Do do realize that coal-fired plants emit more radiation into the air every year than a nuclear plant generates in waste?
Mined coal contains radioactive compounds. Burning them does not convert the radioactive material into non-radioactive material. If the ash from a coal-fired plant was under the same regulations as nuclear plants, it would have to be treated as a radioactive hazard.
You mean like how every earthquake in California causes the entire water and sewer systems to leap up out of the ground? And all the basements pop up to the surface. It takes a lot of money to keep reburying them after every earthquake, tornado, or heavy rainstorm.
What do you mean it doesn't happen? Wasn't your point that everything underground get thrown up to the surface during a natural disaster?
Solar: Costs much more per kW than a coal plant, but takes up much more area. Give up on using the land for something unecessary, like growing crops.
Wind: Costs more to build/maintain than it will ever generate in power. Only tax credits are getting these things built, but at least they are good for killing birds.
Thermal: Lots of volcanos where you live? Maybe we should cap off all the geysors in Yellowstone.
A large home solar system can power even a large house for everything except A/C and electric heating and cooking.
So, you can use solar if you replace 99% of your electrical appliences with gas ones. Brilliant idea, why didn't we think of that. Shifting from electric to gas will solve all our gas needs... Oh, wait.
The only thing standing in solar's way is the large up-front cost.
and the large surface area required for the cells, and the costs of maintainence, and replacements for dead panels, and backup power for night, cloudy days, winter, etc...
Fusion would be cool too, though.
You have a functional fusion reactor that produces more power than it needs to operate? Are you willing to give up using any electrical power until someone develops one? Maybe we should use zero-point energy, it's just as viable right now.
Who told you fusion won't generate any radioactive waste? Probably a lot less than a coal plant, maybe less than a nuclear, but it will be there. You can't throw electrons/protrons/neutrons around without suffering the consequences.
Kerry has created several important bills (well 5 anyway); in which he: named a building, created 3 holidays, and extended one of those three holidays.
And he shows up almost 1/4 of the time when the Senate is in session.
Application writers can (and should) fix their applications
You aren't fixing your applications, they aren't broken. You are hacking in a quick and dirty patch to try to hide a problem in the core of the system.
If the car you owned would explode when someone kicked the tire, would you consider it a "fix" if the manufacture told you to duct-tape barbed wire around the tires?
I'd bet you'd get better efficiency by using the solar cells to boost the alternator instead. You wouldn't need to carry the electrolysis gear, the storage tanks, etc (less weight).
By taking the load off the alternator, you'd boost your fuel economy, and you wouldn't be wasting the power in a H2O->H2->H2O conversion. The H2 created probably doesn't make up for the additional loss caused by carrying all that extra weight around.
The thing with hydrogen is if we could figure out how to split H2O and put it back together efficiently,
To put them back together efficiently, just add fire. It will then "efficiently" convert the two products back into H2O. Making use of the released energy is done in the same ways as burning any other fuel products.
Are you actually stalling the spam producer, or are you stalling someone who is just forwarding the mail? Most mail does not go directly from the producer to your machine, but goes through numerous forwarders before it gets to you.
What you are likely doing is pissing off the people who are willing to forward your mail to you, and they may decide to just drop all of your mail instead of being screwed with.
What about E. E. Doc Smith? All the good guys are built like Arnold Swartzenegger, and the bad guys are more like Don Knotts. All the women are beautiful, and in desperate need of rescue. All machines are huge, complicated, and make lots of noise. What more can you want?
An analogy for what this kid did might be to stand outside a business with a megaphone and create such a racket that no one can get work done until he is shut up.
Totally lousy analogy, necause when he stops yelling the problem is immediately gone with no effort on your part. That is NOT what he did.
No, what he did is more like going into your business and pissing all over your computer. How would you like to use it without bothering to clean off his piss?
So, he has wasted a lot of your day by requiring you to clean it off, and there are five other guys in the lobby waiting for a chance to pee on your computer.
And now everyone is telling you not to be upset about those people urinating on your computer, that they are just "experimenting", and you have no reason for being mad, because no "real" damage has been done.
Oh, while you were reading this, someone took a crap in your coffee cup. Enjoy your coffee, no "real" damage was done, right?
Microsoft e-mailed me the patch some time ago, like they do with all their other security updates. I install them all as they come in, and keep my system virus free!
I wish IBM would fight them in court, win, and countersue for further damages to prove the point.
And what would they expect to get? SCO is likely to have its stock price go negative after everything is over. They will have more legal fees than assets. They have nothing of value to sue for, unless you want the source for an obsolete version of Unix.
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Do do realize that coal-fired plants emit more radiation into the air every year than a nuclear plant generates in waste?
Mined coal contains radioactive compounds. Burning them does not convert the radioactive material into non-radioactive material. If the ash from a coal-fired plant was under the same regulations as nuclear plants, it would have to be treated as a radioactive hazard.
You mean like how every earthquake in California causes the entire water and sewer systems to leap up out of the ground? And all the basements pop up to the surface. It takes a lot of money to keep reburying them after every earthquake, tornado, or heavy rainstorm.
What do you mean it doesn't happen? Wasn't your point that everything underground get thrown up to the surface during a natural disaster?
Solar, wind, hydro, thermal, etc.
Solar: Costs much more per kW than a coal plant, but takes up much more area. Give up on using the land for something unecessary, like growing crops.
Wind: Costs more to build/maintain than it will ever generate in power. Only tax credits are getting these things built, but at least they are good for killing birds.
Thermal: Lots of volcanos where you live? Maybe we should cap off all the geysors in Yellowstone.
A large home solar system can power even a large house for everything except A/C and electric heating and cooking.
So, you can use solar if you replace 99% of your electrical appliences with gas ones. Brilliant idea, why didn't we think of that. Shifting from electric to gas will solve all our gas needs... Oh, wait.
The only thing standing in solar's way is the large up-front cost.
and the large surface area required for the cells, and the costs of maintainence, and replacements for dead panels, and backup power for night, cloudy days, winter, etc...
Fusion would be cool too, though.
You have a functional fusion reactor that produces more power than it needs to operate? Are you willing to give up using any electrical power until someone develops one? Maybe we should use zero-point energy, it's just as viable right now.
Who told you fusion won't generate any radioactive waste? Probably a lot less than a coal plant, maybe less than a nuclear, but it will be there. You can't throw electrons/protrons/neutrons around without suffering the consequences.
Don't worry, Kerry has a plan to win the election, but he can't tell anyone about it until after he is elected.
Kerry has created several important bills (well 5 anyway); in which he: named a building, created 3 holidays, and extended one of those three holidays.
And he shows up almost 1/4 of the time when the Senate is in session.
How well does it handle XP SP2?
This collection used to be Iraq's main supercomputer, used for weapons development.
Application writers can (and should) fix their applications
You aren't fixing your applications, they aren't broken. You are hacking in a quick and dirty patch to try to hide a problem in the core of the system.
If the car you owned would explode when someone kicked the tire, would you consider it a "fix" if the manufacture told you to duct-tape barbed wire around the tires?
I'd bet you'd get better efficiency by using the solar cells to boost the alternator instead. You wouldn't need to carry the electrolysis gear, the storage tanks, etc (less weight).
By taking the load off the alternator, you'd boost your fuel economy, and you wouldn't be wasting the power in a H2O->H2->H2O conversion. The H2 created probably doesn't make up for the additional loss caused by carrying all that extra weight around.
The thing with hydrogen is if we could figure out how to split H2O and put it back together efficiently,
To put them back together efficiently, just add fire. It will then "efficiently" convert the two products back into H2O. Making use of the released energy is done in the same ways as burning any other fuel products.
Are you actually stalling the spam producer, or are you stalling someone who is just forwarding the mail? Most mail does not go directly from the producer to your machine, but goes through numerous forwarders before it gets to you.
What you are likely doing is pissing off the people who are willing to forward your mail to you, and they may decide to just drop all of your mail instead of being screwed with.
What about E. E. Doc Smith? All the good guys are built like Arnold Swartzenegger, and the bad guys are more like Don Knotts. All the women are beautiful, and in desperate need of rescue. All machines are huge, complicated, and make lots of noise. What more can you want?
It's ok. We still love you, man!
But you have to bring the beer for the real thing.
As a tribute to Scotty, everyone shoule now pick up their mouse and talk into it.
"Beam me up, Scotty, there isn't any intelligent life down here."
An analogy for what this kid did might be to stand outside a business with a megaphone and create such a racket that no one can get work done until he is shut up.
Totally lousy analogy, necause when he stops yelling the problem is immediately gone with no effort on your part. That is NOT what he did.
No, what he did is more like going into your business and pissing all over your computer. How would you like to use it without bothering to clean off his piss?
So, he has wasted a lot of your day by requiring you to clean it off, and there are five other guys in the lobby waiting for a chance to pee on your computer.
And now everyone is telling you not to be upset about those people urinating on your computer, that they are just "experimenting", and you have no reason for being mad, because no "real" damage has been done.
Oh, while you were reading this, someone took a crap in your coffee cup. Enjoy your coffee, no "real" damage was done, right?
counter = 500; while (counter--) { /* nothing */ }
And, if you compile this code with a decent optimizing compiler, it will be reduced to
counter = 0;
This type of delay loop is awful for even moving around to a different CPU from the same family: say from an PDP-11/24 to a PDP-11/83.
This code is just not portable, and never has been.
A PC 5.25" drive won't read hard-sectored RX50 (DEC VAX) floppies.
RX-50 floppies are not hard sectored, and there are several programs that allow reading them on PC's.
Microsoft e-mailed me the patch some time ago, like they do with all their other security updates. I install them all as they come in, and keep my system virus free!
"Hay Balmer, our anti-virus software sales are slipping lately. Let's add remote scripting capability into solitare."
Sounds like they have John Kerry working for them.
"I supported opening the source to Java, before I voted to keep it closed."
"We will make the source to Solaris available, as long as we remain the only ones who may see it."
"I am a war hero! How dare you question me!"
Everyone knows you have to go through a StarGate to get to Atlantis.
What I'd really like to see is an OS text-to-voice reader program.
What's wrong with festival?
2) They might have people who he told he wrote it.
Other than the people who turned him in?
3) There might be evidance on his computer.
You mean, something besides the source code to the virus they found there?
Does this mean that Microsoft will be able to look at the source for OpenOffice?
Or does it mean that Sun will be able to include Outlook Express code in their java desktop?
I wish IBM would fight them in court, win, and countersue for further damages to prove the point.
And what would they expect to get? SCO is likely to have its stock price go negative after everything is over. They will have more legal fees than assets. They have nothing of value to sue for, unless you want the source for an obsolete version of Unix.
Oh, to be able to short the stock...