Why would you have to search everyone for bombs and weapons? What are they going to do? Shoot the passengers? Blow up the train? These are no more threats than they are on a TGV, or ICE. All one does it kill a couple hundred passengers at most, and destroy a piece of track (if at all).
It is impossible for any maglev to take off into the air, and fly into an important building. The Maglev also does not carry extreme amounts of flammable liquids, so it is not a bomb in itself.
No, it is enough to them that they crash the train. If you look at recent history, you'll find many examples of where the terrorists simply killed a couple hundred people by blowing up a plane. (Pan Am #103, for example.)
Also, there is simply the matter of symbolism and accomplishment. Do you think that the 9/11 hijackers chose to strike the WTC because it had a lot of people to kill? Probably not, or they would have waited a few hours later to strike, when people had settled into their jobs. It was the fact that they were the tallest buildings in the U.S., a symbol of accomplishment, money, and status. If they wanted to deal a hard blow, they would have gone for the U.S. Capitol building at a time when the full Congress was in session.
I hypothesize that they (terrorists) would either (1) go after any example of accomplishment, technology, money, and status, and a high-speed maglev train line would be a good target, or (2) simply just kill a few hundred people here or there.
How can you say this: The deal was: the rich countries will trade manufactured and agricultural goods with the poor countries, and the poor countries will enforce the patents and copyrights of the rich countries.
Then this: The proclaimed trade benefits for the poor countries never happened
Followed by this: but the enforcement of patents, trademarks, and copyrights has been enforced (the US threatens to cease trade and cancel IMF and WorldBank funds when the poor get angry)
If there were trade no benefits to poor countries in the arrangement, then the U.S. would hold no sway when it threatens to cease trade. If there is benefits, then the arrangement is working.
Which is it?
I'd bet China, India, and Korea would be willing say they've benefited.
This is why Africa can't manufacture AIDS treatments even though they cost less than 35 cents to manufacture each daily dose.
Sure they are that cheap, when it wasn't your country and your companies that paid for all the reasearch and development costs. Sweet deal for you, not so good for all the scientists, managers, marketers, FDA lobbyists, and investors back in the U.S.
Besides, that money would be better spent on AIDS prevention and education. Maybe we could finally take care of this problem.
GP: No offense, but I could care less if students cheat.
P: Why would anyone be offended by you caring if students cheat. Unless you meant you don't care, in which case you should have said, "I couldn't care less." (Don't feel bad, it seems about 50% of people get this saying wrong.)
I'd say that the bulk of them cheated when they were supposed to be learning about cliches in their liturature classes.
I put this in two weeks ago. Thermaltake Silent Boost For under $30 (including shipping) it cools an Athlon XP at about 21 decibals. Very nice. Not 100% silent, but very very quiet for the price.
I've got one, it works very well in my system, so I'd have to concur.
Did you try to balance the flow? The air mass going in has to equal the air mass going out, so if you are trying to push more air in then you take out some of your fans are not being used efficiently.
As an accomplished system builder, I will have to both agree and disagree with this statement.
While the airflow should be reasonably balanced (to keep from underutilizing the fans), you should have slightly more CFM from fans blowing in than you have from fans blowing out, and intake fans should be filtered when no cosmetic problems will arise.
If you follow this, you will find that (1) dust never gets sucked in around your CD-ROM (or floppy if you have one) drives and other spots around the case and (2) very little dust will collect inside the computer - it will collect on the filters instead.
A local place sells snap-on filters that are very easy to install and use.
Unfortunately, the system I am building that is in-progress won't accomodate one, and I'm looking for an alternate way to place the filter material.
Use the B-rate sci-fi movie trick:
on
ISS May Have A Leak
·
· Score: 5, Funny
Just light a cigarette, and follow where the smoke goes to figure out where the leak is.
Then, patch it with chewing gum, and have a beer (or shot of vodka) to celebrate the success.
They do allow cigarettes, gum, and alcohol on the ISS, don't they? Of course! All of the movie space stations do!
After serving your country you can get about $8k a year
More if you join the Army and take the Army College Fund. I get about $10K a year between the G.I. Bill and the Army College Fund. It doesn't cover everything, but between that, my election to a paid student government position, a (very) part-time job on campus, some grants, and about $800 in loans a term, I do fine.
If I had to do it all over again, I'd do the same way. Not only can I afford school, but I learned enough about organization, order, and personal discipline that I am a 3.9 GPA college student, where I was a 2.2 GPA high-school student.
Of course, being over the halfway mark on my education, the outsourcing of jobs to India has me thinking about a different major...
you'll also start with a higher rank then if you just enlisted
You start out with a rank you won't ever attain if you "just enlisted"... you will be an officer.
and if you're tech inclined you'd most likely not see the front lines as your skills would make you more valuable elsewhere.
If you believe that, you're a fool. There are lots of room for tech jobs up at the front line, near the front line, and in our own set of high-value targets. There is no such thing as "most likely."
I was someone "tech inclined" in the Army, and yes, it got me put with counterfire radar instead of with an infantry unit (I was a 13F - Field Artillery Fire Support A.K.A. Forward Observer)... but the TOC I worked in also had M.I., communications, and lots of other high-value targets. We were right on top of the list of things an enemy would be looking for should we have been deployed. (Thankfully, we just did humanitarian stuff while I was in.)
People at the front lines are using high-tech equipment that needs to be serviced, and if you are "tech inclined" you just might be the guy who has to jump into a foxhole at the front lines and fix it.
DO NOT JOIN THE MILITARY THINKING YOU WILL NOT SEE COMBAT. You are doing a disservice to yourself, your fellow soldiers, and your country.
I would like to see how much time one spends every months getting Linux to function.
About one hour every couple of months.
The last thing I did to this machine was install the latest nVidia drivers (which work fine for me, don't know what other people complaining about).
It went like this: switch to vt 1, go to runlevel 3, log in as root, then "nvidia-installer --update", answer a couple questions, and let it go.
After it finished downloading and installing, I went back to runlevel 5 and logged back in.
Every now and then I install security updates on this box, and the server box. Time spent is usually less than 30 minutes.
My server has been running for 67 days now, and I've only done a few minor things, like install the latest patches to pdnsd, sshd upgrades, and such. That took 10 minutes each for download, configure, make, and install.
You forget that there are two American continents and Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Belize are all in North America right along with the US.:)
The US really does co-opt the name "America" though. I usually see it more in foreign countries than in the US itself. They always refer to us as "Americans" living in "America."
We were calling ourselves Americans before most of those countries were little more than colonies of other countries, and few people in those places were looking for a national identity.
Americans identified themselves as such almost from the very begginning of the first British colonials arriving on the shores of the new world.
There was no co-opting to be done. We've been Americans for much longer than the United States has existed.
Did you happen to get your name on the microchip on stardust as well?
I have mine there. I remember adding myself to the "me too" list (several family members worked at JPL, I was a member of the Planetary Society, etc).
Interesting enough, my wife's name (her married name) is there as well, right along with mine, though when Stardust went up, we didn't know each other.
How they got access to the C code for the comparisons if the ROM is closed source? It's there for download, only a click away of the firmware page!
RTFA, and follow the F links. They aren't comparing C code to C code. They downloaded the firmware update from KiSS (which is binary), and compared it to the MPlayer binary using the "strings" program. It's all posted right there on MPlayer's home page.
KiSS offers some GPL source code, but only for busybox and uClibc, I believe.
Mplayer are famous for two main reasons: first, for programming a killer app for linux, and second, for their constant insults to others developers...
I'm sure they'd insult you, too, after reading your ignorant post.
With something like openfirmware, apparently you have to have a ROM big enough to contain valid code that can run on both IA-32 and IA-64 and PPC, etc., or you end up with things like PC-only and Mac-only cards...
Nope, plug-in drivers on Open Firmware compatible cards are written in FCODE, which is a Forth bytecode language.
Completely machine independent.
The article says that Open Firmware was considered, but they didn't want to drop ACPI.
Frankly, Open Firmware has a lot of features you are just never going to see on home machines/cheap server boxes as long as Intel and MS are in charge. I'd rather have OF on my server boxes, hence why I chose a Sun machine.
When I was a kid, we used to spend two weeks a year on Cape Cod. The main highway that ran out onto the cape (I don't remember the route number) was three lanes wide--one lane in each direction, and a center passing lane for whoever the hell was brave enough to use it. MA is a strange place, indeed.:)
I've been on that highway... it's been a while. I was down there on Army funeral duty. You take the freeway/expressway south until you come to a huge rotary... then you get off and get on that highway. I don't remember the middle lane being a passing lane like that, however. (Then again, I might have been asleep, or cleaning my M16, or something.)
We have three-lane roads here in Oregon, but the middle lane is either one direction only, or used as the so-called "scramble lane" for left turns.
A multibillion-dollar fusion reactor. Something that cost the infidels a lot of money, and is a fine example of their arrogance... After all, how many Islamic nations are participating?
Since Germany probably is footing the bill for a large fraction of the reactor and since there are probably going to be lots of Germans working at the facility, I don't see what there is to "take over".
It was a joke. Sheesh. Besides, we were talking about *real* beer-drinking hard-working Germans, not the German government and their patsies.
Your ideas about European politics seem to be based on Hogan's Heroes. Wake up. It's the 21st century: the French and the Germans are getting along just fine.
Obviously, European humor hasn't improved at all. We Americans make jokes about France and Germany all the time, despite the fact that yes, they are getting along just fine.
Examples:
Q: Why are the streets of Paris lined with trees? A: So the Germans can march in the shade.
Q: How many frenchmen does it take to defend France against German invaders? A: We don't know. It's never been tried.
Despite the fact that these jokes exist, believe it or not, we Americans are well aware of the German-French friendship that exists.
Its runs under the same budget as the BigDig and is a simple project to widen Route 3, a 15-20 mile 4 lane (2 each direction) to 5 lanes (3 each direction).
3 lanes one way + 3 lanes the other way = 5 lanes?
Interesting math you have in Massachussetts. Perhaps that's why the Big Dig ran over budget.
Your Route 3 will end up the same way. "We budgeted for five lanes, but there's really six! The cost of that sixth lane was huge!"
On a side note... I spent a lot of time in Boston when I was in the military... I love visiting there. Last time I was there the Big Dig was not completed. I'd like to get back and see it, and show my wife around town, and maybe catch a Red Sox game.
I thought about doing that. How many more classes, in your situation, are needed to get the minor or second major? I've taken a few other geo classes myself. The only thing holding me back is that I can graduate next semester if I just stick with my original plan,
Well, I'm on the 5 year plan (with about 2.5 years left) myself, and I am changing schools next fall. (to the University of Oregon)... I think for the minor it's 25-30 credits, about 15-20 upper division. I have the lower division stuff done (Geology 201, 202, 203).
and I'm getting married in October so don't want to be studying during the honeymoon. Decisions, decisions.
Congratulations. I got married last August, it's great!
You and I are almost in the exact same boat here.
Oh, one other question: my major is CS; do there seem to be lots of spots for CS guys in the geology world? I'd imagine there's plenty of simulation/modelling/imaging work to do, but I don't know for sure. What're your thoughts?
My major is also CS... with the recent story about there being 250,000 less jobs in programming/software engineering over the next 12 years, the double-major is looking more attractive.
My CS teachers at the CC where I started said to take Geology as a major and minor in CS... but I always wanted to major in CS since high school. There is also an accelerated MSCS degree at the UofO.
I really want to do something where I can be lazy, like be a unix sysadmin somewhere... but there is something attractive about manipulating GIS data, doing simulations of various things geological, and things like that. The UofO apparently has some research that involves CS majors working with Geology majors.
According to the Geology profs, geologists with CS background are highly desirable.
[Side note to the moderator(s) who moderated the parent post ontopic... almost all posts 4 levels deep reflect the natural flow of conversation, and are, as such, ON TOPIC. Concentrating your mod points on top-level offtopic posts would be more efficient and less of an assault on intellectual discussion.]
Although intraplate quakes are much more powerful (and much rarer) than your typical subduction quakes. They tend to originate much deeper and pack a tremendous amount of power.
True. But the key is rarity. Statistically, in the middle of the Canadian Shield, the reactor isn't going to get beaten up by a bunch of quakes.
Also, the volcanic activity factor weighs in... lahars or pyroclastic flows could trash the reactor very quickly. I hope they consider that when building the site if it goes to Japan.
(And a side note to the person who asked me if I was aware that fusion power is safe: Yes, I do. But I don't want my share of billions of tax dollars going to a project that might get leveled because they didn't consult a geologist before choosing the site.)
Sorry, I took a Natural Disasters class last semester and it was awesome. You can get back to your topic now.
I've had a lot of classes in Geology and Environmental Science. (Going to take a minor or second major in Geology, haven't decided which.), I find myself thinking about the geologic situation every time I read a story like this.
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Why would you have to search everyone for bombs and weapons? What are they going to do? Shoot the passengers? Blow up the train? These are no more threats than they are on a TGV, or ICE. All one does it kill a couple hundred passengers at most, and destroy a piece of track (if at all).
It is impossible for any maglev to take off into the air, and fly into an important building. The Maglev also does not carry extreme amounts of flammable liquids, so it is not a bomb in itself.
No, it is enough to them that they crash the train. If you look at recent history, you'll find many examples of where the terrorists simply killed a couple hundred people by blowing up a plane. (Pan Am #103, for example.)
Also, there is simply the matter of symbolism and accomplishment. Do you think that the 9/11 hijackers chose to strike the WTC because it had a lot of people to kill? Probably not, or they would have waited a few hours later to strike, when people had settled into their jobs. It was the fact that they were the tallest buildings in the U.S., a symbol of accomplishment, money, and status. If they wanted to deal a hard blow, they would have gone for the U.S. Capitol building at a time when the full Congress was in session.
I hypothesize that they (terrorists) would either (1) go after any example of accomplishment, technology, money, and status, and a high-speed maglev train line would be a good target, or (2) simply just kill a few hundred people here or there.
A maglev train would allow them to do both.
How can you say this: The deal was: the rich countries will trade manufactured and agricultural goods with the poor countries, and the poor countries will enforce the patents and copyrights of the rich countries.
Then this: The proclaimed trade benefits for the poor countries never happened
Followed by this: but the enforcement of patents, trademarks, and copyrights has been enforced (the US threatens to cease trade and cancel IMF and WorldBank funds when the poor get angry)
If there were trade no benefits to poor countries in the arrangement, then the U.S. would hold no sway when it threatens to cease trade. If there is benefits, then the arrangement is working.
Which is it?
I'd bet China, India, and Korea would be willing say they've benefited.
This is why Africa can't manufacture AIDS treatments even though they cost less than 35 cents to manufacture each daily dose.
Sure they are that cheap, when it wasn't your country and your companies that paid for all the reasearch and development costs. Sweet deal for you, not so good for all the scientists, managers, marketers, FDA lobbyists, and investors back in the U.S.
Besides, that money would be better spent on AIDS prevention and education. Maybe we could finally take care of this problem.
I'd say that the bulk of them cheated when they were supposed to be learning about cliches in their liturature classes.
This is what I get for not hitting "preview" while criticizing another person's use of language: I misspell "literature."
GP: No offense, but I could care less if students cheat.
P: Why would anyone be offended by you caring if students cheat. Unless you meant you don't care, in which case you should have said, "I couldn't care less." (Don't feel bad, it seems about 50% of people get this saying wrong.)
I'd say that the bulk of them cheated when they were supposed to be learning about cliches in their liturature classes.
The study of Mars. Mars == Ares (Mars is the name of the Roman god of war and originally fertility, Ares the equivalent Greek god of war).
/. crowd is way to analytical for some types of humor. Either that, or I'm way too tired to make good jokes right now.
Yes, yes, but it was a joke!
I am much more interested in areology as a study of the areolae around a woman's nipples, than as a study of Mars.
The
The title is "Alternative Areology and Archeology"
Areology?
The study of areolae?
I put this in two weeks ago. Thermaltake Silent Boost For under $30 (including shipping) it cools an Athlon XP at about 21 decibals. Very nice. Not 100% silent, but very very quiet for the price.
I've got one, it works very well in my system, so I'd have to concur.
Did you try to balance the flow? The air mass going in has to equal the air mass going out, so if you are trying to push more air in then you take out some of your fans are not being used efficiently.
As an accomplished system builder, I will have to both agree and disagree with this statement.
While the airflow should be reasonably balanced (to keep from underutilizing the fans), you should have slightly more CFM from fans blowing in than you have from fans blowing out, and intake fans should be filtered when no cosmetic problems will arise.
If you follow this, you will find that (1) dust never gets sucked in around your CD-ROM (or floppy if you have one) drives and other spots around the case and (2) very little dust will collect inside the computer - it will collect on the filters instead.
A local place sells snap-on filters that are very easy to install and use.
Unfortunately, the system I am building that is in-progress won't accomodate one, and I'm looking for an alternate way to place the filter material.
Just light a cigarette, and follow where the smoke goes to figure out where the leak is.
Then, patch it with chewing gum, and have a beer (or shot of vodka) to celebrate the success.
They do allow cigarettes, gum, and alcohol on the ISS, don't they? Of course! All of the movie space stations do!
After serving your country you can get about $8k a year
More if you join the Army and take the Army College Fund. I get about $10K a year between the G.I. Bill and the Army College Fund. It doesn't cover everything, but between that, my election to a paid student government position, a (very) part-time job on campus, some grants, and about $800 in loans a term, I do fine.
If I had to do it all over again, I'd do the same way. Not only can I afford school, but I learned enough about organization, order, and personal discipline that I am a 3.9 GPA college student, where I was a 2.2 GPA high-school student.
Of course, being over the halfway mark on my education, the outsourcing of jobs to India has me thinking about a different major...
you'll also start with a higher rank then if you just enlisted
You start out with a rank you won't ever attain if you "just enlisted"... you will be an officer.
and if you're tech inclined you'd most likely not see the front lines as your skills would make you more valuable elsewhere.
If you believe that, you're a fool. There are lots of room for tech jobs up at the front line, near the front line, and in our own set of high-value targets. There is no such thing as "most likely."
I was someone "tech inclined" in the Army, and yes, it got me put with counterfire radar instead of with an infantry unit (I was a 13F - Field Artillery Fire Support A.K.A. Forward Observer)... but the TOC I worked in also had M.I., communications, and lots of other high-value targets. We were right on top of the list of things an enemy would be looking for should we have been deployed. (Thankfully, we just did humanitarian stuff while I was in.)
People at the front lines are using high-tech equipment that needs to be serviced, and if you are "tech inclined" you just might be the guy who has to jump into a foxhole at the front lines and fix it.
DO NOT JOIN THE MILITARY THINKING YOU WILL NOT SEE COMBAT. You are doing a disservice to yourself, your fellow soldiers, and your country.
That is all.
I would like to see how much time one spends every months getting Linux to function.
About one hour every couple of months.
The last thing I did to this machine was install the latest nVidia drivers (which work fine for me, don't know what other people complaining about).
It went like this: switch to vt 1, go to runlevel 3, log in as root, then "nvidia-installer --update", answer a couple questions, and let it go.
After it finished downloading and installing, I went back to runlevel 5 and logged back in.
Every now and then I install security updates on this box, and the server box. Time spent is usually less than 30 minutes.
My server has been running for 67 days now, and I've only done a few minor things, like install the latest patches to pdnsd, sshd upgrades, and such. That took 10 minutes each for download, configure, make, and install.
You forget that there are two American continents and Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Belize are all in North America right along with the US. :)
The US really does co-opt the name "America" though. I usually see it more in foreign countries than in the US itself. They always refer to us as "Americans" living in "America."
We were calling ourselves Americans before most of those countries were little more than colonies of other countries, and few people in those places were looking for a national identity.
Americans identified themselves as such almost from the very begginning of the first British colonials arriving on the shores of the new world.
There was no co-opting to be done. We've been Americans for much longer than the United States has existed.
Did you happen to get your name on the microchip on stardust as well?
I have mine there. I remember adding myself to the "me too" list (several family members worked at JPL, I was a member of the Planetary Society, etc).
Interesting enough, my wife's name (her married name) is there as well, right along with mine, though when Stardust went up, we didn't know each other.
Was it Chance or was it Fate?
How they got access to the C code for the comparisons if the ROM is closed source? It's there for download, only a click away of the firmware page!
RTFA, and follow the F links. They aren't comparing C code to C code. They downloaded the firmware update from KiSS (which is binary), and compared it to the MPlayer binary using the "strings" program. It's all posted right there on MPlayer's home page.
KiSS offers some GPL source code, but only for busybox and uClibc, I believe.
Mplayer are famous for two main reasons: first, for programming a killer app for linux, and second, for their constant insults to others developers...
I'm sure they'd insult you, too, after reading your ignorant post.
I still have a large collection of MODs etc. from my BBS days.
They sound really good mixed at 48KHz.
Thank God Zmodem came along...
With something like openfirmware, apparently you have to have a ROM big enough to contain valid code that can run on both IA-32 and IA-64 and PPC, etc., or you end up with things like PC-only and Mac-only cards...
Nope, plug-in drivers on Open Firmware compatible cards are written in FCODE, which is a Forth bytecode language.
Completely machine independent.
The article says that Open Firmware was considered, but they didn't want to drop ACPI.
Frankly, Open Firmware has a lot of features you are just never going to see on home machines/cheap server boxes as long as Intel and MS are in charge. I'd rather have OF on my server boxes, hence why I chose a Sun machine.
Grow a dangerous desease and see how it affects people... Oops, seems like its spreading everywhere... "my bad"
At first glance, I thought your post was going to read:
1. Grow a dangerous disease and see how it affects people...
2. ???
3. PROFIT!
When I was a kid, we used to spend two weeks a year on Cape Cod. The main highway that ran out onto the cape (I don't remember the route number) was three lanes wide--one lane in each direction, and a center passing lane for whoever the hell was brave enough to use it. MA is a strange place, indeed. :)
I've been on that highway... it's been a while. I was down there on Army funeral duty. You take the freeway/expressway south until you come to a huge rotary... then you get off and get on that highway. I don't remember the middle lane being a passing lane like that, however. (Then again, I might have been asleep, or cleaning my M16, or something.)
We have three-lane roads here in Oregon, but the middle lane is either one direction only, or used as the so-called "scramble lane" for left turns.
What's there to guard?
A multibillion-dollar fusion reactor. Something that cost the infidels a lot of money, and is a fine example of their arrogance... After all, how many Islamic nations are participating?
Since Germany probably is footing the bill for a large fraction of the reactor and since there are probably going to be lots of Germans working at the facility, I don't see what there is to "take over".
It was a joke. Sheesh. Besides, we were talking about *real* beer-drinking hard-working Germans, not the German government and their patsies.
Your ideas about European politics seem to be based on Hogan's Heroes. Wake up. It's the 21st century: the French and the Germans are getting along just fine.
Obviously, European humor hasn't improved at all. We Americans make jokes about France and Germany all the time, despite the fact that yes, they are getting along just fine.
Examples:
Q: Why are the streets of Paris lined with trees? A: So the Germans can march in the shade.
Q: How many frenchmen does it take to defend France against German invaders? A: We don't know. It's never been tried.
Despite the fact that these jokes exist, believe it or not, we Americans are well aware of the German-French friendship that exists.
Its runs under the same budget as the BigDig and is a simple project to widen Route 3, a 15-20 mile 4 lane (2 each direction) to 5 lanes (3 each direction).
3 lanes one way + 3 lanes the other way = 5 lanes?
Interesting math you have in Massachussetts. Perhaps that's why the Big Dig ran over budget.
Your Route 3 will end up the same way. "We budgeted for five lanes, but there's really six! The cost of that sixth lane was huge!"
On a side note... I spent a lot of time in Boston when I was in the military... I love visiting there. Last time I was there the Big Dig was not completed. I'd like to get back and see it, and show my wife around town, and maybe catch a Red Sox game.
legally-married-lesbians who-are-also-legally-topless
You know, that's gotta be my favorite feature of Canada.
Of course, my wife would disagree!
I thought about doing that. How many more classes, in your situation, are needed to get the minor or second major? I've taken a few other geo classes myself. The only thing holding me back is that I can graduate next semester if I just stick with my original plan,
Well, I'm on the 5 year plan (with about 2.5 years left) myself, and I am changing schools next fall. (to the University of Oregon)... I think for the minor it's 25-30 credits, about 15-20 upper division. I have the lower division stuff done (Geology 201, 202, 203).
and I'm getting married in October so don't want to be studying during the honeymoon. Decisions, decisions.
Congratulations. I got married last August, it's great!
You and I are almost in the exact same boat here.
Oh, one other question: my major is CS; do there seem to be lots of spots for CS guys in the geology world? I'd imagine there's plenty of simulation/modelling/imaging work to do, but I don't know for sure. What're your thoughts?
My major is also CS... with the recent story about there being 250,000 less jobs in programming/software engineering over the next 12 years, the double-major is looking more attractive.
My CS teachers at the CC where I started said to take Geology as a major and minor in CS... but I always wanted to major in CS since high school. There is also an accelerated MSCS degree at the UofO.
I really want to do something where I can be lazy, like be a unix sysadmin somewhere... but there is something attractive about manipulating GIS data, doing simulations of various things geological, and things like that. The UofO apparently has some research that involves CS majors working with Geology majors.
According to the Geology profs, geologists with CS background are highly desirable.
[Side note to the moderator(s) who moderated the parent post ontopic... almost all posts 4 levels deep reflect the natural flow of conversation, and are, as such, ON TOPIC. Concentrating your mod points on top-level offtopic posts would be more efficient and less of an assault on intellectual discussion.]
Although intraplate quakes are much more powerful (and much rarer) than your typical subduction quakes. They tend to originate much deeper and pack a tremendous amount of power.
True. But the key is rarity. Statistically, in the middle of the Canadian Shield, the reactor isn't going to get beaten up by a bunch of quakes.
Also, the volcanic activity factor weighs in... lahars or pyroclastic flows could trash the reactor very quickly. I hope they consider that when building the site if it goes to Japan.
(And a side note to the person who asked me if I was aware that fusion power is safe: Yes, I do. But I don't want my share of billions of tax dollars going to a project that might get leveled because they didn't consult a geologist before choosing the site.)
Sorry, I took a Natural Disasters class last semester and it was awesome. You can get back to your topic now.
I've had a lot of classes in Geology and Environmental Science. (Going to take a minor or second major in Geology, haven't decided which.), I find myself thinking about the geologic situation every time I read a story like this.