Yes, though this is waste that will be non radioactive in about 150 years, that is not a very big time. Think of fission that give waste that has to be stored away for periods of over 10000 years.
Other reactions will produce less radioactive waste than the D-T reactions in the ITER reactor (the other reactions are more difficult to achieve, therefor the D-T reaction in ITER).
Summary: Fusion is clean!!! This is a great day for mankind, etc, etc...
>>Here few people would ever say they are from "Foo City, Country, EU" as they would leave out the EU part.
I would, but I try to leave out the state part.
>>they just don't think of Europe as a coutry
Well, that certainly doesn't include me.
>>Each country within the EU still has its full sovereignty.
Hardly, are you aware what the Union did after Jorg Heider was elected in Austria.
>> The EU doesn't even have a constitution!
Not yet, but soon we will have.
>> Also the cultural differences can be huge somtimes
I have friends in SE, DK, UK, GR, NL, HU, IT, DE, ES, PL, PT, AT and CZ. I can not agree with that statement, the cultural differences aren't overly big, they are actually quite small. Would not the cultural differences between New York and Utah be greater in some aspects?
Well, I just tried to my put Gothenburg, EU at my M.Sc. thesis' front page. My supervisor war kinda picky about it, but I did manage to sneak Stockholm, EU past at the legal disclaimer part on the second page.
And, you shouldn't call us EU-ians, we are simply Europeans. The people from the continent of Europe that are not from the EU can be called north-europeans, eastern-europeans or something there about. Of course, this also include "EU-ians", compare this to north-americans and Americans, where the later refers to "USA-ians", and the former also include Canadians.
If you are going to another star, accelerating at 1g is going to get you to relativistic speeds (let's say 0.6c) in 0.6*( 299792458.0 / 9.82 / 3600.0 / 24.0 ) = 212 days. Now, when going to the stars, you cannot really view that as a long time, and 1g constant acceleration would hardly put a huge stress on someone, rather, it would be very comfortable.
I wonder, would injecting human DNA into bacteria (in order to produce vaccine) constitute a hybrid? Would the use of pig-organs in humans be banned by this?
No, not from Solaris, it's strictly for the embedded market. In order to support this you need special libraries, and support for it in the operating system.
I have not seen any figures on performance advantages, I would suppose that it is developed to be power efficient when switching between processes on a low process count system.
That depends on the ABI you are using. In the V8E there is another optional ABI that basically gives each process one window. The workings of this ABI basically gives you 32 registers to work with, just like the PPC and the MIPS.
True, but that one is a SPARC V9 and not a V8. But, I wasn't very specific in this issue, sorry for that.
"Sight bit? Two words, register windows"
Well, the reg windows do have their advantages, you get a smaller code size since you don't have to push stuff on the stack as soon as you make a function call, this also speed up the calls a great deal (also, this simplifies the work of the compiler somewhat). The back side is of course that you need to have an operating system that manages the register windows, and in some embedded applications this isn't an option.
The SPARC V8 is quite clean and nice to work with, and is farley sane, with the exception of tagged arthmetics, the trap model and the visible pipeline, and missing standard interface to the MMU (yes I know of the ref-mmu).
On the other hand, the SPARC V9 is a horrendeus monster thar is just plain scary when dealing with supervisor level code. IMHO the PPC64 is much nicer than the V9, in many aspects.
But, on the other hand the PPC, has gone out of order, while the SPARC has stayed in order, making the CPU a hell to compile code for.
Architecturally, the PPC is a slight bit nicer than the SPARC, and as a plus, the PPC64 was defined exactly the same time as the PPC32 was, and thus they (PPC32 & 64) are very similar.
In my eye, it was a good decision to go for the PPC.
"Thanks to the data retention act we're all going to be under constant surveillance, non-European lobbyists fight to gain influence over our legislation and the clear rejection of the European constitution by several key member countries has been downplayed, ridiculed or straightly ignored by European politicians. The EU is not a democracy, it is an oligarchy."
Firstly, the rejection of the constitution was due to a few factors: 1. Content for Chirac, 2. Xenophobia against the new members (the polish plumbers who would take all the jobs), and 3. More xenophobia in the Dutch case (I lived there at the moment, and the xenophobic tensions in the Dutch society were quite noticable, it's not that they dislike Europeans, but the big scarse was that the constitution was to make it easier to enter the EU, and thus Holland; allthough this was a load of crap that the fucker De Geers shoved down the throats of the Dutch).
Secondly, I agree, the EU is not democratic, it all falls down to the fact that annoying non-elected council. And, like you, I feel that there is an Europeean identity growing, especially among young people. I am a federalist, I should say, and as a federalist, I do not like the implementation of the Union, but it is the best foundation that we have to build a true unified Europeean nation on. The problem is the Council like I said, and due to the fact that they are composed like they are. We cannot hold back on reforms, we cannot stop for 10-15 years and continue with the present organisation. What we do need is a clear constitution that move power to the parliament, like the one that was rejected in France and the Netherlands.
On the question on the data retention directive, this falls down, once again on the council. Had the parliament not approved it, they would have moved on, claiming it a third pillar issue.
Not really, they were pro-software patents. Disregarding S and M, we have the two liberal partys that are quite decent and the conservatives that arn't to bad either.
Well, having lived outside of Sweden for some time, I can tell you, that it is a myth that Swedish women look better than other. They are about average when compared to the rest of Europe. However, the number of blondes is a bit higher and I suppose that if you find blond hair attractive there is a point to the myth.
This is intresting, as in Sweden, the goverment is investigating whether to allow for international calls and data transmission in wires to be intercepted. The FRA (Swedish version of the NSA), already intercept radio transmissions, and they want more.
And as usual, international is defined as not-in-sweden, so this includes intra-european traffic as well, which is really way over the line. Not that I am surprised, Sweden have a facshist as minister of justice, who just recently together with his British collegue, pushed through a law in Europe, forcing ISPs, mail-servers, mobile phone companies &.c to log data on their customers communications (not the contents, but bad enough) for TWO years.
While it might be reasonable for European police to be given access to existing records after a court order, this new law is unprecedented in that it regulates what data that is to be stored, which turns out to be a lot more information than was actually stored by telephone and internet companies by default.
This is disgusting and I want none of it.
PS! To any Swede reading this, dispose Bodström in the autum elections, all other questions are secondary! DS!
The problem is not that the comission isn't directly elected, the problem is that they are not accountable to the parliament as in a normal parliamentary democracy. If we want to talk about a body that is in need of direct elections, let's talk about the council...
Don't get me wrong, I love Europe and the new oppertunies and liberties that the Union has brought us, however, like any european federalist, I absolutelly HATE the council.
Yes, the Union is to decentralised. No, it's not a matter of time before it's torn apart, it won't. The Union has existed in one way or another for 50 years. Since its foundation, we have seen a more free Europe being developed, and while not everyone use the new liberties, those who are used to them would get pissed as hell if these liberties were removed. And a significant number of those new liberties depend on the existence of the Union.
I am talking of liberties such as freedom of movement, freedom of establishment &.c. And in today's Europe these freedoms are well used, and taken for granted by a whole lot of people.
So, the Union will not fall apart, but rather, as more and more people begin to use their liberties, they will demand more liberties.
And to conclude: Long live the United States of Europe.
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According to macosxhints: "Kirk McElhearn used tcpdump to verify that if you simply disable the mini store (Edit: Hide Ministore, or just Shift-Command-M), then no data is transmitted."
Though McElhearn's blog seem to have been slashdotted, poor guy...:)
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"They can defuse this whole situation simply by adding a checkbox to iTunes, to only enable this invasive feature at the user's request."
Edit->Hide mini store Although you have to do that explicitly.
Both warp drives and aliens the same week. It should be clear that the alien bacteria detected the warp drive research and decided to make contact, unfortunately the all perished when their space ship blew up over India.
Now, we will never know what they wanted, and their friends will believe that we shot them down...
I would disagree, Swedish women are about as beautiful as any other European female, with the exception of the British women (who all know are inherently ugly).
It all comes down to some strange, myth, upheld in Sweden the same way as the myth about how good the Swedish food is (quality-wise that is).
I've lived in Holland for a year, and believe me, there is no difference, except that Dutch women are a bit taller than Swedish women on average. I've dated girls from several states in Europe, and I can hardly complain on their (the women's) looks.
You do not need to know Swedish to get the citizenship (Swedish isn't even an official language in Sweden), the only thing necessary is to have a permanent residence permit for at least two years.
Getting the permit is in general VERY difficult. To get a permit you have to be either 1) a refugee (but that usually only means that you get a temporary permit these days) or 2) marry a Swede (but in many cases they ignore that completely if the migrational office decides that you are only married to get the permit (which of course is less likely to happen if you come from a "civilized" country e.g. Canada, the US, Australia and the Japans; though this is hardly a guarantee)), or 3) be a citizen of the Union, in which case you get the permit automatically.
The election is in September, so it's a bit late to move here.
We were going to have the € as currency symbol, but the stupid voters said no (although, technically we are obliged to by our agreement to join the Union, so what the voters said doesn't really matter (and we did say yes in the referendum on joining the Union)), so we stick around with "kr" as a symbol for the crown.
No features??? Try complex numbers, inline functions (i.e. typesafe macros) and variable declarations which does not have to follow the start of a scope and restricted pointers.
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Yes, though this is waste that will be non radioactive in about 150 years, that is not a very big time. Think of fission that give waste that has to be stored away for periods of over 10000 years.
Other reactions will produce less radioactive waste than the D-T reactions in the ITER reactor (the other reactions are more difficult to achieve, therefor the D-T reaction in ITER).
Summary: Fusion is clean!!! This is a great day for mankind, etc, etc...
>>Here few people would ever say they are from "Foo City, Country, EU" as they would leave out the EU part.
I would, but I try to leave out the state part.
>>they just don't think of Europe as a coutry
Well, that certainly doesn't include me.
>>Each country within the EU still has its full sovereignty.
Hardly, are you aware what the Union did after Jorg Heider was elected in Austria.
>> The EU doesn't even have a constitution!
Not yet, but soon we will have.
>> Also the cultural differences can be huge somtimes
I have friends in SE, DK, UK, GR, NL, HU, IT, DE, ES, PL, PT, AT and CZ. I can not agree with that statement, the cultural differences aren't overly big, they are actually quite small. Would not the cultural differences between New York and Utah be greater in some aspects?
Well, I just tried to my put Gothenburg, EU at my M.Sc. thesis' front page. My supervisor war kinda picky about it, but I did manage to sneak Stockholm, EU past at the legal disclaimer part on the second page.
And, you shouldn't call us EU-ians, we are simply Europeans. The people from the continent of Europe that are not from the EU can be called north-europeans, eastern-europeans or something there about. Of course, this also include "EU-ians", compare this to north-americans and Americans, where the later refers to "USA-ians", and the former also include Canadians.
ESA = European Space Agency. Me confused...
If you are going to another star, accelerating at 1g is going to get you to relativistic speeds (let's say 0.6c) in 0.6*( 299792458.0 / 9.82 / 3600.0 / 24.0 ) = 212 days. Now, when going to the stars, you cannot really view that as a long time, and 1g constant acceleration would hardly put a huge stress on someone, rather, it would be very comfortable.
Yes, the V8 have support for quads, but I can't think of a single implementation that does not force the OS to emulate it.
I wonder, would injecting human DNA into bacteria (in order to produce vaccine) constitute a hybrid? Would the use of pig-organs in humans be banned by this?
No, not from Solaris, it's strictly for the embedded market. In order to support this you need special libraries, and support for it in the operating system.
I have not seen any figures on performance advantages, I would suppose that it is developed to be power efficient when switching between processes on a low process count system.
That depends on the ABI you are using. In the V8E there is another optional ABI that basically gives each process one window. The workings of this ABI basically gives you 32 registers to work with, just like the PPC and the MIPS.
"Fujitsu's SPARC VI is out of order"
True, but that one is a SPARC V9 and not a V8. But, I wasn't very specific in this issue, sorry for that.
"Sight bit? Two words, register windows"
Well, the reg windows do have their advantages, you get a smaller code size since you don't have to push stuff on the stack as soon as you make a function call, this also speed up the calls a great deal (also, this simplifies the work of the compiler somewhat). The back side is of course that you need to have an operating system that manages the register windows, and in some embedded applications this isn't an option.
The SPARC V8 is quite clean and nice to work with, and is farley sane, with the exception of tagged arthmetics, the trap model and the visible pipeline, and missing standard interface to the MMU (yes I know of the ref-mmu).
On the other hand, the SPARC V9 is a horrendeus monster thar is just plain scary when dealing with supervisor level code. IMHO the PPC64 is much nicer than the V9, in many aspects.
But, on the other hand the PPC, has gone out of order, while the SPARC has stayed in order, making the CPU a hell to compile code for.
Architecturally, the PPC is a slight bit nicer than the SPARC, and as a plus, the PPC64 was defined exactly the same time as the PPC32 was, and thus they (PPC32 & 64) are very similar.
In my eye, it was a good decision to go for the PPC.
"Thanks to the data retention act we're all going to be under constant surveillance, non-European lobbyists fight to gain influence over our legislation and the clear rejection of the European constitution by several key member countries has been downplayed, ridiculed or straightly ignored by European politicians. The EU is not a democracy, it is an oligarchy."
Firstly, the rejection of the constitution was due to a few factors: 1. Content for Chirac, 2. Xenophobia against the new members (the polish plumbers who would take all the jobs), and 3. More xenophobia in the Dutch case (I lived there at the moment, and the xenophobic tensions in the Dutch society were quite noticable, it's not that they dislike Europeans, but the big scarse was that the constitution was to make it easier to enter the EU, and thus Holland; allthough this was a load of crap that the fucker De Geers shoved down the throats of the Dutch).
Secondly, I agree, the EU is not democratic, it all falls down to the fact that annoying non-elected council. And, like you, I feel that there is an Europeean identity growing, especially among young people. I am a federalist, I should say, and as a federalist, I do not like the implementation of the Union, but it is the best foundation that we have to build a true unified Europeean nation on. The problem is the Council like I said, and due to the fact that they are composed like they are. We cannot hold back on reforms, we cannot stop for 10-15 years and continue with the present organisation. What we do need is a clear constitution that move power to the parliament, like the one that was rejected in France and the Netherlands.
On the question on the data retention directive, this falls down, once again on the council. Had the parliament not approved it, they would have moved on, claiming it a third pillar issue.
Please see my blog for more ranting on the issue.
Not really, they were pro-software patents. Disregarding S and M, we have the two liberal partys that are quite decent and the conservatives that arn't to bad either.
Well, having lived outside of Sweden for some time, I can tell you, that it is a myth that Swedish women look better than other. They are about average when compared to the rest of Europe. However, the number of blondes is a bit higher and I suppose that if you find blond hair attractive there is a point to the myth.
This is intresting, as in Sweden, the goverment is investigating whether to allow for international calls and data transmission in wires to be intercepted. The FRA (Swedish version of the NSA), already intercept radio transmissions, and they want more.
And as usual, international is defined as not-in-sweden, so this includes intra-european traffic as well, which is really way over the line. Not that I am surprised, Sweden have a facshist as minister of justice, who just recently together with his British collegue, pushed through a law in Europe, forcing ISPs, mail-servers, mobile phone companies &.c to log data on their customers communications (not the contents, but bad enough) for TWO years.
While it might be reasonable for European police to be given access to existing records after a court order, this new law is unprecedented in that it regulates what data that is to be stored, which turns out to be a lot more information than was actually stored by telephone and internet companies by default.
This is disgusting and I want none of it.
PS! To any Swede reading this, dispose Bodström in the autum elections, all other questions are secondary! DS!
The problem is not that the comission isn't directly elected, the problem is that they are not accountable to the parliament as in a normal parliamentary democracy. If we want to talk about a body that is in need of direct elections, let's talk about the council...
Don't get me wrong, I love Europe and the new oppertunies and liberties that the Union has brought us, however, like any european federalist, I absolutelly HATE the council.
A bit OT to the article, but what the heck...
Yes, the Union is to decentralised. No, it's not a matter of time before it's torn apart, it won't. The Union has existed in one way or another for 50 years. Since its foundation, we have seen a more free Europe being developed, and while not everyone use the new liberties, those who are used to them would get pissed as hell if these liberties were removed. And a significant number of those new liberties depend on the existence of the Union.
I am talking of liberties such as freedom of movement, freedom of establishment &.c. And in today's Europe these freedoms are well used, and taken for granted by a whole lot of people.
So, the Union will not fall apart, but rather, as more and more people begin to use their liberties, they will demand more liberties.
And to conclude: Long live the United States of Europe.
According to macosxhints: "Kirk McElhearn used tcpdump to verify that if you simply disable the mini store (Edit: Hide Ministore, or just Shift-Command-M), then no data is transmitted."
:)
Though McElhearn's blog seem to have been slashdotted, poor guy...
"They can defuse this whole situation simply by adding a checkbox to iTunes, to only enable this invasive feature at the user's request."
Edit->Hide mini store
Although you have to do that explicitly.
Both warp drives and aliens the same week. It should be clear that the alien bacteria detected the warp drive research and decided to make contact, unfortunately the all perished when their space ship blew up over India.
Now, we will never know what they wanted, and their friends will believe that we shot them down...
It's clearly a fossilised life form based on both silicon and carbon.
I would disagree, Swedish women are about as beautiful as any other European female, with the exception of the British women (who all know are inherently ugly).
It all comes down to some strange, myth, upheld in Sweden the same way as the myth about how good the Swedish food is (quality-wise that is).
I've lived in Holland for a year, and believe me, there is no difference, except that Dutch women are a bit taller than Swedish women on average. I've dated girls from several states in Europe, and I can hardly complain on their (the women's) looks.
You do not need to know Swedish to get the citizenship (Swedish isn't even an official language in Sweden), the only thing necessary is to have a permanent residence permit for at least two years.
Getting the permit is in general VERY difficult. To get a permit you have to be either 1) a refugee (but that usually only means that you get a temporary permit these days) or 2) marry a Swede (but in many cases they ignore that completely if the migrational office decides that you are only married to get the permit (which of course is less likely to happen if you come from a "civilized" country e.g. Canada, the US, Australia and the Japans; though this is hardly a guarantee)), or 3) be a citizen of the Union, in which case you get the permit automatically.
The election is in September, so it's a bit late to move here.
We were going to have the € as currency symbol, but the stupid voters said no (although, technically we are obliged to by our agreement to join the Union, so what the voters said doesn't really matter (and we did say yes in the referendum on joining the Union)), so we stick around with "kr" as a symbol for the crown.
No features??? Try complex numbers, inline functions (i.e. typesafe macros) and variable declarations which does not have to follow the start of a scope and restricted pointers.