I have never claimed thorium reactors are running in production, much less that an entire country could switch over to it as its sole means of energy production.
However, the Canadian CANDU reactors are designed to run on several kinds of fuel, including thorium. I don't know if they are using it now, but it is designed. http://www.nuclearfaq.ca/brat_fuel.htm
But I guess I'm the idot:)
Wow, I'm backing up claims I never made with less than a min of googling!
A company I work with often has its primary product made in China. They ship the manuals from here locally, to the dealers all around the world, but the product is made in China. Recently, we have been getting angry customers, calling and saying that their russian model does not have a manual at all, and there are no russian language ones on the website. Funny, they don't sell in Russia, and none of their distributors are authorized to sell in (or located anywhere near) Russia.
Apparently, we let it go, because its more expensive to change the manufacturing to another provider, or move it back stateside, than put up with the manufacturer selling grey market product.
I don't think you understand. If you just make the class completely unstructured, and stop worrying about data ^h^h i mean learning being guaranteed, you can exponentially increase the number of people you can educate at web-scale by just adding more instructors.
They are expensive, but currently, that is because of the cost of the lawsuits, and delayed start of construction, more than the cost of actually building the plant.
Show me a single Solar Salt Thermal plant running in production. Or even one that is almost in production, running anywhere near the power capacities of even these 'little' nuclear power plants. (let alone the Gigawatts of some of the big boys)
BTW, your "only 400 billion" is a bit crazy.. The US has around 100 Reactors producing about 1/3 of our nations power. At an average replacement cost of about $2billion (each) last I heard. So for that same money, you could move 2/3 of the US to nuclear.. and the land mass used to generate it would be significantly smaller.
There is no single solution, and I wish people would stop claiming there is.. Moving all of any country to any single power source is plain foolishness.. its going to take a mix of wind, solar, nuclear, hydro, wave power, etc to properly diversify and meet the power needs.
has he actually been charged in sweden? I thought part of the big controversy was that he was not actually charged, they wanted to force him to go to sweeden to "question" him, even though he volunteered to host them, and answer any questions many, many times. They either want to extradite him, or do one heck of a "perp walk" on TV to shame him, and I don't think he's actually even charged, let alone proven guilty.
That is a very valid point. I'm sure his lawyer, once they determine he is in Guantanamo Bay and labeled and an "enemy combatant" would want to use that in his defense. Just have to wait for a few years to meet their client, a few more years of trials just to see if a foreigner held in a prison off of US soil is eligible for a trial in the US Judicial system, etc.
Microsoft already has file systems and algorithm's for syncing and being offline (note your "offline files" in windows vista or 7) They also have DFS that handles synchronizing, replication, delta changes, etc for server shares.
Like the GP said, it should be just built into the OS. You can mount a WebDav share as a mapped drive, just like a SMB share. But with skydrive, you can't just drag an email from thunderbird into a folder and have it sync? that would really, really suck.
With an app, you can't use your basic utilities to work on it.. Like windows backup, or robocopy, or cp, etc.
Unless, of course, the President of the USA decides to declare you an "enemy combatant" which you cannot challenge, and nobody will be able to talk about..
Fireboxes are designed to keep paper from bursting into flame. Sure, your hard drive is mostly metal, but that PCB board on the back could melt, warp, lose solder, etc.
I guess the part I don't understand is how any of the solutions involving buying another hard drive (or three) and securing them are somehow cheaper than a tool like www.crashplan.com that is $50 a year for unlimited storage. Sure, the upload of 8TB will take a while.. so what? a single T1 (1.5Mbs) line can upload a few TB a month.
Then its all offsite. Worst case, just download the crashplan sofware, and have a buddy install it too, and use the free person to person backup feature (only pay to store on their servers) to have an offsite backup. Have him bring his PC over for a night, to sync up the initial copy.. then you will just send changes over the internet.
it was a community (2-year) college.. no dorm rats. Very few people abused the bandwidth (but having a 100Mb pipe to kernel.org was really, really nice) We would have a few people go crazy with the downloads.. a very simple QOS setting on the router fixes that in a hurry.. (they can wait). Myspace was the worst, with all the streaming videos and music. Those that chose to ignore the access agreement and torrent away would usually find me walking up to them (politely) and telling them to stop.. (which was really funny.. There are 20 people in this big community area served by that WAP, and your the only one sitting in the corner so that nobody can see your screen, and looking around suspiciously.. of course your easy to find). One or two refused, (or hid better) and found their MAC addresses only redirect to a captive portal that says they are blocked until they have a 'chat' with the Dean of IT.
Its amazing how much better non-technical solutions sometimes work for people problems.
I used to admin at a small college (about 1000 students, 25 classrooms).. about 5 years ago when I left, we had 4MB of transit to the internet (we had 100MB to other universities in the state, we were all on one big network)
Students would come in, and tell us how fast our internet was, and that their 5Mb cable modems were nothing in comparison.. They were shocked to find out that we only had 4Mb. We had a squid transparent proxy box, but the big difference was latency. A very, very low latency, slower connection will 'feel' much faster than a bigger pipe. People think a 100k web page coming back instantly is because they're on a big pipe. But it can come back just as fast over a 1Mb pipe, latency is the difference.
One of the local Cable companies here (charter) is offering 30M/6M for $30 a month. I think that's a 1 year promotional price.. but not too shabby. Of course, I live out of town a ways, and there is no cable in my neighborhood, so I'm stuck on 1Mb/s rural wireless.
Most 30.06 rifles I have shot are semi automatic. Very few are bolt action anymore. Most hunters only shoot once.. (maybe a second time, if they wounded the first time) but for practice (target shooting) its nice to be able to stay in your stance, and not take your eyes off the target to shift around, re-load the chamber, etc.
I do have some friends that hunt with muzzle loaders though.. those guys are crazy:)
Don't forget he had 3 of them on his property.. Stocked with bluegill, a boat dock, etc. and this creek is a tributary of the Rouge River, a designated "Wild and Scenic River".. Not only was he keeping the water, he was blocking fish from going upstream for spawning..
I'm not sure about jelly bean.. but my older android phone has all sorts of crapware put on by the carrier, that I cannot uninstall I have a notification every single day about updates being available for them.. I have never used them, see lots of comments about the update causing problems, and no way to uninstall.. can I at least tell it to stop checking for updates?
I'm just annoyed that their digital OTA broadcast can have 3 subchannels.. they are only using the primary for the Olympics.. why not broadcast the Olympics on the.2 and.3 channels? In fact, why not broadcast CNBC, etc normally..
First, Munich did not switch back to Windows.. They are still progressing on moving to linux, and have a very large number of users migrated..
What happens if you switch the Excel users to Linux running LibraOffice?
Probably the same thing my former employer had to do when moving from Office 2003 to a newer version, where most VBA macro's had to be re-written to work. If someone NEEDS excel, you throw it on a VM running terminal server, and let them use excel. If someone needs a spreadsheet, you save hundreds of dollars a person, and give them open office. I have lots of mac users that have a windows VM running on their machines.. It doesn't cost much more, and if they royally F it up, its simple fix, and doesn't take down their entire computer.
I don't know about you, but I find those advanced excel users (I used to work at a large accounting firm) to be the biggest pain in my ass.. I don't think it had too much to do with the tool, more that they didn't know what the heck they were doing, just that you put X here, and Y is supposed to come out here...
They send you a ton of info along with the cheek swabs about how donation works. They also say its doesn't match you, it just gets you "close" and if you appear to be compatible, they will ask you to come to a medical center for more thorough tests.
Lots of people don't realize anyone can be a bone marrow donor.. Be the Match runs a large registry. I clicked a few buttons on the website, and 2 weeks later, had a cheekswab in the mail. Probably simpler than registering to be a donor on my Drivers License, because I didn't have to wait at the DMV:)
This is somewhat off-topic, since it doesn't have to do with the treatment, or treatment for aids, but Bone Marrow transplants are needed for lots of cancers too.
Eraser is a program that will wipe free space with random data (it can also do the same for files you want to nuke).. Its handy to make sure what you deleted stays deleted, without wiping the whole machine.
I support both.. (and both for servers too) You have apparently never had to support a bunch of linux users. They just get the job done. No malware, no antivirus, no calls saying "I was on the web yesterday, and installed something, and now everything is slow and I think things are broken". Never had an issues with some custom vb macro for excel an intern wrote 6 years ago won't work on the new version of their spreadsheet tool...
What kinds of users issues do you have to deal with in Linux that make it more difficult than Windows? if nothing else, being able to SSH directly into their computers is much, much nicer than walking your co-worker through connecting up to some remote desktop web site like LogMeIn Pro.
Perhaps the difficulty you have in supporting linux users is related to your unfamiliarity with linux? I think both are much easier to support than Mac's, but that might be because the last mac I used was in 1990.
My buddy and I had this exact Same conversation.. I think even the prices were the same.. except, we were talking about 10M cable. and it was 2004. Funny how things change.
I would love more than the 10MB my area has.. the much smaller upload is the part that sucks royally.
My buddy got a complaint against him because he walked into a partners office (who was a woman) and gave his normal IT greeting of "Hey Dude, how can I help"?
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I have never claimed thorium reactors are running in production, much less that an entire country could switch over to it as its sole means of energy production.
However, the Canadian CANDU reactors are designed to run on several kinds of fuel, including thorium. I don't know if they are using it now, but it is designed. http://www.nuclearfaq.ca/brat_fuel.htm
But I guess I'm the idot :)
Wow, I'm backing up claims I never made with less than a min of googling!
A company I work with often has its primary product made in China. They ship the manuals from here locally, to the dealers all around the world, but the product is made in China. Recently, we have been getting angry customers, calling and saying that their russian model does not have a manual at all, and there are no russian language ones on the website. Funny, they don't sell in Russia, and none of their distributors are authorized to sell in (or located anywhere near) Russia.
Apparently, we let it go, because its more expensive to change the manufacturing to another provider, or move it back stateside, than put up with the manufacturer selling grey market product.
I don't think you understand. If you just make the class completely unstructured, and stop worrying about data ^h^h i mean learning being guaranteed, you can exponentially increase the number of people you can educate at web-scale by just adding more instructors.
We have actually dismantled several.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_decommissioning
They are expensive, but currently, that is because of the cost of the lawsuits, and delayed start of construction, more than the cost of actually building the plant.
Show me a single Solar Salt Thermal plant running in production. Or even one that is almost in production, running anywhere near the power capacities of even these 'little' nuclear power plants. (let alone the Gigawatts of some of the big boys)
BTW, your "only 400 billion" is a bit crazy.. The US has around 100 Reactors producing about 1/3 of our nations power. At an average replacement cost of about $2billion (each) last I heard. So for that same money, you could move 2/3 of the US to nuclear.. and the land mass used to generate it would be significantly smaller.
There is no single solution, and I wish people would stop claiming there is.. Moving all of any country to any single power source is plain foolishness.. its going to take a mix of wind, solar, nuclear, hydro, wave power, etc to properly diversify and meet the power needs.
has he actually been charged in sweden? I thought part of the big controversy was that he was not actually charged, they wanted to force him to go to sweeden to "question" him, even though he volunteered to host them, and answer any questions many, many times. They either want to extradite him, or do one heck of a "perp walk" on TV to shame him, and I don't think he's actually even charged, let alone proven guilty.
That is a very valid point. I'm sure his lawyer, once they determine he is in Guantanamo Bay and labeled and an "enemy combatant" would want to use that in his defense. Just have to wait for a few years to meet their client, a few more years of trials just to see if a foreigner held in a prison off of US soil is eligible for a trial in the US Judicial system, etc.
Microsoft already has file systems and algorithm's for syncing and being offline (note your "offline files" in windows vista or 7) They also have DFS that handles synchronizing, replication, delta changes, etc for server shares.
Like the GP said, it should be just built into the OS. You can mount a WebDav share as a mapped drive, just like a SMB share. But with skydrive, you can't just drag an email from thunderbird into a folder and have it sync? that would really, really suck.
With an app, you can't use your basic utilities to work on it.. Like windows backup, or robocopy, or cp, etc.
Unless, of course, the President of the USA decides to declare you an "enemy combatant" which you cannot challenge, and nobody will be able to talk about..
Fireboxes are designed to keep paper from bursting into flame. Sure, your hard drive is mostly metal, but that PCB board on the back could melt, warp, lose solder, etc.
I guess the part I don't understand is how any of the solutions involving buying another hard drive (or three) and securing them are somehow cheaper than a tool like www.crashplan.com that is $50 a year for unlimited storage. Sure, the upload of 8TB will take a while.. so what? a single T1 (1.5Mbs) line can upload a few TB a month.
Then its all offsite. Worst case, just download the crashplan sofware, and have a buddy install it too, and use the free person to person backup feature (only pay to store on their servers) to have an offsite backup. Have him bring his PC over for a night, to sync up the initial copy.. then you will just send changes over the internet.
it was a community (2-year) college.. no dorm rats. Very few people abused the bandwidth (but having a 100Mb pipe to kernel.org was really, really nice) We would have a few people go crazy with the downloads.. a very simple QOS setting on the router fixes that in a hurry.. (they can wait). Myspace was the worst, with all the streaming videos and music. Those that chose to ignore the access agreement and torrent away would usually find me walking up to them (politely) and telling them to stop.. (which was really funny.. There are 20 people in this big community area served by that WAP, and your the only one sitting in the corner so that nobody can see your screen, and looking around suspiciously.. of course your easy to find). One or two refused, (or hid better) and found their MAC addresses only redirect to a captive portal that says they are blocked until they have a 'chat' with the Dean of IT.
Its amazing how much better non-technical solutions sometimes work for people problems.
I used to admin at a small college (about 1000 students, 25 classrooms) .. about 5 years ago when I left, we had 4MB of transit to the internet (we had 100MB to other universities in the state, we were all on one big network)
Students would come in, and tell us how fast our internet was, and that their 5Mb cable modems were nothing in comparison.. They were shocked to find out that we only had 4Mb. We had a squid transparent proxy box, but the big difference was latency. A very, very low latency, slower connection will 'feel' much faster than a bigger pipe. People think a 100k web page coming back instantly is because they're on a big pipe. But it can come back just as fast over a 1Mb pipe, latency is the difference.
One of the local Cable companies here (charter) is offering 30M/6M for $30 a month. I think that's a 1 year promotional price.. but not too shabby. Of course, I live out of town a ways, and there is no cable in my neighborhood, so I'm stuck on 1Mb/s rural wireless.
Most 30.06 rifles I have shot are semi automatic. Very few are bolt action anymore. Most hunters only shoot once.. (maybe a second time, if they wounded the first time) but for practice (target shooting) its nice to be able to stay in your stance, and not take your eyes off the target to shift around, re-load the chamber, etc.
I do have some friends that hunt with muzzle loaders though.. those guys are crazy :)
Don't forget he had 3 of them on his property.. Stocked with bluegill, a boat dock, etc. and this creek is a tributary of the Rouge River, a designated "Wild and Scenic River".. Not only was he keeping the water, he was blocking fish from going upstream for spawning..
I want to make full color, glossy 8x10 pictures of this comment.. with notes and arrows and a description on the back..
I'm not sure about jelly bean.. but my older android phone has all sorts of crapware put on by the carrier, that I cannot uninstall I have a notification every single day about updates being available for them.. I have never used them, see lots of comments about the update causing problems, and no way to uninstall.. can I at least tell it to stop checking for updates?
I'm just annoyed that their digital OTA broadcast can have 3 subchannels.. they are only using the primary for the Olympics.. why not broadcast the Olympics on the .2 and .3 channels? In fact, why not broadcast CNBC, etc normally..
First, Munich did not switch back to Windows.. They are still progressing on moving to linux, and have a very large number of users migrated..
What happens if you switch the Excel users to Linux running LibraOffice?
Probably the same thing my former employer had to do when moving from Office 2003 to a newer version, where most VBA macro's had to be re-written to work. If someone NEEDS excel, you throw it on a VM running terminal server, and let them use excel. If someone needs a spreadsheet, you save hundreds of dollars a person, and give them open office. I have lots of mac users that have a windows VM running on their machines.. It doesn't cost much more, and if they royally F it up, its simple fix, and doesn't take down their entire computer.
I don't know about you, but I find those advanced excel users (I used to work at a large accounting firm) to be the biggest pain in my ass.. I don't think it had too much to do with the tool, more that they didn't know what the heck they were doing, just that you put X here, and Y is supposed to come out here...
They send you a ton of info along with the cheek swabs about how donation works. They also say its doesn't match you, it just gets you "close" and if you appear to be compatible, they will ask you to come to a medical center for more thorough tests.
Lots of people don't realize anyone can be a bone marrow donor.. Be the Match runs a large registry. I clicked a few buttons on the website, and 2 weeks later, had a cheekswab in the mail. Probably simpler than registering to be a donor on my Drivers License, because I didn't have to wait at the DMV :)
This is somewhat off-topic, since it doesn't have to do with the treatment, or treatment for aids, but Bone Marrow transplants are needed for lots of cancers too.
Eraser is a program that will wipe free space with random data (it can also do the same for files you want to nuke).. Its handy to make sure what you deleted stays deleted, without wiping the whole machine.
I support both.. (and both for servers too) You have apparently never had to support a bunch of linux users. They just get the job done. No malware, no antivirus, no calls saying "I was on the web yesterday, and installed something, and now everything is slow and I think things are broken". Never had an issues with some custom vb macro for excel an intern wrote 6 years ago won't work on the new version of their spreadsheet tool...
What kinds of users issues do you have to deal with in Linux that make it more difficult than Windows? if nothing else, being able to SSH directly into their computers is much, much nicer than walking your co-worker through connecting up to some remote desktop web site like LogMeIn Pro.
Perhaps the difficulty you have in supporting linux users is related to your unfamiliarity with linux? I think both are much easier to support than Mac's, but that might be because the last mac I used was in 1990.
My buddy and I had this exact Same conversation.. I think even the prices were the same.. except, we were talking about 10M cable. and it was 2004. Funny how things change.
I would love more than the 10MB my area has.. the much smaller upload is the part that sucks royally.
My buddy got a complaint against him because he walked into a partners office (who was a woman) and gave his normal IT greeting of "Hey Dude, how can I help"?