Last couple of times when I used the app for the local theatre chain whenever I went to view a trailer they would toss in a trailer for another movie first. It's annoying enough to have to sit through the commercials and previews at the theatre but now they are doing it in their app for previews. It's like they are trying to make stay away.
No, you need to get cargo off the highways and onto trains which are much more fuel efficient. Forget the Hyperloop for people. Make it for cargo and get the trucks off the highways. I was leaving Toronto late one night and it was mostly transports. And a lot of those trucks are all heading to the same place. Use shipping containers, put them on trains, and then use trucks to do short haul for the last leg. Then by getting the trucks off of the highways we make them safer and we don't have to keep expanding them.
I never argued that we should keep less efficient planes. My point was that as more efficient planes, and operations as you pointed out, then the cost of flying goes down which opens the market to more people and we end up with more fossil fuels being used overall.
We should be making all forms of transportation more efficient and looking at getting them off of fossil fuels. However there is a side effect that by making them more efficient that they might get used more overtaking the efficiency gains. It's been seen with air travel and with lighting (I know it's not travel but it's a good example).
Won't happen for a long time because you could never charge the batteries of an airliner fast enough even assuming that you could work out the issue with the weight of the batteries. A quick charge for your car is 20 or 30 minutes. Now imagine how long it would take a plane to charge even allowing for higher currents. The airlines don't want their planes on the ground because they don't make money when the planes are there.
You say that as if there is a finite number of passengers. However as technology has allowed the cost of flying to come down it has only driven demand for travel up. There is nothing to suggest that this trend will reverse. Heck, even having the airlines think of passengers as cattle doesn't diminish the demand.
It's not like Netflix has to supply you with a physical connection to provide you with their services. It's just another website (with lots of capacity). Comcast has to install and maintain the cables and infrastructure to all of the buildings. Signing someone up to cable probably involves sending someone out for a visit while Netflix just collects some information to create an account with the billing information. Plus Comcast has a limited territory while Netflix is free to sign up anyone in the US so of course Netflix should have higher numbers.
I'm not defending Comcast but just pointing out that how they deliver content is completely different because Netflix has outsourced the delivery method completely while getting a package through a cable company includes it.
Of course that could be because they keep making them thinner and thinner. If the manufacturers stopped trying to making a phone you could shave with maybe they could put a larger battery in.
I have a Breville coffee machine. It can brew a single cup at a time (adjustable for the type of cup) or a carafe where you can specify the number of cups to brew. It grinds the beans for you and has a 12 cup reservoir. After you make your coffee all you have to do is dump the used coffee grounds and wash the permanent filter. Every now and then you top up the water and beans depending on usage.
Day to day I just make one cup at a time. But when I have company over I use the carafe and make a pot. Always the same great coffee.
I have a Breville coffee machine that lets you either make a single cup (which lets you adjust the amount of coffee for the size of the cup) or a pot of coffee (again you can specify the number of cups brewed). You can adjust the strength of the brew. It grinds the beans and has a water reservoir like you mention.
It's not cheap but if you go to Amazon and use a browser extension from CamelCamelCamel you can take a look at the price history and then set up a price watch to get it when it goes on sale.
And you want some awesome coffee then check out Pilot Coffee Roasters in Toronto. I order my coffee from them and have it shipped to me. It's ruined all of the coffee shops in town because their coffee is so much better. https://www.pilotcoffeeroaster...
But the engineer is applying the known rules to check the design. Science is about the pursuit of knowledge. How is checking the design of a bridge expanding knowledge unless it's using new materials or pushing the boundaries of what is possible? In my example I was thinking of something like replacing a simple overpass or basic bridge.
So when the civil engineer verifies that the bridge that has been designed won't fall down under the specified loads you are saying that they are being a scientist?
Tree farms are not much of a refuge for wildlife. They are a mono-culture just like any other farmed crop and nature doesn't like mono-cultures. The biodiversity is nowhere near as rich as a wild wood. It's a very depressing place. A tree farm is just row upon row of the same tree. Imagine a giant sized corn field but with trees instead. There is very little natural about it.
Is there only one?:) I used to watch a lot of the TED talks but then they started shoving so many of the TEDx talks on the podcast feed that I got sick of the crap that was coming through. There's two or three TEDx events in my city every year. They've diluted their brand so much that just about anyone who wants to can find an event to talk at. And while I know that TED != TEDx they've blurred the line by mixing talks from the two in with their podcast feed. At least they used to be together. It's been a few years since I've lost interest in the talks.
I was working at a small development shop about 15 years ago and I came in one morning to find the main development server not working. Turned out that the previous night a developer on the other project ran "rm -rf" from the root directory on the Sun box and then tried to fix things before giving up and going home. No note, no call to the boss, nothing to indicate what had happened so I had to figure that out when I arrived around 8 AM. Oh, and no backups of their project. I at least had the latest version of the source code on mine on my laptop the but the history and development environments would have been toast.
Since he toasted the box and it was the only Sun box around (small company) I had to install the OS again. But the only thing that saved us was the fact that rm deletes files and folders alphabetically (or at least at that time on the Sun boxes it did). So as soon as it started removing everything in/dev the machine was toast and it couldn't delete anything else. I first found this out by booting off the CD so I was able to mount the drives. We had our development environments and source code on separate drives (thankfully) so I copied anything that was useful off of the drive used for / onto one of them, installed the OS onto that drive while leaving the other drives alone, and then manually putting things back to where they were. Took less than a day and the owner was very thankful. Never heard a word from the guy that caused the mess though.
Ever since then whenever I've created mount points for new drives on Linux/UNIX servers I've always made sure that they come after dev alphabetically.
They will still be mining coal but they are shipping it overseas instead of burning it for electricity in the US. All the filing for bankruptcy does is allow them to restructure their debts and to cut back on pension plans and health care packages. Basically the workers will get the shaft again.
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No, because solar panels steal all the sunshine and the town will be thrown into perpetual darkness!
$49! Wow, it's $25 for the free shipping here in Canada.
Last couple of times when I used the app for the local theatre chain whenever I went to view a trailer they would toss in a trailer for another movie first. It's annoying enough to have to sit through the commercials and previews at the theatre but now they are doing it in their app for previews. It's like they are trying to make stay away.
You're not supposed to point out that the president doesn't have as much power as the public thinks the position has and spoil the illusion.
No, you need to get cargo off the highways and onto trains which are much more fuel efficient. Forget the Hyperloop for people. Make it for cargo and get the trucks off the highways. I was leaving Toronto late one night and it was mostly transports. And a lot of those trucks are all heading to the same place. Use shipping containers, put them on trains, and then use trucks to do short haul for the last leg. Then by getting the trucks off of the highways we make them safer and we don't have to keep expanding them.
It's fleecing the supporting governments for all the money they can provide at an amazing rate.
Oh, as a plane? No, it's an utter failure so far. Lucky the thing flies.
I never argued that we should keep less efficient planes. My point was that as more efficient planes, and operations as you pointed out, then the cost of flying goes down which opens the market to more people and we end up with more fossil fuels being used overall.
We should be making all forms of transportation more efficient and looking at getting them off of fossil fuels. However there is a side effect that by making them more efficient that they might get used more overtaking the efficiency gains. It's been seen with air travel and with lighting (I know it's not travel but it's a good example).
Won't happen for a long time because you could never charge the batteries of an airliner fast enough even assuming that you could work out the issue with the weight of the batteries. A quick charge for your car is 20 or 30 minutes. Now imagine how long it would take a plane to charge even allowing for higher currents. The airlines don't want their planes on the ground because they don't make money when the planes are there.
You say that as if there is a finite number of passengers. However as technology has allowed the cost of flying to come down it has only driven demand for travel up. There is nothing to suggest that this trend will reverse. Heck, even having the airlines think of passengers as cattle doesn't diminish the demand.
You do realize it's 72 former /. users.
It's not like Netflix has to supply you with a physical connection to provide you with their services. It's just another website (with lots of capacity). Comcast has to install and maintain the cables and infrastructure to all of the buildings. Signing someone up to cable probably involves sending someone out for a visit while Netflix just collects some information to create an account with the billing information. Plus Comcast has a limited territory while Netflix is free to sign up anyone in the US so of course Netflix should have higher numbers.
I'm not defending Comcast but just pointing out that how they deliver content is completely different because Netflix has outsourced the delivery method completely while getting a package through a cable company includes it.
Of course that could be because they keep making them thinner and thinner. If the manufacturers stopped trying to making a phone you could shave with maybe they could put a larger battery in.
I have a Breville coffee machine. It can brew a single cup at a time (adjustable for the type of cup) or a carafe where you can specify the number of cups to brew. It grinds the beans for you and has a 12 cup reservoir. After you make your coffee all you have to do is dump the used coffee grounds and wash the permanent filter. Every now and then you top up the water and beans depending on usage.
Day to day I just make one cup at a time. But when I have company over I use the carafe and make a pot. Always the same great coffee.
I have a Breville coffee machine that lets you either make a single cup (which lets you adjust the amount of coffee for the size of the cup) or a pot of coffee (again you can specify the number of cups brewed). You can adjust the strength of the brew. It grinds the beans and has a water reservoir like you mention.
It's not cheap but if you go to Amazon and use a browser extension from CamelCamelCamel you can take a look at the price history and then set up a price watch to get it when it goes on sale.
And you want some awesome coffee then check out Pilot Coffee Roasters in Toronto. I order my coffee from them and have it shipped to me. It's ruined all of the coffee shops in town because their coffee is so much better. https://www.pilotcoffeeroaster...
How so? Because the judge saw one white swan and declared that all swans are white?
Sounds like basic lab work and not science.
But the engineer is applying the known rules to check the design. Science is about the pursuit of knowledge. How is checking the design of a bridge expanding knowledge unless it's using new materials or pushing the boundaries of what is possible? In my example I was thinking of something like replacing a simple overpass or basic bridge.
So when the civil engineer verifies that the bridge that has been designed won't fall down under the specified loads you are saying that they are being a scientist?
An interesting comment on The Register pointed out that how the law is written it would ban the use of one way hashes to store passwords.
Tree farms are not much of a refuge for wildlife. They are a mono-culture just like any other farmed crop and nature doesn't like mono-cultures. The biodiversity is nowhere near as rich as a wild wood. It's a very depressing place. A tree farm is just row upon row of the same tree. Imagine a giant sized corn field but with trees instead. There is very little natural about it.
It doesn't have to be an either or situation. The management could be cheap and the person "filling" the soap could not give a shit.
On the person waiting to use it after you.
Is there only one? :) I used to watch a lot of the TED talks but then they started shoving so many of the TEDx talks on the podcast feed that I got sick of the crap that was coming through. There's two or three TEDx events in my city every year. They've diluted their brand so much that just about anyone who wants to can find an event to talk at. And while I know that TED != TEDx they've blurred the line by mixing talks from the two in with their podcast feed. At least they used to be together. It's been a few years since I've lost interest in the talks.
I was working at a small development shop about 15 years ago and I came in one morning to find the main development server not working. Turned out that the previous night a developer on the other project ran "rm -rf" from the root directory on the Sun box and then tried to fix things before giving up and going home. No note, no call to the boss, nothing to indicate what had happened so I had to figure that out when I arrived around 8 AM. Oh, and no backups of their project. I at least had the latest version of the source code on mine on my laptop the but the history and development environments would have been toast.
Since he toasted the box and it was the only Sun box around (small company) I had to install the OS again. But the only thing that saved us was the fact that rm deletes files and folders alphabetically (or at least at that time on the Sun boxes it did). So as soon as it started removing everything in /dev the machine was toast and it couldn't delete anything else. I first found this out by booting off the CD so I was able to mount the drives. We had our development environments and source code on separate drives (thankfully) so I copied anything that was useful off of the drive used for / onto one of them, installed the OS onto that drive while leaving the other drives alone, and then manually putting things back to where they were. Took less than a day and the owner was very thankful. Never heard a word from the guy that caused the mess though.
Ever since then whenever I've created mount points for new drives on Linux/UNIX servers I've always made sure that they come after dev alphabetically.
They will still be mining coal but they are shipping it overseas instead of burning it for electricity in the US. All the filing for bankruptcy does is allow them to restructure their debts and to cut back on pension plans and health care packages. Basically the workers will get the shaft again.