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Initial Reviews of Google Wave; Neat, But Noisy 336

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 01, 2009 @05:28PM from the here's-yer-firehose dept.

bonch writes "Reviews of Google Wave are out, and opinions are that it has potential as a development platform but is noisy to use for real-time communication. Robert Scoble calls it overhyped, claiming it's useful for little more than personal IM or small-scale project collaboration. He complains about the noisiness of tracking dozens of people chatting him at once in real-time and calls trying to use it a 'productivity killer' compared to simpler mediums like email and Twitter."

Is "Good Enough" the Future of Technology? 350

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday August 29, 2009 @02:08AM from the seems-to-work-for-the-movie-industry dept.

himitsu writes "In an article titled 'The Good Enough Revolution: When Cheap and Simple Is Just Fine,' Wired claims that the future of technology, warfare and medicine will be filled with 'good enough' solutions; situations where feature-rich and expensive products are replaced with bare-bones infrastructures and solutions. 'We now favor flexibility over high fidelity, convenience over features, quick and dirty over slow and polished. Having it here and now is more important than having it perfect. These changes run so deep and wide, they're actually altering what we mean when we describe a product as "high-quality."'"

Solar Roadways Get DoT Funding 484

Posted by Soulskill on Friday August 28, 2009 @09:59PM from the technology-that-wouldn't-work-in-michigan dept.

mikee805 writes "Solar Roadways, a project to replace over 25,000 square miles of road in the US with solar panels you can drive on, just received $100,000 in funding from the Department of Transportation for the first 12ft-by-12ft prototype panel. Each panel consists of three layers: a base layer with data and power cables running through it, an electronics layer with an array of LEDs, solar collectors and capacitors, and finally the glass road surface. With data and power cables, the solar roadway has the potential to replace some of our aging infrastructure. With only 15% efficiency, 25,000 square miles of solar roadways could produce three times what the US uses annually in energy. The building costs are estimated to be competitive with traditional roads, and the solar roads would heat themselves in the winter to keep snow from accumulating."

Comment Re:Perpendicular Electric Fields (Score 0) 241

by cubakos on Monday March 02, 2009 @02:16PM (#27042487) Attached to: Motor Made From Liquid Film

I think:
The two electrodes will attract the corresponding pole of the dipole molecules. As soon as they touch the pole at the side of the frame for a short period they become mono-pole. This mono-pole molecule is attracted by the magnectic field on one side of the frame and repelled on the the other side, creating two converse direction forces.

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