And yes boys, if you want to find a date, respecting the object of your affections may be a good place to start!
Ho hum. Forever condemned to be the "nice guy" with a stake driven through the heart every time she falls for yet another testosterone-fueled "confident" idot flaunting his masculinity.
Obviously the temperature must be lower, the pressure greater or a combination of both in America to facilitate condensation. There may also be cool surfaces.
It's aimed at PHBs and Bean-Counters who pervade large corporate and public institutions and hold the purse strings. These are the very same people who hold back technological, scientific and financial progress due to a serious lack of clue.
I've a friend back in London who had her ceiling painted with a mock-up of the night sky somewhere in Africa. She hired some company that specializes in glow-in-the-dark night sky displays working from real star maps.
Londoners, eh? More money than sense...
I did that myself when I was a student with a pot of midnight blue emulsion paint, a packet of glow stars and the Collins Guide to Stars and Planets.
Because, if everyone takes their ID on the plane, if Johnny Terrorist blows the plane up, then everyone can flap their ID cards really hard which will put the fire out, and also it'll just be like lots of little birds flapping their wings, so the plane will float down gently instead of crashing.
Also, if you are brown, carrying an ID card means you won't blow up the plane. And if you are white, carrying an ID card means you are not brown or a muslim, so you also will not blow up the plane.
No one is taking long-term human space exploration seroiusly yet. The Americans haven't even been to the Moon since 1972, and no one else has ever been.
It will either take commercial space exploration or another cold war type space race between superpowers before anything actually gets done.
At the moment, there is no commercial incentive to "explore" anything other than communication satellites.
If China were to decide to establish a permanently manned lunar colony, I could imagine that the Americans would race them to it, to prevent Commies taking over the moon. Japan will be busy working on supersonic aeroplanes.
Meanwhile, Europe and India will send up more TV satellites.
The Chernobyl reactors are RBMK. This design is not operated in the West because is it intrinsically dangerous. This was demonstrated experimentally at Chernobyl in 1986.
RBMK reactor fuel has a cladding similar to PWR fuel. It is an alloy of zirconium.
The RBMK reactor is graphite moderated (like a Magnox or AGR) but light water cooled. The light water also acts as a moderator and neutron absorber.
Also, the control rods (absorbers) on an RBMK have to be "driven" unlike western reactors which fall under gravity on loss of power. The control rods on an RBMK also have neutron reflectors (graphite plugs) at each end.
As you can see, this insane design, combined with arrogant and ignorant operators, and automatic safety cirucits that could be completely defeated with the reactor running was a terrible combination.
You might be interested to know that in the 1970's IIRC, in the UK, we had a similarly stupid dangerous design of reactor in development called the Steam Generating Heavy Water Reactor (SGHWR). It was like an RBMK but with liquid heavy water moderator instead of graphite. AFAICR it didn't operate for very long before someone with a conscience demonstrated mathematically that it was a Very Bad Idea.
I think it was at Winfrith in Dorset. There were all kinds of groovy reactors there, including a helium-cooled one.
Let's see. Last year they RIF'd some people. Then they bought StorageTek which added 7000. Now they're RIF'ing 5000.
Trimming the fat?
Since the dot com bubble burst, Sun has been laying off many thousands of staff per year, but at the same time acquiring other companies. Remember Cobalt? Within a year of the acquisition, the product line had withered on the vine, most of the staff had been RIF'd and the Cobalt founder left to start another company.
Have a look at Sun's history since 2001. Look at RIF's, acquisitions, revenue, profit/loss and "costs" under those funny accounting laws.
I'm not sure Sun wants to make a profit. I suspect they want to keep ticking over, buying and RIF'ing, taking "hits" against costs, whatever.
Why? What are they up to?
Later this year, Sun will probably buy another company, take on a few thousand more staffers, and this time next year, lay off another few thousand.
Technically, they are. The President just has a direct line to Jesus, who tells him what to do. It's a bit like the situation with the Pope, only Protestant instead of Catholic.
This is just yet more of the same from Sun. The business strategy since the bubble bursts seems to be:
Fire 9-11% of the staff to "cut costs"
Take an accounting hit to reduce tax
Acquire many smaller companies adding thousands more staffers
Continue everything else the same
Increase revenue hopefully
Not quite make a profit
Repeat.
pSo, what other secret laws of tax, accounting and business does this exploit, and why is it a good strategy?
PWRs use zircalloy. AGRs use stainless steel with added extras. There will never again be new AGRs, so it's only of historical importance.
MOX can be made from nuclear weapons or used reactor fuel as required. MOX is also only of historical interest now, since BNFL cocked it up with a major PR gaffe compounded by the rantings of Greenpeace and "Friends" of the Earth.
I could run the nuclear industry better myself whilest drunk.
Oh yes, all that's important to women is their prospective husbands' earning potentials. It's not as if financial gain is secondary to some women. After all, all men are bastards and all women are whores.
Who knows, there may even be women out there with large earning potentials of their own.
The alternative view is that, no matter how poor their social skills or bad their body odour, when they patent their invention and license it for millions of dollars, they are going to have to fend of the avalanche of babes targetting them with the proverbial manure-covered prodding implement.
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Linux is Linux is Linux. www.kernel.org has all the hardware support you need. Get a tarball, extract, configure and compile
And yes boys, if you want to find a date, respecting the object of your affections may be a good place to start!
Ho hum. Forever condemned to be the "nice guy" with a stake driven through the heart every time she falls for yet another testosterone-fueled "confident" idot flaunting his masculinity.
Encore! I say, "Encore!"
Bravo!
Can I hire you for our knitting society Christmas dinner?
Together we can rule the galaxy as father and son.
So, they've invented the wheel, but they can't decide what colour it should be.
Obviously the temperature must be lower, the pressure greater or a combination of both in America to facilitate condensation. There may also be cool surfaces.
This is France we're talking about.
/me ducks.
This is not aimed at scientists and engineers.
It's aimed at PHBs and Bean-Counters who pervade large corporate and public institutions and hold the purse strings. These are the very same people who hold back technological, scientific and financial progress due to a serious lack of clue.
I've a friend back in London who had her ceiling painted with a mock-up of the night sky somewhere in Africa. She hired some company that specializes in glow-in-the-dark night sky displays working from real star maps.
Londoners, eh? More money than sense...
I did that myself when I was a student with a pot of midnight blue emulsion paint, a packet of glow stars and the Collins Guide to Stars and Planets.
I was a very good boy. I was thinking abead to careers at the age of 12. I did everything by the book. Now I have a mediocre job and I'm miserable.
Go ahead and enjoy yourself while you're young. There's plenty of time to get serious when you're older.
And do you really want to work for people who think it's a big deal that you were once an exuberant youth or young adult?
AMD processors have a better I/O architecture (hypertransport) and scale properly in SMP systems.
Intel processors are only faster if you are running small, tight loops that fit in L1 cache. AMD processors are faster when doing more multitasking.
Because, when "they" take the bait, they end up looking even more stupid and hysterical, thus weakening their cause further.
Because, if everyone takes their ID on the plane, if Johnny Terrorist blows the plane up, then everyone can flap their ID cards really hard which will put the fire out, and also it'll just be like lots of little birds flapping their wings, so the plane will float down gently instead of crashing.
Also, if you are brown, carrying an ID card means you won't blow up the plane. And if you are white, carrying an ID card means you are not brown or a muslim, so you also will not blow up the plane.
How else will you know how terrified to be?
That would all depend on the size of the spider in my bath this morning.
Why would I be interested in the "national security level?"
Except, of course, for the fact that the moon, and all other celestial bodies, are DMZs. Surely permanent bases would cause some diplomatic problems.
"I have in my hand a piece of paper." Neville Chamberlain, 1939.
How can you enforce a law if you can't get there to enforce it?
No one is taking long-term human space exploration seroiusly yet. The Americans haven't even been to the Moon since 1972, and no one else has ever been.
It will either take commercial space exploration or another cold war type space race between superpowers before anything actually gets done.
At the moment, there is no commercial incentive to "explore" anything other than communication satellites.
If China were to decide to establish a permanently manned lunar colony, I could imagine that the Americans would race them to it, to prevent Commies taking over the moon. Japan will be busy working on supersonic aeroplanes.
Meanwhile, Europe and India will send up more TV satellites.
The Chernobyl reactors are RBMK. This design is not operated in the West because is it intrinsically dangerous. This was demonstrated experimentally at Chernobyl in 1986.
RBMK reactor fuel has a cladding similar to PWR fuel. It is an alloy of zirconium.
The RBMK reactor is graphite moderated (like a Magnox or AGR) but light water cooled. The light water also acts as a moderator and neutron absorber.
Also, the control rods (absorbers) on an RBMK have to be "driven" unlike western reactors which fall under gravity on loss of power. The control rods on an RBMK also have neutron reflectors (graphite plugs) at each end.
As you can see, this insane design, combined with arrogant and ignorant operators, and automatic safety cirucits that could be completely defeated with the reactor running was a terrible combination.
You might be interested to know that in the 1970's IIRC, in the UK, we had a similarly stupid dangerous design of reactor in development called the Steam Generating Heavy Water Reactor (SGHWR). It was like an RBMK but with liquid heavy water moderator instead of graphite. AFAICR it didn't operate for very long before someone with a conscience demonstrated mathematically that it was a Very Bad Idea.
I think it was at Winfrith in Dorset. There were all kinds of groovy reactors there, including a helium-cooled one.
It means they are cutting the fat.
Let's see. Last year they RIF'd some people. Then they bought StorageTek which added 7000. Now they're RIF'ing 5000.
Trimming the fat?
Since the dot com bubble burst, Sun has been laying off many thousands of staff per year, but at the same time acquiring other companies. Remember Cobalt? Within a year of the acquisition, the product line had withered on the vine, most of the staff had been RIF'd and the Cobalt founder left to start another company.
Have a look at Sun's history since 2001. Look at RIF's, acquisitions, revenue, profit/loss and "costs" under those funny accounting laws.
I'm not sure Sun wants to make a profit. I suspect they want to keep ticking over, buying and RIF'ing, taking "hits" against costs, whatever.
Why? What are they up to?
Later this year, Sun will probably buy another company, take on a few thousand more staffers, and this time next year, lay off another few thousand.
You talk as if those are two different things.
Technically, they are. The President just has a direct line to Jesus, who tells him what to do. It's a bit like the situation with the Pope, only Protestant instead of Catholic.
Time to buy stock in Sun finally?
A couple of years or so back it got down well under $3.
This is just yet more of the same from Sun. The business strategy since the bubble bursts seems to be:
Fire 9-11% of the staff to "cut costs"
Take an accounting hit to reduce tax
Acquire many smaller companies adding thousands more staffers
Continue everything else the same
Increase revenue hopefully
Not quite make a profit
Repeat.
pSo, what other secret laws of tax, accounting and business does this exploit, and why is it a good strategy?
PWRs use zircalloy. AGRs use stainless steel with added extras. There will never again be new AGRs, so it's only of historical importance.
MOX can be made from nuclear weapons or used reactor fuel as required. MOX is also only of historical interest now, since BNFL cocked it up with a major PR gaffe compounded by the rantings of Greenpeace and "Friends" of the Earth.
I could run the nuclear industry better myself whilest drunk.
Oh yes, all that's important to women is their prospective husbands' earning potentials. It's not as if financial gain is secondary to some women. After all, all men are bastards and all women are whores.
Who knows, there may even be women out there with large earning potentials of their own.
The alternative view is that, no matter how poor their social skills or bad their body odour, when they patent their invention and license it for millions of dollars, they are going to have to fend of the avalanche of babes targetting them with the proverbial manure-covered prodding implement.