You can burn the transuranics in a Thorium reactor and extract residual energy from them. Then the hazardous waste will be negligible by comparison. Google LFTR.
Version numbers are arbitrary. They could have just named this one Firefox 4.5 or something. It doesn't matter to me. I installed 5 on WinXP Pro and Linux Mint 11. Works good for me. I understand the changes are mainly under the hood. It is supposed to be a little bit faster with a smaller memory footprint.
It seems that Samsung, HTC, Motorola, or whoever are running 95% ARM chips with Android on their smartphones. Heck, even Apple is running iOS4 on ARM chips. Since the conversation is all about how the next generation of smartphones will supplant the PC, then it is fair to assume this will impact Microsoft and Intel. Also, you can get a license to make you own ARM chips. Not Atom or any other X86 CPU though. ARM uses less power than any X86 too. Also, Windows 7 costs money. Android is FREE. Starting to look bad for Wintel I think.
I am really starting to totally loathe Oracle. I know I am not the only person that feels this way also. Oracle's PR is going to only make more people avoid any of their products. Can you say, "slow decline"? There's another big software company that is almost irrelevant on mobile phones that I think will also experience this. Guess who they might be.
This kind of thing fascinates me. But I have always wondered what came before the Big Bang? It just doesn't make sense that there was nothing (also sometimes called the singularity?) then it just comes into existence. I always thought every effect had a cause. What was the causality that caused the Bang? Now I know there is a theory that one "brane" collided with another, but that just pushes causality off to a lower level. It doesn't make sense that the universe could also be eternal and infinite.
There are hardly any fields of endeavor where the people asking to provide a service are exempt from scrutiny. Teaching is a honorable and needed service, but the teacher's union does not want their members to be subject to the same feedback every other profession endures. They are not such a special class of human beings that the consumers of their service should be shutout from performance evaluation statistics. Would you want to hire the services of a crappy plummer, mechanic, investment counselor, or doctor? Why does the consumer not have access to the data to make an informed decision on whether to accept the services for which they will have to pay for? This is just not fair.
I have 2 sons in the USMC. I also like Medal of Honor. Heck, I just like alot of FPS's. But I just can't bring myself to killing my own people in a game. I just can't do it.
Exactly! I say, if this high speed rail is such a good idea, then why do they need to subsidize it so much. Still almost nobody uses it. Everybody always refers to Europe as a model example too. I was born in the Netherlands and have lived there. The trains work pretty good over there. Wanna know why? Because gasoline is stinking expensive. The reason it is so expensive is the government forces everybody on to the trains by taxing the crap out of gasoline and diesel. Also, it works good in the Netherlands because it is a very dense small country. You can easily ride your bicycle to the station and take the train. But the USA is a very vast country. It is much different here in the US. Besides, if I take a train, I have to drive to the station. If I fly I have to drive to the airport. Nobody is going to take the train coast to coast instead of an airplane.
As usual, those big thinkers in government really prove to be pinheads.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, for bringing this up. There is so much uninformed discussion against anything nuclear. Thorium based LFTR's will have none of the drawbacks of conventional reactors.
I forgot to mention that LFTR's have the potential to produce energy so cheaply, that oil, coal, solar, etc will become irrelevant. Fusion is the dark horse if they EVER figure that one out. So far tokamaks have just been government research projects that sucked in billions of dollars. But if we ever get to the moon we have a chance for mining helium 3 which might make these fusion reactors work. But that is a HUGE engineering problem compared to thorium reactors. Google and Bill Gates have invested boatloads of money into thorium reactors too.
Actually, thorium should not be anymore complex (probably simpler) than a uranium/plutonium based reactor. But all the years of the cold war and the lure of nuclear weapons has prompted all the engineering to be spent on uranium/plutonium reactors. It's not a physics problem. It's just that since all the current reactors are uranium/plutonium, the engineering is far more developed. From a physics standpoint, thorium is well understood. But from an engineering perspective it is mostly still experimental. If energy production is your only motive, eventually thorium has to win over current conventional reactor designs. It's just a matter of time. Heck, even with the current reactors, the main reason we have nuclear waste is because we do not reprocess fuel. You can thank Jimmy Carter for that decision too. But fast breeders that would have used the waste make it easier to get the resources to build weapons too. War sucks. We need LFTR's!!!!!!
The Dodo bird was a large pigeon that could not fly. When faced with predation and competition from other more versatile species that were not protected by island isolation, they became extinct. Newspapers as we knew them are media Dodos. Because they cannot fly to escape their predators, they will be overrun. I'm an old fart and still like reading stuff on paper. But I realize that this is an inefficient means of distributing information. My nostalgia does not prevent the inevitable extinction of the media sources that refuse to adapt. I still like reading a book in front of the fireplace, but my romantic notions won't forestall the demise of those that will not adapt.
All other means of energy production will not be able to compete with a Liquid Fluorine Thorium Reactor. Maybe if they ever figure out fusion. But they'll probably have to go to the moon to mine Helium 3 to make that work and Obama is death on NASA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LFTR
I didn't mean that in it's form when it was canceled it was perfect. I am aware of some of the same problems that have been brought up. But for I have also heard from many aerospace engineers that putting the craft on the top instead of be strapped right next to the rockets was a far safer launch method. I also agree that the X-15 should have remained a continuing technology. I think the Space Shuttle was a huge cluster-BLEEP designed by a committee of compromisers. We should have kept up the technology and jigs to continue to develop our Saturn boosters.
Project Dynasoar was nearly complete when they canceled it. It is probably they way we should have been going into LEO. Then we could have started building a nuclear powered VASIMIR. Heck project Orion might have been done by now.
Greenland was colonized during a period of global warmth. That it is why it was named that way. When the solar cycle became colder, Greenland lost population due to global cooling. The climate was not influenced then by Scandinavians driving gas guzzling, CO2 belching SUV's. Man is not powerful enough to change the earth's climate to any "significant" degree. But that big thermonuclear ball in the sky is. A billion petrochemical fueled cars will not influence the sun.
But, I still think we should find better sources of energy. Petrochemicals can be very dirty. I think we should only use them for a feedstock for plastics and use Thorium reactors to make our energy. Thorium reactors could even be used to get rid of the deadly nuclear waste from Uranium/Plutonium reactors.
http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2009/12/01/how-a-liquid-fluoride-thorium-reactor-lftr-works/
Scientists are men that can be influenced by propaganda just like any man can be. I think the climate change scare is just another way for politicians to steal our hard earned money.
BTW, I also love this video from George Carlin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eScDfYzMEEw
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You can burn the transuranics in a Thorium reactor and extract residual energy from them. Then the hazardous waste will be negligible by comparison. Google LFTR.
Version numbers are arbitrary. They could have just named this one Firefox 4.5 or something. It doesn't matter to me. I installed 5 on WinXP Pro and Linux Mint 11. Works good for me. I understand the changes are mainly under the hood. It is supposed to be a little bit faster with a smaller memory footprint.
They should switch to Thorium reactors. Look up LFTR.
It seems that Samsung, HTC, Motorola, or whoever are running 95% ARM chips with Android on their smartphones. Heck, even Apple is running iOS4 on ARM chips. Since the conversation is all about how the next generation of smartphones will supplant the PC, then it is fair to assume this will impact Microsoft and Intel. Also, you can get a license to make you own ARM chips. Not Atom or any other X86 CPU though. ARM uses less power than any X86 too. Also, Windows 7 costs money. Android is FREE. Starting to look bad for Wintel I think.
I think another thing this will also mean is the end of X86 CPU dominance.
I am really starting to totally loathe Oracle. I know I am not the only person that feels this way also. Oracle's PR is going to only make more people avoid any of their products. Can you say, "slow decline"? There's another big software company that is almost irrelevant on mobile phones that I think will also experience this. Guess who they might be.
OK. Well what particular news item do you think was a lie or propaganda? Can you point one out so I can check it out?
I love Slashdot. It has so many good articles on tech. But I think BS political posts like this detract from the value and dignity of the site.
Why not take ads that only appear to the freeloaders? If you get a paying subscription or donate, they can set it up so you won't see the ads.
This kind of thing fascinates me. But I have always wondered what came before the Big Bang? It just doesn't make sense that there was nothing (also sometimes called the singularity?) then it just comes into existence. I always thought every effect had a cause. What was the causality that caused the Bang? Now I know there is a theory that one "brane" collided with another, but that just pushes causality off to a lower level. It doesn't make sense that the universe could also be eternal and infinite.
Nobody should ever be beyond scrutiny.
There are hardly any fields of endeavor where the people asking to provide a service are exempt from scrutiny. Teaching is a honorable and needed service, but the teacher's union does not want their members to be subject to the same feedback every other profession endures. They are not such a special class of human beings that the consumers of their service should be shutout from performance evaluation statistics. Would you want to hire the services of a crappy plummer, mechanic, investment counselor, or doctor? Why does the consumer not have access to the data to make an informed decision on whether to accept the services for which they will have to pay for? This is just not fair.
I have family in the USMC. Trust me, they get paid alot better than that.
I have 2 sons in the USMC. I also like Medal of Honor. Heck, I just like alot of FPS's. But I just can't bring myself to killing my own people in a game. I just can't do it.
Exactly! I say, if this high speed rail is such a good idea, then why do they need to subsidize it so much. Still almost nobody uses it. Everybody always refers to Europe as a model example too. I was born in the Netherlands and have lived there. The trains work pretty good over there. Wanna know why? Because gasoline is stinking expensive. The reason it is so expensive is the government forces everybody on to the trains by taxing the crap out of gasoline and diesel. Also, it works good in the Netherlands because it is a very dense small country. You can easily ride your bicycle to the station and take the train. But the USA is a very vast country. It is much different here in the US. Besides, if I take a train, I have to drive to the station. If I fly I have to drive to the airport. Nobody is going to take the train coast to coast instead of an airplane. As usual, those big thinkers in government really prove to be pinheads.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, for bringing this up. There is so much uninformed discussion against anything nuclear. Thorium based LFTR's will have none of the drawbacks of conventional reactors.
LFTR's will render these things irrelevant. http://energyfromthorium.com/lftradsrisks.html
I forgot to mention that LFTR's have the potential to produce energy so cheaply, that oil, coal, solar, etc will become irrelevant. Fusion is the dark horse if they EVER figure that one out. So far tokamaks have just been government research projects that sucked in billions of dollars. But if we ever get to the moon we have a chance for mining helium 3 which might make these fusion reactors work. But that is a HUGE engineering problem compared to thorium reactors. Google and Bill Gates have invested boatloads of money into thorium reactors too.
Actually, thorium should not be anymore complex (probably simpler) than a uranium/plutonium based reactor. But all the years of the cold war and the lure of nuclear weapons has prompted all the engineering to be spent on uranium/plutonium reactors. It's not a physics problem. It's just that since all the current reactors are uranium/plutonium, the engineering is far more developed. From a physics standpoint, thorium is well understood. But from an engineering perspective it is mostly still experimental. If energy production is your only motive, eventually thorium has to win over current conventional reactor designs. It's just a matter of time. Heck, even with the current reactors, the main reason we have nuclear waste is because we do not reprocess fuel. You can thank Jimmy Carter for that decision too. But fast breeders that would have used the waste make it easier to get the resources to build weapons too. War sucks. We need LFTR's!!!!!!
The Dodo bird was a large pigeon that could not fly. When faced with predation and competition from other more versatile species that were not protected by island isolation, they became extinct. Newspapers as we knew them are media Dodos. Because they cannot fly to escape their predators, they will be overrun. I'm an old fart and still like reading stuff on paper. But I realize that this is an inefficient means of distributing information. My nostalgia does not prevent the inevitable extinction of the media sources that refuse to adapt. I still like reading a book in front of the fireplace, but my romantic notions won't forestall the demise of those that will not adapt.
All other means of energy production will not be able to compete with a Liquid Fluorine Thorium Reactor. Maybe if they ever figure out fusion. But they'll probably have to go to the moon to mine Helium 3 to make that work and Obama is death on NASA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LFTR
I didn't mean that in it's form when it was canceled it was perfect. I am aware of some of the same problems that have been brought up. But for I have also heard from many aerospace engineers that putting the craft on the top instead of be strapped right next to the rockets was a far safer launch method. I also agree that the X-15 should have remained a continuing technology. I think the Space Shuttle was a huge cluster-BLEEP designed by a committee of compromisers. We should have kept up the technology and jigs to continue to develop our Saturn boosters.
Project Dynasoar was nearly complete when they canceled it. It is probably they way we should have been going into LEO. Then we could have started building a nuclear powered VASIMIR. Heck project Orion might have been done by now.
Greenland was colonized during a period of global warmth. That it is why it was named that way. When the solar cycle became colder, Greenland lost population due to global cooling. The climate was not influenced then by Scandinavians driving gas guzzling, CO2 belching SUV's. Man is not powerful enough to change the earth's climate to any "significant" degree. But that big thermonuclear ball in the sky is. A billion petrochemical fueled cars will not influence the sun. But, I still think we should find better sources of energy. Petrochemicals can be very dirty. I think we should only use them for a feedstock for plastics and use Thorium reactors to make our energy. Thorium reactors could even be used to get rid of the deadly nuclear waste from Uranium/Plutonium reactors. http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2009/12/01/how-a-liquid-fluoride-thorium-reactor-lftr-works/ Scientists are men that can be influenced by propaganda just like any man can be. I think the climate change scare is just another way for politicians to steal our hard earned money. BTW, I also love this video from George Carlin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eScDfYzMEEw
Gee. Thanks, Mom. I hope I don't get grounded or get a spanking. Sheesh.