Networking amongst like-minded people is great way to show the people who know about local Linux-related job openings that you're competent (or at least a good guy and teachable).
If there was solid and uniform bedrock all over the country, and vacuums were easy to maintain, and tunnels were cheap and easy to build, then it would be a great idea.
Some monitoring and maintenance? The problems, just off the top of my head, of a suspended-in-the-middle-of-the-sea scheme which would need to be high enough to pass over the highest peaks yet deep enough to not be affected by wave action are: (a) multiple ocean currents shearing it, (b) the weight of the cables would be stupendous, (c) the pressure on the 3,000 mile long tube at 1,000 m would be 1470 psi, (d) salt water is *very* corrosive, (e) one manufacturing or construction mistake and the high pressure water instantly destroys it, killing everyone in the 3,000 mile tube, (f) exposure to terrorism, and (f) lastly and by no means least: EXPENSE.
While I'm sure that for a few trillion dollars it could be built, the you and Grishnakh must first answer, "Why?" 550 mph is a Good Enough balance between time and money, though if you *really* want to get lots of stuff get faster from Here to There, invent some new ship hull design or coating to reduce friction or maybe a new, high-efficiency engine which allows the ship to go faster while using the same amount of fuel that they use now.
Yet scientists/engineers have learned a hell of a lot in 250 years, among them (a) what kind of shapes are required to successfully pass Mach 1, and (b) how much extra energy is required to double from Mach 1 to Mach 2 and then double again to Mach 4.
Bog standard humans have learned at what point the extra speed isn't worth the stupendous extra cost.
This is why civilian aircraft reached their approximate speed peak 55 years ago with the Boeing 707 and has settled around 0.85 Mach 44 years ago with the Boeing 747. Everything else since then has been reducing noise and fuel consumption. Even in airplane size, the 747 was the biggest passenger plane for 35+ years.
Why is this obviously Not Gonna Happen concept *constantly* trotted out in regards to hypersonic flight, when writers should be acknowledging that such meaningful (ie, passenger and cargo) flights will never happen.
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." - Andrew Tanenbaum, 1996, Computer Network
You're missing the point that tapes are sequential devices. Forcing random access onto them plunges (a) latency and throughput, and (b) the life of the tape.
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Networking amongst like-minded people is great way to show the people who know about local Linux-related job openings that you're competent (or at least a good guy and teachable).
Some geeks somewhere should know which distros can be stripped down to bare essentials with a minimum of fuss.
Debian (The Universal OS)
RHEL/CentOS/Scientific
Gentoo
Slackware
Sadly, GP's mindset is common now. It's one reason why society is wallowing joyously in the cesspool.
Since scientifically there's no such thing as a vegetable, your argument is invalid.
Quite a few: about 1800 during the 2004 Republican convention, for example.
1800 is what fraction of all the protesters at that convention?
How many of the 1800 were thrown in the dreaded Gitmo?
And what about all the other protesters over the years spitting their vile hatred?
How many thousands and thousands fulminated and vituperated in the most horrible manner against Bush?
How many were thrown in jail?
Whoever moderated this Offtopic completely missed ihatewinXP's point (which, if true, should be marked Informative).
ready to be inundated by sea level rise
Ignoring the fallacy that a storage cave can prepare itself for anything, your statement implies a time scale which just isn't true.
Tell that to the "ethicist" who dressed up eugenics in fancy new garb.
and multiculturalism is the greatest good.
Thus, anyone trying to stop them from raping slaughtering and enslaving is A Very Bad Person!
That a big, fat statistics *FAIL*!
Unless you're being sarcastic, in which case you did a very bad job of that, too.
If there was solid and uniform bedrock all over the country, and vacuums were easy to maintain, and tunnels were cheap and easy to build, then it would be a great idea.
Sadly, none of those are true.
subterranean tunnel
with pB fusion available, the question becomes: why not?
Two words: Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Some monitoring and maintenance? The problems, just off the top of my head, of a suspended-in-the-middle-of-the-sea scheme which would need to be high enough to pass over the highest peaks yet deep enough to not be affected by wave action are:
(a) multiple ocean currents shearing it,
(b) the weight of the cables would be stupendous,
(c) the pressure on the 3,000 mile long tube at 1,000 m would be 1470 psi,
(d) salt water is *very* corrosive,
(e) one manufacturing or construction mistake and the high pressure water instantly destroys it, killing everyone in the 3,000 mile tube,
(f) exposure to terrorism, and
(f) lastly and by no means least: EXPENSE.
While I'm sure that for a few trillion dollars it could be built, the you and Grishnakh must first answer, "Why?" 550 mph is a Good Enough balance between time and money, though if you *really* want to get lots of stuff get faster from Here to There, invent some new ship hull design or coating to reduce friction or maybe a new, high-efficiency engine which allows the ship to go faster while using the same amount of fuel that they use now.
It isn't meant to make you conjure up a day where you'll be flying that speed.
Except that somewhere along the way, some lib arts major misunderstood that.
Yet scientists/engineers have learned a hell of a lot in 250 years, among them (a) what kind of shapes are required to successfully pass Mach 1, and (b) how much extra energy is required to double from Mach 1 to Mach 2 and then double again to Mach 4.
Bog standard humans have learned at what point the extra speed isn't worth the stupendous extra cost.
This is why civilian aircraft reached their approximate speed peak 55 years ago with the Boeing 707 and has settled around 0.85 Mach 44 years ago with the Boeing 747. Everything else since then has been reducing noise and fuel consumption. Even in airplane size, the 747 was the biggest passenger plane for 35+ years.
Langley to Paris, but not NYC to London...
Why is this obviously Not Gonna Happen concept *constantly* trotted out in regards to hypersonic flight, when writers should be acknowledging that such meaningful (ie, passenger and cargo) flights will never happen.
I see no valid *purpose* in adding gTLDs whether offensive or not.
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." - Andrew Tanenbaum, 1996, Computer Network
You're missing the point that tapes are sequential devices. Forcing random access onto them plunges (a) latency and throughput, and (b) the life of the tape.
This is a completely wrong usage for tapes.
there's already too much TCP/IP infrastructure bought, paid for and in use.
I don't see why he couldn't be at least a hobbyist programmer.
Absolutely. But he wants to be a professional programmer.
As evidenced by all the Python fanbois who didn't even get as far as...
He's mentally challenged with bad memory, and you want him to jump in the deep end? What kind of bastard are you?
And if that's still too hard for you, then maybe you must face the fact that you *can't* be a programmer anymore.
But understand that it will cause massive unhappiness ...
Where's the personal fscking responsibility?
Even dear old Grandma knows that shit happens (even though she wouldn't use that phrase), and it's her responsibility to keep track of her own stuff.
But on the other hand, she lived through the 60s, 70s and 80s and so has probably voluntarily abrogated all responsibility to the government.