Mod parent up. Large public spending for new infrastructure during a recession can be a great help to create jobs and get back to growth.
However, the money must be spent immediately, and thus the projects must be ready. If 3-5 years of studies and planning are needed before the first excavator can start the job, then it's useless.
I don't know if anything big can be undertaken immediately in the US ?
IMHO, pushing for car-only transportation cannot work in the long term, even if it's eletric. The huge costs of maintaining and developing the road network will make it unsubstainable in the future. Several european cities introduced congestion pricing to reduce the traffic and help finance the public transports. The problem with roads is that you cannot make them broader and broader when the traffic increases, especially in areas with high population density.
A single rail track can handle up to one 1000-passenger train every 2 minutes, i.e. 30000 passengers per hour. On the other hand, an highway lane can handle about one car every 2 seconds, i.e. 1800 cars per hour, or 3600 passengers per hour if you count 2 people per car on average.
The federal and states governments had funding to build the Interstate Highway System, so I think they should have it to build an 'Interstate Rail System' as well, especially when you know than rail tracks are cheaper to build than highways...
I'd say that computers are deterministic at the chip/instruction level, but stochastic at the system level.
It's like newtonian vs quantum mechanics... but upside down...
At my previous job I had a collegue that worked 80 percents (4 days), but he was regularly pressured by the boss to work 100 percents. The only way he could stay at 80 was to threaten to resign. His unique knowledge of certain projects prevented him to get fired...
I met several Microsoft employees and they all told me that they worked 60+ hours a week (40 at work and 20 more at home) so part time does not seem so attractive in these conditions...
In Microsoft speak a RC is a feature complete product, parts are still buggy but the capabilities are in, they still reservice the right to add features but will not remove them.
Really? I thought that was the definition of "service pack 8".
The problem is that miles per gallon is backward. It should be gallons per mile (or 100 miles something similar for convenient scale).
Actually it is dont this way in all the places where metric system is used (but we take about litres/100Km). I guess it's the other way around in the US because then "higher is better"...
Western Union is untracable, as you can collect the money using a pre-agreed password, without showing any kind of id.
Not true. Last (and only) time I used it, I was required to provide an ID. And so was the recipient of the transfer. The password was an extra security.
If you read my comment again, I asked for reference...
So here is a 17-inch CRT monitor and it is rated 64 watts average power consumption.
And here is a 20-inch LCD monitor and it is rated 50 watts.
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John Connor, is that you ?
Amen. As a side note regarding the movie, you should have said 1.21 jigowatts instead...
power used for one kilogram conversion is a minuscule 1kilowatt.
Power is meaningless here. Energy is what shall be considered. And the physical unit for energy is the Joule (J), or possibly the kilowatt-hour (kWh).
Usually I don't try to explain that anymore, but here it's different, it's Slashdot...
Err... can you explain us how the US subprime mortage market was subsidized ?
though getting a new pasport requires fingerprinting...
In fact, EU coutries wouldn't have introduced biometric passports if the US hadn't requested them!
Hydrogen can be a metal.
What?
NT 4.0 and 2000 have the same desktop (except default background color)...
your browser loading this poem written nearly a century ago on this page.
What ? Rudyard Kipling was on Slashdot ?
I drive 1 block to where i work. My dailey commute in my V8 ford p/u uses less than 5.00 in gas per week.
One block ? Then may I ask you why you don't walk ? That would be 0$ in gas per week...
Mod parent up. Large public spending for new infrastructure during a recession can be a great help to create jobs and get back to growth.
However, the money must be spent immediately, and thus the projects must be ready. If 3-5 years of studies and planning are needed before the first excavator can start the job, then it's useless.
I don't know if anything big can be undertaken immediately in the US ?
IMHO, pushing for car-only transportation cannot work in the long term, even if it's eletric. The huge costs of maintaining and developing the road network will make it unsubstainable in the future. Several european cities introduced congestion pricing to reduce the traffic and help finance the public transports. The problem with roads is that you cannot make them broader and broader when the traffic increases, especially in areas with high population density.
A single rail track can handle up to one 1000-passenger train every 2 minutes, i.e. 30000 passengers per hour. On the other hand, an highway lane can handle about one car every 2 seconds, i.e. 1800 cars per hour, or 3600 passengers per hour if you count 2 people per car on average.
The federal and states governments had funding to build the Interstate Highway System, so I think they should have it to build an 'Interstate Rail System' as well, especially when you know than rail tracks are cheaper to build than highways...
I'd say that computers are deterministic at the chip/instruction level, but stochastic at the system level.
It's like newtonian vs quantum mechanics... but upside down...
It's not really emulation. It actually works only on 64-bit hardware.
Agreed.
I'm gonna reread Animal Farm and 1984 !
Karl Marx, is that you ?
At my previous job I had a collegue that worked 80 percents (4 days), but he was regularly pressured by the boss to work 100 percents. The only way he could stay at 80 was to threaten to resign. His unique knowledge of certain projects prevented him to get fired...
I met several Microsoft employees and they all told me that they worked 60+ hours a week (40 at work and 20 more at home) so part time does not seem so attractive in these conditions...
In Microsoft speak a RC is a feature complete product, parts are still buggy but the capabilities are in, they still reservice the right to add features but will not remove them.
Really? I thought that was the definition of "service pack 8".
The problem is that miles per gallon is backward. It should be gallons per mile (or 100 miles something similar for convenient scale).
Actually it is dont this way in all the places where metric system is used (but we take about litres/100Km). I guess it's the other way around in the US because then "higher is better"...
And do you need a supercomputer to run a spellchecker ?
Western Union is untracable, as you can collect the money using a pre-agreed password, without showing any kind of id.
Not true. Last (and only) time I used it, I was required to provide an ID. And so was the recipient of the transfer. The password was an extra security.
What nakedness problem?
Yes, and we'll have to wait for service pack 2 before it's really stable.
If you read my comment again, I asked for reference...
So here is a 17-inch CRT monitor and it is rated 64 watts average power consumption.
And here is a 20-inch LCD monitor and it is rated 50 watts.
So can you please elaborate on your point?
Reference on that please ?