You've got some points.
Of that 50 minute bus commute, 25 minutes is spent walking to and from the bus stop. Taking a walk is great! But I'd rather do it with my family and dogs than with a backpack full of work gear. Let alone early in the morning snow in the winter.
I'm one of the people who enjoys driving, or riding my motorcycles. It IS a way for me to get away. This place isn't over crowded and the commute is 15-20 minutes via self transport.
The buses are not nice spaces where you go to relax or meditate. They are discomfort on wheels. You are correct that I could read a book for the 25 minutes each way. But I would rather do that in a nice place without the bouncing and bustle.
Since I have an extra hour in my day because I didn't spend it on the commute; I can do whatever I want or need in a nice place for that hour.
But since the bus only runs twice a day and it isn't even I need it, there's no way to find out. There aren't enough people to fill the buses enough to make them viable. They would be running empty burning more diesel and consuming more resources than they can ever save.
Transit Utah is surprisingly good for mountain state.
I used it to commute for several years. The problem was the increased time spent in the commute.
Using the trains my commute was 1.5 hours from my door to my office. On motorcycle it is 45 minutes. In a car it was someplace in between. They offered wifi on the train, but the quality was too poor to do anything beyond a git push, email or basic browsing. Forget using a VPN. To make the train time useful I had to save work for the train. If I didn't have that kind of work to do, then the extra hour and half was coming out of my personal time. (my quality of life)
Now I work closer to home. Self transport is 15-20 minutes now. Mass transit is 50 minutes but only runs twice a day. But even if it was every ten minutes, I wouldn't do it because I want to be productive.
Self transport (Automobile/Motorcycle) equates to freedom in the US; go where you want when you want.
Mass transport puts you on someone else's schedule instead of your own.
Mass transit can't seem to function in the US because there is just too much space to cover. For densely populated areas there is enough mass to make it work. Without the population density, it cannot make enough money to pay it's own bills, so it naturally fails unless it is propped up by a government.
I hardly ever fly! Add the cost of air traffic controllers to the airline tickets and let the people who use the service pay for it.
Stop all federal money going to it.
We need more spending cuts, not less!
I have partial hearing loss due to nerve damage in one ear when I was 30. I now wear a hearing aid in that ear. I would love to have my hearing fixed without an aid.
Go to a university with an accredited CS department and get yourself a BS degree. The technology and buzzwords change every few years, but the theory still applies. Learn the theory and then use the tools to apply it. As the tools improve you will still use the theory. If you go learn tools, then when the tool changes in a few years, you will be lacking.
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There is an outdated opensuse, and no fedora at all. How about a few distros?
You've got some points. Of that 50 minute bus commute, 25 minutes is spent walking to and from the bus stop. Taking a walk is great! But I'd rather do it with my family and dogs than with a backpack full of work gear. Let alone early in the morning snow in the winter. I'm one of the people who enjoys driving, or riding my motorcycles. It IS a way for me to get away. This place isn't over crowded and the commute is 15-20 minutes via self transport. The buses are not nice spaces where you go to relax or meditate. They are discomfort on wheels. You are correct that I could read a book for the 25 minutes each way. But I would rather do that in a nice place without the bouncing and bustle. Since I have an extra hour in my day because I didn't spend it on the commute; I can do whatever I want or need in a nice place for that hour. But since the bus only runs twice a day and it isn't even I need it, there's no way to find out. There aren't enough people to fill the buses enough to make them viable. They would be running empty burning more diesel and consuming more resources than they can ever save.
Transit Utah is surprisingly good for mountain state.
I used it to commute for several years. The problem was the increased time spent in the commute.
Using the trains my commute was 1.5 hours from my door to my office. On motorcycle it is 45 minutes. In a car it was someplace in between. They offered wifi on the train, but the quality was too poor to do anything beyond a git push, email or basic browsing. Forget using a VPN. To make the train time useful I had to save work for the train. If I didn't have that kind of work to do, then the extra hour and half was coming out of my personal time. (my quality of life)
Now I work closer to home. Self transport is 15-20 minutes now. Mass transit is 50 minutes but only runs twice a day. But even if it was every ten minutes, I wouldn't do it because I want to be productive.
Self transport (Automobile/Motorcycle) equates to freedom in the US; go where you want when you want.
Mass transport puts you on someone else's schedule instead of your own.
Mass transit can't seem to function in the US because there is just too much space to cover. For densely populated areas there is enough mass to make it work. Without the population density, it cannot make enough money to pay it's own bills, so it naturally fails unless it is propped up by a government.
I don't see any connection between these two posts smashed into one story....
For those of us who don't want a tablet UI on the desktop, this distro includes support for MATE as well.
SO FREAKING TRUE!!!
www.pure-gas.org shows stations in many places in the US and Canada where you can buy it.
When your hangnail hurts, it is easily forgotten by smashing your toe with a hammer.
pidgin does it everywhere for free, and it can do SMS via AOL.
I hardly ever fly! Add the cost of air traffic controllers to the airline tickets and let the people who use the service pay for it. Stop all federal money going to it. We need more spending cuts, not less!
And could have generalized that to Gnome3 anywhere...
I have partial hearing loss due to nerve damage in one ear when I was 30. I now wear a hearing aid in that ear. I would love to have my hearing fixed without an aid.
Never mind that there was never a MS NT 1.0 or 2.0.... Those were from that OTHER company whose name we shall not name.
ALL unemployed people aren't stupid, they can learn. Even the older tech workers. Tech companies just want to pay less for foreign.
The source of electricity MAY change in the next 30-40 years, not in the 3-4 year life of most people's cars.
Considering about 50% of US power comes from burning coal, I don't see how this is all that great...
Go to a university with an accredited CS department and get yourself a BS degree. The technology and buzzwords change every few years, but the theory still applies. Learn the theory and then use the tools to apply it. As the tools improve you will still use the theory. If you go learn tools, then when the tool changes in a few years, you will be lacking.