I wish for once they'd stop lying and come clean. The batteries are there. Tesla uses them, heck, even indian REVA uses them in a full electric car. There are also a bunch of new generation safe li-ion batteries with high charge and discharge rates available and in mass production in some cases. A123 ships in volume in Black and Decker power tools, Valence has some market penetration, Altair Nano just shipped their first automotive-size batteries.
There are also countless hobby lithium-ion conversion EVs on the roads, and lithium-ion plug-in conversion kits available for Prius.
If batteries were good enough to run 100 miles ten years ago in an EV1, they are definitely good enough to run 40 miles now.
So stop the FUD and bring this tech to market.You may wish to tell this to GM Vice Chairman Robert Lutz himself on his blog at http://fastlane.gmblogs.com/
Also, if you want it, go vote for it on GM page > http://www.gm.com/company/gm_exp_live/events/naias _2007/index_flash.html?navID=3.0.1.1
Hey, heres a nice and simple thought excercise. If everybody, every single body, i mean everyone would stop paying for music. What would happen ? You think people would stop making music ? No. The manufacturing of music would stop, but making of music would not. I'd happily live in a world where you dont have to pay for the software nor music.. oh wait, whats this Debian shiny thing on my desk ?
They should sue all of the service providers that helped this copying accross the border to happen. Just as they are trying to sue software makers that allow illegal uploading and copying to happen.
Which means basically sue all the ISPs
yes, but its up to the admins to configure it. i have seen many cases where some large company server only has MAPI open and some stupid policy prevents them from opening DAV
so you are stuck with outlook
I dont know about you, but over here ( Estonia ) we can for example purchase movie theatre tickets online and print them anywhere. The very same barcode-carrying tickets lets you in through the gates in cinema.
How's RFID going to replace so simple and cheap system ?
Microsoft taking a perfectly good standard, "extending" it on their own and claiming it theirs ?
Why, but thats impossible, that has never happened before and could never happen !
Actually, robot revolution is also happening in China and Korea as well, but there's indeed very little in a way of practical accomplishments coming from west.
http://plyojump.com/ has some in-depth info and couple good essays on these topics and why exactly this is happening. The core problem seems to lie in deeply rooted cultural issues
Apollo ? Cmon man, man, thats not the first !
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According to this absolutely historically and politically correct documentary, Loopie Louie et al landed their modified Caddy Coup de Ville near Mare Tranquilis a full three years before Apollo, if i may.
But sh*t woman, it was motherf*cking cold up there...
I may be wrong, but I'm guessing they don't cost a few hundred dollars each, though, like GPUs do
Absolutely, they routinely cost from $1 to $100 at most. For instance, take a look at AC motor control hybrid DSP/uC chips by Freescale.
Those allow vector control of AC motors by implementing very sophisticated and high-performance algorithms on specialized chip, this kind of stuff was simply impossible just ten years ago.
Why not have one authority certificate for issuing further signing certificates to each release manager ? The public needs only to know this one authority certificate, and validate the signature up to this one cert.
The trouble with hybrids is that is you are dragging around the dead weight of ICE fuel and engine itself all the time PLUS the batteries.
A more sensible approach would have an ICE trailer for long trips.
Also, BEVs arent wasting energy for idling which AFAIK hybrids still do. And just think how much of idling does an engine do when driving in peak traffic hours.
Plugin-hybrids like Prius+ project are a step in the right direction, but it would be nice to have the ICE as a completely optional part of the car.
And, BTW, li-ion powered prototype BEVs already have a comparable range to common production cars.
The only two real issues remaining are recharge times and cost. Recharge times could be alleviated with quick-swap battery backs and alternatively ICE trailers. Costs are dropping thanks to portable computing and communication devices that always demand better batteries and if automotive industry would start mass producing BEVs some eceonomies of scale would surely kick in to reduce costs further.
"Bipedalism is risky, especially if you want to bend over a lot to pick things up"
Well, if you want a robust robot it must also be able to get up from any position it might get into. Insects have trouble with getting back on their feet if turned on their backs ( and of course yes they are more stable than bipeds when standing up ). But as you'd have to plan for such robustness anyhow in unknown environments, biped is more practical.
There is another advantage that human-like bipeds hold over other locomotion types - for human environments, like insides of buildings, vehicles, heck - kitchens etc, they are a perfect fit, i.e. the environment is tailor-made for them. For instance, human-like biped, given sufficient processing power and sensory capacity, its a lot easier task to navigate around in a skyscraper, enter and operate the lifts, walk up the stairs etc, than for instance a wheeled robot.
Well, Kerberos is nice and everything but as long as the different PKINITimplementations dont get along with eachother, *cough*win2000*cough, we can still do simple social engineering to recover passwords...
Heimdal has a pretty good support by now but the docs are scarce at best, and getting it ( the PKINIT part ) to interoperate is Mayor Payne
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I wish for once they'd stop lying and come clean. The batteries are there. Tesla uses them, heck, even indian REVA uses them in a full electric car. There are also a bunch of new generation safe li-ion batteries with high charge and discharge rates available and in mass production in some cases. A123 ships in volume in Black and Decker power tools, Valence has some market penetration, Altair Nano just shipped their first automotive-size batteries. There are also countless hobby lithium-ion conversion EVs on the roads, and lithium-ion plug-in conversion kits available for Prius. If batteries were good enough to run 100 miles ten years ago in an EV1, they are definitely good enough to run 40 miles now. So stop the FUD and bring this tech to market.You may wish to tell this to GM Vice Chairman Robert Lutz himself on his blog at http://fastlane.gmblogs.com/ Also, if you want it, go vote for it on GM page > http://www.gm.com/company/gm_exp_live/events/naias _2007/index_flash.html?navID=3.0.1.1
Hey, heres a nice and simple thought excercise. If everybody, every single body, i mean everyone would stop paying for music. What would happen ? You think people would stop making music ? No. The manufacturing of music would stop, but making of music would not. I'd happily live in a world where you dont have to pay for the software nor music .. oh wait, whats this Debian shiny thing on my desk ?
They should sue all of the service providers that helped this copying accross the border to happen. Just as they are trying to sue software makers that allow illegal uploading and copying to happen. Which means basically sue all the ISPs
It isnt, if you use the right tools.
http://www.openmp.org/
OpenMP to the rescue !
Coincidentally, Gamasutra just two nice feature articles on rearchitecting the game engine flow to better parallelize the tasks so that multi-core can be taken advantage of, utilizing OpenMP0 1.shtmlh tml
"Multithreaded Game Engine Architectures "
http://gamasutra.com/features/20060906/monkkonen_
"Multi-Threaded Terrain Smoothing"
http://gamasutra.com/features/20060531/gruen_02.s
OT but hey, you should do your "profane tour" experiment again with improved regexp and include the word "kosher". you'll be surprised
yes, but its up to the admins to configure it. i have seen many cases where some large company server only has MAPI open and some stupid policy prevents them from opening DAV so you are stuck with outlook
MAPI wire protocol. Lots of Exchange servers still out there that only talk to Outlook
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww .slashcode.com%2F
nuff said ?
I dont know about you, but over here ( Estonia ) we can for example purchase movie theatre tickets online and print them anywhere. The very same barcode-carrying tickets lets you in through the gates in cinema. How's RFID going to replace so simple and cheap system ?
Microsoft taking a perfectly good standard, "extending" it on their own and claiming it theirs ?
Why, but thats impossible, that has never happened before and could never happen !
I would argue that prototyping and especially fast prototyping is part of the design process. So its still design first, build later process.
Actually, robot revolution is also happening in China and Korea as well, but there's indeed very little in a way of practical accomplishments coming from west.
http://plyojump.com/ has some in-depth info and couple good essays on these topics and why exactly this is happening. The core problem seems to lie in deeply rooted cultural issues
Also check out Marshall Brain's ( the howstuffworks.com guy ) http://roboticnation.blogspot.com/ blog
http://www.shadow.org.uk/index.shtml ? Of course this thing is pneumatic and not gonna work in deep space out of the box.
Check out the Old Negro Space Program ...
According to this absolutely historically and politically correct documentary, Loopie Louie et al landed their modified Caddy Coup de Ville near Mare Tranquilis a full three years before Apollo, if i may.
But sh*t woman, it was motherf*cking cold up there
I may be wrong, but I'm guessing they don't cost a few hundred dollars each, though, like GPUs do Absolutely, they routinely cost from $1 to $100 at most. For instance, take a look at AC motor control hybrid DSP/uC chips by Freescale. Those allow vector control of AC motors by implementing very sophisticated and high-performance algorithms on specialized chip, this kind of stuff was simply impossible just ten years ago.
Owned by Fanwing for quite some time now.
Why not have one authority certificate for issuing further signing certificates to each release manager ?
The public needs only to know this one authority certificate, and validate the signature up to this one cert.
While General Motors is busy destroying its last EV1-s and getting people arrested over it, the French have debuted a new electric vehicle concept at Geneva Motor show.
Here is the press kit and images of the BlueCar, designed by Philippe Guedon and sponsored by Vincent Bolloré.
In other EV news, Commuter Cars Tango is reportedly close to producing its first vehicles, one of the first ones sold to George Clooney
Can we get Boost in standard library please ?
"Just use a hybrid design. "
The trouble with hybrids is that is you are dragging around the dead weight of ICE fuel and engine itself all the time PLUS the batteries. A more sensible approach would have an ICE trailer for long trips.
Also, BEVs arent wasting energy for idling which AFAIK hybrids still do. And just think how much of idling does an engine do when driving in peak traffic hours.
Plugin-hybrids like Prius+ project are a step in the right direction, but it would be nice to have the ICE as a completely optional part of the car. And, BTW, li-ion powered prototype BEVs already have a comparable range to common production cars.
The only two real issues remaining are recharge times and cost. Recharge times could be alleviated with quick-swap battery backs and alternatively ICE trailers. Costs are dropping thanks to portable computing and communication devices that always demand better batteries and if automotive industry would start mass producing BEVs some eceonomies of scale would surely kick in to reduce costs further.
So, dude, where is my ELECTRIC car ?
Yeah, but it gets a bit compicated when you want to insta-charge your tZero, Venturi Fetish or simply have a Tango
If true, pure battery-electric vehicles will totally own all ICE vehicles. Although they do quite well already with "common" li-ions.
"Bipedalism is risky, especially if you want to bend over a lot to pick things up"
Well, if you want a robust robot it must also be able to get up from any position it might get into. Insects have trouble with getting back on their feet if turned on their backs ( and of course yes they are more stable than bipeds when standing up ). But as you'd have to plan for such robustness anyhow in unknown environments, biped is more practical.
There is another advantage that human-like bipeds hold over other locomotion types - for human environments, like insides of buildings, vehicles, heck - kitchens etc, they are a perfect fit, i.e. the environment is tailor-made for them. For instance, human-like biped, given sufficient processing power and sensory capacity, its a lot easier task to navigate around in a skyscraper, enter and operate the lifts, walk up the stairs etc, than for instance a wheeled robot.
Well, Kerberos is nice and everything but as long as the different PKINITimplementations dont get along with eachother, *cough*win2000*cough, we can still do simple social engineering to recover passwords...
Heimdal has a pretty good support by now but the docs are scarce at best, and getting it ( the PKINIT part ) to interoperate is Mayor Payne