You are extremely overstating the case here. Obama isn't the worst president we've ever had, but he's definitely not in the top 20 either.
Did he get impeached by Congress like Andrew Johnson, who was only acquitted by a single vote? How about Warren G. Harding, who filled his appointments based on corruption and cronyism? What about James Buchanan, and his own economic collapse; to say nothing about being happy with the Dred Scott Decision. Or, there's always Franklin Pierce, who reopened the question of slavery in the west by signing the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Or, everyone's favorite, Richard M. Nixon.
Bush doesn't even make the bottom 10. How the hell do you think that Obama would rate?
The process they've been using for it (PUREX) has three outputs: Plutonium, Uranium, and all the other shit you don't want, in a nasty cocktail of actinides.
Once you've extracted the Pu and U, you can then recombine them into mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel, which will burn in the fleet of PWRs we have today. Rinse and repeat.
I'd like to ask an honest question here, since you brought it up in your comment: If your software and apps run without delay, does it matter how many cycles per second the processor runs, or how much memory it has if the OS manages it in an acceptable way?
We've seen this Mhz Marketing all over the Android world, and it's always used to whack on Apple in forums such as these. I'm just wondering why anyone would care how many Ghz their phone runs if their software runs correctly at lower clocks. There's not a lot of people in the iPhone set that are complaining about on-device performance, or maybe I just haven't seen it.
Note, I say this with a cabinet of Android devices about 5 feet from my desk, so this is meant to be an objective thing, not an Apple-fanboy thing.
Really? And do they stop collecting fees when the R&D is paid?
Does your employer stop paying you when your monthly expenses are met? I'm pretty sure that an inventor has the same right to making a profit that you enjoy.
I knew I'd find this comment in this thread somewhere. Apple was mentioned, very inconsequentially, so there's going to be Apple-hate posted.
Never mind that both Dell and Lenovo use DisplayPort instead of HDMI on their laptops too. Nope, that doesn't matter in the slightest - it's Apple that is "sleazing" around using HDMI, a connector that didn't even support resolutions necessary for their 27" Cinema Display product. It's Apple that is "sleazing" around HDMI by using a ratified VESA standard, which carries no royalty fees, from a standards body that has been around as long as digital video signals have existed.
Obviously the HDMI folks are the good guys here - they're only using lawyers to compete rather than features. That's always to be celebrated - causing interoperability issues for millions of people because you aren't getting your cut.
Yeah, because no one would like to have additional capabilities to what HDMI supports. Ever.
Never mind that DisplayPort is a VESA standard. Never mind that DisplayPort supports higher resolutions than HDMI 1.3. Never mind that DisplayPort supports chaining of displays, which HDMI does not.
Good job on being completely ignorant, AC. Feel free to get down with your Apple hate though, in spite of this being a completely non-technical battle that's being reported, and has very little do to with Apple.
Thanks for agreeing with me. Because the designers did their job with error correction and protocol definitions, the system takes care of transient conditions by itself. The point is that if you're getting a signal that isn't blinking in and out, you're done. In a digital universe, there is no difference between -8dB and -80dB if your receiving equipment is sensitive to -100dB. Yes, if you introduce a massive amount of noise to the environment, there will be a difference, but you might want to just not point the microwave you are operating with an open door at your home theater instead.
Throwing a stupidly expensive cable at it is a massive waste of money if you're already getting good signal through a cheap cable, which 95% of everybody will have no problem with. The receiving equipment doesn't give a shit as long as the signal is there, and the encoded data will not be somehow improved by the increased SnR of the digital link over what is necessary to actually transmit in the first place - which is what these bullshit cable manufacturers claim with their "bass doesn't sound reedy and thin" or "reds are much truer with this $120 cable" horseshit.
That's when I'd say "yeah, but I don't want my color out of balance, and I'm sure that all those film editors worry about "improved reds" when they're color correcting the shot in the edit room. Douche. Get outta here with your 'truer reds'."
Your neighbor would have to be holding the HDMI cable right next to his rib cage - there's nowhere near enough wattage in a HDMI connection to broadcast any measurable distance.
You know what, you're absolutely right. With a higher quality cable, the ones are just so much more oney, and the zeroes are so much more zeroey. The difference really is quite amazing.
Some people say that as long as the peak of the signal wave is above the receiving equipment's sensitivity rating you're good, but I want that sine wave peak to be WAY above the required sensitivity level. I want it to be so god damn far above that I can see the ones hitting the back of the TV!
Power conditioning does matter quite a bit when it comes to amplifiers, especially cheaper ones that don't have their own internal conditioning. You don't have to spend $400 on one though, that's just ridiculous.
Any analog signal will improve with better connections, to a point. Digital signals just require a SnR to be above the sensitivity limit of the receiving equipment. Being higher than the sensitivity limit does absolutely nothing.
And when Google, Microsoft, and Apple catch up to that feature set RIM is totally screwed. You've got a great short-term plan, but when you can lock down and control an iPhone to the same degree as a BlackBerry; but have way more usability and features available without the substantial cost of BES because you're using an ActiveSync reverse proxy, RIM is done.
That's great that you can have your own storage array. Now go to a video edit house where they need to have people hooked up to shared storage, and tons of it.
Everyone having their own local 16TB arrays is a huge clusterfuck if you have a real workflow. Shared storage, with a digital asset management system is the way real people do that work if they're serious.
You can't do that with SATA without having some form of networking stack, and gigabit ethernet is slower than 4 gig fiber channel; to say nothing of being able to read / write to 80 disk spindles at once on a SAN from a laptop. Good luck doing that from SATA by itself. Yes, you could have a file server out there with a crapton of disk on it, but now you've got the overhead of TCP/IP and whatever file sharing protocol you're using, as well as the server OS.
Please realize that Thunderbolt is not a replacement for USB / FireWire / SATA / etc., just the same as PCI Express isn't a replacement for those connections. It's two fundamentally different technologies, meant for wildly different scopes of connectivity.
And no, it won't be portable when you have that plugged in, but you don't need to take it with you when you want to be mobile. That's the point of external connectivity.
Now I think I'll chain that off of one of these PCI-e breakout boxes so that I can also have a full blown desktop video card on my ultraportable notebook. We'll wait again while you plug a Radeon 6870 into your eSATA.
Anyone working in digital video for the last decade would disagree that FireWire was something ignored, as it was the only way to ingest video from a DV camera until USB caught up years later.
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You are extremely overstating the case here. Obama isn't the worst president we've ever had, but he's definitely not in the top 20 either.
Did he get impeached by Congress like Andrew Johnson, who was only acquitted by a single vote? How about Warren G. Harding, who filled his appointments based on corruption and cronyism? What about James Buchanan, and his own economic collapse; to say nothing about being happy with the Dred Scott Decision. Or, there's always Franklin Pierce, who reopened the question of slavery in the west by signing the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Or, everyone's favorite, Richard M. Nixon.
Bush doesn't even make the bottom 10. How the hell do you think that Obama would rate?
The process they've been using for it (PUREX) has three outputs: Plutonium, Uranium, and all the other shit you don't want, in a nasty cocktail of actinides.
Once you've extracted the Pu and U, you can then recombine them into mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel, which will burn in the fleet of PWRs we have today. Rinse and repeat.
The one and only purpose of reprocessing is to extract usable material from spent fuel rods. It is NOT a way to reduce nuclear waste
Without reprocessing, the entire fuel load is considered waste.
With reprocessing, only what remains after extracting usable material is considered waste.
How is this not reducing nuclear waste again?
I'd like to ask an honest question here, since you brought it up in your comment: If your software and apps run without delay, does it matter how many cycles per second the processor runs, or how much memory it has if the OS manages it in an acceptable way?
We've seen this Mhz Marketing all over the Android world, and it's always used to whack on Apple in forums such as these. I'm just wondering why anyone would care how many Ghz their phone runs if their software runs correctly at lower clocks. There's not a lot of people in the iPhone set that are complaining about on-device performance, or maybe I just haven't seen it.
Note, I say this with a cabinet of Android devices about 5 feet from my desk, so this is meant to be an objective thing, not an Apple-fanboy thing.
Really? And do they stop collecting fees when the R&D is paid?
Does your employer stop paying you when your monthly expenses are met? I'm pretty sure that an inventor has the same right to making a profit that you enjoy.
We should just hook up a turbine to the founding fathers. That wall all the spinning in their graves would generate useful energy!
However, the ThinkPad X220, T420, and T520 that are on my desk right now all have DisplayPort.
(Apple's extension cables were slotted to prevent anything but Apple Keyboards to connect to them)
Unless you just pushed a bit harder and wiggled it just right, then it would fit anyway.
I knew I'd find this comment in this thread somewhere. Apple was mentioned, very inconsequentially, so there's going to be Apple-hate posted.
Never mind that both Dell and Lenovo use DisplayPort instead of HDMI on their laptops too. Nope, that doesn't matter in the slightest - it's Apple that is "sleazing" around using HDMI, a connector that didn't even support resolutions necessary for their 27" Cinema Display product. It's Apple that is "sleazing" around HDMI by using a ratified VESA standard, which carries no royalty fees, from a standards body that has been around as long as digital video signals have existed.
Obviously the HDMI folks are the good guys here - they're only using lawyers to compete rather than features. That's always to be celebrated - causing interoperability issues for millions of people because you aren't getting your cut.
I think YOU "just need to get with the program."
Yeah, because no one would like to have additional capabilities to what HDMI supports. Ever.
Never mind that DisplayPort is a VESA standard. Never mind that DisplayPort supports higher resolutions than HDMI 1.3. Never mind that DisplayPort supports chaining of displays, which HDMI does not.
Good job on being completely ignorant, AC. Feel free to get down with your Apple hate though, in spite of this being a completely non-technical battle that's being reported, and has very little do to with Apple.
DisplayPort also supports things that HDMI doesn't, such as daisy-chaining displays and higher resolution than 1080p.
Apple's 27" Cinema Display is 2560 x 1440, which has 56.25% more pixels than 1080p. It uses Mini DisplayPort.
Thanks for agreeing with me. Because the designers did their job with error correction and protocol definitions, the system takes care of transient conditions by itself. The point is that if you're getting a signal that isn't blinking in and out, you're done. In a digital universe, there is no difference between -8dB and -80dB if your receiving equipment is sensitive to -100dB. Yes, if you introduce a massive amount of noise to the environment, there will be a difference, but you might want to just not point the microwave you are operating with an open door at your home theater instead.
Throwing a stupidly expensive cable at it is a massive waste of money if you're already getting good signal through a cheap cable, which 95% of everybody will have no problem with. The receiving equipment doesn't give a shit as long as the signal is there, and the encoded data will not be somehow improved by the increased SnR of the digital link over what is necessary to actually transmit in the first place - which is what these bullshit cable manufacturers claim with their "bass doesn't sound reedy and thin" or "reds are much truer with this $120 cable" horseshit.
Naval reactors run on highly-enriched uranium. Usually the fuel assembly is 20% uranium, enriched to >90% U235.
Commercial power plants would never be built in this fashion due to weapons proliferation concerns.
Also, "refuelling" consists of cutting the entire reactor section out of the ship and shipping it to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation for burial.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Naval_reactor#Power_plants
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship-Submarine_recycling_program
I'm guessing you won't bother actually reading those, since you're just trolling.
http://www.dhgate.com/30pcs-lot-premium-gold-plated-toslink-digital/p-ff80808128ba63dd0128bf06b19b6d47.html
There's one right there. I'll bet that gold connector does all kinds of awesome for that optical PCM signal...
That's when I'd say "yeah, but I don't want my color out of balance, and I'm sure that all those film editors worry about "improved reds" when they're color correcting the shot in the edit room. Douche. Get outta here with your 'truer reds'."
Your neighbor would have to be holding the HDMI cable right next to his rib cage - there's nowhere near enough wattage in a HDMI connection to broadcast any measurable distance.
You know what, you're absolutely right. With a higher quality cable, the ones are just so much more oney, and the zeroes are so much more zeroey. The difference really is quite amazing.
Some people say that as long as the peak of the signal wave is above the receiving equipment's sensitivity rating you're good, but I want that sine wave peak to be WAY above the required sensitivity level. I want it to be so god damn far above that I can see the ones hitting the back of the TV!
Power conditioning does matter quite a bit when it comes to amplifiers, especially cheaper ones that don't have their own internal conditioning. You don't have to spend $400 on one though, that's just ridiculous.
Any analog signal will improve with better connections, to a point. Digital signals just require a SnR to be above the sensitivity limit of the receiving equipment. Being higher than the sensitivity limit does absolutely nothing.
And when Google, Microsoft, and Apple catch up to that feature set RIM is totally screwed. You've got a great short-term plan, but when you can lock down and control an iPhone to the same degree as a BlackBerry; but have way more usability and features available without the substantial cost of BES because you're using an ActiveSync reverse proxy, RIM is done.
That's great that you can have your own storage array. Now go to a video edit house where they need to have people hooked up to shared storage, and tons of it.
Everyone having their own local 16TB arrays is a huge clusterfuck if you have a real workflow. Shared storage, with a digital asset management system is the way real people do that work if they're serious.
You can't do that with SATA without having some form of networking stack, and gigabit ethernet is slower than 4 gig fiber channel; to say nothing of being able to read / write to 80 disk spindles at once on a SAN from a laptop. Good luck doing that from SATA by itself. Yes, you could have a file server out there with a crapton of disk on it, but now you've got the overhead of TCP/IP and whatever file sharing protocol you're using, as well as the server OS.
Please realize that Thunderbolt is not a replacement for USB / FireWire / SATA / etc., just the same as PCI Express isn't a replacement for those connections. It's two fundamentally different technologies, meant for wildly different scopes of connectivity.
24 != 600
And no, it won't be portable when you have that plugged in, but you don't need to take it with you when you want to be mobile. That's the point of external connectivity.
Please plug a 600TB SAN into your eSATA port. We'll wait.
Oh, you can't do that? I can with Thunderbolt and one of these Fiber Channel adapters.
Now I think I'll chain that off of one of these PCI-e breakout boxes so that I can also have a full blown desktop video card on my ultraportable notebook. We'll wait again while you plug a Radeon 6870 into your eSATA.
Thunderbolt is not for storage only.
Anyone working in digital video for the last decade would disagree that FireWire was something ignored, as it was the only way to ingest video from a DV camera until USB caught up years later.
Of course, what do I know?
Clearly, not much; at least when it comes to this topic. Can you plug a Fiber channel interface into SATA3 for access to a hundred TB SAN? How about a PCI Express card or Gigabit Ethernet?
This is a full expansion bus, not just for storage.
Except that France has a reprocessing facility that dwarfs other countries' capacity to get useable fuel out of the "waste."
Nice job not knowing any facts though, and spewing the same non-issues like a good parrot.