One of the biggest problem with non-gasoline powered vehicles is making them reasonably convenient. It's going to be very, very hard to get people to switch to electric cars that they must charge overnight and plan their daily miles accordingly. This bike looks to be just as convenient as a scooter and almost as good as a normal motorcycle. Getting 100 miles to a tank is close enough to what most riders are used to, so I don't see that being an impediment. Ditto for 3 minutes to fuel up. The 50 mph top speed is low for a motorcycle, but normal for many scooters. Given how much more popular scooters have been recently, there is definitely a market for a vehicle like this. Plus, this is a prototype, so I bet that making a bike that tops out at 80-90 mph and is capable of sustained freeway speeds is not a huge stretch.
The only question left is how much does it cost in dollars per mile traveled? I know this is hugely dependent on how the hydrogen is created and therefore the cost of electricity, but all the green thoughts in the world mean nothing to the masses if it is much more expensive than gasoline.
I would hardly qualify Corrupted Blood as disastrous or disheartening. On the disaster scale, even if you got infected repeatedly, it meant no more effective downtime than a bad day of server maintenance. Once you get past that, I think it was pretty cool to watch it spread. Death in WoW does not normally inspire fear or trepidation, but with Corrupted Blood you saw some very serious and unusual consequences, albeit for a short time.
While I completely agree that Apple needs to seriously loosen it's grip on iPhone developers, I wouldn't say this is a decision driven by "short-sighted MBAs." It's far more likely that this is Steve Jobs saying, "My way is the best, and you can only do it my way."
Activision Blizzard, EA, Ubisoft, Midway, Microsoft, etc. they are all corporations and their main focus is to get your money and make sure their shareholders are satisfied. (emphasis mine)
Blizzard has shown quite clearly that you can make a good living without nickel and diming for every last piece of content. The Warcraft RTS line, the Starcraft series, and the Diablo series all made Blizzard quite a bit of money without charging customers for anything but the upfront cost of the game or an expansion. They've continued to support those games with battle.net and bugfixes. Could they have tried to squeeze every last penny out of gamers? Sure, but it would have cost them in the long run. In no small part because of the reputation they have built, Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 are going to make millions of dollars from gamers who know they are getting a great product with great support behind it.
Actually, hardly any of our electricity is derived from resources originating from outside of North America. Coal is the biggest source of electricity in the country, and the only major foreign source is natural gas from Canada.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of hours of my free time suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
No reputable motorcycle safety course will ever recommend that you lay it down. The Motorcycle Safety Foundation (MSF)either trains or provides the training curriculum for nearly all motorcycle licensing programs across the nation, and they never recommend that you lay it down. Their training course specifically instructions you on emergency braking and maneuvering so that you can avoid an accident instead of intentionally crashing.
This device is far more dangerous in a crash than a traditional motorcycle. If you are wearing proper gear, you can walk away from a long, smooth slide at almost speed. In a crash, the best you can hope for is to separate from your bike and slide without any interruptions. With this machine, you would have a much greater chance of it clipping something and sending you tumbling, and that's when the real pain is going to start.
Riders who speak of "laying it down" and road rash should not speak of actual motorcycle safety. "Laying it down" is a term used by riders who intentionally induce a crash out of a perceived fear of a worse crash. You are going to be much better off staying in control of your bike as long as possible. When you lose control of your bike, you subject yourself to the whims of oncoming traffic, immovable objects, and other disadvantageous applications of Newton's laws. Suffering road rash simply means that you failed to wear the proper safety gear. While you cannot fully protect yourself from brunt force trauma by wearing gear, good riding gear can 100% prevent road rash.
Even assuming that the rider leans forward to lengthen the wheelbase and move the center of gravity, I have serious doubts that you could do 0-60 in 3 seconds. That's literbike territory, and those machines are putting out 160-180hp. Even if you consider that the weight of the rider with the wearable motorcycle could be as little as half of the weight of a rider on a traditional sportbike, that's still a lot of power that you would need to put out to reach those speeds.
If gaining Mac users is your goal, then the toolkit is not a trivial issue. Many Mac users, myself included, are very finicky about apps that do not look or feel like Mac apps.* Using an app that looks significantly out of place in an otherwise consistent UI is very annoying, and the app would need to be significantly better than the alternatives. I fully understand why some developers steer clear of Mac support for that very reason, but it is a reality, and it's not going away.
* In rough terms, a traditional Mac app will be Cocoa or Carbon and follow Apple's interface guidelines.
Also, thank fuck for the House of Lords. There are few elected representatives who'll speak out on an issue that's got the word 'pornography' stuck to it.
I wish I had mod points. Whether it's the House of Lords or the Supreme Court, history has shown that having part of the government be virtually unaccountable to the whims of popularity is vital. You need people with the power and freedom to stand up and voice unpopular opinions.
While some car drivers know about the light flashing practice, motorcyclists have a "cop ahead" signal that is almost universally known amongst riders: tapping your helmet. If you ever see a rider tapping their helmet, you can be sure that there is a cop up ahead.
"This was probably due to the fact that major connections between the continents still existed at that time, and because climates were more equitable across latitudes than they are today," Smith said.
Can we just go one discussion without bringing up global warming? While it's midly related, this is more about Pangaea and where Antarctica was 190 million years ago.
1 ACCOUNT for gaming 1 ACCOUNT for everything else
Sorry if you don't have protected memory and proper permission set up.
Well, you are still only a privilege escalation exploit away from someone getting your whole system, but I do agree that separate accounts for gaming will greatly reduce the potential for damage from malicious attacks. 95% of the security of having a second computer, none of the extra cost.
In the long term, this is of course a good thing. However, the idea that issues 1-100 of X-Men will encourage anyone to take it up is, at best, optimistic. Let's face it; they may have been good at the time, but nowadays they're extremely dated. Of course, it does have Iceman looking like a snowman and Cyclops being called 'Slim' which might be good for a laugh, but overall I don't think they'll encourage many people.
When I was around 10 years old, someone got me a subscription for the reprinting of the first 12 X-Men comics. Even though some of it was dated (this was almost 15 years ago), I was still hooked and pretty soon I had subscriptions to the latest X-Men and FF comics. I think this is a great way for them to get new kids interested, and it's very low risk for them. All it costs is some scanning and a webserver.
My only hope is that this doesn't lead to the death of the physical copy of a comic book. I still go back every few years and read through my old collection, and the fun of reading a physical comic book never gets old.
Sorry to rain on your parade, but doing CS is not by a long way assured to make you lots of money.
Sorry, but CS is one of the best ways to make money. Take a look at starting salaries by bachelors degree earned. (This article is a few years old, but the chart is still good for a rough idea.) CS and engineering disciplines are always monopolizing the top positions. If you include graduate degrees, I imagine that some business/law/medicine folks may jump engineers, but the average engineer with a BS or MS is going to do quite well.
Also, from his wording, it sounded like it is not enabled by default. In other words, you can actively choose to sacrifice a bit of security in order to make it work properly in your environment. Sounds like a nice feature to me.
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One of the biggest problem with non-gasoline powered vehicles is making them reasonably convenient. It's going to be very, very hard to get people to switch to electric cars that they must charge overnight and plan their daily miles accordingly. This bike looks to be just as convenient as a scooter and almost as good as a normal motorcycle. Getting 100 miles to a tank is close enough to what most riders are used to, so I don't see that being an impediment. Ditto for 3 minutes to fuel up. The 50 mph top speed is low for a motorcycle, but normal for many scooters. Given how much more popular scooters have been recently, there is definitely a market for a vehicle like this. Plus, this is a prototype, so I bet that making a bike that tops out at 80-90 mph and is capable of sustained freeway speeds is not a huge stretch.
The only question left is how much does it cost in dollars per mile traveled? I know this is hugely dependent on how the hydrogen is created and therefore the cost of electricity, but all the green thoughts in the world mean nothing to the masses if it is much more expensive than gasoline.
I would hardly qualify Corrupted Blood as disastrous or disheartening. On the disaster scale, even if you got infected repeatedly, it meant no more effective downtime than a bad day of server maintenance. Once you get past that, I think it was pretty cool to watch it spread. Death in WoW does not normally inspire fear or trepidation, but with Corrupted Blood you saw some very serious and unusual consequences, albeit for a short time.
While I completely agree that Apple needs to seriously loosen it's grip on iPhone developers, I wouldn't say this is a decision driven by "short-sighted MBAs." It's far more likely that this is Steve Jobs saying, "My way is the best, and you can only do it my way."
Activision Blizzard, EA, Ubisoft, Midway, Microsoft, etc. they are all corporations and their main focus is to get your money and make sure their shareholders are satisfied. (emphasis mine)
Blizzard has shown quite clearly that you can make a good living without nickel and diming for every last piece of content. The Warcraft RTS line, the Starcraft series, and the Diablo series all made Blizzard quite a bit of money without charging customers for anything but the upfront cost of the game or an expansion. They've continued to support those games with battle.net and bugfixes. Could they have tried to squeeze every last penny out of gamers? Sure, but it would have cost them in the long run. In no small part because of the reputation they have built, Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 are going to make millions of dollars from gamers who know they are getting a great product with great support behind it.
You don't have to explain assembly language to a jury; you get an expert witness to testify.
US Energy Use By source and Sector
Actually, hardly any of our electricity is derived from resources originating from outside of North America. Coal is the biggest source of electricity in the country, and the only major foreign source is natural gas from Canada.
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I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of hours of my free time suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
It's a submission from an anonymous user that doesn't cite any sources. That's pretty shoddy, even by Slashdot standards.
No reputable motorcycle safety course will ever recommend that you lay it down. The Motorcycle Safety Foundation (MSF)either trains or provides the training curriculum for nearly all motorcycle licensing programs across the nation, and they never recommend that you lay it down. Their training course specifically instructions you on emergency braking and maneuvering so that you can avoid an accident instead of intentionally crashing.
This device is far more dangerous in a crash than a traditional motorcycle. If you are wearing proper gear, you can walk away from a long, smooth slide at almost speed. In a crash, the best you can hope for is to separate from your bike and slide without any interruptions. With this machine, you would have a much greater chance of it clipping something and sending you tumbling, and that's when the real pain is going to start.
Riders who speak of "laying it down" and road rash should not speak of actual motorcycle safety. "Laying it down" is a term used by riders who intentionally induce a crash out of a perceived fear of a worse crash. You are going to be much better off staying in control of your bike as long as possible. When you lose control of your bike, you subject yourself to the whims of oncoming traffic, immovable objects, and other disadvantageous applications of Newton's laws. Suffering road rash simply means that you failed to wear the proper safety gear. While you cannot fully protect yourself from brunt force trauma by wearing gear, good riding gear can 100% prevent road rash.
Even assuming that the rider leans forward to lengthen the wheelbase and move the center of gravity, I have serious doubts that you could do 0-60 in 3 seconds. That's literbike territory, and those machines are putting out 160-180hp. Even if you consider that the weight of the rider with the wearable motorcycle could be as little as half of the weight of a rider on a traditional sportbike, that's still a lot of power that you would need to put out to reach those speeds.
If gaining Mac users is your goal, then the toolkit is not a trivial issue. Many Mac users, myself included, are very finicky about apps that do not look or feel like Mac apps.* Using an app that looks significantly out of place in an otherwise consistent UI is very annoying, and the app would need to be significantly better than the alternatives. I fully understand why some developers steer clear of Mac support for that very reason, but it is a reality, and it's not going away.
* In rough terms, a traditional Mac app will be Cocoa or Carbon and follow Apple's interface guidelines.
Also, thank fuck for the House of Lords. There are few elected representatives who'll speak out on an issue that's got the word 'pornography' stuck to it.
I wish I had mod points. Whether it's the House of Lords or the Supreme Court, history has shown that having part of the government be virtually unaccountable to the whims of popularity is vital. You need people with the power and freedom to stand up and voice unpopular opinions.
While some car drivers know about the light flashing practice, motorcyclists have a "cop ahead" signal that is almost universally known amongst riders: tapping your helmet. If you ever see a rider tapping their helmet, you can be sure that there is a cop up ahead.
. When was the last time you heard about someone that had trouble leaving any church that wasn't considered a cult?
Muslims in Malaysia. Draw your own conclusions about the Church of Scientology and/or Islam.
From the article...
"This was probably due to the fact that major connections between the continents still existed at that time, and because climates were more equitable across latitudes than they are today," Smith said.
Can we just go one discussion without bringing up global warming? While it's midly related, this is more about Pangaea and where Antarctica was 190 million years ago.
1 ACCOUNT for gaming
1 ACCOUNT for everything else
Sorry if you don't have protected memory and proper permission set up.
Well, you are still only a privilege escalation exploit away from someone getting your whole system, but I do agree that separate accounts for gaming will greatly reduce the potential for damage from malicious attacks. 95% of the security of having a second computer, none of the extra cost.
In the long term, this is of course a good thing. However, the idea that issues 1-100 of X-Men will encourage anyone to take it up is, at best, optimistic. Let's face it; they may have been good at the time, but nowadays they're extremely dated. Of course, it does have Iceman looking like a snowman and Cyclops being called 'Slim' which might be good for a laugh, but overall I don't think they'll encourage many people.
When I was around 10 years old, someone got me a subscription for the reprinting of the first 12 X-Men comics. Even though some of it was dated (this was almost 15 years ago), I was still hooked and pretty soon I had subscriptions to the latest X-Men and FF comics. I think this is a great way for them to get new kids interested, and it's very low risk for them. All it costs is some scanning and a webserver.
My only hope is that this doesn't lead to the death of the physical copy of a comic book. I still go back every few years and read through my old collection, and the fun of reading a physical comic book never gets old.
Sorry to rain on your parade, but doing CS is not by a long way assured to make you lots of money.
Sorry, but CS is one of the best ways to make money. Take a look at starting salaries by bachelors degree earned. (This article is a few years old, but the chart is still good for a rough idea.) CS and engineering disciplines are always monopolizing the top positions. If you include graduate degrees, I imagine that some business/law/medicine folks may jump engineers, but the average engineer with a BS or MS is going to do quite well.
My account is over 3 years old, but I don't see it as an option yet.
Also, from his wording, it sounded like it is not enabled by default. In other words, you can actively choose to sacrifice a bit of security in order to make it work properly in your environment. Sounds like a nice feature to me.
I haven't read through the article yet, but thank you, thank you, thank you for submitting the single-page "printer-friendly" link.