Publication Date:18-November-2004 Source:Asia Pulse SEOUL- Samsung Engineering Co. (KSE:028050) said Thursday it has conducted a successful test-ride of a hydrogen-powered motorcycle.
The scooter, the result of a project sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, can run up to 140 kilometers on 6 liters of hydrogen fuel, it said.
The newly-developed technology uses a water-based solution of sodium borohydride, made from sodium borate, to produce hydrogen gas.
The company explained that on 6 liters of hydrogen fuel, the vehicle can travel three times farther than a scooter powered by a nickel-cadmium cell, saying that the technology can also be applied in automobiles, laptop computers and mobile phones.
The downside is that there are only about 300 million tons of sodium borate worldwide, located mostly in Tibet, and that annual global production of sodium borohydride stands at 10,000 tons, it added.
"The development and testing of the hydrogen-powered scooter shows that South Korea's technology is on a par with that of the world," said Yu Yong-ho, president of Samsung Engineering's R&D center.
It seems like a great breakthrough for the poor woman who lost her sense of balance, but the suggested uses?
Pilots confused by foggy conditions, in which the horizon disappears, can right their aircraft by monitoring sensations on the tongue or trunk. Surgeons can feel on their tongues the tip of a probe inside a patient's body, enabling precise movements
Sounds to me like an able bodied pilot or surgeon could just use the senses they already use. The pilot could still use the visual readout of the artificial horizon for example.
You're right! They should also ask about each html page they want to index, individually, just in case you have one of them copyrighted, put it on the web for your own personal use, don't want anyone to be able to copy it, can't manage a robots.txt file and can't be bothered to password it.
As I understand it the GPL is written in such a way as to encourage people to make money offering services based on that work. Now since the wine component is offered freely, and with full source the GPL is upheld.
They have no obligation to make the work that they do GPL too, they just bundle it with WINE, add an installer and sell it (and the support people need) as a subscription service.
Plus they put a lot of code back into the WINE project by funding their efforts in this way.
A fine example of open source software tied to commercial endeavour. There should be more projects like this.
It seems to me that of the thousands of viruses written for windows there must be a good percentage that are fully understood and documented on the major AV manufacturer's websites.
It doesn't help stop the spread, it doesn't seem essential to detection, at best it makes removal a little more clear-cut.
Reverse engineering a virus might be an interesting academic challenge, but it's probably not that helpful except at classifying variants.
And yet my boss calls me into his office at least three times a day to explain something you'd consider trivial to him.
Today I've had:
Why his win 98 box won't print (he hadn't logged on to the domain with his usual password)
Why isn't norton antivirus working? (beats me, reboot?)
What the hell's happened now? (errr... it's crashed. Try rebooting)
And I still have 2 hours to go.
Windows isn't as straight forward as people tend to make it out to be. It's just that the layman expects all of windows little bugs and crashes and has got used to hitting the reset button.
Yeah, you might need to read something to fix a problem in linux, but it stays fixed.
I used to believe that linux was harder to set up than windows too, then I installed XP and SuSe 9.1 Pro on my laptop in the same weekend.
At the end of the weekend I had a fully configured Linux system with all the apps and server components that I wanted. My windows install was already crashing because there aren't WHQL certified drivers available for some of the components in my laptop.
I was still trawling the web looking for applications to meet my needs on monday morning.
It certainly didn't seem to me like windows was easier to install.
I've never managed to find any reliable statistics (oxymoron noted) about the popularity of the various distros, but from the mailing lists that I subscribe to I can certainly believe that they are the second most used distro after Redhat/Fedora. Possibly the most used in Europe.
I have a modded Xbox, I bought it (unmodded) in italy. It came with Halo, which I expected to be in italian. It was in spanish, subtitled in spanish. I don't speak spanish. Having already completed it in coop mode with a mate I knew the plot so it shouldn't matter to me, but I bought the PC version in english anyway.
So I've bought Halo twice, and have every intention of buying Halo 2. I still think that I might download it first, just to give me something good to play for the next month.
I did it with Warhammer 40k Dawn of War (downloaded while waiting for my pre-order to deliver) and Doom 3 (while waiting for the copy bundled with my graphics card to arrive).
I've paid for them, why shouldn't I be allowed to start playing immediately? At least valve's steam makes day-of-release play possible legally, I'd prefer not to have to use bittorrent.
I just hope that I don't contribute to those "lost earnings due to piracy" statistics that the publishers like to flaunt.
Well, let's see.
I have a modded Xbox, I bought it (unmodded) in italy. It came with Halo, which I expected to be in italian. It was in spanish, subtitled in spanish. I don't speak spanish. Having already completed it in coop mode with a mate I knew the plot so it shouldn't matter to me, but I bought the PC version in english anyway.
So I've bought Halo twice, and have every intention of buying Halo 2. I still think that I might download it first, just to give me something good to play for the next month.
I did it with Warhammer 40k Dawn of War (downloaded while waiting for my pre-order to deliver) and Doom 3 (while waiting for the copy bundled with my graphics card to arrive).
I've paid for them, why shouldn't I be allowed to start playing immediately? At least valve's steam makes day-of-release play possible legally, I'd prefer not to have to use bittorrent.
I just hope that I don't contribute to those "lost earnings due to piracy" statistics that the publishers like to flaunt.
Is it really necessary to multitask though. Most of the time you don't actually want the second application you have open to be processing, just sitting there waiting for you to need it again.
Since palm apps maintain their state when not in use you can flick between several apps and not notice that you don't have a multitasking os.
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Samsung Engineering Develops Hydrogen Scooter
Publication Date:18-November-2004
Source:Asia Pulse
SEOUL- Samsung Engineering Co. (KSE:028050) said Thursday it has conducted a successful test-ride of a hydrogen-powered motorcycle.
The scooter, the result of a project sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, can run up to 140 kilometers on 6 liters of hydrogen fuel, it said.
The newly-developed technology uses a water-based solution of sodium borohydride, made from sodium borate, to produce hydrogen gas.
The company explained that on 6 liters of hydrogen fuel, the vehicle can travel three times farther than a scooter powered by a nickel-cadmium cell, saying that the technology can also be applied in automobiles, laptop computers and mobile phones.
The downside is that there are only about 300 million tons of sodium borate worldwide, located mostly in Tibet, and that annual global production of sodium borohydride stands at 10,000 tons, it added.
"The development and testing of the hydrogen-powered scooter shows that South Korea's technology is on a par with that of the world," said Yu Yong-ho, president of Samsung Engineering's R&D center.
It seems like a great breakthrough for the poor woman who lost her sense of balance, but the suggested uses?
Pilots confused by foggy conditions, in which the horizon disappears, can right their aircraft by monitoring sensations on the tongue or trunk. Surgeons can feel on their tongues the tip of a probe inside a patient's body, enabling precise movements
Sounds to me like an able bodied pilot or surgeon could just use the senses they already use. The pilot could still use the visual readout of the artificial horizon for example.
Is this really destined for common usage?
>> Even some linux users are bad, just look at the DDOS at sco.com.
>> I'm sure noone here would condone that behaviour.
Are you new here?
In fact, a great thought has just occured to me - an opt-in web!
Just think, a web where you don't need to publish your life's work for people to copy willy-nilly if you don't want to.
What? We have one of those already? Curses... there goes my patent.
You're right! They should also ask about each html page they want to index, individually, just in case you have one of them copyrighted, put it on the web for your own personal use, don't want anyone to be able to copy it, can't manage a robots.txt file and can't be bothered to password it.
I suggest you turn safesearch on if you're offended by the odd picture of a naked lady amongst your cheeseburgers.
Except, I'm really talking about crossover office...
Oh well, it probably holds more-or-less true for cedega too...
*Slinks away in shame*
As I understand it the GPL is written in such a way as to encourage people to make money offering services based on that work. Now since the wine component is offered freely, and with full source the GPL is upheld.
They have no obligation to make the work that they do GPL too, they just bundle it with WINE, add an installer and sell it (and the support people need) as a subscription service.
Plus they put a lot of code back into the WINE project by funding their efforts in this way.
A fine example of open source software tied to commercial endeavour. There should be more projects like this.
Same? No
Compatible? Yes
They'll never be the same, there'll always be a choice, they could be a little less confusing to switch between.
Every major linux vendor agrees that the Linux Standard Base is the Standard Base upon which to build Linux distros?
*Phew* I'm glad we sorted that out.
Now can we please get everyone to stop adding distro-specific extensions to the linux filesystem? I like to know where my software keeps its bits.
Now that is what I call Real Ultimate Power!
She's due to become a wife on the 23rd of april next year (yes, 23/4/5 - I shall never forget an anniversary!)
I'd quite like it to stay that way, but the game is sooooo tempting.
...did they have to release HL2 on my girlfriend's birthday.
Now I'll be looking over a candle in a romantic restaurant picturing gordon freeman's beardy mug.
I wonder if macdonalds would do...
It's quite clearly the date of the planned Bungie staff outing to Amsterdam's red light district...
*waves goodbye to dignity and karma*
It seems to me that of the thousands of viruses written for windows there must be a good percentage that are fully understood and documented on the major AV manufacturer's websites.
It doesn't help stop the spread, it doesn't seem essential to detection, at best it makes removal a little more clear-cut.
Reverse engineering a virus might be an interesting academic challenge, but it's probably not that helpful except at classifying variants.
And yet my boss calls me into his office at least three times a day to explain something you'd consider trivial to him.
Today I've had:
Why his win 98 box won't print (he hadn't logged on to the domain with his usual password)
Why isn't norton antivirus working? (beats me, reboot?)
What the hell's happened now? (errr... it's crashed. Try rebooting)
And I still have 2 hours to go.
Windows isn't as straight forward as people tend to make it out to be. It's just that the layman expects all of windows little bugs and crashes and has got used to hitting the reset button.
Yeah, you might need to read something to fix a problem in linux, but it stays fixed.
I used to believe that linux was harder to set up than windows too, then I installed XP and SuSe 9.1 Pro on my laptop in the same weekend.
At the end of the weekend I had a fully configured Linux system with all the apps and server components that I wanted. My windows install was already crashing because there aren't WHQL certified drivers available for some of the components in my laptop.
I was still trawling the web looking for applications to meet my needs on monday morning.
It certainly didn't seem to me like windows was easier to install.
Would you call SuSe a smaller distro?
I've never managed to find any reliable statistics (oxymoron noted) about the popularity of the various distros, but from the mailing lists that I subscribe to I can certainly believe that they are the second most used distro after Redhat/Fedora. Possibly the most used in Europe.
Well, they are trying to unite linux after a fashion...
Doesn't "argumentum ad baculum" basically translate as "tell it to the hand" (hand, stick, whatever - it's all the same when you're on springer)
Could be the RIAA's motto when faced with logical argument.
Well, let's see.
I have a modded Xbox, I bought it (unmodded) in italy. It came with Halo, which I expected to be in italian. It was in spanish, subtitled in spanish. I don't speak spanish. Having already completed it in coop mode with a mate I knew the plot so it shouldn't matter to me, but I bought the PC version in english anyway.
So I've bought Halo twice, and have every intention of buying Halo 2. I still think that I might download it first, just to give me something good to play for the next month.
I did it with Warhammer 40k Dawn of War (downloaded while waiting for my pre-order to deliver) and Doom 3 (while waiting for the copy bundled with my graphics card to arrive).
I've paid for them, why shouldn't I be allowed to start playing immediately? At least valve's steam makes day-of-release play possible legally, I'd prefer not to have to use bittorrent.
I just hope that I don't contribute to those "lost earnings due to piracy" statistics that the publishers like to flaunt.
Well, let's see. I have a modded Xbox, I bought it (unmodded) in italy. It came with Halo, which I expected to be in italian. It was in spanish, subtitled in spanish. I don't speak spanish. Having already completed it in coop mode with a mate I knew the plot so it shouldn't matter to me, but I bought the PC version in english anyway. So I've bought Halo twice, and have every intention of buying Halo 2. I still think that I might download it first, just to give me something good to play for the next month. I did it with Warhammer 40k Dawn of War (downloaded while waiting for my pre-order to deliver) and Doom 3 (while waiting for the copy bundled with my graphics card to arrive). I've paid for them, why shouldn't I be allowed to start playing immediately? At least valve's steam makes day-of-release play possible legally, I'd prefer not to have to use bittorrent. I just hope that I don't contribute to those "lost earnings due to piracy" statistics that the publishers like to flaunt.
Is it really necessary to multitask though. Most of the time you don't actually want the second application you have open to be processing, just sitting there waiting for you to need it again.
Since palm apps maintain their state when not in use you can flick between several apps and not notice that you don't have a multitasking os.