1. New rails and new cars.. (goes without saying)
2. New cars only have a 50km distance beyound rails
3. The rails have no switching.. it follows electronic rails (why not do the entire system like this??)
4. rails can not be out in the open.. (electricity like subway tracks)
5. The odd cars with a A going down the center.. more exspesive and heaveir.. move parts to upkeep.
>>Once you strap your vehicle to a rail, you lose control
But thats where RUF comes in... did you even read it ??
2) The RUF system can cover widespread areas.
Most modern cities are too widespread to be serviced by an ordinary train system. It is not acceptable to walk more than 300 m to a station, and waiting times must be very low. It is unacceptable to have to transfer between bus and train. Consequently, people use the car instead of the train.
The dual-mode ruf can go directly from door-to-door and start whenever the driver is ready.
The rail system enables safe driving at high speed with low energy consumption and high capacity. The ruf can leave the rail at junctions along the rail (5-20 km apart) and continue as an electric car. Switching from road to rail and from rail to road is done at 30 km/h. Rail driving is fully automatic.
One of the main reasons we need to do anything about our current transportation system is accidents.. I would think if your on a rail, without a human in control, or no way to hit the car next to you... the speeds should be twice that.. atleast for long distance travel..
Also.. why do the cars have to be electric powered.. can't we have a mix until batteries can last a little longer ??
Even though its based on Microsoft software and such. It still might make persuade more kids into taking computer classes and heading into the computer industry at an early age.
Once they have gained a stable base, most will more then likely go out on their own looking for things that interest them. Not to mention, how could one be computer literate these days and not know life outside of Microsoft.
I believe getting programs like these iinto schools is a good thing, even if they are funded by Microsoft. They will help everyone as a whole. And at some point as more open source companies and products become mainstream, you will see schools open to more then just a few free licenses from Microsoft.
On a last note. I would tend to think most middle school and high school computer teachers have not had much open source exsposure in their lives, mostly general computer use and programming. Once those teachers retire and new teachers that have "grown up with/grown along with" open source products will attitudes change as to what is tought.
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Adelphia has been rewiring me area recently..
I'm also outa Bell Atlantic territory..
Of course the day I moved out of my old apartment, there was a mailing in the mailbox announcing Adelphia "Power Link" service..
I actually use DirecPC now. I have no problems with it... Not getting 400Kbps lately... but I probably just need to go adjust the sattelite dish. (its on a wiggly pole)
Said NFL and big league athletes are getting a part of the pie the networks and others pay to the NFL to play the game.. (maybe not directly, but in some manner).. Therefore I think its ok to limit them to who they can talk to.. Plus all the time after the games to other press and media they describe what happen on certain plays.. Thats perfectly legal..
Why is it not alright for Olympic athletes who do not make a penny from the IOC or from their countries (ok some do) for going there... but they can't even describe what happen... its crazy..
My old apartment complex up here in Vermont had one of these.. The parking lot was downhill from the road, and the short in/out up the hill had embedded heat coils..
And yes, big puddles of ice formed at the bottom of the hill. It was mostly scraped up on snow plowing, and since it was flat it was easy to drive over...
Why is it morally wrong to try and sell something "intelectual" that you spent hours and hours creating ??
Why should it be any different if I spend 1000 hours creating a program and selling it to 1000 people for a dollar, and taking 1000 hours to create a wooden desk and sell it to one person for $1000 ??
Different people have different ideas of what the system should be... So if I create something, I should be able to use which ever system I want to distribute it..
Sure the paper may be lacking... but this is the web.. its all about hits.....
Well next time you don't have the cancer medicine to keep yourself alive... you can thank yourself..
Since in your world there is no IP, therefore that drug company has no incentive to spend 10 million to find a drug that cures cancer... because once they do.. someone else will grab the recipie and that orig drug company is out their 10 million....
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I think its time to port slashcode to python..
who's with me ??
Seriously. I don't think python is used "pretty much across the board, much more across the board than Perl."
Perl's community and cpan archive can't be beat...
DirecPc now has unlimited time plans..
It should be noted that DirecPc should only be considered for those that do not have any other broadband options...
and it networks just fine on a windows system..
Lite (2-4 users) $199.00
Base (10-30 users) $599.00
Unlimited (unlimited users) $999.00
I'd like to see anyone use DirecPc with over 30 users... that'd be a site to see....
Just too many little things...
1. New rails and new cars.. (goes without saying)
2. New cars only have a 50km distance beyound rails
3. The rails have no switching.. it follows electronic rails (why not do the entire system like this??)
4. rails can not be out in the open.. (electricity like subway tracks)
5. The odd cars with a A going down the center.. more exspesive and heaveir.. move parts to upkeep.
and so on and so forth...
>>Once you strap your vehicle to a rail, you lose control
But thats where RUF comes in... did you even read it ??
2) The RUF system can cover widespread areas.
Most modern cities are too widespread to be serviced by an ordinary train system. It is not acceptable to walk more than 300 m to a station, and waiting times must be very low. It is unacceptable to have to transfer between bus and train. Consequently, people use the car instead of the train.
The dual-mode ruf can go directly from door-to-door and start whenever the driver is ready.
The rail system enables safe driving at high speed with low energy consumption and high capacity. The ruf can leave the rail at junctions along the rail (5-20 km apart) and continue as an electric car. Switching from road to rail and from rail to road is done at 30 km/h. Rail driving is fully automatic.
Its only got an average speed of 50mph....
bah...
One of the main reasons we need to do anything about our current transportation system is accidents.. I would think if your on a rail, without a human in control, or no way to hit the car next to you... the speeds should be twice that.. atleast for long distance travel..
Also.. why do the cars have to be electric powered.. can't we have a mix until batteries can last a little longer ??
he has 2 machines...
so how many more does it take to make a beowulf cluster of these ??
Even though its based on Microsoft software and such. It still might make persuade more kids into taking computer classes and heading into the computer industry at an early age.
Once they have gained a stable base, most will more then likely go out on their own looking for things that interest them. Not to mention, how could one be computer literate these days and not know life outside of Microsoft.
I believe getting programs like these iinto schools is a good thing, even if they are funded by Microsoft. They will help everyone as a whole. And at some point as more open source companies and products become mainstream, you will see schools open to more then just a few free licenses from Microsoft.
On a last note. I would tend to think most middle school and high school computer teachers have not had much open source exsposure in their lives, mostly general computer use and programming. Once those teachers retire and new teachers that have "grown up with/grown along with" open source products will attitudes change as to what is tought.
google has a nice cache....
Too bad you can't /. google...
c om/products/products_main.htm+keybowl&hl =en
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.keybowl.
You wouldn't live in Vermont by any chance ??
Adelphia has been rewiring me area recently..
I'm also outa Bell Atlantic territory..
Of course the day I moved out of my old apartment, there was a mailing in the mailbox announcing Adelphia "Power Link" service..
I actually use DirecPC now. I have no problems with it... Not getting 400Kbps lately... but I probably just need to go adjust the sattelite dish. (its on a wiggly pole)
Cities are bad enough with cars all over the place. Smelly, dirty, noisy. Do we really want our sky filled with people flying around like gnats???
So PlayStation2 will be the (Talking Elmo|Furby) of this holiday season...
As long as we don't have to hear about it day after day in the media.....
ok... looks like i was wrong....
I found this link to this image.. I have no idea where it was located on the fuckedcompany web site..
http://www.vfxweb.com/fuckedlab.gif
its a parody though... so idealab is sol....
Looks like they were complaining about http://www.fastcompany.com/homepage/ although that looks nothing like FUCKEDcomapny.com
I demand you stop using the same table tag as me damn it... I'll sue..
I'd like to see the stats for fuckedcompany after this and that ebay thing... up up up..
Said NFL and big league athletes are getting a part of the pie the networks and others pay to the NFL to play the game.. (maybe not directly, but in some manner).. Therefore I think its ok to limit them to who they can talk to.. Plus all the time after the games to other press and media they describe what happen on certain plays.. Thats perfectly legal..
Why is it not alright for Olympic athletes who do not make a penny from the IOC or from their countries (ok some do) for going there... but they can't even describe what happen... its crazy..
It would be interesting to see what kind of papaers ("contracts") the athletes signed with the IOC..
My room mate from a few years back, swam for his country.. "Well I can't tell you anything about it, or the IOC will take me to court"
The Olympics is now one big joke, if it wasn't already....
No were not negative on /., we just want to read about things available for purchase and use..
Atleast I do...
Is there nothing cool coming currently on the market...
Sys Technology is pleased to announce the preliminary configuration
My old apartment complex up here in Vermont had one of these.. The parking lot was downhill from the road, and the short in/out up the hill had embedded heat coils..
And yes, big puddles of ice formed at the bottom of the hill. It was mostly scraped up on snow plowing, and since it was flat it was easy to drive over...
Given that the credit card companies eat the cost of fraud, they have every motive to minimize it
Nope... The merchant eats all of the fraud cost and more... CC company doesn't suffer a bit... cept some adminstrative costs....
I shouldn't be allowed to produce any technology that might possibly allow someone to make a copy of that information.....
;)
Not a problem.... create away...
I'll just go after the end users....
Bad example, but you already knew that.
Yeah... I knew that... but its Thursday... its late.. what more do you want...
The inital reasoning is still bullshit....
Why is it morally wrong to try and sell something "intelectual" that you spent hours and hours creating ??
Why should it be any different if I spend 1000 hours creating a program and selling it to 1000 people for a dollar, and taking 1000 hours to create a wooden desk and sell it to one person for $1000 ??
Different people have different ideas of what the system should be... So if I create something, I should be able to use which ever system I want to distribute it..
Sure the paper may be lacking... but this is the web.. its all about hits.....
Well next time you don't have the cancer medicine to keep yourself alive... you can thank yourself..
Since in your world there is no IP, therefore that drug company has no incentive to spend 10 million to find a drug that cures cancer... because once they do.. someone else will grab the recipie and that orig drug company is out their 10 million....