...I tried to find a Palm that didn't suck, since I needed one for certain medical software. (Emulators for Nokia or other devices are just far too slow, and can't turn on and off instantly.) I used my old Sony SJ33 until I finally came to the conclusion that all of the new Palm devices are garbage. Anything built since they moved to NVFS is a buggy unstable timebomb. My solution was to buy a refurbished Tungsten C from these guys, which was much faster than my T|X and perfectly stable. It's worthless for the internet, but as a PDA I like it (and the price) so much that I bought an extra one, just in case I drop it or something.
If it's radioactive, it can still be used as fuel by the right kind of reactor:
Currently, there is a worldwide surplus of plutonium due to the various agreements between the United States and the former Soviet Union to dismantle many of their warheads. However, the security of these supplies is a cause for concern. One way to address this security issue is by converting the warhead into fuel and burning the plutonium in a CANDU reactor.
Storage facilities like Yucca are a red herring...just keep burning!
How about all of the embryos that for one reason or another are destroyed by the body itself? Should we be trying to protect those as well? Should we spend money on protecting the "unborn" instead of say, cancer research?
If either of your 2 cases were greater than.001 % of the abortions in the world, you would have a point. But because of a few rare cases, all pre-born humans get no protections?
Look up spontaneous abortion. It's a lot more common than the medically-induced kind. Some estimates put about half of all "pre-born" humans as being discarded in this way, usually because of chromosomal abnormalities.
There are two "real" reasons for those ridiculously high wattage power supplies:
1)Increasingly power-hungry and inefficient video cards hooked up in SLI (negating the increasing efficiency of CPUs)
2)Crappy PSUs that can't provide their claimed wattage under real-world conditions
The dick-sizing thing probably accounts for most of it, though.
I have a Core 2 Duo at 3.3 GHz and a 8800GT on a Silverstone 300W PSU, and I've never cracked 200W, and the warning light has never come on.
In 1986, a bunch of halfwit incompetents violated the safety procedures of a reactor that had a criminally flawed design. The Canadian NRX reactor had a meltdown twenty-five years before the Chernobyl power plant was built:
On December 12, 1952 a combination of mechanical failure and human error
led to a now-famous power excursion and fuel failure in the NRX reactor
at AECL Chalk River Laboratories. At the time NRX was one of the most significant research reactors in the world (rated at that time for 30 MW operation), in its sixth year of operation.
During preparations for a reactor-physics experiment at low power, a defect in the NRX shut-off rod mechanism combined with a number of operator errors to cause a temporary loss of control over reactor power. Power surged ultimately to somewhere between 60 and 90 MW over a period of about a minute (the total energy surge is estimated to be approximately 4000 MW-seconds). This energy load would normally not have been a problem, but several experimental fuel rods that were at that moment receiving inadequate cooling for high power operation ruptured and melted. About 10,000 Curies of fission products were carried by about a million gallons of cooling water into the basement of the reactor building. This water was subsequently pumped to Chalk River Laboratories' waste management facility, where the long-term ground water outflow was monitored thereafter to ensure adherence to the drinking water standard. The core of the reactor was left severely damaged.
This accident is historically important, not only because it was the first
of its type and magnitude, but also because of its legacy to Canadian and
international practice in reactor safety and design. Nobody was killed or
hurt in the incident, but a massive clean-up operation was required that involved hundreds of AECL staff, as well as Canadian and American military personnel, and employees of an external construction company working at the site. In addition the reactor core itself was rendered unusable for an extended period. Environmental effects outside the plant were negligible, as was radiation exposure to members of the public. The health record of AECL and Canadian military personnel involved in the clean-up was scientifically reviewed in the 1980s (no significant health effects were observed).
Several of today's fundamental safety principles of reactor design and
operation stem from the lessons learned at this formative stage of
Canada's nuclear program, making Canada an early leader in this field.
Among these were:
the need for an independent, reliable, fast-acting shutdown system,
separate from routine reactor control;
the need for shutdown capability even in a reactor that is already
shutdown (i.e., the safest reactor configuration may not be one with all
neutron absorbers in the core);
the need for a reactor trip on rate of change in power, in addition to a
high power threshold;
the importance of written and thoroughly reviewed procedures for every
operational and experimental activity;
the importance of an efficient human-machine interface in the control
room;
the need to balance thorough safety coverage with simplicity that does
not interfere unduly with operations.
The accident also demonstrated that, due to a combination of redundant
safety features, emergency procedures, and a level of inherent
"forgiveness" (or robustness) in the technology, a major fuel-melt
accident in a nuclear reactor can occur without significant environmental
effects and radiation exposure to the surrounding population.
The NRX core was completely rebuilt, improved, and restarted within 14
months following the accident (the first time something like this was
attempted), and the reactor continued to perform for another four decades
before being retired.
As with the analysis of the accident itself, the clean-up and re
VGA looks terrible on LCDs, and lousy on everything except those mythical high quality CRTs, which I've never seen in real life. Personally, I was happy to ditch mine for a DVI LCD. And I've got half a dozen of those dongles (from video cards and such) sitting in a junk drawer.
As long as it can read every format I care about, I'd happily pay $200 for a dual-screen e-book reader that uses the XO-1's sunlight-readable display technology. (Very low power requirement, high res, and - unlike epaper - can be used in the dark.)
I think overclocking is silly, however it has side benefits - the ultra-quiet PC I'm using uses much the same tech, mostly noctua and zalman kit. You don't realise quite how annoying the whine of a typical PC is until you've used one without it.:-)
I have a passively-cooled PSU and video card, and two 120mm fans running nearly silently at minimum speed, and still I overclocked my Core 2 Duo nearly 50% just for the heck of it. It's not all about fans roaring like jet engines or ridiculously intricate water-cooling systems.
This is the legacy of the Pentium 4/Prescott era - people got fed up with ridiculously hot and noisy systems, so 3rd party heatsinks improved greatly (heatpipes, easier to install) while Intel scrapped Netburst in favour of more efficient processors.
I think the CPU/video of the Geode works fine, but a lot of the other hardware in the Everun is bizarre. For example, even in XP the battery status shows up as "AC Power"...it requires the Expwin program (which also controls the tilting of the display, etc) to show up properly. It seems like most of the hardware can be run with a few hacks, but the wifi is still a problem.
Actually, most UMPCs run XP or Linux - and all of the decent ones. Many aren't that expensive... not as cheap as the eee, but comparable to a conventional budget laptop. And the Raon Everun gets 4 to 5 hours with real-life use... double the battery life of the eee. With the extended battery, it gets up to 11 hours. Unlike the eee, it's barely warm to the touch and is nearly silent. Unfortunately, the Geode processor is a bit underpowered (hopefully there'll be an Atom version) and the unique hardware is not yet supported under Linux.
Well, if you've got a big pocket the Raon Everun would work. Of course, any significant amount of typing would be a pain with the thumb keyboard. The nice thing about the Asus Eee is that it is cheap and has a SSD hard drive - it can be treated a lot more roughly than the typical full-size laptop. On the other hand, the 800x480 screen limits its usefulness.
Which is annoying, because I use medical software on mine all the time, and the small size, simplicity, and instant-on of the Palm is essential. (Windows Mobile is horrible.) Their "best" model is the TX, for somewhat under $300 - but it's slower than the T5, has less memory, and is basically garbage. When mine died, I ended up buying a refurbished Tungsten C (thumb keyboard is much much better than Graffiti 2), which is faster and doesn't have the flash-based nonvolatile filesystem, which causes major headaches with many old apps.
It's definitely not comparable to the Eee, but no UMPC is capable of what I need it for...yet.
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...I tried to find a Palm that didn't suck, since I needed one for certain medical software. (Emulators for Nokia or other devices are just far too slow, and can't turn on and off instantly.) I used my old Sony SJ33 until I finally came to the conclusion that all of the new Palm devices are garbage. Anything built since they moved to NVFS is a buggy unstable timebomb. My solution was to buy a refurbished Tungsten C from these guys, which was much faster than my T|X and perfectly stable. It's worthless for the internet, but as a PDA I like it (and the price) so much that I bought an extra one, just in case I drop it or something.
Odd that your god doesn't seem to have that problem.
Currently, there is a worldwide surplus of plutonium due to the various agreements between the United States and the former Soviet Union to dismantle many of their warheads. However, the security of these supplies is a cause for concern. One way to address this security issue is by converting the warhead into fuel and burning the plutonium in a CANDU reactor.
Storage facilities like Yucca are a red herring...just keep burning!
How about all of the embryos that for one reason or another are destroyed by the body itself? Should we be trying to protect those as well? Should we spend money on protecting the "unborn" instead of say, cancer research?
If either of your 2 cases were greater than .001 % of the abortions in the world, you would have a point. But because of a few rare cases, all pre-born humans get no protections?
Look up spontaneous abortion. It's a lot more common than the medically-induced kind. Some estimates put about half of all "pre-born" humans as being discarded in this way, usually because of chromosomal abnormalities.
This is a crappy nonsensical blog post about a news story from three years before.
"I don't know which is worse...that everyone has his price, or that the price is always so low."
There are two "real" reasons for those ridiculously high wattage power supplies:
1)Increasingly power-hungry and inefficient video cards hooked up in SLI (negating the increasing efficiency of CPUs)
2)Crappy PSUs that can't provide their claimed wattage under real-world conditions
The dick-sizing thing probably accounts for most of it, though.
I have a Core 2 Duo at 3.3 GHz and a 8800GT on a Silverstone 300W PSU, and I've never cracked 200W, and the warning light has never come on.
But sewage treatment plants are good things! They should name a raw sewage outfall pipe after him. Or a newly discovered disease.
Just don't have any children.
Slashdot: Part of the solution!
On December 12, 1952 a combination of mechanical failure and human error led to a now-famous power excursion and fuel failure in the NRX reactor at AECL Chalk River Laboratories. At the time NRX was one of the most significant research reactors in the world (rated at that time for 30 MW operation), in its sixth year of operation.
During preparations for a reactor-physics experiment at low power, a defect in the NRX shut-off rod mechanism combined with a number of operator errors to cause a temporary loss of control over reactor power. Power surged ultimately to somewhere between 60 and 90 MW over a period of about a minute (the total energy surge is estimated to be approximately 4000 MW-seconds). This energy load would normally not have been a problem, but several experimental fuel rods that were at that moment receiving inadequate cooling for high power operation ruptured and melted. About 10,000 Curies of fission products were carried by about a million gallons of cooling water into the basement of the reactor building. This water was subsequently pumped to Chalk River Laboratories' waste management facility, where the long-term ground water outflow was monitored thereafter to ensure adherence to the drinking water standard. The core of the reactor was left severely damaged.
This accident is historically important, not only because it was the first of its type and magnitude, but also because of its legacy to Canadian and international practice in reactor safety and design. Nobody was killed or hurt in the incident, but a massive clean-up operation was required that involved hundreds of AECL staff, as well as Canadian and American military personnel, and employees of an external construction company working at the site. In addition the reactor core itself was rendered unusable for an extended period. Environmental effects outside the plant were negligible, as was radiation exposure to members of the public. The health record of AECL and Canadian military personnel involved in the clean-up was scientifically reviewed in the 1980s (no significant health effects were observed).
Several of today's fundamental safety principles of reactor design and operation stem from the lessons learned at this formative stage of Canada's nuclear program, making Canada an early leader in this field. Among these were:
The accident also demonstrated that, due to a combination of redundant safety features, emergency procedures, and a level of inherent "forgiveness" (or robustness) in the technology, a major fuel-melt accident in a nuclear reactor can occur without significant environmental effects and radiation exposure to the surrounding population.
The NRX core was completely rebuilt, improved, and restarted within 14 months following the accident (the first time something like this was attempted), and the reactor continued to perform for another four decades before being retired.
As with the analysis of the accident itself, the clean-up and re
Because nobody ever dies in crashes in conventional cars.
This is a bit late, but fry (young salmon that haven't gone to the ocean yet) live in streams and lakes and find mosquito larvae to be very yummy.
I photocopied a handwritten city list that a friend had made because I kept making mistakes trying to read my (legit) black-on-red list.
Salmon do not spawn in the ocean.
Is there any software for Linux that can generate hosts file entries from bookmarks (and scan for changes) like Fastnet99 for Windows?
VGA looks terrible on LCDs, and lousy on everything except those mythical high quality CRTs, which I've never seen in real life. Personally, I was happy to ditch mine for a DVI LCD. And I've got half a dozen of those dongles (from video cards and such) sitting in a junk drawer.
For many years. Things changed.
For example, plastic bags are a relatively minor problem compared to other plastic debris, since they tend to sink to the seafloor.
but with the poor-quality screens found on low-end throw-away DVD players. You seriously do not want to be reading text on those screens.
The system will employ the dual indoor-and-sunlight displays, which was pioneered by former OLPC CTO Mary Lou Jepsen. The monochrome mode is high resolution and much easier on the eyes the lousy DVD player screen on the Asus eee.
Of course, this whole project could be vaporware.
As long as it can read every format I care about, I'd happily pay $200 for a dual-screen e-book reader that uses the XO-1's sunlight-readable display technology. (Very low power requirement, high res, and - unlike epaper - can be used in the dark.)
I think overclocking is silly, however it has side benefits - the ultra-quiet PC I'm using uses much the same tech, mostly noctua and zalman kit. You don't realise quite how annoying the whine of a typical PC is until you've used one without it. :-)
I have a passively-cooled PSU and video card, and two 120mm fans running nearly silently at minimum speed, and still I overclocked my Core 2 Duo nearly 50% just for the heck of it.
It's not all about fans roaring like jet engines or ridiculously intricate water-cooling systems.
This is the legacy of the Pentium 4/Prescott era - people got fed up with ridiculously hot and noisy systems, so 3rd party heatsinks improved greatly (heatpipes, easier to install) while Intel scrapped Netburst in favour of more efficient processors.
I think the CPU/video of the Geode works fine, but a lot of the other hardware in the Everun is bizarre. For example, even in XP the battery status shows up as "AC Power"...it requires the Expwin program (which also controls the tilting of the display, etc) to show up properly. It seems like most of the hardware can be run with a few hacks, but the wifi is still a problem.
Linux on Everun: battery gauge and audio working Linux on Everun progress report
Unfortunately, I'm not experienced enough to be any help, so I'm just using XP for now.
Actually, most UMPCs run XP or Linux - and all of the decent ones. Many aren't that expensive... not as cheap as the eee, but comparable to a conventional budget laptop. And the Raon Everun gets 4 to 5 hours with real-life use... double the battery life of the eee. With the extended battery, it gets up to 11 hours. Unlike the eee, it's barely warm to the touch and is nearly silent. Unfortunately, the Geode processor is a bit underpowered (hopefully there'll be an Atom version) and the unique hardware is not yet supported under Linux.
Well, if you've got a big pocket the Raon Everun would work. Of course, any significant amount of typing would be a pain with the thumb keyboard. The nice thing about the Asus Eee is that it is cheap and has a SSD hard drive - it can be treated a lot more roughly than the typical full-size laptop. On the other hand, the 800x480 screen limits its usefulness.
Which is annoying, because I use medical software on mine all the time, and the small size, simplicity, and instant-on of the Palm is essential. (Windows Mobile is horrible.) Their "best" model is the TX, for somewhat under $300 - but it's slower than the T5, has less memory, and is basically garbage. When mine died, I ended up buying a refurbished Tungsten C (thumb keyboard is much much better than Graffiti 2), which is faster and doesn't have the flash-based nonvolatile filesystem, which causes major headaches with many old apps.
It's definitely not comparable to the Eee, but no UMPC is capable of what I need it for...yet.