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Post number 6323

stevridie — Sun, 11 Mar 2001 05:21:56 -0800

Project 'IT' Tons of info about this mysterious device! Does 'IT' stand for Individual Transportation?

By: tranquileye

tranquileye — Sun, 11 Mar 2001 06:49:39 -0800

I love the idea of a hydrogen-powered scooter, but it isn't all that practical here in snow-bound Ottawa. Palle Jensen's RUF system seems, in many ways, more revolutionary than what I have heard of IT so far: "From home, individuals will get into their electric vehicles, which have had their batteries recharged overnight. They'll drive a short distance to a RUF rail station, where they'll tell the computer their destination. The guideway will then take over control of the vehicles, hooking them up with other RUFs."

By: m.polo

m.polo — Sun, 11 Mar 2001 07:16:00 -0800

You know what? I don't give a flying fuck (or, rolling fuck, as the case may be...) what "It" is anymore. I'm just sick to death of having to read about it here over and over and over and over and over and over and...

By: Potsy

Potsy — Sun, 11 Mar 2001 07:18:17 -0800

Who says "IT" is an acronym, anyway? I always thought it was in all caps because some fluff "reporter" decided to give it some emphasis.

By: zempf

zempf — Sun, 11 Mar 2001 08:31:27 -0800

This is actually a repost of this article that someone just cut & pasted from the original inside.com link to a geocities account. DoublePostGuy, eat your heart out.

By: muppetboy

muppetboy — Sun, 11 Mar 2001 08:45:55 -0800

Ooooh oooh! Me me! I know what it is! IT is a bunch of HYPE! Cool!

By: DoublePostGuy

DoublePostGuy — Sun, 11 Mar 2001 09:09:22 -0800

I know what IT is. I've known for quite some time. IT is a double post. http://www.metafilter.com/comments.mefi/5173

By: cCranium

cCranium — Sun, 11 Mar 2001 09:27:27 -0800

Since the thread's already a toss-off, I'm going to veer it completely off-rail. Ahem. tranquileye: That rail system was featured on a show I watched a snippet of - the monorail snippet - last night. I'm guessing from the link it was CNN. It looked like an interesting concept, one I that seems reasonably feasible, unlike most of the auto alternatives I always see on those various Sci-Tech shows. And I hadn't even thought of how great such a device would work all year round through Canadian and northern US years. That's an excellent point.

By: muppetboy

muppetboy — Sun, 11 Mar 2001 10:01:18 -0800

What's *TOTALLY* annoying about the Patent Office (besides just it's existence in the first place) is that all the stupid drawings are in some random TIF format which doesn't render in my browser (and I'm betting 90% of the browsers out there)!

By: poodle

poodle — Sun, 11 Mar 2001 11:10:26 -0800

Well, no one has a job to zip to anyway so it's useless.

By: stevis

stevis — Sun, 11 Mar 2001 13:37:12 -0800

This post is all noise, no signal.

By: Su

Su — Sun, 11 Mar 2001 13:53:40 -0800

Muppetboy: The images at the patent site(at least the one I've visited in the past) are at an extremely high DPI setting, for some bizarre reason. They should have info for going somewhere to download a small pluging that will handle them.

By: mckimg

mckimg — Sun, 11 Mar 2001 17:00:07 -0800

Not to bring this discussion back to the RUF system, but I'm surprised that there haven't been more comparisons of RUF to Aramis, the failed attempt of the French government in the 70s and 80s to create a robotic, splittable subway system. For a self-consciously po-mo account of Aramis, read science studies scholar Bruno Latour's book "Aramis, Or Love of Technology."

By: davidgentle

davidgentle — Sun, 11 Mar 2001 22:28:08 -0800

Well then it seems, children that it fall to me to suggest... 8 explanations of the acronym IT.

By: ookamaka

ookamaka — Mon, 12 Mar 2001 00:30:40 -0800

Yeah, I know! That *crazy* "TIF" format!! Who uses *that*? sheesh!

By: tj

tj — Mon, 12 Mar 2001 17:07:35 -0800

This is just preparation for my new product 'All That' And what's with this Targa Image File Format?!?! nonsense... don't you know the world revolves around WEB publication?!?! PRINT IS DEAD (hee hee)

By: tj

tj — Mon, 12 Mar 2001 17:15:48 -0800

By: tj

tj — Tue, 13 Mar 2001 13:30:02 -0800

ack... sorry