The most pacific are of course the Canadians and they get away with it by the happy circumstance of having as their sole neighbor the most civilized...
Google says civili[sz]ed means:
"This term is often used as a value judgement to indicate that the person or society in question has attained a higher level of culture, a more complex system of government, and a superior set of beliefs, morals, and behaviours"
And you reckon that the US is more civilized than anyone else? How many countries have you initiated military action on in recent years, again?
Just for the record, that link completely 0wned Firefox 1.0.4 on XP SP2.
Not sure what it would have done eventually, but it locked up the machine (IE, mouse not even moving) for a few minutes.
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You don't get given a place at a University here (UK) just for being able to play football (the game with your foot and a ball, I mean) though.
Anyone who's seen Beckham being interviewed can see that he barely got any primary education, let alone higher education.
Are they completely out of touch?
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Gates says that when Microsoft is done integrating search into future versions of Windows and Office, the world will look back at the way we are now "Googling" for stuff on the Internet and laugh. "The idea that you type in these words [in the search box] that aren't sentences and you don't get any answers--you just get back all these things you have to click on--that is so antiquated," he says, later adding, "We need to take search way beyond how people think of it today and just have it be naturally available, based on the task they want to do." For example, if you wanted to look up a factoid while you were writing a document, you might search for it without ever leaving Word.
It seems to me that the high-ups at MS are completely out of touch with the real world nowadays. This quote from Gates is just like all their recent releases comparing Longhorn to Tiger.. their perception of what MS's products offer is way inflated from what they actually do, and they seem to be persuading themselves that empty promises of what a future product will do is somehow better than a product which is available here and now, today.
Is there anyone outside of MS that thinks they have the slightest chance of beating Google at the search technology game? Google are far closer to natual language searching than any of MS's efforts, and comparing past trends of how MS promises stack up against reality, I think we can all be sure that by the time MS gets anywhere close to what they're promising here, the competition are going to be offering searching by telepathy from within Duke Nukem Forever.
The ultimate irony, from the bottom of that article:
"And please, will the characters who "have never had a crash or blip" in 10 years of "heavy use" not contribute. I'm sick of these people. They're full of it." Pot, meet Kettle.
Well so far letting Firefox update itself from 1.0 to 1.01 and then 1.01 to 1.02 it's broken its themes and its extensions both times.
Last time I had to go all the way back through the list of extensions and reinstall them all in order to get them to work. Clicking 'check for updates' just reports that there are none.
Why release software that has an auto update facility that breaks itself?
A lot of posts here, and so far nobody seems to have mentioned what I thought was the most encouraging part of the announcement, namely that the BBC has been told it is not to chase ratings but focus on quality programming.
Hopefully, this means that the BBC will keep turning out more of the kind of programmes that have made its name into a badge of quality and stop it getting caught up in the race-to-the-bottom-of-the-barrel that Sky and the other commercial channels seem to be in.
Liberal ideology encourages making snap judgements on an emotional basis. (Notice the substution of "I feel..." for "I think..." in their rhetoric.) Their policies (when they think about them at all) are based on either direct action to solve perceived problems by pushing in the desired direction, or indirect action to suppress something that is conceptually associated with the problem. And they treat people as members of classes - dealing with all the members of the class on the bases of the steretypical member's behavior. All of these approaches have a common thread: "Damn the side effects."
Uh, I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure there's some rules about conservation of energy that would like to have a word with you.
If we have no propulsion system capable of accellerating a craft to ludicrous speed, exactly which 'any type of propulsion system' are you going to use to provide the same amount of energy for decelleration?
(BTW, I'm ignoring the answers in other comments about how this propulsion system can provide thrust in any direction. Just commenting on what I believe is a fallacy in the parent post)
You get 4 desktops, no pager (though you can click a button to see all 4 desktops at quarter size, but it's not the same). The problem is that the desktops either aren't seperated enough, or they're far too separated.
If you choose to have a common taskbar, then your windows end up getting moved between desktops whenever you click on them, instead of the desktop changing to the one with the window. If you choose to have separate taskbars then there's no way to move a window from one desktop to another, and alt-tab only cycles between windows on the current desktop. Also, for some bizarre reason, every desktop seems to have a completely independant clipboard, so you can't copy and paste between them. Oh, and every time you move between desktops your windows on the taskbar get randomly reordered.
The neutrons emitted from the reaction are collected in a lithium blanket, which gets hot. The heat in the blanket is used to produce steam used to drive turbines (in theory - JET doesn't have the power generating stage of the equipment because it is not needed for the type of experimental work they do there).
A byproduct of the lithium being impacted by neutrons is that tritium is produced, which is one of the fuels for the deuterium-tritium reaction.
The plasma does not constantly bump into the walls of the container. As some previous posters have touched on, if the plasma touches the walls of the vessel it loses so much of its power that the reaction dies.
Another problem is that if the current in the plasma passes through the walls of the vessel it creates a magnetic field around them which kicks against the plasma's own magnetic field with incredible force. This is called a disruption, and it kills the plasma. Back in the project's infancy a particularly bad disruption actually caused the entire torus to jump a clear centimetre off the floor. If that doesn't sound impressive then you need to have another look at a picture of the torus!
I had the privlidge of working at JET during the third year of my degree*, and I can say that JET has some of the coolest gear and cleverest people working there that I have ever seen.
For anyone who's wondering about the computing equipment they use: they have a lot of big Sun servers which host X sessions from Linux PCs or some Xterminal like things called Igels (they also still use some original X Terminals.. I don't know if those are still in production?) on which most development is done. They use Linux in as many places as they can, including a ~80 node analysis cluster (JET produces data at a rate of about a gigabyte a day during operations). Windows PCs are available for desktop use by those who prefer them.
* If anyone thinks my very basic description of the physics is a sign of BS, I should point out that I was there as a Software Engineering student, not a physicist.
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Phew, I'm glad you pointed out that those were URLS.
The most pacific are of course the Canadians and they get away with it by the happy circumstance of having as their sole neighbor the most civilized ...
Google says civili[sz]ed means:
"This term is often used as a value judgement to indicate that the person or society in question has attained a higher level of culture, a more complex system of government, and a superior set of beliefs, morals, and behaviours"
And you reckon that the US is more civilized than anyone else? How many countries have you initiated military action on in recent years, again?
I knew what goatse was.
!
I knew what tubgirl was.
Never heard of lemonparty before.
Now I know.
Allow me to be the first to say:
AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Just for the record, that link completely 0wned Firefox 1.0.4 on XP SP2.
Not sure what it would have done eventually, but it locked up the machine (IE, mouse not even moving) for a few minutes.
You don't get given a place at a University here (UK) just for being able to play football (the game with your foot and a ball, I mean) though.
Anyone who's seen Beckham being interviewed can see that he barely got any primary education, let alone higher education.
Gates says that when Microsoft is done integrating search into future versions of Windows and Office, the world will look back at the way we are now "Googling" for stuff on the Internet and laugh. "The idea that you type in these words [in the search box] that aren't sentences and you don't get any answers--you just get back all these things you have to click on--that is so antiquated," he says, later adding, "We need to take search way beyond how people think of it today and just have it be naturally available, based on the task they want to do." For example, if you wanted to look up a factoid while you were writing a document, you might search for it without ever leaving Word.
It seems to me that the high-ups at MS are completely out of touch with the real world nowadays. This quote from Gates is just like all their recent releases comparing Longhorn to Tiger.. their perception of what MS's products offer is way inflated from what they actually do, and they seem to be persuading themselves that empty promises of what a future product will do is somehow better than a product which is available here and now, today.
Is there anyone outside of MS that thinks they have the slightest chance of beating Google at the search technology game? Google are far closer to natual language searching than any of MS's efforts, and comparing past trends of how MS promises stack up against reality, I think we can all be sure that by the time MS gets anywhere close to what they're promising here, the competition are going to be offering searching by telepathy from within Duke Nukem Forever.
In Soviet Russia, shopping cart abandons YOU!
Like this? I just replaced every " " with " ".
Wow. Good work.
The ultimate irony, from the bottom of that article:
"And please, will the characters who "have never had a crash or blip" in 10 years of "heavy use" not contribute. I'm sick of these people. They're full of it."
Pot, meet Kettle.
Do they have a department that can help you with your capitalisation?
It's common knowlege that an American assload is atleast 10x the size of one elsewhere in the world.
Anyone who has visited Florida will have seen the asses the unit is based on.
What's the differnt between fanboy and twat?
Oooh! I know: most of us wouldn't stick our cocks in a fanboy?
What do I win?
Well so far letting Firefox update itself from 1.0 to 1.01 and then 1.01 to 1.02 it's broken its themes and its extensions both times.
Last time I had to go all the way back through the list of extensions and reinstall them all in order to get them to work. Clicking 'check for updates' just reports that there are none.
Why release software that has an auto update facility that breaks itself?
A mouse that uses the force would truly be a worthy oponent.
A lot of posts here, and so far nobody seems to have mentioned what I thought was the most encouraging part of the announcement, namely that the BBC has been told it is not to chase ratings but focus on quality programming.
Hopefully, this means that the BBC will keep turning out more of the kind of programmes that have made its name into a badge of quality and stop it getting caught up in the race-to-the-bottom-of-the-barrel that Sky and the other commercial channels seem to be in.
Liberal ideology encourages making snap judgements on an emotional basis. (Notice the substution of "I feel..." for "I think..." in their rhetoric.) Their policies (when they think about them at all) are based on either direct action to solve perceived problems by pushing in the desired direction, or indirect action to suppress something that is conceptually associated with the problem. And they treat people as members of classes - dealing with all the members of the class on the bases of the steretypical member's behavior. All of these approaches have a common thread: "Damn the side effects."
:)
Pot, meet Kettle.
Uh, I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure there's some rules about conservation of energy that would like to have a word with you.
If we have no propulsion system capable of accellerating a craft to ludicrous speed, exactly which 'any type of propulsion system' are you going to use to provide the same amount of energy for decelleration?
(BTW, I'm ignoring the answers in other comments about how this propulsion system can provide thrust in any direction. Just commenting on what I believe is a fallacy in the parent post)
Looks like you should have asked for another
tag.
It does, but it's a bit half assed (surprised?)
You get 4 desktops, no pager (though you can click a button to see all 4 desktops at quarter size, but it's not the same). The problem is that the desktops either aren't seperated enough, or they're far too separated.
If you choose to have a common taskbar, then your windows end up getting moved between desktops whenever you click on them, instead of the desktop changing to the one with the window. If you choose to have separate taskbars then there's no way to move a window from one desktop to another, and alt-tab only cycles between windows on the current desktop. Also, for some bizarre reason, every desktop seems to have a completely independant clipboard, so you can't copy and paste between them. Oh, and every time you move between desktops your windows on the taskbar get randomly reordered.
On the whole it's better than nothing though.
*bing* *bong* Captain Obvious to aisle 5 ..... Paging Captain Obvious...
It's spelt 'ka'.
;)
The neutrons emitted from the reaction are collected in a lithium blanket, which gets hot. The heat in the blanket is used to produce steam used to drive turbines (in theory - JET doesn't have the power generating stage of the equipment because it is not needed for the type of experimental work they do there).
A byproduct of the lithium being impacted by neutrons is that tritium is produced, which is one of the fuels for the deuterium-tritium reaction.
The plasma does not constantly bump into the walls of the container. As some previous posters have touched on, if the plasma touches the walls of the vessel it loses so much of its power that the reaction dies.
Another problem is that if the current in the plasma passes through the walls of the vessel it creates a magnetic field around them which kicks against the plasma's own magnetic field with incredible force. This is called a disruption, and it kills the plasma. Back in the project's infancy a particularly bad disruption actually caused the entire torus to jump a clear centimetre off the floor. If that doesn't sound impressive then you need to have another look at a picture of the torus!
I had the privlidge of working at JET during the third year of my degree*, and I can say that JET has some of the coolest gear and cleverest people working there that I have ever seen.
For anyone who's wondering about the computing equipment they use: they have a lot of big Sun servers which host X sessions from Linux PCs or some Xterminal like things called Igels (they also still use some original X Terminals.. I don't know if those are still in production?) on which most development is done. They use Linux in as many places as they can, including a ~80 node analysis cluster (JET produces data at a rate of about a gigabyte a day during operations). Windows PCs are available for desktop use by those who prefer them.
* If anyone thinks my very basic description of the physics is a sign of BS, I should point out that I was there as a Software Engineering student, not a physicist.
This is a British site.. We're metric.
So you're saying Darl McBride == Hitler?
Hmmmmmm... It's all starting to make sense....