Wrong. Chernobyl exploded because a sudden power spike in the void-coefficient positive RBMK reactor flashed some of the cooling water into steam, blowing the roof off the containment building.
After that, the graphite moderator rods caught fire and burned for a week, releasing massive amounts of radioactive smoke.
Fukushima has long since been shut down. It's still a complex and difficult disaster to manage to be sure, but there doesn't seem to be the kind of blow-the-top-off-and-start-a-fire energy available that Chernobyl had.
Right now it's a question about keeping spent fuel sufficiently cool, not about managing an active reactor.
Indeed! Consumers tend to follow the path of least resistance. IMHO the best way to combat piracy would be to provide superior content for paying customers. A couple of examples come to mind....
- My Futurama DVDs have anti-copy warnings in four different languages that I have to sit through after *each* episode. How is that better than having them sitting around on my hard drive in DivX format without all the superfluous junk? -My MST3K boxsets are region 1 because no European distributer can be bothered with them...which means I have to use region-defeating software when I watch them on my computer.
I sometimes feel like a fool for buying movies and music instead of downloading it...
Actually, the max. frequency that can be sampled is 22kHz, not 22.050kHz - what the Nyquist theorem states is that in order to construct a signal accuately, you need to sample at twice the maximum frequency + a little more, because then you can also deduct the phase of the original signal.
Yes. The one from '95...played from DOS. From God to Cain to Seth.
I'd run through the story lines once in a while, and when I feel like fooling around, I'd try weird combinations with the ccedit util.
I always thought the humvees were cool, but underpowered...so I usually gave them either missiles(from the NOD bike) or laser...oh, and sometimes gave them cloaking ability and made them hideously fast - turning most fights into a rout:-p
Currently about 10% of our energy demands are covered through windmill technology.
Some people believe that that's the maximum economically viable amount because of energy fluctuations and such - and they do have a point; windmills are largely funded by the state, you get a higher price for energy that's produced by windmills and the energy companies have to buy the available windmill energy.
That means the energy companies have to downsize their fossile fuel powerplants (no, we don't have nuclear power in Denmark - political decision) to avoid losing money and that becomes a problem at times when there's no wind.
Luckily Denmark can import electricity from our neighbours - which brings us to what I think is the main reason we're pushing for 50% windmill coverage:
The Kyoto Protocol. (For all the americans: you know, the one you signed but didn't ratify)
The problem is that in the reference year('92 I think) that the different countries are supposed to lower their CO2 emissions relative to we imported quite a bit of power. That means that without massive betting on alternative energy, we have to produce more power than in the reference year from fossile fuel.
I don't really mind all this because I believe we will then be forced to figure out how to store the energy (giant flywheels anyone?) or perhaps make energy-exchange relations with other countries which have a lot of energy from alternative sources.
In Denmark, there's a place called 'Experimentarium' where you can experience physics phenomenae first-hand. One of the regular exhibits is a slinky like the one mentioned in the article (there's a picture here).
Okay, maybe it's only 15 metres long, but OTOH it's been around for several years, so there.:)=
Up untill now I've been telling windows users that their machine can't be remote-controlled unless there's some sort of trojan involved. Apparently that trojan is called Windows XP now.
...and as for the executable-attached-to-an-e-mail-is-an-internet-wo rm thing (I got 8 e-mails yesterday from the same person with "Hi! how are you..." in the body and an executable attached) - why the ##"" HELL doesn't MS Outlook notify the users that they're receiving an executable???
IMAO it's only a question of a pop-up or assigning a colorcode to attachments...or making the users read a short note on e-mail security.
I built a temperature monitoring circuit using a kit from my local electronics pusher - it adjusts the voltage to the fan in the PSU so the temperature is kept down. Usually hardly any cooling is needed so it runs the fan at the lowest possible speed without shutting it down, but it's nice that it's able to pick up speed when my harddrives get a higher workload and become a little warm. Combined with two 75GXP HDs from IBM the circuit makes my PC very quiet without sacrificing any performance or safety at all.
..And which Tom Clancy books might that be? I don't recall any chapter in his books describing it although the term sounds vaguely familiar.
You may consider me completely losing, but I always thought you would burn up in the atmosphere before your parachute could slow your descent below terminal velocity on entry, but that may be because of me reading one too many Disney comics.
So...where is the geeky stuff?
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Except for the Yoda and the caffeinated pills it's just a bunch of computer hardware that we spend all of our money on the rest of the year anyway.
What about a deluxe soldering iron? Or perhaps some network anylyzing gadget? I, for one, would like some toys for Christmas.
Anyway, there is another serious deficiency in the list IMHO - I guess you all know LEGO started a StarWars line that's pretty complete now...
But did you also know that they've started making StarWars scale models?
For now the choice stands between the X-wing and the TIE Intercepter -personally I can't wait to get my hands on that Intercepter, what about you?
I'd like to point out that everybody in Europe eats the stuff, and I thought Americans also had it - c'mon, the stuff's *definitely* ten times less gross than peanutbutter and jelly (yes, I tried it once).
Oh, and to be on topic for a sec: maybe the searchengine should try to validate the sites that may be searched - in a starshaped network with the best connections on top...but I guess it might be expensive to set up local servers. Maybe it could be done Tucows style with local submissions or something:P
In a recent interview he gave I read yesterday (don't ask me where I found it, 'cause I can't remember) he said that he was going to do a television series with a 'pirate' theme (or something) this summer, and I guess that'd run for a couple of seasons before it got old. Anyway, the interview was about a videogame with an Evil Dead theme he did voice-overs for, and I think that although he's pretty darn cool, he wouldn't fit in.
What exactly does MHz got to do with SI naming conventions? IMHO it's the most inaccurate term in the entire computer industry. Hz denotes frequency and can't be used for anything else that has the unit s^-1 - you can't suddently convert becquerel to Hz just because it's also units/sec. Furthermore, 'mega' (to me) means 1024K when we're talking computers. Maybe the former sentence isn't much of a point, but it's just counter-intuitive that's all.
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Yeah, that's a classic.
...drives me away from reading it. Sorry.
Wrong. Chernobyl exploded because a sudden power spike in the void-coefficient positive RBMK reactor flashed some of the cooling water into steam, blowing the roof off the containment building.
After that, the graphite moderator rods caught fire and burned for a week, releasing massive amounts of radioactive smoke.
Fukushima has long since been shut down. It's still a complex and difficult disaster to manage to be sure, but there doesn't seem to be the kind of blow-the-top-off-and-start-a-fire energy available that Chernobyl had.
Right now it's a question about keeping spent fuel sufficiently cool, not about managing an active reactor.
Indeed! Consumers tend to follow the path of least resistance. IMHO the best way to combat piracy would be to provide superior content for paying customers. A couple of examples come to mind....
- My Futurama DVDs have anti-copy warnings in four different languages that I have to sit through after *each* episode. How is that better than having them sitting around on my hard drive in DivX format without all the superfluous junk?
-My MST3K boxsets are region 1 because no European distributer can be bothered with them...which means I have to use region-defeating software when I watch them on my computer.
I sometimes feel like a fool for buying movies and music instead of downloading it...
Actually, the max. frequency that can be sampled is 22kHz, not 22.050kHz - what the Nyquist theorem states is that in order to construct a signal accuately, you need to sample at twice the maximum frequency + a little more, because then you can also deduct the phase of the original signal.
Yes. The one from '95...played from DOS. From God to Cain to Seth.
:-p
I'd run through the story lines once in a while, and when I feel like fooling around, I'd try weird combinations with the ccedit util.
I always thought the humvees were cool, but underpowered...so I usually gave them either missiles(from the NOD bike) or laser...oh, and sometimes gave them cloaking ability and made them hideously fast - turning most fights into a rout
Red Alert would equally well I think...
Currently about 10% of our energy demands are covered through windmill technology. Some people believe that that's the maximum economically viable amount because of energy fluctuations and such - and they do have a point; windmills are largely funded by the state, you get a higher price for energy that's produced by windmills and the energy companies have to buy the available windmill energy.
That means the energy companies have to downsize their fossile fuel powerplants (no, we don't have nuclear power in Denmark - political decision) to avoid losing money and that becomes a problem at times when there's no wind.
Luckily Denmark can import electricity from our neighbours - which brings us to what I think is the main reason we're pushing for 50% windmill coverage:
The Kyoto Protocol. (For all the americans: you know, the one you signed but didn't ratify)
The problem is that in the reference year('92 I think) that the different countries are supposed to lower their CO2 emissions relative to we imported quite a bit of power. That means that without massive betting on alternative energy, we have to produce more power than in the reference year from fossile fuel.
I don't really mind all this because I believe we will then be forced to figure out how to store the energy (giant flywheels anyone?) or perhaps make energy-exchange relations with other countries which have a lot of energy from alternative sources.
In Denmark, there's a place called 'Experimentarium' where you can experience physics phenomenae first-hand. :)=
One of the regular exhibits is a slinky like the one mentioned in the article (there's a picture here).
Okay, maybe it's only 15 metres long, but OTOH it's been around for several years, so there.
heh, in Denmark we call the '#' sign 'havelåge' which means that C# in Danish would translate to 'C gardengate' :)=
IMAO it's only a question of a pop-up or assigning a colorcode to attachments...or making the users read a short note on e-mail security.
I built a temperature monitoring circuit using a kit from my local electronics pusher - it adjusts the voltage to the fan in the PSU so the temperature is kept down. Usually hardly any cooling is needed so it runs the fan at the lowest possible speed without shutting it down, but it's nice that it's able to pick up speed when my harddrives get a higher workload and become a little warm. Combined with two 75GXP HDs from IBM the circuit makes my PC very quiet without sacrificing any performance or safety at all.
>Reread your Tom Clancy books...
..And which Tom Clancy books might that be? I don't recall any chapter in his books describing it although the term sounds vaguely familiar.
You may consider me completely losing, but I always thought you would burn up in the atmosphere before your parachute could slow your descent below terminal velocity on entry, but that may be because of me reading one too many Disney comics.
Except for the Yoda and the caffeinated pills it's just a bunch of computer hardware that we spend all of our money on the rest of the year anyway. What about a deluxe soldering iron? Or perhaps some network anylyzing gadget? I, for one, would like some toys for Christmas. Anyway, there is another serious deficiency in the list IMHO - I guess you all know LEGO started a StarWars line that's pretty complete now... But did you also know that they've started making StarWars scale models? For now the choice stands between the X-wing and the TIE Intercepter -personally I can't wait to get my hands on that Intercepter, what about you?
I'd like to point out that everybody in Europe eats the stuff, and I thought Americans also had it - c'mon, the stuff's *definitely* ten times less gross than peanutbutter and jelly (yes, I tried it once).
:P
Oh, and to be on topic for a sec: maybe the searchengine should try to validate the sites that may be searched - in a starshaped network with the best connections on top...but I guess it might be expensive to set up local servers. Maybe it could be done Tucows style with local submissions or something
In a recent interview he gave I read yesterday (don't ask me where I found it, 'cause I can't remember) he said that he was going to do a television series with a 'pirate' theme (or something) this summer, and I guess that'd run for a couple of seasons before it got old. Anyway, the interview was about a videogame with an Evil Dead theme he did voice-overs for, and I think that although he's pretty darn cool, he wouldn't fit in.
Funny thing, LEGO said they'd never make 'war' toys :o)
(offtopic: what about all those new product lines
where there's one 'house'/ 'clan' / whatever fighting against the vile Bogons over some mineral ?)
Anyway, isn't there some limitation on that brick thing? I can't remember ever seeing it do more than one thing at a time...
What exactly does MHz got to do with SI naming conventions? IMHO it's the most inaccurate term in the entire computer industry. Hz denotes frequency and can't be used for anything else that has the unit s^-1 - you can't suddently convert becquerel to Hz just because it's also units/sec. Furthermore, 'mega' (to me) means 1024K when we're talking computers. Maybe the former sentence isn't much of a point, but it's just counter-intuitive that's all.