Fast rail is for passengers. Not freight. That can go by sea. Passengers need a direct route. Arcing north through Siberia and Alaska (past Sarah's place) is too slow, because even fast trains are slow compared to aircraft.
Not that this will actually happen anytime in the near future, but it isn't really too far off the direct route if you are only talking about being too far off the direct route being an issue. Of course trains are much slower than airplanes, but even planes arc past Sarah's place on such a journey.
In the recent past, it was easier to hug the coastline than to try to navigate the great circle route, but nowdays, airplanes have enough navigational safeguards to avoid tracing the coast. Of course in the past tracing the coast had other hazzards...
I think you don't give the GP's post enough credit.
When it was only InterNIC assigning domain names, it was $100/year, and then $70/year. I remember carefully choosing which domains to register - and so did everyone else. There were very few squatters back then.
I believe passing the torch to ICANN, and then having GoDaddy (Wild West) pop up offering $6.COM will be remembered as the ruin of the Internet. Not to mention the 2-3 day "evaluation" period where squatters could hold a domain without paying for it.
Now they've opened up.CO (Columbian) for non-Columbian registration. Pre-registration is $299, and the registrars are trying to push it as the next big TLD.
While I don't disagree on any one point, Godaddy came much later then the endless September, At least on an timetable on scale with the age of the internet.
This is one of the reasons I like Bad Company more then Modern Warfare.
When the first bad company came out multiplayer wasn't very good, I don't think it even had conquest mode. but today I pop in the game and it's pretty fun, I don't have to buy some crappy DLC to get the real online experience.
Compare this to CoD:W@W this game was actually pretty fun the day I bought it. But it only came with some of the content, Now there are 3-4 DLC's out and they want $10 bucks each. If I want to play a game today I have to wait in the Queue to get in a game for a map that I have, Also when the map ends you get a new random map from the DLC and you get booted back to the main window. I'm sorry the TCO(Total cost of owner ship) of this game is not worth $90!
The DLC issue is why I'll be buying bad company 2 instead of MW2
It depends on what you're trying to do. A very targeted virus that successfully penetrates a single high value target may be a lot more valuable than yet another virus that creates yet another botnet.
Um, No!
Too much risk. Your much better off having your new botnet install a keylogger and collect cc numbers. You can usually sell them bulk on a blacksite for a couple bucks a piece. It's a much more sound business model as you don't have worry about the money trail.
(a) And what exactly does methane turn into as it floats around in the atmosphere?
(b) You're correct - oxidation of one CH4 molecule produces one CO2 molecule and two H2O molecules.
Well to be fair H2O is also a greenhouse gas.
H2O Is really a lot stronger greenhouse gas then CO2, In fact I'd be willing to bet all these man made lakes would cause much more warming of the planet then total coal output.
GlobalMapper > Arcinfo. It all comes down to price, Globalmapper is like $300. I don't even know what Arc costs, but i know blue marble is cheaper and it's a couple grand.
GM might not have the same intuitivness, but It's perfect for the given problem.
Considering I mainly deal with Oil and gas we usually use well locations as a secondary x/y point.
just be glad you don't have to convert from meets and bounds
Proper lighting, focus, tripod, and a large enough flat surface should produce pretty close to scanner results. Faster than the scanner and stitching.
It's note just a flat surface, the glass also sort of forces the paper flat. You would need a large heavy piece of plexiglass for this setup as well for the crinkly maps.
We can also output Google Earth KML's. It's neat to be able to click a link and get all your contours and well locations to pull up in 3D. And to have this file work on any machine with google earth.
I do this for a living, We Use a wide format scanner and Global Mapper to georectify them.
Contact mikes@wavefront.pro if you would like a quote.
We do everything from old torn maps to vellums to Tifs, We can Georectify them to load quickly as a geotiff. or we can digitize the data on the maps into Arc compatible Shapefiles.
The author didn't even tell us which keyboard he used on the Android devices. There's a very big difference between the vertical-orientation kb and the horizontal-orientation one. I can't type worth anything on the vertical, but can blaze along fairly quickly on the horizontal.
Yes but the vertical ones only take one hand, Which means I'm more likely to be able to avoid trees while typing sql statements
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isn't silver an antibiotic?
Not that you should drink the stuff, but I was always told the silver spoon old wives tale was based in reality.
Three words: great, circle, route...
http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=PEK-SEA&MS=wls&PC=red&RC=navy&DU=mi
Not that this will actually happen anytime in the near future, but it isn't really too far off the direct route if you are only talking about being too far off the direct route being an issue. Of course trains are much slower than airplanes, but even planes arc past Sarah's place on such a journey.
In the recent past, it was easier to hug the coastline than to try to navigate the great circle route, but nowdays, airplanes have enough navigational safeguards to avoid tracing the coast. Of course in the past tracing the coast had other hazzards...
I think you don't give the GP's post enough credit.
That Great Circle doesn't look so good from DC
http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=PEK-DCA&MS=wls&PC=red&RC=navy&DU=mi
Who were they?
http://web.archive.org/web/19970214020411/http://www.mcc.com/
the internet archive rocks!
GoDaddy didn't start until 1999, The internet became mainstream in 1995-ish.
I was using AOL in 94.
5 years in internet time is like 30 years in any other technology.
Stargate Information Systems continued to provide community service until 1988.
I LESS THAN THREE the internet archive.
http://web.archive.org/web/20001210223600/www.stargate.com/history.html
When it was only InterNIC assigning domain names, it was $100/year, and then $70/year. I remember carefully choosing which domains to register - and so did everyone else. There were very few squatters back then.
I believe passing the torch to ICANN, and then having GoDaddy (Wild West) pop up offering $6 .COM will be remembered as the ruin of the Internet. Not to mention the 2-3 day "evaluation" period where squatters could hold a domain without paying for it.
Now they've opened up .CO (Columbian) for non-Columbian registration. Pre-registration is $299, and the registrars are trying to push it as the next big TLD.
While I don't disagree on any one point, Godaddy came much later then the endless September, At least on an timetable on scale with the age of the internet.
tomato
But It's pronounced tomato!
This is one of the reasons I like Bad Company more then Modern Warfare.
When the first bad company came out multiplayer wasn't very good, I don't think it even had conquest mode. but today I pop in the game and it's pretty fun, I don't have to buy some crappy DLC to get the real online experience.
Compare this to CoD:W@W this game was actually pretty fun the day I bought it. But it only came with some of the content, Now there are 3-4 DLC's out and they want $10 bucks each. If I want to play a game today I have to wait in the Queue to get in a game for a map that I have, Also when the map ends you get a new random map from the DLC and you get booted back to the main window. I'm sorry the TCO(Total cost of owner ship) of this game is not worth $90!
The DLC issue is why I'll be buying bad company 2 instead of MW2
Learn to ballast, idiot.
Win!
I want a minisub.
That is all.
Robots won't join a union for better pay and working conditions.
No, they'll just become self-aware and kill us all. That's much better.
And that's different the the proletariat rising up how?
So what's the advantage of switching?
I have a policy of if it ain't broke don't fix it
here's an interesting KMZ of impact craters
It depends on what you're trying to do. A very targeted virus that successfully penetrates a single high value target may be a lot more valuable than yet another virus that creates yet another botnet.
Um, No!
Too much risk. Your much better off having your new botnet install a keylogger and collect cc numbers. You can usually sell them bulk on a blacksite for a couple bucks a piece. It's a much more sound business model as you don't have worry about the money trail.
Why is the earth warming bad? I'd much rather a greenhouse type scenario then a snowball earth situation.
(a) And what exactly does methane turn into as it floats around in the atmosphere?
(b) You're correct - oxidation of one CH4 molecule produces one CO2 molecule and two H2O molecules.
Well to be fair H2O is also a greenhouse gas.
H2O Is really a lot stronger greenhouse gas then CO2, In fact I'd be willing to bet all these man made lakes would cause much more warming of the planet then total coal output.
We should Cap and Trade water!
given those two processors I'd take the AMD, And I'm a huge fan of the I5 architecture.
it comes down to 4x-2.66 or 4x-3.4
I do wish AMD did some jiggling with the on die cache. I think having a small L2 with a big L3 really isn't that smart. but i can't say that as fact :(
IDK... Maybe not jail, But if he's got other kids he prob'ly needs a visit from CPS
GlobalMapper > Arcinfo.
It all comes down to price, Globalmapper is like $300. I don't even know what Arc costs, but i know blue marble is cheaper and it's a couple grand.
GM might not have the same intuitivness, but It's perfect for the given problem.
Considering I mainly deal with Oil and gas we usually use well locations as a secondary x/y point.
just be glad you don't have to convert from meets and bounds
250-300 is fine for scanning, you can always drop pixels, It's a lot harder to bring them back. Always keep the Hi-res's.
Proper lighting, focus, tripod, and a large enough flat surface should produce pretty close to scanner results.
Faster than the scanner and stitching.
It's note just a flat surface, the glass also sort of forces the paper flat. You would need a large heavy piece of plexiglass for this setup as well for the crinkly maps.
We can also output Google Earth KML's. It's neat to be able to click a link and get all your contours and well locations to pull up in 3D. And to have this file work on any machine with google earth.
I do this for a living, We Use a wide format scanner and Global Mapper to georectify them.
Contact mikes@wavefront.pro if you would like a quote.
We do everything from old torn maps to vellums to Tifs, We can Georectify them to load quickly as a geotiff. or we can digitize the data on the maps into Arc compatible Shapefiles.
Agreed.
The author didn't even tell us which keyboard he used on the Android devices. There's a very big difference between the vertical-orientation kb and the horizontal-orientation one. I can't type worth anything on the vertical, but can blaze along fairly quickly on the horizontal.
Yes but the vertical ones only take one hand, Which means I'm more likely to be able to avoid trees while typing sql statements
Gratz for actually reading the article to the end, I gave up after the first paragraph.
Any one here use Madagascar?
http://www.reproducibility.org/