>The fact that there were no injuries or deaths from the result of an accident or incident is mute.
Well, it's moot, but I'm not going to argue grammar, because that's lame.:-)
Anyways, if you want to hit my car, never hurt me, and pay to fix it all the time, you can come over and do that anytime. I won't even phone the cops. Why?
In my opinion, no harm, no foul.
>In an industry with a statisticaly insignifigant accident rate, such as commercial aviation in the US, you have to look at the maximum potental harm in order to run an effective safety program. An engine failure on the ground and an engine failure on takeoff can be caused by the exact same human error but in one case people die and in the other we replace an engine.
Yeah, well, like I've said, I'm not interested in doomsday scenarios. If I was, I wouldn't care too much about nukes considering an asteroid is gonna kill us all in no time flat.
How many times do I have to link this baby? It's so BORING.
>All nuclear reactors produce highly radioactive waste that will remain highly radioactive for thousands of years. The cost of storing the waste will be far more than the benefits of the cheap electricity... that is if you actually believe nuclear energy is cheap (i'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you do realize it aint free)
WRONG. A dry storage facility costs next to NOTHING to run.
>hmmm so its not clean, not safe, risky, and very dangerous.
Again, why don't you check out my link? It's just as verified. In fact, if you want some real info, run my link by some scientists. I think they'll agree, your site is scaremongering, end of the world, dogma-type info.
>CANDU reactors are much more safe for sure, since the highly radioactive waste they produce that has to be stored for thousands of years only contains traces of plutonium. Enriched unranium for bombs can still be made from a CANDU. Sprinkle that on your cornflakes.
Yes, and sulphur makes a great bomb also. Should we ban that element?
You aren't making any sense. Thousands of years?
Unshielded, the radiation dose measured at a distance of 30 cm from a used CANDU fuel bundle, one year following discharge, would be about 50 - 60 Sv/h (5000 - 6000 rem/h) [1], which is lethal after a few minutes' exposure. The radiation level drops to about 1 Sv/h after 50 years, 0.3 Sv/h after 100 years, and less than 0.001 Sv/h (100 mrem/h) after 500 years. At this time the major hazard from the used fuel is no longer one of external exposure; for example, by these estimates, spending an hour about a foot away from a 500-year-old CANDU fuel bundle would result in radiation dose about 1/4 of the average annual background exposure
If I were an ant, I'd be worried. But I'm not. I'm a human, and standing a few miles away from unshielded fresh waste is safe RIGHT NOW. In 500 years I can pick it up with my hands. Where's the thousands of years come in???
>How do you save a nuclear plant from a 9/11 type attack and still keep the costs of the electricity affordable? A hit by a plane would be the ultimate dirty bomb.
LOL. Canada has that one locked up. We simply don't get the CSIS to fund and train the terrorists in the first place. Also, we don't provide them with weapons.
Last but not least, we don't piss off the rest of the world.
Pretty simple, really.
>What about the tens of billions it costs to shut down an old nuclear plant?
Dude, that's seriously insane talk. That's Ontario's entire GDP for a few months. You're talking about the impossible, yet we sucessfully shut down Bruce without turning Ontario into a Labour camp.
>Anything run by humans has the chance of being managed poorly, your ignorance on this subject is an example of how complacency and then disasters happen.
You have to be the MOST ignorant person on slashdot on this topic. You REALLY, REALLY, REALLY need to validate those arguments. Especially the claim that shutting down a nuclear power plant would require Ontarians to work for months without even buying food, just for the government to shut down a power plant. I find that difficult to believe, because I live and work there, and my taxes are high, but they aren't _that_ high.
>Right. But you forgot to mention that these football fields are going to require a high-tech cooling system 24x7 for the forseeable future so that they don't melt into pools of plutonium-laced magma.
In fact, immediately upon removal from the reactor core, a used CANDU fuel bundle generates about 10% of the heat that it produced in the core, but this figure drops to about 1% only a day after removal, and less than 0.1% after a year has passed. The average heat generation of a fuel bundle at this point (one year) is about 60 W -- comparable to a household lightbulb.
If "the forseeable future" is 1 year after use, again, we can handle it. After that, well, I suppose the fuel rod _could_ melt a little ice within a few inches of it... But why wouldn't you just encase it in concrete anyways? You don't want that stuff so easy to get at anyways!
>The danger comes when a suicide terrorist commando squad attacks the spent fuel storage pond.
And the same danger comes when a terrorist flies a plane into the bottom of the CN tower.
No sense in worrying about things that aren't preventable. Oh wait, they won't happen here because, in general, the world doesn't hate us.:-)
>an internal report concluded that the province's utility company was so badly managed that it had compromised the safety of its entire nuclear power system.
LOL. You still haven't shown me any evidence it is dangerous.
If a "compromise in safety" results in 0 deaths, and 0 injuries, well, that's a price I'm willing to pay.
In fact, I bet more people have been injured/died finding "clean" alternatives than have been hurt in a CANDU power plant (excluding common office injuries, like stapling one's balls to the desk).
Here's the truth about that shutdown, also from a somewhat-biased source (I guess they cancel each other out?).
The truth is, they are increasing performance:
a phased recovery of "12/16/20" whereby in Phase 1, the utility will focus its resources on resolving the identified issues and improving the performance of the 12 existing units (Bruce B, Pickering B, and Darlington) build and establish the managerial and technical infrastructure to sustain the expected level of performance
The truth also is, you've eaten media hype and lies up hook, line, and sinker (this time unbiased, notice the quotation marks):
The report, publicly released on August 13, 1997, despite finding that "all of the plants were being operated in a manner that meets defined regulations and accepted standards related to nuclear safety", was highly critical of Ontario Hydro's managerial and operational procedures.
>What about the huge greenhouse gas potential created by the constant release of hydrogen into the atmosphere?
What the HELL are you talking about?
Saying CO2 is causing greenhouse gasses is bad enough.
Hydrogen? That's just plain old bullshit.
>Recall that in the 1950's nuclear energy was advertised to be not only clean and safe, but as a source of unlimited free energy.
And it still is. Nothing has changed. The nuclear power plants that went loco were poorly managed to the point of insanity.
Find me a CANDU reactor that's a danger, and I'll show you a liar.
BTW: All the world's plutonium output from those CANDU reactors will fit in a few football fields, IIRC. And that's all of it. If it keeps you eco-bullshitters happy, I bet Canada will give you the north pole for it.
If it's such a great design, why are the parts so *EXPENSIVE*?
If time is money, and it takes 2 minutes extra on a PC to swap a power supply as compared to the mac design, unless I'm getting paid $10,000 an hour, I'll take the PC.
In fact, according to this description, it sounds like a big PITA to adjust a Mac. I know my local college decided to go with re-installing the Macs to "clean" them, rather than using a hard drive image. They tried using hard drive images -- it was simply more pain to remove the hard drives and re-image than it was to simply format and start again.
Most manufacturers of commodity items don't sell to end users. Heck, they don't even like selling directly to dealers (but most will, if they don't sell in your country [Yes, winegard has not a single official wholesaler in Canada]).
You need to find a satellite dealer. They shouldn't have *ANY* trouble getting you a vast selection of dishes, including those made by Winegard (which, surprisingly for an american part, are well priced, and are well built).
>The highway in question (as in station wagon travelling on) was the Highway (7? it's been a long time)
Yup, it's highway 7. I drive on that road twice daily. It's getting packed solid at rush hour at the very end of it now (Victoria St.)
>but my calculation of the bandwidth of Hwy 7 was based on a couple of boxes of 2400' reels of 6250 BPI tape (standard IBM mainframe tape size) in a car (or station wagon) travelling at the posted 90 km/h speed limit.
It's now:
50 km/h (section of Victoria St.) 60 km/h (another section of Victoria St.) 70 km/h (ANOTHER section of Victoria St.) 80 km/h (part most of Hwy. 7)
BTW: Take the shortcut through Maryhill using Shantz Station Rd. + Woodlawn Rd. Most people are driving over 120 km/h on that road without fuzz trouble.:-) Or take the secondary detour past Woodland Christian High School. It's a bit faster.
I wouldn't dare do under 100 km/h on the 80 stretch of Hwy 7. I'd get run over... Nobody does the speed limit in the country. Well, city slickers do.
>Things aren't as black and white as you think they are.
Sure they are.
What if you have a book, black text on white paper. You decide to republish the book inverted, white text on black paper.
Is that copyright infringement? YES.
Just like all your other examples.
If you purposely make a copy of an original, and only change the language/format, you're violating copyright.
Now, let's say you like the look of the new Prius. You take one, and make the same outside look, and same cabin look, but all with your own parts. You've not even looked under the hood. That's OK (or so I think, IANAL).
>There has a been a huge push to get high-speed Internet to small, rural communites.
LOL. Unless you mean high speed is going from a 19.2 kbps connection to a $100 per gig satellite connection, you're way off.
There's been a huge push to get medium -> huge cities linked. Nothing more at all.
The only "rural" links are HEAVILY filtered internet access to schools. And no, AFAIK, there's no way for residents living near those schools to use it at home. I'd ask, but I don't want internet service that prevents me from visiting nintendo.com
>Countries like Canada, however, fare a lot better than the UK, yet their population density is a mere fraction of that in the UK.
There's a simple answer to that. Broadband is only available to medium to major cities in Canada. These comprise a healthy percentage of the population.
However, by area, at most perhaps 1% of Canada is wired. And a lot of those cities, when you get to the fringes, don't have any broadband either. I know I don't. And people 5 minutes from my store in a Canadian metropolis (def: 100,000 population or more) don't either.
This is just standard procedure for bell, etc here.
Let's not forget that broadband in Canada starts at about 500 kbps (ExpressVU wallet rape satellite internet [$100 per gig]), which makes it pretty easy to get also. Most standard DSL connections are about 1 mbps...
>You ever look at that hole that is at the top of your controller and wonder what it is for? That's for a memory card buddy. Being that it is slot shaped, I'd have to say that's a memory card slot
Then why is it the only peripheral I've ever seen anybody plug in there is the Live headset?
Perhaps because the part is perpetually out of stock and totally unpopular?
Perhaps because, as far as I can tell, there's no transfer utility?
What good is a memory card if I can't get the data from the hard drive to it?
Then again, since, as I've said, none of the other dozen people I know with Xboxes own one of these memory cards (that aren't available, even at all of Canada's largest electronics superstores, or at least the ones near me), perhaps there is a hidden menu to copy saved games that will magically show up when I turn on my Xbox. I don't know. I've not seen it yet.
Can you enlighten me? I know there's a lot of hidden stuff in that horrid dashboard software, perhaps this is one of those items.
>But they were wrong, because at that time, the exchange rate was at a point where $299 still meant a profit.
As a PS2 modder, I'd put it more down to a more simplified design.
The original PS2 was extraordinarialy poorly designed. To the point that the pair of motherboards were SOLDERED together with a heatsink sandwiched between. Imagine soldering your PCI cards into your motherboard. It's crazy.
The new PS2s use a single motherboard design with a power supply that isn't soldered in. The material for the motherboard seems to be cheaper (thinner) too.
Also, the various hookup cables have been reduced to a minimum and simplified where possible. Plus at least one chip was changed to a BGA package, reducing costs further.
So I'd guess it's just older technology getting cheaper + a redesign.
The Xbox has undergone similar, but far less drastic changes over time.
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>The fact that there were no injuries or deaths from the result of an accident or incident is mute.
:-)
Well, it's moot, but I'm not going to argue grammar, because that's lame.
Anyways, if you want to hit my car, never hurt me, and pay to fix it all the time, you can come over and do that anytime. I won't even phone the cops. Why?
In my opinion, no harm, no foul.
>In an industry with a statisticaly insignifigant accident rate, such as commercial aviation in the US, you have to look at the maximum potental harm in order to run an effective safety program. An engine failure on the ground and an engine failure on takeoff can be caused by the exact same human error but in one case people die and in the other we replace an engine.
Yeah, well, like I've said, I'm not interested in doomsday scenarios. If I was, I wouldn't care too much about nukes considering an asteroid is gonna kill us all in no time flat.
How many times do I have to link this baby? It's so BORING.
... that is if you actually believe nuclear energy is cheap (i'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you do realize it aint free)
>All nuclear reactors produce highly radioactive waste that will remain highly radioactive for thousands of years. The cost of storing the waste will be far more than the benefits of the cheap electricity
WRONG. A dry storage facility costs next to NOTHING to run.
Here's some help.
>hmmm so its not clean, not safe, risky, and very dangerous.
Again, why don't you check out my link? It's just as verified. In fact, if you want some real info, run my link by some scientists. I think they'll agree, your site is scaremongering, end of the world, dogma-type info.
>CANDU reactors are much more safe for sure, since the highly radioactive waste they produce that has to be stored for thousands of years only contains traces of plutonium. Enriched unranium for bombs can still be made from a CANDU. Sprinkle that on your cornflakes.
Yes, and sulphur makes a great bomb also. Should we ban that element?
You aren't making any sense. Thousands of years?
Unshielded, the radiation dose measured at a distance of 30 cm from a used CANDU fuel bundle, one year following discharge, would be about 50 - 60 Sv/h (5000 - 6000 rem/h) [1], which is lethal after a few minutes' exposure. The radiation level drops to about 1 Sv/h after 50 years, 0.3 Sv/h after 100 years, and less than 0.001 Sv/h (100 mrem/h) after 500 years. At this time the major hazard from the used fuel is no longer one of external exposure; for example, by these estimates, spending an hour about a foot away from a 500-year-old CANDU fuel bundle would result in radiation dose about 1/4 of the average annual background exposure
If I were an ant, I'd be worried. But I'm not. I'm a human, and standing a few miles away from unshielded fresh waste is safe RIGHT NOW. In 500 years I can pick it up with my hands. Where's the thousands of years come in???
>How do you save a nuclear plant from a 9/11 type attack and still keep the costs of the electricity affordable? A hit by a plane would be the ultimate dirty bomb.
LOL. Canada has that one locked up. We simply don't get the CSIS to fund and train the terrorists in the first place. Also, we don't provide them with weapons.
Last but not least, we don't piss off the rest of the world.
Pretty simple, really.
>What about the tens of billions it costs to shut down an old nuclear plant?
Dude, that's seriously insane talk. That's Ontario's entire GDP for a few months. You're talking about the impossible, yet we sucessfully shut down Bruce without turning Ontario into a Labour camp.
>Anything run by humans has the chance of being managed poorly, your ignorance on this subject is an example of how complacency and then disasters happen.
You have to be the MOST ignorant person on slashdot on this topic. You REALLY, REALLY, REALLY need to validate those arguments. Especially the claim that shutting down a nuclear power plant would require Ontarians to work for months without even buying food, just for the government to shut down a power plant. I find that difficult to believe, because I live and work there, and my taxes are high, but they aren't _that_ high.
>Right. But you forgot to mention that these football fields are going to require a high-tech cooling system 24x7 for the forseeable future so that they don't melt into pools of plutonium-laced magma.
:-)
No I didn't. That's not necessary at all.
Why not read up on it?
In fact, immediately upon removal from the reactor core, a used CANDU fuel bundle generates about 10% of the heat that it produced in the core, but this figure drops to about 1% only a day after removal, and less than 0.1% after a year has passed. The average heat generation of a fuel bundle at this point (one year) is about 60 W -- comparable to a household lightbulb.
If "the forseeable future" is 1 year after use, again, we can handle it. After that, well, I suppose the fuel rod _could_ melt a little ice within a few inches of it... But why wouldn't you just encase it in concrete anyways? You don't want that stuff so easy to get at anyways!
>The danger comes when a suicide terrorist commando squad attacks the spent fuel storage pond.
And the same danger comes when a terrorist flies a plane into the bottom of the CN tower.
No sense in worrying about things that aren't preventable. Oh wait, they won't happen here because, in general, the world doesn't hate us.
>an internal report concluded that the province's utility company was so badly managed that it had compromised the safety of its entire nuclear power system.
LOL. You still haven't shown me any evidence it is dangerous.
If a "compromise in safety" results in 0 deaths, and 0 injuries, well, that's a price I'm willing to pay.
In fact, I bet more people have been injured/died finding "clean" alternatives than have been hurt in a CANDU power plant (excluding common office injuries, like stapling one's balls to the desk).
Here's the truth about that shutdown, also from a somewhat-biased source (I guess they cancel each other out?).
The truth is, they are increasing performance:
a phased recovery of "12/16/20" whereby in Phase 1, the utility will focus its resources on resolving the identified issues and improving the performance of the 12 existing units (Bruce B, Pickering B, and Darlington)
build and establish the managerial and technical infrastructure to sustain the expected level of performance
The truth also is, you've eaten media hype and lies up hook, line, and sinker (this time unbiased, notice the quotation marks):
The report, publicly released on August 13, 1997, despite finding that "all of the plants were being operated in a manner that meets defined regulations and accepted standards related to nuclear safety", was highly critical of Ontario Hydro's managerial and operational procedures.
>What about the huge greenhouse gas potential created by the constant release of hydrogen into the atmosphere?
What the HELL are you talking about?
Saying CO2 is causing greenhouse gasses is bad enough.
Hydrogen? That's just plain old bullshit.
>Recall that in the 1950's nuclear energy was advertised to be not only clean and safe, but as a source of unlimited free energy.
And it still is. Nothing has changed. The nuclear power plants that went loco were poorly managed to the point of insanity.
Find me a CANDU reactor that's a danger, and I'll show you a liar.
BTW: All the world's plutonium output from those CANDU reactors will fit in a few football fields, IIRC. And that's all of it. If it keeps you eco-bullshitters happy, I bet Canada will give you the north pole for it.
Maybe 4 years ago they quit, but I can assure you, they're making a HUGE comeback.
50% of my motherboards have video built in. One of them, surprisingly, has some decent video built in -- an onboard GeForce 4 MX.
If it's such a great design, why are the parts so *EXPENSIVE*?
If time is money, and it takes 2 minutes extra on a PC to swap a power supply as compared to the mac design, unless I'm getting paid $10,000 an hour, I'll take the PC.
In fact, according to this description, it sounds like a big PITA to adjust a Mac. I know my local college decided to go with re-installing the Macs to "clean" them, rather than using a hard drive image. They tried using hard drive images -- it was simply more pain to remove the hard drives and re-image than it was to simply format and start again.
>Plus the fact that you can get Office 2003 for less than $50 on a Select License Agreement.
PER USER.
Which, for users that don't spend the entire day infront of a computer, means lots of wasted licenses.
>Ethernet is not broadband. Broadband does not mean "fast".
:-)
Well thank you so much for clearing up the difference between analog and digital signalling.
While you did that, I think I saw the world passing you by...
Most manufacturers of commodity items don't sell to end users. Heck, they don't even like selling directly to dealers (but most will, if they don't sell in your country [Yes, winegard has not a single official wholesaler in Canada]).
You need to find a satellite dealer. They shouldn't have *ANY* trouble getting you a vast selection of dishes, including those made by Winegard (which, surprisingly for an american part, are well priced, and are well built).
Yes.
I'll sell you a 30" new dish without an LNB (not primestar branded) for $75 CDN. Shipping not included. Add LNB for $10 CDN.
If you're paying $50 US for a heavily used OLD dish, you're being ripped off in a VERY big way.
So it can use 1/10 watt to power the standby LED and IR receiver, of course.
Holy crap, with letter size paper that's...
660,000 inches per hour...
Or, 16.764 km/h of paper.
It could be slower if it prints sideways.
>The highway in question (as in station wagon travelling on) was the Highway (7? it's been a long time)
:-) Or take the secondary detour past Woodland Christian High School. It's a bit faster.
Yup, it's highway 7. I drive on that road twice daily. It's getting packed solid at rush hour at the very end of it now (Victoria St.)
>but my calculation of the bandwidth of Hwy 7 was based on a couple of boxes of 2400' reels of 6250 BPI tape (standard IBM mainframe tape size) in a car (or station wagon) travelling at the posted 90 km/h speed limit.
It's now:
50 km/h (section of Victoria St.)
60 km/h (another section of Victoria St.)
70 km/h (ANOTHER section of Victoria St.)
80 km/h (part most of Hwy. 7)
BTW: Take the shortcut through Maryhill using Shantz Station Rd. + Woodlawn Rd. Most people are driving over 120 km/h on that road without fuzz trouble.
I wouldn't dare do under 100 km/h on the 80 stretch of Hwy 7. I'd get run over... Nobody does the speed limit in the country. Well, city slickers do.
Glad to see someone from the U of W here.
Closed source code that's this short?
God help us all!
>it would make it harder for individuals to protect themselves from real criminals and borderline sociopaths.
Yes, because all software developers spend their lives in fear that Johnny might be using a pirate copy of their software to murder people with.
Fortunately, even "art" doesn't have the look and feel copyrighted.
If two artists do an oil painting of the same scene, who has violated whose copyright?
I mean, the results should be similar. But they are still different.
Hopefully, the answer is neither.
>Things aren't as black and white as you think they are.
Sure they are.
What if you have a book, black text on white paper. You decide to republish the book inverted, white text on black paper.
Is that copyright infringement? YES.
Just like all your other examples.
If you purposely make a copy of an original, and only change the language/format, you're violating copyright.
Now, let's say you like the look of the new Prius. You take one, and make the same outside look, and same cabin look, but all with your own parts. You've not even looked under the hood. That's OK (or so I think, IANAL).
>There has a been a huge push to get high-speed Internet to small, rural communites.
LOL. Unless you mean high speed is going from a 19.2 kbps connection to a $100 per gig satellite connection, you're way off.
There's been a huge push to get medium -> huge cities linked. Nothing more at all.
The only "rural" links are HEAVILY filtered internet access to schools. And no, AFAIK, there's no way for residents living near those schools to use it at home. I'd ask, but I don't want internet service that prevents me from visiting nintendo.com
>Countries like Canada, however, fare a lot better than the UK, yet their population density is a mere fraction of that in the UK.
There's a simple answer to that. Broadband is only available to medium to major cities in Canada. These comprise a healthy percentage of the population.
However, by area, at most perhaps 1% of Canada is wired. And a lot of those cities, when you get to the fringes, don't have any broadband either. I know I don't. And people 5 minutes from my store in a Canadian metropolis (def: 100,000 population or more) don't either.
This is just standard procedure for bell, etc here.
Let's not forget that broadband in Canada starts at about 500 kbps (ExpressVU wallet rape satellite internet [$100 per gig]), which makes it pretty easy to get also. Most standard DSL connections are about 1 mbps...
>And what's the big deal with PPPoE?
The same big deal with IP over IPX. It's a hack, and not a particularly well implemented one either.
Give it up AC.
Do you have any clue how much it would cost to get that from the US to my hands in Canada?
Enough that I'll pass on that one.
It's really about $80 of STFU.
But you'd know that if you had a world view outside of Buttfuck, TX.
>You ever look at that hole that is at the top of your controller and wonder what it is for? That's for a memory card buddy. Being that it is slot shaped, I'd have to say that's a memory card slot
Then why is it the only peripheral I've ever seen anybody plug in there is the Live headset?
Perhaps because the part is perpetually out of stock and totally unpopular?
Perhaps because, as far as I can tell, there's no transfer utility?
What good is a memory card if I can't get the data from the hard drive to it?
Then again, since, as I've said, none of the other dozen people I know with Xboxes own one of these memory cards (that aren't available, even at all of Canada's largest electronics superstores, or at least the ones near me), perhaps there is a hidden menu to copy saved games that will magically show up when I turn on my Xbox. I don't know. I've not seen it yet.
Can you enlighten me? I know there's a lot of hidden stuff in that horrid dashboard software, perhaps this is one of those items.
I'm looking for the memory card slot on my Xbox.
4 controller ports... nope.
1 AV port... nope.
1 AC port... nope.
1 ethernet jack... hmmm... nope.
DVD drive? Nope.
So, where is it again?
>But they were wrong, because at that time, the exchange rate was at a point where $299 still meant a profit.
As a PS2 modder, I'd put it more down to a more simplified design.
The original PS2 was extraordinarialy poorly designed. To the point that the pair of motherboards were SOLDERED together with a heatsink sandwiched between. Imagine soldering your PCI cards into your motherboard. It's crazy.
The new PS2s use a single motherboard design with a power supply that isn't soldered in. The material for the motherboard seems to be cheaper (thinner) too.
Also, the various hookup cables have been reduced to a minimum and simplified where possible. Plus at least one chip was changed to a BGA package, reducing costs further.
So I'd guess it's just older technology getting cheaper + a redesign.
The Xbox has undergone similar, but far less drastic changes over time.