How about selective door opening? That's used widely in the UK and Europe.

I figured that would be the next step, but there's still a lot of inertia: some stations are bookended by perpendicular streets and would require the train to the parked on the road while loading, which may raise legal or political issues.

I hear they're trying to move all the stations to grade separated ones though, which should alleviate that.

Also, you'd have to get the public accustomed to "want to get out here, have to be in these cars", which, knowing the public, will take a big information campaign and still end up with people frantically charging through cars and screaming at conductors to open the doors...

Wow... this seems like yesterday for me. Scary how fast things are moving!

time is indeed flying. even 2001 seems like yesterday for me.

But you wouldn't do that though, would you...?

I shouldn't think we'll see changes in the next couple of years really other than in the the manner of PR/presentation (as we already have with Tim Cooks frankly lackluster performance) - Steve will have had oversight of everything coming out in the next 2 years or so but obviously not the final polish - again it's a debating point

Also there's the fact that has he left some of his 'DNA' with Apple - has he set the company up in a good position to succeed after he is gone, or is this simply not something Steves can truly do? Was Apple too personal to Steve? Is it even possible to define what made Steve Jobs the person he is and in turn what really made Apple a success?

Tim Cook must have known that Steve's death was imminent, it would've been hard to present a keynote which Steve would normally do in a situation like this.

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I think the problem, as you've demonstrated with your flippant comment lies with this new 'internet culture' (tied in with anonymity on the internet) which has led to the development of certain attitudes and changes in social norms and 'values'.

For instance, if you were standing next to someone, and you asked them a question, it would not be the social norm to say "google it" even if you knew the answer.

Either that, or the internet just gives the idiots that would say "google it" if you spoke to them in person and they knew the answer, a platform for themselves, when in real life they'd have no friends/get ignored/get punched in the face.

And I think that's exactly the reason points shouldn't really be shown...

Is upvoting generally a good idea in a community? What kind of commenting behaviour does it lead to?

Twitter appears to be the problem - further fragmenting discussion across the internet, not bringing it together.

What about twitter search? They have a widget made just for that: http://twitter.com/about/resources/widgets/widget_search

Exactly. There is no point whatsoever in commenting on a multitude of blogs and website across the internet - then your opinions, views and contributions are fragmented in different places across the internet too; with no way to keep track of them, and no way to build rapport.