You better read up about the MS requirements for secure boot with a pre-installed Win8...
What else you think Canonical and RH are doing spending money, time and effort to make their OS'es install in dual boot mode with Win8?
That crap only works when selling to businesses. If they're going to compete in the private sector they're going to have to get their act straight and get some hustle going.
Semifunctional products scheduled for release months from now won't compete well with products that work that are available today
Who is that competitor you seem to know?
The past 15 years +99.999% of all PC's come pre-installed with Windows and by that avenue we'll all be made to enjoy this new Genuine Experience.
Anyhow, I feel the learning curve from XP/Win7 to the Win8 GUI is steeper than to KDE or LXDE.
I know this article was written from a US perspective where the private car has a different meaning as in many other parts of the developed world.
But however you turn it the first years will likely have a mix of human and automatic vehicles on the road, possibly of even likely with dedicated lanes for each category.
Present traffic rules including speed limits are set because of a variety of reasons, the quality of the road and human fallibility are among the important. When the human factor is taken out speed limits can and will change.
In many parts of Europe speed limits are also set because of the environment, like noise in nature reserves and / or Nitric Oxide or fines levels in build up areas, the last will not change because the car is driver less.
After the transitional years it will become quite pointless to own a car as we know it, you pay for transport the way you are now paying for your internet access.
And by that time personal transport will have evolved to a new very personal public transport with totally different rules.
Sure it's harder to resist collapse of a cylindrical construction than to have it hold positive pressure but hey it's only 1 atmosphere of pressure, for example a composite would do easily.
The rock overlay is no problem as there will certainly be an outside concrete tunnel to house the installations required to run the thing, (as a matter of fact your estimation of the total burden is so nonsensical it disqualifies the rest of your thoughts):)
The better the vacuum the easier it is to have little by-pass, it's just one of the simpler engineering problems.
Slamming into air when a leak develops is a real consideration, a bit similar to an aircraft meeting the ground head on.
But when this tube would indeed be build the total volume would be so large that a regular leak would not cause a sudden pressurisation and by consequence the vehicles in the tunnel would, depending on their distance o the leak, slow down at a reasonable rate.
Many here talk about 'cars' holding the passengers or freight, I would say by definition they will be capsules similar to what we use in space.
But when you're further away from the cell tower your mobile device is going to ramp up it's power and because it is much closer to your TV you are more likely to have an issue.
I work regularly with deep vacuum and high pressure equipment, some of it is rather large.
With present technology it is very much feasible to build a 2-3 m. diameter evacuated tube that has an extremely low leak rate.
That would wholly defeat the idea of the near friction less vacuum.
Airflow in a tube would have to be at the same speed as the 'train' and at the speeds proposed be prohibitively expensive to run.
Besides, exposing people to a sudden 10 psi compression would not exactly be healthy.
Why do you see a problem with maintaining the vacuum, for many years we've successfully build large diameter and long distance gas trunk lines that have a much larger delta-pressure than a measly -1 atmosphere (-14.503 psi for the old fashioned) vacuum.
Stopping the capsules when loss of power occurs is just a matter of simple friction brakes like on high speed elevators.
And what makes you think we can't fly over the North Pole???
Pumping the proposed tube vacuum is a one-off effort and providing the tube is of sound construction (similar to a long distance gas line) you don't need much effort to maintain the vacuum.
Contrary to a gas flow inside a tube that does require constant and not insignificant maintenance.
The British pneumatic system was somewhat comparable to the steam slings used to launch aircraft on carriers and was inherently leaky.
And that's aside from the crude technology available 1-1/2 centuries ago.
I seems you are under the impression a lot of energy is needed to maintain a vacuum in the tubes.
Providing these tubes are not constructed or maintained by an English water board it would suffice to pump them vacuum only once and then enjoy the fun for almost free.
The containers with cargo and passengers would move along at very low energetic expense.
Oh and because the system would no doubt be underground you don't have to worry about any land use.
No one needs QWERTY, outside of the US a lot of people regularly change their keyboard layout depending which language they like to use.
That's one reason every desktop environment has some sort of Keyboard Layout switching utility, often right there in the task bar.
The proposed layout is for tiny devices probably better than the present systems but on a full size appliance there are much better options like the Dvorak and Colemak.
It'll be very hard to make large players in the marked switch over, just read the outcries about Win8 going to lose the Start button.
Sure but that's the way a lot of European governments are formed.
Parliamentary democracy comes about because such a government is controlled by the parliament.
That's why for example in my country we are not exactly impressed by the British system where the members of the cabinet are also elected parliamentarians, we like to avoid any impression of collusion between the powers.
Lets not talk about the 90+ dinosaurs in the British parliament that oppose getting rid of the very unelected Upper House...
True, the Commission is supposed to be independent and yet represent the various parts of the Union.
A commissioner that goes radically against the wishes of his home government or substantial parts of the population is taking a political risk.
For the electorate the way to influence these super civil servants is still by having their national governments express their displeasure, the other way is known as the Nuclear Option where the EU parliament sends the whole Commission home...
The equestrian sports are not only about the rider but also about the horse.
Like with doping in other sports this should not lead to a competition about who has the best medical support so I think this is a stupid step onto a very slippery slope.
Then, there is the sad fact that the Commission is viewed as something remote and inaccessible by the voters in Europe (or at least by the people I know), and there is a lot less public scrutiny directed at them as well.
I agree that large swaths of the press are not furthering the EU ideal but rather some masters interest, the prime example are the British rags continuing to regurgitate nonsense like about bent cucumbers supposedly being illegal to market.
Re:Ok, can the charade and let's get over with it.
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You are unnecessarily negative, like the new rules about network neutrality we can tacle the issue from the other side and introduce a law requiring/guaranteeing certain freedoms on the subjects threatened by ACTA/CETA.
When we keep pestering our national and EU lawmakers it can happen, the example has been set.
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You better read up about the MS requirements for secure boot with a pre-installed Win8...
What else you think Canonical and RH are doing spending money, time and effort to make their OS'es install in dual boot mode with Win8?
It has replaced the BIOS and i's known as EFI or UEFI and prevents any other OS from being installed unless you pay US$99.- for a 'licence' to MS.
The same message on a Danish connection.
Vive le tarte aux pommes!
Oh come one, just take an example on how the North Koreans are naming their dictators!
That crap only works when selling to businesses. If they're going to compete in the private sector they're going to have to get their act straight and get some hustle going.
Semifunctional products scheduled for release months from now won't compete well with products that work that are available today
Who is that competitor you seem to know?
The past 15 years +99.999% of all PC's come pre-installed with Windows and by that avenue we'll all be made to enjoy this new Genuine Experience.
Anyhow, I feel the learning curve from XP/Win7 to the Win8 GUI is steeper than to KDE or LXDE.
But however you turn it the first years will likely have a mix of human and automatic vehicles on the road, possibly of even likely with dedicated lanes for each category.
Present traffic rules including speed limits are set because of a variety of reasons, the quality of the road and human fallibility are among the important. When the human factor is taken out speed limits can and will change.
In many parts of Europe speed limits are also set because of the environment, like noise in nature reserves and / or Nitric Oxide or fines levels in build up areas, the last will not change because the car is driver less.
After the transitional years it will become quite pointless to own a car as we know it, you pay for transport the way you are now paying for your internet access.
And by that time personal transport will have evolved to a new very personal public transport with totally different rules.
Sure it's harder to resist collapse of a cylindrical construction than to have it hold positive pressure but hey it's only 1 atmosphere of pressure, for example a composite would do easily. :)
The rock overlay is no problem as there will certainly be an outside concrete tunnel to house the installations required to run the thing, (as a matter of fact your estimation of the total burden is so nonsensical it disqualifies the rest of your thoughts)
The better the vacuum the easier it is to have little by-pass, it's just one of the simpler engineering problems.
Slamming into air when a leak develops is a real consideration, a bit similar to an aircraft meeting the ground head on.
But when this tube would indeed be build the total volume would be so large that a regular leak would not cause a sudden pressurisation and by consequence the vehicles in the tunnel would, depending on their distance o the leak, slow down at a reasonable rate. Many here talk about 'cars' holding the passengers or freight, I would say by definition they will be capsules similar to what we use in space.
But when you're further away from the cell tower your mobile device is going to ramp up it's power and because it is much closer to your TV you are more likely to have an issue.
I work regularly with deep vacuum and high pressure equipment, some of it is rather large.
With present technology it is very much feasible to build a 2-3 m. diameter evacuated tube that has an extremely low leak rate.
Airflow in a tube would have to be at the same speed as the 'train' and at the speeds proposed be prohibitively expensive to run.
Besides, exposing people to a sudden 10 psi compression would not exactly be healthy.
Oops, absolute vacuum is in most states -14.73 psi, -15.2 psi in Louisiana :)
Stopping the capsules when loss of power occurs is just a matter of simple friction brakes like on high speed elevators.
And what makes you think we can't fly over the North Pole???
Pumping the proposed tube vacuum is a one-off effort and providing the tube is of sound construction (similar to a long distance gas line) you don't need much effort to maintain the vacuum.
Contrary to a gas flow inside a tube that does require constant and not insignificant maintenance.
No, that would only be the case when you'd be stupid enough to use the atmospheric pressure at the bottom to propel the capsule.
The British pneumatic system was somewhat comparable to the steam slings used to launch aircraft on carriers and was inherently leaky.
And that's aside from the crude technology available 1-1/2 centuries ago.
As a matter of fact there is no comparison.
Providing these tubes are not constructed or maintained by an English water board it would suffice to pump them vacuum only once and then enjoy the fun for almost free.
The containers with cargo and passengers would move along at very low energetic expense.
Oh and because the system would no doubt be underground you don't have to worry about any land use.
No one needs QWERTY, outside of the US a lot of people regularly change their keyboard layout depending which language they like to use.
That's one reason every desktop environment has some sort of Keyboard Layout switching utility, often right there in the task bar.
The proposed layout is for tiny devices probably better than the present systems but on a full size appliance there are much better options like the Dvorak and Colemak.
It'll be very hard to make large players in the marked switch over, just read the outcries about Win8 going to lose the Start button.
Parliamentary democracy comes about because such a government is controlled by the parliament.
That's why for example in my country we are not exactly impressed by the British system where the members of the cabinet are also elected parliamentarians, we like to avoid any impression of collusion between the powers.
Lets not talk about the 90+ dinosaurs in the British parliament that oppose getting rid of the very unelected Upper House...
http://www.mapperlithography.com/
Only when the correct # is pressed your phone commences to ring.
A commissioner that goes radically against the wishes of his home government or substantial parts of the population is taking a political risk.
For the electorate the way to influence these super civil servants is still by having their national governments express their displeasure, the other way is known as the Nuclear Option where the EU parliament sends the whole Commission home...
The equestrian sports are not only about the rider but also about the horse.
Like with doping in other sports this should not lead to a competition about who has the best medical support so I think this is a stupid step onto a very slippery slope.
Then, there is the sad fact that the Commission is viewed as something remote and inaccessible by the voters in Europe (or at least by the people I know), and there is a lot less public scrutiny directed at them as well.
I agree that large swaths of the press are not furthering the EU ideal but rather some masters interest, the prime example are the British rags continuing to regurgitate nonsense like about bent cucumbers supposedly being illegal to market.
You are unnecessarily negative, like the new rules about network neutrality we can tacle the issue from the other side and introduce a law requiring/guaranteeing certain freedoms on the subjects threatened by ACTA/CETA.
When we keep pestering our national and EU lawmakers it can happen, the example has been set.