Sure, a NPP can be build totally safe - btw something the nuclear energy industry claims all the time - and all occured incidents are not based upon the concept of the plant but on human error, costs savings, wrong materials etc....
Yes, the problem is the "etc".
And for the fuel processing/reprocessing: some may think it just "shovel some ore in a tube" but it isn't. This chemical process produces high problematic nuclear and chemical waste, which is (in history) sometimes handled not as intended. Economic pressure makes many things possible - things you even want not dream in a nightmare about.
And for the safety: "A NPP would survive a crash of a fighter jet.". That's true. The impact of a jet engine won't scratch the hull. But also the WTC might have survived the crash of a fighter jet - but it collapsed due to the heat of tons of burning fuel from a Boeing 767... As I know, most NPPs are not able to withstand a WTC-scenario.
Yes, are specified to withstand an earthquake. The specifications says, that a plant has to withstand an earthquake with the magnitude of the biggest earthquake of the last *100* years in that area. Ask a geologist, if he can sleep well with that. Btw: just research about leakages in Japanese NPPs after earthquakes... and the Japanese really should know about earthquake resisting structures (which they do know, of course! But economical reasons... you know...).
A NNP is the dream of an engineer - I know it, because I was an engineer in the nuclear industry some years ago - but IMHO it is not an ordinary mass product for the dailly use. (Don't tell me about "new" reactor concepts - I know them and most aren't new.)
NPPs are also the dream of the energy industry, because it consolidates the concept of centralized energy supply - which means profit.
If you dream the dream of unlimited cheap energy then nuclear power is not the solution, because it is risky and not cheap. You better wake up: energy is an expensive resource.
... when they (these scientists) are running over the budget and they are still need in of money.
"Fusion is close" - I heard this in the 70es, 80es, 90es. Now again. Sigh.
The budgets of fundamental research are getting worse over the years and there is allways somebody in a decisive position who asks "when and how many money we will get from this? Why do you need soooo much money?" etc.
(and how about the boys and girls
at NASA, ESA e.g.?)
So we will hear something like this again and again and again.
But it's getting better! A few centuries ago, scientists ("turning lead to gold is close!") are getting executed or kept in prison - the special kind of intellectual property of those early times...
the survival of the dinosaurs... (fairy tale)
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Once upon a time there was a big company who rules the world of computing with its big mainframes. It was called IBM. Nobody could compete with this giant. But then a small challanger appeared, named himself Digital Equipment.
The giant feared him, because these small reliable minicomputers were more adaptable and inexpensive compared to the big mainframes, and they multiply like hell. The big company tried to make minicomputers too, but the challenger still occupied the area.
And so everybody was chanting: "IBM is gonna dying...".
But one little branch of the dinosaur was getting strong. It was called Personal Computer and was DECs nightmare, because they were more adaptable and inexpensive. But alas, another challenger appeared, called Compaq, and its PCs were even cheaper and smarter and multipied like hell.
And so everybody was chanting: "IBM is dying..."
But the climate gets rough, and Compaq eats DEC. And than Compaq was eaten by another Dinosaur...
And nobody was chanting.
And lesson of the story?
Don't dance on open, empty graves.
Once upon a time there was a big company who rules the world of computing with its software. It was called Microsoft. Nobody could compete with this giant...
Lichtspruch von TRAV - sofortiger Rücksturz zur Erde, sämtliche Energie plus Schlafende...
Bügeleisen und Wasserhähne...
(For all non-german: Raumschiff Orion was a german SF-mini series at the end of the sixties iirc - way before startrek. The creators had generated a impressive and unique "technobabble" and, if you watch very closely, you could see that they used facets and flat-irons as intruments on the panels of the spacecrafts... yes those budget-cuts:-)
> Please define "down" in a microgravity environment.
the floor *g* and every wall covered with instruments - the more expensive the better the ground effect!?
If Microsoft were to "embrace and extend" Linux in the way that it did Java or kerberos, would Linus Torvalds, as owner of the Linux trademark, have legal ground to sue?
If MS don't name this thing "Linux" or "MSLinux" or anything like Linux, whatsoever - No.
Don't mix trademarks and copyrights. They are both based on the idea of IP, but they are different.
If they decide to pull the elevator "up" and the plane starts going the wrong direction, they can assume that they're upside-down and make opposite corrections. Heck, they could have programmed it with no knowledge of how to "turn left", but rely on the GPS data to tell the plane if it's doing the correct thing (random control movements, feedback analysis of results).
Theoretically you are right, but...
If the plane flies upside down too long, the engine won't get fuel after some time - the fuel tank "needs" (the right) gravity to deliver fuel to the engine.
So there is a need for the correct orientation of the plane. There is also a simple solution for the orientation problem: If the plane reacts wrong for up/down *and* left/right - then it's flying upside down.
I wanna zwackt myself 16 MByte from the primary storage, too.
That could be very painful. Etwas abzwacken means to pinch something off. Maybe you should check your primary storage parts
mfg uwe
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Maybe it was a cynical approach. The german war industry was lacking petrol in the forties. So they are using gasified coal as fuel in both minitural e.g. for car engines ("Holzvergaser") and industrial scale (refinery in Leuna/Bitterfeld).
You are right about the rocket-engines: there were no coal-fuel approaches AFAIK.
But who knows on what von Braun & Co. was working about in Nordhausen at '45...
IHMO the right way. It's interseting that the Peenemuende-Section original was thinking that way (Saenger-Konzept) - and that was developed further by the US Airforce: the Dynasoar (the never flown X-15 successor). See http://www.friends-partners.org/~mwade/craft/dynas oar.htm for details
You're right!
I've seen many GUIs on many OS...
MacOS 6, 7, 8, 9, X...
Win3, 95, 98...
some UNIX (Solaris, HP-UX, Linux)
and so I look at those ScreenShots and ask myself:
"What's new about this?"
(except the need for a 20" Display for something you could done on a 9" years ago)
it's just "alter Wein in neuen Schläuchen" but I think there will be enough newbees who pay for this and say "kewl!"
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How true.
Sure, a NPP can be build totally safe - btw something the nuclear energy industry claims all the time - and all occured incidents are not based upon the concept of the plant but on human error, costs savings, wrong materials etc....
Yes, the problem is the "etc".
And for the fuel processing/reprocessing: some may think it just "shovel some ore in a tube" but it isn't. This chemical process produces high problematic nuclear and chemical waste, which is (in history) sometimes handled not as intended. Economic pressure makes many things possible - things you even want not dream in a nightmare about.
And for the safety: "A NPP would survive a crash of a fighter jet.". That's true. The impact of a jet engine won't scratch the hull. But also the WTC might have survived the crash of a fighter jet - but it collapsed due to the heat of tons of burning fuel from a Boeing 767...
As I know, most NPPs are not able to withstand a WTC-scenario.
Yes, are specified to withstand an earthquake. The specifications says, that a plant has to withstand an earthquake with the magnitude of the biggest earthquake of the last *100* years in that area. Ask a geologist, if he can sleep well with that. Btw: just research about leakages in Japanese NPPs after earthquakes... and the Japanese really should know about earthquake resisting structures (which they do know, of course! But economical reasons... you know...).
A NNP is the dream of an engineer - I know it, because I was an engineer in the nuclear industry some years ago - but IMHO it is not an ordinary mass product for the dailly use. (Don't tell me about "new" reactor concepts - I know them and most aren't new.)
NPPs are also the dream of the energy industry, because it consolidates the concept of centralized energy supply - which means profit.
If you dream the dream of unlimited cheap energy then nuclear power is not the solution, because it is risky and not cheap. You better wake up: energy is an expensive resource.
... by Martin Scorsese is the most rotten skeleton in the closet of some western countries.
Alpha's dead? I thought Apple's dead.
> So I suppose, you wanted to say:
> If free like free speech, you're right.
> If free like free beer, you're not.
No, again, you're totally wrong
I referenced your statement:
"Remember that even 1/100 of cent per codec makes it impossible to implement as free software"
- which is in fact wrong, even for gnu standards:
``Free software'' is a matter of liberty, not *price*.
And you ("even 1/100 of cent...") are talking about the price.
> Remember that even 1/100 of cent per codec makes it impossible to implement as free software
If free like free beer, you're right.
If free like free speech, you're not.
... when they (these scientists) are running over the budget and they are still need in of money.
"Fusion is close" - I heard this in the 70es, 80es, 90es. Now again. Sigh.
The budgets of fundamental research are getting worse over the years and there is allways somebody in a decisive position who asks "when and how many money we will get from this? Why do you need soooo much money?" etc.
(and how about the boys and girls
at NASA, ESA e.g.?)
So we will hear something like this again and again and again.
But it's getting better! A few centuries ago, scientists ("turning lead to gold is close!") are getting executed or kept in prison - the special kind of intellectual property of those early times...
Once upon a time there was a big company who rules the world of computing with its big mainframes. It was called IBM. Nobody could compete with this giant. But then a small challanger appeared, named himself Digital Equipment.
The giant feared him, because these small reliable minicomputers were more adaptable and inexpensive compared to the big mainframes, and they multiply like hell. The big company tried to make minicomputers too, but the challenger still occupied the area.
And so everybody was chanting: "IBM is gonna dying...".
But one little branch of the dinosaur was getting strong. It was called Personal Computer and was DECs nightmare, because they were more adaptable and inexpensive. But alas, another challenger appeared, called Compaq, and its PCs were even cheaper and smarter and multipied like hell.
And so everybody was chanting: "IBM is dying..."
But the climate gets rough, and Compaq eats DEC. And than Compaq was eaten by another Dinosaur...
And nobody was chanting.
And lesson of the story?
Don't dance on open, empty graves.
Once upon a time there was a big company who rules the world of computing with its software. It was called Microsoft. Nobody could compete with this giant...
Lichtspruch von TRAV - sofortiger Rücksturz zur Erde, sämtliche Energie plus Schlafende...
:-)
Bügeleisen und Wasserhähne...
(For all non-german: Raumschiff Orion was a german SF-mini series at the end of the sixties iirc - way before startrek. The creators had generated a impressive and unique "technobabble" and, if you watch very closely, you could see that they used facets and flat-irons as intruments on the panels of the spacecrafts... yes those budget-cuts
Maybe the important battles were won.
But, despite you've had won all the battles, you can still loose the war.
If you don't believe me, ask Hannibal (the cathargian)
And the war is about the users, not the programmers (or licences).
It's about the desktop, and there is still a long way to go, Linux...
So should he be building rockets then?!? Why not?
is coffeine or nicotine addiction more suitable?
Disorders doesn't mean somebody's dumb.
> Please define "down" in a microgravity environment.
the floor *g* and every wall covered with instruments - the more expensive the better the ground effect!?
If Microsoft were to "embrace and extend" Linux in the way that it did Java or kerberos, would Linus Torvalds, as owner of the Linux trademark, have legal ground to sue?
If MS don't name this thing "Linux" or "MSLinux" or anything like Linux, whatsoever - No.Don't mix trademarks and copyrights. They are both based on the idea of IP, but they are different.
mfgTheoretically you are right, but...
HTHIf the plane flies upside down too long, the engine won't get fuel after some time - the fuel tank "needs" (the right) gravity to deliver fuel to the engine.
So there is a need for the correct orientation of the plane. There is also a simple solution for the orientation problem: If the plane reacts wrong for up/down *and* left/right - then it's flying upside down.
Forget Microsoft Linux, XENIX is the solution that Microsoft is going to try to bring back!
Sorry, but you forgot that MS sold XENIX to SCO many years ago...wait, what happened to SCO...?
... w/out computer and alien intervention:
1) find a place with a view to the probable north without obstacles
2) build a exact even wall by using a spirit-level from (rough) east to west
3) now observe the heaven over the wall by night
3) observe the rise of a star and make a mark at its rising point on the wall
4) observe the descent of the same star and make a mark at its descent point on the wall
5) the centre between this two points is the exact north. You can measure it by using a rope.
So, all you need is:
1) some stones and clay for a wall
2) water and wood for the spirit-level
3) a rope
4) good eyes, no sleep
hmm, no aliens, no computer, no linux necessary
mfg uwe
That could be very painful.
Etwas abzwacken means to pinch something off. Maybe you should check your primary storage parts
mfg uwe
Maybe it was a cynical approach. The german war industry was lacking petrol in the forties. So they are using gasified coal as fuel in both minitural e.g. for car engines ("Holzvergaser") and industrial scale (refinery in Leuna/Bitterfeld).
You are right about the rocket-engines: there were no coal-fuel approaches AFAIK.
But who knows on what von Braun & Co. was working about in Nordhausen at '45...
mfg uwe
IHMO the right way. It's interseting that the Peenemuende-Section original was thinking that way (Saenger-Konzept) - and that was developed further by the US Airforce: the Dynasoar (the never flown X-15 successor). See http://www.friends-partners.org/~mwade/craft/dynas oar.htm for details
You're right!
I've seen many GUIs on many OS...
MacOS 6, 7, 8, 9, X...
Win3, 95, 98...
some UNIX (Solaris, HP-UX, Linux)
and so I look at those ScreenShots and ask myself:
"What's new about this?"
(except the need for a 20" Display for something you could done on a 9" years ago)
it's just "alter Wein in neuen Schläuchen" but I think there will be enough newbees who pay for this and say "kewl!"
mfg uwe