Ummmm they didn't try to create a fusion reaction...... Or get any energy out of the system at all...... In fact it is at about half the temperature it needs to be for fusion to work. The whole point of the research currently is to create a system for containing plasma heated to 100,000,000K. The plasma can't come into contact with the walls of the chamber because, either it is so low in mass the chamber instantly cools it, or is has enough mass to melt the chamber walls down.
Once they have a containment system that can run for extended periods of time, the current target is 1000 seconds, then they will look to trigger a fusion reaction inside the super heated plasma. At that point the plasma starts pumping out heat rather than needing it.
One other thing to be aware of is that the team behind the German Stellaratar reactor have said that you really need 100m Kelvin plasma. Who knows how much difference the temp makes to containment.
I kept reading that and I think something has gone wrong. 15 million K is much higher than absolute zero.... But if I am right about what you are getting at the temps achieved by the German and Chinese tests are higher than the core temperature of the sun. It is because they have to be. One thing that is missing from a fusion reactor that the Sun has is gravity. The sun gets to use a combination of extreme temp & extreme pressure, where as on earth all we get to use is the extreme temperature part.
Their currency is manipulated - as is the US currency it's called Quantative Easing. They sell pet food that poisons pets. They sell baby formula that harms babies. - Private companies that have been prosecuted, there are heaps of US equivalents. Asbestos is one of the biggest.
They have no respect for IP property. Why should they? They don't produce large amounts of IP so it makes sense for them to ignore IP law. They're poisoning their environment such that you can't see across the street due to air pollution, and can't drink the water because of some mining company upstream. - No question it is bad currently, but again every developed economy went through the period of trashing their environment. Not saying it's right but it's pretty much pot meet kettle. The news media is censored so that non of their citizens know any of this, except what they can see with their own 2 eyes. You haven't been there have you? Yes their media is censored but everyone knows your list.
Except the general public doesnt understand fission or the relative radioactive material release of fossil fuels. The best thing we could have is fusion = sun = natural = clean.
It is the second Tokamak reactor that China has built and it has been around for about 10 years. There is no inherent reason to disbelieve them. They have come a long way from 20 years ago.
From what I have read China are claiming a significantly lower temperature than the recent German test, approx 30 million degrees K lower, but a much longer duration. The Germans also believe that their system will comfortably run for much longer, the recent operation was just a test so potentially we are seeing a point where engineering capabilities can produce the accuracy of design needed for tokamaks to work.
You are kidding right? If you buy a porsche you have decided to buy a drivers car over countless other more comfortable, more relaxed just as prestiges cars. If it is a case of wanting the brag factor and self drive you would buy a tourer shaped car like an Aston Martin Volante or an S series Mercedes.
If you stick self drive in a porsche you have pretty much lost 99% of its bragging rights.
ITWBennet is the sort of poster that I, and I believe a lot of crusty slashdot users, are not a fan of. He has no post history and doesn't participate on the site and appears to solely push articles from CSO Online. I know that you need to be putting content on to slashdot but I would rather things others on the site picked as interesting than to read press releases.
As long as it doesn't become so much of a resource pit that it stops other features. Of course only you know what level of resources you're willing to spend on Slashdot.
I would love to see the return of the experts in the comments section. Once upon a time slashdot attracted them directly. Now not so much. To try and restore that I would love to see slashdot reach out to people in certain fields to comment on articles. They don't need to be famous people, for example an articulate Maths PhD would contribute so much to those discussions.
But I think slashdot would have to approach them as I really don't want another MDSolar nuclear bad sun good or StartsWithABang I'm talking crap article.
Scrap it. It is slow, ugly and doesn't handle the comment threads properly. Just kill it. I browse slashdot on my phone by requesting the desktop site.
I guess you and I are going to have to agree to disagree on this one. I can see your logic, and I'm not arguing that software should follow the standards. I just don't agree with a computer shutting down without user action. It makes a couple of big assumptions about data being saved and also that the machine will boot back into windows without user interaction (mine doesn't).
Try mover.io You have to give them access to your accounts for the process of moving the files but you can revoke that access immediately afterwards. I have used them when moving a couple of hundred gigs from Dropbox to Google.
I never used this particular system but have used both dropbox and Google drive happily across multiple OS types and I can't figure out what I am missing out on.
Personally I use google drive which has native clients for mac & windows and use the google-drive-ocamlfuse system to mount google drive in Linux. It is easy to setup and works perfectly. http://gdfuse.forge.ocamlcore....
I had software running that I did not want interrupted. I had left software open full screen. How is it deciding I wasn't using the machine? I could have been sat back with my feet up watching the credits roll for all it knew. It's not like it was in screensaver mode.
How about a different example, I run a video compressing software or compile software and walk away. I come back in 4 hours expecting it to be finished but nope its restarted the machine. You can't argue that the software has to be compliant to microsoft specs because the software could easily predate those specs.
I agree with everything you said. The only difference is Mint is my primary OS and I only boot into windows to play games. So I actually don't care about the windows 10 spying. It has been so long since I have used windows of any kind for anything other than games that it has moved into the same territory in my mind as consoles. If I want to play a game I turn the console on via dual boot.
Yes it is their fault. No machine should reboot without user intervention. Fine grab focus and say "I really really really need to reboot" but don't just do it.
I agree that most of the AAA ones aren't there but that is mainly because they are the same engine that has been used for the last 5 versions of said AAA game. When those engines are replaced I suspect they will be written with linux support and then AAA games will come out for linux because there is limited extra costs.
An upcoming example is Xcom 2. Other major ones are the borderland series, Civ Series, ARC, Bioshock. But true you won't find Fallout or BF or Call of Duty. Those will have to wait for a new engine.
I had one worse than that. Playing Fallout 4, not triggered an autosave in a while, hit esc so its paused while I have dinner, come back to my linux log in screen. Windows had decided to reboot my machine for updates WHILE a full screen program was running. Brilliant.
Unfortunately I'm still in this boat as well. Linux Mint is my primary OS but I still keep a dual boot of windows for games. As it stands about 1/3 of my steam library is linux compatible.
The problem I run into with phones that lack microSD cards is not consuming media it is creating it. With two small kids my wife takes an insane amount of video on her phone. A nexus series phone would be full in a week. As a result, instead of having a Nexus 6 she has an LG G4 with 128gb sd card in it and there was enough room under the back cover to stick another card in there when the active one gets full.
WTF? Why? If there is a bird that was born in captivity in say France, from parents that were born in captivity also in France why the hell should that bird have anything to do with people in the US? Let alone being some random american crime?
If someone has a pet kangaroo that they raised in the UK should I be getting wound up? They are on my coat of arms after all, just like the Bald Eagle. An NO other country has them naturally which cannot be said about the bird.
Of course it depends on the specific device. I have a couple of nexus 4s and 5s kicking around that look fine. I also have an old nexus 7 that looked fine till my daughter dropped it down the stairs. The nexus 9 though has a particular problem with that coating.
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It's even more fun if they live in a brick house, or are holding a banana.
Ummmm they didn't try to create a fusion reaction...... Or get any energy out of the system at all...... In fact it is at about half the temperature it needs to be for fusion to work. The whole point of the research currently is to create a system for containing plasma heated to 100,000,000K. The plasma can't come into contact with the walls of the chamber because, either it is so low in mass the chamber instantly cools it, or is has enough mass to melt the chamber walls down.
Once they have a containment system that can run for extended periods of time, the current target is 1000 seconds, then they will look to trigger a fusion reaction inside the super heated plasma. At that point the plasma starts pumping out heat rather than needing it.
One other thing to be aware of is that the team behind the German Stellaratar reactor have said that you really need 100m Kelvin plasma. Who knows how much difference the temp makes to containment.
I kept reading that and I think something has gone wrong. 15 million K is much higher than absolute zero.... But if I am right about what you are getting at the temps achieved by the German and Chinese tests are higher than the core temperature of the sun. It is because they have to be. One thing that is missing from a fusion reactor that the Sun has is gravity. The sun gets to use a combination of extreme temp & extreme pressure, where as on earth all we get to use is the extreme temperature part.
Their currency is manipulated - as is the US currency it's called Quantative Easing.
They sell pet food that poisons pets. They sell baby formula that harms babies. - Private companies that have been prosecuted, there are heaps of US equivalents. Asbestos is one of the biggest.
They have no respect for IP property. Why should they? They don't produce large amounts of IP so it makes sense for them to ignore IP law.
They're poisoning their environment such that you can't see across the street due to air pollution, and can't drink the water because of some mining company upstream. - No question it is bad currently, but again every developed economy went through the period of trashing their environment. Not saying it's right but it's pretty much pot meet kettle.
The news media is censored so that non of their citizens know any of this, except what they can see with their own 2 eyes. You haven't been there have you? Yes their media is censored but everyone knows your list.
Except the general public doesnt understand fission or the relative radioactive material release of fossil fuels. The best thing we could have is fusion = sun = natural = clean.
It is the second Tokamak reactor that China has built and it has been around for about 10 years. There is no inherent reason to disbelieve them. They have come a long way from 20 years ago.
From what I have read China are claiming a significantly lower temperature than the recent German test, approx 30 million degrees K lower, but a much longer duration. The Germans also believe that their system will comfortably run for much longer, the recent operation was just a test so potentially we are seeing a point where engineering capabilities can produce the accuracy of design needed for tokamaks to work.
You are kidding right? If you buy a porsche you have decided to buy a drivers car over countless other more comfortable, more relaxed just as prestiges cars. If it is a case of wanting the brag factor and self drive you would buy a tourer shaped car like an Aston Martin Volante or an S series Mercedes.
If you stick self drive in a porsche you have pretty much lost 99% of its bragging rights.
Morning Guys,
ITWBennet is the sort of poster that I, and I believe a lot of crusty slashdot users, are not a fan of. He has no post history and doesn't participate on the site and appears to solely push articles from CSO Online. I know that you need to be putting content on to slashdot but I would rather things others on the site picked as interesting than to read press releases.
As long as it doesn't become so much of a resource pit that it stops other features. Of course only you know what level of resources you're willing to spend on Slashdot.
I would love to see the return of the experts in the comments section. Once upon a time slashdot attracted them directly. Now not so much. To try and restore that I would love to see slashdot reach out to people in certain fields to comment on articles. They don't need to be famous people, for example an articulate Maths PhD would contribute so much to those discussions.
But I think slashdot would have to approach them as I really don't want another MDSolar nuclear bad sun good or StartsWithABang I'm talking crap article.
Scrap it. It is slow, ugly and doesn't handle the comment threads properly. Just kill it. I browse slashdot on my phone by requesting the desktop site.
In theory yes. However it could be a real target for abuse by bots and undesirables.
I guess you and I are going to have to agree to disagree on this one. I can see your logic, and I'm not arguing that software should follow the standards. I just don't agree with a computer shutting down without user action. It makes a couple of big assumptions about data being saved and also that the machine will boot back into windows without user interaction (mine doesn't).
Try mover.io You have to give them access to your accounts for the process of moving the files but you can revoke that access immediately afterwards. I have used them when moving a couple of hundred gigs from Dropbox to Google.
I never used this particular system but have used both dropbox and Google drive happily across multiple OS types and I can't figure out what I am missing out on.
Personally I use google drive which has native clients for mac & windows and use the google-drive-ocamlfuse system to mount google drive in Linux. It is easy to setup and works perfectly. http://gdfuse.forge.ocamlcore....
I had software running that I did not want interrupted. I had left software open full screen. How is it deciding I wasn't using the machine? I could have been sat back with my feet up watching the credits roll for all it knew. It's not like it was in screensaver mode.
How about a different example, I run a video compressing software or compile software and walk away. I come back in 4 hours expecting it to be finished but nope its restarted the machine. You can't argue that the software has to be compliant to microsoft specs because the software could easily predate those specs.
I agree with everything you said. The only difference is Mint is my primary OS and I only boot into windows to play games. So I actually don't care about the windows 10 spying. It has been so long since I have used windows of any kind for anything other than games that it has moved into the same territory in my mind as consoles. If I want to play a game I turn the console on via dual boot.
Yes it is their fault. No machine should reboot without user intervention. Fine grab focus and say "I really really really need to reboot" but don't just do it.
I agree that most of the AAA ones aren't there but that is mainly because they are the same engine that has been used for the last 5 versions of said AAA game. When those engines are replaced I suspect they will be written with linux support and then AAA games will come out for linux because there is limited extra costs.
An upcoming example is Xcom 2. Other major ones are the borderland series, Civ Series, ARC, Bioshock. But true you won't find Fallout or BF or Call of Duty. Those will have to wait for a new engine.
I had one worse than that. Playing Fallout 4, not triggered an autosave in a while, hit esc so its paused while I have dinner, come back to my linux log in screen. Windows had decided to reboot my machine for updates WHILE a full screen program was running. Brilliant.
Unfortunately I'm still in this boat as well. Linux Mint is my primary OS but I still keep a dual boot of windows for games. As it stands about 1/3 of my steam library is linux compatible.
The problem I run into with phones that lack microSD cards is not consuming media it is creating it. With two small kids my wife takes an insane amount of video on her phone. A nexus series phone would be full in a week. As a result, instead of having a Nexus 6 she has an LG G4 with 128gb sd card in it and there was enough room under the back cover to stick another card in there when the active one gets full.
WTF? Why? If there is a bird that was born in captivity in say France, from parents that were born in captivity also in France why the hell should that bird have anything to do with people in the US? Let alone being some random american crime?
If someone has a pet kangaroo that they raised in the UK should I be getting wound up? They are on my coat of arms after all, just like the Bald Eagle. An NO other country has them naturally which cannot be said about the bird.
Of course it depends on the specific device. I have a couple of nexus 4s and 5s kicking around that look fine. I also have an old nexus 7 that looked fine till my daughter dropped it down the stairs. The nexus 9 though has a particular problem with that coating.
Someone else's nexus 9 they took a photo of - https://lh3.googleusercontent....