Yeah. Sounds like it was probably a TRIGA or similar reactor. These are designed such that drowning is actually a bigger hazard than radiation.
Seriously - these reactors usually had life preservers to prevent drowning in the event that someone fell into the pool. If you did fall in, unless you were an idiot and intentionally swam down to the reactor, you were more likely to die due to suffocation/drowning than to have any health effects from radiation.
This probably explains a lot in regards to my recent frustrating dealings with Samsung Korea as a CyanogenMod maintainer.
The US guys seem to want to do the right thing and are very intelligent - but the Koreans keep crippling them with illogical irrationality.
For example, even though all of their international devices have unlocked bootloaders, the very first stage of their boot sequence is locked down. The end result is that while the CPU is capable of booting directly from USB even if the bootloader chain on flash is totally corrupt, no one outside of Samsung can do this.
What does this mean? If the bootloaders on flash get corrupted, you need to solder JTAG wires to some pads on the board to recover it. Even Samsung's official updates always brick a few devices.
Their justification for this - they want to prevent warranty claims due to bootloader corruption. DAFUQ? This lockdown does NOTHING AT ALL to prevent bootloader corruption (their official flashing tool will happily clobber the bootloader partition with zeros if you tell it to, no questions asked, no lockdown.), but it DOES prevent people from recovering from corruption. They have done something that increases warranty claims for their devices, and their justifcation is that they want to reduce warranty claims? DAFUQ?
Pros: AT&T's network - superior coverage to T-Mobile or Sprint GSM - can use any unlocked phone that supports AT&T's UMTS frequency bands (nearly all international flagships do - this is NOT the case for T-Mobile's AWS band. Until recently the only phone not sold by T-Mo that supported this band was the HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus) Reasonably priced - $45/mo for unlimited voice and texts and 2GB data - No forced subsidy penalty for bringing your own device No contract
Cons: No LTE, but AT&T's LTE deployment isn't too heavy anyway Their 2GB is advertised as "unlimited" but it's not. This really bothers me. That said, even if you treat it as a 2GB limit, it's a great plan in terms of pricing
When my AT&T contract is up, I'm hopping over there.
DO NOT go to Verizon - they're horrible in terms of software updates for their devices (even the Galaxy Nexus gets slow updates on VZW), and non-Verizon devices compatible with their network don't exist.
Yup. That said, if no one views the chihuahua youtube video, it might not come to the attention of the right people that you were the one who posted it.
If it goes viral, it attracts far more attention, and regardless of whether it is positive attention or negative, the attention makes it pretty clear that someone violated their parole.
Sadly, too often, the attitude is, "Oh, that problem isn't going to be as bad as the engineers are making it out to be."
Usually, in this case, the engineers are right, and the guy who made the bad decision is long gone, the engineers have to work shit-tons of overtime to deal with a massive fire that would've been far easier to fix years earlier.
It's typical American financial management - Anything more than a year or two out just doesn't matter to anyone any more.
It is... But if you commit a crime, and no one knows you committed it, you're probably not going to get punished for it. It simply isn't possible for someone to punish you for a crime if they don't know that you committed it.
Yup. His video could've been some insanely popular stupid viral video with trained chihuahuas juggling - end result would've been the same (assuming the video received significant attention for some positive reason). Jail time for parole violation.
They couldn't nail Capone for any of his more high-profile crimes - in the end, the one government agency he couldn't escape unscathed was the IRS. Capone got nailed for tax evasion.
Yes... Based on all of the evidence, this guy was a scumbag that was just another screwup away from jail, and he chose to violate his parole in a fairly spectacular manner.
I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out the film was financed illicitly too.
Part of the plan includes increasing the fees for visas by about 4-5 times.
That said, I don't think even a $10000/year fee (It looks like it's $10k one-time being proposed?) is enough... The fee should be at least $20000/year to reduce the financial incentives for companies to use the visas.
Just because it doesn't have a building exactly there doesn't mean it isn't valid to search for it. There is a 300 block on E 15th street, and searching for 315 on any mapping app other than iOS 6 maps will at least take you to a location interpolated between the two nearest real buildings on the odd side of the street.
In this case, looking at the maps, it's a public park. It's perfectly valid to reference the park as "3xx E 15th street" where xx is odd. If you search for this, you should get some point along the street on the edge of the park.
Also, someone could be searching for a valid address and typo the number. Easy to do - Any SANE mapping app will degrade gracefully in this case and take you to a location that's within visual range of your actual desired destination. Only iOS 6 maps won't.
iOS 6 maps is the only one that will take you to A COMPLETELY WRONG ROAD.
" An iPhone 4S with iOS 5 has great maps" No it doesn't... It doesn't even do basic turn-by-turn routing. Something standalone GPS units and Google Maps have had for years.
Rooting is usually not too difficult, however root is only a tiny part of the equation. People get WAY too happy when someone manages to get root on a device with a locked bootloader. If the kernel/system image/ramdisk/frameworks break Android compatibility, the locked bootloader will stop you from fixing that.
All Nook LCD-based products since the Nook Tablet have had locked bootloaders. So do new Kindle Fires (original Fire was unlocked).
Every Android app available on the store, free or otherwise?
Amazon's App Store has a more limited selection. In addition, a large number of these apps are not Kindle Fire compatible - Fire-compatible apps are a limited subset of the Amazon App Store.
It's already well established that B&N's application selection is EXTREMELY limited, with even less compatibility, and frequently significant price increases.
Case in point: The dominant religion in the United States is Christianity The main target audience of South Park are United States citizens South Park frequently parodies Christianity Somehow, not only are Parker and Stone still alive (and to my knowledge, have never had violence committed against them due to South Park Jesus), but their show is quite popular in a country where the show makes fun of the dominant religion...
Yup. Anyone who owns a business that claims they built it entirely themselves is deluded. The majority of businesses in this country can't exist without roads - privately built, funded, and maintained roads are an incredibly rare exception, not the norm, and don't function without connectivity to the government-built road network.
In modern days, it could in theory be possible to have a business that does not directly depend on roads, but still: 1) The Internet was created using DARPA 2) Many Internet connections in this country have at least some government subsidization - anyone who lives away from the main road network and has phone service has the government to thank for that. 3) Can't get your equipment to your site without a road network. (Technically you could air/helo-lift things in - but guess where most of the initial development money for helicopters came from? Guess where the funding for our air traffic control system comes from?)
"If the Nexus 7 can do all that, why not the Fire - or indeed any of them?" Because they are not compliant with the Android CTS, and can't reliably run all Android applications. They cannot also access the Play Store (and any content available on it.)
I wasn't talking about sideloading - There are Amazon apps, available from the Play Store, that can access any Amazon content. (The only thing that needs sideloading is the app for Amazon's own app store - note that not all of the apps on Amazon's app store available for standard Android devices will run on a Kindle.)
Nexus 7 can access Amazon books and music WITHOUT SIDELOADING. Nexus 7 can access Nook books WITHOUT SIDELOADING. (B&N doesn't really offer anything else. There is not a single B&N app that isn't available cheaper directly from the Play Store) Nexus 7 can access all Play Store content WITHOUT SIDELOADING. Nexus 7 can access Amazon's app store with sideloading. The only thing the Nexus 7 can't access are Prime Instant videos, which as you said, is kind of sparse.
Technically, everything above applies equally to any Android device that passes the Android CTS, but the Nexus 7 is the most common example in this price/size class.
Kindle Fire cannot access any Nook content, period. (DRM...) Kindle Fire cannot access any Play Store content, period. (DRM for videos, probably DRM for books, Kindle doesn't pass CTS for most apps)
Nook cannot access any Kindle content, period. (DRM...) Nook cannot access any Play Store content, period. (DRM for videos, probably DRM for books, Kindle doesn't pass CTS for most apps)
You CANNOT run anything on any of the devices - Android devices that pass CTS are the ONLY devices that can access anything from the other ecosystems and all Android content.
Here's the breakdown: Nexus 7 can access Amazon ecosystem content (except Prime Instant Videos), B&N ecosystem content, and Google ecosystem content Kindles can only access Amazon ecosystem content Nooks can only access B&N ecosystem content
As to Subversion - even a significant number of open-source communities consider it to be vastly substandard.
I think Linus' opinion on SVN was that its main design goal (a better CVS) was fundamentally flawed and guaranteed to create a crap product. SVN's crappiness was one of the main motivators for creating git. (The other being that the only non-crappy solution at the time was proprietary).
There's a reason most of the major projects have moved to git. For example, Google's code review system for Android (gerrit) is highly integrated with git. Github has rapidly become one of the most well established source code hosting sites in the world.
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Yeah. Sounds like it was probably a TRIGA or similar reactor. These are designed such that drowning is actually a bigger hazard than radiation.
Seriously - these reactors usually had life preservers to prevent drowning in the event that someone fell into the pool. If you did fall in, unless you were an idiot and intentionally swam down to the reactor, you were more likely to die due to suffocation/drowning than to have any health effects from radiation.
This probably explains a lot in regards to my recent frustrating dealings with Samsung Korea as a CyanogenMod maintainer.
The US guys seem to want to do the right thing and are very intelligent - but the Koreans keep crippling them with illogical irrationality.
For example, even though all of their international devices have unlocked bootloaders, the very first stage of their boot sequence is locked down. The end result is that while the CPU is capable of booting directly from USB even if the bootloader chain on flash is totally corrupt, no one outside of Samsung can do this.
What does this mean? If the bootloaders on flash get corrupted, you need to solder JTAG wires to some pads on the board to recover it. Even Samsung's official updates always brick a few devices.
Their justification for this - they want to prevent warranty claims due to bootloader corruption. DAFUQ? This lockdown does NOTHING AT ALL to prevent bootloader corruption (their official flashing tool will happily clobber the bootloader partition with zeros if you tell it to, no questions asked, no lockdown.), but it DOES prevent people from recovering from corruption. They have done something that increases warranty claims for their devices, and their justifcation is that they want to reduce warranty claims? DAFUQ?
The closest I can figure out is Straight Talk.
Pros:
AT&T's network - superior coverage to T-Mobile or Sprint
GSM - can use any unlocked phone that supports AT&T's UMTS frequency bands (nearly all international flagships do - this is NOT the case for T-Mobile's AWS band. Until recently the only phone not sold by T-Mo that supported this band was the HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus)
Reasonably priced - $45/mo for unlimited voice and texts and 2GB data - No forced subsidy penalty for bringing your own device
No contract
Cons:
No LTE, but AT&T's LTE deployment isn't too heavy anyway
Their 2GB is advertised as "unlimited" but it's not. This really bothers me. That said, even if you treat it as a 2GB limit, it's a great plan in terms of pricing
When my AT&T contract is up, I'm hopping over there.
DO NOT go to Verizon - they're horrible in terms of software updates for their devices (even the Galaxy Nexus gets slow updates on VZW), and non-Verizon devices compatible with their network don't exist.
Yup. That said, if no one views the chihuahua youtube video, it might not come to the attention of the right people that you were the one who posted it.
If it goes viral, it attracts far more attention, and regardless of whether it is positive attention or negative, the attention makes it pretty clear that someone violated their parole.
It isn't.
Sadly, too often, the attitude is, "Oh, that problem isn't going to be as bad as the engineers are making it out to be."
Usually, in this case, the engineers are right, and the guy who made the bad decision is long gone, the engineers have to work shit-tons of overtime to deal with a massive fire that would've been far easier to fix years earlier.
It's typical American financial management - Anything more than a year or two out just doesn't matter to anyone any more.
It is... But if you commit a crime, and no one knows you committed it, you're probably not going to get punished for it. It simply isn't possible for someone to punish you for a crime if they don't know that you committed it.
Yup. His video could've been some insanely popular stupid viral video with trained chihuahuas juggling - end result would've been the same (assuming the video received significant attention for some positive reason). Jail time for parole violation.
Yup. He could've posted a hit viral video about trained chihuahuas juggling and he still would've gone to jail for parole violation.
Are you talking about Al Capone?
They couldn't nail Capone for any of his more high-profile crimes - in the end, the one government agency he couldn't escape unscathed was the IRS. Capone got nailed for tax evasion.
Yes... Based on all of the evidence, this guy was a scumbag that was just another screwup away from jail, and he chose to violate his parole in a fairly spectacular manner.
I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out the film was financed illicitly too.
Part of the plan includes increasing the fees for visas by about 4-5 times.
That said, I don't think even a $10000/year fee (It looks like it's $10k one-time being proposed?) is enough... The fee should be at least $20000/year to reduce the financial incentives for companies to use the visas.
Just because it doesn't have a building exactly there doesn't mean it isn't valid to search for it. There is a 300 block on E 15th street, and searching for 315 on any mapping app other than iOS 6 maps will at least take you to a location interpolated between the two nearest real buildings on the odd side of the street.
In this case, looking at the maps, it's a public park. It's perfectly valid to reference the park as "3xx E 15th street" where xx is odd. If you search for this, you should get some point along the street on the edge of the park.
Also, someone could be searching for a valid address and typo the number. Easy to do - Any SANE mapping app will degrade gracefully in this case and take you to a location that's within visual range of your actual desired destination. Only iOS 6 maps won't.
iOS 6 maps is the only one that will take you to A COMPLETELY WRONG ROAD.
" An iPhone 4S with iOS 5 has great maps"
No it doesn't... It doesn't even do basic turn-by-turn routing. Something standalone GPS units and Google Maps have had for years.
Good job driving ad traffic to BGR, who didn't even bother to link to the original source:
http://www.apple.com/letter-from-tim-cook-on-maps/
Rooting is usually not too difficult, however root is only a tiny part of the equation. People get WAY too happy when someone manages to get root on a device with a locked bootloader. If the kernel/system image/ramdisk/frameworks break Android compatibility, the locked bootloader will stop you from fixing that.
All Nook LCD-based products since the Nook Tablet have had locked bootloaders. So do new Kindle Fires (original Fire was unlocked).
Say No to Tivoization.
Every Android app available on the store, free or otherwise?
Amazon's App Store has a more limited selection. In addition, a large number of these apps are not Kindle Fire compatible - Fire-compatible apps are a limited subset of the Amazon App Store.
It's already well established that B&N's application selection is EXTREMELY limited, with even less compatibility, and frequently significant price increases.
Case in point:
The dominant religion in the United States is Christianity
The main target audience of South Park are United States citizens
South Park frequently parodies Christianity
Somehow, not only are Parker and Stone still alive (and to my knowledge, have never had violence committed against them due to South Park Jesus), but their show is quite popular in a country where the show makes fun of the dominant religion...
Yup. Anyone who owns a business that claims they built it entirely themselves is deluded. The majority of businesses in this country can't exist without roads - privately built, funded, and maintained roads are an incredibly rare exception, not the norm, and don't function without connectivity to the government-built road network.
In modern days, it could in theory be possible to have a business that does not directly depend on roads, but still:
1) The Internet was created using DARPA
2) Many Internet connections in this country have at least some government subsidization - anyone who lives away from the main road network and has phone service has the government to thank for that.
3) Can't get your equipment to your site without a road network. (Technically you could air/helo-lift things in - but guess where most of the initial development money for helicopters came from? Guess where the funding for our air traffic control system comes from?)
"If the Nexus 7 can do all that, why not the Fire - or indeed any of them?"
Because they are not compliant with the Android CTS, and can't reliably run all Android applications. They cannot also access the Play Store (and any content available on it.)
I wasn't talking about sideloading - There are Amazon apps, available from the Play Store, that can access any Amazon content. (The only thing that needs sideloading is the app for Amazon's own app store - note that not all of the apps on Amazon's app store available for standard Android devices will run on a Kindle.)
Nexus 7 can access Amazon books and music WITHOUT SIDELOADING.
Nexus 7 can access Nook books WITHOUT SIDELOADING. (B&N doesn't really offer anything else. There is not a single B&N app that isn't available cheaper directly from the Play Store)
Nexus 7 can access all Play Store content WITHOUT SIDELOADING.
Nexus 7 can access Amazon's app store with sideloading.
The only thing the Nexus 7 can't access are Prime Instant videos, which as you said, is kind of sparse.
Technically, everything above applies equally to any Android device that passes the Android CTS, but the Nexus 7 is the most common example in this price/size class.
Kindle Fire cannot access any Nook content, period. (DRM...)
Kindle Fire cannot access any Play Store content, period. (DRM for videos, probably DRM for books, Kindle doesn't pass CTS for most apps)
Nook cannot access any Kindle content, period. (DRM...)
Nook cannot access any Play Store content, period. (DRM for videos, probably DRM for books, Kindle doesn't pass CTS for most apps)
You CANNOT run anything on any of the devices - Android devices that pass CTS are the ONLY devices that can access anything from the other ecosystems and all Android content.
Because the whole point of TFA is talking about what the majority, averaged across the entire country, drinks in comparison to the average incomes.
The iPad app is fairly new, and if I recall correctly, there were rumors of work on an Android version.
Amazon Instant Video is the ONLY thing that the Kindles give you access to which you can't get on a normal Android device.
Fail analogy, since the "paid" version of Angry Birds are the same as the overpriced Nook version.
In fact they're likely to be better since they're not a hacked version for a device not compliant with the Android CTS.
Here's the breakdown:
Nexus 7 can access Amazon ecosystem content (except Prime Instant Videos), B&N ecosystem content, and Google ecosystem content
Kindles can only access Amazon ecosystem content
Nooks can only access B&N ecosystem content
It's a no-brainer...
As to Subversion - even a significant number of open-source communities consider it to be vastly substandard.
I think Linus' opinion on SVN was that its main design goal (a better CVS) was fundamentally flawed and guaranteed to create a crap product. SVN's crappiness was one of the main motivators for creating git. (The other being that the only non-crappy solution at the time was proprietary).
There's a reason most of the major projects have moved to git. For example, Google's code review system for Android (gerrit) is highly integrated with git. Github has rapidly become one of the most well established source code hosting sites in the world.