It is easier to solidify it after the short lived and intense radionuclides have decayed in a decade or two and the waste cools down. In the meantime storage of the rods in ponds provides a cheaper way of cooling the rods. If it was vitrified hot it would probably crack the container. If we could actually separate the short lived radionuclides from the long lived radionuclides and burn them in a reactor of course none of this longwinded crap would be necessary. However all R&D work on it has been stopped for "proliferation" concerns.
There are bacteria which eat uranium. Not sure about the other radionuclides. If most of the waste is water the heavy radionuclides can probably be separated with a regular reverse osmosis membrane. Or you can just boil the water and do column vapor separation. Of course some of the water may be deuterated or tritiated by now but that is a different problem. The deuterium and tritium can be separated. It is done all the time to get the product anyway.
The problem is where you store the radionuclides once you separate them. Vitrification and storage in casks is one way. Where you put them? Well apparently not on Yucca Mountain.
Don't compare this with the Note. You are going to pay $1500 for a machine you can run next to no applications on. The library is even more limited than that of Android. Where are the productivity and multimedia suites? Google Docs and Picasa? Blech. Where is the development environment? etc.
It is $500 bucks too high and it does next to nothing. Now you formatted the thing and installed Ubuntu on it it might be usable for otherwise...
I got a GeForce GTX 660 Ti which uses the same GK104 chip as higher end cards but has one shader module disabled (7 SMX units) and less memory bandwidth..
This new card has a GK110 chip (13 SMX units) which used to be only available in HPC Tesla cards costing like triple this price. For comparison my card does 2.5 TFLOPS vs this cards 4.5 TFLOPS. It is a really large performance difference especially for people doing GPGPU computing. The former top of the line in their consumer GeForce market was the GTX 690 with dual GK104 GPUs with all shader modules enabled (8 SMX units) and it had LESS TFLOPS than this card with a single GPU.
Any range indicator on a car's panel is going to be an estimate be it on a gasoline or an electric car. You should never ever blindly trust that indicator. The only indicator you can rely upon is the battery gauge or the fuel gauge. If you play it close to the remaining energy you have you will end up without energy possibly in the middle of nowhere and that happens in either car regardless. Why did he not give himself enough margin to be safe like a normal person would? Instead he gave himself negative margin to reach the target and was surprised that it did not have enough range. Bonkers.
Elon is not Steve Jobs. He is a much poorer designer than Steve Jobs. He is also not as blatantly deceitful and lying as Steve Jobs.
We created alcohol in part because it was the only way to store the energy in grains for human consumption over long ranges of time where the grains would have otherwise rotted. Beer was supposedly invented in Egypt precisely for this. That it had entertainment or recreational value was secondary back then.
Now someone makes a 'vaccine' that reduces the human body's ability to process one kind of energy source we have. This is an evolutionary step backwards.
Well he could have charged his car fully before starting his trip and not have driven around Manhattan to begin with.
It's a known characteristic of this car that the battery system needs to spend energy to heat the battery pack on cold environments. The manufacturer even advises doing the initial startup on really cold climates plugged into the grid. In his case he just needed to charge a bit more so the battery pack would survive the trip.
Sure it would be nice to have more charging stations. But you have to know how to manage your energy supply. Have you never seen any driver needing assistance because he didn't fill his gas tank on time and ran until dry? This with a gas station network which has been constructed for decades and is nearly ubiquitous.
What I reject is the parents notion that we made more progress in the last 50 years than in the 100 years before that. That is simply laughable. The difference between having some faster computers or whatever (even integrated circuits were invented over 50 years ago) compared to actually having electricity, telephone, radio, automobiles, aircraft, nuclear power, for the first time is simply enormous.
No the rate of technological progress is not greater. Impact varies widely across technological areas. The other claims are also pathetic. Just another person who has been drinking too much Kurzweilian cool-aid.
There have been advances made since then of course but the advances are often in totally different areas. Even in the XIXth century there were many advances made in logistics and tabulating machines which could be comparable to the earliest computers in terms of impact. In fact this is the reason why million men armies in WWI were logistically manageable for the first time.
Airplanes were faster than that. The Boeing 727 had a cruise speed of 599 mph. In 1955 there were electric trains capable of 206 mph in France. However the absolute land speed record in 1947 was 394 mph.
The modern electric train record speeds are due to two factors: automated signaling systems which makes such speeds practical (i.e. electronics and software), and lighter passenger trains.
In other words Microsoft has been entrenching itself on desktops and even then not fairing that well with it. Windows 8 is one example of this. As people turn more to mobile devices (laptops already passed desktops quite some time ago and tablets may do the same to laptops) Microsoft keeps getting more niche.
You do not need to recompile a Linux kernel to use new device drivers either because it has loadable modules. But Linux is still monolithic.
In a microkernel the device driver would be running as a lower priority process communicating with the rest of the operating system via message passing. Rather than running in the same CPU ring level of protection and potentially crashing the OS when you have a driver bug.
Oh and if you check the TIOBE index Java is increasing the lead over C# again. Probably because C# popularity is falling like a rock. Even Miguel de Icaza has stopped pushing for it. I do not know if it is from all the Android programmers, or how Microsoft is falling out of grace even from general purpose computing applications, or what.
You would be surprised at how many sites still use it. It is fine as long as you are writing a servlet or using JSP or something like that. Just don't use EJBs. Please. Most abused misfeature I have ever seen.
I did not say it was easy to program in OpenCL. It is kind of like programming in C with vector types built in. You can easily make a matrix multiplication library in OpenCL which would have pretty high performance and run across a full spectrum of platforms from CPUs to GPUs or even Cell and FPGAs.
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You forgot Bruce Perens. He's the reasonable one of that trio.
It is easier to solidify it after the short lived and intense radionuclides have decayed in a decade or two and the waste cools down. In the meantime storage of the rods in ponds provides a cheaper way of cooling the rods. If it was vitrified hot it would probably crack the container. If we could actually separate the short lived radionuclides from the long lived radionuclides and burn them in a reactor of course none of this longwinded crap would be necessary. However all R&D work on it has been stopped for "proliferation" concerns.
There are bacteria which eat uranium. Not sure about the other radionuclides. If most of the waste is water the heavy radionuclides can probably be separated with a regular reverse osmosis membrane. Or you can just boil the water and do column vapor separation. Of course some of the water may be deuterated or tritiated by now but that is a different problem. The deuterium and tritium can be separated. It is done all the time to get the product anyway.
The problem is where you store the radionuclides once you separate them. Vitrification and storage in casks is one way. Where you put them? Well apparently not on Yucca Mountain.
1) It wasn't invented by Apple
2) If I stepped on my power plug it would be more likely I broke my foot not the plug.
So you never bought laptops from any other company than Apple I gather.
Don't compare this with the Note. You are going to pay $1500 for a machine you can run next to no applications on. The library is even more limited than that of Android. Where are the productivity and multimedia suites? Google Docs and Picasa? Blech. Where is the development environment? etc.
It is $500 bucks too high and it does next to nothing. Now you formatted the thing and installed Ubuntu on it it might be usable for otherwise...
The Portuguese tried that in the Age of Discovery. Fat load of good it did.
I got a GeForce GTX 660 Ti which uses the same GK104 chip as higher end cards but has one shader module disabled (7 SMX units) and less memory bandwidth..
This new card has a GK110 chip (13 SMX units) which used to be only available in HPC Tesla cards costing like triple this price. For comparison my card does 2.5 TFLOPS vs this cards 4.5 TFLOPS. It is a really large performance difference especially for people doing GPGPU computing. The former top of the line in their consumer GeForce market was the GTX 690 with dual GK104 GPUs with all shader modules enabled (8 SMX units) and it had LESS TFLOPS than this card with a single GPU.
Dishonoured, Mass Effect 3, X-Com Enemy Unknown use the Unreal Engine. I don't know about the others.
Not really. There are written rules and unwritten rules. Sometimes the unwritten rules have more power and that is the case regarding plagiarism.
Any range indicator on a car's panel is going to be an estimate be it on a gasoline or an electric car. You should never ever blindly trust that indicator. The only indicator you can rely upon is the battery gauge or the fuel gauge. If you play it close to the remaining energy you have you will end up without energy possibly in the middle of nowhere and that happens in either car regardless. Why did he not give himself enough margin to be safe like a normal person would? Instead he gave himself negative margin to reach the target and was surprised that it did not have enough range. Bonkers.
Elon is not Steve Jobs. He is a much poorer designer than Steve Jobs. He is also not as blatantly deceitful and lying as Steve Jobs.
We created alcohol in part because it was the only way to store the energy in grains for human consumption over long ranges of time where the grains would have otherwise rotted. Beer was supposedly invented in Egypt precisely for this. That it had entertainment or recreational value was secondary back then.
Now someone makes a 'vaccine' that reduces the human body's ability to process one kind of energy source we have. This is an evolutionary step backwards.
Well he could have charged his car fully before starting his trip and not have driven around Manhattan to begin with.
It's a known characteristic of this car that the battery system needs to spend energy to heat the battery pack on cold environments. The manufacturer even advises doing the initial startup on really cold climates plugged into the grid. In his case he just needed to charge a bit more so the battery pack would survive the trip.
Sure it would be nice to have more charging stations. But you have to know how to manage your energy supply. Have you never seen any driver needing assistance because he didn't fill his gas tank on time and ran until dry? This with a gas station network which has been constructed for decades and is nearly ubiquitous.
Try 3D printing that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1L2xODZSI4
AFAIK most civilian aircraft have no radars whatsoever.
It think they already had the Distinguished Service Medal for non-combatants. Boh.
What I reject is the parents notion that we made more progress in the last 50 years than in the 100 years before that. That is simply laughable. The difference between having some faster computers or whatever (even integrated circuits were invented over 50 years ago) compared to actually having electricity, telephone, radio, automobiles, aircraft, nuclear power, for the first time is simply enormous.
No the rate of technological progress is not greater. Impact varies widely across technological areas. The other claims are also pathetic. Just another person who has been drinking too much Kurzweilian cool-aid.
There have been advances made since then of course but the advances are often in totally different areas. Even in the XIXth century there were many advances made in logistics and tabulating machines which could be comparable to the earliest computers in terms of impact. In fact this is the reason why million men armies in WWI were logistically manageable for the first time.
The modern electric train record speeds are due to two factors: automated signaling systems which makes such speeds practical (i.e. electronics and software), and lighter passenger trains.
The computers are better and communications are more pervasive and ubiquitous.
It is laughable to dismiss the Renaissance and the Age of Exploration like that.
In other words Microsoft has been entrenching itself on desktops and even then not fairing that well with it. Windows 8 is one example of this. As people turn more to mobile devices (laptops already passed desktops quite some time ago and tablets may do the same to laptops) Microsoft keeps getting more niche.
There are other segments like smart phones, tablets, servers, etc where MS does not have a majority share.
In a microkernel the device driver would be running as a lower priority process communicating with the rest of the operating system via message passing. Rather than running in the same CPU ring level of protection and potentially crashing the OS when you have a driver bug.
Oh and if you check the TIOBE index Java is increasing the lead over C# again. Probably because C# popularity is falling like a rock. Even Miguel de Icaza has stopped pushing for it. I do not know if it is from all the Android programmers, or how Microsoft is falling out of grace even from general purpose computing applications, or what.
You would be surprised at how many sites still use it. It is fine as long as you are writing a servlet or using JSP or something like that. Just don't use EJBs. Please. Most abused misfeature I have ever seen.
I did not say it was easy to program in OpenCL. It is kind of like programming in C with vector types built in. You can easily make a matrix multiplication library in OpenCL which would have pretty high performance and run across a full spectrum of platforms from CPUs to GPUs or even Cell and FPGAs.