No, it is not. For flights you have to get there an hour or more in advance, they are chronically late or canceled and you can't get up and walk around during it.
Go someplace they have HSR and check it out.
People travel by air because they don't have HSR available to them.
No matter how great these folks are once an organization gets to some size this stuff starts happening. At some point instead of working for Exciting Company A you get people thinking they work for Tribe B of Exciting Company A.
Instead of endless meetings where "None of Us is as Dumb as All of Us" is the order of the day he can step in and push the project forward. Once you start delegating you will have layers and layers of delegation and nothing gets done. Welcome to Corporate America.
That is where the endpoints go. The part of the trip that needs to be at hundreds of miles per hour is the giant empty part in the middle. Done correctly with a few stops on the way that land would be greatly increased in value. People would move out to the country.
I am 100% sure of it. You can say a lot things about Mr.Musk, but he is taking risks with his own money that everyone might one day profit from. As opposed to the usual route of billionaires which seems to be taking risks with everyone elses money so that they can profit from it.
Personally, I bet more of those not for profits are scams than kickstarter drives. For a great example pick a random large charity and find out what their execs make. If you are fine with that, check their overhead costs. There are charities spending less than 30% of their funds on charitable activities.
With kickstarter you are paying for a product to be hopefully created, this means there is risk involved but this may be the only way such a product is ever created. If you don't like that then simply do not participate. There is no reason to expect others to share your views.
I have crowd funded some games and they are nearly released. From all known data they will ship on time.
Could some of these projects fail? Sure, but this is not a scam. To be a scam they would have to plan on failing.
I would not give to DogDude's kickstarter because I have no idea who you are and you have no track record. Once I heard Stainless Games was making a new Carmageddon they had their money as quick as I could hand it over.
I hope at the very least all this software will be released for the current android devices they are testing on.
If I could turn any GSM galaxy nexus/nexus 4 into an ubuntu phone and be able to dock it to a monitor to get a full desktop I would do that in a heartbeat. I know they did some sort of release before but I did not think it supported the docked desktop software.
How is this different than any other phone you buy outright?
You could save money, if your provider offers such a deal. T-mobile does for example. AT&T does not directly, but you could buy their service through another provider like StraightTalk.
If your current carrier is VZW you are out of luck. This will be a GSM/LTE device. CDMA carriers, VZW especially, are extremely hostile to outside devices. This can easily be seen with the update situation on the Sprint and VZW Galaxy Nexus devices that always lag behind with updates.
What is your concern with sapphire glass? It should be a big improvement over what is used on phones now.
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No, it is not. For flights you have to get there an hour or more in advance, they are chronically late or canceled and you can't get up and walk around during it.
Go someplace they have HSR and check it out.
People travel by air because they don't have HSR available to them.
Have you ever tried them both yourself?
If you had you would not likely be asking.
No matter how great these folks are once an organization gets to some size this stuff starts happening. At some point instead of working for Exciting Company A you get people thinking they work for Tribe B of Exciting Company A.
They don't want to ruin the world, they are just incompetent.
No, but he is motivated to get people to do it.
Instead of endless meetings where "None of Us is as Dumb as All of Us" is the order of the day he can step in and push the project forward. Once you start delegating you will have layers and layers of delegation and nothing gets done. Welcome to Corporate America.
That is where the endpoints go. The part of the trip that needs to be at hundreds of miles per hour is the giant empty part in the middle. Done correctly with a few stops on the way that land would be greatly increased in value. People would move out to the country.
A 600mph train could be fairly quiet. Design is a big part. Yes there would be some disruption.
What security concerns? Terrorism? You mean that thing that in the USA kills less people than farm animals?
Pipelines can also be attacked, and would actually be a better target. Look at what bursting a pipeline did just recently in the news.
Here is a free fashion tip:
If you are male you should not be wearing skinny jeans.
If they can build a oil pipeline I fail to see how this is any different.
Besides the entire middle of the country is nearly empty, go check it out on google earth.
I think the problem is not enough cocaine. Look at how Tony Stark acts, that requires Scarface sized piles of cocaine.
Not that I want to kill Elon Musk, but that might just be the price of progress.
Go pound sand you idiot.
Not everyone pushing trains is like that nor are most people like that.
Hell, a single high speed rail link through the middle of the country linking the existing decent rail on the coasts would be great.
I am 100% sure of it.
You can say a lot things about Mr.Musk, but he is taking risks with his own money that everyone might one day profit from. As opposed to the usual route of billionaires which seems to be taking risks with everyone elses money so that they can profit from it.
Good for you.
Personally, I bet more of those not for profits are scams than kickstarter drives. For a great example pick a random large charity and find out what their execs make. If you are fine with that, check their overhead costs. There are charities spending less than 30% of their funds on charitable activities.
With kickstarter you are paying for a product to be hopefully created, this means there is risk involved but this may be the only way such a product is ever created. If you don't like that then simply do not participate. There is no reason to expect others to share your views.
If they feel like driving their company into the ground sure. If they stole the money Canonical would be out of business in a matter of months.
So be a responsible adult?
Are you playing catch with these things?
I have never placed a case or "screen protector" on any of my smartphones or tablets. So far they are all intact.
I want the screen to be as hard as is possible. Brittleness is not an issue unless it comes to the point you can't touch the thing.
I have crowd funded some games and they are nearly released. From all known data they will ship on time.
Could some of these projects fail? Sure, but this is not a scam. To be a scam they would have to plan on failing.
I would not give to DogDude's kickstarter because I have no idea who you are and you have no track record. Once I heard Stainless Games was making a new Carmageddon they had their money as quick as I could hand it over.
I hope at the very least all this software will be released for the current android devices they are testing on.
If I could turn any GSM galaxy nexus/nexus 4 into an ubuntu phone and be able to dock it to a monitor to get a full desktop I would do that in a heartbeat. I know they did some sort of release before but I did not think it supported the docked desktop software.
How is this different than any other phone you buy outright?
You could save money, if your provider offers such a deal. T-mobile does for example. AT&T does not directly, but you could buy their service through another provider like StraightTalk.
If your current carrier is VZW you are out of luck. This will be a GSM/LTE device. CDMA carriers, VZW especially, are extremely hostile to outside devices. This can easily be seen with the update situation on the Sprint and VZW Galaxy Nexus devices that always lag behind with updates.
What is your concern with sapphire glass? It should be a big improvement over what is used on phones now.
After 20 years the now 10 year old cat would be very boring to observe.
Sure, just like it is my choice to never buy a device with one of their SoCs.
Join the club. I guess I will have to stick with the original one a little longer.
I would pay extra for a device with all the drivers in the mainline kernel. So far that seems impossible in the tablet/phone area.
That is exactly what google should do.
If your drivers are not in the mainline kernel, your parts do not go into nexus devices.
Or the big thing you missed is that this is not a Firearm and as such the NFA does not apply.
It is not a rifle, as it lacks rifling. It is not a firearm under US law.