I'm super tired of Europeans thinking that they can automatically assume why Americans don't use public transportation. The layout of cities here is far different and the layout of mass transit is as well. I would *love* to take mass transit daily (more reading, more relaxing, and less money) but I cannot at the current time. Actually, the situation isn't so different in Europe, despite the higher density. Only 10% of passenger miles are made by public transport in the EU. For exactly the reasons you've enumerated. Basically, conventional public transport has some fundamental physical limitations which cannot be overcome.
It very much depends on the city. In London or New York if everyone tried to drive into the centre to work it would take MUCH longer than taking public transport. In both cities public transport is high and the roads are still clogged to capacity! You've made the assumption that everyone wants to make a journey in to the centre of the city. Only a tiny proportion of journeys made within a city are hub edge like this. The rest, that is, the vast majority of journeys, are not simple commutes and are extremely badly served by public transport. i.e. if the train line runs north to south and you wish to travel east to west, the train isn't much use. Even if it is possible to use public transport to make journeys like this, it typically requires several changes of mode of transport with associated travel to stations, waiting on scheduled vehicles. The journey takes several hours instead of minutes.
You have no idea what you are talking about. Public transportation is typically not tax-funded. There is no European city with modern public transportation which is used by only 10% of the people living there. >50% is a more realistic number and some cities get as high as 90%. Of course for that the system has to work. I have a tram every 7 Minutes to work. It takes 22 Minutes to get there. Car would take longer, be much more expensive and more stressful. And this system is not tax-funded. Simply wrong. In Germany, France and the UK, the big 3 European economies. Public transport makes up no more than 10% of passenger miles travelled. In all 3 countries, public transport is heavily subsidised, to the tune of about 50% of the running costs.
I'm afraid you're one of those who simply regurgitate the conventional public transport dogma without actually looking at the reality.
Such high prices in Europe does not hurt the European standard of living because many Europeans use public transportation; Bull.
Yes more use public transport than the US. i.e. 90% of travel is by car rather than 95%. But it does indeed hurt the European standard of living. Not only do they have to spend a fortune on a car, another fortune on fuel each year, but they are also taxed to the gills in order to pay the truly massive subsidies that are required to make public transport remotely affordable for the 10% who are able to make use of the extremely limited service.
Conventional public transport is unable to provide an equivalent service to the car, it is simply physically unable service the other 90% of journeys that most need to make.
Public transport is most definitely not the answer to the car. Not with any of the existing group transport systems anyway. Anyone who says it is, is simply repeating dogma without having really investigated the costs and inherent limitations of such systems.
The other two are at least somewhat addressable by some means of legislation or industry curtailing. Will only extend the existing situation. Let them gouge prices, eventually either people will switch to an alternative or someone will find a way to provide cheaper gas.
The genie is well and truly out of the bottle. Censorship simply causes the information to flood fill to other areas. Increasing censorship gives more TOR, more freenet, more "open proxies" etc.
10 gigs? My first storage medium was audio tape. I thought a 100kb microdrive was luxury. The fact that I could write my college reports 4 pages at a time in Tasword was a revelation.
They'll already have made up their mind within the first 10 seconds of having seen you anyway so as long as you don't come across as a complete nut you'll be fine.
Um, you've completely misunderstood the network effect. Deliberately? None of the things you have mentioned are specifically meant to be used as a communication medium to transport information.
Instead examples should be networking protocols, spoken/written language, mobile phone protocols, DVD formats etc. Things which are designed to convey information. These are all highly standardised.
The problem with HA isn't so much hard freezes, power supplies blowing, or even disks failing. None of which happen very often, and for which we have workarounds already.
It's things like application processes hanging, zombie processes etc which can make HA a bit dicey. Not to mention admin error.
This means that the provisions of... collective self-defense, will not automatically be extended to the attacked country... this matter needs to be resolved in the near future. Does this mean that get a ping wrong and it's not simply packets that might be coming back the other way?
Exercise has important health benefits and you should be doing it. But to lose weight, you need to control your food intake. All the fad diets and pills are bullshit and possibly harmful as well. OK. 2 things...
1: Don't worry about your weight, it isn't what matters. What matters is your size. Muscle is five times more dense than fat. You exercise, you physically shrink though you may well stay the same weight or even put some on.
i.e. Use a tape measure, not scales.
2: When you exercise, the muscle you build requires energy to run it 24/7 day. You may only expend 200 calories during the exercise itself, but if it makes your body consume 5% more calories while resting you are going to lose weight automatically if your intake remains constant.
How about a balance seat (same idea as a wobble board or ball) which requires the person sitting to maintain balance. It'd keep the legs, back and stomach active all day.
So it seems your reasons for not pioneering 1-click have more to do with saving credit/billing information on your own supposedly secure server rather than with the idea of 1-click itself. I don't see how that translates to 1-click being a BAD IDEA. Um. Because 1 click requires one to store the credit card information in database.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm afraid you're one of those who simply regurgitate the conventional public transport dogma without actually looking at the reality.
It's the "getting laid" function. Not that most of the people here would understand that.
Yes more use public transport than the US. i.e. 90% of travel is by car rather than 95%. But it does indeed hurt the European standard of living. Not only do they have to spend a fortune on a car, another fortune on fuel each year, but they are also taxed to the gills in order to pay the truly massive subsidies that are required to make public transport remotely affordable for the 10% who are able to make use of the extremely limited service.
Conventional public transport is unable to provide an equivalent service to the car, it is simply physically unable service the other 90% of journeys that most need to make.
Public transport is most definitely not the answer to the car. Not with any of the existing group transport systems anyway. Anyone who says it is, is simply repeating dogma without having really investigated the costs and inherent limitations of such systems.
I disagree:
http://www.personalrapidtransit.com/
Human nature. Consume while it's cheap. You see it in every aspect of human behaviour.
n s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commo
This is why socialism doesn't work and why market economics does.
Leeches feeding on leeches.
It opens the doors to designing biological machines from the ground up to perform specific tasks.
The genie is well and truly out of the bottle. Censorship simply causes the information to flood fill to other areas. Increasing censorship gives more TOR, more freenet, more "open proxies" etc.
ICANN!
Mhahahahaha. Yeah. I know, I crack myself up.
10 gigs? My first storage medium was audio tape. I thought a 100kb microdrive was luxury. The fact that I could write my college reports 4 pages at a time in Tasword was a revelation.
I just vi /dev/sda
They'll already have made up their mind within the first 10 seconds of having seen you anyway so as long as you don't come across as a complete nut you'll be fine.
Um, you've completely misunderstood the network effect. Deliberately? None of the things you have mentioned are specifically meant to be used as a communication medium to transport information.
Instead examples should be networking protocols, spoken/written language, mobile phone protocols, DVD formats etc. Things which are designed to convey information. These are all highly standardised.
The problem with HA isn't so much hard freezes, power supplies blowing, or even disks failing. None of which happen very often, and for which we have workarounds already.
It's things like application processes hanging, zombie processes etc which can make HA a bit dicey. Not to mention admin error.
That feature will be in the msftsht.o kernel module. Should be hitting the production kernel repository... about... now...
It's also much simpler and cheaper for Dell to deal with a single law suit rather than hundreds.
What is this thing you speak of?
I haven't had any spam in years.
to control your food intake. All the fad diets and pills are bullshit and possibly harmful as well. OK. 2 things...
1: Don't worry about your weight, it isn't what matters. What matters is your size. Muscle is five times more dense than fat. You exercise, you physically shrink though you may well stay the same weight or even put some on.
i.e.
Use a tape measure, not scales.
2: When you exercise, the muscle you build requires energy to run it 24/7 day. You may only expend 200 calories during the exercise itself, but if it makes your body consume 5% more calories while resting you are going to lose weight automatically if your intake remains constant.
How about a balance seat (same idea as a wobble board or ball) which requires the person sitting to maintain balance. It'd keep the legs, back and stomach active all day.
WTF? You don't expect me to go RTFA do you? That's what all those high UID peons are for. Someone post a cogent summary.
OK, try to follow me here. If it's not a great idea to store credit card information in a potentially exploitable database and 1-click requires said store of credit card information in said http://news.com.com/2100-1023-236815.html">exploi
This is what is often called logic.