The evacuation was a precaution immediately after the emergency was declared because there might be a release. If you evacuate after a release you're probably screwed and already breathing in byproducts.
So they've been keeping people out of the area for two months now, and are still extending the evacuation zone, all as a PRECAUTIONARY measure? I think your more and more extraordinary claims require more and more extraordinary evidence -- and yet you've not even provided a source for that supposed WHO statement that there was "no evidence of any significant release of radiation". After about 30 seconds of googling I come up with this:
The U.S. National Nuclear Safety Administration has produced a map (as part of a presentation) showing the estimated first-year, long-term radiation dose in and around the Fukushima nuclear plant. âoeIn the red swath of land northwest of the plant where weather deposited a lot of fallout, potential exposures exceed 2000 millirems/year. That is the level at which the U.S. Department of Homeland Security would consider relocating the public,â says ScienceInsider. âoeAlthough 2000 millirems over 1 year isnâ(TM)t an immediate health threat, itâ(TM)s enough to cause roughly one extra cancer case in 500 young adults and one case in 100 1-year-olds.â
Another report (also by the NNSA) talks about up to 20 or so mRem/h a week after the incident.
Now, we might discuss whether 1 cancer case per 500 young adults and year is or isn't a lot, but this all sounds like a bit more than "no significant release of radiation" to me.
3) Fukushima. [...] WHO has stated that there is no evidence of any significant release of radiation.
Errm...what? So why did the Japanese evacuate that area around the reactor? Because they're a bunch of pussies? When did the WHO state the above? 24 hours after the tsunami?
Here's a question: What happens when you take drivers which were designed to run only local content (and thus have never been hardened against malicious content) and expose their entire API surface to the internet?
The driver vendors are coerced into hardening their drivers against malicious content. After that, web developers can write awesome apps, and card vendors can sell more cards, so everybody profits!
So they're saying that enabling shader code execution allows web sites to exploit hypothetical vulnerabilities in the graphics driver? How's that different from saying that enabling Javascript code execution allows web sites to exploit hypothetical vulnerabilities in the Javascript interpreter?
I wasn't talking about Python/Ruby scripts particularly, but about the interactive mode of those interpreters. I doubt that any pocket calculator is faster than that. Putting your calculations into a script would already be the next level, i.e. beyond the most basic, direct usage.
I don't understand how engineers could still use calculators today, except maybe out in the field where laptops are completely unpractical. I entirely stopped using calculators 15 years ago or so. I also never understood how supposedly tech-savvy people use calculator programs for PCs (like calc.exe or more "advanced" equivalents -- a totally superfluous software category IMHO). These days you can just fire up Python or Ruby (or, if you really must, Mathematica) and perform all kinds of interactive calculations with much more ease, comfort and power than a pocket calculator could ever hope to achieve. And those environments can always scale up and adapt to your needs with virtually no limits.
For every improperly classified document they release, they're releasing thousands of things that should be kept secret.
The documents were known to some 2 million people. If they contained top-secret information about where the US thought OBL was hiding, the question arises as to who really was the one who didn't know what he or she was doing.
forgive me for this stupid question, but if neutrons have 0 charge, by what means does the upper plate attract them and the bottom plate repel them? Shouldn't the neutrons just ignore the presence of the plates and fall toward the center of the earth, aka down? or do we already have anti-gravity technology that i am not aware of
I didn't RTFA, but the "charge" for gravity is called "mass", which neutrons have, and the earth's gravity could be neutralized by setting up the plates vertically, so any movement of the neutrons towards the earth's center wouldn't coincide with a movement towards one of the plates. Oh, and both plates may attract the neutrons -- the summary only said that once the neutrons reached the plate surface, one of the plates would absorb the neutrons, and the other plate would reflect them.
These two things aren't mutually exclusive. Chernobyl was a meltdown too -- an uncontained one. Just what Fukushima appears to develop into. And Fukushima isn't a standard meltdown as foreseen in the reactor manufacturer's books. If this continues, then Fukushima is a time-dilated dirty bomb, And the severity of the event relative to Chernobyl essentially depennds on "dirtyness" property, not on the "bomb" property.
So, they're expecting Android to have a 45.4% market share in 2015. Not 45.3, not 45.5. That means that they think that their predictions have a relative error of less than 0.3% over a period of 4 years. OR, it means that they are a market research company that doesn't employ anyone who ever took a statistics 101 course.
There are plasma power plants that actually do this, burning all the trash at such high levels as to completely gasify the waste.
I figure that 15,000 degrees Celsius will crack all molecule bonds and thus get rid of all *chemical* toxins (as their toxicity is caused by their molecular structure), but it's not going to do anything to the atomic nuclei (you'd need many millions of degrees Celsius to do that), which is where radioactivity comes from. Thus, if you put nuclear waste through a plasma waste disposal and analyse the remains, you'll find that its chemical structure will have changed profoundly, but the isotopic composition --- and thus, the radioactivity -- will be completely unaffected.
Well, they did predict remaining life expectancies of cancer patients before -- for Patrick Swayze, they predicted he had "weeks" to live TWICE, iirc -- first they said it ~2 years before his death, and then again 6 months before his death. I agree that the NE is a reputable source for the things it actually specializes in, and so I do think the the sightings of Steve Jobs are authentic. But predicting the remaining lifespan based on some photographs is bullshit.
Well, nobody outside Apple knows for sure, but how do you think e.g. the original iPhone happened? This was truly an epochal device that has set standards for practically all smartphones that came afterwards. From my perspective (and I'm no Apple user at all), essentially 90% of the design principles of ALL modern smartphones -- the clear focus on touch, the "physical" UI, the focus on detail, scrolling without scrollbars, zoom&pan, end-to-end integration of hardware and software -- can be traced back to the iPhone 1. This is not something that "design by committee" would normally come up with. I would think that very few people within Apple are directly responsible for these things, and without them, there would be no iPhone at all (at least no one resembling what we have today), and the whole market would look much different. I would think that Steve Jobs is at least part of that group of very few people responsible.
I highly doubt his money helped him get a liver any faster.
Well, are you sure? Maybe it helped him get one at all? If we assume that his liver problem was related to the neuroendocrine cancer he had 6 years ago, then what could that liver problem have been, other than metastases in the liver? He's not a heavy drinker, after all. So, assuming he had metastases in the liver from a cancer that started outside the liver, wouldn't that normally be an incurable condition to begin with? I read that liver transplants are rarely used as a cancer treatment, and if so, then only for cancers that originate in the liver, not for liver metastases.
Qt should be fine, too much heavyweight software uses it, and in worst case scenario - it's LGPL, ex-Trolltech people could pick it up.
LGPL ist a problem -- it means that those ex-Trolltech people could no longer require users to buy a commercial license for commercial development. When Trolltech still existed, Qt was GPL'd, so they could do that.
What you have said is true. On the other hand, this latest nomination brings the award renewed credibility.
If they manage to given the price to two worthy receivers for every unworthy receiver that they also give it to, they're about as good at handing out peace prices as the black death was good at not killing people.
He was obviously just looking at the data for several minutes before either looking up, realizing that the telemetry had failed, or perhaps having someone tap him on the shoulder.
It was something in the order of ten seconds, certainly not "several minutes".
Why don't NICs have device nodes in/dev anyway? That would be the UNIX way of doing things, right? And you could place symlinks in there all you like, e.g. to name the NICs by MAC address (/dev/nics/by-macaddr/*), or by bus technology/number, or whatnot, and then refer to devices from userspace using whatever scheme you prefer.
He didn't have pancreatic cancer, he had a neuroendocrine tumor, which has a much better prognosis. 5 years or even longer survival isn't uncommon for this type of cancer. That said, his chances for long-term survival are probably bleak right now if the tumor has returned.
The "contempt over kernel module compilation" arises when, well, the kernel module isn't compilable against any kernel that your distribution is currently shipping and supporting. And that is what TFA is about.
"main engine" refers to the liquid-fuelled SSMEs, not the SRBs. The SRBs are ignited at t=0, and after that, the stack is gonna lift off and fly somewhere (hopefully upwards), bolted or not.
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The evacuation was a precaution immediately after the emergency was declared because there might be a release. If you evacuate after a release you're probably screwed and already breathing in byproducts.
So they've been keeping people out of the area for two months now, and are still extending the evacuation zone, all as a PRECAUTIONARY measure? I think your more and more extraordinary claims require more and more extraordinary evidence -- and yet you've not even provided a source for that supposed WHO statement that there was "no evidence of any significant release of radiation". After about 30 seconds of googling I come up with this:
Another report (also by the NNSA) talks about up to 20 or so mRem/h a week after the incident.
Now, we might discuss whether 1 cancer case per 500 young adults and year is or isn't a lot, but this all sounds like a bit more than "no significant release of radiation" to me.
3) Fukushima. [...] WHO has stated that there is no evidence of any significant release of radiation.
Errm...what? So why did the Japanese evacuate that area around the reactor? Because they're a bunch of pussies? When did the WHO state the above? 24 hours after the tsunami?
Here's a question: What happens when you take drivers which were designed to run only local content (and thus have never been hardened against malicious content) and expose their entire API surface to the internet?
The driver vendors are coerced into hardening their drivers against malicious content. After that, web developers can write awesome apps, and card vendors can sell more cards, so everybody profits!
So they're saying that enabling shader code execution allows web sites to exploit hypothetical vulnerabilities in the graphics driver? How's that different from saying that enabling Javascript code execution allows web sites to exploit hypothetical vulnerabilities in the Javascript interpreter?
I wasn't talking about Python/Ruby scripts particularly, but about the interactive mode of those interpreters. I doubt that any pocket calculator is faster than that. Putting your calculations into a script would already be the next level, i.e. beyond the most basic, direct usage.
I don't understand how engineers could still use calculators today, except maybe out in the field where laptops are completely unpractical. I entirely stopped using calculators 15 years ago or so. I also never understood how supposedly tech-savvy people use calculator programs for PCs (like calc.exe or more "advanced" equivalents -- a totally superfluous software category IMHO). These days you can just fire up Python or Ruby (or, if you really must, Mathematica) and perform all kinds of interactive calculations with much more ease, comfort and power than a pocket calculator could ever hope to achieve. And those environments can always scale up and adapt to your needs with virtually no limits.
For every improperly classified document they release, they're releasing thousands of things that should be kept secret.
The documents were known to some 2 million people. If they contained top-secret information about where the US thought OBL was hiding, the question arises as to who really was the one who didn't know what he or she was doing.
forgive me for this stupid question, but if neutrons have 0 charge, by what means does the upper plate attract them and the bottom plate repel them? Shouldn't the neutrons just ignore the presence of the plates and fall toward the center of the earth, aka down? or do we already have anti-gravity technology that i am not aware of
I didn't RTFA, but the "charge" for gravity is called "mass", which neutrons have, and the earth's gravity could be neutralized by setting up the plates vertically, so any movement of the neutrons towards the earth's center wouldn't coincide with a movement towards one of the plates. Oh, and both plates may attract the neutrons -- the summary only said that once the neutrons reached the plate surface, one of the plates would absorb the neutrons, and the other plate would reflect them.
Fukushima is a nuclear meltdown.
Chernobyl was essentially a dirty bomb.
These two things aren't mutually exclusive. Chernobyl was a meltdown too -- an uncontained one. Just what Fukushima appears to develop into. And Fukushima isn't a standard meltdown as foreseen in the reactor manufacturer's books. If this continues, then Fukushima is a time-dilated dirty bomb, And the severity of the event relative to Chernobyl essentially depennds on "dirtyness" property, not on the "bomb" property.
So, they're expecting Android to have a 45.4% market share in 2015. Not 45.3, not 45.5. That means that they think that their predictions have a relative error of less than 0.3% over a period of 4 years. OR, it means that they are a market research company that doesn't employ anyone who ever took a statistics 101 course.
There are plasma power plants that actually do this, burning all the trash at such high levels as to completely gasify the waste.
I figure that 15,000 degrees Celsius will crack all molecule bonds and thus get rid of all *chemical* toxins (as their toxicity is caused by their molecular structure), but it's not going to do anything to the atomic nuclei (you'd need many millions of degrees Celsius to do that), which is where radioactivity comes from. Thus, if you put nuclear waste through a plasma waste disposal and analyse the remains, you'll find that its chemical structure will have changed profoundly, but the isotopic composition --- and thus, the radioactivity -- will be completely unaffected.
Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft's first CTO, made his mark in the tech world.
Really? I must've missed that.
Well, they did predict remaining life expectancies of cancer patients before -- for Patrick Swayze, they predicted he had "weeks" to live TWICE, iirc -- first they said it ~2 years before his death, and then again 6 months before his death. I agree that the NE is a reputable source for the things it actually specializes in, and so I do think the the sightings of Steve Jobs are authentic. But predicting the remaining lifespan based on some photographs is bullshit.
Well, nobody outside Apple knows for sure, but how do you think e.g. the original iPhone happened? This was truly an epochal device that has set standards for practically all smartphones that came afterwards. From my perspective (and I'm no Apple user at all), essentially 90% of the design principles of ALL modern smartphones -- the clear focus on touch, the "physical" UI, the focus on detail, scrolling without scrollbars, zoom&pan, end-to-end integration of hardware and software -- can be traced back to the iPhone 1. This is not something that "design by committee" would normally come up with. I would think that very few people within Apple are directly responsible for these things, and without them, there would be no iPhone at all (at least no one resembling what we have today), and the whole market would look much different. I would think that Steve Jobs is at least part of that group of very few people responsible.
I highly doubt his money helped him get a liver any faster.
Well, are you sure? Maybe it helped him get one at all? If we assume that his liver problem was related to the neuroendocrine cancer he had 6 years ago, then what could that liver problem have been, other than metastases in the liver? He's not a heavy drinker, after all. So, assuming he had metastases in the liver from a cancer that started outside the liver, wouldn't that normally be an incurable condition to begin with? I read that liver transplants are rarely used as a cancer treatment, and if so, then only for cancers that originate in the liver, not for liver metastases.
(FYI I'm a registered Microsoft hater)
How and where do you register for that?
Qt should be fine, too much heavyweight software uses it, and in worst case scenario - it's LGPL, ex-Trolltech people could pick it up.
LGPL ist a problem -- it means that those ex-Trolltech people could no longer require users to buy a commercial license for commercial development. When Trolltech still existed, Qt was GPL'd, so they could do that.
What you have said is true. On the other hand, this latest nomination brings the award renewed credibility.
If they manage to given the price to two worthy receivers for every unworthy receiver that they also give it to, they're about as good at handing out peace prices as the black death was good at not killing people.
He was obviously just looking at the data for several minutes before either looking up, realizing that the telemetry had failed, or perhaps having someone tap him on the shoulder.
It was something in the order of ten seconds, certainly not "several minutes".
Why don't NICs have device nodes in /dev anyway? That would be the UNIX way of doing things, right? And you could place symlinks in there all you like, e.g. to name the NICs by MAC address (/dev/nics/by-macaddr/*), or by bus technology/number, or whatnot, and then refer to devices from userspace using whatever scheme you prefer.
You have a UID of 137, and you've posted the dumbest thing I've ever read on the internet.
Are you new to the internet?
Given all his health problems, Steve Jobs needs to retire and enjoy life a little.
The thing is: Steve Jobs, like many passionate technology entrepreneurs of his kind, probably enjoys life the most when he's working.
He didn't have pancreatic cancer, he had a neuroendocrine tumor, which has a much better prognosis. 5 years or even longer survival isn't uncommon for this type of cancer. That said, his chances for long-term survival are probably bleak right now if the tumor has returned.
The "contempt over kernel module compilation" arises when, well, the kernel module isn't compilable against any kernel that your distribution is currently shipping and supporting. And that is what TFA is about.
"main engine" refers to the liquid-fuelled SSMEs, not the SRBs. The SRBs are ignited at t=0, and after that, the stack is gonna lift off and fly somewhere (hopefully upwards), bolted or not.