Actually, I found it amusing, not annoying. I enjoy NYCL's stuff, and was just taking a cheap shot at Doc and Roland. I thought I showed up too late for anybody to even read it, what with the Karma snipers around here...
Wow, I've never seen so many replies to an article by its own poster. It's like what would happen if Doc Ruby went to law school and then figured out how to get one of his submissions picked. Oh well, I guess he'll have to stay buddies with Roland for now...
Doc, you're one to talk about "pulling triggers" for "personal benefit". It seems you spend an awful lot of time pushing people's buttons for a personal "karma rush". And you're just one guy calling yourself "Doc Ruby". I'm lead to think you've slipped a bit today from your normal, carefully-honed, "God of the naive college students" role.
Here's a potentially related observation: Let us assume there is nothing "mysterious" about consciousness, that the technology exists to scan and recreate biological structures exactly, down to the molecular level, and also that a means exists to "freeze" or otherwise suspend a person's biological processes without damage.
There is a room with two operating tables, let's say one with a blue light overhead and one with a red light overhead. You are brought into the room and placed on the table under the blue light. A general anasthetic is administered and you drift off to sleep noticing the glow of the blue light. Your body is "freezed" and scanned. The left half of your body is then precisely cut away from the right half and placed on the table under the red light. Using the scan information, the complementary half of your body is reconstructed, in the "frozen" state, joined with the original half, on each table. Each of the two now complete, molecularly-identical bodies are "thawed", the anasthesia wears off, and they wake up. Which light do you see?
How many BestBuys are going to inform the customer that the 32 inch 1080p LCD and Blu-Ray player they just sold them for over $1600 is not going to look any better than their old 27" CRT and $40 DVD player when watched at their usual 12 foot viewing distance. Particularly when they are mostly watching their favorite "full screen" DVDs and standard-def TV.
Yep, I played the first Magnavox Odyssey - black and white, no sound, just dots moving around behind plastic overlays that you stuck to the screen. Now GET OFF MY LAWN!!
Drunkeness really compounds being new to the internet for you. But then maybe I've just grown callous from years of exposure to common trolls. At any rate, thanks for feeding them.
Sorry, but we won't be getting any cures from today's research, only continous regimens of expensive, poorly-targeted pills. I for one, would rather search for our alien overlords.
WTF is a hobb? From the context it seems to be a burner or element on a stove, but for some reason, I have never heard that term before. I feel like after 38 years I've suddenly waken up in a parallel universe.
Hardly, Auto Trader was too damned expensive to be competition for the newspapers. The newspaper classifieds were getting beaten up by the "Nickel Ad" free papers. Ebay came along and threatened them all, but it was Craiglist really laid the smackdown. But we're just talking about the classifieds anyway, which is only a small part of why newspapers are dying.
Darn, I just *knew* Big Tungsten and their Republican lapdogs would ruin this bill so that they could keep "recycling" orphans (along with a dash of plutonium and hint of asbestos) into these incandescent abominations at a 3000% profit.
I'm not saying I'm concerned for these future children. I'm just suggesting that they are no less important than the children of the present or arbitrarily near future.
You've obviously never left your own city and been surprised by the "Exit on left with one little sign" in some strange place, past which, for all you know, you will end up lost in "the hood".
Please explain to me the moral superiority of your concern for our children now vs. everyone's children billions of years from now? I believe that is the voice of your genes I hear, not the voice of reason.
My guess, without an envelope back or napkin handy for calculation, is that if current hybrids do not use them it is because the "burst" will be too short for a practical size of capacitor, and that the current is sufficiently limited by the controller to keep the pack (and itself) healthy.
traction battery -> controller -> electric motor
where the controller could be complex, considering that the electric motor could be AC or a complex brushless arrangement.
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I thought it was pretty amusing, that's all. I appreciate your contributions. Keep it comin'.
Actually, I found it amusing, not annoying. I enjoy NYCL's stuff, and was just taking a cheap shot at Doc and Roland. I thought I showed up too late for anybody to even read it, what with the Karma snipers around here...
Wow, I've never seen so many replies to an article by its own poster. It's like what would happen if Doc Ruby went to law school and then figured out how to get one of his submissions picked. Oh well, I guess he'll have to stay buddies with Roland for now...
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Someone or something.
Doc, you're one to talk about "pulling triggers" for "personal benefit". It seems you spend an awful lot of time pushing people's buttons for a personal "karma rush". And you're just one guy calling yourself "Doc Ruby". I'm lead to think you've slipped a bit today from your normal, carefully-honed, "God of the naive college students" role.
...Or perhaps something mysterious about individuality? Or maybe you just see a purple light. :)
Here's a potentially related observation:
Let us assume there is nothing "mysterious" about consciousness, that the technology exists to scan and recreate biological structures exactly, down to the molecular level, and also that a means exists to "freeze" or otherwise suspend a person's biological processes without damage.
There is a room with two operating tables, let's say one with a blue light overhead and one with a red light overhead. You are brought into the room and placed on the table under the blue light. A general anasthetic is administered and you drift off to sleep noticing the glow of the blue light. Your body is "freezed" and scanned. The left half of your body is then precisely cut away from the right half and placed on the table under the red light. Using the scan information, the complementary half of your body is reconstructed, in the "frozen" state, joined with the original half, on each table. Each of the two now complete, molecularly-identical bodies are "thawed", the anasthesia wears off, and they wake up. Which light do you see?
How many BestBuys are going to inform the customer that the 32 inch 1080p LCD and Blu-Ray player they just sold them for over $1600 is not going to look any better than their old 27" CRT and $40 DVD player when watched at their usual 12 foot viewing distance. Particularly when they are mostly watching their favorite "full screen" DVDs and standard-def TV.
Yep, I played the first Magnavox Odyssey - black and white, no sound, just dots moving around behind plastic overlays that you stuck to the screen. Now GET OFF MY LAWN!!
With all that money in his trunk, why would Mr. Howell need to steal music? Plus, I don't think they even have broadband on that island.
Drunkeness really compounds being new to the internet for you. But then maybe I've just grown callous from years of exposure to common trolls. At any rate, thanks for feeding them.
Sorry, but we won't be getting any cures from today's research, only continous regimens of expensive, poorly-targeted pills. I for one, would rather search for our alien overlords.
WTF is a hobb? From the context it seems to be a burner or element on a stove, but for some reason, I have never heard that term before. I feel like after 38 years I've suddenly waken up in a parallel universe.
Hardly, Auto Trader was too damned expensive to be competition for the newspapers. The newspaper classifieds were getting beaten up by the "Nickel Ad" free papers. Ebay came along and threatened them all, but it was Craiglist really laid the smackdown. But we're just talking about the classifieds anyway, which is only a small part of why newspapers are dying.
Darn, I just *knew* Big Tungsten and their Republican lapdogs would ruin this bill so that they could keep "recycling" orphans (along with a dash of plutonium and hint of asbestos) into these incandescent abominations at a 3000% profit.
LOL, he blames Auto Trader, but Craigslist has already killed the private listings in Auto Trader.
I'm not saying I'm concerned for these future children. I'm just suggesting that they are no less important than the children of the present or arbitrarily near future.
You've obviously never left your own city and been surprised by the "Exit on left with one little sign" in some strange place, past which, for all you know, you will end up lost in "the hood".
Please explain to me the moral superiority of your concern for our children now vs. everyone's children billions of years from now? I believe that is the voice of your genes I hear, not the voice of reason.
My guess, without an envelope back or napkin handy for calculation, is that if current hybrids do not use them it is because the "burst" will be too short for a practical size of capacitor, and that the current is sufficiently limited by the controller to keep the pack (and itself) healthy.
traction battery -> controller -> electric motor
where the controller could be complex, considering that the electric motor could be AC or a complex brushless arrangement.
You've been modded "Funny" because you've GOT TO BE KIDDING. Fun has always been an integral part of Slashdot. Are you new here?
Homeland Security says, "Noooooo."
Nonsense. All that power is wasted on fancy graphics in Halo.
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>You are in a large room, surrounded by the Flood.
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>You are carrrying a shotgun, a plasma rifle, and 2 frag grenades.
Feh, I'll wait for the movie...