Doesn't seem that different from normal reactors. A standard fission reaction is hardly clean, it releases a lot of alpha/beta/gamma/neutron particles that have to be dealt with. Surely the same methods used for that can be used for the waste heat. AFAIR, a not insignificant amount of the heat from a normal reactor is from the immediate decay of other particles.
This can't be right. The article mentions that a single fuel assembly (sounds like more than a single rod, but something of which there is a multitude) gives out heat equivalent to 20 handheld hair dryers. My wife's model is 1600W, so 20 of those would be 32KW. I don't know what kind of house you have, but mine (180m^2) uses about 400W. So we're talking heating for 80 houses from just one fuel assembly. Given more assemblies, as we will get over time, we're talking interesting amounts of energy.
Galeon wasn't on the list either, but I'm not holding my breath. And how about w3m? And links? And emacs? And Amaya? And Mosaic? And, and, and. The full browser list (inasfar as it exists) is *very* long.
I was just afraid I'd have to buy this and spend a lot of time on it, being a long-time Settlers fan. Fortunately, it only runs on MSN, so I probably will not be able/want to use it, and thus have time for other things.
It's called texttv in Denmark, and has a fairly long (don't know details) and successfull history. My parents, scared of the Net, still use it every day. I'd use it for occasional things when I still had a TV. It's simple. It's there. It's information.
This is a well-known occurrence, and is very well covered in "The Language Instinct" by Steven Pinker, which I can highly recommend for anyone interested in language.
More use of watching topics could help with this problem. There's a watchlist, but adding RSS/Email notification when an article you're written/contributed to is changed would allow authors to keep stupid bugs out. More importantly, it would allow authors to keep more insidious false information out.
At least Hindi, Russian, Hebrew, and Arabic use writing systems that are very similar to the latin alphabet for these purposes. Yes, there may be tweaks, strange ligatures and stuff, but they'll still basically 'bunch of phoneme-indicators strung together side by side to form words', which ought to involve a very similar process. Now whether the grammar influences it is a different and interesting question -- it would possibly influence the way likelihood of different words are computed.
As a non-native (but fluent) speaker of English, and the husband of a fluent English speaker learning Danish, I can tell you quite well that there are many concepts that have a single word describing them in Danish but not in English, and vice-versa. Some words are normally considered equivalent but have slightly different extents ("pink" covers more colors than the common translation "lyserød", for instance).
The grandparent also didn't say "couldn't be expressed", but "has no word". Given enough verbiage, you can (probably) express any word in one language in any other language, but that's not what you want to do in conversation.
And if the "language of Shakespeare" is so all-encompassing, why has English since then been stealing words from other languages like a slum rat during a riot in a shopping mall? Mind you, I think this is a good feature that adds expressiveness to the language, but it clearly shows that there are things that English speakers consider important enough to be able to express succinctly that they'll bring in foreign words for it.
The two native phonetic alphabets are Hiragana (used in Japanese words) and Katakana (used in foreign words). Interesting to have a language where imported words are so sharply defined. Xenophobia, anyone?
It also turned out to be mostly urban legend. There was some related research, but none that stated that claim. Bdeeiss, if taht was true, we cloud imoprve ceioomprssn aghilmorts by sinortg the mddile leertts aaabcehilllpty, scine tehir piinoosts are iaaeimmrtl.
...is the statement at the bottom that GRE's from China and India have dropped by >50%. Given that grad CS is more like Asian Club than anything else, there's going to be a serious shortfall of graduate students. You know, the people who do the actual research while the professors crack their whips. If (when) that comes to pass, US research will be in serious guano and Asia will fly right by them.
Damn, I knew I should have taken Chinese in high school. Only it wasn't offered.
I really don't see the point in a case-sensitive file system. Remembering case but ignoring it in comparisions makes life a lot easier. Can anyone point at some application or library or kernel part or anything that depends on the case of the filename alone to tell files apart? I can't think of any -- and besides, I'd consider it very bad behaviour.
As I see it, since Apple doesn't make money on iTMS, but on the sales of iPods, they should be extremely happy with this happening. More people being able to use iPod == more income for them.
But of course the IP lawyers will not allow simple business logic to stop them when they smell a case:)
Apart from the obvious reasons to patent things (others might get there first), there's no good reason not to. The fee to apply is very low, and there is no penalty for being denied or overturned. At the same time, the examiners (AFAIHH) get bonuses based on how many patents they pass. The way to go currently, especially if you're a big company, is to try patenting everything you can, you might not get all, but the drop-out doesn't hurt you.
One way to change this would be to institute some penalty for filing dodgy patents. Both for the examiner who passed it and for whoever got it. A fine at least and repayment of any license fees garnered on the patent. Covering of expenses for the challenger, perhaps? A system of extra checking of patents from companies/persons that have had patents overturned previously? Repeat offenders? Three strikes and you're out? The possibilities are endless, but frivolous patenting should be as serious an offense as infringing on a patent.
IP's are actually very much like phone numbers. While there's a certain amount of movability (my parents will bring theirs with them soon, and my desktop will keep its IP when I change offices), there are severe limits to how far it can go. The leading numbers are used for routing, and can't just be moved around willy-nilly.
For instance, US phone numbers are CountryCode (1) - AreaCode (e.g. 217) - LocalCode (e.g. 351) - RandomNum (whatever, but this number is in the Champaign-Urbana area, Illinois, USA)[1]. You might persuade the phone company to let you take your LocalCode with you, but try to argue that you should keep your full number including CountryCode when you move to Brazil, and the phone companies will laugh so hard they explode....
Hey, could somebody try to argue that, please?:)
-Lars
[1] The LocalCode part varies from place to place, and so will the ability to take it with you. I know in Denmark you can sometimes keep the equivalent part of the number.
So I tried Gnumeric on their xls sheets (yeah, I know they're handpicked to show PlanMaker is better. Comes up with a proper sample.), and what I see is that Gnumeric is better than OO on the "spreadsheety" things like the array functions and passwords, but sucks on diagrams and WordArt (no big surprise, the last).
Screenshots available at http://www.raeder.dk/~larsrc/Gnumeric. Please mirror and crop.
We have here a virus for IA64, a system that's out there in a minimal amount of machines, all high-end (presumably well-protected) servers. Now one of the standard explanations for the lack of viruses for Linux is that Linux is not as widespread. It is, however, much more widespread than IA64. Thus the amount of Linuxen out there is certainly not the only reason we're not seeing virues for Linux. Who knows, maybe Linux *is* actually more secure than Windows?
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Doesn't seem that different from normal reactors. A standard fission reaction is hardly clean, it releases a lot of alpha/beta/gamma/neutron particles that have to be dealt with. Surely the same methods used for that can be used for the waste heat. AFAIR, a not insignificant amount of the heat from a normal reactor is from the immediate decay of other particles.
-Lars
This can't be right. The article mentions that a single fuel assembly (sounds like more than a single rod, but something of which there is a multitude) gives out heat equivalent to 20 handheld hair dryers. My wife's model is 1600W, so 20 of those would be 32KW. I don't know what kind of house you have, but mine (180m^2) uses about 400W. So we're talking heating for 80 houses from just one fuel assembly. Given more assemblies, as we will get over time, we're talking interesting amounts of energy.
-Lars
Galeon wasn't on the list either, but I'm not holding my breath. And how about w3m? And links? And emacs? And Amaya? And Mosaic? And, and, and. The full browser list (inasfar as it exists) is *very* long.
-Lars
I was just afraid I'd have to buy this and spend a lot of time on it, being a long-time Settlers fan. Fortunately, it only runs on MSN, so I probably will not be able/want to use it, and thus have time for other things.
-Lars
It's called texttv in Denmark, and has a fairly long (don't know details) and successfull history. My parents, scared of the Net, still use it every day. I'd use it for occasional things when I still had a TV. It's simple. It's there. It's information.
-Lars
"due to piracy concerns the profits are being eaten up"
So, if they just stopped being concerned about pirates, theyød keep their profits. Laywars^H^H^H^H^Hwyers are quite expensive these days, aren't they?
-Lars
...at least in English.
You haven't appled somebody recently?
I went appling with my wife yesterday.
He used to use Windows, but trying OS X totally appled him.
Usage #2 would probably be the most easily understood.
And BTW, every verb does have its own nounification.
-Lars
This is a well-known occurrence, and is very well covered in "The Language Instinct" by Steven Pinker, which I can highly recommend for anyone interested in language.
-Lars
More use of watching topics could help with this problem. There's a watchlist, but adding RSS/Email notification when an article you're written/contributed to is changed would allow authors to keep stupid bugs out. More importantly, it would allow authors to keep more insidious false information out.
-Lars
One thing I forgot, but which is quite important:
* Expandability with standard items, e.g. CF cards for more disk space.
-Lars
I've held off so far, but when I get one, I want
* Phone
* Keyboard (like Tungsten, for instance)
* Battery longevity
* Hackability
* Commonly used wireless transfer system
* Color screen
Kinda divided on the camera issue.
So there might be a Tungsten with phone, I haven't researched, as I'm not about to buy.
-Lars
At least Hindi, Russian, Hebrew, and Arabic use writing systems that are very similar to the latin alphabet for these purposes. Yes, there may be tweaks, strange ligatures and stuff, but they'll still basically 'bunch of phoneme-indicators strung together side by side to form words', which ought to involve a very similar process. Now whether the grammar influences it is a different and interesting question -- it would possibly influence the way likelihood of different words are computed.
-Lars
As a non-native (but fluent) speaker of English, and the husband of a fluent English speaker learning Danish, I can tell you quite well that there are many concepts that have a single word describing them in Danish but not in English, and vice-versa. Some words are normally considered equivalent but have slightly different extents ("pink" covers more colors than the common translation "lyserød", for instance).
The grandparent also didn't say "couldn't be expressed", but "has no word". Given enough verbiage, you can (probably) express any word in one language in any other language, but that's not what you want to do in conversation.
And if the "language of Shakespeare" is so all-encompassing, why has English since then been stealing words from other languages like a slum rat during a riot in a shopping mall? Mind you, I think this is a good feature that adds expressiveness to the language, but it clearly shows that there are things that English speakers consider important enough to be able to express succinctly that they'll bring in foreign words for it.
-Lars
The two native phonetic alphabets are Hiragana (used in Japanese words) and Katakana (used in foreign words). Interesting to have a language where imported words are so sharply defined. Xenophobia, anyone?
-Lars
It also turned out to be mostly urban legend. There was some related research, but none that stated that claim. Bdeeiss, if taht was true, we cloud imoprve ceioomprssn aghilmorts by sinortg the mddile leertts aaabcehilllpty, scine tehir piinoosts are iaaeimmrtl.
-Lars
Ah, but "slashdot" has been a verb for quite a while now. Or can't you use verbs that are also proper nouns (like hoover or jimmy)?
-Lars
...is the statement at the bottom that GRE's from China and India have dropped by >50%. Given that grad CS is more like Asian Club than anything else, there's going to be a serious shortfall of graduate students. You know, the people who do the actual research while the professors crack their whips. If (when) that comes to pass, US research will be in serious guano and Asia will fly right by them.
Damn, I knew I should have taken Chinese in high school. Only it wasn't offered.
-Lars
I really don't see the point in a case-sensitive file system. Remembering case but ignoring it in comparisions makes life a lot easier. Can anyone point at some application or library or kernel part or anything that depends on the case of the filename alone to tell files apart? I can't think of any -- and besides, I'd consider it very bad behaviour.
-Lars
As I see it, since Apple doesn't make money on iTMS, but on the sales of iPods, they should be extremely happy with this happening. More people being able to use iPod == more income for them.
But of course the IP lawyers will not allow simple business logic to stop them when they smell a case:)
-Lars
Apart from the obvious reasons to patent things (others might get there first), there's no good reason not to. The fee to apply is very low, and there is no penalty for being denied or overturned. At the same time, the examiners (AFAIHH) get bonuses based on how many patents they pass. The way to go currently, especially if you're a big company, is to try patenting everything you can, you might not get all, but the drop-out doesn't hurt you.
One way to change this would be to institute some penalty for filing dodgy patents. Both for the examiner who passed it and for whoever got it. A fine at least and repayment of any license fees garnered on the patent. Covering of expenses for the challenger, perhaps? A system of extra checking of patents from companies/persons that have had patents overturned previously? Repeat offenders? Three strikes and you're out? The possibilities are endless, but frivolous patenting should be as serious an offense as infringing on a patent.
-Lars
IP's are actually very much like phone numbers. While there's a certain amount of movability (my parents will bring theirs with them soon, and my desktop will keep its IP when I change offices), there are severe limits to how far it can go. The leading numbers are used for routing, and can't just be moved around willy-nilly.
...
:)
For instance, US phone numbers are CountryCode (1) - AreaCode (e.g. 217) - LocalCode (e.g. 351) - RandomNum (whatever, but this number is in the Champaign-Urbana area, Illinois, USA)[1]. You might persuade the phone company to let you take your LocalCode with you, but try to argue that you should keep your full number including CountryCode when you move to Brazil, and the phone companies will laugh so hard they explode.
Hey, could somebody try to argue that, please?
-Lars
[1] The LocalCode part varies from place to place, and so will the ability to take it with you. I know in Denmark you can sometimes keep the equivalent part of the number.
So I tried Gnumeric on their xls sheets (yeah, I know they're handpicked to show PlanMaker is better. Comes up with a proper sample.), and what I see is that Gnumeric is better than OO on the "spreadsheety" things like the array functions and passwords, but sucks on diagrams and WordArt (no big surprise, the last).
Screenshots available at http://www.raeder.dk/~larsrc/Gnumeric. Please mirror and crop.
-Lars
Yes, I've seen that, and loved it. Who should I tell about it to get it adopted in Europe?
-Lars
We have here a virus for IA64, a system that's out there in a minimal amount of machines, all high-end (presumably well-protected) servers. Now one of the standard explanations for the lack of viruses for Linux is that Linux is not as widespread. It is, however, much more widespread than IA64. Thus the amount of Linuxen out there is certainly not the only reason we're not seeing virues for Linux. Who knows, maybe Linux *is* actually more secure than Windows?
-Lars
Since I don't have the money to make an indoor lawn big enough to be a battlefield, my sword battles have to be outside. -Lars