Every once in a while we discover a new problem on airplanes. Normaly people use that discover to make the planes safer, and normaly there isn't an accident when the discover is made. There wasn't an accident when people discovered this problem at the A330. But, unfortunately, due to the result of some risk analysis, Airbus didn't use the discover to make the plane safer, altough some countries oblied the A330 owners to fix the problem. If the plane was brazilian, it would be fixed.
In Brazil we have the almost never ending trial and the versions where trial ends when the suspect dies, or the trial ends because the crime prescibes (the latter one restricted to people that can pay good lawers).
How does one gets to implemnt the slow version of trials?
"Full HD video, 3D movies, photo processing are computationally intensive"
Full HD video isn't computationaly intensive if you have specialized hardware, and isn't even practical if you do on a general porpose GPU. The same applies to 3D movies (displaying them, not rendering).
Now, photo processing... That was quite heeavywork for the hardware available at the late 90's. Today we do it at portable devices.
Yet, lots of people do computationaly intensive things. Mainly gamming.
Better yet, if they followed their original plan, you'll be able to use both your crappy integrated GPU and you good plugged GPU at the same time, for solving the same problem.
You mean the US government thinks it is unaccetable to apply that to their citizens?! That is news to me.
Also, read a bit of wikileaks if you can. Those you think are chinese's sock-puppets are in fact Saudi Arabia's sock-puppets. (They probably have some other overlords too, but it is not clear yet.)
"but you can build a computer that can solve an infinite loop in constant time. "
No, it means you can solve a NP problem in P time. Also, it means the second law of thermodynamics doesn't hold for all cases, and that you can travel faster than light.
I don't know. There is enough evidence around to convince me that Bill Gates is the kind of philantropist that gives money to other people in an atempt to make more people give money to him. If so, he doesn't even deserve the right to be cited toghether with rober barons.
"Every year, there's a good dozen stories crop up on Slashdot about some new miracle bacteria or algae that just LOVES eating what we'd call radioactive waste"
Bacteria eating it won't make the radiation go away. That is not oil.
He simply can't have it both ways. Either people cut costs on refining or there is a risk of criticality.
And since nobody ever even said that they were using hightly refined fuel (and I fail to see why that is a problem), there is simply no reason to expect it to become critical.
Also, after the fuel is "burned" you'll need more mass for criticality. Your "completely unpredictable" proposal is way off. If the used fuel somehow emanated thermal neutrons or even more fast neutrons than the original fuel, nobody would discard it, and the reactor would called "breeder".
"don't drive in rush hour traffic (and how many fit that profile?)"
Every weekend driver fits that profile. You know, those people that only drive at the weekends, and are stereotiped to not knowing how to drive well. I always doubted isurance companies were any rational about their data, that shows how stupid they can be.
Well, either the government is expecting everybody to put stenographyc data at images and text at sites, or it is overwelmed trying to extract noise from every non-mainstream torrent out there. Either way, they'll only catch stupid people (if there is any stupid people that knows how to do stenography).
Ok, the alternative is sane intelligency based filtering. Now, some governemnts may be able to do that, but it doesn't look mainstream.
And that is the main reason why all that is interesting. Those reactors are quite old and unsafe (by today standards), they were hit by one of the biggest quakes ever measured, and submerged after that. Yet, just a few died from an hydrogen explosion, and the radiation level looks quite workeable. It seems that safe reactors should be quite safe indeed.
Ok, but I'm still waiting for the truthfull assessment of the situation after everybody calms down.
You have to have some kind of config system, and gconf isn't bad Dconf is looking really good now."
You don't need a config system. You need configurations, and people keep them at text files since forever. Gconf is bad, as are Dconf and Nepomuk. You shouldn't need transactions at your configurations, you also shouldn't need so many configurations that keeping them at memory is a problem, so you shouldn't need a database at all. Transactions alone could be a nice thing to have if you don't lose anything for gaining them, but transparency and simplicity are way more important.
Compiz is great. You can install it and disable all the effects, the consequence is that on the older heavyweight DEs become GPU accelerated, and reacted instantly to your actions.
But now Debian has upgraded to KDE 4, and I discover that a gaming GPU isn't enough to accelerate it. No poblem, IceWM does react quite fast.
It is relocatable on KDE since when I remember. I used to have the keep windows above and bellow buttons, but I ditched them lately because the window menu is more convenient.
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What? The A330 series has two engines.
Every once in a while we discover a new problem on airplanes. Normaly people use that discover to make the planes safer, and normaly there isn't an accident when the discover is made. There wasn't an accident when people discovered this problem at the A330. But, unfortunately, due to the result of some risk analysis, Airbus didn't use the discover to make the plane safer, altough some countries oblied the A330 owners to fix the problem. If the plane was brazilian, it would be fixed.
How luck of you.
In Brazil we have the almost never ending trial and the versions where trial ends when the suspect dies, or the trial ends because the crime prescibes (the latter one restricted to people that can pay good lawers).
How does one gets to implemnt the slow version of trials?
Full HD video isn't computationaly intensive if you have specialized hardware, and isn't even practical if you do on a general porpose GPU. The same applies to 3D movies (displaying them, not rendering).
Now, photo processing... That was quite heeavywork for the hardware available at the late 90's. Today we do it at portable devices.
Yet, lots of people do computationaly intensive things. Mainly gamming.
Better yet, if they followed their original plan, you'll be able to use both your crappy integrated GPU and you good plugged GPU at the same time, for solving the same problem.
It is that OS that people use when they want something more than a toy or text editing.
And software patents. Don't forget the software patents.
On a side note, Obama will is visiting my country today. It's creepy.
You mean the US government thinks it is unaccetable to apply that to their citizens?! That is news to me.
Also, read a bit of wikileaks if you can. Those you think are chinese's sock-puppets are in fact Saudi Arabia's sock-puppets. (They probably have some other overlords too, but it is not clear yet.)
You mean 25 of the last 50 years, right? We are at 2011. Also, I still doubt the US didn't have a big influence behind the Iron Curtain.
The meaning you are attibuting to DRM is clearly different from mine.
Information traveling faster than light and information traveling back in time are exactly the same things. At least from some observers.
No, it means you can solve a NP problem in P time. Also, it means the second law of thermodynamics doesn't hold for all cases, and that you can travel faster than light.
Yep. Europoe is quite far from Japan. If the spent fuel burns up, Tokio may (or may not) have problems.
Piracy is the excuse those companies are giving for putting all that DRM into our throats. If it doesn't stop piracy, why are they botering?
And, yes, the question was rethoric.
I don't know. There is enough evidence around to convince me that Bill Gates is the kind of philantropist that gives money to other people in an atempt to make more people give money to him. If so, he doesn't even deserve the right to be cited toghether with rober barons.
Bacteria eating it won't make the radiation go away. That is not oil.
He simply can't have it both ways. Either people cut costs on refining or there is a risk of criticality.
And since nobody ever even said that they were using hightly refined fuel (and I fail to see why that is a problem), there is simply no reason to expect it to become critical.
Also, after the fuel is "burned" you'll need more mass for criticality. Your "completely unpredictable" proposal is way off. If the used fuel somehow emanated thermal neutrons or even more fast neutrons than the original fuel, nobody would discard it, and the reactor would called "breeder".
Every weekend driver fits that profile. You know, those people that only drive at the weekends, and are stereotiped to not knowing how to drive well. I always doubted isurance companies were any rational about their data, that shows how stupid they can be.
Well, either the government is expecting everybody to put stenographyc data at images and text at sites, or it is overwelmed trying to extract noise from every non-mainstream torrent out there. Either way, they'll only catch stupid people (if there is any stupid people that knows how to do stenography).
Ok, the alternative is sane intelligency based filtering. Now, some governemnts may be able to do that, but it doesn't look mainstream.
And that is the main reason why all that is interesting. Those reactors are quite old and unsafe (by today standards), they were hit by one of the biggest quakes ever measured, and submerged after that. Yet, just a few died from an hydrogen explosion, and the radiation level looks quite workeable. It seems that safe reactors should be quite safe indeed.
Ok, but I'm still waiting for the truthfull assessment of the situation after everybody calms down.
You are kidding, right? Ok, wormholes aren't a nice explanation, but...
You don't need a config system. You need configurations, and people keep them at text files since forever. Gconf is bad, as are Dconf and Nepomuk. You shouldn't need transactions at your configurations, you also shouldn't need so many configurations that keeping them at memory is a problem, so you shouldn't need a database at all. Transactions alone could be a nice thing to have if you don't lose anything for gaining them, but transparency and simplicity are way more important.
You just need to replace the .kde and .kde4 directories at you home. Make them portable, mount them over the web, carry them on pen drives, whatever.
Compiz is great. You can install it and disable all the effects, the consequence is that on the older heavyweight DEs become GPU accelerated, and reacted instantly to your actions.
But now Debian has upgraded to KDE 4, and I discover that a gaming GPU isn't enough to accelerate it. No poblem, IceWM does react quite fast.
Windows programs make a single desktop less damaging by using nested windows (MDI).
It is relocatable on KDE since when I remember. I used to have the keep windows above and bellow buttons, but I ditched them lately because the window menu is more convenient.
I'm missing that "favorites" feature now.