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  1. Because Fuel cells are expensive on CES: Tiny Fuel Cell is Supposed to Charge a Cell Phone for Two Weeks (Video) · · Score: 1

    They are not in common use because most of them require platinum or palladium. Also they require very pure fuel to prevent fouling the cell, this means most commercial fuels simply cannot be used.

  2. Re:Pathetic. on Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That NYT Tesla Test Drive Was Staged · · Score: 1

    I can believe the range was 55 miles. The point is they did not test it, the car was not empty when they pushed it back to the garage that was staged.

    What do you mean better ways? Nickel recycling is well known. As is lithium recycling. Batteries in these cars can last 20 years. 10 years as a car battery then another 10 as a battery in industrial applications.

    Hydrogen has lots of other major challenges.
    1. garages have to be designed to not let it pool
    2. It embrittles everything
    3. Fuel cells need lots of platinum or palladium
    4. storage. Either you make the storage tank huge or you make the H a liquid and then it is dangerous to handle.

    Hydrogen is nothing more than a ploy by the oil industry to slow development of actual solutions to the problem. All of the industrial Hydrogen comes from steam reformation of Natural Gas.

  3. Re:Just do it the other way around on Ask Slashdot: Spreadsheet With Decent Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    Yes, but CPAN has packages that do all the nasty work for you.

  4. Re:Just do it the other way around on Ask Slashdot: Spreadsheet With Decent Programming Language? · · Score: 2

    No, they are not the best option. It might seem like it now, but I have been down the road, soon there will be much pain.

    At the very least get them using a real DB and not VBA. Trust me you will be far better served in the long run.

  5. Re:Pathetic. on Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That NYT Tesla Test Drive Was Staged · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, they did not.
    http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/04/top-gear-responds-to-teslas-lawsuit/
    1. We never said that the Teslaâ(TM)s true range is only 55 miles, as opposed to their own claim of 211 [Autopia: Actually, Tesla claims 245 for the Roadster], or that it had actually ran out of charge. In the film our actual words were: âoeWe calculated that on our track it would run out after 55 miles.â The first point here is that the track is where we do our tests of sports cars and supercars, as has happened ever since Top Gear existed. This is where cars are driven fast and hard, and since Tesla calls its roadster âoeThe Supercar. Redefinedâ it seemed pretty logical to us that the right test was a track test. The second point is that the figure of 55 miles came not from our heads, but from Teslaâ(TM)s boffins in California. They looked at the data from that car and calculated that, driven hard on our track, it would have a range of 55 miles.

    Reputable? Top Gear? Are you high? Have your seen the India special? I love the show, but it is fake as hell.

    Tesla might be exaggerating the milage that is no reason others should be going to the other extreme.

  6. Re:Just do it the other way around on Ask Slashdot: Spreadsheet With Decent Programming Language? · · Score: 2

    You can even output to XLSX so that you can do multiple tabs and such.

    Still using a normal language and a real DB is much better.

  7. Re:Pathetic. on Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That NYT Tesla Test Drive Was Staged · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Read your own article.

    âoeAlthough Tesla say it will do 200 miles we have worked out that on our track it will run out after just 55 miles and if it does run out, it is not a quick job to charge it up again,â Clarkson said in commentary.

    Note the weasel words "calculated", meaning they did not test it.

    Couple of staged shots? They pushed the car back to the garage claiming it ran out of juice. So basically the biggest scene was staged. What part was not staged? A lap or two?

    How is it bullshit to point out when someone fakes something?

  8. Just do it the other way around on Ask Slashdot: Spreadsheet With Decent Programming Language? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Instead of a spreadsheet with good programming just program and output a spreadsheet. CPAN has plenty of packages for this.

  9. Re:Pathetic. on Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That NYT Tesla Test Drive Was Staged · · Score: 2

    It is not an electric car it is a hybrid. The idea is so you can make short trips electric and have all the neat regen braking and stop start tech.

    By the way, my entire daily commute would fit in the range of that vehicle.

  10. Re:Pathetic. on Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That NYT Tesla Test Drive Was Staged · · Score: 4, Informative

    Top Gear admitted the whole thing was staged. Their excuse in the lawsuit was that this was a show for entertainment not information.

    I don't think pointing out facts is a personal attack. Nor has Elon had their pets killed, unlike the cult you are comparing him too.

  11. Re:Nice try, kid. on OpenOffice: Worth $21 Million Per Day, If It Were Microsoft Office · · Score: 1

    Since you clearly meet that, please do inform us all.

  12. Re:Mice welfare on Drug Testing In Mice May Be a Waste of Time, Researchers Warn · · Score: 1

    You are not taking into account my anti-drug stone that I bought right before they started this thing.

    People who do those sorts of drugs are not more responsible when they are deprived of them and never will take better care of their kids. They will just drink or use hard drugs that do not stay in the system very long. More over people doing addictive drugs do not stop for a drug test, if they could they would not be drug addicts in the first place.

  13. Re:Reality vs idealism on W3C Declares DRM In-Scope For HTML · · Score: 1

    Not at all. GPG can be open source, the key is yours to make and do with as you like. With DRM you are given a key you are not allowed to see or touch.

    With GPG you can easily hand it an encrypted file and get back the clear text. With DRM you cannot do that, or it would be pointless. Their has to be some hidden from you way that this software can talk to the display else you could just record the output of the DRM package. If it ever gives you the key or the data in the clear it is not effective DRM.

  14. Because everyone thinks they have the flu on When Google Got Flu Wrong · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is probably because people will update their social media sites with claims of having the flu. If they actually had the flu odds are they would not have the strength to even do that.

    The real flu is pretty terrible and people often think they have it when they have a minor cold.

  15. Re:Nice try, kid. on OpenOffice: Worth $21 Million Per Day, If It Were Microsoft Office · · Score: 0

    No, I did not. He was not very clear. Since you are a mind reader let me know what he was thinking.

  16. Re:Mice welfare on Drug Testing In Mice May Be a Waste of Time, Researchers Warn · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sorry but like Florida just showed you spend more money on that drug testing program than you save on kicking them out of the system. Plus it is unfair to the mouselets, they did not choose their parents.

  17. Re:Why do these phones always suck? on £6700 Phone Uses Android Instead of Windows · · Score: 2

    They did not have to do any of that.
    You can call an OEM up right now and order X devices built for you. Hell make your own chassis for it even, or glass. Google does this with the Nexus Line. The Nexus 4 is pretty much an LG Optimus.

  18. Of course it is on Drug Testing In Mice May Be a Waste of Time, Researchers Warn · · Score: 5, Funny

    A mouse can't even roll a joint, much less handle a lighter. Nor do they make syringes that small.

    Why was anyone suspecting their mice of using drugs in the first place?

  19. Re:What? on OpenOffice: Worth $21 Million Per Day, If It Were Microsoft Office · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I agree lack of marketing is a huge problem, that is what you meant right?

  20. Re:Well, yes, if you pay over-the-odds for VPS on Home Server Or VPS? One Family's Math · · Score: 1

    Yeah for $13/month, not $5 a month.

  21. Re:Apps on £6700 Phone Uses Android Instead of Windows · · Score: 2

    The other phones have that built in as well. Often the replacement applications are just better or the users preference. Does winphone have skype working properly yet? Meaning it can fireup the app when a call comes in? I know that was a no go with 7.5.

    You must not be using your device very often. I often work from mine, yes ssh on a 4 inch screen is not great but better than nothing.

  22. Re:Why do these phones always suck? on £6700 Phone Uses Android Instead of Windows · · Score: 1

    Why not do a Lexus?

    Just get a big boy to provide you with everything done and you can make a fancy body for it?

    Hell why not do what Google does with the Nexus line? Work with one of the big players to do the whole thing for you but put your branding on it.

  23. Re:Why do these phones always suck? on £6700 Phone Uses Android Instead of Windows · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That does not explain why they suck though. They could charge $12k and make it a decent device.

  24. Re:Apps on £6700 Phone Uses Android Instead of Windows · · Score: 5, Informative

    All the major apps? Yeah, right. Even top games are not available. Temple Run and the like. Hell they had to bribe Rovio to bring angry birds over.
    What exactly does your magic phone do out of the box the others don't?

    Considering the desktop OS in 2013 still does not support ipsec vpn out of the box I have a hard time imagining what they added to WinPhone.

  25. Why do these phones always suck? on £6700 Phone Uses Android Instead of Windows · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I get it they are to show off how rich you are, but seems like for $10k I would want something a little better specced.

    Why do they then always suck? You could get a real top of the line phone and have a custom solid gold body made for it for less and have a better device.