Yep, a troll for sure I'd say.
BTW in the sports you mentioned, we do have a bit of an impact.
Tour De France - Robbie McEwen won the green jersey in 2002 and 2004 and Baden Cooke won it in 2003. Both are Aussies. Stuart O'Grady came 2nd in 2005. There are a few others who are right up the top too.
F1 we have Mark Webber who drive for BMW Williams.
Baseball is one of those sports:) I think only Japan, USA and Canada really care about it.
Soccer we suck at.
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I don't know which ISP you're with, but I'm on 1500/256 for AU$80. After you hit your 10GB limit, you're just bandwidth shaped to 72kb/s rather than charged per MB. I lived in Boston last year and this was pretty comparable to what I was paying there.
I suppose it would hit it like a brick wall. So i guess it's not perfectly safe, but I'd rather take my chances in a vacuumed out tube mag lev train than a plane or high speed train. At least you know you won't crash into anything other than air:)
Did you read the link? They discuss what happens if that happens.
I'll copy it here for you:
In addition, in the event of a serious accident, emergency repressurisation of the tunnel will be activated: this will allow, as in civil aviation practice, a viable pressure of approximately 0.6 atm to be reached in 2.5 minutes, corresponding to atmospheric pressure at an altitude of 5,000 m. Passengers will then be able to breathe adequately in both the vehicle and tunnel. Subsequently, for comfort reasons, restoration of pressure will be continued up to approximately one atmosphere.
It's a shame that this failed as I can see Maglev providing a cheaper, safer, more comfortable and environmentally friendly way of replacing planes for internal (country wise) travel.
The Swiss seem to see the benefits of this method and take it one step further. They have the Swiss Metro project (www.swissmetro.com) coming up, and that looks very promising.
Imagine a train running down a vacuumed tube (so no air resistance to slow the train down and you've got no wheels with friction) and you only have to use energy to get up to the speed you want plus of course the energy to keep the train afloat. It cruises the rest of the way like you're in space at 100s of km/h - maybe even 1000s.
Check the link out - it's a good read.
In fact, if anything it might increase sales, as they would have more platforms supported. The game art and levels are still required, so people will buy the CD. I'm not sure how the multiplayer works, but does it require a valid key or something? If so, that is another reason why it wouldn't hurt sales.
Noone is saying that people in the country need to get rid of them. They wouldn't have been built in the first place if there wasn't a real use for them.
It's just that these days, they've become a status symbol for some insane reason. Because of this, we have 1000s of dangerous SUVs in our cities.
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Yep, a troll for sure I'd say. BTW in the sports you mentioned, we do have a bit of an impact. Tour De France - Robbie McEwen won the green jersey in 2002 and 2004 and Baden Cooke won it in 2003. Both are Aussies. Stuart O'Grady came 2nd in 2005. There are a few others who are right up the top too. F1 we have Mark Webber who drive for BMW Williams. Baseball is one of those sports :) I think only Japan, USA and Canada really care about it.
Soccer we suck at.
http://www.science.unsw.edu.au/news/2005/astrovisi on.html
I don't really know how this can be totally live though. It would have to only be for certain small areas.
The big thing about tabs is that you can background load with them. e.g. I am browsing a news page and as I go down the page, I ctrl-click all the links that interest me. Then all the stuff you want to see is loaded in tabs in the background. With IE, I don't have to do open in new window and then alt-tab back to the original page before continuing.
Same thing - just renamed because of a trademark dispute (from memory)
How can more efficiency ever be a bad thing?
I don't know which ISP you're with, but I'm on 1500/256 for AU$80. After you hit your 10GB limit, you're just bandwidth shaped to 72kb/s rather than charged per MB. I lived in Boston last year and this was pretty comparable to what I was paying there.
This is who I'm with - iinet
Very true. Although once the tunnel is evacuated, with a proper airlock system very little energy should be required to keep it that way.
I suppose it would hit it like a brick wall. So i guess it's not perfectly safe, but I'd rather take my chances in a vacuumed out tube mag lev train than a plane or high speed train. At least you know you won't crash into anything other than air :)
Did you read the link? They discuss what happens if that happens.
I'll copy it here for you:
In addition, in the event of a serious accident, emergency repressurisation of the tunnel will be activated: this will allow, as in civil aviation practice, a viable pressure of approximately 0.6 atm to be reached in 2.5 minutes, corresponding to atmospheric pressure at an altitude of 5,000 m. Passengers will then be able to breathe adequately in both the vehicle and tunnel. Subsequently, for comfort reasons, restoration of pressure will be continued up to approximately one atmosphere.
It's a shame that this failed as I can see Maglev providing a cheaper, safer, more comfortable and environmentally friendly way of replacing planes for internal (country wise) travel. The Swiss seem to see the benefits of this method and take it one step further. They have the Swiss Metro project (www.swissmetro.com) coming up, and that looks very promising. Imagine a train running down a vacuumed tube (so no air resistance to slow the train down and you've got no wheels with friction) and you only have to use energy to get up to the speed you want plus of course the energy to keep the train afloat. It cruises the rest of the way like you're in space at 100s of km/h - maybe even 1000s. Check the link out - it's a good read.
In fact, if anything it might increase sales, as they would have more platforms supported. The game art and levels are still required, so people will buy the CD. I'm not sure how the multiplayer works, but does it require a valid key or something? If so, that is another reason why it wouldn't hurt sales.
Noone is saying that people in the country need to get rid of them. They wouldn't have been built in the first place if there wasn't a real use for them.
It's just that these days, they've become a status symbol for some insane reason. Because of this, we have 1000s of dangerous SUVs in our cities.