Thanks for the documented answer. Gotta love/. for that!
A few addendums, since a bad idea shouldn't be incompletely explored:
- I'd rather only launch the vessel and its former content, which reduces the mass to only a few tens of tons.
- At 750MW electrical, it was probably about 2.5GW thermal, which is what matters when boiling water. How much power is melted corium?
Yes, it's a stupid summary, probably from someone who doesn't have a clue on what the current buses do. Nobody's saying "Man, I wish my CAN bus had more bandwidth so I could stream!
And really, people, if you're going to change the bus, can't you make the new one based on plastic fiber and cheap LEDs, so that we stop having fried computers every time a cable gets bad?
For $15B cash, you can easily launch all three remaining shuttles with one reactor each. Just add enough boosters to get them off LEO, and you don't even have to care about damaging the heat shield... The museums may complain, but I'm sure quite a few NASA people and subcontractors would be happy to get off unemployment to help.
how do you know I'm not, and why would I need to be? Some people suggested to let it be stomped by Godzilla, I'm pointing out it probably outputs enough energy to blow itself up into space.
We've got 40 years to think outside the box, your turn!
At least I didn't suggest to give the Falklands to China so that it could melt through the ground in the right direction...
No explosives needed. You have a runaway source of energy, just make it boil a whole lot of water, which you already have plenty of. I'll run all the preliminary studies on how much steam pressure is required for a reactor to achieve escape velocity, just send $100M to my Nigerian account.
I disagree, the explosion would be very elegant. How close you want to be to the cloud, and the debris field if you have a release before enough steam is built up, would be a question for the US/Russian/French, who all have ample expertise in uncontained nuclear vents.
Meh, you just need to engineer it so it blows UP. Vertical, one shot, with enough pressure to propel each reactor at escape velocity. I'd do the math for you, it's elegant, but there isn't enough space in this comment.
RoHS effect... When you can't sell something to the US or Europe, you tend to use the same things that you sell to them, because producing two things costs more.
That's not hard to find, it will be in the only bar that can store enough Gin, and won't throw people out when they change every karaoke lyric with "RTFM". The videos should be hilarious, in a cringe-worthy way.
Cars kill hundreds of thousands every year! Ten of thousands in developed countries alone! They injure millions! And they usually don't plummet to the ground in the process... I can easily assess whether I'm at risk of being injured in a car accident, because it involves being on or near a road.
So if your autonomous car isn't, AT THE VERY LEAST, 10x MORE reliable than AIRPLANES (already the safest way to travel horizontally), I don't want my government to allow them.
Did I mention you have to ground the thing automatically is maintenance hasn't been done? I see the junk cars driving around, no thanks!
Water, then gas, then electricity, phone, and now internet backbone are Natural Monopolies. Private companies should not operate in Natural Monopolies because they just add overhead cost as they operate for profit. Obviously, with the American public convinced of the lie that government is just waste, and that private companies magically reduce waste (at the bottom, for sure), we all keep on shelling massive amounts of cash for basic services. Cash that would better be invested in keeping the US moving forward, rather than lining the pockets of terrible profiteers like my 401k...
Try to run this kind of code in your CLI: compile linux -ideal_desktop $my_needs display slashdot_UI -ad_revenue -comment_friendly -no_backlash
What result did you get? You can find pretty high abstractions for very limited subsets (Matlab algorithms, video filter IP in an FPGA), but it's near-impossible to get a generic compiler to guess what you really want if your code is too abstract.
You probably didn't check the hotel prices during the Olympics, even with a security discount...
Law of offer and demand, a bit like gasoline: If you have 200 guys dedicated to the Olympics, does that mean that Fat Kim or M. Omar gets a spying break for two weeks? Of course not! Some happy contractor, undoubtedly not linked to any politician, just got a nice juicy job from the government to provide the extra hands that will accommodate the short-term need for extra manpower...
Yes, the ships are paid for, but they are not really buying goodwill with Russia, and potentially pissing off anyone opposing Putin, so they might be more productive elsewhere.
I'm not objecting to anything. I'm pointing out that my tax dollars are used to support a dictator putting on a big corporate show. Since they are not supposed to be doing this for the glory of Coca-Cola, it must be about the sports. Under that false assumption, I'm sponsoring a big sports event by paying for its security. As a sponsor, I should probably have the right to see a stream of dreadful US-centric self-congratulatory selective coverage riddled with ads... for free.
"FCC should" Considering the inbreeding between the US agencies and the people they regulate, it's just not going to happen. Regardless of which market is being discussed.
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The whole point of it being that it won't be.
Wanna keep on living? That'll be $200k, please!
try typing on your fingers using your thumb... that's gonna make carpal tunnel syndrome look like a day at the beach!
It reminds me of the attempt to replace mice with gestures: cute thirty seconds, painful in under an hour.
Thanks for the documented answer. Gotta love /. for that!
A few addendums, since a bad idea shouldn't be incompletely explored:
- I'd rather only launch the vessel and its former content, which reduces the mass to only a few tens of tons.
- At 750MW electrical, it was probably about 2.5GW thermal, which is what matters when boiling water. How much power is melted corium?
But there will be. Because some marketing genius will convince the higher-ups that it will save $50 per car on the implementation of On-Star.
I am still waiting for the great-On-Star-Hack-megaJam. We should make it easier for someone to shutdown half the US cars in one mouse-click...
Yes, it's a stupid summary, probably from someone who doesn't have a clue on what the current buses do.
Nobody's saying "Man, I wish my CAN bus had more bandwidth so I could stream!
And really, people, if you're going to change the bus, can't you make the new one based on plastic fiber and cheap LEDs, so that we stop having fried computers every time a cable gets bad?
For $15B cash, you can easily launch all three remaining shuttles with one reactor each. Just add enough boosters to get them off LEO, and you don't even have to care about damaging the heat shield...
The museums may complain, but I'm sure quite a few NASA people and subcontractors would be happy to get off unemployment to help.
how do you know I'm not, and why would I need to be?
Some people suggested to let it be stomped by Godzilla, I'm pointing out it probably outputs enough energy to blow itself up into space.
We've got 40 years to think outside the box, your turn!
At least I didn't suggest to give the Falklands to China so that it could melt through the ground in the right direction...
No explosives needed. You have a runaway source of energy, just make it boil a whole lot of water, which you already have plenty of.
I'll run all the preliminary studies on how much steam pressure is required for a reactor to achieve escape velocity, just send $100M to my Nigerian account.
I disagree, the explosion would be very elegant.
How close you want to be to the cloud, and the debris field if you have a release before enough steam is built up, would be a question for the US/Russian/French, who all have ample expertise in uncontained nuclear vents.
Meh, you just need to engineer it so it blows UP.
Vertical, one shot, with enough pressure to propel each reactor at escape velocity.
I'd do the math for you, it's elegant, but there isn't enough space in this comment.
I can't handle a long drive without picking my nose and releasing some endorphins, you insensitive clod!
Letter of the law says that mounting your cellphone, even used as GPS, qouldn't be legal.
people would quickly learn to drive around with a bag of potatoes.
RoHS effect... When you can't sell something to the US or Europe, you tend to use the same things that you sell to them, because producing two things costs more.
That's not hard to find, it will be in the only bar that can store enough Gin, and won't throw people out when they change every karaoke lyric with "RTFM".
The videos should be hilarious, in a cringe-worthy way.
5 years? What is that with the proper judge and skin color: jaywalking, or littering?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Read the book. It's short and totally worth the time.
I'm just glad he didn't misdial my number...
As long as you use tape...
Considering what many women are operating in front of their webcam, that's pretty good software.
Does it tell the brand too?
I'm moving to the outback. Or Antarctica.
Cars kill hundreds of thousands every year! Ten of thousands in developed countries alone! They injure millions!
And they usually don't plummet to the ground in the process...
I can easily assess whether I'm at risk of being injured in a car accident, because it involves being on or near a road.
So if your autonomous car isn't, AT THE VERY LEAST, 10x MORE reliable than AIRPLANES (already the safest way to travel horizontally), I don't want my government to allow them.
Did I mention you have to ground the thing automatically is maintenance hasn't been done? I see the junk cars driving around, no thanks!
Water, then gas, then electricity, phone, and now internet backbone are Natural Monopolies.
Private companies should not operate in Natural Monopolies because they just add overhead cost as they operate for profit.
Obviously, with the American public convinced of the lie that government is just waste, and that private companies magically reduce waste (at the bottom, for sure), we all keep on shelling massive amounts of cash for basic services. Cash that would better be invested in keeping the US moving forward, rather than lining the pockets of terrible profiteers like my 401k...
Try to run this kind of code in your CLI:
compile linux -ideal_desktop $my_needs
display slashdot_UI -ad_revenue -comment_friendly -no_backlash
What result did you get?
You can find pretty high abstractions for very limited subsets (Matlab algorithms, video filter IP in an FPGA), but it's near-impossible to get a generic compiler to guess what you really want if your code is too abstract.
You probably didn't check the hotel prices during the Olympics, even with a security discount...
Law of offer and demand, a bit like gasoline: If you have 200 guys dedicated to the Olympics, does that mean that Fat Kim or M. Omar gets a spying break for two weeks? Of course not! Some happy contractor, undoubtedly not linked to any politician, just got a nice juicy job from the government to provide the extra hands that will accommodate the short-term need for extra manpower...
Yes, the ships are paid for, but they are not really buying goodwill with Russia, and potentially pissing off anyone opposing Putin, so they might be more productive elsewhere.
I'm not objecting to anything. I'm pointing out that my tax dollars are used to support a dictator putting on a big corporate show.
Since they are not supposed to be doing this for the glory of Coca-Cola, it must be about the sports.
Under that false assumption, I'm sponsoring a big sports event by paying for its security. As a sponsor, I should probably have the right to see a stream of dreadful US-centric self-congratulatory selective coverage riddled with ads... for free.
"FCC should"
Considering the inbreeding between the US agencies and the people they regulate, it's just not going to happen.
Regardless of which market is being discussed.