Those trams and subways amount to not much more than sideways elevators. I'm guessing that someone monitors these things at large airports/etc just like someone monitors that the elevators are going. But otherwise they are easily automated because they are on rails, their paths are exclusive, secure and well controlled. There are generally double doors so no one can get in/out when they shouldn't, etc...
I'm sure they'll hire experienced drivers, remote Teamsters?
This will end up being a lowest bidder situation and just like call centers, you'll have "simulators" over in China, India, wherever filled with remote drivers.
That mit site is ridiculous. Where can you get an apartment in Boston for $1000 that isn't an unfinished studio in a basement?
What they call a living wage is actually poverty level, or below...
They "cured" the murderous criminal guy with the defective empathy switch in his brain...
My ad is for a "water hammer arrestor" device that screws into a washing machine...
Ghandi, Mother Theresa, etc...
You die for your principals--
As in I love this country (USA) so much, and believe what has been done is so bad, that I am willing to leak this information to world, but of course I will keep the true secrets out of anyone's hands that could harm the US and it's citizens.
I think that is the OP's point and I don't think it's "Flamebait" at all.
Just watched that... completely unsatisfying ending, though I do wonder if it gave birth to a few items that have come to be familiar, or if they were around at the time and re hashed..
5KB to 16GB would be
3,355,443.2X as much wouldn't it?
5KB x 3,355,443.2 = 16,777,216KB
16,777,216KB / 1024 / 1024 = 16GB
128KB Apple --> 4GB Dell
Too much government control is bad.
Too much corporate control is bad.
Now let's sprinkle in corporate control of government through lobbying dollars and astronomical consultancy fees for former government officials...
People suck.
It's probably worth pointing out at this juncture that one of the things that spurs competition, growth and new technology is the fact that stuff is sold for a profit--sometimes a really huge one.
There would be far less drive to push further and further if it were not for the profit carrot being dangled... if everyone were buying from a municipal ISP for just about break-even costs, we might end up stagnating.
The few times I've been forced to use valet parking I will usually hand the guy taking the car $2 or something... the idea is that you're saying, hey I'm giving you $2 so that you'd don't destroy my car. It makes no sense to be honest because anyone in that type of a job should want to do a good job in order to keep the job itself--either because of the paycheck or access to other tips.
But I also drive an 11 year old Honda Civic that has smelled like spoiled milk for the past 2 years that I've owned it, so honestly, there's not much you can do to it that will make me upset...
I assume you're not in the US? Never heard of a rental agency in the US with manual transmission, at least not mainstream rental within the past 20 years.
As a person who has rented many cars and had a share of problems, I have never had to pay for a mechanical breakdown--including flat tires or batteries--in the 50+ rentals I've done over the past many years. I've only had a dead battery once though, but I called the rental agency and they sent a tow truck to jump the car. I had a flat once they sent a guy out with a different rental car, I took the new one and he presumably changed the tire on the old one and drove it back to their lot...
So I'm surprised to hear that someone had to pay for a dead battery--the exception of course would be if the rental returned the car and left a light turned on or something, in that case I could potentially understand them trying to hit the renter for a fee...
WTF are you talking about?
Why would a rental car company charge you, the renter, for a dead battery in their vehicle as a result of equipment they allowed to be installed? Further, I seriously doubt a dead battery in a rental car would be considered "damage", I've needed a jump in a rental before, they usually apologize profusely and send a tow truck to get you going again.
AT&T hot spots exist on Boston's commuter rail trains... AT&T also has hot spots in cafes which are at the train stations... The routers are inside the train vehicle and the signal is generally not that strong outside of it. I would guess a bus will be similar. I think the likelihood of a bus driving by you kicking you off your existing connection is pretty low. Or at least, that's been my experience using AT&T hot spots while trains pull up, passengers exchange happens, and they pull away...
I suppose MAYBE if you're sitting right next to the bus and using one of the Xfinity outdoor hotspots the bus' signal could rival it so you might end up with a hiccup, maybe...
With your bare hands?!?
