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Obama Proposes High-Speed Rail System For the US 1385

Posted by timothy on Friday April 17 2009, @09:48AM
from the self-mucking-biodiesel-ponies dept.

fantomas writes "The BBC reports that 'US President Barack Obama has announced his "vision for high-speed rail" in the country, which would create jobs, ease congestion and save energy.' Can rail work in the land where the car is king? Would you travel on the new high speed lines?"

Comment: Big Visible Charts (Score 5, Interesting) 133

by EponymousCoder on Sunday March 23 2008, @05:20AM (#22835094) Attached to: The P.G. Wodehouse Method of Refactoring

I really like the concept, and it fits in with a bunch of techniques we've been using at work in line with the "Big Visible Charts" ideas. Things like this and Agile stories written on index cards and pinned to the wall do sound hokey. A number of people like Johanna Rothman http://www.pragprog.com/titles/jrpm however point out, that these techniques are a lot more inclusive and (as I've found) you get much more animated discussions than the pm/architect/team lead writing a document "for discussion."
If nothing else it's fun to watch management trying to cope with your walls being covered with sheets of paper, cards and string when they've paid all this money for MS Project and the Rational Suite.

Preorders open for 230MPG car-> 4

Submitted by m4ximusprim3 on Thursday September 27 2007, @07:03PM

m4ximusprim3 writes "Aptera Automotive, maker of the Aptera 230mpg diesel hybrid is now taking $500 "pre orders" for the car, which is scheduled to go into production in 12 months.

The Vehicle seats two people side by side, gets 230mpg at 55mph, has a trunk large enough for a surfboard, and goes from 0-60 in less than 10 seconds.

And, it looks like a fish!"
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Is Wired Trying to Kill Digg?

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ClamIAm

on Thursday March 01 2007, @10:16PM

ClamIAm writes "Wired's latest article about Digg is interesting. But with the parent company of Wired also owning reddit, are there hidden motivations behind it? Michael Arrington of TechCrunch thinks so, and suggests that Digg sue Wired. From the article:

Reddit was acquired in late October. By December, Wired had predicted the fall of Digg, saying "Digg Becomes the New Friendster" without disclosing that they were a sister company to a competitor. .... Today Wired takes another, more elaborate shot at Digg. In a piece of investigative journalism, Wired reporter Annalee Newitz used a service called User/Submitter that pays people to Digg a story, which resulted in it getting to the home page of Digg.
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