I would be more impressed personally if they had come up with something that allows you to charge the batteries while the vehicles in use (such as the brake-chargers that the Honda hybrids used)
I'm assuming you're referring to regenerative braking when you write "brake-chargers", which the Prius already has. The only reason the Insight (Honda) gets better mileage than the Prius is because it has a lower CD and is lighter (it's a 2-seater).
Your sig: So, the $500 iMac... NO, not for you - your parents! Imagine Labor Day weekend without having to run AdAware first...
...made me laugh. That's exactly the reason I've been trying to get that freaking XP machine out of my parents house. Of course, they did take the sage advice of my auto mechanic brother when they bought it. I mean, I'm just a software guy - what the hell would I know? More annoyingly, they rely on me for their [hours of] tech support. Lucky me.
I've been trying to finish my ZPE (Zero Point Energy) perpetual motion machine for months now, and every time I really start to make some headway, a fascinating, must-read story such as this sidetracks me.
I mean, on the one hand I could usher the world into the Star Trek era, where energy and material goods are abundant and world peace miraculously ensues, but on the other, these absolutely imperative diversions present themselves. I mean - wow! - someone accidentally sent email to too many people and other people responded. Damn. I've never seen that before.
Glad to see the/. editors are picking and choosing the most delectable morsels for our consumption.
The alternator either integrated in the block, or bolted directly to the crank. Imagine that - an engine with no belts!
So long has you remember to add the electric coolant recirculating pump to the list. Although, as far as the alternator goes, one could always make the flywheel do double duty in that regard.
I wasn't aware there was a federally mandated highway speed limit in the US. Certainly the Feds can dangle the "Federal highway funds" carrot over the state legislature's noses, but I'm fairly certain that's ultimately up to the states. I just did about 5000 miles of highway/interstate driving the past 2 weeks, and speed limits varied from 55 (max speed on winding mountain-type roads) to 75 (various interstate highways). And 81 isn't typically bothered with on the interstate - at least not in the western US.
The state of South Dakota is currently deciding whether to up the speed limit on one of their highways from 65 to 70, and according to this article other states are doing the same "Texas has lifted its limit on some roads to 80mph (129kmh). Iowa has raised its rural road limit to 70mph (113kmh), which better reflects the actual speed of cars on rural highways, say legislators. Indiana has raised its rural maximum from 65mph to 70mph."
sounds like airtunes is a computer that decodes an audio signal and sends it to stereo speakers.
That's probably a good technical point. If you hack into the airtunes stream, you'll see that what iTunes does is send an RTSP URL to the airport express. The AE then back-requests the song from iTunes. So, technically, the AE controls iTunes - not the reverse. From that standpoint, most client-server RTSP systems would be in violation.
Thanks. At least somebody has enough intelligence around here to recognize sarcasm. Which is more than I can say for whomever modded it down as a troll.
You're going to have to reverse to order of the bytes for the string literal in "Hello, World!" to make it work.
WTF? Since when are characters strings stored as anything larger than bytes? Unless you're talking UTF-16, and even then you've got either UTF-16 (with byte order markers), UTF-LE & UTF-BE.
Oh, that's right. I forgot about the 10 6-bit characters per 60 bit word CDC Cyber Series.
And thus another sophomore digital design project comes to completion.
Geez - I thought we had actual geeks around here. The only thing I'm amazed about is that this seems to be noteworthy. Or are the majority of people just that hardware ignorant?
In other news, major techno geek builds web server out of vacuum tubes, relays, and the speedometer from a '58 Edsel.
I hear with the present policies, almost one-half of our defense hardware will be manufactured by foreign companies by 2018!
Well, if you heard everything else in your post the same place your heard this, then I dare say your entire message is a crock of....
You might want to check into export compliance restrictions. Canadian companies aren't even allowed to own companies based in the US that do DOD work. Let alone your wild scenario.
1) Social Security isn't "welfare." We pay into the system, we get benefits out of the system. Social Security recipients are not getting "something for nothing," so to lump them in with welfare recipients is just plain Ignorant(tm) and Stupid(tm).
Fine. If you don't want to call it "welfare", then call it a pyramid or Ponzi scheme. The first generation of recipients paid nothing. They received money directly from the generation of people who were first taxed. Once those people stopped being taxed, a new generation of people were being taxed so their money could go straight to them (with surpluses ebbing & flowing).
The simple fact of the matter is that people aren't getting they're benefits "back". They're receiving fresh tax dollars from someone else (just like the original recipients did). I prefer to be realistic and call it welfare. Apparently that level of personal honesty is all it takes to be labeled a fascist around here.
Anything that stops one group of people from getting what they want is bad. "Difficult" and "non-obvious" play no part in that decision.
Agreed. I think I'm going to switch back to IE on Windows. Because Firefox is stopping a group of people from installing spyware on my computer and, thus, preventing one group of people from getting what they want.
Although the fact that I was attempting to make a minor joke seems to be lost on some people, I would like to point out that OS X comes bundled with an enormous amount of GPLd software.
Apple makes a good case study for the massive negative impact of GPLd software. You can see how their profits have been plummeting since they (partially) embraced the Open Source model.
You raise good points and I agree. My only point was to tear down the "car" example - the parallel to the original poster's analogy would be if I had to buy special electricity from Apple and only run on Apple networks using Apple ethernet cables, etc.
But his original gripe was that the Express was designed for iTunes integration - same as if I had a Lexus and wanted to add the navigation system to it. Not like I could just grab a BMW nav system and slap it straight in. Nor would I want to because it would likely be a big ugly hack.
Apple can easily make the Tiger beta's such that they only run on Macs with registered MAC addresses (ethernet addresses, whatever) which are unique for a computer.
Easily? What you're suggesting is to distribute the OS in a crippled form (one that wouldn't actually go to production, and would therefore be different software) so that they can guard against people who have accepted NDAs from leaking the IP.
Of course, one could always distribute the MAC address with it and then you could reprogram the MAC address on your card. Oops. Do I see a loophole?
By your way of thinking, they were fools to expect people to abide by their contractual obligations and therefore get what they deserve. Remind me not to enter into a contract with you.
Wow. That was quite a nasty bit of flame baiting there.
Well, I go to bed each night with the hope that someday, somehow, we can live up to the ideal of that perfect society: Sweden.
I guess we could start by adding a monarchy & a healthy porn industry.
But seriously, I think we should change our constitution so that I can collect and publish any information I see fit. Like say, your credit card numbers, bank account information, all of your archived email, the passwords to all of your computer and web accounts. And toss any nasty twit in jail who dares even ask how I came across this information.
Man. That's an awesome idea. Let's get a petition circulating now!
Although the Mac mini is said to be extremely quiet, it does have a fan.
It's extremely quiet because the fan is on-demand. Mine only kicks in if I'm doing heavy computation or accessing the drives extensively. And when it does kick in, it slowly ramps up to speed. When the "heat event" is over, the fan slowly fades away. My SparcStation 5 worked similarly.
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I'm assuming you're referring to regenerative braking when you write "brake-chargers", which the Prius already has. The only reason the Insight (Honda) gets better mileage than the Prius is because it has a lower CD and is lighter (it's a 2-seater).
Already available in the US.
I mean, on the one hand I could usher the world into the Star Trek era, where energy and material goods are abundant and world peace miraculously ensues, but on the other, these absolutely imperative diversions present themselves. I mean - wow! - someone accidentally sent email to too many people and other people responded. Damn. I've never seen that before.
Glad to see the /. editors are picking and choosing the most delectable morsels for our consumption.
So long has you remember to add the electric coolant recirculating pump to the list. Although, as far as the alternator goes, one could always make the flywheel do double duty in that regard.
I wasn't aware there was a federally mandated highway speed limit in the US. Certainly the Feds can dangle the "Federal highway funds" carrot over the state legislature's noses, but I'm fairly certain that's ultimately up to the states. I just did about 5000 miles of highway/interstate driving the past 2 weeks, and speed limits varied from 55 (max speed on winding mountain-type roads) to 75 (various interstate highways). And 81 isn't typically bothered with on the interstate - at least not in the western US.
The state of South Dakota is currently deciding whether to up the speed limit on one of their highways from 65 to 70, and according to this article other states are doing the same "Texas has lifted its limit on some roads to 80mph (129kmh). Iowa has raised its rural road limit to 70mph (113kmh), which better reflects the actual speed of cars on rural highways, say legislators. Indiana has raised its rural maximum from 65mph to 70mph."
That's probably a good technical point. If you hack into the airtunes stream, you'll see that what iTunes does is send an RTSP URL to the airport express. The AE then back-requests the song from iTunes. So, technically, the AE controls iTunes - not the reverse. From that standpoint, most client-server RTSP systems would be in violation.
- ASCII spaces in the mounted volume name of the iPod cause the installer to puke.
- Songs don't continue to play when you access the menu.
- The games (such as asteroids) don't have audio.
- Major complaint: try adjusting the volume on a playing song - the audio is interrupted. Suck!
This was on a 2nd gen iPod. YMMV.iPod: no. Airport Express: yes.
Thanks. At least somebody has enough intelligence around here to recognize sarcasm. Which is more than I can say for whomever modded it down as a troll.
i once added a memory card to my pc and i didn't loose any sleep over it. now i have 512 megahurtz of ramm. so shut up you stupid mac looser.
WTF? Since when are characters strings stored as anything larger than bytes? Unless you're talking UTF-16, and even then you've got either UTF-16 (with byte order markers), UTF-LE & UTF-BE.
Oh, that's right. I forgot about the 10 6-bit characters per 60 bit word CDC Cyber Series.
Geez - I thought we had actual geeks around here. The only thing I'm amazed about is that this seems to be noteworthy. Or are the majority of people just that hardware ignorant?
In other news, major techno geek builds web server out of vacuum tubes, relays, and the speedometer from a '58 Edsel.
Well, if you heard everything else in your post the same place your heard this, then I dare say your entire message is a crock of ....
You might want to check into export compliance restrictions. Canadian companies aren't even allowed to own companies based in the US that do DOD work. Let alone your wild scenario.
Of course, it's a beta feature at Google Labs. FYI...
Fine. If you don't want to call it "welfare", then call it a pyramid or Ponzi scheme. The first generation of recipients paid nothing. They received money directly from the generation of people who were first taxed. Once those people stopped being taxed, a new generation of people were being taxed so their money could go straight to them (with surpluses ebbing & flowing).
The simple fact of the matter is that people aren't getting they're benefits "back". They're receiving fresh tax dollars from someone else (just like the original recipients did). I prefer to be realistic and call it welfare. Apparently that level of personal honesty is all it takes to be labeled a fascist around here.
Sounds suspiciously like Mail.app.
Agreed. I think I'm going to switch back to IE on Windows. Because Firefox is stopping a group of people from installing spyware on my computer and, thus, preventing one group of people from getting what they want.
Although the fact that I was attempting to make a minor joke seems to be lost on some people, I would like to point out that OS X comes bundled with an enormous amount of GPLd software.
Apple makes a good case study for the massive negative impact of GPLd software. You can see how their profits have been plummeting since they (partially) embraced the Open Source model.
But his original gripe was that the Express was designed for iTunes integration - same as if I had a Lexus and wanted to add the navigation system to it. Not like I could just grab a BMW nav system and slap it straight in. Nor would I want to because it would likely be a big ugly hack.
What's that you say? I can't? Proprietary bastards!
Easily? What you're suggesting is to distribute the OS in a crippled form (one that wouldn't actually go to production, and would therefore be different software) so that they can guard against people who have accepted NDAs from leaking the IP.
Of course, one could always distribute the MAC address with it and then you could reprogram the MAC address on your card. Oops. Do I see a loophole?
By your way of thinking, they were fools to expect people to abide by their contractual obligations and therefore get what they deserve. Remind me not to enter into a contract with you.
Well, I go to bed each night with the hope that someday, somehow, we can live up to the ideal of that perfect society: Sweden.
I guess we could start by adding a monarchy & a healthy porn industry.
But seriously, I think we should change our constitution so that I can collect and publish any information I see fit. Like say, your credit card numbers, bank account information, all of your archived email, the passwords to all of your computer and web accounts. And toss any nasty twit in jail who dares even ask how I came across this information.
Man. That's an awesome idea. Let's get a petition circulating now!
It's extremely quiet because the fan is on-demand. Mine only kicks in if I'm doing heavy computation or accessing the drives extensively. And when it does kick in, it slowly ramps up to speed. When the "heat event" is over, the fan slowly fades away. My SparcStation 5 worked similarly.