Doh! I'm a dork. I've participated in online discussions enough to realize that by correcting someone else, I practically *had* to make an even bigger error in my post. It's a law of technology!
The primary concern of using hyrdogen to power cars is the pressure that it needs to be stored at (NOT, as many people believe, that the gas itself is flamable). So this car has the dangerous high pressure tanks, without the huge amount of energy (equaling driving range) in the form of hydrogen. Sounds like a winner to me!
In today's cut-throat economy, businesses need every competitive advantage they can muster.
If their business method is so bad-assed that they want a patent, they shouldn't NEED a patent to help them out: They will dominate the market because customers like what they do. Business methods don't usually involve a lot of money to think up, just to implement. I could think up Amazon's business method (let people easily buy books online) while sitting on my couch, but it takes a hellava lot of money and effort to actually do it.
That's why they have a cool little "foot" they can use to jump. If they get stuck, they can try to free them selves by jumping away. Of course there isn't much control over the direction and distance they jump, but that's not the point. If they miss, they just try again. And if some of them *still* get stuck, oh well. They are small and cheap, so you send a bunch in and at least a few of them end up being useful.
This would make an interesting Mars exploration tool. And with reduced gravity, the Ranger could shoot the Scouts *really* far!
Since when did Blizzard own all rights to the word "diablo"?
Trademarks grant companies rights to a name within a specific industry. According to the article, Blizzard filed for the Diablo name as a movie title in 1996, and were granted that mark. That seems pretty clear cut.
It's not like they are suing someone for using the Diablo name for a car or a vacum cleaner or something. Video games and movies are in a VERY similar space, and there will likely be confusion (especially since Blizzard plans to release a movie based on the Diablo game some time).
emacs reportedly has email, calendaring, newsgroup reading, and a text editor (the only part I've used). What part of this relates specifically to software development or limits it to that one use?
It's not that you CAN'T also use emacs for all those tasks, but it's that only developers (1) know how to use emacs or (2) are likely to be ABLE to learn emacs (i am a relatively smart guy, with experience coding, and i still haven't figured out how to use emacs, mostly from trying it a few times and deciding it was too much trouble).
groupware means EVERYONE in the GROUP uses it. managers, secreteries, marketing people, coders, designers. everyone. gotta be easy to use/learn.
"Art is vulnerable to misuse by tyrrants in propaganda."
And engineering is vulnerable to misuse by tyrrants in war. Oh, we must stop filling out chidren's heads with it!
Anyway, from the tone of your post is sure sounds like you are making a joke (pretending to be Orwellian), but then maybe you are serious. All kinds of people out there...
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Argh! I just said IT!
(I think IT's a new form of electric shrubbery. That's why cities and campuses will have to be redesigned. And that's why Bezos laughed when he turned it on. An electric shrubbery is a very silly thing!)
Maybe he thinks Bill Gates is gonna go broke. THEN Kamen would be worth more than Gates. And "IT" is a record of how Gates has been squandering his billions on expensive hookers and endangered African animals he hunts for sport, and can't keep going at that rate for 5 more years.
compare a seti run on the 733 and the p4 1500. Guess who'll win.
Yeah, I make all my purchasing decisions based on how fast SETI runs as opposed to a *useful*, bread & butter app like Photoshop.
Obviously every app uses the processor (and other parts of the computer) in different ways, so they will all go at different speeds on diff platforms. But Photoshop is really a pretty good reference app, since it really pressures the hardware (Photoshop users ALWAYS end up waiting, no matter how fast the machine) and it's used by so many people (as opposed to 3d apps, which also stress the hardware). There are many people out there who just use Photoshop all day, so if you show them you can make it go faster, they're interested.
Most of the other apps people use a lot (Office, browsers, e-mail, etc) don't max out the processor anyway, and run fast enough on ANY computer that was sold in the last 3-4 years. Most people won't notice a window opening in.01 seconds as opposed to.1 seconds, even if one is TEN times faster. And they then spend most of their time reading or writing in that window anyway.
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Besides, the business model is bogus. Iridum couldn't make it doing phones
Iridium didn't succeed because they were charging upwards of $3 per MINUTE for their phone service, and the phone themselves cost many hundreds of dollars. These sats are supposed to be much cheaper, off-the-shelf parts, so I imagine the service would be a LOT cheaper.
Also, DivX *has* been successfully reverse-engineered. A few weeks (months?) ago, it was ported to Macintosh by a group without access to the source.
Heh, I believe you are talking about the same people who created 3ivX, and the source of this whole discussion. They started off reverse engineering DivX to make it work with Quicktime on the MacOS, but decided just to create a new, cross-platform protocol based on all the reverse-engineering work they had done.
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This is just a setup for a Simpsons joke, isn't it?
"Who keeps down the electric car?
Who makes Steve Gutenberg a star?
We Doooooo! We Doooooooo!"
People really need to read the articles before they post...
There is less energy coming into the system, so it is getting warmer?
No, exactly 50% are below the median
Doh! I'm a dork. I've participated in online discussions enough to realize that by correcting someone else, I practically *had* to make an even bigger error in my post. It's a law of technology!
Odds say that a significant amount of the people in any field are below average.
Umm, exactly 50% of parents are "below average". =) Odds have nothing to do with it...
that works out to about $500 per year
The batteries for the T-zero cost $3000, and need to be replaced about every 3 years.
that works out to about $1000 per year...
I wonder why there's not more buzz about it
The primary concern of using hyrdogen to power cars is the pressure that it needs to be stored at (NOT, as many people believe, that the gas itself is flamable). So this car has the dangerous high pressure tanks, without the huge amount of energy (equaling driving range) in the form of hydrogen. Sounds like a winner to me!
In today's cut-throat economy, businesses need every competitive advantage they can muster.
If their business method is so bad-assed that they want a patent, they shouldn't NEED a patent to help them out: They will dominate the market because customers like what they do. Business methods don't usually involve a lot of money to think up, just to implement. I could think up Amazon's business method (let people easily buy books online) while sitting on my couch, but it takes a hellava lot of money and effort to actually do it.
Well, the BBC article referenced says:
"Deep Blue defeated then world chess champion Garry Kasparov in a high-profile battle pitting man against machine in 1997."
I'd settle for a retro-fit electric motor that fit around my drive-shaft.
Maybe you should look here:
http://www.goodvibes.com/
;-)
Things like door would stop them.
That's why they have a cool little "foot" they can use to jump. If they get stuck, they can try to free them selves by jumping away. Of course there isn't much control over the direction and distance they jump, but that's not the point. If they miss, they just try again. And if some of them *still* get stuck, oh well. They are small and cheap, so you send a bunch in and at least a few of them end up being useful.
This would make an interesting Mars exploration tool. And with reduced gravity, the Ranger could shoot the Scouts *really* far!
might dwarf the performance of single-layer silicon
Until it went up in a big poof of smoke from the heat... How do you cool a 3d IC, made out of paper (not a good heat conductor) no less?
Since when did Blizzard own all rights to the word "diablo"?
Trademarks grant companies rights to a name within a specific industry. According to the article, Blizzard filed for the Diablo name as a movie title in 1996, and were granted that mark. That seems pretty clear cut.
It's not like they are suing someone for using the Diablo name for a car or a vacum cleaner or something. Video games and movies are in a VERY similar space, and there will likely be confusion (especially since Blizzard plans to release a movie based on the Diablo game some time).
put diamond plate steel in high-wear parts of the bed
Wow! You must have QUITE a sex life! I'm jealous...
emacs reportedly has email, calendaring, newsgroup reading, and a text editor (the only part I've used). What part of this relates specifically to software development or limits it to that one use?
It's not that you CAN'T also use emacs for all those tasks, but it's that only developers (1) know how to use emacs or (2) are likely to be ABLE to learn emacs (i am a relatively smart guy, with experience coding, and i still haven't figured out how to use emacs, mostly from trying it a few times and deciding it was too much trouble).
groupware means EVERYONE in the GROUP uses it. managers, secreteries, marketing people, coders, designers. everyone. gotta be easy to use/learn.
guaranteeing that I, every viewer of Slashdot, the Media, and everyone else will NOT see a thing until later tonight
Dude, go to CNN. Big fat pipes.
When I was a kid I sure wished I had a laptop and a PDA, so I could read what I wrote, catch everything the teachers said, and not drift off.
Dude. Pencil, paper. Ta-dah!
Yeesh.
"Art is vulnerable to misuse by tyrrants in propaganda."
And engineering is vulnerable to misuse by tyrrants in war. Oh, we must stop filling out chidren's heads with it!
Anyway, from the tone of your post is sure sounds like you are making a joke (pretending to be Orwellian), but then maybe you are serious. All kinds of people out there...
Hey, sounds like NeXTStep..
Especially the last part:
and would finally get canned by the next CEO to run Apple.
- isaac =)
Um... duh. =)
Argh! I just said IT!
(I think IT's a new form of electric shrubbery. That's why cities and campuses will have to be redesigned. And that's why Bezos laughed when he turned it on. An electric shrubbery is a very silly thing!)
Maybe he thinks Bill Gates is gonna go broke. THEN Kamen would be worth more than Gates. And "IT" is a record of how Gates has been squandering his billions on expensive hookers and endangered African animals he hunts for sport, and can't keep going at that rate for 5 more years.
Or maybe ITs just a personal helicopter...
compare a seti run on the 733 and the p4 1500. Guess who'll win.
.01 seconds as opposed to .1 seconds, even if one is TEN times faster. And they then spend most of their time reading or writing in that window anyway.
Yeah, I make all my purchasing decisions based on how fast SETI runs as opposed to a *useful*, bread & butter app like Photoshop.
Obviously every app uses the processor (and other parts of the computer) in different ways, so they will all go at different speeds on diff platforms. But Photoshop is really a pretty good reference app, since it really pressures the hardware (Photoshop users ALWAYS end up waiting, no matter how fast the machine) and it's used by so many people (as opposed to 3d apps, which also stress the hardware). There are many people out there who just use Photoshop all day, so if you show them you can make it go faster, they're interested.
Most of the other apps people use a lot (Office, browsers, e-mail, etc) don't max out the processor anyway, and run fast enough on ANY computer that was sold in the last 3-4 years. Most people won't notice a window opening in
Besides, the business model is bogus. Iridum couldn't make it doing phones
Iridium didn't succeed because they were charging upwards of $3 per MINUTE for their phone service, and the phone themselves cost many hundreds of dollars. These sats are supposed to be much cheaper, off-the-shelf parts, so I imagine the service would be a LOT cheaper.
Still don't think it will work though...
- Isaac =)
Also, DivX *has* been successfully reverse-engineered. A few weeks (months?) ago, it was ported to Macintosh by a group without access to the source.
Heh, I believe you are talking about the same people who created 3ivX, and the source of this whole discussion. They started off reverse engineering DivX to make it work with Quicktime on the MacOS, but decided just to create a new, cross-platform protocol based on all the reverse-engineering work they had done.