Hey, as long as we're stupendously offtopic, mind if I throw a question at you? Going through the information on the various submarines, I've noticed that every one is sponsored by a married women. (Presumably the wife of an officer.) Any idea what the tradition is surrounding that? And what are her responsibilities as a sponsor?
New versions of OpenOffice have an "Export to PDF" option that makes very clean PDFs. That was the feature I was referring to. Running the document through the print system is workable, but doesn't produce as nice of documents.
I wish, but, No, politics has decided that boats will now be named after states, like battleships.
Sad, truly sad. I mean, which sounds more fearsome: Seawolf or Virginia? If I was an enemy of the US, I'd be WAY more woried about a large creature with teeth.
I can't believe we got this far off topic without getting hammered.
It's my patented reality distortion field. I kick up conversations that are so interesting that they don't get modded down. That is, as long as I don't offend anyone.;-)
We arranged for some parts from the original (SS236) to be overhauled when the SubVets of WW II had there convention in Norfolk in 79. The tradition is kept alive through another generation.
So what do you think, are they going to build another Silversides? Perhaps a Virgina class submarine? Last I knew, there where about four outstanding orders on the class.
BTW the Silversides is a diesel-powered ship, not a nuclear ship, and you never forget that if you've ever been inside one.
Wrong Silversides there, bub. You're referring to the WWII Ship (SS236), while the original poster was referring to the recently decommissioned nuclear Silversides (SSN679). Quite a difference there.;-)
Besides, I was just poking fun at how cramped those things are.
I was concerned about that as well. And on the outset it does seem a bit slower. (Apple is having some difficulty in optimizing the Java drawing routines for the Mac.) But in real use, it feels more than fast enough. It's just kind of slow to start.
It would have the same effect. Mac system files are protected against stupid users. The trojan would need a "sudo" password to delete the entire drive.
I've been using NeoOffice/J for a little while, and it's far better than the "Official" X11 version. The only down side is that it's an older version that lacks PDF export support.:-( (Of course, the X11 version doesn't have that either.)
There's something wrong with that? My sub made pretty good pizza.
SSN679
Unless I miss my guess, you are referring to the USS Silversides, named for the WWII SS236 submarine, launched June 1971, decommissioned and struck from the Navy list in July 1994.
I didn't know those boats had a large enough kitchen to make a pizza. I suppose you could always pop it in the reactor for a quick warming!:-D
That's awesome - thanks. I just assumed It Wouldn't Work.
Well, you know what they say about ASSuMEing;-)
Now if I can just convinece Blue's Clues that my fileserver is actually the CD ROM drive, I can avoid having my 3 year old put CDs into the computer:)
Bah. My four year old handles it just fine. Even my one year old has been known to swap a few CDs!
It sounds like you want something like this. Rip the CD to an ISO and mount it as needed. That should work fine for all the single CD games. Multi-CD Blue's Clues might be a bit problematic, however. You might have to switch to the console to remount, something your 3 year old will definitely have troubles with.;-)
When I first tried running it, the window border showed up in fullscreen. This prevented input from being handled correctly. The problem seemed to have cleared up after the next reboot. No idea why. *shrug*
It was actually a rather funny story. You see, I had installed WINE because Sun suggests it for running programs that the Java Desktop System does not yet have support for. I then left JDS running while I went to work. A few hours later, my wife calls and asks how to get Blue's Clues running on JDS (despite a previous offer for her to reboot into Windows at any time). I thought about it a moment and had her double-click on the CD. She found the EXE file and ran it. To my complete shock and surprise, it ran! (Albeit with the previously described issue.)
Later that night I came home, rebooted to JDS, and tried Blue's Clues again. That time it worked without any problems. Pretty simple, actually.:-)
Just remember to associate EXE files with the WINE executable, and you should be fine.
What are the biggest challenges in getting generic Windows software to run? So far, WINE has appeared to be mostly focused on games. While it's great that my son's Blue's Clues game runs just as well as on Windows (Thank You!), getting applications like Video Players installed tends to be difficult if not impossible.
5. Accidental fission results in lots of heat and radiation
And this is good how?
Stay away and you don't die. (Radiation falls off at the same rate as heat and light. i.e. The inverse of the distance.) With a nuclear warhead, things go BOOM and you die no matter where you are.
Industrial disasters tend to be that way. Many towns even in the US have been evacuated from accidents such as major chemical spills. One town in Colorado even has an underground coal fire that will continue burning for the next hundred years or so. Very comparable damage.
A dedicated Boy Scout could easily make either a low-yield nuclear bomb using enough 'spent' uranium to make a subcritical mass (remember, Mouseketeers, that 'spent' fuel rods are still highly radioactive and it just takes a lot more to reach subcritical mass than ordinary uranium)
You can't make depleted uranium fission. All the fissionable materials have already been used up. Even if you could force it to fission, it's not pure enough to be a bomb. You'll simply make the materials that much more radioactive.
Problem is we've already given them all the material anyone could ever want or need to make a 'dirty bomb', delivered right to their sandy li'l front doors courtesy of the United States Armed Services.
Dirty bombs are bullshit through and through. Nuclear opponents use the idea as a scare tactic to get people to dislike anything nuclear. If detonated, most of the radiation would be absorbed by buildings. Amazing enough (*cough*) concrete and steel forms an excellent barrier against nearly all types of radiation.
Uranium is such tough stuff, that blowing it up in a bomb wouldn't be enough to pulverize it. You'd simply rain down chunks that could be easily picked up and disposed of. To be effective, terrorists would have to machine the stuff into a fine powder. Putting aside that Uranium is one of the most difficult materials to machine (I hope you got a few diamond cutters hanging around), they'd probably kill themselves in the process. See, getting people to inhale radioactive dust is the most effective way of giving people cancer. But it's not selective about who it inhales it. Including the people who machine it.
Let's say for a moment that terrorists manage to build a viable dirty bomb without killing themselves. So they explode it over New York or Chicago. Ok, so the likelihood of cancer goes up significantly for the people within a one mile radius of the blast. Then all the uranium falls to the ground. (That stuff is HEAVY.) On the ground, no one is inhaling it, and their clothing and skin is deflecting a lot of the radiation. Street sweepers and rain eventually wash it away, where some of it is removed by water treatment plants, and some of it settles to the bottom of rivers. Since water is such a good radiation shield, nearly none of the radiation is going to reach the surface.
Fun Fact for th' Day:... Any nation employing DU in its weapons will be considered to be in serious breach of the Geneva accord.
Which is why the US stopped using DU weapons. Are aren't you up on modern warfare?
Here's my own fun factoid: Did you know that Uranium is so strong, that they use it to contain nuclear explosions? The shell of a Hydrogen bomb is made from depleted uranium. The purpose of this shell is to contain the explosion from an atomic fission bomb, and redirect that force into creating nuclear fusion. The Fusion detonation is so much more powerful, that it literally destroys the shell outright. Now, imagine some guy in a tent in Afghanistan grinding up uranium into a powder fine enough to inhale. I certainly can't see it.
That's sort of the point.:-) Usually the RTG has a few pounds of plutonium, a pound or two of electronics, then about 50 or so pounds of shielding.
2. Allthough they are made to withstand a train crash or a plane crashlanding, I don't think they can take a Challenger style explosion and then a free fall from 5000+ meters. I remember reading something about them beeing vulnerable to certain angles of impact.
No, these are designed for unprotected reentry, unlike the "black boxes" used for determining the cause of aircraft accidents. The Nimbus B crash was actually very much like the Challenger incident. Even if the radiological material was released in the impact, its environmental impact would be near zero. Plutonium is an Alpha emitter and thus cannot penetrate the skin. It's only dangerous when it's ground up into a fine powder and inhaled. Thankfully, this is a very difficult thing as plutonium is VERY solid stuff.
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Hey, as long as we're stupendously offtopic, mind if I throw a question at you? Going through the information on the various submarines, I've noticed that every one is sponsored by a married women. (Presumably the wife of an officer.) Any idea what the tradition is surrounding that? And what are her responsibilities as a sponsor?
New versions of OpenOffice have an "Export to PDF" option that makes very clean PDFs. That was the feature I was referring to. Running the document through the print system is workable, but doesn't produce as nice of documents.
I wish, but, No, politics has decided that boats will now be named after states, like battleships.
;-)
Sad, truly sad. I mean, which sounds more fearsome: Seawolf or Virginia? If I was an enemy of the US, I'd be WAY more woried about a large creature with teeth.
I can't believe we got this far off topic without getting hammered.
It's my patented reality distortion field. I kick up conversations that are so interesting that they don't get modded down. That is, as long as I don't offend anyone.
We arranged for some parts from the original (SS236) to be overhauled when the SubVets of WW II had there convention in Norfolk in 79. The tradition is kept alive through another generation.
So what do you think, are they going to build another Silversides? Perhaps a Virgina class submarine? Last I knew, there where about four outstanding orders on the class.
That's a special Windows driver that comes with Adobe. AFAIK, it has nothing to do with OpenOffice.
BTW the Silversides is a diesel-powered ship, not a nuclear ship, and you never forget that if you've ever been inside one.
;-)
Wrong Silversides there, bub. You're referring to the WWII Ship (SS236), while the original poster was referring to the recently decommissioned nuclear Silversides (SSN679). Quite a difference there.
Besides, I was just poking fun at how cramped those things are.
I was concerned about that as well. And on the outset it does seem a bit slower. (Apple is having some difficulty in optimizing the Java drawing routines for the Mac.) But in real use, it feels more than fast enough. It's just kind of slow to start.
He should be thankful that it wasn't "rm -rf /*".
It would have the same effect. Mac system files are protected against stupid users. The trojan would need a "sudo" password to delete the entire drive.
I've been using NeoOffice/J for a little while, and it's far better than the "Official" X11 version. The only down side is that it's an older version that lacks PDF export support. :-( (Of course, the X11 version doesn't have that either.)
There's something wrong with that? My sub made pretty good pizza.
:-D
SSN679
Unless I miss my guess, you are referring to the USS Silversides, named for the WWII SS236 submarine, launched June 1971, decommissioned and struck from the Navy list in July 1994.
I didn't know those boats had a large enough kitchen to make a pizza. I suppose you could always pop it in the reactor for a quick warming!
OK, I probably should have used the word "perception" instead of "estimation", because the estimates were about 2.5x.
;-)
You look like a good kid. I'll let you off with a warning this time. Just don't do it again!
Did you bother to read the article before posting? They say the real number is closer to 2.5x.
;-)
Sheesh.
Then why didn't the article poster say that instead? Sheesh.
Although there are no hard numbers, the estimates are that Linus has been 10x more productive with BK.
And I'm 1000x more productive with CVS!
Instead of pulling numbers out of the air, just say the guy likes the tool and performs better with it. Sheesh.
And there was much rejoicing!!!!
Yay.
C&C Red Alert)
Wasn't that a DOS game?
Maybe you're trying to be funny, but BeFS was renowned for its database-like properties that allowed for easier and quicker searches to find data.
Yep... that it doesn't have an "E" in it :-)
That was an intentional "mistake". The saying goes "To assume makes an ASS out of U and ME."
That's awesome - thanks. I just assumed It Wouldn't Work.
;-)
:)
;-)
Well, you know what they say about ASSuMEing
Now if I can just convinece Blue's Clues that my fileserver is actually the CD ROM drive, I can avoid having my 3 year old put CDs into the computer
Bah. My four year old handles it just fine. Even my one year old has been known to swap a few CDs!
It sounds like you want something like this. Rip the CD to an ISO and mount it as needed. That should work fine for all the single CD games. Multi-CD Blue's Clues might be a bit problematic, however. You might have to switch to the console to remount, something your 3 year old will definitely have troubles with.
Are you using Wine, or WineX?
:-)
Just the latest WINE build.
Any tricks you'd like to share to get it working?
When I first tried running it, the window border showed up in fullscreen. This prevented input from being handled correctly. The problem seemed to have cleared up after the next reboot. No idea why. *shrug*
It was actually a rather funny story. You see, I had installed WINE because Sun suggests it for running programs that the Java Desktop System does not yet have support for. I then left JDS running while I went to work. A few hours later, my wife calls and asks how to get Blue's Clues running on JDS (despite a previous offer for her to reboot into Windows at any time). I thought about it a moment and had her double-click on the CD. She found the EXE file and ran it. To my complete shock and surprise, it ran! (Albeit with the previously described issue.)
Later that night I came home, rebooted to JDS, and tried Blue's Clues again. That time it worked without any problems. Pretty simple, actually.
Just remember to associate EXE files with the WINE executable, and you should be fine.
What are the biggest challenges in getting generic Windows software to run? So far, WINE has appeared to be mostly focused on games. While it's great that my son's Blue's Clues game runs just as well as on Windows (Thank You!), getting applications like Video Players installed tends to be difficult if not impossible.
Or they could write it in Java. Sadly, you'll have to use LWJGL instead of JOGL until Sun supports full screen mode on Linux. :-(
5. Accidental fission results in lots of heat and radiation
And this is good how?
Stay away and you don't die. (Radiation falls off at the same rate as heat and light. i.e. The inverse of the distance.) With a nuclear warhead, things go BOOM and you die no matter where you are.
Hell of a 'industrial disaster' though...
Industrial disasters tend to be that way. Many towns even in the US have been evacuated from accidents such as major chemical spills. One town in Colorado even has an underground coal fire that will continue burning for the next hundred years or so. Very comparable damage.
-1 Uninformed, Fear Mongering fool
... Any nation employing DU in its weapons will be considered to be in serious breach of the Geneva accord.
A dedicated Boy Scout could easily make either a low-yield nuclear bomb using enough 'spent' uranium to make a subcritical mass (remember, Mouseketeers, that 'spent' fuel rods are still highly radioactive and it just takes a lot more to reach subcritical mass than ordinary uranium)
You can't make depleted uranium fission. All the fissionable materials have already been used up. Even if you could force it to fission, it's not pure enough to be a bomb. You'll simply make the materials that much more radioactive.
Problem is we've already given them all the material anyone could ever want or need to make a 'dirty bomb', delivered right to their sandy li'l front doors courtesy of the United States Armed Services.
Dirty bombs are bullshit through and through. Nuclear opponents use the idea as a scare tactic to get people to dislike anything nuclear. If detonated, most of the radiation would be absorbed by buildings. Amazing enough (*cough*) concrete and steel forms an excellent barrier against nearly all types of radiation.
Uranium is such tough stuff, that blowing it up in a bomb wouldn't be enough to pulverize it. You'd simply rain down chunks that could be easily picked up and disposed of. To be effective, terrorists would have to machine the stuff into a fine powder. Putting aside that Uranium is one of the most difficult materials to machine (I hope you got a few diamond cutters hanging around), they'd probably kill themselves in the process. See, getting people to inhale radioactive dust is the most effective way of giving people cancer. But it's not selective about who it inhales it. Including the people who machine it.
Let's say for a moment that terrorists manage to build a viable dirty bomb without killing themselves. So they explode it over New York or Chicago. Ok, so the likelihood of cancer goes up significantly for the people within a one mile radius of the blast. Then all the uranium falls to the ground. (That stuff is HEAVY.) On the ground, no one is inhaling it, and their clothing and skin is deflecting a lot of the radiation. Street sweepers and rain eventually wash it away, where some of it is removed by water treatment plants, and some of it settles to the bottom of rivers. Since water is such a good radiation shield, nearly none of the radiation is going to reach the surface.
Fun Fact for th' Day:
Which is why the US stopped using DU weapons. Are aren't you up on modern warfare?
Here's my own fun factoid: Did you know that Uranium is so strong, that they use it to contain nuclear explosions? The shell of a Hydrogen bomb is made from depleted uranium. The purpose of this shell is to contain the explosion from an atomic fission bomb, and redirect that force into creating nuclear fusion. The Fusion detonation is so much more powerful, that it literally destroys the shell outright. Now, imagine some guy in a tent in Afghanistan grinding up uranium into a powder fine enough to inhale. I certainly can't see it.
1. TRGs are insanely heavy.
:-) Usually the RTG has a few pounds of plutonium, a pound or two of electronics, then about 50 or so pounds of shielding.
That's sort of the point.
2. Allthough they are made to withstand a train crash or a plane crashlanding, I don't think they can take a Challenger style explosion and then a free fall from 5000+ meters. I remember reading something about them beeing vulnerable to certain angles of impact.
No, these are designed for unprotected reentry, unlike the "black boxes" used for determining the cause of aircraft accidents. The Nimbus B crash was actually very much like the Challenger incident. Even if the radiological material was released in the impact, its environmental impact would be near zero. Plutonium is an Alpha emitter and thus cannot penetrate the skin. It's only dangerous when it's ground up into a fine powder and inhaled. Thankfully, this is a very difficult thing as plutonium is VERY solid stuff.