He's going to upgrade current lines, then build long-haul high-speed stretches. It completely ignores the cities and the need for massive amounts of new shorter stretches. That's where the congestion and massive use of petroleum is, not on the long stretches. Sure, I'll be able to get from Tulsa to Dallas pretty quick, but what if I want to go to Amarillo? Chicago to Denver barely gets you going before you run out of rail. Car or plane are the best ways to get there now, and they will be in the future with this plan.
You'll have to be one of the lucky few whose current location and destination match the plan, and then just HOPE that the city you get to has a decent transit system. And I'm saying this as one of the lucky few who would be able to ride a high speed train to work instead of drive, that is if my city had a decent transit system. I know, I'll get to fight traffic to drive to the now-crowded, high-priced parking at my city's train station. Yippie.
I also say this as someone who thoroughly enjoyed Germany's system, where for the most part public transportation was convenient and fast from anywhere to anywhere. My company made me drive a company car four hours to CeBIT once, and I refused from then on, demanding my ICE ticket instead. The streetcar ride to the train station was so cheap I didn't even bother expensing it.
And for all we know Obama's 170 IQ just means he knows this might be a great way to buy votes for the next election, not necessarily that the project is actually a good idea. IQ establishes neither common sense nor pure motive, especially for pandering politicians.
Clean up the transportation in the cities first, then get short-range low-cost train transportation done, then go for the high-speed, long range trains.
Obama is just a regular politician, not thinking things through. This is flashy pork without thought behind it of how it would actually work.
If I want to go from Stuttgart to Bremerhaven it's easy. I can take a streetcar quickly to the train station, an ICE all the way to Bremen with only a few stops, a regular train to Bremerhaven, and a streetcar or bus to within a couple minutes walking distance of my destination.
Having only high speed rail without the rest of the well-connected train systems will mean too many stops, or always stopping far away from your destination with no way to reach it. Doing it without metro transit systems will leave you a good distance from your destination in the city in almost all cases.
You didn't know Obama was owned by the RIAA before he got elected.
I fully expected this. I also expect him to negotiate the ACTA to the fullest extent possible to benefit business and hurt the people. Then I expect him to sign any law implementing it.
I also expect him to take his RIAA "campaign contributions" during the next election cycle.
"Unless Obama wants the same crap as the last administration"
What makes you think he doesn't? You believed his BS about a vague concept of "Change"?
No offense. When it comes to politics me being jaded and cynical makes me right most of the time.
If you used to think the EFF was a bunch of liberals, but you think they have a good point now, you are a BushBot.
If you used the think the EFF was right-on in the past, but is now part of the right-wing conspiracy, you are an ObamaBot.
If you think the EFF was and still is right, congratulations, you value the Constitution, freedom, privacy and limited government powers regardless of political allegiance.
If you are in either of the two former categories, please refrain being involved in our political process since you are just a useful idiot for the respective party leaders.
The Pink PC Police are gonna get me now! They'll make me watch Will and Grace reruns for 24 hours straight as punishment. But wouldn't that be considered torture?
Even my gay friends can laugh at gay jokes better than you can. Actually, they told me most of the ones I know.
Time to send your sacred cow to the slaughterhouse.
Many Muslims think jokes about Mohammed are worth cutting your head off.
Nothing is off limits in humor, or there is no humor.
And while it is possible to get HIV by other means, the main explosion of the disease in this country started with gays. Take that, all those who said gays never contributed anything to society!
1) Experts predict disaster if a problem is ignored, or even unavertable disaster 2) The masses panic, but nobody does anything 3) Disaster is averted because there was no impending disaster in the first place, the experts were wrong 4) Experts continue saying we're all going to die and continue garnering fame and money 5) The mentally challenged masses keep believing, and may even strengthen their belief.
Case in point: Paul Erlich.
The reason for the continued belief is a known psychological phenomenon most commonly found in cults.
The world would be no poorer if there were no idiot politicians looking to gain fame and control the masses, and leveraging the bodies of the recently deceased to do it.
This OS will be the included OS before Apple starts selling 4- and 8-core consumer machines, and it will have been out long enough for developers to use Grand Central to leverage those cores.
This is the same president who hired two **AA attack lawyers to top Department of Justice positions. That wasn't old, entrenched bureaucracy. That was new Obama-picked bureaucracy and we saw what way he swings.
Core i7 has only one QuickPath interconnect and doesn't support multiple processors or ECC memory.
The Xeon 55xx processor in the Mac Pro supports both and has two QP interconnects, each faster than the i7s. The Xeon version also runs substantially cooler.
The 2.66 GHz Core i7 costs around $300 while the 2.66 GHz Xeon costs around $1,000, and Xeon motherboards tend to be much more expensive, the ECC memory a bit more than non-ECC.
I spend $60 on a game and get 20 hours of entertainment out of it, then I have paid only $3 per hour for entertainment, which is cheaper than many other forms of paid entertainment. Movies are well over $5 an hour and a $30 dinner at a restaurant would require you to stay there for 10 hours to get the same value.
Then you have games with unending online play, or those games that really have no end, and the cost per hour goes through the floor when you spend hundreds of hours playing.
Are you doing this because you want to save the district money and ensure format freedom, or are you trying to push open source software?
The two may in cases be the same, but think of your motive. If OSS comes first, you are doing wrong by the district.
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He's going to upgrade current lines, then build long-haul high-speed stretches. It completely ignores the cities and the need for massive amounts of new shorter stretches. That's where the congestion and massive use of petroleum is, not on the long stretches. Sure, I'll be able to get from Tulsa to Dallas pretty quick, but what if I want to go to Amarillo? Chicago to Denver barely gets you going before you run out of rail. Car or plane are the best ways to get there now, and they will be in the future with this plan.
You'll have to be one of the lucky few whose current location and destination match the plan, and then just HOPE that the city you get to has a decent transit system. And I'm saying this as one of the lucky few who would be able to ride a high speed train to work instead of drive, that is if my city had a decent transit system. I know, I'll get to fight traffic to drive to the now-crowded, high-priced parking at my city's train station. Yippie.
I also say this as someone who thoroughly enjoyed Germany's system, where for the most part public transportation was convenient and fast from anywhere to anywhere. My company made me drive a company car four hours to CeBIT once, and I refused from then on, demanding my ICE ticket instead. The streetcar ride to the train station was so cheap I didn't even bother expensing it.
And for all we know Obama's 170 IQ just means he knows this might be a great way to buy votes for the next election, not necessarily that the project is actually a good idea. IQ establishes neither common sense nor pure motive, especially for pandering politicians.
Why assume Geithner will dig deeper? Maybe he'll just continue the liberal anti-business, anti-rich meme and go after VC on principle.
Clean up the transportation in the cities first, then get short-range low-cost train transportation done, then go for the high-speed, long range trains.
In that scenario we wouldn't be ELEVEN TRILLION dollars in debt, with much more to be piled on in the coming years.
We would also have a lot more freedom.
It is perfectly applicable to government even more so than any company.
Obama is just a regular politician, not thinking things through. This is flashy pork without thought behind it of how it would actually work.
If I want to go from Stuttgart to Bremerhaven it's easy. I can take a streetcar quickly to the train station, an ICE all the way to Bremen with only a few stops, a regular train to Bremerhaven, and a streetcar or bus to within a couple minutes walking distance of my destination.
Having only high speed rail without the rest of the well-connected train systems will mean too many stops, or always stopping far away from your destination with no way to reach it. Doing it without metro transit systems will leave you a good distance from your destination in the city in almost all cases.
You didn't know Obama was owned by the RIAA before he got elected.
I fully expected this. I also expect him to negotiate the ACTA to the fullest extent possible to benefit business and hurt the people. Then I expect him to sign any law implementing it.
I also expect him to take his RIAA "campaign contributions" during the next election cycle.
"Unless Obama wants the same crap as the last administration"
What makes you think he doesn't? You believed his BS about a vague concept of "Change"?
No offense. When it comes to politics me being jaded and cynical makes me right most of the time.
The NAACP was a damn good place to work, better than most other opportunities.
Those cases just happened to make up most of his private career.
If you used to think the EFF was a bunch of liberals, but you think they have a good point now, you are a BushBot.
If you used the think the EFF was right-on in the past, but is now part of the right-wing conspiracy, you are an ObamaBot.
If you think the EFF was and still is right, congratulations, you value the Constitution, freedom, privacy and limited government powers regardless of political allegiance.
If you are in either of the two former categories, please refrain being involved in our political process since you are just a useful idiot for the respective party leaders.
Slashdot will be around for a while. There are tons of inventors web sites, post there.
The Pink PC Police are gonna get me now! They'll make me watch Will and Grace reruns for 24 hours straight as punishment. But wouldn't that be considered torture?
Even my gay friends can laugh at gay jokes better than you can. Actually, they told me most of the ones I know.
Time to send your sacred cow to the slaughterhouse.
Many Muslims think jokes about Mohammed are worth cutting your head off.
Nothing is off limits in humor, or there is no humor.
And while it is possible to get HIV by other means, the main explosion of the disease in this country started with gays. Take that, all those who said gays never contributed anything to society!
Object "Humor" apparently has no reference.
It's called gay porn.
1) Experts predict disaster if a problem is ignored, or even unavertable disaster
2) The masses panic, but nobody does anything
3) Disaster is averted because there was no impending disaster in the first place, the experts were wrong
4) Experts continue saying we're all going to die and continue garnering fame and money
5) The mentally challenged masses keep believing, and may even strengthen their belief.
Case in point: Paul Erlich.
The reason for the continued belief is a known psychological phenomenon most commonly found in cults.
The world would be no poorer if there were no idiot politicians looking to gain fame and control the masses, and leveraging the bodies of the recently deceased to do it.
This OS will be the included OS before Apple starts selling 4- and 8-core consumer machines, and it will have been out long enough for developers to use Grand Central to leverage those cores.
This is the same president who hired two **AA attack lawyers to top Department of Justice positions. That wasn't old, entrenched bureaucracy. That was new Obama-picked bureaucracy and we saw what way he swings.
Core i7 has only one QuickPath interconnect and doesn't support multiple processors or ECC memory.
The Xeon 55xx processor in the Mac Pro supports both and has two QP interconnects, each faster than the i7s. The Xeon version also runs substantially cooler.
The 2.66 GHz Core i7 costs around $300 while the 2.66 GHz Xeon costs around $1,000, and Xeon motherboards tend to be much more expensive, the ECC memory a bit more than non-ECC.
The label probably has exclusive distribution rights, and he was distributing it by using P2P.
Probably because Blu-Ray has the capacity to do 54 MB/s, which is a lot more than DVD. People just don't know Sony uses a slow player in the PS3.
"why do 360 games typically have similar or shorter loading times as their PS3 counterparts?"
The XBox 12x DVD is about 16 MB/s and 2x Blu-ray is only 9 MB/s.
"Why do (certain) PS3 games NEED to be installed?"
To speed up loading.
I spend $60 on a game and get 20 hours of entertainment out of it, then I have paid only $3 per hour for entertainment, which is cheaper than many other forms of paid entertainment. Movies are well over $5 an hour and a $30 dinner at a restaurant would require you to stay there for 10 hours to get the same value.
Then you have games with unending online play, or those games that really have no end, and the cost per hour goes through the floor when you spend hundreds of hours playing.
Are you doing this because you want to save the district money and ensure format freedom, or are you trying to push open source software? The two may in cases be the same, but think of your motive. If OSS comes first, you are doing wrong by the district.