There are lots of different reactor designs. Quite a few of the more modern designs are very safe.
Also, while Uranium might be a limited resource, one can always reprocess the spent fuel. Furthermore, one could do more research into Thorium reactors.
I've been a linux-only user since 1999. In that time, I've gone from KDE 1.X to 4.X (Okay, 4.x is still crap, 3.x was better:-). I've been through a huge load of linux distros (slack, debian, redhat, suse, mandrake, ubuntu, etc).
I don't regret it. I have a system I understand. I've learned way more about how computers and the internet works, than I would have if I had stayed with windows.
There certainly are things in Linux that aren't entirely up to scratch, even to this day. Sound is one of them. While there is plenty of options, they all suck in different and all non-interesting ways.
And then of course there is the problem of games. While there does exist a few, it is rather annoying to have to go through hoops with wine to get the games to run properly.
But would I switch back? I think not. The first thing I do when my computer is booted is to fire up a couple of xterms, since that's where I do most of my stuff. I can understand that not everyone wants be fiddling around in "the terminal" all the time, but that's where I feel at home.:-)
As a Norwegian, I'll have to say that Swedish is pretty darn simple to both speak and to understand.:-)
Oh. Right. Maybe because Norwegian is just as damn difficult for freigners, and so closely related to swedish that the two languages can be considered dialects of eachother.
So, in other words, they want a trillion-flops thingie.
A quintillion on the other hand, is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (10^30).. except of course, in the US. Which uses that silly 'short scale' numbering system.
I learned computers by having my own, and learning on my own. Without a parent trying to tell me what was right or wrong. If you don't know enough about computers to do this on your own - why not let the 15 year old admin the network until the second kid turns 15 - then leave the duties to him, until the third kid turns 15 ?
Why do you want to limit what information the kids have access to? Isn't it better that they can browse the web and learn - without being limited? Give them general parental guidance, of course.
Teach them to build character, but don't limit their exploration options.
Sure they'll get hold of things you think are unsuitable. They'll do that no matter what. What do you do if you encounter them with the Anarchists Cookbook? You _talk_ to them. You tell them how unsafe it would be for them to try those things out, and you refer them to the wikipedia article that'll tell them quite simply that most of that stuff will blow up in their faces if they ever try to cook any of it.
Let them discover the web for themselves, and discover the world around them on their own. Without artificial limits.
I actually think it's perfect for us consumers that the various selling-points force the price downwards. It means that I as a consumer will get my goodies for a cheaper price.
Maybe you should read up on the population density of sweden instead of Europe.
Your argument is false. The population density of Sweden is smaller than the population density of California.
Ooops. Your argument suddenly went down the drain. Sorry. Woops. Oh. You didn't read TFA or anything about what you were arguing about? Oh, how slashdot of you.
If these friends and family want your help every so often to "fix" stuff that doesn't work with their computer - then they should change to whatever YOU feel most comfortable with.
I've told my family that I Do Not Do Windows. At all. If they've got windows-questions, they'll have to go somewhere else. (If you think I'm being mean, I'm not. I haven't used windows on any of my computers since 1999).
If friends/family/others want my help with computers, they'll have to use Linux.
Oh, and Niburu. Meh, I've heard about that conspiracy for too many years already. Strange how the date when the world is going to end keeps changing. 2012 was it? Well, I'm always willing to bet you that during 2010, the Niburu-conspiracy-nuts are going to discover that "Oh, our math was wrong, it's actually 2018".
I only have my own anecdote about this, but I kind of like it.
Back around '00, I had several computers (I still do, but that's beside the point). I had my main desktop, and I had this nice old Pentium 200. I also had a TV-card (Hauppage, I think). If I tried using the TV-card on my main desktop, it would be hellishly slow for doing other things. In addition to some of my screen being covered by the TV-window, of course.
So, I installed the Hauppage card in the P200, which was running stock FreeBSD. It worked, sort of, but the machine was almost unusable for other things.
I tuned the kernel, fiddled with compiler flags, and remade the world.
And what do you think? The entire machine went from lurching slow to usable, while displaying TV. It was the "little extra boost" that was needed.
Now, of course, I don't think it would be of much use to me in most cases these days - as machines have grown so extremely much faster since back then. But, it's the story I tell whenever people ask about performance boosts from recompiling everything.
I've long wondered about a few things when it comes to desalination, desert areas etc.
If it's cheap to make water with this process and remove the salt - would it be a good idea to create a huge bunch of these machines in desert-areas, pumping desalinated water into fields to promote vegetation to grow, fighting back the desert? I would think this wouldn't require the water to be further cleaned, after removing the salts..
Am I completely off my rockers, or is it a maybe-sort-of workable idea?
I'm no microsoft user, but blaming microsoft for "trusting by default in the network" is just wrong.
Ever heard of SMTP? NIS? NFS? Ever heard of open DNS servers? Smurf (being able to ping broadcast addresses)? Fraggle? How about finger? ident? IRC?
Blaming MS is all good fun, but we can't really blame them for the "trusting by default in the network" model. They're guilty of it TOO, but they didn't lay the groundwork there. Internet, that is "the network", has a history of very open protocols with almost zero authentication. To try to blame that on Microsoft is just wrong.
No, deletion is modification. == Phonecall 1: Hi John, you remember that tomorrow is the day we'll gather? At 9pm? You'll be there? Cool.
Phonecall 2: Hi Mark, remember the roleplaying session tomorrow? At 9pm? You'll be there?
[Two days later]
Phonecall 3: Yeah, hi Dianne. Yeah, too bad you couldn't make it. The group has finalized the plans on how to kill the president. We'll go ahead next week, same time. You have to be there! ==
Now delete phonecall 2 from the records... would that be.. uhm.. tampering with evidence?;P
"Right". I can only talk about Norway and not the rest of the Nordic countries, but:
1. Free healthcare. "Yes and no". You pay $20 or so as 'your share' to visit your GP. You pay for your medication up to a certain amount per year (say $300 or thereabouts). If you need more expensive treatment - then that's covered by the state. However, there is rather long queues for most things. If I want to go to the doctor where I currently live (Ireland), I just pop down to the local medical center and ask when the next available slot is. It's usually within half an hour / one hour. In Norway, I often had to wait 2+ *weeks* before the doctor had an open slot.
2. Free education. Well, yes. However, the free education is directed at the lowest common denominator. There is no chance to excel for the smart kids, in Norwegian schools. If you're smarter than average, you're SOL. Sure, you get 12 years of almost free education.. but the quality of the education is rather crap.
3. Long child-care leave. Hell yeah! That's a very, very good point. 14 months to be shared between mother and father - in Norway.... but again, there is a caveat. If the mother doesn't have work for X months before the baby is born, then the father get.. zero days off. I don't remember the value of X. But no matter, it's a heck of a lot better than in most parts of the world!
All in all, I'm rather glad that I've left Norway.:^P
I've had a resume modified by a headhunter once. I submitted my resume to the headhunter, and got an interview with a company a week later. All well and good. The headhunter was not certain how I would do interviews (and wanted to be able to advice me if it went bad), and the company I was being interviewed at agreed to her request about her sitting in on the interview.
Half-way into the interview they asked me about my Oracle skills, and some SQL questions. I was a tad puzzled and said that I'm not very much into Oracle. They pointed out that I had it listed on my CV.. whereupon I was a tad confused and asked to see "my CV".
Much to my surprise, my minor mention of "have installed and configured Oracle IAS" had turned into "Experienced Oracle DBA".
I looked at my interviewer, then cocked my head towards my recruiter and asked "Uhm, I think someone have rewritten this for me...", whereupon the recruiters face became a deep shade of red.
The rest of the interview went very well, and I did get the job, as a Unix-admin.
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Bullshit.
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There are lots of different reactor designs. Quite a few of the more modern designs are very safe.
Also, while Uranium might be a limited resource, one can always reprocess the spent fuel. Furthermore, one could do more research into Thorium reactors.
Some of us wasn't appologetical about it.
I've been a linux-only user since 1999. In that time, I've gone from KDE 1.X to 4.X (Okay, 4.x is still crap, 3.x was better :-). I've been through a huge load of linux distros (slack, debian, redhat, suse, mandrake, ubuntu, etc).
I don't regret it. I have a system I understand. I've learned way more about how computers and the internet works, than I would have if I had stayed with windows.
There certainly are things in Linux that aren't entirely up to scratch, even to this day. Sound is one of them. While there is plenty of options, they all suck in different and all non-interesting ways.
And then of course there is the problem of games. While there does exist a few, it is rather annoying to have to go through hoops with wine to get the games to run properly.
But would I switch back? I think not. The first thing I do when my computer is booted is to fire up a couple of xterms, since that's where I do most of my stuff. I can understand that not everyone wants be fiddling around in "the terminal" all the time, but that's where I feel at home. :-)
As a Norwegian, I'll have to say that Swedish is pretty darn simple to both speak and to understand. :-)
Oh. Right. Maybe because Norwegian is just as damn difficult for freigners, and so closely related to swedish that the two languages can be considered dialects of eachother.
Nono:
1,000,000 = million (10^6) (mega)
1,000,000,000 = milliard (10^9) (giga)
1,000,000,000,000 = billion (10^12) (tera)
1,000,000,000,000,000 = billiard (10^15) (peta)
1,000,000,000,000,000,000 = trillion (10^18) (exa)
So, in other words, they want a trillion-flops thingie.
A quintillion on the other hand, is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (10^30) .. except of course, in the US. Which uses that silly 'short scale' numbering system.
Seriously - you're over the board.
I learned computers by having my own, and learning on my own. Without a parent trying to tell me what was right or wrong. If you don't know enough about computers to do this on your own - why not let the 15 year old admin the network until the second kid turns 15 - then leave the duties to him, until the third kid turns 15 ?
Why do you want to limit what information the kids have access to? Isn't it better that they can browse the web and learn - without being limited? Give them general parental guidance, of course.
Teach them to build character, but don't limit their exploration options.
Sure they'll get hold of things you think are unsuitable. They'll do that no matter what. What do you do if you encounter them with the Anarchists Cookbook? You _talk_ to them. You tell them how unsafe it would be for them to try those things out, and you refer them to the wikipedia article that'll tell them quite simply that most of that stuff will blow up in their faces if they ever try to cook any of it.
Let them discover the web for themselves, and discover the world around them on their own. Without artificial limits.
I actually think it's perfect for us consumers that the various selling-points force the price downwards. It means that I as a consumer will get my goodies for a cheaper price.
Youngling.
Seriously.
Maybe you should read up on the population density of sweden instead of Europe.
Your argument is false. The population density of Sweden is smaller than the population density of California.
Ooops. Your argument suddenly went down the drain. Sorry. Woops. Oh. You didn't read TFA or anything about what you were arguing about? Oh, how slashdot of you.
Now, go to the corner and be ashamed.
Meh. incompetent people commenting. Hate it.
Maybe you should read up on the population density of sweden before you start spouting bullshit.
Hint: It's not as high as californias.
Define broadband.
I would claim that anthing providing less than 10Mbit download and 2Mbit upload is bloody slow, these days.
Actually, a few weeks/months is enough.
Give it a year without prescribing antibiotics for anything but the most severe cases, and all the nice little antibiotics are effective again.
Google for 'norway antibiotics' .. ( http://www.fftimes.com/node/229972 )
One thing though..
If these friends and family want your help every so often to "fix" stuff that doesn't work with their computer - then they should change to whatever YOU feel most comfortable with.
I've told my family that I Do Not Do Windows. At all. If they've got windows-questions, they'll have to go somewhere else. (If you think I'm being mean, I'm not. I haven't used windows on any of my computers since 1999).
If friends/family/others want my help with computers, they'll have to use Linux.
And *stay* off it!
This is Slashdot ffs, and let me just say - building your own router is rather simple.
Buy yourself a nice little motherboard with to integrated 1Gbps network cards.
Install your favorite OS of choice, as long as it's either Linux or *BSD.
Configure iptables/ipf/pf/your-packetfilter-of-choice, and if necessary - NAT, and enable ip forwarding.
Voila. One home gigabit router. Have fun. (You might also want to setup dhcpd on the box, but hey, that's also done in no time at all).
apparently?
Loads of us slashdotters was part of distributed.net's effort.
I had 3 of my home computers running rc5des, and about ~200 university computers running it too. :)
And you come up with this "apparantly" thing?! Less than 20 years old, prehaps? Born in the 90s? Not remembering? Harumpfh!
You've got to be kidding me, but I'm replying in case you actually believe that heap of bull.
1. Crop Circles - all debunked.
2. Norwegian Sky Swirl - Failed Russian Baluva missile-test.
Oh, and Niburu. Meh, I've heard about that conspiracy for too many years already. Strange how the date when the world is going to end keeps changing. 2012 was it? Well, I'm always willing to bet you that during 2010, the Niburu-conspiracy-nuts are going to discover that "Oh, our math was wrong, it's actually 2018".
Come 2016, it'll change to 2024.
Just wait and see. ;)
I only have my own anecdote about this, but I kind of like it.
Back around '00, I had several computers (I still do, but that's beside the point). I had my main desktop, and I had this nice old Pentium 200. I also had a TV-card (Hauppage, I think). If I tried using the TV-card on my main desktop, it would be hellishly slow for doing other things. In addition to some of my screen being covered by the TV-window, of course.
So, I installed the Hauppage card in the P200, which was running stock FreeBSD. It worked, sort of, but the machine was almost unusable for other things.
I tuned the kernel, fiddled with compiler flags, and remade the world.
And what do you think? The entire machine went from lurching slow to usable, while displaying TV. It was the "little extra boost" that was needed.
Now, of course, I don't think it would be of much use to me in most cases these days - as machines have grown so extremely much faster since back then. But, it's the story I tell whenever people ask about performance boosts from recompiling everything.
I've long wondered about a few things when it comes to desalination, desert areas etc.
If it's cheap to make water with this process and remove the salt - would it be a good idea to create a huge bunch of these machines in desert-areas, pumping desalinated water into fields to promote vegetation to grow, fighting back the desert? I would think this wouldn't require the water to be further cleaned, after removing the salts..
Am I completely off my rockers, or is it a maybe-sort-of workable idea?
I'm no microsoft user, but blaming microsoft for "trusting by default in the network" is just wrong.
Ever heard of SMTP? NIS? NFS? Ever heard of open DNS servers? Smurf (being able to ping broadcast addresses)? Fraggle? How about finger? ident? IRC?
Blaming MS is all good fun, but we can't really blame them for the "trusting by default in the network" model. They're guilty of it TOO, but they didn't lay the groundwork there. Internet, that is "the network", has a history of very open protocols with almost zero authentication. To try to blame that on Microsoft is just wrong.
No, deletion is modification.
==
Phonecall 1: Hi John, you remember that tomorrow is the day we'll gather? At 9pm? You'll be there? Cool.
Phonecall 2: Hi Mark, remember the roleplaying session tomorrow? At 9pm? You'll be there?
[Two days later]
Phonecall 3: Yeah, hi Dianne. Yeah, too bad you couldn't make it. The group has finalized the plans on how to kill the president. We'll go ahead next week, same time. You have to be there!
==
Now delete phonecall 2 from the records. .. would that be .. uhm .. tampering with evidence? ;P
"Right". I can only talk about Norway and not the rest of the Nordic countries, but:
1. Free healthcare. "Yes and no". You pay $20 or so as 'your share' to visit your GP. You pay for your medication up to a certain amount per year (say $300 or thereabouts). If you need more expensive treatment - then that's covered by the state. However, there is rather long queues for most things. If I want to go to the doctor where I currently live (Ireland), I just pop down to the local medical center and ask when the next available slot is. It's usually within half an hour / one hour. In Norway, I often had to wait 2+ *weeks* before the doctor had an open slot.
2. Free education. Well, yes. However, the free education is directed at the lowest common denominator. There is no chance to excel for the smart kids, in Norwegian schools. If you're smarter than average, you're SOL. Sure, you get 12 years of almost free education.. but the quality of the education is rather crap.
3. Long child-care leave. Hell yeah! That's a very, very good point. 14 months to be shared between mother and father - in Norway. ... but again, there is a caveat. If the mother doesn't have work for X months before the baby is born, then the father get .. zero days off. I don't remember the value of X. But no matter, it's a heck of a lot better than in most parts of the world!
All in all, I'm rather glad that I've left Norway. :^P
Also remember, although Iceland is a beautiful country - their economy is shot to hell. You probably don't want to move there permanently.
The other nordic countries have hellish tax-rates.
I've had a resume modified by a headhunter once. I submitted my resume to the headhunter, and got an interview with a company a week later. All well and good. The headhunter was not certain how I would do interviews (and wanted to be able to advice me if it went bad), and the company I was being interviewed at agreed to her request about her sitting in on the interview.
Half-way into the interview they asked me about my Oracle skills, and some SQL questions. I was a tad puzzled and said that I'm not very much into Oracle. They pointed out that I had it listed on my CV.. whereupon I was a tad confused and asked to see "my CV".
Much to my surprise, my minor mention of "have installed and configured Oracle IAS" had turned into "Experienced Oracle DBA".
I looked at my interviewer, then cocked my head towards my recruiter and asked "Uhm, I think someone have rewritten this for me...", whereupon the recruiters face became a deep shade of red.
The rest of the interview went very well, and I did get the job, as a Unix-admin.
I have a hard time believing I'm that unique. :)
Many, many machines running linux and bsd. Not a single windows computer, nor any mac.
Miss the games, but that's the only thing I've ever used windows computers for.