Plus, even in the explanation page, it seems that the becquerel is usually expressed with per-volume or per-weight measure.
For radiation release events like this, it's simply the overall amount released for the whole event. You don't need per volume or weight.
The per volume amount will eventually depend on how much the contamination gets diluted, but that's location dependent and probably unknown right now.
It sounds to me someone used this unit with the express intent of making it sound big and scary, and that's disingenuous even if accurate.
More likely, they used it because it's a standard SI unit, unlike the curie. Using curies would be more like quoting distances in furlongs because you think that meters sound "too scary" due to the bigger numbers.
How much exactly is 1 beq, in terms of health effects? This is where "complicated biological models" are a lot more useful.
Only if you have a proposed exposure mode, which in this case is all future speculation, and which will inevitably be based on politics as much as on science. The raw number of decays, OTOH, is a relatively precise quantity.
Using terms that the layman can hardly spell, let alone understand, isn't helping to raise awareness. Kinda the opposite.
Actually, the Becquerel is probably the easiest measure of radiation to understand: It's simply one decay per second.
No arbitrary scale factors based on grams of some rare element that most people have never even seen, and no complicated biological models. Just decays per second.
I usually keep a task manager and/or CPU chart running at all times on any OS.
There are other things going on in every OS besides just the application you are running.
Indeed, there are usually dozens of tasks. But at any given time, most all of them are *sleeping*. Even when corporate bloatware virus scanning daemons are active, they're mostly I/O bound.
I don't remember ever seeing all 4 cores on my development workstation actually pegged simultaneously. Of course, I don't do things like transcode videos all day, but neither do most people.
Ironically, all this computing horsepower allowed them to insert enough layers of bloated software protocols to hobble the floppy I/O throughput to only 10% of what the drive was actually capable of. I had to pay good money for a 3rd party ROM module that cut through all that crap to deliver a massive speedup.
Snooping is not so much the issue; rather it's the fact you need a $500 piece of paper to display the equivalent of a lit up QR code.
And in turn, a QR code needs a multi-megapixel camera to achieve what usually could have been accomplished by tapping five characters into a URL shortening service.
Cause even though there might have been Hollywood movies and demos like diamond touch no one actually did it in a production device before Apple.
So what? Putting an something into commercial production is not a prerequisite for obtaining a patent, nor is it necessary for demonstrating prior art.
So let's say you want to jump off the ride when you're near the top. Go ahead, no problem! After all, the next cycle would bring you back down to the ground anyway. It's all the same.
How do they plan on keeping the air or water cool? Sounds like a net energy loss.
You know what? You're right!
Heads are going to roll at this university when the funding providers find out that not one of the so-called "academics" in this department had even thought of that problem. It's sad that it took a sharp-eyed AC to point out that all their efforts have been for naught.
I'm not sure anyone can be productive using vi . . .
Maybe not with old-school vi, but an experienced coder can be highly productive with vim (especially the GUI version).
It's like a fine chef's knife: A skilled chef can quickly prepare almost any kind of ingredient with it in countless ways.
An IDE is more like a food processor: Anybody can crank out a narrow range of operations on suitable ingredients fairly quickly, but at the cost of less flexibility and a bunch of cleanup work.
Yes, totally less relevant. Apart from large businesses, medium sized businesses, small businesses, government and home users, absolutely nobody needs to develop software for Windows.
I'm not so sure about that. Most of the newer applications that I use at work seem to be web based these days.
In the old days, these would have been implemented as a bunch of mostly mediocre Win32 applications. Now, they run in a browser on any OS.
For example, AT&T, imposes a $325 'activation fee' for each wiretap and $10 a day to maintain it.
These are only promotional introductory rates, good for the first 24 months. After that, the charges revert to "standard" rates, the details of which are not available anywhere.
Even the NSA has not been able to find any information on what they will have pay at the end of the promotional period.
All this and now they want to put an always (or nearly) on mic and camera in my home?
Not to worry. The NSA puts careful safeguards on the data: For all persons known to be US citizens, a software filter converts their in-home images into stick figures before saving.
Which of the two widely used metric standards do you want?;-)
If you're from one of the countries that uses the km/L measure (Netherlands, Denmark, Japan, Korea, etc.), then this Volkswagen prototype gets about 110 km/L.
If you're from one of the countries that uses the L/100km measure (Germany, Italy, Australia, etc.), then this prototype uses about 0.90 L/100km.
I think these ought to be further simplified:
The first case is 110/mm^2.
The second is.009 mm^2.
I guess that the second version makes more sense: It would the cross section of the strand of gasoline the car would use if the fuel were stretched into a filament as long as the whole trip.
Of course the Heritage Foundation would try to backpedal now on the fact that they thought of this idea since their Republican backers have become ever more reactionary with each passing year. That doesn't change the fact that they originated the core concept of Obamacare, whether they want to admit it now or not.
Nowadays, they simply don't think there's any problem to address. They're fine with a policy letting people in this country go bankrupt then die every day of treatable diseases.
If you ask them about it, they'll say absurd things like making it impossible to sue doctors would save so much money that even the lowliest Wal Mart associate could pay for leukemia treatments out of pocket. But it's probably just an inside joke. They don't actually give a shit about what happens to those people.
At any rate, the Democrats were stupid enough to play Charlie Brown to the Republicans' Lucy. Each time the Democrats added more Republican ideas to the bill, the Republicans would yank the football away again. That way they can claim that they had "no input" to the law, while trying to keep a straight face.
This idea was conceived by the Heritage Foundation, well before Romneycare.
I agree that it's messed up. That's solely because of the Republican ideas included in the law. Unfortunately, those ideas had to be included to appease Democrats from more conservative districts.
Yes, that's why it originated from that well-known Republican state, Massachusetts.
No, it originated with the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.
An individual mandate to purchase insurance is indeed just about the only possible way to try to awkwardly cram "free marketness" onto health insurance.
Completely false. Obamacare was passed with Dems having a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate and having control of the House. If they wanted single-payer, they would have made single-payer. They wanted Obamacare instead, as a hand-out to their friends in the health care industry.
You're mistakenly conflating Democrats with Liberals. There are many Democrats in tossup districts, who probably figured it would be better to fix healthcare with Republican ideas, so as to fend off challenges by Republican rivals. What Democrats probably didn't count on was that the Republican base is so incredibly ignorant, that they could be trivially reprogrammed to think what were once their own party's market-driven, individual-responsibility policies are now radical socialist handouts to slackers.
The whole reason AMD exists, is because there are no protections on x86.
No, the reason AMD exists (aside from their cool 70s-era bitslice ALU chips that allowed you to roll your own CPU) is because ~30 years ago it entered a licensing deal with Intel to second-source the 8086 so that IBM would agree to use it in the PC. They didn't want to risk using a single-sourced chip for their new system.
So no, nobody stops anybody from making an x86/amd64 chip. (SSE is a different thing.)
I'm sure any modern version of those CPUs are patented out the wazoo, including much of the x64 instruction set itself. Intel and AMD have had patent cross-licensing agreements in place for decades; that's why Intel gets to use x64 without restriction. Other parties would have to pay.
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Plus, even in the explanation page, it seems that the becquerel is usually expressed with per-volume or per-weight measure.
For radiation release events like this, it's simply the overall amount released for the whole event. You don't need per volume or weight.
The per volume amount will eventually depend on how much the contamination gets diluted, but that's location dependent and probably unknown right now.
It sounds to me someone used this unit with the express intent of making it sound big and scary, and that's disingenuous even if accurate.
More likely, they used it because it's a standard SI unit, unlike the curie. Using curies would be more like quoting distances in furlongs because you think that meters sound "too scary" due to the bigger numbers.
How much exactly is 1 beq, in terms of health effects? This is where "complicated biological models" are a lot more useful.
Only if you have a proposed exposure mode, which in this case is all future speculation, and which will inevitably be based on politics as much as on science. The raw number of decays, OTOH, is a relatively precise quantity.
Welcome to the real world.
Using terms that the layman can hardly spell, let alone understand, isn't helping to raise awareness. Kinda the opposite.
Actually, the Becquerel is probably the easiest measure of radiation to understand: It's simply one decay per second.
No arbitrary scale factors based on grams of some rare element that most people have never even seen, and no complicated biological models. Just decays per second.
Ever open Task Manager (in windows)?
I usually keep a task manager and/or CPU chart running at all times on any OS.
There are other things going on in every OS besides just the application you are running.
Indeed, there are usually dozens of tasks. But at any given time, most all of them are *sleeping*. Even when corporate bloatware virus scanning daemons are active, they're mostly I/O bound.
I don't remember ever seeing all 4 cores on my development workstation actually pegged simultaneously. Of course, I don't do things like transcode videos all day, but neither do most people.
Ironically, all this computing horsepower allowed them to insert enough layers of bloated software protocols to hobble the floppy I/O throughput to only 10% of what the drive was actually capable of. I had to pay good money for a 3rd party ROM module that cut through all that crap to deliver a massive speedup.
It was a classic case of wasteful overdesign.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but back here in reality, a VGA (about 0.3 MPx) is quite adequate to resolve QR codes of reasonable size.
These days, VGA resolution camera is even harder to find than a mulit-megapixel camera.
But at any rate, you missed my point completely.
Snooping is not so much the issue; rather it's the fact you need a $500 piece of paper to display the equivalent of a lit up QR code.
And in turn, a QR code needs a multi-megapixel camera to achieve what usually could have been accomplished by tapping five characters into a URL shortening service.
Cause even though there might have been Hollywood movies and demos like diamond touch no one actually did it in a production device before Apple.
So what? Putting an something into commercial production is not a prerequisite for obtaining a patent, nor is it necessary for demonstrating prior art.
It's almost like this shit is cyclic.
That's right, it's just like a Ferris wheel.
So let's say you want to jump off the ride when you're near the top. Go ahead, no problem! After all, the next cycle would bring you back down to the ground anyway. It's all the same.
That might be plausible, if the Wii U really is as big of a flop as some reports indicate.
Since Atari's New Mexico landfill no longer accepts electronic waste, scuttling at sea may be the next best option.
I hadn't seen that ad, either.
I just checked in on YouTube, and it looks like the OP's assessment is 100% correct.
Cringe worthy.
For the benefit those of us who think that quoting power figures in units of A*Wh/B is just as stupid as using US customary units:
2.6TWh/year = 297 MW
How do they plan on keeping the air or water cool? Sounds like a net energy loss.
You know what? You're right!
Heads are going to roll at this university when the funding providers find out that not one of the so-called "academics" in this department had even thought of that problem. It's sad that it took a sharp-eyed AC to point out that all their efforts have been for naught.
I'm not sure anyone can be productive using vi . . .
Maybe not with old-school vi, but an experienced coder can be highly productive with vim (especially the GUI version).
It's like a fine chef's knife: A skilled chef can quickly prepare almost any kind of ingredient with it in countless ways.
An IDE is more like a food processor: Anybody can crank out a narrow range of operations on suitable ingredients fairly quickly, but at the cost of less flexibility and a bunch of cleanup work.
Yes, totally less relevant. Apart from large businesses, medium sized businesses, small businesses, government and home users, absolutely nobody needs to develop software for Windows.
I'm not so sure about that. Most of the newer applications that I use at work seem to be web based these days.
In the old days, these would have been implemented as a bunch of mostly mediocre Win32 applications. Now, they run in a browser on any OS.
There are increasingly more people who aren't replacing their PCs with another PC when they die, but rather with a tablet.
When that time comes, I'm thinking more along the lines of replacing all my gear with a granite marker, or maybe a small urn.
For example, AT&T, imposes a $325 'activation fee' for each wiretap and $10 a day to maintain it.
These are only promotional introductory rates, good for the first 24 months. After that, the charges revert to "standard" rates, the details of which are not available anywhere.
Even the NSA has not been able to find any information on what they will have pay at the end of the promotional period.
All this and now they want to put an always (or nearly) on mic and camera in my home?
Not to worry. The NSA puts careful safeguards on the data: For all persons known to be US citizens, a software filter converts their in-home images into stick figures before saving.
Which of the two widely used metric standards do you want? ;-)
If you're from one of the countries that uses the km/L measure (Netherlands, Denmark, Japan, Korea, etc.), then this Volkswagen prototype gets about 110 km/L.
If you're from one of the countries that uses the L/100km measure (Germany, Italy, Australia, etc.), then this prototype uses about 0.90 L/100km.
I think these ought to be further simplified:
The first case is 110/mm^2.
The second is .009 mm^2.
I guess that the second version makes more sense: It would the cross section of the strand of gasoline the car would use if the fuel were stretched into a filament as long as the whole trip.
Of course the Heritage Foundation would try to backpedal now on the fact that they thought of this idea since their Republican backers have become ever more reactionary with each passing year. That doesn't change the fact that they originated the core concept of Obamacare, whether they want to admit it now or not.
Nowadays, they simply don't think there's any problem to address. They're fine with a policy letting people in this country go bankrupt then die every day of treatable diseases.
If you ask them about it, they'll say absurd things like making it impossible to sue doctors would save so much money that even the lowliest Wal Mart associate could pay for leukemia treatments out of pocket. But it's probably just an inside joke. They don't actually give a shit about what happens to those people.
At any rate, the Democrats were stupid enough to play Charlie Brown to the Republicans' Lucy. Each time the Democrats added more Republican ideas to the bill, the Republicans would yank the football away again. That way they can claim that they had "no input" to the law, while trying to keep a straight face.
This idea was conceived by the Heritage Foundation, well before Romneycare.
I agree that it's messed up. That's solely because of the Republican ideas included in the law. Unfortunately, those ideas had to be included to appease Democrats from more conservative districts.
Yes, that's why it originated from that well-known Republican state, Massachusetts.
No, it originated with the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.
An individual mandate to purchase insurance is indeed just about the only possible way to try to awkwardly cram "free marketness" onto health insurance.
Completely false. Obamacare was passed with Dems having a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate and having control of the House. If they wanted single-payer, they would have made single-payer. They wanted Obamacare instead, as a hand-out to their friends in the health care industry.
You're mistakenly conflating Democrats with Liberals. There are many Democrats in tossup districts, who probably figured it would be better to fix healthcare with Republican ideas, so as to fend off challenges by Republican rivals. What Democrats probably didn't count on was that the Republican base is so incredibly ignorant, that they could be trivially reprogrammed to think what were once their own party's market-driven, individual-responsibility policies are now radical socialist handouts to slackers.
Obamacare is a Republican idea. That's the reason that it's a byzantine maze of profiteering middlemen: Republicans love their corporate welfare.
Liberals originally wanted single-payer system like that found in most civilized countries.
The whole reason AMD exists, is because there are no protections on x86.
No, the reason AMD exists (aside from their cool 70s-era bitslice ALU chips that allowed you to roll your own CPU) is because ~30 years ago it entered a licensing deal with Intel to second-source the 8086 so that IBM would agree to use it in the PC. They didn't want to risk using a single-sourced chip for their new system.
So no, nobody stops anybody from making an x86/amd64 chip. (SSE is a different thing.)
I'm sure any modern version of those CPUs are patented out the wazoo, including much of the x64 instruction set itself. Intel and AMD have had patent cross-licensing agreements in place for decades; that's why Intel gets to use x64 without restriction. Other parties would have to pay.