Actually you can argue that they did. United Linux was essentially Suse SLES8 + a custom selection list. Vendor-based application selections were limited almost to none. As a result, SuSE managed to make SLES an industry standard (just like RHEL). Oracle supports four modern distributions from two company. Guess which ones. They also support some ancient distributions from two companies. Guess what? They are SuSE SLES 7,8,9 and RedHat RHEL 2 and 3. Gentoo is not in their list, neither is FreeBSD.
Hmm, not true. NDL is based on SLES packages (the rpm versions should be the same with an SLES CD set) but selected in a different way. It should not have more functionality built-in. Similarly, it will have the same cycle-of-life, will be supported for something like 5 years, any version of Pro will never last that long, 9.1 didn't last long before 9.2 came out and we all installed it like lemmings on the run.
tell this to thousands who died in Kobe, Japan (over 5k people dead); Izmit Turkey (around 30k people dead); Gujarat, India (around 200k dead), Bam, Iran (around 40k dead)... And the list goes on.
When a big earthquake hits you, the chances are someone you know will die.
I was having some discussion with some people on Suse-Oracle mailing list today and Novell/Oracle won't support anything but SuSE SLES 8 and 9, Redhat EL 2 and 3. You can imagine what will your IT dep will say. If there are using RHEL, there might be a valid reason (like Oracle being an asshole).
ah... sparc32... FreeBSD support is dead. SuSE support is dead. Redhat Support is dead. Gentoo... Compiling Gentoo on a 2 way SMP (50MHz) machine with 92MB would be madness, last time I tried the boot CD wouldn't. Debian? Works fine but I lost my system twice during an apt upgrade, I have the potato CDs for sparc32, it got in such a mess after an unwanted reboot, I didn't try it again.
What do I do with my Sparc32? Suse 7. It works fine, the only thing that run are xeyes, xterm, X itself. Rest is done on one of my Linux boxes.
In USA and most of the western countries voting is voluntary. If you had to vote by law and get fined if you didn't then the noise would have an effect like you mentioned. If you go and vote, you want to vote. If you want to vote for Bush, you might be an idiot but you are still acting upon your right to vote.
I can't agree more. The best bookshop in town is reducing is SF and anime catalog all the time. You can find 3 issues, the rest are missing. You can say that the reason they don't update their stock is they don't sell enough, which is not true. You can see their stock coming and going but not the right stuff. Then comes Amazon. What I want is there and I order missing stuff from them. The problem is, I don't want to buy something new without looking at it first, handling it, looking at the print, background cover and a couple of pages. The reviews and extracts are not good enough, it can't beat the actual feel.
IMHO, it is more likely that the one gets scanned actually belongs to the cashier. Basicly he/she gets the stuff free with your money and the company still manages to track down the purchasing trends (using transactions as the key). It really doesn't matter if you are buying brand X and Y, it is more important to find out brand X usually gets sold with Y in the same basket. As a result they can put a nice promotion lowering the cost of purchasing of X while the one they make more profit, Y, gets sold at the normal or a slightly inflated price.
Exactly. Smart is to ESA as DS1 was to NASA, a good testbed. DS1 managed to return with good scientific data as well, so will do Smart. Overall two very good test beds. DS1 managed to encounter two asteroids using its ion engine and managed to wander far away compared to Smart but this is still good. Moon is a forgotten scientific target, it is no longer sexy enough. We've been back there (even with robotic exploration) only twice in 20 years.:(
Rovers are not a member of the faster-better-cheaper group, they were extremely expensive. What belongs to this group is Mars Polar Lander which was a spectacular failure. Also Climate Orbiter, again was a failure because of the unit difference (probably an effect of rushed procedures).
It is more like not enough money (to test and develop) and not enough time (to finish testing and development). Pillinger made it possible with a token amount of money, less than one tenth of the cost of a single American Rover's cost. He at least managed to get the probe all the way to Mars successfully. Many American and especially Russian probes even failed to do that. IMHO, when you look at the project as a total, it was pretty successful but not a complete one. Failure to land is not the end of the things. There is a team who is willing to work on the next one and finding people and money is the hardest thing.
Good work. This is really necessary to prove if electronic voting is really reliable. The difference between the polls and the results can be fraud in a master scale, especially when there is absolutely no trail or checks.
Although I am against Bush, I would prefer him winning the vote in a straight way, I can live with that. I can't live with the fact that he might have stolen the election for a second time.
To be fair, he is fighting for his freedom to live his own kind of life. Islam's secularization does is not something they want. To be fair, it is usually forced upon fundamentalist islamists.
One thing this is hard to understand for westeners (who have their religious freedom in a way much broader and greater than fudamentalist islamists can even imagine) is that they don't want to change.
I, myself, was grown up in a secular way in a predominantly muslim country and I am an atheist, a non-believer and I hate the guts of the fundamentalist islamists but I can't come to terms with not giving the freedom to them to live their own lives. I have a problem with them trying to change my or others way of life (and I am ready to fight against this kind of activities).
Osama has a very valid point: If America stops messing with the middle east, they will stop messing with America. It is not a threat, it is a very simple solution.
On the other hand, Osama rides on the rhetoric: He is not someone who has libertarian views about religion and freedom. He wants his people to obey. He is not different than American presidents of the last century who thinks the only way is the one they know is the best.
I myself haven't managed to come to terms with my feelings, I don't want to opress these religious fanatics but I still hate them, I don't want them even to exist. Arrgh...
I don't see a difference between guidig a plane into a building filled with civilians with dropping a bomb on top of a building filled with civilians.
The compareison is very close. Don't kill civilians, don't kill innocent people.
America is not fighting for a democratic, free Iraq. If that were the case, Iraqis could have a free election, America wouldn't invade the country and keep it under its military control for more than a year. They wouldn't instate their own puppets, they would select someone within the country, not import him from outside.
30 minute reaction cycle is a pretty long time for reactions. Nuclear reactions happen in a fraction of a second. Recent tokamak reactors have been operated for around a fraction of a second to a second. Fission reactors are easier to manage but still 30 minutes of reaction is pretty substantial. If it were just a thermal expansion that stopped a reaction (google for the first man to die because if direct irradiation of a nuclear reaction) it would have taked less than a second. On the other hand, the reaction itself is quite slow, the article suggests around 100 kilowatts which is only as good as 100 typical electrical kettles.
If this reactor had more moderator, flowing in like a river does, it would have worked for longer. 30 minutes to boil all of the water around you to generate a geiser is quite spectacular. Water boils away, gets converted to steam, reaction stops because of the loss of moderation, some other water flow in, cools the rocks and everything starts again. Neat.
Many of the reactor designs use this negative reactivity coefficient to stop the reactor running away. This is usually used with the pressurised water reactors where the coolant (and the moderator which is water (heavy or normal depending on the reactor design) flows through the elements with a forced circulation. If you lose the circulation, water boils, reducing the amount of moderator, hence slowing the reaction. If you loose enough water, the reaction will stop. (although it is a little bit more complex, depending on the reaction design, you also lose the ability to cool down the elements (air is much worse heat conductor compared to water, even a boling one).
Reactor design is not simple, there are many things to think about, how to moderate, how to cool down, how not to overheat (this is critical because the claddings around the elements usually get weaker when heated and crack. Once cracked, you cannot stop contaminating the water used for the reactor). Anyway, reactor design is one of the most beautiful engineering challenges I can think of. If only I could work on it even more, it was fun, pure engineering, even in undergrad level, it was a joy to learn. If only I could work on it for longer. When I graduated from my university, I had to meet real-life situations, no one wants a good engineering solution if it is marked "Nukular".:-(
Yep, true. Apparently Oklo genereated around 100 Kilowatt (thremal). A typical nuclear reactor usually generates around 2000 NWatt thermal and 1200 Megawatt electrical.
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Actually you can argue that they did. United Linux was essentially Suse SLES8 + a custom selection list. Vendor-based application selections were limited almost to none. As a result, SuSE managed to make SLES an industry standard (just like RHEL). Oracle supports four modern distributions from two company. Guess which ones. They also support some ancient distributions from two companies. Guess what? They are SuSE SLES 7,8,9 and RedHat RHEL 2 and 3. Gentoo is not in their list, neither is FreeBSD.
Hmm, not true. NDL is based on SLES packages (the rpm versions should be the same with an SLES CD set) but selected in a different way. It should not have more functionality built-in. Similarly, it will have the same cycle-of-life, will be supported for something like 5 years, any version of Pro will never last that long, 9.1 didn't last long before 9.2 came out and we all installed it like lemmings on the run.
When a big earthquake hits you, the chances are someone you know will die.
I was having some discussion with some people on Suse-Oracle mailing list today and Novell/Oracle won't support anything but SuSE SLES 8 and 9, Redhat EL 2 and 3. You can imagine what will your IT dep will say. If there are using RHEL, there might be a valid reason (like Oracle being an asshole).
What do I do with my Sparc32? Suse 7. It works fine, the only thing that run are xeyes, xterm, X itself. Rest is done on one of my Linux boxes.
Lack of support on sparc32 is so annoying.
In USA and most of the western countries voting is voluntary. If you had to vote by law and get fined if you didn't then the noise would have an effect like you mentioned. If you go and vote, you want to vote. If you want to vote for Bush, you might be an idiot but you are still acting upon your right to vote.
I can't agree more. The best bookshop in town is reducing is SF and anime catalog all the time. You can find 3 issues, the rest are missing. You can say that the reason they don't update their stock is they don't sell enough, which is not true. You can see their stock coming and going but not the right stuff. Then comes Amazon. What I want is there and I order missing stuff from them. The problem is, I don't want to buy something new without looking at it first, handling it, looking at the print, background cover and a couple of pages. The reviews and extracts are not good enough, it can't beat the actual feel.
IMHO, it is more likely that the one gets scanned actually belongs to the cashier. Basicly he/she gets the stuff free with your money and the company still manages to track down the purchasing trends (using transactions as the key). It really doesn't matter if you are buying brand X and Y, it is more important to find out brand X usually gets sold with Y in the same basket. As a result they can put a nice promotion lowering the cost of purchasing of X while the one they make more profit, Y, gets sold at the normal or a slightly inflated price.
Exactly. Smart is to ESA as DS1 was to NASA, a good testbed. DS1 managed to return with good scientific data as well, so will do Smart. Overall two very good test beds. DS1 managed to encounter two asteroids using its ion engine and managed to wander far away compared to Smart but this is still good. Moon is a forgotten scientific target, it is no longer sexy enough. We've been back there (even with robotic exploration) only twice in 20 years. :(
I don't think there ever were any problems with holding the velocity. Acceleration, however...
and the point is? This Obama name gets blocked or what or is this the widely known fact of Google image search does suck?
AFAIK, Google is all about ranking, if no one refers your page, it ranks at the bottom. Are these pictures referred enough or at all?
What was I supposed to look for in these 71.8k links?
His name is Balmer...
On the other hand, Britain was really "Great" at that time. It's time for a renaming job. "Little" suits it better. :-)
Rovers are not a member of the faster-better-cheaper group, they were extremely expensive. What belongs to this group is Mars Polar Lander which was a spectacular failure. Also Climate Orbiter, again was a failure because of the unit difference (probably an effect of rushed procedures).
It is more like not enough money (to test and develop) and not enough time (to finish testing and development). Pillinger made it possible with a token amount of money, less than one tenth of the cost of a single American Rover's cost. He at least managed to get the probe all the way to Mars successfully. Many American and especially Russian probes even failed to do that. IMHO, when you look at the project as a total, it was pretty successful but not a complete one. Failure to land is not the end of the things. There is a team who is willing to work on the next one and finding people and money is the hardest thing.
Although I am against Bush, I would prefer him winning the vote in a straight way, I can live with that. I can't live with the fact that he might have stolen the election for a second time.
One thing this is hard to understand for westeners (who have their religious freedom in a way much broader and greater than fudamentalist islamists can even imagine) is that they don't want to change.
I, myself, was grown up in a secular way in a predominantly muslim country and I am an atheist, a non-believer and I hate the guts of the fundamentalist islamists but I can't come to terms with not giving the freedom to them to live their own lives. I have a problem with them trying to change my or others way of life (and I am ready to fight against this kind of activities).
Osama has a very valid point: If America stops messing with the middle east, they will stop messing with America. It is not a threat, it is a very simple solution.
On the other hand, Osama rides on the rhetoric: He is not someone who has libertarian views about religion and freedom. He wants his people to obey. He is not different than American presidents of the last century who thinks the only way is the one they know is the best.
I myself haven't managed to come to terms with my feelings, I don't want to opress these religious fanatics but I still hate them, I don't want them even to exist. Arrgh...
The word you are looking for is: imperialism.
America can get away with killing so many because it didn't happen in New York, it didn't happen in a day and it didn't happen out of the blue.
The compareison is very close. Don't kill civilians, don't kill innocent people.
America is not fighting for a democratic, free Iraq. If that were the case, Iraqis could have a free election, America wouldn't invade the country and keep it under its military control for more than a year. They wouldn't instate their own puppets, they would select someone within the country, not import him from outside.
If this reactor had more moderator, flowing in like a river does, it would have worked for longer. 30 minutes to boil all of the water around you to generate a geiser is quite spectacular. Water boils away, gets converted to steam, reaction stops because of the loss of moderation, some other water flow in, cools the rocks and everything starts again. Neat.
Many of the reactor designs use this negative reactivity coefficient to stop the reactor running away. This is usually used with the pressurised water reactors where the coolant (and the moderator which is water (heavy or normal depending on the reactor design) flows through the elements with a forced circulation. If you lose the circulation, water boils, reducing the amount of moderator, hence slowing the reaction. If you loose enough water, the reaction will stop. (although it is a little bit more complex, depending on the reaction design, you also lose the ability to cool down the elements (air is much worse heat conductor compared to water, even a boling one).
Reactor design is not simple, there are many things to think about, how to moderate, how to cool down, how not to overheat (this is critical because the claddings around the elements usually get weaker when heated and crack. Once cracked, you cannot stop contaminating the water used for the reactor). Anyway, reactor design is one of the most beautiful engineering challenges I can think of. If only I could work on it even more, it was fun, pure engineering, even in undergrad level, it was a joy to learn. If only I could work on it for longer. When I graduated from my university, I had to meet real-life situations, no one wants a good engineering solution if it is marked "Nukular". :-(
Nwatt? I have to fix the fonts on this Sunsparc20... Megawatt of course...
Yep, true. Apparently Oklo genereated around 100 Kilowatt (thremal). A typical nuclear reactor usually generates around 2000 NWatt thermal and 1200 Megawatt electrical.