> As gas is currently 1.10 euro/litre, so like appx 4 dollars/gallon Conversely, whilst gas is about US$6/gallon in the UK, it's still cheaper to drive (and almost always faster - regardless of the level of traffic!)
> 3hrs from Waterloo to Gare du Nord Fortunatly for all of us, most of that journey is in France rather than the UK. If the balance were the other way (so we had to rely more on the British side) it'd be more like three days...
> can it be made safe against terrorists Sure. Don't build it, and stay home. Much of the rest of the world (i.e. that bit that's outside the US) has some experience in dealing with terrorists first-hand rather than seeing it on the news. And I think you'll find that in the real world, deliberate attacks actually contribute to a very small percentage of rail accidents.
> $40 for ten beers? They'd better be about 3 pints each for that price. I think you'll find the original poster is in Australia. $Aus are not the same as $US. (Then again, US Pints aren't the same as rest-of-the-world pints:-)
> Of course a ground effect [vlewis.net]vehicle would be way cooler;) At the risk of being branded a pedant, I'm going to say that's actually a wing-in-ground effect craft. But yes, it would be ultimatly cool.
> The simple reason is to be found in the massive inefficiency of our railway corporation DB: "Deutsche Bahn". I didn't know Germans even had a word for "inefficiency":-) Seriously, though, if you think DB is bad (or expensive) you should try the UK's rail network. I've never travelled on the DB, but I can confidently say that the UK's rail "network" is worse in every respect.
> still waiting for a link to full train high-speed derailment w/o casualties , which I believe is quite impossible
It's just possible that the reason nobody has provided a link to such an incident is that the TGV has never had a full train high-speed derailment? Perhaps YOU can provide a like to such a derailment where there were fatalities? As an occasional victim of the sick joke that is the British railway network, I find the TGV's safety record to be outstanding.
> Apparently the British high-speed track will be up by 2008 or so. Ah, but "high-speed" is not really anything you could ever accuse the British railway network of, it is? I remember the last time I travelled the 120 miles from Heathrow to my home by train - it took 6 (yes, SIX!) hours. Which is an average of about 20 mph. And it ended up costing more than it would have cost me to hire a car for the journey. All thanks to Fatty "Two Jags" Prescott.
> I'm a purist, unfortunately, and I prefer using notations which I believe are standard and correct So you're not keen on furlongs-per-fortnight as a measure of speed then?
> replaced with a traditional people mover Last time I flew from BHX, the "link" from the station to the airport was a bus...Which is typical for UK transport
> where did the guy who wrote the article took physics I have no idea, but since you're casting stones, where did you take English?
> he should have written km/h In the rather large proportion of the world that ISN'T the USA, "kph" is widely recognised as the abreviation for kilometers per hour.
> From what I remember, even with all these obstacles, OS/2 Warp sold more retail copies than Windows 95 "Shipped" might be a better word than "sold" - myself and a whole bunch of people I knew at the time got copies of Warp for the price of a postage stamp.
I really liked it, except for the poor driver support (IIRC, I had an Orchid F1280 video card at the time, and the best resolution I could get under Warp was 640x480x16colours - which sucked bit time.)
> Templates people, we need templates! Probably not, actually. Lobbying works MUCH better if each individual writes their own letter citing the salient points rather than just cut&pasting a form letter. It works even better it it's hand written (as long as your handwriting is legible!)
> Have another warm beer I don't drink warm beer. But at least we HAVE beer, ulike the yanks (that's why we have drinking songs for them to nick as national anthems) > and deepfried Mars bar. That's Scotland, which is a different country.
And there isn't a Porsche that I'd take over my Mitsubishi any day. (Two reasons: First, I've owned a Porsche before, secondly - the Mitsubishi's more practical, handles better and is faster)
> So slashdot is a fair part of 1% of the whole Internet? Sure. Clearly not. And I don't believe I said that. I wouldn't have thought anyone would be dumb enough to need it spelt out for them. I apologise profusly for overestimating your intelligence. (On the other hand, since that comment was posted as AC, I have to assume you can't spell your own name).
Pick any two regular slashdot readers at random. I gaurentee they will have more in common than just reading/. - since there has to be something that motivates them to read/. There's probably a common interest in technology, or the net as an information distribution channel, etc. etc. Thus, the two readers "1%" of the web will overlap - at places other than/.
> googles language filtering is somewhat broken I think Google's filtering relies on web authours putting the appropriate tags in their pages. Since many web authours couldn't care less about proper HTML, as long as they sell whatever it is they're selling, they don't bother. Personally, I'd like to see search engines which automatically rejects anything which isn't Valid HTML
> It's highly unlikely that I'm interested in your 1%. You almost certainly are interested in a fair proportion of the OP's 1% - you both read slashdot...
Slashdot Mirror
> As gas is currently 1.10 euro/litre, so like appx 4 dollars/gallon
Conversely, whilst gas is about US$6/gallon in the UK, it's still cheaper to drive (and almost always faster - regardless of the level of traffic!)
> 3hrs from Waterloo to Gare du Nord
Fortunatly for all of us, most of that journey is in France rather than the UK. If the balance were the other way (so we had to rely more on the British side) it'd be more like three days...
> can it be made safe against terrorists
Sure. Don't build it, and stay home.
Much of the rest of the world (i.e. that bit that's outside the US) has some experience in dealing with terrorists first-hand rather than seeing it on the news. And I think you'll find that in the real world, deliberate attacks actually contribute to a very small percentage of rail accidents.
> . Trains have no vertical motion.
Maglevs do have vertical motion.
> $40 for ten beers? They'd better be about 3 pints each for that price. :-)
I think you'll find the original poster is in Australia. $Aus are not the same as $US. (Then again, US Pints aren't the same as rest-of-the-world pints
> Yes I'm lame :-)
Ah, but at least you take pride in being good at it
> Of course a ground effect [vlewis.net]vehicle would be way cooler ;)
At the risk of being branded a pedant, I'm going to say that's actually a wing-in-ground effect craft. But yes, it would be ultimatly cool.
> The simple reason is to be found in the massive inefficiency of our railway corporation DB: "Deutsche Bahn". :-)
I didn't know Germans even had a word for "inefficiency"
Seriously, though, if you think DB is bad (or expensive) you should try the UK's rail network. I've never travelled on the DB, but I can confidently say that the UK's rail "network" is worse in every respect.
> still waiting for a link to full train high-speed derailment w/o casualties , which I believe is quite impossible
It's just possible that the reason nobody has provided a link to such an incident is that the TGV has never had a full train high-speed derailment? Perhaps YOU can provide a like to such a derailment where there were fatalities?
As an occasional victim of the sick joke that is the British railway network, I find the TGV's safety record to be outstanding.
> Apparently the British high-speed track will be up by 2008 or so.
Ah, but "high-speed" is not really anything you could ever accuse the British railway network of, it is?
I remember the last time I travelled the 120 miles from Heathrow to my home by train - it took 6 (yes, SIX!) hours. Which is an average of about 20 mph. And it ended up costing more than it would have cost me to hire a car for the journey. All thanks to Fatty "Two Jags" Prescott.
> I'm a purist, unfortunately, and I prefer using notations which I believe are standard and correct
So you're not keen on furlongs-per-fortnight as a measure of speed then?
I hope it works better than Eurostar does (whilst it's west of the channel, anyway)
> replaced with a traditional people mover
Last time I flew from BHX, the "link" from the station to the airport was a bus...Which is typical for UK transport
> where did the guy who wrote the article took physics
I have no idea, but since you're casting stones, where did you take English?
> he should have written km/h
In the rather large proportion of the world that ISN'T the USA, "kph" is widely recognised as the abreviation for kilometers per hour.
> From what I remember, even with all these obstacles, OS/2 Warp sold more retail copies than Windows 95
"Shipped" might be a better word than "sold" - myself and a whole bunch of people I knew at the time got copies of Warp for the price of a postage stamp.
I really liked it, except for the poor driver support (IIRC, I had an Orchid F1280 video card at the time, and the best resolution I could get under Warp was 640x480x16colours - which sucked bit time.)
> Templates people, we need templates!
Probably not, actually. Lobbying works MUCH better if each individual writes their own letter citing the salient points rather than just cut&pasting a form letter. It works even better it it's hand written (as long as your handwriting is legible!)
Of what? Colonials stealing old drinking songs? No way - it's old, hackneyed and used up. We've moved on.
> Have another warm beer
I don't drink warm beer. But at least we HAVE beer, ulike the yanks (that's why we have drinking songs for them to nick as national anthems)
> and deepfried Mars bar.
That's Scotland, which is a different country.
And there isn't a Porsche that I'd take over my Mitsubishi any day. (Two reasons: First, I've owned a Porsche before, secondly - the Mitsubishi's more practical, handles better and is faster)
> So slashdot is a fair part of 1% of the whole Internet? Sure.
/. - since there has to be something that motivates them to read /. There's probably a common interest in technology, or the net as an information distribution channel, etc. etc. Thus, the two readers "1%" of the web will overlap - at places other than /.
Clearly not. And I don't believe I said that. I wouldn't have thought anyone would be dumb enough to need it spelt out for them. I apologise profusly for overestimating your intelligence. (On the other hand, since that comment was posted as AC, I have to assume you can't spell your own name).
Pick any two regular slashdot readers at random. I gaurentee they will have more in common than just reading
> googles language filtering is somewhat broken
I think Google's filtering relies on web authours putting the appropriate tags in their pages. Since many web authours couldn't care less about proper HTML, as long as they sell whatever it is they're selling, they don't bother.
Personally, I'd like to see search engines which automatically rejects anything which isn't Valid HTML
> The Slashdot masses will one day realize FreeBSD is the one truly worthy of blind worship.
/.poll?)
The FreeBSD masses will one day realize that CowboyNeal is the one truly worthy of blind worship. (Or isn't this a
> ...the search engine analog of MHz as a measure of CPU performance
...or lines of code as a measure of programmer productivity.
> What are you, AN AMERICAN TALIBAN?
No. I'm English - and you're a colonial who has a drinking song for a national anthem.
> It's highly unlikely that I'm interested in your 1%.
You almost certainly are interested in a fair proportion of the OP's 1% - you both read slashdot...