To be fair to Samsung almost everything is an optional install these days. Bixby is one of the few exceptions, although it can be disabled completely. All the other crapware they used to bundle in now has to be installed manually from their app store though.
The more annoying thing is that one devices with a Bixby button it can't be repurposed without hacking.
Fire engines were brought in to pump water into the reactor cooling system after the on-site pumps failed. NHK did a series of documentaries explaining all this, you should watch them.
That's pretty much the problem, they can barely get to it, let alone remove it for burial. They are trying to avoid it becoming another huge Chernobyl-style concrete coffin because it would need to be protected from tsunami and constantly maintained (they have regular earthquakes) indefinitely.
Also "overheated" is a rather obvious attempt to avoid the word "meltdown".
It does sound like a bit of a nightmare... People are worried that their "friends" are not bothering to look at their posts, so demand ways of bribing them.
Japan isn't building new nuclear plants. The only "new" one is a third reactor at Shimane, which was scheduled to go online in 2011 but was delayed. Not only due to Fukushima, but due to a new previously unknown fault line being discovered in the area and additional safety upgrades being required.
No new designs are being build, and there are no serious plans for any. Japan's nuclear industry is going bust, e.g. Westinghouse, as global demand for their products falls. The industry is trying to pivot away to renewables but they were late to the game and China is on their doorstep.
I think it will be hard for them. Look at Japan, been producing great movies for decades, but apparently western audiences have issues with both subtitles and dubbing. About the closest Japanese movies have come are some Studio Ghibli dubs by Disney.
With the current propaganda war against China and other cultural issues I think it will be hard for that movie to do well in the west, but we can hope. More likely is a Hollywood remake, in the long running tradition that includes things like Seven Samurai, The Ring and countless others.
Are you saying you don't believe that the fire engines were on-site and working? Or are you just making the point that had the cooling system not been damaged by the tsunami everything would have been fine, which is basically what I said?
Well her look was a deliberate choice in the manga, part of the whole "battle angel" concept where she is kind of a variation on the "born sexy yesterday" trope. A bit more "born cute yesterday" perhaps, but also a military grade ninja like Quorra from Tron Legacy, Leeloo from The Fifth Element, or maybe even Thor from the Marvel movies.
It's interesting that Hollywood finally managed to translate a manga into a half decent live action movie. I can't think of a single one that wasn't terrible before.
Actually there is another post further down, which I also replied to, that also quotes TFA to make the same point and which was also modded "troll".
It really does appear to be the gun toting snowflakes, a very strange bunch to be sure. That and I've got a mod stalker who systematically mods everything I post as troll until they run out of points, even random jokes about Amazon and the like...
Actually once renewables exceed about 20% of the mix the requirement for backup starts to fall. Geographic distribution and high levels of predictability, combined with a distributed nature that means a single failure only takes out tens of megawatts instead of a gigawatt or two all make renewables more reliable, not less.
Battery tech is going to make peaking plants unprofitable in the next decade or two max. Gas and other types of peak coverage can't react fast enough to compete with batteries. Environmental considerations don't even come into it. Best of all it allows individual energy users to buy their own batteries and avoid those high peak rates completely. Industrial users will level out their consumption, domestic users will charge up when it's cheapest and their solar isn't providing enough during the day.
Any plan based on the old economics of base load and peak demand is going to fail. The nature of the grid and energy consumption is changing.
Fukushima melted down because the backup batteries ran dead before the generators could be started or a replacement power line could be run. If they had a "giga-battery" in Japan like Tesla built for Australia then no one would have heard of Fukushima.
No, that's not right. They did in fact have emergency cooling operating on site. They used fire engines to pump in water, for example. The problem is that due to damage to the plant the monitoring systems were not working, so they were unaware that a valve was in the wrong position and diverting water to a holding tank instead of the reactors, and no-one could get near the reactors to check them.
So no amount of extra power supply on site would have helped at that point.
The trailer made the CGI on Alita look very, very fake... But I hear that they either fixed it or it's just a lot less noticeable in the actual movie. Looking forward to seeing it.
Signed int is 32 bits. They went with signed because it makes it possible to detect overflows because the number goes negative, although interestingly that's not actually guaranteed by the C spec which says it is technically undefined.
Separation of state and legacy religions perhaps, but not between state and the new god called capitalism.
In the same way that older governments promoted one religion in a way that screwed everyone, modern governments often promote capitalism in a way that screws everyone. America is probably the worst example, with politics dominated by corporate interests and corporate money.
Your post has been modded up and then down again in metamoderation (which is why it doesn't show any +/- modifier, but I observed it changing). What you say seems to be true and is stated in TFA at the very least.
I only point this out because it's interesting that whoever is modding you down doesn't want this information to be visible. Their possible motives are disturbing. The only reason I can see is to perpetuate the idea that gun owners are under attack with bogus accusations and charges.
The next question is who is doing it. Are there really NRA shills on a relatively minor tech news site like this? Or do unpaid gun fans want to promote it because they believe it will serve their goals, which are presumably resisting any further regulation of guns?
Interesting, a post that is basically quoting TFA to present some factual information is considered trolling... Because it's a thread about gun rights and it suggests that there isn't actually a conspiracy to manufacture fake charges against a gun owner.
Some people have really lost the plot, and the argument due to their need to suppress any information that contradicts their narrative.
Either that or the last sentence triggered a particularly sensitive snowflake.
"The man, Eric Gerard McGinnis, had been under a court order that prohibited him from possessing a firearm when he was discovered to have had the partially printed AR-15-style rifle in July 2017"
I know it's tradition and all, but it was in the second paragraph and would have taken you less time to read than it did to type out that long answer.
I only answer calls from numbers I know now, or if I'm expecting a call from that organization. Disabled voicemail completely. SMS doesn't generate a notification any more.
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To be fair to Samsung almost everything is an optional install these days. Bixby is one of the few exceptions, although it can be disabled completely. All the other crapware they used to bundle in now has to be installed manually from their app store though.
The more annoying thing is that one devices with a Bixby button it can't be repurposed without hacking.
Exactly half the price of the iPad Pro 11" 64GB too.
On the plus side there is a Micro SD card slot and it runs Android. On the negative side there is no support for Samsung's rather good S-Pen stylus.
To be fair it wasn't that bad... But Tom Cruise ruined it for me, I can't watch anything with him in it now.
Fire engines were brought in to pump water into the reactor cooling system after the on-site pumps failed. NHK did a series of documentaries explaining all this, you should watch them.
"that wasn't terrible"
That's pretty much the problem, they can barely get to it, let alone remove it for burial. They are trying to avoid it becoming another huge Chernobyl-style concrete coffin because it would need to be protected from tsunami and constantly maintained (they have regular earthquakes) indefinitely.
Also "overheated" is a rather obvious attempt to avoid the word "meltdown".
It does sound like a bit of a nightmare... People are worried that their "friends" are not bothering to look at their posts, so demand ways of bribing them.
There is nothing as energy dense, convenient, safe, and inexpensive as hydrocarbons.
Convenient, safe and inexpensive for you maybe, because you get to pass all that stuff off on to other people.
Japan isn't building new nuclear plants. The only "new" one is a third reactor at Shimane, which was scheduled to go online in 2011 but was delayed. Not only due to Fukushima, but due to a new previously unknown fault line being discovered in the area and additional safety upgrades being required.
No new designs are being build, and there are no serious plans for any. Japan's nuclear industry is going bust, e.g. Westinghouse, as global demand for their products falls. The industry is trying to pivot away to renewables but they were late to the game and China is on their doorstep.
I think it will be hard for them. Look at Japan, been producing great movies for decades, but apparently western audiences have issues with both subtitles and dubbing. About the closest Japanese movies have come are some Studio Ghibli dubs by Disney.
With the current propaganda war against China and other cultural issues I think it will be hard for that movie to do well in the west, but we can hope. More likely is a Hollywood remake, in the long running tradition that includes things like Seven Samurai, The Ring and countless others.
Are you saying you don't believe that the fire engines were on-site and working? Or are you just making the point that had the cooling system not been damaged by the tsunami everything would have been fine, which is basically what I said?
Well her look was a deliberate choice in the manga, part of the whole "battle angel" concept where she is kind of a variation on the "born sexy yesterday" trope. A bit more "born cute yesterday" perhaps, but also a military grade ninja like Quorra from Tron Legacy, Leeloo from The Fifth Element, or maybe even Thor from the Marvel movies.
It's interesting that Hollywood finally managed to translate a manga into a half decent live action movie. I can't think of a single one that wasn't terrible before.
Actually there is another post further down, which I also replied to, that also quotes TFA to make the same point and which was also modded "troll".
It really does appear to be the gun toting snowflakes, a very strange bunch to be sure. That and I've got a mod stalker who systematically mods everything I post as troll until they run out of points, even random jokes about Amazon and the like...
Actually once renewables exceed about 20% of the mix the requirement for backup starts to fall. Geographic distribution and high levels of predictability, combined with a distributed nature that means a single failure only takes out tens of megawatts instead of a gigawatt or two all make renewables more reliable, not less.
Battery tech is going to make peaking plants unprofitable in the next decade or two max. Gas and other types of peak coverage can't react fast enough to compete with batteries. Environmental considerations don't even come into it. Best of all it allows individual energy users to buy their own batteries and avoid those high peak rates completely. Industrial users will level out their consumption, domestic users will charge up when it's cheapest and their solar isn't providing enough during the day.
Any plan based on the old economics of base load and peak demand is going to fail. The nature of the grid and energy consumption is changing.
Fukushima melted down because the backup batteries ran dead before the generators could be started or a replacement power line could be run. If they had a "giga-battery" in Japan like Tesla built for Australia then no one would have heard of Fukushima.
No, that's not right. They did in fact have emergency cooling operating on site. They used fire engines to pump in water, for example. The problem is that due to damage to the plant the monitoring systems were not working, so they were unaware that a valve was in the wrong position and diverting water to a holding tank instead of the reactors, and no-one could get near the reactors to check them.
So no amount of extra power supply on site would have helped at that point.
The trailer made the CGI on Alita look very, very fake... But I hear that they either fixed it or it's just a lot less noticeable in the actual movie. Looking forward to seeing it.
Signed int is 32 bits. They went with signed because it makes it possible to detect overflows because the number goes negative, although interestingly that's not actually guaranteed by the C spec which says it is technically undefined.
Problem is it's not $3bn in cash they have handing over, it's $3bn in tax they are not going to collect.
You can't pay people with tax you would have collected if Amazon had come to town.
Nah, he'll just Amazon Prime bottled water in for next day delivery, then curse when it fails to arrive and he can't flush for three days.
Separation of state and legacy religions perhaps, but not between state and the new god called capitalism.
In the same way that older governments promoted one religion in a way that screwed everyone, modern governments often promote capitalism in a way that screws everyone. America is probably the worst example, with politics dominated by corporate interests and corporate money.
Your post has been modded up and then down again in metamoderation (which is why it doesn't show any +/- modifier, but I observed it changing). What you say seems to be true and is stated in TFA at the very least.
I only point this out because it's interesting that whoever is modding you down doesn't want this information to be visible. Their possible motives are disturbing. The only reason I can see is to perpetuate the idea that gun owners are under attack with bogus accusations and charges.
The next question is who is doing it. Are there really NRA shills on a relatively minor tech news site like this? Or do unpaid gun fans want to promote it because they believe it will serve their goals, which are presumably resisting any further regulation of guns?
Interesting, a post that is basically quoting TFA to present some factual information is considered trolling... Because it's a thread about gun rights and it suggests that there isn't actually a conspiracy to manufacture fake charges against a gun owner.
Some people have really lost the plot, and the argument due to their need to suppress any information that contradicts their narrative.
Either that or the last sentence triggered a particularly sensitive snowflake.
From TFA:
"The man, Eric Gerard McGinnis, had been under a court order that prohibited him from possessing a firearm when he was discovered to have had the partially printed AR-15-style rifle in July 2017"
I know it's tradition and all, but it was in the second paragraph and would have taken you less time to read than it did to type out that long answer.
Many cats are as big as or larger than small dogs. They like small dogs in China.
I only answer calls from numbers I know now, or if I'm expecting a call from that organization. Disabled voicemail completely. SMS doesn't generate a notification any more.