Don't forget that if someone were to blow the tokamak building up (or worse, the tritium storage area) we would be in big trouble. Further, fusion reactors produce radioactive materials (from the tokamak mantle, vacuum chamber and blanket and other components) which are much more radioactive than anything a fission plant produces for a short time. The upside is that they can safely be disposed of after about 100 years rather than the thousands of years fission plants need for decommissioning.
The real concern, IMO (I studied electrical engineering), is more with the irradiated powerstation components. Older plants are virtually impossible to dismantle; your only option is to basically bury them on site.
That counts as "waste" in my view and is a huge problem.
Nice NDA's the review sites had to sign.. not a single actual gameplay screenshot! (from a sensible camera angle anyway) I suppose that's because from afar the graphics look exactly the same as they did on the old systems.. blocky and unsharp due to the low resolution.
I hope you're not sitting in the UK because Blair & Co. and the BMI appreciate their regular togetherness a bit too much for my taste... Fuck them I say and listen to indie music.
Would you consider that a car can cost up to 100 times more than a computer? You don't want that breaking... Yet service costs for computers would probably be higher than for regular car service since they would be more time consuming.
I was so addicted to total annihilation that it was the first and only game that I created maps for and played for hours and hours on end. The fact that the maps were not just the product of a game-packaged editor suite but could be any form of bitmap with a heightmap was one of the factors that drew so many people towards customizing the game environment. If you wanted to play on britney spears, that was easily doable given a decently sized scan.
I think that's the loophole, by requiring a license in order to be a popular news outlet, and not granting it to indymedia (probably for monetary reasons), the government can effectively censor without breaching the convention. PS: this is only speculation!
So now we'll finally be getting turbine noise-level macs that hurl up like a growling tiger with a cold when booting? Yey, way to go apple. (If we don't, macs will have to be quite a tad slower than anything in the ibm compatible world)
While I find the technology behind the system fascinating, BBC weather reports have never looked so shit. The country is covered in dark/light spots which are supposed to display cloud cover (but one has to know that to appreaciate it) instead of just using little clouds or similar. There are no wind directions, all that can be seen is the movement of weather systems... I want vectors!!
Seriously though.. even though it certainly has benefits to work in 3d like this (especially since it does not have to be prerendered) the technology, or at least this implementation, is not yet up to it.
PS: what the hell is up with this? "To confirm you're not a script.." I'd be happy to do this if I didn't need 4 tries to actally decipher the damn thing with the crappy font that was chosen and the criss-cross lines all over the image. I had to try twice now... this time at least the font is readable.
I moved to Britain 8 months ago to study physics. While I must say that the universities are rightly among the best in the world, I and many others feel exactly like the parent poster about Britain, it sucks!
I use gnuplot for most things.. it takes a day or two to get used to it though so if you're out of time, try something else since it's not the best documented of projects. (generally i produce data graphs for physics lab reports)
The calculation shown there is a rough estimate for round openings (hence the 1.22). In essence the resolution of a lense is limited by the wavelength of the light being used and the size of the opening. When the opening is too small, whatever you want to observe is "smudged" due to diffraction effects (the spreading out of waves going through a small aperture). There are two ways to counter this: decrease the wavelength (eg use higher energy light such as xrays) or increase the size of the opening. Both remedies can be problematic since high-frequency light can induce damage and large apertures are sub-obtimal for many applications (especially in semiconductor imaging).
Now, it's struck me as very peculiar that the benchmarks where the dual dual core setup from AMD really shines leave out any comparison whatsoever to the Intel dual-core offering. This begs the question whether the person doing this review is a journalist or a marketing represenatative of AMD.
"We did not have time to evaluate the Intel platform with the Intel MKL, the P4 3.0GHz is an older reference measurement." is a very cheap excuse and indicates either lazyness or bribes on the side of AMD... I hate hardware review sites!
make 'menuconfig' has one huge usability failure in my opinion.
If you select of the menu choices and want to go back to the main menu, you need to select EXIT rather than a back button. Certainly, in the context of power users this has no importance.. a new user however who is forced to recompile the kernel because he bought a new motherboard (or any other sufficient reason), would find that illogical.
So, the printing press and the "tribune tower" are in the same city, right? The problem was not with the actual printing but the electronic transfer...
Now why in the name of three supernatural ducklings didn't they just burn it on a dvd-r or a couple of cds and send it by courier or in person?
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Don't forget that if someone were to blow the tokamak building up (or worse, the tritium storage area) we would be in big trouble. Further, fusion reactors produce radioactive materials (from the tokamak mantle, vacuum chamber and blanket and other components) which are much more radioactive than anything a fission plant produces for a short time. The upside is that they can safely be disposed of after about 100 years rather than the thousands of years fission plants need for decommissioning.
That counts as "waste" in my view and is a huge problem.
Nice NDA's the review sites had to sign.. not a single actual gameplay screenshot! (from a sensible camera angle anyway) I suppose that's because from afar the graphics look exactly the same as they did on the old systems.. blocky and unsharp due to the low resolution.
I think it was an intentional mistake...
I hope you're not sitting in the UK because Blair & Co. and the BMI appreciate their regular togetherness a bit too much for my taste... Fuck them I say and listen to indie music.
Would you consider that a car can cost up to 100 times more than a computer? You don't want that breaking... Yet service costs for computers would probably be higher than for regular car service since they would be more time consuming.
I was so addicted to total annihilation that it was the first and only game that I created maps for and played for hours and hours on end. The fact that the maps were not just the product of a game-packaged editor suite but could be any form of bitmap with a heightmap was one of the factors that drew so many people towards customizing the game environment. If you wanted to play on britney spears, that was easily doable given a decently sized scan.
I think that's the loophole, by requiring a license in order to be a popular news outlet, and not granting it to indymedia (probably for monetary reasons), the government can effectively censor without breaching the convention. PS: this is only speculation!
Unfortunately the world is heading more and more into anglo-saxon liberalism and there's probably nothing that we can do about it...
So now we'll finally be getting turbine noise-level macs that hurl up like a growling tiger with a cold when booting? Yey, way to go apple. (If we don't, macs will have to be quite a tad slower than anything in the ibm compatible world)
While I find the technology behind the system fascinating, BBC weather reports have never looked so shit. The country is covered in dark/light spots which are supposed to display cloud cover (but one has to know that to appreaciate it) instead of just using little clouds or similar. There are no wind directions, all that can be seen is the movement of weather systems... I want vectors!!
Seriously though.. even though it certainly has benefits to work in 3d like this (especially since it does not have to be prerendered) the technology, or at least this implementation, is not yet up to it.
PS: what the hell is up with this? "To confirm you're not a script.." I'd be happy to do this if I didn't need 4 tries to actally decipher the damn thing with the crappy font that was chosen and the criss-cross lines all over the image. I had to try twice now... this time at least the font is readable.
I moved to Britain 8 months ago to study physics. While I must say that the universities are rightly among the best in the world, I and many others feel exactly like the parent poster about Britain, it sucks!
I use gnuplot for most things.. it takes a day or two to get used to it though so if you're out of time, try something else since it's not the best documented of projects. (generally i produce data graphs for physics lab reports)
http://astrosun2.astro.cornell.edu/academics/cours es/astro201/diff_limit.htm
The calculation shown there is a rough estimate for round openings (hence the 1.22). In essence the resolution of a lense is limited by the wavelength of the light being used and the size of the opening. When the opening is too small, whatever you want to observe is "smudged" due to diffraction effects (the spreading out of waves going through a small aperture). There are two ways to counter this: decrease the wavelength (eg use higher energy light such as xrays) or increase the size of the opening. Both remedies can be problematic since high-frequency light can induce damage and large apertures are sub-obtimal for many applications (especially in semiconductor imaging).
Now, it's struck me as very peculiar that the benchmarks where the dual dual core setup from AMD really shines leave out any comparison whatsoever to the Intel dual-core offering. This begs the question whether the person doing this review is a journalist or a marketing represenatative of AMD.
"We did not have time to evaluate the Intel platform with the Intel MKL, the P4 3.0GHz is an older reference measurement." is a very cheap excuse and indicates either lazyness or bribes on the side of AMD... I hate hardware review sites!
So modern democracy should be governed by money?
I think he referred to the methodology of the "research" team at work in the article, not that of the BSD developpers.
make 'menuconfig' has one huge usability failure in my opinion.
If you select of the menu choices and want to go back to the main menu, you need to select EXIT rather than a back button. Certainly, in the context of power users this has no importance.. a new user however who is forced to recompile the kernel because he bought a new motherboard (or any other sufficient reason), would find that illogical.
So, the printing press and the "tribune tower" are in the same city, right? The problem was not with the actual printing but the electronic transfer...
Now why in the name of three supernatural ducklings didn't they just burn it on a dvd-r or a couple of cds and send it by courier or in person?
There is a book of essays by Arthur Schopenhauer, combined by Franco Volpi.
"Schopenhauer, Die Kunst Recht zu behalten" which translates to "Schopenhauer, the art of winning any argument" or "the art of being right"...
If you can't manage to be with said person, at least win every argument!
Mod parent up, maybe someone high up will notice... as if.. damnit, I hate this world.
Now quite frankly.. what kind of stupid question is that?
1. Are there broken computers or computers which are beginning to show critical signs of wear?
2. Are the computers sufficiently fast for the tasks assigned to them?
1 time out of 3 I can access it.
Mod parent up, this is highly relevant!
Fallout intro anyone?