Comment Re:I signed up (Score 1) 465
The question is, will all of you?
Yes.
The question is, will all of you?
Yes.
Do most implementations even get 50%
My guess is far greater than that, what with today's brushless technology... but that's just a guess. Nonetheless, it's great enough that that weight-adding batterypack is what's going to add range, losses-due-to mass notwithstanding.
She's baking a loaf of bread and I think it's sourdough.
-Jim Carrey's character in Me, Myself & Irene
I support bacteria. Its the only culture some people have.
Actually, most have an overabundance of fungus.
:p
Damn keyboard...
We shouldn't really expect a full-size luxury car, with a huge range (ie heavy batteries) to hold this title in the first place.
Actually, that's incorrect. Sure, it requires more energy to accelerate a heavier mass up to speed but you get that back when you hit the brakes (regenerative braking). What you don't (This, by the way, is why the Model S can get away with weighing ~600lbs more than my extended-wheelbase 7-series BMW...)
What if Zenimax isn't operating alone here; what if they have a silent partner, someone with an incentive to delay Occulus; say, for example, Sony...
Reality is, the U.S. doesn't have a gun problem. Guns prevent 2 million crimes per yearaccording to statistics compiled by the FBI. What the U.S. has is a violent gang problem fueled by drug money, which makes up the majority of gun-related crime (still orders of magnitude lower than what is prevented).
Stop complicating the issue with facts; it leaves people flustered and confused...
but their ID-checking gun seems to default to an unfireable state
I hate to shatter your stereotype but not all "gun nuts" are necessarily less than hyper-intelligent nor phallically-challenged... you might even go so far as to say that some of them are downright culturally-aware, environmentally-conscious, theologically-secular and (*gasp* *cough*) vegan...
but their ID-checking gun seems to default to an unfireable state
At the end of the day, the problem with this is that there's a non-zero chance that the fucking thing isn't going to work when you need it most.
The only thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from history.
However, if we were to learn anything from history, it'd be that those in charge have no qualms about poisoning, maiming or starving everyone else if it furthers their agendas (and in some cases even if it doesn't)...
I was thinking the same thing. Efficiency is the real question. I assume the article would have mentioned this if the efficiency was available to the authors. The fact that efficiency figures weren't available means they were not very impressive at this stage.
I seem to recall that this type of design and others aren't limited to the same maximum theoretical efficiency of a conventional combustion engine as described by Carnot's theorem but it'd be useful if an actual physicist could chime in...
they are already joking that Alaska is called "Ice-Crimea"
What was that quote that was famously misattributed to Admiral Yamamoto?
"You cannot invade Alaska. There would be a high-powered rifle behind every drunken indigenous person."
I think it went something like that...
I mean, they made Sheldon downright asexual.
He acts as queer as can be...
But, they might find people suddenly saying "to hell with that", and go read a book.
They're addressing that...
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
