Most of the technologies TFA describes were experimental, but that mainframe mainstay, core memory, came down in cost during its run from $1/bit to one cent. Even at that price, a memory stick would cost $10 million per gigabyte and would require a room of its own. I love living in the future.
I have known occasional devs who have done this, using subterfuges like surreptitiously moving open-office partitions so that nobody else sees them directly and getting missed in layoffs. They have confederates, generally the late-twenties types who are already running scared, bring them water bottles and vending machine food and carry away 'honey buckets'. By night, a paper-towel sponge bath in the restroom with the broken security cam and they're good.
I knew one C# developer who held out until age 44, when he revealed himself with an inopportune sneeze during a VIP tour of the office. I remember the HR goons hauling him off, white beard trailing on the floor, babbling something about 'Fortran' and 'core dumps.' He was able to snag an interview in Computerworld, which was still printed on paper back then, titled something to the effect of "World's Oldest Programmer."
"Well, what I would have done would have been to go to Las Vegas and spend it in the slot machines"
I...er, bet that laundering through casinos was what this economic genius had in mind, if he hadn't been in one for a while.
Before casinos went all-voucher and bills, there was a transitional period when slot machines still took coins. Load up a machine with quarters, print out a voucher to take to the cashier window and hope to rinse & repeat a usable number of times before management started wondering why their machines were suddenly all full of uncirculated new quarters, rather than the usual $5s through $20s.
Global warming has nothing to do with how much snow is in your driveway, the snow in your driveway this year is "weather", not "climate". Measure it over the next decade, then get back to us.
That's the old way of looking at it. Now it's: 1. If there is less snow this year, it proves warming. 2. If there is more snow this year, it proves warming.
You got it. Reason Foundation is a libertarian, but not Randian, think tank with some refreshingly iconoclastic views about the major political factions.
That will be a big improvement over the top-down readings we are doing now, which means sampling at one specific mountaintop in Hawaii. We know how much of each gas is in the atmosphere, but nothing about how each is distributed. A sat will be able to tell how the concentration of each gas by region correlates with cities and volcanoes.
Apple would decompile the code for the malware and file a patent on it. Then dispatch the FBI to stake out the courthouse in Tyler, TX until the malware writers file a troll suit.
Oil/coal companies don't care about small renewables because because they know those can't replace baseload. That is why they are getting the German Greens to support replacing nuclear with coal, their aim all along. By the time grass-roots pushback develops against either of the 85-square kilometer lignite strip mines, it will be too late. Those Bagger 288's we were commenting about the other day will be eating your movement along with the German villages.
The greatest advantage that the French nuclear program has enjoyed is lack of organized opposition and the endless delaying tactics that you activists use in other countries to increase costs through endless legal delays. Any targeted energy program can be made to cost too much by imposing delay after delay.
Some illumination on the fossil industry's ownership of the antinuclear movement: http://atomicinsights.com/esso... http://ansnuclearcafe.org/2013... In contrast, the French oil giant Elf-Aquitaine (now Total) has always been a refiner and distributor, rather than owning the production it takes to be a sponsor against competing forms of energy
France made a clear choice decades ago, has stuck with it, enjoys low costs as a result of standardization, and is not about to change. France has no oil and little coal, so the French Greens have never received that fountain of money from the fossil fuel lobby that their counterparts in so many other countries benefit from.
That "reduce nuclear power to 50%" campaign plank of Hollande's will be forgotten about as soon as Le Pen takes office.
"When NASA has a launch failure or even a postponement it's nightly news, complete with commentary as to how it's all a waste of money, government can't do things right, etc."
The public expects a government space program to be run with perfect safety, which everyone in the business knows is as unattainable as safe aviation was in 1920, and that it must not do anything "adventurous" like landing a booster, even if the activity is not mission-critical and does not pose any threat to human life. Manned space programs have to go private not because NASA is incompetent, but because only the private sector is allowed to take risks.
I had to look that up, but apparently the Bagger 288 is for mining COAL. Most especially, for use in the two enormous lignite strip mines that Germany intends to replace its nuclear baseload with. Whatever the German Energiewende is supposed to prove in the long term, it's nothing to do with reducing carbon.
Rooftop solar does a good job of zeroing out the power usage of the single-family home under it, but what happens when those solar panels are on the minuscule roof of a high-rise apartment complex?
And most especially, what happens when your country wants to smelt steel? I suppose you can outsource all the steel production to a nuclear country like South Korea.
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"Thanks to Snowden and many other brave souls, now the world knows how despicable the American government (at least part of it) has become"
Unfortunately, this behavior will continue until we stop giving it money and power.
Most of the technologies TFA describes were experimental, but that mainframe mainstay, core memory, came down in cost during its run from $1/bit to one cent. Even at that price, a memory stick would cost $10 million per gigabyte and would require a room of its own. I love living in the future.
I'll generally take reliability over volume. I wish they'd work on that more.
Not just reliability, but archival (write-once) media that are reliable for very long periods of time.
"What was the point of human existence before computers?"
Ask your grandpa. People played cards and board games, and porn was printed on paper.
Natural gas does make a good backup for wind and solar, though, because gas plants can come online quickly when the wind drops.
"It's impossible to discover the source of the ransomware, but it might be possible to track the money"
So why has there been no case in which this has actually worked?
"You can still make it in the 40s and coding"
I have known occasional devs who have done this, using subterfuges like surreptitiously moving open-office partitions so that nobody else sees them directly and getting missed in layoffs. They have confederates, generally the late-twenties types who are already running scared, bring them water bottles and vending machine food and carry away 'honey buckets'. By night, a paper-towel sponge bath in the restroom with the broken security cam and they're good.
I knew one C# developer who held out until age 44, when he revealed himself with an inopportune sneeze during a VIP tour of the office. I remember the HR goons hauling him off, white beard trailing on the floor, babbling something about 'Fortran' and 'core dumps.' He was able to snag an interview in Computerworld, which was still printed on paper back then, titled something to the effect of "World's Oldest Programmer."
"Well, what I would have done would have been to go to Las Vegas and spend it in the slot machines"
I...er, bet that laundering through casinos was what this economic genius had in mind, if he hadn't been in one for a while.
Before casinos went all-voucher and bills, there was a transitional period when slot machines still took coins. Load up a machine with quarters, print out a voucher to take to the cashier window and hope to rinse & repeat a usable number of times before management started wondering why their machines were suddenly all full of uncirculated new quarters, rather than the usual $5s through $20s.
Global warming has nothing to do with how much snow is in your driveway, the snow in your driveway this year is "weather", not "climate". Measure it over the next decade, then get back to us.
That's the old way of looking at it. Now it's:
1. If there is less snow this year, it proves warming.
2. If there is more snow this year, it proves warming.
"Or is Reason bad because they laugh at you ?"
You got it. Reason Foundation is a libertarian, but not Randian, think tank with some refreshingly iconoclastic views about the major political factions.
That will be a big improvement over the top-down readings we are doing now, which means sampling at one specific mountaintop in Hawaii. We know how much of each gas is in the atmosphere, but nothing about how each is distributed. A sat will be able to tell how the concentration of each gas by region correlates with cities and volcanoes.
"why did I read that as, "the shprayer shpritzes and the brush shpins while the sheat rotatesh"?"
That's how you read it when you have the good dunkelbier.
Not as good as the self-cleaning street toilets I have seen in Paris.
Apple would decompile the code for the malware and file a patent on it. Then dispatch the FBI to stake out the courthouse in Tyler, TX until the malware writers file a troll suit.
Oil/coal companies don't care about small renewables because because they know those can't replace baseload. That is why they are getting the German Greens to support replacing nuclear with coal, their aim all along. By the time grass-roots pushback develops against either of the 85-square kilometer lignite strip mines, it will be too late. Those Bagger 288's we were commenting about the other day will be eating your movement along with the German villages.
The greatest advantage that the French nuclear program has enjoyed is lack of organized opposition and the endless delaying tactics that you activists use in other countries to increase costs through endless legal delays. Any targeted energy program can be made to cost too much by imposing delay after delay.
Some illumination on the fossil industry's ownership of the antinuclear movement:
http://atomicinsights.com/esso...
http://ansnuclearcafe.org/2013...
In contrast, the French oil giant Elf-Aquitaine (now Total) has always been a refiner and distributor, rather than owning the production it takes to be a sponsor against competing forms of energy
Some choice general commentary from a leading environmentalist on your endless stream of lies:
http://www.theguardian.com/com...
I predict that one of the more interesting byproducts of today's low oil prices will be the antinuclear movement running out of money.
France made a clear choice decades ago, has stuck with it, enjoys low costs as a result of standardization, and is not about to change. France has no oil and little coal, so the French Greens have never received that fountain of money from the fossil fuel lobby that their counterparts in so many other countries benefit from.
That "reduce nuclear power to 50%" campaign plank of Hollande's will be forgotten about as soon as Le Pen takes office.
i washed my hands but they didn't come clean...
Wow, I can hear the mournful sax and clarinet backup behind you...
California pays extra for building nuclear plants on seismic faults and then closing them because the retrofit won't work.
And then pays for building them again in Arizona.
Because the invitation went into your junk folder.
Windows 10 will sell more Apple gear than Donald Trump.
I do all my banking and brokerage online, but I print statements first so I can reconcile, and then file them in case the IRS ever needs to see it.
"When NASA has a launch failure or even a postponement it's nightly news, complete with commentary as to how it's all a waste of money, government can't do things right, etc."
The public expects a government space program to be run with perfect safety, which everyone in the business knows is as unattainable as safe aviation was in 1920, and that it must not do anything "adventurous" like landing a booster, even if the activity is not mission-critical and does not pose any threat to human life. Manned space programs have to go private not because NASA is incompetent, but because only the private sector is allowed to take risks.
I had to look that up, but apparently the Bagger 288 is for mining COAL. Most especially, for use in the two enormous lignite strip mines that Germany intends to replace its nuclear baseload with. Whatever the German Energiewende is supposed to prove in the long term, it's nothing to do with reducing carbon.
Rooftop solar does a good job of zeroing out the power usage of the single-family home under it, but what happens when those solar panels are on the minuscule roof of a high-rise apartment complex?
And most especially, what happens when your country wants to smelt steel? I suppose you can outsource all the steel production to a nuclear country like South Korea.