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Comment Re:earth sciences, who needs them? (Score 1) 485

Shouldn't you consider the fact that monitoring volcanoes can save quite a lot of money.

A billion dollars saved by evacuating people and materials from affected areas due to the early warning from monitoring systems is just as valuable as billion dollars created by building and selling cars.

Of course, the amount of money saved can be small and there can be much more efficient ways of stimulating the economy, but saying that the money is completely wasted is just utterly wrong.

Comment Re:American cars.... (Score 2, Insightful) 378

"The handles pop out as you are within a meter of your door"

This doesn't mean that the door locks itself immediately when you close it - just that you can open the doors without fumbling with keys and whatnot. When you exit the 1-meter radius the car locks the doors automatically. This system has been in use in high-end cars for years (called keyless entry) and works quite well.

"Then the car starts while you are sitting"

Remember that this car is electric. This "starting" means the same as in a normal car to turn the key for two notches (i.e. you have radio, air conditioning etc.) - the engine does not start up until needed. Electric engines are perfectly happy sitting at 0 rpm until power is required - and can spin up from there immediately.

Comment Re:USB? (Score 1) 374

My Nokia 6500 classic has only a micro USB connection, which is used for charging, PC connection and handsfree/headphones. Charging the phone is possible using the data cable, and this will also work on any PC without installing drivers. The phone shows up like a memory stick when connected to a PC without the drivers.

Comment Re:Paranoia (Score 2, Informative) 137

Fallout games have always had a 20-level cap. This is the 3rd fallout game in the series. You'd expect its game mechanics to follow the other two, even if it is in 3d and not 2d isometric.

Wrong! None of the older Fallout games had a level cap. In Fallout the last new perks came available at level 18 and in Fallout 2 & Tactics last perks were at level 24. Of course you would run out of meaningful quests at around this time, but there was nothing stopping you from gaining experience or levels in random encounters or by slaughtering the whole ingame populace.

Transportation

Bay Area To Install Electric Vehicle Grid 388

Mike writes "Recently San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland unveiled a massive concerted effort to become the electric vehicle capitol of the United States. The Bay Area will be partnering with Better Place to create an essential electric vehicle infrastructure, marking a huge step towards the acceptance of electric vehicles as a viable alternative to those that run on fossil fuels." Inhabitat.com has some conceptual illustrations and a map showing EV infrastructure, such as battery exchange stations, stretching from Sacramento to San Diego — though this is far more extensive than the Bay Area program actually announced, which alone is estimated to cost $1 billion.

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