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Comment: Ubuntu gets increasingly useless (Score 2) 356

by jopet (#38951809) Attached to: Canonical Pulls Kubuntu Personnel Funding

It seems that Canonical has the stategy to exclusively target Noobs and people who use Linux for nothing more than using a browser. Unity and Co is absolutely unfit for professional or productive work.

It is time to change the distro in order to strengthen strategies that take care of people who need Linux to get some work done.

Comment: That cannot work (Score 1) 210

by jopet (#38820911) Attached to: The Chevy Segway Keeps On Rolling (Video)

I do not think that this is compatible with physics for any speed faster than fast walking: the force from decelerating will be so strong that the vehicle will lean forward. There is no way how a human can counter this by just shifting weight (that force is ridiculously small compared to quickly braking a couple of dozen or even hundred pounds of mass down from 35mph to a stop.
Even if the vehicle could look into the future and would automatically lean back as far as possible before initiating the break, the deceleration forces for anything but a very gentle stop would be too big to not make the vehicle turn around the point where the wheels touche the ground and topple over forward.

Comment: hmm (Score 1) 210

by jopet (#38820365) Attached to: The Chevy Segway Keeps On Rolling (Video)

yes .. the video talks about the "never crash" idea and explains that for this reason, there is no bumper or airbag.
Sounds quite naive to me ... even if these vehicles only operate in totally isolated lanes where no child, dog, or damaged vehicle can ever appear and nothing can ever drop on the driveway, I am not sure if people would want to drive in them given this kind of "safety".

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