...the idea that the guys in the west might just be being more open and being honest when it comes to reporting incidents? Or maybe the guys in the east are having just as many, but aren't reporting them, thinking "hell, it's only a tiny spill, no need to report it and get everyone riled up about it!".
Why do I get the feeling that this article is just another piece of FUD?
http://atomicinsights.com/accidents/
This solar setup does the same thing, except replaces the heat source with sun / molten salt.
You forget dear fellow, that a fission plant can be made a heck of a lot smaller than a solar plant of equivalent power output and is available to generate energy on command whenever it is needed, 24/7 and is location independent.
it also seems stupid to use a turbine that requires water in the middle of a desert and is subject to the energy lost in conversion. I'm a fan of the "by all means necessary" approach to solving our energy problems but this is just a huge waste IMO. Perhaps it has use as a prototype, otherwise I'm not convinced it's a good idea, at all.
Can you think of another way of generating electricity from heat on a commercial scale?
I can think of several that generate electricity from heat. But the one I'd back right now is nuclear fission.
If it's good enough for operational environments as demanding as submarines or ice-breaking ships, why isn't it good enough for the land?
This piece is yet another bit FUD that does not belong on this site.
NRC workers are not the only ones being put on furlough after all. The summary should have noted that oversight is not being affected by this, only work being done on licensing new reactors etc.
"Finally, it takes a strong, trusted team to be a micromanager. Could Steve Jobs have spent weeks with the iPhone design team if there was no one else to mind the store?"
You know what this piece made me think? It made me think that micromanaging wasn't what made these guys successful. No, I'm thinking that it was having good/great people behind them that made them into such successes. In my experience micromanaging needs to have the right leader for the right team to work. If one of those two are wrong then the whole exercise just leads to a bag of shit. A bag of shit for the employees, a bag of shit for the boss, a bag of shit for investors and a bag of shit for corporate.
but I do know that they're not just a GPS chip from an iPhone.
Indeed. Most commonly the ones I saw were the kind you'd have for hiking and the like. Better than Iphone grade, but certainly not uber fancy. That's probably due to the need that arose for a lightweight, reliable unit with quick delivery. Why develop a whole new unit when you can just buy more or less off the shelf? Add in a few software tweaks maybe.
Since the release of Half-Life 2: Episode Two in October 2007, there has been very little news from Valve on the next Half-Life game.
Half-Life 2: Episode Three, the third and final instalment of the Half-Life 2 episodes, was expected to follow soon after Episode Two, as Valve had stated that they aimed to release a new episode every six to eight months
You don't call something released 7 years later a new episode.
Likely eps 3 and 4 have been rolled into hl3. Perhaps as a pair of prologue chapters?
A lot of the gps hardware I saw as a supply specialist in the British army was just rebadged civilian gear. The really super gps gear that I did see tended to be for aircraft and the like, which tended to be bigger bulkier units than what a man would use on the ground. The guys on the ground would often simply use more or less stock civilian gps gear with a fancy case and maps for either the world or the AO if file storage space was an issue on that particular device. No encryption other than the fancy ones used in aircraft and the sneaky beaky types.
Why on earth would a child of that age need a phone? Hell, would a child of that young age even be able to use it? Sure, they might have help with it, but if they did get help then wouldn't it simply be much easier to just use the adults phone to videochat rather than give the child a phone so they can video chat?
I understand the desire to keep in touch with loved ones back home, I really do. I spent a number of years in the military and I was deployed several times. But giving a child of 4 years a phone is not a good idea*. Let the little one go off and play with the other kids and if they want to speak to you then they can just tell the your other half! It'll be better for the little one, better for your other half and better for your bank balance.
*Honestly, I think it's not a good idea to give kids phones at all. If/when I become a parent I will avoid giving my children tech like that if at all possible until they reach 12 or 13.
The way I look at FUD is "Fear AND/OR uncertainty AND/OR doubt" rather than "Fear AND uncertainty AND doubt". All 3 are not required to nuke the chances of something happening (in this case, Exxonmobil being held to account for those melon headed whales).
On another note, I like melons as do many other people I'm sure. But why in the hell are those whales heading for melons?!
EnBoost my friend. Check it out on skyrim nexus. Works wonders if you have a 3d card with a lot of ram, but it helps a lot with stability even on a 1gb card!
In all seriousness though, this is something that demands further investigation. Going skinny dipping, only for her to later turn over and say "no, I've got a headache" is a PITA at best.
Wouldn't it be reasonable to ensure that the children at least begin to grasp the basic stuff, like reading comprehension, some logic, writing and a touch of math before working on the relatively advanced stuff such as programming which in my eyes brings a lot of those things together? Teaching them that they need to think for themselves wouldn't be a bad idea either.
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Some are cludgy.
Unfortunately you failed the most important test. It's "klugey" (American) or "kludgy" (British).
He certainly did, the insensitive klod
You mean... republicons?
No, RepubliCANTs.
...the idea that the guys in the west might just be being more open and being honest when it comes to reporting incidents? Or maybe the guys in the east are having just as many, but aren't reporting them, thinking "hell, it's only a tiny spill, no need to report it and get everyone riled up about it!". Why do I get the feeling that this article is just another piece of FUD? http://atomicinsights.com/accidents/
And how do you think they extract electricity from nuclear fission plants?
Fission -> Heat -> Steam -> Turbines -> Electricity
This solar setup does the same thing, except replaces the heat source with sun / molten salt.
You forget dear fellow, that a fission plant can be made a heck of a lot smaller than a solar plant of equivalent power output and is available to generate energy on command whenever it is needed, 24/7 and is location independent.
A beowulf cluster of beowulf clusters. Or did I just go full retard?
it also seems stupid to use a turbine that requires water in the middle of a desert and is subject to the energy lost in conversion. I'm a fan of the "by all means necessary" approach to solving our energy problems but this is just a huge waste IMO. Perhaps it has use as a prototype, otherwise I'm not convinced it's a good idea, at all.
Can you think of another way of generating electricity from heat on a commercial scale?
I can think of several that generate electricity from heat. But the one I'd back right now is nuclear fission.
If it's good enough for operational environments as demanding as submarines or ice-breaking ships, why isn't it good enough for the land?
NRC workers are not the only ones being put on furlough after all. The summary should have noted that oversight is not being affected by this, only work being done on licensing new reactors etc.
but for how long?
First Riften, now Mars. Good grief those Black Briars get around!
You know what this piece made me think? It made me think that micromanaging wasn't what made these guys successful. No, I'm thinking that it was having good/great people behind them that made them into such successes. In my experience micromanaging needs to have the right leader for the right team to work. If one of those two are wrong then the whole exercise just leads to a bag of shit. A bag of shit for the employees, a bag of shit for the boss, a bag of shit for investors and a bag of shit for corporate.
Nah, those were exterminated in the 6th century using holy hand grenades.
Amen.
but I do know that they're not just a GPS chip from an iPhone.
Indeed. Most commonly the ones I saw were the kind you'd have for hiking and the like. Better than Iphone grade, but certainly not uber fancy. That's probably due to the need that arose for a lightweight, reliable unit with quick delivery. Why develop a whole new unit when you can just buy more or less off the shelf? Add in a few software tweaks maybe.
Fish blocked the intakes? Shut the reactors down.
Wait what?! That's exactly what happened!? Well holy mackerel it worked as intended.
This is a FUD piece designed to sway people from nuclear energy. Nothing more. Does it really belong here on /.?
Since the release of Half-Life 2: Episode Two in October 2007, there has been very little news from Valve on the next Half-Life game. Half-Life 2: Episode Three, the third and final instalment of the Half-Life 2 episodes, was expected to follow soon after Episode Two, as Valve had stated that they aimed to release a new episode every six to eight months
You don't call something released 7 years later a new episode.
Likely eps 3 and 4 have been rolled into hl3. Perhaps as a pair of prologue chapters?
That said, this is merely anecdotal.
They already do that when they sell to the military :P
Why on earth would a child of that age need a phone? Hell, would a child of that young age even be able to use it? Sure, they might have help with it, but if they did get help then wouldn't it simply be much easier to just use the adults phone to videochat rather than give the child a phone so they can video chat?
I understand the desire to keep in touch with loved ones back home, I really do. I spent a number of years in the military and I was deployed several times. But giving a child of 4 years a phone is not a good idea*. Let the little one go off and play with the other kids and if they want to speak to you then they can just tell the your other half! It'll be better for the little one, better for your other half and better for your bank balance.
*Honestly, I think it's not a good idea to give kids phones at all. If/when I become a parent I will avoid giving my children tech like that if at all possible until they reach 12 or 13.
Lucky sevens! No nukes today!
On another note, I like melons as do many other people I'm sure. But why in the hell are those whales heading for melons?!
EnBoost my friend. Check it out on skyrim nexus. Works wonders if you have a 3d card with a lot of ram, but it helps a lot with stability even on a 1gb card!
In all seriousness though, this is something that demands further investigation. Going skinny dipping, only for her to later turn over and say "no, I've got a headache" is a PITA at best.
Or am I just deluded and in need of more koolaid?
Whoa whoa wait up mate, is that a "US" supersize or a "UK" supersize?
Subject pretty much says it all. Oh well, moving on.
Iirc, the last lesuire suit larry had you running around naked.