He who smelt it.... Really? Did you read that article because for it to be true it would require magic! "This means no nuclear reaction occurs within the thorium. It remains in the same state and is not turned into uranium 233, which happens only if thorium is sufficiently super-heated to generate a fission reaction. “It’s very safe,” he says." Well that violates the laws of universe. It is impossible to get that much energy out of chemical reactions so where does the energy come from?
And also this! "A 250 MW unit weighing about 500 lbs. (227 kg) would be small and light enough to drop under the hood of a car, he says." Really? Might I suggest you type in 250 MW into this calculator. http://www.unitconversion.org/power/megawatts-to-horsepowers-conversion.html Here let me do it for our. "335,255.52239875 HP" Yes sparky that comes out to over 300 thousand horsepower! The USS Nimitz class aircraft carrier only makes 280,000 HP! Imagine the zero to 60 time! Of course you would need a radiator the size of a football field to keep it from melting in seconds. And you have the nerve to call someone stupid because they find this questionable. I think they know what a turbine is they also know magic when they see it.
Funny but my snake oil detector is going off like an air raid siren. From the article: "This means no nuclear reaction occurs within the thorium. It remains in the same state and is not turned into uranium 233, which happens only if thorium is sufficiently super-heated to generate a fission reaction. “It’s very safe,” he says." This is makes the cold fusion announcement seem like good science.
Not enough to worry about except that this is Snake Oil and doesn't work. They are claiming this is a none nuclear reaction which is impossible by the laws of physics. If it did work the energy is vastly greater than the energy required to process it. Thorium is so easy to get that it was used as lamp mantles for decades. Right now it is in low demand and production is very low. The cost to day is $5000 a kg or $5 a gram. Since they must recover all costs of mining including the fuel costs it costs less that one gallon of gasoline for gram. Now it is 4 times more common that uranium which sells for $40 per kg so if production where to ramp up you could see it at less than $10 per kg which translates into next to no fuel use per gram.
It will not get far because it is snake oil. You can not get that much energy out of that little material by a chemical reaction. It is impossible. They are claiming that it isn't a nuclear reaction. It can not work as described and there is no physics to back up the extremely outrageous claims. SNAKE OIL
I agree. But I would suggest this gentleman skip C# and to for C++ and or objective C. Java is very close to pascal with objects with a little c style syntax. Frankly none of those languages are hard to learn. A for loop is a for loop, a while is a while, it is the APIs and the tools that are challenging.
"In WW-II Japanese air force promoted their combat aces to ranks so high they out ranked their base commanders. They kept assigning themselves most dangerous and glorious combat missions, eventually all of them died. But Japanese did have a few aces notching up dozens of kills. US, on the other hand, does not have any reaching even 10 kills." What in the name of heaven are you talking about. No pilots reaching 10 kills? Richard Bong 40 kills. "Killed testing the P-80 during the war." Thomas Buchanan McGuire Jr 38 kills "Killed in combat in 1945" David S. McCampbell 34 kills. "Survived the war served in the navy until 1964 passed away in 1996". Gregory Boyington "Pappy" POW survived the war. These where all in the Pacific. I could go on but the US had scores of aces with more than 10 kills. PLEASE IF YOU WILL NOT READ A HISTORY BOOK AT LEAST use the Wikipedia! http://www.acesofww2.com/USA/USA.htm Yes both the Japanese and the Germans had a fly till you die mentality but Unlike the allies they didn't have a safe place to train pilots or the resources to do it. How ever if you look at that lise you will see that a good number of those aces went on to get kills in Korea and Vietnam. One of the reasons that the US did so well in Korea was the large supply of well trained pilots that the US could pick from.
Not as much nonsense as you think. Bing from what I hear doesn't suck it is also pretty. If you are really into the Google ecosystem then you might not care. If you type a search and you get what you are looking for and it is pretty then a lot of people might not change back. If nothing else it will get people to try Bing. I know that people on Slashdot really don't like Microsoft and that includes me. From what I see Bing is actually a pretty good search engine. Since I use everything Google including my phone odds are that I wouldn't switch but it isn't bad.
Exactly you are into the DS and it's games and that makes you a small market. When I was in High School I was really into airplanes and loved the P-38. I would buy many models of that one plane and then build every version possible. That is a very small market. Nintendo has not made enough improvement in the DSi and the 3d IMHO. Frankly I am not sure that they can make enough of an improvement in a handheld game to make it worth while. In many ways the legacy issues get in the way. Here are some examples of what I mean. If I was going to build the next gen DS this is what I would like to see. 1. Keep the size and battery life. 2. Higher resolution screen. I want 300 dpi on the screens. 3. Get ride of the carts. Really they are a pain and get lost all the time. 4. Interrogation to Facebook and or other social media. Let me post my scores to my status pages if I want. Even better use that as a way to match up with friends for multi player. 5. Keep the price low. 6. Cheaper games. Not having the carts should help with that a lot. Not having the used market should help even more. The problem is what about my current games? I don't want to buy them again. How to convert them to downloads. The DS is much better gaming system but I can get fun games on my Evo for cheap and don't have to worry about the carts. Yes I know about SD cards but I have not bothered to get one for my DS.
Not really a bit problem. Odds are good that the wifi chip in the DS uses SPI as the interface. You could add a small arm just to handle the phone side of things and have it emulate wifi adaptor.
Yep but I figured that transposition would be allowed. I already had someone ask me to turn in my geek card because he is convinced that Firefox is a real airplane and showed me a picture of the movie prop as his proof. I have not read that book since around 1975. My parents thought it was good for me to learn history. Little did they know I was using it to build a still.
I notice you didn't answer do you drink alcohol which is known to increase you risk of cancer. I take it that you would rather avoid that subject since it makes you uncomfortable. It isn't banned because our detection abilities are too good. Some you can find benzene in coal ash, wood, and tobacco and some liquors at very low levels "probably toasted oak barrels. It is dangerous stuff which is why the EPA sets the level of it on water at 5ppb. Yes on part for billion. They do have a goal set at zero. So in effect it is banned but not set at zero.
Yes I am all for setting levels and sticking to them. I would not object to more testing and lower levels when needed but to ban them is impractical and impossible since some of them are more valuable than dangerous. Potassium is a good example it is natural needed for life but also radioactive. It will cause cancer but is in all our food. Again a blanket statement that one must ban all mutagens and carcinogens is impossible. Limiting exposure and curing and or treating the cancer that is just part of life is the only path open.
http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=Firefox That is a picture of the fictional aircraft for the movie in the 1980s. Again really usless to an Iraqi in air to air combat.
No but then I don't smoke or drink. But how many millions of people do every day. They are already do. I notice you say would would ban tobacco but didn't touch the idea of banning alcohol. http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/healthissues/1109728149.html Alcohol does increase your risk for cancer? Do you drink? If so then you are doing that experiment on yourself that you state is oh so foolish. Maybe you think that risk is worth the benefits? Humm........ Yes It is good that we restrict things like benzene which is a known cancer causing chemical. Outright banning it? There a lot of very dangerous chemicals that are very useful. Before it was known how dangerous benzene was you could buy it everywhere. It was a common and frankly very good fuel additive if you over look that whole causing cancer thing. Racing aircraft would often use large amounts of it. It is still used and will be for a long time because it is useful. You can no longer buy it at the local hardware store and they don't put it in aftershave anymore which are both good things. Yes there is a lot of stuff can kill you if you don't use it correctly you ban castor plants because they can kill you? I am all for safety but things are as far from a simple "big corps are greedy and don't care if you die of cancer".
Life causes cancer. Actually mutated genes cause cancer. Things that can cause mutated genes? Oxygen. Look up free radicals. Sunlight. Radiation. From the sun, from rocks, from deep space. even Viruses. In other words it is all natural. The thing is that those things also cause evolution. Life causes cancer. There was cancer long before the industrial revolution. The longer you live the better then chance you will get cancer. If fact they say every man if he lives long enough will get prostate cancer. We live longer we get more cancer. I am sure that there are some man made issues that contribute to cancer in some cases but over all it is just part of life. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer#History as you can see it has been with us for a very long time. Oh and since both alcohol and tobacco are known to contribute just see what happens if you try and ban those.
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"Even if it did use real HIV" They don't and if they would never try that because it wouldn't pass the medical ethics board for human testing if for no other reason than the risk of retransmission to a healthy person. All the rest of this discussion of if HIV or cancer is useless since it has no valid application to this discussion.
And I have a Piston from a B-17 in mine. Doesn't mean that it isn't obsolete. Even old technology has some value but it gets pushed in to smaller and smaller niches. 1. Vacuum tube. Hot, power hungry, slow, unreliable. Still used for very how power systems. Go go a monder radio transmitter site and you will see some massive water cooled tubes. For most home use not so much outside of audiophiles and guitar players. 2. typewriter? Decorator item or hipster toy. 3. Vinyl record. There is some music that you can only get on vinyl because it was never released on CD. CDs are every bit as accurate "more actually" as vinyl but some people feel the defects in the vinyl record add warmth. A good DSP could do the same thing. The problem with most CDs today is that they lack dynamic range. That is a mixing issue. Again Hipster toy. CRT? What? Why. Hot, heavy, uses too much power. Only reason is if you spent a huge amount of money on a really good monitor and can't afford a good LCD, DLP, or Plasma replacement. 4. Light bulbs. I am hoping for LEDs to finally give us a good replacement for light bulbs. Still useful as heating elements even today. Easybake oven? Also used to provide heat to pets. In other words yes they are all obsolete because there are better replacements. They PC as being obsolete? Well maybe for a lot of people. A lot of people use a computer for a few functions. 1. Communications which includes facebook, twitter, Google+ email, and IM. 2. Storing and editing images and video. 3. Consuming media, YouTube, Spotify, TuneIn radio, Netflix, and Hulu. 4. Casual gaming. 5. Money management. Paying bills, investing, banking and so on. Every one of those functions can and are being done on tablets and smartphones. Apple now has iMove on the iPad. I am not talking about professionals here but for average end users. A tablet with a keyboard is very close to a laptop in functionality. Moore's law will apply and make them even faster. This is a bad thing for people that still need PCs because they will become less popular. The good thing is that for business users will still use PCs for a good long time to come. But I can see the PC going the way of the Mini computer.
A Firefox? I book about application culture? I do agree that would be of little help in air to air combat. Maybe you mean the movie about a fictional fighter plane from the 80s? Yea that would also be useless. The Iraq's had Foxbats Mig-25s and a few Fulcrums Mig-29s. I don't think they had any Foxhounds which is the Mig-31 so what exactly are you thinking of?
No I said he could have. He could have been reaching for it and fumbled it. You are putting it wrapped in a sock in the boot totally based on a rumor. I just said could have. Since it was in a Taxi don't you find it odd that he would say, "Hey let me put this very small item wrapped in a sock in your boot for this trip." Really? Why even be transporting a really illegal gun in a taxi in the boot? I mean does that make any sense to you at all? Have you ever ridden in a taxi? Would you ask the driver to open his boot? Also the vehicle he was in DIDN'T HAVE A BOOT! he was shot in a Toyota Estima which is a mini van! vans don't have a boot they have a back hatch that opens into the main cabin! So it is impossible for it to have been in the boot! Make that a 12 meter jump based on an impossible rumor.
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He who smelt it.... Really? Did you read that article because for it to be true it would require magic!
"This means no nuclear reaction occurs within the thorium. It remains in the same state and is not turned into uranium 233, which happens only if thorium is sufficiently super-heated to generate a fission reaction. “It’s very safe,” he says."
Well that violates the laws of universe. It is impossible to get that much energy out of chemical reactions so where does the energy come from?
And also this!
"A 250 MW unit weighing about 500 lbs. (227 kg) would be small and light enough to drop under the hood of a car, he says."
Really? Might I suggest you type in 250 MW into this calculator. http://www.unitconversion.org/power/megawatts-to-horsepowers-conversion.html
Here let me do it for our. "335,255.52239875 HP" Yes sparky that comes out to over 300 thousand horsepower!
The USS Nimitz class aircraft carrier only makes 280,000 HP! Imagine the zero to 60 time! Of course you would need a radiator the size of a football field to keep it from melting in seconds.
And you have the nerve to call someone stupid because they find this questionable. I think they know what a turbine is they also know magic when they see it.
Funny but my snake oil detector is going off like an air raid siren.
From the article:
"This means no nuclear reaction occurs within the thorium. It remains in the same state and is not turned into uranium 233, which happens only if thorium is sufficiently super-heated to generate a fission reaction. “It’s very safe,” he says."
This is makes the cold fusion announcement seem like good science.
Read the article: They are making it all up! It is so much snake oil it just isn't funny.
Not enough to worry about except that this is Snake Oil and doesn't work. They are claiming this is a none nuclear reaction which is impossible by the laws of physics.
If it did work the energy is vastly greater than the energy required to process it. Thorium is so easy to get that it was used as lamp mantles for decades.
Right now it is in low demand and production is very low. The cost to day is $5000 a kg or $5 a gram. Since they must recover all costs of mining including the fuel costs it costs less that one gallon of gasoline for gram.
Now it is 4 times more common that uranium which sells for $40 per kg so if production where to ramp up you could see it at less than $10 per kg which translates into next to no fuel use per gram.
It will not get far because it is snake oil.
You can not get that much energy out of that little material by a chemical reaction. It is impossible.
They are claiming that it isn't a nuclear reaction.
It can not work as described and there is no physics to back up the extremely outrageous claims.
SNAKE OIL
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I agree. But I would suggest this gentleman skip C# and to for C++ and or objective C. Java is very close to pascal with objects with a little c style syntax. Frankly none of those languages are hard to learn. A for loop is a for loop, a while is a while, it is the APIs and the tools that are challenging.
"In WW-II Japanese air force promoted their combat aces to ranks so high they out ranked their base commanders. They kept assigning themselves most dangerous and glorious combat missions, eventually all of them died. But Japanese did have a few aces notching up dozens of kills. US, on the other hand, does not have any reaching even 10 kills."
What in the name of heaven are you talking about.
No pilots reaching 10 kills?
Richard Bong 40 kills. "Killed testing the P-80 during the war."
Thomas Buchanan McGuire Jr 38 kills "Killed in combat in 1945"
David S. McCampbell 34 kills. "Survived the war served in the navy until 1964 passed away in 1996".
Gregory Boyington "Pappy" POW survived the war.
These where all in the Pacific.
I could go on but the US had scores of aces with more than 10 kills.
PLEASE IF YOU WILL NOT READ A HISTORY BOOK AT LEAST use the Wikipedia!
http://www.acesofww2.com/USA/USA.htm
Yes both the Japanese and the Germans had a fly till you die mentality but Unlike the allies they didn't have a safe place to train pilots or the resources to do it. How ever if you look at that lise you will see that a good number of those aces went on to get kills in Korea and Vietnam. One of the reasons that the US did so well in Korea was the large supply of well trained pilots that the US could pick from.
Not as much nonsense as you think. Bing from what I hear doesn't suck it is also pretty. If you are really into the Google ecosystem then you might not care. If you type a search and you get what you are looking for and it is pretty then a lot of people might not change back. If nothing else it will get people to try Bing.
I know that people on Slashdot really don't like Microsoft and that includes me. From what I see Bing is actually a pretty good search engine. Since I use everything Google including my phone odds are that I wouldn't switch but it isn't bad.
Exactly you are into the DS and it's games and that makes you a small market. When I was in High School I was really into airplanes and loved the P-38. I would buy many models of that one plane and then build every version possible. That is a very small market. Nintendo has not made enough improvement in the DSi and the 3d IMHO.
Frankly I am not sure that they can make enough of an improvement in a handheld game to make it worth while. In many ways the legacy issues get in the way.
Here are some examples of what I mean.
If I was going to build the next gen DS this is what I would like to see.
1. Keep the size and battery life.
2. Higher resolution screen. I want 300 dpi on the screens.
3. Get ride of the carts. Really they are a pain and get lost all the time.
4. Interrogation to Facebook and or other social media. Let me post my scores to my status pages if I want. Even better use that as a way to match up with friends for multi player.
5. Keep the price low.
6. Cheaper games. Not having the carts should help with that a lot. Not having the used market should help even more.
The problem is what about my current games? I don't want to buy them again. How to convert them to downloads.
The DS is much better gaming system but I can get fun games on my Evo for cheap and don't have to worry about the carts.
Yes I know about SD cards but I have not bothered to get one for my DS.
The problem is lack of a reason to upgrade IMHO.
I have a DS. The DSi and 3DS are note worth the cost of upgrading to me.
The carts are a pain.
Not really a bit problem. Odds are good that the wifi chip in the DS uses SPI as the interface. You could add a small arm just to handle the phone side of things and have it emulate wifi adaptor.
Yep but I figured that transposition would be allowed. I already had someone ask me to turn in my geek card because he is convinced that Firefox is a real airplane and showed me a picture of the movie prop as his proof. I have not read that book since around 1975. My parents thought it was good for me to learn history. Little did they know I was using it to build a still.
I notice you didn't answer do you drink alcohol which is known to increase you risk of cancer. I take it that you would rather avoid that subject since it makes you uncomfortable.
It isn't banned because our detection abilities are too good. Some you can find benzene in coal ash, wood, and tobacco and some liquors at very low levels "probably toasted oak barrels. It is dangerous stuff which is why the EPA sets the level of it on water at 5ppb. Yes on part for billion. They do have a goal set at zero. So in effect it is banned but not set at zero.
Yes I am all for setting levels and sticking to them. I would not object to more testing and lower levels when needed but to ban them is impractical and impossible since some of them are more valuable than dangerous. Potassium is a good example it is natural needed for life but also radioactive. It will cause cancer but is in all our food. Again a blanket statement that one must ban all mutagens and carcinogens is impossible. Limiting exposure and curing and or treating the cancer that is just part of life is the only path open.
Burn your geek card and hang your head in shame.
http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=Firefox
That is a picture of the fictional aircraft for the movie in the 1980s. Again really usless to an Iraqi in air to air combat.
Here is the Mig-31 Foxhound. The real airplane. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan_MiG-31
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No but then I don't smoke or drink.
But how many millions of people do every day. They are already do. I notice you say would would ban tobacco but didn't touch the idea of banning alcohol. http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/healthissues/1109728149.html
Alcohol does increase your risk for cancer? Do you drink? If so then you are doing that experiment on yourself that you state is oh so foolish. Maybe you think that risk is worth the benefits? Humm........
Yes It is good that we restrict things like benzene which is a known cancer causing chemical. Outright banning it? There a lot of very dangerous chemicals that are very useful. Before it was known how dangerous benzene was you could buy it everywhere. It was a common and frankly very good fuel additive if you over look that whole causing cancer thing. Racing aircraft would often use large amounts of it. It is still used and will be for a long time because it is useful. You can no longer buy it at the local hardware store and they don't put it in aftershave anymore which are both good things. Yes there is a lot of stuff can kill you if you don't use it correctly you ban castor plants because they can kill you? I am all for safety but things are as far from a simple "big corps are greedy and don't care if you die of cancer".
Life causes cancer. Actually mutated genes cause cancer. Things that can cause mutated genes?
Oxygen. Look up free radicals.
Sunlight.
Radiation. From the sun, from rocks, from deep space.
even Viruses. In other words it is all natural.
The thing is that those things also cause evolution. Life causes cancer. There was cancer long before the industrial revolution. The longer you live the better then chance you will get cancer. If fact they say every man if he lives long enough will get prostate cancer.
We live longer we get more cancer. I am sure that there are some man made issues that contribute to cancer in some cases but over all it is just part of life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer#History as you can see it has been with us for a very long time.
Oh and since both alcohol and tobacco are known to contribute just see what happens if you try and ban those.
Slashdot really does to often drop to the Midnight Star level of integrity these days. Really you don't think a treatment for cancer would get enough clicks without adding a flashy lie to it?
"Even if it did use real HIV" They don't and if they would never try that because it wouldn't pass the medical ethics board for human testing if for no other reason than the risk of retransmission to a healthy person.
All the rest of this discussion of if HIV or cancer is useless since it has no valid application to this discussion.
And I have a Piston from a B-17 in mine. Doesn't mean that it isn't obsolete.
Even old technology has some value but it gets pushed in to smaller and smaller niches.
1. Vacuum tube. Hot, power hungry, slow, unreliable. Still used for very how power systems. Go go a monder radio transmitter site and you will see some massive water cooled tubes. For most home use not so much outside of audiophiles and guitar players.
2. typewriter? Decorator item or hipster toy.
3. Vinyl record. There is some music that you can only get on vinyl because it was never released on CD. CDs are every bit as accurate "more actually" as vinyl but some people feel the defects in the vinyl record add warmth. A good DSP could do the same thing. The problem with most CDs today is that they lack dynamic range. That is a mixing issue. Again Hipster toy.
CRT? What? Why. Hot, heavy, uses too much power. Only reason is if you spent a huge amount of money on a really good monitor and can't afford a good LCD, DLP, or Plasma replacement.
4. Light bulbs. I am hoping for LEDs to finally give us a good replacement for light bulbs. Still useful as heating elements even today. Easybake oven? Also used to provide heat to pets.
In other words yes they are all obsolete because there are better replacements. They PC as being obsolete? Well maybe for a lot of people. A lot of people use a computer for a few functions.
1. Communications which includes facebook, twitter, Google+ email, and IM.
2. Storing and editing images and video.
3. Consuming media, YouTube, Spotify, TuneIn radio, Netflix, and Hulu.
4. Casual gaming.
5. Money management. Paying bills, investing, banking and so on.
Every one of those functions can and are being done on tablets and smartphones. Apple now has iMove on the iPad. I am not talking about professionals here but for average end users.
A tablet with a keyboard is very close to a laptop in functionality. Moore's law will apply and make them even faster.
This is a bad thing for people that still need PCs because they will become less popular. The good thing is that for business users will still use PCs for a good long time to come. But I can see the PC going the way of the Mini computer.
Actually not any more. All the modern russian aircraft have moved to all digital radars.
A Firefox? I book about application culture? I do agree that would be of little help in air to air combat. Maybe you mean the movie about a fictional fighter plane from the 80s? Yea that would also be useless.
The Iraq's had Foxbats Mig-25s and a few Fulcrums Mig-29s. I don't think they had any Foxhounds which is the Mig-31 so what exactly are you thinking of?
Where? I mean do you live in the center of old TV land?
I have not seen a TV like that in years.
No I said he could have. He could have been reaching for it and fumbled it. You are putting it wrapped in a sock in the boot totally based on a rumor. I just said could have. Since it was in a Taxi don't you find it odd that he would say, "Hey let me put this very small item wrapped in a sock in your boot for this trip." Really?
Why even be transporting a really illegal gun in a taxi in the boot? I mean does that make any sense to you at all? Have you ever ridden in a taxi? Would you ask the driver to open his boot?
Also the vehicle he was in DIDN'T HAVE A BOOT! he was shot in a Toyota Estima which is a mini van! vans don't have a boot they have a back hatch that opens into the main cabin! So it is impossible for it to have been in the boot! Make that a 12 meter jump based on an impossible rumor.
Democratizing app building, empowering kids, women, and underrepresented groups
Because only adult white males are smart enough to use a programing language?
I mean really? And they are leaving it up until the end of the year and then open sourcing it. Maybe it just wasn't all that popular or useful.