Comment Project Satan? (Score 1) 317
Was I the only one that read Project Satan on first glance?
I hear the President invited Snowden back to the U.S. for a special "We Love Whistleblowers!" party, where there will be cake. Better hurry up and get on that plane Edward, before the cake is all gone!
Yellowcake?!
... That is an advertised 18 hour battery life on day one with a brand new device. That means you'll probably be lucky to get 12 hours a day in a year or two, since rechargeable batteries tend to age poorly. By comparison, the upcoming Pebble Time advertised a week of battery life for the base model, and ten days for the Steel version.
My Garmin Fenix 2, which is an outdoor sports watch, has an advertised battery life of up to 5 weeks in watch mode, 50 hours in 1/min GPS mode and 20 hours in 1/15s GPS update mode. It has everthing (GPS, barometer/altimeter, compass, thermometer, plethora of built-in sports tracking modes, smart notifications from
It was not said that ALL replicants live four years. The Nexus 6 were. But Decker and Rachel where not N6s.
Apparently those have bad battery live and don't perform as well as the Nexus 5s.
Or read the back story of Dune perhaps?
The Dune series was hardly a work of deathless literature, but as for that piece of shit, save yourself the wasted calories. It is very possibly THE WORST book ever written in the history of human communication. I think I paid $1 for a used copy and even then I wanted to sue to get the $1 back plus damages for the intentional infliction of ultimate boredom.
I can attest to this. Currently suffering through the Battle of Corin. Save yourself and never pickup any one of these books.
This is how electric will win. Performance. When I was in High-school I raced RC cars for fun, and I remembered by gear head friends giving me crap about working on "Toy cars" until I challenged one of them to a drag race, against his real, full sized muscle car, and won hands down. The torque from an electric motor is just monstrous. So much so, that I suspect if they continue to build electric sports cars, the gforce alone will become a safety issue. My drag car would pull 100amps off the starting line and could melt battery cables, and the thing only weighed 2lbs. It'd be doing the scale equivalent of over 1000mph when I got to the end of the track. Yes, yes, I know at full scale wind resistance is different and such, but still. I had a hunk of carbon fiber doing 100mph in a few feet for Christs sake.
The sorts of people that hate electric because it's a "hippie thing" will embrace it because the fact of the matter is that, in the end, it just performs better. Can't have hippies beating your Cudda with a Prius.
Random video I found on youtube as a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Yeah, but does it have... soul.
Seriously, I like the mechanical sound of a nice inline 6 or a V8 under the hood. I love the control of a manual transmission and clutch and how it engages the driver and makes him/her an essential part of the vehicle. Yes, dual-clutch autos are faster and electric cars are even faster but something is lost in the process and it's a shame. But, most people don't care about such things so electrics will be perfect for the masses just not for us "enthusiasts". Now get off my lawn!
Look at the deaths per vehicle miles travelled chart of Wikipedia. I would say humans as drivers are doing very well, helped by better cars, roads and technology over time.
How about a dual-mode car. You can drive it yourself in the city and have the computer drive it on the highway (like an autopilot). In many ways the highway is a simpler problem for the computer to handle and much more efficiency can be gained from higher speeds and shorter distances between following cars. Of course, the highway would allow the system to fail more spectacularly as well when a few hundred cars going 200kph (120mph) pile into each other.
"And remember: Evil will always prevail, because Good is dumb." -- Spaceballs
