The concept looks cool.Just driving it in traffic would be a show stopper. The fact page on this aircraft/car doesn't show certain things, like "Take Off Distance", Red Line, Yellow Line, Stall, Octane stuff, and um, the ceiling at 15K? With an open Cock Pit? The car looks like a Tube Frame Sand Buggy, nice. I didn't know that Rotax had a automotive transmission for their power plants, interesting. I also have a couple questions like, "IFR Capable?" Or is this just only a "VFR" kind of car? I didn't see the word "Experimental" on side of car; why? The "why" reason could be a very cool price worthy answer.
We don't have to put experimental on the side of EAA type aircraft in Europe (don't know about Africa, but I suspect a similar situation). All we need is a plaque somewhere in the cockpit. Experimental craft and IFR don't really mix here though, can you fly IFR in experimental aircraft in the US?
Then again, at least in certain countries you wouldn't even need to do that for something like this. Depending on empty weight etc, it could well be a microlight/ultralight.
Don't really see what the big deal is about this though, seen plenty of similar in the past. I think the flyke is cooler, actually. (http://www.freshbreezeusa.com/flyke.htm)
Here's how a SmartCar will fare against a brick wall:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ju6t-yyoU8s
The problem is not that of the car breaking or not, it's how it manages to decelerate without subjecting your body to forces that it cannot survive. Many SUVs suffer problems in this department, because they are simply too hard. If you hit a brick wall with them, they stop, which might well kill you. Same with the SmartCar, but unless you really hit it straight on it's likely to bounce off in some direction, and then decelerate as it hits stuff. An SUV will probably not.
On the other hand, SUVs are going out of style in the US in a big way right now, and will probably not be around much longer. Just check the price of crude oil from 2001 to the present day.
There's also logistical problems in the U.S. that you simply don't have elsewhere... how big is the U.S. compared to Japan? S. Korea? You can't just say "someone else did it so we can, too!" If some guy at the end of some long secluded road wants fiber or high speed anything, they should have to pay for it. The government shouldn't pay for it (because then that's us paying for it), and some city dweller shouldn't have to subsidize it, either.
I love hearing the "we have too low population density for broadband" line. Here's what's up. I live in a far less densely populated country than the US, and I can get 7.2 mbit 3G broadband in the middle of the fucking forest, not to mention the 100mbit/100mbit (actual speed) fiber I have in my apartment. I'm paying about 20 bucks a month for the priviledge.
(Well actually closer to 30 bucks, now that the dollar has completely lost pretty much all its value, but you get the picture.)
But at least you don't have any government intervention in your wonderfully well-working private markets. Good for you!
As long as I get paid for the work that I do, why would I care what happens to it afterwards? While I was still in school, I was working part time building refridgerators. Did I care what people did to them afterwards? Of course not, why should I? I got paid already, that's what matters. Same with everything else..
Ah, but you see us defending TPB are making money from software. Not selling it, perhaps, but that's not the issue. If you are good, people will pay you to do what you do. Simple as that. No government monopolies are needed, just a market for your products. Of course, if your "product" is an infinite number of copies of work you performed once, you might not get a whole lot for each copy.
Well, sweatheart, how about myself? I'm a software developer, but I don't get paid everytime someone uses my stuff. Why the fuck should I? I got paid once when I wrote the stuff, that's it. If I want more money, I have to work more. Just like everybody else.
How about if decided tomorrow to be an "indie" street sweeper. I just start sweeping away, and expect people who walk on the streets to pay me. If they REALLY enjoyed walking on my squeaky clean streets, they might just. If they only enjoyed it a little bit, they might not pay me at all. The point is, I shouldn't have the right to DEMAND payment, because nobody asked me to do it. If you are a good enough programmer, someone will pay you to code Just like someone will pay you to do science, or build cars, or whatever the fuck else you're doing.
Don't want to work for free? Don't. Nobody's forcing you.
Yeah, the same thing happened to my friend. He's a mathematician, and he came up with this formula. It's nothing much, but he spent a great deal of time (years and years) on it, and when he finally released it, other mathematicians took it and gave him not so much as a penny for it. It's turned up in scientific papers all over the place, on websites, you name it.
I guess intellectual property just isn't worth squat these days. Strange thing is my friend is still at that whole mathematics game. I would have given up immediately if I didn't get cash everytime someone had a look at my formulas, let alone used them themselves and incorporated them into their own research.
It won't happen. You need a pilot's license to fly one of these things.
You need a pilot's license to fly ANYTHING that is capable of going more than 10 feet off the ground.
Not in the US you don't. Actually not in England either. You will need one to fly one of these, but anything which is Part 103 Legal in the US or footlaunched in the UK is technically licence free.
I doubt I'll ever be rich but should I happen to make the right choices in life and wind up rich and/or powerful I won't be leaving millions of dollars to my kids. They should find success on their own.
Bill Gates is "only" giving his kids 10 million when they become adults, for those very reasons.
Although I could have sworn that he once said $640,000 ought to be enough for anybody...
Yeah, well, that about what the dollar has lost in value since then so it makes perfect sense. Inflation, you know?
Thanks for pointing this out, and for bringing up the verb "to be." This is, by default, the oldest verb in any language (except perhaps Russian, which they tell me doesn't have it), and therefore the most irregular.
Based on this, I have formulated the theory that "to be" is irregular in every language (that has it). In good scientific methodology, I am seeking out evidence to the contrary. Can anyone provide any?
Russian does have the verb "to be", just not in the present tense. Its usage varies considerably from English, but then so do most languages. A lot of languages lack the copula-verb (as it is known) in the present tense, and do very well without it. When Borat says "She niiiice" you understand what he means perfectly well without the copula.:)
The verb is indeed irregular in many languages, but nonetheless completely regular in others. One of the problems people have in deciding whether a feature of language is universal is the very small subset of languages they've been exposed to.
Most of the languages you can name off hand are all part of the Indoeuropean family of languages, which has a very large number of speakers, but does not constitute a large number of languages. Thus a lot of features common to Indo-european languages are taken to be linguistic universals when really they are common only to a very small subset of human languages.
Actually it's nothing but a change in the ancient URL/URI trick where you trick the user into believing a link sends him somewhere else (akin to something like this: www.microsoft.com.
Thanks dude!
I installed that update to XP, and now my computer runs like a dream. Microsoft finally got it right!
Me too! It took most of the weekend, but it was well worth it...:)
Many of us don't care about political correctness, and don't want even "reasonable" Jews in their midst. If Jewish society is good and righteous, Jews might prove their loyalty by moving back to the Israel. I don't need them. I don't want Jewish changes in MY society. I don't want Jews to have leverage by increasing their population in MY country.
You know, that's funny, because in the last couple of days there's been lots of stories that my country is the worst for piracy (Sweden). Anybody read Chinese well enough to see what crap they're being fed?
If it misidentified your crop as weed you might lose a lot. Imagine coming home one day and it has pulled out or burned your entire crop and it just sits there with a grin.
Yeah, or what if you crop IS weed? Can it handle that?
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The concept looks cool.Just driving it in traffic would be a show stopper. The fact page on this aircraft/car doesn't show certain things, like "Take Off Distance", Red Line, Yellow Line, Stall, Octane stuff, and um, the ceiling at 15K? With an open Cock Pit? The car looks like a Tube Frame Sand Buggy, nice. I didn't know that Rotax had a automotive transmission for their power plants, interesting. I also have a couple questions like, "IFR Capable?" Or is this just only a "VFR" kind of car? I didn't see the word "Experimental" on side of car; why? The "why" reason could be a very cool price worthy answer.
We don't have to put experimental on the side of EAA type aircraft in Europe (don't know about Africa, but I suspect a similar situation). All we need is a plaque somewhere in the cockpit. Experimental craft and IFR don't really mix here though, can you fly IFR in experimental aircraft in the US? Then again, at least in certain countries you wouldn't even need to do that for something like this. Depending on empty weight etc, it could well be a microlight/ultralight. Don't really see what the big deal is about this though, seen plenty of similar in the past. I think the flyke is cooler, actually. (http://www.freshbreezeusa.com/flyke.htm)
Here's how a SmartCar will fare against a brick wall: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ju6t-yyoU8s The problem is not that of the car breaking or not, it's how it manages to decelerate without subjecting your body to forces that it cannot survive. Many SUVs suffer problems in this department, because they are simply too hard. If you hit a brick wall with them, they stop, which might well kill you. Same with the SmartCar, but unless you really hit it straight on it's likely to bounce off in some direction, and then decelerate as it hits stuff. An SUV will probably not. On the other hand, SUVs are going out of style in the US in a big way right now, and will probably not be around much longer. Just check the price of crude oil from 2001 to the present day.
As long as I get paid for the work that I do, why would I care what happens to it afterwards? While I was still in school, I was working part time building refridgerators. Did I care what people did to them afterwards? Of course not, why should I? I got paid already, that's what matters. Same with everything else..
Ah, but you see us defending TPB are making money from software. Not selling it, perhaps, but that's not the issue. If you are good, people will pay you to do what you do. Simple as that. No government monopolies are needed, just a market for your products. Of course, if your "product" is an infinite number of copies of work you performed once, you might not get a whole lot for each copy.
You know, supply and demand, all that stuff?
Well, sweatheart, how about myself? I'm a software developer, but I don't get paid everytime someone uses my stuff. Why the fuck should I? I got paid once when I wrote the stuff, that's it. If I want more money, I have to work more. Just like everybody else. How about if decided tomorrow to be an "indie" street sweeper. I just start sweeping away, and expect people who walk on the streets to pay me. If they REALLY enjoyed walking on my squeaky clean streets, they might just. If they only enjoyed it a little bit, they might not pay me at all. The point is, I shouldn't have the right to DEMAND payment, because nobody asked me to do it. If you are a good enough programmer, someone will pay you to code Just like someone will pay you to do science, or build cars, or whatever the fuck else you're doing. Don't want to work for free? Don't. Nobody's forcing you.
Yeah, the same thing happened to my friend. He's a mathematician, and he came up with this formula. It's nothing much, but he spent a great deal of time (years and years) on it, and when he finally released it, other mathematicians took it and gave him not so much as a penny for it. It's turned up in scientific papers all over the place, on websites, you name it.
I guess intellectual property just isn't worth squat these days. Strange thing is my friend is still at that whole mathematics game. I would have given up immediately if I didn't get cash everytime someone had a look at my formulas, let alone used them themselves and incorporated them into their own research.
Yeah, me too. I even work for a search engine company already. You know where to find me (I'm sure).
Does it run Linux... I mean minix.. I mean... Oh forget it!
I think I saw the thing yesterday while my girlfriend was giving birth to our son.
Blindsight is available online, too.
It might be diet related. Get her to eat more healthy food, and then see what happens.
Really, touch screens are cool and all that, but also have some disadvantages, as this page will tell you.
The verb is indeed irregular in many languages, but nonetheless completely regular in others. One of the problems people have in deciding whether a feature of language is universal is the very small subset of languages they've been exposed to.
Most of the languages you can name off hand are all part of the Indoeuropean family of languages, which has a very large number of speakers, but does not constitute a large number of languages. Thus a lot of features common to Indo-european languages are taken to be linguistic universals when really they are common only to a very small subset of human languages.
Surely you are talking about Java?
Perl is about the easiest to read (programming) language there is...
Wait, you mean Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11? Then why did you guys invade Iraq?
Right here...
Sound scary yet?
You know, that's funny, because in the last couple of days there's been lots of stories that my country is the worst for piracy (Sweden). Anybody read Chinese well enough to see what crap they're being fed?