Now listen to me before the Vogons destroy the earth.
Here's how we win the "War on Terror" and get to Mars (and back safely) at a fraction of the cost of the war in Iraq.
So we, the West (unfortunately I'm a Brit and we don't do outer space but humour me please) send people to Mars and back on a long term project with permanently personned outposts etc. in a continuous cycle.
Hell, I'll volunteer to design the nuclear propulsion for the craft.
Meanwhile we carpet bomb the ignorant Islamofascist dictatorships with propaganda leaflets, radio and TV broadcasts of our achievements.
There is no earthly way that the hungry, cold masses in those countries will stand for the medieval war-mongering ways of their oppressive, misogynistic, greedy, tyrannical leaders when they see what real humanity can achieve.
Within 6 months, Al Qaeda, the Taliban etc. will wither away and die (be lynched with a bit of luck) by the human being majority.
The human race needs inspiration, and with the right goals will become one.
oh crikey, i'm turning into a hippy, pass the peace pipe....
They've convicted you and you have no chance to reverse the decision. They offer you a "bargain" to take 10 years off your sentence so even though you know there is no body because you didn't do it) you fess up to make it look like you are remorseful and have learned some sort of lesson.
They go digging, no body. Oh well, coyotes ate it. Or something.
Seeking no truth, winning is all, find it so grim so true so real.
We will probably never know the truth, and justice will never be done, but the public got a scapegoat and the media got a circus.
He may have done it. We will never know, and we don't care. Public hanging. Good feelings all round.
Third, if you're concerned about maintaining a BWR subcritical, you shouldn't let the water level get too high. The water surrounding the core acts as a reflector, decreasing neutron leakage. So, higher water level leads to increased reactivity. In fact, my recollection is that, in some cases, the emergency operating procedures suggest lowering the water level in order to control reactivity.
BWRs are an accident waiting to happen. Don't they have boron injection (into the cooling water) to absorb neutrons in an emergency, like PWRs? Sizewell B does.
For example, the Hope Creek plant has been operating since Wednesday morning with one of it's Emergency Core Cooling Systems declared inoperable. That's right, they do not currently have a safety-rated system capable of injecting water when the reactor is at operating pressure. And they're allowed, by law, to operate like this for two weeks.
I'm glad I don't live in America. You guys have a very strange way of doing nuclear power.
I have little doubt that Intel could force a change on servers and corporate desktops, and Linux, BSD and Solaris, as well as Apple, would be able to adjust within a very short period of time to run on it.
intel tried that with the over-hyped, over-engineered, over-priced and under-performing itanium.
The problem with changing architectures (as far as businesses are concerned) is backwards compatibility.
There is a lot of money invested in software. Even if the software can be recompiled on the new architecture, with little to no porting effort, it still has to be qualified. That means a lot of testing, which takes time and money.
x86 has been about for 30 years, and SPARC for 20, so they are likely to be about for a long time to come. Solaris/SPARC applications (binaries) from 15 years ago will still run on modern hardware on Solaris. I'm not sure that there are any current x86 platforms that can do that without some kind of emulation layer.
Silly nervous kids! If they blew themselves up for the glory of Allah, he would guarantee them 72 cute virgin girls all to themselves for eternity in paradise.
Talking of which, every time Mustafa blows himself up, 72 innocent virgins die, by definition.
Seriously, though, someone sweating and shaking because of a cold or influenza might give a false positive. This idea is utterly crazy. Luckily, I very rarely have to fly anywhere, and I only do because it's cheaper and faster than taking the car or the train (got to love UK transport). It's bad enough having to show my passport and take off my shoes to fly from Luton to Aberdeen, but this is insane.
I'll be videoconferencing for my family holidays I think.
Are you nuts? If you'd been on some kind of unix, I could have shown you half a dozen lines of shell combined with sed, grep and sort that would do the job.
..biologists used to get a job working at the local garden centre. Those cabbages need keeping free of slugs. And if you have computational biology, you'll be able to work out the right dose of weedkiller and fertiliser.
And the trouble is that it crippled Solaris performance on systems with less than four CPUs. Debian SPARC was famously much faster than Solaris 8 on single-processor machines running the exact same software.
And Solaris is much faster than Linux (scales better) on multi-cpu systems. Sun saw the future and is ahead in that one respect.
Now, Solaris networking was much slower than Linux...
You're doing the wrong kind of exercise. I was getting stupidly fat last year and I changed my eating habits and started an exercise regime under the supervision of a nurse and a trainer.
I don't eat sugar anyway, and I'm allergic to dairy, so I had a head start. Turning down the carbohydrate intake and filling up on fruit and vegetables to stave off hunger did it for me.
As for the exercise, you need muscle-building exercise in addition to other types. Muscle burns fat, even when you're sitting idle.
If you eat protein and take water soon after exercise, it builds up muscle without your body trying to make emergency fat reserves.
I was hugely skeptical of all this stuff until last year. I've never been very impressed by "sports science" and those who practice it until now. If you ignore the rubbish you see on TV and see someone who knows what they're talking about, you'll be pleasantly surprised.
Lay off the meat fat, saturated fat and hydrogenated vegetable oil. You're not doing your heart and arteries any good whatever your weight.
He has a point. All of this stuff in Solaris, for example, was sorted out in Solaris 2.7 which came out well over a decade ago.
Linux is great, but its development is weird. Remember all the problems in 2.4 that didn't get sorted out until about 2.4.23? Then there's 2.6 which didn't become usable until 2.6.13 or so.
In my very humble opinion, there should be a 2.7.x development branch for these sorts of experiments. But, I'm not Linus, and I suppose I should write my own damned kernel instead of complaining.
But he's also missing the muscles that the lower leg has. Does the lower mass make up for the missing muscle? Instead of muscles which convert potential energy into kinetic, he has a pair of springs which temporarily store and release kinetic energy, provided by the rest of his body. To make a fair judgment, we'd need to do some experiments and make some calculations.
If you are from Essex, Kent or London, "think" and "fink" are homophones in addition to weather and whether (although they'd replace the internal "th" with "vv"). The "er" would become "a".
You may jest, but there's probably enough treasure locked away under the Vatican to fund a manned (Priested?) mission to Alpha Centauri, and to develop the warp drives necessary.
I leave the obvious conclusion as an exercise for the reader.
So you [I assume you by the tone of your post] oppress and exploit a certain group of society for a century and are surprised what happens when the lid finally gets blown off?
You're welcome. No fee necessary. The corollary, of course, is that if we alter the attitude of the human race will will be able to generate anti-gravity, thus enabling the construction of reactionless engines, and, dare I say it, the Warp Drive.
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Now listen to me before the Vogons destroy the earth.
Here's how we win the "War on Terror" and get to Mars (and back safely) at a fraction of the cost of the war in Iraq.
So we, the West (unfortunately I'm a Brit and we don't do outer space but humour me please) send people to Mars and back on a long term project with permanently personned outposts etc. in a continuous cycle.
Hell, I'll volunteer to design the nuclear propulsion for the craft.
Meanwhile we carpet bomb the ignorant Islamofascist dictatorships with propaganda leaflets, radio and TV broadcasts of our achievements.
There is no earthly way that the hungry, cold masses in those countries will stand for the medieval war-mongering ways of their oppressive, misogynistic, greedy, tyrannical leaders when they see what real humanity can achieve.
Within 6 months, Al Qaeda, the Taliban etc. will wither away and die (be lynched with a bit of luck) by the human being majority.
The human race needs inspiration, and with the right goals will become one.
oh crikey, i'm turning into a hippy, pass the peace pipe....
American justice!!! Head assplode!!
They've convicted you and you have no chance to reverse the decision. They offer you a "bargain" to take 10 years off your sentence so even though you know there is no body because you didn't do it) you fess up to make it look like you are remorseful and have learned some sort of lesson.
They go digging, no body. Oh well, coyotes ate it. Or something.
Seeking no truth, winning is all, find it so grim so true so real.
We will probably never know the truth, and justice will never be done, but the public got a scapegoat and the media got a circus.
He may have done it. We will never know, and we don't care. Public hanging. Good feelings all round.
Third, if you're concerned about maintaining a BWR subcritical, you shouldn't let the water level get too high. The water surrounding the core acts as a reflector, decreasing neutron leakage. So, higher water level leads to increased reactivity. In fact, my recollection is that, in some cases, the emergency operating procedures suggest lowering the water level in order to control reactivity.
BWRs are an accident waiting to happen. Don't they have boron injection (into the cooling water) to absorb neutrons in an emergency, like PWRs? Sizewell B does.
For example, the Hope Creek plant has been operating since Wednesday morning with one of it's Emergency Core Cooling Systems declared inoperable. That's right, they do not currently have a safety-rated system capable of injecting water when the reactor is at operating pressure. And they're allowed, by law, to operate like this for two weeks.
I'm glad I don't live in America. You guys have a very strange way of doing nuclear power.
P6 (from which Core was derived) is the only decent CPU architecture they've done.
i960 was pretty good, and they almost had a winner (but not quite) with the i860 (it was useless at context switches but great for maths).
I have little doubt that Intel could force a change on servers and corporate desktops, and Linux, BSD and Solaris, as well as Apple, would be able to adjust within a very short period of time to run on it.
intel tried that with the over-hyped, over-engineered, over-priced and under-performing itanium.
The problem with changing architectures (as far as businesses are concerned) is backwards compatibility.
There is a lot of money invested in software. Even if the software can be recompiled on the new architecture, with little to no porting effort, it still has to be qualified. That means a lot of testing, which takes time and money.
x86 has been about for 30 years, and SPARC for 20, so they are likely to be about for a long time to come. Solaris/SPARC applications (binaries) from 15 years ago will still run on modern hardware on Solaris. I'm not sure that there are any current x86 platforms that can do that without some kind of emulation layer.
Since Silverlight isn't cross platform, why bother?
What are you talking about? It runs on all modern versions of Windows.
Maybe each seat could have a built-in toilet?
Think about it. What's the definition of "virgin?"
The less likely the aliens are to land lest they be locked up indefinitely as "terrorist threats" or something similar.
Silly nervous kids! If they blew themselves up for the glory of Allah, he would guarantee them 72 cute virgin girls all to themselves for eternity in paradise.
Talking of which, every time Mustafa blows himself up, 72 innocent virgins die, by definition.
So, you're a terrorist! :-)
/me ducks.
Seriously, though, someone sweating and shaking because of a cold or influenza might give a false positive. This idea is utterly crazy. Luckily, I very rarely have to fly anywhere, and I only do because it's cheaper and faster than taking the car or the train (got to love UK transport). It's bad enough having to show my passport and take off my shoes to fly from Luton to Aberdeen, but this is insane.
I'll be videoconferencing for my family holidays I think.
I'm sure intel will sell the Atom at a price that no one will be able to refuse until Nano goes away.
I'm sure my father said exactly the same thing when the Viking craft landed back in the 1970s.
It would be great if space exploration went at a faster pace, but as long as there are wars to be fought, don't hold your breath.
Are you nuts? If you'd been on some kind of unix, I could have shown you half a dozen lines of shell combined with sed, grep and sort that would do the job.
..biologists used to get a job working at the local garden centre. Those cabbages need keeping free of slugs. And if you have computational biology, you'll be able to work out the right dose of weedkiller and fertiliser.
And the trouble is that it crippled Solaris performance on systems with less than four CPUs. Debian SPARC was famously much faster than Solaris 8 on single-processor machines running the exact same software.
And Solaris is much faster than Linux (scales better) on multi-cpu systems. Sun saw the future and is ahead in that one respect.
Now, Solaris networking was much slower than Linux...
You're doing the wrong kind of exercise. I was getting stupidly fat last year and I changed my eating habits and started an exercise regime under the supervision of a nurse and a trainer.
I don't eat sugar anyway, and I'm allergic to dairy, so I had a head start. Turning down the carbohydrate intake and filling up on fruit and vegetables to stave off hunger did it for me.
As for the exercise, you need muscle-building exercise in addition to other types. Muscle burns fat, even when you're sitting idle.
If you eat protein and take water soon after exercise, it builds up muscle without your body trying to make emergency fat reserves.
I was hugely skeptical of all this stuff until last year. I've never been very impressed by "sports science" and those who practice it until now. If you ignore the rubbish you see on TV and see someone who knows what they're talking about, you'll be pleasantly surprised.
Lay off the meat fat, saturated fat and hydrogenated vegetable oil. You're not doing your heart and arteries any good whatever your weight.
He has a point. All of this stuff in Solaris, for example, was sorted out in Solaris 2.7 which came out well over a decade ago.
Linux is great, but its development is weird. Remember all the problems in 2.4 that didn't get sorted out until about 2.4.23? Then there's 2.6 which didn't become usable until 2.6.13 or so.
In my very humble opinion, there should be a 2.7.x development branch for these sorts of experiments. But, I'm not Linus, and I suppose I should write my own damned kernel instead of complaining.
But he's also missing the muscles that the lower leg has. Does the lower mass make up for the missing muscle? Instead of muscles which convert potential energy into kinetic, he has a pair of springs which temporarily store and release kinetic energy, provided by the rest of his body. To make a fair judgment, we'd need to do some experiments and make some calculations.
It could be worse.
If you are from Essex, Kent or London, "think" and "fink" are homophones in addition to weather and whether (although they'd replace the internal "th" with "vv"). The "er" would become "a".
They're not homophones if you're Scottish. We still pronounce the "h."
I thought they saw Jesus in a slice of toast a few years back?
You may jest, but there's probably enough treasure locked away under the Vatican to fund a manned (Priested?) mission to Alpha Centauri, and to develop the warp drives necessary.
I leave the obvious conclusion as an exercise for the reader.
So you [I assume you by the tone of your post] oppress and exploit a certain group of society for a century and are surprised what happens when the lid finally gets blown off?
You're welcome. No fee necessary. The corollary, of course, is that if we alter the attitude of the human race will will be able to generate anti-gravity, thus enabling the construction of reactionless engines, and, dare I say it, the Warp Drive.