The Eurozone is still in a depression. Even Germany is in a situation of under-employment as a large fraction of the people they count as employed only have part-time low paying jobs.
It is hardly surprising that their TV division bleeds money. They sold nearly every manufacturing plant they had and basically ship TV with Samsung manufactured LCD screens. The only thing they make themselves is probably the software and the exterior case design. The TV software itself is mostly Google TV so uh...
Classic Slashdot is on "Offline Mode". Again. So I had to use Beta to post this. It's really hard to read light gray on white. I'm going blind from using this site. The moderation system is poorly supported. Which is the point of going to Slashdot to begin with. The comments. Otherwise I could just read an RSS feed. Reddit has become littered with lolcats and links to imgur much like what happened to Digg a couple of years back. So what's next?
It's basically the same idea behind the USA XM29 OICW prototype. Which got cancelled to be developed as two separate programs. Of which the rifle was cancelled and the grenade launcher lives as the XM25 CDTE. Which is probably to be cancelled too.
The South Koreans and the Chinese have something similar to this already in service. The Daewoo K-11 and the ZH-05.
Yeah. The costs were higher because it was a prototype nuclear power plant. Besides a lot of people back then doubted Areva's construction cost estimates. Among the third generation nuclear power plants they are the most complex. The Westinghouse APs in China seem to be building more or less on schedule though. I think there was like 1-2 year delay at most.
As they get used to manufacturing these kinds of power plants the construction time and cost goes down.
I see. You didn't get it when you learned themodynamics. A heat pump needs a cold reservoir to work. Much like a car needs a radiator. It doesn't matter if the car is gasoline or diesel powered. If the radiator isn't working and providing cooling for the engine either you shut down the engine or you melt the engine. Simple as that. If it was a coal power plant you would have to shut it down as well if the cooling water became too hot. Unless you want to wreck the power plant. There are alternative cooling systems to cooling towers but they are inefficient so they are not used in large scale thermal power plants. Also as you should remember from when you learned the Carnot cycle the higher the temperature you run an heat engine the more efficient it gets. So high efficiency thermal power plants, regardless of how they generate the heat, will always operate as close to the limits of the materials as they can.
Are you claiming that wind or solar have more availability than nuclear power? Try generating solar power in the night time or wind power when there is either no wind or too much wind (which forcibly shuts down windmills to prevent break down). Anyone with two brain cells knows renewables like solar and wind have less availability than nuclear power.
France seems to handle their plants fine. And wind power and solar power have capacity factors so low than it won't work for grid generation without excess generation capacity and storage to begin with.
Both the top news you posted here and your second link in the parent post are about transmission grid failures. Not nuclear power plant failures. As for graceful powering up and down it can be done. France for example has nuclear power plants with load-following mode. The US doesn't bother with this because the faction of power generated with nuclear is low enough that it isn't worth doing the retrofits. As for the heat sink being too hot you would have the same problem with any other thermal power plant which uses a cooling tower. Coal, natural gas, whatever. It isn't a nuclear power specific problem either. It's a thermal power plant issue.
They are doing large capital expenditures to expand production. Of course that costs money but the expectation is that they will get back once they start churning out more vehicles.
If the oil price kept at the same high level for another decade I think they had good chances of doing mass market electric cars. But given current oil price trends I think the Model 3 is about as low in the segment as they can get. Unless they figure out some way to magically decrease costs which would depend on battery technology advances which aren't there.
You have a lot more energy security with electric vehicles though. If for whatever reason the market changes you can switch the generators without replacing all the cars on the road.
The Zumwalt-class destroyer is a a lot smaller than a battleship. But it is supposed to do land bombardment too. With missiles and railguns instead of big conventional naval guns.
A lot of people claim aircraft carriers are obsolete as well. So what's left? Ekranoplans?
Bans don't work. Like you said if you ban it the black market takes over and then the problems become worse. You get criminal activity that you wouldn't get otherwise and you can't even measure the problem properly because the whole distribution network is underground.
I'm fine with them increasing the retirement age as people live longer. I'm still waiting for the fabled robotic utopia and leisure society that will never come though.
A lot of people have been thinking about this problem of digital preservation for a long time. archive.org has a library of software which can run under emulation in Javascript on a browser. Basically the answer to his question is to work on emulation and archival.
Google has done several steps backwards in their digital preservation projects lately.
Oh great. Now we get into nutrition science. That's another great area to start having a discussion. Do you know diabetic people have higher incidences of heart disease than non-diabetic people?
It is well known that elevated glucose levels in the blood cause heart problems. So maybe the major problem isn't the grease, like you seem to imply, but the bread in that cheeseburger.
No. The argument made in that video is bogus because the conclusion does not follow from the premises.
No. What they claim in the video is the droughts would be worse and more frequent with elevated CO2. Which is a ridiculous argument based on bogus premises.
Slashdot Mirror
The Eurozone is still in a depression. Even Germany is in a situation of under-employment as a large fraction of the people they count as employed only have part-time low paying jobs.
Once the possibility of someone exiting the Euro becomes real other countries will be tempted or pushed out basically making it pointless.
It was an economic marriage. And like in any marriage there are good times and bad times. Unfortunately some in Europe don't think of it this way.
Robotic judges and robotic lawyers. Just what we need...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It is hardly surprising that their TV division bleeds money. They sold nearly every manufacturing plant they had and basically ship TV with Samsung manufactured LCD screens. The only thing they make themselves is probably the software and the exterior case design. The TV software itself is mostly Google TV so uh...
Facebook, WhatIsNameApp, the list goes on and on.
How many credit cards do you have? Plus you can change the PIN to whatever you want.
This. Either use Google Docs or Sharepoint or whatever. There are also document management systems that run on the server side like Alfresco.
Classic Slashdot is on "Offline Mode". Again. So I had to use Beta to post this. It's really hard to read light gray on white. I'm going blind from using this site. The moderation system is poorly supported. Which is the point of going to Slashdot to begin with. The comments. Otherwise I could just read an RSS feed. Reddit has become littered with lolcats and links to imgur much like what happened to Digg a couple of years back. So what's next?
It's basically the same idea behind the USA XM29 OICW prototype. Which got cancelled to be developed as two separate programs. Of which the rifle was cancelled and the grenade launcher lives as the XM25 CDTE. Which is probably to be cancelled too.
The South Koreans and the Chinese have something similar to this already in service. The Daewoo K-11 and the ZH-05.
Are roasting marshmallows.
Yeah. The costs were higher because it was a prototype nuclear power plant. Besides a lot of people back then doubted Areva's construction cost estimates. Among the third generation nuclear power plants they are the most complex. The Westinghouse APs in China seem to be building more or less on schedule though. I think there was like 1-2 year delay at most.
As they get used to manufacturing these kinds of power plants the construction time and cost goes down.
I see. You didn't get it when you learned themodynamics. A heat pump needs a cold reservoir to work. Much like a car needs a radiator. It doesn't matter if the car is gasoline or diesel powered. If the radiator isn't working and providing cooling for the engine either you shut down the engine or you melt the engine. Simple as that. If it was a coal power plant you would have to shut it down as well if the cooling water became too hot. Unless you want to wreck the power plant. There are alternative cooling systems to cooling towers but they are inefficient so they are not used in large scale thermal power plants. Also as you should remember from when you learned the Carnot cycle the higher the temperature you run an heat engine the more efficient it gets. So high efficiency thermal power plants, regardless of how they generate the heat, will always operate as close to the limits of the materials as they can.
Are you claiming that wind or solar have more availability than nuclear power? Try generating solar power in the night time or wind power when there is either no wind or too much wind (which forcibly shuts down windmills to prevent break down). Anyone with two brain cells knows renewables like solar and wind have less availability than nuclear power.
France seems to handle their plants fine. And wind power and solar power have capacity factors so low than it won't work for grid generation without excess generation capacity and storage to begin with.
Both the top news you posted here and your second link in the parent post are about transmission grid failures. Not nuclear power plant failures. As for graceful powering up and down it can be done. France for example has nuclear power plants with load-following mode. The US doesn't bother with this because the faction of power generated with nuclear is low enough that it isn't worth doing the retrofits. As for the heat sink being too hot you would have the same problem with any other thermal power plant which uses a cooling tower. Coal, natural gas, whatever. It isn't a nuclear power specific problem either. It's a thermal power plant issue.
They are doing large capital expenditures to expand production. Of course that costs money but the expectation is that they will get back once they start churning out more vehicles.
If the oil price kept at the same high level for another decade I think they had good chances of doing mass market electric cars. But given current oil price trends I think the Model 3 is about as low in the segment as they can get. Unless they figure out some way to magically decrease costs which would depend on battery technology advances which aren't there.
Probably. Especially considering the current freefall in oil prices. Still it's a lot more useful and interesting than, say, Facebook.
The supply is too constrained.
You have a lot more energy security with electric vehicles though. If for whatever reason the market changes you can switch the generators without replacing all the cars on the road.
While this is true if it wasn't for the ME pushing down the oil prices that oil would be a lot more expensive.
It's true that Europe and China would be the first to suffer though.
The Zumwalt-class destroyer is a a lot smaller than a battleship. But it is supposed to do land bombardment too. With missiles and railguns instead of big conventional naval guns.
A lot of people claim aircraft carriers are obsolete as well. So what's left? Ekranoplans?
Bans don't work. Like you said if you ban it the black market takes over and then the problems become worse. You get criminal activity that you wouldn't get otherwise and you can't even measure the problem properly because the whole distribution network is underground.
I'm fine with them increasing the retirement age as people live longer. I'm still waiting for the fabled robotic utopia and leisure society that will never come though.
A lot of people have been thinking about this problem of digital preservation for a long time. archive.org has a library of software which can run under emulation in Javascript on a browser. Basically the answer to his question is to work on emulation and archival.
Google has done several steps backwards in their digital preservation projects lately.
I gave a macro and a micro argument against the premises they used. You handwave the macro argument and ignore the micro argument.
Oh great. Now we get into nutrition science. That's another great area to start having a discussion. Do you know diabetic people have higher incidences of heart disease than non-diabetic people?
It is well known that elevated glucose levels in the blood cause heart problems. So maybe the major problem isn't the grease, like you seem to imply, but the bread in that cheeseburger.
No. The argument made in that video is bogus because the conclusion does not follow from the premises.
No. What they claim in the video is the droughts would be worse and more frequent with elevated CO2. Which is a ridiculous argument based on bogus premises.