Bandwidth = throughput (packets per second) Latency = time (seconds)
You can somewhat overcome latency by using big packages. Load the tube up with hundreds or thousands of 16Gb USB drives and do everything in batches.
This actually applies to transport as well. People complain bitterly about the latency of public transport and the advocates merrily reply by saying "but look at the bandwidth"... Which is no use if it takes me 3 hours to get to work. What they really need to do is solve the latency problem.
You need to take a look at how money is created and destroyed. Running a deficit is how the US government creates money (it is borrowed into existence). If you destroy money, you get a recession, so under the current monetary system (i.e. the fed), the US government is pretty much guaranteed to run a deficit, leading to exponentially increasing national debt.
hen why worry about creating the fuel, even though it is easy to get, prior to building your first reactor?
National security? If you rely on someone else, you are left at their mercy. They can just turn off your economy. This is actually a problem which Europe is facing with respect to Russian gas.
Even if their oil has peaked, it will be many decades before a real impact is made.
Declining revenues happen immediately, how would you fancy a 30 year recession? How long would it take to build a Nuclear based infrastructure? It'll take decades.
Instead, they should be worried about building up other industries
Without energy, how would they run these other industries? Everything is based on energy, our primary energy source just now is oil.
Iran may well be after the bomb, but I haven't seen any evidence that they're doing anything more than planning a move away from oil. i.e. more foresight than most western governments.
Meanwhile, nowhere in the article you linked to do I see text which suggests that
You obviously suffer from premature ej^H^Hreply syndrome. Try reading (and comprehending) the following sentences before your knees jerk so hard you end up with a mouthful of foot.
Uh, no. Put down the drink, it seems to have damaged your brain.
Clearly Wikipedia is the font of all knowledge (that was sarcasm (for the Americans)). You haven't had your brain replaced by a parrot brain have you?
Crap red (in particular) wines have a similar effect. You can drink equal amounts of alcohol from poor and good quality reds and the poor quality ones will give you a blinding headache the following day.
You can encrypt pretty much everything without having to manually type in the key at boot time. The module should be tied into a tamper resistant server, so, case is opened (or even light enters), keys are blown, filesystems are junked and computer is dead. (You'll be seeing this kind of stuff in cars/Apple systems soon.)
The way mutations are worked into the gene pool seems, to me, to be the main interesting thing about evolution
Really...
What was the simplest organism? What was it? What did it do?
Basically, it was a chemical, which copied itself (a replicator), somehow.
And the increasing complexity, what purpose did it serve? Surely the sole purpose of the modifications were to allow that chemical to copy itself better... Those that didn't replicate better were replaced by those that did.
And the less simple organisms? The purpose they serve? To allow the chemicals to copy themselves further, in more environments.
And, the purpose of complex organisms? No different. Organisms (all life) exist to create copies of the chemical replicators.
You think you are a human being? In fact, you are a gene copying machine.
These only make financial sense if you have a BEV you can charge off the batteries. Same for photovoltaic solar cells. They take 10-15 years to pay off otherwise. With a BEV solar panels can pay off in 5 years on 15kmiles/year (in the E.U.).
Taxi companies. Big milages. Of course, feasible BEVs are required[1].
Solar thermal panels OTOH can pay off in 3-4 years if you size them to replace both your DHW and CH.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.infrastructures.org/
There's more, but it's a good start.
Bandwidth = throughput (packets per second)
Latency = time (seconds)
You can somewhat overcome latency by using big packages. Load the tube up with hundreds or thousands of 16Gb USB drives and do everything in batches.
This actually applies to transport as well. People complain bitterly about the latency of public transport and the advocates merrily reply by saying "but look at the bandwidth"... Which is no use if it takes me 3 hours to get to work. What they really need to do is solve the latency problem.
Web servers don't serve html documents any more, they serve remote procedure calls from javascript front ends.
The more real work which is done, the less it's worth. As a supplier of work it makes no sense for you to reduce the value of that work.
I live in Germany and on monday stood in line at the local bank when it opened behind about a dozen people who had their cards eaten by the ATM.
They've already started. They're buying stuff all over the place. Particularly commodities, raw materials etc.
You need to take a look at how money is created and destroyed. Running a deficit is how the US government creates money (it is borrowed into existence). If you destroy money, you get a recession, so under the current monetary system (i.e. the fed), the US government is pretty much guaranteed to run a deficit, leading to exponentially increasing national debt.
hth.
India has Thorium reactors today.
Really? Can you show me a photo of a commercially operating (today) Thorium reactor?
There are certainly designs and plans and prototypes and test reactors.
hen why worry about creating the fuel, even though it is easy to get, prior to building your first reactor?
National security? If you rely on someone else, you are left at their mercy. They can just turn off your economy. This is actually a problem which Europe is facing with respect to Russian gas.
Even if their oil has peaked, it will be many decades before a real impact is made.
Declining revenues happen immediately, how would you fancy a 30 year recession? How long would it take to build a Nuclear based infrastructure? It'll take decades.
Instead, they should be worried about building up other industries
Without energy, how would they run these other industries? Everything is based on energy, our primary energy source just now is oil.
Iran may well be after the bomb, but I haven't seen any evidence that they're doing anything more than planning a move away from oil. i.e. more foresight than most western governments.
Even Iran wants nuclear power for this reason.
You sure it isn't because their oil production has peaked and is now declining alarmingly quickly?
Don't expect any thorium based reactors any time soon.
The pharma industry scan through millions of compounds found in "natural" remedies looking for active compounds.
Aspirin - willow bark
Penicillin - bread mould
Quinine - cinchona bark
Morphine/Codeine - poppy seeds
Digoxin - foxglove
Reserpine - indian snakeroot
Ephedrine - mormon-tea
etc etc.
Meanwhile, nowhere in the article you linked to do I see text which suggests that
You obviously suffer from premature ej^H^Hreply syndrome. Try reading (and comprehending) the following sentences before your knees jerk so hard you end up with a mouthful of foot.
Paracetamol which is better known as Tylenol
Paracetamol is not better known as Tylenol, only a tiny proportion of the world population know paracetamol as Tylenol.
And the GP is not correct.
along with alcohol was rather unhealthy to the liver
Paracetamol is metabolized whether there is alcohol involved or not; Paracetamol is unhealthy for the liver regardless.
For example, since I was taking the piss out of Smirnoff.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8416431.stm
Uh, no. Put down the drink, it seems to have damaged your brain.
Clearly Wikipedia is the font of all knowledge (that was sarcasm (for the Americans)). You haven't had your brain replaced by a parrot brain have you?
Crap red (in particular) wines have a similar effect. You can drink equal amounts of alcohol from poor and good quality reds and the poor quality ones will give you a blinding headache the following day.
Further Smirnoff is perfectly fine Vodka.
Smirnoff is paint remover. Try Samson instead. It's not in fact very expensive.
Vodka is just pure Ethanol and water.
Clearly you know your vodkas.
Mixing acetaminophen with alcohol is terrible advice.
It does however work quite the thing after drinking a cheap red for example.
Drinking lots of water is always good though!
Great. You'd better just stick to the water then.
What junk are you drinking? Smirnoff?
It isn't the alcohol which gives you a headache. It's the alcohol in combination with the rest of the crap in the beverage.
Either buy decent quality and/or drink a glass of water for each drink and take two paracetamol before you go to bed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_security_module
You can encrypt pretty much everything without having to manually type in the key at boot time. The module should be tied into a tamper resistant server, so, case is opened (or even light enters), keys are blown, filesystems are junked and computer is dead. (You'll be seeing this kind of stuff in cars/Apple systems soon.)
e.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_4764
Price, $8k (not including system integration)... Oh wait, you mean your data isn't worth it?
The way mutations are worked into the gene pool seems, to me, to be the main interesting thing about evolution
Really...
What was the simplest organism? What was it? What did it do?
Basically, it was a chemical, which copied itself (a replicator), somehow.
And the increasing complexity, what purpose did it serve? Surely the sole purpose of the modifications were to allow that chemical to copy itself better... Those that didn't replicate better were replaced by those that did.
And the less simple organisms? The purpose they serve? To allow the chemicals to copy themselves further, in more environments.
And, the purpose of complex organisms? No different. Organisms (all life) exist to create copies of the chemical replicators.
You think you are a human being? In fact, you are a gene copying machine.
Go vegan. Till then go away and play with your cultural bias.
Does it have a little Apple logo on it?
That's why Malthusian disasters haven't happened.
They have. Just not to you.
These only make financial sense if you have a BEV you can charge off the batteries. Same for photovoltaic solar cells. They take 10-15 years to pay off otherwise. With a BEV solar panels can pay off in 5 years on 15kmiles/year (in the E.U.).
Taxi companies. Big milages. Of course, feasible BEVs are required[1].
Solar thermal panels OTOH can pay off in 3-4 years if you size them to replace both your DHW and CH.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solectria_Sunrise