The Navy's second nuclear submarine, USS Seawolf, was powered by a reactor using liquid sodium.
It was also the last.
The S2G reactor was removed from Seawolf and replaced by the S2Wa reactor, using components from the spare S2W that was part of the Nautilus program. All subsequent US naval reactors have been pressurized water reactors. They didn't teasingly call Seawolf "the blue haze" for nuthin.
Dickover knew the value of "friendly competition" between GE and Westinghouse.
Anyway sodium has obvious advantages in a heat engine as long as you keep it from being contaminated from fission byproducts!
An extra bonus is that the more you absorb the sun's energy as electricity, the less of it is converted to heat which dissipates around the planet, and that in and of itself reduces the effect global warming. So you are being twice as productive - not rely on heat-trapping coal, and reduce the amount of heat that saturates on the
planet in the first place. YGTBFKM!
First of all you dont absorb the suns energy AS electricity.
Secondly, all energy is ultimately converted to light or heat. (radiation if you would like) Did you suddenly discover a perpetual motion machine? Or a way to reverse entropy?
Where did you and the moderators undertake your fisix and erth syince studies? Can we please have a (-1) totally funkin wrong modifier?
They didn't have sidewalks back in those days. Maybe it was just their version of "step on a crack break your mothers back"!
Sorry for that, I'm logging out now...
There is no such thing as a purely hardware firewall in modern times.
I understand you're on a rant, but your point is so basal, it doesn't illustrate a point. By your definition,related to computing, There is no such thing as a purely hardware firewall in ANY time.
I would classify a hardware firewall as any number of unalterable rulesets,whether it be LEAF on a cd, or a router that can only be updated with a maintenance port. The difference being, these types are impossible to screw up by Joe User and harder to screw up even by the admins that control them and are easily rolled out on a large scale. Thats the difference between your standard NAT firewall that anyone can access with user: admin pwd: enter. - another reason I like the 'fire and forget' hardware firewall. once you've paid for someone to program the beastie, you know what you have got.
PS I'm tired of programmers, who don't take the time to understand the semantics of phrases like "Block all incoming connections" and don't have the skill to say what they mean.
How about letting them build the thing first? Or do you suggest we form a statistical opinion based on the two or three prototypes that might exist? #places in circular file under vaporware for 18 months.
I can see what you are trying to say, but, It seemed to a perfectly obvious method for Isaac Newton I feel much more at ease with AHA moments than a physicists maniacal blackboard ramblings. Like the old adage "if you can't explain something in three sentences, you haven't thought about it enough"
Consider rutherford's slit experiment, Galileo's cannonball, Newton's prism or maybe Foucault's pendulum.
Ducky isn't there yet, - Each of these seem a lot less abstract than a formula like this:? {g}=-{MG \r^2}\{r}}.
My how times have changed. If you want instant on, stop rebooting your machine and learn how to use/sbin/service.
responses with 100 inane examples of why you absolutely must reboot your machine to prove the exception to the rule to follow in 3..2..1...
Steve's new strategy doesn't give a damn about the US or EU. But even he knows a billion Chinese can't be wrong. The only thing you can be sure of is when these two finish screwing with each other, we'll all be worse off.
In the same way that:
a rolex is better than my timex
a viper is better than my firebird.
Bill's 40,000 sf mansion is better than my 3000 sf mansion.
The cost of the item in an engineering context is meaningless. The technical mumbo jumbo just makes the vanity less transparent.
Overpaying for an item that very few other are able to afford is the whole point.
I'm thinking i know why you posted as AC. Rhetorical questions posing as substantiation of fact usually warrant this type of humorous response. Now go away or I shall taunt you again!
Sorry for the spelling. The way I read your comment and your clarification (which by the way was a response to the parent post that directly questioned the intelligence of the jury) is that you either believe the jury that sat on this case was not smart enough to come to the conclusion they did, or that, had more intelligent people served on the jury would have reached a different conclusion. Then you state that this is the source of our problems. - I disagree with you.
I offered a counter-conclusion that the Vonage lawyers should not have put the case before _any_ jury. Didn't mean to be so long winded.
You're acting like a string theorist, claiming that there is no other viable theory out there. Stop it. It's been going on for too damn long.
I read as much as I could, till I realized Linus was going to go off on another tirade on people who are presenting their arguments to him. He starting to make Balmer look reasonable.
Go ahead, piss off the physicists - Now _everyone_ will stop using linux.:)
Using a ludicrous Biblical analogy like the Babel story doesn't really help your story.
English speakers who have this ridiculous, insular and arrogant attitude.... "English is the only languages that matters a damn"
Seems a story several thousand years old that describes the origin of the phenomenon and was already observed to be occurring at that point in our history, is less ludicrous than a slashdot link. However, Maybe he should have said "English is the only language that has come to matter a damn." Either way -
How do you say rocket?
OK. Congratulations Robert! Tell 'em what he's won Johnny... 2 years rent free in the big house! Messenger? No. How about Co-conspirator, or stooge?
This guy can't even look forward to getting a decent paying job when he gets out, since he really didn't exhibit any special skills during his simple minded thievery.
What part of stealing and putting at least one company out of business isn't malicious?
p.s. my username is admin and my password is blank. and if I catch you in my honeypot I'll ask the Feds to hook you up with an adjoining cell.
p.p.s. I keep my door unlocked at night too.. and if i catch you in my house you'll be picking buckshot out of your ass for a week.
I admit making it easy for guys like this isn't smart, but freedom is about choices and choices have consequences.
Except this was the second jury that was "too stupid" to get out of jury duty but seemed smart enough to basically come to the same conclusion as the first. (Along with stupid judges,stupid attorneys and all the other stupid people that deal with patent law every day of their lives)
Jurors in Kansas City brushed aside those claims, determining that Vonage violated the patents and did it deliberately, meaning Lungstrum could triple the damages if he agrees with the verdict.
Instead Vonage's legal team chose too present their case to the "stupid people" and role the dice. TWICE.
Who's stupid now?
I know patent laws get all sides up in arms on slashdot, but businesses know the rules and know the price of admission. Ad hominem attacks calling people stupid because they don't see things your way may be marked insightful but it doesn't prove a point or change the rule of law.
I am a Vonage subscriber (and I don't shirk my responsibility to serve on juries when called) and I hope, after they fire the lawyer that got them into this mess, that a few engineers will work out the kinks. In the meantime I can't figure out how after 20 years of breaking up Ma Bell the same people are letting them congeal back into the massive pile of crap they were to begin with. That, methinks is the bigger upset.
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Is that before or after UNZIPPING?
ARGH ! I'll stop calling it piracy when you stop calling stealing "sharing" matey. pirates we be,and we do as we please! ')
They didn't have sidewalks back in those days. Maybe it was just their version of "step on a crack break your mothers back"! Sorry for that, I'm logging out now...
How about letting them build the thing first? Or do you suggest we form a statistical opinion based on the two or three prototypes that might exist? #places in circular file under vaporware for 18 months.
I can see what you are trying to say, but, It seemed to a perfectly obvious method for Isaac Newton I feel much more at ease with AHA moments than a physicists maniacal blackboard ramblings. Like the old adage "if you can't explain something in three sentences, you haven't thought about it enough" Consider rutherford's slit experiment, Galileo's cannonball, Newton's prism or maybe Foucault's pendulum. Ducky isn't there yet, - Each of these seem a lot less abstract than a formula like this:? {g}=-{MG \r^2}\{r}}.
I use emacs you insensitive clod!
My how times have changed. If you want instant on, stop rebooting your machine and learn how to use /sbin/service.
responses with 100 inane examples of why you absolutely must reboot your machine to prove the exception to the rule to follow in 3..2..1...
IBM didn't fiight that hard for their _own_ OS2 and got their asses whipped and you expect them to do it with RedHat?
Microsoft has _2x_ the market cap as IBM and makes it 3x faster. http://blogs.msdn.com/heatherleigh/archive/2007/05/03/because-the-numbers-don-t-lie.aspx /okScrewEm>
Steve's new strategy doesn't give a damn about the US or EU. But even he knows a billion Chinese can't be wrong. The only thing you can be sure of is when these two finish screwing with each other, we'll all be worse off.In the same way that: a rolex is better than my timex a viper is better than my firebird. Bill's 40,000 sf mansion is better than my 3000 sf mansion. The cost of the item in an engineering context is meaningless. The technical mumbo jumbo just makes the vanity less transparent. Overpaying for an item that very few other are able to afford is the whole point.
In Soviet Russia, TLD deletes you!
I'm thinking i know why you posted as AC. Rhetorical questions posing as substantiation of fact usually warrant this type of humorous response. Now go away or I shall taunt you again!
Sorry for the spelling. The way I read your comment and your clarification (which by the way was a response to the parent post that directly questioned the intelligence of the jury) is that you either believe the jury that sat on this case was not smart enough to come to the conclusion they did, or that, had more intelligent people served on the jury would have reached a different conclusion. Then you state that this is the source of our problems. - I disagree with you. I offered a counter-conclusion that the Vonage lawyers should not have put the case before _any_ jury. Didn't mean to be so long winded.
OK. Congratulations Robert! Tell 'em what he's won Johnny... 2 years rent free in the big house! Messenger? No. How about Co-conspirator, or stooge? This guy can't even look forward to getting a decent paying job when he gets out, since he really didn't exhibit any special skills during his simple minded thievery. What part of stealing and putting at least one company out of business isn't malicious? p.s. my username is admin and my password is blank. and if I catch you in my honeypot I'll ask the Feds to hook you up with an adjoining cell. p.p.s. I keep my door unlocked at night too.. and if i catch you in my house you'll be picking buckshot out of your ass for a week. I admit making it easy for guys like this isn't smart, but freedom is about choices and choices have consequences.
it's somewhere in here pdf