The only reason that the Surface tablets are getting any traction at all, is because they can run native x64 Windows apps. When they tried an ARM version, it failed so badly that Microsoft ended up writing off almost a billion dollars of inventory that nobody would buy, even at loss-leader pricing.
Almost nobody* wants a phone that can run x64 Windows apps, so the same trick is unlikely to work in that space.
* I said almost nobody, because immediately below this comment will be a reply from some corner case or another where someone will want that, but they will be a very small exception to my statement. The massive majority of the market will not want such a product, and will happily continue buying Android or iOS for the foreseeable future.
And anyone that had a brain would know that Apple *was* paying Ericsson for these patents under the FRAND terms that are required for the standards of which they are a part. Then Ericsson tried to change the license fees, which violates the "and non-discriminatory" bit of FRAND. Apple told them to get fucked, Ericsson sued, they settled it on something that Apple and Ericsson agreed to. Apple then paid up for past out-of-license use during the period of lapse.
This shit happens all the time. The only reason we're hearing about it, is because people around here get a blue-veined diamond cutter hard-on whenever Apple is mentioned in a patent court filing.
So you're saying that Qualcomm negotiated end use rights for a radio standard that only they could use, and anyone they resold chips based upon that standard is fucked? In effect, you're saying that Qualcomm negotiated with every one of their chip customers in bad faith to purchase rights from Qualcomm for something they did not own, and could not sublicense, and set them all up for a legal shit show with Ericsson?
Or, do you think it's more likely, that you don't know what you're talking about? I think I know which one I'd bet on.
I believe this has to do with indemnity clauses in the contracts between Qualcomm and Erickson. If Qualcomm isn't given sublicense rights in their agreement, then Qualcomm's customers are fucked. Which means that Qualcomm would be fucked just after, as nobody in their right mind would want to buy into the losing end of a licensing lawsuit.
I would go as far to say that the market for true archival hard drives is non-existent. I've got a couple of drives that are old parallel-ATA that have stuff on them, but I haven't tried to plug them in and retrieve anything, and I don't have any current system that I could even plug them into without buying a controller. Now imagine trying to do that with SCSI-3 or some such that was really only used in enterprise and workstations where you'll have to search the ends of the earth just to get a host adapter to plug into, or the truly screwy interconnects of yester-year where it's unlikely you'll ever be able to plug it in again. And, that's not even covering the bit rot that is likely to happen over many years of sitting on a shelf.
It might be a density issue - methane requires a certain stoichiometric density to be flammable, somewhere around 17% I believe. Too much methane, not enough oxygen to support combustion.
I'm sure there's some kind of goldilocks zone on the perimeter of the gas plume where you would get a very nice explosion and shock wave, but the higher densities towards the center wouldn't burn without some kind of oxidizer being injected.
One would assume that your CO2 sequestration facility would not operate at atmospheric densities. If you did, it would be incredibly inefficient, but as you stated, not at risk of any kind of eruption without an external force.
My guess is that they would pressurize the storage in order to put more CO2 in there, which is kind of the point. Should the storage rupture, the pressure would force the gas out.
If you are going to post a summary which says what *might* be possible in the future, it's helpful to know what the current state-of-the-art is. For example, if you are going to have a summary that says the areal density of HAMR products is predicted to exceed 1.5 Tb per square inch it would be nice to know that Seagate is already shipping a drive with 1.34Tb/in^2 according to Wikipedia.
As it turns out, context matters when giving statistics, or there is no reference to know if the statistic means anything. Given what I found in 30 seconds of using Google, that would mean that HAMR is expected to yield ~12% increase in density from the current state-of-the-art.
So... you agree with the author of TFS? They never said anything that contradicts what you said, but there are definitely solutions where storage density is far more important than access speed. Remember, people still use linear tape drives because speed is the least important factor in backup and archival storage.
Truman weighed heavily the decision to use the bomb on Japan. He ended up going for it.
Truman also weighed heavily the decision to use the bomb on North Korea and China during the Korean War, as some generals wanted to. He opted out. The world is better for it.
Pu240 and 241 are just fine in a reactor. They are not in a weapon. Thus "reactor grade" plutonium being less than 20% Pu-239, and "weapons grade" plutonium being greater than 93% Pu-239.
Reprocessing commercial fuel to make MOX is just fine.
I'm not that guy, but my problem with it is that it's restricting a Constitutional right without due process, and without redress, for US Citizens, which is plainly and clearly illegal under the Bill of Rights.
There's no specific criteria for being on that list, and there's no way to get off it once you are. The 2nd Amendment specifically prohibits that for a US Citizen, and it denies due process which is illegal under the 5th amendment: "nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;"
To clarify what you said, in case someone simple reads it wrong: the Constitution is the owners / operators manual for the Government, and the Bill of Rights is a document of enumerated restrictions on what government can do. People should pay specific attention to the 9th and 10th amendment, as they specifically say that the Bill of Rights is not a complete list of the rights of the People, and the 10th says that anything not mentioned in the Constitution or the Bill reverts to the States or the People respectively. The convention just wanted to enshrine some specifically important rights so that there would be absolutely no ambiguity.
In fact, I believe the delegates from Georgia actually were worried that if a specific set of rights were enumerated in any sort of list, that some idiot in the future* would think that is the complete set, which is why the 9th and the 10th were added. And because James Madison was a fucking genius.
* I'm not saying you or anyone else here is 'the idiot in the future' that the newly formed State of Georgia was referring to - far from it; but there are plenty of people that think that because there is no explicit right to privacy mentioned in the current amended Constitution, it does not exist. They are wrong, due to the 9th amendment.
Yes, plutonium from spent fuel, at a very high level, is where the plutonium for weapons came from.
What you're not saying, and the GP did, is that the 'spent' fuel wasn't actually spent, because it was only in the reactor for a very short (and uneconomical) time so that the U238 captured a neutron to become U239, then decayed to Pu239. You leave it in too long, it captures another neutron and becomes Pu240, which ruins the plutonium for weapons purposes.
Any commercial reactor fuel rods that are being reprocesses are going to have way too much Pu240 and Pu241 to be of any use for weapons. The operator is going to keep the fuel in the reactor as long as they can, because that's the most economical way to create electricity. Creating weapons-grade Plutonium requires very short cycles in order to get the purity required to not have the weapon fizzle.
Not all unions are filled with corrupt motherfuckers who are more interested in perpetuating the union then they are at advancing the cause of their members, or what those members are employed to do.
I imagine a Teachers' Union in Chicago is a completely different beast from a Teachers' Union in Brussels.
You do know that the vast majority of the US nuclear stockpile is Plutonium-based weapons, right?
Plutonium takes far less material to create a critical mass, which makes for a lighter weapon. A lighter weapon means you don't need a big-dick huge fucking rocket to put the thing where you want it to be, and instead can use smaller rockets and missiles for deployment. And, if you aren't under the microscope, making Plutonium is easier than separating an ass ton of U235 from an even bigger shit ton of U238 through gaseous diffusion in a centrifuge cascade.
Pu-238 = great source of heat, not a great source of boom. Pu-239 = great source of boom, not a great source of heat. Pu-240, Pu-241 = not a great source of boom or heat.
Pu-238 is not used in weapons specifically because it fissions too fast spontaneously. That's why it makes so much heat. And, because of this, your weapon would have a significant portion of it reduced to not-plutonum and neutron poisons by the time you want to use it.
Rather interesting that Senator Reid had no problem with the DoE spending $90+ billion to build the place in his state, but all of a sudden pitches a fit when it's complete and time to start moving waste there.
A couple construction jobs provided to tunnel that out and pour in the concrete?
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You are free to walk state to state, anonymously.
Is it convenient? Absolutely not. But it is also not restricted.
I like to refer to that as being 'voluntold' to do something.
The only reason that the Surface tablets are getting any traction at all, is because they can run native x64 Windows apps. When they tried an ARM version, it failed so badly that Microsoft ended up writing off almost a billion dollars of inventory that nobody would buy, even at loss-leader pricing.
Almost nobody* wants a phone that can run x64 Windows apps, so the same trick is unlikely to work in that space.
* I said almost nobody, because immediately below this comment will be a reply from some corner case or another where someone will want that, but they will be a very small exception to my statement. The massive majority of the market will not want such a product, and will happily continue buying Android or iOS for the foreseeable future.
A point of information:
Adobe is killing the Flash brand, but ActionScript lives on. So Flash is not really being killed.
Wait, so you mean the trolls are wrong and this isn't some huge victory against the goliath that is big bad Apple, stealing ALL THE PATENTS?
It's almost like this is the course of regular business!
And anyone that had a brain would know that Apple *was* paying Ericsson for these patents under the FRAND terms that are required for the standards of which they are a part. Then Ericsson tried to change the license fees, which violates the "and non-discriminatory" bit of FRAND. Apple told them to get fucked, Ericsson sued, they settled it on something that Apple and Ericsson agreed to. Apple then paid up for past out-of-license use during the period of lapse.
This shit happens all the time. The only reason we're hearing about it, is because people around here get a blue-veined diamond cutter hard-on whenever Apple is mentioned in a patent court filing.
Wait.
So you're saying that Qualcomm negotiated end use rights for a radio standard that only they could use, and anyone they resold chips based upon that standard is fucked? In effect, you're saying that Qualcomm negotiated with every one of their chip customers in bad faith to purchase rights from Qualcomm for something they did not own, and could not sublicense, and set them all up for a legal shit show with Ericsson?
Or, do you think it's more likely, that you don't know what you're talking about? I think I know which one I'd bet on.
I believe this has to do with indemnity clauses in the contracts between Qualcomm and Erickson. If Qualcomm isn't given sublicense rights in their agreement, then Qualcomm's customers are fucked. Which means that Qualcomm would be fucked just after, as nobody in their right mind would want to buy into the losing end of a licensing lawsuit.
I really don't understand this one at all.
I would go as far to say that the market for true archival hard drives is non-existent. I've got a couple of drives that are old parallel-ATA that have stuff on them, but I haven't tried to plug them in and retrieve anything, and I don't have any current system that I could even plug them into without buying a controller. Now imagine trying to do that with SCSI-3 or some such that was really only used in enterprise and workstations where you'll have to search the ends of the earth just to get a host adapter to plug into, or the truly screwy interconnects of yester-year where it's unlikely you'll ever be able to plug it in again. And, that's not even covering the bit rot that is likely to happen over many years of sitting on a shelf.
This is why tape still exists.
Yeah, because I want to pay for hundreds of terabytes of SSD for nearline archival storage.
Nope. Spinning rust, please and thank you!
Yeah, because this thread has a complete lack of people in it that want to see a perp walk of a CEO.
Are you cracked?
It might be a density issue - methane requires a certain stoichiometric density to be flammable, somewhere around 17% I believe. Too much methane, not enough oxygen to support combustion.
I'm sure there's some kind of goldilocks zone on the perimeter of the gas plume where you would get a very nice explosion and shock wave, but the higher densities towards the center wouldn't burn without some kind of oxidizer being injected.
One would assume that your CO2 sequestration facility would not operate at atmospheric densities. If you did, it would be incredibly inefficient, but as you stated, not at risk of any kind of eruption without an external force.
My guess is that they would pressurize the storage in order to put more CO2 in there, which is kind of the point. Should the storage rupture, the pressure would force the gas out.
Might never be put out, like this?
50+ years later, still going strong.
Dear Dice Editors:
If you are going to post a summary which says what *might* be possible in the future, it's helpful to know what the current state-of-the-art is. For example, if you are going to have a summary that says the areal density of HAMR products is predicted to exceed 1.5 Tb per square inch it would be nice to know that Seagate is already shipping a drive with 1.34Tb/in^2 according to Wikipedia.
As it turns out, context matters when giving statistics, or there is no reference to know if the statistic means anything. Given what I found in 30 seconds of using Google, that would mean that HAMR is expected to yield ~12% increase in density from the current state-of-the-art.
You're welcome.
So... you agree with the author of TFS? They never said anything that contradicts what you said, but there are definitely solutions where storage density is far more important than access speed. Remember, people still use linear tape drives because speed is the least important factor in backup and archival storage.
Truman weighed heavily the decision to use the bomb on Japan. He ended up going for it.
Truman also weighed heavily the decision to use the bomb on North Korea and China during the Korean War, as some generals wanted to. He opted out. The world is better for it.
Pu240 and 241 are just fine in a reactor. They are not in a weapon. Thus "reactor grade" plutonium being less than 20% Pu-239, and "weapons grade" plutonium being greater than 93% Pu-239.
Reprocessing commercial fuel to make MOX is just fine.
I'm not that guy, but my problem with it is that it's restricting a Constitutional right without due process, and without redress, for US Citizens, which is plainly and clearly illegal under the Bill of Rights.
There's no specific criteria for being on that list, and there's no way to get off it once you are. The 2nd Amendment specifically prohibits that for a US Citizen, and it denies due process which is illegal under the 5th amendment: "nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;"
To clarify what you said, in case someone simple reads it wrong: the Constitution is the owners / operators manual for the Government, and the Bill of Rights is a document of enumerated restrictions on what government can do. People should pay specific attention to the 9th and 10th amendment, as they specifically say that the Bill of Rights is not a complete list of the rights of the People, and the 10th says that anything not mentioned in the Constitution or the Bill reverts to the States or the People respectively. The convention just wanted to enshrine some specifically important rights so that there would be absolutely no ambiguity.
In fact, I believe the delegates from Georgia actually were worried that if a specific set of rights were enumerated in any sort of list, that some idiot in the future* would think that is the complete set, which is why the 9th and the 10th were added. And because James Madison was a fucking genius.
* I'm not saying you or anyone else here is 'the idiot in the future' that the newly formed State of Georgia was referring to - far from it; but there are plenty of people that think that because there is no explicit right to privacy mentioned in the current amended Constitution, it does not exist. They are wrong, due to the 9th amendment.
Yes, plutonium from spent fuel, at a very high level, is where the plutonium for weapons came from.
What you're not saying, and the GP did, is that the 'spent' fuel wasn't actually spent, because it was only in the reactor for a very short (and uneconomical) time so that the U238 captured a neutron to become U239, then decayed to Pu239. You leave it in too long, it captures another neutron and becomes Pu240, which ruins the plutonium for weapons purposes.
Any commercial reactor fuel rods that are being reprocesses are going to have way too much Pu240 and Pu241 to be of any use for weapons. The operator is going to keep the fuel in the reactor as long as they can, because that's the most economical way to create electricity. Creating weapons-grade Plutonium requires very short cycles in order to get the purity required to not have the weapon fizzle.
False equivalence.
Not all unions are filled with corrupt motherfuckers who are more interested in perpetuating the union then they are at advancing the cause of their members, or what those members are employed to do.
I imagine a Teachers' Union in Chicago is a completely different beast from a Teachers' Union in Brussels.
You do know that the vast majority of the US nuclear stockpile is Plutonium-based weapons, right?
Plutonium takes far less material to create a critical mass, which makes for a lighter weapon. A lighter weapon means you don't need a big-dick huge fucking rocket to put the thing where you want it to be, and instead can use smaller rockets and missiles for deployment. And, if you aren't under the microscope, making Plutonium is easier than separating an ass ton of U235 from an even bigger shit ton of U238 through gaseous diffusion in a centrifuge cascade.
All plutonium isotopes are not made equal.
Pu-238 = great source of heat, not a great source of boom.
Pu-239 = great source of boom, not a great source of heat.
Pu-240, Pu-241 = not a great source of boom or heat.
Pu-238 is not used in weapons specifically because it fissions too fast spontaneously. That's why it makes so much heat. And, because of this, your weapon would have a significant portion of it reduced to not-plutonum and neutron poisons by the time you want to use it.
Rather interesting that Senator Reid had no problem with the DoE spending $90+ billion to build the place in his state, but all of a sudden pitches a fit when it's complete and time to start moving waste there.
A couple construction jobs provided to tunnel that out and pour in the concrete?