Um, first, "meltdown" includes any melting of the fuel rods, and is bad mojo even if you subsequently cool them.
Second, there are reports that containment has been breached in at least one of the reactors.
Third, when the spent-fuel pools dried up and caught fire, that was just like the containment being breached, in terms of the radiation and radioactive stuff that gets into the outside world.
Fourth, the hydrogen explosions so far blew building materials skyward; at the point where they happen the fuel isn't yet exposed to open air. (they were because of deliberate hydrogen venting from the core, which implied that the core was running overly hot and not just boiling the water but decomposing it (turning the fuel rods' zinc cladding into ZnO2 and releasing hydrogen)).
So, the cores have melted, they have lost their water, containment has been breached, nuclear fires are burning, and it's all GE's fault, because, as you say, the beancounters seem to have ruled the design committee and chased the safety engineer away.
It's taken them nearly a week to get a police truck with a water cannon there (and it didn't work).
Why the fuck wasn't there a way to fly in a pumper truck, a generator, a long hose, and a ladder, to flood that building on Saturday or Sunday?
Are they so married to their procedures that they have no clue at all when thinking outside the box will save their asses? Do they have no foresight to try something preventive instead of waiting for the same sequence of disastrous results to occur in every reactor building?
Sorry, my brain works in analog and digital simultaneously.
And I think my local telco now brags about 7 mbps for $19.99. You can do 720p over that. Netflix ahoy.
But yes, I do have the 30 mbps cable line instead. And the cable company is now my phone company. I wish the satellite company didn't have latency issues. Except for its abysmal web channel guide, DirecTV delivers the goods most days.
Browser performance is never "good enough" on degraded platforms like smartphones. On my desktop I'm used to neural-rate browsing. When there's a hitch I send email to ISPs that their routers are fucking up. But on my phone I see every little gear grinding on every badly-constructed javascript botch. One phone that unties the knots 20% faster than another is significantly different from a quality perspective.
If two phones can handle their native apps without breaking, then the one with the best network/rendering performance wins. I couldn't give a rat's ass about the quality of cardboard in the box it comes in.
You're missing the point. It doesn't matter what's traditional. It only matters that.h files are just.c files with a different letter on the end. Calling them "header" files doesn't make them not code.
This is not any different from any other company. If you don't know what you have to beat, you just do what you want. And if what you want is driven by $_in / $_out = performance, then you minimize $_out.
Well, no, it can't, because they're using an iPhone to check the submissions for postworthiness, and they just don't have time to make sure they're all good.
Grocery stores are stocked daily, and may only have 1 or 2 days' stock of staple items on hand. People shop for things like toilet paper and diapers far less often than that. Weekly, biweekly, perhaps monthly or longer. So on any given day, about 1 in 15 people are shopping for that item. But if there is an event that threatens to disrupt supply, people who are within a few days of needing to buy that item will buy it sooner if it is available. But all it takes to clean out a store is slightly more than 1 or 2 days' worth of demand to walk in the door.
It's hardly panic. I doubt a large number of people are hoarding. We've just developed an economy that delivers goods to retail outlets in as close to a just-in-time system as possible, because that is how such logistical systems are most efficient in the steady state. But those systems have very little tolerance for upsetting events, and when the executives in charge of the designers of the logisitical system are focussed on meeting quarterly profit margins, not on planning for rare occurrences, the planning for rare occurrences becomes unwanted as a matter of corporate strategy.
And then, not to put too fine a point on it, but, really, when thousands of people are dying and thousands more will die, is it too hard to wipe your ass with a page from the bible?
I missed something. How are headers not copyrighted? Because when I learned C and C++ and a dozen other languages back in precolombian times, headers weren't magical, they were code that you #included into other code files, which had the effect of placing an exact copy of those files in the intermediate code file, causing them to be compiled as the code they are.
If I take all of the source code of Linux and change every.c file thusly: $ mv foo.c foo.new.h $ cat > foo.c #include "foo.new.h" ^D $ y |/usr/local/bin/laughmyassoff
does that now mean that I have a 100% un-copyrightable copy of Linux?
Of course not. Whoever made the decision that header files are not copyrightable is a legal buffoon, probably due to having appointed a luser instead of a wizard as "special master".
Copyright is not going to collapse, and it has no weight. It's a concept, and it has to be interpreted, and interpretation takes no force at all.
If anything, it's the GPL that will collapse when someone interprets it as self-inconsistent and legally void, regardless of anyone else's interpretation of it.
Erm, no. An oblate spheroid has a stable orbit about its equator (gravity is lower on the surface because the surface is higher there; but at a constant radius there's more mass under anything that's over the equator so gravity is higher there than at the same radius over the poles).
But Earth isn't an oblate spheroid. It's bigger in the southern hemisphere. Hence inclination of the orbit. It's also not circular at the equator, and not a constant density. The gravitational field is lumpy. Gradients all over the place.
The connector may be there, but the ability to connect to it in freefall is quite different from the ability to connect to it while it's an inert mass on the ground.
The only way this works is if someone had the foresight to presume it might be refueled on-orbit, and the authority to require the connector -- and the rest of the satellite; you don't want an expensive solar panel in the way when the service droid is trying to grapple onto the cleat -- to be designed to allow it.
Yurp. And bar-code scanners don't use a "thin sheet" they use a thin beam that scans back and forth rapidly. It just looks like a thin sheet. To virgins.
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Um, first, "meltdown" includes any melting of the fuel rods, and is bad mojo even if you subsequently cool them.
Second, there are reports that containment has been breached in at least one of the reactors.
Third, when the spent-fuel pools dried up and caught fire, that was just like the containment being breached, in terms of the radiation and radioactive stuff that gets into the outside world.
Fourth, the hydrogen explosions so far blew building materials skyward; at the point where they happen the fuel isn't yet exposed to open air. (they were because of deliberate hydrogen venting from the core, which implied that the core was running overly hot and not just boiling the water but decomposing it (turning the fuel rods' zinc cladding into ZnO2 and releasing hydrogen)).
So, the cores have melted, they have lost their water, containment has been breached, nuclear fires are burning, and it's all GE's fault, because, as you say, the beancounters seem to have ruled the design committee and chased the safety engineer away.
It's taken them nearly a week to get a police truck with a water cannon there (and it didn't work).
Why the fuck wasn't there a way to fly in a pumper truck, a generator, a long hose, and a ladder, to flood that building on Saturday or Sunday?
Are they so married to their procedures that they have no clue at all when thinking outside the box will save their asses? Do they have no foresight to try something preventive instead of waiting for the same sequence of disastrous results to occur in every reactor building?
Sorry, my brain works in analog and digital simultaneously.
And I think my local telco now brags about 7 mbps for $19.99. You can do 720p over that. Netflix ahoy.
But yes, I do have the 30 mbps cable line instead. And the cable company is now my phone company. I wish the satellite company didn't have latency issues. Except for its abysmal web channel guide, DirecTV delivers the goods most days.
Browser performance is never "good enough" on degraded platforms like smartphones. On my desktop I'm used to neural-rate browsing. When there's a hitch I send email to ISPs that their routers are fucking up. But on my phone I see every little gear grinding on every badly-constructed javascript botch. One phone that unties the knots 20% faster than another is significantly different from a quality perspective.
If two phones can handle their native apps without breaking, then the one with the best network/rendering performance wins. I couldn't give a rat's ass about the quality of cardboard in the box it comes in.
"Copyright enforcement in the digitial domain is indistinguishable from censorship."
Gibberish.
You're utterly free to say what you want, just so long as you don't steal it from me.
You're missing the point. It doesn't matter what's traditional. It only matters that .h files are just .c files with a different letter on the end. Calling them "header" files doesn't make them not code.
He didn't do that. That's a feature of the search engine's autocorrect function that now makes it search for what you want instead of what you type.
This is not any different from any other company. If you don't know what you have to beat, you just do what you want. And if what you want is driven by $_in / $_out = performance, then you minimize $_out.
Fact is, even if the evidence wouldn't change the jury's mind, the court may have been wrong to suppress it, violating his right to due process.
Stupid prosecutors and judges are how shitbirds like this walk free.
Well, no, it can't, because they're using an iPhone to check the submissions for postworthiness, and they just don't have time to make sure they're all good.
If I have money to spend on a phone today, it's relevant.
"750k high speed line"
Welcome to the future. Is that a real 5.25" floppy disk in your trapper-keeper?
Yes. Performance of the browser is a critical feature.
Grocery stores are stocked daily, and may only have 1 or 2 days' stock of staple items on hand. People shop for things like toilet paper and diapers far less often than that. Weekly, biweekly, perhaps monthly or longer. So on any given day, about 1 in 15 people are shopping for that item. But if there is an event that threatens to disrupt supply, people who are within a few days of needing to buy that item will buy it sooner if it is available. But all it takes to clean out a store is slightly more than 1 or 2 days' worth of demand to walk in the door.
It's hardly panic. I doubt a large number of people are hoarding. We've just developed an economy that delivers goods to retail outlets in as close to a just-in-time system as possible, because that is how such logistical systems are most efficient in the steady state. But those systems have very little tolerance for upsetting events, and when the executives in charge of the designers of the logisitical system are focussed on meeting quarterly profit margins, not on planning for rare occurrences, the planning for rare occurrences becomes unwanted as a matter of corporate strategy.
And then, not to put too fine a point on it, but, really, when thousands of people are dying and thousands more will die, is it too hard to wipe your ass with a page from the bible?
I'm going to start presuming that any user ID over 2e6 is posting that link.
I'm definitely an American with a good understanding of that 90% of the world is "third" because its people think stealing is a sacrament.
You either know nothing about politics and law enforcement, or you know less about money.
I missed something. How are headers not copyrighted? Because when I learned C and C++ and a dozen other languages back in precolombian times, headers weren't magical, they were code that you #included into other code files, which had the effect of placing an exact copy of those files in the intermediate code file, causing them to be compiled as the code they are.
If I take all of the source code of Linux and change every .c file thusly:
/usr/local/bin/laughmyassoff
$ mv foo.c foo.new.h
$ cat > foo.c
#include "foo.new.h"
^D
$ y |
does that now mean that I have a 100% un-copyrightable copy of Linux?
Of course not. Whoever made the decision that header files are not copyrightable is a legal buffoon, probably due to having appointed a luser instead of a wizard as "special master".
Copyright is not going to collapse, and it has no weight. It's a concept, and it has to be interpreted, and interpretation takes no force at all.
If anything, it's the GPL that will collapse when someone interprets it as self-inconsistent and legally void, regardless of anyone else's interpretation of it.
Wow. That news only took 4 months to get out. People love when things break and ignore when things work.
When you're done fueling, you put a piece of duct tape over the cuts you made in the blanket.
Erm, no. An oblate spheroid has a stable orbit about its equator (gravity is lower on the surface because the surface is higher there; but at a constant radius there's more mass under anything that's over the equator so gravity is higher there than at the same radius over the poles).
But Earth isn't an oblate spheroid. It's bigger in the southern hemisphere. Hence inclination of the orbit. It's also not circular at the equator, and not a constant density. The gravitational field is lumpy. Gradients all over the place.
The connector may be there, but the ability to connect to it in freefall is quite different from the ability to connect to it while it's an inert mass on the ground.
The only way this works is if someone had the foresight to presume it might be refueled on-orbit, and the authority to require the connector -- and the rest of the satellite; you don't want an expensive solar panel in the way when the service droid is trying to grapple onto the cleat -- to be designed to allow it.
$2/kg is a pretty good price for something like that.
Yurp. And bar-code scanners don't use a "thin sheet" they use a thin beam that scans back and forth rapidly. It just looks like a thin sheet. To virgins.