I agree, cities right now simply aren't designed to accommodate millions of flying vehicles and nor is the general transport infrastructure. I think even if flying cars did become as affordable normal cars and could be maintained and driven as easily as normal cars it would still take an awfully long time to rebuild the infrastructure around them.
I really think that at the moment they are a solution in search of a problem. If the problem is that people would like to be able to travel more quickly and easily between locations then investment in mass public transport would provide a far better solution.
For example a system whereby you could get in the lift from your apartment to a high speed underground which could take you anywhere in the city or to intercity jump off points for more trains, planes or boats out of town and which was very quick, with hardly any waiting around between connections, comfortable and safe would be a much better idea than flying cars.
Obviously this is more expensive in the short term than letting people spend there money on cool flying cars but in the long term once the environmental, air, noise pollution etc was factored in I suspect proper investment and planning in infrastructure would pay off in spades.
Someone in the place I used to work at had an e-mail of someone else which had a signature which scrolled in from the right of the page and flashed and stuff and from there in around 2 months more than 90% of everyone else in the office had the same thing. I believe this relied on Javascript and Outlook was more than happy to comply.
I completely agree, there is no way any private company on it's own is going to get anywhere with this. Government intervention and encouragement is the only way we'll get one of these.
Air traffic wouldn't be anything like the major problem you seem to think it is, unless they built the elevator in secret and then periodically moved it to mystery locations along popular air routes it's going to be a well known and easily avoided obstacle.
As other people have said if it did break it will not be the major disaster you are portraying because:
1) It's in the unpopulated Ocean 2) The cable is not strong enough or big enough to hit the ground in one piece, either it will burn up or break up into small pieces.
I like the idea of a space tower but it's a lot less practical than a cable !
I don't see any reason why not, so long as they used the same running action as Humans I can't see any problem.
Whatever, it is bound to be far far far far more interesting then conventional athletics which is a very very very very boring spectator sport.
"Oh look that ones running a bit faster than the others." "Yes, now watch as the others try to run a bit faster to overtake him" "Wow ! They are all running quick aren't they"
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Hmm, shall we A) simulate an actual pack of cards or B) decide what card we're going to deal next in order to meet our profit target for this game ?
Just a slight tweak to give it that retro 1990's feel
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I've been through all the comments to date on this thread even at -1 and I can't see a single one suggesting SCO may be in the right or stand a chance of success.
That's not through any bias on the part of./ or Groklaw.
First of all Groklaw mainly just reports on the court documents, you can read them and draw your conclusions just as PJ does and draws hers.
Secondly if you can find anything, anything at all which leads you to believe SCO may have a genuine case and might win it then please post here and we can discuss it, the fact that as yet no one on./ has managed to do this is simply evidence that such a thing is so hard to find.
You'll notice that most reports in the media now are simply reporting what SCO said and no positive comments on SCO except for journalists like Maureen who write opinions based on a seriously flawed analysis of what ever it is that has happened they are reporting on.
It seems like you are not classing Maureen O Gara's comments as a sensibly balanced opposite point of view yet she and her ilk are the only people painting SCO's chances in a positive light which is in itself an interesting comment on the case.
Why should SCO care whether or not the public can see the 'evidence' in these sealed documents ?
You would have thought it was the legal case going through the courts they would be concerned about, and everyone involved there can see these documents anyway.
SCO has been saying for a while now
"Yes, what's happening in the courts right now might not look terribly positive. But you wait, if only you could see everything we can see you'd certainly be in no doubt about how right we are and how we deserve everything we are asking for."
This effort is probably just an attempt to make those claims sound a bit more convincing, the court may well not un-seal the documents ( and if they are that damaging to IBM I can't see how they'd agree to it ) in which case they can continue saying "Look, all this evidence IBM is trying to hide ! It proves we're right !". If the documents are released they will just issue more nonsense press releases and try to pretend this case is about something other than what they are claiming in court.
Most amusing would be if IBM helped get the documents unsealed and called there bluff.
I was in the Club as a basic member but forgot to renew my membership - I will though.
Yes it's worth it, largely just to support Mandrakesoft though, I have used them since 7.0 when it was the only distro which recognised all my hardware. You also get to vote for various things you want packaged and access to rpm mirrors.
Genre for genre I would rather watch any of the following films:
War movies: Das Boot or Stalingrad Man Vs Man: City Of God, Once Were Warriors, Rabbit Proof Fence Fun Action Movie: Kellys Heros SCI-FI: City Of Lost Children is always amusing Man Vs Beast: Alien
I'm not saying my selections are definitively better - different strokes for different folks but for me these are far better.
Saving Private Ryan was an awful film, Schindlers List was OK but got a lot more credit for it's subject than the actual film. Minority Report was also a bad film as was Close Encounters. I haven't seen Always. Jaws wasn't great either.
Other people may well like these films but I don't. And let this post be a warning to any budding film makers wanting to market films to me !
WTF is a 'home invasion' ? Some great battleship pulls up outside and load of guys jump out to plant flags at the top of your stair ? Do criminals in America get to keep houses or whatever provided they have slaughtered all the occupants ?
In civilised countries we have burglaries where people break in to steal stuff but the chances of anyone in the house actually being harmed during a burglary is so low it's actually not worth mentioning.
When it does occasionally happen it makes the local news and I would say this happens about once every 8-9 months.
So yes, in civilized countries, Insurance works just fine. In most cases you can even get away claiming for stuff which was never stolen anyway and make a few bob into the bargain.
The fact you have a high percentage of gun toting crazies in the US shivering in their houses fondling their weaponry and you still have a comparable burglary rate to the UK is a pretty good indication that it's no real deterrent to burglars and the fact you have a much higher death rate from guns indicates that is because most burglars will ensure they are well armed to begin with. Either that or it really is the case that simply having more guns around is enough in it's self to cause more gun deaths, but I am sure you are a firm believer in the slogan "Gun's don't kill people, people do !".
It amazes me the number of criminals there must be in the US, all those criminals getting mown down in a righteous hail of bullets every year and not a single innocent harmed.
The sooner they start dishing out free firearms here in the UK to catch up and provide us all with that protection we are currently lacking he better. I just won't feel safe until I know that every drunk on Saturday is tooled up to the eyeballs with as much hardware as he can carry.
"The Failed Experiment" by Gary A. Mauser, is he related to those Mausers the famous gun manufacturers or is this just one of those weird coincidences ?
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I agree, cities right now simply aren't designed to accommodate millions of flying vehicles and nor is the general transport infrastructure. I think even if flying cars did become as affordable normal cars and could be maintained and driven as easily as normal cars it would still take an awfully long time to rebuild the infrastructure around them.
I really think that at the moment they are a solution in search of a problem. If the problem is that people would like to be able to travel more quickly and easily between locations then investment in mass public transport would provide a far better solution.
For example a system whereby you could get in the lift from your apartment to a high speed underground which could take you anywhere in the city or to intercity jump off points for more trains, planes or boats out of town and which was very quick, with hardly any waiting around between connections, comfortable and safe would be a much better idea than flying cars.
Obviously this is more expensive in the short term than letting people spend there money on cool flying cars but in the long term once the environmental, air, noise pollution etc was factored in I suspect proper investment and planning in infrastructure would pay off in spades.
How about SpamGeneticallyTargettedBioPlagueWeapon ? Not quite as catchy but probably more accurate.
Someone in the place I used to work at had an e-mail of someone else which had a signature which scrolled in from the right of the page and flashed and stuff and from there in around 2 months more than 90% of everyone else in the office had the same thing. I believe this relied on Javascript and Outlook was more than happy to comply.
I completely agree, there is no way any private company on it's own is going to get anywhere with this. Government intervention and encouragement is the only way we'll get one of these.
Air traffic wouldn't be anything like the major problem you seem to think it is, unless they built the elevator in secret and then periodically moved it to mystery locations along popular air routes it's going to be a well known and easily avoided obstacle.
As other people have said if it did break it will not be the major disaster you are portraying because:
1) It's in the unpopulated Ocean
2) The cable is not strong enough or big enough to hit the ground in one piece, either it will burn up or break up into small pieces.
I like the idea of a space tower but it's a lot less practical than a cable !
I don't see any reason why not, so long as they used the same running action as Humans I can't see any problem.
Whatever, it is bound to be far far far far more interesting then conventional athletics which is a very very very very boring spectator sport.
"Oh look that ones running a bit faster than the others."
"Yes, now watch as the others try to run a bit faster to overtake him"
"Wow ! They are all running quick aren't they"
Does anyone seriously believe that any Casino offering internet Blackjack are not going to be cheating as much as they can get away with without driving off all their customers ?
Hmm, shall we A) simulate an actual pack of cards or B) decide what card we're going to deal next in order to meet our profit target for this game ?
If you go to http://www.dione.cc/ ?
Just a slight tweak to give it that retro 1990's feel
A strange yarn ye have spun lad, a hearty crew and bloodthirsty we may be, and sights we have seen on this cruel and endless sea but never will I believe this tale of a man from 19,040 who visited your village.
Arrr, Ooh Arrr I got a brand new combine harvester ! Arrr
I've been through all the comments to date on this thread even at -1 and I can't see a single one suggesting SCO may be in the right or stand a chance of success.
I read 'Nurse' and was reaching to click on your profile when I saw the 'man'. How could you raise my hopes like this ?
That's not through any bias on the part of ./ or Groklaw.
./ has managed to do this is simply evidence that such a thing is so hard to find.
First of all Groklaw mainly just reports on the court documents, you can read them and draw your conclusions just as PJ does and draws hers.
Secondly if you can find anything, anything at all which leads you to believe SCO may have a genuine case and might win it then please post here and we can discuss it, the fact that as yet no one on
You'll notice that most reports in the media now are simply reporting what SCO said and no positive comments on SCO except for journalists like Maureen who write opinions based on a seriously flawed analysis of what ever it is that has happened they are reporting on.
It seems like you are not classing Maureen O Gara's comments as a sensibly balanced opposite point of view yet she and her ilk are the only people painting SCO's chances in a positive light which is in itself an interesting comment on the case.
Why should SCO care whether or not the public can see the 'evidence' in these sealed documents ?
You would have thought it was the legal case going through the courts they would be concerned about, and everyone involved there can see these documents anyway.
SCO has been saying for a while now
"Yes, what's happening in the courts right now might not look terribly positive. But you wait, if only you could see everything we can see you'd certainly be in no doubt about how right we are and how we deserve everything we are asking for."
This effort is probably just an attempt to make those claims sound a bit more convincing, the court may well not un-seal the documents ( and if they are that damaging to IBM I can't see how they'd agree to it ) in which case they can continue saying "Look, all this evidence IBM is trying to hide ! It proves we're right !". If the documents are released they will just issue more nonsense press releases and try to pretend this case is about something other than what they are claiming in court.
Most amusing would be if IBM helped get the documents unsealed and called there bluff.
Not too picky at all, Maureen O Gara is clearly a moron who is just writing whatever it is SCO are telling her to write.
"This case will be well argued - and that is a good thing"
By everyone but SCO at any rate.
It's very much like a stick or a stock except with an 'a' in it.
I was in the Club as a basic member but forgot to renew my membership - I will though.
Yes it's worth it, largely just to support Mandrakesoft though, I have used them since 7.0 when it was the only distro which recognised all my hardware. You also get to vote for various things you want packaged and access to rpm mirrors.
Genre for genre I would rather watch any of the following films:
War movies: Das Boot or Stalingrad
Man Vs Man: City Of God, Once Were Warriors, Rabbit Proof Fence
Fun Action Movie: Kellys Heros
SCI-FI: City Of Lost Children is always amusing
Man Vs Beast: Alien
I'm not saying my selections are definitively better - different strokes for different folks but for me these are far better.
Saving Private Ryan was an awful film, Schindlers List was OK but got a lot more credit for it's subject than the actual film. Minority Report was also a bad film as was Close Encounters. I haven't seen Always. Jaws wasn't great either.
Other people may well like these films but I don't. And let this post be a warning to any budding film makers wanting to market films to me !
Maybe that would be a good thing, maybe the copyright holder would refuse the Lucas version and only allow good films to be made. Maybe, maybe, maybe.
WTF is a 'home invasion' ? Some great battleship pulls up outside and load of guys jump out to plant flags at the top of your stair ? Do criminals in America get to keep houses or whatever provided they have slaughtered all the occupants ?
In civilised countries we have burglaries where people break in to steal stuff but the chances of anyone in the house actually being harmed during a burglary is so low it's actually not worth mentioning.
When it does occasionally happen it makes the local news and I would say this happens about once every 8-9 months.
So yes, in civilized countries, Insurance works just fine. In most cases you can even get away claiming for stuff which was never stolen anyway and make a few bob into the bargain.
The fact you have a high percentage of gun toting crazies in the US shivering in their houses fondling their weaponry and you still have a comparable burglary rate to the UK is a pretty good indication that it's no real deterrent to burglars and the fact you have a much higher death rate from guns indicates that is because most burglars will ensure they are well armed to begin with. Either that or it really is the case that simply having more guns around is enough in it's self to cause more gun deaths, but I am sure you are a firm believer in the slogan "Gun's don't kill people, people do !".
It amazes me the number of criminals there must be in the US, all those criminals getting mown down in a righteous hail of bullets every year and not a single innocent harmed.
The sooner they start dishing out free firearms here in the UK to catch up and provide us all with that protection we are currently lacking he better. I just won't feel safe until I know that every drunk on Saturday is tooled up to the eyeballs with as much hardware as he can carry.
"The Failed Experiment" by Gary A. Mauser, is he related to those Mausers the famous gun manufacturers or is this just one of those weird coincidences ?
"Guns don't kill you - rappers do."