with controls for skip forward/reverse (at short/long intervals), aspect ratio, mute, etc.
Basically, I want the VLC UI.
Who modded this Informative? In my experience, the Germans are very good at yielding to faster traffic, especially on the Autobahn. Probably because they're used to being overtaken with a speed difference of 100 km/h. In the Netherlands on the other hand, a "get all the suckers out of the way" design comes in handy (but even then you'd be routinely ignored).
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Sulfur Hexaflouride is apparently safe enough to inhale... well, as safe as helium, anyway.
If it's heavier than oxygen, wouldn't it pool at the bottom of your lungs? I.e. with each breath a little more SF6 gets left in your lungs, and pretty soon only the swept volume of your lungs is operational. It'd at least take more effort to clear SF6 from your system than He would.
Anyone else having problems? Content from genweb.ostg.org (or .com?) takes forever, holding up page loading.
The bottom has fallen out of the LCD TV market, and I don't think Apple can compete with the razor-thin margins that result.
On one hand it's a logical progression: integrate an AppleTV into an LCD screen, analogue to an iMac. On the other hand, you'd expect the TV to be usable long after the computer has become obsolete, so you end up with a TV that contains useless parts (and knowing Apple, limited options for connecting other peripherals).
As an excellent and safe driver who has been caught out by the 1-second delay between "oh shit" and physical action taking place on at least one expensive occasion, I'd welcome a system that can assist me in such situations.
Current implementations (radar cruise control, brake assist etc) are designed to engage only when the situation has become life-or-death, i.e. long after a competent driver would have taken action himself and changed the situation to non-lifethreatening. You're in control at all times, the system can't lock you out.
Cars communicating with each other is a good idea, and being worked on. Signalling that a car is braking is one obvious use, despite the stupid comment in TFS. Having the car react automatically to the car in front saves the 1+ second reaction time of the human driver, making you less likely to rearend someone. The only drawback is that you're relying on external inputs. This system won't stop for a pedestrian, or an older car (which doesn't broadcast its intentions in a machine-readable way), for instance. Radar seems a better bet for this particular application.
But there are more uses for a network between cars. Relaying congestion data is one, you could synchronize cars so they run at the same speed instead of harmonica-ing all the time (prevents traffic jams), etc.
Using LED signalling instead of radio might be a good way to avoid the problems with RF (interference, limited number of channels available).
To be fair, TFA doesn't "trumpet this as a breakthrough". It's the ionic liquid coated with silver which is new and the breakthrough that would make lunar liquid telescopes feasible.
"extreme test" my ass. I get all the "extreme" I could ever need on Discovery Channel, please keep the language inflation off Slashdot.
You say that as if it's a bad thing.
Sometimes, automatic control would come in handy. But most of my driving still is outside of congested areas/times, and I enjoy driving.
1. Most accidents don't happen on motorways (the only place where speeds of >80 mph would be likely). You'd have to have location-dependent speed limits to make significant inroads. This is already being done, the new Nissan GT-R has (in the Japanese version) a 120 mph speed limiter which is swiched off automatically when you're on a racetrack; it uses GPS to decide where you are. IMO, this is a nightmare scenario. It reduces the driver's freedom even more, and encourages people to just drive at the governed limit blindly, instead of paying attention to circumstances. The lack of dynamics in the traffic around you (everyone going at the same speed) lulls you into a false sense of security (see below).
A governed limit means there'll be small differences in speed due to calibration errors, etc, which means people will be overtaking with 1 mph speed difference all the time. In Europe, trucks already have a speed limiter, and as a result you get huge tailbacks behind two trucks going 50+/-1 mph side-by-side. To prevent this, you'd have to mandate radar-guided cruise control as well, and before you know it fully autonomous vehicles are mandatory.
2. Most accidents aren't caused by speeding, but by not paying attention. This means that having a speed limiter won't have much effect, and due to the false sense of security it provides, may increase the number of incidents.
in Soviet Russia, no less. The Ushakov LPL was a WW2-era design for a flying submarine. It didn't progress beyond a paper project.
In the '60s, hobbyist Donald Reid succeeded to some extent. His homebuilt craft was underpowered but did fly (briefly).
As opposed to grammar nazis making fun of guilty mistakes?
Well, they could leave it docked to the ISS. Extra space always comes in handy, and the ATV's solar panels are useful too. They'd have to add a second airlock so the modules can be daisychained, though.
Make a European version! I'm tired of EyeTV's lack of intelligence.
You're going to need a LOT of fibre to connect even 10% of African households (that's 50 million people).
Also, "More than 90% of the population lives close to the coast." does not seem to be supported by this map of population density.
How would that help? As always, it's the 'last mile' problem: connecting 500 million homes, spread over a continent with a low average population density and lots of undeveloped terrain would be hugely expensive. This is the reason landline telephony has remained a privilege of the rich, and the continent has mostly gone straight to mobile telephony.
it's Inquisitor Grammatici.
Would this type of detector be able to differentiate between species of bacteria?
why use a lame 'virtual submarine' UI? IMO this only limits what you can see and do. For example, photo 5 shows features of the shipwreck being obscured by submarine controls. You can't do things like zoom in with a submarine, and subs have limited maneuverability, so eventually the UI breaks down/becomes unrealistic. Other virtual worlds show that we can navigate without such clumsy avatars.
The challenge in this project is dealing with the underwater environment: photos and video are all short-range due to limited visibility. It's going to be harder to mesh these into a coherent 3D model than surface photos would be. At least they're making it a little easier by taking their own photos, instead of having to rely on existing material.