Yeah, but the anti-nuclear crowd is full of hysterics like the "THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!" crowd. They won't bother to see that this is only a minor leak or that the plant is like 30 years old. They will just hear about how there was a leak at a nuclear plant and that the company lied about it.
Now as far as nuclear power goes, the technology is very safe as long as these corporations are held accountable.
Unfortunately like with that whole anti-Usenet campaign by that braindead NY Attorney General and his "THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!" reaction, the anti-nuclear nuts are going to eat this up and overly extrapolate it to do so. Whenever these corporations do stupid shit like this, it does nothing but further and further erode any confidence in the public over nuclear power and so we end up with more and more dirtier power plants instead.
Sure, if they lied they should be prosecuted, but this is hardly evidence that Nuclear Power is inherently flawed.
This is very true. The anti-nuclear crowd will eat this up because Entegy has basically fed them easy talking points. But the fact remains that when you have a company like this lying about minor stuff that tends to erode any confidence that they wouldn't be lying about any bigger issues that may have already happened or may happen in the future.
I believe the point is the fact that they lied about the leak in the first place. Sure, this time it might be something like tritium, but whose to say at some later date it's not something worse? Why should anyone believe anything they say about the safety of their plant(s) if they're willing to lie under oath about something this minor?
I would assume they will need to test against these varying OS versions and "tweaks" to ensure that they will indeed run in different end-user environments, and if so, that means developers now have to test against a myriad of targets.
No you don't. You code against the latest version of the OS since all iPhones get the upgrade when it comes out. This is unlike with Android phones where they could be running 1.5, 1.6, 2.0, 2.1, etc.
In fact, they both provide a decrease in quality thanks to restrictive DRM (would I rather view this for years at 480p or view it for a couple years at 1080p until the disc is damaged beyond repair? )
What does DRM or the resolution of the content have to do with the life of the disc? Secondly, DVD has more than its fair share of quality problems. You can find numerous reports of badly replicated discs and numerous issues of discs coming apart due to poor pressing and adhesives.
The main difference was HD-DVD used less energy to read/write due to using lower power lasers, was a standard worked up by a group of companies instead of one, and best of all had no region coding.
Blu-Ray wasn't worked on by one company. Before either format was even released the Blu-Ray consortium had a far larger group of movie studios and electronics manufacturers on its side than HD-DVD did. No, the only real difference was that if HD DVD had succeeded Toshiba would be the one raking in all the royalty payments instead of Sony. That's why Toshiba is so butthurt that it's still be an ass about losing.
Many people voluntarily contribute to GPL'd projects without receiving anything in return.
That might be true for many of the irrelevant apps. But things like the kernel, GCC, libc, KDe, GNOME, etc are all mostly developed and maintained by people who are receiving something in return for doing so — a paycheck.
I don't know that I've ever had Windows recognize my network card on a fresh install from a non-OEM CD. Makes it hard to get an internet connection, let alone run Windows Update.
Sure, if you're installing a pre-SP1 version of XP. I doubt if you're installing a vanilla SP3 version of XP you'll have that problem.
And loosely coupled code is fundamentally better *why*? "Because it can be easily unit tested" is the only argument I can swallow...
Because if the modules of your system have low to no coupling between themselves you can more easily make changes to individual modules of the system. In a highly coupled system, changes to one part can cause you to have to subsequently changes numerous other pieces of the system as a consequence. This is eliminated or greatly reduced if your modules have little to no dependency on the others. Even if you do no unit testing, having a highly modular and loose coupled system just makes subsequent maintenance work so much easier.
It's like a car built out of LEGO, sure you can take any piece off and attach it anywhere else, but the problems are not with the individual pieces, but how you put them together.. and you aren't testing that if you're only doing unit testing.
He wasn't talking about Google, fuckhead. He was talking about the already entrenched ISPs. You know, the companies that were being mocked in the GGP's post.
Probably not a smart one. The point is that if they can't handle taking a server down to reboot it, how are they possibly going to handle if a server goes down due to some hardware/software error?
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That's probably because few people know about the chemical's existence or about the dumping. Nuclear plants are far more higher profile.
Yeah, but the anti-nuclear crowd is full of hysterics like the "THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!" crowd. They won't bother to see that this is only a minor leak or that the plant is like 30 years old. They will just hear about how there was a leak at a nuclear plant and that the company lied about it.
Now as far as nuclear power goes, the technology is very safe as long as these corporations are held accountable.
Unfortunately like with that whole anti-Usenet campaign by that braindead NY Attorney General and his "THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!" reaction, the anti-nuclear nuts are going to eat this up and overly extrapolate it to do so. Whenever these corporations do stupid shit like this, it does nothing but further and further erode any confidence in the public over nuclear power and so we end up with more and more dirtier power plants instead.
Sure, if they lied they should be prosecuted, but this is hardly evidence that Nuclear Power is inherently flawed.
This is very true. The anti-nuclear crowd will eat this up because Entegy has basically fed them easy talking points. But the fact remains that when you have a company like this lying about minor stuff that tends to erode any confidence that they wouldn't be lying about any bigger issues that may have already happened or may happen in the future.
Yeah exactly. If they are willing to lie about a tritium leak, whose to believe that something worse isn't also happening that they are covering up.
I believe the point is the fact that they lied about the leak in the first place. Sure, this time it might be something like tritium, but whose to say at some later date it's not something worse? Why should anyone believe anything they say about the safety of their plant(s) if they're willing to lie under oath about something this minor?
I would assume they will need to test against these varying OS versions and "tweaks" to ensure that they will indeed run in different end-user environments, and if so, that means developers now have to test against a myriad of targets.
No you don't. You code against the latest version of the OS since all iPhones get the upgrade when it comes out. This is unlike with Android phones where they could be running 1.5, 1.6, 2.0, 2.1, etc.
Why take the chance of getting burned when there are free alternatives available?
Just like how we were all supposed to not use Java because Sun was just sitting there waiting to sue people, right?
Okay.
In fact, they both provide a decrease in quality thanks to restrictive DRM (would I rather view this for years at 480p or view it for a couple years at 1080p until the disc is damaged beyond repair? )
What does DRM or the resolution of the content have to do with the life of the disc? Secondly, DVD has more than its fair share of quality problems. You can find numerous reports of badly replicated discs and numerous issues of discs coming apart due to poor pressing and adhesives.
The main difference was HD-DVD used less energy to read/write due to using lower power lasers, was a standard worked up by a group of companies instead of one, and best of all had no region coding.
Blu-Ray wasn't worked on by one company. Before either format was even released the Blu-Ray consortium had a far larger group of movie studios and electronics manufacturers on its side than HD-DVD did. No, the only real difference was that if HD DVD had succeeded Toshiba would be the one raking in all the royalty payments instead of Sony. That's why Toshiba is so butthurt that it's still be an ass about losing.
...and, as a consequence, you don't get access to any software produced by any legitimate software developer for the iphone.
Boohoo. You play by the rules of the providers of the service or they cut you off.
mono is tainted from the start, and is nothing but a future huge legal liability.
Yeah like the "Java trap" that never happened yet all you people were raving about it for years and years?
And you can still use your iPhone. You just don't get access to iTunes.
The poorly designed UI? The huge icons? Poorly organized menus? One could go on and on about the usability issues with Duh Gimp.
Many people voluntarily contribute to GPL'd projects without receiving anything in return.
That might be true for many of the irrelevant apps. But things like the kernel, GCC, libc, KDe, GNOME, etc are all mostly developed and maintained by people who are receiving something in return for doing so — a paycheck.
What brand and model is your NIC?
I don't know that I've ever had Windows recognize my network card on a fresh install from a non-OEM CD. Makes it hard to get an internet connection, let alone run Windows Update.
Sure, if you're installing a pre-SP1 version of XP. I doubt if you're installing a vanilla SP3 version of XP you'll have that problem.
And loosely coupled code is fundamentally better *why*? "Because it can be easily unit tested" is the only argument I can swallow ...
Because if the modules of your system have low to no coupling between themselves you can more easily make changes to individual modules of the system. In a highly coupled system, changes to one part can cause you to have to subsequently changes numerous other pieces of the system as a consequence. This is eliminated or greatly reduced if your modules have little to no dependency on the others. Even if you do no unit testing, having a highly modular and loose coupled system just makes subsequent maintenance work so much easier.
It's like a car built out of LEGO, sure you can take any piece off and attach it anywhere else, but the problems are not with the individual pieces, but how you put them together.. and you aren't testing that if you're only doing unit testing.
And that's why you do integration testing too.
Every [current year + 1] is going to be the Year of the Linux Desktop!
I heard VLC's development path has video editing implemented in the near future. Just sayin'.
Yeah and it's just as amateurish looking as Duh Gimp.
but if you really have a love for computers what's making you have to stick to one OS?
Because it does everything the person needs?
He wasn't talking about Google, fuckhead. He was talking about the already entrenched ISPs. You know, the companies that were being mocked in the GGP's post.
Probably not a smart one. The point is that if they can't handle taking a server down to reboot it, how are they possibly going to handle if a server goes down due to some hardware/software error?