It's not just enough to build the hi speed rail. When you compare US public transportation to other countries the key difference is readily apparent. In Europe you can use a taxi, bus or local rail to connect to long distance rail, and airports. When the public transportation system is interconnected and easy to use, more people will use it. But right now the train stations are downtown, the bus station is somewhere else, and the airport is out in the 'burbs. If you want to get from one to the other it's difficult, time consuming and not easy. Once this is solved then there will be more users.
Where I live in Portland, OR, they are starting to solve this problem as now the light rail systems has a line into the airport. Now if they can put a light rail stop across the street from the train station they will start to have something very useful. But this change needs to happen everywhere, not just in one location.
This is one of those myths about capitalism, that it will solve all problems and find the cheapest solution. In this case the airports, trains, buses, and seaports were all controlled by different corporate entities and they all wanted to be "king" so they built their terminals in different places.
In the Northwest, Seattle was the seaport and the train barons didn't like that so they built all their train lines into Tacoma instead.....
I ran DNS server's for a major MSO (read cable company) and invariably, we'd get complaints about this topic. We would go look at the affected servers and see exactly what was described above. We would then check a separate set of servers and find the new correct data. Flush the first server's cache and voila everything fixed. We were tempted to just automatically flush the cache every couple of hours but never did that.
Certain IP numbers do not route, such as the 10.xxx.xxx.xxx subnet. I always love this statement, like somehow 10.x.x.x addresses are unroutable over the Internet. It's not that they are unroutable, it's just that they aren't suppose to be routed. Routers have to be configured to ignore any routing for these subnets. Not everyone does this. Recently (and maybe they still are) ATT was routing 10.x.x.x traffic over their backbone which they sell to other companies. I know this because we weren't blocking 10.x.x.x traffic at our edge like we should have and kept seeing odd IP's showing up in our area. Finally tracked it down to cable modems in New England.
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
I spent 2 yrs playing IT guy for a tank battalion
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The laptop isn't the problem. Most people are smart enough to keep it out of the rain and dust. Most of the components are sealed. The real problem was copiers and printers. If someone made a copier or printer that could be bounced around working in heat, cold and dust, they'd make a killing with the US Army.
He's wrong most cable companies to have ways of throttling your service. When your modem comes on line and is provisioned, it's mac address is recognized by the systems. Certain provisioning systems provide for different levels of service. If you buy 256/64 then this is setting is set in you cable modem. Up your service to 768/128 and they reprovision your modem, reload it and viola!
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Personally I'd like to see a Ronald D. Moore reboot, his take on BSG was awesome.....
It's not just enough to build the hi speed rail. When you compare US public transportation to other countries the key difference is readily apparent. In Europe you can use a taxi, bus or local rail to connect to long distance rail, and airports. When the public transportation system is interconnected and easy to use, more people will use it. But right now the train stations are downtown, the bus station is somewhere else, and the airport is out in the 'burbs. If you want to get from one to the other it's difficult, time consuming and not easy. Once this is solved then there will be more users.
Where I live in Portland, OR, they are starting to solve this problem as now the light rail systems has a line into the airport. Now if they can put a light rail stop across the street from the train station they will start to have something very useful. But this change needs to happen everywhere, not just in one location.
This is one of those myths about capitalism, that it will solve all problems and find the cheapest solution. In this case the airports, trains, buses, and seaports were all controlled by different corporate entities and they all wanted to be "king" so they built their terminals in different places.
In the Northwest, Seattle was the seaport and the train barons didn't like that so they built all their train lines into Tacoma instead.....
That is the most likely scenario.
I ran DNS server's for a major MSO (read cable company) and invariably, we'd get complaints about this topic.
We would go look at the affected servers and see exactly what was described above. We would then check a separate set of servers and find the new correct data.
Flush the first server's cache and voila everything fixed. We were tempted to just automatically flush the cache every couple of hours but never did that.
Certain IP numbers do not route, such as the 10.xxx.xxx.xxx subnet.
I always love this statement, like somehow 10.x.x.x addresses are unroutable over the Internet. It's not that they are unroutable, it's just that they aren't suppose to be routed. Routers have to be configured to ignore any routing for these subnets. Not everyone does this. Recently (and maybe they still are) ATT was routing 10.x.x.x traffic over their backbone which they sell to other companies. I know this because we weren't blocking 10.x.x.x traffic at our edge like we should have and kept seeing odd IP's showing up in our area. Finally tracked it down to cable modems in New England.
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
The laptop isn't the problem. Most people are smart
enough to keep it out of the rain and dust. Most of the components are sealed. The real problem was copiers and printers. If someone made a copier or printer that could be bounced around working in heat, cold and dust, they'd make a killing with the US Army.
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He's wrong most cable companies to have ways of throttling your service. When your modem comes on line and is provisioned, it's mac address is recognized by the systems. Certain provisioning systems provide for different levels of service. If you buy 256/64 then this is setting is set in you cable modem. Up your service to 768/128 and they reprovision your modem, reload it and viola!
According to the acceptable use policy. No