"The flywheel generator is charged whenever the driver applies the brakes, with the two electric motors reversing their function on the front axle and acting themselves as generators. Then, whenever necessary, that is when accelerating out of a bend or when overtaking, the driver is able to call up extra energy from the charged flywheel generator, the flywheel being slowed down electromagnetically in the generator mode and thus supplying up to 120 kW to the two electric motors at the front from its kinetic energy."
>What if, rather than buying a MiFi or using a Wi-Fi router app like those on the Palm Pre Plus, you could stick a SIM in any device
But you *can't* stick a SIM in "any" device, only in GSM devices. Won't work on two of the three largest carriers in the USA, Verizon and Sprint. To make matters worse, Verizon will still charge a fortune to do that, and Sprint dropped the ability to legitimately tether smart phones completely (although you can do it with the Pre quite easily, anyway, but it is not legit. Maybe Sprint will wise up and offer something official this year?)
And even if you had a GSM phone, it still has to be compatible, AND fit, AND drivers/software were available for that particular phone, AND the carrier had to somehow work with it.
>"of the 237,843 firms founded in 2004, only 19% had women as primary owners. And only 3% of tech firms and 1% of high-tech firms were founded by women."
Yes, we have discovered a massive conspiracy by society to prevent women from founding new companies. New evidence shows States refuse to give business licenses to women, especially if it is apparent it will be a high-tech company. News at 11....
>"The spray forms a water-resistant layer, meaning it can be cleaned using only water."
Last time I checked, that is NOT the definition of water-resistant. "Water-resistant" means just that- it resists being dissolved by or being penetrated by water. It does not mean it can be "cleaned using only water." ("Water-proof", means it can NOT be dissolved by or penetrated at all by water.) Who writes this stuff??
So what? Are there people stupid enough to think that a demo version of any software will run forever without nagging and shutting down, or going into limp mode? This is a completely stupid article totally unworthy of being posted on Slashdot.
If you want a legal, free, [modern] OS without nagging or shutting down, install Linux, BSD, or OpenSolaris. Otherwise, pay up or shut up!
Note who you are responding to. *I* never said the blame was completely the driver's. *I* never said anyone deserved to have an accident or get hurt. *I* just said that I automatic transmission have a neutral just like manuals, and refuse to believe that ALL the systems failed (that there was certainly things that could be done to help prevent an accident).
And a nearly exact same function is available in an automatic- it is called PUT THE TRANSMISSION IN NEUTRAL!!
Options:
1) Neutral (I have yet to see a car without one) 2) Brakes (which will fade if not applied hard and soon enough) 3) Emergency/Parking brakes (not very powerful, but helps) 4) Cut ignition (on some cars- must be in neutral first)
I am sorry, but I simply *refuse* to believe that all 4 options were unavailable to the people having major run-away car problems from what was most probably a mechanical problem with the throttle pedal.
It is oldler, but a great business calculator. The best feature it has is the ability to emulate a calculator WITH A PRINTOUT TAPE! So you can see everything you did, edit those numbers, add comments, even print the "tape".
If it were "reasonably stored" as you say, then children would not be able to get their hands on it. Period.
You can get an in-wall gun safe that fits between the studs, has a quick code-release, will lockdown and alarm with more than 3 wrong code entries, and even presents the gun to you in a ready-to-fire orientation, for less than the price of most guns. And it has been around for many, many years.
I will agree that it doesn't negate the need to talk about gun safety with children, just like any other kind of safety. But a gun is NOT SAFELY STORED if children (or anyone else for that matter) can access it.
>and just how many departments are willing to take up a system that could leave their officers with an expensive rock in their holsters potentially.
Oh, but of course the POLICE, CIA, FBI, and MILITARY would be exempt! And, oh... the murderers and robbers and such would be exempt too, since they won't have to purchase legal guns like we law-abiding citizens do.
I am not anti-technology... I think such research is a GOOD idea. But wireless? No. Mandated by law???? No.
I see, so you think one or two people trying to take care of 12 non-polio children have more "opportunity" (education, time, resources, money) than one or two people trying to take care of 2? Doesn't take a genius...
I never said birth control should be the ONLY aid, I said it should be high on the list of aid given.
Sarcasm or no, never did I say someone was better dead than not. People who are not born never existed... Birth control should be PART of aid, not the only aid.
Actually, you are the one that is both terms. Nothing could have been further from my mind when I wrote the post. But go ahead and throw out curse words when something you THINK someone MIGHT have IMPLIED but didn't is something you disagree with.
I will address your post by saying this (since it seemed directed at me):
Just *living* isn't necessary ending suffering. Standards of living *are* important. I don't think that just saving lives is the objective, it is to increase the quality of life for *everyone* while not damaging the environment in the process. Population control as a PART of aid can work wonders to help improve standards of living while at the same time saving lives.
Do I think that many "Westerners" are wasteful, selfish, materialistic, and damaging to the environment? Absolutely yes.
But I also don't think just living on a cup of rice a week would be a target goal for a decent standard of living, either. And further, I think there is no one "right" level of "standard of living" that can or will make people happy (some of the most unhappy people I know have the highest so-called standard of living).
>Just say what you mean. You think 10 billion should go towards sterilization and baby murdering (abortion) instead of towards saving lives through vaccination.
You are totally whacked. Birth control (which is proactive planning and using contraception) has *NOTHING* to do with sterilization and abortion. Nobody ANYWHERE in the threads has even MENTIONED sterilization or abortion until you crawled out and spewed a bunch of nonsense.
Please go back and crawl under the rock from whence you came.
> A healthy population can build an economy and become a wealthy population. A sick population can't. It's that simple.
No, it really isn't that simple (nor am I implying population control is simple, nor that it will simply cause all other problems to disappear).
A healthy but OVER population in a given area can't necessarily EVER build an economy and become a wealthy population. There are some hard limitations to what a region might be able to support. Growable land and usable water are two such factors. In many, many such overpopulated areas, there simply isn't enough of either. The only reason existing, established economies can get away with population that outstrips such resources (example: Japan) is because they have OTHER resources they can use (example: building/engineering expertise) to buy what they need (raw materials, food) from other areas/economies.
I am not saying that reducing the population will automatically boon the economy. All I originally said is that controlling population would help REDUCE SUFFERING. And I don't think that JUST controlling population is enough, it has to be combined with other education. They play off each other synergistically. And if the area is lucky enough to have enough natural resources to support that new population, THEN there is a chance for a stable or growing economy.
But people without education in such regions don't "decide" to have less. They continue to do what is natural- breed. Without some family planning education and available contraception, the population would continue to explode as infant mortality decreased.
Yes, with other types of education, over a long time period, perhaps that area will learn to value having less children. But that could take 50 or 100 years... meanwhile, the suffering continues, just in different ways. I think it is totally irresponsible to artificially help a region with life-prolonging or life-saving aid that doesn't also include some type of birth control education and contraception aid.
Personally, I disagree. If you artificially increase the life span of the overpopulation, the problem becomes even more critical, and fast. When each person is having 2, 3, or 4 children, that is doubling, tripling, or quadrupling the population with just ONE generation, and it is exponential. If there were no resources for 1 person, no jobs for 1 person, no healthcare for 1 person, not enough food or land for 1 person, there certainly won't be for numerous soon after.
If you really think someone taking care of a household of polio victims is deprived of opportunity, how much opportunity will they have if that household suddenly became three times as large.
Of course, education and birth control are synergistic- both are needed (and birth control is partially education already, and partially having access to pills, condoms, etc).
The "way to a better future for the world" is birth control and education. Don't want to sound cold, but the places with the most human suffering are also the areas with the worst overpopulation vs. the least natural resources. I would hope this component would be very high on the list of any type of aid when addressing suffering and helping to stop the perpetuation of suffering.
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The wording of the summary (or first article) is not ideal. It is not a front wheel drive car (which would be silly). It is a mostly rear-wheel drive car with a sometimes front drive supplemental. Here is some additional interesting info from http://www.manualgear.com/en/in_brief-367-911+GT3+R+Hybrid+Celebrates+World+Debut+in+Geneva.html
"The flywheel generator is charged whenever the driver applies the brakes, with the two electric motors reversing their function on the front axle and acting themselves as generators. Then, whenever necessary, that is when accelerating out of a bend or when overtaking, the driver is able to call up extra energy from the charged flywheel generator, the flywheel being slowed down electromagnetically in the generator mode and thus supplying up to 120 kW to the two electric motors at the front from its kinetic energy."
In a race car???
>What if, rather than buying a MiFi or using a Wi-Fi router app like those on the Palm Pre Plus, you could stick a SIM in any device
But you *can't* stick a SIM in "any" device, only in GSM devices. Won't work on two of the three largest carriers in the USA, Verizon and Sprint. To make matters worse, Verizon will still charge a fortune to do that, and Sprint dropped the ability to legitimately tether smart phones completely (although you can do it with the Pre quite easily, anyway, but it is not legit. Maybe Sprint will wise up and offer something official this year?)
And even if you had a GSM phone, it still has to be compatible, AND fit, AND drivers/software were available for that particular phone, AND the carrier had to somehow work with it.
That is supposed to read "so *UNLESS* he is an MS-Windows user"
I do wish that Slashdot had an edit feature :(
And none of the three you mentioned run under Linux nor MacOS. So if he is an MS-Windows user, your suggestions are not helpful.
>"of the 237,843 firms founded in 2004, only 19% had women as primary owners. And only 3% of tech firms and 1% of high-tech firms were founded by women."
Yes, we have discovered a massive conspiracy by society to prevent women from founding new companies. New evidence shows States refuse to give business licenses to women, especially if it is apparent it will be a high-tech company. News at 11....
>"The spray forms a water-resistant layer, meaning it can be cleaned using only water."
Last time I checked, that is NOT the definition of water-resistant. "Water-resistant" means just that- it resists being dissolved by or being penetrated by water. It does not mean it can be "cleaned using only water." ("Water-proof", means it can NOT be dissolved by or penetrated at all by water.) Who writes this stuff??
>and this code has finally cleared AMD's legal review.
Has nothing in it that we feel might be secret or licensed....
Doesn't do 3D CHECK
Doesn't do 2D CHECK
Passes our legal review- let people enjoy it now!!!!
>> Pay for Windows 7
>> Track down a safe and working pirated copy
>> Switch to the joke that Linux is on the desktop
>Or get a Mac.
Oh THAT is really brilliant. How about we add:
Or buy a whole X86 machine with MS-Windows 7 already licensed and installed
Or buy a while X86 machine with Linux already pre-installed
MacOS is not free, any more than MS-Windows is.
So what? Are there people stupid enough to think that a demo version of any software will run forever without nagging and shutting down, or going into limp mode? This is a completely stupid article totally unworthy of being posted on Slashdot.
If you want a legal, free, [modern] OS without nagging or shutting down, install Linux, BSD, or OpenSolaris. Otherwise, pay up or shut up!
Note who you are responding to. *I* never said the blame was completely the driver's. *I* never said anyone deserved to have an accident or get hurt. *I* just said that I automatic transmission have a neutral just like manuals, and refuse to believe that ALL the systems failed (that there was certainly things that could be done to help prevent an accident).
So go lecture someone else.
And a nearly exact same function is available in an automatic- it is called PUT THE TRANSMISSION IN NEUTRAL!!
Options:
1) Neutral (I have yet to see a car without one)
2) Brakes (which will fade if not applied hard and soon enough)
3) Emergency/Parking brakes (not very powerful, but helps)
4) Cut ignition (on some cars- must be in neutral first)
I am sorry, but I simply *refuse* to believe that all 4 options were unavailable to the people having major run-away car problems from what was most probably a mechanical problem with the throttle pedal.
The Linux calculator we use at work is gtapecalc: http://gtapecalc.sourceforge.net/
It is oldler, but a great business calculator. The best feature it has is the ability to emulate a calculator WITH A PRINTOUT TAPE! So you can see everything you did, edit those numbers, add comments, even print the "tape".
If it were "reasonably stored" as you say, then children would not be able to get their hands on it. Period.
You can get an in-wall gun safe that fits between the studs, has a quick code-release, will lockdown and alarm with more than 3 wrong code entries, and even presents the gun to you in a ready-to-fire orientation, for less than the price of most guns. And it has been around for many, many years.
I will agree that it doesn't negate the need to talk about gun safety with children, just like any other kind of safety. But a gun is NOT SAFELY STORED if children (or anyone else for that matter) can access it.
>and just how many departments are willing to take up a system that could leave their officers with an expensive rock in their holsters potentially.
Oh, but of course the POLICE, CIA, FBI, and MILITARY would be exempt! And, oh... the murderers and robbers and such would be exempt too, since they won't have to purchase legal guns like we law-abiding citizens do.
I am not anti-technology... I think such research is a GOOD idea. But wireless? No. Mandated by law???? No.
I see, so you think one or two people trying to take care of 12 non-polio children have more "opportunity" (education, time, resources, money) than one or two people trying to take care of 2? Doesn't take a genius... I never said birth control should be the ONLY aid, I said it should be high on the list of aid given.
Sarcasm or no, never did I say someone was better dead than not. People who are not born never existed... Birth control should be PART of aid, not the only aid.
Actually, you are the one that is both terms. Nothing could have been further from my mind when I wrote the post. But go ahead and throw out curse words when something you THINK someone MIGHT have IMPLIED but didn't is something you disagree with.
I will address your post by saying this (since it seemed directed at me):
Just *living* isn't necessary ending suffering. Standards of living *are* important. I don't think that just saving lives is the objective, it is to increase the quality of life for *everyone* while not damaging the environment in the process. Population control as a PART of aid can work wonders to help improve standards of living while at the same time saving lives.
Do I think that many "Westerners" are wasteful, selfish, materialistic, and damaging to the environment? Absolutely yes.
But I also don't think just living on a cup of rice a week would be a target goal for a decent standard of living, either. And further, I think there is no one "right" level of "standard of living" that can or will make people happy (some of the most unhappy people I know have the highest so-called standard of living).
>Just say what you mean. You think 10 billion should go towards sterilization and baby murdering (abortion) instead of towards saving lives through vaccination.
You are totally whacked. Birth control (which is proactive planning and using contraception) has *NOTHING* to do with sterilization and abortion. Nobody ANYWHERE in the threads has even MENTIONED sterilization or abortion until you crawled out and spewed a bunch of nonsense.
Please go back and crawl under the rock from whence you came.
> A healthy population can build an economy and become a wealthy population. A sick population can't. It's that simple.
No, it really isn't that simple (nor am I implying population control is simple, nor that it will simply cause all other problems to disappear).
A healthy but OVER population in a given area can't necessarily EVER build an economy and become a wealthy population. There are some hard limitations to what a region might be able to support. Growable land and usable water are two such factors. In many, many such overpopulated areas, there simply isn't enough of either. The only reason existing, established economies can get away with population that outstrips such resources (example: Japan) is because they have OTHER resources they can use (example: building/engineering expertise) to buy what they need (raw materials, food) from other areas/economies.
I am not saying that reducing the population will automatically boon the economy. All I originally said is that controlling population would help REDUCE SUFFERING. And I don't think that JUST controlling population is enough, it has to be combined with other education. They play off each other synergistically. And if the area is lucky enough to have enough natural resources to support that new population, THEN there is a chance for a stable or growing economy.
I never said we shouldn't allow other types of aid, I just said that birth control SHOULD be high on the list of types of aid provided to such areas.
And yes, I think that absolutely includes areas in the US, too. It doesn't matter what the country or place.
But people without education in such regions don't "decide" to have less. They continue to do what is natural- breed. Without some family planning education and available contraception, the population would continue to explode as infant mortality decreased.
Yes, with other types of education, over a long time period, perhaps that area will learn to value having less children. But that could take 50 or 100 years... meanwhile, the suffering continues, just in different ways. I think it is totally irresponsible to artificially help a region with life-prolonging or life-saving aid that doesn't also include some type of birth control education and contraception aid.
Personally, I disagree. If you artificially increase the life span of the overpopulation, the problem becomes even more critical, and fast. When each person is having 2, 3, or 4 children, that is doubling, tripling, or quadrupling the population with just ONE generation, and it is exponential. If there were no resources for 1 person, no jobs for 1 person, no healthcare for 1 person, not enough food or land for 1 person, there certainly won't be for numerous soon after.
If you really think someone taking care of a household of polio victims is deprived of opportunity, how much opportunity will they have if that household suddenly became three times as large.
Of course, education and birth control are synergistic- both are needed (and birth control is partially education already, and partially having access to pills, condoms, etc).
The "way to a better future for the world" is birth control and education. Don't want to sound cold, but the places with the most human suffering are also the areas with the worst overpopulation vs. the least natural resources. I would hope this component would be very high on the list of any type of aid when addressing suffering and helping to stop the perpetuation of suffering.