I seem to recall running across two or three rotting corpses of drive-in theaters in my travels and have never seen one that didn't look like something that had been through a zombie apocalypse. Drive in theaters were a prop for sitcoms of my parent's generation.
Hull's Drive-In in Lexington, Virginia (pop. 7,000) is non-profit and digital, purchased for $75,000 in 2000 ---- roughly the cost of single-screen digital projection in 2013. Lexington is a university town, home to VMI
Locally we have some striking examples of art deco era theatrical restorations. It is a very different experience than the multiplex Not all of them are big city, big budget, projects. The cost of digital conversion is a huge strain on them as well.
One of the major reasons the transcontinental railroads were able to be built by private industry is that the US Government owned much of the land, and gave it to them. They didn't have to go buy small strips of land from thousands of land owners.
They were given 6,400 acres of government land for every mile of track. To be sold to private buyers who would generating traffic and revenue for the railroads well into the next century.
Section 3 granted an additional 10 square miles of public land for every mile of grade except where railroads ran through cities or crossed rivers. The method of apportioning these additional land grants was specified in the Act as being in the form of ''five alternate sections per mile on each side of said railroad, on the line thereof, and within the limits of ten miles on each side'' which thus provided the companies with a total of 6,400 acres (2,600 ha) for each mile of their railroad.
It's neither going to be "high speed" nor actually in the cities that it is supposedly to linking.
To be fair, Musk's proposed Hyperloop isn't city center to city center either. The rental car or shuttle service is still required. I want to know more about many passengers the loop can carry and how much it would cost to ''terminate'' the route downtown.
It is the difference between practical and efficient mass transit and a $6 billion dollar thrill ride.
You could build a commercially viable Pacific air service using flying boats. In the late thirties there was only one runaway on the east coast which could bear the weight of a transatlantic aircraft.
The point being that early aviation needed very little in the way of a supporting infrastructure.
I think that Elon Musk's main idea is to implement it in California along highway 5, solving the land problem.
It solves the land problem only if you ignore the end points in San Francisco and L.A. Rail takes you downtown. It anchors and energizes the inner city or it is not doing its job.
And finds that while the journey for individuals may be faster, the system as a whole would have one-tenth the capacity (i.e., the ability to move people in numbers) than the planned high-speed rail system.
I keep thinking of the Concorde, which become economically viable as luxury high speed transport only after its enormous development costs were written off as a dead loss.
To get from San Francisco to the hyperloop station, or from the hyperloop station to downtown LA, you'd have to switch to local transit or drive, which will double or triple travel time.
That suggests the Hyperloop from LA or San Francisco is not an impulse buy or a practical commute even at $20.
Every aspect of it, from the induction motors, to the earthquake proofing to the aerodynamics to the solar power is all well understood.
That is a little disingenuous.
We are talking about an evacuated and elevated (near vacuum) tube with a loop 400 miles in diameter.
I've seen a lot of hand-waving but not much more when it comes to the rescue and retrieval of passengers trapped within the tube. Oxygen reserves. Emergency ventilation, access points and so on.
The behavior of people in tightly confined spaces can turn small problems into big ones. The primary job of a flight attendant is to maintain order and discipline on board. That is not a job which can easily be automated.
Will these cars even have an attendant?
I would like to hear more about traffic projections for the loop. More about the Hyperloop station. Rail takes you downtown, into the very heart of the city. But the infrastructure must be there to support it and that is expensive.
I'm pretty sure I saw that in a reprint of an ancient Popular Mechanic.
(Maybe it was Popular Science, but was that one even being printed in the 50s?)
Popular Science in its modern form was first published in 1915. Popular Mechanics, 1902. In its prime, Popular Science published countless projects for the amateur scientist, radio hobbyist, model maker, craftsman and mechanic. along with some very good reporting on sciences, technologies, medicine, the military and so on.
The drugs are expensive because of the patents on them that allow big pharma to monopolize them.
It's a long road from the research lab to clinical testing on humans to production and distribution of a new drug on a global scale --- and it takes time, money, manpower, organization and material resources to make that happen.
Without any certainty that major problems won't be exposed further on.
... although I have to admit that New Yorkers pretty much keep asking for that level of government meddling in their lives.
New York is a global financial center, arguably the global financial center --- and when things go wrong here all hell breaks loose.
The economy of New York City is the biggest regional economy in the United States and the second largest city economy in the world after Tokyo. Anchored by Wall Street, in Lower Manhattan, New York City is one of the world's two premier financial centers, alongside London and is home to the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ, the world's largest stock exchanges by market capitalization and trading activity. New York is distinctive for its high concentrations of advanced service sector firms in fields such as law, accountancy, banking and management consultancy.
The New York metropolitan area had an estimated gross metropolitan product of $1.28 trillion in 2010. The city's economy accounts for the majority of the economic activity in the states of New York and New Jersey.
Manhattan is home to six major stock, commodities and futures exchanges: American Stock Exchange, International Securities Exchange, NASDAQ, New York Board of Trade, New York Mercantile Exchange, and New York Stock Exchange. This contributes to New York City being a major financial service exporter, both within the United States and globally.
In 2003, Fedwire, the Federal Reserve's system for transferring balances between it and other banks, transferred $1.8 trillion a day in funds, of which about $1.1 trillion originated in the Second District. It transferred an additional $1.3 trillion a day in securities, of which $1.2 trillion originated in the Second District.
The Google building, 111 Eighth Avenue is the property with the highest-listed market value in the city, at $1.9 billion, The building, which has been owned by Google since 2010, is one of the largest technology-owned office buildings in the world --- exceeding all of the combined buildings at Google's Googleplex headquarters in California. It is also larger than Apple Inc.'s new circular "spaceship" (2,800,000 square feet (260,000 m2)) headquarters being built in Cupertino, California.
I am currently running ancient 32-bit hardware and thinking about an upgrade to something x64 with USB3, SATA3 and >1 core on the CPU... but don't want TC/TPM.
You want to buy a high performance x86 motherboard which for some unfathomable reasons lacks features that have become more or less standard in both the consumer PC and the enterprise markets like UEFI and are not going away any time soon. Good luck with that,
I remember when people wrote free software because it scratched an itch. Kickstarter seems to be setting a trend where people won't write free software unless they get paid.
There is nothing unusual in a developer being paid for his work or subsidized in some other fashion when he contributes to an open source project. It allows him to work full time on the thing. It gives him access to manpower and other resources he could not afford on his own.
The internet sees any blockage as an outage and works to avoid it.
The Internet sees and understands nothing. It is a machine like any other. It can be managed and it can be changed.
The notion that a communications network with a global reach and universal access is inherently anarchic and ungovernable is as old as the telegraph and probably older than the semaphore. The geek should know better.
How about the military focus less on solicitations for consensual sex and more on actually taking rape seriously?
Consent loses meaning when the request comes from a man in a position of power and privilege. It is not easy to say no when your entire village is starving --- and the only source of food is the man carrying a gun.
Because the locals don't appreciate it when it happens with locals. And when it is "consenting" co-members of the military it can often be less than consenting and it creates unnecessary conflict in a unit.
Too many of these posts have cut right to the edge of what has been said by the mayor of Osaka.
''When soldiers are risking their lives by running through storms of bullets, and you want to give these emotionally charged soldiers a rest somewhere, it's clear that you need a comfort-women system.'' he told reporters. ''Anyone can understand that.'' Japan's obligation, he said, is 'to politely offer kind words to the comfort women'' ---- as if they are to be pitied, prostitutes for whom politeness would be a prize; as if they had been lowered, rather than the Japanese military debased.
Hashimoto compounded that built-in controversy by suggesting that other countries might not only understand but emulate the Japanese experience --- that the United States might do so immediately at its bases in Japan: ''We can't control the sexual energy of these brave Marines... They must make more use of adult entertainers.''
....what needs to be challenged is a basic complacency about linking soldiers and sexual violence. This is an issue that afflicts many war zones and militaries, including ours, where there is an unresolved crisis of sexual assault. There is also something telling in Hashimoto's muddling of wartime sexual servitude, prostitution, peacetime assaults on the streets of Okinawa, and ''adult entertainment.''
I'm more surprised by the fact that having sex is illegal? And the military police has jurisdiction over this crime? wtf
The US military has never liked incidents that cause trouble with its foreign hosts.
Conditions were harsh in Britain in the early 1940s and there was also an undercurrent of unease that was conveyed by the phrase, especially amongst British men, who resented the attraction of GIs, with their ready supply of nylons and cigarettes, amongst British women. The artist Beryl Cook, who was a young woman at the time confirmed this in an interview to the BBC in the late 1970s. I can't find the transcript of the interview, but from memory it was words to the effect of, ''food was scarce, but we supplemented our income by a little impromptu whoring with the GIs - we all did it''. Many of these liaisons were love matches rather than merely commercial transactions though, as the thousands of marriages between US servicemen and British women (the GI brides) is evidence of.
Not at all. Is that better than stamping out a deadly disease? Not necessarily, but if the access to information lets those affected manage their own care better (or not get sick to begin with) then it gets very hard to judge.
The American South was once haunted by parasites and tropical diseases.
In 1910, an estimated 40% of the population of the southern United States was infected with hookworm.
In 1910 the RSC began campaigns to eradicate hookworm in nine states, including Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana. The RSC used a three-pronged approach that included:
1.Conducting a survey to map out the prevalence of the disease in a particular area
2.Curing patients at mobile dispensaries
3.Providing education through illustrated lectures and demonstrations that urged prevention through improved sanitary measures, including the construction of privies.
Southerners initially distrusted RSC efforts. Many were offended by accusations of infection and refused to accept testing and the treatment of Epsom salts and thymol. Others believed that the disease simply did not exist. Regional newspaper editorials also strongly criticized RSC employees and viewed them as a Northern imposition.
The geek thinks that putting up a web page = meaningful access to information = the solution to someone else's problems.
The Rockefeller Foundation page has some telling exhibits to the contrary. The doctors are on horseback. Their patients desperately sick and debilitated. Educational materials --- films, posters and the like --- could only reach out to those who were well enough to act ---
Earthquakes take time to propagate, so unless it is built right on the faultline, there will be time to react.
Now map a route from LA to San Francisco that avoids all the significant faultlines.
Remember that you are building a 400 mile enclosure for an on-demand automated "rail" system for cars travelling at 600 miles per hour. Not a vacuum tunnel but more like a pressurized system where significant breaks are going to have serious consequences.
An answer to that is that even though only 0.1% of users can read source code...
- 5% know somebody who can read code;
- 30% know somebody who knows somebody who can read code; - 100% know a newspaper who would publish the story if a single expert read the source code and discovered there is snooping hidden in it.
The geek's made-up stats do not inspire confidence.
They are worth the cheap instant mod up to +4 or +5, "Insightful" here.
Slashdot Mirror
I seem to recall running across two or three rotting corpses of drive-in theaters in my travels and have never seen one that didn't look like something that had been through a zombie apocalypse. Drive in theaters were a prop for sitcoms of my parent's generation.
The successful Drive-In is regional and community oriented: Google Earth Drive-In Theater Map
Hull's Drive-In in Lexington, Virginia (pop. 7,000) is non-profit and digital, purchased for $75,000 in 2000 ---- roughly the cost of single-screen digital projection in 2013. Lexington is a university town, home to VMI
Locally we have some striking examples of art deco era theatrical restorations. It is a very different experience than the multiplex Not all of them are big city, big budget, projects. The cost of digital conversion is a huge strain on them as well.
One of the major reasons the transcontinental railroads were able to be built by private industry is that the US Government owned much of the land, and gave it to them. They didn't have to go buy small strips of land from thousands of land owners.
They were given 6,400 acres of government land for every mile of track. To be sold to private buyers who would generating traffic and revenue for the railroads well into the next century.
Section 3 granted an additional 10 square miles of public land for every mile of grade except where railroads ran through cities or crossed rivers. The method of apportioning these additional land grants was specified in the Act as being in the form of ''five alternate sections per mile on each side of said railroad, on the line thereof, and within the limits of ten miles on each side'' which thus provided the companies with a total of 6,400 acres (2,600 ha) for each mile of their railroad.
Pacific Railroad Acts
It's neither going to be "high speed" nor actually in the cities that it is supposedly to linking.
To be fair, Musk's proposed Hyperloop isn't city center to city center either. The rental car or shuttle service is still required. I want to know more about many passengers the loop can carry and how much it would cost to ''terminate'' the route downtown.
It is the difference between practical and efficient mass transit and a $6 billion dollar thrill ride.
A simple icon for the next turn and a colour coded distance readout would not be that distracting
That could be done simply and cheaply by projecting the data on the windshield.
December 17, 1903, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
You could build a commercially viable Pacific air service using flying boats. In the late thirties there was only one runaway on the east coast which could bear the weight of a transatlantic aircraft.
The point being that early aviation needed very little in the way of a supporting infrastructure.
I think that Elon Musk's main idea is to implement it in California along highway 5, solving the land problem.
It solves the land problem only if you ignore the end points in San Francisco and L.A. Rail takes you downtown. It anchors and energizes the inner city or it is not doing its job.
And finds that while the journey for individuals may be faster, the system as a whole would have one-tenth the capacity (i.e., the ability to move people in numbers) than the planned high-speed rail system.
I keep thinking of the Concorde, which become economically viable as luxury high speed transport only after its enormous development costs were written off as a dead loss.
To get from San Francisco to the hyperloop station, or from the hyperloop station to downtown LA, you'd have to switch to local transit or drive, which will double or triple travel time.
That suggests the Hyperloop from LA or San Francisco is not an impulse buy or a practical commute even at $20.
Every aspect of it, from the induction motors, to the earthquake proofing to the aerodynamics to the solar power is all well understood.
That is a little disingenuous.
We are talking about an evacuated and elevated (near vacuum) tube with a loop 400 miles in diameter.
I've seen a lot of hand-waving but not much more when it comes to the rescue and retrieval of passengers trapped within the tube. Oxygen reserves. Emergency ventilation, access points and so on.
The behavior of people in tightly confined spaces can turn small problems into big ones. The primary job of a flight attendant is to maintain order and discipline on board. That is not a job which can easily be automated.
Will these cars even have an attendant?
I would like to hear more about traffic projections for the loop. More about the Hyperloop station. Rail takes you downtown, into the very heart of the city. But the infrastructure must be there to support it and that is expensive.
I'm pretty sure I saw that in a reprint of an ancient Popular Mechanic. (Maybe it was Popular Science, but was that one even being printed in the 50s?)
Popular Science in its modern form was first published in 1915. Popular Mechanics, 1902. In its prime, Popular Science published countless projects for the amateur scientist, radio hobbyist, model maker, craftsman and mechanic. along with some very good reporting on sciences, technologies, medicine, the military and so on.
"modem"
But without the need for an Acoustic coupler. NFC as an app and the geek cracks wise?
The drugs are expensive because of the patents on them that allow big pharma to monopolize them.
It's a long road from the research lab to clinical testing on humans to production and distribution of a new drug on a global scale --- and it takes time, money, manpower, organization and material resources to make that happen.
Without any certainty that major problems won't be exposed further on.
... although I have to admit that New Yorkers pretty much keep asking for that level of government meddling in their lives.
New York is a global financial center, arguably the global financial center --- and when things go wrong here all hell breaks loose.
The economy of New York City is the biggest regional economy in the United States and the second largest city economy in the world after Tokyo. Anchored by Wall Street, in Lower Manhattan, New York City is one of the world's two premier financial centers, alongside London and is home to the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ, the world's largest stock exchanges by market capitalization and trading activity. New York is distinctive for its high concentrations of advanced service sector firms in fields such as law, accountancy, banking and management consultancy.
The New York metropolitan area had an estimated gross metropolitan product of $1.28 trillion in 2010. The city's economy accounts for the majority of the economic activity in the states of New York and New Jersey.
Manhattan is home to six major stock, commodities and futures exchanges: American Stock Exchange, International Securities Exchange, NASDAQ, New York Board of Trade, New York Mercantile Exchange, and New York Stock Exchange. This contributes to New York City being a major financial service exporter, both within the United States and globally.
In 2003, Fedwire, the Federal Reserve's system for transferring balances between it and other banks, transferred $1.8 trillion a day in funds, of which about $1.1 trillion originated in the Second District. It transferred an additional $1.3 trillion a day in securities, of which $1.2 trillion originated in the Second District.
Economy of New York City
Fun fact:
The Google building, 111 Eighth Avenue is the property with the highest-listed market value in the city, at $1.9 billion, The building, which has been owned by Google since 2010, is one of the largest technology-owned office buildings in the world --- exceeding all of the combined buildings at Google's Googleplex headquarters in California. It is also larger than Apple Inc.'s new circular "spaceship" (2,800,000 square feet (260,000 m2)) headquarters being built in Cupertino, California.
A wonderfully creative way to post a slashvertisement for Microsoft OneNote. Well done.
calling the parent post a slashvertisement is a pretty clever way of getting around the problem that OneNote is very good at what it does.
well done.
I've seen this type of lighting system before on old ships (USS Constitution, etc...).
Deck prisms have been used for centuries.
DeckPrisms.com sells reproductions for decorative use and restoration. Marine supply houses sell them with frames. Fixed Portholes and Deck Prisms
Download Photoshop here http://gimp.org/
To a geek there is no joke too old and stale not to get a laugh.
I am currently running ancient 32-bit hardware and thinking about an upgrade to something x64 with USB3, SATA3 and >1 core on the CPU ... but don't want TC/TPM.
You want to buy a high performance x86 motherboard which for some unfathomable reasons lacks features that have become more or less standard in both the consumer PC and the enterprise markets like UEFI and are not going away any time soon. Good luck with that,
I remember when people wrote free software because it scratched an itch. Kickstarter seems to be setting a trend where people won't write free software unless they get paid.
There is nothing unusual in a developer being paid for his work or subsidized in some other fashion when he contributes to an open source project. It allows him to work full time on the thing. It gives him access to manpower and other resources he could not afford on his own.
it's pretty cheap considering, they do not have any NSA-ties or the likes.
You can't know that for certain. Redbox's internal and external auditors can't know that for certain.
The internet sees any blockage as an outage and works to avoid it.
The Internet sees and understands nothing. It is a machine like any other. It can be managed and it can be changed.
The notion that a communications network with a global reach and universal access is inherently anarchic and ungovernable is as old as the telegraph and probably older than the semaphore. The geek should know better.
How about the military focus less on solicitations for consensual sex and more on actually taking rape seriously?
Consent loses meaning when the request comes from a man in a position of power and privilege. It is not easy to say no when your entire village is starving --- and the only source of food is the man carrying a gun.
Because the locals don't appreciate it when it happens with locals. And when it is "consenting" co-members of the military it can often be less than consenting and it creates unnecessary conflict in a unit.
Too many of these posts have cut right to the edge of what has been said by the mayor of Osaka.
''When soldiers are risking their lives by running through storms of bullets, and you want to give these emotionally charged soldiers a rest somewhere, it's clear that you need a comfort-women system.'' he told reporters. ''Anyone can understand that.'' Japan's obligation, he said, is 'to politely offer kind words to the comfort women'' ---- as if they are to be pitied, prostitutes for whom politeness would be a prize; as if they had been lowered, rather than the Japanese military debased.
Hashimoto compounded that built-in controversy by suggesting that other countries might not only understand but emulate the Japanese experience --- that the United States might do so immediately at its bases in Japan: ''We can't control the sexual energy of these brave Marines ... They must make more use of adult entertainers.''
....what needs to be challenged is a basic complacency about linking soldiers and sexual violence. This is an issue that afflicts many war zones and militaries, including ours, where there is an unresolved crisis of sexual assault. There is also something telling in Hashimoto's muddling of wartime sexual servitude, prostitution, peacetime assaults on the streets of Okinawa, and ''adult entertainment.''
The Mayor and the Comfort Women
I'm more surprised by the fact that having sex is illegal? And the military police has jurisdiction over this crime? wtf
The US military has never liked incidents that cause trouble with its foreign hosts.
Conditions were harsh in Britain in the early 1940s and there was also an undercurrent of unease that was conveyed by the phrase, especially amongst British men, who resented the attraction of GIs, with their ready supply of nylons and cigarettes, amongst British women. The artist Beryl Cook, who was a young woman at the time confirmed this in an interview to the BBC in the late 1970s. I can't find the transcript of the interview, but from memory it was words to the effect of, ''food was scarce, but we supplemented our income by a little impromptu whoring with the GIs - we all did it''. Many of these liaisons were love matches rather than merely commercial transactions though, as the thousands of marriages between US servicemen and British women (the GI brides) is evidence of.
Oversexed, overpaid and over here
Fueling the fires while stationed in as volatile and deeply conservative a country as Afghanistan is of no help to anyone.
Not at all. Is that better than stamping out a deadly disease? Not necessarily, but if the access to information lets those affected manage their own care better (or not get sick to begin with) then it gets very hard to judge.
The American South was once haunted by parasites and tropical diseases.
In 1910, an estimated 40% of the population of the southern United States was infected with hookworm.
In 1910 the RSC began campaigns to eradicate hookworm in nine states, including Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana. The RSC used a three-pronged approach that included:
1.Conducting a survey to map out the prevalence of the disease in a particular area
2.Curing patients at mobile dispensaries
3.Providing education through illustrated lectures and demonstrations that urged prevention through improved sanitary measures, including the construction of privies.
Southerners initially distrusted RSC efforts. Many were offended by accusations of infection and refused to accept testing and the treatment of Epsom salts and thymol. Others believed that the disease simply did not exist. Regional newspaper editorials also strongly criticized RSC employees and viewed them as a Northern imposition.
Eradicating Hookworm
The geek thinks that putting up a web page = meaningful access to information = the solution to someone else's problems.
The Rockefeller Foundation page has some telling exhibits to the contrary. The doctors are on horseback. Their patients desperately sick and debilitated. Educational materials --- films, posters and the like --- could only reach out to those who were well enough to act ---
and literate in all media.
Earthquakes take time to propagate, so unless it is built right on the faultline, there will be time to react.
Now map a route from LA to San Francisco that avoids all the significant faultlines.
Remember that you are building a 400 mile enclosure for an on-demand automated "rail" system for cars travelling at 600 miles per hour. Not a vacuum tunnel but more like a pressurized system where significant breaks are going to have serious consequences.
An answer to that is that even though only 0.1% of users can read source code...
- 5% know somebody who can read code;
- 30% know somebody who knows somebody who can read code;
- 100% know a newspaper who would publish the story if a single expert read the source code and discovered there is snooping hidden in it.
The geek's made-up stats do not inspire confidence.
They are worth the cheap instant mod up to +4 or +5, "Insightful" here.