I don't have a link handy for this one, but rail costs far less to lay per mile than asphalt. It also requires far less maintenance. I believe that is enough reason to call it easy in comparison to other infrastructure projects.
I'd like to point out that we may suffer many fewer flight and road delays if our country had a well-developed passenger rail service.
Busy routes like LA-SF, LA-Phoenix, and Miami-Atlanta could easily be replaced by fast trains and therefore take a lot of load off of our air and highway infrastructure at a relatively small price.
This would be a better idea for a desktop system since laptops are supposed to be portable. You'd have to be a pretty big nerd (even by Slashdot standards) to wear special 3D computing glasses in public.
Using 3D glasses in the privacy of your own home (on your desktop PC) makes far more sense.
If the source is something like DNS poisoning, then it's not that simple. I already know my ISP to be a bunch of fools, but I have little choice in that matter.
Based on my own driving experience, it seems the trucks need the tailgate alarm more than the sedans!
I'm comforted by the fact that my small car has a very short stopping distance, but it's certainly mitigated when I'm going to get run over by an oversized Hot Wheels in the event of a quick stop.
the iPod touch could be an effective networked media server
I doubt you could call it effective when it would still be tied down by battery life. That could be remedied by plugging it in, but if you have a computer, it seems it would just make more sense to stream from the computer than the iPod.
However, as the Internet moves more toward video, from youtube to video blogs to more and more stories on news sites being offered only as videos, will that jump in literacy be sustained? We're quickly moving from an Internet where large volumes of text were passed back and forth to an Internet where videos are passed around, and commentary on them is in the form of very brief twitter-length comments. So, I'm skeptical that people using the Internet in 10 years will be doing any more reading (or writing, for that matter) than people watching TV do now.
I can't imagine video will become much easier to put on the web than it is now (but don't quote me in the future!). I suspect most of our communication will remain text-based if only because it's much easier for me(and undoubtedly others) to produce an intelligent sounding text comment than it is to produce a (good) video or audio clip. For the last two cases, I'd ramble on and on and need to re-record many segments of it rather than just fixing typos and changing words for clarity. Also, many of us here are fast readers and would prefer to take in the information at our reading pace rather than a slower talking pace.
I hammered this comment out in about a minute; I imagine a video of comparable quality would've taken me ten times as long. One more thing: if you've ever used Xbox Live, you understand why someone would rather read text than hear the author's voice. Most people's voices just don't sound very good and it gets in the way of the message.
They know that without the people doing the work the business wouldn't make money. It's how companies used to operate and imho how they should operate.
When was this a common idiom for business? I am not aware of any golden age when it was common for a person to work his way out of poverty by selling his labor power.
The point of capitalism is not to lift up the employees. The point is to take their work and pay them less than the amount of money it generated for the business, while pocketing the difference. There'll be anomalies here and there, but it's never been normal for employees to be paid in proportion to the value they create.
there seems to be an approximate consensus among the Maricopa anglo population people convicted of a crime aren't human beings, so clearly it's not sociopathic.
I live in Maricopa county and the thinking is more like "those aren't humans, they're just Mexicans."
because aircraft can change their point to point routes only limited by rules put on their flight. To replicate that with trains would be pretty much outside the realm of feasibility.
Not true. Trains may be confined to going wherever there are rails, but planes are limited to going wherever there are airports big enough to land.
Proper high-speed trains are almost as fast for regional transportation and far cheaper.
I think computer professionals of all types can agree that there is nothing more frustrating than dealing with another techie that has no clue what he's doing.
The fact that without the servers being up and available, most other professions do not continue to run.
Unless you're a developer. In that case, it's better to go ahead and fix it yourself instead of waiting for the sysadmin to try rebooting and then come asking for help.
I guess some of us have better work environments than others:-(
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I don't have a link handy for this one, but rail costs far less to lay per mile than asphalt. It also requires far less maintenance. I believe that is enough reason to call it easy in comparison to other infrastructure projects.
I'd like to point out that we may suffer many fewer flight and road delays if our country had a well-developed passenger rail service.
Busy routes like LA-SF, LA-Phoenix, and Miami-Atlanta could easily be replaced by fast trains and therefore take a lot of load off of our air and highway infrastructure at a relatively small price.
They make all their money by pushing papers around.
They create no products and provide no services. I think that's all anyone needs to know about how capitalism supposedly rewards hard work.
Now all day traders will be making rational, informed decisions instead.
This would be a better idea for a desktop system since laptops are supposed to be portable. You'd have to be a pretty big nerd (even by Slashdot standards) to wear special 3D computing glasses in public.
Using 3D glasses in the privacy of your own home (on your desktop PC) makes far more sense.
But, Toyota makes cars in the US...
Some, but not all. I recently purchased a new Yaris. According to the sticker, it's 100% Japanese.
> ...how do I know if I've been affected?
Are you a fool? If not you are ok.
If the source is something like DNS poisoning, then it's not that simple. I already know my ISP to be a bunch of fools, but I have little choice in that matter.
That's all very interesting stuff, but even more importantly: how do I know if I've been affected?
All I was trying to say is that she's a terrible quarterback
because she's constantly getting sacked
Since entropy is far more prevalent than we once thought, the Second Law of Thermodynamics is even more important than before.
This means, of course, that evolution is impossible qed
Universe Has 100x More Entropy Than We Thought
Scientists must have discovered my daughters room.
No, but the football team sure has!
nerds!
So that you can get access to the best healthcare system in the world. Duh.
I'd love for another company to see my work and offer me better compensation at a new job
Perhaps this is the only way I wish my life was a little more like Dilbert
I drive a Yaris, which (according to Motor Week) does 60-0 in 120 feet. An F-150 does the same in 150 feet.
If that truck is tailgating the car and the car stops in a hurry, they would certainly collide.
Based on my own driving experience, it seems the trucks need the tailgate alarm more than the sedans!
I'm comforted by the fact that my small car has a very short stopping distance, but it's certainly mitigated when I'm going to get run over by an oversized Hot Wheels in the event of a quick stop.
the iPod touch could be an effective networked media server
I doubt you could call it effective when it would still be tied down by battery life. That could be remedied by plugging it in, but if you have a computer, it seems it would just make more sense to stream from the computer than the iPod.
However, as the Internet moves more toward video, from youtube to video blogs to more and more stories on news sites being offered only as videos, will that jump in literacy be sustained? We're quickly moving from an Internet where large volumes of text were passed back and forth to an Internet where videos are passed around, and commentary on them is in the form of very brief twitter-length comments. So, I'm skeptical that people using the Internet in 10 years will be doing any more reading (or writing, for that matter) than people watching TV do now.
I can't imagine video will become much easier to put on the web than it is now (but don't quote me in the future!). I suspect most of our communication will remain text-based if only because it's much easier for me(and undoubtedly others) to produce an intelligent sounding text comment than it is to produce a (good) video or audio clip. For the last two cases, I'd ramble on and on and need to re-record many segments of it rather than just fixing typos and changing words for clarity. Also, many of us here are fast readers and would prefer to take in the information at our reading pace rather than a slower talking pace.
I hammered this comment out in about a minute; I imagine a video of comparable quality would've taken me ten times as long.
One more thing: if you've ever used Xbox Live, you understand why someone would rather read text than hear the author's voice. Most people's voices just don't sound very good and it gets in the way of the message.
They know that without the people doing the work the business wouldn't make money. It's how companies used to operate and imho how they should operate.
When was this a common idiom for business? I am not aware of any golden age when it was common for a person to work his way out of poverty by selling his labor power.
The point of capitalism is not to lift up the employees. The point is to take their work and pay them less than the amount of money it generated for the business, while pocketing the difference. There'll be anomalies here and there, but it's never been normal for employees to be paid in proportion to the value they create.
there seems to be an approximate consensus among the Maricopa anglo population people convicted of a crime aren't human beings, so clearly it's not sociopathic.
I live in Maricopa county and the thinking is more like "those aren't humans, they're just Mexicans."
This place makes me sick.
There is no dejure minimum wage in Sweden.
because aircraft can change their point to point routes only limited by rules put on their flight. To replicate that with trains would be pretty much outside the realm of feasibility.
Not true. Trains may be confined to going wherever there are rails, but planes are limited to going wherever there are airports big enough to land.
Proper high-speed trains are almost as fast for regional transportation and far cheaper.
I think computer professionals of all types can agree that there is nothing more frustrating than dealing with another techie that has no clue what he's doing.
It makes us all look bad and depresses salaries.
The fact that without the servers being up and available, most other professions do not continue to run.
Unless you're a developer. In that case, it's better to go ahead and fix it yourself instead of waiting for the sysadmin to try rebooting and then come asking for help.
:-(
I guess some of us have better work environments than others
Apparently he's in the Irish legislature!