I disagree. The difference between the situation back in the days of casette tape/CD and now is that that now there's a viable (one could say superior in some aspects), cheap alternative.
Ther invention is being tested in city buses. You are right, I have never driven in the northeast of the US but in holland, city terrain is about as level as it can be.
This holds true for smaller vehicles. But for a city bus (which will not have to negotiate rough terrain) it won't be such a huge problem.
Furthermore, a lot can be done to reduce the weight of engines, thereby reducing your problem.
Although I agree it might be a problem I think it can be overcome, and that - especially with fuel prices on the rise - the idea will be very marketable.
To quote the Slashdot synopsis (not even TFA) A diesel-powered generator which replaces the original engine on the vehicle charges the battery-pack continuously.
The electro motors are not used as an engine but just as a clever way of transmission. This system has been in diesl-electric trains for ages, since most diesel engines can operate quite efficiently if they always run at the same RPM.
Sorry but that made my national-pride-o-meter just shoot into the red. I do recognize Guinness is a nice beer, but any beer that has most of is fame from a book sporting records like 'the largest cake baked by a team of midgets' can simply not compete with Heineken.
I actually liked the Hulk. I actually thought it was a very entertaining movie. I liked the way they transformed the comic book to the screen, I liked the transitions and most of all I liked the over-the top special effects. No they did not look realistic. No, they were not rendered on a l33t WETA beowulf cluster. But they were fitting to the theme and supported the story (which was thin, but what the heck, its a fricking comic).
Of course, Return of the King should win. But I really think the Hulk deserves a nomination.
I think it's pretty short-sighted to blame this on PowerPoint. It's very difficult to condense a lot of information into a comprehensible presentation. That many fail is not the fault of PowerPoint, but simply because there are a lot of people out there who are simply not very good at translating something complex into a few comprehensible slides.
Yeah, and no-one would blame China for totally carpeting-bombing Taiwan back to the stone age. Taiwan thanks its safety to two things: the fact that china does not have sufficient naval power for a succesful invasion and world opinion. I have no doubt that using nuclear weapons would totally negate the last thing, and thereby allow China to just bomb taiwan.
Computers are not as important in computer science as one might think. Of course, for some technology-related courses you will need state-of-the-art, but computer science is about algorithms, structuring data and abstracting problems. Sometimes pen-and-paper will suffice but the programming you can do on a very old computer just as well as on a water-cooled Pentium-4 5000. The principles remain the same, and that's what matters.
Wow, that's a pretty mature reaction to a pretty mature remark.
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to security in all fields always has been and always will be the human factor. At a certain point security measures will be so advanced that human nature is the most likely bottleneck.
Social engineering can get you a lot further than being a l33t h4x0r.
Although it is true that Millers' rule applies to memorizing objects and not perceiving them there is a link between the two.
Perception gets a lot harder when there are more than 7+/-2 relevant objects. If you want to test this for yourself, have someone throw a couple of pencils or similar objects on the ground and coun them. You will be able to count them in a glance if there are few objects but at some number (and for most people, that's around 7) it suddenly gets a lot harder as you'll have to count them one by one. (If this point is sowehere in the thousands you must be an autist, bu that's a different story;)
This does not mean you should never offer more than this number of chances because the perceptual penalty incurred by trying to squeeze the information to be presented in this format might be a lot larger than the penalty of a menu with more than 7+/-2 options.
Clustering similar information is a good start and basically uses the same principle.
If you believe in this, it's okay with me. But please don't bother me with your evangelist conspiracy theories. There are more severe things to worry about than myths in an ancient book which have been used for centuries to prophecise that 'the coming of the anti-christ', 'the armageddon' (inser favourite end of world here) is just around the corner.
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Well, that's exactly what 'per capita' means.
I was quite shocked to hear that my Dutch government holds the record for per-capita phone tapping.
I disagree. The difference between the situation back in the days of casette tape/CD and now is that that now there's a viable (one could say superior in some aspects), cheap alternative.
It's quite probable the RIAA is going to say: 'look, it's working! We're cracking down on mp3 exchange and our sale numbers go up!'
Ther invention is being tested in city buses. You are right, I have never driven in the northeast of the US but in holland, city terrain is about as level as it can be.
This holds true for smaller vehicles. But for a city bus (which will not have to negotiate rough terrain) it won't be such a huge problem.
Furthermore, a lot can be done to reduce the weight of engines, thereby reducing your problem.
Although I agree it might be a problem I think it can be overcome, and that - especially with fuel prices on the rise - the idea will be very marketable.
Good point. But still, it's always better if noise is a choice and not obligatory :)
You are totally right. Nowadays technology often is quite complex and the real challenge is converting a good idea into working technology.
To quote the Slashdot synopsis (not even TFA)
A diesel-powered generator which replaces the original engine on the vehicle charges the battery-pack continuously.
The electro motors are not used as an engine but just as a clever way of transmission. This system has been in diesl-electric trains for ages, since most diesel engines can operate quite efficiently if they always run at the same RPM.
The days that loading binaries from disk into memory was a significant performance hit are long gone...
Sorry but that made my national-pride-o-meter just shoot into the red. I do recognize Guinness is a nice beer, but any beer that has most of is fame from a book sporting records like 'the largest cake baked by a team of midgets' can simply not compete with Heineken.
How many lines of code are there in a Library Of Congress?!
What the hell, Ive got karma to burn.
I actually liked the Hulk. I actually thought it was a very entertaining movie. I liked the way they transformed the comic book to the screen, I liked the transitions and most of all I liked the over-the top special effects. No they did not look realistic. No, they were not rendered on a l33t WETA beowulf cluster. But they were fitting to the theme and supported the story (which was thin, but what the heck, its a fricking comic).
Of course, Return of the King should win. But I really think the Hulk deserves a nomination.
They did. They make money no the iPod sale, not on the actual downloads.
Well, sounds like I should check it out then. The 'Not Sucky Video Support' in the full WinAmp free seems worth a try ;)
I'm still using 2.whatever because it's faster than the newer versions, which have no additional features worth the speed decrease.
A Java Application to display martian time? That sounds like a Java 101 excersise :)
Although the screenshots do look pretty neat.
I think it's pretty short-sighted to blame this on PowerPoint. It's very difficult to condense a lot of information into a comprehensible presentation. That many fail is not the fault of PowerPoint, but simply because there are a lot of people out there who are simply not very good at translating something complex into a few comprehensible slides.
Yeah, and no-one would blame China for totally carpeting-bombing Taiwan back to the stone age. Taiwan thanks its safety to two things: the fact that china does not have sufficient naval power for a succesful invasion and world opinion.
I have no doubt that using nuclear weapons would totally negate the last thing, and thereby allow China to just bomb taiwan.
Computers are not as important in computer science as one might think. Of course, for some technology-related courses you will need state-of-the-art, but computer science is about algorithms, structuring data and abstracting problems. Sometimes pen-and-paper will suffice but the programming you can do on a very old computer just as well as on a water-cooled Pentium-4 5000. The principles remain the same, and that's what matters.
Wow, that's a pretty mature reaction to a pretty mature remark.
to security in all fields always has been and always will be the human factor. At a certain point security measures will be so advanced that human nature is the most likely bottleneck.
Social engineering can get you a lot further than being a l33t h4x0r.
How do you set up the exception code completion?!
Although it is true that Millers' rule applies to memorizing objects and not perceiving them there is a link between the two.
;)
Perception gets a lot harder when there are more than 7+/-2 relevant objects. If you want to test this for yourself, have someone throw a couple of pencils or similar objects on the ground and coun them. You will be able to count them in a glance if there are few objects but at some number (and for most people, that's around 7) it suddenly gets a lot harder as you'll have to count them one by one. (If this point is sowehere in the thousands you must be an autist, bu that's a different story
This does not mean you should never offer more than this number of chances because the perceptual penalty incurred by trying to squeeze the information to be presented in this format might be a lot larger than the penalty of a menu with more than 7+/-2 options.
Clustering similar information is a good start and basically uses the same principle.
If you believe in this, it's okay with me. But please don't bother me with your evangelist conspiracy theories. There are more severe things to worry about than myths in an ancient book which have been used for centuries to prophecise that 'the coming of the anti-christ', 'the armageddon' (inser favourite end of world here) is just around the corner.