I thought the whole idea of capitalism is that labor creates value. As long as the amount of labor is increasing, shouldn't the value continue increasing?
Labor creates value. Management destroys value.
Profit = Labor - Management. So Profit is conditional, not a given.
If you tell the driver, 'we're testing the fuel economy of this car, it's going to be a big breakthru', the driver is apt to change his/her habits to help the test achieve the team's goal. If the driver doesn't know what the goal is, and doesn't know that the car has a special gadget in it, he will drive normally.
However consumer use is indicative of business use, so I would expect things to head towards exabyte eventually.
This is kind of my point. Do companies keep libraries of pr0n, video, music? Sure, if you're a media company you will. But say you're a plumbing distributor. You'll have the usual accounting stuff, and media for marketing, and some BS overhead, but don't tell me it adds up to a TB much less a PB.
On the other hand, if you have the extra space, it invites the usual waste in the form of archive directories for closed-out years, development junk, etc. Spinning round and round, doing nothing.
Call me old fashioned, but I don't see why anyone but a search engine like google would need anything like a petabyte. You can have only so much useful information about anything. Sounds to me like, fill your garage with sh1t, build a bigger garage.
Robert Bussard (of Bussard Ramjet fame) had patents on it.
The patents apply to a fancier version called the Polywell. Polywell attempts to cut losses to the point where net power is possible. As far as I know, no hobbyist has attempted that one yet. It's a much more expensive design that, depending on the fuel, would generate truly lethal doses of neutrons, and would need lots of shielding.
The "drug" is only a well-known [google.com] synthetic dye [wrongdiagnosis.com]. "Rember" is Methylene blue [thefreedictionary.com]. The Free Dictionary says it is, "A basic aniline dye that forms a deep blue solution when dissolved in water and is used as a bacteriological stain and as an antidote for cyanide poisoning."
The whole "nuclear terrorism" scare is just that -- a scare.
Maybe what the islamic terrorists are really after is prestige. They don't have the prestige they want by normal means. They didn't attack new yorkers by poisoning the water supply, they used two symbols of western progress (jets, skyscrapers) as extremely visible weapons. Big prestige, big news coverage, it was their orgasm. And perhaps that's the allure of the nuke.
.Maybe if we could talk luxury manufacturers to send free watches, cars, clothes, etc to run down areas in the middle east, would that take the wind out of their sails?
Hah! You buy Windows machine to get it cheaper. M$ gets a licensing fee from OEM. You never use Windows, but what does M$ care, if they get paid? Norton, M$, AOL, etc pay OEM to put crapware on PC. You install Linux distro of your choice, for free. Everybody wins.
Actually it probably won't. JET did, but ITER is just an engineering prototype and proof of concept. It is intended to test the technologies to make a fusion power plant work and be maintainable. The physics is done already.
From what I gather, the physics ain't done for ITER. ITER's another test bed for the physics, to attempt to show that breakeven can be achieved for a tokamak, and be done in a fairly continuous fashion. The plan was, if ITER was successful, to attempt to build a prototype power plant. After that, in, maybe another 30 years, they might build a real power plant.
The thing is, with a useful plant lifetime measured in months, due to neutron damage, the utilities have already said it's not economical and they don't want anything to do with it.
No radiation, no neutron, no gamma. Just pure energy as heat.
Er, no. Most H, D, T based fusion reactions give off their energy as the kinetic energy in a fast neutron or alpha particle. When the neutron or alpha then hits the reactor wall, then you got heat.
The one exception I know of is the vaunted p-B11 reaction, which gives off only alphas and no neutrons. Otherwise, expect some or a lot of neutrons.
As some one else said, fusion is great because there's no long-lived radioactive material (thousands of years+) as from fission.
"Ugh, Ugh, Ugh, I hate my job, I hate the damn commute, can't do anything about it cuz I got kids and we all need the money."
So what do the kids see? What kind of example does Dad set? When they grow up, are they going to know that they have options, or will they be convinced that life is a nonstop grind cause that's all they ever knew? Will they hate Dad cause he never bothered to find a happier niche?
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I see you're trying to attack an insurgent stronghold.
Would you like me to:
1. Call in airstrike
2. Fire machinegun
3. Wave white flag
Agh
"If you could only see what I have seen with your eyes..."
"You can't cheat an honest man; never give s sucker an even break or wise up a chump."
About time this shamefully overlooked band got the recognition they deserve.
Ha ha, just kidding!
Hell, yes.
In an old M*A*S*H episode, one of the guys gives expensive chocolates to an orphanage at Christmas, to discover that they sold them to buy a month's worth of food. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_M*A*S*H_episodes_(Season_9)
If your idea of a great life is hanging around airports and eating hotel food, go for it.
I thought the whole idea of capitalism is that labor creates value. As long as the amount of labor is increasing, shouldn't the value continue increasing?
Labor creates value. Management destroys value.
Profit = Labor - Management.
So Profit is conditional, not a given.
If you tell the driver, 'we're testing the fuel economy of this car, it's going to be a big breakthru', the driver is apt to change his/her habits to help the test achieve the team's goal. If the driver doesn't know what the goal is, and doesn't know that the car has a special gadget in it, he will drive normally.
Few years ago, Hamas conscripted Mickey to talk to their kiddies.
So which is it? Devil or Spokesman?
Claims another victim. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seinfeld_curse#The_.22Seinfeld_curse.22
one young and cool, the other old and not-so-cool.
"Hey, that's just like my grandpa! Right before we put him in the nursing home."
The other one is old?? Not either in absolute or relative terms.
The next time you open your mouth, be careful, young man. You're not making friends.
However consumer use is indicative of business use, so I would expect things to head towards exabyte eventually.
This is kind of my point. Do companies keep libraries of pr0n, video, music? Sure, if you're a media company you will. But say you're a plumbing distributor. You'll have the usual accounting stuff, and media for marketing, and some BS overhead, but don't tell me it adds up to a TB much less a PB.
On the other hand, if you have the extra space, it invites the usual waste in the form of archive directories for closed-out years, development junk, etc. Spinning round and round, doing nothing.
Call me old fashioned, but I don't see why anyone but a search engine like google would need anything like a petabyte. You can have only so much useful information about anything. Sounds to me like, fill your garage with sh1t, build a bigger garage.
Robert Bussard (of Bussard Ramjet fame) had patents on it.
The patents apply to a fancier version called the Polywell. Polywell attempts to cut losses to the point where net power is possible. As far as I know, no hobbyist has attempted that one yet. It's a much more expensive design that, depending on the fuel, would generate truly lethal doses of neutrons, and would need lots of shielding.
The "drug" is only a well-known [google.com] synthetic dye [wrongdiagnosis.com]. "Rember" is Methylene blue [thefreedictionary.com]. The Free Dictionary says it is, "A basic aniline dye that forms a deep blue solution when dissolved in water and is used as a bacteriological stain and as an antidote for cyanide poisoning."
"He who toys with the most dyes, wins."
Any progress on the idea that bacteria, particularly ones found in graves, can clean up extracellular metabolic junk in living people?
The whole "nuclear terrorism" scare is just that -- a scare.
Maybe what the islamic terrorists are really after is prestige. They don't have the prestige they want by normal means. They didn't attack new yorkers by poisoning the water supply, they used two symbols of western progress (jets, skyscrapers) as extremely visible weapons. Big prestige, big news coverage, it was their orgasm. And perhaps that's the allure of the nuke.
.Maybe if we could talk luxury manufacturers to send free watches, cars, clothes, etc to run down areas in the middle east, would that take the wind out of their sails?
Hah! You buy Windows machine to get it cheaper. M$ gets a licensing fee from OEM. You never use Windows, but what does M$ care, if they get paid? Norton, M$, AOL, etc pay OEM to put crapware on PC. You install Linux distro of your choice, for free. Everybody wins.
Actually it probably won't. JET did, but ITER is just an engineering prototype and proof of concept. It is intended to test the technologies to make a fusion power plant work and be maintainable. The physics is done already.
From what I gather, the physics ain't done for ITER. ITER's another test bed for the physics, to attempt to show that breakeven can be achieved for a tokamak, and be done in a fairly continuous fashion. The plan was, if ITER was successful, to attempt to build a prototype power plant. After that, in, maybe another 30 years, they might build a real power plant.
The thing is, with a useful plant lifetime measured in months, due to neutron damage, the utilities have already said it's not economical and they don't want anything to do with it.
No radiation, no neutron, no gamma. Just pure energy as heat.
Er, no. Most H, D, T based fusion reactions give off their energy as the kinetic energy in a fast neutron or alpha particle. When the neutron or alpha then hits the reactor wall, then you got heat.
The one exception I know of is the vaunted p-B11 reaction, which gives off only alphas and no neutrons. Otherwise, expect some or a lot of neutrons.
As some one else said, fusion is great because there's no long-lived radioactive material (thousands of years+) as from fission.
"Ugh, Ugh, Ugh, I hate my job, I hate the damn commute, can't do anything about it cuz I got kids and we all need the money."
So what do the kids see? What kind of example does Dad set? When they grow up, are they going to know that they have options, or will they be convinced that life is a nonstop grind cause that's all they ever knew? Will they hate Dad cause he never bothered to find a happier niche?
And no worries about pollution or mercury poisoning.
No, but depending on who makes it, there's always lead to think about.
She thinks I love her for her good looks.