Delicious LiveJournal Links for 11-25-2010

[andrewducker]

• Japanese firms to start making superconducting wire for cars and plants. I didn't realise this was feasible!
  (tags: superconductors technology electricity power)
• UK Railways to get £8bn investment
  (tags: rail uk government)
• Longer life expectancy pushes up pension costs
  (tags: life health pension)
• Jury Rules SAP Owes Oracle $1.3 Billion - the largest amount ever awarded for software piracy.
  (tags: software law piracy)
• Building a distributed social network on IMAP and SMTP
  (tags: socialnetworking technology)
• Huge snow robot for Edinburgh city centre. Does _your_ city have a gian snow robot? Then you lose!
  (tags: edinburgh snow robot)
• Breaking news: In a country where vast sums are spent on elections, rich people are elected.
  (tags: politics wealth usa)
• On the use of "the n-word", "n-----" and "nigger".
  (tags: words racism english language)
• 12 Sky-High Abandoned Buildings
  (tags: architecture urban photography abandoned decay city)

Comments

[dalglir.livejournal.com]

I know that UK rail deserves some investment but raising ticket prices is fail. It's still _cheaper_ and _quicker_ and _more productive_ for me to drive to my base office than it is to take the train.

EDIT: base office is in Redditch ~350 miles from home office.

If the government is really serious about encouraging public transport they need not only to make it more efficient but also a cheaper alternative to private transport.

[blackmanxy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, let us know how that giant snow robot works out for you when it inevitably rampages through the city.

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

Feasible for a given value of feasible. I think the high tempreture super conductors still need to be chilled to several hundred degrees below zero which makes them difficult to deploy.