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  1. Re:Anyone can make an electric car on Chinese Automaker Unveils First Electric Car · · Score: 1

    Check the actual video before replying ...

    4 wheeled BIKE would look even lamer and probably turn worse and also have even more resistance.

    What is "bank"?

    Make the three-wheeler tilt when turning and it will be easier o handle centrifugal forces.

    A three wheeled ATV will have the centrum of the weight much higher up from the ground and also higher compared to the wheels.

    And a "safety bike" probably want to tilt much more, though wheels spinning and ones own ability to balance it out helps, but a bike which tilt on itself won't flip over at a turn either.

    http://www.jetrike.com/prior-art.html

  2. Re:I'm getting a WATER powered car ... on Chinese Automaker Unveils First Electric Car · · Score: 1

    Regarding video three, four ounces of water and how much electricity and/or gasoline?

    I can run a car 700 km on one grain of salt if it's ok that I just drop it into the filled gasoline tank ...

  3. Re:I'm getting a WATER powered car ... on Chinese Automaker Unveils First Electric Car · · Score: 1

    What I never get is if it as in the first case just use hydrogen how would electrolysing the water and then combusting the hydrogen into water again get more energy than what was required for initial electrolysis? Why not just run on the batteries from the beginning?

    In the case of mixing hydrogen with gasoline I have no idea if it may make combusting more efficient so I won't write it off as impossible but I still doubt it until I see it happening.

  4. Re:Anyone can make an electric car on Chinese Automaker Unveils First Electric Car · · Score: 1

    Yeah, give us light weight single person vehicles now!

    I would want one of these KMX trikes with electronic motor:
    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=oK4FOv4FD1Q

    Good enough for my purposes, just put a plastic wind shield / roof and some bags on it to.

    Since it's winter now just the trike would be sufficient to, less risk of crashing than on a two wheeler.

  5. Re:Charging an electric car on Chinese Automaker Unveils First Electric Car · · Score: 1

    Since there is tesla coils on the front page, what about a huge fucking tesla coil in your garage? Waste of energy you say? So what =P, no need to figure where to put the plug.

    Imagine huge ones tens of meters at major roads leaving cities, like "you are now leaving ..." and kazaam, car charged for your trip to the next city =P

    Or maybe not, but it would look cool =P

  6. Re:Bailout Bandwagon on Governments Preparing To Bail Out DRAM Makers · · Score: 1

    But why did it become bad here? Because americans can't afford buying our stuff longer?

  7. Re:Bailout Bandwagon on Governments Preparing To Bail Out DRAM Makers · · Score: 1

    Except in this case those 40% isn't what I call "rich", the rich people are probably like 1% or such =P, the people who already have lots of money and use that money to get much more.

  8. Re:Starcraft on Strategy Games Improve Cognitive Functions In Older Adults · · Score: 1

    Uhm, they are always the same anyway aren't they?

    Atleast Warcraft III has PC and Mac versions on the same disc, and eventually you can just download the mac binaries if you have a PC quake disc, or?

  9. Re:Starcraft on Strategy Games Improve Cognitive Functions In Older Adults · · Score: 1

    Though Linux is even more pointless. I already know OS X suck for gaming, but in this case the game developed by Microsoft probably doesn't help either =P

    But the system requirements was really low so I guess it will run just fine anyway.

  10. Re:Brain Workshop: better intelligence for all age on Strategy Games Improve Cognitive Functions In Older Adults · · Score: 1

    Seems a little too easy to just remember a position and a letter two step backwards? 3 or 4 and the whole sequence and we might be starting to demand something.

  11. Re:Starcraft on Strategy Games Improve Cognitive Functions In Older Adults · · Score: 1

    Looks sweet, sadly no OS X version though I guess it runs just fine in Crossover Office or something such. There are no newer versions? Is it a replacement for Age of Empires or a unique title on it's own? I need to try it out.

  12. Re:Bailout Bandwagon on Governments Preparing To Bail Out DRAM Makers · · Score: 1

    So it's just that people is exchanging other values for dollar which raises the value of it? It's nowhere locked so to speak to anything else than exchange demand? Makes sense though.

    Suck that I didn't order things from dealextreme when the dollar was at little over 6 sek compared to todays over 8 sek though =P. I wonder if DSLRs and such has become 30% more expensive thanks to that to :/

    That sure won't restart any economy from our way :D

  13. Re:Bailout Bandwagon on Governments Preparing To Bail Out DRAM Makers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Could you explain why the dollar gain strength when the american economy fails? Is it just because it's so big people trust it more?

    A smaller one would just crash wouldn't it?

  14. Re:Bailout Bandwagon on Governments Preparing To Bail Out DRAM Makers · · Score: 1

    Aren't they supposed to pay it back?

    But yes, I wonder what is most effective of paying them out or let other companies pick up the trash and try to be more successful in the same area later on.

    Also it suck that the poor people (aka people) should pay out the investors playgrounds when they don't happen to generate as much income longer. Fuck that.

    Maybe you should invest all your money in stocks and if they don't fare well maybe the government can offer you a helping hand for even more investments until the market goes up again ... Would be awesome. No risk investments!

  15. Re:Is Hanlon's Razor sharp enough to cut this? on Open Source Program Reveals Diebold Bug · · Score: 1

    Why use OCR when you have a fucking machine in the first place? Poorly implemented and retarded method in that case.

    Unless you will let a human read all the papers anyway what do you need them for? And if you do, why do you want the machine in the first place?

    if anything use buttons and let people "sign" on a touchscreen or something to show that they have accepted the selected option, though just asking if it's right or wrong with appropriate buttons should be enough.

  16. Re:I believe a wise man once said... on The End of Individual Genius? · · Score: 1

    So start throwing paper balls at her!

    Kids nowadays, know nothing about attraction...

  17. Re:I believe a wise man once said... on The End of Individual Genius? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The smart girls most likely hang around at the same place as the smart boys, don't ask me why you never meet one of them.

  18. This is what they should had done on Cornell University FPGA Class Projects for 2008 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Looks like they should had made a "web accelerator."

  19. Re:Some folks have a moral reason for this! on 20-Year Copyright Extensions Coming To Europe · · Score: 1

    Put up all music for free on youtube and last.fm, try to negotiate performances on smaller music festivals, if you are any good I guess some people will start noticing.

  20. Re:Some folks have a moral reason for this! on 20-Year Copyright Extensions Coming To Europe · · Score: 1

    Seriously, I have no idea who Metropolis Records are, I just made VNV Nation an example because I like the music and had no idea what record company they made until I had googled, visited last.fm and finally amazon looking for the name.

    I needed to mention whatever record company they happened to have, it wasn't a bash of the actual record company but a general "idea."

    And yes, I think most artists like that they got help to become what they became, and the successful ones probably earn enough anyway and the less fortunate ones would had succeeded even less alone.

    Still I know where I'd rather put the cash, same goes for any production, if I could I would had preferred to pay the people picking my tea for instance (but those to have troubles marketing it to me.

    In the end I just think music is way to expensive, and the only way for me to pay less without the artist getting much less would be to get the money closer to the artist, but in the cases of popular music maybe the artist don't need to earn that much.

    Whatever.

  21. Re:I don't get it... on 20-Year Copyright Extensions Coming To Europe · · Score: 1

    My post didn't made much sense at all on the topic to begin with =P. I guess what I was after was that not everyone in Europe are or think similar and is pro the same thing as the people in UK, and not everyone in USA care for that "solar energy" just because one person did. But people like to group other people together and do assumptions.

  22. Re:Only Meta-Data was damaged on Data Recovered From DVD Leads To Conviction, 24-Year Sentence · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't even partitions and all show up in any program even though the master boot block is messed up? Or?

  23. Re:Think about the authors on 20-Year Copyright Extensions Coming To Europe · · Score: 1

    Immortality?

  24. Re:What is happening with the world? on 20-Year Copyright Extensions Coming To Europe · · Score: 1

    because, if we have no private life, what the fuck do we have exactly?

    I know I know! No criminality and world peace! Which warrants democracy and freedom to! And integrity to, because if there are no criminals or problem who needs surveillance!?!

    I cannot for the life of me begin to understand the politicians reasoning for fucking up this (past) democracy like this. :-((

    Probably because it's easier to do this than to actual stop heavy criminality. Also there is to few murders and rapes and such so they have nothing else to do, that's why they have to spend their time pouring out beer and such. Crime fighters indeed!

  25. Re:Some folks have a moral reason for this! on 20-Year Copyright Extensions Coming To Europe · · Score: 1

    On the other hands if the artists are stupid enough to sign up on a contract that bad and don't try to go alone or start up something together with better benefits for them what's the problem?

    I'm so much more likely to pay VNV Nation $2 for downloading their album than paying my local store $20 for the media which they bought from Metropolis Records which in the end pay VNV Nation whatever amount.

    I understand that the huge companies want my money, but if they artists and law enforcement think that they can convince me I only really want to have say 100 songs and not 10.000 at this date they are wrong ...

    People are used to having free access to lots of songs, the days before youtube, last.fm, mp3s, cassette tapes and radios are long gone.