He didn't like breeder reactors because the fast breeder program had been a sinkhole of delays, technical failures and cost overruns. Pulling the plug was the right decision. Frnace and Japan have also had fast breeder programs, and both have spent massive sums of money without producing anything usable in the real world.
I think it's worth noting that this article was written almost two years ago, and since then information has been published invalidating virtually all of Murphy's assumptions. SCO has amended its complaint since then several times. I'm not sure what the point is in bringing this article up again after all this time, other than to embarrass Murphy, perhaps?
I think it's more likely that the New york Times' advertising department will decline the ad because they're pissed off about Firefox users blocking all their popups.
CNN has adjusted all of its exit polls to match the election results. They are normalized with this so one can, supposedly, get an accurate sense of the breakdowns and additional questions. The exit polls themselves did differ substantially from the election count.
No. They are talking about old mechanical voting machines. They probably weren't properly zeroed after the last election. This happens all the time, which is why all the machines are checked on election day before the voting begins. Drudge is trying to make an affair out of nothing.
You don't need this for homebrewing. There are great Wyeast ale yeasts which will create a really wide variety of styles at room-temperature. I've been brewing for 15 years, and I've used ale yeasts 98% of the time. Go have a chat with the owner of your local homebrew supply store, and s/he will tell you what you need to make whatever kind of beer want.
So don't wait for this device to become available, just go ahead and brew away!
The article mentions various technical reasons why Mars is hard, but Mars missions actually have a far worse success record than missions to any other location in space. NASA people joke (or used to joke) that Mars was protected from intruding spacecraft by the "Great Galactic Ghoul."
I have my own theory about why Mars has such a bad record. Although Mars is the closest planet to the Earth, it is in one respect the most inaccessible . Mars has the least frequent launch window of any major object in the Solar System, it coming around only once every 26 months. This means that any engineer who reports that one section is not quite ready to go, or could use more testing, becomes responsible for a delay of almost 2 1/2 years. Obviously, there are considerable career and institutional reasons not to do so.
This factor will have to be dealt with carefully on an institutional level if a manned Mars mission is attempted, or astronauts will certainly die.
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I don't see how SuSE competes with SCO's core business. As far as I know, SuSE has never sued anyone.
It was in the ia64 port. It's conceivable that there was a copyright violation because of the attribution clause in the BSD license, but the only significance would be for Itanium users. I'm not sure SCO would be able to claim much in the way of damages.
I know that if I spent 5 years developing a technology, was just putting the final touches on it, waiting to release it, and some spy from a big company, say Microsoft, but I don't care if it was Virginia Systems or my 3rd cousin, took my code, and put it into their product, before mine was released, I would be ultra-pissed. This may be so, but if it's a journalist rather than a competitor, first amendment protections apply. If Appleinsider decides to fight the suit, Adobe will have to prove that they aided in the theft of the trade secret.
In this case it really happened. I was only one person removed from the guy it happened to, I was told his name (though I've long since forgotten it). This was ca 1975, however, and a single case. I should have used a smiley. I meant the post as humor, not paranoia.
Maybe you should think twice. I heard a story (a long time ago) about a guy who had been active as a student in the '60s. When the Freedom of Information Act was passed, he sent a letter to the FBI asking for his file. They sent him back a xerox copy of the letter.
Whenever hydrogen is mentioned somebody always brings up the Hindeburg.
A few facts:
1. The majority of the passengers survived the wreck.
2. Of those who died, most died from the fall.
3. If that bag had been filled with gasoline vapors instead of hydrogen, the reporter who tearfully reported the tragedy live on the radio would, with everyone else in the vicinity, have been a smoking cinder.
Let's see... My truck has 143 hp, 745 watts per hp, that's 106Kw... divide by 1200... allow for 50% loss... we're talking 178 square feet. Assuming my numbers are close. So a 10 foot by 18 foot pond would produce enough hydrogen to run my truck for say 8 hours a day. Not bad.
You must drive with the gas pedal floored continuously, otherwise your truck only uses a fraction of that amount of energy. At highway speeds you're probably using about 30 kw.
This is particularly true since Matthias Ettrich was the original author of Lyx, and has since ported it to KDE (Klyx). I've never understood why they didn't use that as a base rather than starting from scratch.
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Wouldn't a vaccine be a better use of research money?
They will have to develop driverless cars with the steering-wheel absent from the Right side of the car, rather than the Left.
He didn't like breeder reactors because the fast breeder program had been a sinkhole of delays, technical failures and cost overruns. Pulling the plug was the right decision. Frnace and Japan have also had fast breeder programs, and both have spent massive sums of money without producing anything usable in the real world.
Washington. With her talent for personal attacks, and her sense of ethics, I'm sure she can get a job working for Karl Rove.
I think it's worth noting that this article was written almost two years ago, and since then information has been published invalidating virtually all of Murphy's assumptions. SCO has amended its complaint since then several times. I'm not sure what the point is in bringing this article up again after all this time, other than to embarrass Murphy, perhaps?
I think it's more likely that the New york Times' advertising department will decline the ad because they're pissed off about Firefox users blocking all their popups.
CNN has adjusted all of its exit polls to match the election results. They are normalized with this so one can, supposedly, get an accurate sense of the breakdowns and additional questions. The exit polls themselves did differ substantially from the election count.
No. They are talking about old mechanical voting machines. They probably weren't properly zeroed after the last election. This happens all the time, which is why all the machines are checked on election day before the voting begins. Drudge is trying to make an affair out of nothing.
Too bad we're not monkeys. I suppose that when this becomes generally known, monkeys will be the only ones able to get hired as sysadmins.
Does this mean we can look forward to the imminent formation of an Electric Coral Reefer Band?
You don't need this for homebrewing. There are great Wyeast ale yeasts which will create a really wide variety of styles at room-temperature. I've been brewing for 15 years, and I've used ale yeasts 98% of the time. Go have a chat with the owner of your local homebrew supply store, and s/he will tell you what you need to make whatever kind of beer want.
So don't wait for this device to become available, just go ahead and brew away!
The article mentions various technical reasons why Mars is hard, but Mars missions actually have a far worse success record than missions to any other location in space. NASA people joke (or used to joke) that Mars was protected from intruding spacecraft by the "Great Galactic Ghoul."
I have my own theory about why Mars has such a bad record. Although Mars is the closest planet to the Earth, it is in one respect the most inaccessible . Mars has the least frequent launch window of any major object in the Solar System, it coming around only once every 26 months. This means that any engineer who reports that one section is not quite ready to go, or could use more testing, becomes responsible for a delay of almost 2 1/2 years. Obviously, there are considerable career and institutional reasons not to do so.
This factor will have to be dealt with carefully on an institutional level if a manned Mars mission is attempted, or astronauts will certainly die.
I don't see how SuSE competes with SCO's core business. As far as I know, SuSE has never sued anyone.
Clearly, the most ethical thing to do is to get as much DOD grant money as you can and then produce nothing useful with it.
No doubt this will help all governments which are trying to get the bomb.
What if we held a nuclear war and everybody came?
Crack smokers file class action libel suit against Linus Torvalds for comparing them to SCO.
It was in the ia64 port. It's conceivable that there was a copyright violation because of the attribution clause in the BSD license, but the only significance would be for Itanium users. I'm not sure SCO would be able to claim much in the way of damages.
This is the consequence of elected judges....
I know that if I spent 5 years developing a technology, was just putting the final touches on it, waiting to release it, and some spy from a big company, say Microsoft, but I don't care if it was Virginia Systems or my 3rd cousin, took my code, and put it into their product, before mine was released, I would be ultra-pissed.
This may be so, but if it's a journalist rather than a competitor, first amendment protections apply. If Appleinsider decides to fight the suit, Adobe will have to prove that they aided in the theft of the trade secret.
In this case it really happened. I was only one person removed from the guy it happened to, I was told his name (though I've long since forgotten it). This was ca 1975, however, and a single case. I should have used a smiley. I meant the post as humor, not paranoia.
Maybe you should think twice. I heard a story (a long time ago) about a guy who had been active as a student in the '60s. When the Freedom of Information Act was passed, he sent a letter to the FBI asking for his file. They sent him back a xerox copy of the letter.
Ah, but did anyone have a look under her skirt to see if it wasn't the other way 'round?
Whenever hydrogen is mentioned somebody always brings up the Hindeburg.
A few facts:
1. The majority of the passengers survived the wreck.
2. Of those who died, most died from the fall.
3. If that bag had been filled with gasoline vapors instead of hydrogen, the reporter who tearfully reported the tragedy live on the radio would, with everyone else in the vicinity, have been a smoking cinder.
Let's see... My truck has 143 hp, 745 watts per hp, that's 106Kw... divide by 1200... allow for 50% loss... we're talking 178 square feet. Assuming my numbers are close. So a 10 foot by 18 foot pond would produce enough hydrogen to run my truck for say 8 hours a day. Not bad.
You must drive with the gas pedal floored continuously, otherwise your truck only uses a fraction of that amount of energy. At highway speeds you're probably using about 30 kw.
This is particularly true since Matthias Ettrich was the original author of Lyx, and has since ported it to KDE (Klyx). I've never understood why they didn't use that as a base rather than starting from scratch.