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Comment Re: What a great idea! (Score 1) 230

Stirling engine would work just as well but more efficiently... Warm-up times prevented their use in the past but that was before hybrids.  They are more efficient than getting it from an outlet and can burn nearly any fuel.

The future research is mostly in battery but a Stirling engine with a better drive train would be worth looking into.

Think of a maglev train wrapped around a circular track except the train is the tire (actually probably more like a "twheel") and the rail is the "motor".
http://contest.techbriefs.com/2013/entries/transportation-and-automotive/3911

This would make for an incredibly smooth ride, extremely high speeds, independent traction control and many other benefits.

It doesn't even need to be maglev, a simple AC motor where the rotor and stator are swapped and controlled by DC powered SCRs (or whatever) would be fine for non-luxury models.

Comment Re:Blizzard Shizzard (Score 1) 252

by technosaurus (#47061731) Attached to: Blizzard Sues <em>Starcraft II</em> Cheat Creators
really, How likely?  How many people wait for the cheats before they purchase? vs. How many people can actually get a refund if they don't like it because of the cheating? vs. How many people don't buy a game because they heard there were cheats?
It is just as likely that Blizzard is reaping financial benefit and not sharing it with the creators (which is fine, they were never asked to)
Besides, the code itself does no harm - only when the users actually use it does it do anything at all.  Gunmakers don't go to jail or get sued when someone commits murder with one of their guns.

Comment What we need is... (Score 0) 158

by technosaurus (#46987343) Attached to: The Truth About OpenGL Driver Quality
A Posix consortium to establish some standards for self standing games that boot themselves and can only interact with specific partitions (intentionally not NTFS, HFS so a game is less likely to mess with them)
If there were better tools for it, game vendors would prefer to build on a single platform that could run on MS*, i*, PS*, etc...
It would be up to them whether they wanted to include anything besides their game (a browser for looking up game hints... ok, ok really to serve ads and do in app purchases)

Comment Its called a CDN (Score 1) 105

by technosaurus (#46979843) Attached to: FCC Chairman Will Reportedly Revise Broadband Proposal
"in which content companies could pay them for faster delivery of Web content to customers"
This could be interpreted to allow Netflix (or whoever) to pay local ISPs to host content on local servers so that content doesn't need to go through the slow interwebs.
Honestly they should do some modified version of torrent format that prefers seeders on the same ISP so users can provide the hosting.

Comment Re:Disappearing $3 Billion (Score 1) 51

Its not hard to make them disappear on the server side:
1. mkfifo a named pipe somenthing like <image>sender-receiver-timestamp
2. read the incoming file from the tcp socket and write to the named pipe
2a. verify file is less than the size of the pipe buffer via return value of write
2b. if error or size exceed PIPE_BUF return error message
3. send messages to sender and receiver with unique uri
4. when either the sender or receiver goes to the uri:
a the pipe is read back just like a regular file to the tcp socket and the data disappears
b since it was never really on the filesystem (it only looks like it) there will be no trace
... at least after a reboot to clear traces in RAM, but you could memcpy zeroes for that
5. run a cleaner daemon that deletes all pipes older than X hours in case they aren't viewed in a timely fashion

6. make the end users agree to an EULA saying that they won't save the data in any way
-- no matter what you do the receiver could take a screenshot or take a picture of the screen with a camera

Comment Re:Slashdot being a prime example of bad (Score 0) 382

by technosaurus (#45772549) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Why Do Mobile Versions of Websites Suck?
And Radio Shack recommends a separate site for rendering on the remaining Tandy 1000s in operation....(j/k) right whatever,  OK Apple you can sell a bunch of pretty machines but can't make them play nicely with regular resources.... mmmKay

Lesson:
Don't use a bunch of hacky hacks to make sites work better on devices that you know.  Use real world data of width, height and resolution to make it behave on all devices.
Why do web devs have such a problem with things like dpi and icon sizes?  Its not that hard, but does require some trickery since DPI is not an ECMA standard.
Till there _is_ a standard way of getting DPI, Apple needs a button (it has to be a button or something even simpler, because it is for an Apple user) to emulate a standard DPI.

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