Ah yes, my 'trip' from New York to Atlanta via Washington:
1) First train hits debris on the track about 2 hours into journey. On-train staff announce that they are having to replace some hydraulic hoses. Half an hour later, they inform us that they have found some holes in an air tank but despite trying to plug them with wood (TOO MUCH INFORMATION!!!), they have been unsuccessful. Fortunately we are on a piece of double track and so we wait for the next train to Washington to pass and we get off our train, walk across the tracks and cram on to the Washington train.
2) Delayed leaving Washington - dining car has developed an electrical fault and the train will need to be separated, the car removed and then the train reassembled. Meanwhile, the cops are called to arrest and remove a pair of drunks (male and female) who, having just met for the first time, decided to pass the time by having sex in a corridor.
3) Finally, we are on the outskirts of Atlanta. The train makes an emergency stop. We are near a group of houses in woodland and we can see a railroad crossing. Suddenly there are lots of police cars, paramedics and a fire truck at the crossing. We see a large man being escorted to an ambulance - his bandaged arm is covered in blood - it transpires he was walking along the tracks on his way to work and didn't hear the (fscking big!) train coming and he bounced off the front! The train announcer tells us that the man sends his apologies for making us late and that he must be the luckiest man alive, but he will still be going to jail for trespassing on the railway.
it's one of those things that you can look at and within 1 microsecond say to yourself 'I give them a week before they're stolen, covered in graffiti or vandalised".
There's a fairly sleepy seaside town near me and the shopping area (a 1 minute walk from end to end) has just sprouted an all-stainless-steel 'information point' with a 17" LCD screen - I looked at it and within 1 microsecond.....
I have just bought two Olympia Du@lphone 9211IPs (in the UK) for a trial - they are regular DECT phones with Skype capabilities. You plug the base station into the phone line as normal and also into a PC running Skype, via a USB connector. The phone has an extra 'Skype' button and the LCD display can (allegedly - I haven't even opened the box yet) show you which of your Skype contacts are online.
More info here: Dualphone
I was going to point this out but the typo disappeared before my very eyes during a page refresh - 'bout time the editors were given some basic proof reading skills.
"Most people would rather have you text than yap loudly on the phone in public places."
Provided that you turn off your bl**dy keypress sounds - try sitting on a commuter train for one and a half hours near someone whose phone's constantly going blip - blip - blip as they type in a message.
I haven't RTFA (hey, this is Slashdot!), but based on my observations of the shuttle landings - ie: like a 'regular' passenger plane, I can see how this all pans out:
1. Moonbase 1 is built with a modern, high-tech arrivals terminal for the new craft.
2. First craft arrives and personnel enter the arrivals lounge.
3. Crew awaits baggage only to discover it's been sent to Mars.
Maybe as a non-us resident I am missing the point but will this law not just be valid in the state where it is passed and so all an offender has to do is move state, or have I got this wrong?
Except that they are so full of electronics (especially high power switching devices) that it's impossible to get an AM radio signal and FM's badly munged + all carriages seem to have a big invertor in the roof (for the fluorescent lighing I'd guess) that buzzes all through the journey REALLY LOUDLY.
True the trains are cleaner and the seats more comfortable, but the rf and audio pollution is really bad.
Yep, and for the odd bit of email checking and basic surfing there's always a laptop/PDA + bluetooth connection via your mobile phone using GPRS and a compression service such as Onspeed - this combo works great for me and with a good data tariff on my mobile I can do without chargeable wifi when I'm out and about - mind you I wouldn't want to start downloading service packs etc!!
It probably came from 'across the pond': I used to work for a company that held the UK franchise for a US product. We were based in Chichester, West Sussex (80 miles from London - a bit more than Brighton), yet the US company's letterhead proudly proclaimed 'Atlanta, New York, Capetown, Mumbai, London'.
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Use gzip?
Ah yes, my 'trip' from New York to Atlanta via Washington:
1) First train hits debris on the track about 2 hours into journey. On-train staff announce that they are having to replace some hydraulic hoses. Half an hour later, they inform us that they have found some holes in an air tank but despite trying to plug them with wood (TOO MUCH INFORMATION!!!), they have been unsuccessful. Fortunately we are on a piece of double track and so we wait for the next train to Washington to pass and we get off our train, walk across the tracks and cram on to the Washington train.
2) Delayed leaving Washington - dining car has developed an electrical fault and the train will need to be separated, the car removed and then the train reassembled. Meanwhile, the cops are called to arrest and remove a pair of drunks (male and female) who, having just met for the first time, decided to pass the time by having sex in a corridor.
3) Finally, we are on the outskirts of Atlanta. The train makes an emergency stop. We are near a group of houses in woodland and we can see a railroad crossing. Suddenly there are lots of police cars, paramedics and a fire truck at the crossing. We see a large man being escorted to an ambulance - his bandaged arm is covered in blood - it transpires he was walking along the tracks on his way to work and didn't hear the (fscking big!) train coming and he bounced off the front! The train announcer tells us that the man sends his apologies for making us late and that he must be the luckiest man alive, but he will still be going to jail for trespassing on the railway.
News that's turds. Stuff for the crapper.
It's easy - STFU and RTFM ;-p
You beat me to it!
it's one of those things that you can look at and within 1 microsecond say to yourself 'I give them a week before they're stolen, covered in graffiti or vandalised".
There's a fairly sleepy seaside town near me and the shopping area (a 1 minute walk from end to end) has just sprouted an all-stainless-steel 'information point' with a 17" LCD screen - I looked at it and within 1 microsecond.....
I have just bought two Olympia Du@lphone 9211IPs (in the UK) for a trial - they are regular DECT phones with Skype capabilities. You plug the base station into the phone line as normal and also into a PC running Skype, via a USB connector. The phone has an extra 'Skype' button and the LCD display can (allegedly - I haven't even opened the box yet) show you which of your Skype contacts are online. More info here: Dualphone
I was going to point this out but the typo disappeared before my very eyes during a page refresh - 'bout time the editors were given some basic proof reading skills.
Will this appear in ANYWHERE but slashdot? /. catching up.
BR)Umm..yeah..I read it about 3 days ago elsewhere. Nice to see
Use the Extinguisher Luke...
Imagine a Beowulf clucker of those.
I'm waiting for "NOPs for fun and profit"
Yeah, but "New York" kinda gives the game away. If this site was called "Slashdot USA" maybe I'd agree with you.
"Most people would rather have you text than yap loudly on the phone in public places."
Provided that you turn off your bl**dy keypress sounds - try sitting on a commuter train for one and a half hours near someone whose phone's constantly going blip - blip - blip as they type in a message.
Basic grammar mistakes drive me mad too - I half expect to see "new's for nerd's" on the front page at times.
I haven't RTFA (hey, this is Slashdot!), but based on my observations of the shuttle landings - ie: like a 'regular' passenger plane, I can see how this all pans out:
1. Moonbase 1 is built with a modern, high-tech arrivals terminal for the new craft.
2. First craft arrives and personnel enter the arrivals lounge.
3. Crew awaits baggage only to discover it's been sent to Mars.
The trouble is with our current Slashdot editors it could very easily be a typo so we have to check carefully by RTFA.
Maybe as a non-us resident I am missing the point but will this law not just be valid in the state where it is passed and so all an offender has to do is move state, or have I got this wrong?
..which is good because my DVD recorder keeps locking up and so eMule is working as a great backup PVR!
All your (upper and lower) case are belong to us!?
It was 3030303030
...nice new ones...
Except that they are so full of electronics (especially high power switching devices) that it's impossible to get an AM radio signal and FM's badly munged + all carriages seem to have a big invertor in the roof (for the fluorescent lighing I'd guess) that buzzes all through the journey REALLY LOUDLY.
True the trains are cleaner and the seats more comfortable, but the rf and audio pollution is really bad.
Jeez - that's only 5 mins walk - no one in their right minds will do it by train!
Yep, and for the odd bit of email checking and basic surfing there's always a laptop/PDA + bluetooth connection via your mobile phone using GPRS and a compression service such as Onspeed - this combo works great for me and with a good data tariff on my mobile I can do without chargeable wifi when I'm out and about - mind you I wouldn't want to start downloading service packs etc!!
It probably came from 'across the pond': I used to work for a company that held the UK franchise for a US product. We were based in Chichester, West Sussex (80 miles from London - a bit more than Brighton), yet the US company's letterhead proudly proclaimed 'Atlanta, New York, Capetown, Mumbai, London'.