Because unlike platics, "recycled nuclear waste" = "weapons grade material" and the US (during the Carter administration, I think) made an explicit decision to discourage all countries from building reactors that could produce weapons grade material.
In his flatlander books, Niven suggests that humanity began shooting nuclear waste at the moon to get rid of it - only to start mining the waste 100 years later to get all those incredibly valuable transuranic elements.
In any case the idea that someone will trip into this site in 5000 years is kind of lame - IIRC, Yucca is a salt mine, salt is soft and mallable and the tunnels slowly collapse over even a single human lifetime. Thus, one of the advantages of YM is that any intrepid idiots would have to do a lot more work than picking a lock to get at the waste.
True, but it's a great way to decide if you want to buy the series. I just put in an order on half.com for outlaw star (for my son) based on our renting the first DVD from netflix. Got hooked on NGE and TriGun the same way.
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I think there seem to be fewer patterns in Lisp, because Lisp needs them less.
I'm sorry, but I have to reply - a lot of people are making statements like this and it only shows that they misunderstand what a design pattern is.
A proper design pattern applies to all languages equally - because it's about design not about coding.
Saying that Lisp doesn't need design patterns is like saying BMWs don't need drivers.
A design pattern is something like "isolate all the hardware dependent stuff in one portion of the application" or "use a special class as a filter for translating object oriented data into SQL statements". Your examples are anything but "design patterns".
Yeah, Sci Am has slowly turned into Omni magazine. In college, I would read it knowing full well I'd only understand one article in 5 and hoping that the other 4 would rub off.
I've either become a lot smarter, or Sci Am has gotten a lot dumber. I'm assuming the latter.
Having built my own 8" dob, I saved maybe 50 bucks over buying an Orion 8" if you discount the cost of my (and my father's) labor.
I did hit the target I was aiming for (a basic, usable scope) but it was also plagued with problems caused by my own inexperience.
If I already had a full wood working shop, and had the skills to use it, I suppose I could build something to compete with the Obsessions and Star Splitters and save several hundred off a two thousand dollar scope. But I don't, and the cost of the tools and skills would more than offset any savings.
If you need to copy all your data every 5 years, it defeats the purpose
Seems to work well enough for DNA transcription. Of course the actual copy rate varies depending on the species, and there's variation amoung the copies (i.e., the members of the species)....
Years ago I was working on an SMTP e-mail routing/forwarding system (don't ask) and tested it by sending lots of mail from my home account to my work e-mail address
I was trying to score an old-gen iBook for a boy from a low-income family. I could have sucked it up and bought a new one for $1100, or an old one for... $1100. WTF is up with that?
My main problem was: $1100 computer + 5 exuberant young boys (the boy + all his brothers) + 24 hours = $1100 piece of broken equipment.
I ended up assembling a PC out of scrap parts just because everyone seems to have pieces of old PCs that they'd love to dump on anyone who will haul them away.
LOL Guess that shows the difference in how people feel about their Macs vs. how people feel about PCs.
If you enjoy building your own machines, that's great - I have enjoyed it, too. But just because you do doesn't mean everyone should. If my sister tried to build her own machine, it would be $900 straight down the toilet.
Just because the concept is simple doesn't mean the implementation is easy. The concept of human powered flight is simple enough - but go and try it sometime. Tell us how you do.
I have to agree - while I appreciate the handholding that Mandrake provides (I'm past the age of dorking with the kernel for the fun of it), the amount of diskspace it sucks up is frightening.
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Ah...... Heretic. You know, there's still nothing more satisfying than turning your boss into a chicken and then whacking him with a crossbow.
How about the differential, the limited slip differential, and about a hundred different kinds of gears - which are all variations on the concept of the wheel.
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IIRC, the trailing ",1" means "and run the software".
Because unlike platics, "recycled nuclear waste" = "weapons grade material" and the US (during the Carter administration, I think) made an explicit decision to discourage all countries from building reactors that could produce weapons grade material.
Does that include the cost of replacing all the hawks the turbines chop up, or the real estate consumed by the wind farm?
In his flatlander books, Niven suggests that humanity began shooting nuclear waste at the moon to get rid of it - only to start mining the waste 100 years later to get all those incredibly valuable transuranic elements.
In any case the idea that someone will trip into this site in 5000 years is kind of lame - IIRC, Yucca is a salt mine, salt is soft and mallable and the tunnels slowly collapse over even a single human lifetime. Thus, one of the advantages of YM is that any intrepid idiots would have to do a lot more work than picking a lock to get at the waste.
True, but it's a great way to decide if you want to buy the series. I just put in an order on half.com for outlaw star (for my son) based on our renting the first DVD from netflix. Got hooked on NGE and TriGun the same way.
I think there seem to be fewer patterns in Lisp, because Lisp needs them less.
I'm sorry, but I have to reply - a lot of people are making statements like this and it only shows that they misunderstand what a design pattern is.
A proper design pattern applies to all languages equally - because it's about design not about coding.
Saying that Lisp doesn't need design patterns is like saying BMWs don't need drivers.
A design pattern is something like "isolate all the hardware dependent stuff in one portion of the application" or "use a special class as a filter for translating object oriented data into SQL statements". Your examples are anything but "design patterns".
Moving them isn't the problem. Stringing wires is.
Actually, dedicated scope builders often do grind their own lenses.
Personally, I don't have the patience.
Yeah, Sci Am has slowly turned into Omni magazine. In college, I would read it knowing full well I'd only understand one article in 5 and hoping that the other 4 would rub off.
I've either become a lot smarter, or Sci Am has gotten a lot dumber. I'm assuming the latter.
Having built my own 8" dob, I saved maybe 50 bucks over buying an Orion 8" if you discount the cost of my (and my father's) labor.
I did hit the target I was aiming for (a basic, usable scope) but it was also plagued with problems caused by my own inexperience.
If I already had a full wood working shop, and had the skills to use it, I suppose I could build something to compete with the Obsessions and Star Splitters and save several hundred off a two thousand dollar scope. But I don't, and the cost of the tools and skills would more than offset any savings.
Might it be because of watching people crap on Motorola for years, because their processors don't run at the same clock speed as Intel chips?
No matter how hard you try, people have the "Megahertz myth" burned into their brains.
Actually, some women might find increased thumb dexterity very attractive....
If you need to copy all your data every 5 years, it defeats the purpose
Seems to work well enough for DNA transcription. Of course the actual copy rate varies depending on the species, and there's variation amoung the copies (i.e., the members of the species)....
That would've taken a lot longer, though.
Years ago I was working on an SMTP e-mail routing/forwarding system (don't ask) and tested it by sending lots of mail from my home account to my work e-mail address
AT&T got quite snippy with me about it.
I was trying to score an old-gen iBook for a boy from a low-income family. I could have sucked it up and bought a new one for $1100, or an old one for... $1100. WTF is up with that?
My main problem was: $1100 computer + 5 exuberant young boys (the boy + all his brothers) + 24 hours = $1100 piece of broken equipment.
I ended up assembling a PC out of scrap parts just because everyone seems to have pieces of old PCs that they'd love to dump on anyone who will haul them away.
LOL Guess that shows the difference in how people feel about their Macs vs. how people feel about PCs.
If you enjoy building your own machines, that's great - I have enjoyed it, too. But just because you do doesn't mean everyone should. If my sister tried to build her own machine, it would be $900 straight down the toilet.
I realize that probably no one will read this (too old) but I can't let this slide.
OS X configuration files are plain text. They're XML formatted, but you can edit them by hand as easily as any .ini or fstab.
Because the big chains have more leverage if they start complaining to the manufacturer.
No, but they establish the principle that programmers can hide just about anything they damn well want in commercial software.
Just because the concept is simple doesn't mean the implementation is easy. The concept of human powered flight is simple enough - but go and try it sometime. Tell us how you do.
I have to agree - while I appreciate the handholding that Mandrake provides (I'm past the age of dorking with the kernel for the fun of it), the amount of diskspace it sucks up is frightening.
Ah...... Heretic. You know, there's still nothing more satisfying than turning your boss into a chicken and then whacking him with a crossbow.
How about the differential, the limited slip differential, and about a hundred different kinds of gears - which are all variations on the concept of the wheel.
I think you should be smacked upside the head for failing to flame that guy who complained about your spelling.
Hey - Just looked at the web site. Where'd the college of science go? Where did they stuff the comp sci department when it left?
College of Arts & Science? I really hate the idea that Comp Sci majors might now be in the same school as the fashion design majors....