Or perhaps they were less subject to "value engineering" 11 years ago than they are now. Which reminds me, I have three CFLs around the "vanity mirror" in the master bathroom that need replacing. Damned things are going out all the time.
In contrast, of the very first three CFLs I bought, back in the 1990s, two are still working.
Thanks for providing some clarity. What if we're not depending on the actual fusion reactor for motive force? Heinlein's torchships, as I recall, use the fusion energy to heat reaction mass (usually water) to something approaching plasma. The fusion reactor in this concept exists to provide heat, not motive force, which is provided instead by the reaction mass. This allows the reactor to have something closer to the configuration of a power plant rather than a rocket engine.
erm... if they've got nuclear fusion working, couldn't they just forget about Mars and work on making it available as a power source to replace conventional powerplants to solve the world's energy needs?
Ok, apologies if this is a joke that's wooshing over my head, but nuclear fusion produces very little radiation. A small fraction of the reaction energy is released in neutrons and some x-rays. Most of the energy is released as heat. I'm not a nuclear physicist, but hydrogen fusion is causing hydrogen atoms to smack into each other with enough energy that they fuse producing helium and a very large amount of energy. You're thinking perhaps of fission, which is when radioactive isotopes give off energy as they change into different radioactive isotopes. It's a completely different thing.
Ok, so it sounds like we all agree that a PHD in Literature is not a sure fire road to riches. Not a lot of surprise here.
I suspect that skills learned in the pursuit if the degree might come in handy to someone. For instance, your skill in research. There's often a need for someone that's really good at finding stuff, or at making sense of huge amounts of disparate data. It isn't literature per se, but may engage skills that you developed to get the degree.
Someone else mentioned becoming an author, and someone else said that a PHD in Literature doesn't necessarily make one an author. This is true. It may, however, give one the tools necessary to be an editor.
Daughter was until recently pursuing a degree in art. Then she thought art history, because it was interesting to her. She has finally settled on art business, because it's interesting and more likely to be lucrative. I have not expressed this, but I suspect that if she can't find a gallery to manage, she might find some other opportunity that uses her business knowledge but isn't necessarily tied to art.
Is it just me? I updated to 20 as soon as I saw this article (from mozilla.org) (Win7 64 bit) and Firefox immediately stopped working. No matter where I go, example: yahoo.com or youtube.com, Firefox will sit there not responding and will eventually pop up that a script is misbehaving. Clicking on either "continue" or "stop script" and the results are the same -- it'll go back to "not responding" and eventually the popup will return. Chrome and IE work fine going to the same sites. (Or as fine as IE ever works...)
I don't expect you-all to fix this, just wondering if anyone else saw this behavior.
I like the new task manager. Once you install the free app Classic Shell, Windows 8 becomes an improved Windows 7 rather than a marketing platform for Modern apps.
Yeah, you know, I'm going to have to try that, in order to preserve intellectual honesty. I have a touchscreen laptop running Win8 pro that I'm looking to give away, as Win8 does nothing for me and it's too much trouble to reimage it with Win7. (Besides, the touch screen is pretty much worthless in Win7 anyway.) But before I do that, I need to install Classic Shell and reevaluate, or lose the right to bitch about it.
We've discussed this before in slashdot, and we're not going to solve it here. The issue is characters behaving stupidly, or performing actions that no reasonable person would do, or if necessary behaving out of previously established character, or the "character" is an amalgam of whatever is necessary to be contentious, all characteristics of which have the sole goal of continuing the melodrama. But again, I am not yet required to watch any of these shows, so it's not really an issue. I don't understand why people watch Survivor either. Shrug.
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Or perhaps they were less subject to "value engineering" 11 years ago than they are now. Which reminds me, I have three CFLs around the "vanity mirror" in the master bathroom that need replacing. Damned things are going out all the time.
In contrast, of the very first three CFLs I bought, back in the 1990s, two are still working.
> In my AV system Every Page is Considered Malware!
I've lost track of this conversation. Are we talking about Facebook now?
We're Number One!
Does that really matter? You have two companies here who fight over who has the biggest, only problem is that what they're comparing is tumors.
Brilliant. That is my new favorite quote. :-)
Regarding facebook games... This has turned into the primary reason the stove timer is backed up by the smoke alarm.
beep... beep... beep... beep... beep...
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
"Sounds like dinner's ready."
What was it Metro was similar to, again?
Widgets, but less attractive, more annoying, and more difficult to turn the hell off.
Mod funny.
Ok, compared to whatever Facebook Home is, I'm willing to stipulate that Windows Phone is the real thing.
The question that immediately comes to mind is, the real what?
Thanks for providing some clarity. What if we're not depending on the actual fusion reactor for motive force? Heinlein's torchships, as I recall, use the fusion energy to heat reaction mass (usually water) to something approaching plasma. The fusion reactor in this concept exists to provide heat, not motive force, which is provided instead by the reaction mass. This allows the reactor to have something closer to the configuration of a power plant rather than a rocket engine.
That would certainly change the end of the movie.
"if you want to be sure"... briefly, I suppose.
That sounds like a youtube moment.
erm... if they've got nuclear fusion working, couldn't they just forget about Mars and work on making it available as a power source to replace conventional powerplants to solve the world's energy needs?
I'm told we're fifty years away from that.
Ok, apologies if this is a joke that's wooshing over my head, but nuclear fusion produces very little radiation. A small fraction of the reaction energy is released in neutrons and some x-rays. Most of the energy is released as heat. I'm not a nuclear physicist, but hydrogen fusion is causing hydrogen atoms to smack into each other with enough energy that they fuse producing helium and a very large amount of energy. You're thinking perhaps of fission, which is when radioactive isotopes give off energy as they change into different radioactive isotopes. It's a completely different thing.
After all, Dr. Laura's doctorate was in physiology, not psychiatry, and she was reasonably successful.
Ok, so it sounds like we all agree that a PHD in Literature is not a sure fire road to riches. Not a lot of surprise here.
I suspect that skills learned in the pursuit if the degree might come in handy to someone. For instance, your skill in research. There's often a need for someone that's really good at finding stuff, or at making sense of huge amounts of disparate data. It isn't literature per se, but may engage skills that you developed to get the degree.
Someone else mentioned becoming an author, and someone else said that a PHD in Literature doesn't necessarily make one an author. This is true. It may, however, give one the tools necessary to be an editor.
Daughter was until recently pursuing a degree in art. Then she thought art history, because it was interesting to her. She has finally settled on art business, because it's interesting and more likely to be lucrative. I have not expressed this, but I suspect that if she can't find a gallery to manage, she might find some other opportunity that uses her business knowledge but isn't necessarily tied to art.
Sounds like she nailed it.
Is it just me? I updated to 20 as soon as I saw this article (from mozilla.org) (Win7 64 bit) and Firefox immediately stopped working. No matter where I go, example: yahoo.com or youtube.com, Firefox will sit there not responding and will eventually pop up that a script is misbehaving. Clicking on either "continue" or "stop script" and the results are the same -- it'll go back to "not responding" and eventually the popup will return. Chrome and IE work fine going to the same sites. (Or as fine as IE ever works...)
I don't expect you-all to fix this, just wondering if anyone else saw this behavior.
I like the new task manager. Once you install the free app Classic Shell, Windows 8 becomes an improved Windows 7 rather than a marketing platform for Modern apps.
Yeah, you know, I'm going to have to try that, in order to preserve intellectual honesty. I have a touchscreen laptop running Win8 pro that I'm looking to give away, as Win8 does nothing for me and it's too much trouble to reimage it with Win7. (Besides, the touch screen is pretty much worthless in Win7 anyway.) But before I do that, I need to install Classic Shell and reevaluate, or lose the right to bitch about it.
Battlestar wasn't a soap opera - it was a SPACE Opera. Yeesh. Difference should be obvious.
In space, noone can smell your reek.
My humble apologies. You are correct.
It just adds to the confusion, making 8 even more of a disaster than it already was.
So, in other words, you don't like any of the things that make Windows 8 different from Windows 7. And I would agree with that.
We've discussed this before in slashdot, and we're not going to solve it here. The issue is characters behaving stupidly, or performing actions that no reasonable person would do, or if necessary behaving out of previously established character, or the "character" is an amalgam of whatever is necessary to be contentious, all characteristics of which have the sole goal of continuing the melodrama. But again, I am not yet required to watch any of these shows, so it's not really an issue. I don't understand why people watch Survivor either. Shrug.
Hm. Ok, well, more for us, then.
Enjoy hell on Earth! :)
One person's hell is another person's extended camping trip...