I'm not going to argue with you. I like nuclear power. But the best time to advocate for nuclear power is not during a crisis when up to five reactors at two nuclear power plants are in danger of losing containment. If you want to be effective in your advocacy the best choice is to shut up until the crisis is over. Engaging in a nice nuke power flamewar in the middle of the crisis is not really helping your cause. It just makes it look like you'd advocate for nuke power no matter what or when. That doesn't build your credibility, which is the most valuable resource you have in a good flamewar.
As for that being the worst that can happen, no. More than one reactor meltdown, breach of the concrete containment, and onshore winds would be the worst that can happen. I believe they are losing control of several reactors at three plants presently. A meltdown at one reactor would naturally prevent gaining control of another reactor at the same plant. But the wind is blowing out to sea at the moment.
And cesium isn't going to be helping the fishing offshore either.
Your statement that they "could" do it your way ignores that they could do it more easily another way.
WebOS works as a Windows app. Yeah, really. I know that's going to take you a bit to get your head around. HP could make WebOS a free download for all Windows PCs, not just the HP ones, as a Windows app that does all of the WebOS things in a window. If they provide a sync server, you could log in to your Windows PC WebOS app world, and operate your WebOS device as if it were in front of you even if it were half the world away. You could play the movies on it. It could play the movies you had. It could sync its data to you, and you to it. It could have a cloud component to put the third leg on this stool.
The benefits are hard to explain now, as all true innovations are. Trust me: you'll like it.
Yah, look. If they wanted they could probably shim up some native Windows app in a few years that provided the same things. But since their whole OS can run as a Windows app, there's no need to do it the hard way and delay the product.
Presumably there will be cool WebOS apps that are not available for Windows. And of course it allows the integration of the PC with WebOS tablets so that the tablet can be a thin client for all of your PCs. And it allows for the transparent integration of presentations like movies and other content across the devices.
Hopefully cool stuff, if they don't screw it up. Put me down for "maybe".
I may be mistaken, but I do believe that Intel holds through acquisition not just one, but two ARM licenses they haven't divested yet. And there's no ARM logo. Yet.
In the US the locker room is the place near the gymnasium where you store your street clothes, your gym clothes, and change into and out of them. This area is not for books. This area is too damp to be good storage for books, being near the showers and such.
In many but not all US schools, the hallways between classrooms are lined with personal lockers students can use to store books and personal effects between classes. In the current mythology the hope is that the students will take the books home and learn from them while they are not in school, return to the locker between classes and retrieve the particular book for the class. In practice there's not enough time to swap out books between most classes, so my daughter lugs her whole stack of books around all day. At need she does use these books at home for take-home tests.
She could leave her books in her hall locker on the days there wasn't homework or tests assigned from each book. But those days are so rare that she's given up the practice of sorting which books she needs to lug home. Some courses have up to three hardcover books, and possibly a softcover workbook. She can have as many as six courses each day, though four is more common.
If her books were a 600g tablet, plus some weightless data and her workbooks were weightless webforms, there would be considerably more spring in her step and she would be more eager to greet the dawn.
We did online school for my high-school age son one year. You wouldn't believe the freight they sent to the house, nor what they expected us to send back when it was over. Now he's in the regular school and if he loses the books we have to buy replacements. I have a bill on my kitchen table for $179 for such right now that I hope to talk with him about if I see him this week.
Again, I've read some of their books and don't find most of them educational. At all. There is some value in the math books. The rest? No. Propaganda of the worst sort, and the math books are not immune from this. You wouldn't believe what passes for high school chemistry in the US today. I have WW1 era texts that are more forthcoming. But in chemistry class they must teach them some semblance of chemistry without teaching them how to make explosives, build a distillery, or process cold pills into methamphetamine. The resulting course would be hilarious if it were not pathetic.
My daughter, who's in middle school, weighs a hundred pounds soaking wet. Her books would be a burden even for me, 40 pounds at least. My older son TM'd me the other day to pick him up a new backpack on my way home because the weight of his books ripped the old one. It doesn't have to be this way. Dead Tree Books add no value for them. And, BTW, the books contain so much errata that they make Wikipedia look good.
His World History book is so tainted, for example, that it omits mention of cannon and gunpowder both in invention and as a force for social change. In fact, it reads like we all agreed together to shift from agriculturalism to urbanism in some multicultural town meeting. I'm pretty sure that's not how it happened.
I teach them to be cynical. This is why.
But if they must have school books to pretend to conform, I see no reason why they have weigh ten pounds each. They are information, and information is as light as can be. The display tech need not be this heavy any more.
On the moon they have this really advanced form of concrete that can be sprayed everywhere, hardens on contact with the frigid lunar soil, and is nontoxic. It has the added advantage that when used for a habitation shell for humans, it will reflow into small holes made and seal them. It's called "ice".
It's not that hard to heat ice to water if you have energy, and if you can't make energy on the moon you ought not go there. It literally falls from the sky.
These caves are all over the moon. This is just the one we've found so far. Lava tubes are fairly common on Earth as well, but water dynamics have filled most of them in. Being dry, there will be common lava tubes on the moon.
It wasn't a battle for democracy, it was a battle of liberation.
One man's liberation is another man's occupation.
Afghanis don't care that the invaders changed from The Soviet Menace to Pakistani Taliban to American Freedom Police any more than they did when it shifted from the Achaemenid Empire under Darius to Alexander The Great and then the Greeks for Eucratides. They've been "liberated" in turns by every empire that ever came near their corner of the planet. But they're still there. Resistance has become what they are. Foreign peoples have, for no discernable reason, been fighting over nominal ownership of that arid patch of sand for far longer than history records.
It may be that because of their history Afghanis don't believe in self-government for themselves as a desirable goal. They've evolved an efficient system of being invaded and milking resources out of the invaders that for them it's actually their economy. It's a system. It works. For Afghanis a peaceful time is when warring invaders are fighting each other so much they don't have time to actively oppress the locals and locals can make their industry gleaning the fields of the fallen. Stubborn folk. Got to admire their grit.
You would think after a few thousand years the rest of the world would get the hint and leave them alone. But no...
One of the unfortunate things about revolutions is that the revolutionaries, on success, must be prepared to rule. Though they may be united about casting off the evil dictator, they may have less consensus about implementation details on acceptable forms of government afterward. This leads to an unfortunate condition referred to as "Somalia syndrome".
Mesh wireless is now an off-the-shelf technology. A couple of long-reach wi-fi links and a couple thousand airdropped wireless mess router access points and they're back on the net with every device that's got 802.11a/b/g. Don't forget to print the instructions flyer in the local lingo. Do the airdrops with cargo RPVs. They're cheaper than pilots, and if they're shot down some of the cargo still might arrive intact.
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I'm not going to argue with you. I like nuclear power. But the best time to advocate for nuclear power is not during a crisis when up to five reactors at two nuclear power plants are in danger of losing containment. If you want to be effective in your advocacy the best choice is to shut up until the crisis is over. Engaging in a nice nuke power flamewar in the middle of the crisis is not really helping your cause. It just makes it look like you'd advocate for nuke power no matter what or when. That doesn't build your credibility, which is the most valuable resource you have in a good flamewar.
For video of this incident, the explosion is at 1:22
As for that being the worst that can happen, no. More than one reactor meltdown, breach of the concrete containment, and onshore winds would be the worst that can happen. I believe they are losing control of several reactors at three plants presently. A meltdown at one reactor would naturally prevent gaining control of another reactor at the same plant. But the wind is blowing out to sea at the moment.
And cesium isn't going to be helping the fishing offshore either.
Completely a coincidence: The founder and CEO of Netflix, Reed Hastings, also sits on the Microsoft board of directors.
Your statement that they "could" do it your way ignores that they could do it more easily another way.
WebOS works as a Windows app. Yeah, really. I know that's going to take you a bit to get your head around. HP could make WebOS a free download for all Windows PCs, not just the HP ones, as a Windows app that does all of the WebOS things in a window. If they provide a sync server, you could log in to your Windows PC WebOS app world, and operate your WebOS device as if it were in front of you even if it were half the world away. You could play the movies on it. It could play the movies you had. It could sync its data to you, and you to it. It could have a cloud component to put the third leg on this stool.
The benefits are hard to explain now, as all true innovations are. Trust me: you'll like it.
Yah, look. If they wanted they could probably shim up some native Windows app in a few years that provided the same things. But since their whole OS can run as a Windows app, there's no need to do it the hard way and delay the product.
Presumably there will be cool WebOS apps that are not available for Windows. And of course it allows the integration of the PC with WebOS tablets so that the tablet can be a thin client for all of your PCs. And it allows for the transparent integration of presentations like movies and other content across the devices.
Hopefully cool stuff, if they don't screw it up. Put me down for "maybe".
Oh yeah. I meant this.
I'm guessing here, but you live in a place where watts are cheap and reliable, right? Did you know most of the rest of the world isn't like that?
If that surplus processing power could be harnessed it would be a different story, but Windows isn't up to that task.
Were you looking for this link?
I may be mistaken, but I do believe that Intel holds through acquisition not just one, but two ARM licenses they haven't divested yet. And there's no ARM logo. Yet.
Give it time. It will come because there's a market for it.
In the US the locker room is the place near the gymnasium where you store your street clothes, your gym clothes, and change into and out of them. This area is not for books. This area is too damp to be good storage for books, being near the showers and such.
In many but not all US schools, the hallways between classrooms are lined with personal lockers students can use to store books and personal effects between classes. In the current mythology the hope is that the students will take the books home and learn from them while they are not in school, return to the locker between classes and retrieve the particular book for the class. In practice there's not enough time to swap out books between most classes, so my daughter lugs her whole stack of books around all day. At need she does use these books at home for take-home tests.
She could leave her books in her hall locker on the days there wasn't homework or tests assigned from each book. But those days are so rare that she's given up the practice of sorting which books she needs to lug home. Some courses have up to three hardcover books, and possibly a softcover workbook. She can have as many as six courses each day, though four is more common.
If her books were a 600g tablet, plus some weightless data and her workbooks were weightless webforms, there would be considerably more spring in her step and she would be more eager to greet the dawn.
We did online school for my high-school age son one year. You wouldn't believe the freight they sent to the house, nor what they expected us to send back when it was over. Now he's in the regular school and if he loses the books we have to buy replacements. I have a bill on my kitchen table for $179 for such right now that I hope to talk with him about if I see him this week.
Again, I've read some of their books and don't find most of them educational. At all. There is some value in the math books. The rest? No. Propaganda of the worst sort, and the math books are not immune from this. You wouldn't believe what passes for high school chemistry in the US today. I have WW1 era texts that are more forthcoming. But in chemistry class they must teach them some semblance of chemistry without teaching them how to make explosives, build a distillery, or process cold pills into methamphetamine. The resulting course would be hilarious if it were not pathetic.
My daughter, who's in middle school, weighs a hundred pounds soaking wet. Her books would be a burden even for me, 40 pounds at least. My older son TM'd me the other day to pick him up a new backpack on my way home because the weight of his books ripped the old one. It doesn't have to be this way. Dead Tree Books add no value for them. And, BTW, the books contain so much errata that they make Wikipedia look good.
His World History book is so tainted, for example, that it omits mention of cannon and gunpowder both in invention and as a force for social change. In fact, it reads like we all agreed together to shift from agriculturalism to urbanism in some multicultural town meeting. I'm pretty sure that's not how it happened.
I teach them to be cynical. This is why.
But if they must have school books to pretend to conform, I see no reason why they have weigh ten pounds each. They are information, and information is as light as can be. The display tech need not be this heavy any more.
On the moon they have this really advanced form of concrete that can be sprayed everywhere, hardens on contact with the frigid lunar soil, and is nontoxic. It has the added advantage that when used for a habitation shell for humans, it will reflow into small holes made and seal them. It's called "ice".
It's not that hard to heat ice to water if you have energy, and if you can't make energy on the moon you ought not go there. It literally falls from the sky.
The entry is near a mile long and 200 yards wide. How small could the cavern be?
At the poles of the moon there are spots that are almost never dark, and shadows that haven't seen direct sunlight for millions of years.
These caves are all over the moon. This is just the one we've found so far. Lava tubes are fairly common on Earth as well, but water dynamics have filled most of them in. Being dry, there will be common lava tubes on the moon.
With some well-placed explosives and some carbon black it may be profitable to put some advertising on the face of the moon...
It wasn't a battle for democracy, it was a battle of liberation.
One man's liberation is another man's occupation.
Afghanis don't care that the invaders changed from The Soviet Menace to Pakistani Taliban to American Freedom Police any more than they did when it shifted from the Achaemenid Empire under Darius to Alexander The Great and then the Greeks for Eucratides. They've been "liberated" in turns by every empire that ever came near their corner of the planet. But they're still there. Resistance has become what they are. Foreign peoples have, for no discernable reason, been fighting over nominal ownership of that arid patch of sand for far longer than history records.
It may be that because of their history Afghanis don't believe in self-government for themselves as a desirable goal. They've evolved an efficient system of being invaded and milking resources out of the invaders that for them it's actually their economy. It's a system. It works. For Afghanis a peaceful time is when warring invaders are fighting each other so much they don't have time to actively oppress the locals and locals can make their industry gleaning the fields of the fallen. Stubborn folk. Got to admire their grit.
You would think after a few thousand years the rest of the world would get the hint and leave them alone. But no...
One of the unfortunate things about revolutions is that the revolutionaries, on success, must be prepared to rule. Though they may be united about casting off the evil dictator, they may have less consensus about implementation details on acceptable forms of government afterward. This leads to an unfortunate condition referred to as "Somalia syndrome".
Mesh wireless is now an off-the-shelf technology. A couple of long-reach wi-fi links and a couple thousand airdropped wireless mess router access points and they're back on the net with every device that's got 802.11a/b/g. Don't forget to print the instructions flyer in the local lingo. Do the airdrops with cargo RPVs. They're cheaper than pilots, and if they're shot down some of the cargo still might arrive intact.
Here's one to make you spew all the way. http://rcpmag.com/articles/2007/07/01/minding-your-microsoft-manners.aspx
It's there, on the left. Knock yourself out.