Since you value lazyness here's what's written there :
"Nuclear reprocessing reduces the volume of high-level waste, but by itself does not reduce radioactivity or heat generation and therefore does not eliminate the need for a geological waste repository."
But indeed there's that "UNEX" processing and other stuff though they seem to be about studies and such, not a proven and high scale mature process.
How do the Strontium and Cesium go away with reprocessing? Maybe processing removes some useful and some harmless stuff from your waste stash and so you're slightly better off, but I fail to see where the issue of hazardous nuclear waste is actually dealt with.
In fact it's not even clear that reprocessing spent fuel is useful. You get more energy out of fuel, but the fuel is cheap and plentiful (and you need little of it). I'm glad that France is doing it, but just because maybe having that capacity and experience may be useful some day if we can transmute harmful elements by throwing fast neutrons at them or something.
Further info : Mint 17, 18, 19, 20 (assuming they keep a 6-month release rate) will be based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, the changes supposedly will be linux and Xorg updates for compatibility/performance of newer hardware, and newer versions of Mate and Cinnamon.
As people said PCIe SSD always have been available as cards, but they're typically damn expensive. So what is needed is a more standard and common format. Intel touted SATA Express, a connector that you can use either as a couple SATA 6Gb or as a single PCIe 2.0 2x link at 1GB/s ; but that didn't work out (for now at least) and instead the next round of motherboard with Intel Z97 (maybe lower end ones, we'll see) will have a connector for M.2 format drives (a small "chocolate bar" form factor), which is PCIe at 1GB/s again. Maybe that'll get to 2GB/s some day.
If you want to do something that needs IOPS (I/O per second), e.g. running Slashdot's comment system, you can use RAID. But maybe you'll be running eight 15000 rpm disks in RAID 10, and not using the slower half or third of the drives (that makes the heads fly back and forth on a shorter segment as well).
When you're down to that point, using a single SSD will allow you considerable savings on all manners of cost and you get higher performance even.
Does Valve know any time I've played such and such games, on which servers and so on? Are data anonymized when surveys or such sociological studies are made?
It is one troubling aspect, or the biggest one. DRM philosophical arguments almost do not matter. When Amazon knows what books you've read, even down to the last page you've viewed for every book (that was in the news about recently) you have a situation that goes further than what the science fiction books and movies from the 60s and 70s and earlier anticipated.
You want a browser to auto-update, though (or have it be handled by something like Windows Update, APT, yum etc.)
If a browser doesn't update, your freedom and privacy is at risk and assuming the current story is a bug, that's how it gets fixed. Silly maybe but there's no way around it. Or use a browser that doesn't know about javascript, video, sound, mics etc.
Not everyone can be Valve or Blizzard, and Valve has that game free (as well as a couple other) so that they can gain a lot of Steam users, which then gives them new revenue unrelated to the game. They will even lure users to an OS where you almost cannot run games outside of Steam (I'm not putting a judgement on that, just reporting a fact)
b. You may pay for some in game character visual-enhancement kits, but none of the money incurred goes to valve, it goes to the kit developers(so its basically not part of the business)
Citation needed. I thought the whole business of Valve was to take a cut on everything that happened on their platform. They invented the "app store" model.
Having so few memory on such a powerful computer is a shame, it is very worth looking for that stick of DRAM. XFCE is about the same weight as Mate, I think you would be better off running LXDE with XFCE's window manager and then there's a little GUI named something like xfwm4-advanced-settings where you can toggle that little option you're after.
Being hot is enough of a reason to emit light (see a classic lightbulb, tiny metal threads are heated at around 3000 Kelvin and they don't burn, else the bulb fails). In fact, in that weren't true then the flames over an open wood fire wouldn't emit light either. My guess is we have "flames" simply made of hot air when the gun fires, instead of a flame made of combustion products.
The huge energy storage is ultimately the ship's diesel fuel, or what variant of heavy fuel oil it uses. That makes the logistics and storage easy (more accurately, already done).
That's ten-year-old news!, reporting is going a bit slow today. The railgun's projectile is to have an energy of 64 Megajoules. The DD(X) frigate (or destroyer, I don't know the difference much) was originally a candidate for getting a railgun ; that was canned at some point I think.
Here's a video with some testing and stuff done in October 2006 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... I had not watched it back then, I remember the high res, short one that simply showed the bangs and shot, I don't remember in which year. Sadly the PDF I remember from 2004 with schematic line drawings is offline ( http://www.battelle.org/navy/r... ) Here's one railgun news article from 2004. http://www.popsci.com/scitech/...
Depends on what's the "linux version", there must be many of them. I have the Gnome 3 version here, it seems to require me to guess. I think Gnome 2's version would give you bomb on first click, which even the Windows 3.0 version avoided (I believe the board is generated after first click?)
What does "sensible surfing" mean? I find the notion pointless. You ought to be able to visit any random site or page. If not, "sensible surfing" means javascript disabled, all plugins disabled etc., maybe even pictures disabled. You might as well use only Lynx as your browser on Windows XP. Seriously.
Regarding e-mail, I do disable images in my webmail's options, but that's so I'm free to open even spams without the sender knowing it.
There was a Rama video game in the mid-90s which seemed to suck. I had it. A bit pretentious, lifeless and too many CD-ROM reads for its own good ; I never got far then forgot about it.
Funnily, the ADD 1 TO 1 GIVING A example seems to elude the usual computer bullshit. Semi-colon, what does that mean? a=1+1, is that assignment or test for equality? And superficially COBOL looks cool. ENVIRONMENT DIVISION, DATA DIVISION etc. that shit looks and sounds better than that old tired preprocessor crap and free-roaming braces.
In fact I guess I would like to get vocational training in COBOL and COBOL systems (getting paid while learning it) and then raking in big numbers, showing at 11 on the job and playing Tetris most of the day.
I'm getting nostalgic for Ubuntu 10.04. I didn't use it for that long sadly before moving to 11.04 (with gnome2 interface), squeeze and such. But it was great and looked great, pinnacle of accomplishment just like XP SP1/SP2 seemed to be. Its support was ended and I don't think anyone will come up and say "hey, I'll be providing backported security updates for all the packages for the next five years"!
I find Cinnamon to be sluggish, the Gnome 3 tech behind it is heavy and the 3D acceleration came make it slower unless you have the right hardware or driver. So to me Cinnamon Mint is kind of a Vista ; Mate edition is more like XP (still slower than an XP without malware and crapware).
Nope, Windows 3.1x is kind of an operating system I believe, similar to Windows 9x in a way. It's crude of course but was decent for what it was. If it isn't an OS then maybe Classic Mac OS was not an OS.
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Since you value lazyness here's what's written there :
"Nuclear reprocessing reduces the volume of high-level waste, but by itself does not reduce radioactivity or heat generation and therefore does not eliminate the need for a geological waste repository."
But indeed there's that "UNEX" processing and other stuff though they seem to be about studies and such, not a proven and high scale mature process.
How do the Strontium and Cesium go away with reprocessing? Maybe processing removes some useful and some harmless stuff from your waste stash and so you're slightly better off, but I fail to see where the issue of hazardous nuclear waste is actually dealt with.
In fact it's not even clear that reprocessing spent fuel is useful. You get more energy out of fuel, but the fuel is cheap and plentiful (and you need little of it). I'm glad that France is doing it, but just because maybe having that capacity and experience may be useful some day if we can transmute harmful elements by throwing fast neutrons at them or something.
Further info : Mint 17, 18, 19, 20 (assuming they keep a 6-month release rate) will be based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, the changes supposedly will be linux and Xorg updates for compatibility/performance of newer hardware, and newer versions of Mate and Cinnamon.
As people said PCIe SSD always have been available as cards, but they're typically damn expensive. So what is needed is a more standard and common format. Intel touted SATA Express, a connector that you can use either as a couple SATA 6Gb or as a single PCIe 2.0 2x link at 1GB/s ; but that didn't work out (for now at least) and instead the next round of motherboard with Intel Z97 (maybe lower end ones, we'll see) will have a connector for M.2 format drives (a small "chocolate bar" form factor), which is PCIe at 1GB/s again. Maybe that'll get to 2GB/s some day.
If you want to do something that needs IOPS (I/O per second), e.g. running Slashdot's comment system, you can use RAID. But maybe you'll be running eight 15000 rpm disks in RAID 10, and not using the slower half or third of the drives (that makes the heads fly back and forth on a shorter segment as well).
When you're down to that point, using a single SSD will allow you considerable savings on all manners of cost and you get higher performance even.
The blue guards in Wolfenstein 3D shout "Mein Leiben!" when they die, or that's what I seem to hear.
Does Valve know any time I've played such and such games, on which servers and so on? Are data anonymized when surveys or such sociological studies are made?
It is one troubling aspect, or the biggest one. DRM philosophical arguments almost do not matter. When Amazon knows what books you've read, even down to the last page you've viewed for every book (that was in the news about recently) you have a situation that goes further than what the science fiction books and movies from the 60s and 70s and earlier anticipated.
But what was the influence of social media on the build up to this shift?
You want a browser to auto-update, though (or have it be handled by something like Windows Update, APT, yum etc.)
If a browser doesn't update, your freedom and privacy is at risk and assuming the current story is a bug, that's how it gets fixed. Silly maybe but there's no way around it. Or use a browser that doesn't know about javascript, video, sound, mics etc.
Not everyone can be Valve or Blizzard, and Valve has that game free (as well as a couple other) so that they can gain a lot of Steam users, which then gives them new revenue unrelated to the game. They will even lure users to an OS where you almost cannot run games outside of Steam (I'm not putting a judgement on that, just reporting a fact)
b. You may pay for some in game character visual-enhancement kits, but none of the money incurred goes to valve, it goes to the kit developers(so its basically not part of the business)
Citation needed. I thought the whole business of Valve was to take a cut on everything that happened on their platform. They invented the "app store" model.
Having so few memory on such a powerful computer is a shame, it is very worth looking for that stick of DRAM.
XFCE is about the same weight as Mate, I think you would be better off running LXDE with XFCE's window manager and then there's a little GUI named something like xfwm4-advanced-settings where you can toggle that little option you're after.
That's because 4-year-old is not "old". A PC from that era probably even came with Windows 64 bit out of the box.
Being hot is enough of a reason to emit light (see a classic lightbulb, tiny metal threads are heated at around 3000 Kelvin and they don't burn, else the bulb fails).
In fact, in that weren't true then the flames over an open wood fire wouldn't emit light either. My guess is we have "flames" simply made of hot air when the gun fires, instead of a flame made of combustion products.
Thanks! so General Atomics won.
The huge energy storage is ultimately the ship's diesel fuel, or what variant of heavy fuel oil it uses. That makes the logistics and storage easy (more accurately, already done).
That's ten-year-old news!, reporting is going a bit slow today.
The railgun's projectile is to have an energy of 64 Megajoules. The DD(X) frigate (or destroyer, I don't know the difference much) was originally a candidate for getting a railgun ; that was canned at some point I think.
Here's a video with some testing and stuff done in October 2006
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
I had not watched it back then, I remember the high res, short one that simply showed the bangs and shot, I don't remember in which year. Sadly the PDF I remember from 2004 with schematic line drawings is offline ( http://www.battelle.org/navy/r... )
Here's one railgun news article from 2004. http://www.popsci.com/scitech/...
Depends on what's the "linux version", there must be many of them. I have the Gnome 3 version here, it seems to require me to guess. I think Gnome 2's version would give you bomb on first click, which even the Windows 3.0 version avoided (I believe the board is generated after first click?)
If you don't care about licensing, I found stock Server 2003 to be a very good "XPlite" installation.
About ExpressCard, it seems to be rare. The next big thing will maybe be Thunderbolt to RS232 adapters, ROFL.
What does "sensible surfing" mean? I find the notion pointless. You ought to be able to visit any random site or page. If not, "sensible surfing" means javascript disabled, all plugins disabled etc., maybe even pictures disabled. You might as well use only Lynx as your browser on Windows XP. Seriously.
Regarding e-mail, I do disable images in my webmail's options, but that's so I'm free to open even spams without the sender knowing it.
There was a Rama video game in the mid-90s which seemed to suck. I had it. A bit pretentious, lifeless and too many CD-ROM reads for its own good ; I never got far then forgot about it.
Did you try changing the thermal paste? (and maybe have some power management control to prevent it going above 2GHz..)
Funnily, the ADD 1 TO 1 GIVING A example seems to elude the usual computer bullshit. Semi-colon, what does that mean? a=1+1, is that assignment or test for equality? And superficially COBOL looks cool. ENVIRONMENT DIVISION, DATA DIVISION etc. that shit looks and sounds better than that old tired preprocessor crap and free-roaming braces.
In fact I guess I would like to get vocational training in COBOL and COBOL systems (getting paid while learning it) and then raking in big numbers, showing at 11 on the job and playing Tetris most of the day.
I'm getting nostalgic for Ubuntu 10.04. I didn't use it for that long sadly before moving to 11.04 (with gnome2 interface), squeeze and such. But it was great and looked great, pinnacle of accomplishment just like XP SP1/SP2 seemed to be.
Its support was ended and I don't think anyone will come up and say "hey, I'll be providing backported security updates for all the packages for the next five years"!
I find Cinnamon to be sluggish, the Gnome 3 tech behind it is heavy and the 3D acceleration came make it slower unless you have the right hardware or driver. So to me Cinnamon Mint is kind of a Vista ; Mate edition is more like XP (still slower than an XP without malware and crapware).
Nope, Windows 3.1x is kind of an operating system I believe, similar to Windows 9x in a way.
It's crude of course but was decent for what it was. If it isn't an OS then maybe Classic Mac OS was not an OS.