I think the most important reason not to sell in the USA is that Americans will hate this tiny car.
I've driven a Ford Fiesta for a few months in 2004/2005. I think they've restyled it a bit since then, and obviously it didn't have this engine (I had a 1.3 liter petrol engine), but back then I nominated it for the Award For The Least Deserved Use Of The Word Party In A Product Name. (Don't recall if it won) The engine was terrible, the gearbox was terrible, the car is so tiny I couldn't drive it for more than two hours straight without terrible back pain (the seat wouldn't move back far enough for me to fit comfortably between it and the pedals).
I see a lot of comments about VW Jettas and Golfs. I guess by most Americans' standards those cars are small. If so, then a Ford Fiesta is minuscule. You could feel safe in it though, it'll pass straight under a Hummer with room to spare...
These guys are promising a biofuel that is exactly like fossil crude oil. It could be mixed in with the petro crude and refined into any currently available fuel.
No. No. No. Although, technically, that last one was not a question, it was wrong. W00t is definitely not the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow, European, African or otherwise.
I noticed that too. I don't think there actually was any conversion, they just replaced the word "feet" by "metres". It looks about seven feet high, five feet wide, twelve feet long. Why they would include that sentence is beyond me, on the picture it looks quite cramped for a four-seater.
TLDR. Well, not beyond the first few paragraphs. But I did see responses asking for figures to back you up. So here's my anecdotal evidence: My previous band was signed with a small British label. We "made" 6p per copy sold. I've put made in quotes, because the band's technically still in debt to the tune of several thousand pounds. Yeah, you pay for the recording, mastering etc. out of your own cut. It's not like we'll ever have to pay them back, the label dropped us after the second album and the band fell apart soon after that.
I didn't have my ears sand-blasted with 32kbps audio... I checked their "upload your own music" link yesterday. They advise you to send 192kbps or better. I guess they just stream what has been uploaded without any re-encoding.
I think you could do away with the quotes around stole in the case of trade secrets. While the original information is still available to Oracle, it is no longer a secret. So the secrets where actually stolen in the slashdot zeitgeist meaning of the word.
Hydrogen fueled cars are simply not reality either. They won't be in the foreseeable future. Who will make them if you can't buy any hydrogen? Who will set up a hydrogen distribution system if no one's buying the fuel? Plug-in electric cars are limited to a few hundred km before needing a lengthy recharge. Or a new battery pack (no service station for these yet either). Thus the need for hybrids. I just don't see how electric cars and hydrogen are viable long term solutions where biodiesel is a pipe dream. I should hasten to add that I do support research in any direction away from petrofuels.
So how is hydrogen a better long term solution? Farmed algae biodiesel doesn't suddenly expire a few years down the road. If production starts now, it can be gradually scaled up, mixing petrodiesel with biodiesel and using existing distribution infrastructure. All the while people can write off their old petrol cars and buy new turbo diesel and diesel electric hybrid cars.
While I'm sure my daily commute could easily be run from batteries (it's only about 15 km each way, in decent weather I ride my bike to work), having them charged each night would take a significant investment in infrastructure. I don't have my own parking spot where I live, so sometimes I have to park a few blocks away. Not a problem if the car is just sitting there, but not really practical when it needs to be hooked up to the grid. I'm assuming the power company will want to bill me for it, otherwise everyone could simply hook up to the street lights. Also, it just occurs to me that I could charge the car at work. My boss pays for my fuel anyway and the car just sits there for eight hours every weekday.
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Huh? I heard you were out of beta and would be releasing on time...
That was a joke - haha - fat chance.
As a measure of torque, the Newton meter is more common than the Joule.
Call it Alowishus Devadander Abercrombie, that's long for Mud..So I've been told.
Sure, you people can laugh at it now, but someday this patent will make interstellar travel possible.
That doesn't look right...
Try:
Also, I noticed that the previous stupid tricks stories ended with a question mark, but this one doesn't. So:
Possibly, but that certainly wasn't a world record.
You've been looking at old data. The use of made-up-on-the-spot statistics is up almost 50% from last year.
No, you're thinking Darth Vader.
And each of those includes another 11 payloads?
Very clever, young man. But it's payloads all the way down.
I think the most important reason not to sell in the USA is that Americans will hate this tiny car.
I've driven a Ford Fiesta for a few months in 2004/2005. I think they've restyled it a bit since then, and obviously it didn't have this engine (I had a 1.3 liter petrol engine), but back then I nominated it for the Award For The Least Deserved Use Of The Word Party In A Product Name. (Don't recall if it won)
The engine was terrible, the gearbox was terrible, the car is so tiny I couldn't drive it for more than two hours straight without terrible back pain (the seat wouldn't move back far enough for me to fit comfortably between it and the pedals).
I see a lot of comments about VW Jettas and Golfs. I guess by most Americans' standards those cars are small. If so, then a Ford Fiesta is minuscule. You could feel safe in it though, it'll pass straight under a Hummer with room to spare...
Isn't the usual term "subatomair"? "Subatomisch" sounds like a germanism to me.
These guys are promising a biofuel that is exactly like fossil crude oil. It could be mixed in with the petro crude and refined into any currently available fuel.
South Park?
No. No. No.
Although, technically, that last one was not a question, it was wrong. W00t is definitely not the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow, European, African or otherwise.
And all this time you were right. Same goes for Audi.
I noticed that too. I don't think there actually was any conversion, they just replaced the word "feet" by "metres". It looks about seven feet high, five feet wide, twelve feet long. Why they would include that sentence is beyond me, on the picture it looks quite cramped for a four-seater.
Well, not here on Slashdot anyway...
TLDR. Well, not beyond the first few paragraphs. But I did see responses asking for figures to back you up. So here's my anecdotal evidence:
My previous band was signed with a small British label. We "made" 6p per copy sold. I've put made in quotes, because the band's technically still in debt to the tune of several thousand pounds. Yeah, you pay for the recording, mastering etc. out of your own cut. It's not like we'll ever have to pay them back, the label dropped us after the second album and the band fell apart soon after that.
How do you figure positronium is anti-hydrogen? You'd need at least an anti-proton in there...
I didn't have my ears sand-blasted with 32kbps audio... I checked their "upload your own music" link yesterday. They advise you to send 192kbps or better. I guess they just stream what has been uploaded without any re-encoding.
I think you could do away with the quotes around stole in the case of trade secrets. While the original information is still available to Oracle, it is no longer a secret. So the secrets where actually stolen in the slashdot zeitgeist meaning of the word.
Hydrogen fueled cars are simply not reality either. They won't be in the foreseeable future. Who will make them if you can't buy any hydrogen? Who will set up a hydrogen distribution system if no one's buying the fuel?
Plug-in electric cars are limited to a few hundred km before needing a lengthy recharge. Or a new battery pack (no service station for these yet either). Thus the need for hybrids.
I just don't see how electric cars and hydrogen are viable long term solutions where biodiesel is a pipe dream. I should hasten to add that I do support research in any direction away from petrofuels.
So how is hydrogen a better long term solution? Farmed algae biodiesel doesn't suddenly expire a few years down the road. If production starts now, it can be gradually scaled up, mixing petrodiesel with biodiesel and using existing distribution infrastructure. All the while people can write off their old petrol cars and buy new turbo diesel and diesel electric hybrid cars.
While I'm sure my daily commute could easily be run from batteries (it's only about 15 km each way, in decent weather I ride my bike to work), having them charged each night would take a significant investment in infrastructure. I don't have my own parking spot where I live, so sometimes I have to park a few blocks away. Not a problem if the car is just sitting there, but not really practical when it needs to be hooked up to the grid. I'm assuming the power company will want to bill me for it, otherwise everyone could simply hook up to the street lights.
Also, it just occurs to me that I could charge the car at work. My boss pays for my fuel anyway and the car just sits there for eight hours every weekday.
Well, I think we're stuck with a very stupid and dismal looking album.