There is no such thing as a containment vessel, it's a pressure vessel. In a PWR, the pressure vessel holds the volume around the core at an elevated pressure so coolant (water) doesn't boil. This is much different from the containment around the outside of the entire reactor and primary coolant system. Were there a hole in containment, the health physics staff would know about it well before it ever happened because there are more radiation detection systems in place that you can imagine. A hole or fissure in the pressure vessel is much harder to locate since it's in an extremely high radiation area that staff cannot stay in for very long otherwise they'll go well over their dose limits (even while the reactor is shut down). So they only have two chances a year to find something like that, during refueling. So during the slew of checklists that are completed during a refueling, you're expecting the staff to find a needle in a haystack since these problems can occur anywhere in the primary coolant system. Maybe the union of concerned "scientists" would like to address the fact that a coal plant releases more radiation into the environment than any western nuclear plant ever has (obviously excluding chernobyl which had no containment). All plants have engineering issues just as any engineering project does, we still drive our cars eventhough we get those little recall slips in the mail ever once in a while. I don't know about you, but I'm much more likely to die on a highway to work than at work (guess who works in the nuclear industry).
The nuclear industry doesn't have that many violations outside of an unexpected reactor shutdown in which case it's either the operator's fault for pressing the wrong button or a pump fails and the secondary systems come online and the reactor defaults to shutdown. Other than that, there are NRC personnel at EVERY commercial reactor site that help to ensure compliance. That and the level of training given to personnel at a power plant is far above any other industry I've seen. That and with the entertainment industry, it makes them more money for pushing the envelope while in the nuclear industry, it does quite the opposite.
Why not charge the company who wrote the bad software instead of the end user? The end user is paying for a service from the company, so it isn't the end users fault because the company is writing swiss cheese software. I'm just waiting for some class action lawsuits against certain companies who write software that can be exploited by any deuschbag with an internet connection
I started going to comdex in 94. The shows in Atlanta used to be great. Meaning I'd come home with a few shirts, maybe a new software suite. One year I came back with news parts. But, as the stock markets started to realize that a guy who says he might have an idea about something that might make money probably isn't a good investment, the computer industry slowed down. The dot coms started to fail because there was no financial backing because they couldn't produce the 2000% profits that they had when they went IPO. The industry was overly full of money, as seen from the vendors just giving away all sorts of items and various crap at their booths. Nowadays, you're lucky if they give you a little thing of mints. My how the industry has changed.
The guy should go work at playboy. They do that kind of thing all the time. When was the last time you saw a playmate with scars from chicken pox or immunizations? They've been airbrushing their photos as long as airbrushing has been around. Now if they started trying to post a a head on a different body people might start to notice, which parallels with this guy's merging of two photos for a single, better picture. Sure it might be selling something that isn't real, but how boring is reality?
Gore is just another politician in the long line that are moving to high positions in fortune 500 companies. At the moment, former Georgia Senator Sam Nunn is on the ballot for Coca-Cola. Then you'll remember that Newt Gingrich is doing consulting from last I recall, and there are quite a few more. Interesting how the fusion of business and politics is such a long standing foundation in this country; money and power, the ultimate in Machiavellian virtues. Not all politicians are bad men/women, their morals just lack resolve when confronted with a heavy price tag.
Actually it was replaced by the baretta 9mm by all services back in the 1980's. The old service pistol is not in service in any branch except for my beloved Corps in the form of the modified M1911 SOC (spec ops modified). Not every one gets the modified pistol, since the gunsmiths at Quantico do the modifications in house and by hand. The baretta seems to be a decent replacement, but I prefer to stick with my trusty.45cal hand cannon.
What is this about rootkits and windows? Microsoft makes the most secure software don't they? I'm being facetious of course. This seems like old news for some reason, maybe it's seeing the light of day because of the slammer worm that kicked the shiznit out of so many servers. Chalk it up to the backlash effect if you ask me
To those of us who have worked in an IT department that services a very large network, this seems like the next generation of installation/recovery cd's that can be tailored to the type of computer necessary. Right now you have to do something like the kickstart configuration in redhat, or the administration kit for windows setups where you have to make the installation specific and then modify the install media, but with this it seems like you could have your generic install data pressed on the cd, then use the rest of it for your install scripts/config files. It seems like it'd reduce the number of CD's an IT guy would have to carry around all the time. Sounds like a good technology, only what will the RIAA say about it and do they take a cut of the profits on this too?
There are murders, rapists, and other offenders of such unspeakable crimes walking the streets in our country, yet a college student downloading "Margarita Ville" is a criminal that deserves to be arrested for breaking a copyright law. What the hell is going through congress' minds? We have a budget crisis enough as it is and we can't even rid our streets of homeless people but we'll spend millions of dollars protecting an already overly-wealthy industry from an 18 year old kid that just wants to listen to a song? Where are the priorities in this country?
Same kinda stuff that I used to have to run when doing code runs. Set up the fortran compiler to run and make all the tables, then run the matlab scripts to analyze everything that came out of the fortran code and make it look pretty. Matlab is more of the experimenters program while Maple is more of a student's diff eq class project in a way. I never used Maple for anything more than plotting graphs from differential equations or solving systems of equations. Matlab just seemed the better pick for large amounts of data since it merges so well with fortran. Maple still has all the bells and whistles just about anyone would need though. I haven't used mathematica or mathcad too much to be able to give a good description of them though.
"Schea, riiight, and monkeys might fly out of Madonnas butt"
It's a waste of a post, but what the hell, far fetched idea. That's like asking Moscow if they will house a US army base in the middle of the cold war.
For all the other students out there who may work at a school's bookstore or computer store, Barnes and Noble owns many of these stores and requires that all students applying hand over their credit report. As a student you're just starting out so your credit will probably be just about perfect, but what right does Barnes and Noble have to collect students records like that? If we refuse now, we might save our rights as employees later on. There's no reason for corporations to try to enforce "complacency" in the work force with regards to their employees personal records.
I think it's extremely unfair to hold engineering students at the same GPA scale as students majoring in business, dance, history, or some other "humanity" based major. At Georgia Tech, so many engineering students lose Georgia's HOPE scholarship because they dip below a 3.0 gpa. I could major in business and have a 4.0 and not be worth a damn to anyone in the real world, or I could take the extremely difficult courses and barely pull a 3.0. That doesn't seem fair at all.
Not all people can afford those types of private certifications. MCSE's and A+ and Cisco certifications all cost money. If a company wants to privately hire only certified professionals, that's their right to do so, but it shouldn't be an imposed mandate. If that rule were in effect back 6 or 7 years ago when the overwhelming majority of computer-knowledgeable people were under the age of 18, who would work in those stores? Definitely not the kid who's a poor computer genius, but the older person with enough money to waste on certifications that only prove that a person knows enough about the subject to fix a few types of problems that are covered in a review book. Experience and intelligence are the only tools a computer technician needs to do good work. Problem solving requires more than a piece of paper saying that you performed well on a certain day.
I remember back in the late 80's to early 90's when the kroger by my house had a zone activated shopping system. Kinda like an early version of wireless ethernet. When you moved the cart down the cereal isle, it'd tell you what the sales were down there. So this doesn't really seem like a new idea to me, kinda like it's been done before
back in the early 90's when the show started, it was just about the only place where people could go and see all the new technology that would be coming out in the next year. I remember when Microsoft's big thing was windows NT 3.5 back at what they called Windows World. They debuted almost all of their products at comdex and gave away so much free crap that I could barely carry it all back on Marta (I always went to the Atlanta one until it moved and came back). Then I remember in 98 I think it was, when Linux stepped into the show full force. There was a whole section for Windows, Linux, and Communications equipment. The show was huge and there was so much money floating around that you could literally take home a server if you sweettalked the convention workers enough. The companies literally threw money at the attendants. I never once paid to go to comdex, I always had free tickets or some sort or another, so the trip on a whole gave me free school supplies for the next few years. But alas, the fall '02 comdex was a disappointment. So few vendors, and none of the ones there even mattered. There were more cell phone companies than there were computer companies. Linux was very sloppily represented, and Microsoft just about backed out entirely. The large corporations aren't floating any money these days and it makes the show really dull. The best exhibit there was some guy getting out of a straight jacket on a unicycle (I kid you not). Other places had dancing girls or massages. The technology they were pushing was sub-par and pretty boring. Advancements just aren't coming as quickly as they did before. Maybe it's because I'm used to knowing about things far in advance of their presentation, or because I'm just not looking. But in today's technological world, one can't expect to have the supershows of the past because the internet truly has made them obsolete. No more cheap pens, buttons, or cdroms, but instead a peppermint or two and maybe a business card if the company is really looking to splurge their advertising budget.
It's about time that this came into play for battery powered devices. The older NASA satellites all ran on "nuclear" power, actually most ran on the beta and alpha particles because the long halflives and powerful decays allowed the satellites to last for 30+ years, such as the probe that left our solar system 2-3 years ago, and the satellites around jupiter right now. Currently, shielding techniques for gamma rays are too heavy (lead or other heavy atoms) and they are too dangerous in low shielding around the battery because gamma rays have the ability to transmit enough energy into DNA and perform substitutions and translations that can make your children be born with a tail or something. Beta particles have an distance of something to the negative 7 meters, which is pretty small and easy to shield. That and beta particle is a form of a charged radiation so that you can effectively shield the source by providing enough of a voltage or ground so that the particles won't harm you. Alpha particles, in my opinion, are the safest forms of radiation (unless you eat it, I'll explain in a second). Alpha particles are simply helium particles that have a varying momentum and lack electrons, meaning that it's a relatively large, charged particle that can be deflected. So they too can be effecively shielded against. If you eat it, the lining in your system isn't thick enough to stop the particles, so the +2 charges can enter your system and kill off cells very easily, and rapidly. In my opinion, radiation powered batteries are great if engineered right. In case you're wondering of my validity, I am a nuclear engineer.
Thank God I'm not on the space station for this. 2400 meteors zipping right past my window, that'd be a little too close for comfort. Too bad we can't send up that boy band kid so he can get hit by a few
Aibo's are expensive enough as it is, now you'd be tossing them onto a free-moving skateboard? Money to waste or someone's going to take advantage of the camera in the mall's dressing rooms
Handwriting recognition systems can be sped up a lot with the less marks necessary on the device. I write a lot faster on my palm than on paper already (even though I kind of merge the two at times). If the handwriting were something like dots and dashes, something that your hand can do very quickly, the handwriting recognition could be made a lot faster. But most likely not ever to the level of a keyboard, but it sure could make PDA's a bit more effective
First of all, this article was written with some extreme bias. With the publisher of the article being a linux magazine and all, they know where their money is coming from, so obviously they're going to write another of the pro-linux/anti-microsoft articles that are so common these days. Just wanted to point that fact out there in case anyone doesn't look at where these stories actually come from. Now about how microsoft's actual tech support, most college students do not deal directly with microsoft's tech support, few people really do. Most people deal with a 3rd party IT firm or an MCSE of some sort. End users are just about the only ones (except the types that I mentioned before and related fields) who actually use microsoft's tech support directly. With a linux tech support line, anyone can call that and get decent help. Linux in IT work is becoming a lot bigger so eventually people will be talking to their IT person instead of the actual company. Things to keep in mind is all
Science has never been able to be kept secret though. The concept behind the atomic bomb was discovered simultaneously by two people in very different parts of the world. Point being that if we have the technology, then someone else probably does too and if we can develop it, so can they. Why try to hinder science for fear of a backlash? The atomic bomb hasn't ended the world yet as people back in the 1950's expected. 50 years from now the same thing will be said about nanotechnology because something even potentially more deadly will be available.
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There is no such thing as a containment vessel, it's a pressure vessel. In a PWR, the pressure vessel holds the volume around the core at an elevated pressure so coolant (water) doesn't boil. This is much different from the containment around the outside of the entire reactor and primary coolant system. Were there a hole in containment, the health physics staff would know about it well before it ever happened because there are more radiation detection systems in place that you can imagine. A hole or fissure in the pressure vessel is much harder to locate since it's in an extremely high radiation area that staff cannot stay in for very long otherwise they'll go well over their dose limits (even while the reactor is shut down). So they only have two chances a year to find something like that, during refueling. So during the slew of checklists that are completed during a refueling, you're expecting the staff to find a needle in a haystack since these problems can occur anywhere in the primary coolant system. Maybe the union of concerned "scientists" would like to address the fact that a coal plant releases more radiation into the environment than any western nuclear plant ever has (obviously excluding chernobyl which had no containment). All plants have engineering issues just as any engineering project does, we still drive our cars eventhough we get those little recall slips in the mail ever once in a while. I don't know about you, but I'm much more likely to die on a highway to work than at work (guess who works in the nuclear industry).
The nuclear industry doesn't have that many violations outside of an unexpected reactor shutdown in which case it's either the operator's fault for pressing the wrong button or a pump fails and the secondary systems come online and the reactor defaults to shutdown. Other than that, there are NRC personnel at EVERY commercial reactor site that help to ensure compliance. That and the level of training given to personnel at a power plant is far above any other industry I've seen. That and with the entertainment industry, it makes them more money for pushing the envelope while in the nuclear industry, it does quite the opposite.
Why not charge the company who wrote the bad software instead of the end user? The end user is paying for a service from the company, so it isn't the end users fault because the company is writing swiss cheese software. I'm just waiting for some class action lawsuits against certain companies who write software that can be exploited by any deuschbag with an internet connection
I started going to comdex in 94. The shows in Atlanta used to be great. Meaning I'd come home with a few shirts, maybe a new software suite. One year I came back with news parts. But, as the stock markets started to realize that a guy who says he might have an idea about something that might make money probably isn't a good investment, the computer industry slowed down. The dot coms started to fail because there was no financial backing because they couldn't produce the 2000% profits that they had when they went IPO. The industry was overly full of money, as seen from the vendors just giving away all sorts of items and various crap at their booths. Nowadays, you're lucky if they give you a little thing of mints. My how the industry has changed.
2.25 MB/s here at GA Tech. Maybe it's kinda fast since time warner is across the street :)
The guy should go work at playboy. They do that kind of thing all the time. When was the last time you saw a playmate with scars from chicken pox or immunizations? They've been airbrushing their photos as long as airbrushing has been around. Now if they started trying to post a a head on a different body people might start to notice, which parallels with this guy's merging of two photos for a single, better picture. Sure it might be selling something that isn't real, but how boring is reality?
Gore is just another politician in the long line that are moving to high positions in fortune 500 companies. At the moment, former Georgia Senator Sam Nunn is on the ballot for Coca-Cola. Then you'll remember that Newt Gingrich is doing consulting from last I recall, and there are quite a few more. Interesting how the fusion of business and politics is such a long standing foundation in this country; money and power, the ultimate in Machiavellian virtues. Not all politicians are bad men/women, their morals just lack resolve when confronted with a heavy price tag.
Actually it was replaced by the baretta 9mm by all services back in the 1980's. The old service pistol is not in service in any branch except for my beloved Corps in the form of the modified M1911 SOC (spec ops modified). Not every one gets the modified pistol, since the gunsmiths at Quantico do the modifications in house and by hand. The baretta seems to be a decent replacement, but I prefer to stick with my trusty .45cal hand cannon.
What is this about rootkits and windows? Microsoft makes the most secure software don't they? I'm being facetious of course. This seems like old news for some reason, maybe it's seeing the light of day because of the slammer worm that kicked the shiznit out of so many servers. Chalk it up to the backlash effect if you ask me
To those of us who have worked in an IT department that services a very large network, this seems like the next generation of installation/recovery cd's that can be tailored to the type of computer necessary. Right now you have to do something like the kickstart configuration in redhat, or the administration kit for windows setups where you have to make the installation specific and then modify the install media, but with this it seems like you could have your generic install data pressed on the cd, then use the rest of it for your install scripts/config files. It seems like it'd reduce the number of CD's an IT guy would have to carry around all the time. Sounds like a good technology, only what will the RIAA say about it and do they take a cut of the profits on this too?
There are murders, rapists, and other offenders of such unspeakable crimes walking the streets in our country, yet a college student downloading "Margarita Ville" is a criminal that deserves to be arrested for breaking a copyright law. What the hell is going through congress' minds? We have a budget crisis enough as it is and we can't even rid our streets of homeless people but we'll spend millions of dollars protecting an already overly-wealthy industry from an 18 year old kid that just wants to listen to a song? Where are the priorities in this country?
Same kinda stuff that I used to have to run when doing code runs. Set up the fortran compiler to run and make all the tables, then run the matlab scripts to analyze everything that came out of the fortran code and make it look pretty. Matlab is more of the experimenters program while Maple is more of a student's diff eq class project in a way. I never used Maple for anything more than plotting graphs from differential equations or solving systems of equations. Matlab just seemed the better pick for large amounts of data since it merges so well with fortran. Maple still has all the bells and whistles just about anyone would need though. I haven't used mathematica or mathcad too much to be able to give a good description of them though.
Just kidding hehe
"Schea, riiight, and monkeys might fly out of Madonnas butt"
It's a waste of a post, but what the hell, far fetched idea. That's like asking Moscow if they will house a US army base in the middle of the cold war.
For all the other students out there who may work at a school's bookstore or computer store, Barnes and Noble owns many of these stores and requires that all students applying hand over their credit report. As a student you're just starting out so your credit will probably be just about perfect, but what right does Barnes and Noble have to collect students records like that? If we refuse now, we might save our rights as employees later on. There's no reason for corporations to try to enforce "complacency" in the work force with regards to their employees personal records.
I think it's extremely unfair to hold engineering students at the same GPA scale as students majoring in business, dance, history, or some other "humanity" based major. At Georgia Tech, so many engineering students lose Georgia's HOPE scholarship because they dip below a 3.0 gpa. I could major in business and have a 4.0 and not be worth a damn to anyone in the real world, or I could take the extremely difficult courses and barely pull a 3.0. That doesn't seem fair at all.
Not all people can afford those types of private certifications. MCSE's and A+ and Cisco certifications all cost money. If a company wants to privately hire only certified professionals, that's their right to do so, but it shouldn't be an imposed mandate. If that rule were in effect back 6 or 7 years ago when the overwhelming majority of computer-knowledgeable people were under the age of 18, who would work in those stores? Definitely not the kid who's a poor computer genius, but the older person with enough money to waste on certifications that only prove that a person knows enough about the subject to fix a few types of problems that are covered in a review book. Experience and intelligence are the only tools a computer technician needs to do good work. Problem solving requires more than a piece of paper saying that you performed well on a certain day.
I remember back in the late 80's to early 90's when the kroger by my house had a zone activated shopping system. Kinda like an early version of wireless ethernet. When you moved the cart down the cereal isle, it'd tell you what the sales were down there. So this doesn't really seem like a new idea to me, kinda like it's been done before
back in the early 90's when the show started, it was just about the only place where people could go and see all the new technology that would be coming out in the next year. I remember when Microsoft's big thing was windows NT 3.5 back at what they called Windows World. They debuted almost all of their products at comdex and gave away so much free crap that I could barely carry it all back on Marta (I always went to the Atlanta one until it moved and came back). Then I remember in 98 I think it was, when Linux stepped into the show full force. There was a whole section for Windows, Linux, and Communications equipment. The show was huge and there was so much money floating around that you could literally take home a server if you sweettalked the convention workers enough. The companies literally threw money at the attendants. I never once paid to go to comdex, I always had free tickets or some sort or another, so the trip on a whole gave me free school supplies for the next few years. But alas, the fall '02 comdex was a disappointment. So few vendors, and none of the ones there even mattered. There were more cell phone companies than there were computer companies. Linux was very sloppily represented, and Microsoft just about backed out entirely. The large corporations aren't floating any money these days and it makes the show really dull. The best exhibit there was some guy getting out of a straight jacket on a unicycle (I kid you not). Other places had dancing girls or massages. The technology they were pushing was sub-par and pretty boring. Advancements just aren't coming as quickly as they did before. Maybe it's because I'm used to knowing about things far in advance of their presentation, or because I'm just not looking. But in today's technological world, one can't expect to have the supershows of the past because the internet truly has made them obsolete. No more cheap pens, buttons, or cdroms, but instead a peppermint or two and maybe a business card if the company is really looking to splurge their advertising budget.
It's about time that this came into play for battery powered devices. The older NASA satellites all ran on "nuclear" power, actually most ran on the beta and alpha particles because the long halflives and powerful decays allowed the satellites to last for 30+ years, such as the probe that left our solar system 2-3 years ago, and the satellites around jupiter right now. Currently, shielding techniques for gamma rays are too heavy (lead or other heavy atoms) and they are too dangerous in low shielding around the battery because gamma rays have the ability to transmit enough energy into DNA and perform substitutions and translations that can make your children be born with a tail or something. Beta particles have an distance of something to the negative 7 meters, which is pretty small and easy to shield. That and beta particle is a form of a charged radiation so that you can effectively shield the source by providing enough of a voltage or ground so that the particles won't harm you. Alpha particles, in my opinion, are the safest forms of radiation (unless you eat it, I'll explain in a second). Alpha particles are simply helium particles that have a varying momentum and lack electrons, meaning that it's a relatively large, charged particle that can be deflected. So they too can be effecively shielded against. If you eat it, the lining in your system isn't thick enough to stop the particles, so the +2 charges can enter your system and kill off cells very easily, and rapidly. In my opinion, radiation powered batteries are great if engineered right. In case you're wondering of my validity, I am a nuclear engineer.
Thank God I'm not on the space station for this. 2400 meteors zipping right past my window, that'd be a little too close for comfort. Too bad we can't send up that boy band kid so he can get hit by a few
Aibo's are expensive enough as it is, now you'd be tossing them onto a free-moving skateboard? Money to waste or someone's going to take advantage of the camera in the mall's dressing rooms
Handwriting recognition systems can be sped up a lot with the less marks necessary on the device. I write a lot faster on my palm than on paper already (even though I kind of merge the two at times). If the handwriting were something like dots and dashes, something that your hand can do very quickly, the handwriting recognition could be made a lot faster. But most likely not ever to the level of a keyboard, but it sure could make PDA's a bit more effective
First of all, this article was written with some extreme bias. With the publisher of the article being a linux magazine and all, they know where their money is coming from, so obviously they're going to write another of the pro-linux/anti-microsoft articles that are so common these days. Just wanted to point that fact out there in case anyone doesn't look at where these stories actually come from. Now about how microsoft's actual tech support, most college students do not deal directly with microsoft's tech support, few people really do. Most people deal with a 3rd party IT firm or an MCSE of some sort. End users are just about the only ones (except the types that I mentioned before and related fields) who actually use microsoft's tech support directly. With a linux tech support line, anyone can call that and get decent help. Linux in IT work is becoming a lot bigger so eventually people will be talking to their IT person instead of the actual company. Things to keep in mind is all
Science has never been able to be kept secret though. The concept behind the atomic bomb was discovered simultaneously by two people in very different parts of the world. Point being that if we have the technology, then someone else probably does too and if we can develop it, so can they. Why try to hinder science for fear of a backlash? The atomic bomb hasn't ended the world yet as people back in the 1950's expected. 50 years from now the same thing will be said about nanotechnology because something even potentially more deadly will be available.