I emailed Think with a few questions after they announced their battery pack deal with Tesla.
Here's the text:
Dear xxx,
Thank you for your e-mail and interest in Think!
Think is currently in the process of preparing the new TH!NK city for production in the fall of 2007. The new TH!NK city meets all US and European homologation and safety requirements. It has a range of 110 miles, a top speed of over 60 mph and has comfort and convenience features you would expect of a normal car such as, A/C, electric windows, mirrors, etc.
Due to production capacity limitation and a desire to become very visible in the markets we enter, we will sell exclusively in Norway and the UK in 2007 and the first few months of 2008. Unfortunately, I am unable to confirm the timing of a US launch.
About your questions:
1) How many miles / years will the batter pack last? --> 7 to 10 for Norway
2) Can the top speed governer be altered? (Part of my daily commute is on the highway) --> NO
3) Do you have any plans to bring the Think back to the US? --> YES
4) What is the cost of the car and cost for the replacement battery pack? --> Not yet known for USA, in Norway 200.000 NOK
I have added your name to our list of interested parties and we'll send you information on prices and launch dates as they become available. Please contact me if you have any further questions. For more information please visit our website: www.think.no.
According to Todd Hollenshead's plan file :
Mac and Linux: Unfortunately I don't have dates for either of these. However, Linux binaries will be available very soon after the PC game hits store shelves. There are no plans for boxed Linux games.
More remains to be done for the OSX version of DOOM 3 and that will take some time. We won't release the OSX version until it's just as polished as the PC version. The date for OSX DOOM 3 remains "when it's done", but I can confirm that it's definitely coming.
Here's a link to the plan at Blues
http://www.bluesnews.com/plans/6/
Just because you can pre-order it, doesn't mean it's not vaporware. Gamestop thoughtfully provides a link to their Duke Nukem Forever preorder page on their Doom3 preorder page. Note that Duke has a ship date in December 2005!
Doom3
http://www.gamestop.com/product.asp?cookie%5Ftest= 1&product%5Fid=644930
Duke Nukem Forever
http://www.gamestop.com/product.asp?product%5Fid=6 40700
Ahh... but the articles as 'FISCAL q4' -- A fiscal year is a budgetary and financial reporting cycle, and often doesn't begin on January 1. We can assume that Activision's fiscal starts on April 1...
It's not a matter of open source saving the hardware industry, and certainly not a matter of open source GAMES saving it. There are already good open source game creation tools available on most platforms today. Games are more about quality content now. It takes serious non-programming talent -- i.e. artists, animators and composers -- to create a modern game, no matter what tools (open source or closed) are used. And as long as that talent in in relatively short supply, it will graviate to the existing game creation houses and they will continue to develop for the lowest common denominatior -- consoles.
The hardware industry will save itself by contining to push speed and feature sets. The biggest advantage a PC has over a console is the ability to upgraded on a regular basis, while the console is a static design. The article points out that next-gen consoles will have 'processor cycles to burn' but misses the fact that the latest PC will always have more cycles (or at least it will while Moore's law holds up.)
And none of this makes a differce in the enterprise... Big business will usually replace or upgrade on a budgetary cycle, not on application release cycles.
Some alohanet info for reference :
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALOHAnet
http://www.pbs.org/opb/nerds2.0.1/networking_nerds/tcpip.html
The news of Bluetooth's death is premature
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The Death of Bluetooth?
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· Score: 2, Informative
The current wave of cell phones supporting bluetooth should pull the standard through. I was recently able to deploy 3 new phones with identical corporate (large) phone books without pulling numbers in by hand OR buying yet another cell adapter OR schleeping down to the verizon store. It was Useful Technology. (tm) I think I may pick up a bluetooth keyboard and mouse as test items.
Does anyone have a link with more detailed financial information on the ongoing costs of maintaining a moon base, as compared to, operating an antartic base or a deep sea base?
Note the clever use of 'O' instead of the letter following 'O' to get the headline through the TrendMicro 'letter after O' filter
re : http://slashdot.org/article.plsid=03/05/23/0521222 &mode=thread&tid=126&tid=128
Check out the 'foxfire' books... they are a combination of mountain man tall tales and 'how to skin a bear' manuals... popular in the 70's I think.
http://www.foxfire.org/public.htm
Remember that MacBidouille has a history of inaccurate rumors... remember their AMD rumor earlier this year. Check out their rating at www.macrumors.com
First, the joke -- the apple mouse wasn't designed for lemmings... it was designed for Lode Runner, airborne (with RealSound!) and Dark Castle.
Second, and trust me on this, when Apple came out with a Mac with a mouse, it wasn't for blind follwers... it was like WTF is this? Where is the command line? Apple even packaged an audio cassette w/ the first macs to tell you how to use the mouse -- because the concept was new for 'consumer' computers.
Interesting how the RIAA press release continues demonizing the term 'Napster' -- early in the release Napster is labeled as a pirate service, then the term is stretched to cover any P2P network and finally the Napster court loss is recalled. Ergo 'Ray Charles is God.'
My current favorite error is
"Server Resonded : Connection closed" when an ssh session times out.
The worst error messages I can remember were the sounds that Mac ROMs would play on a boot failure.
The one w. the first few notes of the twilight zone them (SE30?) always make me laugh and the first time I heard the 'car crash' at 3 a.m. one morning scared the crap out of me
Slashdot Mirror
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:h8oRGG22slsJ:gadgetizor.com/the-tablet-season-brings-a-new-ubuntu-powered-tablet/6304/+http://gadgetizor.com/the-tablet-season-brings-a-new-ubuntu-powered-tablet/6304/&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a
Logan, is that you?
And that Box wouldn't fit on your set up: http://www.jeffbots.com/box.html
That's because it would be cheaper to air condition* Hell than Texas.**
*Yes, "air condition" is a verb in Texas
**I've also see the reason listed as "Because Hell isn't as hot and the people there don't lie as much.
Here's the text:
In case you are wonder what the DOE needs teraflop weapons computers for...
think ICBM, baby... http://www.sandia.gov/media/online.htm
According to Todd Hollenshead's plan file : Mac and Linux: Unfortunately I don't have dates for either of these. However, Linux binaries will be available very soon after the PC game hits store shelves. There are no plans for boxed Linux games. More remains to be done for the OSX version of DOOM 3 and that will take some time. We won't release the OSX version until it's just as polished as the PC version. The date for OSX DOOM 3 remains "when it's done", but I can confirm that it's definitely coming. Here's a link to the plan at Blues http://www.bluesnews.com/plans/6/
Large groups of Windows Users causes the Sys Admin to go gray, not the users!
Just because you can pre-order it, doesn't mean it's not vaporware. Gamestop thoughtfully provides a link to their Duke Nukem Forever preorder page on their Doom3 preorder page. Note that Duke has a ship date in December 2005! Doom3 http://www.gamestop.com/product.asp?cookie%5Ftest= 1&product%5Fid=644930
Duke Nukem Forever
http://www.gamestop.com/product.asp?product%5Fid=6 40700
Ahh... but the articles as 'FISCAL q4' -- A fiscal year is a budgetary and financial reporting cycle, and often doesn't begin on January 1. We can assume that Activision's fiscal starts on April 1...
It's not a matter of open source saving the hardware industry, and certainly not a matter of open source GAMES saving it. There are already good open source game creation tools available on most platforms today. Games are more about quality content now. It takes serious non-programming talent -- i.e. artists, animators and composers -- to create a modern game, no matter what tools (open source or closed) are used. And as long as that talent in in relatively short supply, it will graviate to the existing game creation houses and they will continue to develop for the lowest common denominatior -- consoles. The hardware industry will save itself by contining to push speed and feature sets. The biggest advantage a PC has over a console is the ability to upgraded on a regular basis, while the console is a static design. The article points out that next-gen consoles will have 'processor cycles to burn' but misses the fact that the latest PC will always have more cycles (or at least it will while Moore's law holds up.) And none of this makes a differce in the enterprise... Big business will usually replace or upgrade on a budgetary cycle, not on application release cycles.
Some alohanet info for reference : http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALOHAnet http://www.pbs.org/opb/nerds2.0.1/networking_nerds /tcpip.html
The current wave of cell phones supporting bluetooth should pull the standard through. I was recently able to deploy 3 new phones with identical corporate (large) phone books without pulling numbers in by hand OR buying yet another cell adapter OR schleeping down to the verizon store. It was Useful Technology. (tm) I think I may pick up a bluetooth keyboard and mouse as test items.
Does anyone have a link with more detailed financial information on the ongoing costs of maintaining a moon base, as compared to, operating an antartic base or a deep sea base?
Note the clever use of 'O' instead of the letter following 'O' to get the headline through the TrendMicro 'letter after O' filter re : http://slashdot.org/article.plsid=03/05/23/0521222 &mode=thread&tid=126&tid=128
Check out the 'foxfire' books... they are a combination of mountain man tall tales and 'how to skin a bear' manuals... popular in the 70's I think. http://www.foxfire.org/public.htm
Remember that MacBidouille has a history of inaccurate rumors... remember their AMD rumor earlier this year. Check out their rating at www.macrumors.com
Okay -- 2 things.
First, the joke -- the apple mouse wasn't designed for lemmings... it was designed for Lode Runner, airborne (with RealSound!) and Dark Castle.
Second, and trust me on this, when Apple came out with a Mac with a mouse, it wasn't for blind follwers... it was like WTF is this? Where is the command line? Apple even packaged an audio cassette w/ the first macs to tell you how to use the mouse -- because the concept was new for 'consumer' computers.
Interesting how the RIAA press release continues demonizing the term 'Napster' -- early in the release Napster is labeled as a pirate service, then the term is stretched to cover any P2P network and finally the Napster court loss is recalled. Ergo 'Ray Charles is God.'
My current favorite error is "Server Resonded : Connection closed" when an ssh session times out. The worst error messages I can remember were the sounds that Mac ROMs would play on a boot failure. The one w. the first few notes of the twilight zone them (SE30?) always make me laugh and the first time I heard the 'car crash' at 3 a.m. one morning scared the crap out of me