Not sure that either of those would work for a car going over it on an air cushion at 700 mph.
I would imagine a smooth tube would be a requirement. A minor change in air pressure from one of the ridges and all of a sudden the car is hitting walls at 700 mph.
"How, I wondered, is Musk going to solve the thermal expansion problem?
The answer turned out to be simple: he didn’t. There’s some hand waving and, possibly, a complete misunderstanding of how thermal expansion acts, but no actual solution."
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That seems high. I think Apple has only sold about 500 million iOS devices, so it's failing miserably.
I think that's on the back of their business cards, in very small print.
You could also argue that Ballmer brought a failure culture into MSFT too.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/08/23/stack_ranking_steve_ballmer_s_employee_evaluation_system_and_microsoft_s.html
'Surround yourself with idiots so you don't get fired' doesn't seem like a very good way to have a successful company.
Why did it take them 15-20 years to get it out of the research labs?!!?
But, hey, 0.7% is more than blackberry & windows phone malware COMBINED!
Ballmer was a successful CEO. At wringing out profits. Which is what Wall Street wanted. But doesn't drive the company forwards.
From here:
http://stratechery.com/2013/if-steve-ballmer-ran-apple/
I predict that MicrosoftConsumer would quickly cease trading in the wake of this split, leaving only Microsoft standing.
Pretty sure that's what's already happened internally.
Which is the whole problem.
Not sure that either of those would work for a car going over it on an air cushion at 700 mph.
I would imagine a smooth tube would be a requirement. A minor change in air pressure from one of the ridges and all of a sudden the car is hitting walls at 700 mph.
A 3" gap might cause a car traveling at 700mph to have ... a few ... issues.
Especially if anything gets through that gap from the outside. Or changes the airflow around the car.
I don't think having something like that which needs to be checked & cleared regularly would be a solution to the problem.
Regardless, it's an example of the lack of engineering detail that was put into the paper.
Well, he seems to have a bit of Jobs salesman in him too.
http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2013/08/hyperloop/
"How, I wondered, is Musk going to solve the thermal expansion problem?
The answer turned out to be simple: he didn’t. There’s some hand waving and, possibly, a complete misunderstanding of how thermal expansion acts, but no actual solution."
Also doubling the population, while curing those sick people, and using up all our resources is the mark of a great society!
I WANT EVERY FOURTH WORD!
Am I doing this right?
Also, filter error.
On a tiny screen.
Lighten up, Francis.
He drove away half a dozen of his obvious replacements.
That's their problem.
Tell me why we're there in the first place?
Because we have zero fucking right to it?
We can't stand on principles, then demand others goods at sword point and say we're still principled.
Yeah, that tends to help bring the crazy out.
Yeah, but the didn't start attacking the US until we got our military fully involved in defending our oil supplies. Even though they weren't ours.
Well, centuries of Christian oppression around the world have shown the same thing.
Then why are we the ones killing all the Islamists?
We're the ones who are actually *being* dangerous.
GTFO of their country and they won't be so pissed off.
"Why do so many countries want to attack us?" the person asked.
Because we're forcing our police state in their country is the real reason.
One side failing doesn't mean the other side won.
Reagan tripled the national debt via military spending and left us that lasting treat. Which will probably bring us down too.
the current anti-muslim fearmongers
I think you misspelled "Fox News".
We can be not happy about it AND apathetic.
We're 'Mericans after all!
But it would be nice if the alternate choices didn't always have a large dose of crazy with them.