Here's a fun fact: Amtrak's funding is less than 1% of federal spending on transportation, and many rail lines in the US are privately owned.
Here's an even more fun fact: passenger rail subsidies are 40 TIMES that of commercial aviation subsidies, on a per-passenger-mile basis. We pay a LOT of money to move people by train, compared to moving people via airplanes...
Really? You mean the structure where trains get 40X the subsidies of airplanes? And cars are a net INCOME for transit (not subsidized)? How much more should we subsidize trains?
We already have Federal subsidies orders of magnitude larger for trains as compared to air. If trains can't compete with literally 40 times the subsidies to air travel, then the solution isn't to tax air travel more - it's to made train travel much more efficient.
Just wait until airline tickets start reflecting the real cost of airline travel. You really think you can fly for 5 hours on $99?
Just flew from Santa Barbara to Seattle and back this weekend, on an airline who hasn't gone bankrupt (Alaska Airlines). $445 round trip, took 2.2 hours flight time, about 1.5 hours at each end. So all together, about 7.5 hours and $445.
Compare that with $238 round trip ($119 each way) for Greyhound bus service, that takes 21 hours each way.
And $796 round trip ($398 each way) for Amtrak, that takes 27 hours each way (yes, it's slower than the bus).
As far as I can tell, the trade-off seems to be more money but faster service for the airlines over the bus, and Amtrak is the worst value overall - highest cost and slowest (worst) service.
The Feds are already involved since much of the right-of-way exists on Federal land (the Federal Government is the largest property-holder of all States West of the Mississippi river - including California). And the politicians here in CA are counting on Federal dollars as well...
Now you're stretching the boundaries of believability. You're on slashdot - and you want us to believe you've actually met with a woman - and she was willing to pro-create with you?
Though the current prototype runs Android 2.3, Borgar told us that the ARM-based hardware can run Ubuntu Linux currently and future versions should be able to run the ARM version of Windows 8.
With Ubuntu installed, the Cotton Candy can even be turned into a mobile file or web server!
Why must I be part of a social network in order to log in to a non-social-networking site? Sorry, not worth the hassle to set up a facebook account just to get access to another website...
Check the format of a paperback book - it's around 1.53:1, a lot closer to the 16:10 format than the 4:3 of the iPad. Reading is a LOT more natural/familiar on a 16:10 format screen, when held in portrait mode.
Redundant much? You said the same thing twice! That's more than once!
- this is/. you are supposed to repeat yourself over and over and over and over. Maybe one of these days we'll come up with a way just to reference what we have said earlier by creating some form of a link that could reference the original source....... no, that would never work.
That is such an old wive's tale... Now repeat after me: "There is no repetition on Slashdot. There is no repetition on Slashdot. There is no repetition on Slashdot. There is no repetition on Slashdot. There is no repetition on Slashdot. There is no repetition on Slashdot. There is no repetition on Slashdot. There is no repetition on Slashdot. There is no repetition on Slashdot. There is..."
Trust me - if there's a Grizzly close enough to you that you could dismember it, then by all means do so - you will be a LOT better off with it dismembered.
Yes, you are most definitely NOT a lawyer. There is NO legal exemption for "personal use" for patents in the US. In fact, it is illegal to simply implement the patent in an attempt to learn how it operates - for pure research purposes. ANY implementation of a patent is infringement - the reason for implementation or the status of the implementor or beneficial transactions because of it are totally irrelevant.
It's one thing to use hardware and software to make your life easier and better managed; they are, however, no substitute for good old fashioned wetware when it comes to learning critical thinking.
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Actually, per passenger mile, passenger trains in the US get about 40 times the subsidies of airlines.
Per passenger mile, we spend 40 times the money on passenger rail as we do on passenger aviation.
Here's a fun fact: Amtrak's funding is less than 1% of federal spending on transportation, and many rail lines in the US are privately owned.
Here's an even more fun fact: passenger rail subsidies are 40 TIMES that of commercial aviation subsidies, on a per-passenger-mile basis. We pay a LOT of money to move people by train, compared to moving people via airplanes...
Really? You mean the structure where trains get 40X the subsidies of airplanes? And cars are a net INCOME for transit (not subsidized)? How much more should we subsidize trains?
We already have Federal subsidies orders of magnitude larger for trains as compared to air. If trains can't compete with literally 40 times the subsidies to air travel, then the solution isn't to tax air travel more - it's to made train travel much more efficient.
Just wait until airline tickets start reflecting the real cost of airline travel. You really think you can fly for 5 hours on $99?
Just flew from Santa Barbara to Seattle and back this weekend, on an airline who hasn't gone bankrupt (Alaska Airlines). $445 round trip, took 2.2 hours flight time, about 1.5 hours at each end. So all together, about 7.5 hours and $445.
Compare that with $238 round trip ($119 each way) for Greyhound bus service, that takes 21 hours each way.
And $796 round trip ($398 each way) for Amtrak, that takes 27 hours each way (yes, it's slower than the bus).
As far as I can tell, the trade-off seems to be more money but faster service for the airlines over the bus, and Amtrak is the worst value overall - highest cost and slowest (worst) service.
The Feds are already involved since much of the right-of-way exists on Federal land (the Federal Government is the largest property-holder of all States West of the Mississippi river - including California). And the politicians here in CA are counting on Federal dollars as well...
Now you're stretching the boundaries of believability. You're on slashdot - and you want us to believe you've actually met with a woman - and she was willing to pro-create with you?
Though the current prototype runs Android 2.3, Borgar told us that the ARM-based hardware can run Ubuntu Linux currently and future versions should be able to run the ARM version of Windows 8.
With Ubuntu installed, the Cotton Candy can even be turned into a mobile file or web server!
RTFA next time.
RTFA? RTFA?!?!?!
THIS - IS - SLASHDOT!
Yeah, but he doesn't have a Kindle Fire for surfing for such things when in bed. What's a guy to do!
I do electronics and mechanical design for a living. That software lives in the Windows world. So I use Windows.
Why must I be part of a social network in order to log in to a non-social-networking site? Sorry, not worth the hassle to set up a facebook account just to get access to another website...
Actually I believe the proper units are libraries of Congress...
What if you moved your baseline to, say, 1920-1950? How's that trend look then?
Just not biannual in Antarctica, however...
Check the format of a paperback book - it's around 1.53:1, a lot closer to the 16:10 format than the 4:3 of the iPad. Reading is a LOT more natural/familiar on a 16:10 format screen, when held in portrait mode.
Redundant much? You said the same thing twice! That's more than once!
- this is /. you are supposed to repeat yourself over and over and over and over. Maybe one of these days we'll come up with a way just to reference what we have said earlier by creating some form of a link that could reference the original source....... no, that would never work.
That is such an old wive's tale... Now repeat after me: "There is no repetition on Slashdot. There is no repetition on Slashdot. There is no repetition on Slashdot. There is no repetition on Slashdot. There is no repetition on Slashdot. There is no repetition on Slashdot. There is no repetition on Slashdot. There is no repetition on Slashdot. There is no repetition on Slashdot. There is..."
Trust me - if there's a Grizzly close enough to you that you could dismember it, then by all means do so - you will be a LOT better off with it dismembered.
funny thing, we can ignore everything EU because it has no jurisdiction. and Apple did it first - so fuck all you for bitching about it.
If by first you mean two years after Neonode did it with the N1m, then yes - Apple did it first. Fanboi troll is so fanboiish...
Apple fanbois are so ignorant... Prior art, the Neonode N1m, released in 2005. If only Apple wasn't such a blatant copier of other's work...
Yes, you are most definitely NOT a lawyer. There is NO legal exemption for "personal use" for patents in the US. In fact, it is illegal to simply implement the patent in an attempt to learn how it operates - for pure research purposes. ANY implementation of a patent is infringement - the reason for implementation or the status of the implementor or beneficial transactions because of it are totally irrelevant.
Unless they're from Scotland, then it's with the sheep as well...
Not that there's anything wrong with it...
Maybe you have heard of this new invention called "textbooks" with these things called "sample problems" and "answer keys" included therein...
It's one thing to use hardware and software to make your life easier and better managed; they are, however, no substitute for good old fashioned wetware when it comes to learning critical thinking.