Did the year end already? Man, I gotta quit drinkin' because I thought it was May.
Add that to the Bush neocon/Halliburton conspiracy... he stole 6 months from the year!
Right, there's nothing to do in the country. Thanks for the info. Personally, I like day hiking... I guess it's a shame I won't be able to find a shoe store in the country.
Yeah but not everyone wants to live "efficiently". Were we put on this earth to live "efficiently"? Someone might think that we were put on this Earth to maybe enjoy life and stuff, and not everyone enjoys life in a city.
That's the problem: YOU moved there. It wasn't you who contributed to urban sprawl, it was everyone else. Urban sprawl always begins after someone else moves in.
I would change the rules for owning domain names. ".com" domains can be bought and sold like property, but ".org,.edu.,.gov" etc. should have special rules governing who can own what. Seems to me to be a reasonable compromise.
Take an aspect of technology that annoys even a tiny majority of "geeks" (who are annoyed by everything 'cause they live in their parent's basement)... and then complain about it!
Good point, although I don't think we would have an extradition treaty with China under those circumstances. We shouldn't at least... just like we shouldn't do business with them until they clean up their human rights records. And no, the US's isn't perfect either.
Yeah I read the article and assuming it's true... it looks like IBM is simply incompetently led and they are trying to make up for it with outsourcing, rather than this being an economic trend.
But what happens when terrorists decide to target high speed rail? I don't think it's fair to criticize the security measures taken when you take air travel. Would you feel safer flying with no security precautions taken whatsoever?
That is interesting, I do know that in Europe high speed rail is expensive and has to operate with massive subsidies, and even then a ticket price is more expensive than airplane ticket. But bottom line, were we to make air travel more comfortable, it would be comfortable AND faster than train travel. I'm not impressed by the statistics when it's still fundamentally slower than what US citizens use to travel. The US uses a different model than Europe, we transport freight by rail and figure people would rather travel by automobile. Maybe in denser areas, rail will become more viable, but as long a Amtrak is gumming up the works by offering lines on unprofitable routes (due to political pressure), rail will probably never take off. I think Amtrak is actually preventing the development of rail in the US.
Planes have a much faster maximum speed for long distances... the advantages become negligible for short distances. And train travel is less safe than air travel for exactly the reasons you mentioned among others. And most cities do have commuting rail. I don't consider getting a train to go fast an engineering marvel at all, more like a waste of time. And maglev technology is notoriously expensive, so tickets will be ungodly expensive unless it's subsidized, which is what train kooks really want in the end.
Or you could just drive. But I don't understand the big deal everybody has with flying. Anyway, excuse me if I fail to be impressed with a vehicle that barely goes 1/2 as fast as a mode of transportation that's widely used in the US.
Actually Japan has one of the highest debt to GDP ratios in the world, so it doesn't seem to be bothering them much as they are earning Slashdot's praise.
Have these fools ever been right? Linux was supposed to have completely overtaken Windows by now. Didn't ESR predict in 2001 that Windows would be dead in 18 months or something? Why would anyone listen to any prediction the Slashdot hiveminds were ignorantly spouting anymore?
If you even amount of skills whatsoever (which obviously doesn't include the mindless MS bashers on Slashdot) you can do far better in the US than you can do in any other country in the world.
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It's going to be interesting in 20 years to find out who's right about global warming.
Did the year end already? Man, I gotta quit drinkin' because I thought it was May. Add that to the Bush neocon/Halliburton conspiracy... he stole 6 months from the year!
You consider the founding fathers to be nerds? Well, I've now seen it all on Slashdot.
Al Gore is politics as usual. While I do admire many aspects of him, he's an insider and the wealthy son of a Senator.
Right, there's nothing to do in the country. Thanks for the info. Personally, I like day hiking... I guess it's a shame I won't be able to find a shoe store in the country.
Eh? That's a loony statement. Does Slashdot have a -1 loony moderation?
Yeah but not everyone wants to live "efficiently". Were we put on this earth to live "efficiently"? Someone might think that we were put on this Earth to maybe enjoy life and stuff, and not everyone enjoys life in a city.
That's the problem: YOU moved there. It wasn't you who contributed to urban sprawl, it was everyone else. Urban sprawl always begins after someone else moves in.
I would change the rules for owning domain names. ".com" domains can be bought and sold like property, but ".org, .edu., .gov" etc. should have special rules governing who can own what. Seems to me to be a reasonable compromise.
Take an aspect of technology that annoys even a tiny majority of "geeks" (who are annoyed by everything 'cause they live in their parent's basement)... and then complain about it!
Gullible fools... hey I heard Bill Gates eats babies! It must be true!
Well the problem is by doing such shoddy reporting, he hurts his credibility among those of us who actually think for a second.
I'd consider Democratic special interests to be a tad scarier to me, a white male, who is representative of all things evil to them.
Good point, although I don't think we would have an extradition treaty with China under those circumstances. We shouldn't at least... just like we shouldn't do business with them until they clean up their human rights records. And no, the US's isn't perfect either.
Yeah I read the article and assuming it's true... it looks like IBM is simply incompetently led and they are trying to make up for it with outsourcing, rather than this being an economic trend.
But what happens when terrorists decide to target high speed rail? I don't think it's fair to criticize the security measures taken when you take air travel. Would you feel safer flying with no security precautions taken whatsoever?
That is interesting, I do know that in Europe high speed rail is expensive and has to operate with massive subsidies, and even then a ticket price is more expensive than airplane ticket. But bottom line, were we to make air travel more comfortable, it would be comfortable AND faster than train travel. I'm not impressed by the statistics when it's still fundamentally slower than what US citizens use to travel. The US uses a different model than Europe, we transport freight by rail and figure people would rather travel by automobile. Maybe in denser areas, rail will become more viable, but as long a Amtrak is gumming up the works by offering lines on unprofitable routes (due to political pressure), rail will probably never take off. I think Amtrak is actually preventing the development of rail in the US.
just because it *can* run Windows? As in, just the possibility upsets you? Folks, get some perspective will ya'?
Planes have a much faster maximum speed for long distances... the advantages become negligible for short distances. And train travel is less safe than air travel for exactly the reasons you mentioned among others. And most cities do have commuting rail. I don't consider getting a train to go fast an engineering marvel at all, more like a waste of time. And maglev technology is notoriously expensive, so tickets will be ungodly expensive unless it's subsidized, which is what train kooks really want in the end.
Eh? What does that have to do with what I said?
Or you could just drive. But I don't understand the big deal everybody has with flying. Anyway, excuse me if I fail to be impressed with a vehicle that barely goes 1/2 as fast as a mode of transportation that's widely used in the US.
Actually Japan has one of the highest debt to GDP ratios in the world, so it doesn't seem to be bothering them much as they are earning Slashdot's praise.
Yawwwwwn.
Have these fools ever been right? Linux was supposed to have completely overtaken Windows by now. Didn't ESR predict in 2001 that Windows would be dead in 18 months or something? Why would anyone listen to any prediction the Slashdot hiveminds were ignorantly spouting anymore?
If you even amount of skills whatsoever (which obviously doesn't include the mindless MS bashers on Slashdot) you can do far better in the US than you can do in any other country in the world.