Have you actually seen this "Teaching Darwin as a counter to religion" happen? Because I don't think religion should be brought up at all in science class. Religion exists outside the context of empirical science.
The reality is that high-school science teaching must happen within very tight time and money constraints. We can't present every crackpot notion because there is barely time to present the basics of the scientific consensus. As everything creationists say has been shown to be false time and time again, it would clearly be a waste of time to bring it up in class.
Pretty "File Not Found" pages should still return a 404 status code. As we see here, automated user agents can't tell the difference between a pretty error page and a working page.
Lithium fusion is not necessary for civilian power generation. ITER uses deuterium-tritium, for example. Lithium is used in nuclear weapons because of the need for portability and longevity in warheads. (Lithium is a solid at room temperature, while hydrogen is cryogenicaly stored as a liquid, so you need constant flow of power to the cooling system.) Power generation is constrained by running costs more than space and storage costs.
What's the downside for MS? They have still monitored you actively using Windows/Office for three months, and you've already filled in their questionaire. Unless you're deliberatly poisoned the pool with bogus usage data, it doesn't matter to them if you make a youtube video to show your friends what a rebel you are.
Cards of the same generation often use the same meomory tech across the entire price range. All GeForce 8xxx cards use GDDR3, for example. Even when this is not the case (GeForce 7 used both GDDR2 and GDDR3), at the speed graphics tech moves, high-end tech tends to trickle down to the mid-range in less than a year, so it's still interesting for more frugal readers.
The pools are supposed to be temporary storage while the most active isotopes (with halflives of a couple of years) decay, so it's easier to handle when moving them to long term storage. Because of the failure to implement long term storage facilities, the fuel is left in the pools indefinitely, but when (if?) operators and governments get their shit sorted out it will all be put in dry casks. (At least, every long-term storage plan I've seen uses some sort of dry cask, but I was referring specifically to the Yucca Mountain plan.)
Spent fuel is stored encased in glass and concrete. The risk of leaks is very small, and because the low volumes of waste can be concentrated in a few locations, only small areas would be contaminated even if there was a leak.
The Chernobyl plant was a very poor design and nobody is pursuing similar designs any more. The RBMK design encased the fuel in flammable graphite as moderator. When the reactor overheated and the hot graphite was exposed to the air a raging fire immediatly began, tearing the reactor core apart and sending particles of spent fuel into the air in great clouds of smoke. Water moderated designs obviously don't have this problem. (The experimental pebble-bed reactors are graphite moderated, but they are much less likely to overheat.)
The bombs used in Japan were also very dirty. Modern designs consume a much larger part of their fuel. The chief danger is that setting off a nuke on the ground will mix the nuclear material with dirt, causing concentrated fallout within a few miles of ground zero, instead of dispersing it relatively harmlessly in the atmosphere like an explosion in mid-air.
Isotopes that takes "hundreds of thousands of years" to decay are not dangerously radioactive in the first place. After a few hundred years of storage most nuclear waste is a small health risk and can handled like any other toxic waste. The reason waste dump are being specified for thousand-year lifetimes is politics, not science.
I can install VMWare workstation on Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Vista, Windows 2000 Server, and Windows 2003 server without any hassles whatsoever! I can't say that of Linux.
You can run VMware on RHEL 3, 4 and 5 without any hassle whatsoever. If you want to use proprietary software, use a stable platform like RHEL or SLES or Ubuntu LTS. The reason Ubuntu and Fedora are able to release frequently is that they do not put much effort into binary compatibility.
What you don't seem to understand is that there is no such thing as a "Linux" desktop. There are Fedora desktops and Mandriva desktops and Debian deskstops and they are all different.
Sounds more like a feature than a bug the way you describe it. People aren't going to read more than a dozen words off a slide when they are trying to pay attention to what you're saying, so filling the slide with words just means they will ignore most of them.
If you want your audience to read more than a couple of lines, put the text in an expanded paper handout of the presentation (made with a word processor) that you can hand out before doing your speech. That way they can take notes on the handouts too, which means they are more likely to take another look at your presentation later.
DTX is 203x244mm. The slide you were looking at showed the outline of a DTX board over a pcture of a 305x244mm ATX board. DTX is supposed to be the next step down from the 244x244mm MicroATX form factor.
The money on developing nuclear power has already been spent. Wasting the research benefits noone.
Solar has massive subsides from the German and Japanese governments, which has helped greatly increase the efficiency and economies of scale of PV cells. They still have higher TCO and worse EROI than nukes, and solar will by nature never be able to deliever reliable power.
Since very few people are able to tell the difference between well-encoded high-bitrate MP3s and the source, there is obviously no difference between high-bitrate MP3s and high-bitrate Vorbis. However, you might reach "indistingishable from source" at ~170kpbs for Vorbis and at ~210kpbs for MP3. This is a pretty small difference given todays storage and bandwidth. The AAC codec in iTunes is also pretty much equivalent to Vorbis at the same bitrate.
Given that you're allowed to fire 155 mm artillery shells at enemy troops, what makes you think that you're not allowed to fire 12.7 mm projectiles at them? Are you one of those morons who believe that shotguns are prohibited too?
That's redundancy, not backups. A backup not only protects against hardware error, but also software and user error. If your app (or admin) goes crazy, having the same erroneous data saved on multiple machines wont do you any good.
None of this is MS's fault. You have the same problem there always is when upgrading your OS. The only companies more pathetically backwards than scanner/printer companies are "security" companies.
I hear NOD32 has a 64-bit version. NOD32 is also less likely to break your network/OS on a whim than Symantec's shovelware.
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I say that a lot of people are color blind.
Have you actually seen this "Teaching Darwin as a counter to religion" happen? Because I don't think religion should be brought up at all in science class. Religion exists outside the context of empirical science.
The reality is that high-school science teaching must happen within very tight time and money constraints. We can't present every crackpot notion because there is barely time to present the basics of the scientific consensus. As everything creationists say has been shown to be false time and time again, it would clearly be a waste of time to bring it up in class.
Pretty "File Not Found" pages should still return a 404 status code. As we see here, automated user agents can't tell the difference between a pretty error page and a working page.
The link was in TFA.
Ships are not under way all the time, wind conditions are not always favorable, and the actual kite will certainly not last 10 years.
Lithium fusion is not necessary for civilian power generation. ITER uses deuterium-tritium, for example. Lithium is used in nuclear weapons because of the need for portability and longevity in warheads. (Lithium is a solid at room temperature, while hydrogen is cryogenicaly stored as a liquid, so you need constant flow of power to the cooling system.) Power generation is constrained by running costs more than space and storage costs.
What's the downside for MS? They have still monitored you actively using Windows/Office for three months, and you've already filled in their questionaire. Unless you're deliberatly poisoned the pool with bogus usage data, it doesn't matter to them if you make a youtube video to show your friends what a rebel you are.
Cards of the same generation often use the same meomory tech across the entire price range. All GeForce 8xxx cards use GDDR3, for example. Even when this is not the case (GeForce 7 used both GDDR2 and GDDR3), at the speed graphics tech moves, high-end tech tends to trickle down to the mid-range in less than a year, so it's still interesting for more frugal readers.
The pools are supposed to be temporary storage while the most active isotopes (with halflives of a couple of years) decay, so it's easier to handle when moving them to long term storage. Because of the failure to implement long term storage facilities, the fuel is left in the pools indefinitely, but when (if?) operators and governments get their shit sorted out it will all be put in dry casks. (At least, every long-term storage plan I've seen uses some sort of dry cask, but I was referring specifically to the Yucca Mountain plan.)
Memo: The "blogosphere" is full of catchphrase-spouting fools.
Same thing happens if you run Debian sid. Something sid will hurt you, but it's only because he loves you, baby.
Spent fuel is stored encased in glass and concrete. The risk of leaks is very small, and because the low volumes of waste can be concentrated in a few locations, only small areas would be contaminated even if there was a leak.
The Chernobyl plant was a very poor design and nobody is pursuing similar designs any more. The RBMK design encased the fuel in flammable graphite as moderator. When the reactor overheated and the hot graphite was exposed to the air a raging fire immediatly began, tearing the reactor core apart and sending particles of spent fuel into the air in great clouds of smoke. Water moderated designs obviously don't have this problem. (The experimental pebble-bed reactors are graphite moderated, but they are much less likely to overheat.)
The bombs used in Japan were also very dirty. Modern designs consume a much larger part of their fuel. The chief danger is that setting off a nuke on the ground will mix the nuclear material with dirt, causing concentrated fallout within a few miles of ground zero, instead of dispersing it relatively harmlessly in the atmosphere like an explosion in mid-air.
Isotopes that takes "hundreds of thousands of years" to decay are not dangerously radioactive in the first place. After a few hundred years of storage most nuclear waste is a small health risk and can handled like any other toxic waste. The reason waste dump are being specified for thousand-year lifetimes is politics, not science.
You can run VMware on RHEL 3, 4 and 5 without any hassle whatsoever. If you want to use proprietary software, use a stable platform like RHEL or SLES or Ubuntu LTS. The reason Ubuntu and Fedora are able to release frequently is that they do not put much effort into binary compatibility.
What you don't seem to understand is that there is no such thing as a "Linux" desktop. There are Fedora desktops and Mandriva desktops and Debian deskstops and they are all different.
Strange. It uses 80 MB on my machine after an hour of browsing.
I assume you used a fresh profile? An old profile might have extensions that misbehave in development versions.
Sounds more like a feature than a bug the way you describe it. People aren't going to read more than a dozen words off a slide when they are trying to pay attention to what you're saying, so filling the slide with words just means they will ignore most of them.
If you want your audience to read more than a couple of lines, put the text in an expanded paper handout of the presentation (made with a word processor) that you can hand out before doing your speech. That way they can take notes on the handouts too, which means they are more likely to take another look at your presentation later.
DTX is 203x244mm. The slide you were looking at showed the outline of a DTX board over a pcture of a 305x244mm ATX board. DTX is supposed to be the next step down from the 244x244mm MicroATX form factor.
Since very few people are able to tell the difference between well-encoded high-bitrate MP3s and the source, there is obviously no difference between high-bitrate MP3s and high-bitrate Vorbis. However, you might reach "indistingishable from source" at ~170kpbs for Vorbis and at ~210kpbs for MP3. This is a pretty small difference given todays storage and bandwidth. The AAC codec in iTunes is also pretty much equivalent to Vorbis at the same bitrate.
Given that you're allowed to fire 155 mm artillery shells at enemy troops, what makes you think that you're not allowed to fire 12.7 mm projectiles at them? Are you one of those morons who believe that shotguns are prohibited too?
The Windows virtual memory manager swaps out minimized applications. This has nothing to do with the way the app is written.
That's redundancy, not backups. A backup not only protects against hardware error, but also software and user error. If your app (or admin) goes crazy, having the same erroneous data saved on multiple machines wont do you any good.
In the development branch, yes. If you want a welltested ZFS, Solaris is it.
None of this is MS's fault. You have the same problem there always is when upgrading your OS. The only companies more pathetically backwards than scanner/printer companies are "security" companies.
I hear NOD32 has a 64-bit version. NOD32 is also less likely to break your network/OS on a whim than Symantec's shovelware.
Heh, water vapor turns into rain, smartass.