This article is full of errors major errors, including the title/conclusion.
They're typically off by about a factor 10; they seem to have ignored the exponent when calculating the percentages they use to conclude Fukushima is nearing Tsjernobyl levels. Where they state that Tsjernobyl put out 70% more caesium-137 than Fukushima, it's actually 1700%. Where they state that Tsjernobyl put out 50% more Iodine-131 it's actually 1400%. These numbers are based on the readings provided by the article.
Apart from that the comparison simply makes no sense for a 1000 other reasons. Remote detectors for airborne radioactive particles cannot reliably provide an indication of what the reactor put out, especially given the fact that Tsjernobyl was a fire releasing all kinds of aerosols while Fukushima releases mostly gasses that probably get carried much futher by the wind and do not pollute the grounds in the perimeter of the reactor as much as Tsjernobyl.
Furthermore, Tsjernobyl started out with explosion that probably released a huge quantity of especially iodine in one big blast, not leaving quite that much for the "aftermath" (which this article makes a comparison with). Also, what they fail to mention is the deadly mix of compounds other than iodine and caesium released by Tsjernobyl.
This is nothing like Tsjernobyl and it will not become anything like it either. Stop the FUD please.
But how do you switch quickly between virtual desktops if you need to control two independent sets? I have the two windowsy-buttons in the middle of my keyboard assigned to switching to the virtual desktop on the left or right. I suppose with two sets you'd have to resort to using modifier keys? Sounds like a major PITA for anything but your specific situation involving WoW.
Inserting spent fuel into a subduction zone would be just about the worst idea ever. Didn't you spot the volcano on the image on the wikipedia-page you link to?
Apart from that I'd say just like it's rather immoral to leave our kids with heaps of radioactive crap (because we fail to reuse it for political reasons), it'd be just as immoral to make vast amounts of valuable materials inaccessible forever.
I happen to have 2 big ass monitors at work. Running Windows... At home I have a not so big ass single monitor that displays an Ubuntu desktop. I am vastly more productive at home. And that's thanks to the proper multiple desktop implementation that's simply not possible on Windows. It allows me to swap between virtual desktops much faster than I ever could move my eye/head to the second monitor in a dual monitor setup. And it gives me much more virtual desktops (I prefer 4) and much more overview thanks to transparent windows and the transparent Compiz cube. Add to that that a desktop spread over multiple monitors is simply too wide to be ergonomical.
So if a dual monitor setup increases productivity I'm pretty sure that's only on Windows and it's only as a compensation for Windows' braindead desktop implementation. Thank you very much.
This 40000 number is valid only for prehistoric coal-burning technology. Modern plants filter practically all of the ill-making substances from the smoke.
I have a much better alternative to online voting: just restrict the right to vote to software engineers. Must be much cheaper and is probably more democratic:P
Letting computers (read: the authors of the software and the system administrators) control the election will make it impossible to monitor the process, with the inevitable result that you cannot be sure whether you live in a democracy or not. In case of doubt: you're not in a democracy.
You can do the same thing, true. But the difference is that when you run NAT your home network is guaranteed to be unaccessible unless special measures are taken. Without NAT, your home network is guaranteed to be accessible _unless_ special measures are taken. If you fuck up your NAT configuration, your network is still secure. If you fuck up a normal firewall configuration, your network probably isn't. NAT is secure by default, no NAT is insecure by default.
Gotta love a world where everybody is allowed to send radio waves through your private parts but where it's illegal to pick up those radio waves.... information publicly broadcasted cannot possibly be considered private. And therefore receiving this information and doing things with it cannot possibly invade anybodies privacy.
So this is Cyber Terror?:P Or what kind of ridiculous concept is a Cyber Terror Response Center?!
By the way, what is Google doing with encryption that is so easily broken?! And why would they have to break it if Google was cooperating?
Justice has not been done until Googles carpark archives everything their antennas receive and the entire world understands that it is and should always be perfectly legal. If you want privacy, don't shout your private information well over the edge of our solar system. Morons. Arghl.
Bullshit. This is not genuine 3D. This is just stereovision using a lot of cameras demonstrated by a guy with a 'orrible french accent that talks a lot about what could be done but in fact they do not even come close to what this other guy built in a fraction of the time using a MS Kinect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-w7UXCAUJE
That video also makes it very clear why the fantasies of the french guy will never come true. At least not with that camera.
I use GTK with Cairo for my custom widgets (like these http://zmooc.net/miep/too_many_knob18.png). It works pretty OK and is rather well documented an, but I run into performance issues just about everywhere. Probably mostly due to my incompetent coding, though:P Nevertheless, I would not recommend taking the GTK-path.
Rack? Who cares about racks. It's not like there's not enough room in 1U servers. What this is awesome for, though, is for small form factor PCs. With video on the mobo or cpu the only thing left that stuck out, was the harddrive or ssd. Not anymore. Awesome!:-) Now I can go get myself a proper 17x17x5cm quad core PC:-)
I'm still waiting for proper virtual desktops, focus follows mouse, a single interface for installing and upgrading apps and not having to copy my entire profile from the network when I log on to name a few.
Also, credit for binary backwards compatibility is not often given because it is simply not a problem in the open world. I don't care if the office version I bought 10 years ago still works; I simply install the latest version with two clicks. Not that I ever have to since I already get the latest versions of everything I need automatically for well over 10 years. Besides, most of that binary backwards compatibility is thanks to Intel, not Microsoft. It's not like it's that hard to keep supporting 1000 year old APIs.
Decent and stable don't necessarily make it better than, say, Linux. They just make things more decent and stable, which was about time. The only thing that would really make things _better_, is choice. Simply because "better" means something else to most people. And choice is something Windows still does not offer in large amounts.
Nevertheless, even though it still sucks, Windows has come a long way since 1995 but I still only use it when there's financial compensation;-)
Oh I make no assumptions about your illusions, in fact I think we're on the same side. However, I wanted to clarify that java being suitable for 3D stuff doet not mean it can do _everything_. I don't think the seismographs that provide input for JavaSeis run java;-)
For games, yes. Games are not a good example of stressing your hardware, especially not on modern hardware. Also they're very forgiving; nobody's going to complain if the framerate drops below 30 every now and then.
However, there are some things Java really cannot do out of the box. The most important being reliable realtime programming; there's always a chance the garbage collector fucks up your sub-millisecond reactiontime, even if the compiled java code actually runs faster than a C-counterpart, which it often does. An then there's the lack of a platform independent way to give a thread realtime priority in Java. Another problem is that current Java VMs do not use vectorization (you know, mmx, sse), which makes C-programs that can use it much faster than their Java-counterparts.
Nevertheless, for programs that do not have such requirements or things that pay my living, Java is #1. When working with tight deadlines and very expensive calculations, C is the better choice.
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Mouse pointer? ARGL.
Nevertheless, thanks for the clarification; I have never worked with a dual-monitor in combination with X virtual desktops so I had no idea;)
This article is full of errors major errors, including the title/conclusion.
They're typically off by about a factor 10; they seem to have ignored the exponent when calculating the percentages they use to conclude Fukushima is nearing Tsjernobyl levels. Where they state that Tsjernobyl put out 70% more caesium-137 than Fukushima, it's actually 1700%. Where they state that Tsjernobyl put out 50% more Iodine-131 it's actually 1400%. These numbers are based on the readings provided by the article.
Apart from that the comparison simply makes no sense for a 1000 other reasons. Remote detectors for airborne radioactive particles cannot reliably provide an indication of what the reactor put out, especially given the fact that Tsjernobyl was a fire releasing all kinds of aerosols while Fukushima releases mostly gasses that probably get carried much futher by the wind and do not pollute the grounds in the perimeter of the reactor as much as Tsjernobyl.
Furthermore, Tsjernobyl started out with explosion that probably released a huge quantity of especially iodine in one big blast, not leaving quite that much for the "aftermath" (which this article makes a comparison with). Also, what they fail to mention is the deadly mix of compounds other than iodine and caesium released by Tsjernobyl.
This is nothing like Tsjernobyl and it will not become anything like it either. Stop the FUD please.
But how do you switch quickly between virtual desktops if you need to control two independent sets? I have the two windowsy-buttons in the middle of my keyboard assigned to switching to the virtual desktop on the left or right. I suppose with two sets you'd have to resort to using modifier keys? Sounds like a major PITA for anything but your specific situation involving WoW.
Inserting spent fuel into a subduction zone would be just about the worst idea ever. Didn't you spot the volcano on the image on the wikipedia-page you link to?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subduction#Volcanic_activity
Apart from that I'd say just like it's rather immoral to leave our kids with heaps of radioactive crap (because we fail to reuse it for political reasons), it'd be just as immoral to make vast amounts of valuable materials inaccessible forever.
I happen to have 2 big ass monitors at work. Running Windows... At home I have a not so big ass single monitor that displays an Ubuntu desktop. I am vastly more productive at home. And that's thanks to the proper multiple desktop implementation that's simply not possible on Windows. It allows me to swap between virtual desktops much faster than I ever could move my eye/head to the second monitor in a dual monitor setup. And it gives me much more virtual desktops (I prefer 4) and much more overview thanks to transparent windows and the transparent Compiz cube. Add to that that a desktop spread over multiple monitors is simply too wide to be ergonomical.
So if a dual monitor setup increases productivity I'm pretty sure that's only on Windows and it's only as a compensation for Windows' braindead desktop implementation. Thank you very much.
Well then were's the justice? Oh there's none. So it's obviously not a justice system but a mislead-and-lock-up system.
this guy is probably guilty and belongs behind bars
This guy is obviously not guilty; he chatted with an adult, there was no 13 year old girl so in any _justice_ system he's as innocent as can be.
However, his moustache leads me to believe that putting him behind bars may be a good idea anyway:P
This dude seems to believe computer science is the same as software engineering. It is not.
This 40000 number is valid only for prehistoric coal-burning technology. Modern plants filter practically all of the ill-making substances from the smoke.
But does the back button work properly? It has been broken for ages on certain sites...
Marshall Brain once wrote quite an entertaining story about this phenomenon. I think it might be spot on (until it goes crackpot, that is:P).
http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
Well, maybe that's because everybody is studying computer science while employers are looking for software engineers, not scientists.
I have a much better alternative to online voting: just restrict the right to vote to software engineers. Must be much cheaper and is probably more democratic:P
Letting computers (read: the authors of the software and the system administrators) control the election will make it impossible to monitor the process, with the inevitable result that you cannot be sure whether you live in a democracy or not. In case of doubt: you're not in a democracy.
You can do the same thing, true. But the difference is that when you run NAT your home network is guaranteed to be unaccessible unless special measures are taken. Without NAT, your home network is guaranteed to be accessible _unless_ special measures are taken. If you fuck up your NAT configuration, your network is still secure. If you fuck up a normal firewall configuration, your network probably isn't. NAT is secure by default, no NAT is insecure by default.
Gotta love a world where everybody is allowed to send radio waves through your private parts but where it's illegal to pick up those radio waves.... information publicly broadcasted cannot possibly be considered private. And therefore receiving this information and doing things with it cannot possibly invade anybodies privacy.
So this is Cyber Terror?:P Or what kind of ridiculous concept is a Cyber Terror Response Center?!
By the way, what is Google doing with encryption that is so easily broken?! And why would they have to break it if Google was cooperating?
Justice has not been done until Googles carpark archives everything their antennas receive and the entire world understands that it is and should always be perfectly legal. If you want privacy, don't shout your private information well over the edge of our solar system. Morons. Arghl.
Bullshit. This is not genuine 3D. This is just stereovision using a lot of cameras demonstrated by a guy with a 'orrible french accent that talks a lot about what could be done but in fact they do not even come close to what this other guy built in a fraction of the time using a MS Kinect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-w7UXCAUJE
That video also makes it very clear why the fantasies of the french guy will never come true. At least not with that camera.
What does mine say??
I use GTK with Cairo for my custom widgets (like these http://zmooc.net/miep/too_many_knob18.png). It works pretty OK and is rather well documented an, but I run into performance issues just about everywhere. Probably mostly due to my incompetent coding, though:P Nevertheless, I would not recommend taking the GTK-path.
Rack? Who cares about racks. It's not like there's not enough room in 1U servers. What this is awesome for, though, is for small form factor PCs. With video on the mobo or cpu the only thing left that stuck out, was the harddrive or ssd. Not anymore. Awesome! :-) Now I can go get myself a proper 17x17x5cm quad core PC:-)
I'm still waiting for proper virtual desktops, focus follows mouse, a single interface for installing and upgrading apps and not having to copy my entire profile from the network when I log on to name a few.
Also, credit for binary backwards compatibility is not often given because it is simply not a problem in the open world. I don't care if the office version I bought 10 years ago still works; I simply install the latest version with two clicks. Not that I ever have to since I already get the latest versions of everything I need automatically for well over 10 years. Besides, most of that binary backwards compatibility is thanks to Intel, not Microsoft. It's not like it's that hard to keep supporting 1000 year old APIs.
Decent and stable don't necessarily make it better than, say, Linux. They just make things more decent and stable, which was about time. The only thing that would really make things _better_, is choice. Simply because "better" means something else to most people. And choice is something Windows still does not offer in large amounts.
Nevertheless, even though it still sucks, Windows has come a long way since 1995 but I still only use it when there's financial compensation;-)
Oh I make no assumptions about your illusions, in fact I think we're on the same side. However, I wanted to clarify that java being suitable for 3D stuff doet not mean it can do _everything_. I don't think the seismographs that provide input for JavaSeis run java;-)
For games, yes. Games are not a good example of stressing your hardware, especially not on modern hardware. Also they're very forgiving; nobody's going to complain if the framerate drops below 30 every now and then.
However, there are some things Java really cannot do out of the box. The most important being reliable realtime programming; there's always a chance the garbage collector fucks up your sub-millisecond reactiontime, even if the compiled java code actually runs faster than a C-counterpart, which it often does. An then there's the lack of a platform independent way to give a thread realtime priority in Java. Another problem is that current Java VMs do not use vectorization (you know, mmx, sse), which makes C-programs that can use it much faster than their Java-counterparts.
Nevertheless, for programs that do not have such requirements or things that pay my living, Java is #1. When working with tight deadlines and very expensive calculations, C is the better choice.
17000 cubic feet. How many elephants is that?
The imperial system. Not very popular outside of Myanmar and the USA.
I wonder when Facebook will start to sell friends.
Isn't that what Facebooks business model is all about?
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_40/b4197064860826.htm
http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/02/facebook-bigger-google/
So either you're an incredibly boring dad or you don't have a baby:P