Compare with the bus in the same situation. 20 minutes wait and only handles 40 people per trip. 100 minutes later...
The performance of the system depends on the numbers of pods and the numbers of berths in the stations. If there aren't enough pods, buy some more. The nice thing is that the incremental cost of a pod is a fraction of that of a bus.
In reality people have to wait for their luggage, go to the loo, go have a coffee, take a taxi, get picked up or take the train to the city centre. They rarely go do exactly the same thing at exactly the same time.
Use your head rather than your mouth, just for a second and think about the implications.
If you move a group of people.
The vehicle has to be big. It has to be heavy. The underlying infrastructure to handle the vehicle has to be big, heavy and expensive. The vehicle has to run along an average route, it can't go direct to your destination. You almost certainly will have to change vehicles to get to your destination. The vehicle has to run to a schedule which means you have to wait for it. The vehicle has to stop at every station along the route to let people on and off. This kills the average speed.
These are fundamental features of all forms of transport which move groups of people and fundamentally their performance sucks very badly indeed because of these features.
The system mentioned and others just like it completely remove these limitations to performance by transporting individuals rather than groups.
nope. trains and subways transport groups of people, not individuals. This means they have to run along a corridor and to a schedule. This system transports individuals, which means it can run on a grid network rather than just a corridor, which means the system can take you directly where you want to go rather than having to change lines.
NOTgroups of people. It's a crucial development in public transport, and it's better than a computer driven car.
Transporting individuals means:
You can go directly or nearly directly to your destination. You do not have to stop at intermediate stations to let people on and off. You do not have to get out and change to different lines. The transport pods wait for you, they don't run to a schedule so you don't have to wait at a station.
Being a form of off road transport means that:
It can be non stop. There are no intersections. There are no traffic lights. There is no traffic congestion. The average speed is remarkably close to the maximum speed of the vehicles.
The result is that for the average case, this form of transport is several times faster than other forms of public transport and importantly because of the non stop nature of A->B and the high average speed, it's faster than the car.
Taxi2000, an American equivalent to the ATS Ultra system has a capacity of 7200 vehicles per hour, it's the equivalent of a 3 lane motorway direct to the end of your street. But because the vehicles handle individuals, they are small and light the underlying guideway is also correspondingly light and therefore far cheaper than motorway, or conventional rail. Transport researchers have known since the 1960s that this is close to the optimal form of transport, unfortunately the computer technology to do it hasn't been available until recently.
Free markets can keep your computer secure. However a free market requires you to stop using a monopolist's products and switch to one of the more secure competitor's products in order to function. If you're not willing to do that then please stop whining. Those of use who have switched are reaping the benefits.
Do one thing well. If you want extra security, you can put your SMTP and POP/IMAP servers on secure socket layer, you can encrypt mails before they are sent.
Security. Real security built in and operational, not just some boxes ticked. That means normal user accounts running unprivileged and decent permissions on system directories and files by default...
But how fast is it? How fast over a LAN, snappy or sluggish?
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"If you are referring to the standard GTK File-open-dialog, try to press CTRL+H, as that will show hidden files. You could also right-click and choose "Show hidden files" from the pop-up menu."
Yeah, there was a moment of genius from the designers. "hahaah! we'll make viewing hidden files a HIDDEN feature!!!"
I recently picked up a bottle of washing up liquid which was right handed. Really, they'd actually gone to the bother of designing the bottle so it fits the right hand neatly and comfortably making it less comfortable for the left hand. Of course that means that the 10% of the population out there who are lefties have deliberately been ignored by the bottle designer, manufacturer and the washing liquid marketing department.
they are also REALLY expensive for the models that game developers would use
They're mostly used in custom applications at the moment, relatively low production runs makes them expensive. If there were such a thing as a generic game accelerator card they could be produced by the million, the cost per card would come down to well, damned near nothing in the long run. I think we'd see a single design/model dominating much the way the ix86 architecture dominates just now. It takes 2 things, 1, one of the producers to package a decent fpga along with an easy to use development environment and some pre-built designs and 2, a killer game which couldn't be done without it.
The added benefit would be that eventually most machines would come with an FPGA built in, they would pretty quickly start to be used for other applications.
People do shit jobs like this stuff because the wages are good in economically deprived areas. Well. Get rid of the causes of economic deprivation. Funnily enough this means getting rid of agricultural subsidies, getting rid of trade barriers for products from economically deprived areas.
There's a certain irony to this, protectionism in one area causes problems which affect other areas of your economy.
Program the physics, graphics and AI routines into hardware. Offload the processing onto the FPGA. Call it a generic games accelerator. The games developers could then optimise their own libraries of hardware routines for their games rather than trying to optimise the games for general purpose hardware.
Their actions have been completely logical and consistent if you ignore the media propaganda about terrorism. Wake up, stop looking at what they're saying and start looking at what they're doing.
Run crack weekly on your password repository. Lock any accounts cracked. Create a web page where people can generate strong passwords, don't expect them to think them up. Have single sign on/login to reduce the numbers of passwords to remember.
generally people in the textbook industry have to at least have some kind of quality in their product. they are, after all, selling textbooks.
Really. And you personally have evidence that all sold textbooks are accurate? Ford sold the Pinto, a car which exploded if you looked at it wrong, the Mercedes E class has about 30% of them go wrong despite being a "quality" car, far behind much cheaper Hondas. Tell me again about the price of something and it's quality.
someone who has never heard of marine biology can edit the entry on the octopus because they feel like it.
And someone who feels passionately about the subject, has spent their life working the field of marine biology can edit the entry on the octopus just as easily.
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Compare with the bus in the same situation. 20 minutes wait and only handles 40 people per trip. 100 minutes later...
The performance of the system depends on the numbers of pods and the numbers of berths in the stations. If there aren't enough pods, buy some more. The nice thing is that the incremental cost of a pod is a fraction of that of a bus.
In reality people have to wait for their luggage, go to the loo, go have a coffee, take a taxi, get picked up or take the train to the city centre. They rarely go do exactly the same thing at exactly the same time.
"I once asked the conductor on the driverless docklands light rail what happens if there's an obstruction. He replied that well then we hit it."
And that differs from which type of train?
Use your head rather than your mouth, just for a second and think about the implications.
If you move a group of people.
The vehicle has to be big. It has to be heavy.
The underlying infrastructure to handle the vehicle has to be big, heavy and expensive.
The vehicle has to run along an average route, it can't go direct to your destination. You almost certainly will have to change vehicles to get to your destination.
The vehicle has to run to a schedule which means you have to wait for it.
The vehicle has to stop at every station along the route to let people on and off. This kills the average speed.
These are fundamental features of all forms of transport which move groups of people and fundamentally their performance sucks very badly indeed because of these features.
The system mentioned and others just like it completely remove these limitations to performance by transporting individuals rather than groups.
nope. trains and subways transport groups of people, not individuals. This means they have to run along a corridor and to a schedule. This system transports individuals, which means it can run on a grid network rather than just a corridor, which means the system can take you directly where you want to go rather than having to change lines.
NOT groups of people. It's a crucial development in public transport, and it's better than a computer driven car.
Transporting individuals means:
You can go directly or nearly directly to your destination.
You do not have to stop at intermediate stations to let people on and off.
You do not have to get out and change to different lines.
The transport pods wait for you, they don't run to a schedule so you don't have to wait at a station.
Being a form of off road transport means that:
It can be non stop.
There are no intersections.
There are no traffic lights.
There is no traffic congestion.
The average speed is remarkably close to the maximum speed of the vehicles.
The result is that for the average case, this form of transport is several times faster than other forms of public transport and importantly because of the non stop nature of A->B and the high average speed, it's faster than the car.
Taxi2000, an American equivalent to the ATS Ultra system has a capacity of 7200 vehicles per hour, it's the equivalent of a 3 lane motorway direct to the end of your street. But because the vehicles handle individuals, they are small and light the underlying guideway is also correspondingly light and therefore far cheaper than motorway, or conventional rail. Transport researchers have known since the 1960s that this is close to the optimal form of transport, unfortunately the computer technology to do it hasn't been available until recently.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/527267 2.stm
Free markets can keep your computer secure. However a free market requires you to stop using a monopolist's products and switch to one of the more secure competitor's products in order to function. If you're not willing to do that then please stop whining. Those of use who have switched are reaping the benefits.
Not the desktop anyway. It's a monopoly. The actions of Microsoft are those of a monopolist.
Do one thing well. If you want extra security, you can put your SMTP and POP/IMAP servers on secure socket layer, you can encrypt mails before they are sent.
France and Italy are not socialist. Both are capitalist democracies.
You may have a hardware problem, check for faulty RAM. I haven't had a sigsegv 11 in years.
Security. Real security built in and operational, not just some boxes ticked. That means normal user accounts running unprivileged and decent permissions on system directories and files by default...
I won't hold my breath.
But how fast is it? How fast over a LAN, snappy or sluggish?
"If you are referring to the standard GTK File-open-dialog, try to press CTRL+H, as that will show hidden files. You could also right-click and choose "Show hidden files" from the pop-up menu."
Yeah, there was a moment of genius from the designers. "hahaah! we'll make viewing hidden files a HIDDEN feature!!!"
I recently picked up a bottle of washing up liquid which was right handed. Really, they'd actually gone to the bother of designing the bottle so it fits the right hand neatly and comfortably making it less comfortable for the left hand. Of course that means that the 10% of the population out there who are lefties have deliberately been ignored by the bottle designer, manufacturer and the washing liquid marketing department.
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They're mostly used in custom applications at the moment, relatively low production runs makes them expensive. If there were such a thing as a generic game accelerator card they could be produced by the million, the cost per card would come down to well, damned near nothing in the long run. I think we'd see a single design/model dominating much the way the ix86 architecture dominates just now. It takes 2 things, 1, one of the producers to package a decent fpga along with an easy to use development environment and some pre-built designs and 2, a killer game which couldn't be done without it.
The added benefit would be that eventually most machines would come with an FPGA built in, they would pretty quickly start to be used for other applications.
People do shit jobs like this stuff because the wages are good in economically deprived areas. Well. Get rid of the causes of economic deprivation. Funnily enough this means getting rid of agricultural subsidies, getting rid of trade barriers for products from economically deprived areas.
There's a certain irony to this, protectionism in one area causes problems which affect other areas of your economy.
There are plenty of them round already. Basically you're getting old, the world is moving on and leaving you behind. Welcome to middle age.
Program the physics, graphics and AI routines into hardware. Offload the processing onto the FPGA. Call it a generic games accelerator. The games developers could then optimise their own libraries of hardware routines for their games rather than trying to optimise the games for general purpose hardware.
Could that put the lot of them in prison? Community service? Tidying up Sun's parking lot would be appropriate.
I can simply add /usr/bin/crack to my root crontab.
Oh come on!
Their actions have been completely logical and consistent if you ignore the media propaganda about terrorism. Wake up, stop looking at what they're saying and start looking at what they're doing.
Run crack weekly on your password repository. Lock any accounts cracked. Create a web page where people can generate strong passwords, don't expect them to think them up. Have single sign on/login to reduce the numbers of passwords to remember.
Really. And you personally have evidence that all sold textbooks are accurate? Ford sold the Pinto, a car which exploded if you looked at it wrong, the Mercedes E class has about 30% of them go wrong despite being a "quality" car, far behind much cheaper Hondas. Tell me again about the price of something and it's quality.
And someone who feels passionately about the subject, has spent their life working the field of marine biology can edit the entry on the octopus just as easily.