Those estimates are for the once-through open cycle associated with the PWR and BWR reactors. With IFR (ALMR) or similar pseudo-breeder reactors that don't need fuel reprocessing but rather burn close to 100% of uranium in a single pass (including U-238), the reserves increase twentyfold, and there's a lot of "spent" nuclear fuel that can be used in those reactors. There are also vast, practically untapped reserves of thorium which are several times larger than those of uranium.
Use of the term "supercooled" in this context is bogus. Something is supercooled if it remains a liquid, even though it should be a solid at those conditions (or it remains a gas where it should be a liquid). If you put a glass of very clean distilled water in a freezer you'll find out that you can cool it down to -7*C or lower without freezing. It will momentarily freeze if you drop a snow flake into it though, or when you hit the glass with a screwdriver.
(For the curious: this is because extremely small crystals and droplets have higher free enthalpy than the bulk phase due to surface effects, so their formation is inhibited.)
This has nothing to do with superconductors, because they are always solids and cannot be supercooled. For superconductors you're looking for "cooled below its critical temperature", but I admit that it doesn't sound as good as "supercooled".
I'm experiencing a similar issue on a TC1100 when I leave the display on the GDM login prompt, the edges of the screen become gray and look "burnt out". This slowly disappears upon logging in. Not sure what's causing this.
I second that. I have a relatively old TC1100, and its LCD quality is incredible. 180* viewing angle in both directions, legible in direct sunlight, perfect color balance. And it's far from new, I'm the second owner. Compared to it, new Amilos and Thinkpads are mediocre. Plus, it has a Wacom digitizer, so it can function as a poor man's Cintiq. The screen surface is hardened glass so it's very scratch-resistant. The only drawback is its slightly underpowered CPU (1,1 GHz Pentium M), but I don't notice it unless I'm rendering multi-megapixel PNGs from Inkscape or compiling large projects.
Space chemistry is completely unrelated to "normal" earthly chemistry - for example, the second most popular molcule in the universe is H3+ (after H2).
What is discussed here are molecules composed exclusively of 2 and 3 carbon atoms:
It just does things differently, the storage space is configured in files and databases are created with SQL queries. Essentially, after you install the MySQL package, you can just run the `mysql` client and create databases and users as you wish. I see that compared to this, pgsql requires some additional setup before getting at the SQL prompt.
Until Vista, SMB/CIFS didn't support IPv6, so sharing resources over an IPv6 local network didn't work. On top of that, 2005 is the year the "experimental" status was removed. In fact this status is rather conservative and many distros routinely ship kernels with experimental options enabled (e.g. tickless kernel, the WMI drivers, etc.)
You have things in reverse. A perfectly uniform container filled with gas has a higher entropy than a container with only a half of it filled with gas, because there are much more possible arrangements of individual molecules in the first case. Complex structures have low entropy (e.g. there are fewer equivalent microstates that correspond to a given macrostate). Low entropy = high complexity.
How about how a closed-source driver which gives my X 3d-accel is better than one that does not?
If I have a MIPS system and the manufacturer decided this platform isn't worthy of his attention, then I'm able to use the open driver to get *some* graphics, while I'm not able to use the closed driver at all.
I don't believe copying the MS Office 2007 ribbon is the way to go, but a more intuitive, clear and attractive interface would go a long way towards winning over more users.
Dockable dialogs like in Inkscape 0.46 are way better than the ribbon - they don't take up vertical space which is in direly short supply thanks to the taskbar, the window title bar and the ribbon, while the modern screens get broader rather than taller. The result is that you're left with either a tiny fragment of the document visible, or a lt of wasted screen space on the sides.
Cool. So everybody gets the mp3s and burns their own CDs, no one buys from you. How do you make money?
MP3s provided for free should be medium quality - 128 or 96 kbps, or 64 kbps OGG. The flood of legal low-quality MP3s would overwhelm high-quality ripped CD content in search results, so people who want high quality recordings will have to buy CDs.
I needed to get foreign languages installed on it.
I have no problem with that in Ubuntu. I use an English install with Polish spell checking, and I haven't had problems with it. Language pack support quality varies wildly between distros, so this is Xandros' fault.
I needed to get Blackberry charging drivers installed.
Out of date kernel - If I recall correctly those are in the mainline for a long time now, at least since 2.6.24.
Wanted to customize the shell
I suppose it's about.bashrc or something similar. restarting the terminal should reload the settings, but if it doesn't, you can do "source ~/.bashrc". Mind you, this is a pretty advanced topic.
Needed to install a VPN client.
Out of date Network Manager, or they're using something different altogether. Xandros fails again. Recent Network Manager versions have VPN support by default (though I don't have any personal experience with this).
Like others pointed out some time ago, most people preinstalling Linux are really going for "Microsoft tax evasion" rather than marketing it as a real OS. This is why they use random, totally obscure distributions instead of the big names (Ubuntu, Mandriva, Fedora, OpenSUSE), and the level of support is abysmal - sometimes some of the devices don't even work, and this is said in fine print somewhere. Until this stupidity stops, there won't be much progress.
It looks like they will only use GET requests, not POST requests. You may have trouble if you use GET requests to make changes on your site (which nearly everybody with minimal experience knows you should never do).
Those are not nuclear reactors, but radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs). Rather than harnessing the energy from steam heated by the fission of heavy nuclei, they get the power directly from the heat of natural decay of radioactive isotopes using thermocouples. Link.
Current nuclear reactor designs, even the compact ones used on ships and submarines, are too large and too heavy to be sent into space.
No, no. Obviously you didn't read the Foundation novels.
The quote means that the competent will always find solutions before resorting to violence, because for every possible situation there is an option better than violence. The incompetent can't find any of those options and use force, which is never the optimal solution.
All Sony has tried to do with PS2/PS3 Linux is prevent decent game development, making Linux for the consoles nearly useless.
This is intended. Sony sells the consoles very close to costs or even with a loss and recoups that on games which have broad sales margins. Allowing access to the GPU would allow PS3s to be used in certain scientific projects (e.g. molecular dynamics computations) and as general purpose PCs, which would run counter to their business model. Linux on the PS3 is just pandering for the FOSS crowd and a very clever move to drastically reduce the number of PS3 hackers.
I installed Moonlight but the same message keeps appearing on the Democratic Convention site, and the Hard Rock Memorabilia site crashes FF. So much for Moonlight. It's a Microsoft perpetrated scam to fool people into thinking that Silverlight is portable to OSes not targeted by Microsoft.
Unfortunately Moonlight is nowhere near usable, at least for the average user. Additionally it will contain closed blobs of MS code because of the Novell-MS deal: read up
Except that a plugin is not available on Linux. MS touts Moonlight as a nearly complete port of Silverlight to Linux but in fact it's very far from being usable - even Gnash is light years ahead of Moonlight when compared with their closed source versions.
The authors argue that this situation makes the publishers, as they try to attract the hottest research to their pages, in a position analogous to bidders at an auction, and the authors analogous to sellers.
That's just not how it works. There are two classes of papers: 1. Papers that everyone knows will be valuable because they are made by the big names in the field. The author can choose where to publish, but in reality nothing like an auction happens. Those are uncommon. 2. Papers by new and relatively unknown people. Those make up the majority of papers. In this case it's the authors who try to publish in the best journal possible. High IF journal = more citations = more recognition.
If I were to make a comparison, it's more like show business than an auction. The stars play leading roles in major pictures while the rest has to take episodic roles and obscure productions. Once in a while there's a production that's popular based on star power rather than an interesting story. One major difference here is that the filmmakers rip off both the actors and the viewers. I find it outrageous that all those intelligent people are putting up with the "scientific publishing" scam.
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Those estimates are for the once-through open cycle associated with the PWR and BWR reactors. With IFR (ALMR) or similar pseudo-breeder reactors that don't need fuel reprocessing but rather burn close to 100% of uranium in a single pass (including U-238), the reserves increase twentyfold, and there's a lot of "spent" nuclear fuel that can be used in those reactors. There are also vast, practically untapped reserves of thorium which are several times larger than those of uranium.
Use of the term "supercooled" in this context is bogus. Something is supercooled if it remains a liquid, even though it should be a solid at those conditions (or it remains a gas where it should be a liquid). If you put a glass of very clean distilled water in a freezer you'll find out that you can cool it down to -7*C or lower without freezing. It will momentarily freeze if you drop a snow flake into it though, or when you hit the glass with a screwdriver.
(For the curious: this is because extremely small crystals and droplets have higher free enthalpy than the bulk phase due to surface effects, so their formation is inhibited.)
This has nothing to do with superconductors, because they are always solids and cannot be supercooled. For superconductors you're looking for "cooled below its critical temperature", but I admit that it doesn't sound as good as "supercooled".
I'm experiencing a similar issue on a TC1100 when I leave the display on the GDM login prompt, the edges of the screen become gray and look "burnt out". This slowly disappears upon logging in. Not sure what's causing this.
I second that. I have a relatively old TC1100, and its LCD quality is incredible. 180* viewing angle in both directions, legible in direct sunlight, perfect color balance. And it's far from new, I'm the second owner. Compared to it, new Amilos and Thinkpads are mediocre. Plus, it has a Wacom digitizer, so it can function as a poor man's Cintiq. The screen surface is hardened glass so it's very scratch-resistant. The only drawback is its slightly underpowered CPU (1,1 GHz Pentium M), but I don't notice it unless I'm rendering multi-megapixel PNGs from Inkscape or compiling large projects.
Space chemistry is completely unrelated to "normal" earthly chemistry - for example, the second most popular molcule in the universe is H3+ (after H2).
What is discussed here are molecules composed exclusively of 2 and 3 carbon atoms:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomic_carbon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricarbon
It just does things differently, the storage space is configured in files and databases are created with SQL queries. Essentially, after you install the MySQL package, you can just run the `mysql` client and create databases and users as you wish. I see that compared to this, pgsql requires some additional setup before getting at the SQL prompt.
Until Vista, SMB/CIFS didn't support IPv6, so sharing resources over an IPv6 local network didn't work. On top of that, 2005 is the year the "experimental" status was removed. In fact this status is rather conservative and many distros routinely ship kernels with experimental options enabled (e.g. tickless kernel, the WMI drivers, etc.)
You have things in reverse. A perfectly uniform container filled with gas has a higher entropy than a container with only a half of it filled with gas, because there are much more possible arrangements of individual molecules in the first case. Complex structures have low entropy (e.g. there are fewer equivalent microstates that correspond to a given macrostate). Low entropy = high complexity.
How about how a closed-source driver which gives my X 3d-accel is better than one that does not?
If I have a MIPS system and the manufacturer decided this platform isn't worthy of his attention, then I'm able to use the open driver to get *some* graphics, while I'm not able to use the closed driver at all.
Huh? At least in shows like House I have seen several instances where the dialogue from the next shot is heard before the shot actually changes.
I don't believe copying the MS Office 2007 ribbon is the way to go, but a more intuitive, clear and attractive interface would go a long way towards winning over more users.
Dockable dialogs like in Inkscape 0.46 are way better than the ribbon - they don't take up vertical space which is in direly short supply thanks to the taskbar, the window title bar and the ribbon, while the modern screens get broader rather than taller. The result is that you're left with either a tiny fragment of the document visible, or a lt of wasted screen space on the sides.
Cool. So everybody gets the mp3s and burns their own CDs, no one buys from you. How do you make money?
MP3s provided for free should be medium quality - 128 or 96 kbps, or 64 kbps OGG. The flood of legal low-quality MP3s would overwhelm high-quality ripped CD content in search results, so people who want high quality recordings will have to buy CDs.
This is brutal evidence that Xandros is shit.
I needed to get foreign languages installed on it.
I have no problem with that in Ubuntu. I use an English install with Polish spell checking, and I haven't had problems with it. Language pack support quality varies wildly between distros, so this is Xandros' fault.
I needed to get Blackberry charging drivers installed.
Out of date kernel - If I recall correctly those are in the mainline for a long time now, at least since 2.6.24.
Wanted to customize the shell
I suppose it's about .bashrc or something similar. restarting the terminal should reload the settings, but if it doesn't, you can do "source ~/.bashrc". Mind you, this is a pretty advanced topic.
Needed to install a VPN client.
Out of date Network Manager, or they're using something different altogether. Xandros fails again. Recent Network Manager versions have VPN support by default (though I don't have any personal experience with this).
Like others pointed out some time ago, most people preinstalling Linux are really going for "Microsoft tax evasion" rather than marketing it as a real OS. This is why they use random, totally obscure distributions instead of the big names (Ubuntu, Mandriva, Fedora, OpenSUSE), and the level of support is abysmal - sometimes some of the devices don't even work, and this is said in fine print somewhere. Until this stupidity stops, there won't be much progress.
Better: Dirac video, OGG audio, Matroska container. Every piece of your proposition is patented.
It looks like they will only use GET requests, not POST requests. You may have trouble if you use GET requests to make changes on your site (which nearly everybody with minimal experience knows you should never do).
Those are not nuclear reactors, but radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs). Rather than harnessing the energy from steam heated by the fission of heavy nuclei, they get the power directly from the heat of natural decay of radioactive isotopes using thermocouples. Link.
Current nuclear reactor designs, even the compact ones used on ships and submarines, are too large and too heavy to be sent into space.
No, no. Obviously you didn't read the Foundation novels.
The quote means that the competent will always find solutions before resorting to violence, because for every possible situation there is an option better than violence. The incompetent can't find any of those options and use force, which is never the optimal solution.
All Sony has tried to do with PS2/PS3 Linux is prevent decent game development, making Linux for the consoles nearly useless.
This is intended. Sony sells the consoles very close to costs or even with a loss and recoups that on games which have broad sales margins. Allowing access to the GPU would allow PS3s to be used in certain scientific projects (e.g. molecular dynamics computations) and as general purpose PCs, which would run counter to their business model. Linux on the PS3 is just pandering for the FOSS crowd and a very clever move to drastically reduce the number of PS3 hackers.
The talking woman is not an ad, it is a site element, so adblocker comments don't apply.
It was: Worms, Worms 2, Worms Armageddon, Worms World Party, Worms 3D
I installed Moonlight but the same message keeps appearing on the Democratic Convention site, and the Hard Rock Memorabilia site crashes FF. So much for Moonlight. It's a Microsoft perpetrated scam to fool people into thinking that Silverlight is portable to OSes not targeted by Microsoft.
Mono isn't a 1:1 implementation of .Net ... they are compatible with everything in 2.0 that matters.
And Wine is compatible with everything that matters in the Win32 API. That doesn't cause all programs that matter to run correctly.
Unfortunately Moonlight is nowhere near usable, at least for the average user. Additionally it will contain closed blobs of MS code because of the Novell-MS deal: read up
Except that a plugin is not available on Linux. MS touts Moonlight as a nearly complete port of Silverlight to Linux but in fact it's very far from being usable - even Gnash is light years ahead of Moonlight when compared with their closed source versions.
The authors argue that this situation makes the publishers, as they try to attract the hottest research to their pages, in a position analogous to bidders at an auction, and the authors analogous to sellers.
That's just not how it works. There are two classes of papers:
1. Papers that everyone knows will be valuable because they are made by the big names in the field. The author can choose where to publish, but in reality nothing like an auction happens. Those are uncommon.
2. Papers by new and relatively unknown people. Those make up the majority of papers. In this case it's the authors who try to publish in the best journal possible. High IF journal = more citations = more recognition.
If I were to make a comparison, it's more like show business than an auction. The stars play leading roles in major pictures while the rest has to take episodic roles and obscure productions. Once in a while there's a production that's popular based on star power rather than an interesting story. One major difference here is that the filmmakers rip off both the actors and the viewers. I find it outrageous that all those intelligent people are putting up with the "scientific publishing" scam.