Could be, but isn't. Which rather shows the amateurishness of it.
That one has control of mobile phones, up to and including ability to flash the rom, when you get local access to the data port is not news, it's been true of pretty much all smartphones since the original Nokia communicator.
News would be that someone has actually carried out such an exploit. Not that one is possible.
And in what way was it not obvious for the entire history of the iPhone that it could be reflashed through the USB? The same as other phones.
If this was an actual exploit contained in an Apple charger, then it'd be news. But doing what all of us have been doing for years via.a credit sized computer rather than a PC or Mac is not news.
How the hell did that get modded insightful? Android of course does data via the USB. It mounts as a drive on a PC. And you can reflash the rom via USB, just as you can on an iPhone.
Too often they seem to try and create a sense of excitement through the sole mechanism of having the Doctor get excited and shouty. I don't think it Matt Smith's fault
Actually I do think it's his fault. I think he was overawed at getting the Doctor Who gig so young, he ended up trying to copy David Tennant's Doctor. With Tennant it was natural, but I don't buy it when Smith does it.
No, people can miss the 2005 reboot and still have seen the best Doctor Who ever if they bothered to watch the previous 28 years.
Ack! The old stuff was good in it's day. But it hasn't stood the test of time. 2005 reboot is better in most respects, at least until the arrival of Matt Smith.
The one downside is the single-episode stories of the re-boot. But then again, some of the old serials did drag on a bit, with Doctor and/or assistant being captured and marched down samey looking corridors over and over again.
Connery (ignoring NSNA) 1962-71 = 9 years / 6 films Lazenby - 1 film Moore 1973-85 = 12 years / 7 films Dalton = 1986-94 = 6 years / 2 films Brosnan = 1995-2004 = 9 years / 4 films
So Brosnan is mid field as far as lasting. But his first film GoldenEye was one of the most successful.
I think the problem is more one of shelf life than what the fans expect at the beginning of an actors role. Connery/Moore and Brosnan were all looking too old for the role after about a decade. And as muscular as he is, Craig is starting to look a bit old too now, even though he looked young when he started.
The best doctors were Tom baker and David Tennant (I will accept no argument on this.)
40 & 34 when taking on DW as far as I can see. So middle aged at a pinch, rather than old.
I'd only call the 1st and 3rd old. Of those Jon Pertwee was pretty good. Didn't think much to William Hartnell, but that might have been different if I was old enough myself to remember when they were originally broadcast.
Interesting. I had thought about the additional rotational inertia/momentum of the hub motors, but I hadn't realised it's still a problem for the non rotating but unsprung parts.
I'm thinking the ICE could be really small and light. It operates at a fixed speed; it doesn't need to deliver power on demand; it's still operating optimally even when stuck in traffic; all it has to do is top the batteries up. Without having done any calculations whatsoever, I'm imagining something the size of an outboard engine or a motorbike engine. And they're light enough to lift with one hand.
Also free from mechanical linkage, there is complete freedom on where to mount the ICE, which would make for some interesting designs.
private car usage is irrelevant and a moronic place to focus.
You're the one that's focussing on it. Of course you may hear about it more often, but that's because you are a member of the public.
I am not saying it is only happening with private transport, I am saying that private transport is a retarded place to start.
But no one is starting there. Electrification of the railways for example has been ongoing for decades. And whilst there were no private electric cars 2-3 decades ago, there were examples of commercial electric road vehicles then.
The design that seems beautiful to me is to have an electric motor in each of the 4 wheels, powered by batteries, and doing regenerative braking. Each motor would only have to be about a quarter as powerful as a single motor design. And you get the 4x4 advantages.
Similar to the Volt, a plug-in hybrid that has around 50 miles range on the batteries, to cope with commutes and shopping and a back up ICE, running when needed at constant speed to recharge the batteries.
The simplicity means high reliability and low maintenance costs.
Do you know if anyone does one like that yet? And if not, why not?
Yes, I see you're trying to cut down to personal transport, under the mistaken belief that that is the only place where it's being campaigned for and is happening.
Yeah, and they are insanely common.
Well private electric cars are also pretty rare outside of California. It's early days. But busses were your choice. Of course plenty of cities in Europe and Asia have trams ratehr then busses, and they are electric, so it's not as rare as you think.
Take another example - all over the world electrification of railways is happening. Replacing diesel locomotives with entirely electric ones. Just as diesel replaced the steam locomotives half a century ago.
It's just a mistake to say this is only happening with private transport. If anything private transport is lagging behind public transport.
You seem to have jumped from 15% to "no measurable impact", through some arbitrary divisions, that are irrelevant because ALL categories of vehicles are being targeted for efficiency improvements.
Why, if changing the entire world fleet of personal cars into electircal vehicles will have no measurable impact on CO2 emissions, are all the environmental nuts yacking about this?
Frankly, because they are more intelligent and have more insight than you.
The concept of the battery-powered electric car has been tossed around for 100+ years, and it always failed on the marketplace until very recently. What suddenly changed?
Batteries got better. Fuel got more expensive. And people started caring about the environment.
There was no major technological breakthrough at all
Tesla runs on lithium-ion batteries. Prius uses NiMH. You don't realise that they are better than the lead-acid batteries that used to go into electric vehicles?
There's no Moore's law for batteries. But vehicular battery technology does make incremental improvements every year. On top of the occasional entirely new battery technology.
The only reason we have hybrid passenger cars (as well as electric cars) is because the government agreed to pay part of the cost. And the only reason to do that is to hide the total cost.
The government LENT Tesla a big sum of money to be paid back over 10 years. They paid it back in about a year.
I have no idea how what you just said relates to what went before. Literally no idea what point you're making, so I can neither agree nor disagree.
Though out of two lines the second was a pretty pointless insult, so I'm not hopeful of the there actually bing anything worthwhile to be decoded from the first line.
Perhaps I should have said cutting edge hardware feature to prevent you from being deliberately obtuse.
A calculator in a phone was a cutting edge feature round about 1980 when Casio did it. It still didn't make them a premium brand, let alone overturn Rolex on the basis of them not following suit.
I'm not being obtuse, I'm teaching a lesson. Features are not what makes a premium brand. In fact including gimmicky features as the latest Samsung Galaxy does, makes them more like Casio, not more like a premium brand.
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Could be, but isn't. Which rather shows the amateurishness of it.
That one has control of mobile phones, up to and including ability to flash the rom, when you get local access to the data port is not news, it's been true of pretty much all smartphones since the original Nokia communicator.
News would be that someone has actually carried out such an exploit. Not that one is possible.
And in what way was it not obvious for the entire history of the iPhone that it could be reflashed through the USB? The same as other phones.
If this was an actual exploit contained in an Apple charger, then it'd be news. But doing what all of us have been doing for years via.a credit sized computer rather than a PC or Mac is not news.
How the hell did that get modded insightful? Android of course does data via the USB. It mounts as a drive on a PC. And you can reflash the
rom via USB, just as you can on an iPhone.
And the only thing that's keeping you from those many good answers is the lack of a google search.
Cast Danielle Radcliffe as the next Doctor.
I've heard suggestions that next The Doctor could be female, but never one that Harry Potter might be.
Too often they seem to try and create a sense of excitement through the sole mechanism of having the Doctor get excited and shouty. I don't think it Matt Smith's fault
Actually I do think it's his fault. I think he was overawed at getting the Doctor Who gig so young, he ended up trying to copy David Tennant's Doctor. With Tennant it was natural, but I don't buy it when Smith does it.
No, people can miss the 2005 reboot and still have seen the best Doctor Who ever if they bothered to watch the previous 28 years.
Ack! The old stuff was good in it's day. But it hasn't stood the test of time. 2005 reboot is better in most respects, at least until the arrival of Matt Smith.
The one downside is the single-episode stories of the re-boot. But then again, some of the old serials did drag on a bit, with Doctor and/or assistant being captured and marched down samey looking corridors over and over again.
Patrick Swayze, is that you?
Whoosh!
`Lets see.
Connery (ignoring NSNA) 1962-71 = 9 years / 6 films
Lazenby - 1 film
Moore 1973-85 = 12 years / 7 films
Dalton = 1986-94 = 6 years / 2 films
Brosnan = 1995-2004 = 9 years / 4 films
So Brosnan is mid field as far as lasting. But his first film GoldenEye was one of the most successful.
I think the problem is more one of shelf life than what the fans expect at the beginning of an actors role. Connery/Moore and Brosnan were all looking too old for the role after about a decade. And as muscular as he is, Craig is starting to look a bit old too now, even though he looked young when he started.
the best doctors (IMO) were the older dudes.
The best doctors were Tom baker and David Tennant (I will accept no argument on this.)
40 & 34 when taking on DW as far as I can see. So middle aged at a pinch, rather than old.
I'd only call the 1st and 3rd old. Of those Jon Pertwee was pretty good. Didn't think much to William Hartnell, but that might have been different if I was old enough myself to remember when they were originally broadcast.
That is not Doctor Who.
Interesting. I had thought about the additional rotational inertia/momentum of the hub motors, but I hadn't realised it's still a problem for the non rotating but unsprung parts.
I'm thinking the ICE could be really small and light. It operates at a fixed speed; it doesn't need to deliver power on demand; it's still operating optimally even when stuck in traffic; all it has to do is top the batteries up. Without having done any calculations whatsoever, I'm imagining something the size of an outboard engine or a motorbike engine. And they're light enough to lift with one hand.
Also free from mechanical linkage, there is complete freedom on where to mount the ICE, which would make for some interesting designs.
private car usage is irrelevant and a moronic place to focus.
You're the one that's focussing on it. Of course you may hear about it more often, but that's because you are a member of the public.
I am not saying it is only happening with private transport, I am saying that private transport is a retarded place to start.
But no one is starting there. Electrification of the railways for example has been ongoing for decades. And whilst there were no private electric cars 2-3 decades ago, there were examples of commercial electric road vehicles then.
The design that seems beautiful to me is to have an electric motor in each of the 4 wheels, powered by batteries, and doing regenerative braking. Each motor would only have to be about a quarter as powerful as a single motor design. And you get the 4x4 advantages.
Similar to the Volt, a plug-in hybrid that has around 50 miles range on the batteries, to cope with commutes and shopping and a back up ICE, running when needed at constant speed to recharge the batteries.
The simplicity means high reliability and low maintenance costs.
Do you know if anyone does one like that yet? And if not, why not?
See where this number is going?
Yes, I see you're trying to cut down to personal transport, under the mistaken belief that that is the only place where it's being campaigned for and is happening.
Yeah, and they are insanely common.
Well private electric cars are also pretty rare outside of California. It's early days. But busses were your choice. Of course plenty of cities in Europe and Asia have trams ratehr then busses, and they are electric, so it's not as rare as you think.
Take another example - all over the world electrification of railways is happening. Replacing diesel locomotives with entirely electric ones. Just as diesel replaced the steam locomotives half a century ago.
It's just a mistake to say this is only happening with private transport. If anything private transport is lagging behind public transport.
Priuses have been around for 15 years. The cradle to grave analyses have been done many times over the years by various bodies. It's not an unknown.
You seem to have jumped from 15% to "no measurable impact", through some arbitrary divisions, that are irrelevant because ALL categories of vehicles are being targeted for efficiency improvements.
I don't see Tesla Buses coming any time soon
Allow me to help you out with your myopia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_bus
Why, if changing the entire world fleet of personal cars into electircal vehicles will have no measurable impact on CO2 emissions, are all the environmental nuts yacking about this?
Frankly, because they are more intelligent and have more insight than you.
The concept of the battery-powered electric car has been tossed around for 100+ years, and it always failed on the marketplace until very recently.
What suddenly changed?
Batteries got better. Fuel got more expensive. And people started caring about the environment.
There was no major technological breakthrough at all
Tesla runs on lithium-ion batteries. Prius uses NiMH. You don't realise that they are better than the lead-acid batteries that used to go into electric vehicles?
There's no Moore's law for batteries. But vehicular battery technology does make incremental improvements every year. On top of the occasional entirely new battery technology.
The only reason we have hybrid passenger cars (as well as electric cars) is because the government agreed to pay part of the cost. And the only reason to do that is to hide the total cost.
The government LENT Tesla a big sum of money to be paid back over 10 years. They paid it back in about a year.
So you weren't driving it. Was the driver putting the pedal to the metal?
Because it's quick and accurate.
I have no idea how what you just said relates to what went before. Literally no idea what point you're making, so I can neither agree nor disagree.
Though out of two lines the second was a pretty pointless insult, so I'm not hopeful of the there actually bing anything worthwhile to be decoded from the first line.
Perhaps I should have said cutting edge hardware feature to prevent you from being deliberately obtuse.
A calculator in a phone was a cutting edge feature round about 1980 when Casio did it. It still didn't make them a premium brand, let alone overturn Rolex on the basis of them not following suit.
I'm not being obtuse, I'm teaching a lesson. Features are not what makes a premium brand. In fact including gimmicky features as the latest Samsung Galaxy does, makes them more like Casio, not more like a premium brand.
I presume by now you've checked your belief out and realise you're wrong. So I'll say nothing more about it.