Self-driving trains exist. Vancouver's subway is self-driving. But installing the self-driving signalling system on existing rail lines is expensive. And unions oppose anything that will decrease the number of railway workers. Since a single union has a monopoly on transit work in each city, they have immense power and get essentially anything that they want.
It's really not up to anyone to question what someone else chooses to do with their time. Would you rather he be getting drunk every night at a bar and then driving home? Or hitting on your wife?
No, I'd rather be hitting on other people's wives.
Not only that, other governments likely have hacking powers similar to the NSA. You don't want some guy at the NSA to rig the US presidential election, but would it be any better if some guy from Chinese or Russian intelligence did it?
When I first started commuting to work by bus, I would take out my laptop and stare into it for the duration of the ride (for email, browsing, sometimes actual work). Very quickly I found myself getting carsick. And I NEVER get carsick - not in a car, not in a bus, not in a trip of any length. What was happening was by looking out the window, I was able to see the vehicle accelerating and mentally process this and retain a sense of balance. But if I stared nonstop into my laptop, the acceleration without any context would disorient and nauseate me. What I do now is look out the window out of the corner of my eye while I'm typing, which allows me to use the laptop while maintaining a sense of balance and not getting carsick.
Of course, in a self-driving car you'd be able to cover the windows if you so chose, like in an airplane. I can imagine that on long freeway rides this might be worthwhile. Come to think of it, vans and buses already have this option.
CAHSR projects running about 8 trains per hour during peak hours, carrying about 6000 people per hour in each direction. That is about the capacity of a 3 lane freeway. So basically the alternative to HSR in California is building another freeway along the whole length of the state.
Nobody takes a plane instead of Eurostar. While Southwest will survive on its many other routes, their SFO to LAX route is doomed.
Correct, but I don't think "doomed" is the right word. Airlines nowadays are happy to offload their short-range traffic to high speed rail, because they make their money on the long-distance flights, not on the 45 minute flights that spend more time getting up and then down again than actually flying somewhere.
It could be less than 10, because the 10x programmer does not draw a 10x salary. Or more than 10, because the 10x programmer could leave or get hit by a bus and your project is screwed, while it's very unlikely that either of these should happen to an entire team.
Tell that to the monkey parents, who don't have cribs or any form of human culture, yet their male and female offspring prefer stereotypical male and female toys.
In reality they just eat up a lane of traffic that could otherwise be used to alleviate rush hour congestion. It might be different if they actually ADDED HOV lanes instead of taking one of the normal lanes and rebranding it. After all, who's going to get into a car with a bunch of strangers, and not have a vehicle when they reach their destination?
That's why the more recent trend is to build HOT lanes, which can also be used by anyone willing to pay a toll (HOVs can use it for free). The toll is dynamically adjusted based on how congested the road is, so that the HOT lane always has a significant amount of traffic but is never congested.
This solves your problem, and also gives people a reason to carpool (no tolls) which maximizes the number of people able to use the road.
Mexico is not so poor anymore. Its per capita income is similar to some European countries (like Bulgaria), and higher than that in the border regions with the US. Combined with the stagnant US economy, this means fewer Mexicans want to work in the US than in the past. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
Switzerland recently considered this. They abandoned the idea because costs were too high. (Of course Zurich-Bern is a much smaller travel market than Tokyo-Nagoya.)
on a trip to Italy, from Rome to Naples (same distance as DC to Philadelphia). It took 1:10 from city center to city center, at a top speed of 295km/h. Amtrak's best trip over the same distance takes 1:40 and costs literally 4-8 times as much. There was no security theater - you could arrive two minutes before departure and run onto the platform and make the train. The seats were comfortable and roomy, and there was free wifi and charging stations at every seat.
I really don't see how anyone could choose driving/flight over this for short-to-medium range intercity trips. Unfortunately it looks like the US will never get a real high speed rail system, because the Republicans think all trains are an evil communist plot, while the Democrats insist on sending every infrastructure project to 10 years of environmental review dependency hell. Meanwhile every other developed country continues to overtake us in quality of life.
So, if you replace basically the whole interface, you can make it relatively usable? As opposed to earlier Gnome 3 releases where you couldn't fix the suck?
Women and children are presumed not to be combatants. Killing a combatant or potential combatant (i.e. a man) contains an element of self-defense. Killing a non-combatant is just murder.
The problem is in america, we are still stuck on the idea of Big Energy large grids covering the nation. We don't think in terms of small energy, having a small community powered by modest green sources.... These smaller sections will in agragate may take up more space, their impact is actually a lot less, as a smaller plot of land can heal a lot faster then say plowing down hundred acres.
Because small-scale power generation is inherently less efficient that large-scale. There's a reason why electric cars are better for the environment than internal combustion, even if the electricity is generated in a fossil fuel power plant.
When an (American) football player wants to become stronger, he doesn't go practice football. He goes to a weight room and does one round of weight lifting for his pecs, one for his biceps, etc. It doesn't matter that the game of football never involves using just your biceps. You develop the muscles one by one, each one in its most effective way, and then you can use all of them as the need arises.
Similarly, in school, you develop skills in reading, arithmetic, critical thinking, and so on. Teaching them separately allows you to focus on each one by one, evaluate each one separately, and fix whatever lack of knowledge appears. A "cafeteria services" class which features a little math, a little writing, and a little communication, will not effectively identify when a student is weak in just one of those skills.
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There's something to be said for being spied upon by a country that's NOT the one you live in.
(Assuming you'll be spied upon by some country, and by only one country)
If it works, then why isn't Cuba using it?
Therefore, I choose A.
You only need to print one factory factory factory and take it from there.
FTFY
we can work on a cure for politicians' "brown-nose syndrome"...
KDE and GNOME have had vector graphic icons for years now. You're telling me Microsoft doesn't have the resources to do the same thing?
Self-driving trains exist. Vancouver's subway is self-driving. But installing the self-driving signalling system on existing rail lines is expensive. And unions oppose anything that will decrease the number of railway workers. Since a single union has a monopoly on transit work in each city, they have immense power and get essentially anything that they want.
It's really not up to anyone to question what someone else chooses to do with their time. Would you rather he be getting drunk every night at a bar and then driving home? Or hitting on your wife?
No, I'd rather be hitting on other people's wives.
Not only that, other governments likely have hacking powers similar to the NSA. You don't want some guy at the NSA to rig the US presidential election, but would it be any better if some guy from Chinese or Russian intelligence did it?
People who get car sick need windows. Nuff said.
Not just "people who get carsick". Everyone.
When I first started commuting to work by bus, I would take out my laptop and stare into it for the duration of the ride (for email, browsing, sometimes actual work). Very quickly I found myself getting carsick. And I NEVER get carsick - not in a car, not in a bus, not in a trip of any length. What was happening was by looking out the window, I was able to see the vehicle accelerating and mentally process this and retain a sense of balance. But if I stared nonstop into my laptop, the acceleration without any context would disorient and nauseate me. What I do now is look out the window out of the corner of my eye while I'm typing, which allows me to use the laptop while maintaining a sense of balance and not getting carsick.
Of course, in a self-driving car you'd be able to cover the windows if you so chose, like in an airplane. I can imagine that on long freeway rides this might be worthwhile. Come to think of it, vans and buses already have this option.
CAHSR projects running about 8 trains per hour during peak hours, carrying about 6000 people per hour in each direction. That is about the capacity of a 3 lane freeway. So basically the alternative to HSR in California is building another freeway along the whole length of the state.
Nobody takes a plane instead of Eurostar. While Southwest will survive on its many other routes, their SFO to LAX route is doomed.
Correct, but I don't think "doomed" is the right word. Airlines nowadays are happy to offload their short-range traffic to high speed rail, because they make their money on the long-distance flights, not on the 45 minute flights that spend more time getting up and then down again than actually flying somewhere.
It could be less than 10, because the 10x programmer does not draw a 10x salary.
Or more than 10, because the 10x programmer could leave or get hit by a bus and your project is screwed, while it's very unlikely that either of these should happen to an entire team.
Not a horrible idea.
They should make one bring an iPhone and the other an Android.
And a couple hundred pages of the "most crucial" information in hard copy.
Tell that to the monkey parents, who don't have cribs or any form of human culture, yet their male and female offspring prefer stereotypical male and female toys.
In reality they just eat up a lane of traffic that could otherwise be used to alleviate rush hour congestion. It might be different if they actually ADDED HOV lanes instead of taking one of the normal lanes and rebranding it. After all, who's going to get into a car with a bunch of strangers, and not have a vehicle when they reach their destination?
That's why the more recent trend is to build HOT lanes, which can also be used by anyone willing to pay a toll (HOVs can use it for free). The toll is dynamically adjusted based on how congested the road is, so that the HOT lane always has a significant amount of traffic but is never congested.
This solves your problem, and also gives people a reason to carpool (no tolls) which maximizes the number of people able to use the road.
Mexico is not so poor anymore. Its per capita income is similar to some European countries (like Bulgaria), and higher than that in the border regions with the US. Combined with the stagnant US economy, this means fewer Mexicans want to work in the US than in the past.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
Switzerland recently considered this. They abandoned the idea because costs were too high. (Of course Zurich-Bern is a much smaller travel market than Tokyo-Nagoya.)
on a trip to Italy, from Rome to Naples (same distance as DC to Philadelphia). It took 1:10 from city center to city center, at a top speed of 295km/h. Amtrak's best trip over the same distance takes 1:40 and costs literally 4-8 times as much. There was no security theater - you could arrive two minutes before departure and run onto the platform and make the train. The seats were comfortable and roomy, and there was free wifi and charging stations at every seat.
I really don't see how anyone could choose driving/flight over this for short-to-medium range intercity trips. Unfortunately it looks like the US will never get a real high speed rail system, because the Republicans think all trains are an evil communist plot, while the Democrats insist on sending every infrastructure project to 10 years of environmental review dependency hell. Meanwhile every other developed country continues to overtake us in quality of life.
So they are using their monopoly in search to push people towards their mobile devices?
Sounds like the kind of anticompetitive practice Microsoft was investigated for in the 1990s.
So, if you replace basically the whole interface, you can make it relatively usable? As opposed to earlier Gnome 3 releases where you couldn't fix the suck?
Women and children are presumed not to be combatants. Killing a combatant or potential combatant (i.e. a man) contains an element of self-defense. Killing a non-combatant is just murder.
The problem is in america, we are still stuck on the idea of Big Energy large grids covering the nation. We don't think in terms of small energy, having a small community powered by modest green sources. ... These smaller sections will in agragate may take up more space, their impact is actually a lot less, as a smaller plot of land can heal a lot faster then say plowing down hundred acres.
Because small-scale power generation is inherently less efficient that large-scale. There's a reason why electric cars are better for the environment than internal combustion, even if the electricity is generated in a fossil fuel power plant.
When an (American) football player wants to become stronger, he doesn't go practice football. He goes to a weight room and does one round of weight lifting for his pecs, one for his biceps, etc. It doesn't matter that the game of football never involves using just your biceps. You develop the muscles one by one, each one in its most effective way, and then you can use all of them as the need arises.
Similarly, in school, you develop skills in reading, arithmetic, critical thinking, and so on. Teaching them separately allows you to focus on each one by one, evaluate each one separately, and fix whatever lack of knowledge appears. A "cafeteria services" class which features a little math, a little writing, and a little communication, will not effectively identify when a student is weak in just one of those skills.
Tammy gets knocked up at 14 and still gets a new iPhone with the latest apps.
What's wrong with that? iPhone 6 Maps is punishment enough for anything.