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Comment Re:SpaceX is bullshit (Score 1) 276

the Tesla Roadster is another bullshit in action (claiming 300hp, with a ~50kWh (a bit suspect even here, given that a Prius has a battery capacity of ~1kWh) battery and a range of some 250 miles? 300hp is about 200kW, if the roadster is traveling 200mph, 50kWh gives you about 1/4h run time, which equals about 50 miles...bullshit claims QED).

Name a single car that gets its advertised city/highway mileage while operating at 100% output or 200mph. Either one will do.

Timesaving hint: there are none.

Comment Re:What an experience! (Score 1) 145

Crashes here too on ubuntu 11.04 alpha. I don't see an incident ID anywhere, but here's what it did tell me:

Add-ons: {d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d}:1.3.3,{e4a8a97b-f2ed-450b-b12d-ee082ba24781}:0.9.1,betterfacebook@mattkruse.com:5.300,{987311C6-B504-4aa2-90BF-60CC49808D42}:2.2,{D4DD63FA-01E4-46a7-B6B1-EDAB7D6AD389}:0.9.7.2,firegestures@xuldev.org:1.6.1,testpilot@labs.mozilla.com:1.0.6,{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}:4.0b12
BuildID: 20110227020049
CrashTime: 1299277082
EMCheckCompatibility: true
Email: xxxx
FramePoisonBase: 7ffffffff0dea000
FramePoisonSize: 4096
InstallTime: 1299093973
ProductName: Firefox
SecondsSinceLastCrash: 59
StartupTime: 1299277038
Theme: classic/1.0
Throttleable: 1
URL: https://demos.mozilla.org/
Vendor: Mozilla
Version: 4.0b12
This report also contains technical information about the state of the application when it crashed.

Comment Re:Whatever everyone else is doing (Score 1) 717

for some reason many drivers think the posted speed limit is always too low.

Because it generally is. Engineers have long pushed the 85th percentile rule, and design the roads for for a speed based on certain guidelines. Then councils ignore that and set much lower limits. The result is completely unchallenging roadways which cause drivers to either become bored and distracted.

However the crusade for sane speed limits is consistently ruined by the think of the childreners and their ilk.

Comment Re:could this be for marketing reasons? (Score 1) 138

I hadn't touched opera in years until today. I was testing a site im working on that does a bunch of ajaxy calls then plots data on a graph. In comparing the major browsers, I was blown away at how much faster opera was. Better than twice as fast as chrome and FF. Internet explorer took about 4 times as long as chrome/ff.

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