Bus routes go everywhere, but there's one very key differences between busses and cars. Have you ever seen a bus park at a local service station?
Actually, I have. I live in an area in South Wales that is fairly remote from a bus depot. I think some buses are stabled locally and have seen them filling in my local Tescos' filling station.
Cities should seriously look into electrifying heavily used bus routes.
Er... no. "heavily used bus routes" tend to have several services along the same road. Sometimes a slow-filling bus on one service needs to be overtaken by another on a different service that does not need to be at the bus stop for so long. That is not possible if they are all trolley buses (overhead catenary buses as you refer to them).
I remember trolley buses in London. They mostly ran on routes in suburbia in radial directions so they did not cross or share any road with each other. Where they shared a road with other services, those others were diesel buses. All a bit limiting.
until the various Linux communities figure out how to make their software work as easily as either of the big boys, which means running real programs such as Photoshop....
Unless, highly unlikely, Adobe were to release the source code for Photoshop, that is not possible for the Linux community to "figure out". Only Adobe could do that.
Microsoft spends lots of money to make all sorts of peripherals... work.
No Microsoft don't. It is the peripheral makers who spend the money and effort to make their stuff work in Windows; they do not always bother to do that for Linux. All Microsoft need to do is sit on their arse and let it happen.
I'm in the UK and maybe I don't know enough about roads in the USA (yes do I know they drive on the wrong side of the road there), but I'm failing to see how the right turning driver can "wind up still moving" unless he recrosses his original road on a bridge. Surely he will turn right, right, and right again in side streets and then recross his original direction where he is still likely to end up waiting at traffic lights just as much as if he had turned left in the first place.
In London right turns (read "left" in the USA) are often banned and a sign suggests a left-left-left-recross route. However this is for the benefit of drivers behind you, not yourself, as you will hold them all up in the single lane [per direction] that most London streets have. Where in the UK there is room for a right-turn lane there is no advantage in telling drivers to go left-left-left-recross instead of right. Major/newer traffic lights in the UK only allow one approach road to move at a time anyway.
The problem if everyone has 100% free time is that many will have a lot of babies.
Why? A typical couple in the West have sex twice a week but they don't have 100 babies every year; more like 2 in a lifetime. Having more leisure time might mean more sex but is no reason for more babies.
(The more aware) citizens also know that without illegal labor, their costs will rise precipitously.
The questions to ask there are:
Do you want to pay $4.00 for an orange, and $30/hour for a babysitter, and $50/hour for lawn care?
There was very little illegal labour in the UK a generation ago, but costs were nothing like that (corrected for inflation). People got on fine (but cut their own lawns). It suprises me how cheap food like fruit (but not meat) is in the shops here (maybe it's the illegal labour) and it would not bother me if it cost more. What is expensive is any sort of services presumably because they employ a lot of people to deal with all the paperwork required, and for stuff like advertising and insurance - which have been massive growth industries demanding their cut.
The target parking lot has plenty of space to land in.
Then if it does not need car capabilities and does not have them, it is not a "flying car". If I have a small boat that cannot drive along roads, I do not call it a "floating car" just because it is as "affordable by more families" as the GP thinks. I have a few of affordable things around me, so if we should now call anything we can afford a "something car" then I have a "shed car", a "television car", a "microwave car", a "lawnmower car", a "knife-and-fork car", and a "can of beer car", among other things.
... users are apparently unwilling to pay the subscription model, perhaps given the alternatives like Google Docs.... Or even 10 year old licenses of Office
[My italics]
Why "Or even" as if it is the outlier? I would have though that was the main reason. Why rent something if you already own one? [Cue the nitpickers who say you never own software, but you get the point]. I'm sitting on a chair here - why would I move it aside and pay someone to rent one instead? It is not as if the requirements on word processors have changed much over the years (not at all for me), and they never wear out - only when they will literally not run on the latest version of Windows if that's your OS.
Mind you, I expect that Microsoft will see to that soon enough.
... the adequacy of old perpetually licensed versions... the preference against paying annually for software licenses
Right. It is utterly beyond me why anyone would want to pay MS rent for something they already have. I could even run my old WordPerfect in Windows XP in a VM and it would do all I need (or all my work needs).
Stop being cheap and buy known certified products from official channels in the first place, instead of cheaping out with items from Alibaba.
What exactly is an "official channel"? So, if everyone took your advice, all the counterfeiters would need to do is raise their prices to the "official" price and call themselves an "official channel". Then they will get more buyers and more profit, win-win for them.
Well Slashdot is quoting a science article from the Sun 'newspaper'
I missed that. Non-UK Slashdotters might not know that The Sun (a Murdock newspaper) is the trashiest daily paper in the UK, even worse than the Mirror. A Sun factoid is that the editorial policy imposes a ~1000 word vocabulary set up in the spell checkers (it may be 2000, variable, but very low anyway), to use a word outside which a writer needs special permission from the editor.
"Alexa, where can I find a Philips head screwdriver?" and instead of directing you to the nearest hardware store, she directs you to a drawer or cabinet containing one.
Wrong. It will lie that you do not have one in the house and then then bombard you with adverts for local hardware stores.
Slashdot Mirror
Buses go through predictable routes
Bus routes go everywhere, but there's one very key differences between busses and cars. Have you ever seen a bus park at a local service station?
Actually, I have. I live in an area in South Wales that is fairly remote from a bus depot. I think some buses are stabled locally and have seen them filling in my local Tescos' filling station.
Cities should seriously look into electrifying heavily used bus routes.
Er ... no. "heavily used bus routes" tend to have several services along the same road. Sometimes a slow-filling bus on one service needs to be overtaken by another on a different service that does not need to be at the bus stop for so long. That is not possible if they are all trolley buses (overhead catenary buses as you refer to them).
I remember trolley buses in London. They mostly ran on routes in suburbia in radial directions so they did not cross or share any road with each other. Where they shared a road with other services, those others were diesel buses. All a bit limiting.
The GP wants Photoshop itself for Linux, not a clone with a good UI.
This. rump has made our lives a living hell. It's just been theee weeks since he started ruling us, but I already want to die.
Please get on with it.
until the various Linux communities figure out how to make their software work as easily as either of the big boys, which means running real programs such as Photoshop ....
Unless, highly unlikely, Adobe were to release the source code for Photoshop, that is not possible for the Linux community to "figure out". Only Adobe could do that.
Microsoft spends lots of money to make all sorts of peripherals ... work.
No Microsoft don't. It is the peripheral makers who spend the money and effort to make their stuff work in Windows; they do not always bother to do that for Linux. All Microsoft need to do is sit on their arse and let it happen.
I'm in the UK and maybe I don't know enough about roads in the USA (yes do I know they drive on the wrong side of the road there), but I'm failing to see how the right turning driver can "wind up still moving" unless he recrosses his original road on a bridge. Surely he will turn right, right, and right again in side streets and then recross his original direction where he is still likely to end up waiting at traffic lights just as much as if he had turned left in the first place.
In London right turns (read "left" in the USA) are often banned and a sign suggests a left-left-left-recross route. However this is for the benefit of drivers behind you, not yourself, as you will hold them all up in the single lane [per direction] that most London streets have. Where in the UK there is room for a right-turn lane there is no advantage in telling drivers to go left-left-left-recross instead of right. Major/newer traffic lights in the UK only allow one approach road to move at a time anyway.
More deliveries per hour means a shorter work day unless other steps are taken, steps which may not always be possible.
The other steps would mean firing some drivers and making the rest do more deliveries. Did you think that UPS was run by Sister Theresa?
The problem if everyone has 100% free time is that many will have a lot of babies.
Why? A typical couple in the West have sex twice a week but they don't have 100 babies every year; more like 2 in a lifetime. Having more leisure time might mean more sex but is no reason for more babies.
(The more aware) citizens also know that without illegal labor, their costs will rise precipitously.
The questions to ask there are:
Do you want to pay $4.00 for an orange, and $30/hour for a babysitter, and $50/hour for lawn care?
There was very little illegal labour in the UK a generation ago, but costs were nothing like that (corrected for inflation). People got on fine (but cut their own lawns). It suprises me how cheap food like fruit (but not meat) is in the shops here (maybe it's the illegal labour) and it would not bother me if it cost more. What is expensive is any sort of services presumably because they employ a lot of people to deal with all the paperwork required, and for stuff like advertising and insurance - which have been massive growth industries demanding their cut.
This is why Uber is the rollout platform instead of your local used car salesmen.
And the good guy is ?
The target parking lot has plenty of space to land in.
Then if it does not need car capabilities and does not have them, it is not a "flying car". If I have a small boat that cannot drive along roads, I do not call it a "floating car" just because it is as "affordable by more families" as the GP thinks. I have a few of affordable things around me, so if we should now call anything we can afford a "something car" then I have a "shed car", a "television car", a "microwave car", a "lawnmower car", a "knife-and-fork car", and a "can of beer car", among other things.
But if you can't find time for sex when it is on offer you are doing life wrong!
And where would that be?
I'm puzzled as to how "conservative parts of America" even know how much sex goes on in Silicon Valley.
Your point?
Not good enough. I want an iCloud.NET system, installed personally by a Gates hologram. On second thoughts forget the last bit.
PCs are like pickup trucks. The vast majority of people only need cars, but no one claims pickups are "dying".
No, PCs are like cars. Hand-helds are like Auto-Rickshaws. An Auto-Rickshaw is enough for anybody.
... users are apparently unwilling to pay the subscription model, perhaps given the alternatives like Google Docs .... Or even 10 year old licenses of Office
[My italics]
Why "Or even" as if it is the outlier? I would have though that was the main reason. Why rent something if you already own one? [Cue the nitpickers who say you never own software, but you get the point]. I'm sitting on a chair here - why would I move it aside and pay someone to rent one instead? It is not as if the requirements on word processors have changed much over the years (not at all for me), and they never wear out - only when they will literally not run on the latest version of Windows if that's your OS.
Mind you, I expect that Microsoft will see to that soon enough.
... the adequacy of old perpetually licensed versions ... the preference against paying annually for software licenses
Right. It is utterly beyond me why anyone would want to pay MS rent for something they already have. I could even run my old WordPerfect in Windows XP in a VM and it would do all I need (or all my work needs).
Stop being cheap and buy known certified products from official channels in the first place, instead of cheaping out with items from Alibaba.
What exactly is an "official channel"? So, if everyone took your advice, all the counterfeiters would need to do is raise their prices to the "official" price and call themselves an "official channel". Then they will get more buyers and more profit, win-win for them.
And are those people going to also go buy the $30 usb C power meter?
But how would they know that the $30 usb C power meter they buy is not itself a counterfeit anyway?
It's strange how angry Linux supporters get about how it isn't really possible to remove IE or Edge from Windows without breaking things.
Linux supporter here. I don't give a fuck about it.
11 pm - Search for BDSM porn : Sorry, no signal.
10 am - Next day in corporate meeting : "Do it honey! Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!"
Well Slashdot is quoting a science article from the Sun 'newspaper'
I missed that. Non-UK Slashdotters might not know that The Sun (a Murdock newspaper) is the trashiest daily paper in the UK, even worse than the Mirror. A Sun factoid is that the editorial policy imposes a ~1000 word vocabulary set up in the spell checkers (it may be 2000, variable, but very low anyway), to use a word outside which a writer needs special permission from the editor.
"Alexa, where can I find a Philips head screwdriver?" and instead of directing you to the nearest hardware store, she directs you to a drawer or cabinet containing one.
Wrong. It will lie that you do not have one in the house and then then bombard you with adverts for local hardware stores.