As I don't use any MS stuff, I have never called their help desk. But I wonder if MS avoid using those Indians on their own help desk, considering that caller will assume from the accents that they are scammers. Like I know a Chinese guy who never eats in Chinese restaurants because as soon as he walks in people assume he is a waiter.
considering the huge amount of poor people living in India I'm quite sure that you can find loads of people who have no clue what Microsoft or Windows is.
Tripe. TFA is trying to excuse shield the scam callers because they are brown - it's racist patronisation in other words. Indians, even "poor" ones, are not stupid; on the whole they are very clever indeed, in the best senses and the worst senses. The word "poor" is used as a deliberate ambiguity.
About everyone in the World had heard of Windows, especially ones sat in front of a PC. More likely they don't know what a virtual machine or Linux is. I have allowed these scammers to do what they want on a copy of Windows in a VM on my Linux PC, but even when I eventually told them they still carried on, until I got bored and shut them down.
They are putting in a tunnel in my city for an LRT system.... Tunnelling causes a lot of the ground to shift which can cause damage to buildings and the sinkholes.
They are not doing it the right way then. Modern tunneling generally lines the bore continuously as the earth is cut. There should be no external effect whatsoever; that is how London's Crossrail is being built. But I wouldn't like to say about the ground in an area with moving faults, like California.
Having said that, Musk's scheme is nonsense. As cars are to be brought down to the tunnels with lifts, the throughput will be very low indeed, OK for just a few billionaires maybe. Has Musk never had to wait for a lift?
People are best sticking to what they are best at. Personally I would be no good at trying to "change the system the proper way", it requires too much speech-making on your feet and political networking. I am much better at firing barbs at the existing system.
Ajit Pai said in a statement: "Humans have long sought inspiration from the stars, from the ancient Egyptians orienting the pyramids toward certain stars to the Greeks using constellations to write their mythology"
Christ, how's that for purple prose! Should a regulatory body be using language like that? Surely they should just keep to the facts of the matter.
I know exactly how trains work, I used to work as an engineer for a railway company and have even driven trains. I have also travelled more miles by train than any other form of transport. Thanks though.
Let me draw you a picture:........ Hyperloop: [enter pod at Two Horse Town] --- zooooooooooooooooooooooooom --- [arrive at Shitface Gulch] See how that works?
Great, but only if Hyperloop does go to Two Horse Town and Shitface Gulch (which sounds very unlikely from the names), and you are the only passenger on board. A "pod" on conventional rails could do that too if you laid rails to those places; such "pods" have been tried, but operators did not find them economical.
Don't know much about railways do you? European trains do not stop at each intermediate station. There are [at least] two types of train, expresses (or "Inter-City") and stopping (or "Local"). The expresses skip the intermediate stops while the stopping trains do stop at those stations, often on passing loops to allow an express to overtake. On many main lines there are four or even six tracks (ie two or three each way) for the different types of train.
It would also mean that you could presumably build a hyperloop station at every two horse town along the way
You've lost me now, contradicted yourself. But that advantage is not a Hyperloop characteristic, you can do it with any type of railway as in my paragraph above.
I'm sure solving this middle of the town delivery issue is best done by putting a freight train down the main street. Don't conflate the last mile problem with international freight.
No. it would be solved by single rail freight depots serving a whole town or district and distributing and collecting goods by small-to-midsized road trucks, or optionally holding goods for collection. Not much different from what courier companies do in the UK now, except their depots generally take delivery by large road trucks, not rail; these couriers make a tidy profit, so don't tell me (like the 1960's railway bean counters did) that it is uneconomic.
Larger freight originators like industrial estates can have rail running right through their buildings. That was once common in the UK and some such sites still exist.
Is this a legitimate technology or the stuff of legend we will talk about when this generation's tech bubble burts?
A Hyperloop will be built, somewhere, but probably only as a novelty ride like to Las Vegas. It will be incredibly expensive, but Musk will pay because he wants his name on a flag. It will close when the novelty wears off and the maintenance gets expensive, joining the long list of other technological white elephants, like airships, Brunel's vacuum propelled trains*, and aircraft with flapping wings.
* Yes, yes, no relationship to the Hyperloop, no more than airships are.
The few freight trucks that are actually on [Euopean] roads are not at all a burden.
You obviously never drive in the UK. On motorways the trucks are often filling two of the three lanes in nose-to-tail groups of 20 or more, with cars queuing behind to pass in the outer lane. The trucks are often stuck together aerodynamically. We call these situations "elephant races". Then you will see high streets in towns blocked for minutes by massive trucks delivering penny parcels to shops or fighting to pass each other in opposite directions.
commuters don't want mixed trains and delays to have freight containers removed. If it was possible to unload during a station stop (two or three minutes) without much investment you might see even more rail transport.
You obviously have never heard of sidings (is that an understood terminiology in the US? UK term for a bit of track alongside the main track for parking trains for unloading freight etc). Most stations in the UK used to have freight sidings; but most of those have been removed as "inefficient".and converted into car parks or housing.
I once traveled Amtrak from Seattle to Atlanta.....Even if Amtrak could do 300 MPH between stops, it still would have taken three entire days... including the long layovers to change
And with Hyperloop it would take... what? Your trip time was dominated by changeovers and convoluted routing (as someone else has described), not by the speed of the train. Unless there were a direcr Hyperloop between Seattle and Atlanta (don't hold your breath for it materialising) the Hyperloop experience could be very similar.
I liked the way that Evelyn Waugh took the piss out of the Bauhaus : "The perfect building is a factory - because it is not designed for people" [or similar words AFAIR].
You'd never find entry level jobs now that paid as well as the boomers had it. It's almost as if the boomers are sticking their fingers in their ears, closing their eyes, and screaming "nah nah nah nah" while the next generations are trying to explain how badly they fucked things up for us.
No, it is because the millennials and other post-boomers are happy to buy stuff made in China, India etc bacause it is cheaper, even though it is mostly crap and they complain about Indian and Chinese 5-year-olds being exploited as cheap labour at the same time. 50 years ago in the UK, and I think it was the same in the West generally, people were ashamed to buy foreign made stuff (unless it had to be, like bananas or wine) as they knew it would be putting their own workers out a job, and they knew it was mostly crap too. A guy in my father's circle bought a Japanese camera around then and I remember how scathing the others were.
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"There's hundreds more working in Redmond"
comments.
There are hundreds more working in Redmond .
As I don't use any MS stuff, I have never called their help desk. But I wonder if MS avoid using those Indians on their own help desk, considering that caller will assume from the accents that they are scammers. Like I know a Chinese guy who never eats in Chinese restaurants because as soon as he walks in people assume he is a waiter.
considering the huge amount of poor people living in India I'm quite sure that you can find loads of people who have no clue what Microsoft or Windows is.
Tripe. TFA is trying to excuse shield the scam callers because they are brown - it's racist patronisation in other words. Indians, even "poor" ones, are not stupid; on the whole they are very clever indeed, in the best senses and the worst senses. The word "poor" is used as a deliberate ambiguity.
About everyone in the World had heard of Windows, especially ones sat in front of a PC. More likely they don't know what a virtual machine or Linux is. I have allowed these scammers to do what they want on a copy of Windows in a VM on my Linux PC, but even when I eventually told them they still carried on, until I got bored and shut them down.
You mean things that existed already in the 19th century?
Unless I'm mistaken myself, I think his irony was a bit too subtle.
They are putting in a tunnel in my city for an LRT system. ... Tunnelling causes a lot of the ground to shift which can cause damage to buildings and the sinkholes.
They are not doing it the right way then. Modern tunneling generally lines the bore continuously as the earth is cut. There should be no external effect whatsoever; that is how London's Crossrail is being built. But I wouldn't like to say about the ground in an area with moving faults, like California.
Having said that, Musk's scheme is nonsense. As cars are to be brought down to the tunnels with lifts, the throughput will be very low indeed, OK for just a few billionaires maybe. Has Musk never had to wait for a lift?
People are best sticking to what they are best at. Personally I would be no good at trying to "change the system the proper way", it requires too much speech-making on your feet and political networking. I am much better at firing barbs at the existing system.
Thanks for sharing your dreams with us. Keep it up, it's very entertaining.
Ajit Pai said in a statement: "Humans have long sought inspiration from the stars, from the ancient Egyptians orienting the pyramids toward certain stars to the Greeks using constellations to write their mythology"
Christ, how's that for purple prose! Should a regulatory body be using language like that? Surely they should just keep to the facts of the matter.
PS : That is the UK meaning of "engineer" (ie techie), not the US meaning (ie driver) in this context.
I know exactly how trains work, I used to work as an engineer for a railway company and have even driven trains. I have also travelled more miles by train than any other form of transport. Thanks though.
Let me draw you a picture: ........ Hyperloop: [enter pod at Two Horse Town] --- zooooooooooooooooooooooooom --- [arrive at Shitface Gulch] See how that works?
Great, but only if Hyperloop does go to Two Horse Town and Shitface Gulch (which sounds very unlikely from the names), and you are the only passenger on board. A "pod" on conventional rails could do that too if you laid rails to those places; such "pods" have been tried, but operators did not find them economical.
Don't know much about railways do you? European trains do not stop at each intermediate station. There are [at least] two types of train, expresses (or "Inter-City") and stopping (or "Local"). The expresses skip the intermediate stops while the stopping trains do stop at those stations, often on passing loops to allow an express to overtake. On many main lines there are four or even six tracks (ie two or three each way) for the different types of train.
It would also mean that you could presumably build a hyperloop station at every two horse town along the way
You've lost me now, contradicted yourself. But that advantage is not a Hyperloop characteristic, you can do it with any type of railway as in my paragraph above.
You mean like in "The Sting"
I'm sure solving this middle of the town delivery issue is best done by putting a freight train down the main street. Don't conflate the last mile problem with international freight.
No. it would be solved by single rail freight depots serving a whole town or district and distributing and collecting goods by small-to-midsized road trucks, or optionally holding goods for collection. Not much different from what courier companies do in the UK now, except their depots generally take delivery by large road trucks, not rail; these couriers make a tidy profit, so don't tell me (like the 1960's railway bean counters did) that it is uneconomic.
Larger freight originators like industrial estates can have rail running right through their buildings. That was once common in the UK and some such sites still exist.
Is this a legitimate technology or the stuff of legend we will talk about when this generation's tech bubble burts?
A Hyperloop will be built, somewhere, but probably only as a novelty ride like to Las Vegas. It will be incredibly expensive, but Musk will pay because he wants his name on a flag. It will close when the novelty wears off and the maintenance gets expensive, joining the long list of other technological white elephants, like airships, Brunel's vacuum propelled trains*, and aircraft with flapping wings.
* Yes, yes, no relationship to the Hyperloop, no more than airships are.
Indeed.
Seattle to Los Angeles should be very doable by train, but it currently takes twice as long as it does by car.
Looking a UK viewpoint, that is absolutely insane.
and flights between cities within Japan are cheaper than Shinkansen tickets.
Then it must be a lot cheaper to park at Japanese airports (or take a taxi there) than it is in the UK
The few freight trucks that are actually on [Euopean] roads are not at all a burden.
You obviously never drive in the UK. On motorways the trucks are often filling two of the three lanes in nose-to-tail groups of 20 or more, with cars queuing behind to pass in the outer lane. The trucks are often stuck together aerodynamically. We call these situations "elephant races". Then you will see high streets in towns blocked for minutes by massive trucks delivering penny parcels to shops or fighting to pass each other in opposite directions.
commuters don't want mixed trains and delays to have freight containers removed. If it was possible to unload during a station stop (two or three minutes) without much investment you might see even more rail transport.
You obviously have never heard of sidings (is that an understood terminiology in the US? UK term for a bit of track alongside the main track for parking trains for unloading freight etc). Most stations in the UK used to have freight sidings; but most of those have been removed as "inefficient".and converted into car parks or housing.
I once traveled Amtrak from Seattle to Atlanta. ... .Even if Amtrak could do 300 MPH between stops, it still would have taken three entire days ... including the long layovers to change
And with Hyperloop it would take ... what? Your trip time was dominated by changeovers and convoluted routing (as someone else has described), not by the speed of the train. Unless there were a direcr Hyperloop between Seattle and Atlanta (don't hold your breath for it materialising) the Hyperloop experience could be very similar.
Fuck off
It'sa near vacuum tube.
So are the bottle thingies in old radio sets, but when he talked about them my father always skipped the word "near" too
I liked the way that Evelyn Waugh took the piss out of the Bauhaus : "The perfect building is a factory - because it is not designed for people" [or similar words AFAIR].
The common ground between a physiologist, psychologist, and feng shui expert would be sunlight
Each to his own. I hate the fucking sun; it always seems to be in my eyes when I am trying to work. I'd be happy with cloud cover the whole time.
You'd never find entry level jobs now that paid as well as the boomers had it. It's almost as if the boomers are sticking their fingers in their ears, closing their eyes, and screaming "nah nah nah nah" while the next generations are trying to explain how badly they fucked things up for us.
No, it is because the millennials and other post-boomers are happy to buy stuff made in China, India etc bacause it is cheaper, even though it is mostly crap and they complain about Indian and Chinese 5-year-olds being exploited as cheap labour at the same time. 50 years ago in the UK, and I think it was the same in the West generally, people were ashamed to buy foreign made stuff (unless it had to be, like bananas or wine) as they knew it would be putting their own workers out a job, and they knew it was mostly crap too. A guy in my father's circle bought a Japanese camera around then and I remember how scathing the others were.
The imperative to design something unique and individual tends to override [other] considerations. That could be about to change.
No it won't.
I do not believe that the Hyperloop One is feasible with this generation of quaint leadership in Europe.
You could have stopped writing after the word "feasable".