Yeah? How about Union Carbide, then? And that wasn't even a nuclear process.
Like another respondent to your post says, there's been plenty of profit-motivated industrial botches in the past. I don't think it's a reason to ban nuclear power, but this does need to be a regulated and monitored industry.
I appreciate your keeping one Torchwood disc at home at all times. Your sacrifice in reducing the availability of Torchwood to hitherto-unexposed innocents is touching.;)
I kid, I kid... but seriously, is Season Two any better than Season One? As a Dr Who fan, I was pretty disappointed by Season One of Torchwood.
"Between the three of us we researched, wrote, designed, animated, scripted and developed the whole game from home." Note that that sentence never claims that they did the background graphics:)
I think you're onto something there, too. Just yesterday, I was reading an editorial in one of Australia's major papers declaiming the Rudd government's stance on the UN Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples (or whatever the document's name is) for pretty much just that reason.
Personally I'm not much in favour of bifurcating Australian law into separate sovereign states for the descendants of people who immigrated 220 or fewer years ago, vs the descendants of people who immigrated tens of thousands of years ago... but I also acknowledge that the indigenous people of Australia have been deeply screwed over and over, and don't seem to be getting anywhere fast, so if it would help I guess I'm ok with it.
I used to have a crystal radio that was powered purely by the RF energy it pulls off the aerial. How hard it would be to power one of these sensors in the same way? If you have a radio base station with access to a decent power source, for controlling your sensor network, would it be difficult to set up the sensors such that they just suck power off the base station until such time as they want to transmit?
The DVI pin connections are actually a superset of the VGA pinouts. So DVI-VGA adaptors are trivially easy to make - they just connect a few DVI pins through to a VGA form-factor socket, without connecting the actual digital pins to anything.
The reverse is not true.
So, from the point of view of maximum compatibility, DVI > VGA. As other posters have pointed out, DVI is physically pretty bulky, though.
Hmm. If someone came out with something like the Asus Eee 900/901 with a built-in HSDPA modem and 802.11 tethering, for free, attached to a HSDPA broadband contract for, say, $20 to $30AUD per month... I'd be in like Flynn.
True, and that sucks... but it's still got superior hardware with 20GiB of flash instead of 12GiB on the Windows version. So apparently the cost of Windows XP licenses in Australia (or MS's other incentives) are not enough to offset the 8GiB extra flash. Either that or, more likely, Asus is just profiteering on the basis that Linux users are more likely to be relatively wealthy educated techies.
No word on if the batteries are any different between the two models; I noticed an article linked off TFA which mentioned that Eee 900s sold in Europe have worse batteries than the US models.
They're allowed to print it, but not sell it. It's the by-nc-nd licence, which means "Attribution, Non-commercial, No Derivative Works".
I presume that as the copyright holder, rather than a licensee, he's allowed to also sell copies. The question is whether the "community contributions" hold any copyright as well, and if he is only entitled to them under the CC license terms (like GPL patches without assignation of copyright). If so, he might not be within his rights to sell the book via Lulu!
Er, are those plans really sold in GiB/MiB? Data plans are usually measured in GB/MB; GiB/MiB is supposed to be for RAM, (sometimes) flash storage, and other binary multiples. Data carriage is almost always sold using standard SI prefix meanings.
I read a book written by one of the people involved in the project originally.
In theory, the ejection mass doesn't include any of the nuclear fuel. It still gets pretty thoroughly irradiated, although that's more or less besides the point. However, the engines that were built and tested had a disconcerting tendency to drop bits of their fuel at as well - which isn't a problem with an RTG.
I suppose that's a problem that might be cured with sufficient engineering, but the fact is that the *risks* of NTR are much greater than those involved with an RTG; it's a much more energetic sort of setup, closer to that of a conventional rocket engine. And given how often those fail catastrophically, I don't think NTR from ground level is going to be politically acceptable any time soon.
Project Orion is a pretty incredible concept, and I think the odds are good that something like it will get built eventually if high-tech civilisation doesn't collapse first. (Nuclear thermal rocketry is another idea that perhaps deserves revisiting.)
However: using either of these drives as a means of getting off the Earth's surface is utter madness. The last thing we need is more unshielded bare-atmosphere nuclear detonations. I'm no anti-nuclear activist, but there's a hell of a difference between a shielded reactor that can't meltdown and pushing things off the ground and past escape velocity by riding the shockwave of atmospheric thermonuclear explosions.
Now, if we could build a space elevator and assemble and launch these things from high orbit - that would be awesome. And, I think politically and environmentally speaking, it's the only way that nuclear propulsion will ever get off the ground.
Note also that the correct term for 'a missile to be deployed against "anti-missile missiles"' is not "anti anti-missile missile." It's "anti anti-missile-missile missile." You're always supposed to have one more "missile" than "anti," because otherwise nothing will blow up. Granted, this information comes from civilian linguists, rather than from military sources. Military sources would almost certainly be using acronyms instead.
[Tankless water heaters] are more expensive, but they heat the water real-time through a series of small tubes. I didn't know you could use the Internet to heat water.
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The cake is a lie...
I guess it just demonstrates the Microsoft IE team's development strategy.
You know...
"There's no use crying over every mIstakE,
We'll just keep on trying till we run out of cake!"
Wish I had modpoints. You have some very interesting ideas there.
The user name is appropriate, too...
Dear me, I hope that was irony...
Yeah? How about Union Carbide, then? And that wasn't even a nuclear process.
Like another respondent to your post says, there's been plenty of profit-motivated industrial botches in the past. I don't think it's a reason to ban nuclear power, but this does need to be a regulated and monitored industry.
Damn, wish I had some mod points. Thanks Jerry.
Got any links (that are suitable for laymen) to information about lanthanide chemistry and the unique things you mentioned? Sounds fascinating.
I appreciate your keeping one Torchwood disc at home at all times. Your sacrifice in reducing the availability of Torchwood to hitherto-unexposed innocents is touching. ;)
I kid, I kid... but seriously, is Season Two any better than Season One? As a Dr Who fan, I was pretty disappointed by Season One of Torchwood.
Interesting. I'd never thought of that!
I think you're onto something there, too. Just yesterday, I was reading an editorial in one of Australia's major papers declaiming the Rudd government's stance on the UN Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples (or whatever the document's name is) for pretty much just that reason.
Personally I'm not much in favour of bifurcating Australian law into separate sovereign states for the descendants of people who immigrated 220 or fewer years ago, vs the descendants of people who immigrated tens of thousands of years ago... but I also acknowledge that the indigenous people of Australia have been deeply screwed over and over, and don't seem to be getting anywhere fast, so if it would help I guess I'm ok with it.
Wow. This is the first time I've seen endian compatibility problems in web browsers.
I'd say the problem is that your romantic expressions aren't regular enough.
I used to have a crystal radio that was powered purely by the RF energy it pulls off the aerial. How hard it would be to power one of these sensors in the same way? If you have a radio base station with access to a decent power source, for controlling your sensor network, would it be difficult to set up the sensors such that they just suck power off the base station until such time as they want to transmit?
That would be pretty freakin' awesome.
The DVI pin connections are actually a superset of the VGA pinouts. So DVI-VGA adaptors are trivially easy to make - they just connect a few DVI pins through to a VGA form-factor socket, without connecting the actual digital pins to anything.
The reverse is not true.
So, from the point of view of maximum compatibility, DVI > VGA. As other posters have pointed out, DVI is physically pretty bulky, though.
Hmm. If someone came out with something like the Asus Eee 900/901 with a built-in HSDPA modem and 802.11 tethering, for free, attached to a HSDPA broadband contract for, say, $20 to $30AUD per month... I'd be in like Flynn.
Bring it on, I say!
Just out of interest, do you have an opinion on OOXML vs ODF?
True, and that sucks... but it's still got superior hardware with 20GiB of flash instead of 12GiB on the Windows version. So apparently the cost of Windows XP licenses in Australia (or MS's other incentives) are not enough to offset the 8GiB extra flash. Either that or, more likely, Asus is just profiteering on the basis that Linux users are more likely to be relatively wealthy educated techies.
No word on if the batteries are any different between the two models; I noticed an article linked off TFA which mentioned that Eee 900s sold in Europe have worse batteries than the US models.
They're allowed to print it, but not sell it. It's the by-nc-nd licence, which means "Attribution, Non-commercial, No Derivative Works".
I presume that as the copyright holder, rather than a licensee, he's allowed to also sell copies. The question is whether the "community contributions" hold any copyright as well, and if he is only entitled to them under the CC license terms (like GPL patches without assignation of copyright). If so, he might not be within his rights to sell the book via Lulu!
Er, Monty Python wasn't a person. They were a comedy troupe.
I agree. Watching Battlefield Earth is liable to make the suicide bombers go off early.
Well, that's remarkable. I guess my Offtopic mod was well deserved, then... :)
Er, are those plans really sold in GiB/MiB? Data plans are usually measured in GB/MB; GiB/MiB is supposed to be for RAM, (sometimes) flash storage, and other binary multiples. Data carriage is almost always sold using standard SI prefix meanings.
I read a book written by one of the people involved in the project originally.
In theory, the ejection mass doesn't include any of the nuclear fuel. It still gets pretty thoroughly irradiated, although that's more or less besides the point. However, the engines that were built and tested had a disconcerting tendency to drop bits of their fuel at as well - which isn't a problem with an RTG.
I suppose that's a problem that might be cured with sufficient engineering, but the fact is that the *risks* of NTR are much greater than those involved with an RTG; it's a much more energetic sort of setup, closer to that of a conventional rocket engine. And given how often those fail catastrophically, I don't think NTR from ground level is going to be politically acceptable any time soon.
Hmm. I don't know about "Cooler".
Project Orion is a pretty incredible concept, and I think the odds are good that something like it will get built eventually if high-tech civilisation doesn't collapse first. (Nuclear thermal rocketry is another idea that perhaps deserves revisiting.)
However: using either of these drives as a means of getting off the Earth's surface is utter madness. The last thing we need is more unshielded bare-atmosphere nuclear detonations. I'm no anti-nuclear activist, but there's a hell of a difference between a shielded reactor that can't meltdown and pushing things off the ground and past escape velocity by riding the shockwave of atmospheric thermonuclear explosions.
Now, if we could build a space elevator and assemble and launch these things from high orbit - that would be awesome. And, I think politically and environmentally speaking, it's the only way that nuclear propulsion will ever get off the ground.