For me, with a simple adblock+ and a correct broser, the web pages are fast like hell. PErhaps a little script blocker could help to remove the remaining non-ad clutter ?
Not in this case. Much of the functionnality of gnome has been taken away (in Gnome3 and in unity). For example, there is no discoverability. What the hell do you type in the search box if you don't remember the name of the program you need sporadically ??? Why does nothing happen when you right click ? Hell, i have TWO buttons on my mouse, or more, these guys just declared their users are not interested in using more than one. Well, most users want context menus !!!! where is all the config gone ? hidden in text based config files ? gotta be kidding me !!! even the average user occasionnally wants to make a setting, like the behaviour of the computer when closing the lid. And he will be frustrated that this common setting is available only in some obscure text file. THAT IS NOT USER FRIENDLY.
Humanity does not need that.
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>> or wait for the official GNOME Shell Extensions website to go up
That's a problem. In fact, you try to say Gnome 3 was pushed down the user's throat with a broken interface because gnome made that broken interface default but will perhaps one time provide some alternative ?
Just crazy. I work with my computer. I don't play with the gui just because it is beautiful, or because it looks like macos, whatever. I WORK WITH IT. I cannot accept (as many other people) an update that just gives me an alpha version of a shiny interface with no alternative. This makes me lose a lot of time(and money). that's the reason why i changed from MS office to openoffice when the broken interface of MS was forced on users. The same reason will make me abandon gnome if there is no viable (gnome2 grade) alternative to the actual broken gui.
There is no such thing as an ordered view of all installed (gui) programs in G3. This is a giant step backwards. F##k GNOME3.
WE want configurability. I don't like the default gnome2 layout, i alway change it to my needs. But with fallback mode, everything is rigid. Fallback mode is an animated screenshot wanting to be gnome 2. F##k fallback mode.
I could also launch programs by writing their name in a terminal window. That's not what i want. I simply want my menus and left click bask, as many many users. WE HATE UNITY & GNOME 3. We (it seems a lot of G2 users are like me) will switch to the best alternative available, be it MATE, MGSE, or XFCE.
>> Of course since you can't make bombs from the by products
I don't believe this "no proliferation risk" that the nuclear industry is pretending. Of course, the uranium the fuel contains is unsuitable. Of course it does not generate Pu as is. BUT. but it generates neutrons. So you simply add a "blanket" of U238 (very easy to get, US trowed a lot onto Lybia in the last months). The only thing you have to do is NOT to mix your breeder with the core. Any engineer can come with many easy ways to do this, and to exchange the blanket often to get better bomb material. What do you get from that ? Pu239.
Basically it's not commercially usable. Of course there was an experimental plant, but it does not scale. Why ? many reasons: - MSFR need a chemical reprocessing plant, which works on molten metal, 24/365. This plant rejects vast amounts contaminated chemical waste. There is no way to handle this waste industrially. Just to get an idea, one byproduct is tritiated fluorhydric acid. The worst substance i can imagine, toxic chemically and radiologically. - The reactor may be quite "safe", but the processing plant is not. Many of the used substances can explode, and you need big quantities of them. An explosion means spreading fuel. Fuel is ful of isotopes that you don't want in your lungs. Ah, i forgot, some crazy people want to use MSFR to "burn" fission waste, including plutonium. So this will spread plutonium. - There is one known alloy existing that can hold the molten core, which means that the entire core, pipes, and the complete reprocessing plant has to be made of this material. Too bad it corrodes as soon as there are impurities. So double the chemical plant to gain purity. - Thorium is said "safer" and "lower radioactivity". Yea, with a geiger counter, you will not notice is as much. But it's alpha radiation. That means that if you ingest or inhale it, it's much more dangerous, coz some of your organs get all the dosis (with gamma, some radiation escapes the body, and the remaining evens out on the entire body) Alpha radiation is much more difficult to detect. - the core can be "safe", but What will happen in case a pipe breaks (remember that tough alloy that corrodes)? Yeah. enough molten fuel will leak in one place. Criticality will happen in this pool. You can't control it. You can't get near to it or you'll be fried. you can't stop it. You can't cool it ? (water ? forget water ! not a single drop allowed in the facility, it would explode on contact with the fuel) You can only hope it disperses and cools down. reminds me some strange situation....
>> Gen III reactors have passive safety designs that allow full cold shutdown with no external power. And thorium fueled reactors don't produce usable quantities of plutonium so they're not a proliferation concern, and doesn't require uranium enrichment (which is itself
Welcome to the barbie world of nuclear reactors. Too bad it does not work that way.
Thorium is not safe. It needs insane quantities of sodium, which will disperse in the air as soon as the first fire happens. Also it needs chemical reprocessing 24/365 together with each reactor, which pollutes, and is highly dangerous.
>> Nuclear power has caused fewer deaths per TWh Absolute lies. This takes in account 30 deaths for Tchernobyl while there were ca. 1 million. It does not take in account the health of million of people affected by chemical and radiological pollution in countries like gabon. It does not take in account the future deaths resulting from leaking fuel storage, which is inevitable on the long run. (leaking, spreading, and deaths are all inevitable).
It is not Typically, extraction, transport, refining the fuel is done with oil power. The same applies to building and discarding all the plants (which is HUGE, especially with a lot of concrete, which is very negative from carbon point of view)
And since it's long not stabilized, it will probably be worse on the long term. There is just 10 times more uncontained fuel released. This continues to spread.
+1 The ieee story i strongly biased. they make too much suppositions and "if"'s. The earquake alone damaged much systems also, and containments were broken before the tsunami. Many pipes were ripped away, so probably not a single drop of water arrived on the molten fuel in the first attempts.
>> If the emergency generators had been installed on upper floors rather than in basements, for example, the disaster would have stopped before it began
don't think so.
What about earquake damage to these generators ? on upper floors there's more damage. What about the fuel tanks for these generators ? washed away What about pumps for cooling ? washed away What about the sea water for cooling these generators ? clogged by debris......
Basically, you can not secure fully a nuke plant against an earthquake and tsunami.
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Are atomic weapons still needed ? i think they aren'T.
You probably go on strange web sites.
For me, with a simple adblock+ and a correct broser, the web pages are fast like hell. PErhaps a little script blocker could help to remove the remaining non-ad clutter ?
the so called "Social networks" look more and more like voluntary surveillance databases !!
>> creating software that looks "pretty"
I agree with you. Gnome3 or unity are made to look nice as screenshots. Useability is really poor.
>> People hate change. End of story.
Not in this case.
Much of the functionnality of gnome has been taken away (in Gnome3 and in unity). For example, there is no discoverability. What the hell do you type in the search box if you don't remember the name of the program you need sporadically ???
Why does nothing happen when you right click ? Hell, i have TWO buttons on my mouse, or more, these guys just declared their users are not interested in using more than one. Well, most users want context menus !!!!
where is all the config gone ? hidden in text based config files ? gotta be kidding me !!! even the average user occasionnally wants to make a setting, like the behaviour of the computer when closing the lid. And he will be frustrated that this common setting is available only in some obscure text file. THAT IS NOT USER FRIENDLY.
Humanity does not need that.
>> that they have a windows 95 desktop compared to all the shiny stuff coming out with windows 8 and IOS on Macbook.
You nailed it. People want things that work, things that they are used to.
>> or wait for the official GNOME Shell Extensions website to go up
That's a problem. In fact, you try to say Gnome 3 was pushed down the user's throat with a broken interface because gnome made that broken interface default but will perhaps one time provide some alternative ?
Just crazy. I work with my computer. I don't play with the gui just because it is beautiful, or because it looks like macos, whatever. I WORK WITH IT. I cannot accept (as many other people) an update that just gives me an alpha version of a shiny interface with no alternative. This makes me lose a lot of time(and money). that's the reason why i changed from MS office to openoffice when the broken interface of MS was forced on users. The same reason will make me abandon gnome if there is no viable (gnome2 grade) alternative to the actual broken gui.
There is no such thing as an ordered view of all installed (gui) programs in G3.
This is a giant step backwards. F##k GNOME3.
WE want configurability. I don't like the default gnome2 layout, i alway change it to my needs. But with fallback mode, everything is rigid. Fallback mode is an animated screenshot wanting to be gnome 2. F##k fallback mode.
I could also launch programs by writing their name in a terminal window.
That's not what i want. I simply want my menus and left click bask, as many many users. WE HATE UNITY & GNOME 3. We (it seems a lot of G2 users are like me) will switch to the best alternative available, be it MATE, MGSE, or XFCE.
>>It's one thing to stop selling music with a certain DRM scheme. It's quite another to tell customers that they won't be able to play it
They don't sell music any more. They sell temporary licenses to listen to music.
>> Of course since you can't make bombs from the by products
I don't believe this "no proliferation risk" that the nuclear industry is pretending. Of course, the uranium the fuel contains is unsuitable. Of course it does not generate Pu as is. BUT. but it generates neutrons. So you simply add a "blanket" of U238 (very easy to get, US trowed a lot onto Lybia in the last months). The only thing you have to do is NOT to mix your breeder with the core. Any engineer can come with many easy ways to do this, and to exchange the blanket often to get better bomb material. What do you get from that ? Pu239.
Basically it's not commercially usable. Of course there was an experimental plant, but it does not scale.
Why ? many reasons:
- MSFR need a chemical reprocessing plant, which works on molten metal, 24/365. This plant rejects vast amounts contaminated chemical waste. There is no way to handle this waste industrially. Just to get an idea, one byproduct is tritiated fluorhydric acid. The worst substance i can imagine, toxic chemically and radiologically.
- The reactor may be quite "safe", but the processing plant is not. Many of the used substances can explode, and you need big quantities of them. An explosion means spreading fuel. Fuel is ful of isotopes that you don't want in your lungs. Ah, i forgot, some crazy people want to use MSFR to "burn" fission waste, including plutonium. So this will spread plutonium.
- There is one known alloy existing that can hold the molten core, which means that the entire core, pipes, and the complete reprocessing plant has to be made of this material. Too bad it corrodes as soon as there are impurities. So double the chemical plant to gain purity.
- Thorium is said "safer" and "lower radioactivity". Yea, with a geiger counter, you will not notice is as much. But it's alpha radiation. That means that if you ingest or inhale it, it's much more dangerous, coz some of your organs get all the dosis (with gamma, some radiation escapes the body, and the remaining evens out on the entire body) Alpha radiation is much more difficult to detect.
- the core can be "safe", but What will happen in case a pipe breaks (remember that tough alloy that corrodes)? Yeah. enough molten fuel will leak in one place. Criticality will happen in this pool. You can't control it. You can't get near to it or you'll be fried. you can't stop it. You can't cool it ? (water ? forget water ! not a single drop allowed in the facility, it would explode on contact with the fuel) You can only hope it disperses and cools down. reminds me some strange situation....
>> and the containment vessel seems to have held
Don't think so
if the containment was intact, we would not have all the water down in the basement, and radionucleides measurable even in Europe.
>> Gen III reactors have passive safety designs that allow full cold shutdown with no external power. And thorium fueled reactors don't produce usable quantities of plutonium so they're not a proliferation concern, and doesn't require uranium enrichment (which is itself
Welcome to the barbie world of nuclear reactors. Too bad it does not work that way.
Thorium is not safe. It needs insane quantities of sodium, which will disperse in the air as soon as the first fire happens. Also it needs chemical reprocessing 24/365 together with each reactor, which pollutes, and is highly dangerous.
>> Nuclear power has caused fewer deaths per TWh
Absolute lies. This takes in account 30 deaths for Tchernobyl while there were ca. 1 million.
It does not take in account the health of million of people affected by chemical and radiological pollution in countries like gabon. It does not take in account the future deaths resulting from leaking fuel storage, which is inevitable on the long run. (leaking, spreading, and deaths are all inevitable).
>>Fission is a zero-carbon system.
It is not
Typically, extraction, transport, refining the fuel is done with oil power. The same applies to building and discarding all the plants (which is HUGE, especially with a lot of concrete, which is very negative from carbon point of view)
redundant storage and compression ?
I don't think compression is a clever thing to do on sensitive data. Any bit flip will badly crash the file system....
Mosquitos in Africa are faar more agressie. They will just go through after a short time.
True. Note that Hitler was a good customer of Ford. Did Hitler buy only black cars ?
>> Palestinian as they act more like a Terror Group then a "state"
really ? give me arguments.
>> We don't support terror organizations
The US government IS a terror organization. Don't support it any more.
And since it's long not stabilized, it will probably be worse on the long term. There is just 10 times more uncontained fuel released. This continues to spread.
+1
The ieee story i strongly biased. they make too much suppositions and "if"'s. The earquake alone damaged much systems also, and containments were broken before the tsunami. Many pipes were ripped away, so probably not a single drop of water arrived on the molten fuel in the first attempts.
>> If the emergency generators had been installed on upper floors rather than in basements, for example, the disaster would have stopped before it began
don't think so.
What about earquake damage to these generators ? on upper floors there's more damage. ...
What about the fuel tanks for these generators ? washed away
What about pumps for cooling ? washed away
What about the sea water for cooling these generators ? clogged by debris...
Basically, you can not secure fully a nuke plant against an earthquake and tsunami.