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  1. Re:Deja Vu by the_other_chewey · · Score: 1 · on China May Build an Undersea Train To America

    Ask the cities that have transport tunnels why they haven't built any more.

    Incomplete list of cities surprised to learn that they are not building new transportation tunnels right now:

    New York
    London
    Delhi
    Toronto
    Beijing (multiple lines)
    San Francisco
    Los Angeles (just getting started)
    Paris (multiple lines)
    Seoul (including a maglev line)
    ...and so on. Those are just the ones I'm immediately aware of.

  2. Re:Roadless by Bob+the+Super+Hamste · · Score: 1 · on IBM Plays SimCity With Portland, Oregon

    Portland is an interesting city. Rail works somewhat well there because they have a number of things going on. First they have the urban growth boundary which is much like what our Met Council has tried to do but seems to have failed at. They also removed the main freeway through/near the down town area that use to run along the river. Finally they have some limiting geography. They still suffer the same problems that the Twin Cities does in that the rail is limited in where it run and when it runs. It gets pretty useless when going from one suburb to another especially since it is more of a hub and spoke layout. I would love to see a rails system more akin to that of Paris which is actually usable by those who don't even live in the core of the city (Zone 1).

  3. Re:aww damn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on New WiFi Standards, Double the Data?

    They'd been building the Metro for quite some time, hadn't they?

  4. Re:Old idea by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 2 · on Fully Endowed FW Olin College of Engineering Opens
    Faudrait que j'arrête de me tenir avec des polytechniciens qui sont sortis (le mot "gradué" me fait rire) dans les années 60-70... :) :) :) :) :)

    (Pourtant, Les Dossiers du Canard étaient bien formels à propos de la bonne de chambre et du chauffeur... - à moins que le chauffeur soit de la maison "Rentre Avec Tes Pieds"...)

  5. Re:When will society and government learn by protohiro1 · · Score: 1 · on Spy Fly

    Time and time again I have heard the same argument for defense spending: it creates jobs. But that is a stupid argument. All government spending creates jobs. But some spending is wasted on killing people, and the rest makes life better.

  6. Dropdown menus under Netscape by jeep · · Score: 1 · on Human Interface Design Hall of Shame

    I've spent a long time in this site, and I (re)discovered lots of funny annoyances in Windows mainly and in the mac world too..

    But something that really sucks (and that's not mentionned in the website) is dropdown menus under X, especially with lots of entries.

    As an example, point your favorite Linux browser (you don't have much choice, netscape) and go to a commercial website. You want to pay/register/subscribe something and you have to choose your country in the countrylist : instead of typing "FR" and I'm ok, I have to go in the list to look for "France". Better, I cannot type "F" to scroll to the "F" section.

    Have a look at the RATP site here and try to get the map for the "Gare du Nord" neighborhood... pretty funny isn'it???

    Worse, if you noticed it, the dropdown menus are wasting lots of space on the right side of the screen, and finaly you are stucked because you have to click on "More..." and the new choices you get are overlapping the old ones, so if you try to get a choice above the "More..." choice, you're stuck.

    This really sucks, but nobody cares : everyone is browses the web with Win/MSIE, after all...