First, there is no climate crisis in the global warming sense. The predictions were pretty suspect to begin with. Grown even more suspect now that the Sun is back in the low end of the solar cycle. Enjoy your global warming blizzards. I am anxiously waiting for the ice age doom and gloom scenario to be back in fashion soon.
Second, some environmentalists, spoon fed with the global warming crapola, have indeed started supporting nuclear power generation which is basically CO2 free. James Lovelock is one example. Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace, is another. The solution to the waste is simple. Reuse as much as possible and bury the rest. The amount of waste per unit of energy generated is quite small. Which is why you keep hearing about how they need some place to store the waste for 20 years, do nothing about it, and its ok. If the waste really piled up fast, a place to bury it would have already been found and used.
So you get an idea 25 GWe (1 GWe per reactor) is the output of around 6 largish nuclear power plants (4 reactors per plant), or 12 medium ones (2 reactors per plant). The US has way more nuclear power plants than that. However you also have to learn the difference between peak output and real output. What you really get out from wind is a small fraction of peak power. Being generous and assuming wind power has half the capacity factor of nuclear power, you can generate all the power, from all wind you mentioned with 12 nuclear reactors.
I am not against wind power, quite the contrary, but claiming it is a good idea to replace nuclear with wind is just plain unreasonable. You need something to provide cheap baseload power. The choices are coal or nuclear. Pick your poison.
The problem with getting nuclear waste into space boils down to two things: a) it is too expensive, b) most the nuclear waste is actually reusable as nuclear fuel if you either reprocess it, or put it into one of the proposed advanced nuclear power plants which can burn this fuel.
You are assuming that coal fly ash only consists of CO2. The scrubbers are scrubbing more than CO2. They are also scrubbing lead, arsenic, mercury, and other goodies. Try burying that anywhere. Just because anything has a stable nuclei does not mean it is not toxic. Coal will be used of course the economics are too good, especially in the USA and China, to be otherwise. But nuclear has its place as well.
The solid rocket boosters are made by ATK Thiokol rather than Boeing. Boeing however used to own Rocketdyne at a point, which designed the SSME. The probably also have the info on the orbiter.
The most useful info about the orbiter is probably the shape, reentry thermal characteristics, and thermal shielding.
Actually pretty soon the Chinese will be leading the US in rocket engine design. As the SSME is retired, the US will stop manufacturing staged combustion engines. While the Chinese are going to use staged combustion LOX/Kerosene engines (never manufactured in reasonable numbers in the US) for their new Long March 5 rocket. It is also likely easier to get the info about the RD-0120 rocket engine considering the connections the Chinese have had for a long time with Russian industry.
They could use a lot of info on reusable thermal shielding for reentry however. The Russians do not have enough experience in that area.
Getting something that allows you to browse code more efficiently certainly helps. There are tools for doing that.
Another trick is to compile in debug mode, run the code inside a debugger, then break and watch the function call stack. This can help understand deeply nested code some more.
In the long run however nothing substitutes practice using the codebase. Even an author can get lost if he spends some years away from the code... Either you just do not remember anymore, or the code was changed so much by someone else's edits it gets hard to recognize. Or both.
If the code does not have consistent coding style standards run it thought a indenting program. You may lose the revision control history but you certainly get a more than reasonable return from it being easier to parse manually. If it does have a consistent coding style standard, even if it is something you are not used to, probably better to keep it that way.
Cleanup code by refactoring common code blocks out, or doing other code refactoring that reduces line code code and/or increases readability. Make sure the refactored version is functionally equivalent to the non-refactored version. Unless you are fixing a bug. Even if you are fixing a bug document the change just in case something actually relies on bug for bug compatibility.
If you do not have time to do cleanups just keep adding the functionality you need. Eventually you will have read enough code that you will know the codebase. If you do not need to add any more functionality, who cares anyway?
North Korea and Iran use liquid fuel IRBMs. China's long range ICBMs (the ones that can reach the continental US) are liquid fuel based. China has been working on a long range solid fueled ICBM family for some time now but have been having some issues.
He does it so he can have a mirror of the page for later reference. The web changes so much, what you read today probably isn't there tomorrow. It is actually a good idea in hindsight.
- Data roaming enable/disable setting
- Separate disable controls for 3G and WiFi
- Network usage statistics
- Pinch zoom on every app that matters (ok, the Milestone is also supposed to have that and this Nexus One update as well)
- Smooth interface (Nexus One seems ok too)
IMO the Lynch movie had an awesome and dark visual design. It was also seriously violent. The soundtrack was nothing short of awesome.
Some actors were just plain terrific. The Baron was memorable, enjoyable, yet disgusting at the same time. Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam also excellent. The Emperor fit the role like a glove. Gurney Alleck (Patrick Stewart) also does a nice part in there. Princess Irulan was hot. Alia was scary like in the book.
Other performances were often plain wooden (Paul and Shani are examples). The script was also very rough, poorly paced, with some things happening too quickly, others too slowly. Some pieces of dialog did not make a lot of sense. Namely the betrayal of Dr. Huey is poorly explained and could have been mostly skipped altogether rather than done poorly. Duncan Idaho did not get enough character development for the audience to feel enough empathy when he died, so he could have been written out of the plot (although it is probably a bad idea since he shows up in the sequels). Somewhere near the middle-end of the movie there is too rapid a transition from roving skirmishes by small bands into the final battle. The final battle also happens too quickly IMO. If there is one thing this movie could have used was the battle choreography using computer generated mass fights as done in LotR.
Not explaining the machine wars in the intro was OK since it is not very relevant to the actual plot. You do not need to explain it any more than you need to talk about Morgoth when doing LoTR.
The Guild report bit was necessary, yet more exposition was necessary in other places. A lot of things in the movie are poorly explained such as the powers of the Emperor, the role of the Sardaukar (although this is understandable), the Bene Gesserit role in society is also confusing to understand, as is the Guild's in the beggining.
Allegedly the issue was that the Soviet Union had signed a non-aggression treaty with the Japanese not long after Khalkhin Gol. You have to remember the veteran troops the Soviet Union brought in order to encircle the German Army Group B and win the Battle of Stalingrad were divisions from the Far East which would not have been available otherwise. The Soviet Union had better things to do than risk a two front war so soon after they snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. Stalin only declared war on Japan after Germany was defeated.
Actually their aircraft technology is still pretty lagging. Watch the problems the Chinese and the Indians are having with producing jet engines for example. The J-10 was supposed to be using a native chinese WS-10 turbofan, instead they had to use a Russian Saturn AL-31FN turbofan. The Indians had the same issue with Tejas and went with a foreign engine. Building an airframe, electronics, weapon systems is a necessary step, but unless you can get an engine, you do not have an airplane.
What a load of bull. USB was invented by Intel. I had a PC with USB ports a long time before Macs ever came out with USB ports.
Firewire was ok. But it was hardly as pervasive a standard. It was too expensive to use for low-end peripherals, which was why people were using the old serial and parallel ports to begin with. SATA? Intel. PCI? Intel. Perhaps you should continue using your NuBus slots (which Apple did not invent either) and Apple Superdrive floppies.
New concept. Step forward. Ever heard of Lindows? Sorry, Linspire. Sorry, Xandros. It had (has?) this thing called One-Click & Run which was a digital software delivery service.
Some "choice" does not matter. People used to be able to choose serfdom for themselves and their descendants in ancient times as a way to pay off debt. Was that choice? Is the App Store choice? It is not choice.
Well, yeah. I bought a CULV notebook in a netbook form factor a couple of days ago. Had I wanted something in a larger form factor I would have got one of those notebooks. When I say it is not horribly expensive, I mean it is not like twice as much as a PC laptop, or that much more expensive than a Kindle DX.
I used to own a Commodore Amiga. It was really, really great, except programmers hardcoded everything, so when people later on got hard drives, they could not install their games on them. They still had to use floppies. Processor clockspeed had to be downgraded on newer and faster machines because otherwise internal game timers would malfunction. You had to use software to reduce the amount of visible physical RAM because programs were written with software tricks where pointers wrapped around, or they exploited the "unused" high memory bits in the pointers to stuff data, etc.
Cue 2010. Remember how everyone said it was much easier to develop applications for the iPhone OS rather than Android because all iPhones had the same 320x480 screen resolution? Now Apple launches iPad, with more screen resolution, and they have two backwards compatibility modes. One where apps run as a tiny rectangle in the middle of the device, another where everything is upscaled, maintaining the same application resolution.
Actually I hated the 1st generation iPod. Firewire port. Expensive. Only thing it actually had going for it was the storage space. Really. The fact that Steve was able to leverage his media industry connections into supporting the iTunes store was probably the thing that saved it.
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Second, some environmentalists, spoon fed with the global warming crapola, have indeed started supporting nuclear power generation which is basically CO2 free. James Lovelock is one example. Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace, is another. The solution to the waste is simple. Reuse as much as possible and bury the rest. The amount of waste per unit of energy generated is quite small. Which is why you keep hearing about how they need some place to store the waste for 20 years, do nothing about it, and its ok. If the waste really piled up fast, a place to bury it would have already been found and used.
I am not against wind power, quite the contrary, but claiming it is a good idea to replace nuclear with wind is just plain unreasonable. You need something to provide cheap baseload power. The choices are coal or nuclear. Pick your poison.
The problem with getting nuclear waste into space boils down to two things: a) it is too expensive, b) most the nuclear waste is actually reusable as nuclear fuel if you either reprocess it, or put it into one of the proposed advanced nuclear power plants which can burn this fuel.
You are assuming that coal fly ash only consists of CO2. The scrubbers are scrubbing more than CO2. They are also scrubbing lead, arsenic, mercury, and other goodies. Try burying that anywhere. Just because anything has a stable nuclei does not mean it is not toxic. Coal will be used of course the economics are too good, especially in the USA and China, to be otherwise. But nuclear has its place as well.
It hardly seems perfect. IPad is over twice as heavy as a Kindle. This is mainly due to the kind of screen they wanted to use.
The most useful info about the orbiter is probably the shape, reentry thermal characteristics, and thermal shielding.
They could use a lot of info on reusable thermal shielding for reentry however. The Russians do not have enough experience in that area.
Getting something that allows you to browse code more efficiently certainly helps. There are tools for doing that.
Another trick is to compile in debug mode, run the code inside a debugger, then break and watch the function call stack. This can help understand deeply nested code some more.
In the long run however nothing substitutes practice using the codebase. Even an author can get lost if he spends some years away from the code... Either you just do not remember anymore, or the code was changed so much by someone else's edits it gets hard to recognize. Or both.
If the code does not have consistent coding style standards run it thought a indenting program. You may lose the revision control history but you certainly get a more than reasonable return from it being easier to parse manually. If it does have a consistent coding style standard, even if it is something you are not used to, probably better to keep it that way.
Cleanup code by refactoring common code blocks out, or doing other code refactoring that reduces line code code and/or increases readability. Make sure the refactored version is functionally equivalent to the non-refactored version. Unless you are fixing a bug. Even if you are fixing a bug document the change just in case something actually relies on bug for bug compatibility.
If you do not have time to do cleanups just keep adding the functionality you need. Eventually you will have read enough code that you will know the codebase. If you do not need to add any more functionality, who cares anyway?
Oh, and they destroyed a short range missile with solid fuel as well.
North Korea and Iran use liquid fuel IRBMs. China's long range ICBMs (the ones that can reach the continental US) are liquid fuel based. China has been working on a long range solid fueled ICBM family for some time now but have been having some issues.
He does it so he can have a mirror of the page for later reference. The web changes so much, what you read today probably isn't there tomorrow. It is actually a good idea in hindsight.
- Data roaming enable/disable setting
- Separate disable controls for 3G and WiFi
- Network usage statistics
- Pinch zoom on every app that matters (ok, the Milestone is also supposed to have that and this Nexus One update as well)
- Smooth interface (Nexus One seems ok too)
Some actors were just plain terrific. The Baron was memorable, enjoyable, yet disgusting at the same time. Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam also excellent. The Emperor fit the role like a glove. Gurney Alleck (Patrick Stewart) also does a nice part in there. Princess Irulan was hot. Alia was scary like in the book.
Other performances were often plain wooden (Paul and Shani are examples). The script was also very rough, poorly paced, with some things happening too quickly, others too slowly. Some pieces of dialog did not make a lot of sense. Namely the betrayal of Dr. Huey is poorly explained and could have been mostly skipped altogether rather than done poorly. Duncan Idaho did not get enough character development for the audience to feel enough empathy when he died, so he could have been written out of the plot (although it is probably a bad idea since he shows up in the sequels). Somewhere near the middle-end of the movie there is too rapid a transition from roving skirmishes by small bands into the final battle. The final battle also happens too quickly IMO. If there is one thing this movie could have used was the battle choreography using computer generated mass fights as done in LotR.
Not explaining the machine wars in the intro was OK since it is not very relevant to the actual plot. You do not need to explain it any more than you need to talk about Morgoth when doing LoTR.
The Guild report bit was necessary, yet more exposition was necessary in other places. A lot of things in the movie are poorly explained such as the powers of the Emperor, the role of the Sardaukar (although this is understandable), the Bene Gesserit role in society is also confusing to understand, as is the Guild's in the beggining.
Amazon sells more things than books you know?
So you think the titles are too expensive, then you lambast Amazon for dropping a publisher which tried to hike their prices by 50%?
Allegedly the issue was that the Soviet Union had signed a non-aggression treaty with the Japanese not long after Khalkhin Gol. You have to remember the veteran troops the Soviet Union brought in order to encircle the German Army Group B and win the Battle of Stalingrad were divisions from the Far East which would not have been available otherwise. The Soviet Union had better things to do than risk a two front war so soon after they snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. Stalin only declared war on Japan after Germany was defeated.
Actually their aircraft technology is still pretty lagging. Watch the problems the Chinese and the Indians are having with producing jet engines for example. The J-10 was supposed to be using a native chinese WS-10 turbofan, instead they had to use a Russian Saturn AL-31FN turbofan. The Indians had the same issue with Tejas and went with a foreign engine. Building an airframe, electronics, weapon systems is a necessary step, but unless you can get an engine, you do not have an airplane.
Firewire was ok. But it was hardly as pervasive a standard. It was too expensive to use for low-end peripherals, which was why people were using the old serial and parallel ports to begin with. SATA? Intel. PCI? Intel. Perhaps you should continue using your NuBus slots (which Apple did not invent either) and Apple Superdrive floppies.
Or perhaps Steam. Ever heard of that?
Some "choice" does not matter. People used to be able to choose serfdom for themselves and their descendants in ancient times as a way to pay off debt. Was that choice? Is the App Store choice? It is not choice.
Well, yeah. I bought a CULV notebook in a netbook form factor a couple of days ago. Had I wanted something in a larger form factor I would have got one of those notebooks. When I say it is not horribly expensive, I mean it is not like twice as much as a PC laptop, or that much more expensive than a Kindle DX.
Cue 2010. Remember how everyone said it was much easier to develop applications for the iPhone OS rather than Android because all iPhones had the same 320x480 screen resolution? Now Apple launches iPad, with more screen resolution, and they have two backwards compatibility modes. One where apps run as a tiny rectangle in the middle of the device, another where everything is upscaled, maintaining the same application resolution.
Uniform hardware specs are so much better. Right?
Actually I hated the 1st generation iPod. Firewire port. Expensive. Only thing it actually had going for it was the storage space. Really. The fact that Steve was able to leverage his media industry connections into supporting the iTunes store was probably the thing that saved it.
Pluses:
Yes. Steve wanted to make his very own N800 tablet.