You obviously didn't hear much about Enorn, or you'd have realized that it's not a oil company. The US is certainly at the mercy of *energy* companies, but there's no real attachment for oil.
If Bush got his way and a hydrogen economy (using fusion power to pruduce hydrogen) was successful, the same big oil companies would be just as wealthy, they'd just be selling hydrogen instead.
We would love to reduce oil comsumption to the point where we could buy all we needed from American companies plus BP and Shell. Well, maybe not Shell.:)
You are so ignorant. When things go wrong in a modern fission reactor there is no possibility of a meltdown, etc. If something goes wrong, the reaction stops and in a worst case scenario, there's a fire. Nothing worse than your average coal plant.
The Air Force is currently interested in hyper-sonic flights for bunker-busting kinetic weapons. Aircraft launched short-to-medium ranged missies.
For cruise missiles fuel is more important than speed (we usually use cruise missiles to begin an engagement, so they can be launched as early as needed) so this would eb the wrong optimization.
For deep earth penetration, speed is everything, and we don't have a good non-nuclear solution for that yet.
The warming effect is from natural radioactive decay, not reactor-style fission. It's not a "core within a core", simply the uranium which makes up a percentage of the Earth: crust, mantle and core.
Of coruse, the earth radiates exactly what the sun contributes (blackbody radiation) plus a little bit extra as the heat of the core is radiated away. The heat from the core reaching Earth's surface is about 0.01% of the heat form the Sun reaching the Earth's surface (accurate only to order of magnitude), all of which is eventually radiated away.
You should be able to find a "code beautifier" for your favorite editor, if it's common. Many large shops now have no set indention style - each programmer can see the code the way they want to on their own editor, no holy war needed.;)
I went through the same thought process and arrived at the same conclusion. No need for a seperate line for the opening brace, and the closing brace on a line by itself provides the whitespace I want anyway after the "loopy bit". Also, you need a seperate line for closing braces if you're using line-oriented diffs to track doe changes, or someone has to "change" the last line of a block just to move the closing brace (when adding more lines to the block), which is deceptive.
Well, you *may* have hit an actual compiler bug, but seeing variables as 0 when you know you initialized them in a constructor is common if the class is used from within another constructor (or a whole chain of that sort of thing) and the outermost object is globally instantiated.
The complier is pretty free to construct global objects in any order it desires, and seeing methods called on an object before its constructor is called is *so* annoying - but not a compiler bug, just a language limitation.
Even less believable is finding an actual processor bug, but I've seen that too.:)
OK, if anyone is still silly enough to think there's some hope for the slashdot moderation system, witness that the above comment was modded insightful.
And you can't even blame it on a troll modding up an alternate account for later trolling, as it's AC. Mods on crack cut with drano, pure and simple.
You do realize that our supply of sunlight, wind, and water power are all finite as well? It's all a matter of timescale, and I'm not sure we could use up all the uranium on earth before the sun goes out, as it seems to be distributed throughout the lithosphere, mantle, and core. Hmmmm, maybe billions of years hence, our decendantes will be bemoaning our use of non-renewable solar power instead of nice dependable uranium power.;)
30 years ago, my techer told me we'd run out of oil in 20 years. 20 years ago my teacher told me we'd run out of oil in 20 years. 10 years ago I heard on NPR that we'd run out of oil in 20 years. This year I read on slashdot that we'd run out of oil in 20 years. Not only is oil cheaper (inflation adjusted) today than 30 years ago, identified reserves are larger.
Eventually we'll run out of everything, including sunlight, but it doesn't seem to be an urgent issue.
No, no, all the slashbots automatically assume the big corporations are lying. But in this case people are simple ignorant about how cars work. Unless the brakes were, umm, broken, any production car can be easily stopped despite a wide open throttle. Brakes have 3-5 times the power of the engine.
The earlier story left open the remote possibilty that the electroncs has gone haywire *and* the brakes ahd failed in some mysterious (but entirely mechanical) way at the same time. This turns out not to be the case. The driver was simply a tool, like 60 minutes was about Audis a while back.
People fear technology and blame it in irrational ways. This includes cars, not just computers.
Rolls Royce actualy had brake-by-wire available, to go along with throttle-by-wire, to allow the computer to smooth out any abrupt actions by your driver. There is a mechanical backup at the bottom of the pedal travel, however, so maybe it better thought of as "power braking assist" by wire. Good luck stopping a Rolls unassisted, however.
Even distribution of fluid acroos your honeycomb against the backpressure from your expanding gas is non-trivial. It will also require a significant weight of fluid.
The best solution is a combination of a lightweight thermal shield that's not too fragile, with a cheap ablative outer layer. There are much better materials around now than the Apollo capsules used (as proven by that near-sun probe) - you just need something of equal performance that's replaceable.
Now, the magical solution would be to find some way to generate power from the immense heat of re-entry and use that to cool the inner layer of shielding, but I don't think solid state solutions are up to that yet (and you still need an ablative outer layer to handle the damage from simple abrasion).
The person who assaults or steals from another is the one *entirely* at moral fault. Period. There is no cop out for huting another because they were "asking for it". None.
Now, the stereo owner in your example was *stupid*, but the *blame* is entirely the thief's. This is not a force of nature we're talking about, it's people acting unacceptably.
If you're writing an internal corprate application, and can get away with requiring everyone to have flash, fine. Otherwise, never make Flash the *only* way to get to content (or javashit for that matter). Maybe the flash version is quicker and easier to use, fine, but you exclude people if you require flash, and you always take control away from the user.
How many seconds to swap out the computer chip with the security feature for the one in the thief's pocket? Probably less than 60. Good security vs underaged boosters, I'm sure, but not for a car costing 6 figures.
Of course, tow-trucks will probably always be the best way to steal sports cars (I've heard many stories of the spouse opening the garage for the thief:) ), but that doesn't make for an exciting movie.
Except that's just wrong. Quantum encryption is only link safety, not end-to-end safety. It prevents simple eavesdropping, but not a man-in-the-middle attack, as it does nothing directly to authenticate the sender or receiver. Sure, the quantum link is secure, but it's a secure link to whom?
It's poor docing like this that leads to security flaws! You're wide open to a denial of service via a buffer overrun in the input buffer. Terrible, terrible code.:p
BECAUSE!!! All the jobs will move to a different country, where labor laws are less restrictive. German auto workers are now arguing for a *longer* work week (Germany currently has a very short work week) because German car makers are building new factories elsewhere. Even when it's illegal to fire a worker or close a plant, eventually the work moves elsewhere. Capitalism always wins in the end, I'm afraid.
Except that (a) this is not university housing, merely a (nearby) apartment complex in which the university has installed WAPs for their network, and (b) any part of a contract which is illegal is non-binding. But I suppose that, with a 2-digit UID, you have vast experience in not RTFA.
The university is saying "your 2.4 GHz WAPs interefere with ours, stop it". But saying so is specifically illegal (the right to say that is legally restricted to the FCC), and therefore non-binding. Now, the university could probably still expell a student for doing this, but they couldn't stop them. In fact, if the student was a ham radio op, he could technically force the university to shut down their WAPs! Somone there should do just that.:)
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You obviously didn't hear much about Enorn, or you'd have realized that it's not a oil company. The US is certainly at the mercy of *energy* companies, but there's no real attachment for oil.
:)
If Bush got his way and a hydrogen economy (using fusion power to pruduce hydrogen) was successful, the same big oil companies would be just as wealthy, they'd just be selling hydrogen instead.
We would love to reduce oil comsumption to the point where we could buy all we needed from American companies plus BP and Shell. Well, maybe not Shell.
You are so ignorant. When things go wrong in a modern fission reactor there is no possibility of a meltdown, etc. If something goes wrong, the reaction stops and in a worst case scenario, there's a fire. Nothing worse than your average coal plant.
The Air Force is currently interested in hyper-sonic flights for bunker-busting kinetic weapons. Aircraft launched short-to-medium ranged missies.
For cruise missiles fuel is more important than speed (we usually use cruise missiles to begin an engagement, so they can be launched as early as needed) so this would eb the wrong optimization.
For deep earth penetration, speed is everything, and we don't have a good non-nuclear solution for that yet.
The warming effect is from natural radioactive decay, not reactor-style fission. It's not a "core within a core", simply the uranium which makes up a percentage of the Earth: crust, mantle and core.
Of coruse, the earth radiates exactly what the sun contributes (blackbody radiation) plus a little bit extra as the heat of the core is radiated away. The heat from the core reaching Earth's surface is about 0.01% of the heat form the Sun reaching the Earth's surface (accurate only to order of magnitude), all of which is eventually radiated away.
You should be able to find a "code beautifier" for your favorite editor, if it's common. Many large shops now have no set indention style - each programmer can see the code the way they want to on their own editor, no holy war needed. ;)
I went through the same thought process and arrived at the same conclusion. No need for a seperate line for the opening brace, and the closing brace on a line by itself provides the whitespace I want anyway after the "loopy bit". Also, you need a seperate line for closing braces if you're using line-oriented diffs to track doe changes, or someone has to "change" the last line of a block just to move the closing brace (when adding more lines to the block), which is deceptive.
Well, you *may* have hit an actual compiler bug, but seeing variables as 0 when you know you initialized them in a constructor is common if the class is used from within another constructor (or a whole chain of that sort of thing) and the outermost object is globally instantiated.
:)
The complier is pretty free to construct global objects in any order it desires, and seeing methods called on an object before its constructor is called is *so* annoying - but not a compiler bug, just a language limitation.
Even less believable is finding an actual processor bug, but I've seen that too.
OK, if anyone is still silly enough to think there's some hope for the slashdot moderation system, witness that the above comment was modded insightful.
And you can't even blame it on a troll modding up an alternate account for later trolling, as it's AC. Mods on crack cut with drano, pure and simple.
Not in a non-inertial reference frame. You were pendantic, but not pendantic enough!
That's the only intelligent comment for this entire story, lol.
I will be watching closely for your press release on the success of this venture! :)
You do realize that our supply of sunlight, wind, and water power are all finite as well? It's all a matter of timescale, and I'm not sure we could use up all the uranium on earth before the sun goes out, as it seems to be distributed throughout the lithosphere, mantle, and core. Hmmmm, maybe billions of years hence, our decendantes will be bemoaning our use of non-renewable solar power instead of nice dependable uranium power. ;)
30 years ago, my techer told me we'd run out of oil in 20 years. 20 years ago my teacher told me we'd run out of oil in 20 years. 10 years ago I heard on NPR that we'd run out of oil in 20 years. This year I read on slashdot that we'd run out of oil in 20 years. Not only is oil cheaper (inflation adjusted) today than 30 years ago, identified reserves are larger.
Eventually we'll run out of everything, including sunlight, but it doesn't seem to be an urgent issue.
No, no, all the slashbots automatically assume the big corporations are lying. But in this case people are simple ignorant about how cars work. Unless the brakes were, umm, broken, any production car can be easily stopped despite a wide open throttle. Brakes have 3-5 times the power of the engine.
The earlier story left open the remote possibilty that the electroncs has gone haywire *and* the brakes ahd failed in some mysterious (but entirely mechanical) way at the same time. This turns out not to be the case. The driver was simply a tool, like 60 minutes was about Audis a while back.
People fear technology and blame it in irrational ways. This includes cars, not just computers.
Rolls Royce actualy had brake-by-wire available, to go along with throttle-by-wire, to allow the computer to smooth out any abrupt actions by your driver. There is a mechanical backup at the bottom of the pedal travel, however, so maybe it better thought of as "power braking assist" by wire. Good luck stopping a Rolls unassisted, however.
I, too, prostrate myself before such a marveous troll!! Well done, sir.
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Even distribution of fluid acroos your honeycomb against the backpressure from your expanding gas is non-trivial. It will also require a significant weight of fluid.
The best solution is a combination of a lightweight thermal shield that's not too fragile, with a cheap ablative outer layer. There are much better materials around now than the Apollo capsules used (as proven by that near-sun probe) - you just need something of equal performance that's replaceable.
Now, the magical solution would be to find some way to generate power from the immense heat of re-entry and use that to cool the inner layer of shielding, but I don't think solid state solutions are up to that yet (and you still need an ablative outer layer to handle the damage from simple abrasion).
One kiloton is a unit of energy standardized at 10^12 calories (~4.2*10^19 ergs). It hasn't been TNT-based for a while. :)
The person who assaults or steals from another is the one *entirely* at moral fault. Period. There is no cop out for huting another because they were "asking for it". None.
Now, the stereo owner in your example was *stupid*, but the *blame* is entirely the thief's. This is not a force of nature we're talking about, it's people acting unacceptably.
This is a common theme for Jackie Chan movies. :) It's one of the reasons Interpol was created.
You, sir, are a true champion! Never before have I seen a tubgirl link modded so high. Hats off to you!
If you're writing an internal corprate application, and can get away with requiring everyone to have flash, fine. Otherwise, never make Flash the *only* way to get to content (or javashit for that matter). Maybe the flash version is quicker and easier to use, fine, but you exclude people if you require flash, and you always take control away from the user.
How many seconds to swap out the computer chip with the security feature for the one in the thief's pocket? Probably less than 60. Good security vs underaged boosters, I'm sure, but not for a car costing 6 figures.
:) ), but that doesn't make for an exciting movie.
Of course, tow-trucks will probably always be the best way to steal sports cars (I've heard many stories of the spouse opening the garage for the thief
Except that's just wrong. Quantum encryption is only link safety, not end-to-end safety. It prevents simple eavesdropping, but not a man-in-the-middle attack, as it does nothing directly to authenticate the sender or receiver. Sure, the quantum link is secure, but it's a secure link to whom?
It's poor docing like this that leads to security flaws! You're wide open to a denial of service via a buffer overrun in the input buffer. Terrible, terrible code. :p
BECAUSE!!! All the jobs will move to a different country, where labor laws are less restrictive. German auto workers are now arguing for a *longer* work week (Germany currently has a very short work week) because German car makers are building new factories elsewhere. Even when it's illegal to fire a worker or close a plant, eventually the work moves elsewhere. Capitalism always wins in the end, I'm afraid.
Except that (a) this is not university housing, merely a (nearby) apartment complex in which the university has installed WAPs for their network, and (b) any part of a contract which is illegal is non-binding. But I suppose that, with a 2-digit UID, you have vast experience in not RTFA.
:)
The university is saying "your 2.4 GHz WAPs interefere with ours, stop it". But saying so is specifically illegal (the right to say that is legally restricted to the FCC), and therefore non-binding. Now, the university could probably still expell a student for doing this, but they couldn't stop them. In fact, if the student was a ham radio op, he could technically force the university to shut down their WAPs! Somone there should do just that.