In France, where still hasn't been a single fatal accident with high speed trains, on high speed tracks. (The TGV has been involved in fatal accidents, but that has been while running on regular tracks, at regular speeds.)
Germany on the other hand had one nasty accident when they took a shortcut to passenger comfort without properly testing the solution first. (They put some extra rubber and steel on the wheels to reduce vibrations, but it came off derailing half the train)
That is exactly my thought as well for the concerns about where to put a cross-continental high speed rail track. Just build it next to the existing Interstates whenever you can't get a shorter route. Shouldn't be too too hard to expand those corridors by another 50 feet for a couple of fenced off tracks most places.
Canada is out because being close to the equator is cheaper for space launches. (Besides, there was probably the "100% American" pride thing going on back then...)
If Noah had lived in the United States today the story may have gone something like this:
And the Lord spoke to Noah and said, "In one year, I am going to make it rain and cover the whole earth with water until all flesh is destroyed. But I want you to save the righteous people and two of every kind of living thing on earth. Therefore, I am commanding you to build an Ark." In a flash of lightning, God delivered the specifications for an Ark. In fear and trembling, Noah took the plans and agreed to build the ark. "Remember," said the Lord, "you must complete the Ark and bring everything aboard in one year."
Exactly one year later, fierce storm clouds covered the earth and all the seas of the earth went into a tumult. The Lord saw that Noah was sitting in his front yard weeping. "Noah!" He shouted. "Where is the Ark?"
"Lord, please forgive me," cried Noah. "I did my best, but there were big problems.
First, I had to get a permit for construction, and your plans did not meet the building codes. I had to hire an engineering firm and redraw the plans.
Then I got into a fight with OSHA over whether or not the Ark needed a sprinkler system and approved floatation devices.
Then, my neighbor objected, claiming I was violating zoning ordinances by building the Ark in my front yard, so I had to get a variance from the city planning commission.
Then, I had problems getting enough wood for the Ark, because there was a ban on cutting trees to protect the Spotted Owl. I finally convinced the U.S. Forest Service that I really needed the wood to save the owls. However, the Fish and Wildlife Service won't let me take the 2 owls.
The carpenters formed a union and went on strike. I had to negotiate a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board before anyone would pick up a saw or hammer. Now, I have 16 carpenters on the Ark, but still no owls.
When I started rounding up the other animals, an animal rights group sued me. They objected to me taking only two of each kind aboard. This suit is pending.
Meanwhile, the EPA notified me that I could not complete the Ark without filing an environmental impact statement on your proposed flood. They didn't take very kindly to the idea that they had no jurisdiction over the conduct of the Creator of the Universe.
Then, the Army Corps of Engineers demanded a map of the proposed flood plain. I sent them a globe.
Right now, I am trying to resolve a complaint filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that I am practicing discrimination by not taking atheists aboard.
The IRS has seized my assets, claiming that I'm building the Ark in preparation to flee the country to avoid paying taxes. I just got a notice from the state that I owe them some kind of user tax and failed to register the Ark as a 'recreational water craft'.
And finally, the ACLU got the courts to issue an injunction against further construction of the Ark, saying that since God is flooding the earth, it's a religious event, and, therefore unconstitutional.
I really don't think I can finish the Ark for another five or six years."
Noah waited. The sky began to clear, the sun began to shine, and the seas began to calm. A rainbow arched across the sky.
Noah looked up hopefully. "You mean you're not going to destroy the earth, Lord?"
"No," He said sadly. "I don't have to. The government already has."
I was thinking the same thing when reading this over at BBC last night. Especially as they nowhere seem to mention watching at least a single field of cows over a full day to see if they followed the sun or not. (And get some Australian farmer to check the direction of their cows as well...)
With the price doubling for each extra year, I don't think it would make much of a difference. Not even Disney would pay $2^70 to keep the copyrights for Steamboat Willie... How many movies/albums/books are making a million a year in profit 25 years after release?
As pointed out elsewhere in this thread, companies would just spawn single-copyright firms to get the lower price if that was possible.
I think a bigger issue is defining a single copyright item. A song? Remixes/versions? An album? (how many songs per "album"?) What about deleted scenes, directors cuts, making-of, etc?
How you define all that I don't really care, just make the price per year increase to the point the wast majority of stuff is freed within 15-30 years of initial release. (And making sure anything not free after 10-15 clearly must be profitable enough to ensure easy purchases, to justify the extensions)
The fees should be something like this...:
After your initial/free 5 years are up, $1 for the first year of extension, $2 for the second, $4 for the third, $8 for the fifth, and so on...
That way a 10 year extension would have cost you a total of $1023, which gives you a total of 15 years for a reasonable price. You 20th year of extension however would cost you over half a million for just the last year...
5 years ago I had a couple of old (450mhz?) computers that I had to check if were working or not, and if possible merge into working units.
On one of them I came a few screens into the DOS-part of the win98 installation, before it started to behave strange/crash. I had a quick look into the tower, and noticed I had forgotten to put back the heatsink after swapping CPUs... I burned my finger touching the CPU, but it worked just fine later.
So, yupp. Either it's going to happen soon, or it will probably last until they start changing the conditions. (And given the slashvertisment, I guess VIA has already done this themselves.)
Exactly. I once had a summer job working in a bottle recycling warehouse. Had to sort out different bottles for 8 hours a day. The job was a total no-brainer. Just needed to look at the table, and the hands would practically work automatically most of the time.
So I quickly figured out audio books were a good idea. So I got a decent walkman, and stocked up on audio books from the library. I got through a lot of books that summer that I probably would never have gotten around to read otherwise.
In fact, I've had "more exciting" summer jobs since then that actually was worse in some ways, because I needed to interact with other people just enough to make audio books impossible...
Seriously, why didn't they start with this like 20 years ago? Basic platform with propulsion, power and communication, with a few slots for special equipment, like cameras, radars, sample collection, or whatever is needed for that probe?
That kid should have been given a fucking medal. Which is why NOT giving him one, takes the attention away from Diebold buying said software for their next version.
If these things just hit the shelves here in Europe, I might finally be able to find a decent replacement for my (long broken) Psion Series III.
I really liked the size of the Psion, and the Windows CE "powered" Pocket PC I get when it broke, just couldn't compare with it, even though it had a CPU that was 50 times faster, and had a color screen. (Among other things, I simply couldn't find any software remotely as useful as the Psions built-in apps...)
But how many people commute 100 miles? Or has an EV as the only car in the household? No reason for a family/couple to have 2 gasgusling SUVs, if one of them is virtually only ever used within the city area.
(Now, for a roadster, built for the open road, to have such a short range, that seems silly...)
I still haven't managed to get linux as much as finishing the installation without either massive x.conf failures, or even freezing up while booting the installer.
But then, I'll be the first to admit that my setup is anything close to "normal". I guess that's what you get from having some cheap motherboard that has both a AGP slot and an PCI-ex slot, both equipted with graphic cards to feed my 3 screens...
(And as for my HTPC, well, resolution independed font sizes (activated by the nvidia driver?) kind of suck, when having a 40" screen, resulting in 3px fonts...)
For whatever reason, the energy/volume doesn't translate directly over to mileage.
LPG (propane+butane) only has 77% of the energy compared to regular gasoline (26.8 vs 34.8 MJ/liter), but cars running on it only has a 10-20% increase in fuel consumption, not 30% as the energy content would assume.
And diesels also usually has a lot more than 10% increased mileage compared to gasoline. Looking at the engines available for a VW Passat, the diesels typically use 25-40% less fuel than petrol engines with similar specs/performance.
Countries that have gas at those prices have it because they produce it themselves, and refuse to trade it on the international market, at international prices.
Have you taken the laws of anvilology into consideration?
- Falling anvils never kill, only crush. (Maybe the Flat Earth Society could be right after all...)
- Anvils will stay in the air until noticed.(But how do we keep people from looking at the sky?)
- Maybe we better go with a safe, as that could allow us to open it afterwards and release a slightly squeezed (and cubed) planet...
If California "gets wet" in the sense they need a towel to dry themselves afterwards , the India ocean residents barely dipped their toes in the water feeling the temperature (cartoon style)...
According to the list on wikipedia, the Titanic is in fact only the 5th most deadly peacetime ship accident. And two of those happened in the last 25 years!
MV Joola capsized near Gambia in 2002, with 2002, killing at least 1863 people.
And there there is MV Dona Paz. After a collision (and subsequent fire) in the Philippines in 1987 it sank, officially killing 1565 people (titanic was 1517), but the true number is likely way over 4000.
Of course those are forgotten as soon as the media has another "tragedy" to cover, and because no one is really surprised about it because of the major gaps in safety on those ships...
But as you say, the Titanic remain famous because of the prestige and attention she had prior to the accident...
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In France, where still hasn't been a single fatal accident with high speed trains, on high speed tracks. (The TGV has been involved in fatal accidents, but that has been while running on regular tracks, at regular speeds.)
Germany on the other hand had one nasty accident when they took a shortcut to passenger comfort without properly testing the solution first. (They put some extra rubber and steel on the wheels to reduce vibrations, but it came off derailing half the train)
That is exactly my thought as well for the concerns about where to put a cross-continental high speed rail track. Just build it next to the existing Interstates whenever you can't get a shorter route. Shouldn't be too too hard to expand those corridors by another 50 feet for a couple of fenced off tracks most places.
Canada is out because being close to the equator is cheaper for space launches. (Besides, there was probably the "100% American" pride thing going on back then...)
If Noah had lived in the United States today the story may have gone something like this:
And the Lord spoke to Noah and said, "In one year, I am going to make it rain and cover the whole earth with water until all flesh is destroyed. But I want you to save the righteous people and two of every kind of living thing on earth. Therefore, I am commanding you to build an Ark." In a flash of lightning, God delivered the specifications for an Ark. In fear and trembling, Noah took the plans and agreed to build the ark. "Remember," said the Lord, "you must complete the Ark and bring everything aboard in one year."
Exactly one year later, fierce storm clouds covered the earth and all the seas of the earth went into a tumult. The Lord saw that Noah was sitting in his front yard weeping. "Noah!" He shouted. "Where is the Ark?"
"Lord, please forgive me," cried Noah. "I did my best, but there were big problems.
First, I had to get a permit for construction, and your plans did not meet the building codes. I had to hire an engineering firm and redraw the plans. Then I got into a fight with OSHA over whether or not the Ark needed a sprinkler system and approved floatation devices. Then, my neighbor objected, claiming I was violating zoning ordinances by building the Ark in my front yard, so I had to get a variance from the city planning commission.
Then, I had problems getting enough wood for the Ark, because there was a ban on cutting trees to protect the Spotted Owl. I finally convinced the U.S. Forest Service that I really needed the wood to save the owls. However, the Fish and Wildlife Service won't let me take the 2 owls.
The carpenters formed a union and went on strike. I had to negotiate a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board before anyone would pick up a saw or hammer. Now, I have 16 carpenters on the Ark, but still no owls.
When I started rounding up the other animals, an animal rights group sued me. They objected to me taking only two of each kind aboard. This suit is pending.
Meanwhile, the EPA notified me that I could not complete the Ark without filing an environmental impact statement on your proposed flood. They didn't take very kindly to the idea that they had no jurisdiction over the conduct of the Creator of the Universe.
Then, the Army Corps of Engineers demanded a map of the proposed flood plain. I sent them a globe.
Right now, I am trying to resolve a complaint filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that I am practicing discrimination by not taking atheists aboard.
The IRS has seized my assets, claiming that I'm building the Ark in preparation to flee the country to avoid paying taxes. I just got a notice from the state that I owe them some kind of user tax and failed to register the Ark as a 'recreational water craft'.
And finally, the ACLU got the courts to issue an injunction against further construction of the Ark, saying that since God is flooding the earth, it's a religious event, and, therefore unconstitutional. I really don't think I can finish the Ark for another five or six years."
Noah waited. The sky began to clear, the sun began to shine, and the seas began to calm. A rainbow arched across the sky.
Noah looked up hopefully. "You mean you're not going to destroy the earth, Lord?"
"No," He said sadly. "I don't have to. The government already has."
(...got to keep all this stuff somewhere...)
Please tell me they'll revert to EGA graphics whenever anything gets pulled out of that one... (Unless they are worn by a female of course.)
I was thinking the same thing when reading this over at BBC last night. Especially as they nowhere seem to mention watching at least a single field of cows over a full day to see if they followed the sun or not. (And get some Australian farmer to check the direction of their cows as well...)
With the price doubling for each extra year, I don't think it would make much of a difference. Not even Disney would pay $2^70 to keep the copyrights for Steamboat Willie... How many movies/albums/books are making a million a year in profit 25 years after release?
As pointed out elsewhere in this thread, companies would just spawn single-copyright firms to get the lower price if that was possible.
I think a bigger issue is defining a single copyright item. A song? Remixes/versions? An album? (how many songs per "album"?) What about deleted scenes, directors cuts, making-of, etc?
How you define all that I don't really care, just make the price per year increase to the point the wast majority of stuff is freed within 15-30 years of initial release. (And making sure anything not free after 10-15 clearly must be profitable enough to ensure easy purchases, to justify the extensions)
The fees should be something like this...: After your initial/free 5 years are up, $1 for the first year of extension, $2 for the second, $4 for the third, $8 for the fifth, and so on... That way a 10 year extension would have cost you a total of $1023, which gives you a total of 15 years for a reasonable price. You 20th year of extension however would cost you over half a million for just the last year...
5 years ago I had a couple of old (450mhz?) computers that I had to check if were working or not, and if possible merge into working units.
On one of them I came a few screens into the DOS-part of the win98 installation, before it started to behave strange/crash. I had a quick look into the tower, and noticed I had forgotten to put back the heatsink after swapping CPUs... I burned my finger touching the CPU, but it worked just fine later.
So, yupp. Either it's going to happen soon, or it will probably last until they start changing the conditions. (And given the slashvertisment, I guess VIA has already done this themselves.)
Exactly. I once had a summer job working in a bottle recycling warehouse. Had to sort out different bottles for 8 hours a day. The job was a total no-brainer. Just needed to look at the table, and the hands would practically work automatically most of the time.
So I quickly figured out audio books were a good idea. So I got a decent walkman, and stocked up on audio books from the library. I got through a lot of books that summer that I probably would never have gotten around to read otherwise.
In fact, I've had "more exciting" summer jobs since then that actually was worse in some ways, because I needed to interact with other people just enough to make audio books impossible...
They are only between programs, so no skipping them when watching something you recorded.
Seriously, why didn't they start with this like 20 years ago? Basic platform with propulsion, power and communication, with a few slots for special equipment, like cameras, radars, sample collection, or whatever is needed for that probe?
If these things just hit the shelves here in Europe, I might finally be able to find a decent replacement for my (long broken) Psion Series III.
I really liked the size of the Psion, and the Windows CE "powered" Pocket PC I get when it broke, just couldn't compare with it, even though it had a CPU that was 50 times faster, and had a color screen. (Among other things, I simply couldn't find any software remotely as useful as the Psions built-in apps...)
But how many people commute 100 miles? Or has an EV as the only car in the household? No reason for a family/couple to have 2 gasgusling SUVs, if one of them is virtually only ever used within the city area.
(Now, for a roadster, built for the open road, to have such a short range, that seems silly...)
I still haven't managed to get linux as much as finishing the installation without either massive x.conf failures, or even freezing up while booting the installer.
But then, I'll be the first to admit that my setup is anything close to "normal". I guess that's what you get from having some cheap motherboard that has both a AGP slot and an PCI-ex slot, both equipted with graphic cards to feed my 3 screens...
(And as for my HTPC, well, resolution independed font sizes (activated by the nvidia driver?) kind of suck, when having a 40" screen, resulting in 3px fonts...)
This is slashdot, what makes you think he ever had more than 1 girlfriend?
For whatever reason, the energy/volume doesn't translate directly over to mileage.
LPG (propane+butane) only has 77% of the energy compared to regular gasoline (26.8 vs 34.8 MJ/liter), but cars running on it only has a 10-20% increase in fuel consumption, not 30% as the energy content would assume.
And diesels also usually has a lot more than 10% increased mileage compared to gasoline. Looking at the engines available for a VW Passat, the diesels typically use 25-40% less fuel than petrol engines with similar specs/performance.
Countries that have gas at those prices have it because they produce it themselves, and refuse to trade it on the international market, at international prices.
Have you taken the laws of anvilology into consideration?
- Falling anvils never kill, only crush. (Maybe the Flat Earth Society could be right after all...)
- Anvils will stay in the air until noticed.(But how do we keep people from looking at the sky?)
- Maybe we better go with a safe, as that could allow us to open it afterwards and release a slightly squeezed (and cubed) planet...
If California "gets wet" in the sense they need a towel to dry themselves afterwards , the India ocean residents barely dipped their toes in the water feeling the temperature (cartoon style)...
According to the list on wikipedia, the Titanic is in fact only the 5th most deadly peacetime ship accident. And two of those happened in the last 25 years!
MV Joola capsized near Gambia in 2002, with 2002, killing at least 1863 people.
And there there is MV Dona Paz. After a collision (and subsequent fire) in the Philippines in 1987 it sank, officially killing 1565 people (titanic was 1517), but the true number is likely way over 4000.
Of course those are forgotten as soon as the media has another "tragedy" to cover, and because no one is really surprised about it because of the major gaps in safety on those ships...
But as you say, the Titanic remain famous because of the prestige and attention she had prior to the accident...
How long until NYC starts charging for the cars?
(and how much can they make this way while still making people want them?)
I know I'm not supposed to actually RTFA and stuff, but in the video he says it's an old generator from his job at a generator factory...
Sure they have. It's called Vista SP1.