MAM (matter/antimatter) reactions are much more complex than the simplistic answer that site gives. Think about what a particle accelerator does, like the Fermilab proton-antiproton collider or the SLAC electron-positron collider. They produce a whole zoo of exotic particles, such as the recently discovered top quark in the 1990's, from matter-antimatter collisions.
In a matter-antimatter reactor for power, you're probably combining hydrogen and antihydrogen. Let's just consider the proton-antiproton interaction as over 99% of the mass is in that pair of particles. The most likely result of a proton/antiproton collision at low energies is a bunch of pions. While neutral pions can decay into photons (energy), charged pions cannot due to conservation of charge and have to decay into muons plus neutrinos. Muons will eventually decay into electrons plus more neutrinos. The neutrinos end up carrying off over half the mass-energy you started with.
Even in the ideal situation where all the resulting electrons and muons find corresponding antiparticles in the reaction chamber and annhilate, the efficiency is around 40%. That's very unlikely and real designs calculate closer to a 10% efficiency which is still great compared to fusion reactors.
It is possible to use a black hole as a generator, though Hawking radiation is not an effective way to do it. There are two ways to extract energy from a black hole:
Matter radiates away approximately half its mass as it falls into the black hole due to the intense acceleration. While this is incredible efficient (50% mass to energy conversion compared to less than 10% for matter-antimatter reactions), it is released as high energy x-rays or gamma rays which may be difficult to use.
Many black holes release huge amounts of energy as magnetic fields, heating up the gas that surrounds them. Here's article at NASA where that's been observed and another one from Los Alamos.
I don't think that season 6 was much darker than its predecessors, though it did hurt that they tried to carry off the humor element of the season with the season antagonist, the Trio, who could have worked well as a monster of the week but who were grating rather than amusing when their antics were repeated week after week.
Continuity with prior seasons was abandoned, both in terms of character and in setting. The most egregrious example was magic becoming addictive. Wouldn't Tara or Giles have ever mentioned that magic is the equivalent of crack to Willow, especially since there are "dealers" and magic crack houses? The magic addiction arc is especially frustrating as it not only hijacked the promising power corrupts arc for Willow, but it was completely useless as part of the dark Willow arc since it was Tara's death, not magic crack, that made Willow the nemesis in the final episodes.
The writing has many other flaws such as Buffy coming to an epiphany every week about her depression then ignoring it the following week and Spike going to get his chip out (which not only the dialog implies but the actor was told was to happen) but ends up with a soul. Let's take a quick look at the dialog. Some of the worst dialog ever on the show again comes from the addiction arc, especially in the final episodes when Willow's saying things like "I'm so juiced," and at the very end, Xander saving the world with his yellow crayon speech was just embarrassing.
There were many ideas with great potential in season six like the dark Willow arc we almost saw, but the execution was so poor that it's almost impossible to enjoy them. It's not the issues they brought up, such as depression, bad boyfriends, or even addiction that were the problem, but how they handled them compared to earlier seasons.
Look at how they handled the deaths of Joyce or Miss Calendar compared to Tara. Both of the prior deaths carried so much more meaning and emotion for the characters. The ending also lacks originality. We just saw Willow go off for revenge after Tara was hurt at the end of last season, and we saw Giles do the same when Miss Calendar died before that. The "dead lesbian/evil lesbian (saved by the good man)" ending has been done dozens of time in other books and movies, with Alyson Hannigan not only playing that ending in Buffy that year, but she also played that in the movie Rip It Off just before that. And of course, Willow has to destroy the world; we're not quite sure how that comes out of her character, but Buffy villains do that so she has to do that too. Why couldn't they have done something remotely original?
While you need to see entire seasons to get the most out of Buffy, there are a number of excellent episodes which are great by themselves. Try some of these:
SWIG is much easier to use than XS, but today I prefer Inline, for embedding C, C++, java, python, or whatever other language in which you might be interested in your perl code.
Your arguments remind me of what my professors told me about C when I went to university. It was too easy to write unreadable code so no one should ever use it.
Anyway, ActiveState produces Komodo, a perl IDE, and they also sell a perl environment for Visual Studio.NET.
I still write perl in vim, but I do use ddd for debugging my code.
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MAM (matter/antimatter) reactions are much more complex than the simplistic answer that site gives. Think about what a particle accelerator does, like the Fermilab proton-antiproton collider or the SLAC electron-positron collider. They produce a whole zoo of exotic particles, such as the recently discovered top quark in the 1990's, from matter-antimatter collisions.
In a matter-antimatter reactor for power, you're probably combining hydrogen and antihydrogen. Let's just consider the proton-antiproton interaction as over 99% of the mass is in that pair of particles. The most likely result of a proton/antiproton collision at low energies is a bunch of pions. While neutral pions can decay into photons (energy), charged pions cannot due to conservation of charge and have to decay into muons plus neutrinos. Muons will eventually decay into electrons plus more neutrinos. The neutrinos end up carrying off over half the mass-energy you started with.
Even in the ideal situation where all the resulting electrons and muons find corresponding antiparticles in the reaction chamber and annhilate, the efficiency is around 40%. That's very unlikely and real designs calculate closer to a 10% efficiency which is still great compared to fusion reactors.
Oh, and here's a calculation for the ideal case.
I don't think that season 6 was much darker than its predecessors, though it did hurt that they tried to carry off the humor element of the season with the season antagonist, the Trio, who could have worked well as a monster of the week but who were grating rather than amusing when their antics were repeated week after week.
Continuity with prior seasons was abandoned, both in terms of character and in setting. The most egregrious example was magic becoming addictive. Wouldn't Tara or Giles have ever mentioned that magic is the equivalent of crack to Willow, especially since there are "dealers" and magic crack houses? The magic addiction arc is especially frustrating as it not only hijacked the promising power corrupts arc for Willow, but it was completely useless as part of the dark Willow arc since it was Tara's death, not magic crack, that made Willow the nemesis in the final episodes.
The writing has many other flaws such as Buffy coming to an epiphany every week about her depression then ignoring it the following week and Spike going to get his chip out (which not only the dialog implies but the actor was told was to happen) but ends up with a soul. Let's take a quick look at the dialog. Some of the worst dialog ever on the show again comes from the addiction arc, especially in the final episodes when Willow's saying things like "I'm so juiced," and at the very end, Xander saving the world with his yellow crayon speech was just embarrassing.
There were many ideas with great potential in season six like the dark Willow arc we almost saw, but the execution was so poor that it's almost impossible to enjoy them. It's not the issues they brought up, such as depression, bad boyfriends, or even addiction that were the problem, but how they handled them compared to earlier seasons.
Look at how they handled the deaths of Joyce or Miss Calendar compared to Tara. Both of the prior deaths carried so much more meaning and emotion for the characters. The ending also lacks originality. We just saw Willow go off for revenge after Tara was hurt at the end of last season, and we saw Giles do the same when Miss Calendar died before that. The "dead lesbian/evil lesbian (saved by the good man)" ending has been done dozens of time in other books and movies, with Alyson Hannigan not only playing that ending in Buffy that year, but she also played that in the movie Rip It Off just before that. And of course, Willow has to destroy the world; we're not quite sure how that comes out of her character, but Buffy villains do that so she has to do that too. Why couldn't they have done something remotely original?
SWIG is much easier to use than XS, but today I prefer Inline, for embedding C, C++, java, python, or whatever other language in which you might be interested in your perl code.
Anyway, ActiveState produces Komodo, a perl IDE, and they also sell a perl environment for Visual Studio .NET.
I still write perl in vim, but I do use ddd for debugging my code.