To me, Windows XP really refined the Windows experience. I think the way they are forking their UI to Metro or whatever it is, may be taking the usability angle a little too far. I see far too many similarities between the Nintendo Wii OS and Windows 8 to possibly be coincidence, and the Wii has one of the most poorly thought-through UIs of all time. To be honest, I don't think the ribbon system works in Office very well, either - rather than de-cluttering menus it leads to hieroglyphic overload.
If a rank and file employee says "deal with it" to their customers on a very public forum, and it generates large amount of negative media buzz, you can damn well bet they are going to be fired.
Range on lasers is also an issue due to the curvature of the earth. So you get a double whammy of effects such that once a missile is high enough up to see, it is too high up to hit with the laser.
As far as I know the anti-missile lasers are only useful during the boosting phase of the missile launch, not once they are in space.
I don't know why they were ever removed. Back in my day, classrooms not in use were locked as a matter of policy (when no staff was present). Otherwise, students could enter and utilize them for 'unsanctioned' activities. I have many interesting stories from my high scool music department practice rooms.
I had a private smoking lounge in the maintenance space above ours. (Wonder if anyone ever found the bong I think I left up there.) I was in practically every musical group the school had, and so received a key that just so happened to open *that* lock, too, my sophomore year...:)
Nobody ever guessed how I managed never to get busted in the restrooms or trying to sneak out to the far parking lot. Since I wasn't supposed to tell any of the other students that I had what turned out to be a master key to every room and office in the whole music wing... I of course abided by the conditions under which I'd been given the key, and didn't tell a soul!
...er, I mean nuclear industry shills, not coal industry. By the way, where are all the coal industry shills? If Slashdot is overwhelmed by nuclear apologists, it's kind of weird that the coal industry hasn't noticed and sent some of their own.
Local television and radio stations in my city (Pittsburgh) have coal and natural gas shill commercials at least once every commercial break. Range Resource and Consol Energy are the biggest offenders on telling us how fracking and coal power do not fuck up our environment. When documents say otherwise, they dissapear.
There are a lot of violent video games these days and yet crime has continued to go down.
Taking your anger out on pixels on a screen is far easier and cost efficient over running rampant on real people.
Also, anything that keeps early teen through 20something men off the streets in record numbers is practically assured to reduce opportunistic petty violence unless it actively contains subhypnotic kill-programming technology...
And these people believe that videogames do contain such technology.
If we had an easy way to extract carbon directly from air, we would already be doing it.
Though I suppose "planting trees" could qualify as easy. In fact they make trees part of the cycle: 1. Harvest trees. 2. Create charcoal from trees. (Effectively burn the trees without O2 present. This causes the trees to generate straight C instead of CO2) 3. Combine charcoal with extracted hydrogen to create hydrocarbons. 4. Burn hydrocarbons as fuel, releasing CO2. 5. Plant trees.
The issue here is that steps 1, 2, 3 and 5 require fuel to do; and may require more than you get by creating the hydrocarbons in step 3.
Hydrogen has the opposite problem that if you don't drive, you lose power. It leaks. Through a half inch of solid steel.
According to Nasa, hydrogen will leak through microscopic pores in welds. But that is not the same as leaking directly through cast steel, and storage tanks can be cast as a single piece, without welds. Or a welded tank could have an additional layer of another material, such as aluminum, on the interior surface.
The container needs a hole in it to get the hydrogen in and out. It will leak through the connection to the plumbing.
That being said, casing the container as a single piece is a very very good idea.
College isn't a scam, but you have to know what you want out of it. If you don't know what you want to do yet when you graduate high school, you should probably get some employment experience in fields that interest you. You should still take some base level courses at a community college (and do well in them)... all of the 101 courses will probably transfer into whatever you end up doing - but there's no sense in going into deep debt without a clear goal in mind.
I agree, except you are not going to get hired for a job in a college-educated field without a college education. There are exceptions, but this is the base reason why so many "undeclared major" kids get into university. Maybe if there was some way to do a"1st year of University you do some internship work at several companies to figure out what you want to do". While most schools have mandatory internship programs (which I thoroughly support), these are usually held at the end of school one the student is years-invested into the education. A lousy time to find out you hate the line of work.
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also need to cut fluff and filler from Education.
The non-dischargeable in bankruptcy leads to lot's of joke majors and lot's of iffy schools that spend more ad's then Education.
Also more non college options need to be hear as well as more apprenticeship / trades / tech schools that don't take 4+ years of pure class room.
Here is an interesting point that I am not sure if you intended to make.
We say that education debt is non-dischargeable because the student has all the liability, takes no risk, and has nothing to repossess. However, should we be holing the schools responsible for talking people into pursuing joke majors for students that have no hope of actually graduating or for fields that have no hope of making enough money to repay the loans? I can remember when getting into university was a big deal with difficult entrance exams and whatnot. Now it seems that at least some school will take anyone in as long as they are paying.
Universities that offer masters in basketweaving should be held accountable. Trade schools that offer training in specific skills that transfer directly to job skills should be more treated more leniently.
The issue here, of course, is that the onus is on the student to get a job in their field, how can we fault the university if a student graduates and is simply too lazy to get a job. Additionally this would mean almost nobody would offer any Fine Arts degrees... though some people would be happy with this, I think it would degrade the total knowledge of society.
With your logic, I have decided to blame solar power on the death of anyone who got dehydrated while out in the sun. And I am going to blame wind power on the death of anyone caused by a hurricane or tornado. Under your flawed logic, more people have died from solar and wind power than have from nuclear power.
And I get to blame every traffic fatality on Fossil Fuels. DINGDINGDING we have a winner!
Only on oil powered plants. Coal would get all steam powered ships and trains, very few of which remain.
And for those of us that live in the Eastern part of North America, or the Western part of Europe, or the Eastern bits of China... you know, the place where most electricity is consumed... Are magic electrical fairies going to transport all the energy across the continents and seas to us? Maybe a global network of superconducting relays can do the trick... but such a thing does not exist... yet.
That we absolutely need baseload power generation is never put into question. It is quite likely that we can adapt to a much lower baseline than we currently have. At the moment, we pretty much expect power to be there whenever we want, as much as we want. But why should that be set in stone? If this is what it takes to avoid nuclear, then I say go for it..
I call this argument ad-hippium.
As for the numbers claimed in the article, they are of course bullshit, because, as has been pointed out, the storage problem hasn't been solved. Also, the claim that waste from coal plants is as dangerous as that from nuclear plants is simply ridiculous.
Why is it ridiculous? Isn't pollution spewed up into the atmosphere worse than stuff collected in barrels on a power plant? This is the exact point the article was trying to make.
Coal can do all of these (for various values of cost effective). The problem is it is very polluting.
If you add a "4) Is environmentally reasonable", then no, nothing in the world passes.
Coal fails on 4 very badly. Nuclear fails on 3 (and on 2 for countries that lack the technology, and 4 depending on whom you ask) Solar fails 1, 2, and 3. Tidal fails on 1 and 2 (I do not know about 3) Dams fail on 2 and 4. (and that isn't even including failures, and they fail on 1 if it doesn't rain enough) Wind fails on 1 and 2 (and possibly 3)
Continual network upgrades should be included in the cost of subscription.
Though I suppose we know that cable providers will sit on the oldest technology they can get away with and try to squeeze as much money from their customers.
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To me, Windows XP really refined the Windows experience. I think the way they are forking their UI to Metro or whatever it is, may be taking the usability angle a little too far. I see far too many similarities between the Nintendo Wii OS and Windows 8 to possibly be coincidence, and the Wii has one of the most poorly thought-through UIs of all time. To be honest, I don't think the ribbon system works in Office very well, either - rather than de-cluttering menus it leads to hieroglyphic overload.
Love that term.
To call Ivonava a regular woman is a grave insult. Ivonava is god.
So not an isolated event, either. The guy is just a jackass and deserves to get the boot.
If a rank and file employee says "deal with it" to their customers on a very public forum, and it generates large amount of negative media buzz, you can damn well bet they are going to be fired.
[mumbles something about 4 boxes] since soap ballot and jury ain't working, i think we all know whats left
Nuking them from orbit? Perhaps a bit harsh.
Fine, nuke them from the ground.
Most "First Posts" are unacceptable too.
Range on lasers is also an issue due to the curvature of the earth. So you get a double whammy of effects such that once a missile is high enough up to see, it is too high up to hit with the laser.
As far as I know the anti-missile lasers are only useful during the boosting phase of the missile launch, not once they are in space.
At first I read this as "Pebble Sandwich", which sounds almost as distasteful.
I don't know why they were ever removed. Back in my day, classrooms not in use were locked as a matter of policy (when no staff was present). Otherwise, students could enter and utilize them for 'unsanctioned' activities. I have many interesting stories from my high scool music department practice rooms.
I had a private smoking lounge in the maintenance space above ours. (Wonder if anyone ever found the bong I think I left up there.) I was in practically every musical group the school had, and so received a key that just so happened to open *that* lock, too, my sophomore year... :)
Nobody ever guessed how I managed never to get busted in the restrooms or trying to sneak out to the far parking lot. Since I wasn't supposed to tell any of the other students that I had what turned out to be a master key to every room and office in the whole music wing... I of course abided by the conditions under which I'd been given the key, and didn't tell a soul!
No worries, slashdot readers do not have souls.
According to http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/... it's Daiichi.
I'm guessing they would know.
Yeah, because we can trust Tepco to tell the truth.
...er, I mean nuclear industry shills, not coal industry. By the way, where are all the coal industry shills? If Slashdot is overwhelmed by nuclear apologists, it's kind of weird that the coal industry hasn't noticed and sent some of their own.
Local television and radio stations in my city (Pittsburgh) have coal and natural gas shill commercials at least once every commercial break. Range Resource and Consol Energy are the biggest offenders on telling us how fracking and coal power do not fuck up our environment. When documents say otherwise, they dissapear.
It is especially egregious because they are lying, and they know they are lying.
You still need to fuel the lumberjacks. It costs energy to create a large number of buttered scones and tea.
There are a lot of violent video games these days and yet crime has continued to go down.
Taking your anger out on pixels on a screen is far easier and cost efficient over running rampant on real people.
Also, anything that keeps early teen through 20something men off the streets in record numbers is practically assured to reduce opportunistic petty violence unless it actively contains subhypnotic kill-programming technology...
And these people believe that videogames do contain such technology.
If we had an easy way to extract carbon directly from air, we would already be doing it.
Though I suppose "planting trees" could qualify as easy. In fact they make trees part of the cycle:
1. Harvest trees.
2. Create charcoal from trees. (Effectively burn the trees without O2 present. This causes the trees to generate straight C instead of CO2)
3. Combine charcoal with extracted hydrogen to create hydrocarbons.
4. Burn hydrocarbons as fuel, releasing CO2.
5. Plant trees.
The issue here is that steps 1, 2, 3 and 5 require fuel to do; and may require more than you get by creating the hydrocarbons in step 3.
Hydrogen has the opposite problem that if you don't drive, you lose power. It leaks. Through a half inch of solid steel.
According to Nasa, hydrogen will leak through microscopic pores in welds. But that is not the same as leaking directly through cast steel, and storage tanks can be cast as a single piece, without welds. Or a welded tank could have an additional layer of another material, such as aluminum, on the interior surface.
The container needs a hole in it to get the hydrogen in and out. It will leak through the connection to the plumbing.
That being said, casing the container as a single piece is a very very good idea.
College isn't a scam, but you have to know what you want out of it. If you don't know what you want to do yet when you graduate high school, you should probably get some employment experience in fields that interest you. You should still take some base level courses at a community college (and do well in them)... all of the 101 courses will probably transfer into whatever you end up doing - but there's no sense in going into deep debt without a clear goal in mind.
I agree, except you are not going to get hired for a job in a college-educated field without a college education. There are exceptions, but this is the base reason why so many "undeclared major" kids get into university. Maybe if there was some way to do a"1st year of University you do some internship work at several companies to figure out what you want to do". While most schools have mandatory internship programs (which I thoroughly support), these are usually held at the end of school one the student is years-invested into the education. A lousy time to find out you hate the line of work.
also need to cut fluff and filler from Education.
The non-dischargeable in bankruptcy leads to lot's of joke majors and lot's of iffy schools that spend more ad's then Education.
Also more non college options need to be hear as well as more apprenticeship / trades / tech schools that don't take 4+ years of pure class room.
Here is an interesting point that I am not sure if you intended to make.
We say that education debt is non-dischargeable because the student has all the liability, takes no risk, and has nothing to repossess. However, should we be holing the schools responsible for talking people into pursuing joke majors for students that have no hope of actually graduating or for fields that have no hope of making enough money to repay the loans? I can remember when getting into university was a big deal with difficult entrance exams and whatnot. Now it seems that at least some school will take anyone in as long as they are paying.
Universities that offer masters in basketweaving should be held accountable. Trade schools that offer training in specific skills that transfer directly to job skills should be more treated more leniently.
The issue here, of course, is that the onus is on the student to get a job in their field, how can we fault the university if a student graduates and is simply too lazy to get a job. Additionally this would mean almost nobody would offer any Fine Arts degrees... though some people would be happy with this, I think it would degrade the total knowledge of society.
Build the solar facilities closer maybe? It isn't set in stone that these are the only places facilities can be built
Most of the places in the linked image were deserts.
Nuclear power != Nuclear bomb.
With your logic, I have decided to blame solar power on the death of anyone who got dehydrated while out in the sun. And I am going to blame wind power on the death of anyone caused by a hurricane or tornado. Under your flawed logic, more people have died from solar and wind power than have from nuclear power.
And I get to blame every traffic fatality on Fossil Fuels. DINGDINGDING we have a winner!
Only on oil powered plants. Coal would get all steam powered ships and trains, very few of which remain.
And for those of us that live in the Eastern part of North America, or the Western part of Europe, or the Eastern bits of China... you know, the place where most electricity is consumed... Are magic electrical fairies going to transport all the energy across the continents and seas to us? Maybe a global network of superconducting relays can do the trick... but such a thing does not exist... yet.
Uhh, you are aware that France does have nuclear weapons, right?
I call this argument ad-hippium.
Why is it ridiculous? Isn't pollution spewed up into the atmosphere worse than stuff collected in barrels on a power plant? This is the exact point the article was trying to make.
Coal can do all of these (for various values of cost effective). The problem is it is very polluting.
If you add a "4) Is environmentally reasonable", then no, nothing in the world passes.
Coal fails on 4 very badly.
Nuclear fails on 3 (and on 2 for countries that lack the technology, and 4 depending on whom you ask)
Solar fails 1, 2, and 3.
Tidal fails on 1 and 2 (I do not know about 3)
Dams fail on 2 and 4. (and that isn't even including failures, and they fail on 1 if it doesn't rain enough)
Wind fails on 1 and 2 (and possibly 3)
Continual network upgrades should be included in the cost of subscription.
Though I suppose we know that cable providers will sit on the oldest technology they can get away with and try to squeeze as much money from their customers.