We were talking about fusion bombs not fusion boosted bombs.
The link you provide says:
Thermonuclear Weapons Thermonuclear weapons, also called hydrogen bombs, get _most_ of their yield from the fusion reaction. As in the case of boosted fission weapons, they require a fission explosion (called the primary stage) to trigger the fusion (the secondary stage). However, unlike the boosted weapons, thermonuclear weapons contain a substantial amount of fusion fuel and most of their yield comes from fusion. These are the most powerful nuclear weapons, often with yields of a few megatons (a megaton is a million tons). A third fission stage can also be added to produce very high yield weapons. The most powerful nuclear weapon to have been tested so far is the Tsar Bomba, a 50 megaton three-stage weapon exploded by the USSR on 30th October, 1961. However it is not necessary for a thermonuclear weapon to have such high yields. The B61 (Mk-61) class of tactical thermonuclear weapons deployed by the USA have yields which can be adjusted to be as small as 0.3 kilotons (300 tons).
Thing is I think it takes less CPU and fancy chips to: 1) Look at a packet header 2) Decide which interface to send it to. 3) Send it out that interface 4) Keep track of tens of thousands of routes.
Than to: 1) Look at a packet 2) Decide whether it's part of a connection that should be throttled. 3a) Throttle it if it is 3b) Prepare to throttle if it might be - deep packet inspection, accounting etc 3c) Pass it if it is whitelisted etc. 4) Keep track of all the zillions of connections and throttling crap, in addition to the routes.
Sure pulling extra fibre costs money, but once you decide to pull it, I don't think it costs so much more to pull double or even triple the fibre.
Quote: For anyone that says that they eye is unable to see this resolution, you clearly haven't seen "Super HI-Vision" in real life.
Well that's their point;).
Maybe in the future we'll just put the feeds to our auxiliary video ports and bypass our crappy eyes. And we could do "telepathy" just by sending stuff to each other (and there's also telekinesis).
The big problems I see that will hold this back (or at least make it rather unpleasant) is DRM and copyright.
With the current state of things it most certainly won't be a penny for your thoughts. It would be considered THEIR thoughts, and it'll cost more:).
"Another example would be 5 businessmen on 5 different continents having a business meeting in virtual reality, VR"
Actually that sort of thing while good for psychological stuff, it is not very productive in general.
I believe the next generation are used to instant messaging, so if I were their boss and I felt like squeezing every last drop out of my staff, I'd _expect_ them to be able to be in more than one meeting at the same time.
How many of you have "idled" during meetings for _hours_ till "your turn" came up (if ever)? So instead of wasting time in serial, parallelize it and idle in more than one meeting at a time.
You could be in 5 different meetings at the same time and still cope well. You might even be able to chair one of the meetings at the same time:).
I should hope my staff can read faster than people can speak or type.
Then they can upload the chat logs (as "minutes") to the intranet site as records.
And I won't care if you're watching youtube (or even doing real work;) ) while in the meetings, as long as you are still reasonably "functional". Since you're not in the same room, nobody has to get distracted by whatever is on your screen, and it doesn't have to be considered "rude".
Just don't turn your webcam on at the wrong thing/time;).
The last I checked, education wasn't instantaneous.
So one option is - no email for the kid till the education gets to the appropriate stage.
I guess some people want their kids to have email first.
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Of course. But the flak vests come later.
First you protect the kids against spam, bad influences, premarital sex, etc.
Then at an age where if they had consensual sex it's still considered statutory rape (or child molestation) you send them to Iraq.
And that's when you give them flak vests.
BTW it seems that many parents bought body armor for their kids, because the military had a shortage of them or something.
Quote: Dan Britt paid about $1,400 for body armor for his son, a medic stationed in Kuwait who had orders to move into Baghdad. He recently heard his son received it.
"In war, as we've learned through all our history, who gets killed and who doesn't is just happenstance," said the father from Hamilton, Ohio. "But if I can raise the odds, then I'll feel better."
"This is also why as a Christian I cannot support religious people (Christian or otherwise) as government officials"
Why not? I see no problem as long as they can do a good job of it. Unless you think that being a government official has become synonymous with being corrupt and/or incompetent:).
Daniel was a religious person and I believe he did well as a government official, well enough that he served under more than one ruler.
As a Christian you are to be salt and light. What good is salt if not used. What good is light if it does not take away darkness?
Keep in mind though it's not good to be light (stand out - and make a difference) when you should be salt (blend in - and make a difference). Or blend in when you should stand out.
Someone has also said, when there's a good meal, people may praise the fish, the chef, etc, but nobody praises the salt (though its absence would have been noticeable). And that's the way it should be.
When you see someone saying in the effect "Support me because I am a christian" you should be very wary. Someone genuinely serving God will hardly ever say that sort of crap.
What I'd like is: take something like this + Crysis sort of graphics and make it into an Aliens vs Predator game.
Basically the Aliens will be able to wall hug/run and leap everywhere, the Predators can climb sheer walls (not as fast and they would leave claw marks for the observant, and also make some noise while climbing) and still do big jumps (not as far as aliens), and the Marines can do parkour if they want (but it's probably better to go about with really big gun, keep an eye on your motion detector and have another marine or two cover your butt;) ).
AVP2 the game was OK, but add nicer graphics and allow the Predators to climb stuff too.
What I didn't like with AC was in many situations I ended up in, you HAVE to target X, you have no choice. You can't go - ok let's do things a bit differently.
I guess AC is a decent movie with some playability:).
How about just voting for the candidate you like better?
Maybe if 10% or even 20% of the voters did that, even if those candidates don't win, maybe the two parties will start swinging towards the direction those voters prefer.
Right now if > 99% of the voters vote for the two parties, the two parties can claim they are representing > 99% of the voters.
So you'd be voting for "Same Old Same Old" or "Hit Me Baby One More Time".
Thing is, if you watched the opening via other channels, you'd know that the firework footprints you were seeing weren't real, BUT not faked - because the announcers/commentators would have told you that they weren't real.
Just because the channel you're watching doesn't tell you the details doesn't mean it's faked.
The Olympics ceremony was all a show. In movies they often have someone else singing instead of the star, in fact they also have body doubles. Given the amount of cheating in the Olympics, I'd cynically say that it's very in line with the real spirit of the games. Put on a good show and hope you don't get caught.
Lastly, while the Chinese are most certainly corrupt, there has been some accountability - the food safety head actually resigned. I believe the one before him was executed - he was found guilty of taking bribes etc.
They most certainly didn't get a USD20 million "golden parachute" package as a reward.
In the past few food safety scandals, the Chinese officials in charge have either been executed or they resigned.
So despite what the West likes to say about China, there is some form of accountability, it's not one of those simple Evil Dictatorships.
And there actually are elections in China[1], sure there is only one party, but hey how much choice do the US voters actually have in practice? I believe in the US they even have laws and systems that favour the Two Parties over the "Other Parties".
1) The range is 70 to 170. 2) If you can't afford any of the reviewed cards, stick to onboard video and wait for stuff to get cheaper (and/or save up some money).
I believe stuff like the War in Iraq is not included in the budget. It's an "extra", out of the budget. So...
Yes countries like China are also increasing their military spending too, but when the US Gov makes them bogeymen[1] to the US voters, you might wish to consider the way they see things.
When people see their crazy rich neighbour shoot up another neighbour's house (Iraq) for false reasons, don't be surprised when they start stockpiling weapons of their own, or start building nukes.
Can they really rely on the US Gov to not attack them if they "behave"? Or rely on the US voters to punish the US Gov for doing the wrong thing?
[1] Say what you like about China, in the past few food scares/scandals, there's been one official head _executed_, and one has resigned. Makes me wonder who actually has better accountability in practice. China is not one of those simple evil dictatorships as oft-painted by the West - they actually have elections (don't believe me? Look it up), yes there's only one party but the US isn't doing that well on choice either in practice.
And Iran? I think they still remember Operation Ajax;).
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We were talking about fusion bombs not fusion boosted bombs.
The link you provide says:
Thermonuclear Weapons
Thermonuclear weapons, also called hydrogen bombs, get _most_ of their yield from the fusion reaction. As in the case of boosted fission weapons, they require a fission explosion (called the primary stage) to trigger the fusion (the secondary stage). However, unlike the boosted weapons, thermonuclear weapons contain a substantial amount of fusion fuel and most of their yield comes from fusion. These are the most powerful nuclear weapons, often with yields of a few megatons (a megaton is a million tons). A third fission stage can also be added to produce very high yield weapons. The most powerful nuclear weapon to have been tested so far is the Tsar Bomba, a 50 megaton three-stage weapon exploded by the USSR on 30th October, 1961. However it is not necessary for a thermonuclear weapon to have such high yields. The B61 (Mk-61) class of tactical thermonuclear weapons deployed by the USA have yields which can be adjusted to be as small as 0.3 kilotons (300 tons).
I think your 1% figure is way off.
Esp given very few pure fission nukes get to the megaton region (zero official examples?).
The megaton bombs involve fusion (and are often called thermonuclear bombs).
These are different from "boosted" fission bombs.
Some people are working on making petrol engines more like diesel engines:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DiesOtto
Nonono, it's gene-nocide now :).
It's a lot harder to wiretap and archive traffic from 10000 x 1Gbps connections than it is for 10000 x 3mbps _throttled_ connections.
;).
Even if the archiving is for a short time, it can't be in RAM.
So maybe the USA is special
I spent hours trying to figure out how to exit the darn game properly.
OK I exaggerate, but I actually had to google for it.
In the end, I think alt-f4 is better than the "proper way" which is insane.
Thing is I think it takes less CPU and fancy chips to:
1) Look at a packet header
2) Decide which interface to send it to.
3) Send it out that interface
4) Keep track of tens of thousands of routes.
Than to:
1) Look at a packet
2) Decide whether it's part of a connection that should be throttled.
3a) Throttle it if it is
3b) Prepare to throttle if it might be - deep packet inspection, accounting etc
3c) Pass it if it is whitelisted etc.
4) Keep track of all the zillions of connections and throttling crap, in addition to the routes.
Sure pulling extra fibre costs money, but once you decide to pull it, I don't think it costs so much more to pull double or even triple the fibre.
Quote: For anyone that says that they eye is unable to see this resolution, you clearly haven't seen "Super HI-Vision" in real life.
;).
:).
Well that's their point
Maybe in the future we'll just put the feeds to our auxiliary video ports and bypass our crappy eyes. And we could do "telepathy" just by sending stuff to each other (and there's also telekinesis).
The big problems I see that will hold this back (or at least make it rather unpleasant) is DRM and copyright.
With the current state of things it most certainly won't be a penny for your thoughts. It would be considered THEIR thoughts, and it'll cost more
Oh well...
"Another example would be 5 businessmen on 5 different continents having a business meeting in virtual reality, VR"
:).
;) ) while in the meetings, as long as you are still reasonably "functional". Since you're not in the same room, nobody has to get distracted by whatever is on your screen, and it doesn't have to be considered "rude".
;).
Actually that sort of thing while good for psychological stuff, it is not very productive in general.
I believe the next generation are used to instant messaging, so if I were their boss and I felt like squeezing every last drop out of my staff, I'd _expect_ them to be able to be in more than one meeting at the same time.
How many of you have "idled" during meetings for _hours_ till "your turn" came up (if ever)? So instead of wasting time in serial, parallelize it and idle in more than one meeting at a time.
You could be in 5 different meetings at the same time and still cope well. You might even be able to chair one of the meetings at the same time
I should hope my staff can read faster than people can speak or type.
Then they can upload the chat logs (as "minutes") to the intranet site as records.
And I won't care if you're watching youtube (or even doing real work
Just don't turn your webcam on at the wrong thing/time
If you don't have a 30Gbps link, it doesn't really matter whether you're getting hit by 10000 x 3Mbps (30 Gbps) or 10000 x 1Gbps.
:).
It'll be hard for you to tell the difference
I think most sites don't even have a 1Gbps link.
I'm fine with it as long as this sort of thing stays in the USA.
It'll just make other countries relatively more competitive.
All you need is a high enough electric field and your typo injection efficiency will go up.
The last I checked, education wasn't instantaneous.
So one option is - no email for the kid till the education gets to the appropriate stage.
I guess some people want their kids to have email first.
Of course. But the flak vests come later.
First you protect the kids against spam, bad influences, premarital sex, etc.
Then at an age where if they had consensual sex it's still considered statutory rape (or child molestation) you send them to Iraq.
And that's when you give them flak vests.
BTW it seems that many parents bought body armor for their kids, because the military had a shortage of them or something.
Quote:
Dan Britt paid about $1,400 for body armor for his son, a medic stationed in Kuwait who had orders to move into Baghdad. He recently heard his son received it.
"In war, as we've learned through all our history, who gets killed and who doesn't is just happenstance," said the father from Hamilton, Ohio. "But if I can raise the odds, then I'll feel better."
"This is also why as a Christian I cannot support religious people (Christian or otherwise) as government officials"
:).
Why not? I see no problem as long as they can do a good job of it. Unless you think that being a government official has become synonymous with being corrupt and/or incompetent
Daniel was a religious person and I believe he did well as a government official, well enough that he served under more than one ruler.
As a Christian you are to be salt and light. What good is salt if not used. What good is light if it does not take away darkness?
Keep in mind though it's not good to be light (stand out - and make a difference) when you should be salt (blend in - and make a difference). Or blend in when you should stand out.
Someone has also said, when there's a good meal, people may praise the fish, the chef, etc, but nobody praises the salt (though its absence would have been noticeable). And that's the way it should be.
When you see someone saying in the effect "Support me because I am a christian" you should be very wary. Someone genuinely serving God will hardly ever say that sort of crap.
What I'd like is: take something like this + Crysis sort of graphics and make it into an Aliens vs Predator game.
;) ).
Basically the Aliens will be able to wall hug/run and leap everywhere, the Predators can climb sheer walls (not as fast and they would leave claw marks for the observant, and also make some noise while climbing) and still do big jumps (not as far as aliens), and the Marines can do parkour if they want (but it's probably better to go about with really big gun, keep an eye on your motion detector and have another marine or two cover your butt
AVP2 the game was OK, but add nicer graphics and allow the Predators to climb stuff too.
What I didn't like with AC was in many situations I ended up in, you HAVE to target X, you have no choice. You can't go - ok let's do things a bit differently.
:).
I guess AC is a decent movie with some playability
Aren't there more than two candidates?
How about just voting for the candidate you like better?
Maybe if 10% or even 20% of the voters did that, even if those candidates don't win, maybe the two parties will start swinging towards the direction those voters prefer.
Right now if > 99% of the voters vote for the two parties, the two parties can claim they are representing > 99% of the voters.
So you'd be voting for "Same Old Same Old" or "Hit Me Baby One More Time".
Thing is, if you watched the opening via other channels, you'd know that the firework footprints you were seeing weren't real, BUT not faked - because the announcers/commentators would have told you that they weren't real.
Just because the channel you're watching doesn't tell you the details doesn't mean it's faked.
The Olympics ceremony was all a show. In movies they often have someone else singing instead of the star, in fact they also have body doubles. Given the amount of cheating in the Olympics, I'd cynically say that it's very in line with the real spirit of the games. Put on a good show and hope you don't get caught.
Lastly, while the Chinese are most certainly corrupt, there has been some accountability - the food safety head actually resigned. I believe the one before him was executed - he was found guilty of taking bribes etc.
They most certainly didn't get a USD20 million "golden parachute" package as a reward.
Nah he just had to set his Reality Distortion Field to high and then everything was AOK.
In the past few food safety scandals, the Chinese officials in charge have either been executed or they resigned.
So despite what the West likes to say about China, there is some form of accountability, it's not one of those simple Evil Dictatorships.
And there actually are elections in China[1], sure there is only one party, but hey how much choice do the US voters actually have in practice? I believe in the US they even have laws and systems that favour the Two Parties over the "Other Parties".
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_the_People's_Republic_of_China
1) The range is 70 to 170.
2) If you can't afford any of the reviewed cards, stick to onboard video and wait for stuff to get cheaper (and/or save up some money).
I believe stuff like the War in Iraq is not included in the budget. It's an "extra", out of the budget. So...
;).
Yes countries like China are also increasing their military spending too, but when the US Gov makes them bogeymen[1] to the US voters, you might wish to consider the way they see things.
When people see their crazy rich neighbour shoot up another neighbour's house (Iraq) for false reasons, don't be surprised when they start stockpiling weapons of their own, or start building nukes.
Can they really rely on the US Gov to not attack them if they "behave"? Or rely on the US voters to punish the US Gov for doing the wrong thing?
[1] Say what you like about China, in the past few food scares/scandals, there's been one official head _executed_, and one has resigned. Makes me wonder who actually has better accountability in practice. China is not one of those simple evil dictatorships as oft-painted by the West - they actually have elections (don't believe me? Look it up), yes there's only one party but the US isn't doing that well on choice either in practice.
And Iran? I think they still remember Operation Ajax
But but but, that might mean getting out of the basement!
The sun, burns us it does!
AFAIK it doesn't specifically mention shellfish.
:).
The Bible says the Jews are not supposed to eat living creatures from seas or rivers that do not have scales.
There are many fish that aren't kosher as well - because they do not have scales.
And I guess that means whale and dolphin meat is out for them
As for genocide, that's part of God's judgement on the Canaanites.