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Comment Re:Hardly new (Score 1) 823

I was at the local dealer during the Livewire tour, (the Livewire being Harley's all electric bike) and like you I wondered how they were going to make the "classic Harley sound". They didn't try, at least in the current version of the product. But it hasn't been released yet, so there's still time.

What I love about the videos on the Livewire website is that they make it sound a bit like Luke Skywalker's Land speeder. Which to me is cool in its own little way.

Comment Re:Hardly new (Score 1) 823

So unless the electric HD handles like the current motorcycles they make, then it'll probably do fairly well.

I know there are a few niche companies making electric bikes, but its exciting to see a big name brand like HD testing out demonstrator models rather than just sticking to their 2 big pistons until they die of old age and irrelevancy. While I'm sure the other brands have their own electric bike projects in progress, HD seems to be in the lead right now.

Checkout Project Livewire. The bike doesn't even look like a current Harley.

Comment Hardly new (Score 5, Interesting) 823

Years ago I saw a doc on Harley Davidson and a part of the design process was ensuring that the bikes made the "correct" HD noise*. What was interesting for a technical perspective was seeing a bike in an anechoic chamber, which had a robot arm waving around an array of microphones so that they could localize sounds emanating from different parts of the bike.

While I had no idea that car manufactures were doing this to such an extreme, it's not surprising when you are selling an image rather than just a product.

* what will be more fun in the future is seeing what the HD sound will be if their electric bike takes off. The reviews I have seen from the test riders have been really positive.

Comment Re:Not good enough (Score 1) 225

Wait, you mean that picture of Obama shaking hands with Hitler was fake? Gosh, sure could have fooled me.

It's pretty obvious to spot the fakes. If Obama is not wearing his Islamic clothing, or does't have a connection to Kenya and/or Sharia law, then obviously the picture is a fake.

Jeebus Weeps - don't you people have any common sense??????????

Comment Re:Not good enough (Score 5, Interesting) 225

There should be a requirement that if you flag a story as false, you have to provide a link to a reputable source refuting it.

Years ago I did this at work when some administrative staff person sent around the chain email warning you not to press a certain sequence of buttons when on your home phone as that would let the bad guys do all sorts of nefarious things. (#90 scam I was nice about it, only replied to the person who originated the email and pointed them to the Snopes article showing the said information was a hoax.

In return, instead of thanks, I got a blistering email about who I was wasting company time by looking at things on the internet. From that, and other attempts to point out wrong things, I have come to the conclusion that some people would rather be in denial to the truth than admit that they were taken in by a hoax, and get very angry when confronted with their own stupidity.

Comment Re:Time for Wine (Score 1) 156

Wine emulates 32-bit Server 2003 fairly well. Hell, Visual C++ 6 works perfectly. For all your legacy crap, it's time for Wine.

You do know that that the name Wine is one of those fancy-pants self-referential recursive bacronyms, don't you? You know .. "Wine Is Not an [fill in the blank]"

Comment Re:TFA says 5 stories high (Score 4, Informative) 98

And yet summary says 6...

One of TFA says 5 stories and the other FA says 6 stories. I guess it all depends on how you like to count. But I am going with 5 stories as that is the number of windows high the apartment block is, and that particular FA seems to be the more authoritative one.

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