Definitely not in "the corridor" however, someone explain to me how Amtrak can justify can charging $54 for a trip from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia (a 4.5 hour drive, yes, that's typical for me, about $45 with tolls/gas) that takes Amtrak 7 hours and 25 minutes to arrive? And only one departure a day at 7:30am on weekdays.
Oh, and Bolt or Megabus can get there in 6 hours nonstop for as low as $15, with better legroom than the airlines and better Wi-Fi than Amtrak or the Airline, yes, a bus beats the train even when the train has it's own private right of way.
I would love to use the train, if it were timely and efficient financially and time wise, it simply isn't if you're outside the corridor. And that will never change with pricing and service like this since ridership will never justify it with these price/service levels.
oh yes, it's great if you want to spend $300 a night for a fold down bed in a closet with a bathroom down the hall that you need to reserve months ahead of time. What a great deal!
Amtrak is more expensive than airlines on the same route, is usually slower than both airline and intercity express bus (including airport security times) to the same destination. And offers both worse service/schedules and en route service than either.
Why would anyone ride Amtrak other than for nostalgia?
(not that it can't be made better, but that will take tons of investment that it appears no one is willing to make)
And the entirety of the 4th amendment is eliminated by storing your data on somebody else's system since it's no longer considered part of YOUR "persons, houses, papers, and effects"
Still like "the cloud"?
So a user makes a mistake in using a piece of software, so the/. headline makes the impression that the problem is with the software and not the user. How typical
I've seen the phrase correlation doesn't equal causation so often here that I can't count it, but I guess that's OK to use that flawed logic where Microsoft is concerned on Slashdot.
It couldn't POSSIBLY be that tablets, phones, video streaming boxes and increasingly capable game consoles are taking market share for consumer computing devices that previously went to laptops and desktops. Nah...
So basically this is saying that any crazy wild eyed term I could place in a TOS immediately becomes a felony if you violate it! What a great idea, cuts lobbyists completely out of the law writing equation! We're ALL lawmakers now!/sarcasm
One can argue pricing for the slower mechanical hardware, but the benefit for laptops is lower power use, not just for the drive itself but for the supporting cooling and power hardware to support the faster mechanical drive.
And the original patent term should be more than adequate for that!
Making minor adjustments to an existing patented drug, like "time release" for instance in order to justify a new patent is an old shell game for the drug companies.
Because the ease of and lack of expense (compared to earlier more labor intensive methods) in these new technological methods takes away an inherent and not legally codified limit to surveillance.
Before this and other tech methods, there was an inherent manpower/time/cost limit that prevented bulk surveillance of large numbers of people, these methods destroy that former inherent limit.
They were "go to" for Microsoft development and their own supplied software/firmware/drivers. But as soon as you went to something third party, like the backup software I mentioned, you were at the mercy of that vendor to support it (or not). Another example I can point to on Alpha/NT was that hardware driver support was nearly non-existent for anything not DEC supplied such as NIC's and RAID controllers. Very limiting and a form of hardware vendor lockin that doesn't exist nearly to the same extent in the Intel/NT world.
I started my sysadmin career running NT on Alpha's they definitely were great runners, for twice the price of Intel boxes though. Then there was third party software support and drivers, or more accurately, complete and absolute lack of.
We were so rare running on Alpha's that Microsoft actually called US once about a problem they were experiencing since we were one of the only shops to be running Exchange (5.0 at the time) on Alpha's. Third party software? We were running (then) Seagate backupExec, called them once for support on an issue and the response was, quite literally, "we don't know much about those".
Not a physicist of any kind, but I had thought that information could not cross the event horizon? If that is true, then how can we construe that the speed of matter near the event horizon indicate the speed of rotation of the black hole? Wouldn't it only indicate the speed of that particular matter?
Educate me if I'm wrong!
This was the USSR's naval attack strategy during the cold war. Puke up a LOT of high speed sea skimmers from backfire bombers and sacrificial destroyers tailing the carrier group along with deceptive jamming, drones, etc. Overwhelm the system.
You don't need to hit the carrier 100 times to make it ineffective, just a few will do the trick. And the defense is more expensive than the offense.
I live in a very hard core Democrat dominated district, with a strong concentration of union labor types.
Different party registrations and independents go into different lines at the polling place, I've been registered independent for my entire life.
But in my district, if you are registered republican or independent, you always get the evil eye from the poll workers and bystanders as if you're some sort of interloper. Not to mention having to self identify party affiliation (or lack thereof) to the poll workers and those others that can see the lines forming.
Always uncomfortable, but I still do it. Today was no exception.
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Definitely not in "the corridor" however, someone explain to me how Amtrak can justify can charging $54 for a trip from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia (a 4.5 hour drive, yes, that's typical for me, about $45 with tolls/gas) that takes Amtrak 7 hours and 25 minutes to arrive? And only one departure a day at 7:30am on weekdays. Oh, and Bolt or Megabus can get there in 6 hours nonstop for as low as $15, with better legroom than the airlines and better Wi-Fi than Amtrak or the Airline, yes, a bus beats the train even when the train has it's own private right of way. I would love to use the train, if it were timely and efficient financially and time wise, it simply isn't if you're outside the corridor. And that will never change with pricing and service like this since ridership will never justify it with these price/service levels.
oh yes, it's great if you want to spend $300 a night for a fold down bed in a closet with a bathroom down the hall that you need to reserve months ahead of time. What a great deal!
Amtrak is more expensive than airlines on the same route, is usually slower than both airline and intercity express bus (including airport security times) to the same destination. And offers both worse service/schedules and en route service than either. Why would anyone ride Amtrak other than for nostalgia? (not that it can't be made better, but that will take tons of investment that it appears no one is willing to make)
Not talking about how it should, talking about how it is currently being interpreted by the courts and the DOJ
And the entirety of the 4th amendment is eliminated by storing your data on somebody else's system since it's no longer considered part of YOUR "persons, houses, papers, and effects" Still like "the cloud"?
In government, that's what outside contractors are for, to blame!
No, not a new revelation. Just finally incensed enough to post about it.
There is no way on earth that a patent system that allows this sort of BS can be successful in forwarding the basic goals of the patent system, none.
How would this be any different operationally from conventional mechanical safeties that users occasionally forget to turn off when they wish to fire?
So a user makes a mistake in using a piece of software, so the /. headline makes the impression that the problem is with the software and not the user. How typical
I've seen the phrase correlation doesn't equal causation so often here that I can't count it, but I guess that's OK to use that flawed logic where Microsoft is concerned on Slashdot. It couldn't POSSIBLY be that tablets, phones, video streaming boxes and increasingly capable game consoles are taking market share for consumer computing devices that previously went to laptops and desktops. Nah...
It's the inept and stupid implementers of these systems that are dangerous, not the search engine
Female visitors to any of my sites should read the TOS carefully to avoid committing a felony, there are some pretty demanding requirements there :)
So basically this is saying that any crazy wild eyed term I could place in a TOS immediately becomes a felony if you violate it! What a great idea, cuts lobbyists completely out of the law writing equation! We're ALL lawmakers now! /sarcasm
One can argue pricing for the slower mechanical hardware, but the benefit for laptops is lower power use, not just for the drive itself but for the supporting cooling and power hardware to support the faster mechanical drive.
And the original patent term should be more than adequate for that! Making minor adjustments to an existing patented drug, like "time release" for instance in order to justify a new patent is an old shell game for the drug companies.
Because the ease of and lack of expense (compared to earlier more labor intensive methods) in these new technological methods takes away an inherent and not legally codified limit to surveillance. Before this and other tech methods, there was an inherent manpower/time/cost limit that prevented bulk surveillance of large numbers of people, these methods destroy that former inherent limit.
They don't need facial recognition. They just note the signal from the cell phone in your pocket and look it up.
They were "go to" for Microsoft development and their own supplied software/firmware/drivers. But as soon as you went to something third party, like the backup software I mentioned, you were at the mercy of that vendor to support it (or not). Another example I can point to on Alpha/NT was that hardware driver support was nearly non-existent for anything not DEC supplied such as NIC's and RAID controllers. Very limiting and a form of hardware vendor lockin that doesn't exist nearly to the same extent in the Intel/NT world.
I started my sysadmin career running NT on Alpha's they definitely were great runners, for twice the price of Intel boxes though. Then there was third party software support and drivers, or more accurately, complete and absolute lack of. We were so rare running on Alpha's that Microsoft actually called US once about a problem they were experiencing since we were one of the only shops to be running Exchange (5.0 at the time) on Alpha's. Third party software? We were running (then) Seagate backupExec, called them once for support on an issue and the response was, quite literally, "we don't know much about those".
This is /.
I'm sure we can find a way to blame Microsoft or Windows, this is an easy one! /sarcasm
Not a physicist of any kind, but I had thought that information could not cross the event horizon? If that is true, then how can we construe that the speed of matter near the event horizon indicate the speed of rotation of the black hole? Wouldn't it only indicate the speed of that particular matter? Educate me if I'm wrong!
This was the USSR's naval attack strategy during the cold war. Puke up a LOT of high speed sea skimmers from backfire bombers and sacrificial destroyers tailing the carrier group along with deceptive jamming, drones, etc. Overwhelm the system. You don't need to hit the carrier 100 times to make it ineffective, just a few will do the trick. And the defense is more expensive than the offense.
Surface RT is the competitor for iPad/Nexus/Kindle/etc. Surface Pro's competition is UltraBooks, MacBook Air, etc.
I live in a very hard core Democrat dominated district, with a strong concentration of union labor types. Different party registrations and independents go into different lines at the polling place, I've been registered independent for my entire life. But in my district, if you are registered republican or independent, you always get the evil eye from the poll workers and bystanders as if you're some sort of interloper. Not to mention having to self identify party affiliation (or lack thereof) to the poll workers and those others that can see the lines forming. Always uncomfortable, but I still do it. Today was no exception.