Which is what Australia is doing with the National Broadband Network. The troubles is, Americans might get infected by communism if the government laid the fibre.
How the pods transition from vacuum to normal air? If a pod breaks down how is it retrieved?.. eg. Are there access hatches?, Does that mean big valves every km or so for isolation? How long does each section take to air up & re vacuum?
To be honest, I can't see this economically working for people. Can you imagine being in a coffin in a steel vacuum tube with no inertial reference. Someone breaks down, which then means hundreds of pods have to stop until the problem is fixed.
This might work for freight... but given energy is likely to get cheaper, I don't see the economic advantage vs planes/trains.
It seriously sad you have been modded +5 Insightful.
The newage mantra is, it's whatever I feel that's important..but feelings change all the time. I believe in basic moral absolutes, such as 'shock and horror' you should try constrain sex in a marriage between a man and a woman.
Thoughts are like a garden. You need to remove the weeds and water the good stuff. This passive weak minded mantra of, Oh but I 'feel' attracted to children. Well hey, you should have weeded your mind a long time ago: now it's turned into bramble bush and taken over your mind. The best way to weed these thoughts is to go talk to someone you trust while they are still manageable. It's like putting a weed killer on the thought.
Your post just propagates passive fatalism of people being captive to whatever random crap take holds in their mind. Grow a backbone and take responsibility for your thought life.
The USA has a unique culture that was bought by the Puritan work ethic that promoted individualism and self improvement. A good explanation is the three stages of maturity. Dependance (child), Independance (teen), Interdependence (adult) The USA seems to revere Independence, where Europe, Oceania focus more on interdependence.
Americans confuse this with socialism/communism and have a great fear that someone may undeservedly benefit from their labor. I can assure you being in one of these 'socialist' countries, that the benefits outweigh disadvantages. Universal healthcare is terrific. Proper limits on monopolies. Much better support for poor people so they don't resort to crime. Higher minimum wages so low socioeconomic people can afford to live and spend it into their communities. Running prisons to reform rather than profit. Even better public transit systems. Unfortunately, I don't see any cultural changes on the horizon.
Sure, that might be the case in the USA, but outside nobody under 30 has a clue what F is anymore without having to look it up. On an international news site, even if it is based in the USA, you should use celcius.
Well, by liberal Silicon Valley rules, it will work like this:
If they criticize Christianity, then it's free speech
If they criticize Islam, then it's racism and hate speech.
Why does the far left interpret disagreement as hate? I don't think gay marriage is a good thing for society: but I don't hate gay people who hold that opinion?
Windows 10 S is clearly a push into the education market: but google has has had Chrome For Education for several years now: and the big advantage of Chrome Management Console (CMC) is it being active directory in the cloud done right. CMC makes it super easy to lock down, manage and update education targeted computers (it's also great for digital signage) I haven't used Azure AD, so it would be interesting if any/.ers have a comparison of the two systems.
Apple had an awesome opportunity here after they created a whole new locked to a store OS niche, but never capitalised on it by giving schools the tools to manage the platform.
Now the only reason PC's are still selling, are office and legacy programs. Think custom business programs written in.NET and specialised CAD/CAM software. MS have lost the first mover advantage to chrome, and I doubt this move will get it back.
Longmire: Episodic murder drama, but with small town rural values (the lead is actually an Australian) Homeland: OK, it gets a bit silly at times, but still good drama. Suits: Legal Drama with lots of type A personalities Good Wife: Legal Drama but the series ending was dumb. Boston Legal: Old now, but Spader and Shatner are very good. Once Upon a Time & WhiteColla: Wife really enjoyed these ones.
As an Engineer, I always see solutions to problems. I always thought that was the point of the job.
Sure, I solve problems all day: but before I take on a project, I like to know the risk/reward ratio and for Hyperloop it doesn't look like a great ratio.
- Thousands of sliding expansion joints that need to remain vacuum tight. - The psychology of being subjected to movement with no visual reference (vomit tube) - The problem of escaping people from a vacuum tube when something breaks. This would probably require uuuuge isolation valves every few km, and escape points closer than this, with emergency air infiltration systems, which then has to emergency break other pods who are then stuck in long queues with limited air, in battery powered coffins. - Long term maintenance: esp of underground parts requiring building a tunnel in a tunnel. - High capital cost of a complex pod requiring compressors, life support (aircon and air), batteries, recharging systems. - Being not much faster than a bullet train of much higher capacity, and slower than an aircraft. - Energy is becoming cheaper, so the main advantage of hyperloop is somewhat dulled.
We use Redmine with an assortment of plugins. (Recurring Tasks, Base Deface, Base Rspec, Customise Core Fields, DMSF, Edit Custom Fields, Git Remote, Wiki Extensions, Redrisk, Scrum)
Works great for us by integrating development and maintenance. + it's free and sits on its own little linux VM.
I'm interested as why your governments don't intervene for workers rights more in the USA. Things like your absurdly low minimum wage and the ability to fire people at will. It is such an uneven one sided relationship and seems immensely unfair, especially in walmarts case where the family are Billionaires.
Well, this is what you Americans get when you support barely restrained capitalism. There is no way an employer would get away with this in Europe and Ocenania.
I'm always astonished with how bad things are in America for the basics of life, like health care and employment. You should embrace a little more socialism.
I usually have 50 tabs open, so I need the tree tab plugin on Firefox. No other browser properly supports side tabs that I know of. Plus who wants Google spying on them more than necessary.
Yep, nice observation. You could even argue, that if the USA hadn't invaded IRAQ for shoring up its petrodollar (creating ISIS), then funding an uprising against Assad (possibly to get a gas pipeline through Syria), and then not overthrowing Gadaffi: then we wouldn't have angry young men who have seen their families killed by American bombs wanting to get revenge.
Seriously. What was the strategic advantage of Assad using chemical weapons. None: This whole thing stinks of a false flag attack. Prove first it wasn't Turkey / al Nusra / White Helmets and their criminal co-conspirators..... House of Saud, Israel, Qatar, Jordan and their friends hanging out in the undergrowth within the UK, France and the US.
Prove It. The first chemical attack in this war was by the terrorists, not the Syrian Army.
The Tomahawk strike was a direct and clear violation of: i) US national law (Trump never got Congress to authorize this attack) ii) International law (Trump is now a criminal guilty of the crime of ‘aggression’) iii) The UN Charter
In other words, Trump is now a war criminal and the USA a rogue state (again). The same applies to the US military. After all, the US went to great pains to establish that 'just following orders' is no defence.
I see in the distant future, we will eventually reverse engineer the genetic 'object code', to create the source code (I think ID is much more likely than random beneficial mutation); and I wouldn't be surprised if it looks similar to object orientated techniques we currently use. Imagine having the source code to life, where you can tinker at a keyboard and 'print out' new DNA. The implications are both scary (eg the ability to create super bugs, or eliminate certain classes of people), to being able to cure genetic disease, to even immortality.
Yep. Every time I see a post about Chrome and Tabs, I point out that Firefox is my daily driver because of the TreeStyleTabs plug in. Chrome used to have vertical tabs, but some engineer took it out because he thought no one used it (because is was in some hard to find config setting... duh)
I usually have 40-50 tabs open at once, and there is no way I will do that on a browser not supporting vertical tabs.
Haven't you worked out the purpose of the CIA yet? The CIA isn't for a peon like you, although you get a surprising side benefit. The CIA is the private spy agency for very big business; mainly oil and drugs. The side benefit for Americans is getting to live a lifestyle beyond your means because the petro/narco dollar allows for great purchasing power around the world. That said, I would still much rather the evil of the CIA than the KGB, NKVD, ISIS etal.
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Which is what Australia is doing with the National Broadband Network.
The troubles is, Americans might get infected by communism if the government laid the fibre.
How the pods transition from vacuum to normal air?
If a pod breaks down how is it retrieved?.. eg. Are there access hatches?, Does that mean big valves every km or so for isolation? How long does each section take to air up & re vacuum?
To be honest, I can't see this economically working for people. Can you imagine being in a coffin in a steel vacuum tube with no inertial reference. Someone breaks down, which then means hundreds of pods have to stop until the problem is fixed.
This might work for freight... but given energy is likely to get cheaper, I don't see the economic advantage vs planes/trains.
It seriously sad you have been modded +5 Insightful.
The newage mantra is, it's whatever I feel that's important..but feelings change all the time. I believe in basic moral absolutes, such as 'shock and horror' you should try constrain sex in a marriage between a man and a woman.
Thoughts are like a garden. You need to remove the weeds and water the good stuff. This passive weak minded mantra of, Oh but I 'feel' attracted to children. Well hey, you should have weeded your mind a long time ago: now it's turned into bramble bush and taken over your mind. The best way to weed these thoughts is to go talk to someone you trust while they are still manageable. It's like putting a weed killer on the thought.
Your post just propagates passive fatalism of people being captive to whatever random crap take holds in their mind. Grow a backbone and take responsibility for your thought life.
The USA has a unique culture that was bought by the Puritan work ethic that promoted individualism and self improvement.
A good explanation is the three stages of maturity.
Dependance (child), Independance (teen), Interdependence (adult)
The USA seems to revere Independence, where Europe, Oceania focus more on interdependence.
Americans confuse this with socialism/communism and have a great fear that someone may undeservedly benefit from their labor. I can assure you being in one of these 'socialist' countries, that the benefits outweigh disadvantages.
Universal healthcare is terrific. Proper limits on monopolies. Much better support for poor people so they don't resort to crime. Higher minimum wages so low socioeconomic people can afford to live and spend it into their communities. Running prisons to reform rather than profit. Even better public transit systems.
Unfortunately, I don't see any cultural changes on the horizon.
Sure, that might be the case in the USA, but outside nobody under 30 has a clue what F is anymore without having to look it up.
On an international news site, even if it is based in the USA, you should use celcius.
Well, by liberal Silicon Valley rules, it will work like this:
If they criticize Christianity, then it's free speech
If they criticize Islam, then it's racism and hate speech.
Why does the far left interpret disagreement as hate?
I don't think gay marriage is a good thing for society: but I don't hate gay people who hold that opinion?
All they need to do, is throttle the entire Washington area to 256kbs for a few days.
Windows 10 S is clearly a push into the education market: but google has has had Chrome For Education for several years now: and the big advantage of Chrome Management Console (CMC) is it being active directory in the cloud done right. CMC makes it super easy to lock down, manage and update education targeted computers (it's also great for digital signage) /.ers have a comparison of the two systems.
I haven't used Azure AD, so it would be interesting if any
Apple had an awesome opportunity here after they created a whole new locked to a store OS niche, but never capitalised on it by giving schools the tools to manage the platform.
Now the only reason PC's are still selling, are office and legacy programs. Think custom business programs written in .NET and specialised CAD/CAM software. MS have lost the first mover advantage to chrome, and I doubt this move will get it back.
Some stuff my wife and I have enjoyed together.
Longmire: Episodic murder drama, but with small town rural values (the lead is actually an Australian)
Homeland: OK, it gets a bit silly at times, but still good drama.
Suits: Legal Drama with lots of type A personalities
Good Wife: Legal Drama but the series ending was dumb.
Boston Legal: Old now, but Spader and Shatner are very good.
Once Upon a Time & WhiteColla: Wife really enjoyed these ones.
As an Engineer, I always see solutions to problems. I always thought that was the point of the job.
Sure, I solve problems all day: but before I take on a project, I like to know the risk/reward ratio and for Hyperloop it doesn't look like a great ratio.
As an Engineer, I see always see the problems....
- Thousands of sliding expansion joints that need to remain vacuum tight.
- The psychology of being subjected to movement with no visual reference (vomit tube)
- The problem of escaping people from a vacuum tube when something breaks. This would probably require uuuuge isolation valves every few km, and escape points closer than this, with emergency air infiltration systems, which then has to emergency break other pods who are then stuck in long queues with limited air, in battery powered coffins.
- Long term maintenance: esp of underground parts requiring building a tunnel in a tunnel.
- High capital cost of a complex pod requiring compressors, life support (aircon and air), batteries, recharging systems.
- Being not much faster than a bullet train of much higher capacity, and slower than an aircraft.
- Energy is becoming cheaper, so the main advantage of hyperloop is somewhat dulled.
I'm sure other can add more
We use Redmine with an assortment of plugins.
(Recurring Tasks, Base Deface, Base Rspec, Customise Core Fields, DMSF, Edit Custom Fields, Git Remote, Wiki Extensions, Redrisk, Scrum)
Works great for us by integrating development and maintenance. + it's free and sits on its own little linux VM.
I'm interested as why your governments don't intervene for workers rights more in the USA. Things like your absurdly low minimum wage and the ability to fire people at will. It is such an uneven one sided relationship and seems immensely unfair, especially in walmarts case where the family are Billionaires.
Well, this is what you Americans get when you support barely restrained capitalism.
There is no way an employer would get away with this in Europe and Ocenania.
I'm always astonished with how bad things are in America for the basics of life, like health care and employment. You should embrace a little more socialism.
I usually have 50 tabs open, so I need the tree tab plugin on Firefox. No other browser properly supports side tabs that I know of. Plus who wants Google spying on them more than necessary.
I'm old enough to remember when bombings like Manchester were commonplace in England, but they still let Irish Catholics into the country.
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Yep, nice observation.
You could even argue, that if the USA hadn't invaded IRAQ for shoring up its petrodollar (creating ISIS), then funding an uprising against Assad (possibly to get a gas pipeline through Syria), and then not overthrowing Gadaffi: then we wouldn't have angry young men who have seen their families killed by American bombs wanting to get revenge.
RO water is not good for your long term as essential minerals like calcium are removed which can mess with your bones and gut.
Well maybe thats due to Linux.
My FF52 has been crashing about 4 times a day in the last few weeks.
It's still my daily driver, because it is the only browser that properly support side tabs via the treetab plugin.
I think it had 3.5k of Ram and I bought a 16k expansion card for it.
followed by a C64, then onto the x86 computers.
That would be an interesting poll. /. readers age in say 10 year blocks.
A histogram of an average
Seriously. ..... House of Saud, Israel, Qatar, Jordan and their friends hanging out in the undergrowth within the UK, France and the US.
What was the strategic advantage of Assad using chemical weapons. None:
This whole thing stinks of a false flag attack.
Prove first it wasn't Turkey / al Nusra / White Helmets and their criminal co-conspirators
Prove It. The first chemical attack in this war was by the terrorists, not the Syrian Army.
The Tomahawk strike was a direct and clear violation of:
i) US national law (Trump never got Congress to authorize this attack)
ii) International law (Trump is now a criminal guilty of the crime of ‘aggression’)
iii) The UN Charter
In other words, Trump is now a war criminal and the USA a rogue state (again). The same applies to the US military. After all, the US went to great pains to establish that 'just following orders' is no defence.
I see in the distant future, we will eventually reverse engineer the genetic 'object code', to create the source code (I think ID is much more likely than random beneficial mutation); and I wouldn't be surprised if it looks similar to object orientated techniques we currently use.
Imagine having the source code to life, where you can tinker at a keyboard and 'print out' new DNA. The implications are both scary (eg the ability to create super bugs, or eliminate certain classes of people), to being able to cure genetic disease, to even immortality.
Yep. Every time I see a post about Chrome and Tabs, I point out that Firefox is my daily driver because of the TreeStyleTabs plug in.
Chrome used to have vertical tabs, but some engineer took it out because he thought no one used it (because is was in some hard to find config setting... duh)
I usually have 40-50 tabs open at once, and there is no way I will do that on a browser not supporting vertical tabs.
Haven't you worked out the purpose of the CIA yet?
The CIA isn't for a peon like you, although you get a surprising side benefit. The CIA is the private spy agency for very big business; mainly oil and drugs. The side benefit for Americans is getting to live a lifestyle beyond your means because the petro/narco dollar allows for great purchasing power around the world.
That said, I would still much rather the evil of the CIA than the KGB, NKVD, ISIS etal.