There is already a short maglev train route in place in japan from the Shanghai airport into the city which started operation in 2004. It runs approxamately 19 miles and completes the trip in an average of seven minutes. The maximum speed normaly is around 280 miles per hour. Seems to be working well so far. more here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Maglev_Train
i live in fairbanks and as far as im concerned all the bridges are pointless. the city of anchorage doesn't need to grow any more its plenty big enough imho. Is it really that much extra work to just drive around the inlet instead of having to endure all the political crap thats going to come with the development of a project like this? theres no reason to build that stupid bridge or any of those bridges and the only reason they are being considered is because teddy here is on (chairing?) the board of science and transportation ( or something to that affect) the whole thing is a pointless moneypit and in fact despite what a lot of you might think its not something a lot of the residents here want.
yeah im from alaska, however NOT a fan of ted stevens, or the rest of his three ring circus (don young, murkowski) and its these crazy redneck psychofucks driving their jacked up mud bogging trucks, who know just about as much about him as a candidate as he seems to know about the "internets" unfortunately these mudbogging types (MBT) far out number more reasonably opinioned people with well thought out reasoning. an actual quote as to why someone was voting for mr frank murkowski (frank here was formerly one of these wonderful senators and gave us a wonderful lesson in nepotism by appointing his DAUGHTER to his now vacant senate seat) in the 2000 election for governor: REPORTER: sir, why did you vote for senator murkowski? MBT:I uhhh... i like his points REPORTER: for example MBT:......." hooray for live television. anyway short answer is psychos with 0 reasoning 1 unnessicarily loud truck and 1 empty case of beer vote for these guys. or the rich businessmen but thats another rant
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im not old enough to remember the original quake but me and my buddies would play descent 3 on the computers at school at lunch (it was one of the good games that we could find that would run on the school macs) and once you got that bugger running with 16 players it was just pure insanity bottled up into something that would make the newbs run screaming at the sight of the entire world spinning around with missles whizzing by their faces. it was magic
my first system was an SNES and the game i got with it was rock and roll racing. i didn't even know it was made by the company that would later be known as blizzard but it was an awesome game. when me and my friends were about 8 years old we would play the game for 6 or 8 hours at a stretch (and thats a long time for and 8 year old to sit still as many of you probably know) i got my SNES near the end of the systems life but i still played that game well into the N64 era. b rate games my ass.
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There is already a short maglev train route in place in japan from the Shanghai airport into the city which started operation in 2004. It runs approxamately 19 miles and completes the trip in an average of seven minutes. The maximum speed normaly is around 280 miles per hour. Seems to be working well so far. more here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Maglev_Train
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i live in fairbanks and as far as im concerned all the bridges are pointless. the city of anchorage doesn't need to grow any more its plenty big enough imho. Is it really that much extra work to just drive around the inlet instead of having to endure all the political crap thats going to come with the development of a project like this? theres no reason to build that stupid bridge or any of those bridges and the only reason they are being considered is because teddy here is on (chairing?) the board of science and transportation ( or something to that affect) the whole thing is a pointless moneypit and in fact despite what a lot of you might think its not something a lot of the residents here want.
yeah im from alaska, however NOT a fan of ted stevens, or the rest of his three ring circus (don young, murkowski) and its these crazy redneck psychofucks driving their jacked up mud bogging trucks, who know just about as much about him as a candidate as he seems to know about the "internets" unfortunately these mudbogging types (MBT) far out number more reasonably opinioned people with well thought out reasoning. an actual quote as to why someone was voting for mr frank murkowski (frank here was formerly one of these wonderful senators and gave us a wonderful lesson in nepotism by appointing his DAUGHTER to his now vacant senate seat) in the 2000 election for governor: REPORTER: sir, why did you vote for senator murkowski? MBT:I uhhh... i like his points REPORTER: for example MBT:......." hooray for live television. anyway short answer is psychos with 0 reasoning 1 unnessicarily loud truck and 1 empty case of beer vote for these guys. or the rich businessmen but thats another rant
im not old enough to remember the original quake but me and my buddies would play descent 3 on the computers at school at lunch (it was one of the good games that we could find that would run on the school macs) and once you got that bugger running with 16 players it was just pure insanity bottled up into something that would make the newbs run screaming at the sight of the entire world spinning around with missles whizzing by their faces. it was magic
my first system was an SNES and the game i got with it was rock and roll racing. i didn't even know it was made by the company that would later be known as blizzard but it was an awesome game. when me and my friends were about 8 years old we would play the game for 6 or 8 hours at a stretch (and thats a long time for and 8 year old to sit still as many of you probably know) i got my SNES near the end of the systems life but i still played that game well into the N64 era. b rate games my ass.
there actualy is a c like alternative for the OLD mindstorms system called NQC or not quite c. It is very simiar to C with specific commands developed specificly for the mindstorms system. http://bricxcc.sourceforge.net/nqc/ is the homepage and http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590590635/103-49 88931-3277469?v=glance&n=283155 is a great guide book written by the creator of the language that comes with all the software and a couple of different compilers.