What I do not understand about Germany - indeed this whole region of Europe (I'm in Switzerland) is this: We have excellent rail systems, why not put long-distance cargo on the trains? There are various initiatives to do exactly this, but they meet with a wide range of passive and active resistance. Fact is, given the existing rail system, using trucks for long-distance freight makes no sense at all.
Most major rail lines in Western Europe are running at full capacity.
Look at what happened on one existing self-driving train system:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2009_Washington_Metro_train_collision
Even in the simplest possible scenario (closed and tightly controlled metro system), the biggest self-driving train system in North America (not sure about the rest of the world) STILL wasn't able to avoid a fatal accident. This accident makes me wonder if it's simply beyond the capability of humanity to engineer a complex, self-driving train system that won't malfunction and cause fatal accidents.
So how many fatal accidents in manned trains? Let's cut this line of argument short and go straight to the obvious solution: abandon all technology. You go first.
Hiring a non-computer executive? What's next, will they hire one from a soft drink company?
More importantly: Apple hiring anybody? Must be about iWatch. Apple on medical tech hiring spree, a possible hint of iWatch plans.
Apple hires somebody who worked for high-end fashion house Yves Saint Laurent? Let's ignore that YSL hired somebody formerly working at Apple and didn't go into making computers or smartphones - coincidently the same guy.
Apple hires anybody: pundits say its a replacement for Tim Cook.
Much of the tech is designed by other companies, which sometimes they buy. It isn't a product of their own long term r&d as such.
Again, what has DELL ever designed themselves?
This. I have been saying this for years.
Apple is, and day by day, more and more - a boutique brand.
http://www.cnet.com/news/samsung-adds-swarovski-bling-and-bedazzle-to-its-galaxy-s5/ - Samsung is the boutique-meister.
I believe you are referring to the wi-fi data picked up promiscuously by Google fleet of camera vehicles while taking street view pictures. Their excuses about that were pretty thin as I remember.
Not as thin as their excuses for not deleting all of it. After saying they had deleted it.
From the picture it looks like it takes just as much space as a regular parking garage,
That's pretty much the point: the system is intended to be added to existing regular parking garages, to add comfort to the drivers as well as increase number of parked cars.
The problem with parking garages today is that they were all designed when cars were 8 inches narrower.
in 15-20 years Europe will pass America for Fatness.
Because most fat Americans will have exploded by then.
A member of Germany's foreign intelligence agency has been detained for possibly spying for the U.S. The 31-year-old is suspected of giving a U.S. spy agency information about a parliamentary inquiry of NSA activities.
So the investigation into the NSA's secret spying activities, is itself being conducted in secret under penalty of espionage charges should any German violate that secrecy? We seem to be forgetting why people object to the NSA's activities. Something about governments being open and transparent in their operation so the public can be assured their actions are trustworthy. Any investigation into the NSA's activities should be done publicly and openly, to demonstrate a contrast with how the NSA operated. Unless that is the German government has something it wants to keep secret from its own people. But in that case they become the pot calling the kettle black.
So when is the NSA going to publish all the data it liberates from foreign governments?
You idiots! This is all happening because you insist on spying on your fellow citizens.
Err, no - this is all because the NSA spies on Germans.
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