The Orthodox Christians call themselves Catholic- not Roman Catholic obviously, but then again, going back as far as the Apostles the Roman Pontiff was neither the only Pontiff or the only one ruling over the same territory as St. Peter (The Patriarch of Antioch comes to mind for that one). The Roman Pontiff was merely the First Among Equals until he made the mistake of changing the Creed. And those following the other patriarchs are no less CATHOLIC.
Nuclear waste storage typically gives you a tank of water that stays at 80C for decades.
However, when we're looking at being relatively energy poor in the near future- the difference between say, that 80C tank and a 0C polar ice cap could be captured by thermocouple to generate electricity- no moving parts, nothing to wear out, no human being need touch it or even get close to it- for decades. That's a reasonable use for nuclear energy. Maybe not serious commercial power generation- but hey, it's enough to heat a few homes. Chain a beowulf cluster of them together, you've got enough to keep a city in power. And when you're done, the radioactivity will have died down to the point that the the nuclear waste will no longer be dangerous.
Might even give a reason to build REAL roads in Canada's Northern Territories.
produces recovered unburnt uranium, some plutonium, various inert things and a relatively small quantity of highly radioactive concentrated fission products, which you then have to store or dispose of.
This process seems to have more potential for recycling radioactive waste, but here's the $64,000 question: Why can't we tap into the energy that is comeing off of the highly radioactive concentrated fission products, in a nuclear battery contained in a very thick concrete and lead shield- so that at least while we're storing it we can still use it to create new electricity?
That's kind of sad, actually- only 3% efficiency? Why is this? Is the inert material buildup after fission blocking the remaining reations?
You'd think there'd be a way to dump the fuel into lower temperature designed reactors, until the fuel got down to putting out less than background radiation....
I personally never understood why nuclear reactors produce any waste at all. What the heck is wrong with placing the maximum amount of fuel in to begin with and just leaving it there until half-life decay destroys it all (kind of the same idea as a wood fire- I can go a week without cleaning out my fireplace easy in the winter burning 24 hours a day).
That's a new error on me- so I guess I'll create one. Heavy Metal and Punk Rock is supposed to be about PAIN- I guess this gives a whole new meaning to the term "Slam Dancing"
Doubt - On the touchy issue of security, Ballmer also dismissed the notion that Linux is more secure than Windows, saying that Linux would be attacked just as frequently as Windows if the open source operating system had as large a share of the operating system market as Windows.
Does this represent a plan for fixing the holes that still exist after SP 2? Say, give up market share to Linux so that Windows presents less of a target?
The United States was never a third world country.
It not only was- it's becoming so again. Already our economics mimic third world nations- a rich elite that has everything and a poor majority that doesn't even bother to vote anymore because nobody ever gives them anything.
I didn't realize the transflash was so difficult to remove- or to use in an SD player. Without that, the camera becomes worthless to me, making this the most expensive cellular modem ever for my main purpose (as a companion to my other bluetooth devices- the PDA and the GPS- in my Scott E Vest). Perhaps when this doesn't sell, they'll have one without the camera...
My main wishes in a bluetooth phone are dial up networking and cord-free headsets. For those of us who carry PDAs anyway with a SD card slot, there's an easy workaround for picture transfering- just use your PDA whenever your phone gets full, and at the end of the day before you sync your PDA.
the problem I see isn't searching compressed or tarballed files- where the text inside is still largely in plaintext. It's just a different file format- but it's still bytes and I've seen supergrep programs in the past for both Linux and Windows that do this (try Tucows or SourceForge before posting on slashdot in search of freeware and shareware.) The problem I see is searching *encrypted* files, esepcially ones with different keys. Now that would be *hard*.
Really? So you believe exactly what Martin Luther did? Evolution wasn't around in 1520, Darwin wasn't born yet. There are quite a few Calvinists and Congergationalists out there who still believe this way- but no modern Lutheran church touches such fundamentalism, nor should they.
Mod Parent Up! I totally missed this- and from this point of view, the way to point out that this form of outsourcing actually does *create jobs out of nothing* because it is MUCH harder to define specs remotely instead of face to face. Thus you need extra people, nearly twice as many, to get the project done.
A very good lesson that real companies often only learn after spending millions and still getting crap back in return from India.
The real difference can be seen in our current INDUSTRIAL outsourcing. America has a huge supply of natural resources- even today. What we're doing is shipping our natural resources to China and our informational resources to India, then importing the finished product back to America to sell to the consumers- which happen to be the same people we laid off so that we could take advantage of the cheaper labor rates in India and China. If this sounds like it breaks the economic equivalent of the 2nd law of thermodynamics, well, now you know why America has such large inventories of stuff nobody will buy.
First, as someone said, a job lost in one place is a job gained elsewhere.
Yep- as long as that elsewhere is anywhere other than America, or at least so it seems in IT.
econd, most outsourcing (in my experience, anyway; as for life in your dorm, YMMV) has nothing to do with losing jobs -- it's companies contracting out work instead of hiring new people.
In my experience, it's usually about asking the IT staff to train their replacements before being fired. This has caused at least one suicide (Kevin Flannagan, in Concord, CA in the parking lot of the Bank Of India^H^H^H^H^HAmerica headquarters) and one big challenge to a US Congress Critter (Michael Emmons running on the American Party Ticket against Rep Mica of Florida). I've yet to see *any* outsourcing project that didn't end in a massive layoff at the parent company.
At least- it's perfectly feasible as long as you have learned to speak either Cantonese or Hindi, since the grand majority of outsourcing contracts don't go to American companies (which have higher overhead for labor and benefits, and thus, can't compete on price).
(especially pointing out that outsourcing doesn't necessarily mean no jobs upon graduation)?"
This is highly counterintuitive. I suggest that if you want to teach this, you need to find a company that outsourced without losing jobs, without laying off even a single individual. If you find such a beast- let me know, because as near as I can tell, outsourcing ALWAYS means lost jobs.
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Which just brings up the damned dog again- I WANT F3 to do what it used to, find text in the CURRENT document on a Find First, Find Next meme.
The Orthodox Christians call themselves Catholic- not Roman Catholic obviously, but then again, going back as far as the Apostles the Roman Pontiff was neither the only Pontiff or the only one ruling over the same territory as St. Peter (The Patriarch of Antioch comes to mind for that one). The Roman Pontiff was merely the First Among Equals until he made the mistake of changing the Creed. And those following the other patriarchs are no less CATHOLIC.
to China? Might make as good of a heat source as the uranium.... :-)
Nuclear waste storage typically gives you a tank of water that stays at 80C for decades.
However, when we're looking at being relatively energy poor in the near future- the difference between say, that 80C tank and a 0C polar ice cap could be captured by thermocouple to generate electricity- no moving parts, nothing to wear out, no human being need touch it or even get close to it- for decades. That's a reasonable use for nuclear energy. Maybe not serious commercial power generation- but hey, it's enough to heat a few homes. Chain a beowulf cluster of them together, you've got enough to keep a city in power. And when you're done, the radioactivity will have died down to the point that the the nuclear waste will no longer be dangerous.
Might even give a reason to build REAL roads in Canada's Northern Territories.
The speakers slam the air right out of your lungs and into your chest cavity, of course!
OK- I'm learning here so bear with me.
produces recovered unburnt uranium, some plutonium, various inert things and a relatively small quantity of highly radioactive concentrated fission products, which you then have to store or dispose of.
This process seems to have more potential for recycling radioactive waste, but here's the $64,000 question: Why can't we tap into the energy that is comeing off of the highly radioactive concentrated fission products, in a nuclear battery contained in a very thick concrete and lead shield- so that at least while we're storing it we can still use it to create new electricity?
Which it will eventually- I think I just found a MUCH better solution to kid-in-the-car-on-a-long-trip boredom.
That's kind of sad, actually- only 3% efficiency? Why is this? Is the inert material buildup after fission blocking the remaining reations?
You'd think there'd be a way to dump the fuel into lower temperature designed reactors, until the fuel got down to putting out less than background radiation....
Just set up a Kiosk based on this program at your local passport office- and rake in the coin....
I personally never understood why nuclear reactors produce any waste at all. What the heck is wrong with placing the maximum amount of fuel in to begin with and just leaving it there until half-life decay destroys it all (kind of the same idea as a wood fire- I can go a week without cleaning out my fireplace easy in the winter burning 24 hours a day).
And India- they're the third in the trifecta of extreme fossil fuel users.
That's a new error on me- so I guess I'll create one. Heavy Metal and Punk Rock is supposed to be about PAIN- I guess this gives a whole new meaning to the term "Slam Dancing"
Doubt - On the touchy issue of security, Ballmer also dismissed the notion that Linux is more secure than Windows, saying that Linux would be attacked just as frequently as Windows if the open source operating system had as large a share of the operating system market as Windows.
Does this represent a plan for fixing the holes that still exist after SP 2? Say, give up market share to Linux so that Windows presents less of a target?
The United States was never a third world country.
It not only was- it's becoming so again. Already our economics mimic third world nations- a rich elite that has everything and a poor majority that doesn't even bother to vote anymore because nobody ever gives them anything.
I didn't realize the transflash was so difficult to remove- or to use in an SD player. Without that, the camera becomes worthless to me, making this the most expensive cellular modem ever for my main purpose (as a companion to my other bluetooth devices- the PDA and the GPS- in my Scott E Vest). Perhaps when this doesn't sell, they'll have one without the camera...
My main wishes in a bluetooth phone are dial up networking and cord-free headsets. For those of us who carry PDAs anyway with a SD card slot, there's an easy workaround for picture transfering- just use your PDA whenever your phone gets full, and at the end of the day before you sync your PDA.
the problem I see isn't searching compressed or tarballed files- where the text inside is still largely in plaintext. It's just a different file format- but it's still bytes and I've seen supergrep programs in the past for both Linux and Windows that do this (try Tucows or SourceForge before posting on slashdot in search of freeware and shareware.) The problem I see is searching *encrypted* files, esepcially ones with different keys. Now that would be *hard*.
Can't be any more than 600- before that all Christians were Catholics!
Really? So you believe exactly what Martin Luther did? Evolution wasn't around in 1520, Darwin wasn't born yet. There are quite a few Calvinists and Congergationalists out there who still believe this way- but no modern Lutheran church touches such fundamentalism, nor should they.
Mod Parent Up! I totally missed this- and from this point of view, the way to point out that this form of outsourcing actually does *create jobs out of nothing* because it is MUCH harder to define specs remotely instead of face to face. Thus you need extra people, nearly twice as many, to get the project done.
A very good lesson that real companies often only learn after spending millions and still getting crap back in return from India.
The real difference can be seen in our current INDUSTRIAL outsourcing. America has a huge supply of natural resources- even today. What we're doing is shipping our natural resources to China and our informational resources to India, then importing the finished product back to America to sell to the consumers- which happen to be the same people we laid off so that we could take advantage of the cheaper labor rates in India and China. If this sounds like it breaks the economic equivalent of the 2nd law of thermodynamics, well, now you know why America has such large inventories of stuff nobody will buy.
First, as someone said, a job lost in one place is a job gained elsewhere.
Yep- as long as that elsewhere is anywhere other than America, or at least so it seems in IT.
econd, most outsourcing (in my experience, anyway; as for life in your dorm, YMMV) has nothing to do with losing jobs -- it's companies contracting out work instead of hiring new people.
In my experience, it's usually about asking the IT staff to train their replacements before being fired. This has caused at least one suicide (Kevin Flannagan, in Concord, CA in the parking lot of the Bank Of India^H^H^H^H^HAmerica headquarters) and one big challenge to a US Congress Critter (Michael Emmons running on the American Party Ticket against Rep Mica of Florida). I've yet to see *any* outsourcing project that didn't end in a massive layoff at the parent company.
At least- it's perfectly feasible as long as you have learned to speak either Cantonese or Hindi, since the grand majority of outsourcing contracts don't go to American companies (which have higher overhead for labor and benefits, and thus, can't compete on price).
(especially pointing out that outsourcing doesn't necessarily mean no jobs upon graduation)?"
This is highly counterintuitive. I suggest that if you want to teach this, you need to find a company that outsourced without losing jobs, without laying off even a single individual. If you find such a beast- let me know, because as near as I can tell, outsourcing ALWAYS means lost jobs.
True enough- any OSS would do for the time being. And it took me 13 seconds to type this reply- how the heck did you avoid the 20 second clock.