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Chinese Automaker Unveils First Electric Car 341

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday December 15, 2008 @07:03PM from the jump-start-on-the-competition dept.

JuliusSu writes "A Chinese auto manufacturer, BYD, is introducing today the country's first electric car, a plug-in hybrid vehicle. It plans to sell at least 10,000 cars in 2009 for a price of less than $22,000. This put the company ahead of schedule against other entrants to this market, such as Toyota, due to release a similar car in late 2009; and GM, whose Chevy Volt will be launched in late 2010. The company is best known for making cellphone batteries, and hopes its expertise in ferrous battery technology will allow it to leapfrog established car manufacturers."

Comment Re:I hope a firehose exploit was involved. (Score 1) 311

by rolfyone on Monday December 01, 2008 @04:26PM (#25950651) Attached to: Solving the Knight's Tour Puzzle In 60 Lines of Python

My point was mainly that the pseudo standard for coding is 1 statement per line, and most people accept that. The grey area is whitespace (phrasing) and where brackets go... Anyway, ultimately yes at the end of the day i agree 100% with your assessment of 'measurement of complexity'. It's a simple measurement, but means very little. You can see less than 60 lines cripple a computer, and sometimes you can see 100 000 lines of very efficient code, and people count comments as 'lines of code', and includes etc, which is terribly inaccurate. Better to look at algorithm complexity, but then python peeps can't go saying 'python is the best!'. The fact of the matter is python has no real advantage over other languages with a problem like this. Every language has strong points, and if you want to show why a language is awesome you need to look at what the languages strengths are... This specific problem is in no way playing to pythons strengths, it's just a procedural problem that can be implemented in almost any language in an efficient way (all the statements in py that were used map to or are in other languages).

Comment someones solution in ruby... (Score 1) 311

by rolfyone on Sunday November 30, 2008 @09:28PM (#25938533) Attached to: Solving the Knight's Tour Puzzle In 60 Lines of Python

http://rubyquiz.com/quiz27.html quite a nice solution in ruby - if you took the commenting out, it'd be pretty short... full credit to the owner of the page for the solution, i just figured someone would have a nice solution in ruby, and this came up through google.

Comment Re:I hope a firehose exploit was involved. (Score 1) 311

by rolfyone on Sunday November 30, 2008 @08:22PM (#25938027) Attached to: Solving the Knight's Tour Puzzle In 60 Lines of Python

noone forces you to put your open braces on the following line... that saves you at least 6 lines by my count :) noone forces whitespace in between statements - there's another 8(ish) lines.

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