Wilhelm Richard Wagner was born in 1813 and died in 1883 which makes him a 19th Century German composer, not an 18th c. German composer.

Remember, here in 2010 it's the 21st century; in 1910 it was the 20th c.; in 1810 it was the 19th c., etc.

Only post to this article that should be modded +5 informative, and it's scored +1.

Please mod parent up!

What I want to know is why so many people will quickly dismiss the writings of von Daniken as "crackpot" or whatever, but they never say anything about all the people who believe these religions.

Because Erik von Daniken's supporters don't number in the millions and carry guns.

They seem to agree on this, and think Flash is the way to go (see http://www.infoworld.com/print/125721). Either that is BS or this article is BS, they can't claim both. Everything they say could be said for Flash and vice-versa.

Sure they can have it both ways, just as long as it increases page hits on the infoworld website!

I think this is the first time I've heard someone as senior as [Redhat CEO] Whitehurst admit something rather profound: that open source solutions save money for customers by doing away with the fat margins for existing computer companies – and thus shrink the overall market.

Giving your work product away and hoping that someone will pay you for it ensures that you will make less money than people who demand fair pay for their work.

Perceived - i.e., how you felt about it, not what you knew about it. If your feelings contain any anxiety, it will show up as a possible lie - so heightened physiological arousal of any kind registers as a lie.

It is not a lie detector, it is a stress detector, but that sucks at distinguishing lies because many people feel stress when asked certain questions even when they answer them perfectly truthfully. Many people feel little or no stress when they tell giant whopper lies. So polygraphs are completely unreliable as lie detectors.

Not so. The control shaft only has to spin a set of planetary gears, while the output shaft has to drive the entire vehicle. Their torque requirements are orders of magnitude different.

All you'd need is strong enough brakes - if the power to the control shaft failed, the brakes would cause it to spin anyway because the output shaft would be effectively stopped by the brakes.

Of course once you release the brake the output shaft would jump immediately to highest speed...

At that point, I'd just shut the engine ;^)

Your Prius's CVT has limited torque because your CVT uses power transfer mechanisms other than toothed gears alone. The D-drive uses toothed gears only, not belts, not friction plates, etc. This allows for more torque than other CVT designs.

Slippage limits torque. the whole advantage of this system is that it allows infinitely variable output - from full speed reverse through neutral, to full speed forward, all with full torque limited only by the size of the toothed gears used. All power transmission in this device happens through toothed gears. There are no belts, friction plates, clutches, etc - all toothed gears and only toothed gears, with zero slippage, full torque, and infinitely variable output .

watch the video half way down TFA- it shows in pretty fair detail how the d-drive transmission works.