Comment Re:malware.... (Score 1) 803
My trust just went right down the toilet.
It wasn't there already?
My trust just went right down the toilet.
It wasn't there already?
My big complaint about ads is their overmodulation and intrusiveness. I would much more willingly submit to ads if stations would commit to turning down the volume, perhaps half what the music is.
Instead, I just don't watch television or listen to radio. I simply cannot stand constant advertising.
Why does it make sense to have high speed rail between Paris and London, but not between similarly distant New York and Philadelphia?
Because Philadelphia isn't Paris.
Why can't we put a loop going from Chicago to Detroit to Cleveland to New York?
Because the cities are 1) not as populous and 2) farther apart than the capitals of Europe.
Or connecting Miami, Tampa, Orlando, and Jacksonville? What about winding from San Diego to San Francisco?
It may not be economical to make links between the coasts, or over much of the Midwest. But the areas I'm talking about are areas with European density, with urban cores at reasonable distances from each other. Believing that the United States as a whole faces "distances that dwarf that of Europe" is downright Texan.
And so you are claiming that distance and population density doesn't matter?
The US has a third the population density. And to boot, there are three major disconnected population centers with distances over 1500 miles separating them. No such situation is present in Europe to *any* degree.
There is simply no comparison between the US and Europe for rail travel. None. And yet certain types of people lay their ridiculous guilt trip on the US for not embracing rail, without even considering that.
How about
8. Distances which dwarf that of Europe.
I can't believe people talk about rail in the U.S. without ever mentioning that key fact.
Nobody wants it -- why do you think the project failed?
128Kbs is sooo 1990s.. We've moved on. Storage, be it flash or Hard drives, has gotten order(s) of magnitude cheaper and bigger. So why aren't we moving our mindset about default MP3 quality UP to reflect the change? Make very High quality VBR the default and raise the average quality bar.
When network transfer speeds start increasing at the same rate storage capacity increases, I say yes. Until then, 128Kbps has a definite place and improving the quality is a worthy goal.
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?
