I think though you are talking an order of magnitude difference in cost, or more. I would expect that citibikes are relatively cheap in the grand scheme of infrastructure and any modifications to roads will spread across to private cycles as well.
Looking at your link the change to the road ways is significant though. Certainly much greater than the equivalent changes here in Aus. If you are going to make that level of change then you want want to have a support network in place for them as well.
Wow. I assume there must be some kind of bollard between the parking lane and the cycle path otherwise people would just park over the bike lane? That would be a significant engineering exercise then.
That said I doubt it was just done for these citicycle things. If you can make your city more friendly to bicycles then you would hope to be able to reduce traffic congestion and load. Brisbane doesn't get too cold but it does get stinking hot in summer. So most major city buildings now have been retrofitted with larger showers in the basement as well as cycle lockups. This happened because we have seen an explosion in cyclists and the state and local govt has built a number of dedicated cycle ways which run from the suburbs all the way into the city.
Exactly. Now I want you to imaging which of these engineers is paying the most attention to what is in front of them. The engineer in a ice comfy office with high resolution screens drinking their coffee looking at high res photos or the engineer on a ladder in the sleet with that first drop of freezing cold water running down their back and into their arse crack?
We have an equivalent here in Brisbane and all you have are these stands with the bikes attached to them and you ride them from one place to the other. So the design work involved picking where you wanted the stands. I'm sure there is also some low level modelling around where bikes move from and to so you know where to send the pickup truck...
But England isn't metric. Not really. Their factories might be but you buy your bananas by the pound. Look at Australia for a country that went metric properly. People have to convert to grams if they are given a weight in pounds.
As someone who never used Fahrenheit it makes my head hurt. It feels like such a random arbitrary system (and yes I know where it came from).
Celsius on the other hand 0 degrees and water freezes, 100 degrees and water boils. That seems sensible and easy. Of course that is just what I've grown up with. Australia ditched imperial and went full metric a long time ago. My height is in cm my weight in kilos, my drinks in mls and my cooking in grams. The last hold out seems to be how big your block of land is but even then most people have gone to m2.
Kodi is so easy to use my 5 years old is a master pro at it and my 2 year old is getting pretty damn good. I use the MCE remotes, no KB no mouse required.
I have also built XBMC machines for both my parents and my in-laws and the thing I love about it is it literally takes 2 minutes to give an overview and they are away. From that point on it is bullet proof.
As for wake on lan I have my kodi front ends wake on lan a freenas box which has all the videos stored and the freenas box will shutdown 5 minutes after the last front end goes offline. If like me you have multiple TVs Kodi will allow you share the watched status of every video between the front ends. This means not only do you know where you are up to in every season on every machine, but if you are watching something in the lounge and you decide you want to finish watching it in bed you can stop it on lounge front end, walk into the bed room, push play and it will ask if you want to continue from where you are up to.
Alternative setup to your linux / kodi setup. There are a number of epg scrapers which give you your scheduling so you don't need to pay and for steam have a windows box with decent hardware stashed somewhere else and use steam streaming to play games on your front end.
That said it depends on how often you game in your lounge. As I never do that using a low power atom based front end for kodibuntu is a much better solution. Also you can have one that fits in a vesa compliant mount so it can be bolted to the back of your TV and passively cooled. That way it is just on all the time.
Ah ok. Well in that case what I read was that the unencrypted signals already work with Kodi with Silicon dust having started a kickstarter to expand the encrypted support to kodi.
That said that was from 2 seconds of looking at those cards so I may have got that completely wrong.
I believe that currently the answer is no but a kickstarter campaign has been started by one of the companies to support it.
As for program guide the OTA and cable companies in Australia refuse to give an easily accessible epg so it was always a hack for the data. As for the interface I never had a problem with kodi.
Having read a few of the other posts I believe the answer is no at this stage but with support coming in the future.
Cable card tuners are not an option here in Aus as Foxtel is the only provider and they won't do it. For a while I had IR blasters controlling foxtel. But I ditched it years and years ago. I only use a tuner now to watch live sport.
I tried this for a period. Having an xbox 360 back to a parent windows machine. In the end I found it a really clunky solution, needing my windows machine to be on and then having the 360 struggle whenever a folder with 20 videos in it was opened.
In the end I went for a $200 atom machine and installed xbmcbuntu on it and turned it into a dedicated front end.
Now I run 3 front ends which share content and watched status between them. Also has high wife approval factor because it is the same everywhere.
Of course to do this you need to either spend money or coble together an old machine which you may not want to do.
Visit kodi.tv you will never ever ever look back. Simply put it is the pinnacle of home media centre systems. Simple to setup, runs on windows, linux, mac and has a million plugins and companion apps on android & iOS
Serious question. Have you looked at KODI? I stopped using MCE, must be 5+ years ago, because I hit serious limitations in its capabilities. Such as support for both analogue and digital tuners (less an issue now, and it could be forced with a reg hack), the inability to specify how long it should record before and after a show (the options are too short especially for sports), the fact the system croaked under load if you had lots of videos.
I went from MCE to a Mythtv setup but have now moved to xbmc / kodi. Now that kodi supports tuners and recording schedules it is perfect. And it is simple to setup and manage.
One is the securing of a relatively simple process where every step of the chain can be viewed in full in real time. You are also able to seal whole sections of the process away from external factors in such a way that breaching it secretly is almost impossible and comes with huge risks to the attacker.
When it comes to data protection or just IT in general the systems are far far more complex. Every piece of code is run through a compiler which turns it into a black box which may or may not introduce a vulnerability. You are having to use hardware and drivers you cannot control or pull apart AND the risk to an attacker is almost zero. An attacker can hit your system endlessly with no real risk of reprisal because, until they compromise you, they are lost in the noise of the script kiddies.
IANAL & IANA (I am not American) but aren't you meant to be sentenced based on what crime you are convicted of? Seriously the QLD Chief Justice (Highest Judge in QLD) withdrew from an appeals hearing of a convicted child abuser & murderer because he had had a meeting with someone who lobbied for harsher sentences for child molesters.
If the sentencing judge references other non-case related matters surely that would affect the standing of the ruling and open up appeals?
Seriously guys. Learn to read!!! The Montreal Protocol was all about reducing ozone depleting chemicals from being released into the atmosphere with a particular focus on CFCs. There is NO LINK to climate change in this treaty and climate change had nothing to do with the decision to take it. There was a growing hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica, to the point it was stretching over Australia. CFCs were directly linked to the growth of the hole and cutting their use has dramatically improved the situation re the size of the hole.
There continue to be releases of other chemicals that have been restricted, especially from fire fighting equipment. But CFCs made up such a huge component and their use dropped so much that that alone has made a measurable impact.
Really this is exactly the same as restricting the emission of sulphur because it lead to acid rain.
What possibly makes you think this means they don't know what they are doing? Change the question to "Patent Law, Industrial Relations, Marketing, Geophysics, etc" and the GOOD leader is the one who can turn around and say "I don't know, but I can ask someone who does".
In any large organisation where IT is critical then a good leader should have someone they can trust who does know IT to tell them what they need to know. To parse down the huge shit-tonne of noise and distil for them the key points. This is the same for their legal department, their accountants, their customer service, their logistics etc.
The job of your top leader is to pull disparate teams together and achieve a goal. That means that they need to offset the demands of multiple divisions, their challenges and opportunities against each other and decide which path is the best. None of that requires more than a high level understanding of each area.
I agree with you about the F35. I think it is a terrible waste of money. So far it isn't even lining up as being particularly good. That said the f111s were getting very long in the tooth and needed significant upgrades to remain viable. The biggest problem, as I see it, with the F35 is it is trying to be everything to everyone. Instead they should have built 2 different planes. One an air superiority fighter and one ground attack.
As for the China threat, the issues will come around territorial claims. Have a look at what is happening at the Spratly Atoll in the South China Sea. At the moment there is a bunch of shallow reefs that are claimed by pretty much everyone. China has moved into the region and started building artificial islands there and outfitting them with landing strips and deep water ports. The US is concerned by this for two main reasons. The first is that they are legally required to defend Taiwan and Taiwan has a claim on those Islands, which means the US could get dragged in. The second is that allowing China to claim territorial control of the South China Sea means China will take control of one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.
I don't think China will attach the US or vice-versa on purpose. But I can see nasty scuffles happening through grandstanding between both sides.
While I think the f35 is a complete waste Australia needed a replacement for the f111s and the super hornets are only a stop gap. Because of our geography we need a decent airforce to protect the country, too much land and too much coast. If you accept that Aus needs a military at all then you have to accept we need a decent fighter platform.
Let's completely ignore the fact that it was a rail and road project. Not just 28 miles of road. Also lets ignore that the project has 46 bridges and 12 tunnels with the tunnel lengths being 30 miles.
Was the project over budget? Absolutely. But it was a rushed project because of olympic deadline. When you build something you can built on time, on budget or to quality. Pick 2.
The road also ran essentially along a river bank through a mountain range.
Automated trains are very common around the world. Lots and lots of subways are automated, sections of Japans Metro are for example. At a larger scale RioTinto's iron ore operations use driverless trains for bulk carrying of ore from the mines to the ports in North West Australia.
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I think though you are talking an order of magnitude difference in cost, or more. I would expect that citibikes are relatively cheap in the grand scheme of infrastructure and any modifications to roads will spread across to private cycles as well.
Looking at your link the change to the road ways is significant though. Certainly much greater than the equivalent changes here in Aus. If you are going to make that level of change then you want want to have a support network in place for them as well.
This is how we do them in Brisbane - http://architecture.org.nz/wp-...
http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/2...
Basically just paint.
Wow. I assume there must be some kind of bollard between the parking lane and the cycle path otherwise people would just park over the bike lane? That would be a significant engineering exercise then.
That said I doubt it was just done for these citicycle things. If you can make your city more friendly to bicycles then you would hope to be able to reduce traffic congestion and load. Brisbane doesn't get too cold but it does get stinking hot in summer. So most major city buildings now have been retrofitted with larger showers in the basement as well as cycle lockups. This happened because we have seen an explosion in cyclists and the state and local govt has built a number of dedicated cycle ways which run from the suburbs all the way into the city.
Have a look here - https://www.google.com.au/maps... all the green are dedicate bike paths.
Exactly. Now I want you to imaging which of these engineers is paying the most attention to what is in front of them. The engineer in a ice comfy office with high resolution screens drinking their coffee looking at high res photos or the engineer on a ladder in the sleet with that first drop of freezing cold water running down their back and into their arse crack?
What redesign has gone into the traffic system?
We have an equivalent here in Brisbane and all you have are these stands with the bikes attached to them and you ride them from one place to the other. So the design work involved picking where you wanted the stands. I'm sure there is also some low level modelling around where bikes move from and to so you know where to send the pickup truck...
But England isn't metric. Not really. Their factories might be but you buy your bananas by the pound. Look at Australia for a country that went metric properly. People have to convert to grams if they are given a weight in pounds.
As someone who never used Fahrenheit it makes my head hurt. It feels like such a random arbitrary system (and yes I know where it came from).
Celsius on the other hand 0 degrees and water freezes, 100 degrees and water boils. That seems sensible and easy. Of course that is just what I've grown up with. Australia ditched imperial and went full metric a long time ago. My height is in cm my weight in kilos, my drinks in mls and my cooking in grams. The last hold out seems to be how big your block of land is but even then most people have gone to m2.
Kodi is so easy to use my 5 years old is a master pro at it and my 2 year old is getting pretty damn good. I use the MCE remotes, no KB no mouse required.
I have also built XBMC machines for both my parents and my in-laws and the thing I love about it is it literally takes 2 minutes to give an overview and they are away. From that point on it is bullet proof.
As for wake on lan I have my kodi front ends wake on lan a freenas box which has all the videos stored and the freenas box will shutdown 5 minutes after the last front end goes offline. If like me you have multiple TVs Kodi will allow you share the watched status of every video between the front ends. This means not only do you know where you are up to in every season on every machine, but if you are watching something in the lounge and you decide you want to finish watching it in bed you can stop it on lounge front end, walk into the bed room, push play and it will ask if you want to continue from where you are up to.
Alternative setup to your linux / kodi setup. There are a number of epg scrapers which give you your scheduling so you don't need to pay and for steam have a windows box with decent hardware stashed somewhere else and use steam streaming to play games on your front end.
That said it depends on how often you game in your lounge. As I never do that using a low power atom based front end for kodibuntu is a much better solution. Also you can have one that fits in a vesa compliant mount so it can be bolted to the back of your TV and passively cooled. That way it is just on all the time.
Ah ok. Well in that case what I read was that the unencrypted signals already work with Kodi with Silicon dust having started a kickstarter to expand the encrypted support to kodi.
That said that was from 2 seconds of looking at those cards so I may have got that completely wrong.
I believe that currently the answer is no but a kickstarter campaign has been started by one of the companies to support it.
As for program guide the OTA and cable companies in Australia refuse to give an easily accessible epg so it was always a hack for the data. As for the interface I never had a problem with kodi.
Having read a few of the other posts I believe the answer is no at this stage but with support coming in the future.
Cable card tuners are not an option here in Aus as Foxtel is the only provider and they won't do it. For a while I had IR blasters controlling foxtel. But I ditched it years and years ago. I only use a tuner now to watch live sport.
Don't know those tuners. Quick google makes it look like it is some kind of drmed encrypted channel or something? Don't have an equivalent in Aus...
Looks like the only way to use them is with a nasty windows hack.
I tried this for a period. Having an xbox 360 back to a parent windows machine. In the end I found it a really clunky solution, needing my windows machine to be on and then having the 360 struggle whenever a folder with 20 videos in it was opened.
In the end I went for a $200 atom machine and installed xbmcbuntu on it and turned it into a dedicated front end.
Now I run 3 front ends which share content and watched status between them. Also has high wife approval factor because it is the same everywhere.
Of course to do this you need to either spend money or coble together an old machine which you may not want to do.
Ah ok. Living in Australia I have no support from cable companies for any kind of media centre so it had never occurred to me.
Visit kodi.tv you will never ever ever look back. Simply put it is the pinnacle of home media centre systems. Simple to setup, runs on windows, linux, mac and has a million plugins and companion apps on android & iOS
Serious question. Have you looked at KODI? I stopped using MCE, must be 5+ years ago, because I hit serious limitations in its capabilities. Such as support for both analogue and digital tuners (less an issue now, and it could be forced with a reg hack), the inability to specify how long it should record before and after a show (the options are too short especially for sports), the fact the system croaked under load if you had lots of videos.
I went from MCE to a Mythtv setup but have now moved to xbmc / kodi. Now that kodi supports tuners and recording schedules it is perfect. And it is simple to setup and manage.
Agreed this is a terrible terrible analogy.
One is the securing of a relatively simple process where every step of the chain can be viewed in full in real time. You are also able to seal whole sections of the process away from external factors in such a way that breaching it secretly is almost impossible and comes with huge risks to the attacker.
When it comes to data protection or just IT in general the systems are far far more complex. Every piece of code is run through a compiler which turns it into a black box which may or may not introduce a vulnerability. You are having to use hardware and drivers you cannot control or pull apart AND the risk to an attacker is almost zero. An attacker can hit your system endlessly with no real risk of reprisal because, until they compromise you, they are lost in the noise of the script kiddies.
IANAL & IANA (I am not American) but aren't you meant to be sentenced based on what crime you are convicted of? Seriously the QLD Chief Justice (Highest Judge in QLD) withdrew from an appeals hearing of a convicted child abuser & murderer because he had had a meeting with someone who lobbied for harsher sentences for child molesters.
If the sentencing judge references other non-case related matters surely that would affect the standing of the ruling and open up appeals?
Seriously guys. Learn to read!!! The Montreal Protocol was all about reducing ozone depleting chemicals from being released into the atmosphere with a particular focus on CFCs. There is NO LINK to climate change in this treaty and climate change had nothing to do with the decision to take it. There was a growing hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica, to the point it was stretching over Australia. CFCs were directly linked to the growth of the hole and cutting their use has dramatically improved the situation re the size of the hole.
There continue to be releases of other chemicals that have been restricted, especially from fire fighting equipment. But CFCs made up such a huge component and their use dropped so much that that alone has made a measurable impact.
Really this is exactly the same as restricting the emission of sulphur because it lead to acid rain.
What possibly makes you think this means they don't know what they are doing? Change the question to "Patent Law, Industrial Relations, Marketing, Geophysics, etc" and the GOOD leader is the one who can turn around and say "I don't know, but I can ask someone who does".
In any large organisation where IT is critical then a good leader should have someone they can trust who does know IT to tell them what they need to know. To parse down the huge shit-tonne of noise and distil for them the key points. This is the same for their legal department, their accountants, their customer service, their logistics etc.
The job of your top leader is to pull disparate teams together and achieve a goal. That means that they need to offset the demands of multiple divisions, their challenges and opportunities against each other and decide which path is the best. None of that requires more than a high level understanding of each area.
I agree with you about the F35. I think it is a terrible waste of money. So far it isn't even lining up as being particularly good. That said the f111s were getting very long in the tooth and needed significant upgrades to remain viable. The biggest problem, as I see it, with the F35 is it is trying to be everything to everyone. Instead they should have built 2 different planes. One an air superiority fighter and one ground attack.
As for the China threat, the issues will come around territorial claims. Have a look at what is happening at the Spratly Atoll in the South China Sea. At the moment there is a bunch of shallow reefs that are claimed by pretty much everyone. China has moved into the region and started building artificial islands there and outfitting them with landing strips and deep water ports. The US is concerned by this for two main reasons. The first is that they are legally required to defend Taiwan and Taiwan has a claim on those Islands, which means the US could get dragged in. The second is that allowing China to claim territorial control of the South China Sea means China will take control of one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.
I don't think China will attach the US or vice-versa on purpose. But I can see nasty scuffles happening through grandstanding between both sides.
While I think the f35 is a complete waste Australia needed a replacement for the f111s and the super hornets are only a stop gap. Because of our geography we need a decent airforce to protect the country, too much land and too much coast. If you accept that Aus needs a military at all then you have to accept we need a decent fighter platform.
Sigh. Road AND Rail. Which means two of everything minimum. Also the rail line is over 40 miles because of grade considerations.
Let's completely ignore the fact that it was a rail and road project. Not just 28 miles of road. Also lets ignore that the project has 46 bridges and 12 tunnels with the tunnel lengths being 30 miles.
Was the project over budget? Absolutely. But it was a rushed project because of olympic deadline. When you build something you can built on time, on budget or to quality. Pick 2.
The road also ran essentially along a river bank through a mountain range.
Automated trains are very common around the world. Lots and lots of subways are automated, sections of Japans Metro are for example. At a larger scale RioTinto's iron ore operations use driverless trains for bulk carrying of ore from the mines to the ports in North West Australia.