Nowadays, seemingly its all about optimization and minimums through re-inventing...
The taste of the dev plan for ARES seems thin. Regardless of specifics, The Jupiter Direct plan has a more likable production dynamic as far risk management on the deliverables.
IANARS
"In German and English I know how to count down,
und I'm learning Chinese saays Wernher von Braun"
- Tom Lehrer "Wernher von Braun? song"
A man ahead of his time! Chinese economic moves such as cornering rare metals, financing the US debt, and purchasing mines in Canada and around the world indicate exactly what you describe. "Who's next?"
Nuclear waste is not a resolved issue. It is simply icing that explosive coolants is further double plus ungood.
From your link about the fast breeder in your backyard: "The FFTF is not a breeder reactor itself, but rather a sodium-cooled Fast neutron reactor, as the name suggests."
Believe me, I'm very much into good tech of any stripe. There just isn't a good end-to-end nuclear system up and running. The consequences are serious and longterm. Meanwhile we get ongoing design and operational compromises while the arm waving continues.
True that.. We can hope for good engineering decisions. I think the point of the article was that engineering problems (and their possible solutions) are not the penultimate decider of outcomes. Complex systems can't always be conquered by reductionism.
There are multiple layers of "solutions" which can act in a counter-intuitive way. Examples: The stronger containment vessel overbuilt against external risks prevented a Chernobyl style internal blowout, the alarm and reporting system designed to inform operators immediately became completely confusing as designed, managers who help direct solutions became part of the problem by their presence, the valve indicator light was not a valve status light, the water quantity indicator wouldn't properly indicate a null amount.
So no matter the engineering (or financial) possibilities, there are also many other layers both in execution and operation of a concept. It is demonstrably risky to mandate, and expect fulfillment of, regulatory and engineering (or financial) over-site due to the human factor and compounded, disconnected complexities which includes engineers (or financiers) themselves.
We just gotta be more careful and a lot less trusting that "those in the know" are taking reasonable risks. Which is why arrogance from those with answers is a prime risk indicator.
All the more reason to leave it in diffuse concentrations under the ground in the first place.
Mine shafts and pits disturb surface and sub-surface water flows, so aside from run-off and legacy pumping issues in defunct mines (if the pump stops ever, groundwater gets contaminated) and radioactive dust blowing from tailings piles, we are left with concentrated and transformed nuclear fuel which we then have to keep safe somewhere for all time lest our descendants die horribly painful deaths from exposure to insanely miniscule quantities of radioactive material.
Fast breeders have too many inherent risks. A primary one being: the corrosive molten sodium as a primary coolant must transfer the heat to water (the secondary coolant) via a heat exchanger. "Sodium reacts exothermically with water... large pieces will explode." Sodium
"As of 2006, all large-scale FBR power stations have been liquid metal fast reactors (LMFBR) cooled by liquid sodium." - Breeder reactors
A police agency disconnects 911 service and the media tries to email a guy whose email servers are all fubar from the raid.
I wonder who carries the liability here, the FBI for disconnecting customers 911 service, or the data center for harboring evil doers?
FTFA:
"According to Simpson, some residents' access to 911 is also being affected because some of Core IPs primary customers include telephone companies."
"Simpson claims nearly 50 businesses are without access to their email and data.... CBS 11 News emailed Simpson about the raid, but as of Thursday evening he had yet to respond."
Sometimes a course is specifically to teach both concepts and proficiency with a certain software. No way to "fix" the dilemma by eliminating the software without eliminating the course too.
In a class of 150 (with smaller labs) IT issues can crop up weekly. Getting rid of specific software does nothing to offload the responsibility of the school to provide and maintain a functional learning environment. A computer lab setting creates generic "seats" so students can relocate rather than being tied to their own possibly malfunctioning laptop. Students can not afford to have hours of down-time, let alone days.
The licensing issue rears its head when marking because either assignments may be submitted in a software/version/format the school does not have because the student cannot export backwards to earlier versions or to a compatible file format.
When a course requires a certain software package, a consistent install base is crucial for teaching and troubleshooting.
When a system problem can't be solved by having the student move to another workstation while IT is re-imaging a lab computer, weeks of course time and homework can be lost. It is a headache keeping track of excused late assignments.
Not to mention software licensing issues.. It forces the instructor into a legal and moral choice between running the "new & hot" version the students are running and last years license the school purchased. Isn't your highest obligation to teach the students? And don't even start me on instant messaging.
A form of the petition has the names of petitioners written in a circle, so no one can be singled out as having signed first.
Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (S.L.A.P.P.) have become a threat to free speech by the public who is always a stakeholder when it comes to issues affecting communities or the environment. To prevent unfair targeting and financial/legal leverage by corporate entities and government bodies, anonymity becomes essential for free discourse by individuals since it allows "free speech" to be unencumbered by legal and financial harassment.
Was pretty surprised to see a bright speck in the sky late one morning, got the binoculars, and it resolved as a crescent.. Called the observatory and told'em i saw a bright spot in the sky, what could it be? After he asked if it was the sun, he suggested it was venus, and sure enough it was! It was just before venus was "going around the corner" so to speak, from orbiting on the same side of the sun as us, to the far side.
So often "pure" rationalizations fail in the realms of complex systems and biological systems, such as the principal of bio-accumulation of toxins, where extremely low environmental levels of a substance may aggregate to very high levels in a predator species. Or japanese subway cars where the high number of cell phones, and the closed metal shell of the car, can cause standing waves (microwave hotspots) within the car, far greater than the individual phones power output. Resonance can cause astonishing accumulations of power from very low power sources.
The most compelling description of neuronal damage in the brain due to microwave EMF at low levels, similar to a cell phone were studies which found that the blood brain barrier membrane in rats dilated slightly under low level microwave EMF. This then allowed albumin proteins to pass through the membrane into the brain, where subsequent neuronal damage was caused through the molecular interactions.
So, the amount of power required to induce the membrane change was in fact too low to directly cause tissue damage, but the brain was profoundly perturbed due to a subsequent cascade of effects. The world (and us) are symbiotic and minor changes can destabilize the entire system. Acting like a know-it-all cuz you weren't open to following a counter-intuitive concept all the way through is kinda dangerous.. znew=z^2+c
thank you anon for that! sounds fun. i will check the mb closely, its apart already;) i do love that m200, used it every day for 4 years for cg and it still pulled its weight! the screen swivel was seizing up a bit so it could have been motherboard flexion as the cause. a good thing if i could revive it, i can solder pretty fine. the 1440x1050 12" screen is good, *feh* to the 1280x800 widescreen fad.
That was the first thing I noticed too. Although, the same letter would appear differently depending on the word it was in. It is a cumulative offset for only some of the character table. I did reflash the motherboard bios and the video bios and do a clean xp install, but same problem. It did make me curious about where the character table actually sits, in the motherboard bios or in the video chip.
I had this (jpg image of my bios) displayed after a hardware failure. "Hard Dick Mode - Enhanced". I ROFL'D heavily, it was even better than the server msg "There has been an error, the error was sucess!"
FYI m200 tablet with nvidia chip, The graphics had some lines in it, and the factory driver would bsod.
Nice description! Similar to the 3 blind men and the elephant.. Anyhow, hope I get this right, what you are describing is what I've heard called a scalar field. That is something like atmospheric air pressures, measured at many points. Despite the fact that there is no original vector forces, motion (wind) is created through the differences in the scalar values. So the implication is that space-time is under some sort of static tension. The question then is what things affect that tension and whether there is regional or temporal variance.
My Toshiba m200 tablet has been the best laptop of the many I've owned. At just over 4lbs with a nice 12" 1400x1050 screen. It has taken 4 years of everyday pro use with the only faults occurring in the power supply cable and the Hitachi hard drive after 2 years..
Used to be laptops were only high-end, but now there is this insidious split between expensive "student" laptops and cheap "pro" laptops. Once noble product lines are now polluted with lame cases and keyboards, etc.
So I disagree with your point re: Toshibas. I intend to upgrade to a nextgen tablet which includes all the goodness without the compromises the interim models make.. hate that low vertical res.. numbers less than 1000 remind me of the old days.
It looks to me like the hinged portion of the wing tips is different than before. I'm sure they've done their job, but given the corkscrew trick the last one did, I'd think a lot of stress could be on that area.. It looks not so robust there to me. IANARS
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thank you for saying that
Nowadays, seemingly its all about optimization and minimums through re-inventing... The taste of the dev plan for ARES seems thin. Regardless of specifics, The Jupiter Direct plan has a more likable production dynamic as far risk management on the deliverables. IANARS
Retreating fanboys may be butt-hurt.
"In German and English I know how to count down,
und I'm learning Chinese saays Wernher von Braun"
- Tom Lehrer "Wernher von Braun? song"
A man ahead of his time! Chinese economic moves such as cornering rare metals, financing the US debt, and purchasing mines in Canada and around the world indicate exactly what you describe. "Who's next?"
Nuclear waste is not a resolved issue. It is simply icing that explosive coolants is further double plus ungood.
From your link about the fast breeder in your backyard: "The FFTF is not a breeder reactor itself, but rather a sodium-cooled Fast neutron reactor, as the name suggests."
Believe me, I'm very much into good tech of any stripe. There just isn't a good end-to-end nuclear system up and running. The consequences are serious and longterm. Meanwhile we get ongoing design and operational compromises while the arm waving continues.
Rhetorically: If the nuclear industry is so safe why is it un-insurable in the US, and instead government backed on top of an industry bond?
True that.. We can hope for good engineering decisions. I think the point of the article was that engineering problems (and their possible solutions) are not the penultimate decider of outcomes. Complex systems can't always be conquered by reductionism.
There are multiple layers of "solutions" which can act in a counter-intuitive way. Examples: The stronger containment vessel overbuilt against external risks prevented a Chernobyl style internal blowout, the alarm and reporting system designed to inform operators immediately became completely confusing as designed, managers who help direct solutions became part of the problem by their presence, the valve indicator light was not a valve status light, the water quantity indicator wouldn't properly indicate a null amount.
So no matter the engineering (or financial) possibilities, there are also many other layers both in execution and operation of a concept. It is demonstrably risky to mandate, and expect fulfillment of, regulatory and engineering (or financial) over-site due to the human factor and compounded, disconnected complexities which includes engineers (or financiers) themselves.
We just gotta be more careful and a lot less trusting that "those in the know" are taking reasonable risks. Which is why arrogance from those with answers is a prime risk indicator.
All the more reason to leave it in diffuse concentrations under the ground in the first place.
Mine shafts and pits disturb surface and sub-surface water flows, so aside from run-off and legacy pumping issues in defunct mines (if the pump stops ever, groundwater gets contaminated) and radioactive dust blowing from tailings piles, we are left with concentrated and transformed nuclear fuel which we then have to keep safe somewhere for all time lest our descendants die horribly painful deaths from exposure to insanely miniscule quantities of radioactive material.
Not a good gamble, and not our bet to place.
Fast breeders have too many inherent risks. A primary one being: the corrosive molten sodium as a primary coolant must transfer the heat to water (the secondary coolant) via a heat exchanger. "Sodium reacts exothermically with water ... large pieces will explode." Sodium
"As of 2006, all large-scale FBR power stations have been liquid metal fast reactors (LMFBR) cooled by liquid sodium." - Breeder reactors
The solid containment structure was over-spec to keep things out (crashing b-52s) not to keep things in.
The safety outcome was circumstantial, and a lucky lesson.
Fundamentally radioactive transuranic waste with a half life of 220,000 years is why I don't like nuclear power.
A police agency disconnects 911 service and the media tries to email a guy whose email servers are all fubar from the raid.
... CBS 11 News emailed Simpson about the raid, but as of Thursday evening he had yet to respond."
I wonder who carries the liability here, the FBI for disconnecting customers 911 service, or the data center for harboring evil doers?
FTFA:
"According to Simpson, some residents' access to 911 is also being affected because some of Core IPs primary customers include telephone companies."
"Simpson claims nearly 50 businesses are without access to their email and data.
1) hook a wallet chain to it and keep it in your backpocket.
2) Glue 50 dollar bills all over the outside of it.
3) Tell them its actually a 14 inch laptop (chicks get lied to all the time)
Sometimes a course is specifically to teach both concepts and proficiency with a certain software. No way to "fix" the dilemma by eliminating the software without eliminating the course too.
In a class of 150 (with smaller labs) IT issues can crop up weekly. Getting rid of specific software does nothing to offload the responsibility of the school to provide and maintain a functional learning environment. A computer lab setting creates generic "seats" so students can relocate rather than being tied to their own possibly malfunctioning laptop. Students can not afford to have hours of down-time, let alone days.
The licensing issue rears its head when marking because either assignments may be submitted in a software/version/format the school does not have because the student cannot export backwards to earlier versions or to a compatible file format.
When a course requires a certain software package, a consistent install base is crucial for teaching and troubleshooting.
When a system problem can't be solved by having the student move to another workstation while IT is re-imaging a lab computer, weeks of course time and homework can be lost. It is a headache keeping track of excused late assignments.
Not to mention software licensing issues.. It forces the instructor into a legal and moral choice between running the "new & hot" version the students are running and last years license the school purchased. Isn't your highest obligation to teach the students? And don't even start me on instant messaging.
A form of the petition has the names of petitioners written in a circle, so no one can be singled out as having signed first.
Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (S.L.A.P.P.) have become a threat to free speech by the public who is always a stakeholder when it comes to issues affecting communities or the environment. To prevent unfair targeting and financial/legal leverage by corporate entities and government bodies, anonymity becomes essential for free discourse by individuals since it allows "free speech" to be unencumbered by legal and financial harassment.
don't you mean geese? /canada
Was pretty surprised to see a bright speck in the sky late one morning, got the binoculars, and it resolved as a crescent.. Called the observatory and told'em i saw a bright spot in the sky, what could it be? After he asked if it was the sun, he suggested it was venus, and sure enough it was! It was just before venus was "going around the corner" so to speak, from orbiting on the same side of the sun as us, to the far side.
Could be used to send non-interceptable signals intercepts between listening data centres.. No one wants anyone to know what they're interests are.
So often "pure" rationalizations fail in the realms of complex systems and biological systems, such as the principal of bio-accumulation of toxins, where extremely low environmental levels of a substance may aggregate to very high levels in a predator species. Or japanese subway cars where the high number of cell phones, and the closed metal shell of the car, can cause standing waves (microwave hotspots) within the car, far greater than the individual phones power output. Resonance can cause astonishing accumulations of power from very low power sources.
The most compelling description of neuronal damage in the brain due to microwave EMF at low levels, similar to a cell phone were studies which found that the blood brain barrier membrane in rats dilated slightly under low level microwave EMF. This then allowed albumin proteins to pass through the membrane into the brain, where subsequent neuronal damage was caused through the molecular interactions.
So, the amount of power required to induce the membrane change was in fact too low to directly cause tissue damage, but the brain was profoundly perturbed due to a subsequent cascade of effects. The world (and us) are symbiotic and minor changes can destabilize the entire system. Acting like a know-it-all cuz you weren't open to following a counter-intuitive concept all the way through is kinda dangerous.. znew=z^2+c
thank you anon for that! sounds fun. i will check the mb closely, its apart already ;) i do love that m200, used it every day for 4 years for cg and it still pulled its weight! the screen swivel was seizing up a bit so it could have been motherboard flexion as the cause. a good thing if i could revive it, i can solder pretty fine. the 1440x1050 12" screen is good, *feh* to the 1280x800 widescreen fad.
That was the first thing I noticed too. Although, the same letter would appear differently depending on the word it was in. It is a cumulative offset for only some of the character table. I did reflash the motherboard bios and the video bios and do a clean xp install, but same problem. It did make me curious about where the character table actually sits, in the motherboard bios or in the video chip.
I had this (jpg image of my bios) displayed after a hardware failure. "Hard Dick Mode - Enhanced". I ROFL'D heavily, it was even better than the server msg "There has been an error, the error was sucess!"
FYI m200 tablet with nvidia chip, The graphics had some lines in it, and the factory driver would bsod.
Nice description! Similar to the 3 blind men and the elephant.. Anyhow, hope I get this right, what you are describing is what I've heard called a scalar field. That is something like atmospheric air pressures, measured at many points. Despite the fact that there is no original vector forces, motion (wind) is created through the differences in the scalar values. So the implication is that space-time is under some sort of static tension. The question then is what things affect that tension and whether there is regional or temporal variance.
My Toshiba m200 tablet has been the best laptop of the many I've owned. At just over 4lbs with a nice 12" 1400x1050 screen. It has taken 4 years of everyday pro use with the only faults occurring in the power supply cable and the Hitachi hard drive after 2 years..
Used to be laptops were only high-end, but now there is this insidious split between expensive "student" laptops and cheap "pro" laptops. Once noble product lines are now polluted with lame cases and keyboards, etc.
So I disagree with your point re: Toshibas. I intend to upgrade to a nextgen tablet which includes all the goodness without the compromises the interim models make.. hate that low vertical res.. numbers less than 1000 remind me of the old days.
It looks to me like the hinged portion of the wing tips is different than before. I'm sure they've done their job, but given the corkscrew trick the last one did, I'd think a lot of stress could be on that area.. It looks not so robust there to me. IANARS
Luckily Frank Zappa has detailed its correct usage in an easy to use LP format.