Not in the US. Light water reactors are not the ideal reactor to produce weapons grade plutonium on a production basis. The DOE had specialized reactors that they used to produce Plutonium all along so your statement makes little sense. Actually Thorium cycle reactors had been built and tested in the US, Germany, and Canada since the 1960s but they never reached full production status. Most stopped development right around the mid 1970s when the anti nukes where in full force.
The interesting thing is one of the reasons that the US stopped processing rare earths was the cost of disposing of one of the side products. It seems when you extract rare earths you tend to get a lot of thorium which being radio active is a pain to dispose of.... So the waste of extracting rare earths is thorium which now is a fuel for making electricity.
"PBS, ABC Player, ABC News, TED Mobile, CNN app and the NPR app are some I may live without but really rather not. Not sure if any of these are available for the Android." I am pretty sure those are all available. I know CNN and NPR are as well as CBS, CNET, and I think NPR is as well.
But notice that with the exclusion of the 8mm Vintage Camera app off of these are tied to a specific vendor. You or I couldn't just write it ourself. But from your list the gap seems very small and I am willing to say the air play app is too apple specific to count. Maybe Google TV will have something like ti.
Or just send a motherboard that works like it should to everyone? Why offer a "good enough" fix when you can offer a real fix. Suppose the SATA card didn't work with Solaris? Intel is just going to fix it the right way from the start. It is just the right thing to do.
Hard to say. I have an android phone and an iPod touch. I hate to pay for apps on those devices but then I hate to pay on any device. Thing is I will pay if the app is good enough. On the iPod Touch I think I paid for three or for apps. On my Android phone I paid for four apps. Three are games from EA that where on sale for.99 cents. One was a podcast catcher. that was like $4. I only paid for the ipod catcher because it was the only one that I liked and did what I wanted it to do. Some programs like Angery Birds I would pay for just to get ride of the stupid ads.Others I don't use enough to pay for. I think it is more of a cultural thing. People on the iPhone/iPod are used to paying for stuff in iTunes. The rest of us want free because well free is free. What I want to know is what apps are missing? Not counting games I do not really see any big gaps in the app store for Android. Facebook check Twitter check Pandora check TuneIn Radio check Last.FM check email check Gmail check All sorts of compass and GPS apps check. Evernote Check Drop Box check.
So what does iPhone have that Android doesn't? Now some of the special apps like the one for OnStar and such are missing but that would take the providers allowing the app. Maybe Google is going to offer to write them for big companies.
While a funny also impossible since the plane shown being blown up was a Northrup F-5. To make it work you would have to include how China stole US made F-5s and used them in their weapons tests. To make it even better the F-5s would be piloted by MIAs from the Viet Nam. Make some effort after all.
Because you paid for X sata connectors and or you do not want to waste a slot and or you have put the motherboard in a 1u rack-mount case or a slim HTC case. And of course it could be in a laptop.
It is broken so Intel is going to do the right thing and fix it. This is a good thing.
My guess is that it is the second. That is why Intel is going to replace all the motherboards. This is going to be one big PITA for users. This is why one should never pay for the latests and greatest if you don't need it.
Trains are not good in some terrain. Think of a swap or mountains or even a body fo water. Also for short hauls of on a few miles a system like this may be a better solution. If you are talking about 100 km of mostly flat land then a train will probably win.
Well let's be honest. This is for domestic consumption and it isn't like any news services in china will pick this up. A few people in China will find it because it is so badly done. Those that bother to say anything will simply say that they used some stock footage. It is at best amusing to us but will not matter a bit to the Chinese.
Actually a few of the X-Planes where "Space planes" in any real sense. The X-2 and the X-15 could possibly qualify and long the X-24. The X series explored everything from extreme high speeds, variable geometry wings, vertical take off, super maneuverability, to VSTOL. That being said the Shuttle is a "space plane" and it a product of late 60s to early 70's technology. So China I guess maybe could have started work on one... Welcome to 1969 China at least they will have better avionics than we did in the 70s.
But you will never send people first unless it is just so cheap, easy, and fast as to just not matter. Also Pioneer is working more or less autonomously and it is near the 40 year mark. It is still sending back data and is many light minutes or hours away so it is pretty much on it's own. We could make a probe that should function for 40 years today. It may do nothing but take pictures and and record radiation levels and try and map the stellar system as it goes through and a bad dash. Hopefully it will also avoid any planets as well. That isn't outside the todays technology. Dude get over it. Yes Orion can take enough fuel for an interstellar probe just get over making an error and get on with your life and quite trying to make it look like your right. As to there being any point at this time. The cost to data ratio is very high so in that case you maybe correct. If we found earth like planets around AC then that math could change but not likely. I doubt that the world would pay the price which could run as much as all the movie, music, and video companies make in a year just to build a probe to go to another star. That says more about human nature than it does the available technology.
Actually if you read the link the problem is that the interconnects and that lack limits of parallelizm of the problems are the limitations.
"The good news is that over the next decade, engineers should be able to get the energy requirements of a flop down to about 5 to 10 pJ. The bad news is that even if we do that, it won't really help. The reason is that the energy to perform an arithmetic operation is trivial in comparison with the energy needed to shuffle the data around, from one chip to another, from one board to another, and even from rack to rack. A typical floating-point operation takes two 64-bit numbers as input and produces a 64-bit result. That's almost 200 bits in all that need to be moved into and out of some sort of memory, likely multiple times, for each operation. Taking all that overhead into account, the best we could reasonably hope for in an exaflops-class machine by 2015 if we used conventional architecture was somewhere between 1000 and 10 000 pJ per flop."
And " Realistic applications running on today's supercomputers typically use only 5 to 10 percent of the machine's peak processing power at any given moment. Most of the other processor cores are just treading water, perhaps waiting for data they need to perform their next calculation. It has proved impossible for programmers to keep a larger fraction of the processors working on calculations that are directly relevant to the application. And as the number of processor cores skyrockets, the fraction you can keep busy at any given moment can be expected to plummet. So if we use lots of processors with relatively slow clock rates to build a supercomputer that can perform 1000 times the flops of the current generation, we'll probably end up with just 10 to 100 times today's computational oomph. That is, we might meet DARPA's targets on paper, but the reality would be disappointing indeed."
I did read it did you?
What you are thinking of are grid computing problems not supercomputer problems.
Current super computers are limited by consumer technology. Adding cores is already running out of steam on the desk top. On servers it works well be cause we are using them mainly for virtualization. Eight and sixteen core CPUs will boarder on useless on the desktop unless some significant change takes place in software to use them.
My main problem is that I feel you are over stating and exaggeration the problem. Using words like danger has a specific meaning and I feel that meaning just isn't there. Too fall back to a very old saying. It is like the boy that cried wolf. Save those terms for the real dangerous actions like what AT&T is doing to some Android phones and not this minor issue. In a way it is this tech support person at my office that uses the F-Bomb for everything. I am left to wonder what he uses when he actually needs an expletive? Give Google some credit. They have published the rules and they live by them. They are pretty clear cut. Actually for servers I am more fond of Ubuntu because I like apt-get. When it comes to servers I tend to want long term stability aka they to need just chug away. You would be shocked how few people still know about CentOS and use Fedora or some other desktop distro for a server.
I can not buy a Chevy at a Ford Dealship. I can not buy a Whopper at McDonald's. I sure can not buy an iPod at the Microsoft store or the Sony Store. Again since you can buy them elsewhere it just isn't to level of a danger if it is anything at all. BTW I went to your site. Some of your projects look very cool and thanks for contributing them. One suggestion is that blue links are a black background are very hard to read. Also if you have not looked at CentOS I suggest that you do. I feel that it is a much better choice than Fedora for a production server. Yes it is off topic but I did enjoy your site except that it was hard to read some of it.
Frown on? Well if you wish at least you no longer claim it is dangerous. Every company and person will always do thing that are in their own best self interests to some degree or another. In this case it just doesn't seem to be a problem to me. Google will also pull malware from their app store. Why? Because it is in their own self interest to not have it in the store. No store has a and obligation to carry any product and in this case most Google phones are in no way locked down from alternative apps and those that are are not locked down by Google. I suggest that you re target your energy to real problems and not this FUD. I hear that AT&T has limited side loading on some Google phones. That is a problem, this is nothing and sure not a danger to our liberty. It is at worst an inconvenience at best Google following they rules that they have set up.
I think you are seeing a problem where this is now. No it is all about what you can do with out much effort. On most android phones you do not have to root or jail break to side load apps. They even have an alternative app store in their app store!. You just check on unknown sources on the settings menu and you are good to go. There is no "Danger" here. There is no "Repression". There is no real problem. What we have is FUD.
So I suggest you not take it. For this guy it may be a dream come true. He maybe unemployed. Maybe he is married and his wife has a year or too left in college and he wants to stay in the area. Maybe he really wants to work for Lego. I had a friend that had a degree in communications and worked at Disney World for a low salary. He is now a news director at NBC in New York. Sometimes you start at the bottom of what you love and keep at it.
Again with the humans. You send humans after the machines go if ever. Even if we had very fast starships that could travel at.5c it would be insane to send humans to what could turn out to be nothing but a life less rock or worse a star with no planets in orbit. Machines.. You send machines first. Since we have not sent machines yet that is all that I am talking about.
Well at this point I do not consider interstellar manned missions practical at all so I would say that I was dealing practicalities. Dyson did a study of a momentum limited Orion and he got a travel time of only 44 years. Possibly in life time to see some results and well within a 20 somethings life time to get data back. So again I would say yes it is possible and practical to use an Orion for an interstellar probe if you could get around the political and ecological issues and or get one into orbit.
Funny but Voyager is on an interstellar trajectory. I think your math is probably wrong on that. The Orion would have issues with a fast transit but yes it could travel interstellar distances.
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Not in the US. Light water reactors are not the ideal reactor to produce weapons grade plutonium on a production basis. The DOE had specialized reactors that they used to produce Plutonium all along so your statement makes little sense. Actually Thorium cycle reactors had been built and tested in the US, Germany, and Canada since the 1960s but they never reached full production status. Most stopped development right around the mid 1970s when the anti nukes where in full force.
The interesting thing is one of the reasons that the US stopped processing rare earths was the cost of disposing of one of the side products. It seems when you extract rare earths you tend to get a lot of thorium which being radio active is a pain to dispose of....
So the waste of extracting rare earths is thorium which now is a fuel for making electricity.
American express app is available for android.
"PBS, ABC Player, ABC News, TED Mobile, CNN app and the NPR app are some I may live without but really rather not. Not sure if any of these are available for the Android."
I am pretty sure those are all available. I know CNN and NPR are as well as CBS, CNET, and I think NPR is as well.
But notice that with the exclusion of the 8mm Vintage Camera app off of these are tied to a specific vendor. You or I couldn't just write it ourself.
But from your list the gap seems very small and I am willing to say the air play app is too apple specific to count. Maybe Google TV will have something like ti.
Or just send a motherboard that works like it should to everyone?
Why offer a "good enough" fix when you can offer a real fix. Suppose the SATA card didn't work with Solaris? Intel is just going to fix it the right way from the start. It is just the right thing to do.
That is the downside to a more open app store. Trust me there are trash apps on iPhone as well.
Hard to say. I have an android phone and an iPod touch. I hate to pay for apps on those devices but then I hate to pay on any device. Thing is I will pay if the app is good enough. .99 cents. One was a podcast catcher. that was like $4. I only paid for the ipod catcher because it was the only one that I liked and did what I wanted it to do.
On the iPod Touch I think I paid for three or for apps. On my Android phone I paid for four apps.
Three are games from EA that where on sale for
Some programs like Angery Birds I would pay for just to get ride of the stupid ads.Others I don't use enough to pay for.
I think it is more of a cultural thing. People on the iPhone/iPod are used to paying for stuff in iTunes. The rest of us want free because well free is free.
What I want to know is what apps are missing?
Not counting games I do not really see any big gaps in the app store for Android.
Facebook check
Twitter check
Pandora check
TuneIn Radio check
Last.FM check
email check
Gmail check
All sorts of compass and GPS apps check.
Evernote Check
Drop Box check.
So what does iPhone have that Android doesn't? Now some of the special apps like the one for OnStar and such are missing but that would take the providers allowing the app.
Maybe Google is going to offer to write them for big companies.
While a funny also impossible since the plane shown being blown up was a Northrup F-5.
To make it work you would have to include how China stole US made F-5s and used them in their weapons tests. To make it even better the F-5s would be piloted by MIAs from the Viet Nam.
Make some effort after all.
Because you paid for X sata connectors and or you do not want to waste a slot and or you have put the motherboard in a 1u rack-mount case or a slim HTC case.
And of course it could be in a laptop.
It is broken so Intel is going to do the right thing and fix it. This is a good thing.
My guess is that it is the second. That is why Intel is going to replace all the motherboards. This is going to be one big PITA for users.
This is why one should never pay for the latests and greatest if you don't need it.
Trains are not good in some terrain. Think of a swap or mountains or even a body fo water. Also for short hauls of on a few miles a system like this may be a better solution.
If you are talking about 100 km of mostly flat land then a train will probably win.
Well let's be honest. This is for domestic consumption and it isn't like any news services in china will pick this up.
A few people in China will find it because it is so badly done. Those that bother to say anything will simply say that they used some stock footage.
It is at best amusing to us but will not matter a bit to the Chinese.
Actually a few of the X-Planes where "Space planes" in any real sense. The X-2 and the X-15 could possibly qualify and long the X-24. The X series explored everything from extreme high speeds, variable geometry wings, vertical take off, super maneuverability, to VSTOL. That being said the Shuttle is a "space plane" and it a product of late 60s to early 70's technology. So China I guess maybe could have started work on one... Welcome to 1969 China at least they will have better avionics than we did in the 70s.
But you will never send people first unless it is just so cheap, easy, and fast as to just not matter. Also Pioneer is working more or less autonomously and it is near the 40 year mark. It is still sending back data and is many light minutes or hours away so it is pretty much on it's own. We could make a probe that should function for 40 years today. It may do nothing but take pictures and and record radiation levels and try and map the stellar system as it goes through and a bad dash. Hopefully it will also avoid any planets as well. That isn't outside the todays technology.
Dude get over it. Yes Orion can take enough fuel for an interstellar probe just get over making an error and get on with your life and quite trying to make it look like your right. As to there being any point at this time. The cost to data ratio is very high so in that case you maybe correct. If we found earth like planets around AC then that math could change but not likely. I doubt that the world would pay the price which could run as much as all the movie, music, and video companies make in a year just to build a probe to go to another star. That says more about human nature than it does the available technology.
Actually if you read the link the problem is that the interconnects and that lack limits of parallelizm of the problems are the limitations.
"The good news is that over the next decade, engineers should be able to get the energy requirements of a flop down to about 5 to 10 pJ. The bad news is that even if we do that, it won't really help. The reason is that the energy to perform an arithmetic operation is trivial in comparison with the energy needed to shuffle the data around, from one chip to another, from one board to another, and even from rack to rack. A typical floating-point operation takes two 64-bit numbers as input and produces a 64-bit result. That's almost 200 bits in all that need to be moved into and out of some sort of memory, likely multiple times, for each operation. Taking all that overhead into account, the best we could reasonably hope for in an exaflops-class machine by 2015 if we used conventional architecture was somewhere between 1000 and 10 000 pJ per flop."
And " Realistic applications running on today's supercomputers typically use only 5 to 10 percent of the machine's peak processing power at any given moment. Most of the other processor cores are just treading water, perhaps waiting for data they need to perform their next calculation. It has proved impossible for programmers to keep a larger fraction of the processors working on calculations that are directly relevant to the application. And as the number of processor cores skyrockets, the fraction you can keep busy at any given moment can be expected to plummet. So if we use lots of processors with relatively slow clock rates to build a supercomputer that can perform 1000 times the flops of the current generation, we'll probably end up with just 10 to 100 times today's computational oomph. That is, we might meet DARPA's targets on paper, but the reality would be disappointing indeed."
I did read it did you?
What you are thinking of are grid computing problems not supercomputer problems.
Current super computers are limited by consumer technology. Adding cores is already running out of steam on the desk top. On servers it works well be cause we are using them mainly for virtualization. Eight and sixteen core CPUs will boarder on useless on the desktop unless some significant change takes place in software to use them.
My main problem is that I feel you are over stating and exaggeration the problem. Using words like danger has a specific meaning and I feel that meaning just isn't there. Too fall back to a very old saying. It is like the boy that cried wolf. Save those terms for the real dangerous actions like what AT&T is doing to some Android phones and not this minor issue. In a way it is this tech support person at my office that uses the F-Bomb for everything. I am left to wonder what he uses when he actually needs an expletive? Give Google some credit. They have published the rules and they live by them. They are pretty clear cut.
Actually for servers I am more fond of Ubuntu because I like apt-get. When it comes to servers I tend to want long term stability aka they to need just chug away. You would be shocked how few people still know about CentOS and use Fedora or some other desktop distro for a server.
I can not buy a Chevy at a Ford Dealship. I can not buy a Whopper at McDonald's. I sure can not buy an iPod at the Microsoft store or the Sony Store. Again since you can buy them elsewhere it just isn't to level of a danger if it is anything at all.
BTW I went to your site. Some of your projects look very cool and thanks for contributing them. One suggestion is that blue links are a black background are very hard to read. Also if you have not looked at CentOS I suggest that you do. I feel that it is a much better choice than Fedora for a production server. Yes it is off topic but I did enjoy your site except that it was hard to read some of it.
Frown on? Well if you wish at least you no longer claim it is dangerous. Every company and person will always do thing that are in their own best self interests to some degree or another. In this case it just doesn't seem to be a problem to me. Google will also pull malware from their app store. Why? Because it is in their own self interest to not have it in the store.
No store has a and obligation to carry any product and in this case most Google phones are in no way locked down from alternative apps and those that are are not locked down by Google.
I suggest that you re target your energy to real problems and not this FUD. I hear that AT&T has limited side loading on some Google phones. That is a problem, this is nothing and sure not a danger to our liberty. It is at worst an inconvenience at best Google following they rules that they have set up.
I think you are seeing a problem where this is now. No it is all about what you can do with out much effort. On most android phones you do not have to root or jail break to side load apps. They even have an alternative app store in their app store!. You just check on unknown sources on the settings menu and you are good to go.
There is no "Danger" here. There is no "Repression". There is no real problem.
What we have is FUD.
I did but I wanted to show other reasons. I agree for him it may actually be a dream come true.
So I suggest you not take it.
For this guy it may be a dream come true. He maybe unemployed. Maybe he is married and his wife has a year or too left in college and he wants to stay in the area. Maybe he really wants to work for Lego.
I had a friend that had a degree in communications and worked at Disney World for a low salary. He is now a news director at NBC in New York. Sometimes you start at the bottom of what you love and keep at it.
Again with the humans. You send humans after the machines go if ever. Even if we had very fast starships that could travel at .5c it would be insane to send humans to what could turn out to be nothing but a life less rock or worse a star with no planets in orbit.
Machines.. You send machines first. Since we have not sent machines yet that is all that I am talking about.
Well at this point I do not consider interstellar manned missions practical at all so I would say that I was dealing practicalities. Dyson did a study of a momentum limited Orion and he got a travel time of only 44 years. Possibly in life time to see some results and well within a 20 somethings life time to get data back.
So again I would say yes it is possible and practical to use an Orion for an interstellar probe if you could get around the political and ecological issues and or get one into orbit.
Actually NASA did a study on boosting an Orion into Orbit on an uprated Saturn. It was a smallish Orion but still an Orion.
Funny but Voyager is on an interstellar trajectory. I think your math is probably wrong on that. The Orion would have issues with a fast transit but yes it could travel interstellar distances.
Man this is depressing.