I mean its going to be one of the first times that a robot with speech recognition will be live and responding against people in real time on broadcast TV. I think you all have been living in your movie plots too much to realize how big of a moment this actually is.
Some people use the threat of embarrassment in order to pressure the girl into accepting. I used the threat of certain death by proposing on the roof of an 8-story building. Nah, that wasn't my plan, I just thought she would like the view since it overlooked the city. She's the greatest geek wife ever though because for my 30th birthday party she surprised me with a cake that had the numbers 11110 on it.;-)
What we really need to do to improve transportation in the US is to get our head out of ass with this stupid security bullshit at the airports. If we don't do it in the airports, then they are just going to imply the same silly restrictions on new trains as well, and then we won't be any better off.
Well of course, but we're not just talking about upgrading the northeast passage are we? We're talking about upgrading the entire infrastructure. One that's been built over 150+ years and includes many tunnels, bridges and cuts over large areas of land. Most likely they are not going to build a second set of tracks. Someone down the line will say "Hey, we can cut the costs in half if we just upgrade the existing tracks" Perhaps they will build new tracks, but that's probably going to cost a lot more than 53 billion. Its likely that they will build such a set of tracks so that they are dual use for both passenger service and freight, so we're right back in the same boat. And because they are politicians and don't have to deal with the details of their plans, they will just make token changes that seem to solve the problem, but really don't.
To really have something like they do in France or Japan, we have to really want it and there has to be a generation of people who want to really make it great and support it, and I don't think we have that anymore. In Japan, a 3 hour rail ride across country doesn't sound so bad when compared with a 45 minute plane ride plus 45-60 minutes waiting in an airport + 30 minutes parking, etc (about 2 hours). But in the US it would be a 12 hour rail ride cross country (even at 250 mph) vs. a 4-5 hour plane ride.
It doesn't matter if it goes 250mph if it sits on the track for an hour waiting for right of way. Granted, this is just one experience, but from reading up after it happened, it seems to be the norm. Back in 1999 I decided to take a leisure trip out to Arizona from Indianapolis and I decided to take a train for fun. Instead of a speedy ride up to Chicago, we ended up waiting for an hour on a side track to get right of way. On the way from Chicago to Flagstaff, AZ, at one point we sat on the tracks during the day for 3 or 4 hours waiting again for right of way. On the return trip the train was 5 hours late getting back to Chicago and I missed my connection train back to Indianapolis.
Sure, you can build a high speed train, but if its run by Amtrak and exists in this countries rail system mentality, it will quickly become worthless. Fix the real issues.
I really wouldn't go into board rooms and mention Y2K. The general public seems to think that there was nothing there and it was just a big hoax. I'm sure all of you have encountered this recently too. A few times recently I had to correct people who said something like "That Y2K thing was no big deal". My answer to them was "It was no big deal because people worked for 5-10 years to fix it, otherwise it would have been a big deal". But you all know that.
But if you want to be dismissed as a panic monger, bring up Y2K, otherwise, don't.
Actually, I thought the coolest part of that video is where it docks itself. I wonder how that's done accurately because honestly the tech itself doesn't seem too sophisticated. Could do something like that as a home project. Sounds like a good hackerspace project actually.
After that, all of the classrooms that day had CNN on (first time I remember watching that network).
That was actually the watershed event that brought CNN from another cable channel trying to make it in the 80s to become a staple of American life. They happened to be the only news crew covering the event live other than NASA TV.
And if Slashdot would have accepted my story earlier that I tried posting a few times, you could have joined in on the countdown and parties. Somehow, I knew that Slashdot would do this. Posting things after the fact.
Nevertheless, we had a pretty good party in Bloomington last night with around 40 people, DJ, free pizza, cake and so on. We all had fun and it was a good social outing. Maybe someone will post a picture of our Epoch Day 15000 party cake. If I could get my phone out of this funky state its in I could post a video.
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I mean its going to be one of the first times that a robot with speech recognition will be live and responding against people in real time on broadcast TV. I think you all have been living in your movie plots too much to realize how big of a moment this actually is.
You say recently? Was it on October 10th, 2010?
By the way, I like your sig. I did actually do the math once a while back and made a spreadsheet about the subject
Some people use the threat of embarrassment in order to pressure the girl into accepting. I used the threat of certain death by proposing on the roof of an 8-story building. Nah, that wasn't my plan, I just thought she would like the view since it overlooked the city. She's the greatest geek wife ever though because for my 30th birthday party she surprised me with a cake that had the numbers 11110 on it. ;-)
You are aware that Amtrak is already a private corp?
Just like Conrail, eh? Apparently you don't know as much as you think you do about the US rail system. Go read some history of it.
What we really need to do to improve transportation in the US is to get our head out of ass with this stupid security bullshit at the airports. If we don't do it in the airports, then they are just going to imply the same silly restrictions on new trains as well, and then we won't be any better off.
High speed rail would need its own right-of-way.
Well of course, but we're not just talking about upgrading the northeast passage are we? We're talking about upgrading the entire infrastructure. One that's been built over 150+ years and includes many tunnels, bridges and cuts over large areas of land. Most likely they are not going to build a second set of tracks. Someone down the line will say "Hey, we can cut the costs in half if we just upgrade the existing tracks" Perhaps they will build new tracks, but that's probably going to cost a lot more than 53 billion. Its likely that they will build such a set of tracks so that they are dual use for both passenger service and freight, so we're right back in the same boat. And because they are politicians and don't have to deal with the details of their plans, they will just make token changes that seem to solve the problem, but really don't.
To really have something like they do in France or Japan, we have to really want it and there has to be a generation of people who want to really make it great and support it, and I don't think we have that anymore. In Japan, a 3 hour rail ride across country doesn't sound so bad when compared with a 45 minute plane ride plus 45-60 minutes waiting in an airport + 30 minutes parking, etc (about 2 hours). But in the US it would be a 12 hour rail ride cross country (even at 250 mph) vs. a 4-5 hour plane ride.
It doesn't matter if it goes 250mph if it sits on the track for an hour waiting for right of way. Granted, this is just one experience, but from reading up after it happened, it seems to be the norm. Back in 1999 I decided to take a leisure trip out to Arizona from Indianapolis and I decided to take a train for fun. Instead of a speedy ride up to Chicago, we ended up waiting for an hour on a side track to get right of way. On the way from Chicago to Flagstaff, AZ, at one point we sat on the tracks during the day for 3 or 4 hours waiting again for right of way. On the return trip the train was 5 hours late getting back to Chicago and I missed my connection train back to Indianapolis.
Sure, you can build a high speed train, but if its run by Amtrak and exists in this countries rail system mentality, it will quickly become worthless. Fix the real issues.
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Thanks Mozilla for biting the hands that serve you.
I really wouldn't go into board rooms and mention Y2K. The general public seems to think that there was nothing there and it was just a big hoax. I'm sure all of you have encountered this recently too. A few times recently I had to correct people who said something like "That Y2K thing was no big deal". My answer to them was "It was no big deal because people worked for 5-10 years to fix it, otherwise it would have been a big deal". But you all know that.
But if you want to be dismissed as a panic monger, bring up Y2K, otherwise, don't.
Actually, I thought the coolest part of that video is where it docks itself. I wonder how that's done accurately because honestly the tech itself doesn't seem too sophisticated. Could do something like that as a home project. Sounds like a good hackerspace project actually.
Isn't Bryant Gumbel the same guy that asked that stupid question at the Transmeta press conference?
Oh, and the @ sign was there long before the Internet. Where do they get these people?
Exactly, there is no hard evidence that would convince anyone technical in that article. Waste.
Try this one:
Next Gen Hacker 101 - How to view someone's IP address going to Google
I bet PoF used double Rot-13 encryption.
Wow, that sounds like a very secure algorithm, where can I get it?
After that, all of the classrooms that day had CNN on (first time I remember watching that network).
That was actually the watershed event that brought CNN from another cable channel trying to make it in the 80s to become a staple of American life. They happened to be the only news crew covering the event live other than NASA TV.
"Microsoft continues to ignore her requests to take 'cheater' off of his account."
They put her request on the same stack as the requests for a Windows refund.
Here is a video of the countdown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDat2pZi07M
Thanks Kevin Makice.
137. Way into swap. Trying to recover. And believe it or not but I tried to make the machine beefy enough to handle this. Underestimated.
Here we go, a picture of the cake. Nothing spectacular, but it was fun having it made and eating it.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kmakice/5389054539/
Hehe, slashdotting of that server is in progress. The load is at 37 and rising. It should come back.
And if Slashdot would have accepted my story earlier that I tried posting a few times, you could have joined in on the countdown and parties. Somehow, I knew that Slashdot would do this. Posting things after the fact.
Nevertheless, we had a pretty good party in Bloomington last night with around 40 people, DJ, free pizza, cake and so on. We all had fun and it was a good social outing. Maybe someone will post a picture of our Epoch Day 15000 party cake. If I could get my phone out of this funky state its in I could post a video.
Official Day 15000 website
Me too.
Actually, not really. It just needed to be said.
Some captain will be looking at their navigation interface and there will be an option for star system naming convention and it will read
You probably lose them on making comments like "Where are my mod points when I need them".
According to http://www.day15000.com/ they do.