Errm, no not really, bot Germany and France have invested many billions in new drivetrain, suspension, and rail technology. Did you think the TGV (or ICE) were free?
Thanks for the response Lars, but I'm certainly not naive enough to believe any such thing. Those many billions spent in France and Germany have produced an entire rail infrastracture, including trains, tracks, tunnels, bridges, signal networks etc. which is in use daily, carrying vast numbers of people safely and comfortably. I was questioning the value proposition of the planned maglev track, and wondering if Germany would not have been better served by re-investing that huge pile of euros in the ICE network, nothing more.
Well, if those billions had been invested in the Transrapid instead, there would be also be an entire rail infrastracture, including trains, tracks, (less) tunnels, bridges, signal networks etc. which would be in use daily, carrying vast numbers of people safely and comfortably - only using less energy and faster. Not to mention that my commuter trains wouldn't be delayed several times a week because of the late ICEs sharing the same tracks.
And pay no attention to the 101 killed when the German ICE derailed at Eschede? You can't use a single incident to broadly declare a technology "rather dangerous." What a load of b.s.
I stand by what I said. I talked about TGV safety record; I said nothing about the ICE. Sure, and the Concorde also had a great safety record (much better than the TGV) - until the accident in 2000.
...with maglevs (well the current transrapids at least) is that, like all high-speed transport, they are only efficient as hub-to-hub sprinters, as they are relatively slow starters (see here). As the low friction nature of levitation is the reason for their slow launches, I would propose some electrically driven wheels on the undercarriage making contact with the flat concrete track would be able to launch them to top speed (~400km/h or 249m/h) in an unprecedented time Where did you get that idea? The Transrapid can accelerate much faster than normal trains because it is frictionless. 0 to 300 kph in just five kilometers (0 to 186 mph in 3.1 miles).
Makes it even worse. Wouldn't it be a good idea to use the test track to also test the safety equipment? This is like BMW not putting brakes on their pre-production cars. No, this is like BMW not putting brakes on a street-sweeper that somebody left on the street.
ICEs don't really accelerate quickly enough to be used as a high speed train on a 27km track, so that would probably not be economical. Case in point, the ICE from Frankfurt main station to Frankfurt Airport takes 11 minutes for about 11 km - the S-Bahn with two stops in-between also takes 11 minutes.
Whilst the Shanghai maglev is indeed a great train ride experience, it does not actually terminate anywhere near "downtown" Shanghai. Of course that's why this line costs so much - it does go into the middle of Munich.
There, I just saved the German taxpayer $1 billion dollars. By building a six lane highway from a railroad station to an airport. You must be American.
The real question, it seems to me, is why don't they invest those billions in new drivetrain, suspension, and rail technology. The French have achieved wonders with the TGV at a fraction of the cost
Errm, no not really, bot Germany and France have invested many billions in new drivetrain, suspension, and rail technology. Did you think the TGV (or ICE) were free? And no, a specially build train consisting mostly of engines with little room for passengers (costing $40 million for the train alone), and lets sparks fly like an 30s horror movie is not showing "what is possible", at least not reasonably.
The real reason is to ship the Jews quicker to the camps. Damn Nazis never change. Actually, it will pass the former KZ Dachau in about 3 mile distance.
No, I paid cash for it at Target. Nice try, though. So your argument is that the credit card companies don't get a substantial (probably bigger than the artist) share of the money paid at the iTunes Store, because you paid your gift certificate in cash?
(2) If the deal is so bad for the producers, why did they go in on the deal in the first place? Because they got 70 cents for every title sold without any extra cost to them. The problem for them is that Apple is selling billions of tunes, and there is a chance that they actually get more money out of the deal than they have to invest - that is obviously an unfair business practice.
Why would the credit card companies get a cut of something bought with an iTunes gift card? Because the gift card was paid for with -ta-dah- a credit card?
I was talking about those who said they would never buy an iPhone (even if it were G3) unless it were "open". Of which there are much more than of what you were babbling about. So much for your sill fanboi talk.
And he didn't say G3 is bad, he said the battery usage of G3 is still bad - are you gonna deny that too?
No, those saying they don't want 3G on a phone who's sole SDK is web-based are apple fanboys. So all those who say they would never buy an iPhone are Apple fanboys - yeah, that makes sense.
Congratulations for so whole-heartedly buying into Apple's marketing, but he was going for the biggest possible profit, not a desire to make the perfect cell phone.
So you disagree with all those saying Jobs made a mistake by doing exactly what he did.
It is in Europe when they release them here shortly - we're bathed in 3G, and the rest of the competition seems to have figured out how to get decent battery life out of a 3G handset... I guess all those people complaining about the "decent" battery life of their 3G phones must be Apple fanbois.
The title of the article is "What do you want in iphone 2.0" isn't it not? So, guy gave a legitimate question concerning 3G capability. Since when is "why was the iPhone crippled" a legitimate question in response to "What do you want in iphone 2.0"?
ironic, this coming from a man who 'went into business briefly in 1974 to build "blue boxes" that allowed illicit free long distance calls' (so says wikipedia) Of course at that time, an one-minute long-distance call cost you more (in todays money) than a tune from the iTunes Store.
Lets not forget the increase in living expenses such as food costs, cds, electronics and such that not only cost more in the UK but cost significantly more in London. This is why there is the "London Allowance" where a Londoner should be paid more than someone outside London for the same job (basically), To quote the GP: "I feel qualified to discuss this since i'm British but currently live and work in the USA, in New York." Well, maybe he means the state, not the city proper.
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A maglev traveling at high speeds (say 250 mph) is much louder than conventional rail at less than 200 mph.
According to your second link, the Transrapid at 250 mph is just as loud as a TGV at 180 mph. That is hardly much louder, is it?Thanks for the response Lars, but I'm certainly not naive enough to believe any such thing. Those many billions spent in France and Germany have produced an entire rail infrastracture, including trains, tracks, tunnels, bridges, signal networks etc. which is in use daily, carrying vast numbers of people safely and comfortably. I was questioning the value proposition of the planned maglev track, and wondering if Germany would not have been better served by re-investing that huge pile of euros in the ICE network, nothing more.
Well, if those billions had been invested in the Transrapid instead, there would be also be an entire rail infrastracture, including trains, tracks, (less) tunnels, bridges, signal networks etc. which would be in use daily, carrying vast numbers of people safely and comfortably - only using less energy and faster. Not to mention that my commuter trains wouldn't be delayed several times a week because of the late ICEs sharing the same tracks.
...with maglevs (well the current transrapids at least) is that, like all high-speed transport, they are only efficient as hub-to-hub sprinters, as they are relatively slow starters (see here). As the low friction nature of levitation is the reason for their slow launches, I would propose some electrically driven wheels on the undercarriage making contact with the flat concrete track would be able to launch them to top speed (~400km/h or 249m/h) in an unprecedented time Where did you get that idea? The Transrapid can accelerate much faster than normal trains because it is frictionless. 0 to 300 kph in just five kilometers (0 to 186 mph in 3.1 miles).Maglev's are quieter than conventional rail systems below 100 mph, but above that they get really loud really fast
But not louder than the conventional trains.The real question, it seems to me, is why don't they invest those billions in new drivetrain, suspension, and rail technology. The French have achieved wonders with the TGV at a fraction of the cost
Errm, no not really, bot Germany and France have invested many billions in new drivetrain, suspension, and rail technology. Did you think the TGV (or ICE) were free? And no, a specially build train consisting mostly of engines with little room for passengers (costing $40 million for the train alone), and lets sparks fly like an 30s horror movie is not showing "what is possible", at least not reasonably.Then I'd be going from Munich's main railroad station to the airport or vice versa - the magic word is passing.
So your argument is that the credit card companies don't get a substantial (probably bigger than the artist) share of the money paid at the iTunes Store, because you paid your gift certificate in cash?
is that they won't check future software updates to the iPhone to work with each and every unlocking hack somebody came up with.
Because the gift card was paid for with -ta-dah- a credit card?
And he didn't say G3 is bad, he said the battery usage of G3 is still bad - are you gonna deny that too?
Congratulations for so whole-heartedly buying into Apple's marketing, but he was going for the biggest possible profit, not a desire to make the perfect cell phone.
So you disagree with all those saying Jobs made a mistake by doing exactly what he did.How do you tell apart a fanboi and a sane person? The sane person constantly switches his G3 on and off.
It's amazing the lengths people will go to bash a product.
Once you have to start making up shit, most of us are already turned off by the trolls.