As I said, SF-LA might be a specail case where rail works well. However if two cities have airports that is not at capacity they are often better served by planes using the airport than rail.
When there is a lot of point to point traffic over short distances rail makes sense. This does not describe most situations. Remember, the airport is free as you have to build it for your long distance travel anyway. If it is also under utilized (which may or may not be true), sending planes is the better option.
I would have spelled it out, but I have no hope of coming up with a spelling close enough that my spell checker can find the right one. MS is well recognized as the name in general. Only on slashdot does MS commonly have a different meaning, so you can be excused for being wrong at first.
Though I'm getting more an more anal all the time about spelling Microsoft out when that is what I mean. For example it isn't Windows, or MS windows it is Microsoft Windows.
It is correct in most cases. Automation right now can remove the tasks that any idiot can do, but the harder, more expensvie tasks are not automatable. The people who do those jobs are often people who don't have the mental ability to handle more complex job.
Anyone (with minimal physical abilities) can place tab A into slot B all day on an assembly line. No brain power required at all. No anyone can program the robot that does it in their place, nor can most people fix that robot. Even if they could, one person can keep hundreds of robots running, and each robot replaces at least 1 person.
There are expensive tasks, like airplane pilot that can be (and should be) automated. However most of the jobs expensive people are doing are too complex to automat.
If you are the person who doesn't get replaced, or you are replaced, but you have the ability to do something more valuable for the company, then you are correct. However many people are not in that situation, they are replaced by the robot and not given anything else they can do.
Linberg wasn't the first to cross the Atlantic, but most people think he was, most of those who know he wasn't (such as me) have no clue who was first.
I once worked for a company making routers years before Cisco started, yet Cisco has convinced everyone they were first. (I don't think this was intentional on their part) That company often introduced a new technology that Cisco released about a year latter. We never went anywhere though, while Cisco made billions.
First is interesting. It is useful for those who need it now. However first is not the jump most people think it is. Quality, price, reputation and marketing matter at least as much.
Simple physics. Your water pressure it between 20 and 60psi. (Anything higher will break hoses) City water is generally on the high end because cities have to reach the upper floors of houses on top of hills, and regulators are a lot each to install and maintain than pumps. Well water is often on the low end because you set it for what you need.
20 psi means that if you have a tube with a piston with one square inch of surface area, the piston will hold up 20lbs. A little math and you can find how big a piston you need to lift the weight (Not mass, we care about fighting gravity) you are concerned about. Now just place the piston in a tube long enough, and apply water. It will lift your elevator.
The hard part is making this without digging a hold DOWN 2 stories to place your tube in. There are many solutions to this, they are left as an exercise for the reader.
I use the stairs. I even use the stairs when a hotel puts me on the 8Th floor.[1]
This is for some friends and relatives who can't take stairs. Have you seen what MS does to people? Ever see a 40 year old who cannot walk? It isn't pretty. Then there are general old people who can walk, but need help on stairs. I want an elevator in my house for them. Too bad this model isn't big enough for a wheelchair.
[1]If I can find ones that you can enter without setting off the fire alarm anyway. Back in school it was not an excused absence from your finals if you were trapped in an elevator for the test, as some of my fellow students discovered (rated capacity was 12 people, and there were 15. This was a 12 dorm). No I no longer take an elevator that is close to full.
Bullets won't be much a problem. The glass in this thing is the same thing they make bullet proof glass out of. Maybe not as thick, but it should still be enough. Even if not, this stuff won't shatter like glass, so the leak won't be as sudden.
Read the FAQ. In short, the contributors will decide what to do.
Since most of the people on this project are involved with some other java project, they can at the very lease re-license their own source code, and that might be enough to get most of the other code into the Apache license. One would presume that they also have contacts with most of the other developers, and might be able to talk them into license. That covers the legal issues.
There is one other issue. These people have experience with one implementation. One presumes that along the way they have learned from their mistakes. They might decide to throw it all away (see mozilla) because now they know how to do it right.
You must use those fancy new wireless rigs. Wired telegraph used a different standard. (0 was -, but it was a - but it was a longer dash than normal for example. Other letters have no resemblance at all.)
I'd post the alphabit, but I'm too lazy to go find my book on it. I'm also too lazy to learn either. I enjoy knowing useless trivia like that though.
Not exactly. They can make their drivers license not qualify for federal ID. Of course that means if you want to fly you need a passport. Montana is considering doing this as well.
California drivers licenses (You can get non driver ids, lets ignore them for now) give you the right to drive in California. If California decides to not make their license comply other states could refuse to recognize them, thus someone from California could not drive elsewhere.
Apparently crop rotation didn't occur to anyone back then.
It did. The founding fathers who had slaves were looking for ways to save their soil before the revolution. However cotton brings in a lot more money than any of the crops you can replace it with, so you pretty much need cotton growing (on good soil) all the time. Tough to do.
It wasn't so bad before the cotton gin, because before then it was hard to extract the seeds from cotton so there was less profit. Once the gin was invented you needed slaves to tend the cotton fields, and you needed cotton fields to generate the money to feed the slaves year round.
Almost. Congressmen care about what people care about at election time.
If you have a long memory and the ability to make people care about an issue (after it fell against you earlier), then congressmen care now. Most people are just lone criers who will not bother to make a stink about the record of their congressmen at election time.
It doesn't help when your congressmen is opposed by a popular idiot. I promised myself not to vote for my congressmen again after a couple things he voted for. This his opponent came out clearly worse, and seemed to be getting popular. I ended up voting the lesser evil just to keep the greater one out. (though often I will vote principal anyway in these cases, in this one I decided not to because the risks were too great)
Prices on pre-brady parts were going down before the law expired. (though until it happend those parts were worth more) The Brady bill was law for a while, so those parts were scarce for 10 years. People who wanted them paid for them, buying from those who stock piled them.
In this case the law never took effect. The cases are different, those who stockpiled 'banned' parts lost this time.
Most are happy to loose, since they were not building stocks to make money, but to protect their rights. Those who stockpile pre-brady parts likewise would have preferred the law not take effect.
Expect the investigation to be re-opened. This report suggests that there are makes like you would expect from a rocket firing on the ground. Suggesting that the rockets were operating at touchdown time.
Concrete does not flex as much. Thus your car is getting slightly better gas milage when you drive on concrete. The difference is trival, but interesting.
If you are intested in Michigan roads, have your legislators look into the results of MnRoad[1]. Minnesota is spending a lot of money on road research, and our climate is at least as bad as yours.
If you look at road research in the last few years, the vast majority are primary reports based on data from this project. Nobody else has spend 25 million to gather data on roads in real world situations. This means that any new roads built to modern standards will be built based on the assumptions of a Minnesota climate. (Since ours is one of the harshest climates overall[2] this means you are getting better roads than you need)
[1]The plane that took the picture on their homepage almost had to fly over my house. Though a good pilot could have avoided it if he cared.
[2]Most places in the world can claim to get something more extreme than MN, but the grand total of it all puts MN as one of the most extreme climates.
You don't need a directional antenna if you can determine (through other means) exactly when the signal arrived, and compare when each listener gets the signal. From there you draw circles on the map, where they intersect is the target. This requires at least 3 listeners (and some way to know they are all gathering the same signal), but more is better because it is hard to get clocks accurate enough. As your listeners report in you get a triangle that comes closer and closer to the transmitter.
In general I prefer to use your method, but when directional antennas are not workable. (If your target is sending a burst once a day, so fast you can't determin direction when it arrives, then this is the only thing workable.
Even with your method you prefer to have more than 2 listeners because if one has a problem you get errors.
I could live with those mistakes if they were intentional. A show where people talk with mouths in their hands would be interesting, but that has to be an intentional part of the plot. (And in general it should figure in some of the puzzles)
If a mathematical proof relies on a pi being 16 that is fine, but it better be intentional, and figure in the plot in other ways so that I can tell the writer is doing it intentionally. (Any writer attempting this had better be good at math because a universe where pi = 16 would be weird in many ways and that needs to be explained)
I wish I were this guy's friends. I'd be impressed, and encourage him to keep hacking.
Sadly, I have the same problem I'm sure he does: lack of friends who care about things that are important to me. Great for a game of racquetball (and I need the exercise),but they know nothing about BSD for the most part. I can't get into an argument about how BSD is better than linux because they have no clue about either. I'll bet this guy could give me some reasonable arguments in return.
A jetski is about the least efficient boat on the water. It is a small, high power (relative to size, ships are easily 100x the power or more), and highly maneuverable craft. Their efficiency is known to be horrid. Jets[1] are less efficient than props[1], but they are more responsive. JetSkis operation on plane, which allows them to go fast, but takes a lot of power. Most jetskis (up to a couple years ago) have 2 cycle motors which run poorly outside of the powerband, meaning that even going at low speed isn't saving much fuel.
A ship is a large, low power (relative to size!), poorly maneuverable vessel optimized for getting from point to point as cheaply as possible. Ships never operate on plane. (a boat that is not on plane has a speed limited by size, the larger the boat the faster it can go, but still not as fast as a much smaller jetski)
Of course in theory you could build a ship and put it on plane. I think the navy has a few that qualify. Nobody else wants to spend that much fuel.
People get a jetski to have fun with. As a purely recreational toy nobody cares about the fuel is drinks. A ship is bought for efficiency, and you deal with slow speeds. (when you are burning thousands of gallons of fuel small savings add up)
[1]Not to be confused with the similarly named airplane parts.
Happens my little desk calender notes that today, May 5, 1961 Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr became the first American to travel into space. About a month before the 'evil' Soviets did the same thing, an achievement that this stupid calendar did not mention. (Or rather they mention it today, not the anniversary of their flight)
Bribes? Prove they are any worse than other governments. For that matter prove they really exist.
How the rest of the world sees the US has no bearing on any facts. The facts are hard to see without a lot of history to look at, something we won't have for a few hundred years. (and that assumes the history is recorded correctly)
Have you ever heard of economic cycles? They happen to everyone. The US has already hit the low point in the latest cycle, and is raising back up. Happens all the time. It has always been popular to think that the current position in the cycle will hold on forever, but the facts have never bore that out.
It is n surprise the currency is also down because of the cycle. Exchange rates are tied to economy. This is a good thing, it means when you have a bad day relative to others, the others can buy more of your stuff for the same amount of money, which means they are more likely to buy from you, which will lift you back up. Once you are up and booming your currency raises, and people look for goods elsewhere, helping someone else.
Tourism is in part a reflection of economy. Even so, tourism is just one use of spare money and time, if people suddenly decide to take up gardening in their spare time, that would hurt tourism. You have stated a fact, as if it was bad, but there is no reason to assume it is.
The "poverty line" is defined by politicians for their advantage. People below the poverty line in the US normally make several times the average person in the world. I know people who are below the "poverty line", and their life is just fine. They don't have all the luxuries that politicians think you need to live but that doesn't mean their life is bad.
WMD were just one of the reasons for the war. It was big, and it didn't pan out, so you pick on it. You ignore the other reasons completely, and some of them are still valid.
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As I said, SF-LA might be a specail case where rail works well. However if two cities have airports that is not at capacity they are often better served by planes using the airport than rail.
When there is a lot of point to point traffic over short distances rail makes sense. This does not describe most situations. Remember, the airport is free as you have to build it for your long distance travel anyway. If it is also under utilized (which may or may not be true), sending planes is the better option.
I would have spelled it out, but I have no hope of coming up with a spelling close enough that my spell checker can find the right one. MS is well recognized as the name in general. Only on slashdot does MS commonly have a different meaning, so you can be excused for being wrong at first.
Though I'm getting more an more anal all the time about spelling Microsoft out when that is what I mean. For example it isn't Windows, or MS windows it is Microsoft Windows.
It is correct in most cases. Automation right now can remove the tasks that any idiot can do, but the harder, more expensvie tasks are not automatable. The people who do those jobs are often people who don't have the mental ability to handle more complex job.
Anyone (with minimal physical abilities) can place tab A into slot B all day on an assembly line. No brain power required at all. No anyone can program the robot that does it in their place, nor can most people fix that robot. Even if they could, one person can keep hundreds of robots running, and each robot replaces at least 1 person.
There are expensive tasks, like airplane pilot that can be (and should be) automated. However most of the jobs expensive people are doing are too complex to automat.
If you are the person who doesn't get replaced, or you are replaced, but you have the ability to do something more valuable for the company, then you are correct. However many people are not in that situation, they are replaced by the robot and not given anything else they can do.
Linberg wasn't the first to cross the Atlantic, but most people think he was, most of those who know he wasn't (such as me) have no clue who was first.
I once worked for a company making routers years before Cisco started, yet Cisco has convinced everyone they were first. (I don't think this was intentional on their part) That company often introduced a new technology that Cisco released about a year latter. We never went anywhere though, while Cisco made billions.
First is interesting. It is useful for those who need it now. However first is not the jump most people think it is. Quality, price, reputation and marketing matter at least as much.
Simple physics. Your water pressure it between 20 and 60psi. (Anything higher will break hoses) City water is generally on the high end because cities have to reach the upper floors of houses on top of hills, and regulators are a lot each to install and maintain than pumps. Well water is often on the low end because you set it for what you need.
20 psi means that if you have a tube with a piston with one square inch of surface area, the piston will hold up 20lbs. A little math and you can find how big a piston you need to lift the weight (Not mass, we care about fighting gravity) you are concerned about. Now just place the piston in a tube long enough, and apply water. It will lift your elevator.
The hard part is making this without digging a hold DOWN 2 stories to place your tube in. There are many solutions to this, they are left as an exercise for the reader.
I use the stairs. I even use the stairs when a hotel puts me on the 8Th floor.[1]
This is for some friends and relatives who can't take stairs. Have you seen what MS does to people? Ever see a 40 year old who cannot walk? It isn't pretty. Then there are general old people who can walk, but need help on stairs. I want an elevator in my house for them. Too bad this model isn't big enough for a wheelchair.
[1]If I can find ones that you can enter without setting off the fire alarm anyway. Back in school it was not an excused absence from your finals if you were trapped in an elevator for the test, as some of my fellow students discovered (rated capacity was 12 people, and there were 15. This was a 12 dorm). No I no longer take an elevator that is close to full.
Bullets won't be much a problem. The glass in this thing is the same thing they make bullet proof glass out of. Maybe not as thick, but it should still be enough. Even if not, this stuff won't shatter like glass, so the leak won't be as sudden.
Read the FAQ. In short, the contributors will decide what to do.
Since most of the people on this project are involved with some other java project, they can at the very lease re-license their own source code, and that might be enough to get most of the other code into the Apache license. One would presume that they also have contacts with most of the other developers, and might be able to talk them into license. That covers the legal issues.
There is one other issue. These people have experience with one implementation. One presumes that along the way they have learned from their mistakes. They might decide to throw it all away (see mozilla) because now they know how to do it right.
You must use those fancy new wireless rigs. Wired telegraph used a different standard. (0 was -, but it was a - but it was a longer dash than normal for example. Other letters have no resemblance at all.)
I'd post the alphabit, but I'm too lazy to go find my book on it. I'm also too lazy to learn either. I enjoy knowing useless trivia like that though.
Text with a real keyboard (IBM model M for example) is faster than any of the above. Get that 13 year old on irc for a few months and then compare.
Not exactly. They can make their drivers license not qualify for federal ID. Of course that means if you want to fly you need a passport. Montana is considering doing this as well.
California drivers licenses (You can get non driver ids, lets ignore them for now) give you the right to drive in California. If California decides to not make their license comply other states could refuse to recognize them, thus someone from California could not drive elsewhere.
Apparently crop rotation didn't occur to anyone back then.
It did. The founding fathers who had slaves were looking for ways to save their soil before the revolution. However cotton brings in a lot more money than any of the crops you can replace it with, so you pretty much need cotton growing (on good soil) all the time. Tough to do.
It wasn't so bad before the cotton gin, because before then it was hard to extract the seeds from cotton so there was less profit. Once the gin was invented you needed slaves to tend the cotton fields, and you needed cotton fields to generate the money to feed the slaves year round.
Almost. Congressmen care about what people care about at election time.
If you have a long memory and the ability to make people care about an issue (after it fell against you earlier), then congressmen care now. Most people are just lone criers who will not bother to make a stink about the record of their congressmen at election time.
It doesn't help when your congressmen is opposed by a popular idiot. I promised myself not to vote for my congressmen again after a couple things he voted for. This his opponent came out clearly worse, and seemed to be getting popular. I ended up voting the lesser evil just to keep the greater one out. (though often I will vote principal anyway in these cases, in this one I decided not to because the risks were too great)
Prices on pre-brady parts were going down before the law expired. (though until it happend those parts were worth more) The Brady bill was law for a while, so those parts were scarce for 10 years. People who wanted them paid for them, buying from those who stock piled them.
In this case the law never took effect. The cases are different, those who stockpiled 'banned' parts lost this time.
Most are happy to loose, since they were not building stocks to make money, but to protect their rights. Those who stockpile pre-brady parts likewise would have preferred the law not take effect.
Expect the investigation to be re-opened. This report suggests that there are makes like you would expect from a rocket firing on the ground. Suggesting that the rockets were operating at touchdown time.
Concrete does not flex as much. Thus your car is getting slightly better gas milage when you drive on concrete. The difference is trival, but interesting.
If you are intested in Michigan roads, have your legislators look into the results of MnRoad[1]. Minnesota is spending a lot of money on road research, and our climate is at least as bad as yours.
If you look at road research in the last few years, the vast majority are primary reports based on data from this project. Nobody else has spend 25 million to gather data on roads in real world situations. This means that any new roads built to modern standards will be built based on the assumptions of a Minnesota climate. (Since ours is one of the harshest climates overall[2] this means you are getting better roads than you need)
[1]The plane that took the picture on their homepage almost had to fly over my house. Though a good pilot could have avoided it if he cared.
[2]Most places in the world can claim to get something more extreme than MN, but the grand total of it all puts MN as one of the most extreme climates.
You don't need a directional antenna if you can determine (through other means) exactly when the signal arrived, and compare when each listener gets the signal. From there you draw circles on the map, where they intersect is the target. This requires at least 3 listeners (and some way to know they are all gathering the same signal), but more is better because it is hard to get clocks accurate enough. As your listeners report in you get a triangle that comes closer and closer to the transmitter.
In general I prefer to use your method, but when directional antennas are not workable. (If your target is sending a burst once a day, so fast you can't determin direction when it arrives, then this is the only thing workable.
Even with your method you prefer to have more than 2 listeners because if one has a problem you get errors.
I could live with those mistakes if they were intentional. A show where people talk with mouths in their hands would be interesting, but that has to be an intentional part of the plot. (And in general it should figure in some of the puzzles)
If a mathematical proof relies on a pi being 16 that is fine, but it better be intentional, and figure in the plot in other ways so that I can tell the writer is doing it intentionally. (Any writer attempting this had better be good at math because a universe where pi = 16 would be weird in many ways and that needs to be explained)
I wish I were this guy's friends. I'd be impressed, and encourage him to keep hacking.
Sadly, I have the same problem I'm sure he does: lack of friends who care about things that are important to me. Great for a game of racquetball (and I need the exercise),but they know nothing about BSD for the most part. I can't get into an argument about how BSD is better than linux because they have no clue about either. I'll bet this guy could give me some reasonable arguments in return.
here isn't a single reason that could not be applied to several other countries, in fact you could pin the lot on a couple of them.
One exception: Iraq once attacked a US ally. Then they failed to abide by the peace agreement after we kicked them out.
The world needs a lot of cleaning. We started with Iraq, and may never get around to others.
Close, I was missing a comma. Your version is easier to make out though.
A jetski is about the least efficient boat on the water. It is a small, high power (relative to size, ships are easily 100x the power or more), and highly maneuverable craft. Their efficiency is known to be horrid. Jets[1] are less efficient than props[1], but they are more responsive. JetSkis operation on plane, which allows them to go fast, but takes a lot of power. Most jetskis (up to a couple years ago) have 2 cycle motors which run poorly outside of the powerband, meaning that even going at low speed isn't saving much fuel.
A ship is a large, low power (relative to size!), poorly maneuverable vessel optimized for getting from point to point as cheaply as possible. Ships never operate on plane. (a boat that is not on plane has a speed limited by size, the larger the boat the faster it can go, but still not as fast as a much smaller jetski)
Of course in theory you could build a ship and put it on plane. I think the navy has a few that qualify. Nobody else wants to spend that much fuel.
People get a jetski to have fun with. As a purely recreational toy nobody cares about the fuel is drinks. A ship is bought for efficiency, and you deal with slow speeds. (when you are burning thousands of gallons of fuel small savings add up)
[1]Not to be confused with the similarly named airplane parts.
Happens my little desk calender notes that today, May 5, 1961 Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr became the first American to travel into space. About a month before the 'evil' Soviets did the same thing, an achievement that this stupid calendar did not mention. (Or rather they mention it today, not the anniversary of their flight)
Bribes? Prove they are any worse than other governments. For that matter prove they really exist.
How the rest of the world sees the US has no bearing on any facts. The facts are hard to see without a lot of history to look at, something we won't have for a few hundred years. (and that assumes the history is recorded correctly)
Have you ever heard of economic cycles? They happen to everyone. The US has already hit the low point in the latest cycle, and is raising back up. Happens all the time. It has always been popular to think that the current position in the cycle will hold on forever, but the facts have never bore that out.
It is n surprise the currency is also down because of the cycle. Exchange rates are tied to economy. This is a good thing, it means when you have a bad day relative to others, the others can buy more of your stuff for the same amount of money, which means they are more likely to buy from you, which will lift you back up. Once you are up and booming your currency raises, and people look for goods elsewhere, helping someone else.
Tourism is in part a reflection of economy. Even so, tourism is just one use of spare money and time, if people suddenly decide to take up gardening in their spare time, that would hurt tourism. You have stated a fact, as if it was bad, but there is no reason to assume it is.
The "poverty line" is defined by politicians for their advantage. People below the poverty line in the US normally make several times the average person in the world. I know people who are below the "poverty line", and their life is just fine. They don't have all the luxuries that politicians think you need to live but that doesn't mean their life is bad.
WMD were just one of the reasons for the war. It was big, and it didn't pan out, so you pick on it. You ignore the other reasons completely, and some of them are still valid.