So, in your scenario, nuclear power will be abandoned not because of the herd of lowing retards, but because of the few smart people who find their ignorance so contemptibly alien that we can't figure out how to talk down to them?
I am not my retarded brother's keeper. If we're genuinely too stupid as a species to accept that it's a choice between fission or coal to get us to fusion, then perhaps we should just step aside and give the rats and cockroaches their chance.
Roll another Debian-a-like, tailor it to games, market it through Steam to Windows users and say "Why update to Windows 8? Here's a free OS. Live boot it and see if you like it."
Disclaimer: the author is tired of keeping a creaking XP partition going just for Steam, and would bite their hand off to get in on a beta and help out.
Please use terms we can all understand: Limey Rounders.
The guy's just another slipper pole climber, trotting out the exact same "I'm not like all the other guys" line that all the other guys use. He should be treated with contempt, because he's contemptible.
Read it again, carefully. The key word to note is "proposal". Even the components that have been "implemented", like SCONE are still, yes, vaporware. "Coming soon" since 2003, last updated 2010.
This is "Wouldn't it be super awesome if someone could implement all our graphs and diagrams and actually make it work in the real world? Therefore, more funding."
Awesome term. Can anyone translate into human? I think he's saying that they done fucked up, but for all I know, he's talking about literally killing employees who didn't fit in with the corporate culture.
Prices start at GBP 9.99 delivered from UK stock. For a pair. Or the same items can be ordered direct from China and shipped anywhere in the civilised world.
Click "Buy it now"
You'll got the Internets in the USA, right?
If you want to pay more for a brand name, pay more, but don't whine that there's no option cheap enough to throw away if it doesn't work.
Do they really? Include mining, refining, manufacturing, installation, maintenance, and be sure to feed, house, clothe and transport all the people involved in that process, and then have some left over.
Because if you can't do that, then you're kidding yourself that they're actually contributing, rather than greenwashing.
Still reckon solar and wind can do that? On what basis? The people that sell them tell you so?
Back in the mid 90s, I worked at a games company where we were struggling to get the performance of Direct3D Retained Mode (anyone else remember that?) up to anywhere near Glide levels on Voodoo hardware. It was "escalated" until some DirectX "evangelist" rocked up at our office to "assist."
His "assistance" consisted of looking out of the window and telling us that we must be doing something wrong, because his developers assured him that D3DRM should perform better than anything that we could roll ourselves.
"Look," we said, "here's the same app, showing the same scene, and the framerate of the D3DRM version is half that of Glide."
But he wouldn't look. He literally wouldn't look at the screens. He wouldn't even acknowledge the problem. Just kept going on about how we must be mis-using it, because he had been assured.
Needless to say, we dropped D3DRM, as did everyone else, and it died in a corner, alone and unloved. But it did give us a valuable insight into the developer and "evangelist" culture at Microsoft. I think all Windows developers learn it eventually, which is why Microsoft need a constant influx of bright eyed, bushy tailed young suckers who'll fall for the line that they only hurt us because they love us so much.
I'd sue Amazon for actual damages, court and lawyer fees and damages
Don't forget Class A Federal Violations of your Constitutional Shit and Junk.
TFA notes that the broad lives in Norway, got her Kindle from Amazon UK and agreed to their T&C, and and was paying her kroner to Amazon US. So, sue who, where, and for what?
Sometimes the answer is not "Ready-Aim-Lawsuit". A bit of pressure applied via the anger of a million neckbeards might be more effective.
Look, I know this is Slashdot where we dupe articles without reading them, and it's in the original article title, but given that TFA itself goes to some lengths to explain that the filthy h5xx0rz bought all their tickets (and I don't blame them, given Oz's propensity for criminalising everything that isn't mandatory), could we please, just once, actually have an accurate title or summary?
If Slashdot has just become Google News for Nerds, I can pretty much get that myself with a custom search. Upgrade the small shell scripts masquerading as "editors", eh?
does [net energy] really matter if they are going to power it using renewable energy?
Depends whether you believe that "renewable" sources produce more usable energy than it takes to extract, refine, manufacturer, install and maintain them. Oh, and keep the people who do all of that alive, which is a non trivial consideration.
Given that UK wind farms, for example, had a particularly bad year and broke their own record for production (under 20% of their marketing capacity), and that they're really just an expensive way of turning off (also expensive) gas fired power plants occasionally, I think that's a fair question.
Now, take that wind energy and use it to generate fuel (of whatever sort) on site, without the farce of trying to feed it into the grid, that I could get behind. If the physics works out, and we're literally betting the wind farm that it does.
Correct, China isn't "civilised", in the Latin sense of the word. It's a cluster of medieval agrarian villages, with some industry springing up around major waterways. It's going through exactly the same industrial revolution that "civilised" nations went through in the past, with the same winners and losers.
You can educate the peasants all the like, but then they'll be educated and toiling in the rice paddies, or educated and toiling in the factories. Either way, they're not post industrial and don't have the same leisure to flout their education from the comfort of their keyboards that you and I enjoy, and judging them on that basis is neither fair nor reasonable.
That carbon dating has always been as accurate as you can afford. You decide the date that you need in order to confirm your thesis, send your sample to as many labs or as many times as your budget allows, then pick the closest answer from the essentially random set of results.
Anyone on the inside of the inside care to confirm or refute that?
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So, in your scenario, nuclear power will be abandoned not because of the herd of lowing retards, but because of the few smart people who find their ignorance so contemptibly alien that we can't figure out how to talk down to them?
I am not my retarded brother's keeper. If we're genuinely too stupid as a species to accept that it's a choice between fission or coal to get us to fusion, then perhaps we should just step aside and give the rats and cockroaches their chance.
Roll another Debian-a-like, tailor it to games, market it through Steam to Windows users and say "Why update to Windows 8? Here's a free OS. Live boot it and see if you like it."
Disclaimer: the author is tired of keeping a creaking XP partition going just for Steam, and would bite their hand off to get in on a beta and help out.
I find the lack of faith in this story... disturbing.
Please use terms we can all understand: Limey Rounders.
The guy's just another slipper pole climber, trotting out the exact same "I'm not like all the other guys" line that all the other guys use. He should be treated with contempt, because he's contemptible.
Read it again, carefully. The key word to note is "proposal". Even the components that have been "implemented", like SCONE are still, yes, vaporware. "Coming soon" since 2003, last updated 2010.
This is "Wouldn't it be super awesome if someone could implement all our graphs and diagrams and actually make it work in the real world? Therefore, more funding."
Awesome term. Can anyone translate into human? I think he's saying that they done fucked up, but for all I know, he's talking about literally killing employees who didn't fit in with the corporate culture.
You'll got the Internets in the USA, right?
If you want to pay more for a brand name, pay more, but don't whine that there's no option cheap enough to throw away if it doesn't work.
They're just data, right? Copying them doesn't take them away. You can't steal numbers.
Applies to music and movies, applies to any other data.
Do they really? Include mining, refining, manufacturing, installation, maintenance, and be sure to feed, house, clothe and transport all the people involved in that process, and then have some left over.
Because if you can't do that, then you're kidding yourself that they're actually contributing, rather than greenwashing.
Still reckon solar and wind can do that? On what basis? The people that sell them tell you so?
How apt: belief based development.
Back in the mid 90s, I worked at a games company where we were struggling to get the performance of Direct3D Retained Mode (anyone else remember that?) up to anywhere near Glide levels on Voodoo hardware. It was "escalated" until some DirectX "evangelist" rocked up at our office to "assist."
His "assistance" consisted of looking out of the window and telling us that we must be doing something wrong, because his developers assured him that D3DRM should perform better than anything that we could roll ourselves.
"Look," we said, "here's the same app, showing the same scene, and the framerate of the D3DRM version is half that of Glide."
But he wouldn't look. He literally wouldn't look at the screens. He wouldn't even acknowledge the problem. Just kept going on about how we must be mis-using it, because he had been assured.
Needless to say, we dropped D3DRM, as did everyone else, and it died in a corner, alone and unloved. But it did give us a valuable insight into the developer and "evangelist" culture at Microsoft. I think all Windows developers learn it eventually, which is why Microsoft need a constant influx of bright eyed, bushy tailed young suckers who'll fall for the line that they only hurt us because they love us so much.
What happens when the kooky person takes off their white pointed hat and gets themselves put in charge of looking after the ballot box?
Be sure to grab some Barbra Streisand while you're there.
Years later, we're still fixing his fixes.
Patch speed is rarely critical, outside of Star Trek.
Only the Lord Kelvin can preserve you from entropy.
A hundred million degrees ain't so much. The University of Mumbai churns out more than that a year.
Don't forget Class A Federal Violations of your Constitutional Shit and Junk.
TFA notes that the broad lives in Norway, got her Kindle from Amazon UK and agreed to their T&C, and and was paying her kroner to Amazon US. So, sue who, where, and for what?
Sometimes the answer is not "Ready-Aim-Lawsuit". A bit of pressure applied via the anger of a million neckbeards might be more effective.
And another "confirmed". Interesting that the comment itself was down rated.
I'll take that as a "confirmed", thanks.
Look, I know this is Slashdot where we dupe articles without reading them, and it's in the original article title, but given that TFA itself goes to some lengths to explain that the filthy h5xx0rz bought all their tickets (and I don't blame them, given Oz's propensity for criminalising everything that isn't mandatory), could we please, just once, actually have an accurate title or summary?
If Slashdot has just become Google News for Nerds, I can pretty much get that myself with a custom search. Upgrade the small shell scripts masquerading as "editors", eh?
Gets a thousand years of bad karma.
Depends whether you believe that "renewable" sources produce more usable energy than it takes to extract, refine, manufacturer, install and maintain them. Oh, and keep the people who do all of that alive, which is a non trivial consideration.
Given that UK wind farms, for example, had a particularly bad year and broke their own record for production (under 20% of their marketing capacity), and that they're really just an expensive way of turning off (also expensive) gas fired power plants occasionally, I think that's a fair question.
Now, take that wind energy and use it to generate fuel (of whatever sort) on site, without the farce of trying to feed it into the grid, that I could get behind. If the physics works out, and we're literally betting the wind farm that it does.
Correct, China isn't "civilised", in the Latin sense of the word. It's a cluster of medieval agrarian villages, with some industry springing up around major waterways. It's going through exactly the same industrial revolution that "civilised" nations went through in the past, with the same winners and losers.
You can educate the peasants all the like, but then they'll be educated and toiling in the rice paddies, or educated and toiling in the factories. Either way, they're not post industrial and don't have the same leisure to flout their education from the comfort of their keyboards that you and I enjoy, and judging them on that basis is neither fair nor reasonable.
That carbon dating has always been as accurate as you can afford. You decide the date that you need in order to confirm your thesis, send your sample to as many labs or as many times as your budget allows, then pick the closest answer from the essentially random set of results.
Anyone on the inside of the inside care to confirm or refute that?
Now, what's this story about?
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of dupes?
It's not a surprise, and it is very, very sad.
God damn, Australia, for a nation founded by convicts, you certainly do seem to have a hard on for creating more of them.