I didn't read how exactly using trains gets us away from fluctuating gas prices
Because the context of the quote was high-speed trains, and high-speed trains are invariably electric. Using electricity means that the power to run the train could come from many different sources, not all based on oil.
but sadly, the difference between using public transportation in a place you don't know and using it at home where you know all the lines is much bigger than the difference between driving at a place you don't know and driving at home.
Where I live, there are route maps for all subway lines, bus lines and commuter train lines. There is also a web based system where you enter the addresses you want to travel between, as well as when you want to go, and the system computes the most efficient travel plan for you.
That's somewhat how it works here in Sweden. Virtually all railroad tracks are owned by Banverket (the Swedish Rail Administration), and multiple companies are offering services on those tracks.
Why do we want to have people wasting even MORE time commuting?
If you would be commuting by train, your commute would not need to be considered wasted time. You would be free to do what you want, like read, relax, work, etc.
Not moving the expense of commuting from those that commute, to everyone by way of tax subsidized rail systems most won't use.
Both the interstate highway network and the airports are subsidized by the public, so either stop subsidizing those, or else explain why those can be subsidized but not a rail network.
but it will always be less convenient than driving your car on your schedule.
A schedule which will be unusable when you hit the first traffic jam.
No, not like body builders, but there is a continuum between no muscles at all, and body-builders with big bulging muscles.
It is both about looks and about health. My weight training has e.g. been immensely helpful in eliminating problems with my back, which I previously had since I sit down all day at the office (I work as a software developer). In addition, having more muscle mass means that more energy is consumed when I do endurance exercises, which is good since I'm slightly overweight and I would like to reduce that by around 10 pounds.
and tons of potential job loss in the airline industy.
If airlines can compete they won't have any problem, but if they can't, let the short and medium distance routes die. Are you saying that avoiding competition to protect the airline industry is a good thing?
120 mph is slow, that's what we have here in Sweden. In France, Germany, Spain, and other countries, high-speed trains in commercial service are operating at or even surpassing 200 mph.
Especially the SF-LA link could do with only a few stops (LA, Bakersfield, Fresno, (Stockton), San Jose, SF, say), so one could push for >80 mph average. This would bring down travel time from _downtown_ LA to _downtown_ SF to 5 hours.
Instead they are looking for another pie in the sky high speed train to compete with airlines. This has the potential to steal all travel less than 200 miles from the airlines.
What's wrong with that? It seems like you think that airlines are entitled to passengers on short-haul lines, even if there are better alternatives.
I'd say, by all means, take passengers from the airlines on short and medium haul, and let airlines focus on what they do best, which is long distances.
My pet theory on that is that people want a simple choice, one or the other. When you give them a complex choice, they get frustrated.
It's funny how the citizens of what some call the most advanced nation in the world can be so lazy and unable to make choices between more than two alternatives.
You are stealing, despite your bullshit names and excuses.
It isn't just his names, its the name used by the legal systems of most civilized countries in the world. Tell me, if infringement equals stealing, why wouldn't the law just call it that? Why invent a new term? It obviously hasn't occurred to you that there is a difference, you just don't want to see it.
Calling it stealing is nothing less than propaganda from the media industry.
You get on a train in the suburbs (I'm guessing your wife drops you off, or you drive to train depot and park.
I walk to the subway station, which is less than five minutes away by foot.
Once you get to the 'city', how do you get to/from your work site?
There are many subway stations in the city, with two (on different lines) both located around 800 yards from my office. But even if you have to take a commuter train, the central station is adjacent to the central subway hub, so switching isn't a problem. In addition, you can use the same ticket for subways, commuter trains, buses, and even some city ferries.
I'm quite sure the train doesn't drop you off anywhere near the front door of your office for most people, so, how do you get to and from work?
There are few places in the inner city where a bus stop or a subway station is more than 500 yards away. You seriously can't walk that far?
If you try to walk..what happens when weather is bad?
I bring an umbrella for rain showers, and I take the bus the first 700 yards from the subway station to the bus stop 100 yards from the office if the weather is seriously bad.
On the other hand, if the weather is good, I skip a couple of subway stations, and walk part of the way through the inner city when going home from work. A fairly short walk is around 3 kilometers and takes some 30 minutes, and a little longer walk is 6 km and takes around one hour.
What if you need to go to the gym or shop after work on the way home??
My gym is a 15 minute subway trip from home, so I go home from work, pick up my training gear and go to the gym. That alleviates the need to bring the training gear to and from work.
How do you live like that without a car
That works just fine, I can assure you. A car would just mean endless problems finding an empty spot to park it during the day, or pay a hefty fee in a parking garage. And I don't even live within the inner city.
Sweat is natural, it doesn't stink if it's not stale
In addition, there are two types of sweat. One type is the one generated around the genitals and in the armpits. This one will stink after a while, since it contains fatty acids that bacteria will consume, producing some rather smelly compounds. Other sweat is mostly water and some salts, and does not really smell at all.
I think it's a Swedish saying: "There is no bad weather, only bad clothes."
Or at least a common saying among caretakers on Swedish daycare centers. At least, that's mostly where I've heard it, e.g. when the children are complaining that they don't want to go out into the rain.
Besides, if you actually do the walking, you won't need a gym.
Unless you want to build some muscle mass too. I use the gym for weight training, and I walk around the city (such as part of the way home from work) for endurance training.
he had "observed [the suspect hacking] into the B.C. grading system
He probably noticed that professors also use a black screen with white letters (for instance, if the grading system is accessed through a 3270 mainframe interface), and determined that since his roommate also used a black screen with white letters, it must be the grading system, and his roommate must have hacked into it.
I'm not sure that it actually is though. It moves the burning of fossil fuels to somewhere else, but doesn't eliminate it.
Only partially correct. The electricity sources in America may be coal-based to a large extent today, but electric vehicles don't care how their electricity was generated. If you switch the coal power plant to a hydro power plant, the car suddenly becomes really nice to the environment. Using electricity means that you don't tie yourself to a particular power source.
Apache, Lighttpd and my current favorite nginx are awesome, but they dont have the close integration with their development tools and operating system that IIS does.
Could you expand on what close integration IIS has with development tools and the operating system? I never used it, and I'd like to know what I'm missing out on.
And I challenge you to name even ONE proprietary package system used on Linux.
Although the word proprietary in a software context is often used as a synonym for closed-source, that is not really what it means. It also has a more general meaning related to property. A package management system used only by one or a very narrow set of distributions could very well be called proprietary even if it would be free software.
Yes, it does. It's called Windows Installer and has come with Windows since Windows 2000.
Except that it's obviously pretty lousy compared to common Linux package managers. I mean, it can't even handle updates for anything else than Microsoft software. It would have been pretty simple to allow for application installers to register a repository for patches with the package manager, so that all software updates could be handled by the system updater.
But no, each application needs to install its own little agent to periodically check for software updates, which is just silly.
If the app you want, or the version of the app you want isn't in the repository, it's a *LOT* harder than in Windows to get that app working on your system.
Not true, except if the package does not exist in the preferred package format for your distro. There are third-party repositories that the system may not know about, and there are packages that exist in the correct format, but is only available on a web page, but not in a repository.
So, if a package doesn't exist in the repository but it exists somewhere else, it isn't harder than in Windows because it is almost the same as in Windows: Search the web, download, and double-click on the package file.
If you've ever tried to upgrade your RHEL kernel to a newer kernel than currently supported
Except you wouldn't want that, if you cared for your support. But if you didn't care about support, you could really have used CentOS instead.
Except that it's impossible, as anyone can start their own distro. There is no "upper management" that can decide which distro will exist and which will die.
You've clearly never used Hypercard or you'd know where that name comes from too.
You obviously fail to see the point. For someone who never used the software, such a name is not descriptive. Non-descriptive names is something that many people bring up against the names of certain free software applications, but as you can see, it certainly applies to many proprietary applications (including Microsoft applications) as well.
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I didn't read how exactly using trains gets us away from fluctuating gas prices
Because the context of the quote was high-speed trains, and high-speed trains are invariably electric. Using electricity means that the power to run the train could come from many different sources, not all based on oil.
but sadly, the difference between using public transportation in a place you don't know and using it at home where you know all the lines is much bigger than the difference between driving at a place you don't know and driving at home.
Where I live, there are route maps for all subway lines, bus lines and commuter train lines. There is also a web based system where you enter the addresses you want to travel between, as well as when you want to go, and the system computes the most efficient travel plan for you.
That's somewhat how it works here in Sweden. Virtually all railroad tracks are owned by Banverket (the Swedish Rail Administration), and multiple companies are offering services on those tracks.
Why do we want to have people wasting even MORE time commuting?
If you would be commuting by train, your commute would not need to be considered wasted time. You would be free to do what you want, like read, relax, work, etc.
Not moving the expense of commuting from those that commute, to everyone by way of tax subsidized rail systems most won't use.
Both the interstate highway network and the airports are subsidized by the public, so either stop subsidizing those, or else explain why those can be subsidized but not a rail network.
but it will always be less convenient than driving your car on your schedule.
A schedule which will be unusable when you hit the first traffic jam.
Even in Japan the high speed rail is already seeing declining ridership and facing stiff competition from the airlines.
With rising oil prices, that is unlikely to be the case in the long term.
Copyright infringement is a criminal offense too.
No, not like body builders, but there is a continuum between no muscles at all, and body-builders with big bulging muscles.
It is both about looks and about health. My weight training has e.g. been immensely helpful in eliminating problems with my back, which I previously had since I sit down all day at the office (I work as a software developer). In addition, having more muscle mass means that more energy is consumed when I do endurance exercises, which is good since I'm slightly overweight and I would like to reduce that by around 10 pounds.
and tons of potential job loss in the airline industy.
If airlines can compete they won't have any problem, but if they can't, let the short and medium distance routes die. Are you saying that avoiding competition to protect the airline industry is a good thing?
120 mph is slow, that's what we have here in Sweden. In France, Germany, Spain, and other countries, high-speed trains in commercial service are operating at or even surpassing 200 mph.
Especially the SF-LA link could do with only a few stops (LA, Bakersfield, Fresno, (Stockton), San Jose, SF, say), so one could push for >80 mph average. This would bring down travel time from _downtown_ LA to _downtown_ SF to 5 hours.
The California High-Speed Rail Authority suggests a travel time of two hours and 38 minutes between SF and LA.
Instead they are looking for another pie in the sky high speed train to compete with airlines. This has the potential to steal all travel less than 200 miles from the airlines.
What's wrong with that? It seems like you think that airlines are entitled to passengers on short-haul lines, even if there are better alternatives.
I'd say, by all means, take passengers from the airlines on short and medium haul, and let airlines focus on what they do best, which is long distances.
My pet theory on that is that people want a simple choice, one or the other. When you give them a complex choice, they get frustrated.
It's funny how the citizens of what some call the most advanced nation in the world can be so lazy and unable to make choices between more than two alternatives.
You are stealing, despite your bullshit names and excuses.
It isn't just his names, its the name used by the legal systems of most civilized countries in the world. Tell me, if infringement equals stealing, why wouldn't the law just call it that? Why invent a new term? It obviously hasn't occurred to you that there is a difference, you just don't want to see it.
Calling it stealing is nothing less than propaganda from the media industry.
You get on a train in the suburbs (I'm guessing your wife drops you off, or you drive to train depot and park.
I walk to the subway station, which is less than five minutes away by foot.
Once you get to the 'city', how do you get to/from your work site?
There are many subway stations in the city, with two (on different lines) both located around 800 yards from my office. But even if you have to take a commuter train, the central station is adjacent to the central subway hub, so switching isn't a problem. In addition, you can use the same ticket for subways, commuter trains, buses, and even some city ferries.
I'm quite sure the train doesn't drop you off anywhere near the front door of your office for most people, so, how do you get to and from work?
There are few places in the inner city where a bus stop or a subway station is more than 500 yards away. You seriously can't walk that far?
If you try to walk..what happens when weather is bad?
I bring an umbrella for rain showers, and I take the bus the first 700 yards from the subway station to the bus stop 100 yards from the office if the weather is seriously bad.
On the other hand, if the weather is good, I skip a couple of subway stations, and walk part of the way through the inner city when going home from work. A fairly short walk is around 3 kilometers and takes some 30 minutes, and a little longer walk is 6 km and takes around one hour.
What if you need to go to the gym or shop after work on the way home??
My gym is a 15 minute subway trip from home, so I go home from work, pick up my training gear and go to the gym. That alleviates the need to bring the training gear to and from work.
How do you live like that without a car
That works just fine, I can assure you. A car would just mean endless problems finding an empty spot to park it during the day, or pay a hefty fee in a parking garage. And I don't even live within the inner city.
Sweat is natural, it doesn't stink if it's not stale
In addition, there are two types of sweat. One type is the one generated around the genitals and in the armpits. This one will stink after a while, since it contains fatty acids that bacteria will consume, producing some rather smelly compounds. Other sweat is mostly water and some salts, and does not really smell at all.
I think it's a Swedish saying: "There is no bad weather, only bad clothes."
Or at least a common saying among caretakers on Swedish daycare centers. At least, that's mostly where I've heard it, e.g. when the children are complaining that they don't want to go out into the rain.
Besides, if you actually do the walking, you won't need a gym.
Unless you want to build some muscle mass too. I use the gym for weight training, and I walk around the city (such as part of the way home from work) for endurance training.
he had "observed [the suspect hacking] into the B.C. grading system
He probably noticed that professors also use a black screen with white letters (for instance, if the grading system is accessed through a 3270 mainframe interface), and determined that since his roommate also used a black screen with white letters, it must be the grading system, and his roommate must have hacked into it.
Just my little hypothesis.
I'm not sure that it actually is though. It moves the burning of fossil fuels to somewhere else, but doesn't eliminate it.
Only partially correct. The electricity sources in America may be coal-based to a large extent today, but electric vehicles don't care how their electricity was generated. If you switch the coal power plant to a hydro power plant, the car suddenly becomes really nice to the environment. Using electricity means that you don't tie yourself to a particular power source.
Apache, Lighttpd and my current favorite nginx are awesome, but they dont have the close integration with their development tools and operating system that IIS does.
Could you expand on what close integration IIS has with development tools and the operating system? I never used it, and I'd like to know what I'm missing out on.
And I challenge you to name even ONE proprietary package system used on Linux.
Although the word proprietary in a software context is often used as a synonym for closed-source, that is not really what it means. It also has a more general meaning related to property. A package management system used only by one or a very narrow set of distributions could very well be called proprietary even if it would be free software.
Yes, it does. It's called Windows Installer and has come with Windows since Windows 2000.
Except that it's obviously pretty lousy compared to common Linux package managers. I mean, it can't even handle updates for anything else than Microsoft software. It would have been pretty simple to allow for application installers to register a repository for patches with the package manager, so that all software updates could be handled by the system updater.
But no, each application needs to install its own little agent to periodically check for software updates, which is just silly.
If the app you want, or the version of the app you want isn't in the repository, it's a *LOT* harder than in Windows to get that app working on your system.
Not true, except if the package does not exist in the preferred package format for your distro. There are third-party repositories that the system may not know about, and there are packages that exist in the correct format, but is only available on a web page, but not in a repository.
So, if a package doesn't exist in the repository but it exists somewhere else, it isn't harder than in Windows because it is almost the same as in Windows: Search the web, download, and double-click on the package file.
If you've ever tried to upgrade your RHEL kernel to a newer kernel than currently supported
Except you wouldn't want that, if you cared for your support. But if you didn't care about support, you could really have used CentOS instead.
Except that it's impossible, as anyone can start their own distro. There is no "upper management" that can decide which distro will exist and which will die.
You've clearly never used Hypercard or you'd know where that name comes from too.
You obviously fail to see the point. For someone who never used the software, such a name is not descriptive. Non-descriptive names is something that many people bring up against the names of certain free software applications, but as you can see, it certainly applies to many proprietary applications (including Microsoft applications) as well.