It's not that easy as that. That method worked for the uranium 235 bomb for which we had a critical mass of fissionable material. The bombs in the test at New Mexico and the bomb at Nagisaki were plutonium 239 which has to be artificially made in a nuclear reactor. They wanted to use the plutonium as efficiently as possible because, at the time, there wasn't much of it. They used implosion to increase the density so a smaller amount would achieve critical mass.
For the record, I'm not a nuclear physicist, but I have read a lot on the subject. This comment might oversimplify things but essentially this is the general idea.
Bush really doesn't care if the telecom companies get sued or not. What this is really all about is not having a court decision that strikes down the presidents spying program. The court proceedings might be secret but if a decision unfavorable to the spying program is the result then the fun would begin.
At 1.2 billion dollars, is this the best allocation of our defense dollars? This brings to mind an adage. "Never put all of your eggs in one basket." We are in an era of asymmetric warfare, if an enemy can spend 1.2 billion for 100 12 million dollar fighters and deploy them for every B2 bomber, what is the chance that they will get through? Maybe it is time to rethink the cost vs. benefit equation.
To some extent you are right and in others you are wrong! I personally should know. About 10 years ago, I had a massive stroke in the cerebellum. As a result, my coordination, reaction time and other related functions are diminished. My MOTOR skills are affected but my higher brain functions are completely unaffected. I can do what many people refer to as multitask. I now have more time that was spent (not wasted) on sports and this time is spent on intellectual pursuits. I am presently working to get a PhD in computer Science. At the time of the stroke I only had a Bachelors degree.
My point is that the cerebellum is involved in motor skills. Mulittasking should not be affected with the exception being that it might take a bit more time when the action needs s physical action that requires some coordination.
I think that you are looking at only one part of the bloat problem. It's one thing if the bloat services are only occupying space on your hard drive. If they are never used or loaded into memory, then there is no real harm done. As you say, hard drive space is relatively cheap. What you are not looking at are the services that are loaded into memory when you boot up (or some time later) and remain there slowing the entire computer.
Hard drives, tapes and other devises store the data as magnetic fields representing bits. If I remember correctly, these magnetic fields will fade over time. For short term storage this is fine but, with time,the adjacent bits will eventually blur together. For long term storage, shouldn't optical storage be used? This would also eliminate the need for additional hardware, all you would need is some form of an appropriate vault.
I agree to some extent. There should be about a year in prison and a fine that takes away all of the profit. This should not be for spammers only but for all white collar and non violent criminals. For example, the Enron thieves (yes I call them thieves because they stole others money) should have received fines amounting to the total amount of the fraud. he government should not keep the fine. The victims of the fraud could file for their money back. Reserve long jail times for violent criminals.
I doubt it. If it was any constant force like a magnetic force field or some gravity effect, all the trails would be straight on all would go in the same direction. From the photos I have seen, some of the trails cross others. Try explaining how trails can cross. It has to be some force that changes over time such as wind.
I know that I am going to say is going to be very popular but here goes anyway...
In the 1930's the electric companies said that it was not profitable bringing electricity to rural areas. This situation was holding the nation back. Congress addressed this situation by enacting the Rural Electrification Act of 1936. I think we are in a somewhat similar situation. If business says it is unprofitable then government should step in and find a solution. It might initially be unprofitable but sometimes the good of the nation is more important than wishes of business. This is obviously going to open a can of worms but it was a government program that started the Internet. If business does not want to bring the Internet to everyone then government should act.
I take it a step farther. Whenever I add a second PHYSICAL hard drive, I set aside a partition just for the SWAP file. If C: is on disk 1 and the swap file is on disk 2, the read/write heads on disk 1 do not have to move every time something is written to the swap file on disk2. Doing this usually significantly speeds up the whole computer.
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It's not that easy as that. That method worked for the uranium 235 bomb for which we had a critical mass of fissionable material. The bombs in the test at New Mexico and the bomb at Nagisaki were plutonium 239 which has to be artificially made in a nuclear reactor. They wanted to use the plutonium as efficiently as possible because, at the time, there wasn't much of it. They used implosion to increase the density so a smaller amount would achieve critical mass. For the record, I'm not a nuclear physicist, but I have read a lot on the subject. This comment might oversimplify things but essentially this is the general idea.
Bush really doesn't care if the telecom companies get sued or not. What this is really all about is not having a court decision that strikes down the presidents spying program. The court proceedings might be secret but if a decision unfavorable to the spying program is the result then the fun would begin.
At 1.2 billion dollars, is this the best allocation of our defense dollars? This brings to mind an adage. "Never put all of your eggs in one basket." We are in an era of asymmetric warfare, if an enemy can spend 1.2 billion for 100 12 million dollar fighters and deploy them for every B2 bomber, what is the chance that they will get through? Maybe it is time to rethink the cost vs. benefit equation.
To some extent you are right and in others you are wrong! I personally should know. About 10 years ago, I had a massive stroke in the cerebellum. As a result, my coordination, reaction time and other related functions are diminished. My MOTOR skills are affected but my higher brain functions are completely unaffected. I can do what many people refer to as multitask. I now have more time that was spent (not wasted) on sports and this time is spent on intellectual pursuits. I am presently working to get a PhD in computer Science. At the time of the stroke I only had a Bachelors degree. My point is that the cerebellum is involved in motor skills. Mulittasking should not be affected with the exception being that it might take a bit more time when the action needs s physical action that requires some coordination.
I think that you are looking at only one part of the bloat problem. It's one thing if the bloat services are only occupying space on your hard drive. If they are never used or loaded into memory, then there is no real harm done. As you say, hard drive space is relatively cheap. What you are not looking at are the services that are loaded into memory when you boot up (or some time later) and remain there slowing the entire computer.
There is a quote from Mark Twain on this that goes "There are lies, damnable lies and statistics."
The atom chip sounds a bit like the "cold fusion" claims of the 1980's.
Hard drives, tapes and other devises store the data as magnetic fields representing bits. If I remember correctly, these magnetic fields will fade over time. For short term storage this is fine but, with time,the adjacent bits will eventually blur together. For long term storage, shouldn't optical storage be used? This would also eliminate the need for additional hardware, all you would need is some form of an appropriate vault.
I agree to some extent. There should be about a year in prison and a fine that takes away all of the profit. This should not be for spammers only but for all white collar and non violent criminals. For example, the Enron thieves (yes I call them thieves because they stole others money) should have received fines amounting to the total amount of the fraud. he government should not keep the fine. The victims of the fraud could file for their money back. Reserve long jail times for violent criminals.
I doubt it. If it was any constant force like a magnetic force field or some gravity effect, all the trails would be straight on all would go in the same direction. From the photos I have seen, some of the trails cross others. Try explaining how trails can cross. It has to be some force that changes over time such as wind.
I know that I am going to say is going to be very popular but here goes anyway... In the 1930's the electric companies said that it was not profitable bringing electricity to rural areas. This situation was holding the nation back. Congress addressed this situation by enacting the Rural Electrification Act of 1936. I think we are in a somewhat similar situation. If business says it is unprofitable then government should step in and find a solution. It might initially be unprofitable but sometimes the good of the nation is more important than wishes of business. This is obviously going to open a can of worms but it was a government program that started the Internet. If business does not want to bring the Internet to everyone then government should act.
I take it a step farther. Whenever I add a second PHYSICAL hard drive, I set aside a partition just for the SWAP file. If C: is on disk 1 and the swap file is on disk 2, the read/write heads on disk 1 do not have to move every time something is written to the swap file on disk2. Doing this usually significantly speeds up the whole computer.