People are comparing USA with China, but those are extremes. European countries find it perfectly possible to build high speed lines, and they are not authoritarian nations.
Highways made it possible to travel and transport goods in a way that wasn't previously possible. This high-speed train aimed to replace one mode of transportation with another.
Pre-historic tracks such as the Icknield Way in the UK made things possible because there was nothing before them. However every type of "highway" in the broadest sense since then (paved Roman roads, canals, Eisenhower's highways, railways, high-speed railways) have only been improvements on unpaved tracks.
There has been nothing transported that was not previously possible on a dirt track (ask the guys who transported the stones that made the pyramids). The difference is that later modes replaced earlier modes with something more efficient and/or faster. Taking a balance of speed and fuel efficiency*, railways win hands down.
What about this is a good idea again? I mean, I am practically speechless here.
You missed both the Doom *and* Wolf3D parts?
Doom did not run well on Win95 (I don't know anout Wolfenstein). Back then the Doom fans preferred to run it on DOS until it was open sourced and versions were ported to XP and Linux. Doom for Win95 was just a publicity stunt paid for by Gates.
It is very easy to see what browser is being used. If its not current, only load up a page that says update your browser
I find this sort of nagging intensely annoying, even if it still allows me to load the page. I decide for myself when to update my browser (and I don't intend to chase every Mozilla update) and how to manage my own security.
He would not have enough time even if he is doing at work. So he is doing is not what we are trying to understand by it. So there is no point in launching a tirade against "govt" in ignorance of what is really happening here.
It worries me that he must be writing articles and making edits mainly just on the basis of looking stuff up. He cannot have a very deep knowledge of most of what he is doing.
An advantage of Wikipedia should be that every article can be written/edited by someone well versed with the subject. I have done edits and articles in three or four areas I know well, with the assistance of refererences too, but I think that is about the limit of what anyone can be expert enough to do reliable edits.
You were a slave to the computer at the time. Apple changed the game.
And Apple users are not slaves to the iPhone/iPad ? Looking back at that Macintosh commercial, the queue of grey zombies marching forward makes me think now of the over-night queues of fans outside Apple shops when a new iPhone/iPad is being launched, some of them having sold their souls or kidneys to be there. Their previous model has been slowed down by remote control by Apple's software department, and their minds are remote controlled by Apple's marketing department. 1984 indeed.
"There is plenty of space in the air, but there will never be plenty of landing places in cities (or anywhere else that the "congestion" is headed for) and those will be the bottlenecks."
You didn't read the post closely enough. They're designing them to be VTOL vehicles, Vertical Take Off and Land. Any parking spot will do...h
You have obviously never seen London, which is what I am thinking of, and which has few open spaces available. FTFA : "30 feet long and 28 feet wide" - no normal "parking spot" is going to take that, nor are most existing flat roofs on office buildings (which are often far from flat) going to take the weight without re-inforcement. There are some places, but by the time you have unloaded what sounds like at least a couple of dozen passengers there is going to be a bottleneck queue for the helipad unless this scheme is only for millionaires.
It is a solution to traffic congestion for the people who can afford to fly
Exactly, and it is a solution for them only if there are only very few of them. There is plenty of space in the air, but there will never be plenty of landing places in cities (or anywhere else that the "congestion" is headed for) and those will be the bottlenecks. These things will be queueing up for ages waiting for their turn on the landing pad.
They teach PHBs at business school to do layoffs for no reason other than to get noticed by their peers who have also been taught to do layoffs. If you have ever been in one of these episodes (I have but not laid off myself) it is done by senior managers who do not have a clue what people are actually doing or what needs to be done (as they never bother to find out), and the people laid off are not the less effective workers but rather the choice is random. In particular incoming managers like doing layoffs in order to pose as "new brooms sweeping clean".
One new engineering department director we had made a meet-and-greet speech on Day 1 of his arrival, and it was clear from what he said that he had a complete misunderstanding of what we did. He thought we designed things but in fact we were operational trouble-shooters. It was embarrasing. I tried to put him right but he talked me down. On Day 2 he started the random cuts. Later he got fired himself, nothing but an empty BS-talking head.
LOL. Sure, I totally believe you have internal Tesla documents. Totally. This is my believing-you face. See it? Totally believing you.
Time and again you, Rei, have made posts here that show that you have a close knowledge of Tesla affairs - or you are very good at fabricating an appearance that you have. I do believe you have that knowledge, even if I don't buy your conclusions and predictions which are generally hype. I have even half-jokingly suggested that you are Musk himself.
Yet you poke fun at the idea that anyone else has internal knowledge of Tesla. I am prepared to believe that the GP does have the data that he bases his comment on - it sounds very plausible and if you say anything to the contrary it is just your word against his.
And the only way to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more is to Open Source Windows 10.
The result would be to stick it to Google/Apple too, which would be "icing on the cake."
Why TF do you think every person currently using open source stuff would want to switch to an open-sourced Windows? It will remain the platform for malware and adware whatever you do to it - partly because the world of admen and scammers needs such a platform. An open source Windows development environment would merely be a battleground between people like you trying or wanting to mend it and the scammers constantly adding more malware to it. At least with Microsoft it's better the devil you know than the devil you don't.
You think Linux has a lot of forks, but open source Windows would have thousands of them as each scammer promotes their own version and attempts to take control of the others, and Joe WIndowsuser would would suck it all up ("I see your Windows is Out of Date - Click Here to Resolve this Issue"). Anyone with good intent would be the loser.
So it is a probe using several technologies that should in theory give 10% of the speed of light or an alien sent it to travel millions of years ago and it lasted in interstellar space for millions of years.
Why not? It might just be a chunk of stone or iron that they sent, just to get us wound up. Like chucking a brick through someone's window.
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People are comparing USA with China, but those are extremes. European countries find it perfectly possible to build high speed lines, and they are not authoritarian nations.
Highways made it possible to travel and transport goods in a way that wasn't previously possible. This high-speed train aimed to replace one mode of transportation with another.
Pre-historic tracks such as the Icknield Way in the UK made things possible because there was nothing before them. However every type of "highway" in the broadest sense since then (paved Roman roads, canals, Eisenhower's highways, railways, high-speed railways) have only been improvements on unpaved tracks.
There has been nothing transported that was not previously possible on a dirt track (ask the guys who transported the stones that made the pyramids). The difference is that later modes replaced earlier modes with something more efficient and/or faster. Taking a balance of speed and fuel efficiency*, railways win hands down.
* Walking is unbeatable for fuel efficiency.
No, farming is their business and being unemployed is their hobby.
Tim Cook is an ideological nutter. He thinks it's a sin not to ban things he disagrees with
Does he make an exception for gay porn ?
What about this is a good idea again? I mean, I am practically speechless here.
You missed both the Doom *and* Wolf3D parts?
Doom did not run well on Win95 (I don't know anout Wolfenstein). Back then the Doom fans preferred to run it on DOS until it was open sourced and versions were ported to XP and Linux. Doom for Win95 was just a publicity stunt paid for by Gates.
It is very easy to see what browser is being used. If its not current, only load up a page that says update your browser
I find this sort of nagging intensely annoying, even if it still allows me to load the page. I decide for myself when to update my browser (and I don't intend to chase every Mozilla update) and how to manage my own security.
They are good at splitting infinitives, in fact they are proud of it.
He would not have enough time even if he is doing at work. So he is doing is not what we are trying to understand by it. So there is no point in launching a tirade against "govt" in ignorance of what is really happening here.
It worries me that he must be writing articles and making edits mainly just on the basis of looking stuff up. He cannot have a very deep knowledge of most of what he is doing.
An advantage of Wikipedia should be that every article can be written/edited by someone well versed with the subject. I have done edits and articles in three or four areas I know well, with the assistance of refererences too, but I think that is about the limit of what anyone can be expert enough to do reliable edits.
Christ, you have some bad dreams.
She? Speaking about an ex-wife or just being a usual misogynist?
It's probably Richard Stallman. He always does that.
Young people have neckbeards too. They are back in fashion.
I hope the training course was not on website development.
You were a slave to the computer at the time. Apple changed the game.
And Apple users are not slaves to the iPhone/iPad ? Looking back at that Macintosh commercial, the queue of grey zombies marching forward makes me think now of the over-night queues of fans outside Apple shops when a new iPhone/iPad is being launched, some of them having sold their souls or kidneys to be there. Their previous model has been slowed down by remote control by Apple's software department, and their minds are remote controlled by Apple's marketing department. 1984 indeed.
OK, so what is the disease?
I found it patronising.
"There is plenty of space in the air, but there will never be plenty of landing places in cities (or anywhere else that the "congestion" is headed for) and those will be the bottlenecks."
You didn't read the post closely enough. They're designing them to be VTOL vehicles, Vertical Take Off and Land. Any parking spot will do ...h
You have obviously never seen London, which is what I am thinking of, and which has few open spaces available. FTFA : "30 feet long and 28 feet wide" - no normal "parking spot" is going to take that, nor are most existing flat roofs on office buildings (which are often far from flat) going to take the weight without re-inforcement. There are some places, but by the time you have unloaded what sounds like at least a couple of dozen passengers there is going to be a bottleneck queue for the helipad unless this scheme is only for millionaires.
It is a solution to traffic congestion for the people who can afford to fly
Exactly, and it is a solution for them only if there are only very few of them. There is plenty of space in the air, but there will never be plenty of landing places in cities (or anywhere else that the "congestion" is headed for) and those will be the bottlenecks. These things will be queueing up for ages waiting for their turn on the landing pad.
FTFS :-
The problem ... is caused by Apple using much thinner ribbon cables instead of the thicker wires used in previous generation
But isn't it the thinner the better?
That's what they bought it for.
FTFA :
Today the islands are so festooned with wind turbines ...
I'm dropping any idea of visiting there as a tourist*. The place must look like an industrial estate.
* Perhaps they see that as a plus point.
They teach PHBs at business school to do layoffs for no reason other than to get noticed by their peers who have also been taught to do layoffs. If you have ever been in one of these episodes (I have but not laid off myself) it is done by senior managers who do not have a clue what people are actually doing or what needs to be done (as they never bother to find out), and the people laid off are not the less effective workers but rather the choice is random. In particular incoming managers like doing layoffs in order to pose as "new brooms sweeping clean".
One new engineering department director we had made a meet-and-greet speech on Day 1 of his arrival, and it was clear from what he said that he had a complete misunderstanding of what we did. He thought we designed things but in fact we were operational trouble-shooters. It was embarrasing. I tried to put him right but he talked me down. On Day 2 he started the random cuts. Later he got fired himself, nothing but an empty BS-talking head.
LOL. Sure, I totally believe you have internal Tesla documents. Totally. This is my believing-you face. See it? Totally believing you.
Time and again you, Rei, have made posts here that show that you have a close knowledge of Tesla affairs - or you are very good at fabricating an appearance that you have. I do believe you have that knowledge, even if I don't buy your conclusions and predictions which are generally hype. I have even half-jokingly suggested that you are Musk himself.
Yet you poke fun at the idea that anyone else has internal knowledge of Tesla. I am prepared to believe that the GP does have the data that he bases his comment on - it sounds very plausible and if you say anything to the contrary it is just your word against his.
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And the only way to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more is to Open Source Windows 10.
The result would be to stick it to Google/Apple too, which would be "icing on the cake."
Why TF do you think every person currently using open source stuff would want to switch to an open-sourced Windows? It will remain the platform for malware and adware whatever you do to it - partly because the world of admen and scammers needs such a platform. An open source Windows development environment would merely be a battleground between people like you trying or wanting to mend it and the scammers constantly adding more malware to it. At least with Microsoft it's better the devil you know than the devil you don't.
You think Linux has a lot of forks, but open source Windows would have thousands of them as each scammer promotes their own version and attempts to take control of the others, and Joe WIndowsuser would would suck it all up ("I see your Windows is Out of Date - Click Here to Resolve this Issue"). Anyone with good intent would be the loser.
So it is a probe using several technologies that should in theory give 10% of the speed of light or an alien sent it to travel millions of years ago and it lasted in interstellar space for millions of years.
Why not? It might just be a chunk of stone or iron that they sent, just to get us wound up. Like chucking a brick through someone's window.