Depends on what you are using the SuperComputer for. Some of the uses are. Nuclear Weapons design, Weather prediction, Fusion research. Biomedical research. Material Science.
"like Pearl Harbor"... Yea that worked out so well for Japan. This is really going to push a lot of buttons. Good thing is that rare earths are not all that rare just hard to separate. There are large deposits in Mountian Pass California. The US and other nations stopped mining it because China produced it cheaper... Looks like the price has gone way up. Maybe it is time we stopped depending on China for anything. Oh and if China decided to wreck the US economy then it wrecks it own. Too much of their wealth is in US dollars.
Yea my friend was a nut case. He left and was a nuke. He built a schematic of his ships reactor an propulsion system out of dried pasta because he wanted a piece of macaroni art that was classified. He also built a six foot long model of the F-14 from balsa. Including drawing the plans for it. Nice guy but a little odd.
Here let me give you the 5th grade level class on radiation. There are four types of radiation you need to worry about. Alpha Beta Gamma and Neutron. Neutron is the worst but is also pretty rare. It is usually caused by spontaneous fission or from Alpha partials hitting other elements like beryllium. That would be an usual situation in nature. What makes Neutron radiation so bad is it makes other things radioactive.
Gamma is very high energy and pretty nasty stuff and you need a lot of shielding to stop it. Like feet of concert or lots of lead. Gamma is a high energy photon. Beta can be stopped by a sheet of Aluminum. It is a high energy electron. Alpha can be stopped by you dead skins cells or a sheet of paper.
The thing is that out side of a nuclear reactor radiation levels high enough to really hurt your are very rare on Earth. What you do not want to do is get radioactive material into your body. I am guessing that the two big nasties at Caesium 137 and Strontium 90 Both are bioactive. Caesium 137 doesn't stay in your body too long but is both a beta and Gamma source. Strontium 90 is really bad. It goes to your bones and hangs out for a very long time.
So yes this actually does make a lot of sense. You do not want those to get into your body but at the actual radiation levels are not that dangerous for a short visit.
Yes they do. But frankly I just think these are some guys trying to make a buck. The nukes in the navy now are at sub bases. The folks on subs are nuts to start with. If Aliens did show up at a sub base crewmen would ask them out for drinks and still not say a word about it. Unless they could shock them. I had a friend that was a nuke that went back to college. He was just batty. Went to an air show and there was a Lamps crew there. He went up and asked what their active detection range was on a Sturgeon class boat in from the front aspect. They about had a fit cow. Of course I messed with a guy at work that was just out of the Army and was a Sigint guy. I used the names of classified satellites as server names and passwords. Get I was out of clearance but he wasn't.
No. Nuclear weapons are not that radio active. Plutonium is far more dangerous because it is a toxic heavy metal than because of it's radiation. Also none of these people spent much time at all with the actual weapons.
More likley a bunch of people that want some money and fame.
Depends on when. I remember Gateway ads talking about "downloading music" well before we had iTunes.
If she was under 18 then she should be off the hook IMHO. The idea is that children have less rights than adults but they also have less responsibilities. Also when under 18 you can not sign a contract so how can you agree to a EULA?
Because a misconfigured firewall can cause problems. Because it is a waste of computing power. Because it is one more thing for the IT staff to worry about. We are not talking about anti-virus here. We are talking about a firewall. Do you need to block ports from other machines inside your network?
The answer BTW is yes sometimes you do. Anytime someone takes a notebook out of the office there is a risk of it getting infected.
If you do not have any portable systems on your network and you have a good firewall and or NAT running then you really don't need firewalls on your PCs.
No did you have an Amiga 1000 is the question. And yes vast majority of people that bought one if not everyone bought the 256k expansion. Since we are talking about the 1000 that is what matters. False as are response is just silly. I guess accurate in that I am sure that someone bought an Amiga 1000 and returned it when they found out that it didn't run Lotus 123 or that it was almost useless without the memory expansion but those are without out a doubt the exception and not the rule.
Hate to tell you but the US gov really doesn't want to shut down wikileaks like this. Wikileaks doesn't really matter. Most people have never seen or heard of them. This is the MPAA trying to expand ACTA. It will fail but the MPAA figures if you don't ask you will not get.
Nope I am a republican. My mother ran the TAR when I was a small kid and my father was a Republican County Commissioner. So unless you are creating a category of republican libertarian which is just silly because the libertarians do seem to be anti all government.
Actually I think they are both probably better than they are given credit for. My guess is that Obama learned that the world wasn't what he thought it was and adjusted to what he learned. That is the definition of intelligence. In politics it is called being wishy washy.
So you want a politician to do nothing good because they may do something wrong? That kind of makes everything stop... Simple bust them out of office if they do.
1. This is on their personal income. So what they are going to cut back on the gardening and house keeping staff? 2. This is a tax cut as well. They are going to cut property and taxes on small businesses. You know the people that hire most of the people in the US.
Yes you are right. less tax will help growth but they are cutting the tax on the segment that grows the most. Over all I think this is a pretty good idea. I hate it when I agree with Bill Gates.
Actually this is a pretty smart law they are putting an income tax on the richest people while lowering the property tax and taxes on small businesses. Over all most people should see a tax cut. And that should actually do more to stimulate the economy. Giving a million people a $10 tax cut will provide more stimulus than giving one rich guy a $10,000,000 tax cut.
Wow I am a long time republican and I have no problem with this. Using money to pay for schools, and services to improve the quality of life can be a good thing as long as it isn't abused. Now the %5 at 200,000 may be a bit much but don't look at it that way. It really is only a %5 tax on families that make more then 400,000 and single people that make more than $200,000. Over all it is probably a good thing. I don't see what the fuss is about.
Wow the fanbois are in force. A post I made saying that everybody should stop worshiping all the talking heads on TV and start thinking for themselves gets modded down as a troll! The thing is who is modding me down. The Beck fanbois that are upset that I said he was more annoying than the Dailyshow. Or the Dailyshow fanbois that think I am not being respectful enough of their hero?
Wow Slashdot has gone way down hill when suggesting people think for themselves is trolling.
Actually no it didn't. The Amiga 1000 had what was called the Kickstart RAM which was really cool. It replaced the ROM that wasn't yet ready and you loaded the kickstart ram with your kickstart disk. It would survive a reboot as well.
Did you have an Amgia 1000? I bought one of the first. It had both Workbench and Kickstart 1.0 and 1.1 Everybody that bought an 1000 bought the 256k ram expansion. Most software wouldn't even run without it. I also had a StarBoard II that I eventually bought as well as an Amiga 2000 that I upgraded to. I also wrote the TDI modula 2 Rexx bindings. A patch to fix the zero location memory problem caused by the 2091 hd controller. And an early Virus checker called TCell for the Amiga.
Look up the specks on the Apple III and the Commodore B on wikipedia. Both came with 128k of ram standard before the Mac shipped. Also I was around then and actually got to use one of the early Bs and even one of the illegal prototype Ps.
Sorry dude I was there. The Macs memory was a huge handy cap. Hacks to boost it came fast.
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Depends on what you are using the SuperComputer for.
Some of the uses are.
Nuclear Weapons design,
Weather prediction,
Fusion research.
Biomedical research.
Material Science.
So yea it is kind of important.
No but not rare yearth metals. At least not a lot of them.
"like Pearl Harbor"... Yea that worked out so well for Japan.
This is really going to push a lot of buttons. Good thing is that rare earths are not all that rare just hard to separate. There are large deposits in Mountian Pass California.
The US and other nations stopped mining it because China produced it cheaper... Looks like the price has gone way up. Maybe it is time we stopped depending on China for anything.
Oh and if China decided to wreck the US economy then it wrecks it own. Too much of their wealth is in US dollars.
Yea my friend was a nut case.
He left and was a nuke.
He built a schematic of his ships reactor an propulsion system out of dried pasta because he wanted a piece of macaroni art that was classified.
He also built a six foot long model of the F-14 from balsa. Including drawing the plans for it.
Nice guy but a little odd.
And Am I right?
Here let me give you the 5th grade level class on radiation.
There are four types of radiation you need to worry about.
Alpha
Beta
Gamma
and
Neutron.
Neutron is the worst but is also pretty rare. It is usually caused by spontaneous fission or from Alpha partials hitting other elements like beryllium. That would be an usual situation in nature. What makes Neutron radiation so bad is it makes other things radioactive.
Gamma is very high energy and pretty nasty stuff and you need a lot of shielding to stop it. Like feet of concert or lots of lead.
Gamma is a high energy photon.
Beta can be stopped by a sheet of Aluminum. It is a high energy electron.
Alpha can be stopped by you dead skins cells or a sheet of paper.
The thing is that out side of a nuclear reactor radiation levels high enough to really hurt your are very rare on Earth. What you do not want to do is get radioactive material into your body. I am guessing that the two big nasties at Caesium 137 and Strontium 90
Both are bioactive. Caesium 137 doesn't stay in your body too long but is both a beta and Gamma source.
Strontium 90 is really bad. It goes to your bones and hangs out for a very long time.
So yes this actually does make a lot of sense. You do not want those to get into your body but at the actual radiation levels are not that dangerous for a short visit.
Yes they do. But frankly I just think these are some guys trying to make a buck.
The nukes in the navy now are at sub bases. The folks on subs are nuts to start with. If Aliens did show up at a sub base crewmen would ask them out for drinks and still not say a word about it. Unless they could shock them.
I had a friend that was a nuke that went back to college. He was just batty. Went to an air show and there was a Lamps crew there. He went up and asked what their active detection range was on a Sturgeon class boat in from the front aspect. They about had a fit cow.
Of course I messed with a guy at work that was just out of the Army and was a Sigint guy.
I used the names of classified satellites as server names and passwords. Get I was out of clearance but he wasn't.
I don't think the Army has an nukes anymore. All their nuclear capable systems where retired a while ago.
No.
Nuclear weapons are not that radio active. Plutonium is far more dangerous because it is a toxic heavy metal than because of it's radiation.
Also none of these people spent much time at all with the actual weapons.
More likley a bunch of people that want some money and fame.
Depends on when. I remember Gateway ads talking about "downloading music" well before we had iTunes.
If she was under 18 then she should be off the hook IMHO.
The idea is that children have less rights than adults but they also have less responsibilities.
Also when under 18 you can not sign a contract so how can you agree to a EULA?
Because a misconfigured firewall can cause problems. Because it is a waste of computing power. Because it is one more thing for the IT staff to worry about.
We are not talking about anti-virus here. We are talking about a firewall.
Do you need to block ports from other machines inside your network?
The answer BTW is yes sometimes you do. Anytime someone takes a notebook out of the office there is a risk of it getting infected.
If you do not have any portable systems on your network and you have a good firewall and or NAT running then you really don't need firewalls on your PCs.
No did you have an Amiga 1000 is the question.
And yes vast majority of people that bought one if not everyone bought the 256k expansion.
Since we are talking about the 1000 that is what matters.
False as are response is just silly. I guess accurate in that I am sure that someone bought an Amiga 1000 and returned it when they found out that it didn't run Lotus 123 or that it was almost useless without the memory expansion but those are without out a doubt the exception and not the rule.
Hate to tell you but the US gov really doesn't want to shut down wikileaks like this.
Wikileaks doesn't really matter. Most people have never seen or heard of them.
This is the MPAA trying to expand ACTA.
It will fail but the MPAA figures if you don't ask you will not get.
Nope
I am a republican. My mother ran the TAR when I was a small kid and my father was a Republican County Commissioner.
So unless you are creating a category of republican libertarian which is just silly because the libertarians do seem to be anti all government.
Stop putting people on sides.
Actually I think they are both probably better than they are given credit for.
My guess is that Obama learned that the world wasn't what he thought it was and adjusted to what he learned.
That is the definition of intelligence.
In politics it is called being wishy washy.
I guess it could happen but I doubt it. If they do they will not move all of Amazon or Microsoft so the net result will be about the same.
So you want a politician to do nothing good because they may do something wrong?
That kind of makes everything stop... Simple bust them out of office if they do.
1. This is on their personal income. So what they are going to cut back on the gardening and house keeping staff?
2. This is a tax cut as well. They are going to cut property and taxes on small businesses. You know the people that hire most of the people in the US.
Yes you are right. less tax will help growth but they are cutting the tax on the segment that grows the most. Over all I think this is a pretty good idea.
I hate it when I agree with Bill Gates.
I sort of agree with you.
Can we throw in the people that are blaming Bush for the things Obama is doing as well.
BTW I think this tax change is actually a good thing and it does have nothing to do with Obama or Bush.
Actually this is a pretty smart law they are putting an income tax on the richest people while lowering the property tax and taxes on small businesses.
Over all most people should see a tax cut.
And that should actually do more to stimulate the economy.
Giving a million people a $10 tax cut will provide more stimulus than giving one rich guy a $10,000,000 tax cut.
Wow I am a long time republican and I have no problem with this.
Using money to pay for schools, and services to improve the quality of life can be a good thing as long as it isn't abused.
Now the %5 at 200,000 may be a bit much but don't look at it that way. It really is only a %5 tax on families that make more then 400,000 and single people that make more than $200,000.
Over all it is probably a good thing. I don't see what the fuss is about.
Wow the fanbois are in force.
A post I made saying that everybody should stop worshiping all the talking heads on TV and start thinking for themselves gets modded down as a troll!
The thing is who is modding me down. The Beck fanbois that are upset that I said he was more annoying than the Dailyshow.
Or the Dailyshow fanbois that think I am not being respectful enough of their hero?
Wow Slashdot has gone way down hill when suggesting people think for themselves is trolling.
Actually no it didn't.
The Amiga 1000 had what was called the Kickstart RAM which was really cool.
It replaced the ROM that wasn't yet ready and you loaded the kickstart ram with your kickstart disk.
It would survive a reboot as well.
Did you have an Amgia 1000?
I bought one of the first. It had both Workbench and Kickstart 1.0 and 1.1
Everybody that bought an 1000 bought the 256k ram expansion. Most software wouldn't even run without it.
I also had a StarBoard II that I eventually bought as well as an Amiga 2000 that I upgraded to.
I also wrote the TDI modula 2 Rexx bindings.
A patch to fix the zero location memory problem caused by the 2091 hd controller.
And an early Virus checker called TCell for the Amiga.
Look up the specks on the Apple III and the Commodore B on wikipedia. Both came with 128k of ram standard before the Mac shipped.
Also I was around then and actually got to use one of the early Bs and even one of the illegal prototype Ps.
Sorry dude I was there. The Macs memory was a huge handy cap. Hacks to boost it came fast.
Really?
On a world wide scale?
Or do you mean compared to Europe?
Because just in case you didn't know Europe isn't the rest of the world.