[PLUG-TALK] [PLUG] Trimet schedule script

[Russell Johnson]

So, personal modes of transport (which have been around for thousands of years. the automobile is just the latest incarnation) will go away?

I don’t think so. 

—

Russell Johnson
russ at dimstar.net




> On Jul 6, 2015, at 18:12, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at gate.kl-ic.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 05:38:55PM -0700, Patrick J. Timlick wrote:
>> This article in Business week is about transportation and cars of the
>> future, and may well come to pass.  It just the opposite of what Keith
>> would have.
>> 
>>> Cars in the next few years will be able to find the fastest route for the
>>> morning commute as well as order coffee, pay for it and guide the driver to
>>> pick it up.
> 
> And the cars will fly!  And, if you violate secret laws,
> they will fly you straight to prison at Guantanamo!
> 
> Don't believe everything you read in business pornrags.  Cars
> don't go far without lots of energy.  Buses and trains don't
> either, but they can use less energy per passenger.  Bizporn
> is also replete with new fuels made from moonbeams and dryer
> lint, but they aren't engineers.  They quote "visionaries",
> not "actualaries".  Their agenda is their advertisers.
> 
> This discussion is moving into plug-talk territory, so
> without more code examples, I am moving it there.  My
> intention wasn't to tell the world what We Must Have,
> or to produce a 10,000 line GUI application, but to
> show how to use wget to slurp information from Tri-met.
> 
> If anything, it is to show how Linux users can accomplish
> everyday tasks without bloatware and mouseterbation.
> 
> Keith
> 
> -- 
> Keith Lofstrom          keithl at keithl.com
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