robinjoe

Why Silicon Valley Should Take Over the Auto Industry

I designed a hybrid car 25 years ago and it was ridiculously simple. Hybrids should be LESS expensive not more. The reason they are more is because the car makers are trying to recoup some of their investment and utilize their expertise unnecessarily. The engine should not have a drive train. It should connect only to the generator and only operate in an on-off fashion. It should run at its peak SFC only, which only reacquires a ventury carburetor with no butterfly. When the battery is low it comes on. When charged it should be off. Simple and ridiculously cheap and ridiculously efficient. 100mpg no problem.

Netbook Sales: Cannibalizing Notebooks or Incremental?

I was in the market for repalcement laptops. I found a netbook with a 160G HD. So it IS replacing a Laptop I would have bought. I stopped buying desktops years ago. External monitors at all work locations allow me to use one computer for everything.