Oh, jeebus. Now you've done it. I've enjoyed some of your bits but you may as well check in this alt now, hairyfeet. You're about to be modded to the point where you can't be seen.
You may as well be a Birther on this. PJ has done more to expose the malfeasance in IT than any other this past decade. Her blog's fans brought us the full text of the BSD settlement agreement. She has shone a light on the dire dealings of the analysts, the lawyers, the custom venues. Her efforts have thwarted many a program that would lead us to darkness. Her blog is now archived in the Library of Congress.
What PJ's done for us won't stop happening for 20 years or more. Just one meek example can be found here. You won't bother to assimilate that, nor will many who read this - but enough people have done so to know what you are.
There are hundreds of these. Against your contempt I would ask: what have YOU done? Don't answer. We don't really care. We know now who you're for and why, or you'd not be attacking PJ.
This is one of many. They started long ago. Microsoft is indeed holding up puppets to push these things, but I'm not sure this one is a Microsoft puppet this time. This one looks like a lawyer who's learned just enough to be a danger to himself and society. Given the human condition there are sociopaths in every field of human endeavor. I don't even think Microsoft is herding this one yet, though I doubt they're above that.
These sick people test the edges of the game. They seek cracks in the logic of jurisprudence that they can work to their aims. They're brilliant at this obsession. In a nation of some hundred millions we'll not be rid of these creeps ever. The goal is only profit for the lawyer. We all know people like this: the litigious who would rather find cause to sue somebody than do honest service or make a good product or sell it. They'll spill the current progress of every suit they're invoved in to anyone who will listen. They're best avoided.
The installed base for iOS is over what, 60 million units? And Android is like, 40 million. So if you develop a game that costs a million bucks to develop and sell it for ten bucks, you have to get 0.13 percent of the users to buy it to break even. And if it's a 99 cent thing you and your mom cooked up in a few weeks during summer break that's cute and catches on, you may never work in a real job ever in your life - before you're even out of middle school.
An interesting game. It sounds like the only way to lose is not to play.
The Tarot cards say that within the month IBM will knock Microsoft out of the top five of the largest pubicly held corporations in America by market cap. They'll trade back and forth for a while, but the outcome is likely eventually permanent.
Oh, I agree completely. I'm surprised he hit that high mark with such a minor investment. I think that's an outstanding use of Microsoft's wealth and power. One can only hope they redouble their efforts.
The cookie sheet and blade servers are a bit different that the 1-5 RU units most people think of when they say "HP server" but HP sells a lot of them and seeing huge growth. Then there's HPC, hosting and "cloud." HP sells more servers than anybody, and OS is always optional.
I am quite happy with Steve Ballmer's level of achievement over this past decade. Fighting the law of large numbers, a mature market for their established products he has held the company level year after year. Yes, the company has been caled stagnant, dead money, a dinosaur. But he keeps struggling, investing the company's profits in acqsitions that strategically fail, share buybacks that mysteriously don't increase the stock price, and Bing - which consolidates non-Google search and ads into one bundle whose competitive strengths are legendary.
We should all praise Steve's achievements if we want him to continue to do such great work.
Price is only one component. Berkshire Hathaway shares have a high price, but there is a strong case for them being a good value. Apple PER less cash is ridiculously low for a company that's growing profits this fast and has so much more market share to gain in markets that are themselves growing quickly.
At the current market trend by early next year Nokia will have 10 percent smartphone share, which is where MinMo was at on WP7 launch. They will have gone through a year of selling almost no phones. They will be nearly broke. Their carriers and retail vendors will be trained to expect poor sales from both Nokia and WP7 - both together wil not make the product more appealing. They will have to buy shelf space at premium rates. And the phone featureset wil be competetive with 2007. And that's even if Microsoft manages to get the sw running on their phone, which is by no means certain.
Geothermal is also nuclear power. It relies on the intrinsic fission of elements within the Earth's mantle, and legacy heat from prior fission as well as legacy friction from planetary formation. It's implemented by steam turbines also, or turbines driven by the flash evaporation of some other coolant.
The difference betweent fission, fusion and geothermal is that geothermal requires no fuel creation or elimination. You dig two deep holes fairly close together and force water down one of them. The heat of the Earth heats the water, which comes up the other hole - usually as steam or superheated water that will become steam when the pressure is released, but sometimes just as much hotter water. Naturally after the energy gained is tapped, the hot water is then re-injected. For new water some use sewage effluent and solve two problems at once. There is no ash, no spent fuel to rot in casks 100,000 years under close supervision of a non-proliferation task force. There are no mining deaths because there's no mine. There are no refining risks because there's no refining. There's no proliferation risk because there's no nuclear products onsite. The cost of dealing with the emissions are well understood because there aren't any. Geothermal plants require a much smaller geographic footprint than even nuclear plants, because they can mine energy from several miles in each direction and there is no risk.
With geothermal power in the event of a disaster of the worst possible sort: a Geothermal plant is simultaneously attacked by terrorists, crushed by a 10.3 earthquake and inundated by the subsequent 90m tsunami at the exact moment that a Justin Bieber album goes platinum, the worst that can happen is that some steam will vent and electricity will stop being generated, and Justin Bieber gets a slot on Dancing With the Stars. That's not a lot of downside risk, relative to fission and fusion.
There are established economies on Earth that can't provide 100% of their electrical energy needs from geothermal sources. Some parts of Africa, the US East Coast, Brazil. Japan, though? Yes, they could. Their entire nation is a chain of active volcanos. They are geothermal rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
Apparently the defective software that permitted the viruses to run is sold out of Ireland (through the Netherlands and Dutch Antilles in an accounting blind called the "Irish Double-Dutch") by a company headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA. Many Bothans died to bring you this information.
>earthquakes from all the NG frakking how smart THAT move is.
Geothermal can be done in several different ways. It doesn't require fracking. Even when it does use fracking, it's so deep that quakes are almost never felt. In Japan they have quakes all the time anyway and I know of at least one new nature preserve in Japan where all the residents who might be bothered by quakes have recently all moved away. More importantly, it's a base load power source that uses no fuel, less water, less land, and has no toxic side effects. It doesn't accumulate toxic spent fuel or fuel ash. It does not explode on national TV. If you close the doors and walk away, nothing at all happens.
>In both cases you have a severely old reactor, that frankly should have been shut down years ago, kept going thanks to bribes, NIMBYs, and no real plans by the government on how to replace it, lax inspections along with bribes to make any problems inspectors find just "go away" and then everyone is surprised when it gets hit by the largest Tsunami the place is ever seen shit breaks.
This is a list of similar reactors. You will see that there are a good many of this model of reactors of similar age that "should have been shut down years ago" as you say, still operating and getting their operating licenses extended. Each has thousands of tons of stored nuclear waste in a pond on its roof, innocent of any containment. Several of them are coastally located. If these nuclear reactors get so old that the need to be decommissioned before they become unsafe, then if we lack the political will to decommission them they should not be built at all.
There will be no new nuclear reactors - pebble bed, thorium, reprocessed fuel, or whatever, built her for many years. Forget it. It's not going to happen. So now let's get about the business of figuring out an answer to this energy problem from amongst the "possible" set.
Thanks for being our nuclear energy version of a Warmist. We needed one, and you're right here to volunteer with the initial comment. Thanks. You're great.
For everybody else: this reading of "over 10,000 TeraBequerels per hour" was in the hours after the Tsunami, when none of the reactors had yet reached recriticality. It's before the hydrox explosions. It measures atmospheric releases of steam, not the leaching into the sea of Fukushima Tea that's been going on for a month now. It's the level of release that TEPCO has been denying for a month. The "10% of a Chernobyl" you read here is from three weeks ago. This mess will be going on for months yet and Chernobyls will be the increment it's measured by.
Chernobyl was not on the sea, so seafood was not significantly impacted, nor was ocean-going commerce. That's a pretty big difference, since seafood is a major Japan export and source of sustenance, and one gull fed on radioactive fish can now slag a container ship several hundred miles out to sea with its droppings. Water soluble radioactive products, notable Cesium, are naturally concentrated at the top of the food chain - in this case Cesium in Pacific tuna. This may be the salvation of Pacific Tuna stocks, as nobody's going to want to eat that stuff.
Every day this thing still gets worse. Even with grid power, cooling systems are not online. It's still possible for a reactor or spent-fuel pools to catch fire and/or go critical. One of the reactors 1-3 may yet "pop", rendering the entire site unworkable and preventing the rescue of the other three. If that happens we have 11,000 tons of LEU on the site (over 1,000,000 pounds of pure U235, or enough Uranium to make more than 100,000 nuclear bombs) in varying states of criticality and/or fire - notwithstanding other nuclear products and not considering the amounts of Plutonium in reactor 3. It's a Very Bad Thing. If even.01% of that should escape into the environment, it would be hugely bad. Bad does not even begin to describe it.
Japan built these things to save money in the short term. They have geothermal assets that cost a bit more up front but didn't have this downside risk. Geothermal would have cost them 20% more per kilowatt hour up front, and over time much less overall as geothermal is amortized over a longer time (it requires no fuel, and hence less maintenance cost over time). It was a foolish gamble. It has cost them several hundred square miles of land they didn't have to spare, and has cost us several generations of delicious Pacific Tuna sashimi and the opportunity to drive a 2012 Prius when we really, really needed that fuel economy.
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Oh, jeebus. Now you've done it. I've enjoyed some of your bits but you may as well check in this alt now, hairyfeet. You're about to be modded to the point where you can't be seen.
You may as well be a Birther on this. PJ has done more to expose the malfeasance in IT than any other this past decade. Her blog's fans brought us the full text of the BSD settlement agreement. She has shone a light on the dire dealings of the analysts, the lawyers, the custom venues. Her efforts have thwarted many a program that would lead us to darkness. Her blog is now archived in the Library of Congress.
What PJ's done for us won't stop happening for 20 years or more. Just one meek example can be found here. You won't bother to assimilate that, nor will many who read this - but enough people have done so to know what you are.
There are hundreds of these. Against your contempt I would ask: what have YOU done? Don't answer. We don't really care. We know now who you're for and why, or you'd not be attacking PJ.
This is one of many. They started long ago. Microsoft is indeed holding up puppets to push these things, but I'm not sure this one is a Microsoft puppet this time. This one looks like a lawyer who's learned just enough to be a danger to himself and society. Given the human condition there are sociopaths in every field of human endeavor. I don't even think Microsoft is herding this one yet, though I doubt they're above that.
These sick people test the edges of the game. They seek cracks in the logic of jurisprudence that they can work to their aims. They're brilliant at this obsession. In a nation of some hundred millions we'll not be rid of these creeps ever. The goal is only profit for the lawyer. We all know people like this: the litigious who would rather find cause to sue somebody than do honest service or make a good product or sell it. They'll spill the current progress of every suit they're invoved in to anyone who will listen. They're best avoided.
The installed base for iOS is over what, 60 million units? And Android is like, 40 million. So if you develop a game that costs a million bucks to develop and sell it for ten bucks, you have to get 0.13 percent of the users to buy it to break even. And if it's a 99 cent thing you and your mom cooked up in a few weeks during summer break that's cute and catches on, you may never work in a real job ever in your life - before you're even out of middle school.
An interesting game. It sounds like the only way to lose is not to play.
The thousands of engineers who worked on in to care.
The Tarot cards say that within the month IBM will knock Microsoft out of the top five of the largest pubicly held corporations in America by market cap. They'll trade back and forth for a while, but the outcome is likely eventually permanent.
Oh, I agree completely. I'm surprised he hit that high mark with such a minor investment. I think that's an outstanding use of Microsoft's wealth and power. One can only hope they redouble their efforts.
The cookie sheet and blade servers are a bit different that the 1-5 RU units most people think of when they say "HP server" but HP sells a lot of them and seeing huge growth. Then there's HPC, hosting and "cloud." HP sells more servers than anybody, and OS is always optional.
Analysts sell out. That's their business model. - James Plamondon, Microsoft chief evangelist.
So we're disassembling web pages now just to follow a hyperlink? Somehow I doubt this was what Tim Berners-Lee envisioned.
I am quite happy with Steve Ballmer's level of achievement over this past decade. Fighting the law of large numbers, a mature market for their established products he has held the company level year after year. Yes, the company has been caled stagnant, dead money, a dinosaur. But he keeps struggling, investing the company's profits in acqsitions that strategically fail, share buybacks that mysteriously don't increase the stock price, and Bing - which consolidates non-Google search and ads into one bundle whose competitive strengths are legendary.
We should all praise Steve's achievements if we want him to continue to do such great work.
Price is only one component. Berkshire Hathaway shares have a high price, but there is a strong case for them being a good value. Apple PER less cash is ridiculously low for a company that's growing profits this fast and has so much more market share to gain in markets that are themselves growing quickly.
At the current market trend by early next year Nokia will have 10 percent smartphone share, which is where MinMo was at on WP7 launch. They will have gone through a year of selling almost no phones. They will be nearly broke. Their carriers and retail vendors will be trained to expect poor sales from both Nokia and WP7 - both together wil not make the product more appealing. They will have to buy shelf space at premium rates. And the phone featureset wil be competetive with 2007. And that's even if Microsoft manages to get the sw running on their phone, which is by no means certain.
Nokia is too late to help here.
Yeah, that's gonna happen.
Geothermal is also nuclear power. It relies on the intrinsic fission of elements within the Earth's mantle, and legacy heat from prior fission as well as legacy friction from planetary formation. It's implemented by steam turbines also, or turbines driven by the flash evaporation of some other coolant.
The difference betweent fission, fusion and geothermal is that geothermal requires no fuel creation or elimination. You dig two deep holes fairly close together and force water down one of them. The heat of the Earth heats the water, which comes up the other hole - usually as steam or superheated water that will become steam when the pressure is released, but sometimes just as much hotter water. Naturally after the energy gained is tapped, the hot water is then re-injected. For new water some use sewage effluent and solve two problems at once. There is no ash, no spent fuel to rot in casks 100,000 years under close supervision of a non-proliferation task force. There are no mining deaths because there's no mine. There are no refining risks because there's no refining. There's no proliferation risk because there's no nuclear products onsite. The cost of dealing with the emissions are well understood because there aren't any. Geothermal plants require a much smaller geographic footprint than even nuclear plants, because they can mine energy from several miles in each direction and there is no risk.
With geothermal power in the event of a disaster of the worst possible sort: a Geothermal plant is simultaneously attacked by terrorists, crushed by a 10.3 earthquake and inundated by the subsequent 90m tsunami at the exact moment that a Justin Bieber album goes platinum, the worst that can happen is that some steam will vent and electricity will stop being generated, and Justin Bieber gets a slot on Dancing With the Stars. That's not a lot of downside risk, relative to fission and fusion.
There are established economies on Earth that can't provide 100% of their electrical energy needs from geothermal sources. Some parts of Africa, the US East Coast, Brazil. Japan, though? Yes, they could. Their entire nation is a chain of active volcanos. They are geothermal rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
Not a WP7 customer then?
It's a throwback. They were looking for Windows Vista levels of reliability, and accidently found them.
I'm pretty sure the word TFS was looking for was "alluded", not "eluded". The difference is pretty significant in context.
It is a trap, a trick to try and salvage some tiny remnant of influence now that they've lost control of the mindshare and developers.
Next you'll say the Internet itself was a DoD skunkworks project from ARPA. Who would believe that? Time to loosen the tinfoil hat.
Apparently the defective software that permitted the viruses to run is sold out of Ireland (through the Netherlands and Dutch Antilles in an accounting blind called the "Irish Double-Dutch") by a company headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA. Many Bothans died to bring you this information.
Of course. It runs Windows.
"If you make your software idiot-proof, only an idiot will want to use it." - Anon
The pains that people will take to bash Google have really risen to remarkable heights.
>earthquakes from all the NG frakking how smart THAT move is.
Geothermal can be done in several different ways. It doesn't require fracking. Even when it does use fracking, it's so deep that quakes are almost never felt. In Japan they have quakes all the time anyway and I know of at least one new nature preserve in Japan where all the residents who might be bothered by quakes have recently all moved away. More importantly, it's a base load power source that uses no fuel, less water, less land, and has no toxic side effects. It doesn't accumulate toxic spent fuel or fuel ash. It does not explode on national TV. If you close the doors and walk away, nothing at all happens.
>In both cases you have a severely old reactor, that frankly should have been shut down years ago, kept going thanks to bribes, NIMBYs, and no real plans by the government on how to replace it, lax inspections along with bribes to make any problems inspectors find just "go away" and then everyone is surprised when it gets hit by the largest Tsunami the place is ever seen shit breaks.
This is a list of similar reactors. You will see that there are a good many of this model of reactors of similar age that "should have been shut down years ago" as you say, still operating and getting their operating licenses extended. Each has thousands of tons of stored nuclear waste in a pond on its roof, innocent of any containment. Several of them are coastally located. If these nuclear reactors get so old that the need to be decommissioned before they become unsafe, then if we lack the political will to decommission them they should not be built at all.
There will be no new nuclear reactors - pebble bed, thorium, reprocessed fuel, or whatever, built her for many years. Forget it. It's not going to happen. So now let's get about the business of figuring out an answer to this energy problem from amongst the "possible" set.
Thanks for being our nuclear energy version of a Warmist. We needed one, and you're right here to volunteer with the initial comment. Thanks. You're great.
For everybody else: this reading of "over 10,000 TeraBequerels per hour" was in the hours after the Tsunami, when none of the reactors had yet reached recriticality. It's before the hydrox explosions. It measures atmospheric releases of steam, not the leaching into the sea of Fukushima Tea that's been going on for a month now. It's the level of release that TEPCO has been denying for a month. The "10% of a Chernobyl" you read here is from three weeks ago. This mess will be going on for months yet and Chernobyls will be the increment it's measured by.
Chernobyl was not on the sea, so seafood was not significantly impacted, nor was ocean-going commerce. That's a pretty big difference, since seafood is a major Japan export and source of sustenance, and one gull fed on radioactive fish can now slag a container ship several hundred miles out to sea with its droppings. Water soluble radioactive products, notable Cesium, are naturally concentrated at the top of the food chain - in this case Cesium in Pacific tuna. This may be the salvation of Pacific Tuna stocks, as nobody's going to want to eat that stuff.
Every day this thing still gets worse. Even with grid power, cooling systems are not online. It's still possible for a reactor or spent-fuel pools to catch fire and/or go critical. One of the reactors 1-3 may yet "pop", rendering the entire site unworkable and preventing the rescue of the other three. If that happens we have 11,000 tons of LEU on the site (over 1,000,000 pounds of pure U235, or enough Uranium to make more than 100,000 nuclear bombs) in varying states of criticality and/or fire - notwithstanding other nuclear products and not considering the amounts of Plutonium in reactor 3. It's a Very Bad Thing. If even .01% of that should escape into the environment, it would be hugely bad. Bad does not even begin to describe it.
Japan built these things to save money in the short term. They have geothermal assets that cost a bit more up front but didn't have this downside risk. Geothermal would have cost them 20% more per kilowatt hour up front, and over time much less overall as geothermal is amortized over a longer time (it requires no fuel, and hence less maintenance cost over time). It was a foolish gamble. It has cost them several hundred square miles of land they didn't have to spare, and has cost us several generations of delicious Pacific Tuna sashimi and the opportunity to drive a 2012 Prius when we really, really needed that fuel economy.