Honestly I think the ultimate solution is 2 or 4 independent brushless wheel motors. Eliminate most of the drive train components.

That's what I would think. And apparently if you have half a million to spare you will be able to get that configuration soon:
http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/2013-mercedes-benz-sls-amg-e-cell-prototype-drive

Why does it have a 5 speed manual transmission? I thought that one of the advantages of electric motors was the low-end torque, eliminating the need for gear shifting.

Pascal's retarded cousin. The bane of my life but unfortunately it's normally the only language available for micro-controllers.

Unfortunately some GPS vendors don't get it right. I was testing conformance of a IT530 from FastRaxGPS which uses the Mediatek MT3339 receiver.

It put out the sequence 23:59:59, 23:59:59, 00:00:00 repeating second 59 instead of using second 60.

I remember going over to Atari in 1979 or 1980 so we could see how they made membrane switch panels. At that time they were made pf 3 pieces of mylar sandwiched together. The center had holes and the two outer layers had silver plated pads for the switch contacts.

A Hoovering woman might be more useful.

OPB (Oregon Public Broadcasting) had video for the test on their TV station but no audio. Here's what they said on their Facebook page: "As the hub of the emergency broadcast system for the region, OPB is responsible for sending signals out to all other regional broadcasters. We received the test signal as planned, but a software problem prevented the signal from being sent out to the statewide network of broadcasters."

Is the only one on the list that tried to screw me. After a year of them trying to get me to pay for the same airline tickets twice I finally had to get a lawyer after them.

That's not an inventory tax (there isn't one, see ORS 307.400) but business personal property tax. I think that all of the 4 states I've done business in have that tax.

Good thing I'm still on version 1.02, my one-time alarm yesterday morning worked fine.

I saw a presentation given by the president of ARIN recently on the Research Channel. He predicted that IPV6 and IPV4 will run in parallel for about a decade, so I don't see corporations giving up their IPV4 address space anytime soon.

We just have a PBS translator and a begging for jebus channel. Oregon Public Broadcasting has only converted a small number of their 40 translators throughout the state. In the case of my area they also have to move their intermediate links from 800 to 2000 Mhz, so it could be years.

I use a cradlepoint Wifi router with my Verizon Wireless USB modem. Since VW is about 3-4 times faster than the CenturyLink DSL here, I use a SSID of "CLinkSucks".

Nook e-reader has been hacked and rooted

I'm sure Slashdotters in New Zealand will get a kick out of that.

Somewhere around 1975 or 1976 I worked at the micro-electronics lab at Point Mugu Naval Air Station. We did a number of projects using a 4004 and those awful 1702 EPROMs. I remember using one to run a X/Y Table and sensor probe to test thick film (might have been thin film) resistor wafers. If a chip wasn't in tolerance a drop of magnetic ink would be dropped on it.

We used a timeshare service via a Model 33 teletype with acoustic modem to access a 4004 assembler. It would spit out a paper tape that we would use for the EPROM burner system. I think I like Eclipse better.