But what's wrong with branching time? You go back, kill your grandfather and end up on a timeline on which you will never be born.On the original timeline you have disappeared.
Sounds no less plausible.
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The next fleet of trains will cost £16 billion, the lines the trains are for have an annual ridership of about 600 million, and we could assume the trains will last 55 years (same as the ones they're replacing). That's 16G/600M/55 = 48 pence per journey?
I wonder if a boring design would cost less. I suspect it doesn't make much difference in the end -- a custom design is needed to maximise capacity in the old tunnels in any case.
What were they doing before the useless encryption chips? Stealing dozens of cards and beating the PINs out of the owners? How did these magical encryption chips put a stop to this practice?
Cloning magstripe cards to use in ATMs. The chips can't be cloned.
“Fraud on lost and stolen cards is now at its lowest level for two decades and counterfeit card fraud losses have also fallen and are at their lowest level since 1999. Losses at U.K. retailers have fallen by 67 per cent since 2004; lost and stolen card fraud fell by 58 per cent between 2004 and 2009; and mail non-receipt fraud has fallen by 91 per cent since 2004.”
Similarly, the national roll-out of EMV in Canada in 2008 had a dramatic impact on fraud. Losses from card skimming in Canada fell from CAD$142 million in 2009 to CAD$38.5 million in 2012, according to the Interac Association.
I think some American trains just look old. Bare aluminium (sometimes fluted!) and boxy corners.
Compare the newest NYC train with the newest London Underground train: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
(London's oldest trains are from 1972, and will be replaced in 2025. The next oldest are from 1980, and will be replaced this year. How long trains last seems to depend more on how well they were built and maintained, rather than simply age.)
The funny thing is that last year I my latest Amex card came with a chip, and so far the only place that I have actually used it is at Walmart of all places.
It was similar in the UK, until the law changed to allow Visa and MasterCard to push the liability for non-chip fraud onto merchants. In the months leading up to that, everyone updated their card readers.
The law changes in the USA in October.
I was wondering about a solution to this problem, and I find that prepaid travel EMV cards are available for purchase to those who think to do so in advance. Do you think tourists could also buy such cards after arrival?
Yes, I've found these: http://www.idtprime.com/ http://www.splashplastic.com/ which are available in shops in the UK. (From http://www.mastercard.co.uk/fi... and I said I was 13 and didn't travel.) They can be topped up with cash. (Check thoroughly before relying on these, I don't know anyone with one!)
You could ask your American bank to send an EMV card. Non-EMV cards are often accepted in person for shopping, restaurants etc, but you can get stuck dealing with machines (e.g. buying train tickets, or collecting cinema tickets you've ordered online) or very cheap merchants (trader at a music festival, market stall holder etc).
How many PDAs were sold in the 90s? How many iPads did Apple sell last MONTH?
How many Android tablets were sold last WEEK?
The Newton was a nice idea, but the wrong product at the wrong time. 13 years later, it was ready... called the iPad, and a wild success...
And to be clear, the smartphone and the tablet are really the same thing, in different sizes...
I thought everyone liked the 3rd one the best of all the Prequels. I haven't seen it myself yet, but every single time I complain about the Prequels to someone and then I mention that I haven't seen the 3rd, they say that I missed the best one.
This has been solved for a long time. Not sure why this is really an issue.
Because the poster stepped out of a way-back machine and didn't notice
:) You have to think bigger... to when computers are smarter and we no longer need to sit in from of them as often...
Like I said, we aren't there, and we won't be in 5-10 years... This is long term stuff...
Consider... The Apple Newton was really just a VERY early iPad... But it flopped because the technology and supporting infrastructure wasn't there yet. 15 years later and it was... It needed Wi-Fi, flash memory, Internet everywhere, touch screens, new batteries, low power CPUs, etc.
Let me guess.... Linux sucks for you because it won't run Microsoft Office and other Windows applications?
That is a common reply that I see...
First, yes... Microsoft Office is indeed important... for people who share documents, spreadsheets, etc. with the outside world, using the standard does matter. OpenOffice doesn't convert them perfectly and small errors creep when you try.
Second, yes... other windows applications do matter, many such as Quickbooks are important for many businesses. It is what their CPA uses, so keeping your accounting files in the same format that allows you to easily upload your data to your CPA, they can do their thing, and send them back, is more important than what OS you run.
Finally, Windows just works. XP was "good enough" and killed off most further interest in Linux on the desktop. Windows 7 took it further and torpedoed the rest of it... Windows 8 got a lot of flack, 8.1 fixed much of that mess... You install Windows 8.1 on almost anything made in the past 6 years and it runs very, very well.
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As a side note, if the reason you want Linux is because it is "not Windows", that will never be enough of a reason. You need a reason beyond that to get the bulk of the people to care.
Apple OS X has three times the Linux marketshare (if not more), and it is one of the most expensive options you can pick. That more than anything else should pour cold water on the Linux Desktop idea...
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For servers? Wonderful, totally wonderful, I get that it does have a bright future there.
Linux has been going for decades and still nobody wants it, you cant even give it away on the desktop.
This is SO the truth...
Lord, I've been waiting for Linux on the Desktop for 20 years now... installed Linux on a 486 nearly 20 years ago...
It is a great server OS, it is never going to be a widely adopted desktop OS.
Suggest you just sit there and wait till life gets easier.
