Things that are WAAY overdue

[NormHart]

Originally Posted by Alphapheemail

another thing:
Calorie/carb/fat/guilt free

-donuts
-chocolate cake
-pizza
-bagels.... pizza bagles
-nachos...

umm... can u tell im berry hungary right now....

Also already available here at mobileread;

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45259

Every donut and other delicious delight in that thread is virtually Calorie/carb/fat/guilt free!

Enjoy, no need to thank me, conspicuous consumption is a right.

[kazbates]

Originally Posted by Steve Jordan

I think basically, every car should come standard with the hands-free system, and the purchaser only has to coordinate with their existing cellphone carrier to either add the car to their list of "phones," or as a device that automatically takes over when the owner's phone is detected.

This was were I was going with my post. It should cost extra for something so important.

One of GM's best features was its On-Star system (maybe it's only good feature... we'll leave that for another time). I always felt that such services should be expanded to all appropriate vehicles, expanding the system, which would in turn employ more people to do the call connecting and service providing duties to the vehicles. That kills two birds with one stone, making it safer for drivers, and employing more workers. Boo-yah!

I started to post about On-Star. It is a great service! My parents have it on their Escalade (don't even get me started on that monstrosity ) and they use it all the time. It can even find them a restaurant!

Happens in suburban Maryland and downtown DC, too, kiddo!

It's like a disease! Arg!!

Originally Posted by Alphapheemail

You can sync your phone with your car in some of the newer ones. You can do this via bluetooth. You answer the phone with some button already placed on the steering wheel. The conversation is heard over the speakers... so its not so private... but convenient.

Just sose ya know, bluetooth signals are ridiculously easy to intercept. So, if you don't want anyone to hear anything too personal or too sensitive make sure you use a land line.

P.s. you can never reply in a wrong thread, especially in the llounge!! We just have to change your avatar to this...Attachment 30670

Oooooo, I'm tellin' Shannon what you did to her artwork. If I were you, I would RUN!! She can be REALLY mean.

[NormHart]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

I'll see your moon flight and raise you a world-wide clean drinking water.

Not mutually exclusive, the new water recycling system on Alpha Station is being tested for use in areas here on earth.

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Edit: D'oH

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by Lady Blue

Looks like that thing could use a hotdog bun for a parking garage.

It looks like from above it may have the appearance of preferring other comfy places to rest its shiny head.

On-topicality...umm, malaria, let's do something a bit more about that right now?

Cheers,
Marc

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

It looks like from above it may have the appearance of preferring other comfy places to rest its shiny head.

On-topicality...umm, malaria, let's do something a bit more about that right now?

Cheers,
Marc

... heaven forfend - morphed in some way with Swine Flu.....

[LazyScot]

Being thinking about this for a fair bit. So how about:

On the area of cars, why can't we have a universal automatic drive system (I know this crops up in books all the time). And after a few experiences on the motorway, it should be so much safer, and it should make it far more efficient, especially as all vehicles could communicate to work out optimisation, etc.

How about a universal fast charge network for electric cars, that can recharge a car in say five minutes, built into almost every car parking place, and provided as part of the parking charge...

(Can you image the chaos cyber-terrorists could cause with the above two, items? -- hint, hint)

How about secure RFIDs on everything and multiple devices in the home that can triangulate locations, so that when, yet again, your better half tidies-up you mislay something you can ask the house and it will tell you where it is.

Oh, and fridge-freezers with at least a sensible level of reliability enforced by imprisoning liability for execs of companies, for the sake of the environment.... (sorry --- should be in Vent and Rant)

[Steven Lyle Jordan]

We need manufacturers who must include the lifetime cost of use and disposal/recycling into their products.

We need better materials recovery methods, to better recycle those materials.

We need a reduction in global population, by a factor of at least a thousand.

We need to get laid every night.

We need standardized memory configurations for electronic devices... no more eight different sizes and types that are incompatible with most of the devices you buy except the one that... uh...

Did I say that other one out loud?

Oh, well, since I did: We need better contraceptive control, so we can get that population level down by a factor of a thousand, but really not mind very much...

[kazbates]

Originally Posted by Steve Jordan

We need manufacturers who must include the lifetime cost of use and disposal/recycling into their products.

We need better materials recovery methods, to better recycle those materials.

We need a reduction in global population, by a factor of at least a thousand.

We need to get laid every night.

We need standardized memory configurations for electronic devices... no more eight different sizes and types that are incompatible with most of the devices you buy except the one that... uh...

Did I say that other one out loud?

Oh, well, since I did: We need better contraceptive control, so we can get that population level down by a factor of a thousand, but really not mind very much...

Steve - Shame on you!! Here we were having an erudite conversation and you had to descend to the sophomoric male stereotype. I'm so disappointed.

[yvanleterrible]

Originally Posted by kazbates

How about something actually doable like mass producing electric cars! The cars we are using now are using almost the same technology as their inception almost a century ago. And on that note, why can't our roads have some kind of detectors that allow us to run on autopilot. No more car accidents from drivers too busy talking on their mobile phones to actually pay attention to their driving. Sorry - It's a pet peeve of mine.

Aaaah! my pet subject. I've been wanting an EV since 1973, I've driven a few in 2001 that have all been destroyed by their manufacturers, and there are still no decent affordable EVs as of today. Who's responsible? THE OIL SUCKERS.
They want us to drive their stupid hybrids, what a load a crock they are.
Even that idiotic pluggable Chevy Volt, I mean the thing weighs over 3000 pounds, totally irrational!
If you want good info go to the evcast.com . I'm listening all their 200 podcasts as I work.

Originally Posted by LazyScot

How about a universal fast charge network for electric cars, that can recharge a car in say five minutes, built into almost every car parking place, and provided as part of the parking charge...

It's physically impossible unless you have a power plant in your backyard, and a 3000amp charger. The best you can do is 15 mins for an 80% charge.



BTW I finally found the EV I want, and it's a bloody Ford! I still can't believe it! It's a small van fer my work and it will be available summer 2010. The Ford Transit Connect. It's made and sold in Europe and will be available in America starting this summer as a two liter petrol guzzler and next year with pure EV, hybrid and gas options.

[phenomshel]

Weeeellll since Steve started it... I was sitting here, innocently eating green chicken enchilada casserole (green from the tomatillo salsa that's in it, check recipe thread later), when I got to "get laid every night". After I finished choking from the vain attempt to NOT spray green chicken enchilada casserole on my monitor, I explained to my husband (who was concerned about the odd noises I was making) about the thread and what Steve said.
His reply?
"Well, at some point it'd be nice to have the TIME for us to do that every night!"

[yvanleterrible]

Originally Posted by Steve Jordan

Oh, well, since I did: We need better contraceptive control, so we can get that population level down by a factor of a thousand, but really not mind very much...

Actually, money would do the trick. It's simple, if you can't afford entertainment you breed.That's why some do their part more than others.



On an other suject, I'd like money and debt to disappear. It is an old game that was invented to gather power over others. I hate it!

[Steven Lyle Jordan]

Originally Posted by kazbates

Steve - Shame on you!! Here we were having an erudite conversation and you had to descend to the sophomoric male stereotype. I'm so disappointed.

I'm a baaaaad boy!

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

It's physically impossible unless you have a power plant in your backyard, and a 3000amp charger. The best you can do is 15 mins for an 80% charge.

Well, there's nothing impossible about having your own charger. And although right now, an 80% charge in 15 minutes is a practical limit, the advances they're making with batteries, using fullerenes to increase capacity and charge-discharge rates, should allow much faster charges at lower amperages soon.

[Steven Lyle Jordan]

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

BTW I finally found the EV I want, and it's a bloody Ford! I still can't believe it! It's a small van fer my work and it will be available summer 2010. The Ford Transit Connect. It's made and sold in Europe and will be available in America starting this summer as a two liter petrol guzzler and next year with pure EV, hybrid and gas options.

The one I want is pictured a page back. Unfortunately, I understand the company was bought out (or maybe just rebranded themselves), and is now about to declare bankruptcy. Dammit!

Unlike you, Yvan, I just need a small vehicle for 80-90% of my driving needs, that is, to and from work (or, in my case, the MARC train parking lot), and light shopping around town. If we save the gas-drinker for things like longer-distance trips, and carrying large loads, we could leave that car parked for months at a time.

[yvanleterrible]

Originally Posted by Steve Jordan

Well, there's nothing impossible about having your own charger. And although right now, an 80% charge in 15 minutes is a practical limit, the advances they're making with batteries, using fullerenes to increase capacity and charge-discharge rates, should allow much faster charges at lower amperages soon.

For now, nanotechnology is just as bad as antigravity. Total scam. Why would I say that? We still don't know how to explain gravity. A fullerene is a nano compartment, the material that makes that compartment is what's important in relation to the type of energy we want to store. We're a loooong way from mass production.
The incentive for recent research is that the US government allowed funds for energy storage development in the range of $300mil . Many crocksters are trying to take advantage of that with far fetched ideas.
One more promising technology is the utra-capacitor being developed by Eestor. That concept will be applied to all the gadgets we use.

[Steven Lyle Jordan]

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

One more promising technology is the utra-capacitor being developed by Eestor. That concept will be applied to all the gadgets we use.

Well, what do you think is going into the latest supercapacitor and ultracapacitor research? Fullerenes.

Fullerenes aren't the same as nanotechnology. nanotech is machines constructed atom by atom. Fullerenes are natural organizations of one atom, carbon. We just have to figure out easier ways of constructing them.

I'm not saying we're at the crux of turning them out by the ton, but scientists have already proven their capacity to store more energy in a smaller space, charge and discharge faster, and handle more cycles than conventional materials. The day we work out mass-production and controlled manufacture of fullerenes is a day worth celebrating. (And that day will probably be the first real day of the nanotechnology era, too.)

Another waay overdue item: All lawn mowers--in fact, all powered lawn implements--should be cordless electrics by now (and waiting for their ultracapacitor batteries).