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Japanese Train Sets A Speed Record Of 581 kph
Azuma writes "Last night, on December 2, a high-speed Japanese train set a new record of 581 kph, breaking its own previous record. The new Maglev high speed had real passengers on board this time. They proved that the distance between Osaka and Tokyo can be covered in one hour's time. However, we wouldn't see real trains for a while now since the cost is prohibitively expensive at this time. However, they expect that the cost would come down over the next 20 years. This seems to be the future of transportation, at least in Japan. Here is a detailed article from The Japan Times."
how about Linus' recent make over? Talk about queer eye for the geek guy. The guy looks a lot better now
Not to undermine open source, but the guy used to look like a complete dork.
Maybe Linus can help remove the geek stereotype that is so often associated with Linux.
It's sad that the first thing I thought of when considering such a train in the U.S. is terrorists. Sure, normal trains can be derailed, but derailing a train going 581kph would make bigger headlines.
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that train must certainly be faster than robbIE's fauxking PostBlock 'moderation'/censorship devise?
/. putting stuff that matters into future storIEs? (Score:-1, Troll)
previously postdead:
hear/see/speak no evile? (Score:mynuts won, what's the hurry?)
by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 03, @05:44AM (#7616889)
that's what we'd tell 'em, adding, 'sell' no evile, which goes without saying?
we're a little suspicious of that miguel guise (& a few others, tell 'em robbIE) motives. but as monIEsucking becomes more&more 'stylish' in the 'community', sort of like corn passing through a bird's butt.
despite the fud0cide depicted buy the phonIE ?pr? ?firm? hypenosys of the fauxking corepirate nazi payper liesense softwar gangster stock markup FraUD execrable, the gnu millennium is well underway.
the increasingly popular pateNTdead eyecon0meter kode base is unbreakable, & wwworks on several (more than 3) dimensions. it's a real nightmare for those involved in unprecedented evile.
creators want compensation for planet abuse/damage? (Score:mynuts won)
by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 28, @06:57AM (#7581317)
not really? they just want US to stop wrecking it/killing innocents.
they're not just kidding about that.
you won't be needing any 5000$ hdtv either, or even a model rocket cam, to be able to sense the direction of the wwwinds of change, which are bullowing at gale force/farce.
even more to be thankful about? (Score:mynuts won, don't mention the monIE)
by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 30, @12:01PM (#7592801)
just kidding?
see also: stuff that really matters/chips ahoya @ a dime # dozen?
eating it/at all? (Score:-1, Troll)
by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 30, @10:02AM (#7592314)
?eating? in 3rd wwworld countries, for example
score: mynuts won, nothing to buy here?
Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday November 30, @09:13AM
from the tang-makes-me-ill (how annoying that must be for us, & the folks over at tang.com?) dept.
morons write "What do you think babies aboard the ?other? side of the planet had for Thanksgiving? Roasted turkey? Wrong answer. In "less fortunate" areas, the pateNTdead eyecon0meter tells us, they had little of nothing, and gives details about space in their little bodies, where food ought to be. If the dining view, 200 miles of rough road, is unattractive, preparing 'meals' is even more so. For example, there is no food, so the babies must remain hungry for long periods at +- room temperature. And you need to avoid thinking about this scenario. The real 'stuff that matters' overview contains additional references, and includes directions by the creators, for their/yOUR newclear power, & planet/population rescue initiatives/mandates.
( Read More... | that makes sense )
consult with/trust in yOUR creators... the lights are coming up now in order to assist in the avoidance of overheating the main processor, &, facilitation of the aforementioned ncp/ppr programs/mandates.
for each of the creators' innocents harmed, there is a badtoll that must/will be repaid by you/US, as the execrabilious corepirate nazi perpetraitors of the life0cide against the creators innocents, will not be available to make reparations.
see you there? tell 'em robbIE?
since when is K an abbreviation in physics for kilometers?
km was kilometers for me til today and not just k
it should read km/h or kmph maybe scientiffically, but not kph
or am i wrong?
thanks
actually, I consider metric system to be the least artificial of them all - because it was based on simple principles. EVERYBODY on this planet, if they know this very simple principles can reproduce SI units (the simplest example is meter: take the part of meridian between equator and pole and divine it by 10000 - THIS is simple and natural. Using factors that are something like 1,758648 - this is unnatural). And please don't tell me that I'm biased because my country uses SI - for example, even though Fahrenheit scale was invented here, few hundred km from where I live (so I should be proud...), I find it idiotic too - temperature scale based on "normal" body temperature and outside temperature can't be any different than that (what person's temperature? perhaps he had fever? or was he dying and cold? what time of the year was it? what weather was outside?). As you can see, there's no way the original principles of Fahrenheit scale can tell us how this scale looks exactly - so reccurent principles were added later - that's what I call artificial. Celsius scale on the other hand...from the beginning it was "unfreeze water at sea level, boil water, divine by 100 - eventually do that few times, days apart, to minimise factor of pressure changes - you have a scale". Fully reproductable. Oh, and if somebody will publish scientific paper with units different than SI...well, if he wants to be laughed at, why not, go ahead ;P
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Followed the link on your sig, and came across this text on the main page:
From 64 Mb Ram (Burstable to 768Mb)
Firstly are these memory amounts intended to be in bits rather than bytes?
Secondly, "burstable" memory? I understand that it's a VM and the static and short-term potential memory might be different, but the descriptor "burstable" is generally applied to bandwidth, not quantity. I could be wrong though....
Planes can move people but they aren't so economical for many kinds of manufactured goods. Trucks are a non-issue for the distances involved. Planes can only move a limited number of people and currently too many people travel between St. Petersburg and Moscow, so a high-speed rail link has been proposed.
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