Probably you don't know, but France is scattered by regions where uranium was mined once, and a lot of constructions (roads, buildings, private houses) are contaminated due to the use of sterile rocks from U. mines. Not to mention the constant ocean pollution at la Hague, and other wanted and unwanted radioactive releases. Plus poor storage (some wastes are simply sent to Russia, for "storage" in rusty containers outside)
True, a broken rotor could also make nearby rotors break. Furthermore, i don't think this will be practical for more than a few minutes (battery weight)
Unity is nice only when you look at screenshots. In fact, it's designed to look nice on screenshots. Nothing works properly, no right click, no alt-tab, no menu. it's empty.
Slutterworth breaks the desktop in order to enter the tablet and phone business. Seriously ???? This will fail ! The desktop users will be pissed off, and he really thinks they will get mobile devices with ubuntu ?????? Also, manufacturers look ubuntu as crappy now.
Personnally i now stay with 11.04 classic, until i need to upgrade, i will probably choose Lubuntu (if not another distro, or a yet to come gnome2 alternative)
I recommend an used Lifebook 3 year old ones can be found on ebay for ca. 200 euros, and are as sturdy as an IBM. Ubuntu + Unity should be perfect for a mac user, as it's a mac inspired GUI (i hate it).
So you pretend that the earthquake would not have broken the containments and cooling pipes ? That's simply not true. The containment would have broken too, the pipes, and the 3 days of cooling would have spilled through broken piupes in 3 hours -> meltdown.
Thermosiphon would not work. The sea was full of debris which clogged every pipe: meltdown. Furthermore, in a meltdown, you just created two direct water paths from a molten reactore core to the pacific ocean. Fail.
JSBiff, it's clear that you have no idea of the scale of the problem.
when you say : >> there's no reason a meltdown should be a "disaster"
a meltdown releases such massive amounts of gaseous, liquid, solid materials, that are so radioactive, nothing can safely contain them over the long term. You give the exymple of liquid based reactors. They use a very specific metal alloy, which is the only to resist liquid molten core, and has to be replaced completely after some years.
For the gasses, either you release them, and you pollute massively, or you don't, and pressure rises until boom, and eeven more massive contamination.
Liquid material is also a problem, like can be seen @Fuku.
Now, say you stabilized a molten core. What's next ? you cannot acess the building, yet you have to take it down safely. Millions of tons of concrete that you cannot approach (or be dead instantly) hace to be dismantled and buried, without releasing any dust, or taking rain water, releasing gas. There is no method today to take it down safely. TMI was not, tchernobyl was not, Fukushima will not be.
For Thorium, that is even more dangerous than water reactors. You have to use sodium, which is flammable, and will spread all your fuel as soon as you have the first fire. Then you have to have a chemical reprocessing running on your molten fuel 24/365 very close to EACH reactor, working on 600C molten metal. This reprocessing will output tons of waste chemicals every hour, all very radioactive. What do you do with it ? Then you have to handle very dangerous things, like tritiated fluorhydric acid. Tritiated Fluorhydric acid ??? That is CRAZYNESS. Never saw such a dangerous substance !! Then you have to change all pipes in your plant (reactor and reprocessing) after some years. Then you want to burn actinides. which means you will have into your fuel (molten 24/365) all actual highly radioactive waste. Uranium, plutonium,.... A fire will spread that and make inhabitable an entire continent. Same risk as fast breeders like superphenix or Monju. Just forget this crazy idea.
Every depot/mud near a drain, or other place where rain water accumulates is dangerous, especially if it rained there in march/april.
In Yokohama, there was a contaminated spot found with dust of more than 100 000 bq/kg of cesium. All this dust will go airborne if somebody touches it, or ties to clean it with a power washer. The government burns trash from Tohoku, the ashes are even more contaminated than that, and simply dumped in the ground or ocean. airborne dust will be inhalated by people, and give cancers, leukemias, etc.
Tokyo is not safe. The government tries to make it look safe by not testing many problematic spots. I would recommend you to go south.
+1 right click disappeared. But PCs are not macs, and HAVE a f*** second button !!! no menu mean no way to find an application unless you remember the name !! Gnome 3 is bullshit Unity is worse
Seriously, who had the brilliant idea of mobiles in the 1,5GHz band ? This guy should be sent to the electric chair !
- a phone needs a third transceiver There are already a lot of new bands for LTE, its nearly impossible to support all bands +WIFI + BT + GPS + radio... - a phone will jam it's own GPS - a phone will jam GPS around it (more than the tower, coz towers have better filters !) - a tower will jam GPS in a big radius
I think this band will die due to no support from phone manufacturers
I like the style of RMS, the world needs it. Jobs was a sucessful inventor, but Apple builds very closed systems. (even if they use some BSD code) This is bad for users.
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Probably you don't know, but France is scattered by regions where uranium was mined once, and a lot of constructions (roads, buildings, private houses) are contaminated due to the use of sterile rocks from U. mines. Not to mention the constant ocean pollution at la Hague, and other wanted and unwanted radioactive releases. Plus poor storage (some wastes are simply sent to Russia, for "storage" in rusty containers outside)
>> Coal or nuclear?
doesn't matter.
accumulating thermal solar + energy saving. Will supply humanity as soon as coal and nuclear are depleted/unpractical, wich is soon.
>> How long are we going to be using the phrase "worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl"?
True, just simply call it "The worst nuclear disaster"
True, a broken rotor could also make nearby rotors break.
Furthermore, i don't think this will be practical for more than a few minutes (battery weight)
The desktop is dead because they killed it.
Unity is nice only when you look at screenshots. In fact, it's designed to look nice on screenshots.
Nothing works properly, no right click, no alt-tab, no menu. it's empty.
Slutterworth breaks the desktop in order to enter the tablet and phone business. Seriously ????
This will fail ! The desktop users will be pissed off, and he really thinks they will get mobile devices with ubuntu ??????
Also, manufacturers look ubuntu as crappy now.
Personnally i now stay with 11.04 classic, until i need to upgrade, i will probably choose Lubuntu (if not another distro, or a yet to come gnome2 alternative)
I recommend an used Lifebook
3 year old ones can be found on ebay for ca. 200 euros, and are as sturdy as an IBM.
Ubuntu + Unity should be perfect for a mac user, as it's a mac inspired GUI (i hate it).
So you pretend that the earthquake would not have broken the containments and cooling pipes ? That's simply not true.
The containment would have broken too, the pipes, and the 3 days of cooling would have spilled through broken piupes in 3 hours -> meltdown.
Thermosiphon would not work.
The sea was full of debris which clogged every pipe: meltdown.
Furthermore, in a meltdown, you just created two direct water paths from a molten reactore core to the pacific ocean. Fail.
JSBiff, it's clear that you have no idea of the scale of the problem.
when you say :
>> there's no reason a meltdown should be a "disaster"
a meltdown releases such massive amounts of gaseous, liquid, solid materials, that are so radioactive, nothing can safely contain them over the long term. You give the exymple of liquid based reactors. They use a very specific metal alloy, which is the only to resist liquid molten core, and has to be replaced completely after some years.
For the gasses, either you release them, and you pollute massively, or you don't, and pressure rises until boom, and eeven more massive contamination.
Liquid material is also a problem, like can be seen @Fuku.
Now, say you stabilized a molten core. What's next ? you cannot acess the building, yet you have to take it down safely. Millions of tons of concrete that you cannot approach (or be dead instantly) hace to be dismantled and buried, without releasing any dust, or taking rain water, releasing gas.
There is no method today to take it down safely. TMI was not, tchernobyl was not, Fukushima will not be.
For Thorium, that is even more dangerous than water reactors. You have to use sodium, which is flammable, and will spread all your fuel as soon as you have the first fire. Then you have to have a chemical reprocessing running on your molten fuel 24/365 very close to EACH reactor, working on 600C molten metal. This reprocessing will output tons of waste chemicals every hour, all very radioactive. What do you do with it ? .... A fire will spread that and make inhabitable an entire continent. Same risk as fast breeders like superphenix or Monju.
Then you have to handle very dangerous things, like tritiated fluorhydric acid. Tritiated Fluorhydric acid ??? That is CRAZYNESS. Never saw such a dangerous substance !!
Then you have to change all pipes in your plant (reactor and reprocessing) after some years.
Then you want to burn actinides. which means you will have into your fuel (molten 24/365) all actual highly radioactive waste. Uranium, plutonium,
Just forget this crazy idea.
>> ordered nuclear power operators to spend every last dime up to the margin of being profitable on extra safety.
Bullshit
If nuclear power was "extra safe", it would not go boom every 10 years !
9/11 had also some military exercices as a cover up, for crreating confusion "this is an exercice"
>> , was nowhere near the point where it would have posed any danger to the people in the vicinity.
You make bullshit assumptions like people do not stay more than 5 minutes in the same place.
There are places in Tokyo where you get over 57 uSv/Hr, which makes 500 mSv/year. These places ARE NOT SAFE.
source : http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/10/575-microsievertshr-in-kashiwa-city.html
Every depot/mud near a drain, or other place where rain water accumulates is dangerous, especially if it rained there in march/april.
In Yokohama, there was a contaminated spot found with dust of more than 100 000 bq/kg of cesium. All this dust will go airborne if somebody touches it, or ties to clean it with a power washer. The government burns trash from Tohoku, the ashes are even more contaminated than that, and simply dumped in the ground or ocean. airborne dust will be inhalated by people, and give cancers, leukemias, etc.
Tokyo is not safe. The government tries to make it look safe by not testing many problematic spots.
I would recommend you to go south.
Just reflash the bios, if ever you get a HP then...
1984 is not a manual for politicians.
Hitler is back, in Brussels,. But don't worry. What could possibly go wrong ?
+1
right click disappeared. But PCs are not macs, and HAVE a f*** second button !!!
no menu mean no way to find an application unless you remember the name !!
Gnome 3 is bullshit
Unity is worse
Gnome 3 fallback mode is ridiculously incomplete !
A lot of users will switch when this mode is improved to the level of gnome 2
>> While it is not impossible that an extinction level event almost happened, I'd like to see a bit more evidence before panicking.
Why would you want to panic ?
1) If there was a risk in the past, we don't care.
2) If there is a risk in the future, we don't care also, coz past T0, we are back in situation 1 (or we are all just dead)
>> or heck probably just a Lightsquared tower =)
or by the associated mobile phones
Seriously, who had the brilliant idea of mobiles in the 1,5GHz band ?
This guy should be sent to the electric chair !
- a phone needs a third transceiver There are already a lot of new bands for LTE, its nearly impossible to support all bands +WIFI + BT + GPS + radio ...
- a phone will jam it's own GPS
- a phone will jam GPS around it (more than the tower, coz towers have better filters !)
- a tower will jam GPS in a big radius
I think this band will die due to no support from phone manufacturers
China will do
it helps expressing yourself better
I like the style of RMS, the world needs it.
Jobs was a sucessful inventor, but Apple builds very closed systems. (even if they use some BSD code) This is bad for users.
>> Metric is convenient
You nailed it. All is about simple conversions.
Identifying some characters in a random stream has no meaning.
Statistics can show how much time this algorithm needs in average, without spending huge resources on computing power.
So it's absolutely useless. Perhaps some could pretend it's art.
Build a public open Wifi network. It can withstand a loss of nodes.